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BILLBOARD.COM/NEWSLETTERS FEBRUARY 25, 2019 | PAGE 1 OF 17

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Luke Combs, Two Paths Converge In Record-Setter >page 3 ’ Collaboration With

Foster, Wiseman Remembered When the Academy of (ACM) granted recent and , who employed them on >page 7 membership to the Fisk Jubilee Singers, the event was doubly “God Bless the Child,” which peaked at No. 48 on Hot Country significant: It recognized an expansion of the ethnic diversity Songs in 1997. taking hold in country, and it represented a full-circle moment But it’s the first time the Fisk ensemble has received a “fea- as country was united with a group that helped build the ture,” and it comes at an opportune juncture in country’s evolu- Ices infrastructure that made Nashville the genre’s home base. tion. , and Jimmie Allen are current Rainy Date The Fisk ensemble is featured on Rodney Atkins’ single hitmakers of African-American descent. PBS profiled Char- >page 8 “Caught Up in the Country,” ley Pride in an American Masters which is at No. 25 on the episode that debuted Feb. 22, chart dated and the Country Music Hall of March 2. It represents the first Fame and Museum held a panel ACM Awards top 30 appearance on the list on Feb. 23 that explored the Oddity for the Fisk group, which will contributions of >page 8 celebrate its 150th anniversary in conjunction with the rerelease

in 2021, a year before the of both volumes of his landmark centennial of the first country 1960s Modern Sounds Makin’ Tracks: recording session. Their in Country Music. Chris Janson contributions are particularly “I like country music Creates apparent in a breakdown section personally,” says Crystal ‘Good Vibes’ on “Caught Up in the Country,” Brooks, one of the Fisk alto >page 12 which has Atkins singing above voices on “Caught Up in the the voices, claps and stomps of Country.” She is heartened, she the 16-member choir. Atkins first met the Fisk Jubilee Singers at a 2017 adds, “to see artists that look “I was told several times benefit rehearsal at in Nashville. From like me entering those spaces Country Coda: along the way that it would left: Fisk Singers Courtney Kirksey-Warren and Dwayne and to know that we’re able to go ’s never work,” says Atkins. Mitchell, Atkins and Fisk Singers Deonte Williams, perform songs like this, merging ‘Chillin’ ’ Debut It’s not the first time the Christian, Chelseai Cunningham and Javone Sease. all these different cultures.” >page 17 Fisk singers have intersected “Caught Up in the Country” with country. They have performed with and Hank was a direct result of a 2017 merger in which Atkins, at the urging Williams Jr. and have appeared on recordings by , of Curb | Word Entertainment chairman and CEO of BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE FEBRUARY 25, 2019 | PAGE 2 OF 17 recorded music and publishing Jim Ed Norman, sang “Working On a Building” with the Fisk singers during a 2017 benefit at Nashville’s . Atkins knew little of the group’s history at the time, but he was overwhelmed when he walked into a rehearsal where the singers were already raising the rafters. “I was completely blown away by the energy, the spirit,” he says. “I looked at my wife [ Rose Falcon], and she had tears in her eyes. That little building, it was just lit up in there. And we left just feeling unbelievable.” Within weeks of the Ryman appearance, THiS Music GM/partner Rusty Gaston pitched “Caught Up in the Country” to Atkins, who saw it as a song that connected the earth to the sky. The Fisk ensemble, he thought, could enhance that lyrical message. “What the song gave to me was this feeling of the outdoors, this connection that you have with God when you’re out there,” he says. “It’s that expression, ‘Some people go to church and think about fishing. Some people go fishing and think about God.’ ” Reba McEntire unveiled nominees for the 54th annual Academy of The choir’s musical director, Fisk University associate professor of music Country Music Awards during the Feb. 20 telecast of CBS This Morning. Dr. Paul T. Kwami, agreed to the collaboration even before hearing the song From left: co-host Gayle King, McEntire and co-host Norah O’Donnell. because of his belief in Atkins — and because the concept fit his belief in music’s mission. “Every culture has its unique music or language, but all of us make this world a good place as long as we can accept each other, as long as we’re willing to respect other cultures and accept them for who they are,” says Kwami. “If every culture chose to stay within a box and not branch out and even learn about other cultures, I don’t think that we would be able to express true love the way it should be expressed.” That outreach is ingrained in the Fisk singers’ history. Fisk University was founded a year after the 13th Amendment passed in December 1865, becoming the first American college to offer a liberal arts degree to “young men and women, irrespective of color,” according to FiskJubileeSingers.org. Within five years, the institution was in financial straits, and the group began touring to raise money. It sang Negro , which were previously unfamiliar to the masses, and gave their a cappella performances in formal dress, countering the dismissive format that dominated theatrical depictions at the time. (second from left) visited Cumulus’ Nash campus on Green Book, which won the Oscar for best picture, best supporting actor and Feb. 22 to appear on The Ty Bentli Show. He’s shown with (from left) best original screenplay at the Academy Awards on Feb. 24, demonstrated Bentli and co-hosts Tricia “T.J.” Jenkins and Chuck Wicks. how treacherous it was for a single African-American musician to tour amid segregated communities in the 1960s. The Fisk singers, whose number has always exceeded nine vocalists, represented an easier target for discrimination. “There was no Green Book, no reference,” says Brooks. “It was just massive trekking through, trying not to get kicked off of trains. It amazes me when I think about it.” Country music, first recorded in 1922, was considered a niche market, much like spirituals and “race records,” though it often has been referred to as “the white man’s blues.” Country and black music tracked very different routes publicly, though there was some distinct overlap, including the early presence of Deford Bailey on the and the influence of African- American musicians who mentored at least three of country’s pioneers: , Jimmie Rodgers and bluegrass founder . Both music forms are rooted in similar belief systems, working-class attitudes and a hope for a better life, whether it arrives on earth or in the Jimmie Allen (left) huddled with during the world premiere hereafter: “Working On a Building” operates with the same belief in a heavenly of American Masters’ episode of Charley Pride: I’m Just Me, which reward as country’s foundational Carter Family song “Will the Circle Be debuted on PBS on Feb. 22. Unbroken.” Both also speak to some form of oppression: The sense of being an outcast is obvious in the slave songs that form the Fisk canon, but it’s there, too, in every country song that seeks to defend being country. Atkins feels that outcast nature from his own history. As an orphan who lived at the Holston United Methodist Home for Children in Knoxville, Tenn., he was adopted and returned several times before a family took him in permanently. It’s a storyline that he still struggles to overcome. “It does get in your psyche,” he allows. “There is something that is in the back of your mind that you always wrestle with, of whether you belong. My manager has always had to tell me from time to time, ‘Look, man, you belong.’ ” That’s the ultimate significance of the Fisk singers’ membership in the ACM and their ascent on the country chart. At a time when racist rhetoric is on the rise in America, a historically white music format is opening its arms to talent, recognizing the commonalities between two cultures and emphasizing the hope at the heart of both genres. It’s simply saying, “You belong.” performed “Whiskey Glasses” in his first appearance “Us being on the country music charts is amazing,” notes Fisk bass singer on NBC’s Today on Feb. 21. He’s flanked by co-hosts Kathie Lee Gifford

Allen Christian. “It just says that anything is possible.” (left) and Hoda Kotb. POLZEL JEREMY BRYAN: PAGANO. ZACH WALLEN: CROWE. MICHELLE MCENTIRE: BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE FEBRUARY 25, 2019 | PAGE 3 OF 17

ON THE CHARTS JIM ASKER [email protected] Sets Record By Sending First Five Singles To No. 1 On Country Airplay; FGL Crowns

Luke Combs makes history as the first artist to reach No. 1 on Billboard’s Combs thus simultaneously leads Billboard’s four main country song Country Airplay chart with his first five entries. On the list dated March 2, charts. He’s the first artist to do so since Kane Brown, who was the first to “Beautiful Crazy” (River House/Columbia Nashville) ascends 2-1, increasing simultaneously top four country song surveys on Oct. 28, 2017. That week, his by 7 percent to 38.8 million audience impressions in the week ending Feb. 24, “What Ifs,” featuring Lauren Alaina, led , Country Airplay according to Nielsen Music. and Country Streaming Songs, and “Heaven” Written by Combs, Wyatt Durrette and Robert arrived atop Country Digital Song Sales. He also Williford, “Beautiful” reaches the summit in its 16th ruled Top Country Albums during the same frame week. It matches Combs’ quickest trip to No. 1, with his self-titled first LP. which he first achieved with his fourth leader, Combs misses his own quintuple coronation “She Got the Best of Me.” The song reigned for by one ranking. His debut LP, This One’s for You, four weeks starting in October 2018. which has dominated Top Country Albums for 26 His debut, “Hurricane,” which led for two weeks weeks and whose deluxe edition houses all five of beginning May 27, 2017, hit No. 1 in its 30th week. his Country Airplay leaders, places at No. 2. Follow-up “When It Rains It Pours” also dominated for two frames, beginning Nov. 4, 2017, and TOP ‘COUNTRY’ Florida Georgia Line’s reaching the apex in its 28th week. His third single, fourth studio LP, Can’t Say I Ain’t Country (Big “One Number Away,” led for a week in its 24th frame Machine Label Group), enters Top Country Albums (June 9, 2018). at No. 1, earning 50,000 equivalent album units Dating back to the Country Airplay list’s (29,000 in traditional album sales) in its first week, January 1990 launch, Combs bests two acts that ending Feb. 21. each sent their first four singles (as lead artists) to The twosome of Brian Kelley and Tyler Hubbard No. 1. Brooks & Dunn did so in 1991-92 with “Brand notches its fourth leader on the chart and third to New Man,” “My Next Broken Heart,” “Neon Moon” debut in the penthouse. Dig Your Roots launched and “Boot Scootin’ Boogie.” Another duo, Florida atop the list dated Sept. 17, 2016 (with 126,000 Georgia Line, achieved the feat in 2012-14 with copies sold); Anything Goes entered at No. 1 on Nov. COMBS “Cruise,” “Get Your Shine On,” “Round Here” 1, 2014 (197,000, marking the pair’s strongest sales and “Stay.” week to date); and first LP Here’s to the Good Times Plus, Combs achieves his second No. 1 on the airplay-, streaming- and sales- opened on the survey dated Dec. 22, 2012, at No. 3 (63,000) and topped it on based Hot Country Songs chart as “Beautiful” rises 2-1 in its 42nd week. He June 29, 2013, for its first of 10 weeks at No. 1. Dig Your Roots and Anything first topped the tally for two weeks in November-December 2017 with “Rains.” Goes led for two weeks each. “Beautiful” also lifts 2-1 on Country Streaming Songs to become his first No. 1 among five top 10s. The track gained by 8 percent to 11.7 million ‘MAKE IT’ A TOP 10 Old Dominion scores its seventh Country Airplay top 10 U.S. streams in the week ending Feb. 21. On Country Digital Song Sales, the as “Make It Sweet” (RCA Nashville) hops 11-10, up 4 percent to 21 million in track rebounds 2-1 for a fourth turn at the summit (15,000 downloads sold, audience. The act now boasts five No. 1s, including its last four singles prior

up 26 percent, in the week ending Feb. 21). to “Sweet.” IMAGES WYATT/GETTY TERRY BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE FEBRUARY 25, 2019 | PAGE 4 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 l1 2 16 BEAUTIFUL CRAZY River House/Columbia Nashville HH No. 1 (1 week) HH Luke Combs 38.781 +2.444 7849 620 2 l2 4 19 WHAT MAKES YOU COUNTRY Capitol Nashville HH Most Increased Audience HH 36.671 +4.293 7850 947 1 3 1 39 THIS IS IT Triple Tigers Scotty McCreery 34.451 -3.237 6683 -859 4 4 3 24 GIRL LIKE YOU Macon/Broken Bow 34.143 -0.793 6150 -377 5 l5 5 40 TAKE IT FROM ME MCA Nashville Jordan Davis 31.633 +1.272 6883 349 3 l6 6 45 MILLIONAIRE Mercury  27.693 +2.306 6108 407 6 l7 7 46 BURN OUT Big Machine Midland 25.818 +1.798 5498 173 7 l8 10 33 THERE WAS THIS GIRL BMLG  Riley Green 22.955 +1.936 5405 264 8 l9 9 32 Atlantic/WEA  Michael Ray 22.711 +1.541 5074 255 9 l10 11 20 MAKE IT SWEET RCA Nashville Old Dominion 21.047 +0.868 4483 104 11 l11 12 23 HERE TONIGHT BMLG  Brett Young 20.510 +1.463 4365 99 12 l12 13 29 Big Loud 19.359 +0.818 4738 240 10 l13 14 24 LOVE WINS Capitol Nashville 19.074 +0.557 4052 74 14 l14 15 31 NIGHT SHIFT Capitol Nashville 17. 119 +1.043 4055 79 13 l15 17 28 EYES ON YOU Dack Janiels/Broken Bow Chase Rice 16.183 +1.804 3843 400 15 l16 16 29 ON MY WAY TO YOU CoJo/WMN  Cody Johnson 14.805 +0.171 3352 141 17 l17 18 18 MISS ME MORE Black River Kelsea Ballerini 14.062 +0.850 3417 125 16 l18 19 37 LOVE AIN’T Valory  Eli Young Band 11.924 +0.484 3150 160 18 l19 22 8 GOOD AS YOU Zone 4/RCA Nashville HH Airpower HH Kane Brown 11.437 +1.329 2769 232 20 l20 21 34 LOVE SOMEONE Atlantic/WMN  10.593 +0.355 2678 126 21 l21 24 47 THE DIFFERENCE Valory  Tyler Rich 9.578 +0.825 2772 175 19 l22 23 26 WHISKEY GLASSES Big Loud Morgan Wallen 9.369 +0.572 2516 103 22 l23 25 25 RUMOR Curb  Lee Brice 8.422 +0.813 2178 98 23 24 20 2 EVERY LITTLE HONKY TONK BAR MCA Nashville HH Most Added HH 7.412 -3.785 1445 -277 29 l25 27 46 CAUGHT UP IN THE COUNTRY Curb  Rodney Atkins Featuring The Fisk Jubilee Singers 6.945 +0.317 2 116 86 24 l26 28 6 GIRL Columbia Nashville 6.931 +0.542 1464 161 28 l27 26 17 TALK YOU OUT OF IT BMLG  Florida Georgia Line 6.649 -0.060 1957 141 25 l28 30 19 BUY MY OWN DRINKS Wheelhouse  Runaway June 5.644 +0.594 1888 269 26 29 29 7 RAISED ON COUNTRY RCA Nashville 5.598 -0.054 1275 -3 31 l30 31 25 FEELS LIKE A PARTY Wheelhouse  LOCASH 4.915 +0.079 1588 24 27

BILLBOARD COUNTRY AIRPLAY PANEL — 150 STATIONS Akron, OH WQMX Detroit WDRQ Memphis WGKX Richmond, Va. WKHK Albany, N.Y. WGNA WYCD WLFP Riverside, Calif. KFRG Albuquerque, N.M. KBQI El Paso, Texas KHEY Miami WKIS Roanoke, Va. WSLC KRST Ft. Myers, Fla. WCKT Milwaukee, WI. WKTI Rochester, N.Y. WBEE Allentown, Pa. WCTO WWGR WMIL Sacramento, Calif. KBEB Atlanta WKHX Ft. Wayne, Ind. WQHK Minneapolis KEEY KNCI WUBL Fresno, Calif. KSKS KMNB KNTY Augusta, Ga. WKXC Gainesville, Fla. WOGK Mobile, Ala. WKSJ St. Louis KSD Austin, Texas KASE Grand Rapids, Mich. WBCT Monmouth/Ocean, N.J. WKMK WIL Bakersfield, Calif. KUZZ Greensboro, N.C. WTQR Monterey, Calif.. KTOM Salt Lake City KSOP Baltimore WPOC Greenville, S.C. WSSL Nashville WKDF KUBL Baton Rouge, La. WYNK Harrisburg, Pa. WRBT WSIX , Texas KAJA Birmingham, Ala. WDXB Hartford, Conn. WWYZ Nassau, N.Y. WJVC KCYY WZZK KILT New Bern, N.C. WRNS San Diego KSON Boise, Idaho KAWO KKBQ New Orleans WNOE San Jose, Calif. KRTY KIZN Huntsville, Ala. WDRM New York WNSH Sarasota, Fla. WCTQ Boston WBWL Indianapolis WFMS Norfolk, Va. WGH Seattle KKWF WKLB WLHK WUSH KMPS Buffalo, N.Y. WYRK Jacksonville, Fla. WGNE Oklahoma City, Okla. KJKE Spokane, Wash. KXLY Charleston, S.C. WEZL WQIK KTST Springfield, Mass. WRNX WCKN Johnson City, Tenn. WXBQ Omaha, Neb. KXKT Stockton, Calif. KATM Charlotte, N.C. WKKT Kansas City KBEQ Orlando, Fla. WWKA Syracuse, N.Y. WBBS WSOC WDAF Oxnard-Ventura, CA KHAY Tampa, Fla. WFUS Chattanooga, Tenn. WUSY KFKF Philadelphia WXTU WQYK Chicago WEBG Knoxville, Tenn. WCYQ Phoenix KMLE Tucson, Ariz. KIIM WUSN WIVK KNIX Tulsa, Okla. KTGX Cincinnati WUBE Lafayette, La. KMDL Pittsburgh WDSY KVOO Cleveland WGAR Lakeland, Fla. WPCV WOGI KWEN Colorado Springs, Colo. KATC Las Vegas KCYE WPGB Visalia, Calif. KJUG KCCY KWNR Portland, Maine WPOR Washington, D.C. WMZQ Columbia, S.C. WCOS Lexington, Ky. WBUL WTHT West Palm Beach, Fla. WIRK Columbus, Ohio WCOL Little Rock, Ark. KSSN Portland, Ore. KUPL Wichita, Kan. KFDI Corpus Christi, Texas KRYS Los Angeles KKGO KWJJ KZSN Dallas KPLX Louisville, Ky. WAMZ Providence, R.I. WCTK Wilkes Barre, Pa. WGGY KSCS WQNU Raleigh, NC WQDR Wilmington, Del. WXCY Dayton, Ohio WHKO Madison, Wis. WWQM York, Pa. WGTY Denver KYGO WMAD Reno, Nevada KBUL Des Moines, Iowa KHKI McAllen, Texas KTEX KOLC BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE FEBRUARY 25, 2019 | PAGE 5 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 11 WHAT HAPPENS IN A SMALL TOWN Valory  Brantley Gilbert + Lindsay Ell 4.638 +0.580 1256 148 32 l32 32 32 WHAT WHISKEY DOES Stoney Creek Randy Houser Featuring Hillary Lindsey 4.006 -0.056 1348 29 30 l33 34 36 FRIENDS DON’T Mercury  Maddie & Tae 3.767 +0.062 1206 -10 33 l34 35 8 SOME OF IT EMI Nashville 3.736 +0.230 1087 58 35 l35 36 13 Warner Bros./WMN Cole Swindell 3.692 +0.200 888 32 37 l36 37 19 DAY DRUNK Warner Bros./WEA Morgan Evans 3.630 +0.242 953 10 36 l37 39 14 CLOSER TO YOU Big Machine 3.206 +0.284 1202 57 34 l38 40 3 RAINBOW MCA Nashville HH Breaker HH 3.007 +0.154 737 155 39 l39 41 16 THE ONES THAT DIDN’T MAKE IT BACK HOME Valory  Justin Moore 2.668 +0.008 7 11 10 41 l40 43 12 EVERY LITTLE THING Triple Tigers Russell Dickerson 2.598 +0.162 783 51 38 l41 45 14 I DON’T KNOW ABOUT YOU Big Loud Chris Lane 2.538 +0.417 626 48 46 l42 47 3 REDNECKER Tree Vibez/ HARDY 2.393 +0.610 447 73 53 l43 56 2 SOMEBODY’S DAUGHTER Columbia Nashville Tenille Townes 2.144 +0.945 582 218 48 44 44 13 STRONGER THAN ME Pearl  2.130 -0.170 717 1 40 l45 46 26 HOW DOES IT SOUND Dylan Schneider/Placer Dylan Schneider 1.929 +0.092 677 25 43 l46 50 4 THOUGHT ABOUT YOU McGraw/Columbia Nashville Tim McGraw 1.852 +0.205 562 61 49 l47 57 2 ALL TO MYSELF Warner Bros./WAR Dan + Shay 1.755 +0.705 469 176 52 l48 53 5 MAKE ME WANT TO Stoney Creek Jimmie Allen 1.729 +0.152 6 11 20 47 l49 49 15 I DON’T REMEMBER ME (BEFORE YOU) EMI Nashville Brothers Osborne 1.641 -0.011 651 25 44 50 48 6 NOTHING TO DO TOWN Curb  Dylan Scott 1.603 -0.100 678 28 42 51 42 3 BRAND NEW MAN Arista Nashville Brooks & Dunn With Luke Combs 1.598 -0.972 320 -101 57 52 51 13 Arista Nashville 1.472 -0.137 483 - 116 51 53 52 17 LADIES IN THE ‘90S 19/Mercury  Lauren Alaina 1.444 -0.139 645 38 45 l54 55 5 PRAYED FOR YOU Wide Open/RECORDS/Good Company Matt Stell 1.362 +0.127 391 59 56 55 54 18 90’S COUNTRY Monument/Arista Nashville Walker Hayes 1.297 -0.132 393 -14 55 l56 58 11 GIRL GOIN’ NOWHERE Atlantic/WAR  Ashley McBryde 0.987 -0.016 523 31 50 l57 NEW TO A T RCA Nashville HH Hot Shot Debut HH 0.828 +0.644 217 132 - l58 60 2 SOMEONE I USED TO KNOW Southern Ground/Wheelhouse 0.731 +0.090 190 82 - 59 59 6 ROCKIN’ ALL NIGHT LONG Buena Vista/Capitol Nashville Adam Hambrick 0.590 -0.072 430 0 54 l60 NEW ALCOHOL YOU LATER Riser House/Columbia Nashville Mitchell Tenpenny 0.551 +0.186 265 77 59

GOING FOR ADDS

3/4 3/11 CHRIS JANSON KING CALAWAY Good Vibes World For Two Warner Bros./WAR Stoney Creek MICHAEL CORIN No Zip Code Little Bit Reckless Blue Chair/Reviver SMG Nashville HARDY Rednecker 3/18 Tree Vibez/Big Loud LIZ MORIONDO KIP MOORE You Made Me (Momma’s 57 The Bull Song) MCA Nashville Gone Fishin’ The singer-songwriter logs his second LINDE LECHANCE Country Airplay entry, following his 2017 Green Eyes RYAN debut, “Love in a Bar,” which reached SMG Nashville HURD To a T No. 50. His new single arrives at No. 57 with 828,000 audience impressions. Look What God Gave Her Valory NICHOLAS HUNT/GETTY IMAGES HUNT/GETTY NICHOLAS BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE FEBRUARY 25, 2019 | PAGE 6 OF 17

AIRPLAY Country Airplay MONITORED BY

MOST ADDED® NEW AND ACTIVE TITLE Imprint/Label Artist ADDS TOTAL TOTAL EVERY LITTLE HONKY TONK BAR MCA Nashville George Strait 22 TITLE Imprint/Label Artist AUDIENCE STATIONS ADDS RAINBOW MCA Nashville Kacey Musgraves 20 AFTER A FEW Mercury Travis Denning 0.539 31 2 TALK YOU OUT OF IT BMLG Florida Georgia Line 16 REARVIEW TOWN Macon/Broken Bow Jason Aldean 0.517 6 5 SOMEBODY’S DAUGHTER Columbia Nashville Tenille Townes 14 BETTER OFF GONE Big Yellow Dog Logan Mize 0.505 25 5 ALL TO MYSELF Warner Bros./WAR Dan + Shay 10 TO A T RCA Nashville Ryan Hurd 10 LIVING Capitol Nashville Dierks Bentley 0.456 3 3 ALCOHOL YOU LATER Riser House/Columbia Nashville Mitchell Tenpenny 8 HOUSTON, WE GOT A PROBLEM River House/Columbia Nashville Luke Combs 0.412 2 0 BUY MY OWN DRINKS Wheelhouse Runaway June 7 BRAND NEW BUZZ B$R/Reviver Big & Rich 0.380 31 3 CLOSER TO YOU Big Machine Carly Pearce 7 RAISED ON COUNTRY RCA Nashville Chris Young 7 RECURRENTS MOST INCREASED AUDIENCE THIS TOTAL AUD. WEEK TITLE Imprint/Label Artist (IN MILLIONS) GAIN 1 SIXTEEN Valory Thomas Rhett 23.352 TITLE Imprint/Label Artist (IN MIILIONS) 2 BEST SHOT Stoney Creek Jimmie Allen 22.390 WHAT MAKES YOU COUNTRY Capitol Nashville Luke Bryan +4.293 BEAUTIFUL CRAZY River House/Columbia Nashville Luke Combs +2.444 3 SHE GOT THE BEST OF ME River House/Columbia Nashville Luke Combs 21.761 MILLIONAIRE Mercury Chris Stapleton +2.305 4 GOOD GIRL Broken Bow Dustin Lynch 21.411 THERE WAS THIS GIRL BMLG Riley Green +1.936 5 SPEECHLESS Warner Bros./WAR Dan + Shay 19.265 EYES ON YOU Dack Janiels/Broken Bow Chase Rice +1.804 6 BLUE TACOMA Triple Tigers Russell Dickerson 15.399 BURN OUT Big Machine Midland +1.798 7 TEQUILA Warner Bros./WAR Dan + Shay 14.644 ONE THAT GOT AWAY Atlantic/WEA Michael Ray +1.541 8 HEAVEN Zone 4/RCA Nashville Kane Brown 12.695 HERE TONIGHT BMLG Brett Young +1.463 9 LOSE IT Zone 4/RCA Nashville Kane Brown 12.455 GOOD AS YOU Zone 4/RCA Nashville Kane Brown +1.329 TAKE IT FROM ME MCA Nashville Jordan Davis +1.272 10 ONE NUMBER AWAY River House/Columbia Nashville Luke Combs 12.258 MOST INCREASED PLAYS BILLBOARD COUNTRY BOXSCORE TITLE Imprint/Label Artist GAIN Gross Artist Attendance Ticket Price(s) Venue/Date(s) Capacity Promoter(s) WHAT MAKES YOU COUNTRY Capitol Nashville Luke Bryan +947 $110,761 KACEY MUSGRAVES 2,474 BEAUTIFUL CRAZY River House/Columbia Nashville Luke Combs +620 $141, $31 Murat Theatre at Old National Centre, Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 9 2,515 LIVE NATION MILLIONAIRE Mercury Chris Stapleton +407 $100,160 KACEY MUSGRAVES 2,610 EYES ON YOU Dack Janiels/Broken Bow Chase Rice +400 $115, $40 The Fillmore, Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 18 2,623 LIVE NATION TAKE IT FROM ME MCA Nashville Jordan Davis +349 $34,821 PHIL VASSAR & 757 $74, $44 Santander Performing Arts Center, Reading, Pa., Dec. 17 , 1,481 IN-HOUSE BUY MY OWN DRINKS Wheelhouse Runaway June +269 THERE WAS THIS GIRL BMLG Riley Green +264 $12,400 YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND 378 ANOTHER PLANET $32.50 The Independent, San Francisco, Calif.,Jan. 10 500 ENTERTAINMENT ONE THAT GOT AWAY Atlantic/WEA Michael Ray +255 $11,218 WYNONNA & THE BIG NOISE 238 DOWN TO THE HONKYTONK Big Loud Jake Owen +240 $55.50, $35.50 Santander Performing Arts Center, Reading, Pa., Dec. 6 1,612 IN-HOUSE GOOD AS YOU Zone 4/RCA Nashville Kane Brown +232 Reported worldwide boxscore figures for Country artists. Boxscore figures should be submitted to Bob Allen by phone (615-891-1976), fax (615-891-2054) or email ([email protected]). TEXAS REGIONAL RADIO REPORT WEEK ENDING FEBRUARY 24, 2019

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 4 19 HANG YOUR HAT ON THAT (Independent)  HH 1 Week at 1 HH 1731 201 l11 15 5 CHEAT ON ME (Independent)  Bri Bagwell 1245 206 l2 2 17 SUNDOWN (Little Red Truck)  Deryl Dodd w/ Wade Bowen 1648 15 l12 11 27 TEQUILA MOCKINGBIRD (Independent)  Frank Ray 1220 1 l3 3 11 GONER (Independent)  William Clark Green 1609 53 l13 17 13 NONE’YA (Independent)  Hayes Carll 117 9 188 l4 5 16 (Independent)  Robert Ray 1537 46 l14 12 17 LEAVE HER WILD (Dean Dillon’s Wildcatter )  Sundance Head 114 9 19 l5 7 11 I’M YOUR ONLY FLAW (Independent)  1509 82 l15 19 8 KISS THAT GIRL GOODBYE (Independent)  Aaron Watson 110 0 151 l6 8 16 BEER BUCKET LIST (Silverado)  David Adam Byrnes 1467 102 l16 22 6 HAD A THING (Independent)  Curtis Grimes 1072 155 7 1 23 BETTER PLACE (Independent)  Drew Fish Band 1384 -446 l17 20 11 AIN’T ENOUGH BEER (Independent)  Kylie Frey 1046 99 l8 10 10 WALK AWAY (Independent)  Mark Powell 1368 105 l18 18 22 WHATEVER IT TAKES (King Hall Music)  Chad Cooke Band 1012 45 l9 13 5 SOMEWHERE BETWEEN I LOVE YOU AND I’M LEAVIN’ (Rounder Rec)  Cody Jinks 1312 2 11 l19 23 9 TOP OF MY HEART (Cory Morrow Music)  Cory Morrow 994 92 10 9 26 ON MY WAY TO YOU (CoJo Music)  Cody Johnson 1277 -37 l20 26 6 COUNTRY SONG TO SING (Independent)  Kevin Fowler 986 126

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 817-283-7984. Copyright 2019, Texas Regional Radio Report BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE FEBRUARY 25, 2019 | PAGE 7 OF 17

NASHVILLE & NATIONAL TOM ROLAND

PD. She was most recently affiliated as a radio personality with two non- country formats at iHeartMedia/Philadelphia. Siberry had been Entercom/ Philadelphia promotions and programming coordinator … Westwood One launches a two-hour weekend show, With Elaina, on March 2. Devoted to country and entertainment at large, it’s hosted by Elaina Smith, co-host of the network’s NASH Nights Live … Entercom’s Radio.com is adding live channels from Cox Media and Bonneville. Among the country stations expected to appear on the platform are KKBQ Houston; KNCI Sacramento, Calif.; KYGO Denver; and WHKO Dayton, Ohio … Alek Halverson joined KKWF Seattle as music director/afternoon host on Feb. 21, InsideRadio.com reported. The move allows PD Drew Bland to focus on his executive duties. Halverson was previously assistant PD/music director for adult contemporary KLTA Fargo, N.D. … Jack Crenshaw concluded a three-year stint as Cumulus/Youngstown, Ohio, operations manager, according to InsideRadio.com. The cluster includes country WQXK … Entercom/Phoenix swapped morning shows on two of its visited with Oklahoma radio when he launched his stations on Feb. 25, Talkers.com reported. Maria Knight and Chad Mitchell Friends and Heroes Tour in Oklahoma City on Valentine’s Day. From moved to country KMLE, replacing Niko Petrou, who took their old shift at left: KXXY Oklahoma City personality Bill Reed, Shelton, KWEN Tulsa classic hits KOOL … Outgoing Country Radio Broadcasters executive director music director Jenny Law and Warner Music Nashville radio and Bill Mayne will receive the President’s Award from the organization during the streaming coordinator Justin Newell. Country Radio Hall of Fame inductions on June 19 at the Vanderbilt Marriott in Nashville. CRB also granted $25,000 in scholarship endowments for the 2019- FOSTER, WISEMAN REMEMBERED 2020 school year to the University of at Martin and the University Two multitalented Country Music Hall of Fame members who played an of North Alabama in Florence. influential role in significant independent labels died just days apart within the last week. ’ROUND THE ROW Producer , who founded in 1958 and played a Canadian firm ole music purchased Parallel Music Publishing, installing role in the rise of , Roy Orbison, Kris Parallel co-founder/managing partner Tim Hunze as ole senior director of Kristofferson and , died Feb. 20. creative. The deal covers more than 6,500 copyrights and adds six Artist-musician Mac Wiseman, who took to the ole roster, including Michael White (“Kiss You in the Morning”), Lance over the Dot label’s California-based country Carpenter and Michael Lotten (“Alcohol You Later”) … Shore Fire Media operations in 1957, died Feb. 24 after working promoted Nashville-based Jaclyn D. Carter to director of publicity from senior with a range of bluegrass, country and Americana account executive. The division’s current client list includes Justin Moore, acts and helping to found the Country Music Logan Mize and Dillon Carmichael … Stoney Creek duo Walker McGuire Association in 1958. broke up. Johnny McGuire is already teasing new solo music on his Foster moved his label to Nashville in 1959 page … Singer-songwriter Savannah Nider signed a management deal with FOSTER when he discovered Music City was a hospitable FAME OF HALL MUSIC COUNTRY Myriad Productions. The company’s roster includes Collin Raye … Hannah community. He established Fred Foster Sound Bethel tapped the Clif Doyal Agency for management. The company also Studios downtown after purchasing the building from Sun Records founder represents Tim Rushlow … California-based Liam Morgan signed with . Foster would later refocus his recording work at the Monument Songshine Media for PR … Darius Rucker will receive the Harry Chapin Studios, now the Zac Brown-owned Southern Ground Studios, on 17th Avenue. Memorial Humanitarian Award on May 7 during the Music Biz conference He produced key titles for Kristofferson, Orbison, , Grandpa in Nashville … The Nashville Songwriters Association International named Jones, Jeannie Seely and Larry Gatlin. He also received co-writing credit on Jacob Noe the winner of its annual song contest for the composition “Weight of Kristofferson’s “Me and Bobby McGee” after providing the title for the song. Words.” The lyric-only victor was “The Price of a Song” author Michael Roth. The Monument label, which he sold to CBS (now Sony) in 1987, was stocked primarily with singer-songwriters. “If your artist can write, you don’t have to go out and break your back searching for a hit,” he said in 2016. “Plus, I also wanted someone that was readily identifiable, that didn’t sound like anybody else.” The -bred Wiseman played in bands with traditional country singer Molly O’Day and bluegrass founder Bill Monroe before scoring his own solo recording deal with Dot, snaring top 10 country singles with “The Ballad of Davey Crockett” and “Jimmy Brown the Newsboy.” During his tenure as a Dot executive, the roster included Cowboy Copas, Bonnie Guitar, Jimmy C. Newman and bluegrass duo Reno & Smiley. Wiseman managed the Wheeling, W.Va.-based WWVA Jamboree in the late 1960s and eventually became an elder statesman in Nashville music with a collaboration list that ranged from big-band musician Woody Herman to Americana stalwart . His first Dot recording, “ ’Tis Sweet to Be Remembered,” stood as his theme song and takes on added meaning in the wake of his passing. Wiseman was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2014; Foster followed in 2016. Mitchell Tenpenny performed recent hit “Drunk Me” during his Grand Ole Opry debut on Feb. 16. From left: Riser House president RADIO & RECORDS Jennifer Johnson, 11/10 Management owner Kristen Ashley, Sony WXTU Philadelphia added afternoon- personality Nicole Michalik Music Nashville chairman/CEO Randy Goodman, Tenpenny and and digital PD Nicole Siberry, who doubles in her digital role for classic- Opry Entertainment senior vp programming and artist relations rock WMGK. Michalik replaces Mark Razz, who was recently promoted to Sally Williams. BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE FEBRUARY 25, 2019 | PAGE 8 OF 17

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MUSIC NOTES ON THIS DATE IN COUNTRY MUSIC

Keith Urban’s ability to focus was on Feb. 26 sharp display when he played the first • 2018 — Columbia releases the Mitchell Tenpenny single “Drunk intermission of an outdoor game in Me” to radio. the NHL’s stadium series on Feb. 23, • 2016 — The RIAA certifies Chris Stapleton’s album Traveller gold wearing short sleeves in the cold rain at and platinum. Philadelphia’s Lincoln Financial Park. “Blue Ain’t Your Color” was vaguely Feb. 27 audible underneath the commentators’ • 1990 — Arista releases ’s debut album, Here in the breakdown of the first period, and Urban Real World. offered rousing on-camera versions of “Never Coming Down” and “Wasted Feb. 28 Time.” The game was good, too — a • 2015 — Jason Aldean launches his 4-3 overtime win for the Flyers against first overseas tour at the Spektrum URBAN

COURTESY GUITAR MONKEY TOURING MONKEY GUITAR COURTESY in-state rivals the Pittsburgh Penguins. Arena in Oslo, Norway. • 2009 — “Down the Road,” Dan + Shay, Chris Stapleton and Kacey Musgraves got the most attention by with Mac when the 54th annual Awards nominations were McAnally, drives to No. 1 on the unveiled Feb. 20. Dan + Shay racked up nods in six categories, with the duo’s Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Dan Smyers picking up an additional four for his work as a producer and a co-writer of “Tequila.” Stapleton snagged six nominations in four categories, March 1 and Musgraves’ name appears five times across three fields. Ian Fitchuk, who • 2017 — Jimmie Allen records “Best ALDEAN co-produced her album Golden Hour, had the most improbable result. He was Shot” at the Ocean Way Studios MOBLEY MILLER nominated twice for his production work and four more times in separate in Nashville. categories as a musician. CBS will telecast the ACMs on April 7. • 1969 — signs her first recording contract with Columbia. Zac Brown Band has done a fair share of collaborating across multiple genres, recording “As She’s Walking Away” with country traditionalist Alan Jackson, March 2 cutting an EP with modern rocker Dave Grohl and sharing a CMT Crossroads • 1999 — Garth Brooks bats for the first time during an inter-squad stage with pop singer Shawn Mendes. It adds another twist by taking the spring training game at the San Diego Padres’ camp in Peoria, Ariz. opening slot on a Rolling Stones concert in Jacksonville, Fla., on April 24. He strikes out. ZBB is hardly the first country act to play lead-in to the Stones. Previous acts to take that slot include , Brooks & Dunn and Brad Paisley. March 3 • 2014 — John Schneider rides in the Krewe of Orpheus Mardi Gras It’s as if they knew what was coming: Jimmie Allen and Abby Anderson parade in New Orleans. recorded a cover of the Lady Gaga/Bradley Cooper collaboration “Shallow” • 2004 — Brad Paisley is honored with the humanitarian award during and released it on Feb. 22, two days before it was named best original song the Country Radio Seminar in Nashville. at the Oscars. Allen and Anderson’s harmonies are worth checking out. In the ultimate display of harmony and collaboration, Lindsay Ell, Danielle March 4 Bradbery and Joy Williams provide three of four feature voices on neonPPL’s • 2010 — Rascal Flatts has a guest role on the CBS-TV drama CSI: “BeYOUtiful,” which premiered on Billboard.com. The collective is purposely Crime Scene Investigation. The script has bassist Jay DeMarcus anonymous, instead putting the focus on communal positivity. electrocuted in the opening scene as the band plays “Unstoppable.”

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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 42 BEAUTIFUL CRAZY No. 1 (1 week) / Streaming Gainer Luke Combs 1 1 l S.MOFFATT (L.COMBS,W.B.DURRETTE,R.WILLIFORD) RIVER HOUSE/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE 2 1 1 58 TEQUILA Dan + Shay RC 1 D.SMYERS,S.HENDRICKS (D.SMYERS,J.REYNOLDS,N.GALYON) WARNER BROS./WAR 3 4 4 31 THIS IS IT Scotty McCreery 3 3 F.ROGERS,D.WELLS,A.ESHUIS (S.MCCREERY,F.ROGERS,A.ESHUIS) TRIPLE TIGERS 4 5 5 40 SPEECHLESS Dan + Shay RC 1 D.SMYERS,S.HENDRICKS (D.SMYERS,S.MOONEY,J.REYNOLDS,L.VELTZ) WARNER BROS./WAR 5 3 3 65 MEANT TO BE Bebe Rexha & Florida Georgia Line RC 1 WILSHIRE (B.REXHA,T.HUBBARD,J.MILLER,D.A.GARCIA) WARNER BROS./BMLG 6 6 6 24 GIRL LIKE YOU Jason Aldean 4 5 M.KNOX (M.TYLER,J.BOYER,J.MIRENDA) MACON/BROKEN BOW HH HH 7 9 11 22 WHAT MAKES YOU COUNTRY Airplay Gainer Luke Bryan 2 7 l J.STEVENS,J.STEVENS (L.BRYAN,D.DAVIDSON,A.GORLEY) CAPITOL NASHVILLE 8 8 9 33 TAKE IT FROM ME Jordan Davis 5 8 P.DIGIOVANNI (J.DAVIS,J.DAVIS,J.GANTT) MCA NASHVILLE 9 7 7 36 SHE GOT THE BEST OF ME Luke Combs RC 2 S.MOFFATT (L.COMBS,R.SNYDER,C.WILSON) RIVER HOUSE/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE MILLIONAIRE 10 10 12 57 Chris Stapleton 6 10 l D.COBB,C.STAPLETON (K.WELCH) MERCURY HH HH 11 16 16 23 HERE TONIGHT Digital Gainer Brett Young 11 11 l D.HUFF (B.YOUNG,B.CAVER,J.EBACH,C.KELLEY) BMLG DOWN TO THE HONKYTONK 12 11 13 28 Jake Owen 12 11 l J.MOI (R.CLAWSON,L.LAIRD,S.MCANALLY) BIG LOUD TALK YOU OUT OF IT 13 26 27 24 Florida Georgia Line 27 13 l J.MOI (M.HARDY,H.PHELPS,J.ROGERS,A.VANDERHEYM) BMLG MISS ME MORE 14 15 18 17 Kelsea Ballerini 17 14 l F.G.WHITEHEAD,J.MASSEY (K.BALLERINI,D.H.HODGES,B.MCLAUGHLIN) BLACK RIVER BURN OUT 15 13 17 36 Midland 7 13 l D.HUFF,S.MCANALLY,J.OSBORNE (J.CARSON,C.DUDDY,M.WYSTRACH,S.MCANALLY,J.OSBORNE) BIG MACHINE EYES ON YOU 16 20 24 27 Chase Rice 15 16 l C. DESTEFANO (C.RICE,C. DESTEFANO,A.GORLEY) DACK JANIELS/BROKEN BOW THERE WAS THIS GIRL 17 21 21 26 Riley Green 8 17 l D.HUFF (R.GREEN,ERIK DYLAN) BMLG ON MY WAY TO YOU 18 18 20 28 Cody Johnson 16 16 l T.W.WILLMON (BRETT JAMES,T.LANE) COJO/WMN 19 12 15 20 MAKE IT SWEET Old Dominion 10 12 S.MCANALLY (M.RAMSEY,T. ROSEN,W.SELLERS,G.SPRUNG,B.TURSI,S.MCANALLY) RCA NASHVILLE ONE THAT GOT AWAY 20 22 23 22 Michael Ray 9 20 l S.HENDRICKS (J.FRASURE,T. ROSEN,M.RAMSEY,J.OSBORNE) ATLANTIC/WEA 21 19 19 27 NIGHT SHIFT Jon Pardi 14 19 B.BUTLER,J.PARDI (T.BROWN,P.LARUE,B.MONTANA) CAPITOL NASHVILLE RUMOR 22 24 22 24 Lee Brice 23 22 l L.BRICE,J.STONE,K.JACOBS,D.FRIZSELL (L.BRICE,K.JACOBS,A.GORLEY) CURB 23 17 — 2 RAINBOW Kacey Musgraves 38 17 I.FITCHUK,D.TASHIAN,K.MUSGRAVES (N.HEMBY,S.MCANALLY,K.MUSGRAVES) MCA NASHVILLE WHISKEY GLASSES 24 25 25 19 Morgan Wallen 22 24 l J.MOI (B.BURGESS,K.KADISH) BIG LOUD 25 14 14 25 LOVE WINS Carrie Underwood 13 14 D.GARCIA,C.UNDERWOOD (C.UNDERWOOD,D.A.GARCIA,BRETT JAMES) CAPITOL NASHVILLE

20 43 “One” strides 22-20 on Hot Country Songs, marking Ray’s fourth top 20 hit. It bumps by 7 percent to 22.7 million in radio reach, The group makes its third visit to Hot MICHAEL while a 69-cent sale tag in the iTunes RUNAWAY Country Songs as “Drinks” debuts at No. 43. RAY JUNE One That Store helped push its 11 percent gain to Buy My The track rises 30-28 on Country Airplay, up Got Away 2,000 downloads sold. Own Drinks 12 percent to 5.6 million impressions. RICH POLK/GETTY IMAGES FOR ACADEMY OF COUNTRY MUSIC COUNTRY OF ACADEMY FOR IMAGES POLK/GETTY RICH 2018 HARMONY GERBER HARMONY 2018 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE FEBRUARY 25, 2019 | PAGE 10 OF 17

SALES, AIRPLAY & STREAMING DATA Hot Country Songs COMPILED BY

TWO COUNTRY THIS LAST WEEKS WKS ON TITLE Artist AIRPLAY PEAK WEEK WEEK AGO CHART PRODUCER (SONGWRITER) IMPRINT / PROMOTION LABEL RANK POSITION 26 23 26 18 GOOD AS YOU Kane Brown 19 17 D.HUFF (K.BROWN,B.BERRYHILL,S.CARTER,T.PHILLIPS,W.WEATHERLY) ZONE 4/RCA NASHVILLE LOVE SOMEONE 27 29 32 17 Brett Eldredge 20 27 l R. COPPERMAN,B.ELDREDGE (B.ELDREDGE,R.COPPERMAN,H.MORGAN) ATLANTIC/WMN 28 28 30 22 LOVE AIN’T Eli Young Band 18 28 D.HUFF (R.COPPERMAN,A.GORLEY,S.MCANALLY) VALORY 29 27 28 6 GIRL Maren Morris 26 19 G.KURSTIN,M.MORRIS (M.MORRIS,S.AARONS,G.KURSTIN) COLUMBIA NASHVILLE THE DIFFERENCE 30 33 34 32 Tyler Rich 21 30 l J.RAYMOND,L.RIMES (R.AKINS,B.BURGESS,D.DAWSON,J.DURRETT) VALORY 31 31 33 31 CAUGHT UP IN THE COUNTRY Rodney Atkins Featuring The Fisk Jubilee Singers 25 31 R.ATKINS,T.HEWITT,B.BOLLINGER (C.HARRINGTON,J.M.SCHMIDT,M.WALKER) CURB 32 32 31 20 NEVER COMIN DOWN Keith Urban RC 30 J.KERR,K.URBAN (K.URBAN,J.KEAR,J.ABRAHART,SHY CARTER) HIT RED/CAPITOL NASHVILLE 33 35 35 20 I DON’T KNOW ABOUT YOU Chris Lane 41 33 J.MOI (A.GORLEY,M.HARDY,H.PHELPS,J.RODGERS) BIG LOUD EVERY LITTLE HONKY TONK BAR 34 36 — 2 George Strait 24 34 l C.AINLAY,G.STRAIT (G.STRAIT,B.STRAIT,D.DILLON) MCA NASHVILLE WOMEN 35 41 29 3 Florida Georgia Line Featuring Jason Derulo - 29 l J.MOI,FLORIDA GEORIGA LINE,D.GARCIA (T.HUBBARD,B.KELLEY,J.DESROULEAUX,D.A.GARCIA,J.MILLER) BMLG WHAT HAPPENS IN A SMALL TOWN 36 43 39 10 Brantley Gilbert + Lindsay Ell 31 31 l D.HUFF (B.GILBERT,R.AKINS,B.BERRYHILL,J.DUNNE) VALORY 37 34 — 8 BUTTERFLIES Kacey Musgraves - 32 I.FITCHUK,D.TASHIAN,K.MUSGRAVES (L.LAIRD,N.HEMBY,K.MUSGRAVES) MCA NASHVILLE 38 40 38 11 STRONGER THAN ME Garth Brooks 44 38 G.BROOKS (R.W.TERRY,M.A.ROSSI) PEARL ALL TO MYSELF 39 50 — 7 Dan + Shay 47 29 l D.SMYERS,S.HENDRICKS (D.SMYERS,S.MOONEY,N.GALYON,J.REYNOLDS) WARNER BROS./WAR RAISED ON COUNTRY Chris Young 40 RE-ENTRY 3 29 40 l C.CROWDER,C.YOUNG (C.YOUNG,C.R.BARLOWE,C.CROWDER) RCA NASHVILLE 41 44 40 4 SOME OF IT Eric Church 34 40 J.JOYCE (E.CHURCH,J.HYDE,C.DANIELS,B.PINSON) EMI NASHVILLE 42 39 — 8 SPACE COWBOY Kacey Musgraves - 30 I.FITCHUK,D.TASHIAN,K.MUSGRAVES (S.MCANALLY,L.LAIRD,K.MUSGRAVES) MCA NASHVILLE HH HH 43 NEW 1 BUY MY OWN DRINKS Hot Shot Debut Runaway June 28 43 l D.HUFF (H.MULHOLLAND,J.WAYNE,N.COOKE,H.LINDSEY,J.KEAR) WHEELHOUSE 44 30 — 2 BRAND NEW MAN Brooks & Dunn With Luke Combs - 30 D.HUFF (K.BROOKS,D.COOK,R.DUNN) ARISTA NASHVILLE 45 46 42 9 FRIENDS DON’T Maddie & Tae 33 40 J.ROBBINS,D.WELLS (M.MARLOW,T.DYE,J.M.NITE,J.EBACH) MERCURY CAN’T HIDE RED 46 NEW 1 Florida Georgia Line Featuring Jason Aldean - 46 l NOT LISTED (NOT LISTED) BMLG WHAT WHISKEY DOES Randy Houser Featuring Hillary Lindsey 47 RE-ENTRY 5 32 40 l K.GATTIS (R.HOUSER,K.GATTIS,H.LINDSEY) STONEY CREEK 48 48 41 5 CLOSER TO YOU Carly Pearce 37 39 BUSBEE (H.LINDSEY,G.SAMPSON,T.VERGES) BIG MACHINE FEELS LIKE A PARTY LOCASH 49 RE-ENTRY 5 30 47 l C.CROWDER,T.HUBBARD (P.BRUST,C.LUCAS,T.HUBBARD,C.CROWDER) WHEEL HOUSE 50 45 — 5 HIGH HORSE Kacey Musgraves - 36 I.FITCHUK,D.TASHIAN,K.MUSGRAVES (T.SCHLEITER,T.DABBS,K.MUSGRAVES) MCA NASHVILLE

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.

COUNTRY MARKET WATCH A Weekly National Music Sales Report YEAR-TO-DATE Year-Over-Year Album Sales Weekly Unit Sales Overall Unit Sales DIGITAL DIGITAL 2018 2019 CHANGE ALBUM SALES ’15 ALBUMS ALBUMS* TRACKS Albums 1,974,000 1,473,000 -25.4% ’18 1.97million This Week’14 250,000 83,000 704,000 Lorem ipsum ’19 1.47million Digital Tracks 6,725,000 4,860,000 -27.7% Last Week 233,000 81,000 744,000 Sales by Album Format Change DIGITAL TRACKS SALES 7.3% 2.5% -5.4% 2018 2019 CHANGE ’18 000.0 million6.72 million This Week Last Year 266,000 193,000 903,000 Physical 1,396,000 984,000 -29.5%

’19 4.86 million Change -6.0% -57.0% -22.0% Digital 578,000 490,000 -15.2% For week ending February 21, 2019. Figures are rounded. Compiled from a national sample of retail store and rack sales reports collected and *Digital album sales are also counted within album sales. provided by Nielsen Music.

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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 BEAUTIFUL CRAZY BEAUTIFUL CRAZY FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE CAN’T SAY I AIN’T COUNTRY 1 2 42 1 3 42 1 NEW 1 1 l LUKE COMBS  l LUKE COMBS  l BMLG FGL0400* TEQUILA HERE TONIGHT LUKE COMBS THIS ONE’S FOR YOU 2 3 52 2 RE-ENTRY 2 1 90 1 l DAN + SHAY  l BRETT YOUNG  l2 RIVER HOUSE/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE 538883*/SMN 1 TENNESSEE WHISKEY TEQUILA KACEY MUSGRAVES GOLDEN HOUR 3 5 98 3 1 57 3 1 19 42 MCA NASHVILLE 027921*/UMGN 1 l CHRIS STAPLETON  DAN + SHAY  SPEECHLESS SPEECHLESS DAN + SHAY DAN + SHAY 4 4 31 4 5 35 4 3 2 35 WARNER BROS. 570796/WMN 1 l DAN + SHAY  DAN + SHAY  HEAVEN DOWN TO THE HONKYTONK CHRIS STAPLETON TRAVELLER 5 6 68 5 8 26 5 4 3 199 MERCURY 019405*/UMGN 3 1 l KANE BROWN  l JAKE OWEN  KANE BROWN EXPERIMENT 6 1 65 MEANT TO BE 6 6 16 MISS ME MORE 6 5 4 15 ZONE 4/RCA NASHVILLE /SMN 1 BEBE REXHA & FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE  KELSEA BALLERINI  THIS IS IT RUMOR KANE BROWN KANE BROWN 7 8 5 7 9 10 7 6 6 116 ZONE 4/RCA NASHVILLE 530947*/SMN 1 1 l SCOTTY MCCREERY  l LEE BRICE  YOU MAKE IT EASY RAINBOW JASON ALDEAN REARVIEW TOWN 8 14 56 8 2 2 8 7 5 45 MACON/BROKEN BOW/BMG 538375642*/BBMG (538375730) 0 1 l JASON ALDEAN  KACEY MUSGRAVES  HURRICANE WHISKEY GLASSES NEW 1 ELVIS: THE ‘68 COMEBACK SPECIAL: THE BEST OF (SOUNDTRACK) 9 9 16 122 9 17 13 l9 RCA 590550/LEGACY l LUKE COMBS  l MORGAN WALLEN  THOMAS RHETT LIFE CHANGES 10 7 28 SHE GOT THE BEST OF ME 10 13 21 MILLIONAIRE 10 8 7 76 VALORY TR0300A/BMLG 1 1 LUKE COMBS  CHRIS STAPLETON  IN CASE YOU DIDN’T KNOW MEANT TO BE 13 11 23 CARRIE UNDERWOOD CRY PRETTY 1 11 10 121 11 10 65 l11 CAPITOL NASHVILLE 028557*/UMGN 0 BRETT YOUNG  BEBE REXHA & FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE  TALK YOU OUT OF IT TENNESSEE WHISKEY NEW 1 RYAN BINGHAM AMERICAN LOVE SONG 12 12 18 2 12 14 163 l12 AXSTER BINGHAM 4827*/THIRTY TIGERS l FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE  CHRIS STAPLETON  DIE A HAPPY MAN GOOD AS YOU GEORGE STRAIT 13 20 95 13 24 5 13 9 9 164 MCA NASHVILLE 000459/UMGN (25.98) 7 1 l THOMAS RHETT  l KANE BROWN  MARRY ME SHE GOT THE BEST OF ME 10 10 106 BRETT YOUNG BRETT YOUNG 2 14 RE-ENTRY 14 18 29 l14 BMLG BY0100A* 1 THOMAS RHETT  LUKE COMBS  RAINBOW THIS IS IT 12 12 140 JON PARDI 1 15 NEW 15 19 10 l15 CAPITOL NASHVILLE 024744*/UMGN 1 l KACEY MUSGRAVES  SCOTTY MCCREERY  ZAC BROWN BAND GREATEST HITS SO FAR... 16 NEW EYES ON YOU 16 22 19 GIRL LIKE YOU 16 15 15 187 ROAR/SOUTHERN GROUND/ATLANTIC 546369/AG 3 CHASE RICE  JASON ALDEAN  BRETT YOUNG TICKET TO L.A. BROKEN HALOS WHAT MAKES YOU COUNTRY 29 25 11 1 17 RE-ENTRY 17 RE-ENTRY l17 BMLG BMBY200A* CHRIS STAPLETON  l LUKE BRYAN  MISS ME MORE EYES ON YOU CODY JOHNSON AIN’T NOTHIN’ TO IT 18 NEW 18 NEW 18 11 8 5 COJO 574233*/WMN 1 KELSEA BALLERINI  l CHASE RICE  MORGAN WALLEN BLUE AIN’T YOUR COLOR MAKE IT SWEET 18 18 38 11 19 RE-ENTRY 19 25 10 l19 BIG LOUD DIGITAL EX KEITH URBAN  OLD DOMINION  ELVIS PRESLEY ELV1S: 30 #1 HITS SIMPLE ON MY WAY TO YOU RE-ENTRY 146 1 20 RE-ENTRY 20 RE-ENTRY l20 RCA 68079*/LEGACY (19.98/12.98) 6 FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE  CODY JOHNSON  CHRIS STAPLETON FROM A ROOM: VOLUME 1 GIRL LIKE YOU BLESSINGS 21 12 5 21 NEW 21 16 16 94 MERCURY 026379*/UMGN 1 1 JASON ALDEAN  l FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE  BLAKE SHELTON RELOADED: 20 #1 HITS RUMOR GIRL 22 20 21 174 2 22 RE-ENTRY 22 20 5 l WARNER BROS. 551788/WMN LEE BRICE  MAREN MORRIS  CHRIS STAPLETON FROM A ROOM: VOLUME 2 SIXTEEN NIGHT SHIFT 23 14 22 64 1 23 RE-ENTRY 23 RE-ENTRY MERCURY 027408*/UMGN 0 THOMAS RHETT  l JON PARDI  JORDAN DAVIS HOME STATE H.O.L.Y. TAKE ME HOME, COUNTRY ROADS 24 33 33 36 6 24 RE-ENTRY 24 RE-ENTRY l MCA NASHVILLE 028014/UMGN FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE  l   SCOTTY MCCREERY SEASONS CHANGE 25 22 20 24 1 25 9 28 DRUNK ME 25 NEW CAN’T HIDE RED TRIPLE TIGERS 581804*/RED MITCHELL TENPENNY  l FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE FEAT. JASON ALDEAN  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 2019, Prometheus Global Media, LLC and Nielsen Music, Inc. All rights reserved. charts. Copyright 2019, Prometheus Global Media, LLC and Nielsen Music, Inc. All rights reserved. SALES DATA COMPILED BY AMERICANA/ FOLK ALBUMS

AGO POS. THIS THIS LAST LAST PEAK CERT. WEEK WEEK ARTIST TITLE WEEKS WEEKS ON CHT 2 WEEKS 2 WEEKS IMPRINT & NUMBER / DISTRIBUTING LABEL KACEY MUSGRAVES GOLDEN HOUR 1 1 4 47 MCA NASHVILLE 027921*/UMGN 1

NEW 1 TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND SIGNS 2 l2 SWAMP FAMILY/FANTASY 00406*/CONCORD CHRIS STAPLETON TRAVELLER 3 3 1 145 MERCURY NASHVILLE 019405*/UMGN 3 1

NEW 1 RYAN BINGHAM AMERICAN LOVE SONG 4 l4 AXSTER BINGHAM 4827*/THIRTY TIGERS BRANDI CARLILE BY THE WAY, I FORGIVE YOU 5 2 — 12 LOW COUNTRY SOUND/ELEKTRA 565226*/EMG 1 6 5 3 94 CHRIS STAPLETON FROM A ROOM: VOLUME 1 1 1 MERCURY NASHVILLE 026379*/UMGN 18 8 7 108 SIMON & GARFUNKEL SIMON AND GARFUNKEL’S GREATEST HITS 3 l7 COLUMBIA 31350/LEGACY “Eyes” opens at No. 18 on Country Digital 8 4 6 64 CHRIS STAPLETON FROM A ROOM: VOLUME 2 1 MERCURY NASHVILLE 027408*/UMGN 0 Song Sales, up 26 percent to 4,000 sold, MUMFORD & SONS DELTA CHASE and rises 20-16 on Hot Country Songs. 9 6 5 14 GENTLEMEN OF THE ROAD 0240*/GLASSNOTE 1 RICE Rice will perform the song on ABC’s NEW 1 HAYES CARLL WHAT IT IS 10 Eyes on You l10 DUALTONE 1869* Good Morning America on Feb. 26. Americana/Folk Albums ranks the most popular Americana/folk albums of the week, as compiled by Nielsen Music, based on multi-metric consumption (blending traditional album sales, track equivalent albums, and streaming equivalent albums). Copyright 2019, Prometheus Global Media, LLC and Nielsen Music, Inc. All rights reserved. ERIKA GOLDRING/GETTY IMAGES GOLDRING/GETTY ERIKA BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE FEBRUARY 25, 2019 | PAGE 12 OF 17

MAKIN’ TRACKS TOM ROLAND [email protected] Chris Janson Sends ‘Good Vibes’ Into The World

Happiness, we’re told by psychologists and self-help gurus, is a choice. “It’s so funny,” says Janson. “When you grow up, you don’t really know Few country artists symbolize that more than Chris Janson, whose what those words are, but you say them when you’re a kid because you want rambunctious, cheerleader concert antics are part of a professional decision to sound cool because you heard it in a movie somewhere. So I’ve been saying he makes on a near-daily basis to stay focused on positivity. that for years, and then I found out what it meant, and I finally was able to “It’s a major choice,” he says. put it to a song.” “Good Vibes,” released Feb. 8 via PlayMPE as the lead single from his third With that repetitive guitar riff and the short nature of the stanzas, “Good album, turns that choice into an electric, juiced-up anthem. The opening lines Vibes” needed a bridge, and they settled quickly into a rap section that played — “I ain’t watchin’ TV today/ Bad news, it can off the word “good” from the title. Gorley and just stay away” — put that choice squarely in Janson went back and forth with descriptors — the headlights: If you don’t want the negativity a “good girl” with a “good smile,” who’s part of politics or The Jerry Springer Show, don’t turn of a “good morning” after a “good night” — on the tube. that builds back into another go-’round with “That’s why in our house we don’t watch a the cheerleader chorus. Adding to the song’s lot of it,” notes Janson. choice of positivity, that bridge nods to another Writing “Good Vibes” may have taken his choice Janson made in his life: marrying his attention away — intentionally or not —from manager, Kelly Janson. emotions that darkened the minds of many “It’s natural for me to sing about Kelly,” he music industry members the day he wrote says. “I wanted her to be highlighted in the it at the office of songwriter-producer Zach song because a lot of my good vibes, to be Crowell (“Body Like a Back Road,” “Sunrise, honest with you, personally come from my Sunburn, Sunset”). Oct. 1, 2018, was the wife and kids.” anniversary of the Las Vegas massacre where Once they had completed the song, a gunman killed 58 people at a concert by the Janson wheeled into a vocal for the demo Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino. Numerous that ultimately became the backbone for media rolled out stories that revived the horrors the final version. He was as animated as for people who were there or knew someone the song suggests, challenging Crowell’s who had experienced it, and by the end of the engineering skills. day, many executives were emotionally spent. “He’s not still at all,” notes Gorley. “Zach Janson, Crowell and co-writer Ashley records vocals [without] a vocal booth. JANSON Gorley (“What Makes You Country,” “Life Everything is right there with everybody Changes”) are uncertain if they were aware looking at you in the room. It’s an interesting of it that morning, though they were definitely sifting through the good and thing. He’s definitely jumping around. I don’t know how Zach gets it to even bad in their lives. And as they hashed that out, they consciously decided to out and sound good, but Chris is a performer at heart. He jitters around, but follow an upbeat creative path for the day. Crowell had created a simple, choppy he’s not getting off the mic.” guitar riff and saved it to his computer, and when he pulled it up, it totally fit the Crowell did a little more work on the demo, though he broke — or, at least, bill. Janson suggested that the title needed to convey “good vibes,” and that set modified — the no-TV rule of “Good Vibes” along the way. off his co-writers’ songwriting antennae: Why not just call it “Good Vibes”? “I have a TV on in my studio running all the time,” he says. “I’ve always A quick internet search confirmed that there wasn’t an American hit with done it for 15, 20 years now. When I’m there by myself, it gives the room life, that name, and they went to work. They gave it a breezy chorus, ending the makes me feel like I’m not alone in there. But I always have it on SportsCenter, first two lines with “good vibes” and “good life,” then focused on absorbing because it’s meaningless. Sports are cool, but nothing really matters.” the moment in line three: “I’m livin’ on God’s time.” Crowell sent the finished demo to Janson on Oct. 5. He played it for Kelly, “There’s a little bit of a depth to it, instead of just like ‘Let’s have a good who was convinced it was a hit. So was the label, and Crowell enlisted musician time and pop a beer,’ ” says Gorley. friends one at a time to fill it out. Aaron Sterling overdubbed drums at his home Not to say there’s no alcohol reference. “I’ve got me a full cup/And there in Los Angeles; Keith Urban’s bass player, Jerry Flowers, added a part when ain’t nothin’ gonna spill it” uses beer as a metaphor for choosing a glass-half- he visited Crowell’s house for a different project; and songwriter Jonathan full viewpoint over the half-empty perspective. Singleton (“Red Light,” “Why Don’t We Just Dance”) banged out background To celebrate a positive choice, however, “Good Vibes” needed to identify vocals at a different co-writing session with Crowell. Devin Malone layered the negative option, and both verses accomplish that. That opening anti-bad additional guitars, including a solo that happens so quickly that some listeners news line went a long way, and it became more emphatic when they turned a might not even realize it’s there. mother’s warning — “If you ain’t got anything good to say” — into an obvious “Good Vibes” battled another new song, “Check,” to be the first single concert shout-along: “Then shut. Your. Mouth.” from the next album, but it was a unanimous decision, Janson says, to go “All of us were fully aware of, if he cut it and if he put it out and it was a hit, with the former. It officially goes for adds on March 4. Janson hopes it’s a hit, how a crowd would react with you at that moment,” says Crowell. “We’re ending of course, but even more, he hopes it helps listeners choose happiness, even a verse at a big kind of crescendo moment, all of our radars go off: ding, ding.” when it’s difficult to find. Where that verse-one moment hits the listener in the gut, verse two appeals “It’s not that I’ve been this way my whole life,” he says. “I’ve had to learn to the head: “I ain’t tryin’ to hear the negative/I’m just tryin’ to change the to be this way myself. I am very happy, and I’m so proud to be a torch bearer if narrative/It’s simply imperative/That we all have a real good time.” you will — it’s just a small light in the world, but whatever influence I may be Who the heck uses the word “imperative” in a commercial song? able to have, maybe it’ll affect somebody in a great way.” BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE FEBRUARY 25, 2019 | PAGE 13 OF 17 Country Indicator

AUDIENCE WKS PLAYS (IN MILLIONS) THIS LAST ON WEEK WEEK CHART TITLE Imprint/Label Artist THIS WEEK +/– THIS WEEK l1 2 40 TAKE IT FROM ME MCA Nashville HH No. 1 (1 weeks) HH Jordan Davis 5282 +337 8.059 l2 3 13 BEAUTIFUL CRAZY River House/Columbia Nashville Luke Combs 5264 +483 8.236 3 1 19 WHAT MAKES YOU COUNTRY Capitol Nashville Luke Bryan 5150 -224 8.094 l4 5 44 MILLIONAIRE Mercury Chris Stapleton 4726 +284 7.140 l5 6 29 THERE WAS THIS GIRL BMLG Riley Green 4433 +211 6.480 6 4 32 THIS IS IT Triple Tigers Scotty McCreery 4216 -435 7.248 l7 7 44 BURN OUT Big Machine Midland 4129 +76 6.110 l8 10 22 HERE TONIGHT BMLG Brett Young 3762 +219 5.396 9 9 29 DOWN TO THE HONKYTONK Big Loud Jake Owen 3683 -164 5.571 l10 14 27 ONE THAT GOT AWAY Atlantic/WEA Michael Ray 3680 +296 5.359 l11 11 24 LOVE WINS Capitol Nashville Carrie Underwood 3558 +34 5.075 l12 13 19 MAKE IT SWEET RCA Nashville Old Dominion 3555 +149 5.406 l13 12 30 NIGHT SHIFT Capitol Nashville Jon Pardi 3539 +69 5.223 l14 15 26 ON MY WAY TO YOU CoJo/WMN Cody Johnson 3449 +302 5.158 l15 16 19 MISS ME MORE Black River Kelsea Ballerini 2840 +99 3.776 l16 17 29 LOVE AIN’T Valory Eli Young Band 2501 +205 3.527 l17 19 19 EYES ON YOU Dack Janiels/Broken Bow Chase Rice 2454 +455 3.374 l18 18 7 GOOD AS YOU Zone 4/RCA Nashville Kane Brown 2431 +301 3.372 l19 20 36 THE DIFFERENCE Valory Tyler Rich 1936 +38 2.541 l20 21 31 LOVE SOMEONE Atlantic/WMN Brett Eldredge 1880 +61 2.366 l21 22 17 TALK YOU OUT OF IT BMLG Florida Georgia Line 1843 +178 2.028 l22 23 24 WHISKEY GLASSES Big Loud Morgan Wallen 1732 +181 2.083 l23 24 43 CAUGHT UP IN THE COUNTRY Curb Rodney Atkins Feat. The Fisk Jubilee Singers 1507 +49 2.012 l24 25 13 RUMOR Curb Lee Brice 1475 +66 1.776 l25 26 7 SOME OF IT EMI Nashville Eric Church 1410 + 118 1.887 l26 29 6 GIRL Columbia Nashville Maren Morris 1204 +202 1.515 l27 40 2 EVERY LITTLE HONKY TONK BAR MCA Nashville HH Most Increased Plays/Most Added HH George Strait 1146 +486 1.573 l28 27 23 FEELS LIKE A PARTY Wheelhouse LOCASH 1104 +64 1.373 l29 28 8 WHAT HAPPENS IN A SMALL TOWN Valory Brantley Gilbert & Lindsay Ell 1078 +72 1.400 l30 33 13 BUY MY OWN DRINKS Wheelhouse Runaway June 1000 +198 1.347

BILLBOARD COUNTRY INDICATOR PANEL — 109 STATIONS

Abilene, Texas KEAN Fargo, N.D. KBVB Laurel, Miss. WBBN San Luis Obispo, Calif. KKJG Alexandria, La. KRRV WSTH Lebanon, N.H. WXXK Santa Barbara, Calif. KRAZ Amarillo, Texas KGNC Fayetteville, N.C. WKML Lincoln, Neb KFGE Santa Maria, Calif. KSNI Asheville, N.C. WKSF Flagstaff, Ariz. KAFF Longview, Texas KYKX Sheboygan, Wis. WBFM Atlantic City, N.J. WPUR Flint, Mich. WFBE Lubbock, Texas KLLL Savannah, Ga. WJCL Beaumont, Texas KYKR Florence, Ala. WXFL Lufkin, Texas KYKS WUBB Beckley, W. Va. WJLS Florence, S.C. WEGX Marshalltown, Iowa KXIA Shreveport, La. KXKS Biloxi, Miss. WZKX Ft. Collins, Colo. KUAD Mason City, Iowa KIAI Sioux Cty, Iowa KSUX Bloomington, Ill. WIBL Ft. Smith, Ark. KTCS Medford, Ore. KRWQ South Bend, Ind. WBYT Bluefield, W. Va. WHKX Frederick, Md. WFRE Meridian, Miss. WOKK Springfield, Ill. WFMB Burlington, Vt. WOKO Fredericksburg, Va. WFLS Milwaukee, WI. WKTI Springfield, Mo. KTTS Cape Girardeau, Mo. KEZS Green Bay, Wis. WNCY Montgomery, Ala. WLWI Terre Haute, Ind. WTHI Charleston, W. Va WKWS Hagerstown, Md. WAYZ Morgantown, W. Va. WKKW Topeka, Kan. WIBW WQBE Hot Springs, Ark. KQUS Muskegon, Mich. WMUS Traverse City, Mich. WTCM College Station, Texas KAGG Huntington, Ky. WDGG New London, Conn. WCTY Tupelo, Miss. WWZD Colorado Springs. KCCY Huntington, W. Va. WTCR Odessa, Texas KHKX Utica, N.Y. WFRG Columbia, Mo. KCLR Idaho Falls, Idaho KTHK Palm Springs, Calif. KPLM Victor Valley, CA. KATJ Columbus, Ga. WKCN Jackson, Miss. WMSI Pensacola, Fla. WXBM Waco, Texas WACO WSTH WUSJ Peoria, Ill. WXCL Wausau, Wis. WDEZ Cookeville, Tenn. WGSQ Janesville, Wis. WJVL Poughkeepsie, N.Y. WRWD Wheeling, W. Va. WOVK Dothan, Ala. WTVY Jonesboro, Ark. KDXY Rapid City, S.D. KOUT Williamsport, Pa. WILQ Duluth, Minn. KKCB Joplin, Mo. KIXQ Rockford, Ill. WXXQ Yakima, Wash. KXDD Eau Claire, Wis. WAXX Kalamazoo, Mich. WNWN Rocky Mount, N.C. WDWG Youngstown, Ohio WQXK Elizabeth City, N.C. WRSF Kalispell, Mont. KDBR Saginaw, Mich. WCEN WWGY Erie, Pa. WTWF Kingmah, Ariz. KFLG St. Cloud, Minn. KZPK Westwood One HOT COUNTRY Eugene, Ore. KKNU Lafayette, Ind. WKOA Salina, Kan. KYEZ MAINSTREAM COUNTRY Evansville, Ind. WKDQ Laredo, Texas KRRG Salisbury, Md. WKTT Music Choice TODAY’S COUNTRY Lansing, Mich. WITL San Angelo, Texas KGKL Sirius XM THE HIGHWAY BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE FEBRUARY 25, 2019 | PAGE 14 OF 17 Country Indicator

AUDIENCE WKS PLAYS (IN MILLIONS) THIS LAST ON WEEK WEEK CHART TITLE Imprint/Label Artist THIS WEEK +/– THIS WEEK l31 30 38 FRIENDS DON’T Mercury Maddie & Tae 984 +15 1.067 l32 31 5 RAISED ON COUNTRY RCA Nashville Chris Young 951 + 113 1.180 l33 36 12 CLOSER TO YOU Big Machine Carly Pearce 806 +66 0.813 l34 37 3 THOUGHT ABOUT YOU McGraw/Columbia Nashville Tim McGraw 797 +71 1.343 l35 34 22 BACK TO LIFE Big Machine Rascal Flatts 789 +1 0.744 36 35 30 WHAT WHISKEY DOES Stoney Creek Randy Houser Feat. Hillary Lindsey 753 -9 0.987 l37 39 7 KISS THAT GIRL GOODBYE BIG Label Aaron Watson 718 +53 1.035 l38 47 2 RAINBOW MCA Nashville Kacey Musgraves 671 +305 0.773 l39 41 16 LADIES IN THE ‘90S 19/Mercury Lauren Alaina 609 +13 0.562 l40 42 17 I DON’T REMEMBER ME (BEFORE YOU) EMI Nashville Brothers Osborne 519 +9 0.545 l41 43 22 THE IN BETWEEN Captain & Bear Cash Campbell 472 +1 0.490 42 44 11 AIN’T IT BABY Josh Ward Josh Ward 424 -34 0.525 l43 51 7 LOVE YOU TOO LATE Warner Bros./WMN Cole Swindell 386 +31 0.472 l44 48 8 A LITTLE ON THE REDNECK SIDE Dream Walkin’ Smith & Wesley 385 +20 0.438 45 45 14 NOW WE’RE GETTIN’ SOMEWHERE Bison Creek James Robert Webb 381 -44 0.415 l46 NEW ALL TO MYSELF Warner Bros./WAR HH Hot Shot Debut HH Dan + Shay 358 +159 0.441 47 49 4 GIRL GOIN’ NOWHERE Atlantic/WAR Ashley McBryde 358 -3 0.420 48 52 13 WONDER WOMAN Show Dog Nashville Waterloo Revival 345 -10 0.410 49 46 12 ROCKIN’ ALL NIGHT LONG Buena Vista/Capitol Nashville Adam Hambrick 335 -50 0.291 l50 56 5 EVERY LITTLE THING Triple Tigers Russell Dickerson 318 +48 0.440 l51 55 2 NOTHING TO DO TOWN Curb Dylan Scott 308 +17 0.376 52 54 11 STRONGER THAN ME Pearl Garth Brooks 297 -10 0.422 l53 NEW SOMEWHERE BETWEEN I LOVE YOU AND I’M LEAVIN’ Rounder/Concord Cody Jinks 279 +41 0.315 l54 57 6 I DON’T KNOW ABOUT YOU Big Loud Chris Lane 273 +10 0.279 l55 NEW REARVIEW TOWN Macon/Broken Bow Jason Aldean 266 +209 0.318 l56 NEW AFTER A FEW Mercury Travis Denning 252 +45 0.272 l57 59 5 MR. MOON SSM Nashville AC Jones 251 +1 0.286 58 58 11 THE ONES THAT DIDN’T MAKE IT BACK HOME Valory Justin Moore 240 -14 0.268 59 50 8 DON’T LET THE OLD MAN IN Show Dog Nashville  230 -127 0.253 l60 NEW GET AWAY Hive/High 4 Ryan Sims 229 +21 0.260

CHARTS LEGEND RANKINGS station downtime for the format. gaining enough audience points MOST INCREASED AUDIENCE/ Country Airplay is ranked by Titles that decline in audience to bullet or if they rank below No. PLAYS total audience impressions but increase in detections will 10 and post a third consecutive Most Increased Audience on for the week ending Sunday also receive a bullet if the total week of (non-bulleted) audience Country Airplay and Most based on monitored airplay of audience erosion for the week decline, regardless of total chart Increased Plays on Country 149 stations by Nielsen BDS. does not exceed 3%. Bullets are weeks. On Country Indicator, Indicator list the songs with the Audience totals on the chart are awarded on Country Indicator to descending, non-bulleted titles greatest week-to-week increases derived, in part, using certain titles gaining plays or remaining below No. 10 are moved to in total audience or plays, Arbitron Inc. copyrighted flat from the previous week. recurrent after 20 weeks or if they respectively. Persons 12+ audience post a third consecutive week of estimates (under license © TIES decline in plays after 10 weeks. AIRPOWER 2019, Arbitron Inc.) Country On Country Airplay, if two songs Awarded on Country Airplay to Indicator is tabulated using are tied in total audience, the song HOT SHOT DEBUT titles ranking inside top 20 in reported playlists and Nielsen with the larger increase in audience Awarded to the highest-ranking plays and audience rankings for BDS-monitored airplay at 109 is placed first. On Country Indicator, new entry on Country Airplay and the first time, with increases in stations, ranked by total plays. if two songs are tied in total plays, Country Indicator, respectively. both plays and audience. the song with the larger increase in BULLETS plays is placed first. MOST ADDED BREAKER l Awarded on Country Airplay The total number of new adds Awarded on Country Airplay to titles gaining audience or RECURRENTS officially reported to Billboard by to titles achieving airplay (at remaining flat from the previous On Country Airplay, descending each reporting station, or by an least one detection) at 60% of week. A song will also receive titles below No. 10 in either automatic-add threshold (seven plays reporting stations for the first a bullet if its percentage loss audience or detections are moved for the first time in a chart tracking time. in audience does not exceed to recurrent after 20 weeks, week, according to Nielsen BDS) for the percentage of monitored provided that they are not still stations that do not report adds. © 2019 Prometheus Global Media, LLC BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE FEBRUARY 25, 2019 | PAGE 15 OF 17 Country Airplay Index

TITLE Publishing-Licensing Org. EVERY LITTLE THING BMG Platinum Songs, LOVE WINS Carrie-Okie Music, BMI/Universal Music ROCKIN’ ALL NIGHT LONG Ole Red Cape (Songwriter) Chart Position BMI/Kailey’s Dream, BMI/So Essential Tunes, SESAC/Not - Brentwood Benson Publishing, ASCAP/D Soul Music, Songs, ASCAP/Red Like The Sunset Music, ASCAP/Stars Just Another Song Publishing, SESAC/Hillbilly Science ASCAP/Capitol CMG Genesis, ASCAP/Songs Of Brett, And Stripes And Maple Leaf Music, BMI/Crack The Glass And Research Publishing, SESAC/Trailerlily Music, SESAC ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP (C.Underwood, D.A.Garcia, Songs, BMI/Downtown DMP Songs, BMI/Garda Songs, 90’S COUNTRY Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing (R.Dickerson, P.Welling, C.Brown) 40 Brett James) 13 SESAC/King Pen Songs, SESAC/Songs Of Downtown, America, Inc., BMI/Spark In Your Pocket, BMI/Songs Of SESAC (A.Hambrick, K.Archer, P.Good) 59 Smack, BMI/Smack Hits, GMR/Smack Songs LLC, GMR/ EYES ON YOU Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI/Dack LOVE YOU TOO LATE Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, Kobalt Music Group Ltd., GMR/LYRX Publishing, LLC, BMI Janiel’s Publishing, BMI/EMI April Music, Inc., ASCAP/ BMI/Colden Rainey Music, BMI/Sony/ATV Cross Keys RUMOR Mike Curb Music, BMI/Curb Songs, ASCAP/ (W.Hayes, S.McAnally, LYRX) 55 CDS Words And Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/ Publishing, ASCAP/243 Music, ASCAP/Peermusic III, Jacobsong, ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/ Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite Ltd., BMI/Whiskey Tub Music, BMI (C.Swindell, Michael Ray, Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., A   Songs, ASCAP (C.Rice, C. DeStefano, A.Gorley) 15 B.Kinney) 35 ASCAP (L.Brice, K.Jacobs, A.Gorley) 23

ALCOHOL YOU LATER Sony/ATV Countryside, F   M   S   BMI/Sam Sumser Music, ASCAP/Lava Music, ASCAP/ Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, ASCAP/Lucky Mic FEELS LIKE A PARTY ole Purple Cape Music, MAKE IT SWEET Carrot Seed Songs, ASCAP/WB SOMEBODY’S DAUGHTER Year Of The Dog Publishing, BMI/Music Of Parallel, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt BMI/Mars Marley Music, BMI/Big Loud Mountain, BMI/ Music Corp., ASCAP/Smackville Music, ASCAP/Smack Music, ASCAP/Sony/ATV Story Music Publishing, GMR/We Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI (M.Tenpenny, S.Sumser, Round Hill Works, BMI/T Hubb Publishing, BMI/WB Songs LLC, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, Are Creative Nation, GMR/Be Barry Quiet, BMI/Creative M.Lotten) 60 Music Corp., ASCAP/Georgia Song Vibez, ASCAP/Big ASCAP/Rezsongs, ASCAP/ReHits Music, Inc., ASCAP/ Pulse Music, BMI/Pulse Nation, BMI (T.Townes, L.Laird, Crowd Publishing, ASCAP (P.Brust, C.Lucas, T.Hubbard, Smacktown Music, ASCAP/Smack Blue, LLC, ASCAP/ Bary Dean) 43 ALL TO MYSELF Beats And , ASCAP/WB C.Crowder) 30 Unfair Entertainment, ASCAP/MeGusta Music, ASCAP/ Music Corp., ASCAP/Shay Mooney Music, BMI/Warner- Tiny Handstand, ASCAP/Sharkules Music, ASCAP/ SOME OF IT Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/Longer Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/A Girl Named Charlie, FRIENDS DON’T Super Big Music, ASCAP/Seven We’re Really Doin’ It Publishing, ASCAP/Smack Hits, And Louder Music, BMI/Mammaw’s Fried Okra Music, BMI/Buckeye26, ASCAP/Jreynmusic, ASCAP (D.Smyers, Red Brids Publishing, ASCAP/Jehovah Nissi, BMI/Big GMR/Kobalt Music Group Ltd., GMR (M.Ramsey, T. Rosen, BMI/Little Louder Songs, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music S.Mooney, N.Galyon, J.Reynolds) 47 Machine Music, BMI/EMI April Music, Inc., ASCAP/Memory W.Sellers, G.Sprung, B.Tursi, S.McAnally) 10 Publishing America, Inc., BMI/New Writers Of Sea Gayle Days, SESAC/Wordspring Music, LLC, SESAC/W.B.M. Music Music, BMI/Not A Track Guy Music, BMI (E.Church, J.Hyde, B   Corp., SESAC (M.Marlow, T.Dye, J.M.Nite, J.Ebach) 33 MAKE ME WANT TO Red Lining Music, SESAC/ C.Daniels, B.Pinson) 34 Sony/ATV Lakeview, SESAC/Amplified Hour Songs, BEAUTIFUL CRAZY Big Machine Music, BMI/ G   SESAC/Pedal Down Music, ASCAP/Sounds Of Soperman SOMEONE I USED TO KNOW Weimerhound Egg Music, BMI/Straight Dimes Publishing, BMI/Works Music Publishing, ASCAP/Curb Songs, ASCAP/Dreamark Music, BMI/Day For The Dead Publishing, SESAC/Reach Of RHA Music, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing GIRL International Dog Music, BMI/Downtown DMP Publishing, ASCAP (J.Allen, P.Sikes, J.Denmark) 48 Music Tunes, SESAC/Andrew Watt Music, BMI/Songs Of Corp., BMI/Rowdy Rob Music, BMI (L.Combs, W.B.Durrette, Songs, BMI/Sony/ATV Songs LLC, BMI/Sony/ATV Music Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI/Siva Moon R.Williford) 1 Publishing (Australia) Pty Ltd., APRA/EMI April Music, MILLIONAIRE Universal Tunes, SESAC/Spur 66 Publishing, SESAC/W.B.M. Music Corp., SESAC/Simonetti Inc., ASCAP/Kurstin Music, ASCAP (M.Morris, S.Aarons, Music, SESAC (K.Welch) 6 Music Publishing, SESAC/Kobalt Group Music Publishing, BRAND NEW MAN Sony/ATV Cross Keys G.Kurstin) 26 SESAC/Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Mendes Music, BMI Publishing, ASCAP/Fort Kix Music, ASCAP/Sony/ATV MISS ME MORE Songs Of Black River, ASCAP/KNB (Z.A.Brown, A.Wotman, N.Moon, B.Simonetti, S.Mendes) 58 Tree Publishing, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing GIRL GOIN’ NOWHERE Songs Of Song Factory, Music, ASCAP/3 Weddings Music, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt America, Inc., BMI/Showbilly Music, BMI (K.Brooks, D.Cook, BMI/Universal Tunes, SESAC (A.McBryde, J.Bussey) 56 Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI/EMI April Music, Inc., STRONGER THAN ME Terry And Tom Music, R.Dunn) 51 ASCAP/Bob Ochoa’s Homemade Salsa, ASCAP (K.Ballerini, ASCAP/Bedroll Music, ASCAP/Major Bob Music, Inc., GIRL LIKE YOU Peertunes, Ltd., SESAC/MTNoize, D.H.Hodges, B.McLaughlin) 17 ASCAP (R.W.Terry, M.A.Rossi) 44 BUCKED OFF New House Of Sea Gayle Music, SESAC/Jaron Boyer Music, SESAC/Music Of The Corn, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Own My Own Music ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP (M.Tyler, J.Boyer, J.Mirenda) 4 N   T   Publishing, ASCAP (B.Paisley, C.DuBois, K.Lovelace) 52 GOOD AS YOU Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/ NIGHT SHIFT Maxx Music, BMI/Let The Road Pave TAKE IT FROM ME Ole Red Cape Songs, ASCAP/ BURN OUT WB Music Corp., ASCAP/TipTop Music, Kane Brown Music, BMI/Don’t Be A Gypsy, BMI/ Itself, BMI/Razor And Tie Music Publishing, BMI/Mike Jordan Davis Music, ASCAP/ReHits Music, Inc., ASCAP/ ASCAP/Tropical Cowboy Publishing, ASCAP/Warner- Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/BMG Rights Curb Music, BMI/Rain Town Music, BMI (T.Brown, P.LaRue, MeGusta Music, ASCAP/Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/ Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Kitt Cass Publishing Management (UK) Ltd., PRS/You Want How Much Of B.Montana) 14 Songs Of Red Bandana, BMI (J.Davis, J.Davis, J.Gantt) 5 Corporation, BMI/Smack Hits, GMR/Smack Songs LLC, What Publishing, PRS/TDP Publishing, BMI/Track House GMR/Kobalt Music Group Ltd., GMR/Songs Of Black River, Worldwide Entertainment, BMI/Mandy’s Favorite Songs, NOTHING TO DO TOWN Curb Songs, ASCAP/ TALK YOU OUT OF IT Relative Music Group, ASCAP/One Little Indian Creek Music, ASCAP (J.Carson, BMI (K.Brown, B.Berryhill, S.Carter, T.Phillips, W.Weatherly) 19 Curb Congregation Songs, SESAC/Music Good Vibes BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., C.Duddy, M.Wystrach, S.McAnally, J.Osborne) 7 Publishing, BMI/Good Times Music, SESAC/Universal BMI/Who Wants To Buy My Publishing, ASCAP/WB Music H   Music Corp., ASCAP/No Bridge Publishing, ASCAP (D. Corp., ASCAP/Highly Combustible Music, ASCAP/One77 BUY MY OWN DRINKS BMG Platinum Songs, Scott, M.Alderman, C.Taylor) 50 Songs, ASCAP/Castle Bound Music, Inc., SESAC (M.Hardy, BMI/BMG Silver Songs, SESAC/BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP/ HERE TONIGHT Super Big Music, ASCAP/ H.Phelps, J.Rogers, A.Vanderheym) 27 Rezonate Music, ASCAP/BIRB Music, ASCAP/Champagne Caliville Publishing, ASCAP/Songs Of Black River, O   Whiskey Publishing, ASCAP/Downtown DLJ Songs, ASCAP/Wordspring Music, LLC, SESAC/Memory Days, THERE WAS THIS GIRL Riley Green Publishing ASCAP/Legends Of Magic Mustang Music, SESAC/Music SESAC/W.B.M. Music Corp., SESAC/The Best I Could Do THE ONES THAT DIDN’T MAKE IT BACK Designee, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/ Of Platinum Pen, SESAC/Wild Wild West Songs, SESAC/ Publishing, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP (B.Young, HOME Big Music Machine, BMI/Double Barrel Ace Peermusic III, Ltd., BMI/Tawnes Van Hawke Publishing, Thunder Cookie, SESAC/Magic Mustang Music Inc., BMI/ B.Caver, J.Ebach, C.Kelley) 11 Music, BMI/Universal Music Corp., ASCAP/Paulywood BMI (R.Green, Erik Dylan) 8 Songwriters of Platinum Pen Publishing, BMI/Hannah Music, ASCAP/Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Plum Nelly, Mulholland Music, BMI (H.Mulholland, J.Wayne, N.Cooke, BMI/Ole Red Cape Songs, ASCAP/Real Big Red Tunes, H.Lindsey, J.Kear) 28 HOW DOES IT SOUND Two Black Dogs, ASCAP/ THIS IS IT Dagum Music, BMI/Austintatious Tunes, Sony/ATV Cross Keys Publishing, ASCAP/Songs For ASCAP (J.Moore, P.DiGiovanni, C.McGill, J.S.Stover) 39 BMI/Spirit Two Nashville, ASCAP/Fluid Tunes, ASCAP/ Buddy.ASCAP/Songs From The Rose Hotel, ASCAP/WB Smackville Music, ASCAP/Smack Songs LLC, ASCAP/Ice C   Music Corp., ASCAP (D.Schneider, J.Johnston, C.Crowder) 45 ONE THAT GOT AWAY Downtown DMP Songs, House Tunes, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, BMI/Telemitry Productions, BMI/ReHits Music, Inc., ASCAP (S.McCreery, F.Rogers, A.Eshuis) 3 CAUGHT UP IN THE COUNTRY WB Music I   ASCAP/Smacktown Music, ASCAP/Carrot Seed Songs, Corp., ASCAP/Freshy Music, ASCAP/We-Volve Music, ASCAP/Smack Songs LLC, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music THOUGHT ABOUT YOU Warner-Tamerlane ASCAP/Goes Something Like THIS Music, BMI/Warner- Publishing LLC, ASCAP/Anderson Fork In The Road Music, Publishing Corp., BMI/The Country And Music, Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Make It Matter Music, I DON’T KNOW ABOUT YOU Round Hill ASCAP/Smackville Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP BMI/Round Hill Works, BMI/Big Loud Proud Crowd, BMI/ BMI/Sixteen Stars Music, BMI (C.Harrington, J.M.Schmidt, Songs II, ASCAP/Caleb’s College Fund, ASCAP/WB (J.Frasure, T. Rosen, M.Ramsey, J.Osborne) 9 Big Loud Brad Music, BMI/Big Loud Brett Songs, BMI M.Walker) 25 Music Corp., ASCAP/Who Wants To Buy My Publishing, ASCAP/Relative Music Group, BMI/One77 Songs, ASCAP/ (L.T.Miller, B.Warren, B.D.Warren) 46 Highly Combustible Music, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music ON MY WAY TO YOU WB Music Corp., ASCAP/ CLOSER TO YOU BIRB Music, ASCAP/BMG Gold Publishing LLC, ASCAP (A.Gorley, M.Hardy, H.Phelps, Songs Of Brett, ASCAP/Atlas Music Publishing, ASCAP/ TO A T Universal Music Corp., ASCAP/Lake Allegan Songs, ASCAP/1217 Songs, ASCAP/Still Working For The J.Rodgers) 41 External Combustion Music, ASCAP/BMG Gold Songs, Pub Club, ASCAP/Red Like The Sunset Music, ASCAP/ Woman, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, ASCAP/Heytone Music, ASCAP (Brett James, T.Lane) 16 Spicer And Everyting Nicer, ASCAP/Ole Red Cape Songs, ASCAP/Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Low Z Music, BMI (H. ASCAP/Big Music Machine, BMI/Never Veltz So Good Lindsey, G.Sampson, T.Verges) 37 I DON’T REMEMBER ME (BEFORE YOU) Trampy McCauley, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/ P   Publishing, BMI (R.J.Hurd, N.Spicer, L.Veltz) 57 Songstein Publishing, ASCAP/All The Kings Pens, ASCAP/ D   Round Hill Songs BLS JV, ASCAP/Big Loud Proud Songs, PRAYED FOR YOU Pedal Down Music, ASCAP/ W   ASCAP/Matt Drag Music, ASCAP/Smack Hits, GMR/ Big Spaces Music, BMI/Tunes Of Big Deal Music, SESAC/ DAY DRUNK Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., Smack Songs LLC, GMR/Kobalt Music Group Ltd., GMR (J. Songs Of Porterfied Music, SESAC (M.Stell, A.Bowers, WHAT HAPPENS IN A SMALL TOWN BMI/SongsbyME, BMI/EMI April Music, Inc., ASCAP/CDS Osborne, T.J. Osborne, M.Dragstrem, S.McAnally) 49 A.Veltz) 54 Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Indiana Angel Words And Music, ASCAP/Hey Kiddo Music, ASCAP/ Music, BMI/Ritten by Rhettro, BMI/Don’t Be A Gypsy, Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, ASCAP (M.Evans, C. L   R   BMI/Revelry Music, BMI/Badlandsmgmt, BMI/Songs Of DeStefano, L.Robbins) 36 Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI (B.Gilbert, LADIES IN THE ‘90S Warner-Tamerlane RAINBOW HappyGoWrucke, BMI/Creative Pulse R.Akins, B.Berryhill, J.Dunne) 31 THE DIFFERENCE Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Publishing Corp., BMI/Lylas Music, BMI/Songs Of Roc Music, BMI/These Are Pulse Songs, BMI/Smack Hits, Corp., BMI/Ritten by Rhettro, BMI/Mr. Buck Lucky, BMI/ Nation Music, BMI/Telemitry Rhythm House Music, BMI/ GMR/Smack Songs LLC, GMR/Kobalt Music Group Ltd., WHAT MAKES YOU COUNTRY Sony/ATV Bump Into Genius Music, BMI/Neon Cross Music, BMI/ WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Cookie Jar Music LLP, PRS (Lauren GMR/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/351 Music, Tree Publishing, BMI/Peanut Mill Songs, BMI/Round Magic Mustang Music Inc., BMI (R.Akins, B.Burgess, Alaina, J.Frasure, A.Wadge) 53 BMI (N.Hemby, S.McAnally, K.Musgraves) 38 Hill Compositions, BMI/Natalia’s Music Money, BMI/ D.Dawson, J.Durrett) 21 Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., LOVE AIN’T EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Plain RAISED ON COUNTRY Songs Of Universal, ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite Songs, ASCAP (L.Bryan, D.Davidson, DOWN TO THE HONKYTONK Round Hill Jane Songs, BMI/Rezolant Music, BMI/Combustion Inc., BMI/They’ve Gone To Plaid Publishing, BMI/W.B.M. A.Gorley) 2 Works, BMI/Big Loud Proud Crowd, BMI/Round Hill Engine Music, ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., SESAC/Roc Nation US Music, SESAC/Songs Compositions, BMI/Shirt At Work, BMI/Sony/ATV Story Music Corp., ASCAP/Smack Hits, GMR/Smack Songs LLC, Of Rhythm House Black, SESAC/Bennett’s Dad’s Songs, WHAT WHISKEY DOES EMI Blackwood Music Music Publishing, GMR/We Are Creative Nation, GMR/ GMR/Kobalt Music Group Ltd., GMR (R.Copperman, A.Gorley, SESAC/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Georgia Song Vibez, Inc., BMI/Little Britches Music, BMI/Gattis Music, BMI/ Smack Hits, GMR/Smack Songs LLC, GMR/Kobalt Music S.McAnally) 18 ASCAP/Big Crowd Publishing, ASCAP (C.Young, C.R.Barlowe, Rezonate Music, ASCAP/BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP/BIRB Group Ltd., GMR (R.Clawson, L.Laird, S.McAnally) 12 C.Crowder) 29 Music, ASCAP (R.Houser, K.Gattis, H.Lindsey) 32 LOVE SOMEONE Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI/Paris E   Not France Music, BMI/EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/ REDNECKER Buzz Light Beer Music, ASCAP/ WHISKEY GLASSES Warner-Tamerlane Rezolant Music, BMI/Plain Jane Songs, BMI/Sony/ATV Downtown DLJ Songs, ASCAP/Relative Music Group, BMI/ Publishing Corp., BMI/Mr. Buck Lucky, BMI/Bump Into EVERY LITTLE HONKY TONK BAR Day Tree Publishing, BMI/Heather Feather Songs, BMI (B. WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Freshy Music, ASCAP/We-Volve Genius Music, BMI/Sony/ATV Allegro, ASCAP/Over- Money Music, ASCAP/HoriPro Entertainment Group, Eldredge, R.Copperman, H.Morgan) 20 Music, ASCAP (A.Albert, M.Hardy, J.M.Schmidt) 42 Thought Under-Appreciated Songs, ASCAP/Rezven Inc., ASCAP/ Music, BMI/HoriPro Music, ASCAP/Moving Targest In The Dark, ASCAP (B. Entertainment Group, Inc., BMI/Ohio Creek Music, BMI/ Burgess, K.Kadish) 22 Dean’s Cabin Publishing, LLC, BMI (G.Strait, B.Strait, D.Dillon) 24 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE FEBRUARY 25, 2019 | PAGE 16 OF 17 Hot Country Songs Index

TITLE Publishing-Licensing Org. F   MEANT TO BE BMG Platinum Songs, BMI/ SPEECHLESS Beats And Banjos, ASCAP/WB (Songwriter) Chart Position Big Loud Mountain, BMI/Kiss Me If You Can Music, Music Corp., ASCAP/Shay Mooney Music, BMI/Warner- FEELS LIKE A PARTY ole Purple Cape Music, BMI/T Hubb Publishing, BMI/Round Hill Works, BMI/ Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Buckeye26, ASCAP/ BMI/Mars Marley Music, BMI/Big Loud Mountain, BMI/ A   Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Songs Of Jreynmusic, ASCAP/Big Music Machine, BMI/Never Veltz Round Hill Works, BMI/T Hubb Publishing, BMI/WB The Corn, BMI/Jack 10 Publishing, BMI/Universal Music So Good Publishing, BMI (D.Smyers, S.Mooney, J.Reynolds, ALL TO MYSELF Beats And Banjos, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Georgia Song Vibez, ASCAP/Big - Brentwood Benson Publishing, ASCAP/D Soul Music, L.Veltz) 4 Music Corp., ASCAP/Shay Mooney Music, BMI/Warner- Crowd Publishing, ASCAP (P.Brust, C.Lucas, T.Hubbard, ASCAP/Capitol CMG Genesis, ASCAP (B.Rexha, T.Hubbard, Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/A Girl Named Charlie, C.Crowder) 49 J.Miller, D.A.Garcia) 5 STRONGER THAN ME Terry And Tom Music, BMI/Buckeye26, ASCAP/Jreynmusic, ASCAP (D.Smyers, ASCAP/Bedroll Music, ASCAP/Major Bob Music, Inc., S.Mooney, N.Galyon, J.Reynolds) 39 FRIENDS DON’T Super Big Music, ASCAP/Seven MILLIONAIRE Universal Tunes, SESAC/Spur 66 ASCAP (R.W.Terry, M.A.Rossi) 38 Red Brids Publishing, ASCAP/Jehovah Nissi, BMI/Big Music, SESAC (K.Welch) 10 B   Machine Music, BMI/EMI April Music, Inc., ASCAP/Memory T   Days, SESAC/Wordspring Music, LLC, SESAC/W.B.M. Music MISS ME MORE Songs Of Black River, ASCAP/KNB BEAUTIFUL CRAZY Big Machine Music, BMI/ Corp., SESAC (M.Marlow, T.Dye, J.M.Nite, J.Ebach) 45 Music, ASCAP/3 Weddings Music, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt TAKE IT FROM ME Ole Red Cape Songs, ASCAP/ Egg Music, BMI/Straight Dimes Publishing, BMI/Works Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI/EMI April Music, Inc., Jordan Davis Music, ASCAP/ReHits Music, Inc., ASCAP/ Of RHA Music, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing G   ASCAP/Bob Ochoa’s Homemade Salsa, ASCAP (K.Ballerini, MeGusta Music, ASCAP/Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/ Corp., BMI/Rowdy Rob Music, BMI (L.Combs, W.B.Durrette, D.H.Hodges, B.McLaughlin) 14 Songs Of Red Bandana, BMI (J.Davis, J.Davis, J.Gantt) 8 R.Williford) 1 GIRL International Dog Music, BMI/Downtown DMP Songs, BMI/Sony/ATV Songs LLC, BMI/Sony/ATV Music N   TALK YOU OUT OF IT Relative Music Group, BRAND NEW MAN Sony/ATV Cross Keys Publishing (Australia) Pty Ltd., APRA/EMI April Music, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., Publishing, ASCAP/Fort Kix Music, ASCAP/Sony/ATV Inc., ASCAP/Kurstin Music, ASCAP (M.Morris, S.Aarons, NEVER COMIN DOWN Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Who Wants To Buy My Publishing, ASCAP/WB Music Tree Publishing, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing G.Kurstin) 29 BMI/MAROMA Music, BMI/Songs Of Black River, ASCAP/ Corp., ASCAP/Highly Combustible Music, ASCAP/One77 America, Inc., BMI/Showbilly Music, BMI (K.Brooks, D.Cook, Whistlepig Winners, ASCAP/James Abrahart Publishing Songs, ASCAP/Castle Bound Music, Inc., SESAC (M.Hardy, 44 GIRL LIKE YOU Peertunes, Ltd., SESAC/MTNoize, Designee, SESAC/Artist 101 Publishing Group, BMI/Songs H.Phelps, J.Rogers, A.Vanderheym) 13 R.Dunn)  SESAC/Jaron Boyer Music, SESAC/Music Of The Corn, Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI/BMG BURN OUT WB Music Corp., ASCAP/TipTop Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP (M.Tyler, J.Boyer, J.Mirenda) 6 Rights Management (UK) Ltd., PRS/You Want How Much TEQUILA WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Beats And Banjos, ASCAP/Tropical Cowboy Publishing, ASCAP/Warner- Of What Publishing, PRS/BMG Platinum Songs, BMI/Lets ASCAP/Buckeye26, ASCAP/Jreynmusic, ASCAP/Warner- Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Kitt Cass Publishing GOOD AS YOU Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/ Get Brunch Publishing, BMI (K.Urban, J.Kear, J.Abrahart, Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/A Girl Named Charlie, Corporation, BMI/Smack Hits, GMR/Smack Songs LLC, Kane Brown Music, BMI/Don’t Be A Gypsy, BMI/ Shy Carter) 32 BMI (D.Smyers, J.Reynolds, N.Galyon) 2 GMR/Kobalt Music Group Ltd., GMR/Songs Of Black River, Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/BMG Rights ASCAP/One Little Indian Creek Music, ASCAP (J.Carson, Management (UK) Ltd., PRS/You Want How Much Of NIGHT SHIFT Maxx Music, BMI/Let The Road Pave THERE WAS THIS GIRL Riley Green Publishing C.Duddy, M.Wystrach, S.McAnally, J.Osborne) 15 What Publishing, PRS/TDP Publishing, BMI/Track House Itself, BMI/Razor And Tie Music Publishing, BMI/Mike Designee, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/ Worldwide Entertainment, BMI/Mandy’s Favorite Songs, Curb Music, BMI/Rain Town Music, BMI (T.Brown, P.LaRue, Peermusic III, Ltd., BMI/Tawnes Van Hawke Publishing, BUTTERFLIES Sony/ATV Story Music Publishing, BMI (K.Brown, B.Berryhill, S.Carter, T.Phillips, W.Weatherly) 26 B.Montana) 21 BMI (R.Green, Erik Dylan) 17 GMR/We Are Creative Nation, GMR/HappyGoWrucke, BMI/Creative Pulse Music, BMI/These Are Pulse Songs, H   O   THIS IS IT Dagum Music, BMI/Austintatious Tunes, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/351 Music, BMI/Spirit Two Nashville, ASCAP/Fluid Tunes, ASCAP/ HERE TONIGHT Super Big Music, ASCAP/ ONE THAT GOT AWAY Downtown DMP Songs, Smackville Music, ASCAP/Smack Songs LLC, ASCAP/Ice BMI (L.Laird, N.Hemby, K.Musgraves) 37 Caliville Publishing, ASCAP/Songs Of Black River, BMI/Telemitry Productions, BMI/ReHits Music, Inc., House Tunes, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, BUY MY OWN DRINKS BMG Platinum Songs, ASCAP/Wordspring Music, LLC, SESAC/Memory Days, ASCAP/Smacktown Music, ASCAP/Carrot Seed Songs, ASCAP (S.McCreery, F.Rogers, A.Eshuis) 3 BMI/BMG Silver Songs, SESAC/BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP/ SESAC/W.B.M. Music Corp., SESAC/The Best I Could Do ASCAP/Smack Songs LLC, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Rezonate Music, ASCAP/BIRB Music, ASCAP/Champagne Publishing, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP (B.Young, Publishing LLC, ASCAP/Anderson Fork In The Road Music, W   Whiskey Publishing, ASCAP/Downtown DLJ Songs, B.Caver, J.Ebach, C.Kelley) 11 ASCAP/Smackville Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP (J.Frasure, T. Rosen, M.Ramsey, J.Osborne) 20 WHAT HAPPENS IN A SMALL TOWN ASCAP/Legends Of Magic Mustang Music, SESAC/Music HIGH HORSE Powerteam Ton Songs, BMI/These Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Indiana Angel Of Platinum Pen, SESAC/Wild Wild West Songs, SESAC/ Are Pulse Songs, BMI/Ready Set Publishing, BMI/Songs ON MY WAY TO YOU WB Music Corp., ASCAP/ Music, BMI/Ritten by Rhettro, BMI/Don’t Be A Gypsy, Thunder Cookie, SESAC/Magic Mustang Music Inc., BMI/ Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI/Warner- Songs Of Brett, ASCAP/Atlas Music Publishing, ASCAP/ BMI/Revelry Music, BMI/Badlandsmgmt, BMI/Songs Of Songwriters of Platinum Pen Publishing, BMI/Hannah Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/351 Music, BMI (T. External Combustion Music, ASCAP/BMG Gold Songs, Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI (B.Gilbert, Mulholland Music, BMI (H.Mulholland, J.Wayne, N.Cooke, Schleiter, T.Dabbs, K.Musgraves) 50 R.Akins, B.Berryhill, J.Dunne) 36 H.Lindsey, J.Kear) 43 ASCAP/Heytone Music, ASCAP (Brett James, T.Lane) 18 I   R   WHAT MAKES YOU COUNTRY Sony/ATV C   Tree Publishing, BMI/Peanut Mill Songs, BMI/Round I DON’T KNOW ABOUT YOU Round Hill RAINBOW HappyGoWrucke, BMI/Creative Pulse Hill Compositions, BMI/Natalia’s Music Money, BMI/ CAN’T HIDE RED Not Listed (Not Listed) 46 Songs II, ASCAP/Caleb’s College Fund, ASCAP/WB Music, BMI/These Are Pulse Songs, BMI/Smack Hits, Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite Songs, ASCAP  CAUGHT UP IN THE COUNTRY WB Music Music Corp., ASCAP/Who Wants To Buy My Publishing, GMR/Smack Songs LLC, GMR/Kobalt Music Group Ltd., (L.Bryan, D.Davidson, Corp., ASCAP/Freshy Music, ASCAP/We-Volve Music, ASCAP/Relative Music Group, BMI/One77 Songs, ASCAP/ GMR/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/351 Music, A.Gorley) 7 Highly Combustible Music, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music BMI (N.Hemby, S.McAnally, K.Musgraves) 23 ASCAP/Goes Something Like THIS Music, BMI/Warner- WHAT WHISKEY DOES EMI Blackwood Music Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Make It Matter Music, Publishing LLC, ASCAP (A.Gorley, M.Hardy, H.Phelps, J.Rodgers) 33 RAISED ON COUNTRY Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Little Britches Music, BMI/Gattis Music, BMI/ BMI/Sixteen Stars Music, BMI (C.Harrington, J.M.Schmidt, Rezonate Music, ASCAP/BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP/BIRB 31 Inc., BMI/They’ve Gone To Plaid Publishing, BMI/W.B.M. M.Walker)  L   Music Corp., SESAC/Roc Nation US Music, SESAC/Songs Music, ASCAP (R.Houser, K.Gattis, H.Lindsey) 47 CLOSER TO YOU BIRB Music, ASCAP/BMG Gold Of Rhythm House Black, SESAC/Bennett’s Dad’s Songs, LOVE AIN’T EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Plain SESAC/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Georgia Song Vibez, WHISKEY GLASSES Warner-Tamerlane Songs, ASCAP/1217 Songs, ASCAP/Still Working For The Jane Songs, BMI/Rezolant Music, BMI/Combustion Publishing Corp., BMI/Mr. Buck Lucky, BMI/Bump Into Woman, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, ASCAP/Big Crowd Publishing, ASCAP (C.Young, C.R.Barlowe, Engine Music, ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/WB C.Crowder) 40 Genius Music, BMI/Sony/ATV Allegro, ASCAP/Over- ASCAP/Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Low Z Music, BMI (H. Thought Under-Appreciated Songs, ASCAP/Rezven 48 Music Corp., ASCAP/Smack Hits, GMR/Smack Songs LLC, Lindsey, G.Sampson, T.Verges)  GMR/Kobalt Music Group Ltd., GMR (R.Copperman, A.Gorley, RUMOR Mike Curb Music, BMI/Curb Songs, ASCAP/ Music, ASCAP/Moving Targest In The Dark, ASCAP (B. S.McAnally) 28 Jacobsong, ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/ Burgess, K.Kadish) 24 D   Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., LOVE SOMEONE  WOMEN Big Loud Mountain, BMI/T Hubb Publishing, THE DIFFERENCE Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI/Paris ASCAP (L.Brice, K.Jacobs, A.Gorley) 22 Corp., BMI/Ritten by Rhettro, BMI/Mr. Buck Lucky, BMI/ Not France Music, BMI/EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/ BMI/Pranch Ringle Music, BMI/Round Hill Works, BMI/ Rezolant Music, BMI/Plain Jane Songs, BMI/Sony/ATV S   Irving Music, Inc., BMI/Jason Derulo Publishing, BMI/ Bump Into Genius Music, BMI/Neon Cross Music, BMI/ Universal Music - Brentwood-Benson Songs, BMI/D Soul Magic Mustang Music Inc., BMI (R.Akins, B.Burgess, Tree Publishing, BMI/Heather Feather Songs, BMI (B. Eldredge, R.Copperman, H.Morgan) 27 SHE GOT THE BEST OF ME Big Music Music, ASCAP/Capitol CMG Genesis, ASCAP/Songs Of The D.Dawson, J.Durrett) 30 Machine, BMI/50 Egg Music, BMI/Straight Dimes Corn, BMI/Jack 10 Publishing, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane LOVE WINS  DOWN TO THE HONKYTONK Round Hill Carrie-Okie Music, BMI/Universal Music Publishing, BMI/Little Extra Songs, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Publishing Corp., BMI (T.Hubbard, B.Kelley, J.Desrouleaux, Works, BMI/Big Loud Proud Crowd, BMI/Round Hill - Brentwood Benson Publishing, ASCAP/D Soul Music, Music Publishing LLC, ASCAP/No Cats Round Here Music, D.A.Garcia, J.Miller) 35 Compositions, BMI/Shirt At Work, BMI/Sony/ATV Story ASCAP/Capitol CMG Genesis, ASCAP/Songs Of Brett, ASCAP/Heart Scarred Songs, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Music Publishing, GMR/We Are Creative Nation, GMR/ ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP (C.Underwood, D.A.Garcia, Publishing Corp., BMI/Super LCS Publishing, BMI (L. Smack Hits, GMR/Smack Songs LLC, GMR/Kobalt Music Brett James) 25 Combs, R.Snyder, C.Wilson) 9 Group Ltd., GMR  12 (R.Clawson, L.Laird, S.McAnally)  M   SOME OF IT Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/Longer And Louder Music, BMI/Mammaw’s Fried Okra Music, E   MAKE IT SWEET Carrot Seed Songs, ASCAP/WB BMI/Little Louder Songs, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music EVERY LITTLE HONKY TONK BAR Day Music Corp., ASCAP/Smackville Music, ASCAP/Smack Publishing America, Inc., BMI/New Writers Of Sea Gayle Money Music, ASCAP/HoriPro Entertainment Group, Songs LLC, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, Music, BMI/Not A Track Guy Music, BMI (E.Church, J.Hyde, Inc., ASCAP/Living For The Night Music, BMI/HoriPro ASCAP/Rezsongs, ASCAP/ReHits Music, Inc., ASCAP/ C.Daniels, B.Pinson) 41 Entertainment Group, Inc., BMI/Ohio Creek Music, BMI/ Smacktown Music, ASCAP/Smack Blue, LLC, ASCAP/ Dean’s Cabin Publishing, LLC, BMI (G.Strait, B.Strait, Unfair Entertainment, ASCAP/MeGusta Music, ASCAP/ SPACE COWBOY Smack Hits, GMR/Smack Songs 34 Tiny Handstand, ASCAP/Sharkules Music, ASCAP/ LLC, GMR/Kobalt Music Group Ltd., GMR/Sony/ATV Story D.Dillon)  We’re Really Doin’ It Publishing, ASCAP/Smack Hits, Music Publishing, GMR/We Are Creative Nation, GMR/ EYES ON YOU Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI/Dack GMR/Kobalt Music Group Ltd., GMR (M.Ramsey, T. Rosen, Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/351 Music, BMI Janiel’s Publishing, BMI/EMI April Music, Inc., ASCAP/ W.Sellers, G.Sprung, B.Tursi, S.McAnally) 19 (S.McAnally, L.Laird, K.Musgraves) 42 CDS Words And Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/ Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite Songs, ASCAP (C.Rice, C. DeStefano, A.Gorley) 16 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE FEBRUARY 25, 2019 | PAGE 17 OF 17 CODA 5 Years Ago Cole Swindell Was ‘Chillin’ ’ At No. 1 For The First Time In 2014, his debut single topped Hot Country Songs

On March 1, 2014, Cole Swindell’s Should Be Here” for four weeks in 2016. Country Songs for six weeks in 2014. launch track, “Chillin’ It,” topped He wrote the song (with ) Last September, Swindell’s third Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart as a tribute to his father, William, who LP, , became his first No. 1 for the first of two weeks. died unexpectedly in 2013. on Top Country Albums. Lead single The Swindell- and Shane Minor- The 35-year-old Bronwood, Ga., “Break Up in the End” reached No. 2 penned track became the first of native also has co-written hits for, on Country Airplay and No. 4 on Hot Swindell’s 20 Hot Country Songs among others, Luke Bryan, Scotty Country Songs. Follow-up “Love entries thus far, a total that includes McCreery, Thomas Rhett and Florida You Too Late” ranks at No. 35 on the two No. 1s among eight top 10s. Georgia Line, whose “This Is How We March 2-dated Country Airplay chart. Swindell led again with ballad “You Roll” (featuring Bryan) dominated Hot —JIM ASKER

REWINDING THE COUNTRY CHARTS

Swindell during rehearsal for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York in

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