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Morris, Brown Top Charts Brandy Clark Makes A Personal >page 4 Statement On The Record

Nashville Works Toward Recovery Ten seconds into Brandy Clark’s Your Life Is a Record, a the listener to an expectant conclusion of what turns out to be >page 9 languid grunting tone emerges, unconventionally planting a breakup album, released by Warner on March 6. “The Past a baritone sax into the opening moments of what’s ostensibly Is the Past,” she declares in that glassy finale, with fragile a country album. guitar arpeggios supporting a It’s a tad mysterious. In transitional journey into some Dan + Shay Launch context, it could be a bassoon or unknown future. Putting that Arena Tour a bass clarinet — Clark thought upbeat sentiment at the end >page 10 it was a cello the first time she of the project rather than the heard it — but it reveals to the beginning was one of the few listener that Your Life Is a Record, places where she dug in her heels produced by Jay Joyce (Eric with the label. Current News: Church, Miranda Lambert), “I wanted it that way because Just LeDoux It is not quite like either of the to me, ‘The Past Is the Past’ is >page 10 previous records the award- bittersweet, but it’s hopeful,”

winning singer-songwriter has she explains. “It’s like, ‘OK, we’ve launched in the marketplace. gone through all this and I’m still Makin’ Tracks: “I said to Jay when I heard sad about it, but I’m letting you Pardi’s Strait Talk that baritone sax thing, ‘Man, go.’ And I’m driving away — like, >page 14 I know this is crazy ’cause it’s a I literally feel like I’m in the car slow, sad song. But I feel like that in that song.” starts the record,’ ” notes Clark. She’s clearly in the driver’s “When I hear that tone, I feel like seat in her career after briefly Country Coda: something’s coming.” venturing down an artistic road That something unfolds she decided was not her best When The Chicks CLARK Nested At No. 1 gradually as 11 songs in a range of path. Her debut album, 2013’s >page 17 styles — country, folk, traditional 12 Stories, introduced Clark as a pop and torchy R&B — form an emotional narrative within a songwriter with a traditional-country bent, able to fashion mostly acoustic framework. Clark is at times smoldering, at detailed scenarios into meaningful plotlines and convey them times humorous and frequently dark or sarcastic. But by the through a congenial, every-woman tone.

close, she has worked through all the stages of grief and takes Her sophomore project, 2016’s Big Day in a Small Town, took PHELPS CHRIS BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE MARCH 9, 2020 | PAGE 2 OF 17 on a more commercial attitude, and Warner worked the album through the Nashville office specifically to focus on the mainstream country audience. Big Day in a Small Town’s snarky lead single, “Girl Next Door,” sounded very much like a hit but stalled at No. 39 on Country Airplay. With Your Life Is a Record, her project is being handled by Warner Music Los Angeles (which also worked her debut) as Clark focuses more on satisfying her fan base and her own artistic ambitions than appealing to programmers. “On the second one, I didn’t even know I was doing that,” she says. “I had gotten signed to Warner, and they had put me with Jay, and I still felt like, ‘Oh, I’m just making my music.’ But I went out and did a radio tour and worked really hard to get played at country radio. For me growing up, that was where I got so much of my music, and so the thought of being WSMV-TV Nashville and CMT raised more than $387,000 for the on country radio was really a dream for me. I did have, and still do have, American Red Cross’ tornado-relief efforts on March 5 with a three-hour supporters there, but when that didn’t work out the way I dreamed it would, Rebuilding Tennessee Telethon. From left: WSMV host Tom Reynolds I do think it gave me a freedom to be like, ‘I’m just going to make a record and Lady Antebellum members Charles Kelley and Dave Haywood. that is for me.’ ” Your Life Is a Record reflects her situation well. The album loosely mirrors the dissolution of a long-term relationship, reaching its deepest moments in tracks five and six: the dreamy “Who You Thought I Was” and the richly textured “Apologies,” as the singer aspires to maturity in the midst of the heartache. Perhaps tellingly, it breaks in track seven — “Bigger Boat,” featuring a guest appearance by lovably craggy Randy Newman — into absurd juxtaposition by lampooning the bratty political climate in which her high-minded split occurs. The boat in that song is part of a once-unconscious tenet in her writing, which often uses very tangible objects to reveal a key emotion. The record album she portrays in “I’ll Be the Sad Song,” the ring in “Pawn Shop,” the cars in “Bad Car” and “The Past Is the Past” all provide a physical image Matt Stell (center) took part Feb. 26 in the WSSL Greenville, S.C., that helps understand the feelings in the narrative. Future Stars & Guitars concert in Spartanburg. He’s flanked by “I was just having a conversation with a friend of mine the other day who iHeartMedia/Carolina vp programming Kix Layton (left) and WSSL has just lost a parent,” says Clark. “I lost my dad when I was 25, and I was music director Aaron Michael. telling my friend — because, you know, they’re at that point where everybody in the family’s kind of fighting over things — I said, ‘That will go away, but it always happens.’ I think it happens because the person you love touched those things. So you want them because you can’t touch them anymore, and they can’t touch you. But you can touch those things.” As Clark prepares to embark on a tour on March 29 to support Your Life Is a Record, she has seemingly mastered the art of touching others with sound. That baritone sax at the album’s outset, produced with a human breath, is merely a prelude to the humanity in Clark’s vocal performance. She counts Mariah Carey’s self-titled debut among her favorite albums, but Clark’s approach is different: simple, straight-forward and appropriately personal. “It’s not about, ‘Oh, I can sing this note’ or how much full voice I can put into this note,” says Clark. “It really is about whether or not what you’re Little Big Town performed from Universal Orlando on NBC’s Today. doing vocally connects with somebody else’s heart. And I think to do that, From left are LBT’s Karen Fairchild, Today host Al Roker and LBT’s

it’s got to connect with your own heart.” Phillip Sweet. CONGLETON NATHAN BIGTOWN: LITTLE BROWN. DANIEL ANTEBELLUM: LADY

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ON THE CHARTS JIM ASKER [email protected] Maren Morris Scores First Hot Country Songs No. 1; Kane Brown Crowns Country Airplay; Dixie Chicks Return

Maren Morris earns her first No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart Airplay at No. 36. It enters with 3 million impressions that were helped by hourly as “The Bones” (Columbia Nashville) bumps 2-1 on the March 14-dated plays at participating iHeartMedia stations on March 5, a day after its release. survey, which blends airplay, streaming and sales data. It dethrones Dan + Shay It is the trio’s second-highest entrance among 27 total visits, dating to its and Justin Bieber’s “10,000 Hours” (Warner Music Nashville/WAR), which 1997 debut. “Landslide” opened at No. 32 in September 2002 and reached ruled for 21 weeks, becoming the fourth-longest-leading No. 1 in the list’s history. No. 2 that November. Follow-up “Travelin’ Soldier” became Dixie Chicks’ 14th “Bones,” which Morris wrote with Jimmy Robbins and Laura Veltz, reigns top 10, and sixth No. 1, in March 2003. Since then, the band hasn’t hit the in its 53rd week on the chart. Only Dan + Shay’s top 30, after lead singer Natalie Maines made “Tequila” took a longer trip to the top, leading in its controversial comments about then-President 54th frame (Feb. 2, 2019). Pop radio airplay aided George W. Bush ahead of the Iraq War, also in both songs in their ascents. March 2003 (see page 17). “Bones” became Morris’ fourth No. 1 The act, which also consists of sibling founders when it topped Country Airplay for two Martie Maguire and Emily Strayer, wrote weeks beginning Feb. 15. It rebounds 5-4 with “Gaslighter” with Jack Antonoff. It’s the title 28 million audience impressions in the week track from Dixie Chicks’ first album (due May 1) ending March 8, according to Nielsen Music/MRC since 2006. Data. It also ranks at No. 12 on the all-format Radio “When Dixie Chicks put out new music for the Songs ranking (56.1 million) as it places at No. 4 on first time in 14 years, it is certainly an event, and we Adult Pop Songs, No. 10 on Adult Contemporary wanted to make sure that we were involved,” says and No. 35 on Pop Songs. In addition, the song WEBG Chicago PD Lance Houston. “We have MORRIS BROWN drew 11.7 million U.S. streams and sold 6,000 had mixed reviews from our listeners but aren’t downloads in the week ending March 5. seeing a ton of blowback from playing them again.” Morris is the first woman to top Hot Country Songs sinceBebe Rexha and On Hot Country Songs, “Gaslighter” opens at No. 31. It launches at No. 2 on Florida Georgia Line’s “Meant to Be” wrapped its record 50-week reign on Country Digital Song Sales after selling 8,000 downloads in its first day. Nov. 17, 2018. She also is the first solo woman to rule solo sinceKelsea Ballerini’s “Peter Pan” led for its second week on the list dated Oct. 1, 2016. NEW TOP 10s Jake Owen logs his 11th Hot Country Songs top 10 as “Homemade” (Big Loud) jumps 14-8. It pushes 4-2 on Country Airplay (36.2 million impressions, NO PLACE LIKE NO. 1 Kane Brown achieves his fifth consecutive and up 17%) while also boasting 3.9 million streams and 2,000 sold. total Country Airplay leader as “Homesick” (Zone 4/RCA Nashville) rises 3-1, Morgan Wallen nets his third top 10 on the former chart as “Chasin’ You” up 17% to 36.2 million in audience. He wrote the song with Brock Berryhill, (Big Loud) rises 11-9. It bumps 15-14 on the latter (17.9 million, up 10%) with 7 Matt McGinn and Taylor Phillips. million streams and 3,000 sold. “I’m truly grateful to everyone who was a part of making this song a No. 1,” And Ingrid Andress’ “More Hearts Than Mine” (Atlantic/Warner Music Brown tells Billboard. “That includes, especially, my beautiful wife, Katelyn, Nashville/WEA) rises 11-9 on Country Airplay, up 7% to 22.1 million impres- who was the inspiration behind it.” sions. It’s the first top 10 by a solo woman in her first chart appearance in over two years since Carly Pearce’s “Every Little Thing” led the list dated Nov. 25,

STRIKE UP THE BAND Dixie Chicks’ “Gaslighter” (Columbia) sparks on Country 2017, and remained in the top tier the following week. DCP FOR IMAGES MCINTYRE/GETTY EMMA BROWN: ACADEMY. RECORDING THE FOR IMAGES BARNARD/GETTY NEILSON MORRIS:

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AIRPLAY Country Airplay MONITORED BY

WKS AUDIENCE (IN MILLIONS) PLAYS THIS LAST ON WEEK WEEK CHART TITLE Imprint/Label Artist THIS WEEK +/– THIS WEEK +/– RANK l1 3 31 HOMESICK Zone 4/RCA Nashville HH No. 1 (1 week) HH Kane Brown 36.186 +5.311 7830 847 1 l2 4 40 HOMEMADE Big Loud Jake Owen 31.722 +3.658 6923 496 2 3 2 22 KINFOLKS MCA Nashville Sam Hunt 31.720 -1.589 6442 -373 3 l4 5 29 THE BONES Columbia Nashville Maren Morris 28.007 +0.169 5404 96 8 l5 7 20 WHAT SHE WANTS TONIGHT Capitol Nashville Luke Bryan 27.646 +2.819 5966 606 4 l6 10 41 CATCH BMLG  Brett Young 25.226 +2.590 5544 653 7 l7 9 46 SLOW DANCE IN A PARKING LOT MCA Nashville Jordan Davis 24.939 +2.514 5737 465 5 l8 8 26 WE BACK Macon/Broken Bow Jason Aldean 24.363 +0.806 5613 194 6 l9 11 37 MORE HEARTS THAN MINE Atlantic/Warner Music Nashville/WEA Ingrid Andress 22.138 +1.481 5255 407 9 10 1 59 MAKE ME WANT TO Stoney Creek Jimmie Allen 21.882 -11.849 4540 -3123 12 l11 13 28 I HOPE Warner Music Nashville/WAR Gabby Barrett 20.910 +3.375 4745 548 10 l12 14 11 BEER CAN’T FIX Valory  Thomas Rhett Featuring Jon Pardi 19.610 +2.859 4268 447 13 l13 12 31 I WISH GRANDPAS NEVER DIED BMLG  Riley Green 18.394 -0.227 4712 0 11 l14 15 32 CHASIN’ YOU Big Loud Morgan Wallen 17.904 +1.569 4087 304 15 l15 17 7 DOES TO ME River House/Columbia Nashville Luke Combs Featuring Eric Church 17.730 +2.148 3780 4 11 18 l16 16 22 I HOPE YOU’RE HAPPY NOW Curb/Big Machine Carly Pearce & Lee Brice 17.563 +1.237 4166 167 14 l17 19 10 NOBODY BUT YOU Warner Music Nashville/WMN Blake Shelton Duet With Gwen Stefani 17.525 +3.775 3889 7 11 17 l18 18 52 AFTER A FEW Mercury  Travis Denning 15.841 +1.468 3909 197 16 l19 20 27 HOMECOMING QUEEN? Black River Kelsea Ballerini 13.643 +0.643 3566 141 19 l20 23 3 HERE AND NOW Blue Chair/Warner Music Nashville/WEA HH Most Added HH Kenny Chesney 10.566 +4.050 2338 1007 22 l21 21 48 IN BETWEEN Triple Tigers Scotty McCreery 9.322 +0.562 2737 22 20 l22 22 27 MONSTERS EMI Nashville Eric Church 7.876 +0.457 2415 104 21 l23 25 43 ONE BIG COUNTRY SONG Wheelhouse  LOCASH 6.935 +1.047 2017 85 25 l24 27 18 DRINKING ALONE Capitol Nashville Carrie Underwood 6.529 +0.977 2082 234 23 l25 24 24 BLESSINGS BMLG  Florida Georgia Line 6.401 +0.389 2072 75 24 l26 26 38 HER WORLD OR MINE Warner Music Nashville/WEA Michael Ray 6.078 +0.482 19 11 -25 26 l27 30 23 WHY WE DRINK Valory  Justin Moore 5.452 +0.835 1775 185 27 l28 29 36 LONELY IF YOU ARE Dack Janiels/Broken Bow Chase Rice 4.844 +0.306 1720 158 28 l29 31 12 BLUEBIRD Vanner/RCA Nashville Miranda Lambert 4.487 -0.123 1455 63 29 l30 32 31 DIE FROM A BROKEN HEART Mercury  Maddie & Tae 4.438 +0.811 1378 171 30

COUNTRY AIRPLAY CHART LEGEND

RANKINGS audience does not exceed are not still gaining enough MOST INCREASED AUDIENCE Country Airplay is ranked by the percentage of monitored audience points to bullet or if Most Increased Audience on total audience impressions station downtime for the they rank below No. 10 and Country Airplay lists the songs for the week ending Sunday format. Titles that decline post a third consecutive week with the greatest week-to-week based on monitored airplay in audience but increase in of (non-bulleted) audience increases in total audience. of 148 stations by Nielsen detections will also receive decline, regardless of total Music. Audience totals on a bullet if the total audience chart weeks. AIRPOWER the chart are derived, in part, erosion for the week does not Awarded on Country Airplay to using certain Nielsen Audio- exceed 3%. HOT SHOT DEBUT titles ranking inside top 20 in copyrighted Persons 12+ Awarded to the highest-ranking plays and audience rankings for audience estimates (under TIES new entry on Country Airplay. the first time, with increases in license © 2020, Nielsen Audio). On Country Airplay, if two both plays and audience. The list of all Country Airplay songs are tied in total MOST ADDED chart reporters can be viewed audience, the song with the The total number of new adds BREAKER on Nielsen Music’s platforms. larger increase in audience is officially reported to Billboard Awarded on Country Airplay placed first. by each reporting station, or to titles achieving airplay (at BULLETS by an automatic-add threshold least one detection) at 60% of l Awarded on Country Airplay RECURRENTS (seven plays for the first time reporting stations for the first to titles gaining audience On Country Airplay, descending in a chart tracking week, time. or remaining flat from the titles below No. 10 in either according to Nielsen Music) previous week. A song audience or detections are for stations that do not report © 2020 Prometheus Global Media, will also receive a bullet moved to recurrent after 20 adds. LLC if its percentage loss in weeks, provided that they BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE MARCH 9, 2020 | 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 33 24 DROWNING RCA Nashville Chris Young 4.263 +0.730 118 5 125 31 l32 35 31 DETAILS Mercury  Billy Currington 3.878 +1.122 1004 99 36 33 28 2 GOD WHISPERED YOUR NAME Hit Red/Capitol Nashville Keith Urban 3.682 -1.013 939 202 37 l34 36 15 DONE Warner Music Nashville/WAR Chris Janson 3.655 +0.999 113 5 114 32 l35 34 17 ONE NIGHT STANDARDS Atlantic/Warner Music Nashville/WAR Ashley McBryde 3.522 +0.172 1009 75 35 l36 NEW GASLIGHTER Columbia/In2une  HH Hot Shot Debut/Breaker HH Dixie Chicks 3.022 +3.022 542 542 48 l37 37 27 FRONT SEAT Legend Entertainment Rayne Johnson 2.443 +0.001 752 29 40 l38 38 26 SHE’S MINE MCA Nashville Kip Moore 2.311 +0.071 1067 71 33 l39 41 16 SOME GIRLS Combustion/River House/Columbia Nashville Jameson Rodgers 2.179 +0.234 856 -32 38 l40 39 7 CHEATIN’ SONGS Big Machine HH Breaker HH Midland 2.164 -0.025 622 8 45 l41 40 22 NOW YOU KNOW 32 Bridge/EMI Nashville Jon Langston 2.114 +0.024 1012 39 34 l42 43 23 BREAK IT IN Valory  Eli Young Band 1.905 +0.269 639 26 44 l43 47 16 HEAD OVER HEELS Wheelhouse  Runaway June 1.825 +0.502 694 79 42 l44 42 23 I DO FOR YOU Riser House Dillon Carmichael 1.737 +0.073 665 -53 43 l45 48 5 ONE BEER Tree Vibez/Big Loud HARDY Featuring Lauren Alaina & Devin Dawson 1.659 +0.238 526 73 52 l46 46 13 EVERYWHERE BUT ON RECORDS/Arista Nashville Matt Stell 1.576 +0.119 739 59 41 l47 44 21 GETTING GOOD 19/Mercury  Lauren Alaina 1.557 +0.075 795 89 39 l48 45 12 FIRE’T UP Valory  Brantley Gilbert 1.515 +0.058 581 19 46 l49 60 2 SOME PEOPLE DO RCA Nashville Old Dominion 1.507 +0.717 386 201 58 l50 50 15 BIG, BIG PLANS Big Loud Chris Lane 1.483 +0.259 529 49 50 l51 49 9 PRETTY HEART MCA Nashville Parker McCollum 1.455 +0.222 193 30 - l52 58 2 HARD TO FORGET MCA Nashville Sam Hunt 1.375 +0.530 335 150 59 l53 53 3 WHAT I’M LEAVING FOR BMLG  Lady Antebellum 1.374 +0.290 428 107 54 l54 54 13 OVER DRINKING Capitol Nashville Little Big Town 1.206 +0.168 533 9 49 55 51 13 WHAT I SEE Arista Nashville LANCO 1.120 -0.138 574 -62 47 l56 56 8 DIAMONDS Warner Music Nashville/WEA Morgan Evans 1.067 +0.110 400 23 57 l57 57 12 I DON’T LOVE YOU Stoney Creek Lindsay Ell 1.052 +0.190 527 56 51 l58 RE-ENTRY MOMMA’S HOUSE Broken Bow Dustin Lynch 0.997 +0.484 419 107 56 l59 55 13 THAT’S WHY I LOVE DIRT ROADS Wheelhouse  Granger Smith 0.994 -0.017 422 18 55 l60 NEW LOVE YOU LIKE I USED TO Triple Tigers Russell Dickerson 0.916 +0.414 300 157 60

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3/16 3/30 JON PARDI TIFFANY WOYS Ain’t Always The Cowboy Loved By You Capitol Nashville Tiffany Woys NIKO MOON Good Time RCA Nashville

3/23 AVENUE BEAT Ruin That For Me 58 Tape Room/Valory JIMMIE ALLEN & NOAH The track reenters Country Airplay at CYRUS No. 58, up 95% to 1 million audience This Is Us DUSTIN impressions. It’s the third entry from his LP RECORDS/Columbia/Stoney Creek LYNCH Momma’s Tullahoma, following two No. 1s: lead single House “Good Girl” and “Ridin’ Roads.” WOYS PHOTO BY MARK HORTON/GETTY IMAGES HORTON/GETTY MARK BY PHOTO BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE MARCH 9, 2020 | PAGE 8 OF 17

AIRPLAY Country Airplay MONITORED BY

MOST ADDED® NEW AND ACTIVE TITLE Imprint/Label Artist ADDS TOTAL TOTAL HERE AND NOW Blue Chair/Warner Music Nashville/WEA Kenny Chesney 52 TITLE Imprint/Label Artist AUDIENCE STATIONS ADDS GASLIGHTER Columbia/in2une Dixie Chicks 42 SOMEBODY LIKE THAT 19th & Grand/Reviver Tenille Arts 0.901 52 2 GOD WHISPERED YOUR NAME Capitol Nashville Keith Urban 36 FOR MY MONEY EMI Nashville Brandon Lay 0.817 27 0 SOME PEOPLE DO RCA Nashville Old Dominion 13 NOBODY Curb Dylan Scott 0.550 25 7 GETTING GOOD 19/Mercury Lauren Alaina 12 LOVE YOU LIKE I USED TO Triple Tigers Russell Dickerson 12 ONLY TRUCK IN TOWN Night Train/Broken Bow Tyler Farr 0.478 19 4 MOMMA’S HOUSE Broken Bow Dustin Lynch 9 MY TEXAS Pretty Damn Tough Josh Abbott Band 0.444 0 0 DROWNING RCA Nashville Chris Young 8 FOR MY DAUGHTER RCA Nashville Kane Brown 0.426 2 0 WHAT I’M LEAVING FOR BMLG Lady Antebellum 8 HARD TO FORGET MCA Nashville Sam Hunt 8 RECURRENTS MOST INCREASED AUDIENCE THIS TOTAL AUD. WEEK TITLE Imprint/Label Artist (IN MILLIONS) GAIN 1 EVEN THOUGH I’M LEAVING River House/Columbia Nashville Luke Combs 22.966 TITLE Imprint/Label Artist (IN MIILIONS) 2 10,000 HOURS Warner Music Nashville/WAR Dan + Shay & Justin Bieber 20.604 HOMESICK Zone 4/RCA Nashville Kane Brown +5.311 HERE AND NOW Blue Chair/Warner Music Nashville/WEA Kenny Chesney +4.050 3 ONE MAN BAND RCA Nashville Old Dominion 20.419 NOBODY BUT YOU Warner Music Nashville/WMN Blake Shelton Duet With Gwen Stefani +3.775 4 RIDIN’ ROADS Broken Bow Dustin Lynch 17.638 HOMEMADE Big Loud Jake Owen +3.658 5 HEARTACHE MEDICATION Capitol Nashville Jon Pardi 15.562 I HOPE Warner Music Nashville/WAR Gabby Barrett +3.375 6 WHISKEY GLASSES Big Loud Morgan Wallen 15.316 BEER CAN’T FIX Valory Thomas Rhett Featuring Jon Pardi +2.859 7 PRAYED FOR YOU Wide Open/RECORDS/Good Company/Arista Nashville Matt Stell 13.849 WHAT SHE WANTS TONIGHT Capitol Nashville Luke Bryan +2.819 8 WHAT IF I NEVER GET OVER YOU BMLG Lady Antebellum 13.709 CATCH BMLG Brett Young +2.590 9 GOOD VIBES Warner Music Nashville/WAR Chris Janson 11.614 SLOW DANCE IN A PARKING LOT MCA Nashville Jordan Davis +2.514 DOES TO ME River House/Columbia Nashville Luke Combs Featuring Eric Church +2.148 10 I DON’T KNOW ABOUT YOU Big Loud Chris Lane 11.513 MOST INCREASED PLAYS BILLBOARD COUNTRY BOXSCORE TITLE Imprint/Label Artist GAIN Gross Artist Attendance Ticket Price(s) Venue/Date(s) Capacity Promoter(s) HERE AND NOW Blue Chair/Warner Music Nashville/WEA Kenny Chesney +1007 $1,447,956 BLAKE SHELTON 18,850 MESSINA TOURING HOMESICK Zone 4/RCA Nashville Kane Brown +847 $129, $29 Tacoma Dome, Tacoma, Wash./Feb. 14 18,850 GROUP/AEG PRESENTS NOBODY BUT YOU Warner Music Nashville/WMN Blake Shelton Duet With Gwen Stefani +711 $1,081,010 BLAKE SHELTON 12,608 MESSINA TOURING CATCH BMLG Brett Young +653 $129, $49 Golden 1 Center, Sacramento, Calif./Feb. 22 12,608 GROUP/AEG PRESENTS WHAT SHE WANTS TONIGHT Capitol Nashville Luke Bryan +606 $1,063,288 BLAKE SHELTON 12,875 MESSINA TOURING $129, $49 Moda Center, Portland, Ore./Feb. 13 12,875 GROUP/AEG PRESENTS I HOPE Warner Music Nashville/WAR Gabby Barrett +548 GASLIGHTER Columbia/In2une Dixie Chicks +542 $918,826 BLAKE SHELTON 11,426 MESSINA TOURING $129, $39 Vivint Smart Home Arena, Salt Lake City, Utah/Feb. 27 11,426 GROUP/AEG PRESENTS HOMEMADE Big Loud Jake Owen +496 $892,226 BLAKE SHELTON 10,874 MESSINA TOURING SLOW DANCE IN A PARKING LOT MCA Nashville Jordan Davis +465 $129, $25 Save Mart Center, Fresno, Calif./Feb. 21 10,874 GROUP/AEG PRESENTS BEER CAN’T FIX Valory Thomas Rhett Featuring Jon Pardi +447 Reported worldwide boxscore figures for Country artists. Boxscore figures should be submitted to Bob Allen by phone (615-891-1976), fax (615-891-2054) or email ([email protected]). TEXAS REGIONAL RADIO REPORT WEEK ENDING MARCH 8, 2020

THIS LAST WKS ON TW SPINS THIS LAST WKS ON TW SPINS WEEK WEEK CHART TITLE (Label) ARTIST SPINS +/– WEEK WEEK CHART TITLE (Label) ARTIST SPINS +/– l1 2 17 ONE NIGHT IN TULSA (Independent)  HH 1 Week at 1 HH Kylie Frey 2079 325 l11 16 20 DANCING IN THE RAIN (Independent)  Darrin Morris Band 1202 61 l2 3 21 I CAN GIVE YOU ONE (Independent)  David Adam Byrnes 1945 249 12 1 17 WHISKEY’S WORKIN’ WELL (Independent)  Jamie Richards 1201 -651 l3 5 18 SHE LOVES HORSES (Independent)  William Clark Green 1765 134 l13 19 7 RIVER ROAD DREAM (Independent)  Curtis Grimes 119 2 153 l4 4 19 MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE (One Chord Song)  Stoney LaRue 1699 17 l14 20 8 SHE GONE (Independent)  Randall King 1176 149 l5 6 26 EVERY DAY KIND OF LOVE (Independent)  Kyle Park 1655 64 15 11 22 BARROOM BUDDIES (Independent)  Dos Borrachos 115 3 -148 l6 8 11 ONE MORE SHOT OF WHISKEY (Independent)  Josh Ward 1519 58 l16 21 9 DROVE ME TO THE WHISKEY (Almost Country)  Casey Donahew 112 2 128 l7 10 21 DEAR COUNTRY MUSIC, (Independent)  Mike Ryan 1494 124 l17 18 23 ROAD TO YOU (Independent)  Micky & The Motorcars 1060 4 l8 9 18 COME BACK DOWN (Independent)  Flatland Cavalry 1463 53 18 17 22 REAL SMALL TOWN (Independent)  Adam Hood 1035 -41 l9 13 21 I FOUND YOU (Independent)  Robert Ray 1285 64 l19 22 16 UNRUNG (Independent)  Turnpike Troubadours 994 42 10 7 22 STRAIT TO JONES (Independent)  Clay Hollis 1266 -233 20 15 22 PRETTY HEART (Independent)  Parker McCollum 989 -210

Texas Regional Radio Report Top 100 is compiled from weekly online playlist reports from 86 radio stations located in Texas and surrounding states, including reports from specialty shows, internet and satellite radio outlets. Songs are ranked by total plays. For tracking, complete chart methodology and more information, visit www.texasregionalradio.com, or contact Dave Smith at 972-252-8777. Copyright 2020, Texas Regional Radio Report BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE MARCH 9, 2020 | PAGE 9 OF 17

NASHVILLE & NATIONAL TOM ROLAND

has become a symbol for the tragedy. Much of Basement East was torn apart, but a wall was left intact with that inspirational message: “I believe in Nashville.” RADIO & RECORDS® Universal Music Group Nashville promoted Rachel Fontenot to vp marketing and artist development. She joined the company as a senior Blake Shelton greeted KNCI Sacramento, Calif., staff when he director in spring 2019 … Entercom performed Feb. 22 at the Golden 1 Center. From left: Warner Music COO Weezie Kramer was added Nashville West Coast manager of radio and streaming Justin Newell, to the chain’s board of directors KNCI music director Sonia Jimenez, Shelton and Bonneville/ as she prepares to retire later this Niko Moon (right) spent time with Sacramento vp programming Chad Rufer. year after nearly two decades with WNSH New York PD John Foxx the company. Entercom/New York during a March 4 tour stop at the NASHVILLE DIGS OUT market manager/regional president Gramercy Theatre. The country music business took it on the chin at home and on the road over the Susan Larkin will step into the last week as the genre’s home base suffered a devastating tornado on March 3 COO position on May 5, with Kramer taking an advisory role … Tower Road and the coronavirus outbreak caused cancellations in other markets. Media reached a deal to buy WDUX-AM/FM Waupaca, Wis., from Laird The tornado destroyed numerous private planes at the John C. Tune Airport; Broadcasting owner Bill Laird, pending Federal Communications Commission decimated Donelson Christian Academy, where Lady Antebellum’s Hillary approval … KEEY Minneapolis-St. Paul rehired Levi Jessen as director of Scott attended school; and hit a Kroger grocery store that numerous road bands promotions, InsideRadio.com reported. He left the station’s assistant PD role use to board their tour buses. Dierks Bentley rolled up his sleeves and pitched in January during a national wave of iHeartMedia staff reductions … KKWF in to help clear the wreckage at the home of his drummer, Steve Misamore, as Seattle PD Drew Bland is set to leave the station at the end of March and take several sections of the city and its suburbs — particularly East Nashville, the an undisclosed music position in Nashville, according to InsideRadio.com. Donelson/Hermitage area and Mt. Juliet — took on the most damage. Music director Alex Halverson will fill his role on an interim basis after Bland’s Even as the city reeled from that first jab, the spreading coronavirus began to departure … KPLX Dallas installed Brian Moote and Tara Ward as the new encroach on the country industry. Old Dominion canceled a U.K. tour, and the morning team, RadioInk.com reported. Moote segues from mornings at top 40 Nashville Songwriters Association International postponed its annual Tin Pan KAMP Los Angeles; Ward arrives from the same daypart at adult contemporary South Songwriters Festival March 24-28. That rescheduling occurred as airline KDMX Dallas … WBAM Montgomery, Ala., shifted married personalities J.T. and cruise line bookings are slumping, Austin’s South by Southwest Conference and Leanne Thompson to mornings, according to RadioInk.com. The couple was canceled, and numerous entertainment stocks dropped dramatically to started at the station on Oct. 1, 2019, with Leanne covering middays and their lowest levels in a year. J.T. working evenings … Cumulus/New Orleans hired Brad Steiner as PD Nashville reacted quickly with a series of tornado-relief events and donations. of three stations, including country WRKN, Talkers.com reported. He was WSMV-TV and CMT pulled together a three-hour telethon on March 5 with previously PD for top 40 WDOD Chattanooga, Tenn. … The Country Radio Cassadee Pope, Blanco Brown, Devin Dawson, Travis Denning and Lady Seminar website has audio, video and handouts from the February convention Antebellum’s Charles Kelley and Dave Haywood helping out by answering available for registrants. phones and chatting on camera. The telethon raised more than $387,000, with Kid Rock donating $50,000 and Big Machine Label Group chipping ’ROUND THE ROW in $100,000. Publicist Taryn Pray joined the staff at Monarch Publicity, which represents Apart from the TV show, Chris Young donated $50,000, and Taylor Swift Chris Young and Craig Morgan, among others. She started an indie PR and Dan + Shay gave $100,000 apiece. The Dan + Shay gift was timely; it was firm in 2013 after several years in record-label media departments. Reach given the same week the duo launched its first arena-headlining tour with two Pray here. … Sony/ATV Music concerts at Bridgestone Arena. Publishing Nashville hired Two competing benefits were set for March 9: a Marathon Music Works Anna Weisband as vp creative. concert featuring Ashley McBryde, Brandi Carlile, Jason Isbell, Brothers She was most recently THiS Osborne and Sheryl Crow, among others, and a Whiskey Row bill that includes Music vp … Universal Music Mitchell Tenpenny, HARDY, Adam Doleac and Jessie James Decker. Publishing Nashville promoted Other events the week of March 9 include: Cyndi Forman to senior vp • Mark Wills will assist ORCA as the company delivers cooler care packages A&R from vp creative … Warner on March 10. Chappell Nashville added • Buddy Miller, Mary Gauthier, Sierra Hull, Vanessa Carlton and Rob director of A&R Spencer Nohe. Ickes are part of a bulging lineup that will perform March 10 at City Winery He segues from BMI Nashville for an emergency response fund. creative director … Indie act • Ray Stevens is donating the proceeds from the March 12 opening of the Southern Halo shrunk from a new concert season at his CabaRay theater. trio to a duo with the departure of • The Country Music Association/SESAC office is providing a dropoff spot Hannah Morris. Remaining are for supplies from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. through March 13. Natalia Morris and Christina • Gibson Guitars is working to replace lost instruments for affected musicians. Ryan Hurd (center) welcomed radio Morris … The Country Music Email requests here. executives when his Platonic tour Association’s charity wing, the • The Academy of Country Music extended the voting deadline for its awards arrived at Joe’s in Chicago on Feb. 27. CMA Foundation, will recognize to 7 p.m. CT on March 11. With him are WUSN assistant PD/ 30 instructors from 10 states with Additionally, two organizations are selling T-shirts to aid the recovery. music director Marci Braun and WSIX its fifth annual Music Teachers Soundstripe has a More Than Music shirt available here, and I Believe in Nashville assistant PD/music director of Excellence Awards on May 5. Nashville shirts can be purchased here. The latter design mirrors a logo that Ryan McKiddy. Kelsea Ballerini will host. BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE MARCH 9, 2020 | PAGE 10 OF 17

NASHVILLE & NATIONAL TOM ROLAND

MUSIC NOTES ON THIS DATE IN COUNTRY MUSIC

Dan + Shay launched their March 10 first arena-headlining tour • 2010 — Lady Antebellum headlines for the first time at with back-to-back shows Nashville’s historic Ryman Auditorium. The band’s set list includes March 6-7 at Nashville’s “American Honey,” “Hello World” and the Hank Williams classic Bridgestone Arena, “Lost Highway.” clearly moved by dramatic • 2006 — Columbia releases the Dixie Chicks single “Not Ready to juxtapositions. The March Make Nice” to radio. 3 tornadoes that hit Music City touched down in March 11 DAN + SHAY the same East Nashville • 2015 — Maren Morris writes “My Church” and records the final neighborhood where Dan vocals the same day in Los Angeles with songwriter-producer busbee. Smyers and Shay Mooney first met at a December 2012 party, and that • 1970 — “A Boy Named Sue” is a double-winner during the 12th contrasted with the personal triumph of selling out the same venue where annual Grammy Awards, bringing Johnny Cash best country vocal they have won trophies. The duo made great use of the plus sign from its name, performance, male, and songwriter Shel Silverstein best country song. incorporating it into footage and the layout of a satellite stage. The music was relentlessly melodic, and D+S showed musical community spirit. The Band March 12 Camino, a dynamic Nashville pop/rock group, made its arena debut as a • 2011 — Jason Aldean and Kelly setup act, and opener Ingrid Andress performed her hit “More Hearts Than Clarkson begin a three-week ride at Mine”during her opening slot and again when Dan + Shay brought her back No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Country for an unrehearsed acoustic collaboration. At an afterparty, the pair received Songs chart with “Don’t You Wanna a platinum plaque for its Justin Bieber collaboration, “10,000 Hours.” Stay.” • 1990 — Mark Chesnutt begins Fifteen years after his death, Chris LeDoux is featured in a Country Music Hall recording his first album, Too Cold of Fame and Museum exhibit, “American Currents,” which opened March 6. at Home. ALDEAN LeDoux, who died March 9, 2005, is linked in a section titled “Unbroken Circle” with Cody Johnson, a modern act who, like LeDoux, played the rodeo circuit March 13 before becoming a singer. Meanwhile, Garth Brooks — who brought LeDoux to • 2018 — Florida Georgia Line snags a quadruple-platinum single national attention — will set a precedent in a major rodeo town, Las Vegas, when from the RIAA for “H.O.L.Y.” he becomes the first artist to perform at a new NFL venue, Allegiant Stadium, which will house the Las Vegas Raiders. Brooks appears Aug. 22. March 14 • 1995 — Garth Brooks goes to Washington, D.C., with Michael Two acts with 1990s roots will introduce albums on May 1. Kenny Chesney — Bolton and Kenny G to protest cuts in arts funding. Brooks later whose first top 10 single, “Fall in Love,” was released in March 1995 — drops tells Billboard that, based on their lack of passion, if politicians were Here and Now on May Day. The same day, the Dierks Bentley-produced Hot in his employ, they “wouldn’t be working for long.” Country Knights — whose name is derived from ’90s TV show Hot Country Nights — issues its debut album, The K Is Silent. Meanwhile, My Sister, My March 15 Brother — the trio of Sean McConnell, Garrison Starr and Peter Groenwald • 2005 — Epic releases Miranda Lambert’s first major-label — released a self-titled EP March 6; Travis Denning’s debut EP, Beer’s Better album, Kerosene. Cold, is due May 15; and Gone West’s first album, Canyons, is due June 12. March 16 Mitchell Tenpenny will headline Nashville’s historic Ryman Auditorium for • 1974 — The Grand Ole Opry gives its first performance at the new the first time on Oct. 10. Proceeds from the show will benefit his 10Penny Grand Ole Opry House. President Richard Nixon appears at the Fund for cancer charities. event. Roy Acuff, who gives Nixon a yo-yo demonstration, is the first performer, doing “Wabash Cannonball.” The rest of the Opry cast appears alphabetically, beginning with Bill Anderson. Top Headlines from .com Click on headlines below for more details Source: RolandNote.com, the Ultimate Country Music Database

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SALES, AIRPLAY & STREAMING DATA Hot Country Songs COMPILED BY

TWO COUNTRY THIS LAST WEEKS WKS ON TITLE Artist AIRPLAY PEAK WEEK WEEK AGO CHART PRODUCER (SONGWRITER) IMPRINT / PROMOTION LABEL RANK POSITION HH HH 1 2 2 53 THE BONES No. 1 (1 week) Maren Morris 4 1 l G.KURSTIN (M.MORRIS,J.ROBBINS,L.J.VELTZ) COLUMBIA NASHVILLE 2 1 1 23 10,000 HOURS Dan + Shay & Justin Bieber RC 1 D.SMYERS (D.SMYERS,S.MOONEY,J.J.DILLON,J.REYNOLDS,J.D.BIEBER,J.BOYD) WARNER MUSIC NASHVILLE/WAR HH HH 3 4 5 50 HOMESICK Airplay Gainer Kane Brown 1 3 l D.HUFF (K.BROWN,B.BERRYHILL,M.J.MCGINN,T.PHILLIPS) ZON E 4/RCA NASHVILLE 4 3 3 22 KINFOLKS Sam Hunt 3 3 Z.CROWELL (S.L.HUNT,Z.CROWELL,J.FLOWERS,J.OSBORNE) MCA NASHVILLE 5 5 4 49 ONE MAN BAND Old Dominion RC 2 S.MCANALLY (M.RAMSEY,T. ROSEN,B.F.TURSI,J.OSBORNE) RCA NASHVILLE I HOPE 6 6 6 45 Gabby Barrett 11 6 l R.COPPERMAN (Z.KALE,J.M.NITE,G.BARRETT) WARNER MUSIC NASHVILLE/WAR NOBODY BUT YOU 7 10 10 12 Blake Shelton Duet With Gwen Stefani 17 6 l S.HENDRICKS (T.L.JAMES,R.COPPERMAN,S.MCANALLY,J.OSBORNE) WARNER MUSIC NASHVILLE/WMN HH HH 8 14 18 25 HOMEMADE Streaming Gainer Jake Owen 2 8 l J.MOI,D.COHEN (B.GOLDSMITH,J.MULLINS,D.PARKER,B.PINSON) BIG LOUD CHASIN’ YOU 9 11 16 29 Morgan Wallen 14 9 l J.MOI (J.MOORE,M.WALLEN,C.WISEMAN) BIG LOUD WHAT SHE WANTS TONIGHT 10 9 11 20 Luke Bryan 5 9 l J.STEVENS,J.STEVENS (L.BRYAN,R.COPPERMAN,H.LINDSEY,J.M.NITE) CAPITOL NASHVILLE SLOW DANCE IN A PARKING LOT 11 15 17 33 Jordan Davis 7 11 l P.DIGIOVANNI (J.DAVIS,L.L.FOWLER) MCA NASHVILLE MORE HEARTS THAN MINE 12 13 15 35 Ingrid Andress 9 12 l S.ELLIS,I.ANDRESS (I.ANDRESS,S.ELLIS,D.SOUTHERLAND) ATLANTIC/WARNER MUSIC NASHVILLE/WEA 13 8 14 26 WE BACK Jason Aldean 8 8 M.KNOX (B.D.WARREN,B.WARREN,T.HUBBARD,J.M.SCHMIDT) MACON/BROKEN BOW 14 12 13 31 I WISH GRANDPAS NEVER DIED Riley Green 13 12 D.HUFF (R.GREEN,L.BONDS,B.GREEN) BMLG CATCH 15 18 19 36 Brett Young 6 15 l D.HUFF (B.YOUNG,R.COPPERMAN,A.GORLEY) BMLG I HOPE YOU’RE HAPPY NOW 16 16 12 21 Carly Pearce & Lee Brice 16 12 l BUSBEE (C.PEARCE,L.COMBS,R.MONTANA,J.SINGLETON) CURB/BIG MACHINE HH HH 17 20 22 8 DOES TO ME Digital Gainer Luke Combs Featuring Eric Church 15 17 l S.MOFFATT (L.COMBS,R.M.L.FULCHER,T.M.REEVE) RIVER HOUSE/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE 18 19 20 26 HOMECOMING QUEEN? Kelsea Ballerini 19 14 J.ROBBINS (K.BALLERINI,J.ROBBINS,N.GALYON) BLACK RIVER BEER CAN’T FIX 19 21 23 10 Thomas Rhett Featuring Jon Pardi 12 19 l D.HUFF,J.BUNETTA,THOMAS RHETT (THOMAS RHETT,J.BUNETTA,Z.SKELTON,R.B.TEDDER) VALORY AFTER A FEW 20 23 24 21 Travis Denning 18 20 l J.S.STOVER (T.DENNING,K.ARCHER,J.WEAVER) MERCURY HH HH 21 NEW 1 GOD WHISPERED YOUR NAME Hot Shot Debut Keith Urban 33 21 l K.URBAN,D.MCCARROLL (C.AUGUST,M.CARTER,SHY CARTER,J.T.SLATER) HIT RED/CAPITOL NASHVILLE BETTER TOGETHER 22 25 25 17 Luke Combs - 14 l S.MOFFATT (L.COMBS,D.ISBELL,R.MONTANA) RIVER HOUSE/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE BLESSINGS 23 24 26 17 Florida Georgia Line 25 23 l J.MOI,FLORIDA GEORIGA LINE (T.HUBBARD,B.KELLEY,T.DOUGLAS,J.FRASURE,J.M.SCHMIDT,E.K.SMITH) BMLG 24 22 — 2 HERE AND NOW Kenny Chesney 20 22 B.CANNON,K.CHESNEY (C.WISEMAN,D.L.MURPHY,D.A.GARCIA) BLUE CHAIR/WARNER MUSIC NASHVILLE/WEA 25 26 27 27 LONELY IF YOU ARE Chase Rice 28 25 C. DESTEFANO,C.RICE (C.RICE,L.RIMES,H.PHELPS) DACK JANIELS/BROKEN BOW

COUNTRY SONGWRITERSTM COUNTRY PRODUCERSTM

#1 #1 1 2 WKS JIMMY ROBBINS  1 31 WKS DANN HUFF  2 JOSH OSBORNE  2 JOEY MOI  3 ROSS COPPERMAN  3 GREG KURSTIN  TIE 4 LAURA VELTZ  4 DAN SMYERS  TIE 4 MAREN MORRIS  5 ZACH CROWELL  6 JON NITE  6 SCOTT HENDRICKS  7 LUKE COMBS  7 SHANE MCANALLY  TIE 8 JORDAN DAVIS  8 ROSS COPPERMAN  TIE 8 LONNIE FOWLER  9 SCOTT MOFFATT  VELTZ 10 CRAIG WISEMAN  10 JAY JOYCE  CREDIT TKB CREDIT

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 MARCH 9, 2020 | 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 BLUEBIRD 26 27 30 14 Miranda Lambert 29 26 l J.JOYCE (M.LAMBERT,L.DICK,N.HEMBY) VANNER/RCA NASHVILLE DIE FROM A BROKEN HEART 27 29 31 33 Maddie & Tae 30 27 l J.ROBBINS,D.WELLS (M.MARLOW,T.DYE,J.SINGLETON,D.RUTTAN) MERCURY MONSTERS 28 28 28 16 Eric Church 22 28 l J.JOYCE (E.CHURCH,J.HYDE) EMI NASHVILLE IN BETWEEN 29 30 29 18 Scotty McCreery 21 27 l F.ROGERS (S.MCCREERY,F.ROGERS,J.L.ALEXANDER,J.SINGLETON) TRIPLE TIGERS DROWNING 30 31 33 24 Chris Young 31 18 l C.CROWDER,C.YOUNG (C.A.YOUNG,C.CROWDER,J.HOGE) RCA NASHVILLE GASLIGHTER 31 NEW 1 Dixie Chicks 36 31 l J.M.ANTONOFF,DIXIE CHICKS (M.MAGUIRE,E.STRAYER,N.MAINES,J.M.ANTONOFF) COLUMB IA/IN2UNE HER WORLD OR MINE 32 32 32 19 Michael Ray 26 31 l S.HENDRICKS (J.PAULIN,T.DENNING,B.BEAVERS) WARNER MUSIC NASHVILLE/WEA DRINKING ALONE 33 34 35 17 Carrie Underwood 24 33 l D.GARCIA,C.UNDERWOOD (C.UNDERWOOD,D.A.GARCIA,BRETT JAMES) CAPITOL NASHVILLE ONE BEER 34 33 34 10 HARDY Featuring Lauren Alaina & Devin Dawson 45 33 l J.MOI,D.WELLS (M.W.HARDY,H.LINDSEY,J.MITCHELL) TREE VIBEZ/BIG LOUD MY TRUCK 35 36 43 4 Breland - 35 l KAL V,T.TAYLOR (D.BRELAND,T.TAYLOR,K.AUSTIN,D.BARTON,T.ZEIGLER) BAD REALM/ATLANTIC 36 35 38 10 ONE NIGHT STANDARDS Ashley McBryde 35 35 J.JOYCE (A.MCBRYDE,S.MCANALLY,N.HAYFORD) ATLANTIC/WARNER MUSIC NASHVILLE/WAR ONE BIG COUNTRY SONG 37 38 40 12 LOCASH 23 36 l 770 PRODUCTIONS (J.FRASURE,A.GORLEY,M.W.HARDY) WHEELHOUSE WHAT COULD’VE BEEN 38 40 39 14 Gone West RC 38 l J.KENNEY (C.CAILLAT,J.K.YOUNG,J.REEVES,D.J.REEVES,J.KENNEY) TRIPLE TIGERS 39 37 37 21 BIG, BIG PLANS Chris Lane 50 33 J.MOI (J.DURRETT,C.LANE,E.K.SMITH) BIG LOUD WHY WE DRINK 40 43 48 5 Justin Moore 27 40 l J.S.STOVER,S.BORCHETTA (J.MOORE,C.BEATHARD,D.L.MURPHY,J.S.STOVER) VALORY COVER ME UP 41 41 41 18 Morgan Wallen - 35 l J.MOI,D.COHEN (M.J.ISBELL) BIG LOUD 42 39 — 4 GETTING GOOD Lauren Alaina 47 39 D.GARCIA (E.L.WEISBAND) 19/MERCURY FAMOUS 43 42 50 5 Adam Doleac - 42 l A.SKIB (A.DOLEAC,B.HAMRICK,A.SKIB) ARISTA NASHVILLE JUST THE WAY 44 45 45 3 Parmalee x Blanco Brown - 44 l D.FANNING (M.THOMAS,K.BARD,N.W.SIPE) STONEY CREEK HARD TO FORGET 45 46 42 4 Sam Hunt 52 41 l Z.CROWELL,L.LAIRD (S.L.HUNT,A.GORLEY,L.LAIRD,S.MCANALLY,J.OSBORNE,A.GRISHAM,M.J.SHURTZ,R.HULL) MCA NASHVILLE THIS BAR 46 44 46 9 Morgan Wallen - 29 l J.MOI (M.W.HARDY,J.MORGAN,J.SCOTT,E.K.SMITH,R.VOJTESAK,M.WALLEN) BIG LOUD DETAILS 47 49 — 2 Billy Currington 32 47 l M.TRUSSELL (M.TRUSSELL,N.GALYON,S.L.OLSEN) MERCURY DONE 48 50 — 2 Chris Janson 34 48 l C.JANSON,T.CECIL (C.JANSON,M.OGLESBY,J.PAULIN,M.ROY) WARNER MUSIC NASHVILLE/WAR SHE’S MINE 49 NEW 1 Kip Moore 38 49 l K.MOORE (K.MOORE,D.COUCH,S.STEPAKOFF) MCA NASHVILLE HOLE IN A BOTTLE 50 NEW 1 Kelsea Ballerini - 50 l J.FRASURE,K.BALLERINI (K.BALLERINI,S.JONES,H.LINDSEY,J.FRASURE,A.GORLEY) BLACK RIVER

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

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

ALBUM AUDIO VIDEO CONSUMPTION ON-DEMAND ON-DEMAND 2019 2020 CHANGE ALBUM CONSUMPTION This Week 1,110,000 1,458,588,000 284,313,000 Album ’19 8.38 million Consumption 8,385,000 9,324,000 11.2% ’20 9.32 million Last Week 1,064,000 1,135,036,000 281,128,000 Album Sales 1,702,000 1,487,000 -12.6% Change 4.3% 28.5% 1.1% TOTAL ON-DEMAND STREAMS Audio On-Demand 8,110,670,000 9,813,779,000 21.0% ’19 10.28 billion This Week Last Year 969,000 935,551,000 254,339,000 ’20 12.27 billion Change 14.6% 55.9% 11.8% Video On-Demand 2,458,716,000 2,171,084,000 -11.7%

All data measures U.S. activity as of the week ending March 5, 2020. All units counts are rounded to the nearest thousand. Album consumption units — also known as albums plus TEA plus SEA — consists of album sales; track-equivalent album (TEA) sales whereby 10 tracks equal one consumption unit; and stream equivalent albums (SEA) whereby 1,250 paid and/or 3,750 ad-supported audio on-demand streams (OAD) equal one consumption unit.

For inquiries about any Nielsen Music data, please contact Josh Bennett at 615-807-1338 or [email protected] BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE MARCH 9, 2020 | PAGE 13 OF 17

SALES, DATA STREAMING & SALES COMPILED BY DATA COMPILED BY

COUNTRY COUNTRY TOP COUNTRY ALBUMS STREAMING SONGS DIGITAL SONG SALES

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

ON CHT ARTIST ARTIST 2 WEEKS 2 WEEKS IMPRINT & NUMBER / DISTRIBUTING LABEL 10,000 HOURS NOBODY BUT YOU LUKE COMBS WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET 1 1 22 1 1 12 1 1 1 17 1 DAN + SHAY & JUSTIN BIEBER  l BLAKE SHELTON DUET WITH GWEN STEFANI  l RIVER HOUSE/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE 595687*/SMN THE BONES GASLIGHTER LUKE COMBS THIS ONE’S FOR YOU 2 2 35 2 NEW 2 2 144 1 l MAREN MORRIS  l DIXIE CHICKS  l2 RIVER HOUSE/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE 538883*/SMN 3 ONE MAN BAND I HOPE MORGAN WALLEN IF I KNOW ME 3 3 28 3 2 27 3 4 92 3 OLD DOMINION  l GABBY BARRETT  l3 BIG LOUD DIGITAL EX 0   HEARTLESS THE BONES 4 3 12 BLAKE SHELTON FULLY LOADED: GOD’S COUNTRY 1 4 4 29 l4 4 29 l4 WARNER MUSIC NASHVILLE 607343/WMN DIPLO PRESENTS THOMAS WESLEY FEAT. MORGAN WALLEN  MAREN MORRIS  I HOPE GOD WHISPERED YOUR NAME 5 7 69 KANE BROWN EXPERIMENT 1 5 5 19 l5 NEW l5 ZONE 4/RCA NASHVILLE /SMN 0 GABBY BARRETT  KEITH URBAN  WHISKEY GLASSES 10,000 HOURS 6 8 52 MAREN MORRIS GIRL 1 l6 7 55 6 5 22 l6 COLUMBIA NASHVILLE 590186*/SMN MORGAN WALLEN  DAN + SHAY & JUSTIN BIEBER  KINFOLKS TAKE ME HOME 7 5 253 CHRIS STAPLETON TRAVELLER 1 7 6 20 l7 20 2 l7 MERCURY 019405*/UMGN 4 SAM HUNT  RESTLESS ROAD & KANE BROWN  HOMESICK I WISH GRANDPAS NEVER DIED DAN + SHAY DAN + SHAY 8 8 10 8 7 31 8 8 9 89 WARNER MUSIC NASHVILLE 570796/WMN 1 1 l KANE BROWN  l RILEY GREEN  TENNESSEE WHISKEY DOES TO ME OLD DOMINION OLD DOMINION 9 10 152 9 10 5 9 9 10 19 RCA NASHVILLE 589183*/SMN 1 CHRIS STAPLETON  l LUKE COMBS FEAT. ERIC CHURCH  BEAUTIFUL CRAZY ONE MAN BAND 10 11 15 JASON ALDEAN 9 1 10 9 96 10 6 38 l10 MACON/BROKEN BOW/BMG 32944*/BBMG LUKE COMBS  l OLD DOMINION  CHASIN’ YOU I HOPE YOU’RE HAPPY NOW 11 13 170 KANE BROWN KANE BROWN 1 11 11 9 11 8 14 l11 ZONE 4/RCA NASHVILLE 530947*/SMN 1 l MORGAN WALLEN  l CARLY PEARCE & LEE BRICE  MEANT TO BE HOMESICK THOMAS RHETT CENTER POINT ROAD 12 14 119 12 11 18 12 12 15 40 VALORY TR0400A*/BMLG 1 BEBE REXHA & FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE  l KANE BROWN  BEER NEVER BROKE MY HEART MORE HEARTS THAN MINE 13 14 51 ELVIS PRESLEY THE ESSENTIAL ELVIS PRESLEY 12 13 12 43 13 12 24 l13 RCA/SONY STRATEGIC MARKETING GROUP 89048*/LEGACY (25.98) 1 LUKE COMBS  l INGRID ANDRESS  NOBODY BUT YOU WINE, BEER, WHISKEY ZAC BROWN BAND GREATEST HITS SO FAR... 14 16 6 14 NEW 14 14 17 239 ROAR/SOUTHERN GROUND/ATLANTIC 546369/AG 3 BLAKE SHELTON DUET WITH GWEN STEFANI  l LITTLE BIG TOWN  SPEECHLESS EVEN THOUGH I’M LEAVING 17 19 99 JASON ALDEAN REARVIEW TOWN 1 15 15 85 15 9 34 l15 MACON/BROKEN BOW/BMG 538375642*/BBMG (538375730) 0 DAN + SHAY  LUKE COMBS  ONE THING RIGHT CHASIN’ YOU KACEY MUSGRAVES GOLDEN HOUR 16 17 35 16 15 5 16 15 16 96 MCA NASHVILLE 027921*/UMGN 0 1 MARSHMELLO & KANE BROWN  l MORGAN WALLEN  MAKE ME WANT TO HOLE IN THE BOTTLE FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE CAN’T SAY I AIN’T COUNTRY 17 19 4 17 NEW 17 16 21 55 BMLG FGL0400* 0 1 JIMMIE ALLEN  l KELSEA BALLERINI  20 20 228 BLAKE SHELTON RELOADED: 20 #1 HITS 2 18 18 16 HOMECOMING QUEEN? 18 14 49 GOD’S COUNTRY l18 WARNER MUSIC NASHVILLE 551788/WMN KELSEA BALLERINI  BLAKE SHELTON  24 30 87 JORDAN DAVIS HOME STATE 6 19 13 12 HEARTACHE MEDICATION 19 13 214 TENNESSEE WHISKEY l19 MCA NASHVILLE 028014/UMGN JON PARDI  CHRIS STAPLETON  DUSTIN LYNCH TULLAHOMA I HOPE YOU’RE HAPPY NOW BEER CAN’T FIX 20 20 4 20 24 4 20 18 18 7 BROKEN BOW/BMG 85625/BBMG 4 CARLY PEARCE & LEE BRICE  l THOMAS RHETT FEAT. JON PARDI  GEORGE STRAIT 50 NUMBER ONES SLOW DANCE IN A PARKING LOT KINFOLKS 21 23 23 201 1 21 NEW 21 19 19 l MCA NASHVILLE 000459/UMGN (25.98) 7 l JORDAN DAVIS  l SAM HUNT  JON PARDI CALIFORNIA SUNRISE TEQUILA BEER NEVER BROKE MY HEART 22 23 102 22 21 41 22 21 25 194 CAPITOL NASHVILLE 024744*/UMGN 1 1 DAN + SHAY  l LUKE COMBS  TIM MCGRAW NUMBER ONE HITS MORE HEARTS THAN MINE BETTER TOGETHER 23 25 24 210 6 23 25 6 23 22 7 l CURB 79205 (13.98) 1 INGRID ANDRESS  l LUKE COMBS  RILEY GREEN DIFFERENT ‘ROUND HERE I WISH GRANDPAS NEVER DIED BEAUTIFUL CRAZY 24 22 28 23 11 24 22 8 24 25 83 BMLG BMXRG0100C VS EX RILEY GREEN  l LUKE COMBS  BRETT YOUNG BRETT YOUNG 25 27 29 160 1 2 25 21 4 WE BACK 25 18 12 HEARTLESS l BMLG BY0100A* JASON ALDEAN  DIPLO PRESENTS THOMAS WESLEY FEAT. MORGAN WALLEN  Top Country Albums ranks the most popular country albums of the week, as compiled by Nielsen Music, The week’s top-streamed and top-selling paid download country songs, respectively, from sales reports based on multi-metric consumption (blending traditional album sales, track equivalent albums, and streaming collected and provided by Nielsen Music. Charts update weekly on Tuesdays at www.Billboard.Biz/ equivalent albums). Copyright 2020, Prometheus Global Media, LLC and Nielsen Music, Inc. All rights charts. Copyright 2020, Prometheus Global Media, LLC and Nielsen Music, Inc. All rights reserved. reserved. SALES DATA SALES DATA COMPILED BY COMPILED BY AMERICANA/ FOLK ALBUMS BLUEGRASS ALBUMS

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MAKIN’ TRACKS TOM ROLAND [email protected] Jon Pardi’s ‘Ain’t Always The Cowboy’ Offers Strait Talk To Women

Women may be out of the running for president, but when six females — her embodying his cowboy approach to life, and his reaction is much like the including Sens. Elizabeth Warren, Amy Klobuchar and Kamala Harris — singer in Strait’s “She’ll Leave You With a Smile.” chased the Democratic nomination this year, they became a symbol among “She’s the restless one in this song,” says Kinney. “That’s what I love about America’s women, who are tackling power in a way that was previously reserved it. And that’s why he relates to her, too. It’s just like it says — ‘Can’t keep from for men. smiling/’Cause damn, that girl can fly.’ ” Jon Pardi has noticed the big-picture trend, and that increasing feminine A two-line bridge provided a short respite, with elongated phrasing and boldness plays a major role in his new single, just enough western imagery to put a bow on “Ain’t Always the Cowboy.” the story. “The girls are out there raising hell these “That was Brandon’s line: ‘Tumbleweed days,” he says with enthusiasm. “The females heart, chasing that wind,’ ” says Thompson. are fighting. They’re saying they’re strong, “And we ended up wrapping [with], ‘Going too you know, and it’s great. So it was cool [that] far, wherever that is.’ It was the perfect little this [song] is about girls kind of doing their piece of cowboy. We didn’t need a whole lot own thing.” more than that.” Released to radio by Capitol Nashville Kinney produced a demo, and Thompson, on March 2 via PlayMPE, “Ain’t Always who was out of town at the time, sang the vocal the Cowboy” isn’t just a song of female when he returned. They didn’t pitch it to Strait empowerment wedged into a breakup — “I didn’t even think that that was an option,” storyline. It figuratively turns a classic on its says Thompson — but Kinney did send it to his ear since the full hook — “It ain’t always the cousin, Bart Butler, who produces Pardi. cowboy that rides away” — is a clever twist Butler did not act immediately on it. Instead, he on a 35-year-old hit that plays with the silver- highlighted the email in his inbox, where it sat screen cowboy archetype: the elusive good for three or four months. He opened it a couple guy who inevitably leaves women behind to of days before a Pardi session at Blackbird chase another adventure. Listeners don’t need Studios in September 2017, then sent Kinney to know the original to appreciate Pardi’s song, an emergency text around 2:30 a.m. saying, but those who do will find a deeper, richer “Please tell me it’s still available.” meaning in the experience. Another artist had the song on hold, but “ ‘The Cowboy Rides Away’; it’s a George Kinney had a hunch that the person would Strait career song,” notes Pardi, “so you take end up passing on it, so he told Butler it was PARDI that and kind of flip it, it takes on a whole up for grabs. Butler and co-producer Ryan different perspective.” Gore made just a few minor tweaks. That flipped perspective occurred during a brainstorming session around “The demo wasn’t too far from the record,” notes Butler. “We just had to the title. Josh Thompson (“Any Ol’ Barstool,” “I’ll Name the Dogs”) brought kick it up a notch, and we put a little more fiddle and steel on to country it up the “Ain’t Always the Cowboy” phrase into a cowrite with Brandon Kinney a little bit more. But tempo-wise, I think I went up at least four clicks to six (“Drowns the Whiskey,” “Love You Too Late”) on Feb. 1, 2017, at Kinney’s clicks. I mean, [the demo] was draggin’.” second-floor peermusic office. The guy, they surmised, isn’t always the one The production flips the script in a manner that mimics the lyric since a female who ends a relationship. fiddler, reigning Country Music Association musician of the year Jenee Fleenor, “I didn’t have the flip part,” recalls Thompson. “I just had the ‘Ain’t Always plays the intro. Guitarist Rob McNelley delivered a fuzz-tone solo much like the Cowboy.’ Just sitting there messing around with it, ‘It ain’t always the Tony Peluso’s work on The Carpenters’ 1972 single “Goodbye to Love.” cowboy that rides away,’ that came out real soon. And once you have a hook Pardi knocked out the final lead vocal at a studio they had built on his like that, it was like, ‘OK, you know, it should write itself.’ Our job now was mother’s property in Northern California the weekend before the Academy to not screw it up.” of Country Music Awards in 2018. The hook was so good that Kinney decided it deserved a reward; he popped “It has definitely got its belting moments,” he says. “It’s not an easy song across the street to Virginia’s Market and picked up a 12-pack of Pabst Blue to sing. You have to be used to it ’cause it’s got a lot of notes.” Ribbon. They wrote the rest of the day the cowboy way: over the buzz of a Background vocalist Russell Terrell added to the Strait effect when he few cold brews. overdubbed the harmonies, recalling the sound of backup singers Curtis “That wasn’t the only day,” admits Kinney with a laugh. Young and Liana Manis on such Strait singles as “Blue Clear Sky,” “Round They launched into the chorus first, recognizing a woman who has “got no About Way” and “Check Yes or No.” settle-down in her boots.” Once they had a good start, they shifted back to the “There are times — and I probably said it for this song — where I’ll say, beginning, using conversational phrasing to set up a traditional final scene, ‘Can you put the Liana Manis part on it?’ ” says Butler. “Russell can get up in with the couple clasping hands as the woman cries. the girly parts.” “We wanted it to be kind of elusive in the beginning,” says Kinney. “The The title track from Pardi’s Heartache Medication was the album’s first way I was seeing it, you don’t really see that she’s the one leaving.” single, landing at No. 1 on the Country Airplay chart dated Feb. 8. “Ain’t Always Once they finished the opening verse, they returned to the chorus, and the Cowboy” goes for adds on March 16, and Pardi is optimistic that while it the setup line near the end of that stanza put a poetic spin on her departure: pays homage to Strait, it also will be a source of pride for ascendant women. “leavin’ love in the dust of a midnight Chevrolet.” Then in the second verse, “It’s not why I’m putting it out there, but it’s like whatever way that helps,

the jilted guy faces the sobering moment with a bit of admiration; he sees here’s some more power,” he says. “Girls, go get it.” WRIGHT JIM BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE MARCH 9, 2020 | PAGE 15 OF 17 Country Airplay Index

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Music Corp., SESAC/Songs Gone To Plaid Publishing, BMI/WC Music Corp., ASCAP/ BMI/EMI April Music, Inc., ASCAP/Nite Writer Music, Of Rhythm House Black, SESAC/Bennett’s Dad’s Songs, BEER CAN’T FIX EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/ Big Crowd Publishing, ASCAP/Georgia Song Vibez, ASCAP/Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI (Z.Kale, J.M.Nite, SESAC/Roc Nation US Music, SESAC/Warner-Tamerlane ASCAP/Universal Tunes, SESAC/Songs For Owen Music, 11 Publishing Corp., BMI/Songs Of Roc Nation Music, BMI/ Cricket On The Line, BMI/Music Of Big Family, BMI/ SESAC (C.A.Young, C.Crowder, J.Hoge) 31 G.Barrett)  Telemitry Rhythm House Music, BMI/Round Hill Songs Dragon Bunny Music, BMI/Patriot Games Publishing, II, ASCAP/Caleb’s College Fund, ASCAP/Vistaville Music, ASCAP/Write Me A Song Publishing, GMR/Downtown I HOPE YOU’RE HAPPY NOW BMG Gold ASCAP/Steph Jones Who Music, ASCAP/Big Deal Hits, Global Two, GMR (Thomas Rhett, J.Bunetta, Z.Skelton, E   Songs, ASCAP/For The Kids Gold, ASCAP/Redfeather ASCAP/BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP (C.R.Barlowe, J.Frasure, R.B.Tedder) 12 Publishing, ASCAP/Big Music Machine, BMI/50 Egg A.Gorley, S.Jones, H.Lindsey) 54 EVERYWHERE BUT ON Sony/ATV Accent, Music, BMI/Straight Dimes Publishing, BMI/Super Big BIG, BIG PLANS Magic Mustang Music, BMI/ ASCAP/Pedal Down Music, ASCAP/W.C.M. 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Solar) 39 Downtown DMP Songs, BMI/Jammy Rabbins Music, GETTING GOOD Weistribe Publishing, ASCAP/ Thankful For This Music, ASCAP/WC Music Corp., ASCAP ASCAP/Round Hill Songs Jimmy Robbins, ASCAP/ L   SOME PEOPLE DO WC Music Corp., ASCAP/ Extraordinary Alien Publishing, ASCAP/Oh Denise (E.L.Weisband) 47 Smackville Music, ASCAP/Smack Songs LLC, ASCAP/ Publishing, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, ASCAP/Telemitry BMI/Big Music Machine, BMI/Songs Of Universal, Inc., GOD WHISPERED YOUR NAME BMG Gold LONELY IF YOU ARE Sony/ATV Countryside, Rhythm House Music, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane BMI/Heroes And Halos Music, BMI (M.Morris, J.Robbins, Songs, ASCAP/Gold Leaf Pages, ASCAP/Micah Carter BMI/Dack Janiels Publishing, BMI/EMI Blackwood Music Publishing Corp., BMI/Songs Of Roc Nation Music, BMI/ L.J.Veltz) 4 Publishing Designee, BMI/BMG Platinum Songs US, Inc., BMI/Koala T Tunes, BMI/WC Music Corp., ASCAP/ Who Wants To Buy My Publishing, ASCAP (C.Rice, L.Rimes, Smack Hits, GMR/Smack Songs LLC, GMR/Kobalt Music BMI/You Want How Much Of What Publishing, BMI/ 28 Group Ltd., GMR/EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Cricket BREAK IT IN Plaid Flag Music, BMI/McCarty And Worldwide EMG Music B, BMI/Bro 2 Bro Publishing, BMI H.Phelps)  On The Line, BMI (M.Ramsey, J.Frasure, S.McAnally, Thomas Blake, LLC, BMI/South By Sea Music Publishing, BMI/ (C.August, M.Carter, Shy Carter, J.T.Slater) 33 Rhett) 49 Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI/Big LOVE YOU LIKE I USED TO BMG Platinum Music Machine, BMI/Florida Songs Vibez, BMI/I Finally H   Songs US, BMI/Kailey’s Dream, BMI/Blue Corolla Got Some Publishing, BMI/Riser House Tunes, SESAC (B. Oklahoma, SESAC/Feel Your Creative Pulse Music, T   Davis, B.Day, D.Ross, M.Whitworth) 42 SESAC/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Songs HARD TO FORGET Universal Music Corp., ASCAP/ Of Home Team Music, BMI/Tunes Of TrailerParker, BMI (R. THAT’S WHY I LOVE DIRT ROADS Between the Pines, LLC, ASCAP/Caleb’s College Fund, Dickerson, C.Brown, P.Welling) 60 Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Climbing C   ASCAP/Round Hill Songs II, ASCAP/Sony/ATV Story Windmills Music, BMI/EMI April Music, Inc., ASCAP/ Music Publishing, GMR/We Are Creative Nation, GMR/ CDS Words And Music, ASCAP/Sony/ATV Story Music CATCH Super Big Music, ASCAP/Caliville Publishing, Suzanne James Songs, GMR/Unichappell Music, Inc., M   Publishing, GMR/Spruce Road Publishing, GMR/Nite ASCAP/EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Plain Jane Songs, BMI/Smackstreet Music, GMR/Warner Geo Met Ric Music, Writer Music, ASCAP (C. DeStefano, J.M.Nite, B.Rempel, BMI/Rezolant Music, BMI/Round Hill Songs II, ASCAP/ GMR/Influence Media Music SPV, LLC, GMR/Sony/ATV MAKE ME WANT TO Red Lining Music, SESAC/ G.Smith) 59 Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/WC Music Corp., Accent, ASCAP/Smackborne Music, ASCAP/Jamie Music Sony/ATV Lakeview, SESAC/Amplified Hour Songs, ASCAP (B.Young, R.Copperman, A.Gorley) 6 Publishing Co., BMI (S.L.Hunt, A.Gorley, L.Laird, S.McAnally, SESAC/Pedal Down Music, ASCAP/Sony/ATV Accent, J.Osborne, A.Grisham, M.J.Shurtz, R.Hull) 52 ASCAP/Sounds Of Soperman Music Publishing, ASCAP/ W   Curb Songs, ASCAP/Dreamark Publishing, ASCAP (J.Allen, CHASIN’ YOU BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP/Team P.Sikes, J.Denmark) 10 WE BACK Songs Of TriScore, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Destiny, ASCAP/JMZL Music, ASCAP/Big Loud Mountain, HEAD OVER HEELS Magic Mustang Music, BMI/ Publishing Corp., BMI/Loyal Feather Music, BMI/ BMI/Round Hill Songs BLS JV, ASCAP/Big Loud Proud BMG Platinum Songs US, BMI/Songwriters of Platinum Chifforobe Songs, BMI/Free Dive Music, BMI/Big Songs, ASCAP/Red Toe Rocker, ASCAP (J.Moore, M.Wallen, Pen Publishing, BMI/Legends Of Magic Mustang Music, MOMMA’S HOUSE Sony/ATV Cross Keys Loud Mountain, BMI/Round Hill Works, BMI/T Hubb C.Wiseman) 14 SESAC/BMG Silver Songs, SESAC/Music Of Platinum Pen, Publishing, ASCAP/Two Black Dogs, ASCAP/ole Music Publishing, BMI/WC Music Corp., ASCAP/Georgia Song SESAC/Hatchoo Music, SESAC/Sony/ATV Countryside, Of Parallel, BMI/Lucky Mic Publishing, BMI/Round Hill Vibez, ASCAP/We-Volve Music, ASCAP (B.D.Warren, CHEATIN’ SONGS WC Music Corp., ASCAP/TipTop BMI/Songs Of XO, BMI/We In Good Company, BMI/Big Compositions, BMI/Ford Drives A Chevy, BMI/Shirt At B.Warren, T.Hubbard, J.M.Schmidt) 8 Music, ASCAP/Tropical Cowboy Publishing, ASCAP/ Deal Beats, BMI (H.Mulholland, J.Wayne, N.Cooke, T.Cecil, Work, BMI/Legends Of Magic Mustang Music, SESAC/BMG Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Kitt Cass J.Mullins) 43 Cicada, SESAC (D.Schneider, M.Lotten, R.Clawson, J.T.Wilson) 58 Publishing Corporation, BMI/Smack Hits, GMR/Smack WHAT I’M LEAVING FOR Universal Music Songs LLC, GMR/Kobalt Music Group Ltd., GMR/Sony/ATV HERE AND NOW Round Hill Songs BLS JV, ASCAP/ MONSTERS Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/Longer Corp., ASCAP/Happy Rock Publishing, ASCAP/BMG Cross Keys Publishing, ASCAP/Smackville Music, ASCAP/ Big Loud Proud Songs, ASCAP/Red Toe Rocker, ASCAP/ And Louder Music, BMI/Mammaw’s Fried Okra Music, Platinum Songs US, BMI/Mason Jar Moonshine Music Smack Songs LLC, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Publishing Old Desperados, LLC, ASCAP/N2D Publishing Company, BMI/Little Louder Songs, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing, BMI/Big Music Machine, BMI/Never Veltz So LLC, ASCAP (J.Carson, C.Duddy, M.Wystrach, S.McAnally, Inc., ASCAP/Spirit Two Nashville, ASCAP/4TheKidz Music, Publishing America, Inc., BMI (E.Church, J.Hyde) 22 Good Publishing, BMI (S.Ellis, M.R.Premnath, L.J.Veltz) 53 J.Osborne) 40 ASCAP (C.Wiseman, D.L.Murphy, D.A.Garcia) 20 WHAT I SEE Sony/ATV Accent, ASCAP/Warner- MORE HEARTS THAN MINE What Is An Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Neon Cross Music, BMI/ D   HER WORLD OR MINE Songs Of Universal, Ingrid, BMI/Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Straight From Concession 114 Music, BMI/Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI/ Inc., BMI/I’m About To Go RED On Ya Music, BMI/BMG The Art Music, BMI/Songs For A Stone Heart, BMI/ Songs Of Freetown, BMI/Me Gusta Music, BMI (T.Howell, DETAILS WC Music Corp., ASCAP/Future Heartbeat Platinum Songs US, BMI/Music Of Big Deal, BMI/Stalefish Universal Music Corp., ASCAP/Happy Rock Publishing, B.Lancaster, C.B.Baldwin, J.N.Spillman) 55 Publishing, ASCAP/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., Music, BMI (J.Paulin, T.Denning, B.Beavers) 26 ASCAP (I.Andress, S.Ellis, D.Southerland) 9 BMI/A Boy Named Ford, BMI/Slo Circus Music, ASCAP/ WHAT SHE WANTS TONIGHT Sony/ATV Tree Roc Nation Music, ASCAP/Songs Of Rhythm House Red, HOMECOMING QUEEN? Sony/ATV Accent, N   Publishing, BMI/Peanut Mill Songs, BMI/EMI Blackwood ASCAP (M.Trussell, N.Galyon, S.L.Olsen) 32 ASCAP/Round Hill Songs II, ASCAP/JRM3, ASCAP/ Music Inc., BMI/Rezolant Music, BMI/BIRB Music, ASCAP/ Muse Magic, ASCAP/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing NOBODY BUT YOU EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP/EMI April Music, Inc., ASCAP/ DIAMONDS Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., Corp., BMI/A Boy Named Ford, BMI (K.Ballerini, J.Robbins, BMI/Rezolant Music, BMI/Smack Hits, GMR/Smack Nite Writer Music, ASCAP (L.Bryan, R.Copperman, H.Lindsey, BMI/SongsbyME, BMI/EMI April Music, Inc., ASCAP/CDS N.Galyon) 19 Songs LLC, GMR/Influence Media Music SPV, LLC, GMR/ J.M.Nite) 5 Words And Music, ASCAP/That Was EZ, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Group Ltd., GMR/Sony/ATV Accent, ASCAP/ Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI (M.Evans, C. HOMEMADE BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP/Songs Of Smackborne Music, ASCAP/Still Working For The Man WHY WE DRINK Big Music Machine, BMI/Double DeStefano, E.K.Bogart) 56 Big Deal, ASCAP/Go For The Goldsmith, ASCAP/Mullins Music, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, Barrel Ace Music, BMI/Seven Ring Circus Songs, BMI/ It Over Music, BMI/Tree Vibez Music, LLC, BMI/Warner- Inc., BMI (T.L.James, R.Copperman, S.McAnally, J.Osborne) 17 Little Louder Songs, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music DIE FROM A BROKEN HEART Super Big Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Works Of RHA, BMI/ Publishing America, Inc., BMI/Old Desperados, LLC, Music, ASCAP/Seven Red Brids Publishing, ASCAP/ Oak Tree Swing Publishing, BMI/New Writers Of Sea NOW YOU KNOW Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI/ ASCAP/N2D Publishing Company, Inc., ASCAP/Carol Big Music Machine, BMI/Jehovah Nissi Music, BMI/Jett Gayle Music, BMI/Not A Track Guy Music, BMI (B.Goldsmith, Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Mandy’s Vincent And Associates, LLC., ASCAP/Ole Red Cape Music, ASCAP/WC Music Corp., ASCAP/Thankful For This J.Mullins, D.Parker, B.Pinson) 2 Favorite Songs, BMI/Murphy The Wolf Music, BMI/Five Songs, ASCAP/Real Big Red Tunes, ASCAP (J.Moore, Music, ASCAP/Doc And Maggie Music, SOCAN/Sony/ATV Miles West Songs, BMI/Don’t Be A Gypsy, BMI (J.Langston, C.Beathard, D.L.Murphy, J.S.Stover) 27 Cross Keys Publishing, ASCAP (M.Marlow, T.Dye, J.Singleton, HOMESICK Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Kane B.Clawson, B.Berryhill) 41 D.Ruttan) 30 Brown Music, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Don’t Be A Gypsy, BMI/Smackworks Music, SESAC/ Kobalt Group Music Publishing, SESAC/Smack Blue, LLC, O   DOES TO ME Big Music Machine, BMI/50 Egg Music, SESAC/TDP Publishing, BMI (K.Brown, B.Berryhill, M.J.McGinn, BMI/Straight Dimes Publishing, BMI/Works Of RHA, BMI/ 1 ONE BEER Relative Music Group, BMI/BIRB Music, Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Larkin Hill T.Phillips)  ASCAP/New Writers Of Sea Gayle Music, BMI/West Pass Publishing, BMI/Kirbfinder’s Mucho Love Music, BMI (L. Music, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, Combs, R.M.L.Fulcher, T.M.Reeve) 15 Inc., BMI/BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP (M.W.Hardy, H.Lindsey, J.Mitchell) 45 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE MARCH 9, 2020 | PAGE 16 OF 17 Hot Country Songs Index

TITLE Publishing-Licensing Org. DIE FROM A BROKEN HEART Super Big HOMEMADE BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP/Songs Of O   (Songwriter) Chart Position Music, ASCAP/Seven Red Brids Publishing, ASCAP/ Big Deal, ASCAP/Go For The Goldsmith, ASCAP/Mullins Big Music Machine, BMI/Jehovah Nissi Music, BMI/Jett It Over Music, BMI/Tree Vibez Music, LLC, BMI/Warner- ONE BEER Relative Music Group, BMI/BIRB Music, 10,000 HOURS Beats And Banjos, ASCAP/Shay Music, ASCAP/WC Music Corp., ASCAP/Thankful For This Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Works Of RHA, BMI/ ASCAP/New Writers Of Sea Gayle Music, BMI/West Pass Mooney Music, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., Music, ASCAP/Doc And Maggie Music, SOCAN/Sony/ATV Oak Tree Swing Publishing, BMI/New Writers Of Sea Music, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, BMI/Big Ass Pile Of Dimes Music, BMI/Big Music Machine, Cross Keys Publishing, ASCAP (M.Marlow, T.Dye, J.Singleton, Gayle Music, BMI/Not A Track Guy Music, BMI (B.Goldsmith, Inc., BMI/BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP (M.W.Hardy, H.Lindsey, BMI/Buckeye26, ASCAP/Jreynmusic, ASCAP/WC Music D.Ruttan) 27 J.Mullins, D.Parker, B.Pinson) 8 J.Mitchell) 34 Corp., ASCAP/Bieber Time Publishing, ASCAP/Universal ONE BIG COUNTRY SONG Songs Of Roc Music Corp., ASCAP/Poo BZ Publishing Inc., ASCAP/ DOES TO ME Big Music Machine, BMI/50 Egg Music, HOMESICK Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Kane BMI/Straight Dimes Publishing, BMI/Works Of RHA, BMI/ Brown Music, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., Nation Music, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP (D.Smyers, S.Mooney, J.J.Dillon, BMI/Telemitry Rhythm House Music, BMI/Round Hill J.Reynolds, J.D.Bieber, J.Boyd) 2 Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Larkin Hill BMI/Don’t Be A Gypsy, BMI/Smackworks Music, SESAC/ Publishing, BMI/Kirbfinder’s Mucho Love Music, BMI (L. Kobalt Group Music Publishing, SESAC/Smack Blue, LLC, Songs II, ASCAP/Caleb’s College Fund, ASCAP/Relative A   Combs, R.M.L.Fulcher, T.M.Reeve) 17 SESAC/TDP Publishing, BMI (K.Brown, B.Berryhill, M.J.McGinn, Music Group, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing T.Phillips) 3 America, Inc., BMI (J.Frasure, A.Gorley, M.W.Hardy) 37 AFTER A FEW I’m About To Go RED On Ya Music, DONE ole Red Vinyl Music, BMI/Buckkilla Music, BMI/ BMI/Travis Denning Music, BMI/ole, BMI/Crack The Glass Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Songsfortatum Publishing, I   ONE MAN BAND WC Music Corp., ASCAP/ Songs, BMI/Stars And Stripes And Maple Leaf Music, BMI/BMG Platinum Songs US, BMI/Rounding Third Smackville Music, ASCAP/Smack Songs LLC, ASCAP/ BMI/Downtown DMP Songs, BMI/Sound Wagon Songs, Publishing, BMI/WC Music Corp., ASCAP/Mitchell Marlow I HOPE Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI/Revinyl House, Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, ASCAP/Rezsongs, ASCAP/WC Music Corp., ASCAP/Music Of The Corn, ASCAP Music, ASCAP/KJM Music Publishing, ASCAP (C.Janson, BMI/EMI April Music, Inc., ASCAP/Nite Writer Music, ASCAP/Reehits World, ASCAP/Smacktown Music, ASCAP/ (T.Denning, K.Archer, J.Weaver) 20 M.Oglesby, J.Paulin, M.Roy) 48 ASCAP/Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI (Z.Kale, J.M.Nite, Smack Blue, LLC, ASCAP/Sony/ATV Cross Keys Publishing, G.Barrett) 6 ASCAP/Unfair Entertainment, ASCAP/MeGusta Music, B   DRINKING ALONE Carrie-Okie Music, BMI/ ASCAP/We’re Really Doin’ It Publishing, ASCAP/Universal Universal Music - Brentwood-Benson Songs, BMI/D I HOPE YOU’RE HAPPY NOW BMG Gold Music Corp., ASCAP/Turs And Chorus, ASCAP (M.Ramsey, T. BEER CAN’T FIX EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/ Soul Music, ASCAP/Capitol CMG Genesis, ASCAP/Songs Songs, ASCAP/For The Kids Gold, ASCAP/Redfeather Rosen, B.F.Tursi, J.Osborne) 5 Cricket On The Line, BMI/Music Of Big Family, BMI/ Of Brett, ASCAP/WC Music Corp., ASCAP (C.Underwood, Publishing, ASCAP/Big Music Machine, BMI/50 Egg Dragon Bunny Music, BMI/Patriot Games Publishing, D.A.Garcia, Brett James) 33 Music, BMI/Straight Dimes Publishing, BMI/Super Big ONE NIGHT STANDARDS Canned Biscuit ASCAP/Write Me A Song Publishing, GMR/Downtown Music, ASCAP/Jett Music, ASCAP/Warner-Tamerlane Songs, BMI/Smack Hits, GMR/Influence Media Music Global Two, GMR (Thomas Rhett, J.Bunetta, Z.Skelton, DROWNING Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/They’ve Publishing Corp., BMI/Sullivan S Guns Music, BMI (C. SPV, LLC, GMR/Kobalt Music Group Ltd., GMR/I Love R.B.Tedder) 19 Gone To Plaid Publishing, BMI/WC Music Corp., ASCAP/ Pearce, L.Combs, R.Montana, J.Singleton) 16 RHA, SESAC/Smackworks Music, SESAC/Smack Blue, LLC, Big Crowd Publishing, ASCAP/Georgia Song Vibez, SESAC (A.McBryde, S.McAnally, N.Hayford) 36 BETTER TOGETHER Big Music Machine, BMI/ ASCAP/Universal Tunes, SESAC/Songs For Owen Music, IN BETWEEN Dagum Music, BMI/Austintatious Egg Music, BMI/Straight Dimes Publishing, BMI/Sony/ SESAC (C.A.Young, C.Crowder, J.Hoge) 30 Tunes, BMI/Spirit Cataloge Holdings, S.A.R.L./Spirit Two S   ATV Countryside, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Nashville, ASCAP/House Of Sea Gayle Music, ASCAP/ Corp., BMI/Sullivan S Guns Music, BMI (L.Combs, D.Isbell, F   Party Of Five Music, ASCAP/WC Music Corp., ASCAP/ SHE’S MINE Music Of Stage Three, BMI/Songs Of R.Montana) 22 Super Big Music, ASCAP/Jett Music, ASCAP (S.McCreery, Cornman, BMI/BMG Platinum Songs US, BMI/Songs From FAMOUS Sony/ATV Accent, ASCAP/BMG Gold Songs, F.Rogers, J.L.Alexander, J.Singleton) 29 The Couch, BMI/Sony/ATV Cross Keys Publishing, ASCAP BIG, BIG PLANS Magic Mustang Music, BMI/ ASCAP/Sehr Laut, ASCAP/Songs Of Razor And Tie Music, (K.Moore, D.Couch, S.Stepakoff) 49 Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Big Loud ASCAP (A.Doleac, B.Hamrick, A.Skib) 43 I WISH GRANDPAS NEVER DIED Warner- Mountain, BMI/Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Tree Vibez Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Riley Green Publishing SLOW DANCE IN A PARKING LOT Ole Red Music, LLC, BMI/Ern Dog Music, BMI (J.Durrett, C.Lane, G   Designee, BMI (R.Green, L.Bonds, B.Green) 14 Cape Songs, ASCAP/Jordan Davis Music, ASCAP/Amylase E.K.Smith) 39 Songs ‘N Such, ASCAP/Matching Cowlicks Music, ASCAP/ GASLIGHTER Woolly Puddin’ Music, BMI/Songs J   WC Music Corp., ASCAP (J.Davis, L.L.Fowler) 11 BLESSINGS Big Loud Mountain, BMI/T Hubb Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI/Scrapin’ Publishing, BMI/Pranch Ringle Music, BMI/Round Hill Toast, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, ASCAP/ JUST THE WAY Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI/JM T   Sony/ATV Songs LLC, BMI/Ducky Donath Music, BMI (M. Thomas Music, BMI/Sony/ATV Tunes LLC, ASCAP/Kevin Works, BMI/Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/Sony/ATV THIS BAR Relative Music Group, BMI/Ransom Quarter Countryside, BMI/Tomdouglasmusic, BMI/Warner- Maguire, E.Strayer, N.Maines, J.M.Antonoff) 31 Bard Music, ASCAP/Margetts Road Music, ASCAP/Nolan W. Sipe Music, ASACP (M.Thomas, K.Bard, N.W.Sipe) 44 Note Music, ASCAP/Pie Cost Publishing, ASCAP/WC Music Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Telemitry Rhythm GETTING GOOD Weistribe Publishing, ASCAP/ Corp., ASCAP/Torches And Pitchforks Music, BMI/Sony/ House Music, BMI/Songs Of Roc Nation Music, BMI/ Thankful For This Music, ASCAP/WC Music Corp., ASCAP K   ATV Countryside, BMI/Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Big WC Music Corp., ASCAP/Freshy Music, ASCAP/We-Volve (E.L.Weisband) 42 Loud Mountain, BMI (M.W.Hardy, J.Morgan, J.Scott, E.K.Smith, Music, ASCAP/Ern Dog Music, BMI/Songs Of Universal, KINFOLKS Universal Music Corp., ASCAP/Bentween R.Vojtesak, M.Wallen) 46 Inc., BMI/Tree Vibez Music, LLC, BMI (T.Hubbard, B.Kelley, GOD WHISPERED YOUR NAME BMG Gold The Pines, LLC, ASCAP/Spirit Two Nashville, ASCAP/Miller T.Douglas, J.Frasure, J.M.Schmidt, E.K.Smith) 23 Songs, ASCAP/Gold Leaf Pages, ASCAP/Micah Carter Crow Music, ASCAP/Kyler’s Kinda Night, ASCAP/Twelve6 W   Publishing Designee, BMI/BMG Platinum Songs US, Dogwood, ASCAP/JFlow Records & Tapes, ASCAP/ BLUEBIRD Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/Pink Dog BMI/You Want How Much Of What Publishing, BMI/ Downtown DLJ Songs, ASCAP/Sony/ATV Accent, ASCAP/ WE BACK Songs Of TriScore, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing, BMI/Emileon Songs, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Worldwide EMG Music B, BMI/Bro 2 Bro Publishing, BMI Smackborne Music, ASCAP (S.L.Hunt, Z.Crowell, J.Flowers, Publishing Corp., BMI/Loyal Feather Music, BMI/ Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI/Little Louder Songs, (C.August, M.Carter, Shy Carter, J.T.Slater) 21 J.Osborne) 4 Chifforobe Songs, BMI/Free Dive Music, BMI/Big BMI/Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Wrucke For You Loud Mountain, BMI/Round Hill Works, BMI/T Hubb Publishing, BMI (M.Lambert, L.Dick, N.Hemby) 26 h   L   Publishing, BMI/WC Music Corp., ASCAP/Georgia Song Vibez, ASCAP/We-Volve Music, ASCAP (B.D.Warren, THE BONES International Dog Music, BMI/ HARD TO FORGET Universal Music Corp., ASCAP/ LONELY IF YOU ARE Sony/ATV Countryside, B.Warren, T.Hubbard, J.M.Schmidt) 13 Downtown DMP Songs, BMI/Jammy Rabbins Music, Between the Pines, LLC, ASCAP/Caleb’s College Fund, BMI/Dack Janiels Publishing, BMI/EMI Blackwood Music ASCAP/Round Hill Songs Jimmy Robbins, ASCAP/ ASCAP/Round Hill Songs II, ASCAP/Sony/ATV Story Inc., BMI/Koala T Tunes, BMI/WC Music Corp., ASCAP/ WHAT COULD’VE BEEN Maliburrito Music, Extraordinary Alien Publishing, ASCAP/Oh Denise Music Publishing, GMR/We Are Creative Nation, GMR/ Who Wants To Buy My Publishing, ASCAP (C.Rice, L.Rimes, BMI/Elehala Music, ASCAP/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Publishing, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., Suzanne James Songs, GMR/Unichappell Music, Inc., H.Phelps) 25 Corp., BMI/MRMD Music, BMI/Songs From Outter Space BMI/Big Music Machine, BMI/Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Smackstreet Music, GMR/Warner Geo Met Ric Music, Music, BMI/WC Music Corp., ASCAP/Carver Music, ASCAP BMI/Heroes And Halos Music, BMI (M.Morris, J.Robbins, GMR/Influence Media Music SPV, LLC, GMR/Sony/ATV M   (C.Caillat, J.K.Young, J.Reeves, D.J.Reeves, J.Kenney) 38 L.J.Veltz) 1 Accent, ASCAP/Smackborne Music, ASCAP/Jamie Music Publishing Co., BMI (S.L.Hunt, A.Gorley, L.Laird, S.McAnally, MONSTERS Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/Longer WHAT SHE WANTS TONIGHT Sony/ATV Tree C   J.Osborne, A.Grisham, M.J.Shurtz, R.Hull) 45 And Louder Music, BMI/Mammaw’s Fried Okra Music, Publishing, BMI/Peanut Mill Songs, BMI/EMI Blackwood BMI/Little Louder Songs, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Music Inc., BMI/Rezolant Music, BMI/BIRB Music, ASCAP/ CATCH Super Big Music, ASCAP/Caliville Publishing, HERE AND NOW Round Hill Songs BLS JV, ASCAP/ Publishing America, Inc., BMI (E.Church, J.Hyde) 28 BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP/EMI April Music, Inc., ASCAP/ ASCAP/EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Plain Jane Songs, Big Loud Proud Songs, ASCAP/Red Toe Rocker, ASCAP/ Nite Writer Music, ASCAP (L.Bryan, R.Copperman, H.Lindsey, BMI/Rezolant Music, BMI/Round Hill Songs II, ASCAP/ Old Desperados, LLC, ASCAP/N2D Publishing Company, MORE HEARTS THAN MINE What Is An J.M.Nite) 10 Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/WC Music Corp., Inc., ASCAP/Spirit Two Nashville, ASCAP/4TheKidz Music, Ingrid, BMI/Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Straight From ASCAP (B.Young, R.Copperman, A.Gorley) 15 ASCAP (C.Wiseman, D.L.Murphy, D.A.Garcia) 24 The Art Music, BMI/Songs For A Stone Heart, BMI/ WHY WE DRINK Big Music Machine, BMI/Double Universal Music Corp., ASCAP/Happy Rock Publishing, Barrel Ace Music, BMI/Seven Ring Circus Songs, BMI/ CHASIN’ YOU BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP/Team HER WORLD OR MINE Songs Of Universal, ASCAP (I.Andress, S.Ellis, D.Southerland) 12 Little Louder Songs, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Destiny, ASCAP/JMZL Music, ASCAP/Big Loud Mountain, Inc., BMI/I’m About To Go RED On Ya Music, BMI/BMG Publishing America, Inc., BMI/Old Desperados, LLC, BMI/Round Hill Songs BLS JV, ASCAP/Big Loud Proud Platinum Songs US, BMI/Music Of Big Deal, BMI/Stalefish MY TRUCK Daniel Preland Publishing Designee, BMI/ ASCAP/N2D Publishing Company, Inc., ASCAP/Carol Songs, ASCAP/Red Toe Rocker, ASCAP (J.Moore, M.Wallen, Music, BMI (J.Paulin, T.Denning, B.Beavers) 32 No Quincydence Music Publishing, BMI/Kalvin Austin, Vincent And Associates, LLC., ASCAP/Ole Red Cape C.Wiseman) 9 Publishing Designee, BMI/Devon Barton, Publishing Songs, ASCAP/Real Big Red Tunes, ASCAP (J.Moore, HOLE IN A BOTTLE Sony/ATV Accent, ASCAP/ Designee, BMI/E.MilesMusic, BMI/Songs Of Universal, C.Beathard, D.L.Murphy, J.S.Stover) 40 COVER ME UP Fame Publishing Company LLC, Vistaville Music, ASCAP/Steph Jones Who Music, ASCAP/ Inc., BMI/Tatiana Zeigler Publishing Designee, BMI (D. BMI/Songs Of Emchant, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Big Deal Hits, ASCAP/410 Music, ASCAP/Telemitry Breland, T.Taylor, K.Austin, D.Barton, T.Zeigler) 35 Publishing America, Inc., BMI (M.J.Isbell) 41 Rhythm House Music, BMI/Songs Of Roc Nation Music, N   D   BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Round Hill Songs II, ASCAP/Caleb’s College Fund, ASCAP (K.Ballerini, NOBODY BUT YOU EMI Blackwood Music Inc., DETAILS WC Music Corp., ASCAP/Future Heartbeat S.Jones, H.Lindsey, J.Frasure, A.Gorley) 50 BMI/Rezolant Music, BMI/Smack Hits, GMR/Smack Publishing, ASCAP/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., Songs LLC, GMR/Influence Media Music SPV, LLC, GMR/ BMI/A Boy Named Ford, BMI/Slo Circus Music, ASCAP/ HOMECOMING QUEEN? Sony/ATV Accent, ASCAP/Round Hill Songs II, ASCAP/JRM3, ASCAP/ Kobalt Music Group Ltd., GMR/Sony/ATV Accent, ASCAP/ Roc Nation Music, ASCAP/Songs Of Rhythm House Red, Smackborne Music, ASCAP/Still Working For The Man ASCAP (M.Trussell, N.Galyon, S.L.Olsen) 47 Muse Magic, ASCAP/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/A Boy Named Ford, BMI (K.Ballerini, J.Robbins, Music, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, N.Galyon) 18 Inc., BMI (T.L.James, R.Copperman, S.McAnally, J.Osborne) 7 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE MARCH 9, 2020 | PAGE 17 OF 17 CODA 21 Years Ago Dixie Chicks Mined Another No. 1 Hit The trio was enjoying a smash career start before politics halted its run

On March 13, 1999, Dixie Chicks’ “You Country Songs No. 1s “There’s Your didn’t reach the top 10 again until Were Mine” jumped 4-1 on Hot Country Trouble” and the title cut. September 2019 when the group was Songs. The ballad was penned by sibling Dixie Chicks posted 14 Hot Country featured on Taylor Swift’s No. 10 hit group founders Martie Maguire and Songs top 10s, including six No. 1s, “Soon You’ll Get Better.” Emily Strayer. Lead vocalist Natalie through 2002. On March 10, 2003, This week, Dixie Chicks debut at Maines rounds out the trio. ahead of the Iraq War, Maines said No. 31 on Hot Country Songs with new The song was released as the fourth onstage in London, “We’re ashamed single “Gaslighter” (see page 12). It’s of five singles from Wide Open Spaces, that the president of the United States the title track from the act’s first album which ruled Top Country Albums for is from Texas,” and the trio’s country (due May 1) since 2006’s Taking the Long seven weeks. It also generated the Hot radio fortunes subsequently froze. It Way. —JIM ASKER

REWINDING THE COUNTRY CHARTS

Dixie Chicks (from left) Strayer, Maines and Maguire in Toronto in April 1999. PHOTO BY RICK MADONIK/TORONTO STAR VIA GETTY IMAGES GETTY VIA STAR MADONIK/TORONTO RICK BY PHOTO