Country Update

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Maren Morris: Brooks & Dunn, Ray Stevens, Jerry Chart Meets Girl >page 4 Bradley Immortalized In Hall Of Fame

George Strait Packs ’Em In “I don’t know how I got here, but I ain’t leaving.” Retired music RCA executive — providing the vital, unsung foundation upon >page 11 executive Jerry Bradley was both dumbfounded and celebratory which such Hall of Fame members as Waylon Jennings, Dolly on March 18 as he contemplated his entrance into the Country Parton, Charley Pride, Alabama and Ronnie Milsap were able Music Hall of Fame, an achievement that stands as the ultimate to build their creative houses. music-industry endurance test. Bradley, Brooks & Dunn and The Country Hall is, museum CEO Kyle Young said, a Where There’s Ray Stevens were revealed as the newest entrants inside “meaningful hall of fame.” Country music is an American- Smoke, the Hall of Fame’s Rotunda, bred genre, and the Hall There’s Country where the announcement was recognizes the figures who >page 11 made amid the plaques of the played the most significant Hall’s previous 136 inductees, roles in transforming it from an including Hank Williams, informal front-porch diversion Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash into a big business. Jake Owen and Jimmie Rodgers. Each of 2019’s inductees Sends His Greetings The names at the top of the impacted both the creative >page 11 charts regularly turn over, and and the business sides of the

even the places where the music industry. Bradley made RCA’s gets made are increasingly torn Nashville division the first Makin’ Tracks: down and replaced in Nashville. major-label enterprise with Dierks Bentley’s But once someone has their The 2019 Country Music Hall of Fame inductees autonomy from the home ‘Living’ name added to the Hall’s roll of were unveiled March 18. From left: Stevens, Bradley office, a move that gave the >page 17 honor, it’s not something that and Brooks & Dunn members Dunn and Brooks. country wing greater creative can be taken away. control and an ability to move Brooks & Dunn, Stevens and Bradley all found their own way faster when its product worked in the marketplace. At the same in. Brooks & Dunn logged 20 No. 1s on both the Hot Country time, Bradley signed or advanced artists who expanded the Country Coda: Songs and Country Airplay charts using Eagles-like harmonies music’s place in the culture, through the crossover efforts of No ‘Doubt’ About and a relentless party-time concert atmosphere. Stevens mined Milsap and Parton, the barrier-breaking presence of Pride and Neal McCoy comedic talents and an entrepreneurial spirit while registering the trend-setting works of Jennings and Alabama. >page 22 an optimistic signature song, “Everything Is Beautiful,” that Stevens wisely invested in both the business and his own countered the wartime era in which it was spawned. Bradley talents. At one time, he owned 13 parcels along Music Row, but worked behind the scenes — mostly as a record producer and he also sunk his funds into other areas: building one of the first BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE MARCH 18, 2019 | PAGE 2 OF 22 theaters in the country-tourism mecca of Branson, Mo.; packaging a historic box set of comedic recordings; and putting his money into several TV shows, including his latest, Ray Stevens CabaRay Nashville, shot at his own Nashville club and carried on PBS. Stevens had serious musical talents (he worked as a studio musician-background singer on recordings by Elvis Presley, Faron Young and Leroy Van Dyke), but his flair for comedy — demonstrated by “Ahab the Arab,” “Shriner’s Convention” and “The Streak” — made him a quasi- bridge between early country’s vaudevillian aspirations and contemporary country’s more subtle approach to humor. Brooks & Dunn helped move the genre’s stage presentation forward. Their incorporation of confetti machines and inflatable figures that towered 20-30 feet above them let their high-amperage brand of music touch even fans in Kane Brown (center) met up with KASE/KVET Austin PD Anthony Allen venues’ upper reaches as country concerts expanded in the 1990s from a stand- when his Live Forever Tour arrived at the HEB Center March 8. They are and-deliver medium for theaters to spectacular, arena-size events. shown with RCA director of regional promotion Mallory Michaels. Still, none of the innovations in the new Hall of Famers’ approaches would have succeeded if the music at the heart of their game plans wasn’t solid. “That’s been one of my favorite things through this Reboot process,” said Kix Brooks, referencing an April 5 album that revisits Brooks & Dunn’s catalog through collaborations with such newer faces as Thomas Rhett, Luke Combs and Kacey Musgraves. “People are talking about this music and how it stood the test of time. Nobody is talking about confetti and balloons and inflatables. We spent thousands of dollars making these big messes every night, and nobody’s talking about it. They’re talking about the music.” For Brooks & Dunn, that means a range of material from patriotic anthems (“Only in America”) and gospel life lessons (“Believe”) to honky-tonk dance tunes (“Boot Scootin’ Boogie”). For Stevens, that means bluegrass-tipped reinvention (“Misty”), relentless goofiness (“Gitarzan”), tongue-in-cheek Lee Brice (center) guested on NBC’s Today while in Charleston, S.C., on social commentary (“Would Jesus Wear a Rolex”) and that classic signature, March 8. He’s pictured with co-hosts Al Roker and Kathie Lee Gifford. “Everything Is Beautiful.” For Bradley, it’s a hand in the development or exposure of Parton’s “9 to 5,” Milsap’s “(There’s) No Gettin’ Over Me,” Presley’s “My Way” and Jennings’ collaboration with Willie Nelson, “Mammas, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys.” As was demonstrated by Stevens’ sale of his core Music Row property and the recent near-demolition of RCA Studio A (the building that formerly housed Bradley’s office), much about the conditions that surround music is up for frequent renewal. Buildings may disappear, the delivery platform is ever- changing, and the music makers themselves all eventually pass on. The Hall of Fame recognizes the work that endures. “It’s not the bricks and mortar,” said Bradley, emphasizing what’s in the heart and soul of Music Row. “It’s the people. It’s a songwriter with a hit song, it’s somebody that can sing, and it’s the world’s best musicians, and that comes Waterloo Revival played an acoustic set for WOKQ Portsmouth, N.H., out on a piece of tape or a CD or what have you, and that’s played all over listeners during a March 12 station visit. From left: Show Dog Nashville the world. It could be cut in a garage, it could be cut in one of those Sears & Northeast/Midwest regional promotion manager Denise Roberts, Roebuck houses. It’s not bricks and mortar. It’s what those 15, 16 people do.” Waterloo Revival’s Cody Cooper, Townsquare Media/Portsmouth The four people that comprise 2019’s class will be inducted later this year operations manager Robby Bridges and Waterloo Revival’s in a formal medallion ceremony at the Hall of Fame’s CMA Theater. George Birge.

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ON THE CHARTS JIM ASKER [email protected] Maren Morris’ Girl Bows At No. 1 On Top Country Albums Chart With Record Debut-Week Streams

Singer-songwriter Maren Morris’ second studio LP, Girl (Columbia Nashville/ EP entered at No. 27 in November 2015 and peaked at No. 22 the following April. Sony Music Nashville [SMN]), released March 8, flies in at No. 1 on Billboard’s The album’s title-track lead single rockets 27-9 on Hot Country Songs, which Top Country Albums chart dated March 23. In its first week (ending March 14), blends streaming, airplay and sales data. It’s Morris’ fifth top 10 on the chart. the set earned 46,000 equivalent album units (25,000 in traditional album On Country Airplay, “Girl” rises 26-25 (7.7 million in audience, essentially even sales), according to Nielsen Music. week over week). The track is the first Hot Country Songs top 10 by a female On the all-genre Billboard 200, Girl starts at No. 4, marking Morris’ second unaccompanied by another artist since Morris’ “Rich” ranked at its No. 8 high top 10 and highest career rank. on Dec. 8. The album is the first No. 1 debut by a woman Morris co-wrote all 14 songs on Girl, which was in 2019 on Top Country Albums and the first since produced by busbee and Greg Kurstin. She is Carrie Underwood’s Cry Pretty arrived at the nominated for female vocalist of the year at the pinnacle of the survey dated Sept. 29, 2018, with 54th annual Academy of Country Music Awards, 266,000 units. to will be held April 7 in Las Vegas. With Girl, Morris notches the largest debut- week streaming sum for a country album by a NEW TOP 10s Chase Rice’s “Eyes on You” female artist: Its songs logged 23.96 million on- (Dack Janiels/Broken Bow) enters the Country demand audio streams in its premiere frame. Airplay top 10 (13-9), increasing by 15 percent to She surpasses the previous such best debut-week 22.1 million audience impressions. “Eyes” marks total that was set when Underwood’s Cry Pretty his third top 10 on the tally and first since 2015’s generated 14.44 million on-demand audio streams No. 2-peaking “Gonna Wanna Tonight.” Rice first (Sept. 29, 2018). Girl also logs the largest streaming reached the region with “Ready Set Roll,” which week for a studio country album by a woman and hit No. 5 in 2014. the largest opening streaming week for any such Jake Owen’s “Down to the Honkytonk” (Big album in 2019. Loud) hops 12-10 (21.7 million, up 7 percent) on “I am blown away by the support this last week,” the chart, his 10th top 10 on the list. Owen last Morris, 28, tells Billboard. “My fans were already reached that level with his seventh No. 1, “I Was MORRIS screaming the lyrics at the show the day after the Jack (You Were Diane),” which led for a week in album came out.” August 2018. “Achieving significant streaming success was a key goal, and to attain it in such a dramatic fashion makes it all the more sweet,” says SMN chairman/CEO Randy COMBS GOES FOURTH Luke Combs’ “Beautiful Crazy’’ (River House/ Goodman, who also praises Morris’ manager, Janet Weir. “[We] embraced this Columbia Nashville) leads both Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay for album with the attitude of, ‘Let’s go do this,’ and we did just that.” a fourth frame. It tops the latter chart with 40.1 million impressions (down Girl is the second full-length from the Arlington, Texas, native to open at the 1 percent). It is his unprecedented fifth consecutive career-opening Country Top Country Albums summit. Morris’ first major-label LP, Hero, began in the Airplay leader. penthouse — and at No. 5 on the Billboard 200 — on June 25, 2016 (45,000 units;

37,000 sold). Her new set is her third entry on Top Country Albums. Her self-titled Additional reporting by Billboard senior director of charts Keith Caulfield. IHEARTMEDIA FOR IMAGES MCINTYRE/GETTY EMMA

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AIRPLAY Country Airplay MONITORED BY

WKS AUDIENCE (IN MILLIONS) PLAYS THIS LAST ON WEEK WEEK CHART TITLE Imprint/Label Artist THIS WEEK +/– THIS WEEK +/– RANK 1 1 19 BEAUTIFUL CRAZY River House/Columbia Nashville HH No. 1 (4 weeks) HH Luke Combs 40.569 -0.243 8184 -109 1 l2 2 48 MILLIONAIRE Mercury  Chris Stapleton 32.416 +0.146 7031 260 2 l3 7 36 THERE WAS THIS GIRL BMLG  Riley Green 28.843 +2.128 6273 283 3 4 4 27 GIRL LIKE YOU Macon/Broken Bow Jason Aldean 28.159 -0.774 5209 18 8 l5 9 26 HERE TONIGHT BMLG  HH Most Increased Audience HH Brett Young 28.130 +3.407 6050 733 4 l6 8 35 ONE THAT GOT AWAY Atlantic/WEA  Michael Ray 27.285 +1.943 5940 375 5 7 5 42 THIS IS IT Triple Tigers Scotty McCreery 26.247 -1.785 5022 -329 9 l8 11 23 MAKE IT SWEET RCA Nashville Old Dominion 25.581 +1.789 5393 530 6 l9 13 31 EYES ON YOU Dack Janiels/Broken Bow Chase Rice 22.079 +2.824 5006 704 10 l10 12 32 DOWN TO THE HONKYTONK Big Loud Jake Owen 21.655 +1.348 5268 196 7 l11 14 27 LOVE WINS Capitol Nashville Carrie Underwood 19.026 -0.157 4211 60 12 l12 15 34 NIGHT SHIFT Capitol Nashville Jon Pardi 18.591 +0.404 4251 123 11 l13 17 21 MISS ME MORE Black River Kelsea Ballerini 17.520 +0.777 3989 221 13 l14 18 11 GOOD AS YOU Zone 4/RCA Nashville Kane Brown 17.189 +1.612 3785 252 15 l15 16 32 ON MY WAY TO YOU CoJo/WMN  Cody Johnson 17.172 +0.142 3724 62 16 l16 19 40 LOVE AIN’T Valory  Eli Young Band 15.680 +1.017 3900 263 14 17 3 49 BURN OUT Big Machine Midland 15.580 -14.929 2924 -3511 19 l18 20 29 WHISKEY GLASSES Big Loud Morgan Wallen 13.735 +1.495 3347 235 17 l19 21 37 LOVE SOMEONE Atlantic/WMN  HH Airpower HH Brett Eldredge 12.604 +1.406 3089 248 18 l20 22 3 LOOK WHAT GOD GAVE HER Valory  Thomas Rhett 12.023 +1.546 2464 448 22 l21 23 28 RUMOR Curb  Lee Brice 10.936 +1.057 2845 357 20 l22 25 5 EVERY LITTLE HONKY TONK BAR MCA Nashville George Strait 10.161 +0.686 2241 195 24 l23 27 20 TALK YOU OUT OF IT BMLG  Florida Georgia Line 8.931 +1.573 2489 349 21 l24 28 49 CAUGHT UP IN THE COUNTRY Curb  Rodney Atkins Featuring The Fisk Jubilee Singers 8.194 +1.210 2304 185 23 l25 26 9 GIRL Columbia Nashville Maren Morris 7.678 -0.014 2005 216 26 l26 29 10 RAISED ON COUNTRY RCA Nashville Chris Young 6.872 +0.171 1607 70 31 l27 32 14 WHAT HAPPENS IN A SMALL TOWN Valory  Brantley Gilbert + Lindsay Ell 6.868 +1.058 1943 386 27 l28 30 22 BUY MY OWN DRINKS Wheelhouse  Runaway June 6.430 +0.390 2044 41 25 l29 31 11 SOME OF IT EMI Nashville Eric Church 6.329 +0.567 1642 139 30 l30 33 28 FEELS LIKE A PARTY Wheelhouse  LOCASH 5.553 +0.021 1825 24 28

BILLBOARD COUNTRY AIRPLAY PANEL — 150 STATIONS Akron, OH WQMX Detroit WDRQ Memphis WGKX Richmond, Va. WKHK Albany, N.Y. WGNA WYCD WLFP Riverside, Calif. KFRG Albuquerque, N.M. KBQI El Paso, Texas KHEY Miami WKIS Roanoke, Va. WSLC KRST Ft. Myers, Fla. WCKT Milwaukee, WI. WKTI Rochester, N.Y. WBEE Allentown, Pa. WCTO WWGR WMIL Sacramento, Calif. KBEB Atlanta WKHX Ft. Wayne, Ind. WQHK Minneapolis KEEY KNCI WUBL Fresno, Calif. KSKS KMNB KNTY Augusta, Ga. WKXC Gainesville, Fla. WOGK Mobile, Ala. WKSJ St. Louis KSD Austin, Texas KASE Grand Rapids, Mich. WBCT Monmouth/Ocean, N.J. WKMK WIL Bakersfield, Calif. KUZZ Greensboro, N.C. WTQR Monterey, Calif.. KTOM Salt Lake City KSOP Baltimore WPOC Greenville, S.C. WSSL Nashville WKDF KUBL Baton Rouge, La. WYNK Harrisburg, Pa. WRBT WSIX San Antonio, Texas KAJA Birmingham, Ala. WDXB Hartford, Conn. WWYZ Nassau, N.Y. WJVC KCYY WZZK Houston KILT New Bern, N.C. WRNS San Diego KSON Boise, Idaho KAWO KKBQ New Orleans WNOE San Jose, Calif. KRTY KIZN Huntsville, Ala. WDRM New York WNSH Sarasota, Fla. WCTQ Boston WBWL Indianapolis WFMS Norfolk, Va. WGH Seattle KKWF WKLB WLHK WUSH KMPS Buffalo, N.Y. WYRK Jacksonville, Fla. WGNE Oklahoma City, Okla. KJKE Spokane, Wash. KXLY Charleston, S.C. WEZL WQIK KTST Springfield, Mass. WRNX WCKN Johnson City, Tenn. WXBQ Omaha, Neb. KXKT Stockton, Calif. KATM Charlotte, N.C. WKKT Kansas City KBEQ Orlando, Fla. WWKA Syracuse, N.Y. WBBS WSOC WDAF Oxnard-Ventura, CA KHAY Tampa, Fla. WFUS Chattanooga, Tenn. WUSY KFKF Philadelphia WXTU WQYK Chicago WEBG Knoxville, Tenn. WCYQ Phoenix KMLE Tucson, Ariz. KIIM WUSN WIVK KNIX Tulsa, Okla. KTGX Cincinnati WUBE Lafayette, La. KMDL Pittsburgh WDSY KVOO Cleveland WGAR Lakeland, Fla. WPCV WOGI KWEN Colorado Springs, Colo. KATC Las Vegas KCYE WPGB Visalia, Calif. KJUG KCCY KWNR Portland, Maine WPOR Washington, D.C. WMZQ Columbia, S.C. WCOS Lexington, Ky. WBUL WTHT West Palm Beach, Fla. WIRK Columbus, Ohio WCOL Little Rock, Ark. KSSN Portland, Ore. KUPL Wichita, Kan. KFDI Corpus Christi, Texas KRYS Los Angeles KKGO KWJJ KZSN Dallas KPLX Louisville, Ky. WAMZ Providence, R.I. WCTK Wilkes Barre, Pa. WGGY KSCS WQNU Raleigh, NC WQDR Wilmington, Del. WXCY Dayton, Ohio WHKO Madison, Wis. WWQM York, Pa. WGTY Denver KYGO WMAD Reno, Nevada KBUL Des Moines, Iowa KHKI McAllen, Texas KTEX KOLC BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE MARCH 18, 2019 | PAGE 7 OF 22

AIRPLAY Country Airplay MONITORED BY

WKS AUDIENCE (IN MILLIONS) PLAYS THIS LAST ON WEEK WEEK CHART TITLE Imprint/Label Artist THIS WEEK +/– THIS WEEK +/– RANK l31 34 5 SOMEBODY’S DAUGHTER Columbia Nashville Tenille Townes 5.150 -0.062 1243 80 34 l32 35 35 WHAT WHISKEY DOES Stoney Creek Randy Houser Featuring Hillary Lindsey 4.748 +0.092 1643 82 29 l33 40 6 RAINBOW MCA Nashville Kacey Musgraves 4.341 +0.917 114 6 163 35 l34 36 16 LOVE YOU TOO LATE Warner Bros./WMN Cole Swindell 4.290 +0.175 1042 55 37 l35 39 5 ALL TO MYSELF Warner Bros./WAR Dan + Shay 4.175 +0.695 866 96 41 l36 42 17 CLOSER TO YOU Big Machine Carly Pearce 4.036 +0.786 1361 156 32 l37 38 22 DAY DRUNK Warner Bros./WEA Morgan Evans 3.988 +0.208 1053 79 36 l38 41 19 THE ONES THAT DIDN’T MAKE IT BACK HOME Valory  Justin Moore 3.895 +0.539 986 135 38 l39 45 24 BACK TO LIFE Big Machine Rascal Flatts 3.396 +0.548 1342 190 33 l40 43 15 EVERY LITTLE THING Triple Tigers Russell Dickerson 3.302 +0.188 983 70 39 l41 44 3 REARVIEW TOWN Macon/Broken Bow HH Breaker HH Jason Aldean 3.247 +0.426 906 185 40 l42 46 6 REDNECKER Tree Vibez/Big Loud HARDY 2.849 +0.167 718 93 45 l43 47 17 I DON’T KNOW ABOUT YOU Big Loud Chris Lane 2.726 +0.147 689 23 48 l44 48 18 I DON’T REMEMBER ME (BEFORE YOU) EMI Nashville HH Breaker HH Brothers Osborne 2.492 +0.136 743 20 44 l45 50 7 THOUGHT ABOUT YOU McGraw/Columbia Nashville Tim McGraw 2.292 +0.064 713 60 46 46 49 20 LADIES IN THE ‘90S 19/Mercury  Lauren Alaina 2.131 -0.111 795 46 43 l47 52 29 HOW DOES IT SOUND Dylan Schneider/Placer Dylan Schneider 2.119 +0.249 710 21 47 l48 54 8 PRAYED FOR YOU Wide Open/RECORDS/Good Company Matt Stell 2.000 +0.288 483 46 54 49 51 9 NOTHING TO DO TOWN Curb  Dylan Scott 1.996 -0.107 796 51 42 l50 56 3 LIVING Capitol Nashville Dierks Bentley 1.749 +0.220 496 93 53 l51 53 8 MAKE ME WANT TO Stoney Creek Jimmie Allen 1.737 -0.003 687 0 49 l52 55 3 GOOD VIBES Warner Bros./WAR Chris Janson 1.705 +0.142 497 53 52 l53 58 4 TO A T RCA Nashville Ryan Hurd 1.162 +0.137 305 32 60 l54 57 14 GIRL GOIN’ NOWHERE Atlantic/WAR  Ashley McBryde 1.091 +0.004 548 8 50 l55 RE-ENTRY 90’S COUNTRY Monument/Arista Nashville HH Most Added HH Walker Hayes 1.041 +0.017 461 101 55 l56 59 8 ROCKIN’ ALL NIGHT LONG Buena Vista/Capitol Nashville Adam Hambrick 1.032 +0.144 539 31 51 l57 60 3 ALCOHOL YOU LATER Riser House/Columbia Nashville Mitchell Tenpenny 0.970 +0.099 356 47 57 l58 NEW AFTER A FEW Mercury  HH Hot Shot Debut HH Travis Denning 0.747 +0.051 405 18 56 l59 RE-ENTRY SOMEONE I USED TO KNOW Southern Ground/Wheelhouse Zac Brown Band 0.723 +0.057 321 54 58 60 NEW HOUSTON, WE GOT A PROBLEM River House/Columbia Nashville Luke Combs 0.629 -0.075 79 2 -

GOING FOR ADDS

3/25 4/1 BRAD PAISLEY AARON GOODVIN My Miracle Bars & Churches Arista Nashville 1608 CASH CREEK DYLAN JAKOBSEN My One And Only Weakness In America Heartland Nashville IAE DUSTIN LYNCH SUNDANCE HEAD Ridin’ Roads Close Enough To Walk Broken Bow Wildcatter HUNTER HAYES 36 Heartbreak 4/8 Atlantic/WMN QUEEVA RANDY ROGERS BAND How Do You Know The track increases by 24 percent to Crazy People CMD CARLY 4 million impressions and pushes 42-36 Tommy Jackson/Thirty Tigers PEARCE Every Little on Country Airplay. On Hot Country Songs, SHARI ROWE Thing it bullets at No. 43. Night Ridin’ Maven/Kore PR TERRY WYATT/FILMMAGIC TERRY BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE MARCH 18, 2019 | PAGE 8 OF 22

AIRPLAY Country Airplay MONITORED BY

MOST ADDED® NEW AND ACTIVE TITLE Imprint/Label Artist ADDS TOTAL TOTAL 90’S COUNTRY Monument/Arista Nashville Walker Hayes 13 TITLE Imprint/Label Artist AUDIENCE STATIONS ADDS LOOK WHAT GOD GAVE HER Valory Thomas Rhett 12 THE BULL MCA Nashville Kip Moore 0.585 16 2 REARVIEW TOWN Macon/Broken Bow Jason Aldean 10 BETTER OFF GONE Big Yellow Dog Logan Mize 0.548 29 3 SOME OF IT EMI Nashville Eric Church 9 WORLD FOR TWO Stoney Creek King Calaway 0.413 8 3 LADIES IN THE ‘90S 19/Mercury Lauren Alaina 9 REDNECKER Tree Vibez/Big Loud Hardy 9 RIDIN’ ROADS Broken Bow Dustin Lynch 0.381 3 3 ALL TO MYSELF Warner Bros./WAR Dan + Shay 8 BRAND NEW BUZZ B$R/Reviver Big & Rich 0.377 29 0 LIVING Capitol Nashville Dierks Bentley 8 MY MIRACLE Arista Nashville Brad Paisley 0.272 2 2 RAINBOW MCA Nashville Kacey Musgraves 7 GOOD VIBES Warner Bros./WAR Chris Janson 7 RECURRENTS MOST INCREASED AUDIENCE THIS TOTAL AUD. WEEK TITLE Imprint/Label Artist (IN MILLIONS) GAIN 1 TAKE IT FROM ME MCA Nashville Jordan Davis 23.570 TITLE Imprint/Label Artist (IN MIILIONS) 2 WHAT MAKES YOU COUNTRY Capitol Nashville Luke Bryan 20.867 HERE TONIGHT BMLG Brett Young +3.407 EYES ON YOU Dack Janiels/Broken Bow Chase Rice +2.824 3 BEST SHOT Stoney Creek Jimmie Allen 20.791 THERE WAS THIS GIRL BMLG Riley Green +2.128 4 SHE GOT THE BEST OF ME River House/Columbia Nashville Luke Combs 18.694 ONE THAT GOT AWAY Atlantic/WEA Michael Ray +1.943 5 SPEECHLESS Warner Bros./WAR Dan + Shay 15.926 MAKE IT SWEET RCA Nashville Old Dominion +1.789 6 SIXTEEN Valory Thomas Rhett 15.481 GOOD AS YOU Zone 4/RCA Nashville Kane Brown +1.612 7 GOOD GIRL Broken Bow Dustin Lynch 15.335 TALK YOU OUT OF IT BMLG Florida Georgia Line +1.573 8 TEQUILA Warner Bros./WAR Dan + Shay 14.044 LOOK WHAT GOD GAVE HER Valory Thomas Rhett +1.546 9 BLUE TACOMA Triple Tigers Russell Dickerson 12.634 WHISKEY GLASSES Big Loud Morgan Wallen +1.495 LOVE SOMEONE Atlantic/WMN Brett Eldredge +1.406 10 HEAVEN Zone 4/RCA Nashville Kane Brown 12.113 MOST INCREASED PLAYS BILLBOARD COUNTRY BOXSCORE TITLE Imprint/Label Artist GAIN Gross Artist Attendance Ticket Price(s) Venue/Date(s) Capacity Promoter(s) HERE TONIGHT BMLG Brett Young +733 $2,990,825 ERIC CHURCH 30,726 MESSINA TOURING EYES ON YOU Dack Janiels/Broken Bow Chase Rice +704 $149, $29 Sprint Center, Kansas, Mo./March 1-2 30,726 GROUP/AEG PRESENTS MAKE IT SWEET RCA Nashville Old Dominion +530 $2,125,910 ERIC CHURCH 29,413 MESSINA TOURING LOOK WHAT GOD GAVE HER Valory Thomas Rhett +448 $136.53, $24.18 Scotiabank Arena, Toronto, Ont./March 8-9 29,413 GROUP/AEG PRESENTS WHAT HAPPENS IN A SMALL TOWN Valory Brantley Gilbert + Lindsay Ell +386 $1,186,403 BLAKE SHELTON 13,295 MESSINA TOURING $148.75, $25.75 Amalie Arena, Tampa, Fla./March 8 13,295 GROUP/AEG PRESENTS ONE THAT GOT AWAY Atlantic/WEA Michael Ray +375 RUMOR Curb Lee Brice +357 $1,184,642 BLAKE SHELTON 14,673 MESSINA TOURING $149, $22.50 KFC Yum! Center, Louisville, Ky./March 1 14,673 GROUP/AEG PRESENTS TALK YOU OUT OF IT BMLG Florida Georgia Line +349 $1,005,904 BLAKE SHELTON 12,306 MESSINA TOURING THERE WAS THIS GIRL BMLG Riley Green +283 $129.25, $28.25 BB&T Center, Sunrise, Fla./March 9 12,306 GROUP/AEG PRESENTS LOVE AIN’T Valory Eli Young Band +263 Reported worldwide boxscore figures for Country artists. Boxscore figures should be submitted to Bob Allen by phone (615-891-1976), fax (615-891-2054) or email ([email protected]). TEXAS REGIONAL RADIO REPORT WEEK ENDING MARCH 17, 2019

THIS LAST WKS ON TW SPINS THIS LAST WKS ON TW SPINS WEEK WEEK CHART TITLE (Label) ARTIST SPINS +/– WEEK WEEK CHART TITLE (Label) ARTIST SPINS +/– l1 2 14 GONER (Independentt)  HH 1 Week at 1 HH William Clark Green 1731 44 l11 11 12 TOP OF MY HEART (Cory Morrow Music)  Cory Morrow 1394 112 l2 3 14 I’M YOUR ONLY FLAW (Independent)  Josh Abbott Band 1691 63 l12 12 9 COUNTRY SONG TO SING (Independent)  Kevin Fowler 1309 47 l3 4 19 RUN AWAY WITH YOU (Independent)  Robert Ray 1685 114 l13 14 11 KISS THAT GIRL GOODBYE (Independent)  Aaron Watson 1236 31 l4 6 8 SOMEWHERE BETWEEN I LOVE YOU AND I’M LEAVIN’ (Rounder Rec)  Cody Jinks 1656 96 l14 15 20 LEAVE HER WILD (Dean Dillon’s Wildcatter )  Sundance Head 115 8 3 l5 5 13 WALK AWAY (Independent)  Mark Powell 1647 76 l15 16 14 AIN’T ENOUGH BEER (Independent)  Kylie Frey 115 6 34 l6 7 8 CHEAT ON ME (Independent)  Bri Bagwell 1588 77 l16 20 9 OTHER SIDE OF THE RADIO (Independent)  Mike Ryan 1096 101 l7 9 9 HAD A THING (Independent)  Curtis Grimes 1581 175 l17 19 25 WHATEVER IT TAKES (King Hall Music)  Chad Cooke Band 1075 12 l8 8 16 NONE’YA (Independent)  Hayes Carll 1550 125 18 18 29 ON MY WAY TO YOU (CoJo Music)  Cody Johnson 1016 -81 9 1 19 BEER BUCKET LIST (Silverado)  David Adam Byrnes 1485 -303 19 17 22 HANG YOUR HAT ON THAT (Independent)  Jon Wolfe 983 - 118 l10 13 4 CRAZY PEOPLE (Independent)  Randy Rogers Band 1456 210 20 10 20 SUNDOWN (Little Red Truck)  Deryl Dodd w/ Wade Bowen 930 -443

Texas Regional Radio Report Top 100 is compiled from weekly online playlist reports from 86 radio stations located in Texas and surrounding states, including reports from specialty shows, internet and satellite radio outlets. Songs are ranked by total plays. For tracking, complete chart methodology and more information, visit www.texasregionalradio.com, or contact Dave Smith at 817-283-7984. Copyright 2019, Texas Regional Radio Report

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NASHVILLE & NATIONAL TOM ROLAND

endeavor … Cox Media/San Antonio hired vp/market manager David Abel to oversee six stations, including country KCYY and classic country KKYX. Abel was previously Griffin Communications/Tulsa (Okla.) vp/GM … UJA-Federation of New York will recognize iHeartMedia chairman/CEO Bob Pittman, president/ COO/CFO Richard Bressler, president of entertainment enterprises John Sykes and chief programming officer Tom Poleman as music visionaries of the year at a June 11 event in New York … Meg Stevens was named iHeartMedia/Atlanta regional senior vp programming and WUBL PD, InsideRadio.com reported. She previously held the senior vp post for the Virginia-Carolina region … KIZN Boise, Idaho, personality Rick Daniels left the station, according to Talkers. com, for an unannounced opportunity … Alpha Media/Palm Springs, Calif., PD Tommy Carrera left his position, Talkers.com reported. The position included programming country KDES … Applications for the 2020 Country Radio Seminar

LUKE DYSON LUKE Agenda Committee are being accepted through March 29 here. Jimmie Allen and Travis Denning were part of a Cam-hosted edition of the Country Music Association’s CMA Songwriters Series on March 7 ’ROUND THE ROW in London. From left: Allen, Denning, Cam and songwriters Laura Veltz CMT restructured its operations, with several departments now folded into and Ross Copperman. parent Viacom in New York. CMT senior vp consumer marketing and creative Anthony Barton and CMT Nashville senior vp operations Suzanne Norman MAREN MORRIS COMMANDS THE RYMAN left. Also among the casualties is vp corporate communications Cindy Finke, a She originally moved to Nashville to work as a songwriter, but Maren Morris 17-year CMT veteran. Reach Finke here … Bobby Cudd joined WME as a music now officially owns her role as a star. agent. He arrives from the Billions Corporation, bringing along clients that Morris headlined the historic Ryman Auditorium in Nashville on March 13 include Ricky Skaggs, David Rawlings, Gillian Welch and Old Crow Medicine in the second date on her Girl: The World Tour, seemingly comfortable with the Show … The O’Neil Hagaman law firm promoted Sam Powers to principal from spotlight and the attention it generates. Her glitter-queen outfit — a tinsel-y senior manager of special projects, a division focused on intellectual property top and shorts with matching knee-high boots — required a strut to work. Her rights and royalties … Industry veterans David Corlew and Bob Frank founded sexy sprawling across a stage step during “Make Out With Me” succeeded publishing company Corlew-Frank Music, with The Scooter Brown Band’s because she was able to convey the come-hither tone with conviction. A royal Scott Brown aboard as the inaugural staff writer. Publisher-song plugger Kim crown logo further branded the concert with a regal air, establishing an image Jones joined the staff as creative director … The Academy of Country Music with ambitious connotations that Morris was practically obligated to fulfill. seeks a creative and content coordinator in its Los Angeles office. Go here to Her surprise guests, Miranda Lambert and Brandi Carlile, further elevated apply … Thompson Square signed a recording deal with Reviver … Leaving the atmosphere. Their prowess behind a microphone might have made a lesser Austin signed a publishing deal with Sea Gayle and BMG. The trio’s Southern artist weak in the knees. Morris, however, sang like an equal rather than a Gold EP is due April 12 … Nashville mayoral candidate John Ray Clemmons is beneficiary. Lambert, in turn, offered an enthusiastic endorsement: “Maren holding an artists and entrepreneurs campaign event on March 20 at the Exit/ Morris is a bad-ass.” In, beginning at 6:30 p.m. … Kix Brooks and songwriter Luke Dick (“The Bull,” Morris’ confidence is warranted — she scored six Grammy nominations “Burning Man”) were added to the Music Health Alliance’s The First and the this year, many for her work on the Zedd dance-pop hit “The Middle,” and Worst fundraiser, set for March 26 at Nashville’s City Winery … The Nashville her audience was visibly familiar with the music, including her new album, Association of Talent Directors will hold its next Speaker Series installment Girl, released just five days before the appearance. on March 26 with Spotify global senior editor for country music John Marks “I know a lot of you have been cramming for this test,” she said, and Universal Music Group Nashville vp marketing-digital accounts Annie acknowledging the volume of fans that were already singing the lyrics of Ortmeier. Go here for tickets and details … Visitation will be held for late Country Morris’ just-released music. Music Hall of Fame member Fred Foster from 4 p.m.-8 p.m. on March 22 at The songs covered plenty of turf, from the grunge-tinted opener “Girl” Phillips Robinson Funeral Home in Nashville, with a celebration of life set for through numerous soul-revue textures, the retro-pop of “80s Mercedes” 2 p.m. on March 23 at First Presbyterian Church. In lieu of flowers, the family and the solid country ballad “I Could Use a Love Song.” Meanwhile, her requests donations be made to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital or Alive breakthrough single — the pop/gospel/country amalgam “My Church” — Hospice of Nashville … Drummer Hal Blaine died March 11. A member of the earned all-star support with Lambert, Carlile, songwriter Natalie Hemby Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and Musicians Hall of Fame, he played on countless (“Automatic,” “You Look Like I Need a Drink”) and opener Cassadee Pope pop hits, plus such country recordings as John Denver’s “Back Home Again,” enhancing the choir effect. Morris delivered it all with a powerful tone that Glen Campbell’s “Galveston” and Tanya Tucker’s “Lizzie and the Rainman.” judiciously blended the occasional smoke and grit. Morris referred to the evening as a “bat-shit crazy dream,” a development no doubt heightened by the fact that she wasn’t originally chasing an artist career when she first shadowed Music Row. But the dream is a reality fueled by the emotional instincts that inform her songwriting and the self-belief that’s required to command a stage. RADIO & RECORDS J.C. Coffey started March 18 as Big Machine Midwest director of promotion. He was previously Community Broadcasters/Elmira-Corning, N.Y., operations manager/PD, working a five-station cluster that includes country WPGI and classic country WRCE. Reach Coffey here … WSOC Charlotte, N.C., named Cameron Moore its music director, beginning March 14. She is also the music director for top 40 sister WNKS … Kent Dunn added Beasley/Fayetteville, N.C., regional vp to his job duties, which already include a similar role at Beasley/ Augusta, Ga. Relevant country brands include WKXC Augusta and WKML Jordan Davis (left) visited with WYCT Pensacola, Fla., PD/music Fayetteville. Dunn fills a position vacated when Erika Beasley was promoted to director Brent Lane prior to a March 7 performance. They are pictured Beasley corporate digital content director for local markets, a Tampa, Fla.-based with MCA vp promotion Katie Dean. BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE MARCH 18, 2019 | PAGE 11 OF 22

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How many cowboys does it take to fill a stadium? George Strait was able to March 19 pack in a reported 80,108 for a RodeoHouston performance on March 17 at • 2018 — Jordan Davis racks up his first RIAA-certified gold single NRG Stadium. In the process, he eclipsed his own 2013 attendance record with “Singles You Up.” by 88 people. Two fans who did not make the show were remembered in their • 2015 — Chris Janson puts a new song, “Buy Me a Boat,” up for sale absence: Engraved seats were left empty for former President George H.W. on iTunes. Within weeks, the track gets him signed to Warner Bros. Bush and first lady Barbara Bush, who both died in 2018. March 20 Where there’s smoke, there’s Devin Dawson: The California native has set a • 2004 — Dierks Bentley tears a ligament six-date California Smoke Tour, with proceeds earmarked for the California and bruises a bone jumping onstage Fire Foundation in the aftermath of last during a concert in Biloxi, Miss. autumn’s devastating fires. The concerts • 1999 — Garth Brooks goes to the wrong launch April 24 in San Luis Obispo and ballpark during spring training with wrap May 2 in Chico. Dawson isn’t the the San Diego Padres. When he finally only artist stepping up to the plate for arrives at Tucson’s Hi Corbett Field, he charity. Blake Shelton auctioned off 70 grounds out in his only at-bat against the tickets for a grand-opening event at Ole Chicago White Sox. BROOKS Red Gatlinburg in Tennessee; combined with a matching donation from Ryman March 21 Hospitality, the move raised more • 2014 — George Strait welcomes two surprise guests during a show than $50,000 for Gatlinburg-Pittman at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena: Eric Church sings on “Cowboys High School’s music program. And a Like Us,” and Kenny Chesney joins him on “Amarillo by Morning.” Sony Music Nashville bill on March 11 at City Winery brought in $3,250 March 22 for nonprofit She Is the Music. The • 2009 — Basketball star Dennis Rodman physically threatens Clint Women’s History Month celebration Black on NBC’s Donald Trump-hosted The Celebrity Apprentice; featured Rachel Wammack, Carlton Rodman refers to Black as “the dictator from hell” and abandons the DAWSON Anderson, Seaforth, Robert Counts JIMMYFONTAINE men’s team, which still wins behind project manager Brian McKnight. and Hannah Dasher. • 1994 — Curb releases Tim McGraw’s album Not a Moment Too Soon.

Kathy Mattea received an American Master Award from Berklee College of March 23 Music on March 18 when she held a clinic for Berklee students in Nashville. • 2016 — Carrie Underwood records her vocals for the Keith Urban Previous recipients include Gillian Welch, David Rawlings, drummer Eddie duet “The Fighter” at SmithLee Productions in St. Louis. Bayers and producers Jim Ed Norman, Dave Cobb and T Bone Burnett. March 24 Jake Owen previewed his new country-centric album, Greetings From… Jake, • 2017 — Darius Rucker and John Mellencamp are featured as a new with a March 12 party in Nashville attended by the project’s writers, including version of CMT Crossroads debuts. They lock voices on “Pink Houses,” Bobby Pinson, Jesse Frasure, Matt Dragstrem, Marv Green, Ben Caver, “Hold My Hand,” “Alright” and “Wagon Wheel.” Laura Veltz and The Cadillac Three’s Jaren Johnston. Owen revealed that • 2002 — Faith Hill performs “There You’ll Be,” from the movie Pearl he has been asked to sing one of the album’s ballads, “Made for You,” at the Harbor, during the Academy Awards at Los Angeles’ Kodak Theatre. upcoming wedding of Michael Ray and Carly Pearce. He also teased an appearance on ABC’s The Bachelorette. The new season will premiere May 13. March 25 • 1989 — Reba McEntire takes the top spot on the Billboard country singles chart with “New Fool at an Old Game.” Top Headlines from .com Click on headlines below for more details Source: RolandNote.com, the Ultimate Country Music Database

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SALES, AIRPLAY & STREAMING DATA Hot Country Songs COMPILED BY

TWO COUNTRY THIS LAST WEEKS WKS ON TITLE Artist AIRPLAY PEAK WEEK WEEK AGO CHART PRODUCER (SONGWRITER) IMPRINT / PROMOTION LABEL RANK POSITION HH HH 1 1 1 45 BEAUTIFUL CRAZY No. 1 (4 weeks) Luke Combs 1 1 S.MOFFATT (L.COMBS,W.B.DURRETTE,R.WILLIFORD) RIVER HOUSE/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE 2 2 2 61 TEQUILA Dan + Shay RC 1 D.SMYERS,S.HENDRICKS (D.SMYERS,J.REYNOLDS,N.GALYON) WARNER BROS./WAR 3 3 3 68 MEANT TO BE Bebe Rexha & Florida Georgia Line RC 1 WILSHIRE (B.REXHA,T.HUBBARD,J.MILLER,D.A.GARCIA) WARNE R BROS./BMLG 4 4 6 43 SPEECHLESS Dan + Shay RC 1 D.SMYERS,S.HENDRICKS (D.SMYERS,S.MOONEY,J.REYNOLDS,L.VELTZ) WARNER BROS./WAR 5 8 7 60 MILLIONAIRE Chris Stapleton 2 5 l D.COBB,C.STAPLETON (K.WELCH) MERCURY 6 6 5 34 THIS IS IT Scotty McCreery 7 3 F.ROGERS,D.WELLS,A.ESHUIS (S.MCCREERY,F.ROGERS,A.ESHUIS) TRIPLE TIGERS 7 7 4 36 TAKE IT FROM ME Jordan Davis RC 4 P.DIGIOVANNI (J.DAVIS,J.DAVIS,J.GANTT) MCA NASHVILLE HH HH 8 10 12 26 HERE TONIGHT Airplay Gainer Brett Young 5 8 l D.HUFF (B.YOUNG,B.CAVER,J.EBACH,C.KELLEY) BMLG HH HH 9 27 26 9 GIRL Digital & Streaming Gainer Maren Morris 25 9 l G.KURSTIN,M.MORRIS (M.MORRIS,S.AARONS,G.KURSTIN) COL UMBIA NASHVILLE 10 14 15 30 EYES ON YOU Chase Rice 9 10 l C. DESTEFANO (C.RICE,C. DESTEFANO,A.GORLEY) DACK JANIELS/BROKEN BOW 11 17 16 21 GOOD AS YOU Kane Brown 14 11 l D.HUFF (K.BROWN,B.BERRYHILL,S.CARTER,T.PHILLIPS,W.WEATHERLY) ZONE 4/RCA NASHVILLE 12 15 23 29 THERE WAS THIS GIRL Riley Green 3 12 l D.HUFF (R.GREEN,ERIK DYLAN) B MLG 13 13 13 31 DOWN TO THE HONKYTONK Jake Owen 10 11 J.MOI (R.CLAWSON,L.LAIRD,S.MCANALLY) BIG LOUD 14 16 18 23 MAKE IT SWEET Old Dominion 8 12 l S.MCANALLY (M.RAMSEY,T. ROSEN,W.SELLERS,G.SPRUNG,B.TURSI,S.MCANALLY) RCA NASHVILLE 15 20 22 22 WHISKEY GLASSES Morgan Wallen 18 15 l J.MOI (B.BURGESS,K.KADISH) BIG LOUD 16 5 37 3 LOOK WHAT GOD GAVE HER Thomas Rhett 20 5 D.HUFF,J.BUNETTA,THOMAS RHETT (THOMAS RHETT,R.AKINS,J.BUNETTA,J.K.HINDLIN,A.MALIK,J.H.RYAN) VALORY 17 18 14 20 MISS ME MORE Kelsea Ballerini 13 14 l F.G.WHITEHEAD,J.MASSEY (K.BALLERINI,D.H.HODGES,B.MCLAUGHLIN) BLACK RIVER 18 22 19 25 ONE THAT GOT AWAY Michael Ray 6 18 l S.HENDRICKS (J.FRASURE,T. ROSEN,M.RAMSEY,J.OSBORNE) ATLANTIC/WEA 19 21 21 30 NIGHT SHIFT Jon Pardi 12 19 l B.BUTLER,J.PARDI (T.BROWN,P.LARUE,B.MONTANA) CAPITOL NASHVILLE 20 26 25 27 RUMOR Lee Brice 21 20 l L.BRICE,J.STONE,K.JACOBS,D.FRIZSELL (L.BRICE,K.JACOBS,A.GORLEY) CURB 21 12 10 25 WHAT MAKES YOU COUNTRY Luke Bryan RC 7 J.STEVENS,J.STEVENS (L.BRYAN,D.DAVIDSON,A.GORLEY) CAPIT OL NASHVILLE 22 23 17 27 TALK YOU OUT OF IT Florida Georgia Line 23 13 l J.MOI (M.HARDY,H.PHELPS,J.ROGERS,A.VANDERHEYM) BMLG 23 25 24 31 ON MY WAY TO YOU Cody Johnson 15 16 T.W.WILLMON (BRETT JAMES,T.LANE) COJO/WMN 24 24 20 28 LOVE WINS Carrie Underwood 11 14 D.GARCIA,C.UNDERWOOD (C.UNDERWOOD,D.A.GARCIA,BRETT JAMES) CAPIT OL NASHVILLE 25 28 28 25 LOVE AIN’T Eli Young Band 16 25 l D.HUFF (R.COPPERMAN,A.GORLEY,S.MCANALLY) VALORY

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The single climbs 20-15 on Hot Country Songs (up 12 percent; 13.7 million in Ballerini’s latest lifts 18-17 on Hot Country MORGAN audience) and 20-18 on Country Airplay. It’s KELSEA Songs. It strides 17-13 on Country Airplay WALLEN BALLERINI Whiskey also up 7 percent to 5.5 million streams. Miss Me (17.5 million, up 5 percent), while increasing Glasses More by 2 percent to 4.1 million domestic clicks. JASON KEMPIN/GETTY IMAGES KEMPIN/GETTY JASON IMAGES HUNT/GETTY NICHOLAS BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE MARCH 18, 2019 | PAGE 14 OF 22

SALES, AIRPLAY & STREAMING DATA Hot Country Songs COMPILED BY

TWO COUNTRY THIS LAST WEEKS WKS ON TITLE Artist AIRPLAY PEAK WEEK WEEK AGO CHART PRODUCER (SONGWRITER) IMPRINT / PROMOTION LABEL RANK POSITION HH HH 26 NEW 1 RIDIN’ ROADS Hot Shot Debut Dustin Lynch - 26 l Z.CROWELL (D.LYNCH,A.GORLEY,Z.CROWELL) BROKEN BOW 27 31 30 34 CAUGHT UP IN THE COUNTRY Rodney Atkins Featuring The Fisk Jubilee Singers 24 27 l R.ATKINS,T.HEWITT,B.BOLLINGER (C.HARRINGTON,J.M.SCHMIDT,M.WALKER) CURB 28 29 27 5 RAINBOW Kacey Musgraves 33 17 I.FITCHUK,D.TASHIAN,K.MUSGRAVES (N.HEMBY,S.MCANALLY,K.MUSGRAVES) MCA NASHVILLE 29 30 29 20 LOVE SOMEONE Brett Eldredge 19 27 l R. COPPERMAN,B.ELDREDGE (B.ELDREDGE,R.COPPERMAN,H.MORGAN) ATLANTIC/WMN THE BONES Maren Morris 30 RE-ENTRY 2 - 30 l G.KURSTIN (M.MORRIS,J.ROBBINS,L.VELTZ) COLUMBIA NASHVILLE 31 32 31 5 EVERY LITTLE HONKY TONK BAR George Strait 22 31 C.AINLAY,G.STRAIT (G.STRAIT,B.STRAIT,D.DILLON) MCA NASHVILLE 32 34 33 23 I DON’T KNOW ABOUT YOU Chris Lane 43 32 l J.MOI (A.GORLEY,M.HARDY,H.PHELPS,J.RODGERS) BIG LOUD 33 35 35 10 ALL TO MYSELF Dan + Shay 35 29 l D.SMYERS,S.HENDRICKS (D.SMYERS,S.MOONEY,N.GALYON,J.REYNOLDS) WARNER BROS./WAR 34 36 36 13 WHAT HAPPENS IN A SMALL TOWN Brantley Gilbert + Lindsay Ell 27 31 l D.HUFF (B.GILBERT,R.AKINS,B.BERRYHILL,J.DUNNE) VALOR Y 35 37 40 7 SOME OF IT Eric Church 29 35 l J.JOYCE (E.CHURCH,J.HYDE,C.DANIELS,B.PINSON) EMI NASHVILLE 36 38 39 6 RAISED ON COUNTRY Chris Young 26 36 l C.CROWDER,C.YOUNG (C.YOUNG,C.R.BARLOWE,C.CROWDER) RCA NASHVILLE A SONG FOR EVERYTHING 37 NEW 1 Maren Morris - 37 l BUSBEE,M.MORRIS (M.MORRIS,J.ROBBINS,L.VELTZ) COLUMBIA NASHVILLE 38 40 — 2 SOMEBODY’S DAUGHTER Tenille Townes 31 38 l J.JOYCE (T.TOWNES,L.LAIRD,BARY DEAN) COLUMBIA NASHVILLE 39 39 42 12 FRIENDS DON’T Maddie & Tae RC 39 l J.ROBBINS,D.WELLS (M.MARLOW,T.DYE,J.M.NITE,J.EBACH) M ERCURY 40 49 — 3 LOVE YOU TOO LATE Cole Swindell 34 40 l M.R.CARTER (C.SWINDELL,MICHAEL RAY,B.KINNEY) WARNER BROS./WMN 41 46 47 4 REDNECKER HARDY 42 41 l J.MOI,D.COHEN (A.ALBERT,M.HARDY,J.M.SCHMIDT) TREE VIBEZ/BIG LOUD 42 44 46 4 BUY MY OWN DRINKS Runaway June 28 42 l D.HUFF (H.MULHOLLAND,J.WAYNE,N.COOKE,H.LINDSEY,J.KEAR) WHEELHOUSE 43 43 44 8 CLOSER TO YOU Carly Pearce 36 39 l BUSBEE (H.LINDSEY,G.SAMPSON,T.VERGES) BIG MACHINE 44 42 45 5 TO A T Ryan Hurd - 42 l D.HUFF,A.ESHUIS (R.J.HURD,N.SPICER,L.VELTZ) RCA NASHVILLE 45 41 38 11 PRAYED FOR YOU Matt Stell 48 36 A.BOWERS,M.STELL (M.STELL,A.BOWERS,A.VELTZ) WIDE OPEN/RECORDS/GOOD COMPANY ALL MY FAVORITE PEOPLE 46 NEW 1 Maren Morris Featuring Brothers Osborne - 46 l BUSBEE,M.MORRIS (M.MORRIS,R.J.HURD,M.REAVES) COLUMBIA NASHVILLE 47 47 43 14 STRONGER THAN ME Garth Brooks RC 38 l G.BROOKS (R.W.TERRY,M.A.ROSSI) PEARL 48 48 49 8 FEELS LIKE A PARTY LOCASH 30 47 l C.CROWDER,T.HUBBARD (P.BRUST,C.LUCAS,T.HUBBARD,C.CROWDER) WHEELHOUSE I HOPE 49 NEW 1 Gabby Barrett - 49 l R. COPPERMAN (Z.KALE,J.M.NITE,G.BARRETT) GABBY BARRETT/RED LIGHT MANAGEMENT NASHVILLE 50 45 41 10 REARVIEW TOWN Jason Aldean 41 24 M.KNOX (N.THRASHER,B.PINSON,K.LOVELACE) MACON/BROKEN BOW

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YEAR-TO-DATE Weekly Unit Sales Overall Unit Sales Year-Over-YearALBUM SALES Album Sales ’15 DIGITAL DIGITAL 2018 2019 CHANGE ALBUMS ’18 2.82 million ALBUMS* TRACKS ’14 Albums 2,818,000 2,136,000 -24.2% ’19 2.13 million This Week 229,000 69,000 698,000 Digital Tracks 9,552,000 6,952,000 -27.2% Last Week 222,000 58,000 703,000 DIGITAL TRACKS SALES Sales by Album Format Change 3.2% 19.0% -0.7% 2018 2019 CHANGE ’18 000.0 million9.55 million This Week Last Year 272,000 74,000 924,000 Physical 2,014,000 1,461,000 -27.5% ’19 6.95 million Change -15.8% -6.8% -24.5% Digital 804,000 675,000 -16.0% For week ending March 14, 2019. Figures are rounded. Compiled from a national sample of retail store and rack sales reports collected and *Digital album sales are also counted within album sales. provided by Nielsen Music.

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SALES, DATA STREAMING & SALES COMPILED BY DATA COMPILED BY

COUNTRY COUNTRY TOP COUNTRY ALBUMS STREAMING SONGS DIGITAL SONG SALES

TITLE TITLE AGO POS. THIS THIS LAST LAST PEAK CERT. WEEK WEEK ARTIST TITLE THIS WEEK LAST WEEK WKS ON CHART THIS WEEK LAST WEEK WKS ON CHART WEEKS WEEKS

ON CHT ARTIST ARTIST 2 WEEKS 2 WEEKS IMPRINT & NUMBER / DISTRIBUTING LABEL BEAUTIFUL CRAZY RIDIN’ ROADS MAREN MORRIS GIRL 1 1 45 1 NEW 1 NEW 1 1 l LUKE COMBS  l DUSTIN LYNCH  l COLUMBIA NASHVILLE 590186*/SMN MEANT TO BE BEAUTIFUL CRAZY LUKE COMBS THIS ONE’S FOR YOU l2 2 68 2 2 45 2 1 1 93 RIVER HOUSE/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE 538883*/SMN 2 1 BEBE REXHA & FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE  LUKE COMBS  TEQUILA SPEECHLESS FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE CAN’T SAY I AIN’T COUNTRY l3 4 55 l3 3 38 3 2 2 4 BMLG FGL0400* 1 DAN + SHAY  DAN + SHAY  TENNESSEE WHISKEY LOOK WHAT GOD GAVE HER DAN + SHAY DAN + SHAY 4 5 101 4 1 2 4 3 4 38 WARNER BROS. 570796/WMN 0 1 l CHRIS STAPLETON  THOMAS RHETT  GIRL MISS ME MORE KACEY MUSGRAVES GOLDEN HOUR 5 20 2 5 4 19 5 4 3 45 MCA NASHVILLE 027921*/UMGN 1 l MAREN MORRIS  l KELSEA BALLERINI  HEAVEN WHISKEY GLASSES CHRIS STAPLETON TRAVELLER 6 7 71 6 8 16 6 5 5 202 MERCURY 019405*/UMGN 3 1 l KANE BROWN  l MORGAN WALLEN  SPEECHLESS GOOD AS YOU KANE BROWN KANE BROWN 7 6 34 7 9 8 7 6 6 119 ZONE 4/RCA NASHVILLE 530947*/SMN 1 1 DAN + SHAY  l KANE BROWN  TAKE IT FROM ME TEQUILA KANE BROWN EXPERIMENT 8 11 4 8 5 60 8 7 7 18 ZONE 4/RCA NASHVILLE /SMN 1 l JORDAN DAVIS  DAN + SHAY  THIS IS IT RUMOR JASON ALDEAN REARVIEW TOWN 9 12 8 9 10 13 9 8 8 48 MACON/BROKEN BOW/BMG 538375642*/BBMG (538375730) 0 1 l SCOTTY MCCREERY  l LEE BRICE  THOMAS RHETT LIFE CHANGES 10 9 31 SHE GOT THE BEST OF ME 10 7 29 DOWN TO THE HONKYTONK 10 9 9 79 VALORY TR0300A/BMLG 1 1 LUKE COMBS  JAKE OWEN  TALK YOU OUT OF IT RAINBOW 11 16 13 26 CARRIE UNDERWOOD CRY PRETTY 1 11 10 5 11 11 5 l CAPITOL NASHVILLE 028557*/UMGN 0 FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE  l KACEY MUSGRAVES  IN CASE YOU DIDN’T KNOW GIRL 12 11 12 143 JON PARDI CALIFORNIA SUNRISE 1 12 13 124 12 25 8 l CAPITOL NASHVILLE 024744*/UMGN 1 l BRETT YOUNG  l MAREN MORRIS  RUMOR TENNESSEE WHISKEY 13 13 15 190 ZAC BROWN BAND GREATEST HITS SO FAR... 3 13 RE-ENTRY 13 14 166 l ROAR/SOUTHERN GROUND/ATLANTIC 546369/AG l LEE BRICE  CHRIS STAPLETON  YOU MAKE IT EASY MILLIONAIRE 14 14 14 41 MORGAN WALLEN IF I KNOW ME 11 14 14 59 14 15 24 l BIG LOUD DIGITAL EX l JASON ALDEAN  l CHRIS STAPLETON  WHISKEY GLASSES I HOPE BRETT YOUNG BRETT YOUNG 15 17 4 15 21 3 15 12 11 109 BMLG BY0100A* 1 2 l MORGAN WALLEN  l GABBY BARRETT  LOOK WHAT GOD GAVE HER EYES ON YOU 16 15 17 177 BLAKE SHELTON RELOADED: 20 #1 HITS 2 16 8 2 16 12 4 l WARNER BROS. 551788/WMN THOMAS RHETT  CHASE RICE  WHAT IFS HERE TONIGHT 17 19 23 39 JORDAN DAVIS HOME STATE 6 17 15 96 17 20 5 l MCA NASHVILLE 028014/UMGN l KANE BROWN FEAT. LAUREN ALAINA  BRETT YOUNG  HURRICANE TALK YOU OUT OF IT CHRIS STAPLETON FROM A ROOM: VOLUME 1 18 18 125 18 17 8 18 18 20 97 MERCURY 026379*/UMGN 1 1 l LUKE COMBS  FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE  BODY LIKE A BACK ROAD RED DIRT, BLUE EYES CHRIS STAPLETON FROM A ROOM: VOLUME 2 19 21 109 19 NEW 19 17 19 67 MERCURY 027408*/UMGN 0 1 l SAM HUNT  l DUSTIN LYNCH  GEORGE STRAIT 50 NUMBER ONES GOOD AS YOU MEANT TO BE 20 23 4 20 16 68 20 10 10 167 MCA NASHVILLE 000459/UMGN (25.98) 7 1 l KANE BROWN  BEBE REXHA & FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE  TIM MCGRAW NUMBER ONE HITS EYES ON YOU ON MY WAY TO YOU 21 24 — 165 6 21 RE-ENTRY 21 RE-ENTRY l CURB 79205 (13.98) 1 l CHASE RICE  l CODY JOHNSON  LUKE BRYAN WHAT MAKES YOU COUNTRY DIE A HAPPY MAN LITTLE TOWN LIVIN’ 22 19 98 22 NEW 22 21 24 66 CAPITOL NASHVILLE 027589*/UMGN 0 1 l THOMAS RHETT  l DUSTIN LYNCH  CODY JOHNSON AIN’T NOTHIN’ TO IT THE BONES MAKE IT SWEET 23 NEW 23 22 13 23 22 21 8 COJO 574233*/WMN 1 l MAREN MORRIS  OLD DOMINION  THOMAS RHETT TANGLED UP 24 23 29 181 2 24 16 5 HERE TONIGHT 24 24 5 NIGHT SHIFT VALORY RT0200A/BMLG 1 BRETT YOUNG  JON PARDI  SCOTTY MCCREERY SEASONS CHANGE MILLIONAIRE SHE GOT THE BEST OF ME 25 25 25 27 1 25 24 3 25 RE-ENTRY l TRIPLE TIGERS 581804*/RED l CHRIS STAPLETON  l LUKE COMBS  Top Country Albums ranks the most popular country albums of the week, as compiled by Nielsen Music, The week’s top-streamed and top-selling paid download country songs, respectively, from sales reports based on multi-metric consumption (blending traditional album sales, track equivalent albums, and streaming collected and provided by Nielsen Music. Charts update weekly on Tuesdays at www.Billboard.Biz/ equivalent albums). Copyright 2019, Prometheus Global Media, LLC and Nielsen Music, Inc. All rights reserved. charts. Copyright 2019, Prometheus Global Media, LLC and Nielsen Music, Inc. All rights reserved. SALES DATA COMPILED BY AMERICANA/ FOLK ALBUMS

AGO POS. THIS THIS LAST LAST PEAK CERT. WEEK WEEK ARTIST TITLE WEEKS WEEKS ON CHT 2 WEEKS 2 WEEKS IMPRINT & NUMBER / DISTRIBUTING LABEL HOZIER WASTELAND, BABY! 1 1 — 2 RUBYWORKS 591795*/COLUMBIA 1 KACEY MUSGRAVES GOLDEN HOUR 2 2 1 50 MCA NASHVILLE 027921*/UMGN 1 CHRIS STAPLETON TRAVELLER 3 3 2 148 MERCURY NASHVILLE 019405*/UMGN 3 1 4 4 3 17 MUMFORD & SONS DELTA 1 l GENTLEMEN OF THE ROAD 0240*/GLASSNOTE 5 5 9 194 HOZIER HOZIER 1 l RUBYWORKS 309996*/COLUMBIA 2 6 NEW 1 AMANDA PALMER THERE WILL BE NO INTERMISSION 6 l 8 FT. 054*/COOKING VINYL 1 SIMON & GARFUNKEL SIMON AND GARFUNKEL’S GREATEST HITS 7 6 6 111 COLUMBIA 31350/LEGACY 3 8 NEW 1 DAVID GRAY GOLD IN A BRASS AGE 8 l IHT 1815*/AWAL-KOBALT (1815 & 1817) The track bows atop Country Digital Song CHRIS STAPLETON FROM A ROOM: VOLUME 1 DUSTIN Sales with 16,000 sold in its first week, 9 8 5 97 MERCURY NASHVILLE 026379*/UMGN 1 1 LYNCH marking Lynch’s first No. 1 (and sixth top 10). CHRIS STAPLETON FROM A ROOM: VOLUME 2 Ridin’ Roads 10 7 4 67 MERCURY NASHVILLE 027408*/UMGN 0 1 On Hot Country Songs, it arrives at No. 26. Americana/Folk Albums ranks the most popular Americana/folk albums of the week, as compiled by Nielsen Music, based on multi-metric consumption (blending traditional album sales, track equivalent albums, and streaming equivalent albums). Copyright 2019, Prometheus Global Media, LLC and Nielsen Music, Inc. All rights reserved. GREG CAMPBELL/GETTY IMAGES FOR TENNESSEE TOURISM TENNESSEE FOR IMAGES CAMPBELL/GETTY GREG BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE MARCH 18, 2019 | PAGE 17 OF 22

MAKIN’ TRACKS TOM ROLAND [email protected] Dierks Bentley Gives An Elevated Take On ‘Living’

Among the more telling viral events of the current decade is a 2015 photo from all blessed to be in these scenarios we’re in. It was a natural place to go. I don’t Redondo Beach, Calif., in which a boater is so engrossed in his cell phone that he even remember talking about it.” fails to see the spectacular humpback whales riding the waves just a few feet away. Songwriter Andrew Dorff (“Neon Light,” “Yours If You Want It”) had died The moment started a cultural discussion — for a day, anyway — about how the previous December, and his memory hung with Nite through much of the much technology distracts people from the miracles in their real lives. writing retreat. They had written together just a couple of days before Dorff died, Living in the moment is at the heart of Dierks Bentley’s The Mountain, which and that incident had provided Nite a continuous reminder to value each day. is nominated for the Academy of Country “I think of Andrew when I’m doing these Music’s album of the year, and “Living” — the crazy things, like on this trip,” says Nite. “I’ll project’s third single, released to country radio just be like, ‘Man, I wish you could see this,’ via PlayMPE on Feb. 19 — is part of its core kind of talking to him. That’s been part of my mission. Appreciating every breath for the change in life the last couple years.” miracle that it is was the point when Bentley They gave it a bridge before their 48-minute started working on the album by hauling exercise concluded, noting the intensity of the at least a half-dozen songwriters out to the Colorado mountain experience — the “blue’s a Colorado mountains for a short writing retreat little bluer,” the “high’s a little higher” — and in August 2017. “Living” — with its images of relishing the opportunity to “feel that fire,” a flying birds, sunrises and hard-beating hearts subtle nod to Bentley’s 2008 single. “Beautiful — captures the whole concept: The writers World,” a phrase in the chorus, also tips a hat escaped the distractions of the urban treadmill to a duet he cut with Patty Griffin. to reconnect with life and see if they could find In the end, “Living” encourages inspiration by experiencing each second as it mountaintop experiences, but recognizes that passes. they’re not the norm. “It really speaks a lot to the location and the “Some days are not going to be great. Some initial vibe I put out there,” says Bentley. He days are going to be amazing,” says Nite. “Just encouraged his co-writers to “just be inspired try to make more amazing days if they’re in by where we are and by the energy that exists your control and enjoy them if you can.” here and see what happens.” Nite sang lead on the demo, which provided The catalyst for “Living” was surprisingly a great template when Bentley returned to mundane. Bentley was on tour, where it’s easy Colorado with a band in November 2017 to to treat the bus and the backstage area with a cut the full album at the cabin-esque Studio in bunker mentality. Fiddler Dan Hochhalter the Clouds near Telluride. “Living” was one of and guitarist Ben Helson quietly ventured off the first songs they knocked out. campus to find a Walgreens one day, and when “I felt like this song and this vibe is the BENTLEY they returned, Bentley elevated their rather cornerstone for this album, this idea of ordinary side trip into an adventure. gratitude mixed with this idea of living,” says “It kind of became a joke,” says Bentley, “like, ‘Wow, you guys really did Bentley. “It was a really important song to get the vibe right, because if we could some living today. Did you get a toothbrush? Tell us all about Walgreens!’ ” lock in that sound on this song, we could apply that kind of attitude and sonic The sentiment that story inspired — that there’s a difference between just landscape to reference the other songs on the album.” being alive and really living — resonated with Bentley and the co-writers he Acoustic guitarist Jon Randall, who co-produced The Mountain with teamed with on this particular session: Ashley Gorley (“What Makes You Copperman, helped find the right nuances to elevate the demo’s sound with the Country,” “Dirt on My Boots”), Jon Nite (“Break Up in the End,” “Tip It on band, which included drummer Matt Chamberlain, bass player Ian Fitchuk Back”) and Ross Copperman (“Beat of the Music,” “I Lived It”). They spent and electric guitarist Jedd Hughes. part of every day hiking in the mountains and ended each one in resort-like “Jon speaks such a language with the musicians,” says Copperman. “He’ll leisure. The majesty of the trees, the freedom of the birds and the spectacle be like, ‘Hey, Jedd, remember how Keith Richards played with his right hand of colorful sunrises took on greater significance away from the drudgery of on this obscure track from 1978?’ And Jedd will be like, ‘Oh, yeah, I got it. I’ll computer screens and morning commutes. do that.’ JR really added that next-level musicianship.” “It really seemed to hit home,” says Gorley. “You [tend to] go through the Bentley did most of the album’s final vocals at Nashville’s Southern Ground motions. Like every night there could be a beautiful sunset, and if you don’t Studios, though he kicked out the leads for “Living” and “Burning Man,” his look up, you miss it.” collaboration with Brothers Osborne, on his birthday at Copperman’s house. Thanks to the mountains’ inspiration, they launched into “Living” with a “Woman, Amen” (No. 1, Country Airplay) and “Burning Man” (No. 2) went flurry, despite sparse accommodations. “Dierks was in the process of moving to radio first. “Living” is at No. 50 on the Country Airplay chart dated March 23 into his house,” recalls Copperman. “I put my monitor on two cardboard boxes after three weeks. and my laptop on a trash can in the middle and made the most funny-looking Unlike the Redondo Beach boater who missed a great whale-watching studio you’ve ever seen, and we probably wrote the song in like 48 minutes.” moment, Bentley is totally present with “Living.” “It’s a really important song After threading Mother Nature into verse one, the women in their lives became to me,” he says. “It’s one of the songs that I’ll be singing in arenas, but if I went appropriate muses for verse two. to The Bluebird Cafe, I’d sing it there, too. And I can’t say that about every song “All of us, being married, we all tend to overlook how amazing they are,” says in my catalog. We wanted to get to it as soon as we could, but I knew we had to Gorley. “We get used to being with these people we don’t deserve, and we’re kind of be patient. I’m so thankful to be here now.” BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE MARCH 18, 2019 | PAGE 18 OF 22 Country Indicator

AUDIENCE WKS PLAYS (IN MILLIONS) THIS LAST ON WEEK WEEK CHART TITLE Imprint/Label Artist THIS WEEK +/– THIS WEEK l1 2 32 THERE WAS THIS GIRL BMLG HH No. 1 (1 week) HH Riley Green 5020 + 119 7.640 2 1 16 BEAUTIFUL CRAZY River House/Columbia Nashville Luke Combs 4966 -195 8.049 l3 4 25 HERE TONIGHT BMLG Brett Young 4808 +413 7.091 4 3 47 MILLIONAIRE Mercury Chris Stapleton 4708 -52 7.259 l5 5 30 ONE THAT GOT AWAY Atlantic/WEA Michael Ray 4392 +335 6.651 l6 8 22 MAKE IT SWEET RCA Nashville Old Dominion 4189 +345 6.234 l7 9 29 ON MY WAY TO YOU CoJo/WMN Cody Johnson 3854 +52 5.812 l8 11 33 NIGHT SHIFT Capitol Nashville Jon Pardi 3756 + 111 5.350 l9 13 32 DOWN TO THE HONKYTONK Big Loud Jake Owen 3659 +206 5.679 l10 12 27 LOVE WINS Capitol Nashville Carrie Underwood 3549 +20 5.172 l11 17 22 EYES ON YOU Dack Janiels/Broken Bow Chase Rice 3403 +567 4.737 l12 14 22 MISS ME MORE Black River Kelsea Ballerini 3344 +209 4.777 l13 16 10 GOOD AS YOU Zone 4/RCA Nashville Kane Brown 3161 +269 4.713 l14 15 32 LOVE AIN’T Valory Eli Young Band 3106 +187 4.498 l15 18 34 LOVE SOMEONE Atlantic/WMN Brett Eldredge 2459 +254 3.405 l16 19 27 WHISKEY GLASSES Big Loud Morgan Wallen 2396 +208 3.127 l17 21 5 EVERY LITTLE HONKY TONK BAR MCA Nashville George Strait 2231 +191 3.176 l18 20 20 TALK YOU OUT OF IT BMLG Florida Georgia Line 2227 +105 2.689 l19 23 16 RUMOR Curb Lee Brice 2108 +324 2.880 l20 28 3 LOOK WHAT GOD GAVE HER Valory HH Most Increased Plays/Most Added HH Thomas Rhett 2005 +784 2.990 l21 26 9 GIRL Columbia Nashville Maren Morris 1750 +252 2.173 l22 24 46 CAUGHT UP IN THE COUNTRY Curb Rodney Atkins Feat. The Fisk Jubilee Singers 1701 +77 2.373 l23 25 10 SOME OF IT EMI Nashville Eric Church 1635 +92 2.258 l24 27 11 WHAT HAPPENS IN A SMALL TOWN Valory Brantley Gilbert & Lindsay Ell 1520 +201 1.846 l25 29 16 BUY MY OWN DRINKS Wheelhouse Runaway June 1371 +166 1.755 l26 30 26 FEELS LIKE A PARTY Wheelhouse LOCASH 1333 +137 1.583 l27 31 8 RAISED ON COUNTRY RCA Nashville Chris Young 1266 +106 1.589 l28 34 4 REARVIEW TOWN Macon/Broken Bow Jason Aldean 1111 +237 1.546 l29 33 5 RAINBOW MCA Nashville Kacey Musgraves 1089 +91 1.202 l30 36 33 WHAT WHISKEY DOES Stoney Creek Randy Houser Feat. Hillary Lindsey 911 +77 1.158

BILLBOARD COUNTRY INDICATOR PANEL — 109 STATIONS

Abilene, Texas KEAN Fargo, N.D. KBVB Laurel, Miss. WBBN San Luis Obispo, Calif. KKJG Alexandria, La. KRRV WSTH Lebanon, N.H. WXXK Santa Barbara, Calif. KRAZ Amarillo, Texas KGNC Fayetteville, N.C. WKML Lincoln, Neb KFGE Santa Maria, Calif. KSNI Asheville, N.C. WKSF Flagstaff, Ariz. KAFF Longview, Texas KYKX Sheboygan, Wis. WBFM Atlantic City, N.J. WPUR Flint, Mich. WFBE Lubbock, Texas KLLL Savannah, Ga. WJCL Beaumont, Texas KYKR Florence, Ala. WXFL Lufkin, Texas KYKS WUBB Beckley, W. Va. WJLS Florence, S.C. WEGX Marshalltown, Iowa KXIA Shreveport, La. KXKS Biloxi, Miss. WZKX Ft. Collins, Colo. KUAD Mason City, Iowa KIAI Sioux Cty, Iowa KSUX Bloomington, Ill. WIBL Ft. Smith, Ark. KTCS Medford, Ore. KRWQ South Bend, Ind. WBYT Bluefield, W. Va. WHKX Frederick, Md. WFRE Meridian, Miss. WOKK Springfield, Ill. WFMB Burlington, Vt. WOKO Fredericksburg, Va. WFLS Milwaukee, WI. WKTI Springfield, Mo. KTTS Cape Girardeau, Mo. KEZS Green Bay, Wis. WNCY Montgomery, Ala. WLWI Terre Haute, Ind. WTHI Charleston, W. Va WKWS Hagerstown, Md. WAYZ Morgantown, W. Va. WKKW Topeka, Kan. WIBW WQBE Hot Springs, Ark. KQUS Muskegon, Mich. WMUS Traverse City, Mich. WTCM College Station, Texas KAGG Huntington, Ky. WDGG New London, Conn. WCTY Tupelo, Miss. WWZD Colorado Springs. KCCY Huntington, W. Va. WTCR Odessa, Texas KHKX Utica, N.Y. WFRG Columbia, Mo. KCLR Idaho Falls, Idaho KTHK Palm Springs, Calif. KPLM Victor Valley, CA. KATJ Columbus, Ga. WKCN Jackson, Miss. WMSI Pensacola, Fla. WXBM Waco, Texas WACO WSTH WUSJ Peoria, Ill. WXCL Wausau, Wis. WDEZ Cookeville, Tenn. WGSQ Janesville, Wis. WJVL Poughkeepsie, N.Y. WRWD Wheeling, W. Va. WOVK Dothan, Ala. WTVY Jonesboro, Ark. KDXY Rapid City, S.D. KOUT Williamsport, Pa. WILQ Duluth, Minn. KKCB Joplin, Mo. KIXQ Rockford, Ill. WXXQ Yakima, Wash. KXDD Eau Claire, Wis. WAXX Kalamazoo, Mich. WNWN Rocky Mount, N.C. WDWG Youngstown, Ohio WQXK Elizabeth City, N.C. WRSF Kalispell, Mont. KDBR Saginaw, Mich. WCEN WWGY Erie, Pa. WTWF Kingmah, Ariz. KFLG St. Cloud, Minn. KZPK Westwood One HOT COUNTRY Eugene, Ore. KKNU Lafayette, Ind. WKOA Salina, Kan. KYEZ MAINSTREAM COUNTRY Evansville, Ind. WKDQ Laredo, Texas KRRG Salisbury, Md. WKTT Music Choice TODAY’S COUNTRY Lansing, Mich. WITL San Angelo, Texas KGKL Sirius XM THE HIGHWAY BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE MARCH 18, 2019 | PAGE 19 OF 22 Country Indicator

AUDIENCE WKS PLAYS (IN MILLIONS) THIS LAST ON WEEK WEEK CHART TITLE Imprint/Label Artist THIS WEEK +/– THIS WEEK l31 37 10 KISS THAT GIRL GOODBYE BIG Label Aaron Watson 866 +40 1.187 32 35 6 THOUGHT ABOUT YOU McGraw/Columbia Nashville Tim McGraw 827 -21 1.221 l33 38 15 CLOSER TO YOU Big Machine Carly Pearce 820 +20 0.864 l34 41 4 ALL TO MYSELF Warner Bros./WAR Dan + Shay 781 +162 0.958 l35 39 25 BACK TO LIFE Big Machine Rascal Flatts 748 +24 0.757 l36 43 3 LIVING Capitol Nashville Dierks Bentley 702 +168 0.911 l37 40 19 LADIES IN THE ‘90S 19/Mercury Lauren Alaina 700 +42 0.730 l38 42 20 I DON’T REMEMBER ME (BEFORE YOU) EMI Nashville Brothers Osborne 609 +22 0.679 l39 45 10 LOVE YOU TOO LATE Warner Bros./WMN Cole Swindell 503 +75 0.549 l40 44 25 THE IN BETWEEN Captain & Bear Cash Campbell 472 + 11 0.493 l41 54 2 REDNECKER Tree Vibez/Big Loud Hardy 451 +131 0.418 l42 48 8 EVERY LITTLE THING Triple Tigers Russell Dickerson 445 +77 0.570 l43 47 17 NOW WE’RE GETTIN’ SOMEWHERE Bison Creek James Robert Webb 423 +13 0.451 l44 49 5 NOTHING TO DO TOWN Curb Dylan Scott 420 +53 0.472 l45 46 11 A LITTLE ON THE REDNECK SIDE Dream Walkin’ Smith & Wesley 416 +3 0.464 l46 50 15 ROCKIN’ ALL NIGHT LONG Buena Vista/Capitol Nashville Adam Hambrick 395 +29 0.357 l47 52 7 GIRL GOIN’ NOWHERE Atlantic/WAR Ashley McBryde 372 +30 0.408 l48 NEW GOOD VIBES Warner Bros./WAR HH Hot Shot Debut HH Chris Janson 357 +145 0.371 l49 53 4 SOMEWHERE BETWEEN I LOVE YOU AND I’M LEAVIN’ Rounder/Concord Cody Jinks 347 +14 0.376 l50 56 14 THE ONES THAT DIDN’T MAKE IT BACK HOME Valory Justin Moore 346 +74 0.501 l51 55 4 AFTER A FEW Mercury Travis Denning 327 +33 0.397 52 51 16 WONDER WOMAN Show Dog Nashville Waterloo Revival 325 -24 0.392 l53 NEW DAY DRUNK Warner Bros./WEA Morgan Evans 259 +71 0.206 l54 59 2 IF I WAS A COWBOY Rebel Engine Stephanie Quayle 258 +16 0.338 l55 60 2 BRAND NEW MAN Arista Nashville Brooks & Dunn w/ Luke Combs 256 +23 0.447 l56 58 9 I DON’T KNOW ABOUT YOU Big Loud Chris Lane 254 +2 0.269 l57 NEW SOMEBODY’S DAUGHTER Columbia Nashville Tenille Townes 243 +44 0.313 58 57 4 GET AWAY High4Records/Curve Music/Grassroots Ryan Sims 238 -20 0.260 l59 NEW SOMEONE I USED TO KNOW ZB Collective/BMG/Wheelhouse Zac Brown Band 217 +36 0.180 l60 NEW LOVE TO TRY THEM ON Amerimonte Shane Owens 213 +34 0.296

CHARTS LEGEND RANKINGS station downtime for the format. gaining enough audience points MOST INCREASED AUDIENCE/ Country Airplay is ranked by Titles that decline in audience to bullet or if they rank below No. PLAYS total audience impressions but increase in detections will 10 and post a third consecutive Most Increased Audience on for the week ending Sunday also receive a bullet if the total week of (non-bulleted) audience Country Airplay and Most based on monitored airplay of audience erosion for the week decline, regardless of total chart Increased Plays on Country 149 stations by Nielsen BDS. does not exceed 3%. Bullets are weeks. On Country Indicator, Indicator list the songs with the Audience totals on the chart are awarded on Country Indicator to descending, non-bulleted titles greatest week-to-week increases derived, in part, using certain titles gaining plays or remaining below No. 10 are moved to in total audience or plays, Arbitron Inc. copyrighted flat from the previous week. recurrent after 20 weeks or if they respectively. Persons 12+ audience post a third consecutive week of estimates (under license © TIES decline in plays after 10 weeks. AIRPOWER 2019, Arbitron Inc.) Country On Country Airplay, if two songs Awarded on Country Airplay to Indicator is tabulated using are tied in total audience, the song HOT SHOT DEBUT titles ranking inside top 20 in reported playlists and Nielsen with the larger increase in audience Awarded to the highest-ranking plays and audience rankings for BDS-monitored airplay at 109 is placed first. On Country Indicator, new entry on Country Airplay and the first time, with increases in stations, ranked by total plays. if two songs are tied in total plays, Country Indicator, respectively. both plays and audience. the song with the larger increase in BULLETS plays is placed first. MOST ADDED BREAKER l Awarded on Country Airplay The total number of new adds Awarded on Country Airplay to titles gaining audience or RECURRENTS officially reported to Billboard by to titles achieving airplay (at remaining flat from the previous On Country Airplay, descending each reporting station, or by an least one detection) at 60% of week. A song will also receive titles below No. 10 in either automatic-add threshold (seven plays reporting stations for the first a bullet if its percentage loss audience or detections are moved for the first time in a chart tracking time. in audience does not exceed to recurrent after 20 weeks, week, according to Nielsen BDS) for the percentage of monitored provided that they are not still stations that do not report adds. © 2019 Prometheus Global Media, LLC BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE MARCH 18, 2019 | PAGE 20 OF 22 Country Airplay Index

TITLE Publishing-Licensing Org. EYES ON YOU Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI/Dack LOVE AIN’T EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Plain RAISED ON COUNTRY Songs Of Universal, Janiel’s Publishing, BMI/EMI April Music, Inc., ASCAP/ Jane Songs, BMI/Rezolant Music, BMI/Combustion Inc., BMI/They’ve Gone To Plaid Publishing, BMI/W.B.M. (Songwriter) Chart Position CDS Words And Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/ Engine Music, ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., SESAC/Roc Nation US Music, SESAC/Songs Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite Music Corp., ASCAP/Smack Hits, GMR/Smack Songs LLC, Of Rhythm House Black, SESAC/Bennett’s Dad’s Songs, 90’S COUNTRY Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing Songs, ASCAP (C.Rice, C. DeStefano, A.Gorley) 9 GMR/Kobalt Music Group Ltd., GMR (R.Copperman, A.Gorley, SESAC/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Georgia Song Vibez, America, Inc., BMI/Spark In Your Pocket, BMI/Songs Of S.McAnally) 16 ASCAP/Big Crowd Publishing, ASCAP (C.Young, C.R.Barlowe, Smack, BMI/Smack Hits, GMR/Smack Songs LLC, GMR/ F   C.Crowder) 26 Kobalt Music Group Ltd., GMR/LYRX Publishing, LLC, BMI LOVE SOMEONE Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI/Paris (W.Hayes, S.McAnally, LYRX) 55 FEELS LIKE A PARTY ole Purple Cape Music, Not France Music, BMI/EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/ REARVIEW TOWN Songs Of Peer Ltd., ASCAP/ BMI/Mars Marley Music, BMI/Big Loud Mountain, BMI/ Rezolant Music, BMI/Plain Jane Songs, BMI/Sony/ATV Team Thrash, ASCAP/Songs Of Peer, BMI/New Writers A   Round Hill Works, BMI/T Hubb Publishing, BMI/WB Tree Publishing, BMI/Heather Feather Songs, BMI (B. Of Sea Gayle Music, BMI/Not A Track Guy Music, BMI/ Music Corp., ASCAP/Georgia Song Vibez, ASCAP/Big Eldredge, R.Copperman, H.Morgan) 19 New House Of Sea Gayle Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., AFTER A FEW I’m About To Go RED On Ya Music, Crowd Publishing, ASCAP (P.Brust, C.Lucas, T.Hubbard, ASCAP/Own My Own Music Publishing, ASCAP (N.Thrasher, BMI/Travis Denning Music, BMI/ole, BMI/Crack The Glass C.Crowder) 30 LOVE WINS Carrie-Okie Music, BMI/Universal Music B.Pinson, K.Lovelace) 41 Songs, BMI/Stars And Stripes And Maple Leaf Music, - Brentwood Benson Publishing, ASCAP/D Soul Music, BMI/Downtown DMP Songs, BMI/Sound Wagon Songs, G   ASCAP/Capitol CMG Genesis, ASCAP/Songs Of Brett, REDNECKER Buzz Light Beer Music, ASCAP/ ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Music Of The Corn, ASCAP ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP (C.Underwood, D.A.Garcia, Downtown DLJ Songs, ASCAP/Relative Music Group, BMI/ 11 (T.Denning, K.Archer, J.Weaver) 58 GIRL International Dog Music, BMI/Downtown DMP Brett James)  WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Freshy Music, ASCAP/We-Volve Songs, BMI/Sony/ATV Songs LLC, BMI/Sony/ATV Music Music, ASCAP (A.Albert, M.Hardy, J.M.Schmidt) 42 ALCOHOL YOU LATER Sony/ATV Countryside, Publishing (Australia) Pty Ltd., APRA/EMI April Music, LOVE YOU TOO LATE Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/Sam Sumser Music, ASCAP/Lava Music, ASCAP/ Inc., ASCAP/Kurstin Music, ASCAP (M.Morris, S.Aarons, BMI/Colden Rainey Music, BMI/Sony/ATV Cross Keys ROCKIN’ ALL NIGHT LONG Ole Red Cape Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, ASCAP/Lucky Mic G.Kurstin) 25 Publishing, ASCAP/243 Music, ASCAP/Peermusic III, Songs, ASCAP/Red Like The Sunset Music, ASCAP/Stars Publishing, BMI/Music Of Parallel, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Ltd., BMI/Whiskey Tub Music, BMI (C.Swindell, Michael Ray, And Stripes And Maple Leaf Music, BMI/Crack The Glass 34 Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI (M.Tenpenny, S.Sumser, GIRL GOIN’ NOWHERE Songs Of Song Factory, B.Kinney)  Songs, BMI/Downtown DMP Songs, BMI/Garda Songs, M.Lotten) 57 BMI/Universal Tunes, SESAC (A.McBryde, J.Bussey) 54 SESAC/King Pen Songs, SESAC/Songs Of Downtown, M   SESAC (A.Hambrick, K.Archer, P.Good) 56 ALL TO MYSELF Beats And Banjos, ASCAP/WB GIRL LIKE YOU Peertunes, Ltd., SESAC/MTNoize, Music Corp., ASCAP/Shay Mooney Music, BMI/Warner- SESAC/Jaron Boyer Music, SESAC/Music Of The Corn, MAKE IT SWEET Carrot Seed Songs, ASCAP/WB RUMOR Mike Curb Music, BMI/Curb Songs, ASCAP/ Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/A Girl Named Charlie, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP (M.Tyler, J.Boyer, J.Mirenda) Music Corp., ASCAP/Smackville Music, ASCAP/Smack Jacobsong, ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/ BMI/Buckeye26, ASCAP/Jreynmusic, ASCAP (D.Smyers, 4 Songs LLC, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., S.Mooney, N.Galyon, J.Reynolds) 35  ASCAP/Rezsongs, ASCAP/ReHits Music, Inc., ASCAP/ ASCAP (L.Brice, K.Jacobs, A.Gorley) 21 GOOD AS YOU Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/ Smacktown Music, ASCAP/Smack Blue, LLC, ASCAP/ B   Kane Brown Music, BMI/Don’t Be A Gypsy, BMI/ Unfair Entertainment, ASCAP/MeGusta Music, ASCAP/ S   Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/BMG Rights Tiny Handstand, ASCAP/Sharkules Music, ASCAP/ BACK TO LIFE W.B.M. Music Corp., SESAC/ Management (UK) Ltd., PRS/You Want How Much Of We’re Really Doin’ It Publishing, ASCAP/Smack Hits, SOMEBODY’S DAUGHTER Year Of The Dog Bennett’s Dad’s Songs, SESAC/Songs Of Rhythm House What Publishing, PRS/TDP Publishing, BMI/Track House GMR/Kobalt Music Group Ltd., GMR (M.Ramsey, T. Rosen, Music, ASCAP/Sony/ATV Story Music Publishing, GMR/We Black, SESAC/Niko Moon Publishing, SESAC/Roc Nation Worldwide Entertainment, BMI/Mandy’s Favorite Songs, W.Sellers, G.Sprung, B.Tursi, S.McAnally) 8 Are Creative Nation, GMR/Be Barry Quiet, BMI/Creative US Music, SESAC/Shay Mooney Music, BMI/Warner- BMI (K.Brown, B.Berryhill, S.Carter, T.Phillips, W.Weatherly) 14 Pulse Music, BMI/Pulse Nation, BMI (T.Townes, L.Laird, Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Farm Thang Music, MAKE ME WANT TO Red Lining Music, SESAC/ Bary Dean) 31 BMI/Me Gusta Music, BMI (C.R.Barlowe, N.Moon, S.Mooney, GOOD VIBES ole Red Vinyl Music, BMI/Spirit Two Sony/ATV Lakeview, SESAC/Amplified Hour Songs, F.Wilhelm) 39 Nashville, ASCAP/Miller Crow Music, ASCAP/Round Hill SESAC/Pedal Down Music, ASCAP/Sounds Of Soperman SOME OF IT Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/Longer Songs II, ASCAP/Caleb’s College Fund, ASCAP (C.Janson, Music Publishing, ASCAP/Curb Songs, ASCAP/Dreamark And Louder Music, BMI/Mammaw’s Fried Okra Music, BEAUTIFUL CRAZY Big Machine Music, BMI/ Z.Crowell, A.Gorley) 52 Publishing, ASCAP (J.Allen, P.Sikes, J.Denmark) 51 BMI/Little Louder Songs, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Egg Music, BMI/Straight Dimes Publishing, BMI/Works Publishing America, Inc., BMI/New Writers Of Sea Gayle Of RHA Music, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing MILLIONAIRE Universal Tunes, SESAC/Spur 66 Music, BMI/Not A Track Guy Music, BMI (E.Church, J.Hyde, Corp., BMI/Rowdy Rob Music, BMI (L.Combs, W.B.Durrette, H   Music, SESAC (K.Welch) 2 C.Daniels, B.Pinson) 29 R.Williford) 1 HERE TONIGHT Super Big Music, ASCAP/ MISS ME MORE Songs Of Black River, ASCAP/KNB SOMEONE I USED TO KNOW Weimerhound BURN OUT WB Music Corp., ASCAP/TipTop Music, Caliville Publishing, ASCAP/Songs Of Black River, Music, ASCAP/3 Weddings Music, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music, BMI/Day For The Dead Publishing, SESAC/Reach ASCAP/Tropical Cowboy Publishing, ASCAP/Warner- ASCAP/Wordspring Music, LLC, SESAC/Memory Days, Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI/EMI April Music, Inc., Music Tunes, SESAC/Andrew Watt Music, BMI/Songs Of Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Kitt Cass Publishing SESAC/W.B.M. Music Corp., SESAC/The Best I Could Do ASCAP/Bob Ochoa’s Homemade Salsa, ASCAP (K.Ballerini, Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI/Siva Moon Corporation, BMI/Smack Hits, GMR/Smack Songs LLC, Publishing, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP (B.Young, D.H.Hodges, B.McLaughlin) 13 Publishing, SESAC/W.B.M. Music Corp., SESAC/Simonetti GMR/Kobalt Music Group Ltd., GMR/Songs Of Black River, B.Caver, J.Ebach, C.Kelley) 5 Music Publishing, SESAC/Kobalt Group Music Publishing, ASCAP/One Little Indian Creek Music, ASCAP (J.Carson, N   SESAC/Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Mendes Music, BMI 17 HOUSTON, WE GOT A PROBLEM Big (Z.A.Brown, A.Wotman, N.Moon, B.Simonetti, S.Mendes) 59 C.Duddy, M.Wystrach, S.McAnally, J.Osborne)  Music Machine, BMI/50 Egg Music, BMI/Straight Dimes Publishing, BMI/Sullivan S Guns Music, BMI/ NIGHT SHIFT Maxx Music, BMI/Let The Road Pave BUY MY OWN DRINKS BMG Platinum Songs, Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Super Big Itself, BMI/Razor And Tie Music Publishing, BMI/Mike T   BMI/BMG Silver Songs, SESAC/BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP/ Music, ASCAP/Jett Music, ASCAP (L.Combs, R.Montana, Curb Music, BMI/Rain Town Music, BMI (T.Brown, P.LaRue, Rezonate Music, ASCAP/BIRB Music, ASCAP/Champagne 60 B.Montana) 12 TALK YOU OUT OF IT Relative Music Group, Whiskey Publishing, ASCAP/Downtown DLJ Songs, J.Singleton)  BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., ASCAP/Legends Of Magic Mustang Music, SESAC/Music HOW DOES IT SOUND Two Black Dogs, ASCAP/ NOTHING TO DO TOWN Curb Songs, ASCAP/ BMI/Who Wants To Buy My Publishing, ASCAP/WB Music Of Platinum Pen, SESAC/Wild Wild West Songs, SESAC/ Curb Congregation Songs, SESAC/Music Good Vibes Corp., ASCAP/Highly Combustible Music, ASCAP/One77 Thunder Cookie, SESAC/Magic Mustang Music Inc., BMI/ Sony/ATV Cross Keys Publishing, ASCAP/Songs For Songs, ASCAP/Castle Bound Music, Inc., SESAC (M.Hardy, Songwriters of Platinum Pen Publishing, BMI/Hannah Buddy.ASCAP/Songs From The Rose Hotel, ASCAP/WB Publishing, BMI/Good Times Music, SESAC/Universal Music Corp., ASCAP (D.Schneider, J.Johnston, C.Crowder) 47 Music Corp., ASCAP/No Bridge Publishing, ASCAP (D. H.Phelps, J.Rogers, A.Vanderheym) 23 Mulholland Music, BMI (H.Mulholland, J.Wayne, N.Cooke, Scott, M.Alderman, C.Taylor) 49 H.Lindsey, J.Kear) 28 THERE WAS THIS GIRL Riley Green Publishing I   O   Designee, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/ C   Peermusic III, Ltd., BMI/Tawnes Van Hawke Publishing, I DON’T KNOW ABOUT YOU Round Hill THE ONES THAT DIDN’T MAKE IT BACK BMI (R.Green, Erik Dylan) 3 CAUGHT UP IN THE COUNTRY WB Music Songs II, ASCAP/Caleb’s College Fund, ASCAP/WB HOME Big Music Machine, BMI/Double Barrel Ace Corp., ASCAP/Freshy Music, ASCAP/We-Volve Music, Music Corp., ASCAP/Who Wants To Buy My Publishing, Music, BMI/Universal Music Corp., ASCAP/Paulywood THIS IS IT Dagum Music, BMI/Austintatious Tunes, ASCAP/Goes Something Like THIS Music, BMI/Warner- ASCAP/Relative Music Group, BMI/One77 Songs, ASCAP/ Music, ASCAP/Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Plum Nelly, BMI/Spirit Two Nashville, ASCAP/Fluid Tunes, ASCAP/ Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Make It Matter Music, Highly Combustible Music, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music BMI/Ole Red Cape Songs, ASCAP/Real Big Red Tunes, Smackville Music, ASCAP/Smack Songs LLC, ASCAP/Ice BMI/Sixteen Stars Music, BMI (C.Harrington, J.M.Schmidt, Publishing LLC, ASCAP (A.Gorley, M.Hardy, H.Phelps, ASCAP (J.Moore, P.DiGiovanni, C.McGill, J.S.Stover) 38 House Tunes, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, M.Walker) 24 J.Rodgers) 43 ASCAP (S.McCreery, F.Rogers, A.Eshuis) 7 I DON’T REMEMBER ME (BEFORE YOU) ONE THAT GOT AWAY Downtown DMP Songs, CLOSER TO YOU BIRB Music, ASCAP/BMG Gold Trampy McCauley, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/ BMI/Telemitry Productions, BMI/ReHits Music, Inc., THOUGHT ABOUT YOU Warner-Tamerlane Songs, ASCAP/1217 Songs, ASCAP/Still Working For The Songstein Publishing, ASCAP/All The Kings Pens, ASCAP/ ASCAP/Smacktown Music, ASCAP/Carrot Seed Songs, Publishing Corp., BMI/The Country And Western Music, Woman, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, Round Hill Songs BLS JV, ASCAP/Big Loud Proud Songs, ASCAP/Smack Songs LLC, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music BMI/Round Hill Works, BMI/Big Loud Proud Crowd, BMI/ ASCAP/Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Low Z Music, BMI (H. ASCAP/Matt Drag Music, ASCAP/Smack Hits, GMR/ Publishing LLC, ASCAP/Anderson Fork In The Road Music, Big Loud Brad Music, BMI/Big Loud Brett Songs, BMI Lindsey, G.Sampson, T.Verges) 36 Smack Songs LLC, GMR/Kobalt Music Group Ltd., GMR (J. ASCAP/Smackville Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/ (L.T.Miller, B.Warren, B.D.Warren) 45 Osborne, T.J. Osborne, M.Dragstrem, S.McAnally) 44 Sony/ATV Cross Keys Publishing, ASCAP (J.Frasure, T. D   Rosen, M.Ramsey, J.Osborne) 6 TO A T Universal Music Corp., ASCAP/Lake Allegan L   Pub Club, ASCAP/Red Like The Sunset Music, ASCAP/ DAY DRUNK Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., ON MY WAY TO YOU WB Music Corp., ASCAP/ Spicer And Everyting Nicer, ASCAP/Ole Red Cape Songs, BMI/SongsbyME, BMI/EMI April Music, Inc., ASCAP/CDS Songs Of Brett, ASCAP/Atlas Music Publishing, ASCAP/ ASCAP/Big Music Machine, BMI/Never Veltz So Good LADIES IN THE ‘90S Warner-Tamerlane Publishing, BMI (R.J.Hurd, N.Spicer, L.Veltz) 53 Words And Music, ASCAP/Hey Kiddo Music, ASCAP/ Publishing Corp., BMI/Lylas Music, BMI/Songs Of Roc External Combustion Music, ASCAP/BMG Gold Songs, Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, ASCAP (M.Evans, C. Nation Music, BMI/Telemitry Rhythm House Music, BMI/ ASCAP/Heytone Music, ASCAP (Brett James, T.Lane) 15 DeStefano, L.Robbins) 37 WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Cookie Jar Music LLP, PRS (Lauren W   Alaina, J.Frasure, A.Wadge) 46 P   DOWN TO THE HONKYTONK Round Hill WHAT HAPPENS IN A SMALL TOWN Works, BMI/Big Loud Proud Crowd, BMI/Round Hill LIVING EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Plain Jane PRAYED FOR YOU Pedal Down Music, ASCAP/ Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Indiana Angel Compositions, BMI/Shirt At Work, BMI/Sony/ATV Story Songs, BMI/Rezolant Music, BMI/EMI April Music, Inc., Big Spaces Music, BMI/Tunes Of Big Deal Music, SESAC/ Music, BMI/Ritten by Rhettro, BMI/Don’t Be A Gypsy, Music Publishing, GMR/We Are Creative Nation, GMR/ ASCAP/Nite Writer Music, ASCAP/Combustion Engine Songs Of Porterfied Music, SESAC/Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI/Revelry Music, BMI/Badlandsmgmt, BMI/Songs Of Smack Hits, GMR/Smack Songs LLC, GMR/Kobalt Music Music, ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/WB Music BMI/Sony/ATV Accent, ASCAP (M.Stell, A.Bowers, A.Veltz) 48 Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI (B.Gilbert, Group Ltd., GMR (R.Clawson, L.Laird, S.McAnally) 10 Corp., ASCAP/DudeTunes, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music R.Akins, B.Berryhill, J.Dunne) 27 Publishing LLC, ASCAP (R.Copperman, J.M.Nite, A.Gorley, R   E   D.Bentley) 50 WHAT WHISKEY DOES EMI Blackwood Music RAINBOW HappyGoWrucke, BMI/Creative Pulse Inc., BMI/Little Britches Music, BMI/Gattis Music, BMI/ EVERY LITTLE HONKY TONK BAR Day LOOK WHAT GOD GAVE HER EMI Music, BMI/These Are Pulse Songs, BMI/Smack Hits, Rezonate Music, ASCAP/BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP/BIRB Money Music, ASCAP/HoriPro Entertainment Group, Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Cricket On The Line, BMI/ GMR/Smack Songs LLC, GMR/Kobalt Music Group Ltd., Music, ASCAP (R.Houser, K.Gattis, H.Lindsey) 32 Inc., ASCAP/Living For The Night Music, BMI/HoriPro Ritten by Rhettro, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing GMR/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/351 Music, Entertainment Group, Inc., BMI/Ohio Creek Music, BMI/ Corp., BMI/Music Of Big Family, BMI/Dragon Bunny BMI/EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI (N.Hemby, S.McAnally, WHISKEY GLASSES Warner-Tamerlane Dean’s Cabin Publishing, LLC, BMI (G.Strait, B.Strait, Music, BMI/Don Wyan Music, BMI/Maru La La, BMI/ K.Musgraves) 33 Publishing Corp., BMI/Mr. Buck Lucky, BMI/Bump Into D.Dillon) 22 MaruSongs, LLC, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing Genius Music, BMI/Sony/ATV Allegro, ASCAP/Over- America, Inc., BMI/Rap Kingpin Music, ASCAP/ Thought Under-Appreciated Songs, ASCAP/Rezven EVERY LITTLE THING BMG Platinum Songs, Prescription Songs, LLC., ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Music, ASCAP/Moving Targest In The Dark, ASCAP (B. BMI/Kailey’s Dream, BMI/So Essential Tunes, SESAC/Not Publishing LLC, ASCAP (Thomas Rhett, R.Akins, J.Bunetta, Burgess, K.Kadish) 18 Just Another Song Publishing, SESAC/Hillbilly Science J.K.Hindlin, A.Malik, J.H.Ryan) 20 And Research Publishing, SESAC/Trailerlily Music, SESAC (R.Dickerson, P.Welling, C.Brown) 40 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE MARCH 18, 2019 | PAGE 21 OF 22 Hot Country Songs Index

TITLE Publishing-Licensing Org. G   MEANT TO BE BMG Platinum Songs, BMI/ SOME OF IT Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/Longer (Songwriter) Chart Position Big Loud Mountain, BMI/Kiss Me If You Can Music, And Louder Music, BMI/Mammaw’s Fried Okra Music, GIRL International Dog Music, BMI/Downtown DMP BMI/T Hubb Publishing, BMI/Round Hill Works, BMI/ BMI/Little Louder Songs, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Songs, BMI/Sony/ATV Songs LLC, BMI/Sony/ATV Music Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Songs Of Publishing America, Inc., BMI/New Writers Of Sea Gayle A   Publishing (Australia) Pty Ltd., APRA/EMI April Music, The Corn, BMI/Jack 10 Publishing, BMI/Universal Music Music, BMI/Not A Track Guy Music, BMI (E.Church, J.Hyde, ALL MY FAVORITE PEOPLE International Inc., ASCAP/Kurstin Music, ASCAP (M.Morris, S.Aarons, - Brentwood Benson Publishing, ASCAP/D Soul Music, C.Daniels, B.Pinson) 35 Dog Music, BMI/Downtown DMP Songs, BMI/Universal G.Kurstin) 9 ASCAP/Capitol CMG Genesis, ASCAP (B.Rexha, T.Hubbard, J.Miller, D.A.Garcia) 3 A SONG FOR EVERYTHING International Music Corp., ASCAP/Lake Allegan Pub Club, ASCAP/Songs GOOD AS YOU Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/ Of Universal, Inc., BMI (M.Morris, R.J.Hurd, M.Reaves) 46 Dog Music, BMI/Downtown DMP Songs, BMI/Jammy Kane Brown Music, BMI/Don’t Be A Gypsy, BMI/ MILLIONAIRE Universal Tunes, SESAC/Spur 66 Rabbins Music, ASCAP/Round Hill Songs Jimmy Robbins, ALL TO MYSELF Beats And Banjos, ASCAP/WB Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/BMG Rights Music, SESAC (K.Welch) 5 ASCAP/Extraordinary Alien Publishing, ASCAP/Oh Denise Music Corp., ASCAP/Shay Mooney Music, BMI/Warner- Management (UK) Ltd., PRS/You Want How Much Of Publishing, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/A Girl Named Charlie, What Publishing, PRS/TDP Publishing, BMI/Track House MISS ME MORE Songs Of Black River, ASCAP/KNB BMI/Big Music Machine, BMI (M.Morris, J.Robbins, L.Veltz) 37 BMI/Buckeye26, ASCAP/Jreynmusic, ASCAP (D.Smyers, Worldwide Entertainment, BMI/Mandy’s Favorite Songs, Music, ASCAP/3 Weddings Music, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt S.Mooney, N.Galyon, J.Reynolds) 33 BMI (K.Brown, B.Berryhill, S.Carter, T.Phillips, W.Weatherly) 11 Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI/EMI April Music, Inc., SPEECHLESS Beats And Banjos, ASCAP/WB ASCAP/Bob Ochoa’s Homemade Salsa, ASCAP (K.Ballerini, Music Corp., ASCAP/Shay Mooney Music, BMI/Warner-  B   H   D.H.Hodges, B.McLaughlin) 17 Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Buckeye26, ASCAP/ Jreynmusic, ASCAP/Big Music Machine, BMI/Never Veltz BEAUTIFUL CRAZY Big Machine Music, BMI/ HERE TONIGHT Super Big Music, ASCAP/ N   So Good Publishing, BMI (D.Smyers, S.Mooney, J.Reynolds, Egg Music, BMI/Straight Dimes Publishing, BMI/Works Caliville Publishing, ASCAP/Songs Of Black River, L.Veltz) 4 Of RHA Music, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing ASCAP/Wordspring Music, LLC, SESAC/Memory Days, NIGHT SHIFT Maxx Music, BMI/Let The Road Pave Corp., BMI/Rowdy Rob Music, BMI (L.Combs, W.B.Durrette, SESAC/W.B.M. Music Corp., SESAC/The Best I Could Do Itself, BMI/Razor And Tie Music Publishing, BMI/Mike STRONGER THAN ME Terry And Tom Music, R.Williford) 1 Publishing, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP (B.Young, Curb Music, BMI/Rain Town Music, BMI (T.Brown, P.LaRue, ASCAP/Bedroll Music, ASCAP/Major Bob Music, Inc., B.Caver, J.Ebach, C.Kelley) 8 B.Montana) 19 ASCAP (R.W.Terry, M.A.Rossi) 47 THE BONES International Dog Music, BMI/ Downtown DMP Songs, BMI/Jammy Rabbins Music, I   O   T   ASCAP/Round Hill Songs Jimmy Robbins, ASCAP/ Extraordinary Alien Publishing, ASCAP/Oh Denise I DON’T KNOW ABOUT YOU Round Hill ONE THAT GOT AWAY Downtown DMP Songs, TAKE IT FROM ME Ole Red Cape Songs, ASCAP/ Songs II, ASCAP/Caleb’s College Fund, ASCAP/WB BMI/Telemitry Productions, BMI/ReHits Music, Inc., Jordan Davis Music, ASCAP/ReHits Music, Inc., ASCAP/ Publishing, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., Music Corp., ASCAP/Who Wants To Buy My Publishing, ASCAP/Smacktown Music, ASCAP/Carrot Seed Songs, BMI/Big Music Machine, BMI (M.Morris, J.Robbins, L.Veltz) 30 MeGusta Music, ASCAP/Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/ ASCAP/Relative Music Group, BMI/One77 Songs, ASCAP/ ASCAP/Smack Songs LLC, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Songs Of Red Bandana, BMI (J.Davis, J.Davis, J.Gantt) 7 BUY MY OWN DRINKS BMG Platinum Songs, Highly Combustible Music, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, ASCAP/Anderson Fork In The Road Music, BMI/BMG Silver Songs, SESAC/BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP/ Publishing LLC, ASCAP (A.Gorley, M.Hardy, H.Phelps, ASCAP/Smackville Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/ TALK YOU OUT OF IT Relative Music Group, Rezonate Music, ASCAP/BIRB Music, ASCAP/Champagne J.Rodgers) 32 Sony/ATV Cross Keys Publishing, ASCAP (J.Frasure, T. BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., Whiskey Publishing, ASCAP/Downtown DLJ Songs, Rosen, M.Ramsey, J.Osborne) 18 BMI/Who Wants To Buy My Publishing, ASCAP/WB Music ASCAP/Legends Of Magic Mustang Music, SESAC/Music I HOPE Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI/Revinyl House, Corp., ASCAP/Highly Combustible Music, ASCAP/One77 Of Platinum Pen, SESAC/Wild Wild West Songs, SESAC/ BMI/EMI April Music, Inc., ASCAP/Nite Writer Music, ON MY WAY TO YOU WB Music Corp., ASCAP/ Songs, ASCAP/Castle Bound Music, Inc., SESAC (M.Hardy, ASCAP/Gabby Barrett Publishing Designee, BMI (Z.Kale, Songs Of Brett, ASCAP/Atlas Music Publishing, ASCAP/ H.Phelps, J.Rogers, A.Vanderheym) 22 Thunder Cookie, SESAC/Magic Mustang Music Inc., BMI/ J.M.Nite, G.Barrett) 49 External Combustion Music, ASCAP/BMG Gold Songs, Songwriters of Platinum Pen Publishing, BMI/Hannah ASCAP/Heytone Music, ASCAP (Brett James, T.Lane) 23 TEQUILA WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Beats And Banjos, Mulholland Music, BMI (H.Mulholland, J.Wayne, N.Cooke, L   ASCAP/Buckeye26, ASCAP/Jreynmusic, ASCAP/Warner- H.Lindsey, J.Kear) 42 P   Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/A Girl Named Charlie, LOOK WHAT GOD GAVE HER EMI BMI (D.Smyers, J.Reynolds, N.Galyon) 2 C   Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Cricket On The Line, BMI/ PRAYED FOR YOU Pedal Down Music, ASCAP/ Ritten by Rhettro, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Big Spaces Music, BMI/Tunes Of Big Deal Music, SESAC/ CAUGHT UP IN THE COUNTRY WB Music THERE WAS THIS GIRL Riley Green Publishing Corp., ASCAP/Freshy Music, ASCAP/We-Volve Music, Corp., BMI/Music Of Big Family, BMI/Dragon Bunny Songs Of Porterfied Music, SESAC/Sony/ATV Countryside, Designee, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/ ASCAP/Goes Something Like THIS Music, BMI/Warner- Music, BMI/Don Wyan Music, BMI/Maru La La, BMI/ BMI/Sony/ATV Accent, ASCAP (M.Stell, A.Bowers, A.Veltz) 45 Peermusic III, Ltd., BMI/Tawnes Van Hawke Publishing, MaruSongs, LLC, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing BMI (R.Green, Erik Dylan) 12 Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Make It Matter Music, America, Inc., BMI/Rap Kingpin Music, ASCAP/ R   BMI/Sixteen Stars Music, BMI (C.Harrington, J.M.Schmidt, Prescription Songs, LLC., ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music THIS IS IT Dagum Music, BMI/Austintatious Tunes, M.Walker) 27 Publishing LLC, ASCAP (Thomas Rhett, R.Akins, J.Bunetta, RAINBOW HappyGoWrucke, BMI/Creative Pulse BMI/Spirit Two Nashville, ASCAP/Fluid Tunes, ASCAP/ J.K.Hindlin, A.Malik, J.H.Ryan) 16 Music, BMI/These Are Pulse Songs, BMI/Smack Hits, Smackville Music, ASCAP/Smack Songs LLC, ASCAP/Ice CLOSER TO YOU BIRB Music, ASCAP/BMG Gold GMR/Smack Songs LLC, GMR/Kobalt Music Group Ltd., Songs, ASCAP/1217 Songs, ASCAP/Still Working For The House Tunes, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, LOVE AIN’T EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Plain GMR/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/351 Music, ASCAP (S.McCreery, F.Rogers, A.Eshuis) 6 Woman, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, Jane Songs, BMI/Rezolant Music, BMI/Combustion BMI/EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI (N.Hemby, S.McAnally, ASCAP/Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Low Z Music, BMI (H. Engine Music, ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/WB K.Musgraves) 28 TO A T Universal Music Corp., ASCAP/Lake Allegan Lindsey, G.Sampson, T.Verges) 43 Music Corp., ASCAP/Smack Hits, GMR/Smack Songs LLC, Pub Club, ASCAP/Red Like The Sunset Music, ASCAP/ GMR/Kobalt Music Group Ltd., GMR (R.Copperman, A.Gorley, RAISED ON COUNTRY Songs Of Universal, Spicer And Everyting Nicer, ASCAP/Ole Red Cape Songs, D   S.McAnally) 25 Inc., BMI/They’ve Gone To Plaid Publishing, BMI/W.B.M. ASCAP/Big Music Machine, BMI/Never Veltz So Good Music Corp., SESAC/Roc Nation US Music, SESAC/Songs DOWN TO THE HONKYTONK Round Hill Publishing, BMI (R.J.Hurd, N.Spicer, L.Veltz) 44 Works, BMI/Big Loud Proud Crowd, BMI/Round Hill LOVE SOMEONE Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI/Paris Of Rhythm House Black, SESAC/Bennett’s Dad’s Songs, Compositions, BMI/Shirt At Work, BMI/Sony/ATV Story Not France Music, BMI/EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/ SESAC/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Georgia Song Vibez, W   Rezolant Music, BMI/Plain Jane Songs, BMI/Sony/ATV ASCAP/Big Crowd Publishing, ASCAP (C.Young, C.R.Barlowe, Music Publishing, GMR/We Are Creative Nation, GMR/ WHAT HAPPENS IN A SMALL TOWN Smack Hits, GMR/Smack Songs LLC, GMR/Kobalt Music Tree Publishing, BMI/Heather Feather Songs, BMI (B. C.Crowder) 36 Eldredge, R.Copperman, H.Morgan) 29 Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Indiana Angel Group Ltd., GMR (R.Clawson, L.Laird, S.McAnally) 13 REARVIEW TOWN Songs Of Peer Ltd., ASCAP/ Music, BMI/Ritten by Rhettro, BMI/Don’t Be A Gypsy, LOVE WINS Carrie-Okie Music, BMI/Universal Music Team Thrash, ASCAP/Songs Of Peer, BMI/New Writers BMI/Revelry Music, BMI/Badlandsmgmt, BMI/Songs Of E   - Brentwood Benson Publishing, ASCAP/D Soul Music, Of Sea Gayle Music, BMI/Not A Track Guy Music, BMI/ Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI (B.Gilbert, EVERY LITTLE HONKY TONK BAR Day ASCAP/Capitol CMG Genesis, ASCAP/Songs Of Brett, New House Of Sea Gayle Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., R.Akins, B.Berryhill, J.Dunne) 34 Money Music, ASCAP/HoriPro Entertainment Group, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP (C.Underwood, D.A.Garcia, ASCAP/Own My Own Music Publishing, ASCAP (N.Thrasher, Brett James) 24 B.Pinson, K.Lovelace) 50 WHAT MAKES YOU COUNTRY Sony/ATV Inc., ASCAP/Living For The Night Music, BMI/HoriPro Tree Publishing, BMI/Peanut Mill Songs, BMI/Round Entertainment Group, Inc., BMI/Ohio Creek Music, BMI/ REDNECKER Buzz Light Beer Music, ASCAP/ Hill Compositions, BMI/Natalia’s Music Money, BMI/ Dean’s Cabin Publishing, LLC, BMI (G.Strait, B.Strait, LOVE YOU TOO LATE Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, 31 BMI/Colden Rainey Music, BMI/Sony/ATV Cross Keys Downtown DLJ Songs, ASCAP/Relative Music Group, BMI/ Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., D.Dillon)  Publishing, ASCAP/243 Music, ASCAP/Peermusic III, WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Freshy Music, ASCAP/We-Volve ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite Songs, ASCAP (L.Bryan, D.Davidson, EYES ON YOU Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI/Dack Ltd., BMI/Whiskey Tub Music, BMI (C.Swindell, Michael Ray, Music, ASCAP (A.Albert, M.Hardy, J.M.Schmidt) 41 A.Gorley) 21 Janiel’s Publishing, BMI/EMI April Music, Inc., ASCAP/ B.Kinney) 40 CDS Words And Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/ RIDIN’ ROADS Magic Mustang Music Inc., BMI/ WHISKEY GLASSES Warner-Tamerlane M   Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Round Hill Publishing Corp., BMI/Mr. Buck Lucky, BMI/Bump Into Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite Songs II, ASCAP/Caleb’s College Fund, ASCAP/Spirit Two Genius Music, BMI/Sony/ATV Allegro, ASCAP/Over- Songs, ASCAP (C.Rice, C. DeStefano, A.Gorley) 10 MAKE IT SWEET Carrot Seed Songs, ASCAP/WB Nashville, ASCAP/Miller Crow Music, ASCAP/Kyler’s Kinda Thought Under-Appreciated Songs, ASCAP/Rezven Music Corp., ASCAP/Smackville Music, ASCAP/Smack Night, ASCAP (D.Lynch, A.Gorley, Z.Crowell) 26 Music, ASCAP/Moving Targest In The Dark, ASCAP (B. F   Songs LLC, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, Burgess, K.Kadish) 15 FEELS LIKE A PARTY ole Purple Cape Music, ASCAP/Rezsongs, ASCAP/ReHits Music, Inc., ASCAP/ RUMOR Mike Curb Music, BMI/Curb Songs, ASCAP/ BMI/Mars Marley Music, BMI/Big Loud Mountain, BMI/ Smacktown Music, ASCAP/Smack Blue, LLC, ASCAP/ Jacobsong, ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/ Round Hill Works, BMI/T Hubb Publishing, BMI/WB Unfair Entertainment, ASCAP/MeGusta Music, ASCAP/ Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., Music Corp., ASCAP/Georgia Song Vibez, ASCAP/Big Tiny Handstand, ASCAP/Sharkules Music, ASCAP/ ASCAP (L.Brice, K.Jacobs, A.Gorley) 20 Crowd Publishing, ASCAP (P.Brust, C.Lucas, T.Hubbard, We’re Really Doin’ It Publishing, ASCAP/Smack Hits, C.Crowder) 48 GMR/Kobalt Music Group Ltd., GMR (M.Ramsey, T. Rosen, S   W.Sellers, G.Sprung, B.Tursi, S.McAnally) 14 SOMEBODY’S DAUGHTER Year Of The Dog FRIENDS DON’T Super Big Music, ASCAP/Seven Music, ASCAP/Sony/ATV Story Music Publishing, GMR/We Red Brids Publishing, ASCAP/Jehovah Nissi, BMI/Big Are Creative Nation, GMR/Be Barry Quiet, BMI/Creative Machine Music, BMI/EMI April Music, Inc., ASCAP/Memory Pulse Music, BMI/Pulse Nation, BMI (T.Townes, L.Laird, Days, SESAC/Wordspring Music, LLC, SESAC/W.B.M. Music 38 Corp., SESAC/Nite Writer Music, ASCAP (M.Marlow, T.Dye, Bary Dean)  J.M.Nite, J.Ebach) 39 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE MARCH 18, 2019 | PAGE 22 OF 22 CODA 25 Years Ago There Was ‘No Doubt’ That Neal McCoy Was No. 1 In 1994, he scored his inaugural Hot Country Songs leader

On March 19, 1994, Neal McCoy’s “No weeks. Third single “The City Put the featuring guests Trace Adkins, Raul Doubt About It” spent its first of two Country in Me” hit No. 5. Malo and Darius Rucker. Now 60, he weeks atop Billboard’s Hot Country Born in Jacksonville, Texas, McCoy resides in Longview, Texas, and still Songs chart, becoming his first No. 1. logged his first of 33 Hot Country Songs performs regularly. He last appeared on Penned by John Scott Sherrill and appearances — a sum that includes nine Hot Country Songs in 2017, with “Take Steve Seskin, the song was released as top 10s — in 1988. “Doubt,” his seventh a Knee …My Ass!! (I Won’t Take a Knee),” the first single from McCoy’s self-titled entry, was his first to reach the top 25. a reaction to NFL players protesting album. The set also generated his second In 2013, McCoy released the covers police brutality by not standing for the of two No. 1s, “Wink,” which led for four set Pride: A Tribute to Charley Pride, national anthem. —JIM ASKER

REWINDING THE COUNTRY CHARTS

McCoy at Illinois’ Rosemont Horizon

in April 1994. IMAGES NATKIN/GETTY PAUL