Wade Bowen Stays at the Top!

WADE BOWEN Wade Bowen Stays At The Top! "Fell In Love On Whiskey" Thirty Tigers Dear Readers; CONTENTS WADE BOWEN stays #1 this week with "Fell In Love On Whiskey." CURTIS GRIMES' "Still" is this week's Most — Added! STONEY LARUE's "Hill Country Boogaloo" keeps the honor of Greatest Spin Gainer! DREW FISH's "The Devil Charts You Know" makes the Highest Debut at position #44! Great work everyone! The following stations have been frozen for this week. KTXM-FM (Hallettsville, TX) KYKM-FM (Yoakum, TX) The following stations have been FROZEN for 2 consecutive weeks. KKGQ-FM (Wichita, KS) KYYK-FM (Palestine, TX) The following songs have been moved to RECURRENT status. CLAY HOLLIS / Hard Headed Heart COOPER WADE / Give Me Your Heart CORY MORROW / Top Of My Heart PAGE 2-3 GARY KYLE / Looking For You — PAT WATERS / Whiskey Broken Heart Monitored Panel List SEAN MCCONNELL / I Could Have Been An Angel SHEA ABSHIER & THE NIGHTHOWLERS / Hot Mess PAGE 5 WILL CARTER / Too Much Fun Chart Breakouts ZANE WILLIAMS / Good Man To Have Around PAGE 5 TRACtion TX thanks the following artists who used CDX to distribute their latest releases to Texas Red Dirt radio and the — industry. We really appreciate your support! JEFF JACOBS BAND / Can't Get Her Out Of My Head STEEL BLOSSOMS / You're The Reason I Drink GOODnGONE / Just Another For those who don’t use CDX to distribute their new music but wish to be monitored by TRACtion TX, you can now go to our upload center, fill out the necessary information and send your MP3s for fingerprinting here:https://www.cdxcd.com/ fingerprinting-upload-center/.

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WWW.TRACTIONTX.COM “Monitored Radio Airplay” Vol 4. #24 June 19th, 2019 L T Wks On Spins + Stations Adds W W - Chart Artist / Song Title / Label 1 1 WADE BOWEN/Fell In Love On Whiskey/Thirty Tigers 836 -3 41 1 16 2 2 JOSH WARD/The Devil Don't Scare Me Anymore/Josh Ward Music 813 27 39 0 10 5 3 JESSE RAUB JR/Touch the Water/Jesse Raub Jr. Music 639 0 32 1 16 4 4 AARON WATSON/Kiss That Girl Goodbye/BIG Label Records 631 -54 40 0 23 6 5 RANDALL KING/Takin' Me A Heartbreak/Randall King Music 609 -6 36 0 13 7 6 JAKE WARD/Put You Down Tomorrow/Jake Ward Music 604 17 34 1 16 3 7 MIKE RYAN/Other Side Of The Radio/Mike Ryan Music 589 -145 43 1 22 8 8 SARAH HOBBS/Like I Love You/Sarah Hobbs Music 544 -11 31 0 17 9 9 CHAD COOKE BAND/Whatever It Takes/Chad Cooke Band Music 544 40 31 0 22 10 10 FLATLAND CAVALRY/Old School/Flatland Cavalry Music 474 -25 33 2 12 11 11 JUNIOR GORDON/Loved 'Em Everyone/Junior Gordon Music 448 24 28 1 16 14 12 JAMES LANN/Memory Like You/Ari-Tex Records 418 59 28 2 13 18 13 CASEY DONAHEW/Let's Make A Love Song/Almost Country Records 393 45 29 2 7 17 14 WILLIAM CLARK GREEN/Stay/Bill Grease Records 390 41 25 1 6 13 15 KYLIE FREY/Ain't Enough Beer/Kylie Frey Music 384 2 28 0 21 16 16 JAMIE RICHARDS/Privileges Of Youth/Jamie Richards Music 374 25 27 2 6 20 17 CODY WAYNE/Small Town/Cody Wayne Music 315 -29 21 0 13 15 18 CASEY BAKER/It Was Only Me/CaBay Music 295 -58 25 1 16 24 19 DERYL DODD/I'm So Outta Style/Little Red Truck Music 293 20 20 1 8 23 20 TURNPIKE TROUBADOURS/The Winding Stair Mountain Blues/Thirty Tigers 291 14 23 2 4 21 21 KYLIE RAE HARRIS/Big Ol' Heartache/Torrez Music Group 282 -21 24 0 17 19 22 JADE MARIE PATEK/Love's to Blame/Jade Marie Patek Music 277 -70 24 0 19 22 23 JACK INGRAM/Where There's A Willie/Beat Up Ford Records 274 -22 22 0 11 25 24 PROPHETS AND OUTLAWS/Dreamer/Prophets and Outlaws Music 263 -5 20 1 11 27 25 JON WOLFE/Some Ol' Bar In The 90s/Jon Wolfe Music 253 12 21 4 4 45 26 STONEY LARUE/Hill Country Boogaloo/One Chord Song/Smith Group 233 126 15 7 2 34 27 SHANE SMITH AND THE SAINTS/Heaven Knows/Geronimo West Records 218 69 14 1 3 31 28 ROBERT RAY/Good Country Song/Big R.I.G. Country, LLC 211 41 11 0 4 28 29 HOLLY TUCKER/Country Music Won't Let Me/M&D Records 207 -1 14 0 9 29 30 RAY JOHNSTON BAND/Beautiful You/Ray Johnston Music 179 -26 15 1 13

WWW.TRACTIONTX.COM “Monitored Radio Airplay” June 19th, 2019 | PAGE 2 L T Wks On Spins + Stations Adds W W - Chart Artist / Song Title / Label 30 31 WILLIAM BECKMANN/I Wanna See You Tonight/William Beckmann Music 176 -20 18 1 15 32 32 MARIO FLORES/That Man/Schimflo 165 -1 14 1 11 36 33 SCOTTY ALEXANDER/My First Beer/Scotty Alexander Music 157 12 15 1 8 37 34 SUNDANCE HEAD/Close Enough To Walk/Wildcatter 155 18 13 1 9 33 35 DAMON CURTIS/Heart of Stone/Damon Curtis Music 152 -9 14 0 15 38 36 MASON LIVELY/Early Grave/Mason Lively Music 144 9 13 2 4 43 37 FELIX TRUVERE/Always Somethin'/Felix Truvere Music 128 15 14 0 7 41 38 ABE MAC BAND/Crazy/Abe Mac Music 127 4 7 0 6 42 39 JAMES COOK/Let 'Em Run/James Cook Music 123 1 12 0 10 39 40 STETSON WALKER/That's When the Party Starts/Stetson Walker Music 120 -11 10 0 13 44 41 POWELL BROTHERS, THE/The Way You Are/Tolar Powell Entertainment 116 4 9 0 6 40 42 FRANK RAY/Just for a Minute/Frank Ray Music 114 -11 14 1 6 47 43 JOSH GRIDER/My First Band/Josh Grider Music 112 17 7 1 3 -- 44 DREW FISH/The Devil You Know/Reel Records 111 23 13 2 1 -- 45 MORGAN ASHLEY/Come Find Me/Morgan Ashley Music 105 26 9 1 1 35 46 JERROD MEDULLA/Sometimes Forever/Jerrod Medulla Music 101 -48 13 0 27 -- 47 BRAD RUSSELL BAND/Lose Control/Brad Russell Band Music 101 20 5 0 1 -- 48 CURTIS GRIMES/Still/Curtis Grimes Music 97 97 8 8 1 48 49 MARTY HEDDIN/A Little Less Lonely/Nightlife Entertainment Group/Dreamlined Entertainment Group 96 5 12 0 2 49 50 RAGLAND/Footsteps/Ragland Music 93 2 13 1 4

Number 1 = Most Added = Spin Gainer = Bubbling Under Position

MARK MCKINNEY/Cinnamon Shore/Mark McKinney Music 51 WYNN WILLIAMS/Yeah Buddy/Wynn Williams Music 52 DREW MORELAND/Road Stone/Drew Moreland Music 53 ZACH COFFEY/Nobody Frames Bad Days/Zach Coffey Music 54 COMANCHE MOON/Goin' To The Country/CM Music 55 HAYDEN HADDOCK/She Don't Know It Yet/Hayden Haddock Music 56 SAINTS ELEVEN (FT. WALT WILKINS)/Strange Round Here/Saints Eleven Music 57 KAITLIN BUTTS/White River/Kaitlin Butts Music 58 BEN MARSHAL/Good Man's Name/Ben Marshal Music 59 BUBBA T. (WITH BRI BAGWELL)/Like A New Man/County Road 441 Entertainment 60

WWW.TRACTIONTX.COM “Monitored Radio Airplay” June 19th, 2019 | PAGE 3 Monitored Stations KAXA-FM Kerrville, TX KNES-FM Fairfield, TX KSSL-FM Post, TX madeintexasradio.com KBSO-FM Corpus Christi, TX KOKE-FM Austin, TX KTTU-FM HD4 (K226CH-FX) Lubbock, TX texasboundradio.com KBST-FM Big Spring, TX KOLI-FM Wichita Falls, TX KTTX-FM Brenham, TX texashomegrownradio.com KECO-FM Elk City, OK KORA-FM Bryan, TX KTXM-FM Hallettsville, TX TexasRedHotRadio.com KERP-FM Dodge City, KS KOXE-FM Brownwood, TX KUSH-AM Cushing, OK TBJS Radio Poteau, OK KFLP-FM Floydada, TX KPAK-FM Alva, OK KUSQ-FM Worthington, MN KFTX-FM Corpus Christi, TX KPUR-FM Canyon, TX KVST-FM Montgomery, TX KFWR-FM Ft. Worth, TX KQSC-AM Colorado Springs, CO KWOX-FM Woodward, OK KFYN-FM Paris, TX KQZQ-FM Kiowa, KS KXKZ-FM Ruston, LA KHLB-FM Mason, TX KRBL-FM Levelland,TX KXOX-FM Sweetwater,TX KHYI-FM Howe, TX KRRG-FM Laredo, TX KYKC-FM Ada, OK KIKK-FM (HD2) Houston, TX KRUN-AM Ballinger, TX KYKM-FM Yoakum, TX KKAJ-FM Ardmore, OK KRVF-FM Kerens, TX KYKX-FM Longview,TX KKCN-FM San Angelo, TX KRVN-FM Lexington, NE KYYK-FM Palestine, TX KKGQ-FM Wichita, KS KSAM-FM Huntsville, TX coyotecountryradio.com KMOM-FM Aberdeen, SD KSEL-FM Portales, NM ircountry.com Strikethrough = Removed Bold = Newly Added Underlined = Frozen this Week Double Underlined = Frozen 2 Weeks

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Chart Recurrent Methodology

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

WWW.TRACTIONTX.COM “Monitored Radio Airplay” June 19th, 2019 | PAGE 4 Most Added Adds CURTIS GRIMES/Still Curtis Grimes Music 8 STONEY LARUE/Hill Country Boogaloo One Chord Song/Smith Group 7 KAITLIN BUTTS/White River Kaitlin Butts Music 6 JON WOLFE/Some Ol' Bar In The 90s Jon Wolfe Music 4 WYNN WILLIAMS/Yeah Buddy Wynn Williams Music 3 DUSTIN SONNIER/Between The Stones & Jones Dustin Sonnier Music 3 STEVE HELMS BAND/Friday Night Fever Steve Helms Band Music 3 FLATLAND CAVALRY/Old School Flatland Cavalry Music 2 JAMES LANN/Memory Like You Ari-Tex Records 2 Lauren Corzine with Jeff Smith at KRUN. CASEY DONAHEW/Let's Make A Love Song Almost Country Records 2

Greatest Spin Gainers Increase STONEY LARUE/Hill Country Boogaloo One Chord Song/Smith Group 126 CURTIS GRIMES/Still Curtis Grimes Music 97 KAITLIN BUTTS/White River Kaitlin Butts Music 77 SHANE SMITH AND THE SAINTS/Heaven Knows Geronimo West Records 69 JAMES LANN/Memory Like You Ari-Tex Records 59 CASEY DONAHEW/Let's Make A Love Song Almost Country Records 45 WILLIAM CLARK GREEN/Stay Bill Grease Records 41 ROBERT RAY/Good Country Song Big R.I.G. Country, LLC 41 CHAD COOKE BAND/Whatever It Takes Chad Cooke Band Music 40 DUSTIN SONNIER/Between The Stones & Jones Heath Stewart of Spur 327 Band, Melissa Kay of KYOX in Comanche Dustin Sonnier Music 28 and Andy Hackney of Spur 327.

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