The iTunes Top 40 Bluegrass Songs Chart is your weekly window into the world of bluegrass music — high, lonesome mountain music built on virtuoso acoustic instruments and tight harmony vocals. Updated every week, this chart ranks the top 40 bluegrass music singles on iTunes, giving you a real-time snapshot of what’s resonating most with fans of the genre right now.
The genre has been shaped by visionaries like Bill Monroe (who invented the genre), Alison Krauss, Ricky Skaggs, and Punch Brothers who carry bluegrass into the modern era, whose work defines what bluegrass music can sound and feel like. Whether the genre has centuries of tradition behind it or only emerged in recent decades, the artists on this chart are its current standard-bearers.
Discover what bluegrass music sounds like today by exploring the full iTunes Top 40 Bluegrass Music Songs Chart, updated fresh this week, in the chart below.
Chart updated this week on: 2026-08-24
1.
10,000 Miles From a Friend
Billy Strings
2.
Burn the Other End
Billy Strings
June 30, 2026
3.
Mill Town Flood
Billy Strings
July 31, 2026
4.
If You're Gonna Be Dumb, You Gotta Be Tough (from jackass: best and last)
Billy Strings
June 12, 2026
5.
I Choose You
The SteelDrivers
February 7, 2020
6.
Rank Stranger
Ralph Stanley
January 1, 1990
7.
Find Me Out On A Mountain Top
Blue Highway
January 1, 1998
8.
It Rains Everywhere I Go
Lynn Morris
January 1, 1995
9.
Half Moon Rising
Yonder Mountain String Band
February 9, 1999
10.
Boatman's Dance
Yonder Mountain String Band
April 15, 2008
11.
Kentucky Mandolin
Yonder Mountain String Band
April 15, 2008
12.
Are You Lonesome Tonight
Zach Top
May 13, 2022
13.
Riding High In Texas
Peter Rowan
March 4, 1980
14.
Earl's Breakdown
Blueridge Mountain Bluegrass Band
January 1, 1973
15.
Suspicious Minds
Hayseed Dixie
February 14, 2020
16.
The Old Oak Tree
The Marcum Brothers & The Stanton Mountain Boys
March 13, 2026
17.
Taking Water
Billy Strings
July 12, 2019
18.
When I Get Home
Newfound Road
January 1, 2006
19.
Gild the Lily (Apple Music Sessions)
Billy Strings
July 12, 2024
20.
Scenic Route
Rhonda Vincent
August 19, 2026
21.
Gloryland
Ralph Stanley
January 1, 1971
22.
Leadfoot
Billy Strings
August 2, 2024
23.
Wall Guitar (Since You Said Goodbye) [feat. Vince Gill]
Alison Brown & Steve Martin
November 11, 2024
24.
Reverend (feat. Billy Strings)
Greensky Bluegrass
July 25, 2025
25.
In the Bleak Midwinter
The Hillbilly Thomists
November 25, 2025
26.
The Big Rock Candy Mountain
Harry McClintock
January 1, 2000
27.
Stratosphere Blues / I Believe in You
Billy Strings
July 12, 2024
28.
Carolina Rolling By
Mipso
August 25, 2023
29.
Know It All
Billy Strings
September 24, 2021
30.
I Don't Mind
Sturgill Simpson
October 16, 2020
31.
Some Day
Blue Highway
January 1, 1998
32.
Bad Luck (feat. Billy Strings) [Apple Music Sessions]
Zach Top
November 1, 2024
33.
Don't Think Twice, It's Alright (Live At The American Legion Post 82)
Billy Strings & Bryan Sutton
April 7, 2025
34.
Away From the Mire
Billy Strings
August 2, 2019
35.
In The Morning Light
Billy Strings
September 1, 2021
36.
In a World Gone Wrong
Zach Top
September 25, 2019
37.
Amazing Grace
The SteelDrivers
September 8, 2023
38.
Wait A Minute
The Seldom Scene
January 1, 1992
39.
Jordan (feat. Ricky Skaggs, Mo Pitney & Mark Fain)
![Wall Guitar (Since You Said Goodbye) [feat. Vince Gill] song art](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music211/v4/57/48/9a/57489a5e-db75-4c66-9be5-938b7370aa74/1375.jpg/170x170bb.png)
![Bad Luck (feat. Billy Strings) [Apple Music Sessions] song art](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music221/v4/1b/8d/35/1b8d355a-e8fa-2e90-317d-aaaef53cfbe6/8721253086505.png/170x170bb.png)
