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Is s u e 69 Mu s i c Edition De c e m b e r 17, 2007

PPM: A Whole New Playbook Ha p p y Ho l i d a y s !!! “You need to know how the lives of PDs and radio stations are going to change in the coming years.” And with that opener, Country radio and the music business have enjoyed Country Aircheck’s Lon Helton framed Friday’s presentation an exciting and tumultuous 2007, and this last chart and of The People Meter: What It Means To The Country Aircheck Music Edition of the year is a capper Industry for a biz-heavy crowd at the Country Music Hall of for many at the intersection of those two businesses. Fame’s Ford Theater. Whatever this year has held for you, and whatever may While the room was thick with top-level promotion executives as well as a handful of prominent radio execs, the panel was come in 2008, hopefully it’s all a backdrop to more comprised of those who know PPM as well as anyone – which important things now upon us – family, friends and some may not be saying much. “There are no PPM experts,” said well-deserved downtime. MediaSense’s Bob Michaels, a former Arbitron executive. “I’ve We have a couple more daily emails for you, but other been looking at this as long as anyone, and I’m not an expert.” than that you’ll likely hear from us next in 2008. Until Nevertheless, the assembled were given a glimpse at PPM’s then, the folks at Country Aircheck wish you and yours a ability to deliver surging rivers of data, and heard just how carefully safe and happy holiday season. those streams of information must be navigated. Each seeming revelation could have any number of explanations. “For the wrong reasons, the labels will have some trouble with GAC’s Top 2007 Videos new music if you’re not prepared and understand the new ratings GAC will be airing its 2007 Top 50 Videos Of The Year in five technology,” Arbitron’s Gary Marince said. “There is tremendous segments with five different celebrity guests at 9pm ET every night misunderstanding at the level of the PD. I see things happening with from Dec. 27-31. will announce videos 50-39 the numbers that ought not to.” (continued on page 5) on Dec. 27, Emerson will handle 38-30 on Dec. 28, hosts 29-22 on Dec. 29, Jewel hosts 21-13 on Dec. 30 and wraps it up with 12-1 on Dec. 31. On Jan. 1, all five segments will air in order beginning at 10am ET. Here is a sneak peak at the top 21:

21. Tim McGraw f//I Need You 20. Alison Krauss f/John Waite/Missing You 19. /Teardrops On My Guitar 18. Blake Shelton/Nobody But Me Lon Helton, Gary Marince, Bob Michaels, Bob McKay, Jaye Albright, 17. /Wasted Mike O’Malley. ©2007 Country Aircheck™ — All rights reserved. Sign up free at www.countryaircheck.com. Send news to [email protected]

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16. Taylor Swift/Our Song Da t e Ch e c k 15. /Don’t Blink 14. Carrie Underwood/So Small Jan. 23-27 - Country In The Rockies 13. / 12. Blake Shelton/Don’t Make Me Jan. 24 - 26th Annual Colgate Country Showdown National 11. Billy Ray Cyrus/Ready, Set, Don’t Go Final - Ryman Auditorium www.countryshowdown.com 10. /I Wonder 9. /Stay Feb. 8 - 50th Annual Grammy Awards - www.grammy.com 8. / 7. Blake Shelton/The More I Drink March 5-7 - CRS-39 - www.crb.org 6. Reba McEntire f/Kelly Clarkson/Because Of You 5. /A Woman’s Love April 1-5 - Tin Pan South Festival 4. Big & Rich/Lost In This Moment 3. Trace Adkins/I Got My Game On April 22 - Leadership Music Digital Summit 2007 - Belmont 2. /Online University’s Curb Event Center - www.leadershipmusic.org 1. Trace Adkins/Ladies Love Country Boys May 18 - The 43rd Annual ACM Awards - MGM Grand Las Radio News Vegas, NV - www. acmcountry.com Kudos: Congrats to the KUUB/Reno, NV Tim & Malayna Morning Show on the success of their 4th Annual Adopt A Troop promotion. June 5-8 - CMA Music Festival - www.cmaworld.com They collected more than 3,400 new/used DVDs & CDs, over $1,000 in prepaid Full calendar info at www.countryaircheck.com phone cards, a new DVD player and a couple of gaming consoles that will be Odie Blackmon (“I May Hate Myself In The Morning,” “She’ll distributed to troops serving overseas. Leave You With A Smile”) has signed a worldwide publishing Hats off to WYCT/Pensacola, FL agreement with Ten Ten Music Group, Inc. for raising $810 for the Manna Food Emma Mae Jacob has signed with Buddy Lee Attractions for Bank by auctioning off a cowboy booking representation. hat signed by artists including Brad The ACM and J.D. Haas Entertainment are offering “Dream Paisley and Trace Adkins. Trip Of A Lifetime” radio packages for the 43rd Annual ACM Awards in Las Vegas on May 18th. Trips include 3 day, 2 night hotel Satellite: will showcase their holiday The Star stays and tickets to the awards show, post-show All Star Jam and Still Shines on XM’s Artist Confidential which airs all day Dec. 24 pre-awards New Artist Show/Party For A Cause. on XM Channel 2 and at 8am & 4pm ET on Music City Holiday, Project Paper Doll had already raised close to $15,000 for the XM 105/DirecTV 809. Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt with the first two auctions of celebrity decorated wood dolls. The third group Industry News contains and ’s contributions and is The 2008 CMT Awards will air live April 14 at 8pm ET/PT on currently underway at www.ebay.com/paperdolls. CMT from Belmont University’s Curb Event Center. The first round Universal Music Group and XM Satellite Radio have resolved of nominees will be announced Feb. 5 at which time fan voting will the lawsuit over XM’s Pioneer Inno portable device with advanced commence at CMT.com. recording functionality. The companies did not disclose the terms John Shanks (“Once In A Lifetime,” “Somebody Like You”) of the deal. UMG will withdraw as a party to the complaint filed has signed a long-term worldwide publishing agreement with Sony/ by the major record companies in May 2006 and becomes the ATV Music Publishing. Sony/ATV has also purchased Shanks’ first company to reach a multi-year deal covering all XM radios, entire song catalog. including future product releases. ©2007 Country Aircheck™ — All rights reserved. Sign up free at www.countryaircheck.com. Send news to [email protected] December 17, 2007 Country Aircheck Music Edition Page 4

Bi r t h d a y s Tuesday (12/18) - Cowboy Troy, Cledus T. Judd, Buffy Cooper ([email protected]), (joe.galante@ sonybmg.com), Rob Hendon Wednesday (12/19) - Little Jimmy Dickens, , Anthony Martin, Bill Mayne ([email protected]), Roger Ramsey ([email protected]), John Sebastian (john. [email protected]), Kyle Cantrell (kyle.cantrell@ xmradio.com) Thursday (12/20) - George Briner ([email protected]), Melissa Pierce, Ronnie Vaughan

Friday (12/21) - Lee Roy Parnell, Brad Warren, Doug Johnson, Nina Rossman ([email protected]) Saturday (12/22) - Lori McKenna, Chuck Meade, Marla Burns, Karen Conrad, John Shomby ([email protected])

Monday (12/24) - Justin McIntosh (justin.mcintosh@ bigmachinemail.com) Gig Alerts • Entercom KWJJ/Portland PD Mike Moore is seeking an afternooner. Send airchecks and resumes to Moore c/o 99-5 The Wolf, 0700 SW Bancroft Street, Portland, OR 97239 or at [email protected]. • Clear Channel WWYZ/Hartford PD Pete Salant is looking for a Promotion Dir. Send cover letter and resume to petesalant@ clearchannel.com. • Clear Channel WAMZ/Louisville, KY PD Coyote Calhoun is in need of a morning show co-host. Send airchecks and resumes to [email protected]. • Clear Channel WPOC/Baltimore PD Meg Stevens is accepting airchecks and resumes for the morning news anchor position at [email protected]. Artist News ’s next album will hit stores Jan. 29. Kenny Chesney and produced. Chesney has also produced the bluegrass debut of bandmate Tim Hensley, Long Monday, also in stores Jan. 29. Jo Dee Messina has been named January 2008 Fitness Role Model by Muscle & Fitness Hers magazine for her dedication to a fit lifestyle even while touring. The issue is on newsstands now. Tim McGraw and Dwight Yoakam will appear in Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn’s new filmFour Christmases, which is set to release during the 2008 holiday season. The Wreckers and Lucchese Boots are offering fans to win Way Back Home: Live From New York CD/DVD and 1 pair of Lucchese boots at teenmusic.com. Emerson Drive has been nominated for a Campus Activities Magazine Reader’s Choice Award for “Best Major Performance.” The band performed at the National Association For Campus Activities’ national convention in 2006 and 2007. Neal McCoy received the W.B. and Brandon Carrell Humanitarian Award from the Masonic Grand Lodge Of Texas, the highest non-mason honor, Dec. 6. McCoy and his wife are the founders of the East Texas Angel Network that helps families with children suffering from life threatening diseases. Off Course KNTY/Sacramento PD Bob McNeill and Country Thunder VP/Promo Jim Dorman won the 5th Annual Team Golf

©2007 Country Aircheck™ — All rights reserved. Sign up free at www.countryaircheck.com. Send news to [email protected] December 17, 2007 Country Aircheck Music Edition Page 5 Championship at Pebble Beach this past weekend. They had the lowest net score of the 100-plus teams, and played Spanish Bay and Pebble Beach. Chronicle Condolences to family and friends of James Ervin Porter, Sr., an original member of Hank William’s Drifting Cowboys, who passed away at his one in Alabama on Dec. 15. He was 79. Funeral services will be held Tuesday Dec. 18 in Montgomery, AL. The Week’s Top Stories Full coverage of the week’s news is available in the archives at www.countryaircheck.com.

• Attorney’s for Travis Tritt filed a $10 million lawsuit on the Team Players: WUSN/Chicago raised more than $1.8 million on singer’s behalf against Category 5 Records and founder Ray Thursday & Friday (12/13-14) for St. Jude Children’s Hospital. Here Termini, who responded with a strongly-worded email to Country are morning show co-hosts Ramblin’ Ray (l) and Lisa Dent (r) with all Aircheck. Read it here. the kiddos that helped out. • Scripps cable network GAC and ABC Radio Networks have partnered to launch GAC Nights: Live from Nashville, a syndicated was a Houston Rodeo ticket giveaway, but the surges only occurred radio program set to launch Jan. 14 and airing weeknights from on the last day of the promotion when the station had been running 7pm-midnight. GAC’s Suzanne Alexander hosts, with regular the contest for weeks. appearances by GAC personalities Nan Kelly and Storme Warren. Another graph showed dramatic and consistent reductions in (CAT 12/11) listening during a radiothon for a non-Country station in Philadelphia. • CBS Radio/Detroit executive Kevin Murphy was elevated to In that instance, as well as the rodeo promotion, Marince said it was a Sr. VP/Market Manager for the six station group, which includes mistake for PDs to make radical changes based on that data. “Nothing Country WYCD. Deb Kenyon remains as VP/GM of WYCD. changes for the listener [with PPM],” he said. The methodology (CAT 12/14) changes allow programmers to see huge spikes the last day of a • Radio vet Jim Mickelson named PD at Clear Channel Country promotion, but the awareness that created those jumps might not have KXRV/Salt Lake City. existed without the promotion’s long build up. He can be reached at 801-908-1364 or jimmickelson@clearchannel. Michaels detailed the huge cume jumps for Houston’s Country com. (CAT 12/12) stations – KILT, KKBQ and KTHT – before addressing the • Sinclair WNRJ/Norfolk flipped from Rhythmic AC to Country. ability of PPM to test music. He focused on well-known Classic OM Jay Michaels is programming and can be reached at Rock songs that might perform well in an auditorium test using 757-640-8500. (CAT 12/14) 15-second clips, but fared poorly in real listening. Lynyrd Skynyrd’s • Big Machine Nat’l Dir./Sales & Marketing Penny Lazo exited the “Freebird” and Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway To Heaven” both saw label. She can be reached at 469-855-0986 or pennylazo@hotmail. more than 20% of listeners tune to another station during the song, com. (CAT 12/17) but CCR’s “Proud Mary” lost less than 2%. Labels will need to • Television vet Jan Ray joined the Crook & Chase Show as Talent have a very good understanding of what impression threshold is Exec. The series premieres Jan. 17 on RFD-TV. Contact her at necessary to obtain reliable PPM data on new music, Michaels said. [email protected]. (CAT 12/13) McKay’s Pub: WXTU/Philadelphia’s Bob McKay, who has as much practical experience with PPM as anyone in the country PPM From The Inside (continued from page 1) offered some good news: “People Meter loves music,” he said. Marince detailed listening spikes surrounding the airing of “Major sporting events and music, it’s all good.” George Strait songs on Houston’s KILT. The impetus for the spikes McKay offered several examples of on-air performances by

©2007 Country Aircheck™ — All rights reserved. Sign up free at www.countryaircheck.com. Send news to [email protected] December 17, 2007 Country Aircheck Music Edition Page 6 major artists – , Big & Rich, Martina McBride – that more than doubled WXTU’s audience in that daypart. Tu b e Ch e c k Other nuggets from McKay: When getting acclimated to PPM Tuesday (12/18) - Kellie Pickler, Today (NBC); Blake Shelton, Clash data, “The first thing is to not to get overly concerned and freak Of The Choirs (NBC); Lonestar, Holiday Notes From Home (GAC). out.” Also, “The average person listens to 14 radio stations in a day in Philadelphia.” And he devoted considerable attention to the issue Wednesday (12/19) - Lonestar, GAC Nights; Blake Shelton, of commercials. Clash Of The Choirs (NBC). “There is a whole other mindset from Arbitron,” he said, “but Thursday (12/20) - Blake Shelton, Clash Of The Choirs (NBC); the numbers are pretty clear. If we still have 60 second spots in five years I’ll be surprised. We’ll have stopsets with four 15-second Billy Ray and , Oprah (syndicated). spots. When the big ad agencies see this [data], they’re going to Friday (12/21) - , Larry King Live (CNN). reinvent the medium.” Asked if he had instituted sweeping changes because of the Saturday (12/22) - , , Patty Loveless, PPM, McKay said no. “I’ve not changed the actual structure of the The Whites, Opry Live (GAC). radio station, but I have economized. A 30-second promo is now 15 seconds. I’ve cut back the length of stop sets. Economy, brevity and Sunday (12/23) - Lonestar, Trace Adkins, , excitement sound good. Our talent has been very good about staying Trisha Yearwood, , Cracker Barrel’s Songs Of The on message.” Year (GAC); LeAnn Rimes, Tennessee Titans vs. New York Jets The biggest positive: “We exceeded out budget this year by (National Anthem) (CBS). about 20% and it’s all because of PPM,” McKay says. “We had a very good year.” Monday (12/24) - Various Artists, CMT 20 Merriest Christmas As for the music issue, McKay admitted, “That will drive you Videos. crazy. I’ve decided not to spend too much time on that. At some point I will take that more seriously, but it’s information overload Chesney In The House: Consultants Jaye Albright and right now.” Mike O’Malley presented detailed analysis of Kenny Chesney’s September 10 visits to Houston’s KILT and KKBQ. Marrying quarter-hour ratings data with actual audio from the two stations, the presentation showed audience growth on both stations during Chesney’s visit. KILT had a more consistent hold on the audience than KKBQ, but both saw undeniable benefits. Among the findings: When the artist visit was scheduled, first or second, made little difference. More than 905 of the cume was unduplicated between the stations – listeners didn’t follow Chesney from KILT to KKBQ. And the listener surge on both stations led Albright to surmise, “Radio has always sold time, but [with PPM] we’re going to sell audience.” See an overview at www.albrightandomalley.com/articles/Article_PPM-KILT-KKBQ- Chesney.doc. - Lon Helton, [email protected] Chuck Aly, [email protected] Erin Duvall, [email protected] Mighty Mouse: Beasley WKIS/Miami collected over 3,000 toys to benefit the Marine Corps Toys For Tots/Miami campaign, building (615) 320-1450 “Toy Mountain” during the all day event.

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December 17, 2007 Chart Page 1

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

1 1 TAYLOR SWIFT/Our Song (Big Machine) 13270 472 4464 189 34.602 1.072 119 0 2nd Week at No. 1 2 2 JOSH TURNER/Firecracker (MCA) 12302 542 4221 171 31.449 1.791 119 0 3 3 GEORGE STRAIT/How 'Bout Them Cowgirls (MCA) 11363 48 3880 -45 29.129 0.28 118 0 4 4 SUGARLAND/Stay (Mercury) 11090 709 3765 265 29.19 1.999 119 0

5 5 /What Do... (Columbia) 4 11005 831 3755 336 28.124 1.122 119 0 7 6 RASCAL FLATTS/Winner At A Losing Game (Lyric Street) 10054 279 3441 135 26.41 0.756 119 0 8 7 KEITH URBAN/Everybody (Capitol) 9790 268 3266 134 25.892 0.834 119 0 11 8 BRAD PAISLEY/Letter To Me (Arista) 8675 712 2895 204 22.979 2.773 118 1 13 9 GARY ALLAN/Watching Airplanes (MCA) 8108 612 2655 149 20.479 2.144 117 0

6 10 CARRIE UNDERWOOD/So Small (19/Arista) 4 7999 -1987 2672 -777 20.078 -5.198 119 0 10 11 /As If (RCA) 7945 -515 2673 -115 19.983 -1.785 119 0 9 12 CLAY WALKER/Fall (Curb/Asylum) 7733 -1703 2748 -556 19.234 -4.57 119 0 14 13 BILLY RAY CYRUS f/M.CYRUS/Ready... (Walt Disney/Lyric Street) 7441 211 2409 79 18.517 0.509 117 0 12 14 LEANN RIMES/Nothin' Better To Do (Curb/Asylum) 7378 -161 2500 -44 18.209 -0.407 118 0 15 15 CHUCK WICKS/Stealing Cinderella (RCA) 6479 254 2177 101 15.459 0.197 116 0 17 16 TOBY KEITH/Get My Drink On (Show Dog) 6398 593 2239 201 15.601 1.097 117 2 16 17 RODNEY ATKINS/Cleaning This Gun (Come On...) (Curb) 6370 318 2160 120 15.373 0.862 113 1 18 18 CRAIG MORGAN/International Harvester (BBR) 5705 511 1920 143 14.264 1.492 97 4

21 19 ALAN JACKSON/ (Arista) 4 5276 816 1841 272 13.774 2.409 114 5 19 20 BLAKE SHELTON/The More I Drink (Warner Bros.) 5115 60 1777 31 12.313 -0.145 100 1 20 21 CHRIS CAGLE/What Kinda Gone (Capitol) 4780 297 1679 148 11.803 0.921 101 2 23 22 BROOKS & DUNN/God Must Be Busy (Arista) 4603 654 1572 216 11.828 1.831 107 9 22 23 EAGLES/How Long (ERC/Mercury/Lost Highway) 4396 -2 1527 17 10.5 0.074 92 0 24 24 JASON ALDEAN/Laughed Until We Cried (BBR) 4096 281 1465 106 10.244 0.837 96 4

28 25 TIM MCGRAW/Suspicions (Curb) 4 3829 1487 1323 458 10.052 4.146 100 17

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

25 26 BUCKY COVINGTON/It's Good To Be Us (Lyric Street) 3741 176 1259 50 8.486 0.509 102 0

36 27 KENNY CHESNEY/Shiftwork (BNA) 4 3280 1901 1057 611 8.651 5.093 93 34 27 28 EMERSON DRIVE/You Still Own Me (Midas) 2687 182 981 64 6.355 0.403 78 5 29 29 KELLIE PICKLER/Things That Never Cross A... (19/BNA) 2272 161 801 56 4.994 0.347 88 5 30 30 /Love Is A Beautiful Thing (Universal South) 2144 94 755 43 5.097 0.537 79 7 32 31 ASHTON SHEPHERD/Takin' Off This Pain (MCA) 2022 278 684 83 4.557 0.819 68 4 33 32 LADY ANTEBELLUM/Love Don't Live Here (Capitol) 1977 286 606 92 4.426 0.847 59 9 Debut 33 CARRIE UNDERWOOD/All-American Girl (19/Arista) 1909 1436 608 476 5.173 3.754 69 45 31 34 MARK CHESNUTT/Rollin' With The Flow (Lofton Creek) 1890 -95 591 3 4.67 -0.276 43 4 35 35 /Something About A Woman (RCA) 1769 135 624 66 3.345 0.239 70 4 34 36 /I'm With The Band (Equity) 1468 -213 506 -57 3.351 -0.618 57 0 37 37 JACK INGRAM/Maybe She'll Get Lonely (Big Machine) 1331 0 466 28 2.209 -0.123 57 7 41 38 TAYLOR SWIFT/ (Big Machine) 1303 303 391 102 3.642 0.664 17 5 39 39 /The Strong One (Equity) 1281 205 376 44 2.783 0.538 44 0 40 40 JOSH GRACIN/We Weren't Crazy (Lyric Street) 1107 87 404 20 1.833 0.106 59 8 43 41 JAMES OTTO/Just Got Started Lovin' You (Warner Bros.) 1090 162 456 43 2.408 0.388 43 6 38 42 MARTINA MCBRIDE/For These Times (RCA) 1062 -54 346 -13 1.825 -0.283 50 3 45 43 CARRIE UNDERWOOD/Do You Hear What I Hear (19/Arista) 1000 278 298 83 3.116 1.027 10 2 Debut 44 SONG TRUST/Bring Him Home Santa! (Giantslayer/Capitol) 996 802 308 255 2.93 2.339 9 7 48 45 KELLIE PICKLER/ (BNA) 993 356 315 121 2.907 1.071 10 2 42 46 /Happy Endings (Curb/Asylum) 979 17 395 8 1.613 0.097 61 6 46 47 /We Rode In Trucks (Capitol) 813 93 266 31 1.238 0.072 37 3 44 48 TERRI CLARK/In My Next Life (BNA) 756 -124 269 -25 1.36 -0.124 33 3 47 49 WHISKEY FALLS/Falling Into You (Midas) 693 31 263 11 1.17 0.015 35 4 50 50 TOBY KEITH/Rockin' Around The Christmas... (Show Dog) 601 18 181 14 1.728 0.136 7 0

©2007 Country Aircheck™ — All rights reserved. 4=Top 5 point gainers. Sign up free at www.countryaircheck.com Chart Page 2 Chart Page 2 December 17, 2007 Country Aircheck Chart Info Chart Page 3 Aircheck Add Leaders Activator Top Point Gainers CARRIE UNDERWOOD/All-American Girl (19/Arista) 45 KENNY CHESNEY/Shiftwork (BNA) 931 4 KENNY CHESNEY/Shiftwork (BNA) 34 CARRIE UNDERWOOD/All-American Girl (19/Arista) 844 4 GARTH BROOKS w/HUEY LEWIS/Workin' For... (Pearl/Big Machine) 24 TIM MCGRAW/Suspicions (Curb) 557 4 TIM MCGRAW/Suspicions (Curb) 17 JYPSI/I Don't Love You Like That (Arista) 10 ALAN JACKSON/Small Town Southern Man (Arista) 462 4 BROOKS & DUNN/God Must Be Busy (Arista) 9 MONTGOMERY GENTRY/What Do Ya Think... (Columbia) 406 4 LADY ANTEBELLUM/Love Don't Live Here (Capitol) 9 BROOKS & DUNN/God Must Be Busy (Arista) 290 JOSH GRACIN/We Weren't Crazy (Lyric Street) 8 GARTH BROOKS w/HUEY LEWIS/Workin’... (Pearl/Big Machine) 281 JACK INGRAM/Maybe She'll Get Lonely (Big Machine) 7 RODNEY ATKINS/Cleaning This Gun (Come On...) (Curb) 270 PHIL VASSAR/Love Is A Beautiful Thing (Universal South) 7 TOBY KEITH/Get My Drink On (Show Dog) 228 SONG TRUST/Bring Him Home Santa! (Giantslayer/Capitol) 7 BRAD PAISLEY/Letter To Me (Arista) 210 Activator Top Spin Gainers Aircheck Top Point Gainers KENNY CHESNEY/Shiftwork (BNA) 522 KENNY CHESNEY/Shiftwork (BNA) 1901 4 CARRIE UNDERWOOD/All-American Girl (19/Arista) 474 TIM MCGRAW/Suspicions (Curb) 1487 4 TIM MCGRAW/Suspicions (Curb) 355 CARRIE UNDERWOOD/All-American Girl (19/Arista) 1436 4 ALAN JACKSON/Small Town Southern Man (Arista) 286 MONTGOMERY GENTRY/What Do Ya... (Columbia) 831 4 MONTGOMERY GENTRY/What Do Ya Think... (Columbia) 220 ALAN JACKSON/Small Town Southern Man (Arista) 816 4 BROOKS & DUNN/God Must Be Busy (Arista) 172 SONG TRUST/Bring Him Home Santa! (Giantslayer/Capitol) 802 RODNEY ATKINS/Cleaning This Gun (Come On...) (Curb) 165 BRAD PAISLEY/Letter To Me (Arista) 712 GARTH BROOKS w/HUEY LEWIS/Workin’... (Pearl/Big Machine) 161 SUGARLAND/Stay (Mercury) 709 BROOKS & DUNN/God Must Be Busy (Arista) 654 BRAD PAISLEY/Letter To Me (Arista) 147 GARY ALLAN/Watching Airplanes (MCA) 612 TOBY KEITH/Get My Drink On (Show Dog) 130

Vi d e o Ad d s Aircheck Top Spin Gainers CMT KENNY CHESNEY/Shiftwork (BNA) 611 RASCAL FLATTS/Winner At A Losing Game (Lyric Street) CARRIE UNDERWOOD/All-American Girl (19/Arista) 476 TIM MCGRAW/Suspicions (Curb) 458 CMT Pure MONTGOMERY GENTRY/What Do Ya Think...(Columbia) 336 BROOKS & DUNN/God Must Be Busy (Arista) ALAN JACKSON/Small Town Southern Man (Arista) 272 SUGARLAND/Stay (Mercury) 265 GAC SONG TRUST/Bring Him Home Santa! (Giantslayer/Capitol) 255 GARTH BROOKS/Workin For A Livin’ (Pearl/Big Machine) BROOKS & DUNN/God Must Be Busy (Arista) 216 BROOKS & DUNN/God Must Be Busy (Arista) FAITH HILL/Red Umbrella (Warner Bros.) BRAD PAISLEY/Letter To Me (Arista) 204 ALISON KRAUSS/Gone, Gone, Gone... (Rounder) TOBY KEITH/Get My Drink On (Show Dog) 201 EMERSON DRIVE/You Still Own Me (Midas)

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Aircheck Activity Ai r ch e c k Ad d Da t e s LEE BRICE/Happy Endings (Curb/Asylum) January 7 Moves 42*- 46*; 979 points, 395 spins JOSH TURNER/Another Try (MCA) 6 ADDS: KRTY, KTOM, WIRK*, WKSJ, WRBT, WSIX TRISHA YEARWOOD/This Is Me You’re Talking To (Big Machine) January 14 LUKE BRYAN/We Rode In Trucks (Capitol) TRACE ADKINS/You’re Gonna Miss This (Capitol) Moves 46*- 47*; 813 points, 266 spins CARTER’S CHORD/Young Love (Show Dog) 3 ADDS: KATM*, KFRG*, WKLB JYPSI/I Don’t Love You Like T hat (Arista) MIRANDA LAMBERT/Gunpowder And Lead (Columbia) TERRI CLARK/In My Next Life (BNA) ROCKIE LYNNE/I Can’t Believe It’s Me (Robbins) Moves 44*- 48; 756 points, 269 spins JOE NICHOLS/It Ain’t N o Crime (Universal South) 3 ADDS: WCTQ, WDTW, WWNU JANUARY 22 WHISKEY FALLS/Falling Into You (Midas) No Add Dates Moves 47*- 49*; 693 points, 263 spins JANUARY 28 4 ADDS: KDRK*, KJUG, WMIL, WYCD* KEITH ANDERSON/I Still Miss You (Columbia) RISSI PALMER/Hold On To Me (1720) /Til I Was A Daddy Too (Rocky Comfort/CO5) 595 points, 222 spins; 1 ADD: WQDR

BIG & RICH/Loud (Warner Bros.) Aircheck Top Recurrents KENNY CHESNEY/Don’t Blink (BNA) 10396 531 points, 151 spins GARTH BROOKS/More Than A Memory (Pearl/Big Machine) 7791 1 ADD: WIVK* DIERKS BENTLEY/Free And Easy (Down The Road...) (Capitol) 6520 JASON MICHAEL CARROL/Livin’ Our Love Song (Arista) 6226 COLE DEGGS & THE LONESOME/Girl Next Door (Columbia) BRAD PAISLEY/Online (Arista) 5258 453 points, 186 spins; 1 ADD: KZSN RASCAL FLATTS/Take Me There (Lyric Street) 4361 TRACY LAWRENCE/Find Out Who... (Rocky Comfort/CO5) 4141 TRACE ADKINS/You’re Gonna Miss This (Capitol) KENNY CHESNEY/Never Wanted Nothing More (BNA) 3716 441 points, 122 spins TIM MCGRAW/If You’re Reading This (Curb) 3694 5 ADDS: KEEY*, KSKS, KWJJ, WKHX, WUBE / (Mercury) 3667

GARTH BROOKS & HUEY LEWIS/Workin’ For A Livin’ (Pearl/Big Machine) 419 points, 110 spins Aircheck Activity includes the top 15 songs that rank 45-50 on 24 ADDS: KBEQ, KCCY, KFKF, KFRG*, KIXZ, KKWF, KSON, this week’s chart or are those that are not charted and have a KSSN, KXKT, KZSN, WBCT, WBEE, WCTQ, WGGY, minimum of 300 airplay points and have shown growth in two of WGTY, WIL, WKHX, WKKT, WKLB, WOGI, WTQR, WUBE, the past three weeks. (* indicates auto adds) WWQM, WXTU

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LW TW Artist/Title (Label) TW Points +/- Points TW Plays +/- Plays 2 1 TAYLOR SWIFT/Our Song (Big Machine) 4707 174 2865 82 5 2 MONTGOMERY GENTRY/What Do Ya Think About That (Columbia) 4 4545 406 2810 220 4 3 SUGARLAND/Stay (Mercury) 4360 134 2719 97 1 4 GEORGE STRAIT/How 'Bout Them Cowgirls (MCA) 4331 -318 2761 -179 7 5 KEITH URBAN/Everybody (Capitol) 4041 134 2561 96 8 6 RASCAL FLATTS/Winner At A Losing Game (Lyric Street) 4008 180 2540 128 10 7 BRAD PAISLEY/Letter To Me (Arista) 3520 210 2168 147 12 8 GARY ALLAN/Watching Airplanes (MCA) 3371 116 2041 84 14 9 BILLY RAY CYRUS f/M.CYRUS/Ready... (Walt Disney/Lyric Street) 3169 92 2003 73 11 10 LEANN RIMES/Nothin' Better To Do (Curb/Asylum) 3095 -203 1908 -134 6 11 CARRIE UNDERWOOD/So Small (19/Arista) 4 3005 -1073 1800 -730 15 12 RODNEY ATKINS/Cleaning This Gun (Come On...) (Curb) 2879 270 1708 165 13 13 SARA EVANS/As If (RCA) 2876 -227 1765 -170 18 14 TOBY KEITH/Get My Drink On (Show Dog) 2657 228 1619 130 17 15 CRAIG MORGAN/International Harvester (BBR) 2631 82 1574 68 16 16 CHUCK WICKS/Stealing Cinderella (RCA) 2621 51 1617 52 19 17 BLAKE SHELTON/The More I Drink (Warner Bros.) 2426 73 1425 30 21 18 ALAN JACKSON/Small Town Southern Man (Arista) 4 2381 462 1470 286 20 19 CHRIS CAGLE/What Kinda Gone (Capitol) 2144 185 1274 97 23 20 BROOKS & DUNN/God Must Be Busy (Arista) 2144 290 1281 172 22 21 JASON ALDEAN/Laughed Until We Cried (BBR) 2057 150 1184 93 26 22 TIM MCGRAW/Suspicions (Curb) 4 1874 557 1163 355 24 23 EAGLES/How Long (ERC/Mercury/Lost Highway) 1754 21 1137 18 25 24 BUCKY COVINGTON/It's Good To Be Us (Lyric Street) 1696 101 988 46 35 25 KENNY CHESNEY/Shiftwork (BNA) 4 1652 931 939 522 28 26 KELLIE PICKLER/Things That Never Cross A... (19/BNA) 1117 -34 620 -13 29 27 PHIL VASSAR/Love Is A Beautiful Thing (Universal South) 1043 97 629 70 30 28 EMERSON DRIVE/You Still Own Me (Midas) 1042 109 634 75 31 29 LADY ANTEBELLUM/Love Don't Live Here (Capitol) 1015 82 564 56 32 30 MARK CHESNUTT/Rollin' With The Flow (Lofton Creek) 959 89 644 46

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LW TW Artist/Title (Label) TW Points +/- Points TW Plays +/- Plays

Debut 31 CARRIE UNDERWOOD/All-American Girl (19/Arista) 921 844 522 474 34 32 JAKE OWEN/Something About A Woman (RCA) 821 76 418 43 33 33 LITTLE BIG TOWN/I'm With The Band (Equity) 778 -79 412 -27 36 34 MARTINA MCBRIDE/For These Times (RCA) 701 42 358 41 37 35 JACK INGRAM/Maybe She'll Get Lonely (Big Machine) 669 86 363 53 38 36 LUKE BRYAN/We Rode In Trucks (Capitol) 624 88 342 38 39 37 JOSH GRACIN/We Weren't Crazy (Lyric Street) 606 79 341 41 40 38 ASHTON SHEPHERD/Takin' Off This Pain (MCA) 475 49 236 16 41 39 TERRI CLARK/In My Next Life (BNA) 432 29 210 15 42 40 HALFWAY TO HAZARD/Devil And The Cross (Stylesonic/Mercury) 408 48 216 25 44 41 WHISKEY FALLS/Falling Into You (Midas) 403 98 211 67 43 42 JAMES OTTO/Just Got Started Lovin' You (Warner Bros.) 399 63 240 29 Debut 43 GARTH BROOKS w/HUEY LEWIS/Workin' For... (Pearl/Big Machine) 363 281 190 161 46 44 MIRANDA LAMBERT/Gunpowder & Lead (Columbia) 305 37 94 18 48 45 LEE BRICE/Happy Endings (Curb/Asylum) 303 52 186 27 45 46 COLE DEGGS & THE LONESOME/Girl Next Door (Columbia) 271 -18 124 -4 47 47 CLINT BLACK/The Strong One (Equity) 241 -11 135 0 53 48 DIERKS BENTLEY/Trying To Stop Your Leaving (Capitol) 235 60 47 12 54 49 CROSSIN DIXON/Make You Mine (BBR) 227 57 114 41 49 50 REBA MCENTIRE w/ J. TIMBERLAKE/The Only Promise… (MCA) 190 -33 65 -12 Debut 51 JOE NICHOLS/It Ain't No Crime (Universal South) 186 166 75 71 51 52 STEPHEN COCHRAN/Everything We Knew (Aria/Quarterback/New Rev) 180 -2 110 8 50 53 BON JOVI w/LeAnn Rimes/Till We Ain't... (Mercury/Curb) 179 -35 100 -25 56 54 EMMA MAE JACOB/What If We Fly (Sassy Angel) 175 23 66 4 Debut 55 TAYLOR SWIFT/Last Christmas (Big Machine) 173 98 121 72 Debut 56 KEITH ANDERSON/I Still Miss You (Columbia) 162 57 36 15 57 57 DOLLY PARTON/Better Get To Livin' (Dolly) 160 25 64 -1 52 58 BIG & RICH/Loud (Warner Bros.) 149 -32 50 -25 Debut 59 KELLIE PICKLER/Santa Baby (BNA) 139 43 83 26 55 60 RISSI PALMER/Country Girl (1720 Entertainment) 131 -38 41 -7

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