Casey Donahew Stays on Top!

Casey Donahew Casey Donahew Stays On Top! "Let's Make A Love Song" Almost Country Records Dear Readers; CONTENTS CASEY DONAHEW keeps the #1 position for the sixth week in a row with "Let's Make A Love Song." AARON WATSON's — "Country Radio" takes triple honors as Most Added, Greatest Spin Gainer and Highest Debut at position #32! Great work everyone! Charts The following stations have been frozen for this week. KKGQ-FM (Wichita, KS) KMOM-FM (Aberdeen, SD) KRRG-FM (Laredo, TX) KTTU-FM HD4 (K226CH-FX) (Lubbock, TX)

The following songs have been moved to RECURRENT status. COOPER WADE / In The Middle Of The Second Verse ISAAC JACOB BAND / In My Dreams JACKSON TILLMAN BAND / Maybe Means Goodbye JAMIE RICHARDS / Privileges Of Youth JOSH GRIDER / My First Band KENDALL BEARD / Run While You Can PAGE 2-3 LOVE & CHAOS / Outta State Outta Mind PROPHETS AND OUTLAWS / Dreamer — RUSSELL BOYD / Wash It All Away Monitored Panel List TEXWESTUS / Can't Slow Us Down PAGE 5 TRACtion TX thanks the following artists who used CDX to distribute their latest releases to Texas Red Dirt radio and the Chart Breakouts industry. We really appreciate your support! PAGE 5 PHILLIP SANDERS / We Do That In The Country DENNIS LEDBETTER / Opposite Walls — JASON HAWK HARRIS / Cussing At The Light ERICK FAYARD / Lonely For The Lone Star PAUL CAUTHEN / Prayed For Rain TERRY DOUGLAS BAND / Wildflower For those who don’t use CDX to distribute their new music but wish to be monitored by TRACtion TX, you can now go to our upload center, fill out the necessary information and send your MP3s for fingerprinting here:https://www.cdxcd.com/ fingerprinting-upload-center/.

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WWW.TRACTIONTX.COM “Monitored Radio Airplay” Vol 4. #35 Sept 4th, 2019 L T Wks On Spins + Stations Adds W W - Chart Artist / Song Title / Label 6 Weeks At #1! 1 1 CASEY DONAHEW/Let's Make A Love Song/Almost Country Records 801 25 41 0 18 2 2 WILLIAM CLARK GREEN/Stay/Bill Grease Records 701 3 37 0 17 3 3 STONEY LARUE/Hill Country Boogaloo/One Chord Song/Smith Group 613 -27 35 0 13 6 4 RANDY ROGERS BAND/I'll Never Get Over You/Tommy Jackson/Thirty Tigers 590 42 35 1 9 7 5 JON WOLFE/Some Ol' Bar In The 90s/Jon Wolfe Music 576 32 32 0 15 5 6 TURNPIKE TROUBADOURS/The Winding Stair Mountain Blues/Thirty Tigers 559 -4 33 0 15 8 7 CURTIS GRIMES/Still/Curtis Grimes Music 493 15 30 0 12 13 8 KEVIN FOWLER/Better With Beer/Kevin Fowler Records 469 71 32 0 7 4 9 FLATLAND CAVALRY/Old School/Flatland Cavalry Music 454 -163 37 0 23 11 10 ROBERT RAY/Good Country Song/Big R.I.G. Country, LLC 452 31 22 0 15 12 11 JACK INGRAM/Where There's A Willie/Beat Up Ford Records 428 27 32 1 22 15 12 CODY JOHNSON/Nothin' On You/Cojo Music LLC 388 17 27 1 8 14 13 SHANE SMITH AND THE SAINTS/Heaven Knows/Geronimo West Records 363 -15 26 0 14 16 14 WHISKEY MYERS/Rolling Stone/Wiggy Thump/Thirty Tigers 351 30 27 2 10 17 15 SUNDANCE HEAD/Close Enough To Walk/Wildcatter 332 16 25 2 20 19 16 WYNN WILLIAMS/Yeah Buddy/Wynn Williams Music 307 17 26 0 7 21 17 DREW FISH/The Devil You Know/Reel Records 278 30 23 0 12 20 18 FRANK RAY/Just for a Minute/Frank Ray Music 268 -4 22 1 17 18 19 RAY JOHNSTON BAND/Beautiful You/Ray Johnston Music 264 -30 17 0 24 22 20 MARK POWELL/This Bar Needs A Town/Mark Powell Music 260 20 22 1 7 26 21 KOE WETZEL (& THE KONVICTS)/Ragweed/Koe Wetzel Music 246 29 13 0 6 23 22 JOSH ABBOTT BAND/Little More You/Josh Abbott Band Music 244 9 19 0 5 24 23 ABE MAC BAND/Crazy/Abe Mac Music 237 2 15 0 17 25 24 MARK MCKINNEY/Cinnamon Shore/Mark McKinney Music 225 1 15 0 11 27 25 JODY BOOTH/Life of My Love/S.O.T. Records 220 22 17 2 5 29 26 MARTY HEDDIN/A Little Less Lonely/Nightlife Entertainment Group/Dreamlined Entertainment Group 214 35 19 0 12 31 27 GARY KYLE/American Flags/Gary Kyle Music 194 19 14 0 7 33 28 DONICE MORACE/The Blues Are Alive And Well/Donice Morace Music 184 21 14 2 10 28 29 HAYES CARLL/If I May Be So Bold/Dualtone Records 175 -18 18 0 8 30 30 DUSTIN SONNIER/Between The Stones & Jones/Dustin Sonnier Music 175 -2 16 0 6

WWW.TRACTIONTX.COM “Monitored Radio Airplay” Sept 4th, 2019 | PAGE 2 L T Wks On Spins + Stations Adds W W - Chart Artist / Song Title / Label 32 31 MASON LIVELY/Early Grave/Mason Lively Music 170 1 15 1 15 -- 32 AARON WATSON/Country Radio/BIG Label Records 168 84 14 6 1 35 33 ZACH COFFEY/Nobody Frames Bad Days/Zach Coffey Music 163 11 11 0 11 40 34 RODNEY CROWELL/Flatland Hillbillies/RC1 Records 154 31 13 2 4 34 35 MORGAN ASHLEY/Come Find Me/Morgan Ashley Music 151 -10 15 0 12 44 36 CORY MORROW/Let's Take This Outside/CM Music 148 45 12 3 2 37 37 CHRIS KNIGHT/I'm William Callahan/Drifter's Church/Thirty Tigers 145 14 9 0 3 38 38 COMANCHE MOON/Goin' To The Country/CM Music 137 10 11 0 4 39 39 JARROD MORRIS/Coyote/Jarrod Morris Music 135 10 8 0 5 36 40 JAMES COOK/Let 'Em Run/James Cook Music 128 -12 13 0 21 43 41 JEFF JACOBS BAND/Can't Get Her Out of My Head/Jeff Jacobs Band Music 114 10 12 2 2 41 42 TANYA TUCKER/The Wheels Of Laredo/Fantasy Records/Concord 113 -3 16 0 8 42 43 DUSTY NEUMAN/Spike Drivin' Blues/Marathon Music Group 110 4 8 0 4 -- 44 NO JUSTICE/More To Live For/Smith Music Group 107 35 7 2 1 45 45 CASEY BAKER/Life Has Taken Its Toll On Me/Casey Baker Music 99 1 10 0 4 46 46 KAITLIN BUTTS/White River/Kaitlin Butts Music 89 -7 9 0 11 49 47 HAYDEN HADDOCK/Everywhere I Need To Be/Hayden Haddock Music 88 -2 11 1 3 -- 48 MATT MERCADO/I Should've Never Left Mexico/Matt Mercado Music 79 -1 9 1 1 47 49 RAGLAND/Footsteps/Ragland Music 77 -18 11 0 15 -- 50 POWELL BROTHERS, THE/The Way You Are/Tolar Powell Entertainment 77 -5 7 0 16

Number 1 = Most Added = Spin Gainer = Bubbling Under Position NATALIE ROSE/Summer Days/Natalie Rose Music 51 WILL CARTER/Good Bad Idea/Will Carter Music 52 DREW MORELAND/Road Stone/Drew Moreland Music 53 BRANDI BEHLEN/Daddy's Money/Brandi Behlen Music 54 KAITLYN KOHLER/Everything's Here But You/Kaitlyn Kohler Music 55 KYLE PARK/Every Day Kind of Love/Kyle Park Music 56 JORDAN ROBERT KIRK/That's Just Life/New Tyme Music 57 SAINTS ELEVEN (FT. WALT WILKINS)/Strange Round Here/Saints Eleven Music 58 DALTON DOMINO/Love Is Dangerous/Lightning Rod Records 59 LAUREN CORZINE/Ain't That Lonely/Lauren Corzine Music 60

WWW.TRACTIONTX.COM “Monitored Radio Airplay” Sept 4th, 2019 | PAGE 3 Monitored Stations KAXA-FM Kerrville, TX KNES-FM Fairfield, TX KSSL-FM Post, TX texasboundradio.com KBSO-FM Corpus Christi, TX KOKE-FM Austin, TX KTTU-FM HD4 (K226CH-FX) Lubbock, TX texashomegrownradio.com KBST-FM Big Spring, TX KOLI-FM Wichita Falls, TX KTTX-FM Brenham, TX TexasRedHotRadio.com KECO-FM Elk City, OK KORA-FM Bryan, TX KTXM-FM Hallettsville, TX TBJS Radio Poteau, OK KERP-FM Dodge City, KS KOXE-FM Brownwood, TX KUSH-AM Cushing, OK KFLP-FM Floydada, TX KPAK-FM Alva, OK KUSQ-FM Worthington, MN KFTX-FM Corpus Christi, TX KPUR-FM Canyon, TX KVST-FM Montgomery, TX KFWR-FM Ft. Worth, TX KQSC-AM Colorado Springs, CO KWOX-FM Woodward, OK KFYN-FM Paris, TX KQZQ-FM Kiowa, KS KXKZ-FM Ruston, LA KHLB-FM Mason, TX KRBL-FM Levelland,TX KXOX-FM Sweetwater,TX KHYI-FM Howe, TX KRRG-FM Laredo, TX KYKC-FM Ada, OK KIKK-FM (HD2) Houston, TX KRUN-AM Ballinger, TX KYKM-FM Yoakum, TX KKAJ-FM Ardmore, OK KRVF-FM Kerens, TX KYKX-FM Longview,TX KKCN-FM San Angelo, TX KRVN-FM Lexington, NE KYYK-FM Palestine, TX KKGQ-FM Wichita, KS KSAM-FM Huntsville, TX coyotecountryradio.com KMOM-FM Aberdeen, SD KSEL-FM Portales, NM madeintexasradio.com Strikethrough = Removed Bold = Newly Added Underlined = Frozen this Week Double Underlined = Frozen 2 Weeks

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Chart Recurrent Methodology

When does a song move to recurrent on the With this in mind, the CDX TRACtion Texas chart? It is one of the more challenging issues we recurrent policy grades each chart position on a encountered in creating the CDX TRACtion Texas curve, using an algorithm that considers the chart chart system. Rather than relying on subjective position and spin history for that song. Newly editorial decisions, we’ve chosen to automate this serviced singles are allowed 20 weeks to chart process using the weekly chart data as a marker. before being removed from chart consideration. Once a status change is actively being considered We strive to avoid having singles past their prime by the algorithm, the cumulative amount of spin create a logjam on the chart, because that stifles loss from the single’s previous peak spin count upward momentum for up-and-coming singles. is the trigger. The allowable spin loss varies as a But we also try to ensure that singles “on the percentage, depending on the chart position. bubble” are not removed prematurely. As long-time chart watchers know, singles often take a while In addition to making sure that only singles with to establish a solid base among early believers at significant downward movement become recurrent, radio before they truly find their legs. Due to any this methodology also benefits slow-developing number of reasons, the path to peak chart position singles in several ways. For instance, the allowable rarely includes straight-line, week-over-week spin spin loss (as a percentage) is very generous at the and/or chart position growth. lower reaches of the chart to accommodate the lower spin counts. Additionally, if a single is at On a monitored airplay chart like CDX TRACtion risk of being moved to recurrent status with two Texas, the reality is that new singles bounce around consecutive weeks of minor spin loss, it can still a bit spin-wise and position-wise, particularly return to positive spin growth the following week, in the lower half of the chart. Even small spin which will reset the clock. increases and decreases can be magnified as fairly significant up-or-down chart position moves.

WWW.TRACTIONTX.COM “Monitored Radio Airplay” Sept 4th, 2019 | PAGE 4 Most Added Adds AARON WATSON/Country Radio BIG Label Records 6 KYLE PARK/Every Day Kind of Love Kyle Park Music 6 CORY MORROW/Let's Take This Outside CM Music 3 JAMES LANN/Watered Down Whiskey Ari-Tex Records 3 JESSE RAUB JR/Good Times Jesse Raub Jr. Music 3 WHISKEY MYERS/Rolling Stone Wiggy Thump/Thirty Tigers 2 SUNDANCE HEAD/Close Enough To Walk Wildcatter 2 JODY BOOTH/Life of My Love S.O.T. Records 2 DONICE MORACE/The Blues Are Alive And Well Donice Morace Music 2 Weldon Henson recently dropped in at Troubadour Country Radio. RODNEY CROWELL/Flatland Hillbillies (L-R) Jim Alvarado (TCR), Weldon Henson, Joe Jerkins (guitars), Matt RC1 Records 2 Sweatt (TCR).

Greatest Spin Gainers Increase AARON WATSON/Country Radio BIG Label Records 84 KEVIN FOWLER/Better With Beer Kevin Fowler Records 71 KYLE PARK/Every Day Kind of Love Kyle Park Music 69 CORY MORROW/Let's Take This Outside CM Music 45 RANDY ROGERS BAND/I'll Never Get Over You Tommy Jackson/Thirty Tigers 42 JAMES LANN/Watered Down Whiskey Ari-Tex Records 40 MARTY HEDDIN/A Little Less Lonely Nightlife Entertainment Group/Dreamlined Entertainment Group 35 NO JUSTICE/More To Live For Smith Music Group 35 JON WOLFE/Some Ol' Bar In The 90s 32 Jon Wolfe Music Grant Gilbert with Mike Crow of Shooter FM/Waco. ROBERT RAY/Good Country Song Big R.I.G. Country, LLC 31

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