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Pardi Parlays No. 1 They Won’t Be Held Down: Three Women >page 4 Succeed Creatively In A Tough Country Climate

KUZZ Bakersfield Abuzz In ACMs >page 12 The best revenge, it has been said, is a life well lived. with contemporary production techniques and phrasing. That mentality likewise applies to , where radio Alexander’s and Harrison’s timing underscored the the un- gatekeepers’ amply documented dismissal of female acts could derdog nature of their efforts. Alexander played and discussed have encouraged many women to simply pack their guitar cases all eight songs on Decatur County Red at a listening party for in- Dan + Shay’s and head back to whatever small town they first called home. siders and media on Jan. 14. Two days later, Harrison held an al- “Florida T” Instead, some bum-release concert >page 14 women are flourish- at Nashville’s 3rd & ing creatively in the Lindsley. Just hours midst of the persistent after Harrison’s per- neglect, and their ef- formance, TBS’ Full Troy Gentry: forts might well influ- Frontal With Saman- Flipped Off, ence a trend or two in tha Bee lampooned Not Forgotten the genre’s evolution. terrestrial country CLARK HARRISON ALEXANDER >page 14 Three artists who radio for its underrep- are rolling out new resentation of women projects in the coming months — , in a sketch titled “Sexism in Country Music,” placing an embar- Jessi Alexander Makin’ Tracks: It’s and (“I Drive Your Truck,” “Turnin’ rassing industry issue on national TV. Chris Bandi, “Man” Me On”) — brushed off the uphill battle to fashion works that are Female artists who were driven only by market considerations personal, emotional and compelling. And, even if gatekeepers would likely not invest the time, money and emotion required for >page 20 choose to ignore them, it won’t be for poor performances: Their an in such a negative atmosphere. But Clark, Alexander work fits snugly within the boundaries of commercial sound. and Harrison ambitiously pursued their passions, driven more Clark’s Your Life Is a Record (due March 6, Warner), features by the work than by an unpredictable reception. Country Coda: a trim, four-piece band with horn and string arrangements “It’s just in me to make music, and I’m going to find a way Oaks Find “Daylight” that lend elegance and warmth to songs about separation. and find an audience,” says Clark. “I put my [first] album out at At No. 1 Alexander’s Decatur County Red (due March 27, Lost Creek) the end of 2013, and so we’re five years, six years into this, and >page 23 embraces the singer’s Jackson, Tenn., roots, building on a I have found an audience that sustains what I do.” honky-tonk foundation while folding in other genres indige- A part of her audience has been generated by radio and stream- nous to the region like Stax-bred soul, and Southern rock. ing platforms, and she readily agrees that those outlets have had And Harrison’s Chosen Family Tree (due June 12, One Vision) an impact.

balances the melodic ethos of 1960s and ’70s arrangements “There is a power in SiriusXM, or terrestrial radio, or ,” BARLOWE KRISTIN ALEXANDER: PHELPS. CHRIS CLARK: BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE FEBRUARY 3, 2020 | PAGE 2 OF 23 she says. “The places where I sell the most tickets are the places where those outlets play me the most.” But Clark has still developed audiences in other markets. She benefits from some attention for her songwriting, as a co-author of ’s “Ma- ma’s Broken Heart,” ’ “” and ’s “.” Musgraves brought publicity through mentions in interviews and on social media, and additional awareness came through a key opening slot on a tour. Harrison established herself nationally as a contestant on , earning high praise from then-judge and building sustained in- terest in the process. “I was in their living rooms every week, so we got to know each other real well,” played “Ridin’ Roads” in a guest role on ABC’s Good she says of the Idol base. “They know my blood type, probably, at this point.” Morning America. He’s flanked by co-hosts Ginger Zee (left) and Robin Alexander has released two previous and garnered award nomina- Roberts. tions as a writer, particularly for the pop hit “The Climb.” She has also done some tours as a writer, including a few performances that pair song- writers with a symphony. A representative declined to make her available for this story, but at her listening party, she indicated that she believed so strongly in the material that she quietly financed the recordings herself. As the Full Frontal piece acerbically suggested, there’s a discriminatory com- ponent to the lack of attention women are receiving at radio. It hasn’t stopped these women from exploring their art, though the phenomenon likely has long- term consequences, underserving potential future artists. “I can’t imagine being who I am and sounding like who I am without having grown up, listening to The Judds on the radio, or Trisha [Yearwood] or Patty [Loveless],” says Harrison, citing a few of her female influences. But her ar- tistic education was not built on a single gender. “I’m so thankful for that and Warner Music Nashville artist Trea Landon visited with KRTY San Jose, and ,” she adds. “I can’t choose, and nobody Calif., staff when he played the Rodeo Club on Jan. 22. From left: KRTY made me feel like I had to, growing up on the radio.” GM Nate Deaton, Landon, KRTY vp sales Tina Ferguson and WMN Meanwhile, the strongest women may be using the rejection to lay a different West Coast manager of radio and streaming Justin Newell. sort of foundation for the future. When country music went into a commercial tailspin in the ’80s, label executives stopped directing their artists toward the crossover target that led them into the doldrums. The creative class, producer Tony Brown (, ) has said, had more freedom to fol- low its gut, and that led to the genre’s next waves: the rise of traditional country artists such as and Keith Whitley, and the introduction of edgy acts Steve Earle, Lyle Lovett and Nanci Griffith, whose branch eventually evolved into Americana. Since females as a gender find themselves in a similar cyclical downturn in country, the most determined are using their freedom to make music that is not tied to typical gatekeeper restraints. It’s tough to know if, and when, one of those unexpected creative choices will break a difficult logjam. “If I was an artist in the top 10 on country radio, I don’t know that everybody (center) performed the title track from her Getting Good would go for me having flutes on a song,” says Clark with a laugh. “As women, EP and announced its March 6 release date on the Jan. 27 edition of we do get to paint with a few more colors than most of the guys do. And some of NBC’s Today. She’s accompanied by show host Jenna Bush Hager and

that is because our music has to find a little different way.” guest host Jerry O’Connell. MOORE ZOE LYNCH:

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ON THE CHARTS JIM ASKER [email protected] Takes ‘’ To No. 1, & Hit Top 10, Returns

Jon Pardi notches his third No. 1 on Billboard’s chart as “Heart- He’s the 14th artist to tally at least that many top 10s since the chart began in ache Medication” (Capitol Nashville) rises 2-1 in its 36th week on the list (dated January 1990; George Strait leads with 61. Feb. 8), up 8% to 38.6 million audience impressions in the week ending Feb. 2, Bryan returns to the top 10 after “Knockin’ ” became his 21st No. 1 for according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data. two weeks in September. Pardi wrote the track with and Natalie Plus, Jake Owen collects his 11th Country Airplay Hemby. It’s the lead single from Pardi’s same-named top 10 as “Homemade” () lifts 12-10 (20.3 mil- album, which debuted at its No. 2 high on Top Coun- lion, up 8%). It follows “,” try Albums in October. It follows , which reached No. 7 in April 2019, and “I Was Jack which launched atop the list in July 2016, after his first (You Were Diane),” which led the week of Aug. 4, 2018, LP, , debuted and peaked at No. 3 in becoming Owen’s seventh No. 1. February 2014. “It’s great starting up a new decade with a No. 1 GRAMMYS ‘BRING’ BACK TUCKER Fueled by a song,” Pardi tells Billboard. “To have ‘Heartache Med- Grammy Awards spotlight, Tanya Tucker lands her ication’ be so well received by radio, the fans and crit- first appearance in nearly 17 years ics has meant so much. Thank you to country radio, as “” (Tuckaho/Fantasy/Con- everyone at the label, my team and my fans.” cord) arrives at No. 47. It debuts at No. 6 on Country The 34-year-old from Dixon, Calif., last led Coun- Digital Song Sales, where it’s Tucker’s first appear- try Airplay with “,” which reached ance, up 1,047% to 5,000 sold in the week ending No. 1 in its 25th week on March 25, 2017, and reigned Jan. 30. for three weeks. He first ruled, for a week, with “Head At the 62nd annual Grammys on Jan. 26, Tucker per- Over Boots,” which hit the summit in its 46th frame formed “Flowers,” which won for best country song (Aug. 27, 2016). (awarded to its writers: Tucker, , Phil Pardi posted his first Country Airplay entry in 2012 Hanseroth and Tim Hanseroth). Tucker also won with “Missin’ You Crazy,” which reached No. 25 that for best country album for parent LP While I’m Livin’, November. Along with his three No. 1s, he has also marking her first two career Grammy victories. The hit the top 10 with “Night Shift” (No. 5, May 2019) set arrived at No. 9 on in Septem- and “Heartache on the Dance Floor” (No. 3, Septem- ber, marking Tucker’s 10th top 10. Produced by Carlile ber 2017). and , it became Tucker’s first top 10 PARDI On the Hot Country Songs chart, which is pow- since in 1992. While I’m Livin’ is ered by airplay, streaming and sales data, his latest her first album of all-new material sinceTanya in 2002. bullets at No. 5, up 4% to 6.4 million U.S. streams and 8% to 3,000 sold in the Tucker scored her first of 40 Hot Country Songs top 10s (a total that includes week ending Jan. 30. 10 No. 1s) in 1972 with “,” which reached No. 6 that August when she was just 13 years old. She posted her most recent top 10 with “Little Things” NEW TOP 10s Luke Bryan nets his 29th Country Airplay top 10 as “What She (No. 9, 1997) and until this week had last appeared on the chart in May 2003

Wants Tonight” (Capitol Nashville) rises 11-9, up 1% to 21.2 million impressions. with “Old Weakness (Coming On Strong).” IMAGES HILL/GETTY TAYLOR FOR YOUR ACM CONSIDERATION “HAD A BETTER YEAR THAN A L M O S T A N Y O N E ELSE IN COUNTRY WATC H MUSIC” – FORBESLUKE’S SATURDAY “ONE OF THE BIGGEST THINGS GOINGNIGHT LIVE ON DEBUT IN COUNTRY MUSIC RIGHT NOW - STEREOGUMHERE “LET’S FACE IT. RIGHT NOW, IT’S COMBS’ WORLD AND WE JUST LIVE IN IT.” - BILLBOARD “HE SINGS LIKE HELL” - VARIETY “COUNTRY MUSIC’S NEWEST GIANT” – TENNESSEAN “COUNTRY MUSIC’S NEXT BIG STAR” – ASSOCIATED PRESS

WHAT YOU “EVEN THOUGH IS WHAT YOU GET I’M LEAVING” LARGEST NO. 1 “50 BEST 3-WEEK NO. 1 SINGLE 7TH CONSECUTIVE NO. 1 STREAMING ALL-GENRE ALBUMS ——— WEEK EVER BILLBOARD OF 2019” “50 BEST SONGS OF 2019” FOR A COUNTRY ALBUM 200 DEBUT —BILLBOARD —

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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 l1 2 36 HEARTACHE MEDICATION Capitol Nashville HH No. 1 (1 week)/Most Increased Audience HH Jon Pardi 38.603 +2.751 8062 390 1 l2 3 24 THE BONES Columbia Nashville 33.641 +2.360 7423 543 2 3 1 18 10,000 HOURS Warner Music Nashville/WAR Dan + Shay & Justin Bieber 33.029 -3.090 6696 -999 4 l4 4 17 KINFOLKS MCA Nashville 30.621 +1.145 6828 350 3 l5 5 26 EVEN THOUGH I’M LEAVING River House/Columbia Nashville 29.295 +0.412 5399 -94 7 l6 8 54 Stoney Creek 25.698 +1.534 5951 365 5 l7 7 26 HOMESICK Zone 4/RCA Nashville Kane Brown 24.980 +0.611 5547 160 6 l8 10 21 Macon/Broken Bow 21.743 -0.396 5097 57 8 l9 11 15 WHAT SHE WANTS TONIGHT Capitol Nashville Luke Bryan 21.227 +0.278 4685 154 9 l10 12 35 HOMEMADE Big Loud Jake Owen 20.303 +1.568 4491 289 11 l11 13 41 SLOW DANCE IN A PARKING LOT MCA Nashville Jordan Davis 19.036 +0.996 4497 202 10 l12 15 36 CATCH BMLG  Brett Young 18.245 +1.327 4047 269 15 l13 14 32 MORE HEARTS THAN MINE Atlantic/Warner Music Nashville/WEA Ingrid Andress 18.109 +0.835 4261 178 14 l14 16 33 DIVE BAR Pearl  & 17.117 +1.666 4349 324 13 l15 17 26 I WISH GRANDPAS NEVER DIED BMLG  Riley Green 16.595 +1.160 4372 308 12 l16 18 17 I HOPE YOU’RE HAPPY NOW Curb/Big Machine & 13.988 +0.313 3566 132 16 l17 20 47 Mercury  12.465 +0.434 3358 112 18 l18 19 22 HOMECOMING QUEEN? Black River Kelsea Ballerini 12.400 -0.091 3405 85 17 l19 22 23 I HOPE Warner Music Nashville/WAR HH Airpower HH 12.319 +1.155 2997 172 19 l20 21 27 CHASIN’ YOU Big Loud HH Airpower HH 11.902 +0.749 2942 231 20 l21 24 6 BEER CAN’T FIX Valory  Featuring Jon Pardi 10.798 +1.223 2449 321 22 l22 23 50 TO A T RCA Nashville Ryan Hurd 10.013 +0.213 2738 62 21 l23 25 43 IN BETWEEN Triple Tigers Scotty McCreery 8.428 +0.719 2429 91 23 l24 26 22 MONSTERS EMI Nashville 7.605 +0.294 2311 58 24 l25 30 5 NOBODY BUT YOU Warner Music Nashville/WMN HH Most Added HH Blake Shelton Duet With Gwen Stefani 7.032 +2.083 1735 632 27 l26 28 19 BLESSINGS BMLG  6.120 +0.516 1829 216 25 l27 29 33 HER WORLD OR MINE Warner Music Nashville/WEA Ray 5.354 +0.102 1780 37 26 l28 49 2 River House/Columbia Nashville Luke Combs Featuring Eric Church 4.113 +2.512 827 567 36 l29 32 13 DRINKING ALONE Capitol Nashville 3.977 +0.086 1266 9 29 l30 34 18 Valory  3.916 +0.145 1238 64 30

COUNTRY AIRPLAY CHART LEGEND

RANKINGS audience does not exceed are not still gaining enough MOST INCREASED AUDIENCE Country Airplay is ranked by the percentage of monitored audience points to bullet or if Most Increased Audience on total audience impressions station downtime for the they rank below No. 10 and Country Airplay lists the songs for the week ending Sunday format. Titles that decline post a third consecutive week with the greatest week-to-week based on monitored airplay in audience but increase in of (non-bulleted) audience increases in total audience. of 148 stations by Nielsen detections will also receive decline, regardless of total Music. Audience totals on a bullet if the total audience chart weeks. AIRPOWER the chart are derived, in part, erosion for the week does not Awarded on Country Airplay to using certain Nielsen Audio- exceed 3%. HOT SHOT DEBUT titles ranking inside top 20 in copyrighted Persons 12+ Awarded to the highest-ranking plays and audience rankings for audience estimates (under TIES new entry on Country Airplay. the first time, with increases in license © 2020, Nielsen Audio). On Country Airplay, if two both plays and audience. The list of all Country Airplay songs are tied in total MOST ADDED chart reporters can be viewed audience, the song with the The total number of new adds BREAKER on Nielsen Music’s platforms. larger increase in audience is officially reported to Billboard Awarded on Country Airplay placed first. by each reporting station, or to titles achieving airplay (at BULLETS by an automatic-add threshold least one detection) at 60% of l Awarded on Country Airplay RECURRENTS (seven plays for the first time reporting stations for the first to titles gaining audience On Country Airplay, descending in a chart tracking week, time. or remaining flat from the titles below No. 10 in either according to Nielsen Music) previous week. A song audience or detections are for stations that do not report © 2020 Prometheus Global Media, will also receive a bullet moved to recurrent after 20 adds. LLC if its percentage loss in weeks, provided that they BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE FEBRUARY 3, 2020 | PAGE 7 OF 23

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 35 31 LONELY IF YOU ARE Dack Janiels/Broken Bow 3.856 +0.407 1209 53 31 32 31 27 WHAT COULD’VE BEEN Triple Tigers Gone West 3.748 -0.145 119 8 2 32 l33 33 35 FAMILY TREE Capitol Nashville Caylee Hammack 3.732 -0.103 1661 17 28 l34 37 7 BLUEBIRD Vanner/RCA Nashville Miranda Lambert 3.056 +0.522 772 65 39 l35 36 19 DROWNING RCA Nashville 2.785 -0.006 810 -17 38 l36 38 26 DETAILS Mercury  2.536 +0.014 826 2 37 l37 40 26 DIE FROM A BROKEN HEART Mercury  Maddie & Tae 2.455 +0.201 947 34 33 38 39 22 FRONT SEAT Studio2bee/Legend  Rayne Johnson 2.260 -0.120 677 -2 42 l39 47 12 ONE NIGHT STANDARDS Atlantic/Warner Music Nashville/WAR Ashley McBryde 2.213 +0.590 643 65 45 l40 43 17 NOW YOU KNOW 32 Bridge/EMI Nashville Jon Langston 2.137 +0.082 874 10 35 41 42 21 SHE’S MINE MCA Nashville Kip Moore 1.972 -0.091 928 82 34 l42 44 10 DONE Warner Music Nashville/WAR Chris Janson 1.936 +0.051 577 51 47 l43 51 18 I DO FOR YOU Riser House Dillon Carmichael 1.604 +0.080 661 5 43 44 46 21 THANK GOD FOR YOU Curb  1.592 -0.119 709 -45 41 45 48 18 BREAK IT IN Valory  Eli Young Band 1.550 -0.067 579 11 46 l46 54 16 GETTING GOOD 19/Mercury  Lauren Alaina 1.535 +0.248 654 51 44 l47 53 2 CHEATIN’ SONGS Big Machine Midland 1.526 +0.120 343 79 58 l48 NEW RUMOR (GLOVER MIX) Netflix/Curb  HH Hot Shot Debut HH Lee Brice 1.489 +1.489 241 241 - 49 50 11 SOME GIRLS Combustion/River House/Columbia Nashville Jameson Rodgers 1.436 -0.112 740 -15 40 50 52 7 FIRE’T UP Valory  1.377 -0.098 464 30 52 l51 56 11 HEAD OVER HEELS Wheelhouse  1.321 +0.066 544 1 48 l52 59 8 RECORDS/Arista Nashville 1.261 +0.084 502 31 50 l53 58 7 I DON’T LOVE YOU Stoney Creek Lindsay Ell 1.235 +0.044 389 48 55 54 41 2 PICK HER UP Capitol Nashville Hot Country Knights Featuring 1.232 -0.857 279 -106 60 55 55 8 OVER DRINKING Capitol Nashville 1.095 -0.182 523 23 49 56 57 10 BIG, BIG PLANS Big Loud Chris Lane 1.088 -0.161 471 14 51 l57 RE-ENTRY WHAT I SEE Arista Nashville LANCO 1.038 +0.115 456 48 53 l58 60 4 PRETTY HEART MCA Nashville Parker McCollum 1.027 +0.039 108 9 - l59 RE-ENTRY THAT’S WHY I LOVE DIRT ROADS Wheelhouse  Granger Smith 0.966 +0.118 388 17 56 l60 RE-ENTRY DIAMONDS Warner Music Nashville/WEA Morgan Evans 0.951 +0.058 297 32 59

GOING FOR ADDS

2/10 Nobody HARDY FEAT. LAUREN Curb ALAINA & DEVIN DAWSON One Beer LADY ANTEBELLUM Big Loud What I’m Leaving For BMLG LUKE COMBS FEAT. ERIC CHURCH Does To Me Only Truck In Town River House/Columbia Nashville Night Train/Broken Bow RANDY ROGERS BAND 39 You, Me And A Bottle 2/24 Tommy Jackson/Thirty Tigers ANGELA OLIVER Ghosts In This Town 2/17 CCB Nashville The traditional-leaning track, co-authored by ASHLEY CHRIS BANDI KING CALAWAY , jumps 47-39 on Country Airplay, McBRYDE McBryde Man Enough Now No Matter What One Night up 36% to 2.2 million audience impressions. RECORDS Stoney Creek Standards On Hot Country Songs, it climbs 49-41. DAVID CROTTY/PATRICK MCMULLAN VIA GETTY IMAGES GETTY VIA MCMULLAN CROTTY/PATRICK DAVID BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE FEBRUARY 3, 2020 | PAGE 8 OF 23

AIRPLAY Country Airplay MONITORED BY

MOST ADDED® NEW AND ACTIVE TITLE Imprint/Label Artist ADDS TOTAL TOTAL NOBODY BUT YOU Warner Music Nashville/WMN Blake Shelton Duet With Gwen Stefani 41 TITLE Imprint/Label Artist AUDIENCE STATIONS ADDS DOES TO ME River House/Columbia Nashville Luke Combs Feat. Eric Church 31 19th & Grand/Reviver Tenille Arts 0.910 41 7 BEER CAN’T FIX Valory Thomas Rhett Feat. Jon Pardi 18 I’LL BE Big Machine Noah Schnacky 0.569 29 0 SHE’S MINE MCA Nashville Kip Moore 15 FOR MY MONEY EMI Nashville Brandon Lay 0.543 14 6 BLESSINGS BMLG Florida Georgia Line 12 CHEATIN’ SONGS Big Machine Midland 10 ANYTHING SHE SAYS Columbia Nashville Mitchell Tenpenny Feat. Seaforth 0.532 26 2 I DON’T LOVE YOU Stoney Creek Lindsay Ell 8 FAMOUS Arista Nashville Adam Doleac 0.437 8 2 DRINKING ALONE Capitol Nashville Carrie Underwood 7 HAIL MARY Hickory/RED Haley & Michaels 0.368 32 0 BLUEBIRD Vanner/RCA Nashville Miranda Lambert 7 DONE Warner Music Nashville/WAR Chris Janson 7 RECURRENTS MOST INCREASED AUDIENCE THIS TOTAL AUD. WEEK TITLE Imprint/Label Artist (IN MILLIONS) GAIN 1 ONE MAN BAND RCA Nashville Old Dominion 24.753 TITLE Imprint/Label Artist (IN MIILIONS) 2 WHAT IF I NEVER GET OVER YOU BMLG Lady Antebellum 23.384 HEARTACHE MEDICATION Capitol Nashville Jon Pardi +2.751 DOES TO ME River House/Columbia Nashville Luke Combs Featuring Eric Church +2.512 3 RIDIN’ ROADS Broken Bow Dustin Lynch 21.676 THE BONES Columbia Nashville Maren Morris +2.361 4 WHISKEY GLASSES Big Loud Morgan Wallen 18.288 NOBODY BUT YOU Warner Music Nashville/WMN Blake Shelton Duet With Gwen Stefani +2.083 5 Wide Open/RECORDS/Good Company/Arista Nashville Matt Stell 17.985 DIVE BAR Pearl Garth Brooks & Blake Shelton +1.666 6 REMEMBER YOU YOUNG Valory Thomas Rhett 14.971 HOMEMADE Big Loud Jake Owen +1.568 7 GOOD VIBES Warner Music Nashville/WAR Chris Janson 13.407 MAKE ME WANT TO Stoney Creek Jimmie Allen +1.534 8 LIVING Capitol Nashville Dierks Bentley 13.154 RUMOR (GLOVER MIX) Netflix/Curb Lee Brice +1.489 9 BEER NEVER BROKE MY HEART River House/Columbia Nashville Luke Combs 12.926 CATCH BMLG Brett Young +1.327 BEER CAN’T FIX Valory Thomas Rhett Featuring Jon Pardi +1.222 10 I DON’T KNOW ABOUT YOU Big Loud Chris Lane 12.911 MOST INCREASED PLAYS BILLBOARD COUNTRY BOXSCORE TITLE Imprint/Label Artist GAIN Gross Artist Attendance Ticket Price(s) Venue/Date(s) Capacity Promoter(s) NOBODY BUT YOU Warner Music Nashville/WMN Blake Shelton Duet With Gwen Stefani +632 $148,940 CODY JINKS 3,348 TRUE GRIT DOES TO ME River House/Columbia Nashville Luke Combs Featuring Eric Church +567 $150, $20 Raising Cane’s River City Arena, Baton Rouge, La./Jan. 11 5,524 PRESENTS THE BONES Columbia Nashville Maren Morris +543 $91,645 1,530 HEARTACHE MEDICATION Capitol Nashville Jon Pardi +390 $59.50, $49.50 H-E-B Center at Cedar Park, Cedar Park, /Jan. 16 2,561 FMSQUARED MAKE ME WANT TO Stoney Creek Jimmie Allen +365 $72,078 TRAVIS TRITT 1,021 $65, $55 Carolina Theatre, Durham, N.C./Jan. 17 1,021 NS2 KINFOLKS MCA Nashville Sam Hunt +350 DIVE BAR Pearl Garth Brooks & Blake Shelton +324 $43,171 JIM CUDDY 895 EVENKO, LIVE $48.24 Rebecca Cohn Auditorium, Hlaifax, Nova Scotia/Jan. 17 899 NATION BEER CAN’T FIX Valory Thomas Rhett Featuring Jon Pardi +321 $31,487 JIM CUDDY 660 EVENKO, LIVE I WISH GRANDPAS NEVER DIED BMLG Riley Green +308 $47.71 Imperial Theatre, St. John, New Brunswick/Jan. 19 825 NATION HOMEMADE Big Loud Jake Owen +289 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 FEBRUARY 2, 2020

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 3 14 ASPHALT AND CONCRETE (Independent)  HH 1 Week at 1 HH Bri Bagwell 1927 160 l11 13 13 SHE LOVES HORSES (Independent)  William Clark Green 1345 97 l2 2 17 PRETTY HEART (Independent)  Parker McCollum 1897 62 l12 12 17 BARROOM BUDDIES (Independent)  Dos Borrachos 1344 77 l3 4 18 FACTS AND LIES (Independent)  Jon Stork 1789 103 l13 14 12 ONE NIGHT IN TULSA (Independent)  Kylie Frey 1323 157 l4 5 24 GOOD TIMES (Independent)  Jesse Raub Jr. 1682 55 l14 15 16 DEAR COUNTRY MUSIC, (Independent)  Mike Ryan 1248 91 5 1 14 SAME KIND OF CRAZY AS ME (Rounder Rec)  Cody Jinks 1663 -341 l15 16 16 I FOUND YOU (Independent)  Robert Ray 119 0 37 l6 6 21 EVERY DAY KIND OF LOVE (Independent)  Kyle Park 1597 26 l16 18 13 COME BACK DOWN (Independent)  Flatland Cavalry 117 3 126 l7 7 17 STRAIT TO JONES (Independent)  Clay Hollis 1550 26 l17 21 17 REAL SMALL TOWN (Independent)  Adam Hood 1087 132 l8 9 12 WHISKEY’S WORKIN’ WELL (Independent)  Jamie Richards 1516 76 l18 20 6 ONE MORE SHOT OF WHISKEY (Independent)  Josh Ward 1064 75 l9 8 16 I CAN GIVE YOU ONE (Independent)  David Adam Byrnes 1507 46 l19 24 18 ROAD TO YOU (Independent)  Micky & The Motorcars 976 82 l10 10 14 MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE (One Chord Song)  Stoney LaRue 1480 41 20 17 21 COUNTRY RADIO (BIG Label )  Aaron Watson 973 -167

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 972-252-8777. Copyright 2020, Texas Regional Radio Report

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NASHVILLE & NATIONAL TOM ROLAND

country KZMQ Cody, Wyo., morning host… iHeartMedia made three staff moves in Pennsylvania, according to InsideRadio.com: Brit Goldstein rose to Pennsylvania area president from a similar post in Wilmington, Del., and Salisbury-Ocean City, Md.; Dave Hovel was elevated to area vp programming from senior vp in Wilmington and Salisbury-Ocean City; and Nick Mickley assumed the market president job for Harrisburg, Reading and Lancaster after serving as Harrisburg-Allentown region senior vp sales… Saga Communica- tions tapped Thom Callahan to serve as director of business development, Talkers.com reported. He closes a run as California Broadcasters Association president. Saga’s country holdings include WCFL Charlottesville, Va.; WIXY Champaign-Urbana, Ill.; and WCKN Charleston, S.C.… KPTY Waterloo, Iowa, flipped from top 40 to country, according to Talkers.com… KLLL Lubbock, Texas, personality D’Anne Rampy — known on air as Kelli D’Angelo — died Jan. 27 from cancer. Donations may be made in her name to the Children’s Miracle Network here… WLUV Rockford, Ill., founder Joe Salvi died Jan. 28,

117 ENTERTAINMENT 117 The Rockford Register Star reported… Tickets go on sale Feb. 7 for the iHeart- Kalie Shorr (left) appeared on the WSM-AM Nashville morning show Country Festival at the Frank Erwin Center in Austin. Among the artists on in conjunction with a Jan. 31 performance at Nashville’s Exit/In. She’s the May 2 bill are Sam Hunt, Kane Brown and Lady Antebellum… Talent joined by WSM co-hosts Charlie Mattos, Bill Cody and . was announced for several events at Country Radio Seminar Feb. 19-21. In- cluded are Amazon showcase acts Kelsea Ballerini, Gabby Barrett and The KUZZ BUZZ FROM THE ACM Cadillac Three; concert participants Tenille Townes, A radio station formerly owned by received love that’s “above Adam Doleac and Niko Moon; and Universal Music Group Nashville artists and beyond” the norm when it picked up three nominations in the Academy Carrie Underwood, Luke Bryan and Keith Urban. of Country Music’s Radio Awards. KUZZ Bakersfield, Calif., was named a finalist for radio station of the year ’ROUND THE ROW – medium market when the ballot was unveiled Feb. 3. Two of its on-air tal- SMACK hired two new employees: Controller Miranda Kammeyer joins the ents, PD/midday host Brent Michaels and evening-drive personality Kenn company after seven years as accounting manager for Nashville CPA firm Ja- McCloud, were also cited in the on-air personality – medium market category. cobs Cohen, and SMACK Publishing creative manager Jeremy Groves arrives KUZZ was one of six stations that landed an entry on both the radio sta- after five years as Big Loud/ day-to-day manager. Reach Kammeyer tion and on-air personality ballots. The other hosts, and their corresponding here and Groves here… Anthem Entertainment added manager of corporate stations, include Kelly Ford, WNSH New York (major market); Robyn Adair marketing John Cantu, formerly marketing director at Riser House… APA and Roger Rhodes, CKRY Calgary, Alberta (large market); David Chandler, Nashville welcomed music agent Jimmy Dasher to book clubs and theaters Chelsie Shinkle, Jason Statt and Ashley Dawn, WUBE Cincinnati (large in the western region. He previously was an agent for Atomic Music Group. market); Steve Lundy and Gina Melton, KXKT Omaha, Neb. (medium mar- Reach Dasher here… Florida Georgia Line ended its nine-year relationship ket); and “Cowboy” Kyle Croft, WUSY Chattanooga, Tenn. with publishing/management firm Big Loud… Leadership Music is accepting The winners will receive awards in Las Vegas on April 4, the day before applications for the class of 2021 through Feb. 29 here… Aug. 25 was selected the ACM Awards air on CBS. Go here for the complete list of radio nominees. for this year’s Source Hall of Fame Awards, recognizing women who made a difference in the Nashville music business… Kingston Trio co-founder Bob RADIO & RECORDS® Shane died Jan. 26 in Phoenix. The folk ensemble won the first Grammy BBR Music Group/BMG Nashville made five staff changes. Mary Forest for best country & western performance in 1959 for “Tom Dooley”… Song- Findley rejoined as Stoney Creek director of Southeast promotion. She most writer Eddie Setser died Jan. 27 in Corbin, Ky., The Corbin Times-Tribune recently was a Red Light manager. Jennifer Coen ascended to BBR director reported. Setser’s hit list included Ray Charles and ’s “Seven of brand partnerships. Her previous position, executive assistant to BBR ex- Spanish Angels,” Reba McEntire’s “Let the Music Lift You Up” and Gary ecutive vp Jon Loba, was filled by Sarah Powers, who recently graduated Morris’ “Why Lady Why”… Guitarist Vernon Sandusky died Jan. 25 in Al- from Middle Tennessee State University with a B.A. in marketing. Tyler Cor- tamont, Kan., according to The Parsons Sun. He played on Wanda Jackson’s rado joined as manager social media and fan engagement, after serving as 1960 top 40 single “Let’s Have a Party” and spent two decades as a member co-founder of digital company Amperland. And Kelsey Peoples took over of ’s road band. as BBR/BMG office manager following a run in a similar post for Kansas City, Mo.-based Appearance Specialties Group. Reach Findley here, Coen here, Powers here, Corrado here and Peoples here… Singer-songwriter Tyler Booth reached a recording deal with Villa 40/Sony Music Nashville. Booth has already appeared on a Sony album, teaming with Brooks & Dunn for a cover of “Lost and Found” on the duo’s 2019 album, Reboot… Black River added Pryor & Lee to its artist roster. The act pairs two singers, Pryor Baird and Kaleb Lee, who met and roomed together during the spring 2018 edi- tion of NBC’s The Voice… Rounder announced plans to celebrate its 50th an- niversary with a series of events, including the release of catalog by , Bela Fleck and J.D. Crowe & The New South… Beasley Media pro- moted Erika Beasley to vp digital content from corporate digital content di- rector… Leighton Broadcasting upped Stephanie Theisen to vp of sales and marketing. She will continue to operate through the end of 2020 as general sales manager for Leighton/St. Cloud, Minn., including country KZPK… Patti Banner joined the KTCO Duluth, Minn., morning show, arriving from the Kane Brown received quintuple-platinum awards from the RIAA for his same daypart at adult contemporary KONA-FM Kennewick, Wash.… Wes singles “What Ifs” and “Heaven.” From left at the official presentation McShay started Feb. 3 as Appaloosa Broadcasting regional director of pro- are Sony Music Nashville executive vp A&R Jim Catino and chairman/ gramming for Wyoming and South Dakota, InsideRadio.com reported. He CEO Randy Goodman, Brown and EFG Management owner Martha

previously served as Legends/Northwest Wyoming operations manager and Earls. POIZNER ALAN FOR YOUR ACM CONSIDERATION BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE FEBRUARY 3, 2020 | PAGE 14 OF 23

NASHVILLE & NATIONAL TOM ROLAND

MUSIC NOTES ON THIS DATE IN COUNTRY MUSIC

People who did not get to their Super Bowl party at the beginning of the pregame Feb. 4 show may have missed Dan + Shay, who brought a little heartland sound to • 2009 — , the regional tilt of the big game. The duo was still conscientious about playing Roy Clark and session musician in Miami — during its rendition of “Tequila,” Shay Mooney coyly turned the Charlie McCoy are announced as chorus phrase “sorority T-shirt” into “Florida T-shirt,” an obvious gesture to the 2009 inductees in the Country hometown football fans. Other country stars who were on hand include Tucker Music Hall of Fame. Beathard, who attended the game; , who performed at an On Location Experiences pregame show; and LOCASH, which took part in three Feb. 5 charity events Feb. 1-2, including a beach cleanup at Oleta River State Park. • 2015— Scotty McCreery writes “Five More Minutes” with Monty Two-and-a-half years after he died Criswell and producer Frank in a helicopter crash, Troy Gentry Rogers in Nashville. will be remembered with the second • 2005 — drives to No. 1 edition of a fundraiser for a slate of on the Billboard Hot Country Songs CLARK charities. and Siri- chart with “.” usXM personality Storme Warren will co-host C’Ya on the Flipside II at Feb. 6 Nashville’s House on • 2000 — portrays a player on an episode of CBS- Feb. 5. The lineup includes Gentry’s TV’s Touched by an Angel, which features Rogers’ “.” former duo partner, Eddie Mont- • 1980 — records “He Stopped Loving Her Today” at gomery, plus Justin Moore, Trace the Columbia Recording Studio in Nashville. Adkins, , , Shenandoah, Mark Wills and a few Feb. 7 GENTRY surprises. • 1995 — Mercury releases ’s album The Woman in Me.

The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum may house the genre’s history, Feb. 8 but it makes a point of representing contemporary developments, too. This • 2019 — Apple Music debuts a 60-second ad that uses a Florida year’s edition of its “American Currents” exhibit will include a number of Georgia Line Memoji and the duo’s single “Simple.” artists who either debuted or made big strides in 2019, including , • 2016 — EMI releases Eric Church’s “” to radio. , Luke Combs, , Morgan Wallen and fiddler . The display opens March 6 and closes Feb. 7, 2021. Feb. 9 • 2010 — Republic Nashville announces it has signed The Eli Young Invisible: Gay Women in Southern Music will be the subject of a screening Band to a recording deal. and Q&A at Nashville’s Belcourt Theater on Feb. 25. Produced by Outhaus • 1960 — The Hollywood City Council holds the groundbreaking Films, the documentary includes appearances by , Rod- ceremony for the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Among those honored ney Crowell, Linda Ronstadt, and . The event’s in its initial installment: Hank Williams, , Elvis Presley, conversation, moderated by WMOT Murfreesboro, Tenn., personality Jessie Johnny Mercer, Lefty Frizzell, Gene Autry and Jimmy Wakely. Scott, will feature eight participants, including Mary Gauthier and song- writers Jess Leary (“Where the Green Grass Grows”), Bonnie Baker (“Invis- Feb. 10 ible”), Kye Fleming (“I Was Country When Country Wasn’t Cool”), Pam Rose • 2017 — Just what the doctor ordered: Little Big Town receives a (“I’ll Still Be Loving You”) and Mary Ann Kennedy (“Safe in the Arms of platinum album from the RIAA for Pain Killer. Love”). Source: RolandNote.com, the Ultimate Country Music Database Top Headlines from .com Click on the headlines below for more details

Luke Combs Gives Rowdy Performances During SNL Debut

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Warner Music Group Tops $1.25B For The Quarter As Streaming Jumps 17%

How SoundCloud CEO Kerry Trainor Plans To Stand Out In A Crowded Streaming Space: ‘We’re Built In A Totally Different Way’ Former WWFF Huntsville, Ala., assistant PD/music director/afternoon host A.J. McCloud (left) continued his red kettle tour for the Salvation Army, even after departing the company in December. Salvation Where Do The Grammys Go From Here? Army captain Kelly Bryant joined him to present a Miranda Lambert- autographed guitar to contest winner Jonathan Wentzel.

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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 18 10,000 HOURS No. 1 (17 weeks) Dan + Shay & Justin Bieber 3 1 D.SMYERS (D.SMYERS,S.MOONEY,J.J.DILLON,J.REYNOLDS,J.D.BIEBER,J.BOYD) WARNER MUSIC NASHVILLE/WAR THE BONES 2 2 2 48 Maren Morris 2 2 l G.KURSTIN (M.MORRIS,J.ROBBINS,L.J.VELTZ) COLUMBIA NASHVILLE 3 4 3 44 ONE MAN BAND Old Dominion RC 2 S.MCANALLY (M.RAMSEY,T. ROSEN,B.F.TURSI,J.OSBORNE) RCA NASHVILLE 4 3 4 34 EVEN THOUGH I’M LEAVING Luke Combs 5 2 S.MOFFATT (L.COMBS,W.B.DURRETTE,R.FULCHER) RIVER HOUSE/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE HH HH 5 5 5 34 HEARTACHE MEDICATION Airplay Gainer Jon Pardi 1 5 l J.PARDI,B.BUTLER,R.GORE (J.PARDI,BARY DEAN,N.HEMBY) CAPITOL NASHVILLE HH HH 6 11 26 7 NOBODY BUT YOU Digital & Streaming Gainer Blake Shelton Duet With Gwen Stefani 25 6 l S.HENDRICKS (T.L.JAMES,R.COPPERMAN,S.MCANALLY,J.OSBORNE) WARNER MUSIC NASHVILLE/WMN KINFOLKS 7 6 7 17 Sam Hunt 4 6 l Z.CROWELL (S.L.HUNT,Z.CROWELL,J.FLOWERS,J.OSBORNE) MCA NASHVILLE HOMESICK 8 9 9 45 Kane Brown 7 8 l D.HUFF (K.BROWN,B.BERRYHILL,M.J.MCGINN,T.PHILLIPS) ZONE 4/RCA NASHVILLE 9 7 6 37 WHAT IF I NEVER GET OVER YOU Lady Antebellum RC 5 D.HUFF (S.ELLIS,J.GREEN,R.J.HURD,L.J.VELTZ) BMLG I HOPE 10 10 10 40 Gabby Barrett 19 10 l R.COPPERMAN (Z.KALE,J.M.NITE,G.BARRETT) WARNER MUSIC NASHVILLE/WAR WHAT SHE WANTS TONIGHT 11 15 12 15 Luke Bryan 9 11 l J.STEVENS,J.STEVENS (L.BRYAN,R.COPPERMAN,H.LINDSEY,J.M.NITE) CAPITOL NASHVILLE MORE HEARTS THAN MINE 12 12 15 30 Ingrid Andress 13 12 l S.ELLIS,I.ANDRESS (I.ANDRESS,S.ELLIS,D.SOUTHERLAND) ATLANTIC/WARNER MUSIC NASHVILLE/WEA I WISH GRANDPAS NEVER DIED 13 13 14 26 Riley Green 15 13 l D.HUFF (R.GREEN,L.BONDS,B.GREEN) BMLG MAKE ME WANT TO 14 14 13 35 Jimmie Allen 6 13 l A.BOWERS,E.TORRES (J.ALLEN,P.SIKES,J.DENMARK) STONEY CREEK WE BACK 15 16 11 21 Jason Aldean 8 11 l M.KNOX (B.D.WARREN,B.WARREN,T.HUBBARD,J.M.SCHMIDT) MACON/BROKEN BOW I HOPE YOU’RE HAPPY NOW 16 18 16 16 Carly Pearce & Lee Brice 16 16 l BUSBEE (C.PEARCE,L.COMBS,R.MONTANA,J.SINGLETON) CURB/BIG MACHINE HOMECOMING QUEEN? 17 17 17 21 Kelsea Ballerini 18 14 l J.ROBBINS (K.BALLERINI,J.ROBBINS,N.GALYON) BLACK RIVER CHASIN’ YOU 18 19 20 24 Morgan Wallen 20 18 l J.MOI (J.MOORE,M.WALLEN,C.WISEMAN) BIG LOUD SLOW DANCE IN A PARKING LOT 19 20 18 28 Jordan Davis 11 18 l P.DIGIOVANNI (J.DAVIS,L.L.FOWLER) MCA NASHVILLE HOMEMADE 20 21 21 20 Jake Owen 10 20 l J.MOI,D.COHEN (B.GOLDSMITH,J.MULLINS,D.PARKER,B.PINSON) BIG LOUD CATCH 21 22 22 31 Brett Young 12 21 l D.HUFF (B.YOUNG,R.COPPERMAN,A.GORLEY) BMLG DIVE BAR 22 23 19 31 Garth Brooks & Blake Shelton 14 19 l G.BROOKS (M.ROSSELL,B.KENNEDY,T.G.BROOKS) PEARL TO A T 23 25 24 51 Ryan Hurd 22 23 l D.HUFF,A.ESHUIS (R.J.HURD,N.SPICER,L.J.VELTZ) RCA NASHVILLE 24 24 23 24 HEARTLESS Diplo Presents Thomas Wesley Featuring Morgan Wallen - 15 DIPLO,KING HENRY,CHARLIE HANDSOME,J.MOI (T.W.PENTZ,H.A.ALLEN,M.WALLEN,E.K.SMITH,R.J.HURD,CHARLIE HANDSOME) MAD DECENT/COLUMBIA LONELY IF YOU ARE 25 42 43 22 Chase Rice 31 25 l C. DESTEFANO,C.RICE (C.RICE,L.RIMES,H.PHELPS) DACK JANIELS/BROKEN BOW

COUNTRY SONGWRITERSTM COUNTRY PRODUCERSTM

#1 #1 1 4 WKS LAURA VELTZ  1 26 WKS  2  2 DAN SMYERS  3  3  4 LUKE COMBS  4 GREG KURSTIN  5  5 SCOTT MOFFATT  6 MAREN MORRIS  6 SCOTT HENDRICKS  7  7  8  8 SHANE MCANALLY  COPPERMAN 9 SAM ELLIS  9 ROSS COPPERMAN  10 RYAN HURD  10 MICHAEL KNOX  TAYLOR KELLY TAYLOR

The weekly Country and Country Producers charts are based on total points accrued by a songwriter and producer, respectively, for each attributed song that appears on the Hot Country Songs chart. As with Billboard’s yearly recaps, multiple writers or producers split points for each song equally (and the dividing of points will lead to occasional ties on rankings). BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE FEBRUARY 3, 2020 | PAGE 17 OF 23

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 AFTER A FEW 26 26 25 16 Travis Denning 17 25 l J.S.STOVER (T.DENNING,K.ARCHER,J.WEAVER) MERCURY BEER CAN’T FIX 27 27 34 5 Thomas Rhett Featuring Jon Pardi 21 27 l D.HUFF,J.BUNETTA,THOMAS RHETT (THOMAS RHETT,J.BUNETTA,Z.SKELTON,R.B.TEDDER) VALORY BLESSINGS 28 28 28 12 Florida Georgia Line 26 28 l J.MOI,FLORIDA GEORIGA LINE (T.HUBBARD,B.KELLEY,T.DOUGLAS,J.FRASURE,J.M.SCHMIDT,E.K.SMITH) BMLG IN BETWEEN 29 30 27 13 Scotty McCreery 23 27 l F.ROGERS (S.MCCREERY,F.ROGERS,J.L.ALEXANDER,J.SINGLETON) TRIPLE TIGERS BETTER TOGETHER 30 32 30 12 Luke Combs - 14 l S.MOFFATT (L.COMBS,D.ISBELL,R.MONTANA) RIVER HOUSE/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE MONSTERS 31 31 29 11 Eric Church 24 29 l J.JOYCE (E.CHURCH,J.HYDE) EMI NASHVILLE BLUEBIRD 32 34 32 9 Miranda Lambert 34 32 l J.JOYCE (M.LAMBERT,L.DICK,N.HEMBY) VANNER/R CA NASHVILLE HER WORLD OR MINE 33 33 31 14 Michael Ray 27 31 l S.HENDRICKS (J.PAULIN,T.DENNING,B.BEAVERS) WARNER MUSIC NASHVILLE/WEA DROWNING 34 35 33 19 Chris Young 35 18 l C.CROWDER,C.YOUNG (C.A.YOUNG,C.CROWDER,J.HOGE) RCA NASHVILLE DIE FROM A BROKEN HEART 35 36 — 28 Maddie & Tae 37 35 l J.ROBBINS,D.WELLS (M.MARLOW,T.DYE,J.SINGLETON,D.RUTTAN) MERCURY DRINKING ALONE 36 37 36 12 Carrie Underwood 29 36 l D.GARCIA,C.UNDERWOOD (C.UNDERWOOD,D.A.GARCIA,BRETT JAMES) CAPITOL NASHVILLE ONE BIG COUNTRY SONG 37 39 37 7 LOCASH RC 37 l 770 PRODUCTIONS (J.FRASURE,A.GORLEY,M.W.HARDY) WHEELHOUSE DOES TO ME Luke Combs Featuring Eric Church 38 RE-ENTRY 3 28 32 l S.MOFFATT (L.COMBS,R.FULCHER,T.REEVE) RIVER HOUSE/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE 39 38 35 16 BIG, BIG PLANS Chris Lane 56 33 J.MOI (J.DURRETT,C.LANE,E.K.SMITH) BIG LOUD WHAT COULD’VE BEEN 40 43 40 9 Gone West 32 40 l J.KENNEY (C.CAILLAT,J.K.YOUNG,J.REEVES,D.J.REEVES,J.KENNEY) TRIPLE TIGERS ONE NIGHT STANDARDS 41 49 46 5 Ashley McBryde 39 41 l J.JOYCE (A.MCBRYDE,S.MCANALLY,N.HAYFORD) ATLANTIC/WARNER MUSIC NASHVILLE/WAR COVER ME UP 42 44 44 13 Morgan Wallen - 35 l J.MOI,D.COHEN (M.J.ISBELL) BIG LOUD 43 29 — 2 THINKING ‘BOUT YOU Dustin Lynch Featuring Lauren Alaina - 29 Z.CROWELL (D.LYNCH,A.ALBERT,H.PHELPS,W.WEATHERLY) BROKEN BOW 44 41 38 4 THIS BAR Morgan Wallen - 29 J.MOI (M.W.HARDY,J.MORGAN,J.SCOTT,E.K.SMITH,R.VOJTESAK,M.WALLEN) BIG LOUD ONE BEER 45 45 42 5 HARDY Featuring Lauren Alaina & Devin Dawson - 42 l J.MOI,D.WELLS (M.W.HARDY,H.LINDSEY,J.MITCHELL) TREE VIBEZ/BIG LOUD 46 46 41 19 FAMILY TREE Caylee Hammack 33 40 M.REAVES,C.HAMMACK (C.HAMMACK,T.VERGES,G.SAMPSON) CAPIT OL NASHVILLE HH HH 47 NEW 1 BRING MY FLOWERS NOW Hot Shot Debut Tanya Tucker - 47 l B.CARLILE, S.JENNINGS (T.TUCKER,B.CARLILE,T.HANSEROTH,P.J.HANSEROTH) TUCKAHO /FANTASY/CONCORD NOTHIN’ ON YOU Cody Johnson 48 RE-ENTRY 2 - 43 l T.W.WILLMON (B.BABER,T.W.WILLMON) COJO/WARNER MUSIC NASHVILLE/WMN ANYTHING SHE SAYS Mitchell Tenpenny Featuring Seaforth 49 RE-ENTRY 2 - 49 l J.M.SCHMIDT (M.TENPENNY,J.M.SCHMIDT,T.W.JORDAN,A.ALBERT) RISER HOUSE/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE 50 4 Jason Aldean - 34 M.KNOX (M.TYLER,A.PALMER,T.ARCHER) MACON/BROKEN BOW

The week’s most popular country songs, ranked by radio airplay audience impressions as measured by Nielsen Music, sales data as compiled by Nielsen Music and streaming activity data from online music sources tracked by Nielsen Music. Descending titles below No. 25 are moved to recurrent after 20 weeks.

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WEEKLY UNIT COUNT YEAR-TO-DATE YEAR-OVER-YEAR

ALBUM AUDIO VIDEO CONSUMPTION ON-DEMAND ON-DEMAND 2019 2020 CHANGE ALBUM CONSUMPTION This Week 1,041,000 1,083,049,000 276,851,000 Album ’19 3.07 million Consumption 3,065,000 4,020,000 31.2% ’20 4.02 million Last Week 1,000,000 1,036,633,000 268,441,000 Album Sales 713,000 650,000 -8.8% Change 4.1% 4.5% 3.1% TOTAL ON-DEMAND STREAMS Audio On-Demand 3,506,961,000 4,213,839,000 20.2% ’19 4.45 billion This Week Last Year 953,000 882,493,000 244,540,000 ’20 5.30 billion Change 9.2% 22.7% 13.2% Video On-Demand 938,047,000 1,081,813,000 15.3%

All data measures U.S. activity as of the week ending Jan. 30, 2020. All units counts are rounded to the nearest thousand. Album consumption units — also known as albums plus TEA plus SEA — consists of album sales; track-equivalent album (TEA) sales whereby 10 tracks equal one consumption unit; and stream equivalent albums (SEA) whereby 1,250 paid and/or 3,750 ad-supported audio on-demand streams (OAD) equal one consumption unit.

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SALES, DATA STREAMING & SALES COMPILED BY DATA COMPILED BY

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ON CHT ARTIST ARTIST 2 WEEKS 2 WEEKS IMPRINT & NUMBER / DISTRIBUTING LABEL 10,000 HOURS NOBODY BUT YOU LUKE COMBS WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET 1 1 17 1 1 7 l DAN + SHAY & JUSTIN BIEBER  l BLAKE SHELTON DUET WITH GWEN STEFANI  1 2 1 12 RIVER HOUSE/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE 595687*/SMN 1   THE BONES 10,000 HOURS BLAKE SHELTON FULLY LOADED: GOD’S COUNTRY 2 2 30 2 3 17 5 3 7 1 l MAREN MORRIS  DAN + SHAY & JUSTIN BIEBER  l2 WARNER MUSIC NASHVILLE 607343/WMN ONE MAN BAND I HOPE LUKE COMBS THIS ONE’S FOR YOU 3 3 23 3 6 22 3 3 2 139 RIVER HOUSE/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE 538883*/SMN 3 1 l OLD DOMINION  l GABBY BARRETT  EVEN THOUGH I’M LEAVING THE BONES MORGAN WALLEN IF I KNOW ME 4 4 22 4 5 24 4 6 4 87 BIG LOUD DIGITAL EX 0 3 l LUKE COMBS  MAREN MORRIS  I HOPE ONE MAN BAND 7 7 84 DAN + SHAY DAN + SHAY 1 l5 5 14 5 4 33 l5 WARNER MUSIC NASHVILLE 570796/WMN 1 GABBY BARRETT  OLD DOMINION  KINFOLKS BRING MY FLOWERS NOW NEW 1 CHASE RICE THE ALBUM, PART I 6 l6 6 15 l6 NEW l6 DACK JANIELS/BROKEN BOW/BMG DIGITAL EX/BBMG SAM HUNT  TANYA TUCKER  TENNESSEE WHISKEY SPEECHLESS 9 6 64 KANE BROWN EXPERIMENT 1 l7 7 147 l7 25 79 l7 ZONE 4/RCA NASHVILLE /SMN 0   DAN + SHAY  WHISKEY GLASSES GOD’S COUNTRY MAREN MORRIS GIRL 8 8 50 8 10 44 8 8 8 47 COLUMBIA NASHVILLE 590186*/SMN 1 l MORGAN WALLEN  l BLAKE SHELTON  WHAT IF I NEVER GET OVER YOU I WISH GRANDPAS NEVER DIED CHRIS STAPLETON TRAVELLER 9 10 8 9 9 26 9 10 9 248 MERCURY 019405*/UMGN 4 1 l LADY ANTEBELLUM  RILEY GREEN  HEARTLESS EVEN THOUGH I’M LEAVING DUSTIN LYNCH TULLAHOMA 10 11 24 10 8 29 10 4 — 2 BROKEN BOW/BMG 85625/BBMG 4 l DIPLO PRESENTS THOMAS WESLEY FEAT. MORGAN WALLEN  LUKE COMBS  NOBODY BUT YOU I HOPE YOU’RE HAPPY NOW OLD DOMINION OLD DOMINION 11 NEW 11 11 9 11 11 10 14 RCA NASHVILLE 589183*/SMN 1 l BLAKE SHELTON DUET WITH GWEN STEFANI  CARLY PEARCE & LEE BRICE  ONE THING RIGHT LONELY IF YOU ARE JASON ALDEAN 9 12 12 30 12 NEW 12 12 5 10 MACON/BROKEN BOW/BMG 32944*/BBMG 1 l MARSHMELLO & KANE BROWN  l CHASE RICE  HEARTACHE MEDICATION MORE HEARTS THAN MINE 14 13 35 THOMAS RHETT CENTER POINT ROAD 1 13 13 7 13 13 19 l13 VALORY TR0400A*/BMLG l JON PARDI  INGRID ANDRESS  HOMESICK LITTLE BIG TOWN NIGHTFALL 14 14 91 14 14 13 14 1 — 2 CAPITOL NASHVILLE 031192*/UMGN 1 l LUKE COMBS  KANE BROWN  SPEECHLESS TENNESSEE WHISKEY KANE BROWN KANE BROWN 15 16 80 15 16 209 15 13 11 165 ZONE 4/RCA NASHVILLE 530947*/SMN 1 1 l DAN + SHAY  CHRIS STAPLETON  BEER NEVER BROKE MY HEART ONE THING RIGHT ELVIS PRESLEY THE ESSENTIAL ELVIS PRESLEY 16 15 38 16 12 30 16 15 12 46 RCA/SONY STRATEGIC MARKETING GROUP 89048*/LEGACY (25.98) 1 12 l LUKE COMBS  MARSHMELLO & KANE BROWN  HOMESICK KINFOLKS LADY ANTEBELLUM OCEAN 17 18 5 17 17 14 17 16 14 11 BMLG LA0100A* 2 l KANE BROWN  SAM HUNT  MEANT TO BE HEARTACHE MEDICATION 21 20 223 BLAKE SHELTON RELOADED: 20 #1 HITS 2 18 17 114 18 19 9 l18 WARNER MUSIC NASHVILLE 551788/WMN l BEBE REXHA & FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE  l JON PARDI  JASON ALDEAN HOMECOMING QUEEN? THINKING ‘BOUT YOU 19 19 11 19 2 2 19 18 19 94 MACON/BROKEN BOW/BMG 538375642*/BBMG (538375730) 0 1 l KELSEA BALLERINI  DUSTIN LYNCH FEAT. LAUREN ALAINA  KACEY MUSGRAVES GOLDEN HOUR GOD’S COUNTRY THE GIT UP 20 20 43 20 18 35 20 20 18 91 MCA NASHVILLE 027921*/UMGN 0 1 l BLAKE SHELTON  BLANCO BROWN  JON PARDI HEARTACHE MEDICATION CHASIN’ YOU WHAT IF I NEVER GET OVER YOU 21 21 4 21 15 30 21 19 16 18 CAPITOL NASHVILLE 030574*/UMGN 2 l MORGAN WALLEN  LADY ANTEBELLUM  GEORGE STRAIT 50 NUMBER ONES TEQUILA LA 22 22 25 196 1 22 22 97 22 NEW l MCA NASHVILLE 000459/UMGN (25.98) 7 l DAN + SHAY  l KELSEA BALLERINI  FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE CAN’T SAY I AIN’T COUNTRY I HOPE YOU’RE HAPPY NOW NOTHIN’ ON YOU 23 23 21 50 1 23 NEW 23 RE-ENTRY BMLG FGL0400* 0 l CARLY PEARCE & LEE BRICE  l CODY JOHNSON  JON PARDI CALIFORNIA SUNRISE MORE HEARTS THAN MINE CAN’T GO TO CHURCH 24 24 22 189 1 24 25 3 24 NEW CAPITOL NASHVILLE 024744*/UMGN 1 l INGRID ANDRESS  l MITCHELL TENPENNY  TIM MCGRAW NUMBER ONE HITS 25 27 26 205 1 6 25 23 116 HEAVEN 25 20 5 WHAT SHE WANTS TONIGHT l CURB 79205 (13.98) l KANE BROWN  LUKE BRYAN  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 2020, Prometheus Global Media, LLC and Nielsen Music, Inc. All rights charts. Copyright 2020, Prometheus Global Media, LLC and Nielsen Music, Inc. All rights reserved. reserved. SALES DATA SALES DATA COMPILED BY COMPILED BY AMERICANA/ FOLK ALBUMS BLUEGRASS ALBUMS

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4 4 3 240 HOZIER HOZIER 1 NEW 1 THE LIL SMOKIES TORNILLO 4 RUBYWORKS 309996*/COLUMBIA 2 l4 THE LIL SMOKIES 60144* 5 5 5 157 SIMON & GARFUNKEL SIMON AND GARFUNKEL’S GREATEST HITS 3 7 5 9 STEEP CANYON RANGERS NORTH CAROLINA SONGBOOK 1 COLUMBIA 31350/LEGACY l5 YEP ROC 2667* THE LUMINEERS CLEOPATRA MICHAEL CLEVELAND TALL FIDDLER 6 6 4 199 1 RE-ENTRY 10 2 DUALTONE 1738* 1 l6 COMPASS 4737 7 6 46 TYLER CHILDERS PURGATORY 4 6 7 17 OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW LIVE AT THE RYMAN 1 l7 HICKMAN HOLLER 001*/THIRTY TIGERS l7 COLUMBIA NASHVILLE 98*/OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW 9 10 124 JAMES TAYLOR GREATEST HITS 8 8 1 — 2 DELLA MAE HEADLIGHT 1 l8 WARNER BROS. 78094/RHINO (11.98) ROUNDER 610077*/CONCORD 9 8 7 151 JACK JOHNSON IN BETWEEN DREAMS 6 8 6 9 JUDY COLLINS / JONAS FJELD WITH CHATHAM COUNTY LINE WINTER STORIES 1 JACK JOHNSON/BRUSHFIRE /REPUBLIC (13.98) 2 l9 WILDFLOWER 1560/CLEOPATRA TANYA TUCKER WHILE I’M LIVIN’ THE GIBSON BROTHERS MOCKINGBIRD RE-ENTRY 5 2 RE-ENTRY 22 2 l10 TUCKAHO/FANTASY 00499*/CONCORD l10 EASY EYE SOUND Americana/Folk Albums ranks the most popular Americana/folk albums of the week, as compiled by Nielsen Music, Bluegrass Albums ranks the most popular bluegrass albums of the week, as compiled by Nielsen Music, based on based on multi-metric consumption (blending traditional album sales, track equivalent albums, and streaming album sales. Copyright 2020, Prometheus Global Media, LLC and Nielsen Music, Inc. All rights reserved. equivalent albums). Copyright 2020, Prometheus Global Media, LLC and Nielsen Music, Inc. All rights reserved. BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE FEBRUARY 3, 2020 | PAGE 20 OF 23

MAKIN’ TRACKS TOM ROLAND [email protected] What A ‘Man’: The Five-Year Journey Of Newcomer Chris Bandi’s Debut

If Chris Bandi has a big future in music, he can safely say it got started in Meanwhile, the original chorus proved expansive, occupying nine lines on his past. a lyric sheet. It’s long enough that it has been split into two sections in print, “Man Enough Now,” his debut single with the New York-based RECORDS streamlining the look for the reader. and Nashville-based Wide Open, is a page out of his youthful romantic his- “Timewise it’s not really that long, but there’s a lot crammed into that time,” tory, a belated realization that he let a good relationship go when he was too says Massey. “So then you end up with a long lyric.” immature to realize he was immature. The first line in the second half of that “I was thinking about an ex-girlfriend chorus becomes its own moment with an and whether or not we would last if had emphatic change in phrasing — “I can’t go we met that day [ writing],” says back/Girl, I hate that” — before receding Bandi. “When I was in college, I was a dumb back to its original pace. 21-year-old and made mistakes, as young, “I’ve got a 2-and-a-half-year-old, and dumb 21-year-olds do. I think I was 25 or he’ll ask to hear Daddy’s song,” says Massey. 24 when I wrote this song, and I hadn’t ma- “He calls it ‘I Can’t Go Back’ because those tured that much. But I feel like I’d matured are the biggest notes in the song.” enough to really be able to not make those Bandi led the charge on the bridge, where mistakes again.” the protagonist’s focus changes from look- Since patience is a sign of maturity, Bandi ing at his weaknesses to underlining some certainly makes the grade in the way he of the ways in which he has grown up. The managed the development of “Man Enough biggest of those is overcoming pride. Now.” The song is five years old — Jan. 27 “When you’re writing, you want it to be marked the anniversary of the writing ses- right around 2:45 to three minutes, and so sion — and it emerged from the writing room we were trying to add time,” says Bandi. “We to streaming platforms to a recording deal wrote a bridge that encompasses everything in slow increments. that we just said, but in a different way.” “It has definitely been the little song that They recorded a guitar/vocal work could,” says co-writer Jason Duke (“Dibs”). tape and set it aside. Bandi started play- It was a fairly quick process on the date of ing it live, and around summer 2016, he creation. When Bandi walked into the base- decided he should just record a version and ment at ole music on Music Row, he had that put it out on his own. Massey did the en- BANDI story about his old girlfriend on his mind tire production, with Bandi providing one and even had the “Man Enough Now” title stipulation: He wanted the verses to em- to go with it. Duke and their co-writer, producer Jason Massey (Kelsea Bal- ploy a stark electric guitar, similar in tone to Ed Sheeran’s “Thinking Out lerini), were onboard from the outset. Loud” (and, for older pop listeners, Jamie Walters’ “Hold On”). Massey’s Massey started strumming some light, lonely chords on an acoustic guitar, Strat launches at the same time as Bandi’s voice, essentially scrapping the and they began working through a personal story that resonates with a big typical instrumental intro. chunk of the population. The verses sketched out Bandi’s failings in the old “I think it’s attention-grabbing to just come in cold, so we did,” says Massey. relationship in a conversational tone, starting out with a confession: “I was “We did try [an intro], and it wasn’t that it was . Part of that was that as a scared/I wasn’t quite ready yet.” new artist, we just wanted to start right in with his voice as an introduction “I feel like the first verse is almost like a laundry list of excuses, like, ‘This to him as artist.” is why boys screw these things up,’ ” says Duke. “In the second verse, you kind Bandi used TuneCore to load it on numerous digital platforms, and “Man of give yourself a little bit of space to be wrong. You almost justify yourself Enough Now” started gaining traction. The original video has earned over in a little tiny way.” 6.5 million views on YouTube alone, and one of his buddies believed in both The chorus shifted into a higher register and into more forceful phrasing. the song and Bandi. UTA Nashville agent Brendan Rich booked Bandi, and It suited Bandi’s skill set, though Duke and Massey were careful not to let the when he opened a management agency, he signed Bandi as a client. When notes get out of hand, since Bandi’s ability to get it recorded was then unknown. Rich had a baby shower, Bandi met Wide Open owner , who had “Where Chris was at that stage of his career, he didn’t have a publisher, he teamed with RECORDS to release Matt Stell’s “Prayed for You.” In short didn’t have a record deal,” recalls Duke. “We believed in him as an artist, but order, Bandi signed a similar deal, and they collectively decided to remix while we were writing for him, we were also just trying to write the best song “Man Enough Now” before going to radio. we could get cut, because if we get the song cut, it’s still good for his career. So Massey hired Evan Hutchings to overdub a muscular drum part and Justin it’s kind of a two-pronged attack in the stage that he was in when we wrote it.” Shipper to melt tangy in key spots. The label serviced the remix to The original chorus was frank about the challenge of maturity — “Grow terrestrial radio through PlayMPE on Dec. 18 with a long lead time before a up, get my shit together” went the opening line — and that proved to be the Feb. 17 add date. Most of the audience is certain to relate to some part of the biggest hurdle in getting it finished. message, whether it’s the regret, the breakup or the personal transition from “The longest time that we spent on one line was wondering whether we pride to vulnerability that Bandi recognized in writing “Man Enough Now.” should say ‘shit’ or not in the chorus,” says Bandi. “We sat there thinking, “One of the things that I feel like comes with maturity, comes with age and ‘Man, you know, if we ever take this to radio, they’re not going to be able to wisdom, is being able to take the blame,” says Bandi. play it.’ But that’s really what you want to say.” Thus, Bandi uses his past to move into what he hopes will become a suc-

“Get my shit together” would eventually morph into “get myself together.” cessful musical future. He’ll gladly take the blame. BERINATO MATTHEW BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE FEBRUARY 3, 2020 | PAGE 21 OF 23 Country Airplay Index

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Music Corp., SESAC/Songs (Songwriter) Chart Position Music, ASCAP/Seven Red Brids Publishing, ASCAP/Big Brown Music, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., Of Rhythm House Black, SESAC/Bennett’s Dad’s Songs, Music Machine, BMI/Jehovah Nissi Music, BMI/Jett Music, BMI/Don’t Be A Gypsy, BMI/Smackworks Music, SESAC/ SESAC/Roc Nation US Music, SESAC/Warner-Tamerlane ASCAP/WC Music Corp., ASCAP/Thankful For This Music, Kobalt Group Music Publishing, SESAC/Smack Blue, LLC, Publishing Corp., BMI/Songs Of Roc Nation Music, BMI/ 10,000 HOURS Beats And , ASCAP/Shay ASCAP/Doc And Maggie Music, SOCAN (M.Marlow, T.Dye, SESAC/TDP Publishing, BMI (K.Brown, B.Berryhill, M.J.McGinn, Telemitry Rhythm House Music, BMI/Round Hill Songs Mooney Music, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., J.Singleton, D.Ruttan) 37 T.Phillips) 7 II, ASCAP/Caleb’s College Fund, ASCAP/Vistaville Music, BMI/Big Ass Pile Of Dimes Music, BMI/Big Music Machine, ASCAP/Steph Jones Who Music, ASCAP/Big Deal Hits, BMI/Buckeye26, ASCAP/Jreynmusic, ASCAP/WC Music DIVE BAR Rezemblance Music, BMI/Songs Of Reehits, I   ASCAP/BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP (C.R.Barlowe, J.Frasure, Corp., ASCAP/Bieber Time Publishing, ASCAP/Universal BMI/Roy Rivers Publishing, BMI/Cowboy Hat Trick, A.Gorley, S.Jones, H.Lindsey) 55 Music Corp., ASCAP/Poo BZ Publishing Inc., ASCAP/ ASCAP/Major Bob Music, Inc., ASCAP/No Fences Music, I DO FOR YOU Riser House Tunes, SESAC/Golden BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP (D.Smyers, S.Mooney, J.J.Dillon, ASCAP (M.Rossell, B.Kennedy, T.G.Brooks) 14 Walls Music, SESAC/The Song Factory LLC, SESAC/Double P   J.Reynolds, J.D.Bieber, J.Boyd) 3 Gobble Music, BMI/Me Gusta Music, BMI (M.D.Carmichael, DOES TO ME Big Music Machine, BMI/50 Egg Music, J.Melton) 43 PICK HER UP BMG Platinum Songs US, BMI/Music A   BMI/Straight Dimes Publishing, BMI/Works Of RHA Of Big Deal, BMI/Stalefish Music, BMI/Big Yellow Dog, Music, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/ I DON’T LOVE YOU Ole Red Cape Songs, ASCAP/ BMI/Don’t Stop Jim Beavin Music, BMI/Downtown DMP AFTER A FEW I’m About To Go RED On Ya Music, Larkin Hill Publishing, BMI/I Know Songs, BMI (L.Combs, Anthem Entertainment, ASCAP/Red Like The Sunset Songs, BMI/DudeTunes, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music BMI/Travis Denning Music, BMI/ole, BMI/Crack The Glass R.Fulcher, T.Reeve) 28 Music, ASCAP/Songs Of Yamomma, ASCAP/Alrighty Den Publishing LLC, ASCAP (B.Beavers, J.Beavers, D.Bentley) 54 Songs, BMI/Stars And Stripes And Maple Leaf Music, Music, BMI/Songs Of Mojo Two, ASCAP/Songs Of A Carl BMI/Downtown DMP Songs, BMI/Sound Wagon Songs, DONE ole Red Vinyl Music, BMI/Buckkilla Music, BMI/ Music, ASCAP (A.Hambrick, M.Fuller, N.A.Medley) 53 PRETTY HEART Warner-Tamerlane Publishing ASCAP/WC Music Corp., ASCAP/Music Of The Corn, ASCAP Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Songsfortatum Publishing, Corp., BMI/Parkermac Publishing, BMI/Sullivan S Guns (T.Denning, K.Archer, J.Weaver) 17 BMI/BMG Platinum Songs US, BMI/Rounding Third I HOPE Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI/Revinyl House, Music, BMI (P.McCollum, R.Montana) 58 Publishing, BMI/WC Music Corp., ASCAP/Mitchell Marlow BMI/EMI April Music, Inc., ASCAP/Nite Writer Music, B   Music, ASCAP/KJM Music Publishing, ASCAP (C.Janson, ASCAP/Gabby Barrett Publishing Designee, BMI (Z.Kale, R   M.Oglesby, J.Paulin, M.Roy) 42 J.M.Nite, G.Barrett) 19 BEER CAN’T FIX EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/ RUMOR (GLOVER MIX) Not Listed (Not Listed) Cricket On The Line, BMI/Music Of Big Family, BMI/ DRINKING ALONE Carrie-Okie Music, BMI/ I HOPE YOU’RE HAPPY NOW BMG Gold 48 Dragon Bunny Music, BMI/Patriot Games Publishing, Universal Music - Brentwood-Benson Songs, BMI/D Songs, ASCAP/For The Kids Gold, ASCAP/Redfeather ASCAP/Write Me A Song Publishing, GMR/Downtown , ASCAP/Capitol CMG Genesis, ASCAP/Songs Publishing, ASCAP/Big Music Machine, BMI/50 Egg Global Two, GMR (Thomas Rhett, J.Bunetta, Z.Skelton, Of Brett, ASCAP/WC Music Corp., ASCAP (C.Underwood, Music, BMI/Straight Dimes Publishing, BMI/Super Big S   R.B.Tedder) 21 D.A.Garcia, Brett James) 29 Music, ASCAP/Jett Music, ASCAP/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Sullivan S Guns Music, BMI (C. SHE’S MINE Music Of Stage Three, BMI/Songs Of BIG, BIG PLANS Magic Mustang Music Inc., BMI/ DROWNING Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/They’ve Pearce, L.Combs, R.Montana, J.Singleton) 16 Cornman, BMI/BMG Platinum Songs US, BMI/Songs From Gone To Plaid Publishing, BMI/WC Music Corp., ASCAP/ The Couch, BMI/Sony/ATV Cross Keys Publishing, ASCAP Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Big Loud (K.Moore, D.Couch, S.Stepakoff) 41 Mountain, BMI/Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Tree Vibez Big Crowd Publishing, ASCAP/Georgia Song Vibez, IN BETWEEN Dagum Music, BMI/Austintatious Music, LLC, BMI/Ern Dog Music, BMI (J.Durrett, C.Lane, ASCAP/Universal Tunes, SESAC/Songs For Owen Music, Tunes, BMI/Spirit Cataloge Holdings, S.A.R.L./Spirit Two E.K.Smith) 56 SESAC (C.A.Young, C.Crowder, J.Hoge) 35 Nashville, ASCAP/House Of , ASCAP/ SLOW DANCE IN A PARKING LOT Ole Red Party Of Five Music, ASCAP/WC Music Corp., ASCAP/ Cape Songs, ASCAP/Jordan Davis Music, ASCAP/Amylase BLESSINGS Big Loud Mountain, BMI/T Hubb E   Super Big Music, ASCAP/Jett Music, ASCAP (S.McCreery, Songs ‘N Such, ASCAP/Matching Cowlicks Music, ASCAP/ Publishing, BMI/Pranch Ringle Music, BMI/Round Hill F.Rogers, J.L.Alexander, J.Singleton) 23 WC Music Corp., ASCAP (J.Davis, L.L.Fowler) 11 Works, BMI/Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/Sony/ATV EVEN THOUGH I’M LEAVING Big Music Countryside, BMI/Tomdouglasmusic, BMI/Warner- Machine, BMI/50 Egg Music, BMI/Straight Dimes I WISH GRANDPAS NEVER DIED Warner- SOME GIRLS Harding Road Music, BMI/Songs Of Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Telemitry Rhythm Publishing, BMI/Island South, SESAC/Rosest Music, Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Riley Green Publishing Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI/Watsky House Music, BMI/Songs Of Roc Nation Music, BMI/ SESAC/Larkin Hill Publishing, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Designee, BMI (R.Green, L.Bonds, B.Green) 15 Music, LLC, BMI/New Writers Of Sea Gayle Music, BMI/ WC Music Corp., ASCAP/Freshy Music, ASCAP/We-Volve Publishing Corp., BMI/Works For RHA Music, BMI (L. West Pass Music, BMI/New House Of Sea Gayle Music, Music, ASCAP/Ern Dog Music, BMI/Songs Of Universal, Combs, W.B.Durrette, R.Fulcher) 5 ASCAP (M.W.Hardy, J.Mitchell, C.J. Solar) 49 Inc., BMI/Tree Vibez Music, LLC, BMI (T.Hubbard, B.Kelley, K   T.Douglas, J.Frasure, J.M.Schmidt, E.K.Smith) 26 T   EVERYWHERE BUT ON Sony/ATV Accent, KINFOLKS Universal Music Corp., ASCAP/Bentween ASCAP/Pedal Down Music, ASCAP/W.C.M. Music Corp., The Pines, LLC, ASCAP/Spirit Two Nashville, ASCAP/Miller BLUEBIRD Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/Pink Dog SESAC/Presley Jake Music, SESAC (M.Stell, P.Sikes, L.Miller) Crow Music, ASCAP/Kyler’s Kinda Night, ASCAP/Twelve6 THANK GOD FOR YOU Mighty Jon 007 Music, Publishing, BMI/Emileon Songs, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt 52 BMI/Spark Lark Music, BMI/Rare Spark Media Group, Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI/Little Louder Songs, Dogwood, ASCAP/JFlow Records & Tapes, ASCAP/ BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI/Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Wrucke For You Downtown DLJ Songs, ASCAP/Sony/ATV Accent, ASCAP/ F   Smackborne Music, ASCAP (S.L.Hunt, Z.Crowell, J.Flowers, BMI/ole Songs Of Parallel, ASCAP/Year Of The Dog Music, Publishing, BMI (M.Lambert, L.Dick, N.Hemby) 34 4 ASCAP/Downtown DLJ Songs, ASCAP/Sony/ATV Tree J.Osborne)  Publishing, BMI (B.Chaffin, J.McElroy, L.Mize, R.Montana) 44 THE BONES International Dog Music, BMI/ FAMILY TREE Universal Music Corp., ASCAP/Sounds Downtown DMP Songs, BMI/Jammy Rabbins Music, Like Chet Publishing, ASCAP/Songs Of Universal, Inc., L   THAT’S WHY I LOVE DIRT ROADS ASCAP/Round Hill Songs Jimmy Robbins, ASCAP/ BMI/Low Z Music, BMI/1217 Songs, ASCAP/Still Working Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Climbing Extraordinary Alien Publishing, ASCAP/Oh Denise For The Woman, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LONELY IF YOU ARE Sony/ATV Countryside, Windmills Music, BMI/EMI April Music, Inc., ASCAP/ Publishing, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., LLC, ASCAP (C.Hammack, T.Verges, G.Sampson) 33 BMI/Dack Janiels Publishing, BMI/EMI Blackwood Music CDS Words And Music, ASCAP/Sony/ATV Story Music BMI/Big Music Machine, BMI/Songs Of Universal, Inc., Inc., BMI/Koala T Tunes, BMI/WC Music Corp., ASCAP/ Publishing, GMR/Spruce Road Publishing, GMR/Nite BMI/Heroes And Halos Music, BMI (M.Morris, J.Robbins, FIRE’T UP Indiana Angel Music, BMI/Songs Of Who Wants To Buy My Publishing, ASCAP (C.Rice, L.Rimes, Writer Music, ASCAP (C. DeStefano, J.M.Nite, B.Rempel, L.J.Veltz) 2 Rhythm House, BMI/Songs Of Roc Nation Music, BMI/ H.Phelps) 31 G.Smith) 59 Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Songs Of BREAK IT IN Plaid Flag Music, BMI/McCarty And Peer, BMI/Sound Wagon Songs, ASCAP (B.Gilbert, B.Day, M   TO A T Universal Music Corp., ASCAP/Lake Allegan Blake, LLC, BMI/South By Sea Music Publishing, BMI/ J.Weaver) 50 Pub Club, ASCAP/Red Like The Sunset Music, ASCAP/ Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI/Big MAKE ME WANT TO Red Lining Music, SESAC/ Spicer And Everyting Nicer, ASCAP/Ole Red Cape Songs, Music Machine, BMI/Florida Songs Vibez, BMI/I Finally FRONT SEAT Totally Awesome Music, BMI (J. Sony/ATV Lakeview, SESAC/Amplified Hour Songs, ASCAP/Big Music Machine, BMI/Never Veltz So Good Got Some Publishing, BMI/Riser House Tunes, SESAC (B. Jordan) 38 SESAC/Pedal Down Music, ASCAP/Sony/ATV Accent, Publishing, BMI (R.J.Hurd, N.Spicer, L.J.Veltz) 22 Davis, B.Day, D.Ross, M.Whitworth) 45 ASCAP/Sounds Of Soperman Music Publishing, ASCAP/ G   Curb Songs, ASCAP/Dreamark Publishing, ASCAP (J.Allen, W   C   P.Sikes, J.Denmark) 6 GETTING GOOD Weistribe Publishing, ASCAP/ WE BACK Songs Of TriScore, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane CATCH Super Big Music, ASCAP/Caliville Publishing, Thankful For This Music, ASCAP/WC Music Corp., ASCAP MONSTERS Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/Longer Publishing Corp., BMI/Loyal Feather Music, BMI/ ASCAP/EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Plain Jane Songs, (E.L.Weisband) 46 And Louder Music, BMI/Mammaw’s Fried Okra Music, Chifforobe Songs, BMI/Free Dive Music, BMI/Big BMI/Rezolant Music, BMI/Round Hill Songs II, ASCAP/ BMI/Little Louder Songs, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Loud Mountain, BMI/Round Hill Works, BMI/T Hubb Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/WC Music Corp., h   Publishing America, Inc., BMI (E.Church, J.Hyde) 24 Publishing, BMI/WC Music Corp., ASCAP/Georgia Song ASCAP (B.Young, R.Copperman, A.Gorley) 12 Vibez, ASCAP/We-Volve Music, ASCAP (B.D.Warren, HEAD OVER HEELS Magic Mustang Music MORE HEARTS THAN MINE What Is An B.Warren, T.Hubbard, J.M.Schmidt) 8 CHASIN’ YOU BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP/Team Inc., BMI/BMG Platinum Songs US, BMI/Songwriters Ingrid, BMI/Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Straight From Destiny, ASCAP/JMZL Music, ASCAP/Big Loud Mountain, of Platinum Pen Publishing, BMI/Legends Of Magic The Art Music, BMI/Songs For A Stone Heart, BMI/ WHAT COULD’VE BEEN Maliburrito Music, BMI/Round Hill Songs BLS JV, ASCAP/Big Loud Proud Mustang Music, SESAC/BMG Silver Songs, SESAC/Music Universal Music Corp., ASCAP/Happy Rock Publishing, BMI/Elehala Music, ASCAP/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Songs, ASCAP/Red Toe Rocker, ASCAP (J.Moore, M.Wallen, Of Platinum Pen, SESAC/Hatchoo Music, SESAC/Sony/ ASCAP (I.Andress, S.Ellis, D.Southerland) 13 Corp., BMI/MRMD Music, BMI/Songs From Outter Space C.Wiseman) 20 ATV Countryside, BMI/Songs Of XO, BMI/We In Good Music, BMI/WC Music Corp., ASCAP/Carver Music, ASCAP Company, BMI/Big Deal Beats, BMI (H.Mulholland, J.Wayne, N   (C.Caillat, J.K.Young, J.Reeves, D.J.Reeves, J.Kenney) 32 CHEATIN’ SONGS WC Music Corp., ASCAP/TipTop N.Cooke, T.Cecil, J.Mullins) 51 Music, ASCAP/Tropical Cowboy Publishing, ASCAP/ NOBODY BUT YOU EMI Blackwood Music Inc., WHAT I SEE Sony/ATV Accent, ASCAP/Warner- Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Kitt Cass HEARTACHE MEDICATION Sony/ATV BMI/Rezolant Music, BMI/Smack Hits, GMR/Smack Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Neon Cross Music, BMI/ Publishing Corporation, BMI/Smack Hits, GMR/Smack Countryside, BMI/Cowboy And Gus Publishing, BMI/ Songs LLC, GMR/Influence Media Music SPV, LLC, GMR/ Concession 114 Music, BMI/Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI/ Songs LLC, GMR/Kobalt Music Group Ltd., GMR/Sony/ATV Happy Song Factory, BMI/Pulse Nation, BMI/Creative Kobalt Music Group Ltd., GMR/Sony/ATV Accent, ASCAP/ Songs Of Freetown, BMI/Me Gusta Music, BMI (T.Howell, Cross Keys Publishing, ASCAP/Smackville Music, ASCAP/ Pulse Music, BMI/These Are Pulse Songs, BMI/Songs Of Smackborne Music, ASCAP/Still Working For The Man B.Lancaster, C.B.Baldwin, J.N.Spillman) 57 Smack Songs LLC, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Publishing MV2, BMI (J.Pardi, Bary Dean, N.Hemby) 1 Music, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, LLC, ASCAP (J.Carson, C.Duddy, M.Wystrach, S.McAnally, Inc., BMI (T.L.James, R.Copperman, S.McAnally, J.Osborne) 25 WHAT SHE WANTS TONIGHT Sony/ATV Tree J.Osborne) 47 HER WORLD OR MINE Songs Of Universal, Publishing, BMI/Peanut Mill Songs, BMI/EMI Blackwood Inc., BMI/I’m About To Go RED On Ya Music, BMI/BMG NOW YOU KNOW Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI/ Music Inc., BMI/Rezolant Music, BMI/BIRB Music, ASCAP/ D   Platinum Songs US, BMI/Music Of Big Deal, BMI/Stalefish Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Mandy’s BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP/EMI April Music, Inc., ASCAP/ Music, BMI (J.Paulin, T.Denning, B.Beavers) 27 Favorite Songs, BMI/Murphy The Wolf Music, BMI/Five Nite Writer Music, ASCAP (L.Bryan, R.Copperman, H.Lindsey, DETAILS WC Music Corp., ASCAP/Future Heartbeat Miles West Songs, BMI/Don’t Be A Gypsy, BMI (J.Langston, J.M.Nite) 9 Publishing, ASCAP/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., HOMECOMING QUEEN? Sony/ATV Accent, B.Clawson, B.Berryhill) 40 BMI/A Boy Named Ford, BMI/Slo Circus Music, ASCAP/ ASCAP/Round Hill Songs II, ASCAP/JRM3, ASCAP/ WHY WE DRINK Big Music Machine, BMI/Double Roc Nation Music, ASCAP/Songs Of Rhythm House Red, Muse Magic, ASCAP/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing O   Barrel Ace Music, BMI/Seven Ring Circus Songs, BMI/ ASCAP (M.Trussell, N.Galyon, S.L.Olsen) 36 Corp., BMI/A Boy Named Ford, BMI (K.Ballerini, J.Robbins, Little Louder Songs, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music N.Galyon) 18 ONE NIGHT STANDARDS Canned Biscuit Publishing America, Inc., BMI/Old Desperados, LLC, DIAMONDS Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., Songs, BMI/Smack Hits, GMR/Influence Media Music ASCAP/N2D Publishing Company, Inc., ASCAP/Carol BMI/SongsbyME, BMI/EMI April Music, Inc., ASCAP/CDS HOMEMADE BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP/Songs Of SPV, LLC, GMR/Kobalt Music Group Ltd., GMR/I Love Vincent And Associates, LLC., ASCAP/Ole Red Cape Words And Music, ASCAP/That Was EZ, BMI/Songs Of Big Deal, ASCAP/Go For The Goldsmith, ASCAP/Mullins RHA, SESAC/Smackworks Music, SESAC/Smack Blue, LLC, Songs, ASCAP/Real Big Red Tunes, ASCAP (J.Moore, Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI (M.Evans, C. It Over Music, BMI/Tree Vibez Music, LLC, BMI/Warner- SESAC (A.McBryde, S.McAnally, N.Hayford) 39 C.Beathard, D.L.Murphy, J.S.Stover) 30 DeStefano, E.K.Bogart) 60 Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Works Of RHA Music, BMI/Oak Tree Swing Publishing, BMI/New Writers Of Sea Gayle Music, BMI/Not A Track Guy Music, BMI (B.Goldsmith, J.Mullins, D.Parker, B.Pinson) 10 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE FEBRUARY 3, 2020 | PAGE 22 OF 23 Hot Country Songs Index

TITLE Publishing-Licensing Org. CHASIN’ YOU BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP/Team HOMEMADE BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP/Songs Of O   (Songwriter) Chart Position Destiny, ASCAP/JMZL Music, ASCAP/Big Loud Mountain, Big Deal, ASCAP/Go For The Goldsmith, ASCAP/Mullins BMI/Round Hill Songs BLS JV, ASCAP/Big Loud Proud It Over Music, BMI/Tree Vibez Music, LLC, BMI/Warner- ONE BEER Relative Music Group, BMI/BIRB Music, 10,000 HOURS Beats And Banjos, ASCAP/Shay Songs, ASCAP/Red Toe Rocker, ASCAP (J.Moore, M.Wallen, Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Works Of RHA Music, ASCAP/New Writers Of Sea Gayle Music, BMI/West Pass Mooney Music, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., C.Wiseman) 18 BMI/Oak Tree Swing Publishing, BMI/New Writers Of Sea Music, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, BMI/Big Ass Pile Of Dimes Music, BMI/Big Music Machine, Gayle Music, BMI/Not A Track Guy Music, BMI (B.Goldsmith, Inc., BMI/BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP (M.W.Hardy, H.Lindsey, BMI/Buckeye26, ASCAP/Jreynmusic, ASCAP/WC Music COVER ME UP Fame Publishing Company LLC, J.Mullins, D.Parker, B.Pinson) 20 J.Mitchell) 45 BMI/Songs Of Emchant, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Corp., ASCAP/Bieber Time Publishing, ASCAP/Universal ONE BIG COUNTRY SONG Songs Of Roc Music Corp., ASCAP/Poo BZ Publishing Inc., ASCAP/ Publishing America, Inc., BMI (M.J.Isbell) 42 HOMESICK Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Kane Brown Music, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., Nation Music, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP (D.Smyers, S.Mooney, J.J.Dillon, D   BMI/Telemitry Rhythm House Music, BMI/Round Hill J.Reynolds, J.D.Bieber, J.Boyd) 1 BMI/Don’t Be A Gypsy, BMI/Smackworks Music, SESAC/ Kobalt Group Music Publishing, SESAC/Smack Blue, LLC, Songs II, ASCAP/Caleb’s College Fund, ASCAP/Relative DIE FROM A BROKEN HEART Super Big A   SESAC/TDP Publishing, BMI (K.Brown, B.Berryhill, M.J.McGinn, Music Group, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing Music, ASCAP/Seven Red Brids Publishing, ASCAP/Big T.Phillips) 8 America, Inc., BMI (J.Frasure, A.Gorley, M.W.Hardy) 37 AFTER A FEW I’m About To Go RED On Ya Music, Music Machine, BMI/Jehovah Nissi Music, BMI/Jett Music, BMI/Travis Denning Music, BMI/ole, BMI/Crack The Glass ASCAP/WC Music Corp., ASCAP/Thankful For This Music, I   ONE MAN BAND WC Music Corp., ASCAP/ Songs, BMI/Stars And Stripes And Maple Leaf Music, ASCAP/Doc And Maggie Music, SOCAN (M.Marlow, T.Dye, Smackville Music, ASCAP/Smack Songs LLC, ASCAP/ BMI/Downtown DMP Songs, BMI/Sound Wagon Songs, J.Singleton, D.Ruttan) 35 I HOPE Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI/Revinyl House, Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, ASCAP/Rezsongs, BMI/EMI April Music, Inc., ASCAP/Nite Writer Music, ASCAP/Reehits World, ASCAP/Smacktown Music, ASCAP/ ASCAP/WC Music Corp., ASCAP/Music Of The Corn, ASCAP DIVE BAR Rezemblance Music, BMI/Songs Of Reehits, (T.Denning, K.Archer, J.Weaver) 26 ASCAP/Gabby Barrett Publishing Designee, BMI (Z.Kale, Smack Blue, LLC, ASCAP/Sony/ATV Cross Keys Publishing, BMI/Roy Rivers Publishing, BMI/Cowboy Hat Trick, J.M.Nite, G.Barrett) 10 ASCAP/Unfair Entertainment, ASCAP/MeGusta Music, ANYTHING SHE SAYS Sony/ATV Countryside, ASCAP/Major Bob Music, Inc., ASCAP/No Fences Music, ASCAP/We’re Really Doin’ It Publishing, ASCAP/Universal BMI/WC Music Corp., ASCAP/We-Volve Music, ASCAP/ ASCAP (M.Rossell, B.Kennedy, T.G.Brooks) 22 I HOPE YOU’RE HAPPY NOW BMG Gold Music Corp., ASCAP/Turs And Chorus, ASCAP (M.Ramsey, T. Georgia Song Vibez, ASCAP/Warner-Tamerlane Songs, ASCAP/For The Kids Gold, ASCAP/Redfeather Rosen, B.F.Tursi, J.Osborne) 3 DOES TO ME Big Music Machine, BMI/50 Egg Music, Publishing, ASCAP/Big Music Machine, BMI/50 Egg Publishing Corp., BMI/Big Sauce Songs, BMI/W.C.M. BMI/Straight Dimes Publishing, BMI/Works Of RHA Music Corp., SESAC/That’s The Spot Publishing, SESAC/ Music, BMI/Straight Dimes Publishing, BMI/Super Big ONE NIGHT STANDARDS Canned Biscuit Music, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/ Music, ASCAP/Jett Music, ASCAP/Warner-Tamerlane Songs, BMI/Smack Hits, GMR/Influence Media Music Downtown DLJ Songs, ASCAP/Buzz Light Beer Music, Larkin Hill Publishing, BMI/I Know Songs, BMI (L.Combs, ASCAP (M.Tenpenny, J.M.Schmidt, T.W.Jordan, A.Albert) 49 Publishing Corp., BMI/Sullivan S Guns Music, BMI (C. SPV, LLC, GMR/Kobalt Music Group Ltd., GMR/I Love R.Fulcher, T.Reeve) 38 Pearce, L.Combs, R.Montana, J.Singleton) 16 RHA, SESAC/Smackworks Music, SESAC/Smack Blue, LLC, B   SESAC (A.McBryde, S.McAnally, N.Hayford) 41 DRINKING ALONE Carrie-Okie Music, BMI/ IN BETWEEN Dagum Music, BMI/Austintatious BEER CAN’T FIX EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/ Universal Music - Brentwood-Benson Songs, BMI/D Tunes, BMI/Spirit Cataloge Holdings, S.A.R.L./Spirit Two S   Cricket On The Line, BMI/Music Of Big Family, BMI/ Soul Music, ASCAP/Capitol CMG Genesis, ASCAP/Songs Nashville, ASCAP/House Of Sea Gayle Music, ASCAP/ Dragon Bunny Music, BMI/Patriot Games Publishing, Of Brett, ASCAP/WC Music Corp., ASCAP (C.Underwood, Party Of Five Music, ASCAP/WC Music Corp., ASCAP/ SLOW DANCE IN A PARKING LOT Ole Red ASCAP/Write Me A Song Publishing, GMR/Downtown D.A.Garcia, Brett James) 36 Super Big Music, ASCAP/Jett Music, ASCAP (S.McCreery, Cape Songs, ASCAP/Jordan Davis Music, ASCAP/Amylase F.Rogers, J.L.Alexander, J.Singleton) 29 Songs ‘N Such, ASCAP/Matching Cowlicks Music, ASCAP/ Global Two, GMR (Thomas Rhett, J.Bunetta, Z.Skelton, DROWNING Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/They’ve R.B.Tedder) 27 WC Music Corp., ASCAP (J.Davis, L.L.Fowler) 19 Gone To Plaid Publishing, BMI/WC Music Corp., ASCAP/ I WISH GRANDPAS NEVER DIED Warner- BETTER TOGETHER Big Music Machine, BMI/ Big Crowd Publishing, ASCAP/Georgia Song Vibez, Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Riley Green Publishing T   ASCAP/Universal Tunes, SESAC/Songs For Owen Music, Designee, BMI (R.Green, L.Bonds, B.Green) 13 Egg Music, BMI/Straight Dimes Publishing, BMI/Sony/ THINKING ‘BOUT YOU Warner-Tamerlane ATV Countryside, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing SESAC (C.A.Young, C.Crowder, J.Hoge) 34 K   Publishing Corp., BMI/Magic Mustang Music Inc., BMI/ Corp., BMI/Sullivan S Guns Music, BMI (L.Combs, D.Isbell, E   Buzz Light Beer Music, ASCAP/Downtown DLJ Songs, R.Montana) 30 KINFOLKS Universal Music Corp., ASCAP/Bentween ASCAP/WC Music Corp., ASCAP/Nontypical Music, ASCAP/ EVEN THOUGH I’M LEAVING Big Music BIG, BIG PLANS Magic Mustang Music Inc., BMI/ The Pines, LLC, ASCAP/Spirit Two Nashville, ASCAP/Miller Who Wants To Buy My Publishing, ASCAP/Track House Machine, BMI/50 Egg Music, BMI/Straight Dimes Crow Music, ASCAP/Kyler’s Kinda Night, ASCAP/Twelve6 Worldwide Entertainment, BMI/Mandy’s Favorite Songs, Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Big Loud Publishing, BMI/Island South, SESAC/Rosest Music, Mountain, BMI/Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Tree Vibez Dogwood, ASCAP/JFlow Records & Tapes, ASCAP/ BMI (D.Lynch, A.Albert, H.Phelps, W.Weatherly) 43 SESAC/Larkin Hill Publishing, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Downtown DLJ Songs, ASCAP/Sony/ATV Accent, ASCAP/ Music, LLC, BMI/Ern Dog Music, BMI (J.Durrett, C.Lane, Publishing Corp., BMI/Works For RHA Music, BMI (L. THIS BAR Relative Music Group, BMI/Ransom Quarter E.K.Smith) 39 Smackborne Music, ASCAP (S.L.Hunt, Z.Crowell, J.Flowers, Combs, W.B.Durrette, R.Fulcher) 4 J.Osborne) 7 Note Music, ASCAP/Pie Cost Publishing, ASCAP/WC Music Corp., ASCAP/Torches And Pitchforks Music, BMI/Sony/ BLESSINGS Big Loud Mountain, BMI/T Hubb F   Publishing, BMI/Pranch Ringle Music, BMI/Round Hill L   ATV Countryside, BMI/Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Big Works, BMI/Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/Sony/ATV Loud Mountain, BMI (M.W.Hardy, J.Morgan, J.Scott, E.K.Smith, FAMILY TREE Universal Music Corp., ASCAP/Sounds LONELY IF YOU ARE Sony/ATV Countryside, R.Vojtesak, M.Wallen) 44 Countryside, BMI/Tomdouglasmusic, BMI/Warner- Like Chet Publishing, ASCAP/Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Dack Janiels Publishing, BMI/EMI Blackwood Music Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Telemitry Rhythm BMI/Low Z Music, BMI/1217 Songs, ASCAP/Still Working Inc., BMI/Koala T Tunes, BMI/WC Music Corp., ASCAP/ TO A T Universal Music Corp., ASCAP/Lake Allegan House Music, BMI/Songs Of Roc Nation Music, BMI/ For The Woman, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Publishing Who Wants To Buy My Publishing, ASCAP (C.Rice, L.Rimes, Pub Club, ASCAP/Red Like The Sunset Music, ASCAP/ WC Music Corp., ASCAP/Freshy Music, ASCAP/We-Volve LLC, ASCAP (C.Hammack, T.Verges, G.Sampson) 46 H.Phelps) 25 Spicer And Everyting Nicer, ASCAP/Ole Red Cape Songs, Music, ASCAP/Ern Dog Music, BMI/Songs Of Universal, ASCAP/Big Music Machine, BMI/Never Veltz So Good Inc., BMI/Tree Vibez Music, LLC, BMI (T.Hubbard, B.Kelley, G   M   Publishing, BMI (R.J.Hurd, N.Spicer, L.J.Veltz) 23 T.Douglas, J.Frasure, J.M.Schmidt, E.K.Smith) 28 GOT WHAT I GOT Peertunes, Ltd., SESAC/ MAKE ME WANT TO Red Lining Music, SESAC/ W   BLUEBIRD Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/Pink Dog MTNoize, SESAC/Peermusic III, Ltd., BMI/Alexander Sony/ATV Lakeview, SESAC/Amplified Hour Songs, Publishing, BMI/Emileon Songs, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Palmer Songs, BMI/MV2 Music, BMI/Hits Like Hurricane, SESAC/Pedal Down Music, ASCAP/Sony/ATV Accent, WE BACK Songs Of TriScore, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI/Little Louder Songs, BMI (M.Tyler, A.Palmer, T.Archer) 50 ASCAP/Sounds Of Soperman Music Publishing, ASCAP/ Publishing Corp., BMI/Loyal Feather Music, BMI/ BMI/Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Wrucke For You Curb Songs, ASCAP/Dreamark Publishing, ASCAP (J.Allen, Chifforobe Songs, BMI/Free Dive Music, BMI/Big Publishing, BMI (M.Lambert, L.Dick, N.Hemby) 32 h   P.Sikes, J.Denmark) 14 Loud Mountain, BMI/Round Hill Works, BMI/T Hubb Publishing, BMI/WC Music Corp., ASCAP/Georgia Song THE BONES International Dog Music, BMI/ HEARTACHE MEDICATION Sony/ATV MONSTERS Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/Longer Countryside, BMI/Cowboy And Gus Publishing, BMI/ Vibez, ASCAP/We-Volve Music, ASCAP (B.D.Warren, Downtown DMP Songs, BMI/Jammy Rabbins Music, And Louder Music, BMI/Mammaw’s Fried Okra Music, B.Warren, T.Hubbard, J.M.Schmidt) 15 ASCAP/Round Hill Songs Jimmy Robbins, ASCAP/ Happy Song Factory, BMI/Pulse Nation, BMI/Creative BMI/Little Louder Songs, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Extraordinary Alien Publishing, ASCAP/Oh Denise Pulse Music, BMI/These Are Pulse Songs, BMI/Songs Of Publishing America, Inc., BMI (E.Church, J.Hyde) 31 WHAT COULD’VE BEEN Maliburrito Music, Publishing, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., MV2, BMI (J.Pardi, Bary Dean, N.Hemby) 5 BMI/Elehala Music, ASCAP/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing BMI/Big Music Machine, BMI/Songs Of Universal, Inc., MORE HEARTS THAN MINE What Is An Corp., BMI/MRMD Music, BMI/Songs From Outter Space BMI/Heroes And Halos Music, BMI (M.Morris, J.Robbins, HEARTLESS I Like Turtles Music, ASCAP/KMR Music Ingrid, BMI/Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Straight From Royalties II SCSp, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Publishing Music, BMI/WC Music Corp., ASCAP/Carver Music, ASCAP L.J.Veltz) 2 The Art Music, BMI/Songs For A Stone Heart, BMI/ (C.Caillat, J.K.Young, J.Reeves, D.J.Reeves, J.Kenney) 40 LLC, ASCAP/Duke City Music, BMI/KMR Music Royalties II Universal Music Corp., ASCAP/Happy Rock Publishing, BRING MY FLOWERS NOW Atlas Music SCSp., SESAC/Kobalt Group Music Publishing, SESAC/Big ASCAP (I.Andress, S.Ellis, D.Southerland) 12 WHAT IF I NEVER GET OVER YOU Publishing, ASCAP/Tanya Tucker Music, BMI (T.Tucker, Loud Mountain, BMI/Tree Vibez Music, LLC, BMI/Songs Of Universal Music Corp., ASCAP/Happy Rock Publishing, B.Carlile, T.Hanseroth, P.J.Hanseroth) 47 Universal, Inc., BMI (T.W.Pentz, H.A.Allen, M.Wallen, E.K.Smith, N   ASCAP/Dalmatian Music, PRS/Universal-PolyGram Int. R.J.Hurd, Charlie Handsome) 24 Tunes, Inc., SESAC/Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/hurd- C   NOBODY BUT YOU EMI Blackwood Music Inc., jamz, BMI/Big Music Machine, BMI/Never Veltz So Good HER WORLD OR MINE Songs Of Universal, BMI/Rezolant Music, BMI/Smack Hits, GMR/Smack Publishing, BMI (S.Ellis, J.Green, R.J.Hurd, L.J.Veltz) 9 CATCH Super Big Music, ASCAP/Caliville Publishing, Inc., BMI/I’m About To Go RED On Ya Music, BMI/BMG Songs LLC, GMR/Influence Media Music SPV, LLC, GMR/ ASCAP/EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Plain Jane Songs, Platinum Songs US, BMI/Music Of Big Deal, BMI/Stalefish Kobalt Music Group Ltd., GMR/Sony/ATV Accent, ASCAP/ WHAT SHE WANTS TONIGHT Sony/ATV Tree BMI/Rezolant Music, BMI/Round Hill Songs II, ASCAP/ Music, BMI (J.Paulin, T.Denning, B.Beavers) 33 Smackborne Music, ASCAP/Still Working For The Man Publishing, BMI/Peanut Mill Songs, BMI/EMI Blackwood Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/WC Music Corp., Music, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, Music Inc., BMI/Rezolant Music, BMI/BIRB Music, ASCAP/ ASCAP (B.Young, R.Copperman, A.Gorley) 21 HOMECOMING QUEEN? Sony/ATV Accent, Inc., BMI (T.L.James, R.Copperman, S.McAnally, J.Osborne) 6 ASCAP/Round Hill Songs II, ASCAP/JRM3, ASCAP/ BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP/EMI April Music, Inc., ASCAP/ Muse Magic, ASCAP/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Nite Writer Music, ASCAP (L.Bryan, R.Copperman, H.Lindsey, NOTHIN’ ON YOU Gray Dog Music, BMI/Sony/ATV J.M.Nite) 11 Corp., BMI/A Boy Named Ford, BMI (K.Ballerini, J.Robbins, Tree Publishing, BMI/WC Music Corp., ASCAP/Whiskey N.Galyon) 17 Holler Music, ASCAP (B.Baber, T.W.Willmon) 48 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE FEBRUARY 3, 2020 | PAGE 23 OF 23 CODA 40 Years Ago Left ‘Louisiana’ And Reached No. 1 In 1980 the quartet scored its second of 17 leaders

On Feb. 9, 1980, The Oak Ridge Boys’ a Ten Cent Town in 1978, when Crowell By the late ’60s, its lineup included “Leaving Louisiana in Broad Daylight” was playing in Harris’ band. Allen and Golden, with Bonsall and topped Billboard’s Hot Country Songs “Daylight” became The Oak Ridge Sterban joining by 1973. chart, becoming the second No. 1 for Boys’ second of 17 No. 1s on Hot Inducted into the Country Music the foursome of , Joe Country Songs, among 34 top 10s Hall of Fame in 2015, the band Bonsall, and (through “” in 1991). The continues to tour and record regularly, . group first led with “I’ll Be True to You” having released its most recent Co-written by in 1978. album, the -produced and Donivan Cowart, the track was The act’s history stretches back to 17th Avenue Revival, in 2018. A 2020 previously released by Emmylou the 1940s, when it began as gospel/ tour winds through the fall. Harris on her album Quarter Moon in country outfit The Oak Ridge Quartet. —JIM ASKER

REWINDING THE COUNTRY CHARTS

The Oak Ridge Boys ­onstage in 1984. PAUL NATKIN/GETTY IMAGES NATKIN/GETTY PAUL