NEWS SPINZONE � � Musicrow Panel Stations Nominated for Top Ten— Lee Brice Is a Member of the No

NEWS! SPIN ZONE ! SINGLES CALENDAR! CHART DATA ! NO. 1 SONG! VOICES OF SECONDARY RADIO! COVERING THE SECONDARY RADIO MARKET SINCE 2002 REPORTING ! PANEL! Thursday, February 5, 2015 CHART NEWS SPINZONE MusicRow Panel Stations Nominated For Top Ten— Lee Brice is a member of the No. 1 song class now that “Drinking Class” is at the top. Blake Shelton may take ACM Awards that spot next week as he is now at No. 2 with “Lonely Congratulations to both Tonight.” Jake Owen moves one spot with “What We Ain’t KTHK/Idaho Falls, Idaho, Got” up to No. 3 followed by Lady Antebellum’s “Freestyle” at and WXFL/Florence, Ala., for No. 4. Dierks Bentley breaks the top 5 with “Say You Do” at being nominated for the ACM No. 5. Jason Aldean jumps two spots to No. 6 with “Just Small Market Station Of The Gettin’ Started.” Tyler Farr’s “A Guy Walks Into A Bar” stays Year. In addition to being on the No. 7 barstool another week. Easton Corbin saw a nice nominated for Small Market gain for “Baby Be My Love Song” as it climbs to No. 8. Cole Station of the Year, WXFL’s Swindell's “Ain’t Worth The Whiskey” is now a top 10 hit Fletcher Brown is also up for KTHK’s Don Jarrett WXFL’s Fletch Brown since it lands at No. 8 this week. Josh Turner also brings “Lay Small Market Personality of Low” into the Top 10 at No. 10. the Year. The radio awards will be presented during the annual Radio Winners Reception held the day prior to the ACM Awards Greatest Gainers— Zac Brown Band’s “Homegrown” is telecast, on Saturday, April 18 in Arlington, Texas. Full Story growing on the chart after 469 new spins this week. Tim HERE. McGraw had 399 new plays of “Diamond Rings And Old … Barstools.” A Thousand Horses’ “Smoke” is blazin’ a trail iHeartRadio Music Awards Reveals with 393 additional spins this week. Keith Urban and Eric Nominees Church are pretty good together and that led to 375 new spins for “Raise ‘Em Up.” Kenny Chesney’s “Wild Child” The second annual moved up 22 spots thanks to 255 new plays. iHeartRadio Music Awards will return to NBC on Sunday, Debuts— Kip Moore’s “I’m To Blame” is the top debut this March 29. Nominees were week at No. 74. Michael Scott has worked “Radio Song” into revealed today (Feb. 4) for the the chart at No. 76 and Carrie Underwood debut’s “Little Toy show’s eleven categories. The Guns” at No. 78. Also new to the chart are DOWNDAY’s “Stuck 2015 iHeartRadio Music On 17” at No. 79 and James Carothers’ “I Must Be Alive” at Awards will be televised live on NBC from 8-11 p.m. ET/PT and No. 80. broadcast simultaneously on iHeartMedia stations nationwide

and across the iHeartRadio digital music platform. Read the full … story HERE. … Luke Bryan Will Release Final Spring Break Album Next Month Luke Bryan will release his inal Spring Break album, Spring Break…Checkin’ Out on March 10. Over the past seven years, the superstar has released ive EPs which culminated into last year’s 14-song project. Total sales of the enterprise have reached over 1.1 million. To read more, click HERE. … WKWS/Charleston, WV Crash Poteet (L) meets up with Miranda Lambert (R) during one of her recent shows in Charleston. Thursday, February 5, 2015 SINGLES CALENDAR WEEKLY CHART DATA February 9 New On The Chart —Debuting This Week Mo Pitney/Country/Curb Records Artist/song/label—chart pos. Waterloo Revival/Hit The Road/Big Machine Kip Moore/I’m To Blame/MCA Nashville— 74 Blackberry Smoke/Living In The Song/Rounder Records Michael Scott/Radio Song/Saba Records— 76 Angie Lynn Carter/Simple Man/SMG Nashville Carrie Underwood/Little Toy Guns/Arista Nashville— 78 DOWNDAY/Stuck On 17/Render—79 February 16 James Carothers/I Must Be Alive/James Carothers— 80 Carrie Underwood/Little Toy Guns/Arista Nashville Michael Ray/Kiss You In The Morning/Warner Bros.-WEA Greatest Spin Increase Abi Ann/Future Ex Boyfriend/One Country Records Artist/song/label—Spin Increase Mitch Goudy/My Girl’s Hand/Third Floor Records Zac Brown Band/Homegrown/Southern Ground— 469 Jordyn Stoddard/Like Me Til’ You Love Me/J Stodd Tim McGraw/Diamond Rings And Old Barstools/Big Machine— 399 Morgan Riley/Down South/Skytone A Thousand Horses/Smoke/Republic Nashville— 393 Presley & Taylor/Lookin For A Cowboy/SMG Nashville Keith Urban w/ Eric Church/Raise 'Em Up/Capitol Nashville— 375 Cindy Lee Alden/Black Coffee/CLA Music Kenny Chesney/Wild Child/Blue Chair-Columbia—255 February 23 Most Added LoCash/I Love This Life/Reviver Records Artist/song/label—No. of Adds David Fanning/Doin’ Country Right/Red Bow Tim McGraw/Diamond Rings And Old Barstools/Big Machine— 27 Dan + Shay/Nothin’ Like You/Warner Bros. A Thousand Horses/Smoke/Republic Nashville— 18 Amber Hayes/Running Out Of Memories/A OK Kenny Chesney/Wild Child/Blue Chair-Columbia— 18 Carrie Underwood/Little Toy Guns/Arista Nashville— 16 March 2 Kip Moore/I’m To Blame/MCA Nashville—15 Keith Urban w/ Eric Church/Raise 'Em Up/Capitol Nashville— 14 LiveWire/Quit You/Way Out West Records Brad Paisley/Crushin’ It/Arista Nashville— 13 Zac Brown Band/Homegrown/Southern Ground— 11 March 9 Kayla Calabrese/Whisper/SMG Nashville— 9 Logan Mize/Can’t Get Away From A Good Time/Arista Nashville Bobby Wills/Never Didn’t Love You/Willing Nashville— 6 Austin Webb/Country On You/Streamsound— 6 … Reba/Going Out Like That/Nash Icon— 6 James Robert Webb/Daddy Made A Million/Bison Creek Records—6 Maddie & Tae/Fly/Dot Records— 5 Rachael Turner/Matches And Moonshine/Rustic Records– 5 On Deck—Soon To Be Charting Artist/song/label—No. of Spins Jackie Lee/She Does/Broken Bow— 179 Ricky Gunn/King Of This Town/New Canvas Entertainment— 169 Smith N Western/Fallen Angel/80 Proof Music Group Inc.— 155 Kaitlyn Baker/Burn/Silvercreek Records— 153 Cody Johnson/Cowboy Like Me/Cojo Music— 148 Pictured (L-R): Santos Vasquez Blue Light Frozen Playlist— WEIO, WDGG, KXKZ, KSJJ Entertainment President, Joe Kelly WPUR/Atlantic City and Brian Collins promoting his single “Never Really … Left.”

Brook Stephens (R) of KYCK/Grand Forks, ND Rick Monroe (R) visits with ACM Small Market Personality of and KZPK/St. Cloud, MN traveled north of the Year Nominee Fleth Brown (L) of WXFL, Florence, AL. Monroe’s border to catch Dallas Smith (L) in Canada. single “Fire’s Out” is climbing the Breakout Chart. Thursday, February 5, 2015

NO. 1 SONG MusicRow Spotlight Christy Garbinski/Promotion Representative/Sony Music Nashville All blue collar, hard- working Americans Tell us about the road that took can rejoice now that you to your current position? – Lee Brice’s “Drinking While at the University of Florida I Class” is the No. 1 song interned at several establishments on MusicRow’s inclusive of Entercom, ClearChannel and CMT. After CountryBreakout moving to Nashville I was an extern Chart. with CRB and helped facilitate CRS 2014. The position with Sony Music Nashville was listed and seemed to possess the duties and The hit song was written by Josh Kear, David Frasier and Ed responsibilities that I have learned to love in this industry. Hill. The three writers certainly know how to relate to those who “get up when the rooster crows” and “clock in when the whistle What is your favorite part of the job? - I love the ability to have blows.” The music video honors those men and women proudly conversations and work with stations all over the country. It is my labeled. goal to help foster a partnership with stations, providing an avenue to share new music and listen to feedback from not only the station but their listeners as well. MusicRow’s Robert K. Oermann says of the song in his August DISClaimer, “If this isn’t a monster hit, I’ve never heard one. Every What is best about working the stations on the MusicRow Panel? –A majority of the stations take interest in new acts and take nine-to-iver in America is going to raise a glass to this anthem.” a chance on the single. Nothing makes me happier than the station end up making room for the add and then hearing about the calls “Drinking Class” is the second single off of Brice’s third studio and feedback they are getting. album I Don’t Dance. The title track went to No. 1 in 2014 and is Give an interesting fact about yourself that others probably nominated for the ACM Single Record of the Year. don't know. – At 3 years old I recited my alphabet backwards to my parents and at 4 I told them I was moving away from Florida. At 22 I Brice is currently on tour with several Co-headlining dates with got my alphabet straight and moved to Nashville. Looks like it’s time Chris Young. to set bigger goals!

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Weeks Last Wk This Wk Spins/ % Spin Spins Last Wk On Chart Position Position Artist/Song/Label Reports Power +- # Spins 21 2 1 Lee Brice/Drinking Class/Curb 3441/97 3 91 3350 11 3 2 Blake Shelton/Lonely Tonight/Warner Bros. 3314/89 3 97 3217 25 4 3 Jake Owen/What We Ain't Got/RCA Nashville 3174/97 2 61 3113 15 5 4 Lady Antebellum/Freestyle/Capitol 3131/97 5 150 2981 18 6 5 Dierks Bentley/Say You Do/Capitol Nashville 3130/98 6 164 2966 12 8 6 Jason Aldean/Just Gettin' Started/Broken Bow 3037/93 7 188 2849 25 7 7 Tyler Farr/A Guy Walks Into A Bar/Columbia Nashville 3013/98 3 94 2919 20 10 8 Easton Corbin/Baby Be My Love Song/Mercury 2451/94 6 128 2323 14 15 9 Cole Swindell/Ain't Worth The Whiskey/Warner Bros. 2273/85 8 175 2098 19 12 10 Josh Turner/Lay Low/MCA 2223/91 3 58 2165 15 14 11 Eric Paslay/She Don't Love You/EMI Nashville 2212/94 4 94 2118 10 16 12 Garth Brooks/Mom/Pearl-RCA Nashville 2115/85 3 57 2058 14 17 13 Toby Keith/Drunk Americans/Showdog-Universal 1994/79 0 -9 2003 13 18 14 Billy Currington/Don't it/Mercury Nashville 1920/88 10 182 1738 24 1 15 Chris Young/Lonely Eyes/RCA 1910/58 -45 -1572 3482 19 19 16 Erica Nicole/It's Comin' Down/EN Music-PCL 1819/68 6 107 1712 5 21 17 Miranda Lambert/Little Red Wagon/RCA Nashville 1808/91 11 183 1625 8 20 18 Sam Hunt/Take Your Time/MCA 1768/79 7 116 1652 4 31 19 Zac Brown Band/Homegrown/Southern Ground 1664/80 39 469 1195 20 22 20 Jon Pardi/When I've Been Drinkin'/Capitol Nashville 1565/74 3 42 1523 12 23 21 The Swon Brothers/Pray For You/Arista Nashville 1551/85 5 75 1476 16 24 22 Kelsea Ballerini/Love Me Like You Mean It/Black River 1545/77 5 72 1473 28 25 23 Canaan Smith/Love You Like That/Mercury Nashville 1483/67 2 26 1457 3 34 24 Keith Urban w/ Eric Church/Raise 'Em Up/Capitol Nashville 1421/88 36 375 1046 7 29 25 Little Big Town/Girl Crush/Capitol Nashville 1418/76 12 150 1268 18 26 26 Branch & Dean/Green Light/SSM 1390/60 3 42 1348 13 28 27 Justin Moore/This Kind of Town/Valory 1374/77 8 99 1275 11 27 28 Brantley Gilbert/One Hell Of An Amen/Valory 1362/79 3 38 1324 9 30 29 Rachel Holder/I Think Of You/Curb 1280/62 5 65 1215 8 32 30 Rascal Flatts/Riot/Big Machine 1221/69 9 98 1123 26 9 31 RaeLynn/God Made Girls/Valory 1203/46 -50 -1193 2396 3 42 32 A Thousand Horses/Smoke/Republic Nashville 1159/75 51 393 766 19 33 33 Olivia Lane/Steal Me Away/Big Spark 1113/61 2 27 1086 20 35 34 Rick Monroe/Fires Out/MRG Recordings 1089/47 7 68 1021 8 36 35 Lonestar/Pretty Good Day/4Star Records 1039/51 5 46 993 8 37 36 Chris Weaver Band/Time Has Wings/American Roots Records 1028/58 7 63 965

Weeks Last Wk This Wk Spins/ % Spin Spins Last Wk On Chart Position Position Artist/Song/Label Reports Power +- # Spins 3 49 37 Tim McGraw/Diamond Rings And Old Barstools/Big Machine 1017/71 65 399 618 11 38 38 Chase Rice/Gonna Wanna Tonight/Columbia Nashville 983/58 3 28 955 14 40 39 Kristian Bush/Trailer Hitch/Streamsound 901/42 12 99 802 4 43 40 Mickey Guyton/Better Than You Left Me/Capitol Nashville 884/68 17 130 754 15 39 41 Mike Ryan/Dancing All Around it/Rock & Soul Records 864/42 6 50 814 4 44 42 Reba/Going Out Like That/Nash Icon 861/62 19 139 722 4 45 43 Craig Wayne Boyd/My Baby's Got A Smile On Her Face/Dot Records 824/54 14 104 720 11 41 44 Dustin Lynch/Hell Of A Night/Broken Bow 750/50 -3 -25 775 8 46 45 Haley & Michaels/Just Another Love Song/New Revolution Entertainment 732/45 6 41 691 13 47 46 Brian Collins/Never Really Left/Blue Light Entertainment 702/48 2 14 688 3 57 47 Brad Paisley/Crushin' It/Arista 684/48 41 199 485 10 48 48 Gloriana/Trouble/Warner Bros. 682/36 2 15 667 9 50 49 John Spicer/Pretty Good At Loving You/Legend Group Records 658/39 7 42 616 7 51 50 Dallas Smith/Wastin' Gas/Big Loud Mountain 634/44 11 61 573 7 52 51 Steven Lee Olsen/Raised By A Good Time/Columbia Nashville 628/44 12 68 560 15 54 52 Tim Sweeney/Every Friday Night/Oil House Records 611/28 21 104 507 11 53 53 Frank Ortega/My Old Man/Villa One 599/33 8 45 554 2 72 54 Kenny Chesney/Wild Child/Blue Chair-Columbia 595/45 75 255 340 9 56 55 Elizabeth Lyons/#PartyRules/ 556/27 13 63 493 5 65 56 Austin Webb/Country On You/Streamsound 535/39 30 125 410 10 55 57 The Cains Trio/Be Yourself With Me/DayStreet Records-GMV Nashville 513/30 2 10 503 4 64 58 Maddie & Tae/Fly/Dot Records 503/44 17 74 429 3 66 59 Bobby Wills/Never Didn't Love You/Willing Nashville 494/43 23 91 403 5 58 60 James Otto/Somewhere Tonight/Ottopilot Records 485/32 4 18 467 8 61 61 Jo Dee Messina/He's Messed Up/Dreambound Records LLC 483/28 10 44 439 5 59 62 Josh Dorr/Save Your Breath/RCA Nashville 479/36 3 15 464 8 60 63 Chris Chitsey/Lonely In Tucson/Premier Nashville Records 468/26 5 21 447 4 67 64 Frankie Ballard/Young And Crazy/Warner Bros. 455/30 17 67 388 6 69 65 Joanna Mosca/He Ain't You/Dolce Diva Music Group, Inc. 450/23 24 88 362 7 63 66 Granger Smith/Bury Me In Blue Jeans/Pioneer Music 446/29 3 12 434 11 62 67 Aaron Watson/That Look/HTK Records 442/25 2 7 435 7 75 68 North 40/Whole Lot Of Livin'/Rhymetown Entertainment 379/23 20 63 316 5 73 69 Jason Michael Carroll/God Only Knows/For The Lonely Records 362/32 6 22 340 7 68 70 Colt Ford/Crank It Up/Average Joe's 356/24 -4 -16 372 5 76 71 Dylan Scott/Lay It On Me/Sidewalk Records 354/24 15 47 307 6 71 72 Crab Apple Lane/Hit The Ground Runnin/Chevelle Records 345/22 1 2 343 5 78 73 Denny Strickland/Swerve On/SMG Records 324/21 17 46 278 1 104 74 Kip Moore/I'm To Blame/MCA Nashville 268/22 253 192 76 11 80 75 Ricky Skaggs w/ Sharon White/Forever's Not Long Enough/Skaggs Family Records 266/17 2 4 262 1 81 76 Michael Scott/Radio Song/Saba Records 233/15 4 10 223 9 79 77 Joy Styles/Fast/764 Records 217/12 -18 -49 266 1 165 78 Carrie Underwood/Little Toy Guns/Arista 205/18 1181 189 16 1 85 79 DOWNDAY/Stuck On 17/Render 201/19 17 29 172 1 84 80 James Carothers/I Must Be Alive/ 198/12 11 20 178