Top 30 bluegrass songs of 2020

Here is a year end run down of the most played songs on bluegrass radio for the year 2020. These numbers are compiled from our weekly bluegrass playlist charts, adding total spins to determine the songs played most frequently over the last twelve months.

We will publish the 2020 Top 30 charts for Gospel and grassicana over the next few days.

 

  ARTIST TITLE LABEL SONGWRITERS

TOTAL

1

Balsam Range Richest Man Mountain Home Jim Beavers, Jimmy Yeary, Connie Harrington 6032

2

Buddy Melton & Milan Miller The Last Moonshiner Melton & Miller Music Milan Miller,  Thomm Jutz 5917

3

Irene Kelley Hills of Home Mountain Fever Irene Kelley, Ronnie Bowman 5162

4

Terry Baucom’s Dukes Of Drive Here Come The Teardrops Driving Duke Milan Miller 4635

5

Appalachian Road Show Goin’ To Bring Her Back Bill Blue Jim Van Cleve 4426

6

Missy Armstrong Creeping Round My Cabin Door Melton & Miller Music Beth Husband, Milan Miller 4176

7

Terry Baucom’s Dukes Of Drive Every Road I Travel Driving Duke Milan Miller 4167

8

Alan Bibey & Grasstowne Hitcthiking To California Billy Blue Wes Golding, Alan Bibey, Jerry Salley 3956

9

Billy Droze Waiting Out The Storm RBR Billy Droze, Wayne Burton 3846

10

Justin Moses w/Dan Tyminski Between The Lightning And The Thunder Mountain Fever Thomm Jutz , Charley Stefl 3534

11

Merle Monroe Hello Sunshine Pinecastle Tim Raybon 3514

12

Milan Miller & Tim O’Brien Walking Home To Wexford Melton & Miller Music Beth Husband, Milan Miller 3328

13

Marija Droze Ghost Of Your Memory RBR Chris Myers, Billy Droze 3303

14

Special Consensus Chicago Barn Dance Compass Becky Buller/Missy Raines/Alison Brown 3081

15

Chris Jones & The Night Drivers We Needed This Ride Mountain Home Chris Jones 3038

16

Steve Thomas & The Time Machine All Of These Years Pinecastle Jason Cope and Wesley Bayliss 2950

17

Balsam Range Grit and Grace Mountain Home Ann Melton, Beth Husband, Milan Miller 2892

18

Steve Thomas & Time Machine Down In The Wildwood Pinecastle Steve Thomas 2794

19

Lindley Creek I Gotta Go Pinecastle Ashby Frank 2683

20

Shawn Lane One More Cat Town Shawn Lane, Ronnie Bowman 2672

21

Becky Buller The Barbers Fiddle Dark Shadow Becky Buller, Lynda Dawson 2669

22

Chris Jones & The Night Drivers Leave It At The Gate Mountain Home Chris Jones, Jon Weisberger 2630

23

Jerry Salley Let Me Be The Bridge Very Jerry Jerry Salley, Jim Rushing 2627

24

Band of Ruhks Julie Rebel Ronnie Bowman, Billy Droze, Don Rigsby 2606

25

Larry Cordle Cherokee Fiddle Mighty Cord Michael Martin Murphey 2584

26

Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper Mountain Heartache Compass Alex Leach, James R. Waters 2525

27

Adam Wright The Edge RBR Adam Wright 2474

28

Billy Droze Small Town Mystery RBR Billy Droze, Chris Myers 2451

29

Larry Cordle & Lonesome Standard Time Sailor’s Regret Mighty Cord Johnny Williams 2401

30

Kristy Cox No Headlights Mountain Fever Liz Hengber, Tammy Rogers, Jerry Salley 2392

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John Lawless

John had served as primary author and editor for The Bluegrass Blog from its launch in 2006 until being folded into Bluegrass Today in September of 2011. He continues in that capacity here, managing a strong team of columnists and correspondents.