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February 7, 2011 Issue 229 Swift: You Belong To ... Who? The Speak Now Tour is getting underway in Asia and will land in stateside stadiums and arenas in May. When it does, Country radio could be faced with a situation it rarely encounters: In addition to competing for Taylor Swift bragging rights with a direct format competitor, Top 40 radio will be in the mix. Making things even more interesting, in some cases that extra-format “competitor” is across the hall, part of a cluster of stations where the Top 40 PD potentially oversees or (gasp!) even programs the Country station. Hypothetical? Not last week in Nashville, as Cheese Sandwich: A Nashville industry contingent gears up for the Clear Channel’s Top 40 WRVW (The River) Super Bowl yesterday outside Cowboys Stadium. Pictured (l-r) are 13 changed its name to “The Taylor” Feb. 3, offering Management’s Frank Bell, Bigger Picture’s Jack Christopher, Valory’s ticket giveaways every hour. Swift happened to be George Briner, Curb’s Adrian Michaels, Stacie Christopher and Big in town that day, heard the promotion and made Machine Label Group’s Scott Borchetta. an impromptu on-air visit to The River. WSIX PD Rich Davis CRS 2011 iPhone App: Save The Trees Keith Kaufman took it all in stride (CAT 2/3), and Every year you grab that CRS agenda guide CC/Nashville OM & The Taylor PD Rich Davis to circle the panels you want to attend. You said no cluster-centric strategy was at work. make notes, fold up the list of after-hours Interestingly, Davis considers Swift a core artist for stops, shove it deep in your pocket or purse WRVW, and doesn’t mind sharing her with WSIX. and head out to the first event. And every year, “She’s had many hit records we’ve played as a power,” that playbook for the week becomes tattered, he points out. “You’re talking a hundred times a week – covered in the hand sanitizer that blew up Mark Adams more spins than Country stations give their powers.” in your pocket, stained with a few different KILT/Houston PD Mark Adams doubles as kinds of beverages and, eventually, left behind PD for the CBS Radio cluster’s Top 40 KHHH, but doesn’t see somewhere you can’t remember. It’s time to “Hot Hits” competing for the Swift image. (continued on page 8) stop the madness. ©2011 Country Aircheck™ — All rights reserved. Sign up free at www.countryaircheck.com. Send news to [email protected]

February 7, 2011 Country Aircheck Weekly Page 3 Last week in this space, Country Aircheck tipped news of the coming CRS 2011 smartphone app. And now it’s here. (Okay, Th e Pa g e Th r e e Pi c Android and BlackBerry users still have to wait a bit.) But the free CRS 2011 iPhone app is locked and loaded in the iTunes App Store. Create your own agenda. Read panelist bios during the session. Tweet and post to Facebook from the app. Check out the nightlife offerings. Navigate downtown Nashville with the included map. And, best of all, save a few trees along the way. Or are you one of those who just hates trees? Murderer.

ACM: Entertaining For Six The note came from a major market air personality wondering why this year’s ACM Entertainer of the Year nominee category had six entries, when last year’s slate featured eight. “It’s the Carrie [Underwood] fans I’m hearing from,” he wrote. Good question, we thought. Bob Romeo Country Aircheck turned first to ACM Awards Beer We Are: The WXTU/Philadelphia crew, circa 1994. Pictured (l-r) EoY criteria for the industry-voted nominating round: “Based on are Dir./Promotions and current RCA VP/Promotion Keith Gale (keith. [email protected]), GM and now Beasley CEO Bruce Beasley, PD and the top vote getters, there will be up to 8 (eight) final nominees.” current Bullseye CEO John Hart ([email protected]). The occasion is Gale’s For a definition of how “up to eight” is decided, we turned last day with the station before departing for RCA. Got on old school to ACM CEO Bob Romeo. “Last year the board was trying photo to share? Drop us a jpeg at [email protected]. something new and we changed the criteria to say ‘up to eight,’” he says. “But we felt that, on TV, it got to be too cumbersome. It took a long time in the monologue to address eight artists and is highlighted, Romeo explains, by the 2009 Album of the Year required more time when the category was mentioned during the category, which originally omitted Jamey Johnson’s highly show. When you’re counting, literally, every second you have regarded That Lonesome Song because it had not yet crested in a three-hour broadcast, we just didn’t see the benefit to the the criteria-specified 300,000 sales mark. “When we put that viewer of having eight nominees. So this year the board reverted threshold in place several years ago it made perfect sense,” back to five.” Romeo says, pointing to the decline in album sales and rise The category grew to six nominees, as did Album and Single, in digital singles as a factor in changing the criteria and re- because of a tie. “We had three ties, and statistically, that seemed tabulating that year’s results to include Johnson’s album. high,” Romeo admits. “To be sure, we had the tabulations run “Yes, we were changing in midstream, but we were trying to twice. And it doesn’t matter where the tie is – second, third, fifth. adapt,” he says. “In the same way, the newcomer criteria allows We are inclusive. If there’s a tie in any one of the positions, we for male, female, group and duo categories, but because there bump the category by one more slot and take the next person.” aren’t always enough people to fill all those categories, they And while EoY has reverted back to a, ties aside, five- fluctuate from year-to-year.” artist race, Romeo says the criteria was left at “up to eight” to As for Carrie’s fans, Romeo is sympathetic. “She’s our two- maintain flexibility. The challenge with inflexible parameters time Entertainer of the Year,” he says. “Do I think she should ©2011 Country Aircheck™ — All rights reserved. Sign up free at www.countryaircheck.com. Send news to [email protected] February 7, 2011 Country Aircheck Weekly Page 4

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Various Artists The Music Inside: A Collaboration Dedicated To Waylon Jennings (Scatter/Big Machine) Alabama reunited to record the tribute album’s lead single “Are You Sure Hank Done It Way.” Jamey Johnson, Randy Houser, Shooter Jennings, James Otto and Trace Adkins are among the artists giving their spin on Waylon classic’s. Duets include Sunny Sweeney with Jessi Colter on “Good Hearted Woman” and Kris Kristofferson with Patty Griffin on “Rose In Paradise.” Enhanced content features a trailer of the documentary Breaking The Myth – Waylon Jennings. Witt Stewart, Ethan Allen, Johnson, Alabama, Robby Turner and Houser co-produced the 10-track compilation.

Thompson Square Thompson Square (Stoney Creek) Couple Keifer and Shawna Thompson co-wrote 10 the their debut album’s 12 tracks including “All The Way,” which Keifer wrote with MCA’s Kip Moore. Jim Collins and David Lee Murphy wrote the single “Are You Gonna Kiss Me Or Not.” Other writers include Ross Copperman, Jon Nite, Jason Sellers, Troy Johnson and James LeBlanc. David Fanning produced with Jason Aldean bandmembers Kurt Allison, Tully Kennedy and Rich Redmond.

be in there? Yes. But I’m just one vote. The board made the right decision to go to eight. We tried it, but found it to be too much. The question you ask is, ‘Are we giving up two-and-a-half minutes to monologue and mentions I could be using to give a newcomer the opportunity to play music?’ That’s the balance you have to strike.”

Choir Of Voices: Management and label staff join Chris Young in celebrating his No. 1 “Voices” Monday. Pictured (l-r) are ShopKeeper Mgmt’s Crystal Dishmon; RCA’s Keith Gale, Norbert Nix and Josh Easler; manager Marion Kraft; Young; RCA’s Liz Sledge, Matt Galvin and Parker Fowler; and Sony’s Gary Overton. Chart Chat Heartiest congrats to RCA/Nashville artist Chris Young, promo domos Keith Gale, Norbert Nix and their entire team on an historic milestone in taking Young’s “Voices” to No. 1. For only the third time in chart history, a previously released record has risen to the top of the charts. “Voices” also becomes Young’s third consecutive chart-topper, following “Gettin’ You Home” and “The Man I Want To Be.” The feat was first accomplished in 1979, when the Erv Woolsey-led MCA/Nashville promotion team resurrected John Conlee’s “Backside of 30” and took it to No. 1 more than a year after it was first put out as Conlee’s debut single on ABC

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Records. Conlee popped a Top 5 in Aug. 1978 with “Rose Colored Of f Th e Re c o r d : RANDY HOUSER Glasses” that was followed by another Top 5 in Jan. 1979, “Lady Lay Down.” Woolsey tells Country Aircheck that Conlee was Show Dog-Universal’s Randy Houser reluctant to re-release “30” again, despite the fact he wrote it, gives an industry spin on the artist interview. What station did you grow up figuring he was on a roll and not wanting to suffer a setback with listening to? WOKK/Meridian, MS. My a song that failed the first time out. friend Ken Rainey was on the air every The second time a re-released tune went No. 1 was in June morning. He’s like a legend down there and still a great friend of mine. He played 1986, when Randy Travis’ “On The Other Hand” turned the anything he wanted to. I remember he’d trick. The late Nick Hunter was VP/Promotion at Warner Bros./ play an Elvis song every morning. They Nashville, where Travis was signed to a three-single deal. played currents, too, but back when I was Randy Houser a kid, he’d just do what he wanted. It made OTOH barely made a dent in the charts the first time around, but it such a special show because everything after Travis scored a huge hit with his next single, “1982,” the was so small and you really understood the taste of the guy who decision was made to try again. Not only did the Don Schlitz/Paul was on the air. Do you remember the first time you heard yourself on the Overstreet tune go No. 1, it was voted Song of the Year by both radio? I was sitting out in front of my buddy’s Ron Hatchett’s the ACM and CMA. house, and it was me and Jamey Johnson sitting in my car. We “Voices” fared a little better than the two songs above, were listening to Lon’s Countdown and “Anything Goes” came on. having peaked in the upper 30’s when first released in 2008. A few songs later, Jamey was up with “In Color.” So we stayed and listened to him, too. That actually makes this feat more amazing, since a number of Which regional is the worst driver? I haven’t ridden with stations that played it then had to believe enough to come back all of them yet, but I’m going to have to say our new one, Macy this time around. Morganthaler. I don’t know if she’s that bad of a driver, I’m just going to throw her under the bus just to mess with her. What truck stop food tempts you? Gravy fries. Any good, nasty truck stop serves gravy fries. I can take you to the Magnolia Radio News Restaurant at a truck stop in Meridian, and they’ll hook you • Verge Network, syndicator of content and services to radio up with some gravy fries. I forget the exit, but it’s on Highway stations, has launched operations in Nashville, Kansas City and 11. I’ll take pictures of them. One time I was down there for Thanksgiving and I ordered veal cutlets with gravy on them. And Little Rock. The company also named Steven Ludwig President, since they had those fries there, I asked, “Why don’t you put some Grant Merrill VP/Sales and Dan Holiday VP/Operations. gravy on them?” I took a picture of it to disgust all my friends Additionally, Verge has announced a partnership with iFan Media who eat health foods. I texted it around saying, “Here you go, you Corporation to provide a mobile platform for Verge Network. punk. Check this out.” What’s the worst meet-and-greet outfit you’ve ever seen? Details at radiochanged.com. The tube tops are always nice on people who don’t need to wear • Envision Radio Networks has inked Legacy Media them, especially when they want you to sign their extremities. It’s Holdings WEKS/Atlanta to its imaging and prep service, bad whenever they can’t pull their shirt down to have you sign a boob, so they have to pull their shirt up. I’m talking about you’ve AudioBitXChange. got plenty of canvas. It happens all the time. I’ve got pictures. I’ve got one, well I can’t put that in the paper. I’ve got one who’s got “Anything Goes” tattooed on her [breast]. She did. You can see Artist News the top half, but the bottom half is around her belly button. She “Before He Cheats” by Carrie Underwood is featured on the was showing it off, too. They’re pretty cool fans. What’s the one question you never want to answer again? 12-track compilation album celebrating American Idol’s first “What made you write Honky Tonk Badonkadonk?” or “You wrote decade on the air. American Idol 10th Anniversary — The Hits Honky Tonk Badonkadonk, didn’t you?” streets March 15. Full track listing here.

Oscar winner Gwyneth Paltrow will perform the Original My Tu n e s : Mu s i c Th a t Sh a p e d My Li f e Song-nominated “Coming Home” from the Country Strong WSIX/Nashville morning host Billy soundtrack during the 83rd Annual Academy Awards. The Greenwood discusses his most influential telecast airs Feb. 27 on ABC-TV. songs, albums or concerts: During an appearance last week, Billy Dean became the first 1. Garth Brooks, Friends In Low Places: country artist to guest on China’s Beijing-TV. At 19, I was hired for my first full-time Steve Wariner has been commissioned to paint one of Brad job in radio to do afternoons on a Country station. The problem was I didn’t know Paisley’s flood-damaged guitars to be auctioned off May 3 for anything about country. My girlfriend ReTune Nashville. In other Wariner news, he has joined the bought me this CD, and it changed my Songwriter Agency’s artist roster for bookings. Billy Greenwood life. That was almost 20 years ago, and I’ve EMI Nashville has signed singer/songwriter Eric Paslay to been in Country radio ever since. its roster. Look for new music from the Texas native and a debut 2. George Strait, Strait Out Of The Box: This collection has been like a best friend to me over the years. George has a song for single at radio later this year. every emotion and every event that’s happened in my life. 3. Garth Brooks In Central Park: I’ve been to a ton of concerts, but none has ever compared to this one. I did my show from The Week’s Top Stories Manhattan for two days, had dinner with Martina McBride in Full coverage is available in the archives at www. Little Italy and got to stand by a group of guys at the concert countryaircheck.com. who decided it would be easier to not make the trek to the Porta- • Clear Channel Chairman/President/CEO Mark Mays intends Potty every time they needed to relieve themselves. to formally step down from active management by March 31. 4. Michael Jackson, Thriller: This was really the first album that I became fanatical about. It was also the first music that really (CAT 2/7) introduced me to the world of videos. I even went steady with a • Valory Music Co. VP/Promotion Jon Loba was hired as girl who said she’d let me wear her white glove. Sadly, she got it Senior VP for the This Is Hit parent of Broken Bow/Stoney in the breakup. Creek. Valory Dir./National & West Coast Promotion Chris 5. Boston, Boston: Because sometimes I just want to listen to Loss was named VP/Promotion and will relocate to Nashville. amazing guitars. I’ve always thought this was the best guitar CD to get lost in. VP/Northeast rep George Briner has been upped to VP/Field • A highly regarded song or album you’ve never heard: Robert Promotion. Southeast rep JoJamie Hahr added Dir./National Plant & Alison Krauss’ Raising Sand. A ton of nominations, a ton of Field Promotion duties. (Breaking News 1/31) acclaim and I’ve never taken the time to listen. • Cox Media Group VP/Digital Gregg Lindahl was promoted • An “important” piece of music you just don’t get: “Message in to SVP/Digital & Strategy. (CAT 2/3) a Bottle” by the Police. I remember, as a kid, if I had a hard time falling asleep, I’d put this song on. It was like vinyl NyQuil. • 46th Annual ACM Awards nominations were announced, • An album you played or listened to incessantly: Ultimate including radio nods. (Breaking News 2/1) Air Supply by Air Supply. I discovered this album after my first • Citigroup took over EMI Group Ltd., home to Capitol/ breakup in high school. I realize now, as I’m typing this, how Nashville, EMI Nashville and EMI Music Publishing, from pathetic I was. UK private equity firmTerra Firma. (CAT 2/1) • One obscure or non-country song everyone should listen to right now: “F**k You” by Cee Lo Green. I discovered this song • Hearst Entertainment & Syndication VP/Business Development on Glee (blame that on my fiancé) and had to download the & Strategy Wendy Goldberg joined Clear Channel Radio as original. It’s a great song that most of us can associate with. EVP/Marketing & Communications. (CAT 2/7) • Live Nation Entertainment purchased the remaining stock Reach Greenwood at [email protected].

©2011 Country Aircheck™ — All rights reserved. Sign up free at www.countryaircheck.com. Send news to [email protected] February 7, 2011 Country Aircheck Weekly Page 8 of Front Line Management it did not already control from is which Country station is doing a better job of owning the Irving Azoff and Madison Square Garden for $116.2 million. format’s biggest stars. (CAT 2/7) It’s a fundamental difference between Country and Top 40. “The Country audience is invested in these artists emotionally,” Adams says. “It’s a little more fly-by-night on the other side.” While KHHH leans Rhythmic and Adams isn’t playing any of Swift’s current music, he does say, “If she came to town, I would give away tickets – but Mark Medina we’d be doing a lot more on KILT.“ Also wearing two hats is CC/Phoenix’s Mark Medina, who programs Country KNIX/Phoenix & Top 40 KIIS. Similar to Adams, Medina’s background is Top 40. “KISS plays Taylor records because she transcends the format,” he says, and she’s part of his balancing act to keep the station mainstream. But if it came down to a choice, “I’d put more eggs in the KNIX basket, because I have a direct format competitor fighting me for the Taylor image,” he admits. “That doesn’t mean the KISS audience wouldn’t expect to win Swift tickets, they do,” says Medina. “But not to the extent KNIX listeners would.” The approach of the artist and their team is a big factor in how both Adams and Medina would handle the situation. “I’d like to think the label, management and booking agency would help lead the posturing on how this would roll out,” Medina says, noting that’s been the case in his experience. “Of course they’re going to give preference to Country properties,” Adams agrees. Who Is This Man And Why Is He Smiling? WBWN/Bloomington, IL APD/MD Buck Stevens cooks up some brats for staffers, who were camped out at “Country labels are conscious that Country radio is protecting the radio station for 36 hours during last week’s big blizzard, a.k.a. Snow- that audience.” mageddon, SNOMG, the Snow-Must-Go-On and our favorite: Blizz-aster. Historically, there’s little precedence for Country radio dealing with an artist who is arguably the biggest music star on the Swift: You Belong To ? (continued from page 1) planet. The last time was when Shania Twain became a playlist “We’d approach each situation from the standpoint of what’s best mainstay for Top 40 and AC stations in the late ‘90s and early for each station,” he says. “If there happens to be promotional 2000s. In that case, there were incidences where Country radio and marketing overlap, I don’t see that as a problem.” was completely blocked out of concert promotions in favor of Adams considers the audiences of KHHH and KILT other formats. Big Machine President/CEO Scott Borchetta “oblivious to each other” and, in contrast to Davis, doesn’t remembers the backlash well, having joined UMG in time to consider Swift a core artist. “Taylor is a lifestyle artist for work Twain’s last top 10 single. So when it comes to Swift’s Country,” he explains. “She has a hit record and is a pop cultural commitment to Country radio, Borchetta says unequivocally, force on the other side.” The much bigger priority for Adams “Country comes first.” CAC

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LW TW Artist/Title (Label) Total Points +/- Points Total Plays +/- Plays Audience +/- Aud Stations ADDS

3 1 CHRIS YOUNG/Voices (RCA) 16270 590 5492 168 39.65 2.03 127 0 1 2 KENNY CHESNEY/Somewhere With You (BNA) 15631 -1118 5189 -415 38.46 -2.44 127 0 4 3 LUKE BRYAN/Someone Else Calling You Baby (Capitol) 15254 264 5154 90 37.49 0.5 127 0 2 4 KEITH URBAN/Put You In A Song (Capitol) 14931 -1184 4943 -465 36.65 -2.92 127 0 6 5 BLAKE SHELTON/Who Are You When... (Warner Bros./WMN) 4 14929 1812 5116 533 36.53 3.55 127 0 7 6 TAYLOR SWIFT/Back To December (Big Machine) 13245 1128 4379 344 32.02 1.81 126 0 8 7 BRAD PAISLEY/This Is Country Music (Arista) 12703 743 4288 226 32.09 2.44 127 0

10 8 JASON ALDEAN & KELLY CLARKSON/Don't You... (Broken Bow) 4 12234 1223 4107 420 30.59 3.58 127 0 9 9 BILLY CURRINGTON/Let Me Down Easy (Mercury) 11889 352 4170 155 28.81 0.84 127 0 11 10 LADY ANTEBELLUM/Hello World (Capitol) 10018 214 3478 70 24.51 0.63 121 0 12 11 TOBY KEITH/Bullets In The Gun (Show Dog-Universal) 9348 166 3096 -5 22.28 0.7 123 0 15 12 DARIUS RUCKER/This (Capitol) 9021 701 3067 210 21.57 1.74 121 1 13 13 SUNNY SWEENEY/From A Table Away (Republic Nashville) 8893 141 2995 31 20.96 0.42 124 0

19 14 THOMPSON SQUARE/Are You Gonna Kiss... (Stoney Creek) 4 8598 1656 3057 584 19.85 2.92 120 4 16 15 JANEDEAR GIRLS/Wildflower (Warner Bros./WMN) 8184 278 2792 112 19.06 0.86 124 0 18 16 JERROD NIEMANN/What Do You Want (Sea Gayle/Arista) 8102 936 2785 315 18.79 1.43 123 1 20 17 ZAC BROWN BAND/Colder... (Southern Ground/Atlantic/BPG) 7497 851 2534 288 19.07 2.53 122 4 17 18 ERIC CHURCH/Smoke A Little Smoke (EMI Nashville) 7489 -216 2574 -90 17.33 -0.67 119 0 21 19 SUGARLAND/Little Miss (Mercury) 6775 154 2305 76 16.92 0.4 120 1 22 20 JOE NICHOLS/The Shape I'm In (Show Dog-Universal) 6304 341 2099 92 15.49 0.87 119 0

24 21 MIRANDA LAMBERT/Heart Like Mine (Columbia) 4 5894 1144 1939 368 14.31 2.53 118 4 23 22 CRAIG CAMPBELL/Family Man (BPG) 5607 83 2013 35 13.4 0.16 114 1 25 23 SARA EVANS/A Little Bit Stronger (RCA) 5420 737 1919 190 13.11 2.28 113 2 26 24 JAMES WESLEY/Real (Broken Bow) 4996 331 1810 118 11.54 0.7 108 1 28 25 RASCAL FLATTS/I Won't Let Go (Big Machine) 4711 1122 1621 351 11.14 2.49 108 17

Airborne indicates songs that have reached airplay on 60% of the Country Aircheck/Mediabase reporting panel. 4=Top 5 point gainers. Chart Page 1 Chart Page 1 February 7, 2011 Chart Page 2

LW TW Artist/Title (Label) Total Points +/- Points Total Plays +/- Plays Audience +/- Aud Stations ADDS

27 26 JOSH KELLEY/Georgia Clay (MCA) 4130 81 1374 48 9.31 0.07 107 2 29 27 CLAY WALKER/Where Do I Go From You (Curb) 3537 105 1352 21 7.84 0.4 98 1 30 28 EASTON CORBIN/I Can't Love You Back (Mercury) 3525 174 1334 47 7.86 0.52 95 3 31 29 BAND PERRY/You Lie (Republic Nashville) 3461 867 1134 325 7.52 1.75 84 11 32 30 BRETT ELDREDGE/Raymond (Atlantic/WAR) 2485 107 911 41 5.42 0.11 84 5 UNCLE KRACKER f/KID ROCK/Good To... (Atlantic/Top Dog/BPG) 2305 4 800 -11 5.11 -0.14 75 2 JOSH TURNER/I Wouldn't Be A Man (MCA) 2300 83 842 31 4.95 0.36 75 4 ASHTON SHEPHERD/Look It Up (MCA) 2233 297 762 116 4.59 0.7 73 10 36 34 LEE BRICE/Beautiful Every Time (Curb) 2142 125 819 36 3.91 0.37 77 6 43 35 REBA/If I Were A Boy (Starstruck/Valory) 2081 811 772 303 4.61 1.77 76 13

RONNIE DUNN/Bleed Red (Arista) 4 DEBUT 2038 2038 678 678 5.12 5.12 48 48 42 37 JOSH THOMPSON/Won't Be Lonely Long (Columbia) 1542 99 564 44 2.71 0.3 66 8 40 38 GARY ALLAN/Kiss Me When I'm Down (MCA) 1492 -161 527 -56 2.81 -0.17 73 0 38 39 CRAIG MORGAN/Still A Little Chicken Left... (BNA) 1370 -411 491 -169 2.46 -1.06 79 0 44 40 LOCASH COWBOYS/Keep In Mind (Stroudavarious) 1347 130 530 58 2.47 0.19 52 6 45 41 STEEL MAGNOLIA/Last Night Again (Big Machine) 1302 188 484 65 1.92 0.27 64 7 41 42 WALKER HAYES/Pants (Capitol) 1229 -320 482 -152 2.03 -0.76 69 0 46 43 TROY OLSEN/Good Hands (EMI Nashville) 1071 63 429 25 1.8 0.17 50 6 48 44 STEVE HOLY/Love Don't Run (Curb) 908 9 402 17 1.58 0.07 52 4 47 45 LITTLE BIG TOWN/Kiss Goodbye (Capitol) 885 -97 354 -38 1.32 -0.11 58 1 Debut 46 CHUCK WICKS/Old School (N2U/CO5) 754 84 323 38 1.11 0.11 37 2 50 47 TRACE ADKINS/Brown Chicken Brown Cow (Show Dog-Universal) 746 53 280 25 1.12 0.08 31 3

Debut 48 LEANN RIMES/Crazy Women (Curb) 670 62 258 23 1.19 0.16 29 1 Debut 49 RANDY MONTANA/1,000 Faces (Mercury) 670 14 270 8 0.85 -0.01 42 4 Re-Enter 50 KATIE ARMIGER/Best Song Ever (Cold River) 657 55 223 24 1.13 0.01 20 1

Airborne indicates songs that have reached airplay on 60% of the Country Aircheck/Mediabase reporting panel. 4=Top 5 point gainers.

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Country Aircheck Add Leaders Activator Top Point Gainers RONNIE DUNN/Bleed Red (Arista) 48 RONNIE DUNN/Bleed Red (Arista) 2181 4 KEITH URBAN/Without You (Capitol) 27 THOMPSON SQUARE/Are You Gonna Kiss...(Stoney Creek) 1488 4 DAVID NAIL/Let It Rain (MCA) 19 BLAKE SHELTON/Who Are You When I’m Not... (Warner Bros./WMN)1232 4 RASCAL FLATTS/I Won't Let Go (Big Machine) 17 BAND PERRY/You Lie (Republic Nashville) 1206 4 REBA/If I Were A Boy (Starstruck/Valory) 13 KEITH URBAN/Without You (Capitol) 1108 4 JOANNA SMITH/Georgia Mud (Columbia) 12 JASON ALDEAN & KELLY CLARKSON/Don’t You... (Broken Bow) 1075 BAND PERRY/You Lie (Republic Nashville) 11 ZAC BROWN BAND/Colder... (Southern Ground/Atlantic/BPG) 1070 ASHTON SHEPHERD/Look It Up (MCA) 10 JERROD NIEMANN/What Do You Want (Sea Gayle/Arista) 889 GRETCHEN WILSON/I'd Love To Be Your Last (Redneck) 8 MIRANDA LAMBERT/Heart Like Mine (Columbia) 829 JOSH THOMPSON/Won't Be Lonely Long (Columbia) 8 RASCAL FLATTS/I Won’t Let Go (Big Machine) 726 WALKER HAYES/Why Wait For Summer (Capitol) 8 Country Aircheck Top Point Gainers Activator Top Spin Gainers RONNIE DUNN/Bleed Red (Arista) 2038 4 RONNIE DUNN/Bleed Red (Arista) 389 BLAKE SHELTON/Who Are You When... (Warner Bros/WMN) 1812 4 THOMPSON SQUARE/Are You Gonna Kiss...(Stoney Creek) 250 THOMPSON SQUARE/Are You Gonna Kiss Me... (Stoney Creek) 1656 4 BLAKE SHELTON/Who Are You When I’m Not... (Warner Bros./WMN)214 ZAC BROWN BAND/Colder... (Southern Ground/Atlantic/BPG) 197 JASON ALDEAN & Kelly Clarkson/Don't You... (Broken Bow) 1223 4 KEITH URBAN/Without You (Capitol) 193 MIRANDA LAMBERT/Heart Like Mine (Columbia) 1144 4 JASON ALDEAN & KELLY CLARKSON/Don’t You... (Broken Bow) 185 TAYLOR SWIFT/Back To December (Big Machine) 1128 BAND PERRY/You Lie (Republic Nashville) 183 RASCAL FLATTS/I Won't Let Go (Big Machine) 1122 JERROD NIEMANN/What Do You Want (Sea Gayle/Arista) 164 JERROD NIEMANN/What Do You Want (Sea Gayle/Arista) 936 MIRANDA LAMBERT/Heart Like Mine (Columbia) 147 BAND PERRY/You Lie (Republic Nashville) 867 REBA/If I Were A Boy (Starstruck/Valory) 127 ZAC BROWN BAND/Colder Weather (SG/Atlantic/BPG) 851

Country Aircheck Top Spin Gainers Vi d e o Ad d s RONNIE DUNN/Bleed Red (Arista) 678 CMT THOMPSON SQUARE/Are You Gonna Kiss... (Stoney Creek) 584 colt ford f/Kevin Fowler/Hip Hop In A Honky Tonk (Average Joes) BLAKE SHELTON/Who Are You When... (Warner Bros/WMN) 533 JASON ALDEAN & KELLY CLARKSON/Don't You... (Broken Bow) 420 MIRANDA LAMBERT/Heart Like Mine (Columbia) 368 CMT PURE RASCAL FLATTS/I Won't Let Go (Big Machine) 351 No adds TAYLOR SWIFT/Back To December (Big Machine) 344 BAND PERRY/You Lie (Republic Nashville) 325 GAC JERROD NIEMANN/What Do You Want (Sea Gayle/Arista) 315 JOE NICHOLS/The Shape I’m In (Show Dog-Universal) REBA/If I Were A Boy (Starstruck/Valory) 303

©2011 Country Aircheck™ — All rights reserved. Sign up free at www.countryaircheck.com. Send news to [email protected] February 7, 2011 Country Aircheck Chart Info Chart Page 4 Country Aircheck Activity Ad d Da t e s FebRuary 14 Bridgette Tatum/Hillbilly Rockstar (Root 49/Quarterback) LITTLE BIG TOWN/Kiss Goodbye (Capitol) Dirt Drifters/Something Better (Warner Bros./WMN) Ronnie Dunn/Bleed Red (Arista) Moves 47*-45; 908 points, 354 spins 1 ADD: WYCD* FEBRUARY 22 Aaron Lewis/Country Boy (Stroudavarious) CHUCK WICKS/Old School (N2U/CO5) Jody Booth/Gold Digger (Vigilante/CO5) Justin Moore/If Heaven Wasn’t So Far Away (Valory) Debuts at 46*; 754 points, 323 spins Sarah Darling/Something To Do With Your Hands (Black River) 2 ADDS: WKKT, WQYK* WALKER HAYES/Why Wait For Summer (Capitol)

TRACE ADKINS/Brown Chicken Brown Cow (Show Dog-Universal) FEBRUARY 28 chris young/Tomorrow (RCA) Moves 50*-47*; 746 points, 280 spins Frankie Ballard/A Buncha Girls (Warner Bros./WMN) 3 Adds: KHKI*, WSLC, WUBL Jessica Ridley/Flaming Red (EMG/Universal/Nine North) STEVE AZAR/Hard Road (Ride) LEANN RIMES/Crazy Women (Curb) Debuts at 48*; 670 points, 258 spins 1 ADD: WUBL Country Aircheck Top Recurrents Points TIM MCGRAW/Felt Good On My Lips (Curb) 11489 RANDY MONTANA/1,000 Faces (Mercury) JASON ALDEAN/My Kinda Party (Broken Bow) 6945 Debuts at 49*; 670 points, 270 spins ZAC BROWN BAND f/A. JACKSON/As... (So. Ground/Atlantic/BPG) 6583 4 ADDS: KWJJ, WSLC, WUBL, WYRK CARRIE UNDERWOOD/Mama's Song (19/Arista) 5396 RASCAL FLATTS/Why Wait (Big Machine) 5118 KATIE ARMIGER/Best Song Ever (Cold River) THE BAND PERRY/If I Die Young (Republic Nashville) 5038 RODNEY ATKINS/Farmer's Daughter (Curb) 4766 Debuts at 50*; 657 points, 223 spins SUGARLAND/Stuck Like Glue (Mercury/Interscope) 4729 1 ADD: KDRK DARIUS RUCKER/Come Back Song (Capitol Nashville) 4725 BRAD PAISLEY/Anything Like Me (Arista) 4703 HARTERS/If I Run (BPG) 431 points; 189 spins JOEY + RORY/That’s Important To Me (Vanguard/Sugarhill/BPG) 2 ADDS: KHKI*, WCTK* 302 points; 116 spins 3 ADDS: KJUG, KUBL*, KUZZ BLAKE WISE/I’ve Got This Feeling (Broken Bow) Aircheck Activity includes the top 15 songs that rank 45-50 on this week’s chart or are those that are not 319 points, 141 spins; No adds charted and have a minimum of 300 airplay points and have shown growth in two of the past three weeks. (* indicates auto adds)

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LW TW Artist/Title (Label) TW Points +/- Points TW Plays +/- Play 1 1 KENNY CHESNEY/Somewhere With You (BNA) 16276 -1139 2705 -171 4th Week at No. 1 5 2 BLAKE SHELTON/Who Are You When I'm Not... (Warner Bros./WMN) 4 15494 1232 2590 214 3 3 LUKE BRYAN/Someone Else Calling You Baby (Capitol) 15174 -124 2505 -16 4 4 CHRIS YOUNG/Voices (RCA) 14984 372 2482 80 6 5 BRAD PAISLEY/This Is Country Music (Arista) 14240 434 2343 83 8 6 BILLY CURRINGTON/Let Me Down Easy (Mercury) 14174 703 2346 122 2 7 KEITH URBAN/Put You In A Song (Capitol) 14166 -2270 2336 -391 10 8 TAYLOR SWIFT/Back To December (Big Machine) 13198 608 2168 114 11 9 JASON ALDEAN & KELLY CLARKSON/Don't You Wanna Stay (Broken Bow) 13174 1075 2184 185 9 10 LADY ANTEBELLUM/Hello World (Capitol) 13002 277 2143 45 13 11 DARIUS RUCKER/This (Capitol) 10514 198 1712 27 12 12 TOBY KEITH/Bullets In The Gun (Show Dog-Universal) 10435 -393 1707 -73 14 13 SUNNY SWEENEY/From A Table Away (Republic Nashville) 10259 211 1699 48 18 14 THOMPSON SQUARE/Are You Gonna Kiss Me Or Not (Stoney Creek) 4 10142 1488 1646 250 17 15 JERROD NIEMANN/What Do You Want (Sea Gayle/Arista) 9749 889 1620 164 16 16 JANEDEAR GIRLS/Wildflower (Warner Bros./WMN) 9244 167 1509 32 20 17 ZAC BROWN BAND/Colder Weather (Southern Ground/Atlantic/BPG) 9126 1070 1510 197 19 18 SUGARLAND/Little Miss (Mercury) 8771 442 1436 63 15 19 ERIC CHURCH/Smoke A Little Smoke (EMI Nashville) 8369 -792 1362 -140 23 20 MIRANDA LAMBERT/Heart Like Mine (Columbia) 7467 829 1241 147 22 21 JOE NICHOLS/The Shape I'm In (Show Dog-Universal) 7144 25 1175 4 24 22 CRAIG CAMPBELL/Family Man (BPG) 6320 -122 1014 -6 25 23 SARA EVANS/A Little Bit Stronger (RCA) 6091 74 1008 16 28 24 RASCAL FLATTS/I Won't Let Go (Big Machine) 6031 726 1006 120 26 25 JAMES WESLEY/Real (Broken Bow) 6030 186 960 35 27 26 EASTON CORBIN/I Can't Love You Back (Mercury) 5153 -175 845 -11 29 27 JOSH KELLEY/Georgia Clay (MCA) 4340 -76 719 -7 33 28 BAND PERRY/You Lie (Republic Nashville) 4 3948 1206 650 183 31 29 CLAY WALKER/Where Do I Go From You (Curb) 3602 -119 576 -15 30 30 BRETT ELDREDGE/Raymond (Atlantic/WAR) 3463 -296 546 -35 ©2011 Country Aircheck™ — All rights reserved. 4=Top 5 point gainers. Sign up free at www.countryaircheck.com Chart Page 6 ACTIVAT OR February 7, 2011/Chart Page 7

LW TW Artist/Title (Label) TW Points +/- Points TW Plays +/- Plays 32 31 JOSH TURNER/I Wouldn't Be A Man (MCA) 3126 -161 519 -23 35 32 REBA/If I Were A Boy (Starstruck/Valory) 2889 665 496 127 36 33 ASHTON SHEPHERD/Look It Up (MCA) 2572 428 429 79 34 34 LEE BRICE/Beautiful Every Time (Curb) 2497 55 416 11 Debut 35 RONNIE DUNN/Bleed Red (Arista) 4 2382 2181 417 389 39 36 LOCASH COWBOYS/Keep In Mind (Stroudavarious) 2145 138 329 27 38 37 JOSH THOMPSON/Won't Be Lonely Long (Columbia) 2134 110 336 17 37 38 LITTLE BIG TOWN/Kiss Goodbye (Capitol) 2087 49 341 4 44 39 UNCLE KRACKER f/KID ROCK/Good To Be Me (Top Dog/Atlantic/BPG) 1784 -21 277 -7 45 40 TRACE ADKINS/Brown Chicken Brown Cow (Show Dog-Universal) 1589 -37 259 -5 43 41 GARY ALLAN/Kiss Me When I'm Down (MCA) 1567 -247 259 -41 47 42 STEEL MAGNOLIA/Last Night Again (Big Machine) 1283 249 201 36 Debut 43 KEITH URBAN/Without You (Capitol) 4 1108 1108 193 193 49 44 TROY OLSEN/Good Hands (EMI Nashville) 997 139 160 27 48 45 STEVE HOLY/Love Don't Run (Curb) 981 105 160 21 46 46 WALKER HAYES/Pants (Capitol) 879 -487 134 -86 50 47 CHUCK WICKS/Old School (N2U/CO5) 847 98 125 19 51 48 RANDY MONTANA/1,000 Faces (Mercury) 753 61 135 14 52 49 DAVID ADAM BYRNES/Sweet Distraction (Better Angels/Ride) 695 48 115 7 54 50 ADAM CRAIG BAND/Nothin' Wrong (American Roots/Quarterback) 544 6 89 1 55 51 KATIE ARMIGER/Best Song Ever (Cold River) 539 35 107 8 Debut 52 LEANN RIMES/Crazy Women (Curb) 371 163 76 30 56 53 JOSH ABBOTT BAND/Oh, Tonight (PDT) 355 19 62 3 57 54 HARTERS/If I Run (BPG) 334 26 50 5 58 55 CARTER'S CHORD/A Little Less Comfortable (Show Dog-Universal) 309 12 45 3 59 56 ALABAMA/Are You Sure Hank Done It... (Valory) 273 -5 51 -2 Debut 57 DUE WEST/The Bible And The Belt (Black River) 250 33 32 5 Debut 58 D.J. MILLER/Whatever It Takes (Evergreen) 213 17 35 5 Debut 59 DAVID NAIL/Let It Rain (MCA) 199 68 33 7 Debut 60 MARK COOKE/Can't Cheat In A Small Town (Cotton Valley) 191 4 34 1 ©2011 Country Aircheck™ — All rights reserved. 4=Top 5 point gainers. Sign up free at www.countryaircheck.com