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These charts are compiled weekly from actual airplay reported by over 50 independent contributing Bluegrass DJ’s. Only songs less than 18 months from date of original release appear here.
A weekly look at the most played songs of the week on radio.
A monthly aggregate of the most played bluegrass songs of the month on radio.
Weekly radio favorites focusing on the intersection between progressive bluegrass & Americana.
Weekly rundown of the most played bluegrass gospel tracks on radio.
Samuel John Mougin was born on October 12 at 12:30 p.m. (CDT) to Jana and Stephen Mougin in Nashville. Stephen and…
One of the things that IBMA promotes heavily is education—the music, and about the music business. To that end they have…
Flatpicking Bluegrass is the latest CD from FGM Records, the label branch of Flatpicking Guitar Magazine. The CD features 12 flatpicking…
Steal The Blue, the seventh recording from Canadian fiddler/vocalist April Verch, was released independently on January 20. Verch has been known…
Sometimes you hear about a CD and excitement starts to build as you anticipate hearing this new music from musicians you…
Megan Lynch sent along details about her two 2009 FiddleStar instructional camps, held in Ridge Top, TN – just north of…
Another CD we received at IBMA that we haven’t yet mentioned is Now I’m Lonely from Cages Bend. It’s a release…
Not long ago we brought you a story about Stephen Mougin playing in Slovakia. The tour is done, Stephen is back…
Stephen Mougin, of the Sam Bush Band, just emailed in to let us know that he is currently visiting Slovakia and…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music