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Mellencamp said, "Those records are not Mellencamp & perfectly made—they're pretty raw. The emotion they capture is the essence. People Fairchild Deliver Hope are not alone in their loneliness. If people by David M. Ross get any bit of that message from the video "It struck me that Karen Fairchild's it would be fantastic." View the video at voice not only sounds good in Little Big Town http://twurl.nl/i2ucpq but also works well with mine," says John Mellencamp regarding the pair's newly released duet video "A Ride Back Home." Shot Wariner Previews on the campus of Indiana University, most of the shoot resides in and around the pews Atkins Tribute of Beck Chapel. "When he writes something by Peter Cronin it's as though he's speaking it, so it's a bit of On June 23, award-winning singer/ a challenge," says Fairchild. "I didn't want songwriter/guitarist/producer Steve to mess that up or get in the way, so I call it Wariner will release c.g.p., My Tribute to kind of 'chasing' John." Chet Atkins, a musical salute to his old Inspired from '30s and '40s American folk friend Chet Atkins. Recorded for Wariner’s songs, Mellencamp sees the lyric's darkness SelecTone Records, the 11-song collection as uplifting, delivering a message of hope. combines Atkins classics with Wariner Discussing great country folk recordings from originals played in the style of the late six- the Carter Family through Hank Williams string legend. Wariner has recorded a series of webisodes to introduce listeners to each track. The first clip is already posted at www.stevewariner.com, and a new one will be posted every few days leading up to the release date. In each webisode, Wariner relates the story behind the song. Occasionally he'll demonstrate one of the guitar licks he plays in the song, and in each case viewers will hear a preview of the featured track. The abbreviation "c.g.p." stands for "Certified Guitar Player," a title that Chet bestowed on only four guitar pickers: Over 3.000 Followers Tommy Emmanuel, John Knowles, the Karen Fairchild and John Mellencamp late Jerry Reed, and Steve Wariner.

#1 and "Lord Help Me...” Finally, both Daryle Singletary’s “Love You With The Lights On” and Tracy Lawrence’s “Up To Him” pick up triple digit spin gains and propel to Keith Urban No. 34 and No. 37, respectively. "Kiss A Girl" Capitol Records Nashville Frozen: KBCN, KGWY, KJCS, KSED, WQLK Urban’s “Kiss A Girl” is the CountryBreakout™ Chart’s No. 1 song New On The Chart—Debuting This Week for a second consecutive week and, Artist/song/label chart pos. remarkably, it’s been on the chart less than 10 weeks. Urban’s Escape Together Alex Woodard w/Sara Watkins/Reno/Woodshack...... 71 World Tour kicked off last Thursday Lauren Briant/Butterfly Tattoo/Average Joes...... 73 (5/7) in Uncasville, Connecticut and will Aaron Watson/Rollercoaster Ride/Big Label...... 74 be supported by Jason Aldean and Little Big Town. The massive Rebel Hearts/Jesse Dunn/RHR/Nine North...... 75 trek across the US has dates scheduled through October. Lucky Seven Greatest Spin Increase Artist/song/label spin+ Taylor Swift/You Belong With Me/Big Machine...... 447 Spin Zone Miranda Lambert/Dead Flowers/Columbia...... 310 by Jon Freeman James Otto/Since You Brought It Up/Warner Bros...... 304 Post Mother’s Day, Keith Urban is still in charge of Brad Paisley/Then/Arista...... 288 the CountryBreakout™ Chart with “Kiss A Girl.” Dierks Bentley, Sugarland, Montgomery Gentry and Lady Antebellum are trailing slightly but still showing signs of growth. Eli Young Band hangs in there at No. 6, followed by Toby Keith’s “Lost You Anyway” moving up to No. 7 from No. 9. Team Sony rounds out the Top 10 with positive gains on Brad Paisley’s “Then,” Kenny Chesney’s “Out Last Night,” and Alan Jackson’s “Sissy’s Song.” “Sounds Like Life To Me,” Darryl Worley’s second release for Stroudavarious Records, is now at No. 17 after a big push. Another group crashing the Top 20 party from outside the major label complex is Emblem Records’ Gloriana, whose “Wild At Heart” is heating up at No. 20 and aided by their inclusion in Taylor Swift’s high-profile Fearless Tour. Surveying the top 40, there are a number of acts bolstered by small and mid-size labels. Mark Chesnutt’s Show Dog Nashville artist Mac McAnally entertained radio at the “She Never Got Me Over You” is making strong headway, recent Jimmy Buffett show in Frisco, Texas. Mac was in town with the moving to No. 26 in only 8 weeks. Katie Armiger’s Buffett tour as a member of the Coral Reefer Band and to promote his most recent single “Trail of Lies” is just behind at No. 27. new single "You First." (L-R): KPLX PD Mark Phillips, KVOO PD Luke Charley Rivers is still showing some positive traction on Jensen, WDTW former PD Scott Gaines, Show Dog Nashville’s SW Rep “Lovin’ In The Country," as are the Bellamy Brothers Greg Sax, McAnally, KSCS' PD Crash Poteet and KITX's PD Will Payne.

Luke Bryan/Do I/Capitol...... 286 Trent Tomlinson/Henry Cartwright's.../Carolwood...... 256 Bucky Covington/I Want My Life Back/Lyric Street...... 283 Ricochet/Feel Like Fallin/mi Records...... 231 Reba/Strange/Starstruck/Valory...... 268 Trace Adkins/All I Ask For Anymore/Capitol...... 226 Vince Hatfield/Santa Barbara/Blue Moon...... 217 On Deck—Soon To Be Charting Joey+Rory/Play The Song/Vanguard/Sugar Hill/Nine North 216 Artist/song/label spins Tanya Tucker/Love's Gonna Live Here/Saguaro Road...... 212 Burns & Poe/It's Always A Woman/Evergreen...... 262 John Anderson/Cold Coffee/ Amanda Henkel/A Million And One/PLC Records...... 261 Country Crossing/Stroudavarious...... 205 Charlie Allen/Proof/River Run/Big 7...... 258 Two Week Most Added* artist/song/label ...... new adds James Otto/Since You Brought It Up/Warner Bros...... 62 Greatest Spin Gain Luke Bryan/Do I/Capitol...... 53 Joe Nichols/Believers/Universal South...... 38 Taylor Swift Bucky Covington/I Want My Life Back/Lyric Street...... 35 "You Belong With Me" Miranda Lambert/Dead Flowers/Capitol...... 35 Big Machine Records Justin Moore/Small Town USA/Valory...... 25 Also on a colossal headlining tour of the Taylor Swift/You Belong With Me/Big Machine...... 23 US, Taylor Swift’s just-released “You Charlie Allen/Proof/River Run/Big 7...... 23 Belong With Me” is again our Greatest Due West/I Get That All The Time/Bigger Than Me/9North..... 23 Spin Gain. The song picked up a hefty Trace Adkins/All I Ask For Anymore/Capitol...... 22 447 spins in the previous week to propel Trent Tomlinson/Henry Cartwright's.../Carolwood...... 20 it to No. 22. Swift also just launched a Lee Ann Womack/Solitary Thinkin’/MCA...... 20 special Mother’s Day promotion for her song “The Best Day” and she self-produced its accompanying video. *Total Adds rec’d over two weeks

Momentum Mover Power Chart Debut Luke Bryan Alex Woodard with "Do I" Sara Watkins Capitol Records Nashville Bryan’s “Do I” still has significant "Reno" momentum, as it shoots to No. 49 in Woodshack Music its second week on the chart. Bryan’s With assistance from fiddler and upcoming sophomore album Doin’ My vocalist Sara Watkins (Nickel Creek), Thing is scheduled for an October 6 Alex Woodard’s “Reno” makes its big release. Recently Eventful.com and debut at No. 71 this week. The San Bryan announced that country fans across Diego-based singer/songwriter’s the nation will have the chance to bring Luke Bryan’s album release independently-released self-titled album is available online, and show to their city and, thanks to Eventful Demand, only the fans will he has dates lined up through summer with a variety of artists know the destination. Bryan will set his sights on whichever city including Shawn Mullins and Tyler Hilton. rallies and delivers the most Demands by the end of the competition.

In Your Own Words internet. So much for free. The musicians I work with want Jonathan Yudkin to connect with fans who love and Professional Musician appreciate the music they create, not Nashville, TN people who are drawn to the gimmick of the month like bugs to a lantern. Buy None, Get One Free Connecting with fans should focus on A response to the Mike Masnick the quality of the music, not the toy in Leadership Music Digital Summit the cereal box. Keynote We must not give up the fight against piracy and theft. We cannot During the recent Leadership adopt an "if you can't lick em, join em" Music Digital Summit I attended the attitude just because we haven't yet been keynote address from Mike Masnick, a able to stop people from stealing music. technology blogger. Masnick promotes Public awareness and understanding is a number of compelling new ideas for our greatest weapon. Authorities Jonathan Yudkin marketing, but combines them with a cannot easily prosecute violators so we dangerous trend, the essential removal have to deal with this on a societal level. of music from the "music" business. He even goes so far We have nothing to lose by pursuing the fight against as to suggest the end of copyright protection for music in music theft and piracy, and nothing to gain if we don't. order to better "connect with fans." I believe these Copy- "Do not go gentle into that good night" wrote Dylan left ideas—free music and the end of copyrights and Thomas. licensing—could lead to the devaluation of music creation and production. As a local musician I found the address disturbing and felt that Masnick should have tried harder to achieve his goals without demonizing many of Nashville's most important elements. Intellectual property rights are how creative professionals get compensated for their creations. It gives value to the artistic, cultural and industrial contributions made by these individuals. The value of these creations has been protected by the Click to see MusicRow Calendars constitution for over 200 years. The Copyleft agenda wants to influence how we obtain and consume music in favor of an easily controllable Week-At-A-Glance music business. They would redefine the value placed on by Jon Freeman these works. Some, like Masnick, believe intellectual Pray for good weather this week, because the property should only be used as a gimmick to entice the Grammy Block Party is on Tuesday (5/12)! The outdoor purchase of other product. Music to them is no more than gathering takes place at Owen Bradley Park and scheduled an advertisement. Its "buy none—get one free." These performers include Jason Aldean, Melinda Doolittle, captains of cyberspace treat music theft and piracy as Eli Young Band, the Gabe Dixon Band, Brandon acceptable and unavoidable and would rather ignore Heath with special guest Jason Ingram, and Sam & what it truly is. The "return to business" means to stop Ruby. wasting time with copyright and licensing issues and In a slightly more weather-sheltered environment on spend that time selling more product. This leaves the Wednesday (5/13), SOLID’s annual Crawfish Boil will artistic creation at the center of attraction, but outside provide revelers with a bounty of freshwater the circle of revenue. deliciousness. The fun starts at 5pm in the old UMG Hasty decisions are being made, perhaps out of fear Parking Garage. (60 Music Sq. W.) for the uncertain future. One popular band is giving away Didn’t get your share of punishment in the Country their entire catalog with the purchase of a concert ticket. Music Marathon two weeks ago? The Music Row Road Great, what's left to give away next year? Where will the Race to benefit St. Jude on Saturday (5/16) is a 5k run incentive be to create art that will just end up as the offering one more, albeit considerably shorter, chance to plastic giveaway prize? pound some pavement. "Free music isn't necessarily the death of music sales," says Masnick. Of course it is when you are no longer Singles hitting radio this week include Megan selling the music. And remember, in most cases all you Mullins’ “Long Past Gone,” Holly Williams’ “Mama,” have to do to access this free music is provide your e-mail Shawna Russell’s “Fire In The Desert,” Zona Jones’ address to a marketing firm. This valuable personal “Bluer Than Blue” and Cledus T. Judd’s “Garth Must Be information is the true and invisible currency of the Busy” with assistance from Brooks & Dunn.

Weeks Last Wk This Wk Spins/ % Spin Spins Last Wk On Chart Position Position Artist/Song/Label Repts Power +- # Spins

9 1 1 Keith Urban/Kiss A Girl/Capitol 3802/110 3 120 3682 11 3 2 Dierks Bentley/Sideways/Capitol 3571/109 3 107 3464 12 2 3 Sugarland/It Happens/Mercury 3546/98 1 27 3519 15 4 4 Montgomery Gentry/One In Every Crowd/Columbia 3454/99 3 87 3367 16 5 5 Lady Antebellum/I Run To You/Capitol 3365/110 1 25 3340 30 6 6 Eli Young Band/Always The Love Songs/Universal South 3285/103 1 38 3247 10 9 7 Toby Keith/Lost You Anyway/Show Dog Nashville 3224/109 8 243 2981 8 12 8 Brad Paisley/Then/Arista 3120/95 10 288 2832 7 11 9 Kenny Chesney/Out Last Night/BNA 3085/100 8 219 2866 13 10 10 Alan Jackson/Sissy's Song/Arista 2997/97 3 82 2915 13 13 11 Zac Brown Band/Whatever It Is/BPP/Atlantic 2844/98 7 183 2661 13 14 12 Blake Shelton/I'll Just Hold On/Warner Bros. 2705/109 5 129 2576 12 15 13 Randy Houser/Boots On/Universal South 2625/108 5 125 2500 22 7 14 Jason Aldean/She's Country/Broken Bow 2414/73 -25 -787 3201 17 8 15 Carrie Underwood/I Told You So/Arista 2390/72 -23 -714 3104 21 16 16 Jason Michael Carroll/Where I'm From/Arista 2388/87 5 122 2266 17 18 17 Darryl Worley/Sounds Like Life To Me/Stroudavarious Records 2305/100 8 169 2136 10 19 18 Billy Currington/People Are Crazy/Mercury 2270/92 9 183 2087 5 24 19 Reba/Strange/Starstruck/Valory 2226/102 14 268 1958 14 22 20 Gloriana/Wild At Heart/Emblem Music Group 2197/101 10 195 2002 14 20 21 Eric Church/Love Your Love The Most/Capitol 2176/103 6 131 2045 4 28 22 Taylor Swift/You Belong With Me/Big Machine 2169/101 26 447 1722 5 26 23 Darius Rucker/Alright/Capitol 2064/104 14 252 1812 10 27 24 Miley Cyrus/The Climb/Walt Disney/Hollywood/Lyric Street 1856/93 5 90 1766 7 29 25 Jack Ingram/Barefoot and Crazy/Big Machine 1773/95 9 145 1628 8 30 26 Mark Chesnutt/She Never Got Me Over You/Lofton Creek 1595/83 4 57 1538 14 32 27 Katie Armiger/Trail Of Lies/Cold River 1546/75 11 152 1394 19 31 28 Kellie Pickler/Best Days of Your Life/BNA 1541/70 8 110 1431

Weeks Last Wk This Wk Spins/ % Spin Spins Last Wk On Chart Position Position Artist/Song/Label Repts Power +- # Spins

15 33 29 Charley Rivers/Lovin' In The Country/ 1397/61 1 10 1387 9 34 30 Love And Theft/Runaway/Carolwood 1391/81 9 115 1276 4 39 31 Joe Nichols/Believers/Universal South 1338/91 22 243 1095 16 35 32 Bellamy Brothers/Lord Help Me Be.../Curb/Bellamy/Spinville 1284/63 1 10 1274 11 38 33 Jessica Harp/Boy Like Me/Warner Bros. 1258/72 11 121 1137 9 40 34 Daryle Singletary/Love You With The Lights On/E1 1206/65 13 137 1069 11 42 35 Justin Moore/Small Town USA/Valory Music 1201/71 25 243 958 4 45 36 Bucky Covington/I Want My Life Back/Lyric Street 1120/82 34 283 837 7 41 37 Tracy Lawrence/Up To Him/Rocky Comfort/Nine North 1120/69 12 121 999 15 17 38 Rascal Flatts/Here Comes Goodbye/Lyric Street 1100/37 -50 -1118 2218 11 37 39 Pat Green/Country Star/BNA 1005/57 -13 -151 1156 6 44 40 Jonathan Singleton & The Grove/Livin' In Paradise/Universal South 917/64 7 59 858 11 47 41 Jamey Johnson/High Cost Of Livin'/Mercury 858/53 16 121 737 7 46 42 Randy Travis/Turn It Around/Warner Bros. 840/46 8 60 780 8 48 43 River County/We're All Here/SVC 796/43 12 86 710 2 56 44 James Otto/Since You Brought It Up/Warner Bros. 793/62 62 304 489 5 50 45 Rick Huckaby/She Gets Me High/HeadCoach 752/57 21 128 624 2 66 46 Miranda Lambert/Dead Flowers/Columbia 686/52 82 310 376 18 49 47 Craig Morgan/God Must Really Love Me/BNA 637/38 -10 -68 705 12 52 48 Chris Filer/So Much Love (So Little Time)/3 Kidneys 627/39 6 37 590 2 69 49 Luke Bryan/Do I/Capitol 624/54 85 286 338 8 53 50 Bomshel/Fight Like A Girl/Curb 624/40 12 66 558 14 36 51 Trailer Choir/What Would You Say/Show Dog Nashville 605/33 -52 -650 1255 8 55 52 Clay Underwood/Behind These Walls/PCL Music 573/30 14 71 502 3 63 53 Lee Ann Womack/Solitary Thinkin'/MCA 542/39 39 153 389 3 59 54 Richie McDonald/Six Foot Teddy Bear/Stroudavarious Records 538/42 12 59 479 23 23 55 Cody McCarver/Look What You've Done/PLC Records 505/29 -75 -1490 1995 3 65 56 Due West/I Get That All The Time/Bigger Than Me / Nine North 504/48 32 122 382 5 58 57 Collin Raye/Mid Life Chrysler/Saguaro Road 497/36 2 11 486 14 57 58 Chuck Wicks/Man Of The House/RCA 493/33 1 4 489 4 61 59 Williams Riley/I'm Still Me/Golden/Nine North 479/29 20 79 400 3 70 60 Shawna Russell/Fire In the Desert/Way Out West 467/38 45 145 322 3 67 61 Mac McAnally/You First/Show Dog Nashville 460/41 23 87 373 4 60 62 Megan Munroe/Moonshine/ 436/31 7 27 409 14 21 63 Lance Miller/George Jones And Jesus/Big 7 Records 408/23 -80 -1627 2035 18 51 64 Tim McGraw/Nothin' To Die For/Curb 396/14 -36 -227 623 8 64 65 Darren Kozelsky/Good Day To Get Gone/Major 7th/Spinville/9North 387/32 -1 -2 389 6 68 66 Derek Joseph/No Cool Way/Little House Records 366/26 7 25 341 2 73 67 Mark Wills/Entertaining Angels/Tenacity Records 349/30 19 56 293 2 74 68 Billy McKnight & Mindy McCready/Sweeter/Lofton Creek 323/28 17 48 275 3 71 69 Chris Young/Getting You Home/RCA 316/19 4 13 303 18 43 70 Trace Adkins/Marry For Money/Capitol 311/16 -67 -631 942 1 76 71 Alex Woodard w/Sara Watkins/Reno/Woodshack Music 293/20 11 28 265 2 75 72 John Reinhardt/As Far As You Know/Big 7 Records 280/20 6 15 265 1 78 73 Lauren Briant/Butterfly Tattoo/Average Joes Entertainment 278/20 12 30 248 1 79 74 Aaron Watson/Rollercoaster Ride/Big Label 276/24 21 47 229 1 77 75 Rebel Hearts/Jesse Dunn/RHR / Nine North Records 276/25 10 25 251