This week we celebrate a very special milestone – the 200th edition of the BluegrassToday Weekly Top 20 Countdown.

To mark the occasion, I was joined by special guest co-host Terry Herd from Nashville. Terry is CEO and co-founder of Bluegrass Today, an IBMA Broadcaster of the Year, former IBMA board member, creator of SiriusXM's Bluegrass channel, and one of today's most successful bluegrass songwriters.

As you'll hear, Terry and I quickly discovered we had far more stories to tell than time available to tell them. The result is a show packed with chart action, songwriting insights, broadcaster tales, and a few laughs along the way.

This week's chart features:
• A new #1 song
• Eight debuts
• Six returning songs
• Two chart ties, resulting in 22 songs in this week's countdown

Appropriately enough, the #1 song this week is Jaelee Roberts' "I'm Putting You Out of My Misery," written by my guest co-host Terry Herd. The song has spent three of its first four weeks on the chart at #1 after debuting straight at the top.

My thanks to Terry for making the trip from Nashville to join us for this special edition, and to all the artists, labels, radio stations and listeners who have supported the countdown through its first 200 editions.

Whether you've been listening since Countdown #1 or have just discovered the programme, thank you for coming along for the ride.

Now let's count down the twenty most-played songs on bluegrass radio this week.

Mike Kear
Hawkesbury Radio, 
Sydney, Australia