The Bluegrass Today Weekly Top 20 Countdown

This week on the BluegrassToday Weekly Top 20 Countdown with Mike Kear from Hawkesbury Radio in Sydney, Australia — we have a brand new #1 song after a long battle at the top of the chart.

This week’s countdown also features:

 4 debut songs 

 6 returning songs 

 and plenty of movement right across the Top 20. 

After five weeks at #1, Dailey & Vincent’s “Ruby” finally steps aside as a new chart-topper takes control of the Bluegrass Today Weekly Airplay Chart.

Along the way we’ll hear the latest from:

Kristy Cox

Del McCoury Band

Della Mae

Carson Peters & Iron Mountain

Vickie Vaughn
 and many more of today’s top bluegrass artists. 

We'll divert to look at a couple of the up and coming songs that are close to joining our countdown,  and we revisit a superb master storyteller that Mike confessed he almost forgot about. 

The BluegrassToday Weekly Top 20 Countdown is produced in Sydney, Australia and heard on great radio stations around the world each week.

Hosted by Mike Kear at Hawkesbury Radio, Sydney, Australia

This week on the countdown, Dailey & Vincent continue their remarkable run at number one with Ruby, making it a record fifth week on top — the most by any song in the history of the BluegrassToday Weekly Top 20 Countdown.

There are big movers throughout the chart, including Throwdown Thursday surging from #18 to #2 with Next Big Thing, and Chris Jones & The Night Drivers jumping from #19 to #4 with Steal My Today.

New entries this week come from Special Consensus, Southern Legacy, Jeff Brown & Wayne Taylor, Della Mae,  and Del McCoury Band.

Along the way, we also step outside the chart for a special look at brand new music just arriving at Foggy Hollow headquarters, featuring fresh releases from Claire Lynch, Darin & Brooke Aldridge and Old Crow Medicine Show.

Thanks for listening wherever you are around the world.

Produced and presented by Mike Kear at Hawkesbury Radio,  Sydney, Australia

This week’s countdown brings plenty of movement right across the chart — and a rare moment at the very top.

For only the second time in the life of the countdown, we have a tie at number one, with two songs sharing the top spot.

There are strong debuts, big movers, and another standout performance from a song that continues to rewrite the record books for longevity on the chart.

This week’s #1 songs

 Jesse Smathers – Take a Drink on Me

 Dailey & Vincent – Ruby

Show highlights

 A rare tie at #1 — only the second time in countdown history 

 Alison Krauss & Union Station’s Richmond on the James extends its record as the longest-running song on the countdown 

 Big move into the Top 5 for Darren Nicholson 

 Strong debut from The Lonesome River Band 

 Continued consistency from Red Camel Collective 

Also featured this week

 Carson Peters & Iron Mountain 

 Appalachian Road Show 

 Travelin’ McCourys 

 Sierra Hull 

 Billy Strings 

 Wyatt Ellis
 …and more of the best in bluegrass today 

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About the show

The BluegrassToday Weekly Top 20 Countdown features the most-played songs from the Bluegrass Today airplay chart, presented in full each week.

Hosted by Mike Kear at Hawkesbury Radio in Sydney, Australia, and heard on radio stations around the world.

From Hawkesbury Radio in Sydney, Australia, this is the BluegrassToday Weekly Top 20 Countdown.
I’m Mike Kear, counting down the Top 20 songs in bluegrass this week, based on the airplay survey of the world’s most influential bluegrass DJs — conducted last week and published Friday by BluegrassToday.com.

This week’s show features:

 The Top 20 songs in bluegrass 

[2] debuts and [7] returns to the countdown 

 Plus a look at the songs making the biggest moves this week 

🎶 This Week’s Top 20
As always we'll play every song in the Top 20 Chart,   since there are 2 ties this week that makes 22 songs played IN FULL.    Also we'll play the Top 5 songs in the BluegrassToday Weekly Bluegrass Gospel Chart IN FULL. 

📻 About the Show

The BluegrassToday Weekly Top 20 Countdown is a syndicated radio show produced in Sydney, Australia, and heard in podcast and on stations around the world.

Each week we bring you the official Top 20 bluegrass songs, along with background on the artists, the songs, and the stories behind the music.

🌐 Find Out More

For the full chart and more bluegrass news, visit:
 👉 https://bluegrasstoday.com/chart

📩 Contact

Got a favourite song? Heard something you liked?
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Produced in Sydney, Australia

This week’s countdown has a very different feel — with six brand new debuts, five returning songs, and a brand new number one. Instead of a parade of former chart-toppers, only five former #1 songs appear this week — and one of those accounts for five weeks at the top all by itself.

The result is a chart that’s very much on the move.
About the Countdown

The BluegrassToday Weekly Top 20 Countdown is based on the BluegrassToday Airplay Chart, compiled from radio airplay and published every Friday at BluegrassToday.com.

Produced by

Mike Kear
 Hawkesbury Radio
 Sydney, Australia