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Kenny Chesney’s CountryQueer.com’s Publisher On ‘Happy’ Occasion >page 4 Love, Hate, Wallen And Osborne

Garner’s Mulehouse At the end of a jumbled week, CountryQueer.com posted a different lenses. Kicks In story on Feb. 6 from contributor Holly G, who defined herself “This is the kind of central question about American culture, >page 9 as “Black, queer, atheist. fan.” and country’s place in it, that we’ve been exploring for a year or For the previous three weeks, she had been listening inces- so now,” says CountryQueer.com publisher Dale Henry Geist. santly to , whose use of a racial slur — which Officially launched in September 2019, the site endeavors to TMZ revealed Feb. 2 — was a betrayal to her be an online magazine for gay fans of coun- Hall of Fame, Triple 8 as a Black . try music, a consumer segment that might Promotions Without that distraction, Holly G might feel outcast at a typical country show. >page 9 have instead been celebrating this past “I’m telling you: You belong, just as much week as a lesbian, for as anybody,” Geist wrote to readers in his in- vocalist T.J. Osborne became the first art- augural welcome from the publisher. “You ist on a major-label country roster to come deserve to enjoy the music you love without Vincent, McCollum out publicly as a gay man in a Time maga- hiding who you are.” Opry Moments zine piece on Feb. 3. It was a step forward It’s an issue that’s endemic to the >page 10 for the LGBTQ+ community, though the LGBTQ+ life. While other audiences who prejudice inherent in Wallen’s disgrace- are fighting for equality — such as Blacks, ful speech blurred whatever progress Latinos and women — are often identifiable Makin’ Tracks: Osborne represented. by physical characteristics, most LGBTQ+ Nate Barnes’ The country industry’s response to those people are not. Their ability to blend in two developments was a tad surprising: Os- makes it easier to avoid danger, but it also ‘Pretty’ Start GEIST >page 14 borne was roundly supported, while Wallen makes it more difficult to connect. was admonished and/or punished and/or “It was so lonely and isolating,” Osborne dropped by his label, his booking agency, radio, the Country told Time about life in the closet. “It made me resent people.” Music Association and the . CountryQueer.com provided a symbolic coming-out platform Country Coda: The reaction is opposite of what would have been expected in for country acts when it launched an artist directory on Dec. 29, ‘Brother’ Chesnutt’s the genre during a previous era. And that’s part of the reason that 2020. Created by filmmaker/web designer Jeremy Leroux, the First No. 1 CountryQueer.com exists. The country culture is experiencing directory was seeded with roughly two dozen artists who had >page 17 a major realignment, and — as Osborne addressed in the Time publicly identified as LGBTQ+. Another two dozen have since piece — the progressive and conservative wings of the industry signed up, though it’s just the start of what could become a siz-

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“We’ve covered hundreds of artists,” says Geist, pointing to the editorial segments of the site. “We anticipate that it’s going to be a useful tool for jour- nalists, people who are booking shows, DJs and so forth.” CountryQueer.com is still developing its audience, though its reach seems to be expanding quickly. It attracted 13,500 visitors in January, says Geist, noting that that figure represents a 67% increase over December, which was in turn a 70% increase over November. Its emergence comes at a time when the industry is under pressure to give Columbia Nashville artist had a virtual meeting with more credence to voices beyond white, conservative males. Change the Con- syndicated media as his debut single, “Sober As a Drunk,” reaches versation has advocated for better representation of female artists for several its Feb. 8 add date. From left: Marlowe, vp years. Sony Music Nashville announced the signing of a Latin duo, Kat & Alex, national promotion Lauren Thomas, Sun Broadcast Group Nashville on Feb. 1. And the business is becoming more receptive to Black performers, correspondent Becca Walls and Café Nashville host Jody Van-Alin. though the ones who have made the biggest waves thus far — including Jim- mie Allen, and — have all been men. Critics lament, with some justification, that the business needs to open its doors wider and faster, though last week’s tandem reactions — the general support of Osborne’s coming out, contrasted with the rebuke of Wallen’s demeaning words — suggests that the industry is trying to make strides. “Nashville’s a liberal place,” suggests Geist. “The people who run the re- cord companies are liberal. The people that do the media are liberal. That’s not an issue. I’m not surprised that the industry is responding favorably to T.J.” The fan response to Osborne has likewise been positive. In addition to sup- portive social media posts, Brothers Osborne’s on-demand audio and video streams increased 32%, and and sales jumped by 264% on Feb. 3-4, compared with the two previous days. Consumer reaction to the Wallen controversy has been more divided. De- 117 Music artist Courtney Dickinson performed Feb. 1 on-air at WUCZ spite the industry bans, sales and on-demand streaming of his music both Carthage, Tenn., maintaining a safe environment with GM/program rose. Wallen, meanwhile, received a mix of verbal responses in social media, director/music director Dennis Banka. with some fans saying he deserved his punishment while others claimed he did nothing wrong in using a bigoted slur. Given the heightened awareness of racial issues since the in May, those defenders — and Wallen himself — seem woefully igno- rant of, or insensitive to, the pain those attitudes cause. “How do you apologize for ?” one major said in an off-the-record rant. “You don’t. As eye-opening as 2020 was to and racial bigotry, the kid’s got to know that that’s just not something anybody’s going to put up with anymore. Take that word and bury the son of a bitch. That’s what they should do with that word. That and the Confederate flag — bury both of them because it’s nothing but hate. And who wants to hate anyway?” While the reaction was uneven, the industry and a good portion of the coun- try fan base seemed to choose love over hate in the aftermath of Feb. 3. That Broken Bow artist held a virtual media visit on Feb. 3 in should be at least a little heartening to CountryQueer.com’s Holly G, though advance of the Feb. 12 release of Sayin’ What I’m Thinkin’. Clockwise short-term words mean far less than long-term actions. from top left: Billboard Country Update editor Tom Roland, BBR “We certainly aren’t seeing the walls come tumbling down,” says Geist, Music Group senior publicity manager Quinn Kaemmer, American “but I think we may be seeing some cracks.” Songwriter contributor Madeline Crone and Wilson.

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ON THE CHARTS JIM ASKER [email protected] BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE FEBRUARY 8, 2021 | PAGE 4 OF 17 ON STHEa CHARTSmH JIMunt ASKER’ [email protected] Southside Rules Top Country AKennylbums; Chesney Brett Young Back ‘Catc In Hoth’-es Country Fifth LeaTopder; 10; Travis Morgan Denning Wallen Makes Dominates History In Sales While His Airplay Plummets ’s second studio full-length, and first in over five years, Southside sales (up 21%) in the tracking week. On , it hops 18-15 (11.9 mil- (MCA Nashville/ Nashville), debuts at No. 1 on Billboard’s lion audience impressions, up 16%). Top Country chart dated April 18. In its first week (ending April 9), it banks his 54th top 10 on Billboard’s airplay-, sales- and during a late night out. 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Know” (two weeks, June 2017), “Like I Loved millionare the in album most among sales. all artists since, followed by Tim He alsoYou” claims (three, an January unprecedented 2018), “Mercy” monopoly (two, of August the MontevalloMcGraw (51), has spent George 267 Strait weeks (42)on the and list, Keith tying Urban Country2018) Digital and Song “Here Sales Tonight” top five. (two, “Wasted April 2019). on You” Luke(40).Chesney Bryan’s Crash last My visited Party that as the region sixth-longest- of the chart with reigns with“Catch” 9,000 sold completes (up 24%), his followed longest by journey “More Thanto No. 1, running“Here titles and Now,”in the whichchart’s reached 56-year No. history. 7 in July 2020 and My Hometown”having taken (7,000, 46 up weeks 146%), to reach “Sand the in My apex. Boots” It out - Ontopped the all-genre Country Airplay Billboard the same200, Southsidemonth, becoming ar- his (6,000,paces up 21%), the 30-week “” climb (5,000,of “Here up Tonight.” 95%) and rivesrecord-extending at No. 5, awarding 31st Hunt No. 1. his second top 10 “Whiskey OnGlasses” Hot Country (4,000, Songs,up 255%). “Catch” pushes 7-5 for HUNT YOUNG after the No. 3-peaking Montevallo. Whilea newstreams high. for Wallen’s catalog have stayed rela- HuntEVEN first ‘BETTER’ released Luke the Combs EPX2C ’ “Better, which Together” debuted (River tively level, despite the removal of his songs from over 30 andHouse/Columbia peaked at No. 5 Nashville) on Top Country paces Hot Albums Country in Songs August 2014. Following COMBS ‘DOES’ IT AGAINinfluential playlists’ “Doesacross Spotify,to Me” (River ,House/Columbia Montevallofor a second, Between week theand Pines: Country Acoustic Airplay Mixtape for a fourth, started at its No. 7 high in Nashville), featuring EricMusic Church and Pandora,, ascends his 11-8 radio on airplayCountry has Airplay, plunged up since 10% to Novemberleading the2015. latter list with 32.6 million impressions. It 24.7 million in audience.the TMZThe song video is posted. Combs’ Analyzing eighth straight his most career-opening recently air- Montevalloalso corralled produced 10.6 million five U.S.singles, streams four and of soldwhich 4,000. hit the pinnacle of Country top 10, following a recordplay runtracking of seven week, consecutive his collective out-of-the-gate, songs were drawing properly Airplay:Of Combs’ “Leave record the Night 10 career-opening On,” “Take Your No. Time,” 1 Country “House Party” and “Make promoted No. 1 singles.around 1,500 plays Feb. 1 and reporters to Billboard’s YouAirplay Miss Me.” singles, “Break “Better” Up in isa Smallhis fifth Town” to lead peaked for at leastat No. 2. Church adds his 15thCountry Country Airplay Airplay chart. top On 10. Feb. 3, as multiple radio groups Huntfour weeks. co-penned all 12 songs on Southside, including “Body Like a Back dropped his music, his catalog fell by 74% in plays. His totals have since cratered to 55, 25, 29 and 27 plays on Road,” which was released in 2017. The smash hit ruled CountryCHESNEY Airplay for THAT TOOK QUITE ‘A FEW’ MONTHS shatters the record for ‘USED TO’ IT ’s fourth Country Feb. 4, 5, 6 and 7, respectively. three weeks and the airplay-, streaming- and sales-based the most weeks it has taken to penetrate the Country Airplay top 10 as “After Airplay No. 1, “” (Triple Tigers), Wallen’s latest radio single, “7 Summers,” has suffered chart for a then-record 34 frames. It now ranks second only to and a Few” (Mercury Nashville) climbs 12-10 in its 57th week, up 4% to 21.4 mil - which led for two weeks in November, logs its 20th week in the top 10 (8-9; the most from the airplay decline, having tumbled from around 500 plays daily Florida Line’s “Meant to Be” (50 weeks atop the latter list in 2017-18). lion in radio reach. 19.8 million). It joins ’s “,” which reigned last to 149 (down 70%) on Country Airplay reporters on Feb. 3. The song then drew a “Downtown’s Dead,” which is also on the new set, reached Nos. 14 and 15 The song surpasses two tracks that took 50 weeks each to enter the top 10: October, for the second-longest top 10 run. ’s “” holds the mere eight, five, five and six plays on Feb. 4, 5, 6 and 7, respectively. It drops off on Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay, respectively, in June 2018. “Kin- ’s “A Girl Like You,” which reached No. 10 in January 2018 be- record, ruling for eight weeks and tallying 21 weeks in the top 10 in 1999. the latest audience-based Country Airplay chart, a week after it rose from No. 16 IMAGES MILLER/GETTY ETHAN folks” led Country Airplay on Feb. 29, becoming Hunt’s seventh No. 1. It hit foreto its peaking No. 15 peak at No. (up 6 that8% in February, audience and in the Aaron tracking Watson week’s ending “Outta Jan. Style,” 31). which No.A 3 on‘DANGEROUS’ Hot Country Songs. ERROR Morgan Wallen’s U.S. sales have exploded, achieved its No. 10 high in December 2017. Latesthis streams single have “Hard stayed to Forget” mostly jumps steady, 17-9 and on his Hot airplay Country has collapsedSongs. It’s after his “After” is Denning’s second—Additional Country reporting Airplay by entry. Billboard “David senior Ashley directors Parker eighthTMZ top posted 10, having a video corralled on Feb. 2 8.2 of millionhim yelling U.S. expletives, streams (up including 96%) and the 5,000 N-word, in From Powder Springs” traveled to No.of charts 32 in September Keith Caulfield 2018. and Gary Trust. ETHAN MICHAEL YOUNG: VIA MARTIN/NHLI GETTY HUNT: IMAGES. IMAGES MILLER/GETTY

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AIRPLAY Country Airplay MONITORED BY

WKS AUDIENCE (IN MILLIONS) PLAYS THIS LAST ON WEEK WEEK CHART TITLE Imprint/Label Artist THIS WEEK +/– THIS WEEK +/– RANK 1 1 19 BETTER TOGETHER River House/Columbia Nashville HH No. 1 (4 weeks) HH Luke Combs 32.596 -0.604 7927 -125 1 l2 2 30 HAPPY DOES Blue Chair/Warner Music Nashville/WEA HH Most Increased Audience HH Kenny Chesney 28.994 +3.514 7223 837 2 l3 3 27 BEERS AND SUNSHINE Capitol Nashville 26.694 +2.307 6504 395 4 l4 4 36 HOLE IN THE BOTTLE Black River Ballerini 24.766 +0.966 6614 372 3 l5 6 38 Stoney Creek x Blanco Brown 24.592 +1.777 6328 484 5 l6 5 17 DOWN TO ONE Capitol Nashville 24.525 +0.990 5854 268 7 l7 7 43 GOOD TIME RCA Nashville Niko Moon 23.964 +1.657 6328 391 6 l8 9 13 WHAT’S YOUR COUNTRY SONG Valory  22.149 +1.401 5245 344 8 9 8 49 LOVE YOU LIKE I USED TO Triple Tigers Russell Dickerson 19.802 -2.005 4443 -281 10 l10 10 24 STARTING OVER Mercury Nashville 17.969 +0.066 4902 -42 9 l11 11 22 LONG LIVE BMLG  17.569 +0.678 4279 109 11 l12 13 41 LADY BMLG  Brett Young 16.043 +1.218 4058 261 13 l13 12 51 MOMMA’S HOUSE Broken Bow 15.034 +0.133 4163 95 12 l14 14 34 HOW THEY REMEMBER YOU Big Machine Flatts 14.142 +0.789 4004 208 15 l15 16 35 Warner Music Nashville/WAR 13.841 +1.259 4021 230 14 l16 17 52 19th & Grand 12.040 +0.365 3453 63 16 l17 18 42 NOBODY Curb  11.638 +1.272 3423 347 17 l18 21 14 EMI Nashville HH Airpower HH 9.786 +1.202 2965 116 19 l19 19 36 ALMOST MAYBES MCA Nashville Jordan Davis 9.771 +0.278 3182 42 18 l20 20 38 MADE FOR YOU Big Loud HH Airpower HH 9.607 +0.328 2911 146 20 l21 22 4 UNDIVIDED McGraw/BMLG/Big Machine Tim McGraw & 8.198 +1.365 2311 335 22 l22 23 20 ONE TOO MANY Hit Red/Capitol Nashville Duet With P!nk 7.408 +1.137 2340 193 21 l23 25 18 BREAKING UP WAS EASY IN THE 90’S MCA Nashville Sam Hunt 6.712 +0.520 2241 150 23 l24 26 16 GONE Capitol Nashville 6.414 +0.532 2201 114 25 l25 24 20 SETTLING DOWN Vanner/RCA Nashville 6.378 +0.148 2130 49 26 l26 28 4 MINIMUM WAGE Warner Music Nashville/WMN 6.069 +0.991 1657 261 29 l27 29 13 BLAME IT ON YOU Macon/Broken Bow 5.733 +0.741 1632 173 30 l28 27 38 ALL NIGHT EMI Nashville Brothers Osborne 5.433 -0.063 2240 8 24 l29 30 10 RCA Nashville + Kane Brown 4.655 +0.166 1408 134 31 l30 31 34 HARD DAYS Valory  4.522 +0.317 1819 98 27

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 MRC detections will also receive decline, regardless of total Data. Audience totals on the a bullet if the total audience chart weeks. AIRPOWER 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 © 2021, 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 MRC Data’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 MRC Data) for previous week. A song audience or detections are stations that do not report © 2021 Billboard Media, LLC will also receive a bullet moved to recurrent after 20 adds. if its percentage loss in weeks, provided that they BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE FEBRUARY 8, 2021 | PAGE 7 OF 17

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 32 16 WE DIDN’T HAVE MUCH Valory  4.144 +0.122 1347 75 32 l32 33 20 Big Machine 3.729 +0.031 1718 75 28 l33 NEW Warner Music Nashville/WAR HH Hot Shot Debut/ Most Added HH Dan + Shay 3.413 +3.413 664 664 44 l34 34 32 SINGLE SATURDAY NIGHT Warner Music Nashville/WMN 3.222 +0.377 1307 66 33 l35 39 18 Wheelhouse  Elvie Shane 2.441 +0.442 1050 102 36 l36 42 10 DRINKIN’ BEER. TALKIN’ GOD. AMEN. Dack Janiels/BMLG/Broken Bow Featuring Florida Georgia Line 2.386 +0.597 970 117 39 37 35 29 WINE, BEER, WHISKEY Capitol Nashville 2.287 -0.230 116 2 -45 35 38 36 22 DEAR RODEO CoJo/Warner Music Nashville/WMN & Reba McEntire 2.238 -0.177 439 -20 54 39 37 32 RICH Wheelhouse  Runaway June 2.153 -0.168 1215 9 34 l40 41 15 WORSHIP YOU RCA Nashville Kane Brown 1.905 -0.032 984 77 37 41 38 20 JUST ABOUT OVER YOU inDent/Mercury Nashville Priscilla Block 1.831 -0.419 719 10 43 l42 44 14 YOU TIME Triple Tigers Scotty McCreery 1.690 +0.006 972 24 38 l43 46 25 WHAT KNOW Arista Nashville Robert Counts 1.619 +0.309 738 65 41 l44 50 3 TEQUILA LITTLE TIME Capitol Nashville 1.507 +0.351 440 85 53 l45 47 9 SHALLOW Pearl  & 1.460 +0.148 722 150 42 l46 48 14 MEMORY I DON’T MESS WITH Curb  Lee Brice 1.398 +0.104 767 63 40 l47 45 9 COLD BEER CALLING MY NAME Combustion/River House/Columbia Nashville Featuring Luke Combs 1.360 -0.041 474 13 51 l48 49 21 WAITIN’ ON 5 Warner Music Nashville/WAR 1.253 +0.026 625 -9 47 l49 52 21 BEERS TO CATCH UP ON Wheelhouse  LOCASH 1.137 +0.059 646 48 45 l50 54 16 WHISKEY AND RAIN Warner Music Nashville/WEA Michael Ray 1.074 +0.027 581 11 48 51 51 11 Atlantic/Warner Music Nashville/WEA 1.032 -0.106 492 -22 50 52 53 3 HOME SWEET Triple Tigers Russell Dickerson 1.027 -0.044 506 62 49 l53 RE-ENTRY River House/Columbia Nashville Luke Combs 1.010 +0.438 286 98 - l54 55 10 HEAVEN ON DIRT Monument  Teddy Robb 0.920 +0.007 640 -20 46 l55 56 7 THINGS A MAN OUGHTA KNOW Broken Bow Lainey Wilson 0.871 +0.054 461 24 52 l56 58 11 WANT ME BACK Stoney Creek 0.730 +0.111 397 9 56 57 43 2 FREEDOM WAS A HIGHWAY Stoney Creek & 0.700 -1.002 380 -4 57 l58 59 2 NEED A BAR SOMETIMES Show Dog Nashville 0.687 +0.092 335 46 59 59 57 13 IF IT WASN’T FOR TRUCKS BMLG  Riley Green 0.672 -0.047 422 -12 55 l60 60 3 NO BODY, NO CRIME Republic/MCA Nashville Featuring HAIM 0.642 +0.061 227 32 -

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2/15 FILMORE Nothing’s Better Curb GARRETT SHULTZ Last Call SMG Nashville

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Co-authored by Church, the song is his 25th ERIC CHURCH top 20 Country Airplay hit, rising 21-18. It Hell of increased by 14% to 9.8 million impressions a View in the tracking week. FILMORE DOVE SHORE DOVE

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AIRPLAY Country Airplay MONITORED BY

MOST ADDED® NEW AND ACTIVE TITLE Imprint/Label Artist ADDS TOTAL TOTAL GLAD YOU EXIST Warner Music Nashville/WAR Dan + Shay 43 TITLE Imprint/Label Artist AUDIENCE STATIONS ADDS SHALLOW Pearl Garth Brooks & Trisha Yearwood 16 TO BE LOVED BY YOU MCA Nashville Parker McCollum 0.632 19 5 BLAME IT ON YOU Macon/Broken Bow Jason Aldean 15 GIVE HEAVEN SOME HELL Big Loud HARDY 0.623 29 9 MINIMUM WAGE Warner Music Nashville/WMN Blake Shelton 14 MARTHA DIVINE Warner Music Nashville/WMN Ashley McBryde 0.614 23 0 FREEDOM WAS A HIGHWAY Stoney Creek Jimmie Allen & Brad Paisley 14 HOME SWEET Triple Tigers Russell Dickerson 12 WHISKEY’S FINE Arista Nashville Adam Doleac 0.357 24 2 GIVE HEAVEN SOME HELL Big Loud HARDY 9 JUST FRIENDS Capitol Nashville  0.320 18 0 TEQUILA LITTLE TIME Capitol Nashville Jon Pardi 8 RUN IT BACK Jawline Blane Howard 0.272 3 2 WE DIDN’T HAVE MUCH Valory Justin Moore 7 MADE FOR YOU Big Loud Jake Owen 5 RECURRENTS MOST INCREASED AUDIENCE THIS TOTAL AUD. WEEK TITLE Imprint/Label Artist (IN MILLIONS) GAIN 1 ONE OF THEM GIRLS Curb Lee Brice 20.166 TITLE Imprint/Label Artist (IN MIILIONS) 2 Warner Music Nashville/WMN Blake Shelton Featuring Gwen Stefani 17.494 HAPPY DOES Blue Chair/Warner Music Nashville/WEA Kenny Chesney +3.514 GLAD YOU EXIST Warner Music Nashville/WAR Dan + Shay +3.413 3 BIG, BIG PLANS Big Loud  17.190 BEERS AND SUNSHINE Capitol Nashville Darius Rucker +2.307 4 I HOPE Warner Music Nashville/WAR Gabby Barrett 12.306 JUST THE WAY Stoney Creek Parmalee x Blanco Brown +1.777 5 LOVIN’ ON YOU River House/Columbia Nashville Luke Combs 10.433 GOOD TIME RCA Nashville Niko Moon +1.657 6 THE BONES Columbia Nashville  9.269 WHAT’S YOUR COUNTRY SONG Valory Thomas Rhett +1.401 7 I SHOULD PROBABLY GO TO BED Warner Music Nashville/WAR Dan + Shay 9.148 UNDIVIDED McGraw/BMLG/Big Machine Tim McGraw & Tyler Hubbard +1.365 8 MCA Nashville Sam Hunt 8.680 NOBODY Curb Dylan Scott +1.272 9 SOME GIRLS Combustion/River House/Columbia Nashville Jameson Rodgers 8.427 THE GOOD ONES Warner Music Nashville/WAR Gabby Barrett +1.259 LADY BMLG Brett Young +1.218 10 Macon/Broken Bow Jason Aldean 8.016 MOST INCREASED PLAYS TITLE Imprint/Label Artist GAIN HAPPY DOES Blue Chair/Warner Music Nashville/WEA Kenny Chesney +837 GLAD YOU EXIST Warner Music Nashville/WAR Dan + Shay +664 JUST THE WAY Stoney Creek Parmalee x Blanco Brown +484 BEERS AND SUNSHINE Capitol Nashville Darius Rucker +395 GOOD TIME RCA Nashville Niko Moon +391 HOLE IN THE BOTTLE Black River  +372 NOBODY Curb Dylan Scott +347 WHAT’S YOUR COUNTRY SONG Valory Thomas Rhett +344 UNDIVIDED McGraw/BMLG/Big Machine Tim McGraw & Tyler Hubbard +335 DOWN TO ONE Capitol Nashville Luke Bryan +268 BALLERINI LANE BALLERINI: HANNAH LUX DAVIS, LANE:DELANEY ROYER LANE:DELANEY DAVIS, LUX HANNAH BALLERINI: REGIONAL RADIO REPORT WEEK ENDING FEBRUARY 7, 2021

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 +/– 1 2 23 ANOTHER TOWN (Independent)  HH 1 Week at 1 HH Jon Stork 2034 -41 l11 15 13 I WILL (Independent)  Darrin Morris Band 113 7 126 l2 3 13 SILVERADO SATURDAY NIGHT (BIG Label )  1946 78 l12 20 11 BRINGING COUNTRY BACK (King Hall Music)  Chad Cooke Band 1093 235 l3 4 15 DEVIL’S RED HOT SAUCE (Independent)  James Lann 1915 2 11 13 14 25 ONE DAY (Independent)  Triston Marez 1050 - 115 4 1 16 DRINKING MONEY (Tommy Jackson/Thirty Tigers)  18 11 -316 14 5 17 FOOL’S LOVE AFFAIR (117 Music) 1012 -553 l5 8 17 OLD SCHOOL (Independent)  David Adam Byrnes 1662 183 l15 17 16 COWBOY’S DAUGHTER (Independent)  Scotty Alexander 974 41 l6 7 24 MISSIN’ YOU, MISSISSIPPI (Independent)  Dustin Sonnier 1618 133 l16 19 8 LOST IN A KISS (Independent)  George Navarro 967 103 l7 6 11 CALLIN’ ALL HEARTS (Independent)  Terry McBride 1605 50 17 13 17 STILL A LITTLE COUNTRY LEFT (Independent)  Curtis Grimes 963 -217 l8 9 24 RHYTHM OF YOU (Independent)  1452 7 l18 22 12 FULL-TIME FOOL (Independent)  The Stateline Band 942 97 l9 10 13 OUTSIDE LOOKIN IN (Little Red Truck)  1432 81 19 16 21 DEAR RODEO (COJO/Warners Nashille)  Cody Johnson 940 -41 l10 12 16 HONKY TONK IN HEAVEN (Independent)  Kin Faux 1291 42 l20 38 4 SETTLE ME DOWN (Independent)  898 282

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virtual version of Country Radio Seminar Feb. 16-19. Luke Combs and Maren Morris will discuss artists’ accountability in a Feb. 17 panel with NPR Music correspondent Ann Powers. Dan + Shay were announced as headliners for a Warner Music Nashville luncheon the same day. Also in the lineup are , Cole Swindell, Michael Ray, Drew Parker, Ian Munsick, and Robyn Ottolini. Go here for a detailed CRS agenda. ’ROUND THE ROW Paul Kingsbury joined the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum as managing editor. The author or editor-in-chief for at least eight music books, he was previously North America Agriculture for the Nature Conservancy communications manager. Seven other museum staff members received promotions: Pam Carey rose to director of creative project management from assistant director, Nicole Childrey was bumped to director of digital Priscilla Block and participated in an Association content from editor, Luke Wiget was upped to director of creative content of Independent Music Publishers virtual panel on Feb. 4 that explored from associate editor, Lindsey Funfgeld was promoted to associate director of the rise of TikTok as an artist-development platform. Clockwise guest relations from manager, Johnny Cunningham was elevated to director from top left: Universal Music Group Nashville executive vp A&R of information and technology operations from senior manager, Kaley Daeger Brian Wright, Sony Music Nashville A&R director Margaret Tomlin, advanced to director of IT business solutions from senior business applications Jannakos and Block. manager, and Tori Tarvin was upgraded to director of marketing from associate director … Triple 8 Management promoted six employees. Christina Egan was GARNER’S MULEHOUSE KICKS INTO GEAR bumped to CFO from financial manager, Chris Fairbank climbed to senior vp Former syndicated radio host Blair Garner is unveiling the full team for the marketing from marketing director, Allison Bostrom rose to vp marketing from spring launch of his live venue, The Mulehouse, in Columbia, Tenn., relying director, Mark Noel was upped to vp management from artist manager, Amy on a mix of established firms and local music and entertainment executives. Brauchle advanced to marketing coordinator from office manager, and Karrie Located in a historic district, the 55,000-square-foot property has secured Tatum ascended to marketing director from coordinator … Booking agent Live Nation firm Neste Live! for booking, Nugs.net for a dedicated livestream Brett Saliba joined the UTA music department, based in the agency’s Nashville operation, Clair Global for production services, 615 Leverage + Strategy for office. He was previously an agent at Creative Artists Agency … The Academy of marketing and Hulcher PR for publicity. Country Music has two openings for directors, in digital strategy and in creative christened the concert hall on Oct. 1 with a socially distanced and content. Go here for full job descriptions … Warner Chappell Nashville performance that set the tone for The Mulehouse, which will emphasize signed singer-songwriter Tyler Childers to a publishing deal … Sheltered livestreaming even after the coronavirus crisis subsides. Music took over administration for ’ publishing … Singer- “We were fortunate with our timing, believe it or not, because the reality of songwriter Jacob Lutz reached a songwriting deal with 50 Egg Music … Former the pandemic’s effect became real just as we were completing interior demo- Stoney Creek vp promotion Byron Kennedy took steps in his comedy career lition,” says CEO Garner. “It was the perfect opportunity for us to pivot and by securing Spielberg Entertainment for management and Marathon Talent create a first-of-its-kind venue built around livestreaming.” for booking … Average Joes artist Sam Grow enlisted APA Nashville for Not all Mulehouse experiences will happen at a distance. In addition to concert booking … joined the concert roster at in-person ticketing, the project will expand to include an upscale restaurant/ UTA Nashville … was named a USO global ambassador … The bar and a smaller performance space in 2022. A boutique hotel is also in the Association of Independent Music Publishers’ Nashville chapter will host works for later that year. part two of a virtual COVID-19 resources panel on Feb. 11 at 4:30 p.m. CT. The Mulehouse in-house team includes: COO Eric Garner, GM Michael Op- Go here for details … Songwriter died Feb. 3 at his home in penheimer, director of concerts and marketing Jon Shyer, production manager Brentwood, Tenn. A member of both the Hall of Fame and the Geoffrey Borchgrevink and private event sales manager Tracy McGlocklin. Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, he authored a trio of Gladys Knight & The Pips hits: “Midnight Train To Georgia,” “Neither One of Us (Wants To RADIO & RECORDS® Be the First To Say Goodbye)” and “Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me.” BMG promoted Jon Loba to BMG Nashville president of recorded music Weatherly’s credits also included ’s “,” Bryan from BBR Music Group executive vp … Warner Music Nashville signed singer- White’s “Someone Else’s Star” and ’s “Where Do I Put Her songwriter Drew Parker (“Homemade,” “Forever After All”) to a recording Memory.” A quarterback for Ole Miss, he started three college bowl games in contract … Bluegrass duo Starlett & Big John joined the Turnberry artist roster the 1960s and was a 12th-round draft pick for the Patriots. SiriusXM in a two-album deal. The act consists of guitarist-vocalist Big John Talley host Charlie Monk paid tribute to Weatherly, saying, “He was probably the and bassist-vocalist Starlett Boswell Austin … United Stations partnered most honorable human being I’ve ever known in my life.” A celebration of life with Tim Richards Media, with owner Tim Richards on board as a daypart is expected later this year. programming specialist for the company’s weekday offerings … Emmis/ Indianapolis promoted James Conner to vp sales for the cluster, which includes country WLHK. Formerly the group’s general sales manager, Conner replaces Taja Graham, who rose to market president in January … Katelyn Maida joined the KKBQ morning show, replacing recently retired Kevin Kline. It marks a return to the station for Maida, following a six-year run at KSCS Dallas … WFRE Frederick, Md., midday personality Gabby Loielo added assistant PD stripes, according to RadioInk.com … Cumulus/ Montgomery, Ala., hired vp/market manager Don Pollnow, RadioInsight.com reported. He oversees six stations, including country WLWI. He was previously iHeartMedia/Wichita, Kan., market president, with a six-station portfolio that included country KZSN … KCYY San Antonio PD Christi Brooks has

taken over afternoon , according to RadioInsight.com. Brody Simmons HOLLO. CHRIS PARTON: HOLLO, CHRIS RUCKER: shifts to middays, allowing Beth Chandler to make the morning show her Darius Rucker and will join a long list of artists on the primary focus … Additional star power has been added to the agenda for the Feb. 14 NBC special : 95 Years of Country Music. BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE FEBRUARY 8, 2021 | PAGE 10 OF 17

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MUSIC NOTES ON THIS DATE IN COUNTRY MUSIC

Nearly a year after her Feb. 28, 2020, invitation to join the Grand Ole Opry, Feb. 9 bluegrass vocalist made her pandemic-delayed member- 2018 — Scotty McCreery racks up an RIAA- ship official during the Feb. 6 edition of the WSM-AM Nashville show. She certified gold single for “Five More Minutes.” was inducted by Opry member Dierks Bentley, who joined her on a version 2016 — ’s caricature is added to the of “Mama Tried.” The evening also marked wall at The Palm in downtown Nashville. the debut for Parker McCollum, who added his own cover of “Middle Age Crazy” along- Feb. 10 McCREERY side his first hit, “.” The Opry 2019 — wins four trophies VSHEARER JOHN will get significant attention on Feb. 14 during the 61st annual Grammy Awards, including album of the when NBC airs Grand Ole Opry: 95 Years of year and best country album for Golden Hour, at the Staples Center Country Music with hosts Brad Paisley and in . Blake Shelton, plus , Carrie 2011 — Republic Nashville releases The Eli Young Band’s “Crazy Underwood, Garth Brooks, Kane Brown Girl” to radio. and newly inducted . Feb. 11 Eric Church’s national anthem performance 1996 — sings the Canadian national anthem before the with Jazmine Sullivan at Super Bowl LV was NBA all-star game in San Antonio. The East beats the West, 129-118, a perfect piece at a time when people are at- with Michael Jordan winning the game’s most valuable player award. tempting to navigate cultural differences. VINCENT Country’s Church and R&B’s Sullivan sang HOLLO CHRIS Feb. 12 their parts with their own genre-specific 2001 — I’ll take Jo Dee to block: begins a one-week styles, and even though it was a little ragged, it came together in a gorgeous guest slot on the syndicated game show Hollywood Squares. union of purpose. Two other male/female duets are also due some recogni- tion. Rapper Lathan Warlick and RaeLynn display plenty of ’tude in the new Feb. 13 video “Roots.” And Maren Morris and have their first full-blown 1971 — Sammi Smith goes to No. 1 on the Billboard country singles duet, “,” set for release Feb. 12. chart with the -penned “Help Me Make It Through the Night.” is raising money for Music Health Alliance with a limited- 1961 — creates Reprise Records. Purchased by War- release compilation, Songs From Quarantine, released Feb. 5 at Bandcamp for ner Bros., the label eventually develops country hits for such acts as a two-week window. Contributors include Keith Urban, Emmylou Harris, , Blake Shelton, , Gordon Light- Rosanne Cash, John Hiatt, Lucinda Williams and Elvis Costello. Other al- foot and Carlene Carter. bums on the way include Tommy Emmanuel’s Live From the Balboa Theatre, due Feb. 12; Carly Pearce’s EP 29, Feb. 19; Dale Watson’s The Memphians, Feb. 14 Feb. 26; Luke Bryan’s Born Here Live Here Die Here (Deluxe Edition), April 9; 2020 — Miranda Lambert and director shoot the “Blue- and The Shootouts’ Bullseye, produced by BR549’s , April 30. bird” video in New York. 2006 — With the gay-themed Brokeback Mountain in theaters, Wil- New Quartz Hill artist Ben Gallaher is supporting his debut single, “Every lie Nelson debuts the tongue-in-cheek “Cowboys Are Secretly Fre- Small Town,” with a lyric video that assembles photos and videos of hometowns quently (Fond of Each Other)” on Howard Stern’s Sirius Satellite from across the nation. Country fans are encouraged to submit materials for Radio show. the project here through Feb. 14. Feb. 15 1991 — Trisha Yearwood begins two days of recording debut Top Headlines from .com album at Nashville’s Sound Emporium. The sessions yield six cuts, Click on headlines below for more details including her first single, “She’s in Love With the Boy.”

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‘’ LOWRY STEVE Back Blocks Music announced the signing of its first songwriter, Blake Pendergrass, on Feb. 1. He is flanked by BMI Nashville executive SoundCloud To Let Fans Pay Artists Directly director of writer/publisher relations Leslie Roberts (left) and Back Blocks founder Rakiyah Marshall. BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE FEBRUARY 8, 2021 | PAGE 11 OF 17

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 2 35 BETTER TOGETHER No. 1 (2 weeks) Luke Combs 1 1 S.MOFFATT (L.COMBS,D.ISBELL,R.MONTANA) RIVER HOUSE/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE 2 2 1 93 I HOPE Gabby Barrett RC 1 R.COPPERMAN,Z.KALE (Z.KALE,J.M.NITE,G.BARRETT) WARNER MUSIC NASHVILLE/WAR 3 5 3 4 WASTED ON YOU Morgan Wallen - 1 l J.MOI,J.DURRETT (M.WALLEN,E.K.SMITH,J.THOMPSON,CHARLIE HANDSOME) REPUBLIC/BIG LOUD 4 7 10 36 GOOD TIME Niko Moon 7 4 l N.MOON,J.MURTY (N.MOON,J.MINTON,A.MOON,J.MURTY,M.TRUSSELL) RCA NASHVILLE HH HH 5 8 9 4 SAND IN MY BOOTS Streaming Gainer Morgan Wallen - 5 l J.MOI (A.GORLEY,M.W.HARDY,J.OSBORNE) REPUBLIC/BIG LOUD 6 3 4 25 7 SUMMERS Morgan Wallen RC 1 J.MOI (M.WALLEN,S.MCANALLY,J.OSBORNE) REPUBLIC/BIG LOUD 7 6 6 24 STARTING OVER Chris Stapleton 10 4 l D.COBB,C.STAPLETON (C.STAPLETON,M.HENDERSON) MERCURY NASHVILLE HH HH 8 4 5 42 Digital Gainer Morgan Wallen RC 2 l J.MOI (M.W.HARDY,E.K.SMITH,CHARLIE HANDSOME,M.WALLEN) REPUBLIC/BIG LOUD 9 9 11 34 HOLE IN THE BOTTLE Kelsea Ballerini 4 9 l J.FRASURE,K.BALLERINI (K.BALLERINI,S.JONES,H.LINDSEY,J.FRASURE,A.GORLEY) BLACK RIVER HH HH 10 11 12 29 HAPPY DOES Airplay Gainer Kenny Chesney 2 10 l B.CANNON,K.CHESNEY (B.CLAWSON,J.PAULIN,B.BERRYHILL,G.JAMES) BLUE CHAIR/WARNER MUSIC NASHVILLE/WEA 11 10 7 11 SOMEBODY’S PROBLEM Morgan Wallen - 3 J.MOI (M.WALLEN,R.CLAWSON,J.DURRETT,E.K.SMITH) REPUBLIC/BIG LOUD 12 13 21 51 JUST THE WAY Parmalee x Blanco Brown 5 12 l D.FANNING (M.THOMAS,K.BARD,N.W.SIPE) STONEY CREEK 13 12 14 26 BEERS AND SUNSHINE Darius Rucker 3 12 l R.COPPERMAN (D.RUCKER,R.COPPERMAN,J.T.HARDING,J.OSBORNE) CAPITOL NASHVILLE 14 14 17 16 DOWN TO ONE Luke Bryan 6 14 l J.STEVENS,J.STEVENS (K.FISHMAN,D.DAVIDSON,J.EBACH) CA PITOL NASHVILLE 15 15 13 13 WHAT’S YOUR COUNTRY SONG Thomas Rhett 8 13 l D.HUFF,J.FRASURE (THOMAS RHETT,R.AKINS,J.FRASURE,A.GORLEY,P.WELLING) VALORY 16 16 25 33 THE GOOD ONES Gabby Barrett 15 16 l R.COPPERMAN,Z.KALE (G.BARRETT,E.LANDIS,J.MCCORMICK,Z.KALE) WARNER MUSIC NASHVILLE/WAR 17 18 24 22 LONG LIVE Florida Georgia Line 11 17 l C.CROWDER,T.HUBBARD,B.KELLEY (T.HUBBARD,B.KELLEY,C.CROWDER,D.A.GARCIA,J.MILLER) BMLG 18 20 18 26 Morgan Wallen - 15 l J.MOI,D.COHEN (M.J.ISBELL) BIG LOUD 19 17 15 15 FOREVER AFTER ALL Luke Combs 53 1 CHIP MATTHEWS,J.D.SINGLETON,L.COMBS (L.COMBS,D.PARKER,R.WILLIFORD) R IVER HOUSE/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE 20 23 27 40 LADY Brett Young 12 20 l D.HUFF (B.YOUNG,R.COPPERMAN,J.M.NITE) BMLG 21 19 16 11 STILL GOIN DOWN Morgan Wallen - 8 J.MOI (M.WALLEN,M.W.HARDY,CHARLIE HANDSOME) REPUBLIC/BI G LOUD 22 22 22 4 865 Morgan Wallen - 13 l J.MOI (J.BYRON,B.PENDERGRASS) REPUBLIC/BIG LOUD 23 21 19 4 WARNING Morgan Wallen - 10 J.MOI,CHARLIE HANDSOME (E.K.SMITH,A.GORLEY,CHARLIE HANDSOME) REPUBLIC/BIG LOUD 24 26 30 15 HELL OF A VIEW Eric Church 18 23 l J.JOYCE (E.CHURCH,C.BEATHARD,M.CRISWELL) EMI NASHVILLE 25 24 26 37 MOMMA’S HOUSE Dustin Lynch 13 21 l Z.CROWELL (D.SCHNEIDER,M.LOTTEN,R.CLAWSON,J.T.WILSON) BROKEN BOW

COUNTRY SONGWRITERSTM COUNTRY PRODUCERSTM

#1 #1 1 8 WKS MORGAN WALLEN  1 40 WKS  2 ERNEST KEITH SMITH  2  3  3 DANN HUFF  4  4 SCOTT MOFFATT  5 CHARLIE HANDSOME  5 ZACH KALE  6 HARDY  6  7 LUKE COMBS  7  8 JON NITE  8  TIE 9 GABBY BARRETT  9 DAVID FANNING 

TIE 9 ZACH KALE  HUFF 10 JACOB DURRETT  AARON SNOW AARON

The weekly Country Songwriters 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 8, 2021 | PAGE 12 OF 17

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 26 25 28 19 SOMEBODY LIKE THAT Tenille Arts 16 25 l A.KLINE (T.ARTS,A.KLINE,A.M.CRUZ) 19TH & GRAND 27 27 29 21 ONE TOO MANY Keith Urban Duet With P!nk 22 13 l K.URBAN,PHD,CUTFATHER (D.H.DAVIDSEN,P.WALLEVIK,M.H.HANSEN,J.NORTON,C.TIGHE) HIT RED/CAPITOL NASHVILLE 28 29 31 4 DANGEROUS Morgan Wallen - 17 l J.MOI (M.WALLEN,E.K.SMITH) REPUBLIC/BIG LOUD 29 28 35 38 ALMOST MAYBES Jordan Davis 19 24 l P.DIGIOVANNI (J.DAVIS,J.FRASURE,H.LINDSEY) MCA NASHVILLE HH HH 30 NEW 1 BANDAID ON A BULLET HOLE Hot Shot Debut Morgan Wallen - 30 l J.MOI,J.DURRETT (M.WALLEN,J.DURRETT,A.GORLEY) REPUBLIC/BIG MACHINE 31 34 46 21 HOW THEY REMEMBER YOU 14 31 l D.HUFF (M.BEESON,J.OSBORNE,A.SHAMBLIN) BIG MACHINE 32 31 32 4 NEON EYES Morgan Wallen - 18 J.MOI (M.WALLEN,M.L.HOLMAN,B.BURGESS) REPUB LIC/ 33 37 — 11 NOBODY Dylan Scott 17 33 l M.ALDERMAN,C.GIBBS,J.E.NORMAN (D.SCOTT,M.ALDERMAN,D.WILSON) CURB 34 35 44 16 GONE Dierks Bentley 24 30 l D.GARCIA (N.GALYON,B.JOHNSON,N.MOON) CAPITOL NASHVILLE 35 33 45 16 BREAKING UP WAS EASY IN THE 90’S Sam Hunt 23 32 Z.CROWELL (S.L.HUNT,C.LA CORTE,Z.CROWELL,E.K.SMITH,J.OSBORNE) MCA NASHVILLE 36 36 43 17 SETTLING DOWN Miranda Lambert 25 32 l J.JOYCE (M.LAMBERT,L.DICK,N. HEMBY) VANNER/RCA NASHVILLE 37 32 33 4 MORE SURPRISED THAN ME Morgan Wallen - 19 J.MOI (N.MOON,B.BURGESS,L.T.MILLER) REPUBLIC/BIG LOUD 38 30 23 3 UNDIVIDED Tim McGraw & Tyler Hubbard 21 23 C.CROWDER,T.HUBBARD,T.MCGRAW,B.GALLIMORE (T.HUBBARD,C.LOOCKE) MCGRAW/BMLG/BIG MACHINE 39 38 34 11 LIVIN’ THE DREAM Morgan Wallen - 19 l J.MOI (M.WALLEN,B.BURGESS,J.DURRETT,M.W.HARDY) REPUBL IC/BIG LOUD 40 43 — 5 MADE FOR YOU Jake Owen 20 40 l J.MOI (B.DAVIS,J.HYDE,N.A.MEDLEY) BIG LOUD 41 42 40 4 SILVERADO FOR SALE Morgan Wallen - 34 l J.MOI (D.DAVIDSON,M.GREEN,B.HAYSLIP) REPUBLIC/BIG LOUD 42 41 — 10 WORSHIP YOU Kane Brown 40 24 l D.HUFF (K.BROWN,A.IZQUIERDO,M.J.MCGINN,CHARLIE HANDSOME) RCA NASHVILLE 43 39 36 4 YOUR BARTENDER Morgan Wallen - 28 J.MOI,M.DRAGSTREM (M.DRAGSTREM,R.AKINS,THOMAS RHETT,J.THOMPSON) REPUBLIC/BIG LOUD 44 40 37 4 WHISKEY’D MY WAY Morgan Wallen - 27 J.MOI (M.DRAGSTREM,J.MILLER,THOMAS RHETT,J.THOMPSON) REPUBLIC/BIG LOUD 45 45 49 11 Nelly & Florida Georgia Line - 28 l J.M.SCHMIDT (T.HUBBARD,J.M.SCHMIDT,B.REDFERRIN,C.HAYNES, JR.) RECORDS/COLUMBIA 46 46 47 26 WINE, BEER, WHISKEY Little Big Town 37 23 LITTLE BIG TOWN (T.BROWN,K.FAIRCHILD,S.MCCONNELL,K.SCHLAPMAN,P.SWEET,J.WESTBROOK) CAPITOL NASHVILLE 47 44 38 4 OUTLAW Morgan Wallen Featuring Ben Burgess - 29 J.MOI (B.BURGESS,P.DAVIS,J.KERR,J.REYNOLDS) REPUBLIC/BIG LOUD 48 49 50 14 SHALLOW Garth Brooks & Trisha Yearwood 45 35 l G.BROOKS (S.G.GERMANOTTA,M.D.RONSON,A.ROSSOMANDO,ANDREW WYATT) PEARL 49 47 39 4 WONDERIN’ BOUT THE WIND Morgan Wallen - 33 J.MOI (M.WALLEN,E.K.SMITH) REPUBLIC/BIG LOUD 50 48 41 4 ONLY THING THAT’S GONE Morgan Wallen Featuring Chris Stapleton - 32 J.MOI (M.WALLEN,R.C.MCGILL,M.DRAGSTREM,J.THOMPSON) REPUBLIC/BIG LOUD

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

COUNTRY MARKET WATCH A Weekly National Music Sales Report

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

ALBUM AUDIO VIDEO 2019 2021 CHANGE CONSUMPTION ON-DEMAND ON-DEMAND ALBUM CONSUMPTION This Week 1,256,000 1,402,809,000 135,937,000 Album ’20 51.90 million Consumption 5,190,000 6,199,900 19.5% ’21 61.99 million Last Week 1,222,000 1,376,188,000 131,054,000 Album Sales 819,000 847,000 3.4% Change 2.8% 1.9% 3.7% TOTAL ON-DEMAND STREAMS Audio On-Demand 5,478,904,000 6,805,188,000 24.2% ’20 62.28 billion This Week Last Year 1,045,000 1,103,925,000 148,783,000 ’21 74.50 billion Change 20.2% 27.1% -8.6% Video On-Demand 750,062,000 645,151,000 -14.0%

All data measures U.S. activity as of the week ending February 4, 2021. 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.

For inquiries about any MRC Data, please contact Josh Bennett at 615-807-1338 or [email protected] BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE FEBRUARY 8, 2021 | PAGE 13 OF 17

SALES, DATA STREAMING & SALES COMPILED BY DATA COMPILED BY

COUNTRY COUNTRY DIGITAL SONG SALES

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

ON CHT ARTIST ARTIST 2 WEEKS 2 WEEKS IMPRINT & NUMBER / DISTRIBUTING LABEL WASTED ON YOU WASTED ON YOU MORGAN WALLEN DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM 1 1 4 1 1 4 1 1 1 4 1 l MORGAN WALLEN  l MORGAN WALLEN  l BIG LOUD 033180*/REPUBLIC SAND IN MY BOOTS MORE THAN MY HOMETOWN LUKE COMBS WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET l2 4 4 l2 10 32 2 2 2 65 RIVER HOUSE/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE 595687*/SMN 1 1 MORGAN WALLEN  MORGAN WALLEN  7 SUMMERS SAND IN MY BOOTS MORGAN WALLEN IF I KNOW ME 3 2 25 3 3 4 3 4 4 140 1 MORGAN WALLEN  l MORGAN WALLEN  l BIG LOUD 783* 1 SOMEBODY’S PROBLEM 7 SUMMERS LUKE COMBS THIS ONE’S FOR YOU 4 3 11 4 11 24 4 3 3 192 RIVER HOUSE/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE 538883*/SMN 3 1 MORGAN WALLEN  l MORGAN WALLEN  BETTER TOGETHER CHRIS STAPLETON STARTING OVER 5 5 19 5 RE-ENTRY 5 5 5 12 MERCURY NASHVILLE 032689*/UMGN 1 l LUKE COMBS  l MORGAN WALLEN  CHRIS STAPLETON TRAVELLER 6 6 39 MORE THAN MY HOMETOWN 6 6 15 THE GOOD ONES 6 6 6 301 MERCURY NASHVILLE 019405*/UMGN 4 1 MORGAN WALLEN  GABBY BARRETT  STARTING OVER BETTER TOGETHER GABBY BARRETT GOLDMINE 7 7 23 7 5 32 7 7 7 33 WARNER MUSIC NASHVILLE 629930/WMN 4 l CHRIS STAPLETON  LUKE COMBS  GOOD TIME STARTING OVER LEE BRICE 8 17 4 8 7 23 8 8 8 11 CURB 79537* 7 l NIKO MOON  CHRIS STAPLETON  I HOPE GOOD TIME 9 10 11 247 50 NUMBER ONES 1 l9 9 67 l9 8 19 l MCA NASHVILLE 000459/UMGN (25.98) 7 GABBY BARRETT  NIKO MOON  TENNESSEE WHISKEY I WOULD’VE LOVED YOU KANE BROWN MIXTAPE, VOL. 1 (EP) 10 11 200 10 NEW 10 9 9 25 RCA NASHVILLE DIGITAL EX/SMN 2 l CHRIS STAPLETON  l  FEAT.  FOREVER AFTER ALL DOWN TO ONE SAM HUNT SOUTHSIDE 11 8 15 11 22 4 11 11 13 44 MCA NASHVILLE 031776*/UMGN 1 LUKE COMBS  l LUKE BRYAN  COVER ME UP CHASIN’ YOU THE ESSENTIAL ELVIS PRESLEY 12 13 9 12 RE-ENTRY 12 12 15 98 RCA/SONY STRATEGIC MARKETING GROUP 89048*/LEGACY (25.98) 1 11 l MORGAN WALLEN  l MORGAN WALLEN  HEARTLESS I HOPE EAGLES HOTEL 13 14 74 13 9 75 13 13 14 160 ASYLUM/ELEKTRA 103*/RHINO (18.98) 5 l DIPLO PRESENTS THOMAS WESLEY FEAT. MORGAN WALLEN  GABBY BARRETT  865 SOMEBODY’S PROBLEM 14 16 16 63 JASON ALDEAN 9 1 14 15 4 14 25 6 l MACON/BROKEN BOW/BMG 32944*/BBMG l MORGAN WALLEN  l MORGAN WALLEN  WARNING COVER ME UP 15 17 17 287 GREATEST HITS SO FAR... 3 15 12 4 15 RE-ENTRY l HOME GROWN 546369*/BMG MORGAN WALLEN  l MORGAN WALLEN  DIPLO PRESENTS THOMAS WESLEY CHAPTER I: SNAKE OIL 16 10 8 STILL GOIN DOWN 16 14 255 TENNESSEE WHISKEY 16 15 12 35 MAD DECENT DIGITAL EX/COLUMBIA 6 MORGAN WALLEN  CHRIS STAPLETON  I SHOULD PROBABLY GO TO BED WHAT’S YOUR COUNTRY SONG 17 21 22 26 LUKE BRYAN BORN HERE LIVE HERE DIE HERE 1 17 16 23 17 13 12 l CAPITOL NASHVILLE 031777/UMGN DAN + SHAY  THOMAS RHETT  WHISKEY GLASSES FOREVER AFTER ALL TYLER CHILDERS PURGATORY 18 19 102 18 12 15 18 18 18 82 HICKMAN HOLLER 001*/THIRTY TIGERS 0 12 l MORGAN WALLEN  LUKE COMBS  TIM MCGRAW NUMBER ONE HITS GOT WHAT I GOT UP DOWN 19 20 25 244 6 19 18 34 19 RE-ENTRY l CURB 79205 (13.98) 1 l JASON ALDEAN  l MORGAN WALLEN FEAT. FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE  MIRANDA LAMBERT WILDCARD HOLE IN THE BOTTLE UNDIVIDED 20 19 21 66 1 20 20 5 20 2 4 l VANNER/RCA NASHVILLE 597873*/SMN l KELSEA BALLERINI  TIM MCGRAW & TYLER HUBBARD  KANE BROWN KANE BROWN ONE OF THEM GIRLS DANGEROUS 21 22 20 218 1 21 21 31 21 RE-ENTRY l ZONE 4/RCA NASHVILLE 530947*/SMN 2 l LEE BRICE  l MORGAN WALLEN  KELSEA BALLERINI KELSEA DANGEROUS WINE, BEER, WHISKEY 22 RE-ENTRY 35 2 22 24 4 22 17 31 l BLACK RIVER 2020* l MORGAN WALLEN  LITTLE BIG TOWN  RASCAL FLATTS TWENTY YEARS OF RASCAL FLATTS: THE GREATEST HITS HELL OF A VIEW 23 26 24 18 9 23 22 138 23 18 9 l LYRIC STREET/BIG MACHINE RF0650A*/BMLG l LUKE COMBS  ERIC CHURCH  NIKO MOON GOOD TIME (EP) CHASIN’ YOU LIL BIT 24 30 30 5 24 24 23 49 24 15 12 l RCA NASHVILLE 973051 WS VS EX/SMN l MORGAN WALLEN  NELLY & FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE  BLAKE SHELTON FULLY LOADED: GOD’S COUNTRY 25 23 19 60 1 25 NEW BANDAID ON A BULLET HOLE 25 19 17 ONE TOO MANY WARNER MUSIC NASHVILLE 607343*/WMN 0 l MORGAN WALLEN  KEITH URBAN DUET WITH P!NK  Top Country Albums ranks the most popular country albums of the week, as compiled by MRC Data, based The week’s top-streamed and top-selling paid download country songs, respectively, from sales on multi-metric consumption (blending traditional album sales, track equivalent albums, and streaming reports collected and provided by MRC Data. Charts update weekly on Tuesdays at www.Billboard.Biz/ equivalent albums). Copyright 2021, Billboard Media, LLC and MRC Data. All rights reserved. charts. Copyright 2021, Billboard Media, LLC and MRC Data. All rights reserved. SALES DATA SALES DATA COMPILED BY COMPILED BY AMERICANA/ FOLK ALBUMS BLUEGRASS ALBUMS

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MAKIN’ TRACKS TOM ROLAND [email protected]

‘You Ain’t Pretty’: Newcomer Nate Barnes Says That In The Nicest Way Possible

Americans love an underdog. a negative (most women understandably hate being graded on a scale of one Whether it’s the fallen star making a comeback, the scrappy Rocky-style to 10) into a positive. boxer besting an established champion or the wounded warrior overcoming a “What a girl hates,” counters Yeary, “is if you called her a nine. If you’ve debilitating injury, nearly everyone appreciates the poetry of someone rising never seen her look less than a 10, I think that’s about the only way you get above their perceived station in life. At its simplest level, that kind of storyline away with it.” reinforces a belief that we all have a shot at beating the odds. A second verse underscored the man’s devotion, leading naturally to the In that spirit, every new artist is an underdog, stepping into a marketplace of second chorus. They discussed writing a bridge, but ultimately scratched better-established talents, hoping that they have a that idea, instead slipping a new line, “I know sound, a song, a believability that will make them you completely,” into the final chorus. It brought an unlikely winner in a crowded field. the song’s sentiment to a greater level — if the guy So it is for newcomer Nate Barnes, a Michigan knows her inside and out, and still loves her, she’s native working his first single, which — enhanc- in a really good position. ing that longshot status — also happens to be the After the management paperwork was done, inaugural single for the independent Quartz Hill the Brown Sellers Brown principals established label. Thanks to his previous work history, Barnes the Quartz Hill label, and Barnes was the first knows a thing or two about being the outsider. signee. Producers Mickey Jack Cones (Dustin “I worked around construction guys my whole Lynch, Jameson Rodgers) and Derek George life that were three times bigger than me, and it (, ) were enlisted, and was kind of a badge of honor if they were big,” he “You Ain’t Pretty” stood out when they listened to says. “And so [as] a small guy, I was really self- the first batch of songs in Benny’s home theater. conscious growing up and always just felt weird “I turned around at that first chorus,” recalls and awkward and, you know, not good.” Cones. “I didn’t even know who wrote it. I just That makes Barnes a particularly apt voice went, ‘That is a smash.’ Like, I literally got chills for his debut single, “You Ain’t Pretty,” a song when I heard it.” that does what every successful underdog ac- Barnes signed the Quartz Hill deal shortly be- complishes: turning a negative situation into a fore his first session, held Aug. 7 at Nashville’s positive. It’s a tale about battling the inner ty- Blackbird Studios. The musicians were masked BARNES rant — everybody’s got one — who says a person up and COVID-19-tested: drummer Jerry Roe, isn’t smart enough, tough enough, thin enough bassist Mark Hill, keyboardist Charlie Judge, or attractive enough. steel guitarist Mike Johnson and guitarists Troy Lancaster and Derek Wells. The idea belonged to songwriter Jimmy Yeary (“,” “I Drive They bought a cake to celebrate Wells’ birthday (no candles — blowing them Your Truck”), who thought of the unflattering title, “You Ain’t Pretty,” during out was a coronavirus no-no), and with Barnes experiencing a master session a four-mile morning run on Jan. 6, 2020. He pulled out his phone and huffed for the first time, the recording had a clear positivity to it. and puffed the first four lines into the recorder, depicting a woman in front “It’s special because it was special for Nate — you know, that’s a first time of a mirror whose inner voice is telling her a common lie: “You ain’t pretty.” that you never get to relive,” explains Cones. “And the fact that we’ve got his Yeary wasn’t sure how to get to the payoff, but he thought he had a winner if a first single on that session, and it was Derek Wells’ birthday and Nate had just male singer were able to reassure her by twisting the negative title into a posi- signed his deal literally within 24 hours of us going in and tracking, that vibe, tive truth: “I ain’t ever seen you, girl, when you ain’t pretty.” for me, matched the tone for the song.” “I just think about my wife,” says Yeary, alluding to Sonya Isaacs of the The players gave the production a little more drama than the demo, and bluegrass gospel act The Isaacs. “I see her in the mirror sometimes doing her Wells contributed a birthday solo. Barnes delivered his final vocal at a little quirky things with her hair, her shirt or whatever. And then sometimes it later date. It was fairly easy — since he had co-written it, he knew it completely goes to ‘Does this look all right? I just feel like it looks stupid.’ And the whole — and Cones and George helped him adjust the phrasing for the chorus. It was time, before she says that, I’m just thinking to myself, ‘Good God, she’s pretty.’ ” a minor issue, but Barnes was more than happy to go over it repeatedly, trust- After his run, Yeary showered and worked out a guitar lick to accompany ing his producers to help him find the pocket. his opening verse. Then he headed to Sony/ATV on Music Row for a writing “I want to get better, I want to grind with them, I want to dig deeper,” says appointment with Barnes, whom he had never met or heard, and Barnes. “They helped me go deeper and get there.” (“Don’t You Wanna Stay,” “”), who was in the process of signing Released to terrestrial radio via PlayMPE on New Year’s Eve, the “You Ain’t Barnes to a management contract with Brown Sellers Brown, a company he Pretty” title looks negative on the page, though when people hear it — usually co-owns with former BBR Music Group executives Benny Brown and Paul without actually reading the moniker — it’s hugely positive. The writers have Brown. Barnes and Sellers were both instant believers in “You Ain’t Pretty.” seen adults cry over it. A ballad might be an underdog choice for an inaugural “This song was obviously written to a female from the position of the singer,” single, but Sellers sees it as a winner. says Sellers. “But I think the reason it hit us all is just because men and women “I love the fact that that’s the kind of song that we’re launching not just Nate all feel insecure about themselves for one reason or another.” with, but our whole record company with,” he says. Yeary’s lightly syncopated verse melody proved ideal for Barnes’ easy- Barnes sees it as a means to guide others to the kind of reversal that he has going baritone, and the three were able to build a lift into the piece when experienced firsthand. they reached the chorus, slightly raising the melodic range and shifting the “There was a time in my life that I was pretty lost,” he says. “I just want to

phrasing to emphasize the downbeat. The first line of that chorus, “I ain’t ever give hope to people. So being able to have a song like this, and knowing that MYERS JASON seen you lookin’ any less than a 10,” enhanced the song’s theme by turning people are feeling that [positivity], that means the most.” BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE FEBRUARY 8, 2021 | PAGE 15 OF 17 Country Airplay Index

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G   LADY LIKE Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/What Is An SINGLE SATURDAY NIGHT Round Hill Songs (Songwriter) Chart Position Ingrid, BMI/Straight From The Art Music, BMI/Songs For II, ASCAP/Caleb’s College Fund, ASCAP/Relative Music GLAD YOU EXIST Monet Music, BMI/Warner- A Stone Heart, BMI/Universal Music Corp., ASCAP/Happy Group, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Spokane Boy Music, Rock Publishing, ASCAP (I.Andress, S.Ellis, D.Southerland) 51 Inc., BMI/Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Art In The Fodder A   BMI/Jreynmusic, ASCAP/Buckeye26, ASCAP/Shay Music, BMI/Hark Molman Songs, BMI/BMG Platinum Mooney Music, BMI/WC Music Corp., ASCAP/Beats And LONG LIVE Big Loud Mountain, BMI/T Hubb Songs US, BMI/Ju Jettsu Music, BMI/ Music, ALL NIGHT All The Kings Pens, ASCAP/Trampy , ASCAP (D.Smyers, J.Reynolds, T.M.Parks, S.Mooney, Publishing, BMI/Pranch Ringle Music, BMI/Round BMI (A.Gorley, M.W.Hardy, M.L.Holman) 34 McCauley, ASCAP/WC Music Corp., ASCAP/Songstein R.L.Taylor) 33 Hill Works, BMI/WC Music Corp., ASCAP/Big Crowd Publishing, ASCAP/Songs In The Key Of Claire, ASCAP/ Publishing, ASCAP/Georgia Song Vibez, ASCAP/Spirit SOMEBODY LIKE THAT Oven Music Inc., Patriot Games Publishing, ASCAP/DTCM Ave, ASCAP (J. GONE Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/A Boy Two Music Inc., ASCAP/4TheKidz Music, ASCAP/Spirit BMI/Ziggys Z Music, SESAC/Tunes Of Big Deal Music, Osborne, T.J. Osborne, A.DeRoberts) 28 Named Ford, BMI/Ben There Wrote That Publishing, Vault Songs, ASCAP/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., SESAC/Songs Of Porterfied Music, SESAC (T.Arts, A.Kline, BMI/Artist 101 Publishing Group, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt BMI/Jack 10 Publishing, BMI/Songs Of The Corn, BMI (T. A.M.Cruz) 16 ALMOST MAYBES Ole Red Cape Songs, ASCAP/ Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI/Hits From The Tape Hubbard, B.Kelley, C.Crowder, D.A.Garcia, J.Miller) 11 Jordan Davis Music, ASCAP/Anthem Entertainment, Room, BMI/Round Hill Compositions, BMI/W.C.M. Music STARTING OVER I Wrote These Songs, ASCAP/WC ASCAP/ WC Publishing Designee, BMI/ Corp., SESAC/Niko Moon Publishing, SESAC (N.Galyon, LOVE YOU LIKE I USED TO BMG Platinum Music Corp., ASCAP/Straight Six Music, BMI/Wixen Music Telemitry Rhythm House Music, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane B.Johnson, N.Moon) 24 Songs US, BMI/Kailey’s Dream, BMI/Blue Corolla Publishing, BMI (C.Stapleton, M.Henderson) 10 Publishing Corp., BMI/BIRB Music, ASCAP/BMG Gold Oklahoma, SESAC/Feel Your Creative Pulse Music, Songs, ASCAP (J.Davis, J.Frasure, H.Lindsey) 19 THE GOOD ONES GBF Music Global, BMI/Sony/ SESAC/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Songs T   ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/BMG Platinum Songs US, BMI/ Of Home Team Music, BMI/Tunes Of TrailerParker, BMI (R. 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Music Corp., SESAC/Niko Moon MADE FOR YOU Plaid Flag Music, BMI/Sony/ATV GMR/We Are Creative Nation, GMR/Suzanne James Music Corp., ASCAP/ Records And Tapes, ASCAP/ Publishing, SESAC/Here Comes The Boom Music, BMI/ Tree Publishing, BMI/Dixie Stars Music, ASCAP/Son Of a Songs, GMR (J.Pardi, R.Akins, L.Laird) 44 Sony/ATV Cross Keys Publishing, ASCAP/Smackborne Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI/ Carl Music, ASCAP/HoriPro Entertainment Group, Inc., Music, ASCAP (D.Rucker, R.Copperman, J.T.Harding, J.Osborne) Anna Moon Publishing, ASCAP/WC Music Corp., ASCAP/ ASCAP (B.Davis, J.Hyde, N.A.Medley) 20 THINGS A MAN OUGHTA KNOW Sony/ 3 Joshua Murty Publishing, ASCAP/Mark Trussell Music, ATV Accent, ASCAP/Super Big Music, ASCAP/Jett Music, ASCAP/Future Heartbeat Publishing, ASCAP (N.Moon, MEMORY I DON’T MESS WITH Love ASCAP/Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI (L.Wilson, J.D.Singleton, BEERS TO CATCH UP ON Warner-Tamerlane J.Minton, A.Moon, J.Murty, M.Trussell) 7 Cannons Publishing, SESAC/W.C.M. Music Corp., SESAC/ J.Nix) 55 Publishing Corp., BMI/Ritten By Rhettro, BMI/Ole Mike Curb Music, BMI/Is That The Train Music, BMI/ Red Cape Songs, ASCAP/Real Big Red Tunes, ASCAP/ H   Anthem Music Publishing I, BMI/Twangville Music, BMI/ U   Universal Music Corp., ASCAP (R.Akins, J.S.Stover, Songs About Jack, BMI/Write Or Die Music, BMI/Warner- P.DiGiovanni) 49 HAPPY DOES Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI (L.Brice, B.Montana, UNDIVIDED T Tree Music, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane BMI/Murphy The Wolf Music, BMI/Five Miles West Songs, B.Davis) 46 Publishing Corp., BMI/Straight Outta Georgia Songs, BETTER TOGETHER Big Music Machine, BMI/50 BMI/Mandy’s Favorite Songs, BMI/Songs Of Universal, SESAC/Tree Vibez Bus Vibez, SESAC/W.C.M. Music Corp., Egg Music, BMI/Straight Dimes Publishing, BMI/Sony/ Inc., BMI/Songsfortatum Publishing, BMI/Don’t Be A MINIMUM WAGE A Boy Named Ford, BMI/Big SESAC (T.Hubbard, C.Loocke) 21 ATV Countryside, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Gypsy, BMI/Hold On Can I Get A Number 1 Music, BMI (B. 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ASCAP/Paulywood Music, ASCAP/Sullivan S Guns Music, Church, C.Beathard, M.Criswell) 18 N   BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Tunes C   From The Red White And Blue School, ASCAP/Anthem HOLE IN THE BOTTLE Sony/ATV Accent, ASCAP/ NEED A BAR SOMETIMES Peertunes, Music Publishing II, ASCAP (P.DiGiovanni, R.Montana, COLD BEER CALLING MY NAME Highly Vistaville Music, ASCAP/Steph Jones Who Music, ASCAP/ Ltd., SESAC/Marlow Sinclair Songs, SESAC/Reservoir J.S.Stover) 31 Combustible Music, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Big Deal Hits, ASCAP/410 Music, ASCAP/Telemitry Media Music, ASCAP/Mirendawrites, ASCAP/Raincreek Publishing LLC, ASCAP/One77 Songs, ASCAP/WC Music Rhythm House Music, BMI/Roc Nation WC Publishing Publishing, ASCAP/Espiritu de Leon, BMI (C.Walker, J.Boyer, WE WERE RICH EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/ Corp., ASCAP/Who Wants To Buy My Publishing, ASCAP/ Designee, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/ J.Mirenda, G.Birge) 58 Endurance Romeo Charlie, BMI/WC Music Corp., ASCAP/ Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Sonofgroceries Round Hill Songs II, ASCAP/Caleb’s College Fund, ASCAP Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/Round Hill Songs Music, BMI/Extremely Combustible Music, BMI/Songs (K.Ballerini, S.Jones, H.Lindsey, J.Frasure, A.Gorley) 4 NEXT GIRL Smackborne Music, ASCAP/Sony/ATV II, ASCAP/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI (R. Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI/Castle Accent, ASCAP/Warner Geo Met Ric Music, GMR/Tempo Copperman, A.Gorley, N.Galyon) 39 Bound Music, Inc., SESAC (J.Rodgers, H.Phelps, Brett Tyler, HOME SWEET BMG Platinum Songs US, BMI/ Investments-Smack Hits, GMR/Smackwood Music, GMR/ A.Vanderheym) 47 Music That Is Russelled, BMI/Blue Corolla Oklahoma, For The Kids Gold, ASCAP/BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP (C. Sony/ATV Cross Keys SESAC/Feel Your Creative Pulse Music, SESAC/The Best I Pearce, S.McAnally, J.Osborne) 32 Publishing, ASCAP/EMI April Music, Inc., ASCAP/Dos D   Could Do Publishing, ASCAP/WC Music Corp., ASCAP (R. Hobos Music, ASCAP/Relative Music Group, BMI/Songs Of Dickerson, C.Brown, C.Kelley) 52 NOBODY Curb Congregation Songs, SESAC/Good Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI/New Writers DEAR RODEO Songs From The Couch, BMI/Cori’s Vibes, Good Times Music, SESAC/Curb Songs, ASCAP/ Of Sea Gayle Music, BMI/West Pass Music, BMI (R.Counts, Daddy’s Publishing, BMI (D.Couch, C.D.Johnson) 38 HOW THEY REMEMBER YOU Son Of Ron Songs Of Riser House, BMI (D.Scott, M.Alderman, D.Wilson) M.W.Hardy, J.Mitchell) 43 Songs, ASCAP/Downtown DLJ Songs, ASCAP/Sony/ATV 17 DOWN TO ONE Play It Again Entertainment, BMI/ Cross Keys Publishing, ASCAP/Smackville Music, ASCAP/ WHAT’S YOUR COUNTRY SONG EMI Kyle Fishman Music, BMI/Round Hill Compositions, BMI/ Smack Songs LLC, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Publishing NO BODY, NO CRIME TASRM Publishing, BMI/ Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Cricket On The Line, BMI/ Natalia’s Music Money, BMI/Memory Days, SESAC/Curb LLC, ASCAP/Built On Rock Music, ASCAP (M.Beeson, Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI (T.Swift) 60 Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Ritten By Wordspring Music, SESAC/W.C.M. Music Corp., SESAC (K. J.Osborne, A.Shamblin) 14 Rhettro, BMI/Telemitry Rhythm House Music, BMI/Songs Fishman, D.Davidson, J.Ebach) 6 O   Of Roc Nation Music, BMI/Tunes by TrailerParker, BMI/ I   Songs Of Home Team Music, BMI/Round Hill Songs DRINKIN’ BEER. TALKIN’ GOD. AMEN. ONE TOO MANY Kobalt Songs Music Publishing II, ASCAP/Caleb’s College Fund, ASCAP (Thomas Rhett, Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI/Georgia Song Vibez, ASCAP/ IF IT WASN’T FOR TRUCKS Peermusic III, LLC, ASCAP/Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, R.Akins, J.Frasure, A.Gorley, P.Welling) 8 Big Crowd Publishing, ASCAP/WC Music Corp., ASCAP/ Ltd., BMI/Sullivan S Guns Music, BMI/Back 40 Publishing Inc., BMI/Reservoir 416, BMI/WC Music Corp., ASCAP/ Nontypical Music, ASCAP/Who Wants To Buy My International, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., James Norton Publishing Designee, ASCAP (D.H.Davidsen, WHISKEY AND RAIN Warner-Tamerlane Publishing, ASCAP/Cale Dodds Publishing, ASCAP (C.Rice, BMI (R.Green, Erik Dylan, R.Montana) 59 P.Wallevik, M.H.Hansen, J.Norton, C.Tighe) 22 Publishing Corp., BMI/Telemitry Rhythm House Music, C.Crowder, H.Phelps, C.Dodds) 36 BMI/Songs Of Roc Nation Music, BMI/Big Music Machine, J   S   BMI/Two Laine Collections, BMI (J.Frasure, J.Thompson) 50 F   JUST ABOUT OVER YOU Scilla’s Song Shop SETTLING DOWN Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/ WINE, BEER, WHISKEY Razor And Tie Music FAMOUS FRIENDS Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/ Publising, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., Pink Dog Publishing, BMI/Emileon Songs, BMI/Songs Publishing, BMI/Tofer The Musical, BMI/Warner- They’ve Gone To Plaid Publishing, BMI/W.C.M. Music BMI/91 Dogs Publishing, BMI/Emily Kroll Music, ASCAP (P. Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI/Songs Of Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Silent Desert Music, Corp., SESAC/Roc Nation US Music, SESAC/Bennett’s Block, S.Jones, E.K.Kroll) 41 Universal, Inc., BMI/Wrucke For You Publishing, BMI (M. BMI/Self Made Entertainment, BMI (T.Brown, K.Fairchild, Dad’s Songs, SESAC/Songs Of Rhythm House Black, Lambert, L.Dick, N. Hemby) 25 S.McConnell, K.Schlapman, P.Sweet, J.Westbrook) 37 SESAC/WC Music Corp., ASCAP/Georgia Song Vibez, JUST THE WAY Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI/JM ASCAP/Big Crowd Publishing, ASCAP (C.Young, C.R.Barlowe, Thomas Music, BMI/Sony/ATV Tunes LLC, ASCAP/Kevin SHALLOW Sony/ATV Songs LLC, BMI/Warner-Barham WORSHIP YOU Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/ C.Crowder) 29 Bard Music, ASCAP/Margetts Road Music, ASCAP/Nolan Music LLC, BMI/SG Songs Worldwide, BMI/Warner-Olive Kane Brown Music, BMI/BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP/AIX W. Sipe Music, ASACP (M.Thomas, K.Bard, N.W.Sipe) 5 Music LLC, ASCAP/Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Concord Publishing, ASCAP/Kobalt Group Music Publishing, FOREVER AFTER ALL Big Music Machine, Publishing, BMI/Zelig Publishing, BMI/Stephaniesays SESAC/McGinntellectual Property, SESAC/True Blue BMI/50 Egg Music, BMI/Straight Dimes Publishing, BMI/ L   Music, ASCAP/Downtown DLJ Songs, ASCAP/White Works, SESAC/Krispy Pork Gang, BMI (K.Brown, A.Izquierdo, Works For RHA Music, BMI/Rowdy Rob Music, BMI/Sony/ Bull Music Group, BMI/Downtown DMP Songs, BMI M.J.McGinn, Charlie Handsome) 40 ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/Oak Tree Swing Publishing, LADY Super Big Music, ASCAP/Caliville Publishing, (S.G.Germanotta, M.D.Ronson, A.Rossomando, Andrew Wyatt) 45 BMI (L.Combs, D.Parker, R.Williford) 53 ASCAP/EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/EMI April Music, Y   Inc., ASCAP/Iris In The Sky With Diamonds, BMI/Nite FREEDOM WAS A HIGHWAY Sony/ATV Writer Music, ASCAP (B.Young, R.Copperman, J.M.Nite) 12 YOU TIME Dagum Music, BMI/Spirit Two Nashville, Lakeview, SESAC/Red Lining Music, SESAC/Sony/ATV ASCAP/Fluid Tunes, ASCAP/Smackville Music, ASCAP/ Countryside, BMI/Big Spaces Music, BMI/Sony/ATV Smack Songs LLC, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Publishing Accent, ASCAP/Nepasongs, ASCAP (J.Allen, A.Bowers, LLC, ASCAP  42 M.Rogers) 57 (S.McCreery, F.Rogers, A.Eshuis)  BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE FEBRUARY 8, 2021 | PAGE 16 OF 17 Hot Country Songs Index

TITLE Publishing-Licensing Org. THE GOOD ONES GBF Music Global, BMI/Sony/ M   SOMEBODY LIKE THAT Oven Music Inc., (Songwriter) Chart Position ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/BMG Platinum Songs US, BMI/ BMI/Ziggys Z Music, SESAC/Tunes Of Big Deal Music, BMG Blue, BMI/Fox Landis Lyrics, BMI/Songs Of Jim MADE FOR YOU Plaid Flag Music, BMI/Sony/ATV SESAC/Songs Of Porterfied Music, SESAC (T.Arts, A.Kline, 7 SUMMERS Big Loud Mountain, BMI/Bo Wallace McCormick, BMI/Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI/Revinyl Tree Publishing, BMI/Dixie Stars Music, ASCAP/Son Of a A.M.Cruz) 26 Publishing, BMI/Round Hill Compositions, BMI/Tempo House, BMI (G.Barrett, E.Landis, J.McCormick, Z.Kale) 16 Carl Music, ASCAP/HoriPro Entertainment Group, Inc., SOMEBODY’S PROBLEM Big Loud Investments-Smack Hits, GMR/Smackstreet Music, ASCAP (B.Davis, J.Hyde, N.A.Medley) 40 Mountain, BMI/Bo Wallace Publishing, BMI/Round Hill GMR/Warner Geo Met Ric Music, GMR/Sony/ATV Accent, GOOD TIME W.C.M. Music Corp., SESAC/Niko Moon Publishing, SESAC/Here Comes The Boom Music, BMI/ MOMMA’S HOUSE Sony/ATV Cross Keys Compositions, BMI/Ford Drives A Chevy, BMI/Shirt At ASCAP/Smackborne Music, ASCAP (M.Wallen, S.McAnally, Publishing, ASCAP/Two Black Dogs, ASCAP/ole Music J.Osborne) 6 Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI/ Work, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/ Anna Moon Publishing, ASCAP/WC Music Corp., ASCAP/ Of Parallel, BMI/Lucky Mic Publishing, BMI/Round Hill Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Em Dog Music, BMI (M. 865 Big Loud Mountain, BMI/Blake Pendergrass Joshua Murty Publishing, ASCAP/Mark Trussell Music, Compositions, BMI/Ford Drives A Chevy, BMI/Shirt At Wallen, R.Clawson, J.Durrett, E.K.Smith) 11 Publishing Designee, BMI (J.Byron, B.Pendergrass) 22 Work, BMI/Legends Of Magic Mustang Music, SESAC/BMG ASCAP/Future Heartbeat Publishing, ASCAP (N.Moon, STARTING OVER I Wrote These Songs, ASCAP/WC J.Minton, A.Moon, J.Murty, M.Trussell) 4 Cicada, SESAC (D.Schneider, M.Lotten, R.Clawson, J.T.Wilson) 25 A   Music Corp., ASCAP/Straight Six Music, BMI/Wixen Music H   MORE SURPRISED THAN ME W.C.M. Music Publishing, BMI (C.Stapleton, M.Henderson) 7 ALMOST MAYBES Ole Red Cape Songs, ASCAP/ Corp., SESAC/Niko Moon Publishing, SESAC/Warner- Jordan Davis Music, ASCAP/Anthem Entertainment, HAPPY DOES Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Bump Into Genius STILL GOIN DOWN Big Loud Mountain, BMI/ ASCAP/Roc Nation WC Publishing Designee, BMI/ BMI/Murphy The Wolf Music, BMI/Five Miles West Songs, Music, BMI/Mr. Buck Lucky, BMI/The Country And Round Hill Compositions, BMI/Relative Music Group, Telemitry Rhythm House Music, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane BMI/Mandy’s Favorite Songs, BMI/Songs Of Universal, Western Music, BMI (N.Moon, B.Burgess, L.T.Miller) 37 BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., Publishing Corp., BMI/BIRB Music, ASCAP/BMG Gold Inc., BMI/Songsfortatum Publishing, BMI/Don’t Be A BMI/Sony/ATV Songs LLC, BMI (M.Wallen, M.W.Hardy, Charlie Songs, ASCAP (J.Davis, J.Frasure, H.Lindsey) 29 Gypsy, BMI/Hold On Can I Get A Number 1 Music, BMI (B. MORE THAN MY HOMETOWN Relative Handsome) 21 Clawson, J.Paulin, B.Berryhill, G.James) 10 Music Group, BMI/Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Big B   Loud Mountain, BMI/Em Dog Music, BMI/Songs Of U   HELL OF A VIEW Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/ Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI/Round UNDIVIDED T Tree Music, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane BANDAID ON A BULLET HOLE Big Loud Longer And Louder Music, BMI/Seven Ring Circus Songs, Mountain, BMI/Bo Wallace Publishing, BMI/Magic Hill Compositions, BMI/Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI Publishing Corp., BMI/Straight Outta Georgia Songs, BMI/Little Louder Songs, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music (M.W.Hardy, E.K.Smith, Charlie Handsome, M.Wallen) 8 SESAC/Tree Vibez Bus Vibez, SESAC/W.C.M. Music Corp., Mustang Music, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Publishing America, Inc., BMI/Spirit Of Nashville One, SESAC (T.Hubbard, C.Loocke) 38 Corp., BMI/Round Hill Songs II, ASCAP/Caleb’s College BMI/Tunes Of Fluid, BMI/Rust And Chrome Music, BMI (E. N   Fund, ASCAP (M.Wallen, J.Durrett, A.Gorley) 30 Church, C.Beathard, M.Criswell) 24 NEON EYES Big Loud Mountain, BMI/BMG Platinum W   BEERS AND SUNSHINE Sony/ATV Accent, HOLE IN THE BOTTLE Sony/ATV Accent, ASCAP/ Songs US, BMI/Ju Jettsu Music, BMI/Songs Of Universal, WARNING Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Big Loud ASCAP/GrowingMusic Publishing, ASCAP/EMI Blackwood Vistaville Music, ASCAP/Steph Jones Who Music, ASCAP/ Inc., BMI/Art In The Fodder Music, BMI/Hark Molman Mountain, BMI/Tree Vibez Music, LLC, BMI/Ern Dog Music, Music Inc., BMI/Iris In The Sky With Diamonds, BMI/WC Big Deal Hits, ASCAP/410 Music, ASCAP/Telemitry Songs, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/ BMI/Caleb’s College Fund, ASCAP/Sony/ATV Songs LLC, Music Corp., ASCAP/Detroit Records And Tapes, ASCAP/ Rhythm House Music, BMI/Roc Nation WC Publishing Bump Into Genius Music, BMI (M.Wallen, M.L.Holman, BMI (E.K.Smith, A.Gorley, Charlie Handsome) 23 Sony/ATV Cross Keys Publishing, ASCAP/Smackborne Designee, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/ B.Burgess) 32 Music, ASCAP (D.Rucker, R.Copperman, J.T.Harding, J.Osborne) WASTED ON YOU Big Loud Mountain, BMI/Bo Round Hill Songs II, ASCAP/Caleb’s College Fund, ASCAP NOBODY Curb Congregation Songs, SESAC/Good 13 (K.Ballerini, S.Jones, H.Lindsey, J.Frasure, A.Gorley) 9 Wallace Publishing, BMI/Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/ Vibes, Good Times Music, SESAC/Curb Songs, ASCAP/ Em Dog Music, BMI/ Publishing, BMI/MV2 BETTER TOGETHER Big Music Machine, BMI/50 HOW THEY REMEMBER YOU Son Of Ron Songs Of Riser House, BMI (D.Scott, M.Alderman, D.Wilson) Music, BMI/Sony/ATV Songs LLC, BMI (M.Wallen, E.K.Smith, Egg Music, BMI/Straight Dimes Publishing, BMI/Sony/ Songs, ASCAP/Downtown DLJ Songs, ASCAP/Sony/ATV 33 J.Thompson, Charlie Handsome) 3 ATV Countryside, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Cross Keys Publishing, ASCAP/Smackville Music, ASCAP/ O   Corp., BMI/Sullivan S Guns Music, BMI (L.Combs, D.Isbell, Smack Songs LLC, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Publishing WHAT’S YOUR COUNTRY SONG EMI R.Montana) 1 LLC, ASCAP/Built On Rock Music, ASCAP (M.Beeson, ONE TOO MANY Kobalt Songs Music Publishing Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Cricket On The Line, BMI/ BREAKING UP WAS EASY IN THE 90’S J.Osborne, A.Shamblin) 31 LLC, ASCAP/Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Ritten By Universal Music Corp., ASCAP/Between the Pines, LLC, Inc., BMI/Reservoir 416, BMI/WC Music Corp., ASCAP/ Rhettro, BMI/Telemitry Rhythm House Music, BMI/Songs I   ASCAP/BIPOD, ASCAP/Spirit Two Nashville, ASCAP/Miller James Norton Publishing Designee, ASCAP (D.H.Davidsen, Of Roc Nation Music, BMI/Tunes by TrailerParker, BMI/ Songs Of Home Team Music, BMI/Round Hill Songs Crow Music, ASCAP/Kyler’s Kinda Night, ASCAP/Songs I HOPE Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI/GBF Music Global, P.Wallevik, M.H.Hansen, J.Norton, C.Tighe) 27 Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Ern Dog Music, BMI/Big Loud BMI/Revinyl House, BMI/EMI April Music, Inc., ASCAP/ II, ASCAP/Caleb’s College Fund, ASCAP (Thomas Rhett, ONLY THING THAT’S GONE Big Loud R.Akins, J.Frasure, A.Gorley, P.Welling) 15 Mountain, BMI/Tree Vibez Music, LLC, BMI/Sony/ATV Nite Writer Music, ASCAP/Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI Mountain, BMI/Bo Wallace Publishing, BMI/Songs Of Accent, ASCAP/Smackborne Music, ASCAP (S.L.Hunt, C.La (Z.Kale, J.M.Nite, G.Barrett) 2 Universal, Inc., BMI/Matt Drag Music, ASCAP/Round Hill WHISKEY’D MY WAY Matt Drag Music, ASCAP/ Corte, Z.Crowell, E.K.Smith, J.Osborne) 35 Songs BLS JV, ASCAP/Big Loud Proud Songs, ASCAP/ Round Hill Songs BLS JV, ASCAP/Big Loud Proud Songs, J   ASCAP/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Songs C   Red Bandana Publishing, BMI/MV2 Music, BMI (M.Wallen, JUST THE WAY Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI/JM R.C.McGill, M.Dragstrem, J.Thompson) 50 Of The Corn, BMI/Jack 10 Publishing, BMI/EMI Blackwood COVER ME UP Fame Publishing Company LLC, Thomas Music, BMI/Sony/ATV Tunes LLC, ASCAP/Kevin Music Inc., BMI/Cricket On The Line, BMI/Big Music BMI/Songs Of Emchant, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Bard Music, ASCAP/Margetts Road Music, ASCAP/Nolan OUTLAW Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/ Machine, BMI/Two Laine Collections, BMI (M.Dragstrem, Publishing America, Inc., BMI (M.J.Isbell) 18 W. Sipe Music, ASACP (M.Thomas, K.Bard, N.W.Sipe) 12 This Songs For You Pops, BMI/Patrick Davis Music, BMI/ J.Miller, Thomas Rhett, J.Thompson) 44 Tunes Of Black River, BMI/BNA Bangers, BMI/WC Music D   L   Corp., ASCAP/Jreynmusic, ASCAP/Buckeye26, ASCAP (B. WINE, BEER, WHISKEY Razor And Tie Music Burgess, P.Davis, J.Kerr, J.Reynolds) 47 Publishing, BMI/Tofer The Musical, BMI/Warner- DANGEROUS Big Loud Mountain, BMI/Bo Wallace LADY Super Big Music, ASCAP/Caliville Publishing, Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Silent Desert Music, Publishing, BMI/Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Ern Dog ASCAP/EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/EMI April Music, S   BMI/Self Made Entertainment, BMI (T.Brown, K.Fairchild, Music, BMI (M.Wallen, E.K.Smith) 28 Inc., ASCAP/Iris In The Sky With Diamonds, BMI/Nite 46 SAND IN MY BOOTS Round Hill Songs II, ASCAP/ S.McConnell, K.Schlapman, P.Sweet, J.Westbrook)  Writer Music, ASCAP (B.Young, R.Copperman, J.M.Nite) 20 DOWN TO ONE Play It Again Entertainment, BMI/ Caleb’s College Fund, ASCAP/Relative Music Group, BMI/ WONDERIN’ BOUT THE WIND Big Loud Kyle Fishman Music, BMI/Round Hill Compositions, BMI/ LIL BIT Big Loud Mountain, BMI/T Hubb Publishing, Sony/ATV Accent, ASCAP/Smackborne Music, ASCAP (A. Mountain, BMI/Bo Wallace Publishing, BMI/Songs Natalia’s Music Money, BMI/Memory Days, SESAC/Curb BMI/Round Hill Works, BMI/Sony/ATV Accent, ASCAP/ Gorley, M.W.Hardy, J.Osborne) 5 Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Ern Dog Music, BMI (M.Wallen, Wordspring Music, SESAC/W.C.M. Music Corp., SESAC (K. 49 Pile Of Schmidt Songs, ASCAP/The Money Tree Vibez, SETTLING DOWN Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/ E.K.Smith)  Fishman, D.Davidson, J.Ebach) 14 ASCAP/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/WC Pink Dog Publishing, BMI/Emileon Songs, BMI/Songs WORSHIP YOU Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/ F   Music Corp., ASCAP (T.Hubbard, J.M.Schmidt, B.Redferrin, Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI/Songs Of C.Haynes, Jr.) 45 Kane Brown Music, BMI/BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP/AIX Universal, Inc., BMI/Wrucke For You Publishing, BMI (M. Publishing, ASCAP/Kobalt Group Music Publishing, FOREVER AFTER ALL Big Music Machine, Lambert, L.Dick, N. Hemby) 36 BMI/50 Egg Music, BMI/Straight Dimes Publishing, BMI/ LIVIN’ THE DREAM Big Loud Mountain, BMI/Bo SESAC/McGinntellectual Property, SESAC/True Blue Works For RHA Music, BMI/Rowdy Rob Music, BMI/Sony/ Wallace Publishing, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing SHALLOW Sony/ATV Songs LLC, BMI/Warner-Barham Works, SESAC/Krispy Pork Gang, BMI (K.Brown, A.Izquierdo, M.J.McGinn, Charlie Handsome) 42 ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/Oak Tree Swing Publishing, Corp., BMI/This Songs For You Pops, BMI (M.Wallen, Music LLC, BMI/SG Songs Worldwide, BMI/Warner-Olive B.Burgess, J.Durrett, M.W.Hardy) 39 BMI (L.Combs, D.Parker, R.Williford) 19 Music LLC, ASCAP/Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Concord Y   LONG LIVE Big Loud Mountain, BMI/T Hubb Publishing, BMI/Zelig Publishing, BMI/Stephaniesays G   Publishing, BMI/Pranch Ringle Music, BMI/Round Music, ASCAP/Downtown DLJ Songs, ASCAP/White YOUR BARTENDER Matt Drag Music, ASCAP/ Round Hill Songs BLS JV, ASCAP/Big Loud Proud Songs, GONE Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/A Boy Hill Works, BMI/WC Music Corp., ASCAP/Big Crowd Bull Music Group, BMI/Downtown DMP Songs, BMI ASCAP/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/ Named Ford, BMI/Ben There Wrote That Publishing, Publishing, ASCAP/Georgia Song Vibez, ASCAP/Spirit (S.G.Germanotta, M.D.Ronson, A.Rossomando, Andrew Wyatt) 48 Ritten By Rhettro, BMI/EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/ BMI/Artist 101 Publishing Group, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Two Music Inc., ASCAP/4TheKidz Music, ASCAP/Spirit SILVERADO FOR SALE Round Hill Cricket On The Line, BMI/Red Bandana Publishing, Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI/Hits From The Tape Vault Songs, ASCAP/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., Compositions, BMI/Natalia’s Music Money, BMI/Sony/ BMI/MV2 Music, BMI (M.Dragstrem, R.Akins, Thomas Rhett, Room, BMI/Round Hill Compositions, BMI/W.C.M. Music BMI/Jack 10 Publishing, BMI/Songs Of The Corn, BMI (T. Hubbard, B.Kelley, C.Crowder, D.A.Garcia, J.Miller) 17 ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing J.Thompson) 43 Corp., SESAC/Niko Moon Publishing, SESAC (N.Galyon, Corp., BMI/All Night Linda Music, BMI/Sony/ATV Cross B.Johnson, N.Moon) 34 Keys Publishing, ASCAP/WC Music Corp., ASCAP/ Pinetucky Road Publishing, ASCAP (D.Davidson, M.Green, B.Hayslip) 41 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE FEBRUARY 8, 2021 | PAGE 17 OF 17

CODA 30 Years Ago ’s ‘Jukebox’ Played At No. 1 In 1991, the Texan achieved his first of nine Hot Country Songs leaders On Feb. 9, 1991, Mark Chesnutt’s second single from his debut MCA tional country music, he has racked up “” ascended for its first album, , which pro- 40 Hot Country Songs entries, includ- of two weeks atop Billboard’s Hot Coun- duced five top 10 Hot Country Songs ing nine No. 1s among 20 top 10s. He try Songs chart, marking his first leader hits. The title-track lead single (No. 3, won the Horizon Award as best emerg- on the list. 1990) started a run of his first 12 entries ing artist at the 1993 Country Music Penned by , the song was all reaching the top 10 through 1994. Association Awards. originally recorded by Don Everly, half The Beaumont, Texas-born artist Now 57, Chesnutt released his lat- of famed duo . His quit high school in 11th grade and was est album, , in 2016. version reached No. 96 in 1977. performing in Texas clubs by age 17. It reached No. 22 on Top Country Al- Chesnutt’s take was released as the Known for his honky-tonk style of tradi- bums. —JIM ASKER

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