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April 18, 2011 Issue 239 Wolf Down: Can S.F. Support Country? Losing any Country station is a disappointment in this business, but losing one in a top five market is borderline devastating and inevitably triggers some industry-wide soul searching. The demise of Entercom’s KBWF (The Wolf)/San Francisco last Friday (CAT 4/15) is especially frustrating because it’s the third FM Country outlet in 10 years to fold its tent in that city. Launched live during CRS opening ceremonies in 2007 amid great fanfare, the Wolf restored to San Francisco after the two years of hibernation which followed Bonneville KZBR’s (The Bear) departure in 2005. In 2001, CBS Radio ended the eight year run of Infinity’s KYCY (Young Country). Going back even further, Chancellor’s KSAN, which Scream For: Jennette McCurdy fans in Birmingham are mildly had been in the format since 1980, first swapped its 94.9 frequency affected by the presence of the iCarly star/country artist during a with sister station KYLD’s 107.7 and soon after changed hands to mall performance stop on her radio tour. Proceeds from the events Susquahanna, which then shuttered the format in July of 1997. are going to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Story below. Alpha Broadcasting’s KUPL/Portland PD Scott Mahalick, who launched the Wolf, called the McCurdy Tour Benefits St. Jude flip to Sports “a tragic shame.” Mahalick left for New artist radio tours are fairly predictable affairs, unless Portland in August of 2009 and says the station was your new artist happens to be a wildly popular television on a roll. “It was healthy to the tune of a 3.8 share actress. For Capitol/Nashville and iCarly actress 25-54, it was 8th in mornings, with the No. 1 Anglo Jennette McCurdy, the introduction to Country morning show in San Francisco. Cume was well Scott Mahalick radio has become a much bigger deal, as the over a half million and pushing 600,000. It was photo above attests. A mall tour in partnership absolutely on fire and we were growing month after month.” with local stations and benefiting St. Jude So what happened? Mahalick believes the throttle was pulled back Children’s Research Hospital has put a new spin on critical dynamics, specifically, embracing the city’s multicultural on an old industry strategy. Cindy Mabe makeup and aggressively working the outlying counties in the metro. “The idea came from trying to maximize the A morning show change in 2010 brought in a simulcast of Fitz from value this artist has in a way that radio sees it, while also going sister KKWF/Seattle. “Fitz is a superstar in our business, a mega- directly to the consumer,” Capitol SVP/Marketing Cindy Mabe explains. “She has such a great base – her Facebook and Twitter talent,” Mahalick says. (continued on page 7) ©2011 Country Aircheck™ — All rights reserved. Sign up free at www.countryaircheck.com. Send news to [email protected]

April 18, 2011 Country Aircheck Weekly Page 3 numbers are insane, but getting to those people and letting them Th e Pa g e Th r e e Pi c know she’s doing music is my biggest problem.” SVP/Promotion Steve Hodges says the fledgling artist didn’t need a hard sell. “When Jennette heard the idea, she said she definitely wanted to do it and definitely wanted to make it about St. Jude,” he says. “She went to the hospital in January and came back Steve Hodges with renewed hope, love and passion for that charity.” McCurdy has long been drawn to the cause of children’s hospitals. “She’s been doing visits probably since she was seven,” Mabe says. “And she’s so popular, obviously, when she goes in and makes those stops. She definitely feels there’s no use : This vintage Arista/Nashville pic shows in having fame if she isn’t doing something meaningful with it.” current Capitol Pres./CEO Mike Dungan ([email protected]) While the concept may have quickly clicked, execution was surrounded by (clockwise from left) Anne Weaver Price (kweenanne@ another story. “It’s been a lot of work, to be honest,” Mabe says. “If aol.com), Rhonda Adkins, Denise Nichols (denise@theprimacyfirm. I had to do it again, I might go to one mall chain, but we wanted to com), Cheri Cranford ([email protected]) and Vannessa Davis ([email protected]). Got a vintage snap? Send target markets that got it. So we’ve had to put the entire marketing them to [email protected]. staff on the road. It’s been an all-hands-on-deck project.” Hodges explains, “It’s a full concert production and requires everything from advancing the mall to getting insurance. Cindy’s including her single “,” which Mabe describes team has done a great job on the logistics. Jennette has posted as “what Jennette wants to say about her generation and how info on her Facebook, but our partners in Country radio have been they give back.” the only way to hear about these events locally. To their credit, Afterward, McCurdy signs purchased CD singles and 8x10 they’ve had to have a bit of blind faith in doing this with a new photographs, with proceeds going to St. Jude. “Her goal from artist. We’ve had to convince them to let us bring her in, find a the beginning was to raise $100,000,” Mabe says. “And she’ll mall in a hot Zip code and prove to them what she can deliver. probably exceed that. She signs until the mall closes. It’s a win for “And they’ve stepped up in a big way. They show up with their everyone, though some of the smaller malls have been somewhat station vehicles, emcee the shows and bring her up onstage, just set back by the turnout. But we’ve had people come up and say like a regular concert. And there are literally thousands of people they were a St. Jude kid. We sometimes get stuck doing the same showing up. Moms bringing their kids, kids bringing their moms, thing over and over again with new artists, so this has been kind of adults and teens coming out on their own. Everyone who buys cool. It’s a pretty moving experience for us all.” a CD and photo is guaranteed an autograph, and some of them Hodges agrees. “It all stems from the song itself. ‘Generation have to stand in line for hours. It can’t be easy for Jennette to sign Love’ is an adult song, not a kid or teen song, and we’re getting thousands of autographs, but she does it with a smile.” great feedback. The tour itself has been a great success, a nice The shows integrate the St. Jude message with an introductory way to launch a career, and Jennette’s going to be able to write video about the hospital and its patients. Accompanied by two a six-figure check to St. Jude in a couple weeks. That’s not your musicians, McCurdy then performs a four-to-seven-song set, typical new artist radio tour by any stretch.” ©2011 Country Aircheck™ — All rights reserved. Sign up free at www.countryaircheck.com. Send news to [email protected] April 18, 2011 Country Aircheck Weekly Page 4

Dorman, Robinson To Nine North My Tu n e s : Mu s i c Th a t Sh a p e d My Li f e As reported late this afternoon via Twitter and Facebook, WMAD/Madison OM Mike Ferris Black River Entertainment’s Jim Dorman and WFRE/ discusses his most influential songs, Frederick, MD’s Will Robinson are joining or concerts: Nine North as Directors/Promotion. Dorman 1. George Harrison, Olympia Stadium, will take West and Southwest responsibilities, Detroit, Dec. 1974: My very first concert! 2. Bob Seger/Night Moves: A coming-of- with Robinson covering the Northeast/Midwest. age classic. Bob is the Working Class Hero Both report to President Larry Pareigis and of Michigan! VP/Promotion & Marketing Tom Moran. 3. Bruce Springsteen, Rosemont Jim Dorman They replace Dave Collins, who has joined Mike Ferris Horizon, Chicago, March 1988: The the Skyville team, and Stan Marczewski, who Tunnel of Love Tour. My wife and I were married two months later! will be taking an as-yet-unannounced new job. 4. /Wichita Lineman: The lyrics, vocals and Reach Dorman at [email protected] and production paint a melancholy image that reflect a painfully Robinson at [email protected]. The profound period of life in my 20s. search is on for a Northeast rep at BRE, so drop 5. /Boondocks: I grew up in the city, and resumes to VP/Promotion Rick Baumgartner this song perfectly captures my image of life in the “sticks.” Will Robinson Something that is simply very appealing to me. at [email protected]. • A highly regarded song or you’ve never heard: Wanted! The Outlaws by , , Jessi Chart Chat Colter and Tompall Glaser. It’s on my CD bucket list. Congrats to , Steve Hodges, • An “important” piece of music you just don’t get: Miles Davis’ Shane Allen and the whole Capitol promotion Bitches Brew. There are some mainstream jazz artists and works that I absolutely love. This one escapes me. I’ve never been able family on topping this week’s chart with Rucker’s to listen to the entire album because it’s too confusing. “This.” The song is Rucker’s second No. 1 from • An album you played or listened to incessantly: The American his current album Charleston, SC 1966, joining version of the Beatles’ Rubber Soul that opens with “I’ve Just Seen a “Come Back Song.” Face.” They always had a flair of country in their best works. • One obscure or non-country song everyone should listen to Darius Rucker right now: Katie Melua’s Nine Million Bicycles. You could compare her Course Work: Butler Did It! to Norah Jones. She’s jazzy, sensitive and has an incredible voice! Congrats to industry vet Allen Butler, who scored his first Reach Ferris at [email protected]. hole-in-one Saturday (4/16) with a six-iron on the 167-yard hole No. 6 at Franklin, TN’s Old Natchez Country Club. Tuscaloosa, AL Friday (4/15). Video here. Artist News Members of ’s family and Arkansas State is among the celebrity guests featured on actor University have partnered to host the annual Johnny Cash Music ’s space-inspired covers compilation Searching Festival Aug. 4 to fund the restoration of the late Country Music For Major Tom, due later this year. Paisley will back Shatner on Hall of Famer’s childhood home in Dyess, AR. Rosanne Cash, Steve Miller’s “Space Cowboy.” Track listing here. John Carter Cash, , Kris Kristofferson and Powerful storms and the threat of tornados forced the are among the performers donating their time cancellation of Sugarland’s Incredible Machine tour date in for the inaugural event. More info here. ©2011 Country Aircheck™ — All rights reserved. Sign up free at www.countryaircheck.com. Send news to [email protected]

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The Band Perry will headline a VH1 Save The Music Of f Th e Re c o r d : Ma r g a r e t Du r a n t e fundraiser concert June 2 at Nashville’s Hard Rock Café. Proceeds will benefit public school music education programs. Detailsher e. Stroudavarious’ Margaret Durante gives an industry spin on the artist interview: Craig Morgan will headline the inaugural NRA Country Jam What was your favorite radio station April 29 in Pittsburgh. Sarah Darling and Due West are also on growing up? I had two favorites —Top 40 the bill. A portion of the proceeds will benefit theFolds Of Honor WIHT/Washington, DC and Country WMZQ/ Foundation. Washington, DC. My friends and I went to the Laura Bell Bundy, Jerrod Niemann, the Civil Wars and Old WMZQ Fest every summer, and they played the first song I was ever obsessed with – “How Crow Medicine Show are among the lineup of performers slated for Do I Live Without You” by Trisha Yearwood and Nashville Chapter’s 13th Annual Grammy Margaret Durante LeAnn Rimes. I think they played both versions. Block Party May 10 at Owen Bradley Park. The event is free to Which label staffer is the worst driver? I Recording Academy members and those signing up for membership. guess Bill Macky, but he’s not a bad driver. He just gets thrown off by the GPS. We named our GPS Deborah during a trip through Texas. We’d be driving along and a road name unique to that city would Apprentice – Raising The Steaks come on, the voice changed and Deborah would sound all creepy. During Sunday’s (4/17) Celebrity Apprentice teams Backbone Who holds the record for taking the longest radio tour route? Eric Beggs wouldn’t even fly from Nashville to Atlanta because he and A.S.A.P. were challenged to orchestrate an Omaha Steaks refused to have to go back through Atlanta security. So, we drove cooking demonstration for company from Nashville to Atlanta, had dinner with WUBL, then we drove to executives. Project manager Gary Busey Charleston, SC the next day for a WIWF show. From Charleston we experienced miscommunication with drove to Augusta, GA, had a meeting there and then drove back to team Backbone members including John Atlanta to catch my flight to DC. Eric drove back to Nashville. It was a lot of driving. I got really good at sleeping in a car. Rich, who was tasked with creating the What’s the best app to find eats on the road? I have a Chick- team’s three-course Father’s Day menu. Aside from the red meat fil-A app. It finds your current location and gets you to the challenge, Rich had a beef with Busey for calling him “boy” off- nearest one. It’s so funny that the app even exists. But to my camera. In the boardroom, Busey claimed he called Rich “kuh- joyful surprise, I found it while we were looking for a Chick-fil-A. boy,” as in “cowboy.” Busey was fired. Watch the episodeher e. It’s the lesser of the evils when it comes to fast food. What gross truck stop food tempts you? I’m a huge hotdog fan. People always tell me, “Do you know what’s in a hotdog?” I The Week’s Top Stories don’t care. It’s delicious with lots of mustard. Full coverage can be viewed in the archives at www. What’s the craziest event you’ve ever played? To be clear, it wasn’t a WFRE/Frederick, MD event, but we were in town to perform at an countryaircheck.com. event where a rodeo ring separated the stage and the audience. In • Entercom flippedKBWF (The Wolf)/San Francisco to between our sets, parents were hoisting their children onto giant “Sportsradio 95.7,” ending a 49-month run as Country. Wolf PD sheep, who would try to buck them off. It was a child’s version Mike Krinik and his entire airstaff are exiting. (CAT 4/15) of a rodeo. My guitar player and I didn’t know if we could regain • CBS Radio/Seattle’s SVP/Market Manager Lisa Decker left the our composure between sets because we were laughing so hard watching these children hanging on for their lives. The sheep were four-station cluster, which includes Country KMPS, after 16 years fierce. The kids were just holding onto their wool and getting Friday (4/15). (CAT 4/12) thrown around while their parents yelled, “Woo-hoo!” • Big Machine Label Group publicity head Natalie Kilgore What question do you never want to answer again? Why don’t left to create a public relations division for the George P. you try out for ? Johnson Entertainment Marketing Group. (CAT 4/13) ©2011 Country Aircheck™ — All rights reserved. Sign up free at www.countryaircheck.com. Send news to [email protected] April 18, 2011 Country Aircheck Weekly Page 7 • Former longtime WSIX/Nashville personality and Country That said, Deaton doesn’t believe Country Radio Hall of Famer Gerry House was inducted into the NAB will be back. “Who hasn’t done it? When they put Broadcasting Hall of Fame (4/12) at the NAB Show Radio the Wolf on in 2007, I saw that as the last ditch Luncheon in Las Vegas. (CAT 4/13) effort to make Country work in San Francisco.” • CBS Radio’s KILT-FM/Houston afternoon host Rowdy Yates left Albright & O’Malley’s Jaye Albright after 16 years at the station and is relocating to Tulsa. (CAT 4/13) believes while there’s room for a Country • Greg McCarn was named GM of Black River Jaye Albright station, “You need to cover the nine counties in Entertainment, overseeing marketing, promotion, public the Bay Area. There are two or three signals that relations, sales and digital media. (CAT 4/14) could do a great job. But the truth is they’re doing so well with • Former KIQK/Rapid City, SD afternoon host Robbie Owens what they’re doing. It would be too big of a financial risk.” joined Entercom’s WGGY (Froggy 101)/Wilkes Barre for the The lack of a Country station in market No. 4 may be bad for the same airshift. (CAT 4/15) format’s ego, but it’s a great opportunity for stations that surround • Clear Channel Top 40 KSLZ and Gen-X WSGX/St. Louis PD San Francisco. “This will be great for KRTY,” Albright says. “Their Jeff McHugh was named OM for the six-station cluster, which TSE should really go up. You’ve got [Citadel’s] KATM in Modesto includes Country KSD (The Bull). (CAT 4/15) and Maverick’s KFGY (Froggy) in Santa Rosa doing real well.” • Advertising and PR executive Hope Romero was named Deaton won’t let the absence of KBWF change KRTY’s Market Manager for Clear Channel/Farmington, NM’s five- approach. “We are what we are,” he says. “We are limited to what station cluster, which includes Country KTRA. (CAT 4/12) our signal is. There’s streaming, there’s apps, but we won’t change anything we do, no more so than the last time someone went off.” With or without KBWF, both album sales and concert touring Wolf Down (continued from page 1) remain an important component of the country “But they jolted the system. They replaced a show that was landscape in the region. Capitol Nashville CEO popular. Not a hello, not a ramp up period. Then it seemed like Mike Dungan says in spite of the Wolf’s early – my observation, I wasn’t there – it became a bad pop station success, “The volume of record sales didn’t really trying to hide the fact that it was a Country station.” increase when the station came on. It’s almost like The Wolf started losing its early momentum, falling into the fans there are going to find the music through the low twos by fall of 2009 and eventually KRTY or the other suburban stations out there.” dipping into the low ones. In the March PPMs On the touring side, Rascal Flatts, Keith Mike Dungan released Monday (4/18), KBWF registered its third Urban, and Tim McGraw are consecutive 1.1. among the artists making stops this year. Live Nation/Nashville In spite of Entercom’s flip to Sports, Mahalick President Brian O’Connell says KBWF’s exit is “a loss, but and others familiar with the market believe its a great country market and always has Country can work. Nate Deaton, GM of Nate Deaton been. We’re not going to do fewer shows. Empire’s KRTY/San Jose, has been an observer It’s an automatic route. We’re just going to of the San Francisco market through its many Country iterations. try harder to get the word out. It’s KRTY’s “Country will work there,” he says. “I don’t think that everyone ball now, and they’re going to have to run has done it the easy way. KRTY is 45 miles from San Francisco, with it.” Country Aircheck attempted to reach in the heart of Silicon Valley and as mainstream as it gets. I’m Entercom VP/Country Mike Moore for this not sure why we have to do anything eclectic.” Brian O’Connell story, but he was unavailable. CAC ©2011 Country Aircheck™ — All rights reserved. Sign up free at www.countryaircheck.com. Send news to [email protected]

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LW TW Artist/Title (Label) Total Points +/- Points Total Plays +/- Plays Audience +/- Aud Stations ADDS 2 1 DARIUS RUCKER/This (Capitol) 16911 894 5587 283 38.342 2.239 131 0 5 2 /Live A Little (BNA) 4 16513 1692 5441 555 37.576 2.732 131 0 4 3 MIRANDA LAMBERT/Heart Like Mine (Columbia) 15686 477 5181 171 35.508 1.1 131 0 7 4 / (RCA) 4 15205 1568 5083 501 34.257 2.736 131 0 1 5 ZAC BROWN BAND/Colder... (Southern Ground/Atlantic/BPG) 15091 -1821 5097 -524 34.416 -4.075 130 0 6 6 JERROD NIEMANN/What Do You Want (Sea Gayle/Arista) 14884 250 5030 53 33.635 0.699 131 0 8 7 RASCAL FLATTS/I Won't Let Go (Big Machine) 12519 789 4203 207 28.251 1.466 131 0 9 8 /Without You (Capitol) 11187 462 3636 143 25.712 1.596 129 0 14 9 BRAD PAISLEY f/ALABAMA/Old Alabama (Arista) 4 10623 1579 3432 508 23.822 2.59 131 2 10 10 BAND PERRY/You Lie (Republic Nashville) 10505 445 3459 190 23.709 1.051 127 0 12 11 RONNIE DUNN/Bleed Red (Arista) 10045 327 3388 124 22.142 0.251 131 0 15 12 TAYLOR SWIFT/Mean (Big Machine) 4 9930 1561 3154 506 22.423 3.175 128 1 13 13 CRAIG CAMPBELL/Family Man (BPG) 9444 97 3298 51 21.439 -0.011 124 0 16 14 EASTON CORBIN/I Can't Love You Back (Mercury) 8827 680 3007 197 19.698 1.536 127 0 17 15 CHRIS YOUNG/Tomorrow (RCA) 8213 534 2851 168 17.734 2.026 131 0 11 16 SUGARLAND/Little Miss (Mercury) 7690 -2212 2572 -772 17.37 -4.929 128 0 19 17 JUSTIN MOORE/If Heaven Wasn't So Far Away (Valory) 7245 347 2571 125 16.173 1.063 126 0 18 18 JOSH KELLEY/Georgia Clay (MCA) 6847 -745 2240 -192 14.593 -1.665 126 0 20 19 /Somewhere Else (Show Dog-Universal) 6704 406 2294 106 14.977 0.96 126 1 22 20 /Country Girl Shake It For Me (Capitol) 5767 1279 1868 452 12.857 2.937 120 20 21 21 ASHTON SHEPHERD/Look It Up (MCA) 5587 115 1949 20 11.306 0.317 125 3 23 22 BRETT ELDREDGE/Raymond (Atlantic/WAR) 4450 218 1508 77 9.514 0.447 117 1 24 23 JOSH TURNER/I Wouldn't Be A Man (MCA) 4320 244 1573 82 9.33 0.523 106 3 27 24 MARTINA MCBRIDE/Teenage Daughters (Republic Nashville) 4244 539 1263 193 8.558 0.987 103 11 25 25 /Homeboy (EMI Nashville) 4027 141 1422 83 8.77 0.709 103 3

Airborne indicates songs that have reached on 60% of the Country Aircheck/Mediabase reporting panel. 4=Top 5 point gainers. Chart Page 1 Chart Page 1 April 18, 2011 Chart Page 2

LW TW Artist/Title (Label) Total Points +/- Points Total Plays +/- Plays Audience +/- Aud Stations ADDS

BLAKE SHELTON/Honey Bee (Warner Bros./WMN) 4 4025 2130 1284 690 8.584 4.178 114 38 26 27 STEEL MAGNOLIA/Last Night Again (Big Machine) 3806 76 1335 41 7.476 -0.112 111 1 28 28 /Beautiful Every Time (Curb) 3392 92 1293 19 6.329 0.399 109 0 30 29 JOSH THOMPSON/Won't Be Lonely Long (Columbia) 3373 220 1280 62 6.691 0.788 102 7 DIERKS BENTLEY/Am I The Only One (Capitol) 3318 1203 1128 416 7.02 2.655 91 22 29 31 UNCLE KRACKER f/KID ROCK/Good... (Top Dog/Atlantic/BPG) 3135 -39 1059 -18 6.466 -0.186 87 0 31 32 STEVE HOLY/Love Don't Run (Curb) 2628 173 1065 62 5.132 0.231 90 2 ELI YOUNG BAND/ (Republic Nashville) 2428 187 805 47 4.616 0.42 80 5 35 34 /Just Fishin' (Show Dog-Universal) 2414 519 820 226 4.968 1.415 67 12 40 35 /Dirt Road Anthem (Broken Bow) 2250 1131 673 342 4.608 2.15 73 35 33 36 LOCASH COWBOYS/Keep In Mind (Stroudavarious) 2114 -59 775 -20 4.108 -0.127 73 0 38 37 RANDY MONTANA/1,000 Faces (Mercury) 1442 140 571 43 2.162 0.09 71 2 37 38 TIM MCGRAW & /Me And... (Curb/RCA) 1277 -580 445 -226 2.599 -0.956 67 0 39 39 FRANKIE BALLARD/A Buncha Girls (Warner Bros./WMN) 1239 7 458 9 2.479 0.001 54 5 41 40 DAVID NAIL/Let It Rain (MCA) 1161 83 473 33 1.467 0.03 71 6 50 41 JAKE OWEN/Barefoot Blue Jean Night (RCA) 1082 329 307 72 2.088 0.53 50 28 43 42 JANEDEAR GIRLS/Shotgun Girl (Warner Bros./WMN) 1034 73 365 35 1.712 0.027 45 2 44 43 BRADLEY GASKIN/Mr. Bartender (Columbia) 943 -17 327 -2 1.382 -0.055 38 5 45 44 /Songs Like This (19/Arista) 898 -42 211 -11 2.341 0.037 12 1 47 45 DIRT DRIFTERS/Something Better (Warner Bros./WMN) 819 3 346 -1 1.143 0.041 42 2 48 46 WALKER HAYES/Why Wait For Summer (Capitol) 780 -31 277 -9 1.26 0.003 42 0 49 47 LITTLE BIG TOWN/Reason Why (Capitol) 777 7 309 10 1.157 0.013 46 5 Debut 48 EDENS EDGE/Amen (Big Machine) 756 138 273 42 1.033 0.277 49 9 Debut 49 GLORIANA/Wanna Take You Home (Emblem/WMN) 741 99 252 18 1.146 0.182 35 1 Debut 50 BRANTLEY GILBERT/Country Must Be Country Wide (Valory) 710 263 163 56 1.387 0.293 13 5

Airborne indicates songs that have reached airplay on 60% of the Country Aircheck/Mediabase reporting panel. 4=Top 5 point gainers. April 18, 2011 Country Aircheck Chart Info Chart Page 3

Country Aircheck Add Leaders Activator Top Point Gainers /Honey Bee (Warner Bros./WMN) 38 BLAKE SHELTON/Honey Bee (Warner Bros./WMN) 2013 4 JASON ALDEAN/Dirt Road Anthem (Broken Bow) 35 BRAD PAISLEY f/ALABAMA/Old Alabama (Arista) 1587 4 JAKE OWEN/Barefoot Blue Jean Night (RCA) 28 DIERKS BENTLEY/Am I The Only One (Capitol) 1416 4 DIERKS BENTLEY/Am I The Only One (Capitol) 22 KENNY CHESNEY/Live A Little (BNA) 1402 4 LUKE BRYAN/Country Girl Shake It For Me (Capitol) 20 JASON ALDEAN/Dirt Road Anthem (Broken Bow) 1374 4 TRACE ADKINS/Just Fishin' (Show Dog-Universal) 12 RASCAL FLATTS/I Won't Let Go (Big Machine) 1121 JAMES WESLEY/Didn't I (Broken Bow) 11 LUKE BRYAN/Country Girl Shake It For Me (Capitol) 1102 MARTINA MCBRIDE/Teenage Daughters (Republic Nashville) 11 SARA EVANS/A Little Bit Stronger (RCA) 1062 STEALING ANGELS/Paper Heart (Skyville) 11 TRACE ADKINS/Just Fishin' (Show Dog-Universal) 1020 /Take A Back Road (Curb) 10 MARTINA MCBRIDE/Teenage Daughters (Republic Nashville) 1001

Country Aircheck Top Point Gainers BLAKE SHELTON/Honey Bee (Warner Bros./WMN) 2130 4 Activator Top Spin Gainers KENNY CHESNEY/Live A Little (BNA) 1692 4 BLAKE SHELTON/Honey Bee (Warner Bros./WMN) 366 BRAD PAISLEY f/ALABAMA/Old Alabama (Arista) 1579 4 BRAD PAISLEY f/ALABAMA/Old Alabama (Arista) 276 DIERKS BENTLEY/Am I The Only One (Capitol) 258 SARA EVANS/A Little Bit Stronger (RCA) 1568 4 JASON ALDEAN/Dirt Road Anthem (Broken Bow) 243 TAYLOR SWIFT/Mean (Big Machine) 1561 4 KENNY CHESNEY/Live A Little (BNA) 233 LUKE BRYAN/Country Girl Shake It For Me (Capitol) 1279 LUKE BRYAN/Country Girl Shake It For Me (Capitol) 208 DIERKS BENTLEY/Am I The Only One (Capitol) 1203 SARA EVANS/A Little Bit Stronger (RCA) 202 JASON ALDEAN/Dirt Road Anthem (Broken Bow) 1131 RASCAL FLATTS/I Won't Let Go (Big Machine) 180 DARIUS RUCKER/This (Capitol) 894 MARTINA MCBRIDE/Teenage Daughters (Republic Nashville) 177 TRACE ADKINS/Just Fishin' (Show Dog-Universal) 171 RASCAL FLATTS/I Won't Let Go (Big Machine) 789

Country Aircheck Top Spin Gainers Vi d e o Ad d s BLAKE SHELTON/Honey Bee (Warner Bros./WMN) 690 KENNY CHESNEY/Live A Little (BNA) 555 CMT BRAD PAISLEY f/ALABAMA/Old Alabama (Arista) 508 No new adds TAYLOR SWIFT/Mean (Big Machine) 506 CMT PURE SARA EVANS/A Little Bit Stronger (RCA) 501 Emmylou Harris/Goodnight Old World (Nonesuch) LUKE BRYAN/Country Girl Shake It For Me (Capitol) 452 Greg Hanna/Making Love Real (Pheromone) DIERKS BENTLEY/Am I The Only One (Capitol) 416 Mumford & Sons/The Cave (Glassnote) JASON ALDEAN/Dirt Road Anthem (Broken Bow) 342 GAC DARIUS RUCKER/This (Capitol) 283 TIM MCGRAW & GWYNETH PALTROW/ (Curb/RCA) TRACE ADKINS/Just Fishin' (Show Dog-Universal) 226

©2011 Country Aircheck™ — All rights reserved. Sign up free at www.countryaircheck.com. Send news to [email protected] April 18, 2011 Country Aircheck Chart Info Chart Page 4 Country Aircheck Activity Ad d Da t e s APRIL 25 GRETCHEN WILSON/I’d Love To Be Your Last (Redneck) Ash Bowers/I Still Believe In That (Stoney Creek) 707 points, 256 spins /Love Done Gone (Mercury) No adds Brantley Gilbert/Country Must Be Country Wide (Valory) Brother Trouble/Summer’s Little Angel (Blaster/BPG) KIP MOORE/Mary Was The Marrying Kind (MCA) Jennette McCurdy/Generation Love (Capitol) 649 points, 229 spins Kid Rock f/Sheryl Crow/Collide (Atlantic/Top Dog/BPG) 6 ADDS: KBEQ, KFDI, KNTY, WGGY, WKLB, WTGE Randy Houser/In God’s Time (Show Dog-Universal) Rodney Atkins/Take A Back Road (Curb) /Country Thang (Average Joes) 649 points, 201 spins MAY 2 No adds Mark Cooke/I Love It (CVR/Quarterback) Sunny Sweeney/Staying’s Worse Than Leaving (Republic Nashville) AARON LEWIS/Country Boy (Stroudavarious) MAY 9 638 points, 216 spins Glen Templeton/I Could Be The One (Capstone) No adds Thompson Square/I Got You (Stoney Creek)

KATIE ARMIGER/Best Song Ever (Cold River) 620 points, 202 spins Country Aircheck Top Recurrents Points No adds THOMPSON SQUARE/Are You Gonna Kiss... (Stoney Creek) 14053 JASON ALDEAN & KELLY CLARKSON/Don't You (Broken Bow) 11040 HEIDI NEWFIELD/Stay Up Late (Curb) BILLY CURRINGTON/Let Me Down Easy (Mercury) 8562 553 points, 242 spins TIM MCGRAW/ (Curb) 6525 6 ADDS: KCYE, KKWF, WCTK*, WQDR, WSLC, WUSH BLAKE SHELTON/Who Are You When... (Warner Bros./WMN) 5712 KENNY CHESNEY/Somewhere With You (BNA) 5470 JACOB LYDA/I’m Doing Alright (DMG/Nine North) LUKE BRYAN/Someone Else Calling You Baby (Capitol) 5340 400 points, 215 spins CHRIS YOUNG/Voices (RCA) 5100 No adds JASON ALDEAN/My Kinda Party (Broken Bow) 5046 ZAC BROWN BAND f/A. JACKSON/As... (So. Grnd/Atlantic/BPG) 4898 JAMES WESLEY/Didn’t I (Broken Bow) 383 points, 155 spins HARTERS/If I Run (BPG) 11 ADDS including: KHKI*, KILT*, KMDL, KNTY, KRST*, 351 points, 160 spins KUAD, KWOF, WCOL, WKXC, WUSH No adds ASHLEY GEARING/Five More Minutes (Curb) REBA/When Love Gets A Hold Of You (Starstruck/Valory) 325 points, 147 spins 369 points, 154 spins No adds 7 ADDS: KUAD, WFUS, WGNA, WITL, WTQR, WUSH, WYRK Aircheck Activity includes the top 15 songs that rank 45-50 on this week’s chart or are those that are not charted and have a minimum of 300 airplay points and have shown growth in two of the past three weeks. (* indicates auto adds) ©2011 Country Aircheck™ — All rights reserved. Sign up free at www.countryaircheck.com. Send news to [email protected] ACTIVAT OR April 18, 2011/Chart Page 5

LW TW Artist/Title (Label) TW Points +/- Points TW Plays +/- Play 2 1 MIRANDA LAMBERT/Heart Like Mine (Columbia) 15578 730 2686 138 4 2 DARIUS RUCKER/This (Capitol) 15192 786 2619 131 5 3 KENNY CHESNEY/Live A Little (BNA) 4 15000 1402 2588 233 1 4 ZAC BROWN BAND/Colder Weather (So. Grnd/Atlantic/BPG) 14415 -1682 2472 -316 7 5 SARA EVANS/A Little Bit Stronger (RCA) 14217 1062 2470 202 6 6 JERROD NIEMANN/What Do You Want (Sea Gayle/Arista) 13321 -78 2299 -19 8 7 RASCAL FLATTS/I Won't Let Go (Big Machine) 12976 1121 2230 180 10 8 KEITH URBAN/Without You (Capitol) 11364 739 1994 145 9 9 RONNIE DUNN/Bleed Red (Arista) 10944 307 1908 68 12 10 BAND PERRY/You Lie (Republic Nashville) 10269 780 1811 149 15 11 BRAD PAISLEY f/ALABAMA/Old Alabama (Arista) 4 10256 1587 1787 276 13 12 CRAIG CAMPBELL/Family Man (BPG) 9665 278 1630 58 14 13 EASTON CORBIN/I Can't Love You Back (Mercury) 9344 546 1600 90 16 14 CHRIS YOUNG/Tomorrow (RCA) 8844 663 1547 127 17 15 TOBY KEITH/Somewhere Else (Show Dog-Universal) 8476 500 1464 84 18 16 JUSTIN MOORE/If Heaven Wasn't So Far Away (Valory) 8389 658 1463 129 11 17 SUGARLAND/Little Miss (Mercury) 8283 -1505 1413 -279 19 18 TAYLOR SWIFT/Mean (Big Machine) 8052 952 1416 169 20 19 ASHTON SHEPHERD/Look It Up (MCA) 6932 226 1189 43 21 20 JOSH KELLEY/Georgia Clay (MCA) 5709 -798 965 -142 22 21 JOSH TURNER/I Wouldn't Be A Man (MCA) 5472 680 944 112 23 22 LUKE BRYAN/Country Girl Shake It For Me (Capitol) 5410 1102 974 208 28 23 DIERKS BENTLEY/Am I The Only One (Capitol) 4 4817 1416 858 258 27 24 MARTINA MCBRIDE/Teenage Daughters (Republic Nashville) 4782 1001 831 177 24 25 ERIC CHURCH/Homeboy (EMI Nashville) 4727 423 819 82 30 26 TRACE ADKINS/Just Fishin' (Show Dog-Universal) 4320 1020 762 171 26 27 JOSH THOMPSON/Won't Be Lonely Long (Columbia) 4055 219 680 32 25 28 BRETT ELDREDGE/Raymond (Atlantic/WAR) 4037 36 673 16 29 29 STEEL MAGNOLIA/Last Night Again (Big Machine) 3855 461 659 82 35 30 BLAKE SHELTON/Honey Bee (Warner Bros./WMN) 4 3693 2013 677 366 ©2011 Country Aircheck™ — All rights reserved. 4=Top 5 point gainers. Sign up free at www.countryaircheck.com Chart Page 5 ACTIVAT OR April 18, 2011/Chart Page 6

LW TW Artist/Title (Label) TW Points +/- Points TW Plays +/- Plays Re-Enter 31 LEE BRICE/Beautiful Every Time (Curb) 2927 225 533 47 33 32 ELI YOUNG BAND/Crazy Girl (Republic Nashville) 2753 312 496 61 38 33 JASON ALDEAN/Dirt Road Anthem (Broken Bow) 4 2709 1374 508 243 32 34 STEVE HOLY/Love Don't Run (Curb) 2702 -19 481 1 31 35 LOCASH COWBOYS/Keep In Mind (Stroudavarious) 2397 -325 397 -49 36 36 UNCLE KRACKER f/KID ROCK/Good To Be Me (Top Dog/Atlantic/BPG) 1759 152 284 21 39 37 BRADLEY GASKIN/Mr. Bartender (Columbia) 1436 106 243 20 34 38 TIM MCGRAW & GWYNETH PALTROW/Me And Tennessee (Curb/RCA) 1169 -526 204 -96 41 39 FRANKIE BALLARD/A Buncha Girls (Warner Bros./WMN) 1128 44 179 15 40 40 WALKER HAYES/Why Wait For Summer (Capitol) 1108 -18 203 2 42 41 DAVID NAIL/Let It Rain (MCA) 983 72 175 16 46 42 JAKE OWEN/Barefoot Blue Jean Night (RCA) 910 169 165 32 43 43 CARRIE UNDERWOOD/Songs Like This (19/Arista) 884 44 149 7 49 44 LITTLE BIG TOWN/Reason Why (Capitol) 859 180 162 34 48 45 JANEDEAR GIRLS/Shotgun Girl (Warner Bros./WMN) 766 79 149 19 53 46 REBA/When Love Gets A Hold of You (Starstruck/Valory) 680 194 127 35 47 47 SARAH DARLING/Something To Do With Your ... (Black River) 666 -27 111 -4 51 48 AARON LEWIS/Country Boy (Stroudavarious) 586 45 95 6 50 49 STEVE AZAR/Hard Road (Ride ) 582 -15 99 -4 55 50 DIRT DRIFTERS/Something Better (Warner Bros./WMN) 546 82 99 12 52 51 D.J. MILLER/Whatever It Takes (Evergreen) 508 1 91 4 56 52 COLT FORD/Country Thang (Average Joes ) 460 -3 78 2 58 53 EDENS EDGE/Amen (Big Machine) 444 70 73 10 Debut 54 JAMES WESLEY/Didn't I (Broken Bow) 429 249 66 39 57 55 JOSH ABBOTT BAND/Oh, Tonight (PDT) 419 -28 77 -6 Re-Enter 56 KATIE ARMIGER/Best Song Ever (Cold River) 381 -18 77 -3 59 57 GLORIANA/Wanna Take You Home (Emblem/WMN) 369 39 58 5 Debut 58 ZAC BROWN BAND f/JIMMY BUFFETT/Knee Deep (Sou. Grnd/Atlantic/BPG) 326 326 61 61 60 59 DAVID BRADLEY/Hard Time Movin' On (Gecko) 320 26 57 7 Debut 60 HEIDI NEWFIELD/Stay Up Late (Curb) 289 76 36 11 ©2011 Country Aircheck™ — All rights reserved. 4=Top 5 point gainers. Sign up free at www.countryaircheck.com