Country Update

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Luke Combs’ ‘Crazy’ Milestone Jake Owen: ‘Greetings’ From >page 4 His Honky-Tonk Trip

ACM Tabs New Artist Winners The chorus of Jake Owen’s current top 10 single, “Down to career journey, which has yielded 10 Country Airplay top 10 >page 9 the Honkytonk,” playfully discounts the importance of a spot titles, including seven No. 1s. Instead of the programmed in the Country Music Hall of Fame or on the Hollywood Walk drums and plug-in effects that are fairly standard in modern of Fame: “I might not go down in history/But I’ll go down to country, Owen drapes the album in guitars — biting honky- the honky-tonk.” tonk electrics, ringing acoustics and Paul Franklin’s tangy Brooks & Dunn So it’s ironic that “Down to the Honkytonk” went down in steel — and reconnects with the twang in his Florida-bred Build On Hall history by picking up an Academy of Country Music Award accent and the rich basement tones that dominated his >page 10 nomination for single of the year. (The 54th early recordings. annual event is scheduled for April 7 in Las “He’s a classic-country-song jukebox,” Vegas.) The timing was ideal, bringing him says producer Joey Moi (Florida Georgia attention as “Honkytonk” hits the home Line, Morgan Wallen). “He can sit there Maddie & Tae stretch in its chart climb (it’s at No. 10 on and play any old, old classic country song for On The Way the Country Airplay list dated March 30) and hours and hours and hours, and he sings in >page 10 as his first Big Loud album, Greetings From… this awesome, great baritone country voice,

Jake, is released March 29. which is so natural to him. I really wanted to The ACM accolade didn’t knock him off get him [to do] more [of] that: more organic, Makin’ Tracks: his game. Owen is “super flattered,” he says, more traditional, more singing down in John King’s to be on the ballot for the first time since those lower keys.” ‘Goodbye’ Earworm he won top new male vocalist in 2009, but Greetings is graphically presented as >page 14 trophy consideration is gravy for his career, a vacation postcard, intended to portray not the meat and potatoes. the 14-song project as a message from the OWEN “It’s obviously a huge honor to be current location of Owen’s career journey. nominated for something, but I just don’t But the album itself works as a journey, too. Country Coda: put much emphasis on it anymore,” he says. “I’d rather people Starting with “Down to the Honkytonk,” it travels in stages Darius Rucker’s remember me 10 years, 20 years down the road for having through classic-rock influence — represented by his John Second No. 1 good character and being a good person than remembering Mellencamp-derived “I Was Jack (You Were Diane)” and a >page 19 me because I won a single of the year award.” weed-referencing Kid Rock collaboration, “Grass Is Always That sort of practical, common-man attitude fits the tone Greener” — to Owen’s familiar beach-party brand and into more of Greetings, an album that returns Owen to the country core philosophical songs about life and love before circling back to

that served as his bread and butter at the starting gate on his its traditional country starting line with “Damn.” KLEIN ROBBY BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE MARCH 25, 2019 | PAGE 2 OF 19

The path includes a visit from YouTube star Lele Pons, a Venezuelan-born singer-actress with 33.8 million Instagram followers. “Senorita” is a tropical- country effort dusted with Spanglish phrases and Mexicali guitar, and it marks the biggest side trip on Greetings. “I like the fact that she’s not someone that’s expected on a country album,” he says. “It kind of gives me a little bit of cred outside of just the country genre. I know that might contradict [the foundation of] this country album, but I think that it’s important for any artist to kind of step outside the comfort zone sometimes and actually do something that does throw people for a loop.” Owen has made it a point to test roads less traveled of late. When he signed with Big Loud, he represented the first established act to join the roster, which already included newer talents Wallen, Chris Lane and Jillian Jacqueline. Dan + Shay appeared on CMT’s Hot 20 Countdown on March 23-24 Owen started work in February on his first movie, The Friend, starring Casey after catching up with host Cody Alan at St. Augustine Amphitheatre Affleck, Dakota Johnson and Jason Segal. And he established his own in Florida. From left: Dan Smyers, Alan and Shay Mooney. management firm, Good Company, with founding partners Keith Gale and Jon Andolina. Good Company created, at least temporarily, a radio promotion wing in support of RECORDS artist Matt Stell. “It’s a lot like when I left Tallahassee to move to Nashville,” says Owen of the management firm. “It was a big chance. It was something [where] people are like, ‘Wow, I can’t believe you’re doing this.’ But anything I’ve ever done in life where I’ve just taken a chance but believed in myself to do it has really flourished and worked out in a great way.” Good Company also gives Owen a bigger role in directing his business life in conjunction with his personal life, and that played into his concert plans behind Greetings. Following last summer’s tour, which focused on minor-league baseball parks, this summer’s schedule is grounded in festivals and fair dates, where the production costs are minimized and Owen is just one attraction in a ream of events and entertainers. Aaron Watson (center) performed at the KASE Live Music Lounge on It makes creative sense — he’ll be promoting an album with greater March 16 before a show in Austin. He’s pictured with KASE PD Anthony traditional country vibes by playing the kind of venues that have long been “The AntMan” Allen (left) and BIG Label Records head of promotion associated with the genre — but it also fits his domestic needs. Girlfriend Tony Morreale. Erica Hartlein is carrying his second daughter and is due in late spring. Owen indicates that his career focus has been partly responsible for damaging previous relationships; the fairs and festivals will allow him to be more casual about work for the baby’s first six months or so. “It’s a grind putting together a big show, paying for a lot of big production, paying your opening acts,” he says. “There’s a lot that goes into that, and I fully intend on doing that with this album come 2020, but for this summertime, I just felt like it was good for me to go out, make some money playing fairs and festivals and not have the pressure of having my own tour. Actually, for the first time in 10 years, it’ll give the guys in the band a little bit of a break.” In the meantime, the ACM nomination gives some validation to the approach Owen has used in his work, represented well in the country-grounded odyssey that is Greetings From… Jake. Lauren Jenkins (center) made her Grand Ole Opry debut on March 15, “I’ve had a really great journey, and I’m so proud of who I am through all of the same day Big Machine released her debut album, No Saint. From

this,” he says. “The music really helps me say that for anybody who’s listening.” left: Connie Smith, Jenkins and Jeannie Seely. HOLLO) CHRIS JENKINS:

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ON THE CHARTS JIM ASKER [email protected] Luke Combs Repeats Atop All Five Country Charts And Scores His Longest Country Airplay Reign Yet

Luke Combs makes history as the first artist to simultaneously lead all five of must-adds out of the box. It’s really incredible.” Billboard’s country charts for multiple weeks: Hot Country Songs, Country “Crazy” likewise paces the airplay-, streaming- and sales-fueled Hot Airplay, Country Streaming Songs, Country Digital Song Sales and Top Country Songs chart for a fifth week, as well as Country Streaming Songs Country Albums (all dated March 30). He first staged the quintuple chart for a fifth frame, essentially even week over week with 12.1 million U.S. achievement on the lists dated March 9. streams in the week ending March 21. On Country One other artist previously led all five charts Digital Song Sales, it rebounds 2-1 for a sixth total at the same time for one week: Kane Brown, on week at the summit (12,000 sold, up 15 percent Oct. 28, 2017. in the week ending March 21). Combs, who co-penned “Beautiful Crazy” Meanwhile, Combs’ debut LP, This One’s for (River House/Columbia Nashville/Sony Music You, returns to the Top Country Albums attic for Nashville) with Wyatt Durrette and Robert a 29th cumulative week, up less than 1 percent Williford, tops all four country song charts — and to 24,000 euivalent album units. makes for a personal best for himself on Country Airplay. The ballad leads that chart for a fifth BROWN LOOKS ‘GOOD’ IN TOP 10 Kane frame, down 3 percent to 39.4 million audience Brown nets his fourth Hot Country Songs top 10 impressions in the week ending March 24, as “Good as You” (Zone 4/RCA Nashville) hops according to Nielsen Music. Combs surpasses his 11-10. It increases by 9 percent to 18.7 million prior longest stay atop the tally, when “She Got audience impressions and climbs 14-11 on the Best of Me” reigned for four weeks starting Country Airplay. in October 2018. Brown boasts two Hot Country Songs No. 1s: “Crazy” initially topped the Country Airplay “What Ifs,” featuring Lauren Alaina (five weeks, chart dated March 2, becoming Combs’ beginning Oct. 21, 2017), and “Lose It” (Nov. 24, unprecedented fifth consecutive career-opening 2018). His other top 10, “Heaven,” hit No. 2 in entry on the survey to hit No. 1. Before “Crazy” March 2018. and “Best,” his debut hit, “Hurricane,” led for two weeks beginning May 27, 2017, followed by REBA RETURNS Superstar Reba McEntire extends “When It Rains It Pours,” which also dominated COMBS her record for the most Country Airplay appearances for two frames, beginning Nov. 4, 2017, and “One among women as “Freedom” (Rockin’ R/Big Number Away” (June 9, 2018). Machine) enters as the chart’s top debut at No. 52 with 1.7 million impressions. Combs’ hit is the longest-ruling Country Airplay No. 1 by any act since It’s her 69th visit to the chart and first since December 2017. Thomas Rhett’s “Die a Happy Man,” which crowned the chart for six weeks McEntire pads her lead among women over runner-up Martina McBride, starting Jan. 2, 2016. What makes it such a rare lengthy leader? “It’s a special with 56 Country Airplay appearances. Among all acts, McEntire, who has song,” says KKBQ Houston PD Johnny Chiang. “It’s pretty amazing to see notched 11 No. 1s among 36 top 10s, ranks seventh for the most entries. that in a matter of just a few songs, Luke Combs has become a core artist George Strait leads all artists with 99; his latest, “Every Little Honky Tonk

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AIRPLAY Country Airplay MONITORED BY

WKS AUDIENCE (IN MILLIONS) PLAYS THIS LAST ON WEEK WEEK CHART TITLE Imprint/Label Artist THIS WEEK +/– THIS WEEK +/– RANK 1 1 20 BEAUTIFUL CRAZY River House/Columbia Nashville HH No. 1 (5 weeks) HH Luke Combs 39.364 -1.205 8033 -151 1 l2 2 49 MILLIONAIRE Mercury  HH Most Increased Audience HH Chris Stapleton 34.954 +2.539 7691 660 2 l3 5 27 HERE TONIGHT BMLG  Brett Young 30.155 +2.026 6440 390 5 l4 3 37 THERE WAS THIS GIRL BMLG  Riley Green 29.774 +0.929 6630 356 3 l5 6 36 ONE THAT GOT AWAY Atlantic/WEA  Michael Ray 29.654 +2.368 6484 544 4 6 4 28 GIRL LIKE YOU Macon/Broken Bow Jason Aldean 26.101 -2.058 4662 -547 10 l7 8 24 MAKE IT SWEET RCA Nashville Old Dominion 26.060 +0.479 5557 164 6 8 7 43 THIS IS IT Triple Tigers Scotty McCreery 24.354 -1.893 4707 -315 9 l9 9 32 EYES ON YOU Dack Janiels/Broken Bow Chase Rice 24.189 +2.110 5367 361 8 l10 10 33 DOWN TO THE HONKYTONK Big Loud Jake Owen 22.134 +0.479 5458 190 7 l11 14 12 GOOD AS YOU Zone 4/RCA Nashville Kane Brown 18.696 +1.506 4061 276 15 l12 13 22 MISS ME MORE Black River Kelsea Ballerini 18.647 +1.127 4203 214 12 l13 12 35 NIGHT SHIFT Capitol Nashville Jon Pardi 18.641 +0.051 4308 57 11 14 11 28 LOVE WINS Capitol Nashville Carrie Underwood 18.220 -0.806 4186 -25 13 l15 15 33 ON MY WAY TO YOU CoJo/WMN  Cody Johnson 17.745 +0.573 3841 117 16 l16 16 41 LOVE AIN’T Valory  Eli Young Band 17.347 +1.667 4098 198 14 l17 18 30 WHISKEY GLASSES Big Loud Morgan Wallen 14.485 +0.750 3603 256 17 l18 20 4 LOOK WHAT GOD GAVE HER Valory  HH Airpower HH Thomas Rhett 13.474 +1.452 2956 492 19 l19 19 38 LOVE SOMEONE Atlantic/WMN  Brett Eldredge 13.405 +0.801 3208 119 18 l20 21 29 RUMOR Curb  HH Airpower HH Lee Brice 12.012 +1.076 2953 108 20 l21 22 6 EVERY LITTLE HONKY TONK BAR MCA Nashville George Strait 10.857 +0.695 2365 124 23 l22 23 21 TALK YOU OUT OF IT BMLG  Florida Georgia Line 9.744 +0.812 2783 294 21 l23 24 50 CAUGHT UP IN THE COUNTRY Curb  Rodney Atkins Featuring The Fisk Jubilee Singers 8.461 +0.267 2493 189 22 l24 25 10 GIRL Columbia Nashville Maren Morris 8.398 +0.720 2072 67 25 l25 29 12 SOME OF IT EMI Nashville Eric Church 7.491 +1.162 1853 2 11 28 l26 26 11 RAISED ON COUNTRY RCA Nashville Chris Young 7.413 +0.541 1746 139 29 l27 27 15 WHAT HAPPENS IN A SMALL TOWN Valory  Brantley Gilbert + Lindsay Ell 7.046 +0.178 2049 106 26 l28 28 23 BUY MY OWN DRINKS Wheelhouse  Runaway June 6.954 +0.524 2235 191 24 l29 30 29 FEELS LIKE A PARTY Wheelhouse  LOCASH 5.702 +0.148 1893 68 27 l30 31 6 SOMEBODY’S DAUGHTER Columbia Nashville Tenille Townes 5.420 +0.270 1263 20 33

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 San Antonio, Texas KAJA Birmingham, Ala. WDXB Hartford, Conn. WWYZ Nassau, N.Y. WJVC KCYY WZZK Houston 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 MARCH 25, 2019 | PAGE 7 OF 19

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 35 6 ALL TO MYSELF Warner Bros./WAR HH Breaker HH Dan + Shay 4.902 +0.728 1059 193 39 32 32 36 WHAT WHISKEY DOES Stoney Creek Randy Houser Featuring Hillary Lindsey 4.616 -0.132 1633 -10 30 l33 34 17 LOVE YOU TOO LATE Warner Bros./WMN Cole Swindell 4.247 -0.043 1101 59 36 l34 33 7 RAINBOW MCA Nashville Kacey Musgraves 4.221 -0.120 1213 67 34 l35 38 20 THE ONES THAT DIDN’T MAKE IT BACK HOME Valory  Justin Moore 4.067 +0.172 1017 31 40 l36 41 4 REARVIEW TOWN Macon/Broken Bow Jason Aldean 4.065 +0.817 1068 162 38 l37 37 23 DAY DRUNK Warner Bros./WEA Morgan Evans 3.866 -0.121 1078 25 37 38 36 18 CLOSER TO YOU Big Machine Carly Pearce 3.830 -0.206 1366 5 32 l39 39 25 BACK TO LIFE Big Machine Rascal Flatts 3.682 +0.286 1425 83 31 l40 40 16 EVERY LITTLE THING Triple Tigers HH Most Added HH Russell Dickerson 3.595 +0.293 12 11 228 35 l41 43 18 I DON’T KNOW ABOUT YOU Big Loud Chris Lane 3.245 +0.519 802 113 44 l42 45 8 THOUGHT ABOUT YOU McGraw/Columbia Nashville Tim McGraw 2.811 +0.519 833 120 42 43 42 7 REDNECKER Tree Vibez/Big Loud HARDY 2.720 -0.129 774 56 46 l44 44 19 I DON’T REMEMBER ME (BEFORE YOU) EMI Nashville Brothers Osborne 2.620 +0.129 780 37 45 l45 46 21 LADIES IN THE ‘90S 19/Mercury  Lauren Alaina 2.496 +0.366 918 123 41 l46 50 4 LIVING Capitol Nashville Dierks Bentley 2.222 +0.473 595 99 50 l47 47 30 HOW DOES IT SOUND Dylan Schneider/Placer Dylan Schneider 2.120 +0.001 708 -2 47 l48 52 4 GOOD VIBES Warner Bros./WAR Chris Janson 2.054 +0.349 610 113 49 49 48 9 PRAYED FOR YOU Wide Open/RECORDS/Good Company Matt Stell 1.909 -0.091 512 29 53 50 49 10 NOTHING TO DO TOWN Curb  Dylan Scott 1.866 -0.130 812 16 43 l51 51 9 MAKE ME WANT TO Stoney Creek Jimmie Allen 1.750 +0.013 707 20 48 l52 NEW FREEDOM Rockin’ R/Valory HH Hot Shot Debut HH Reba McEntire 1.723 +1.723 301 301 59 l53 54 15 GIRL GOIN’ NOWHERE Atlantic/WAR  Ashley McBryde 1.182 +0.091 567 19 51 54 55 20 90’S COUNTRY Monument/Arista Nashville Walker Hayes 1.0 01 -0.039 476 15 54 55 56 9 ROCKIN’ ALL NIGHT LONG Buena Vista/Capitol Nashville Adam Hambrick 0.988 -0.043 553 14 52 l56 57 4 ALCOHOL YOU LATER Riser House/Columbia Nashville Mitchell Tenpenny 0.962 -0.008 375 19 57 57 53 5 TO A T RCA Nashville Ryan Hurd 0.931 -0.231 299 -6 60 l58 58 2 AFTER A FEW Mercury  Travis Denning 0.895 +0.148 446 41 55 l59 59 4 SOMEONE I USED TO KNOW Southern Ground/Wheelhouse Zac Brown Band 0.873 +0.150 396 75 56 l60 NEW BETTER OFF GONE Big Yellow Dog Logan Mize 0.727 +0.179 348 43 58

GOING FOR ADDS

4/1 4/8 AARON GOODVIN CAROLINE JONES Bars & Churches Chasin’ Me 1608 Mailboat/New Revolution DYLAN JAKOBSEN QUEEVA In America How Do You Know IAE CMD SCOTTY MCCREERY RACHEL WAMMACK In Between Enough Triple Tigers RCA Nashville SUNDANCE HEAD 20 Close Enough To Walk Wildcatter

The ballad hits the Country Airplay top 20 LEE (21-20), up 10 percent to 12 million BRICE Rumor audience impressions. On Hot Country Songs, it also bullets at its No. 20 high. MICKEY BERNAL/GETTY IMAGES BERNAL/GETTY MICKEY BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE MARCH 25, 2019 | PAGE 8 OF 19

AIRPLAY Country Airplay MONITORED BY

MOST ADDED® NEW AND ACTIVE TITLE Imprint/Label Artist ADDS TOTAL TOTAL EVERY LITTLE THING Triple Tigers Russell Dickerson 24 TITLE Imprint/Label Artist AUDIENCE STATIONS ADDS LADIES IN THE ‘90S 19/Mercury Lauren Alaina 16 HOUSTON, WE GOT A PROBLEM River House/Columbia Nashville Luke Combs 0.696 3 0 REARVIEW TOWN Macon/Broken Bow Jason Aldean 16 RIDIN’ ROADS Broken Bow Dustin Lynch 0.668 8 4 FREEDOM Rockin’ R/Valory Reba McEntire 15 THE BULL MCA Nashville Kip Moore 0.616 21 5 ALL TO MYSELF Warner Bros./WAR Dan + Shay 13 THOUGHT ABOUT YOU McGraw/Columbia Nashville Tim McGraw 12 MY MIRACLE Arista Nashville Brad Paisley 0.573 6 4 SOME OF IT EMI Nashville Eric Church 10 WORLD FOR TWO Stoney Creek King Calaway 0.450 18 10 WORLD FOR TWO Stoney Creek King Calaway 10 DANCING AWAY WITH MY HEART Riser House Dillon Carmichael 0.433 30 2 RAISED ON COUNTRY RCA Nashville Chris Young 8 WHAT HAPPENS IN A SMALL TOWN Valory Brantley Gilbert & Lindsay Ell 6 RECURRENTS MOST INCREASED AUDIENCE THIS TOTAL AUD. WEEK TITLE Imprint/Label Artist (IN MILLIONS) GAIN 1 BEST SHOT Stoney Creek Jimmie Allen 21.116 TITLE Imprint/Label Artist (IN MIILIONS) 2 TAKE IT FROM ME MCA Nashville Jordan Davis 19.498 MILLIONAIRE Mercury Chris Stapleton +2.539 ONE THAT GOT AWAY Atlantic/WEA Michael Ray +2.368 3 SHE GOT THE BEST OF ME River House/Columbia Nashville Luke Combs 18.923 EYES ON YOU Dack Janiels/Broken Bow Chase Rice +2.110 4 WHAT MAKES YOU COUNTRY Capitol Nashville Luke Bryan 16.901 HERE TONIGHT BMLG Brett Young +2.026 5 GOOD GIRL Broken Bow Dustin Lynch 14.890 FREEDOM Rockin’ R/Valory Reba McEntire +1.723 6 SIXTEEN Valory Thomas Rhett 14.637 LOVE AIN’T Valory Eli Young Band +1.667 7 SPEECHLESS Warner Bros./WAR Dan + Shay 14.378 GOOD AS YOU Zone 4/RCA Nashville Kane Brown +1.506 8 TEQUILA Warner Bros./WAR Dan + Shay 13.349 LOOK WHAT GOD GAVE HER Valory Thomas Rhett +1.452 9 BLUE TACOMA Triple Tigers Russell Dickerson 12.465 SOME OF IT EMI Nashville Eric Church +1.162 MISS ME MORE Black River Kelsea Ballerini +1.127 10 HEAVEN Zone 4/RCA Nashville Kane Brown 11.108 MOST INCREASED PLAYS BILLBOARD COUNTRY BOXSCORE TITLE Imprint/Label Artist GAIN Gross Artist Attendance Ticket Price(s) Venue/Date(s) Capacity Promoter(s) MILLIONAIRE Mercury Chris Stapleton +660 $105,565 CODY JINKS 2,230 ONE THAT GOT AWAY Atlantic/WEA Michael Ray +544 $150, $20 North Charleston Performing Arts Center, North Charleston, S.C./Feb. 9 2,341 LIVE NATION LOOK WHAT GOD GAVE HER Valory Thomas Rhett +492 $77,647 PAUL BRANDT 1,915 LIVE NATION, HERE TONIGHT BMLG Brett Young +390 $55.15, $29.09 Tribute Communities Centre, Oshawa, Ont./Feb. 19 2,193 SPECTRA PRESENTS EYES ON YOU Dack Janiels/Broken Bow Chase Rice +361 $31,735 CHRIS JANSON 1,211 THE BOWERY $35, $30, $15 Starland Ballroom, Sayreville, N.J./Feb. 21 2,000 PRESENTS THERE WAS THIS GIRL BMLG Riley Green +356 FREEDOM Rockin’ R/Valory Reba McEntire +301 $22,978 DYLAN SCOTT 875 $28.50, $26 The Cannery, Nashville, Tenn./Feb. 14 1,100 LIVE NATION TALK YOU OUT OF IT BMLG Florida Georgia Line +294 $19,555 TYLER FARR 974 THE BOWERY GOOD AS YOU Zone 4/RCA Nashville Kane Brown +276 $30, $25, $15, $12.50 Starland Ballroom, Sayreville, N.J./Feb. 8 1,000 PRESENTS WHISKEY GLASSES Big Loud Morgan Wallen +256 Reported worldwide boxscore figures for Country artists. Boxscore figures should be submitted to Bob Allen by phone (615-891-1976), fax (615-891-2054) or email ([email protected]). TEXAS REGIONAL RADIO REPORT WEEK ENDING MARCH 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 9 SOMEWHERE BETWEEN I LOVE YOU AND I’M LEAVIN’ (Rounder Rec)  HH 1 Week at 1 HH Cody Jinks 1771 115 l11 12 10 COUNTRY SONG TO SING (Independent)  Kevin Fowler 1369 60 l2 3 20 RUN AWAY WITH YOU (Independent)  Robert Ray 1746 61 l12 13 12 KISS THAT GIRL GOODBYE (Independent)  Aaron Watson 1258 22 l3 2 15 I’M YOUR ONLY FLAW (Independent)  Josh Abbott Band 1733 42 l13 16 10 OTHER SIDE OF THE RADIO (Independent)  Mike Ryan 1232 136 l4 6 9 CHEAT ON ME (Independent)  Bri Bagwell 1702 114 l14 15 15 AIN’T ENOUGH BEER (Independent)  Kylie Frey 118 5 29 l5 5 14 WALK AWAY (Independent)  Mark Powell 1701 54 15 14 21 LEAVE HER WILD (Dean Dillon’s Wildcatter )  Sundance Head 114 4 -14 l6 7 10 HAD A THING (Independent)  Curtis Grimes 1688 107 l16 17 26 WHATEVER IT TAKES (King Hall Music)  Chad Cooke Band 1112 37 l7 8 17 NONE’YA (Independent)  Hayes Carll 1642 92 17 18 30 ON MY WAY TO YOU (CoJo Music)  Cody Johnson 980 -36 l8 10 5 CRAZY PEOPLE (Independent)  Randy Rogers Band 1591 135 18 9 20 BEER BUCKET LIST (Silverado)  David Adam Byrnes 907 -578 9 1 15 GONER (Independent)  William Clark Green 1575 -156 l19 21 14 PAY NO RENT (Independent)  Turnpike Troubadours 902 28 l10 11 13 TOP OF MY HEART (Cory Morrow Music)  Cory Morrow 1430 36 l20 23 12 HARD HEADED HEART (Independent)  Clay Hollis 867 73

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 MARCH 25, 2019 | PAGE 9 OF 19

NASHVILLE & NATIONAL TOM ROLAND

’ROUND THE ROW Singer-songwriter Tebey (“Somebody Else Will”) and Road Angel Entertainment owner/operator Jill Snell founded Jayward Artist Group, a Canadian management company and label. Tebey, who is established as an artist in Canada, and Quebec-based Matt Lang are the first acts signed to the roster … CDX vp/GM Joe Kelly purchased the company and moved to a new office at 920 Twin Elms Court in Nashville. Reach Kelly here … A new publishing/marketing firm, Mojo Music & Media, was launched in Nashville as the company’s three principals acquired the HoriPro Entertainment Group. The owners include two former Spirit Music Group execs, Spirit founder Mark Fried and former Spirit senior vp Peter Shane, plus former Ernst & Young head of media and entertainment valuation and business modeling Alan Wallis, based in London. The Nashville staff is built around a bevy of HoriPro holdovers, including senior vp creative Butch Baker, vp administration and business affairs Carrie Wilkins and song pluggers Keithan Melton and Courtney Crist. Among the staff writers are Bart Butler (“Heartache on the Dance Midland performed two new songs when the band appeared at a Floor”) and Mike Walker (“Caught Up in the Country”) … Former Country Recording Academy block party in Austin during South by Southwest Music Association vp communications and talent relations Amber Williams on March 14. From left: Midland’s Cameron Duddy, Recording launched a boutique PR firm, Beaucoup Media. Reach her here … Songwriter- Academy Texas chapter president Yolanda Adams, Midland’s Mark producer Ben West inked a joint publishing deal with Warner/Chappell and Wystrach, Recording Academy senior executive director Theresa busbee’s Altadena. Based in Detroit, West has landed cuts with LANCO, Chris Jenkins and Midland’s Jess Carson. Lane and Lady Antebellum … Developing trio Avenue Beat signed a joint publishing agreement with Ashley Gorley’s Tape Room Music and Dennis ACM UNVEILS NEW-ARTIST WINNERS Entertainment … Bluegrass singer-songwriter Donna Ulisse joined the artist Although the 54th annual Academy of Country Music (ACM) Awards are less roster at Billy Blue Records … Singer-songwriter Cherie Oakley (“Turn On the than two weeks away, Luke Combs, Ashley McBryde and LANCO are already Radio”) hired PLA Media for PR … ASCAP Nashville selected eight songwriters winners. The acts have been named the new male artist, new female artist and for its GPS program, which provides critiques from a rotation of publishers: Kyle new group of the year, respectively. Daniel, Owen Danoff, Makayla Lynn, Michelle Pereira, Blane Mitchell, Joe Carrie Underwood, who won the new female vocalist category at the 2006 Ragosta, Lauren Weintraub and Hunter Wolkonowski … In conjunction ACM Awards, recently called each artist to personally congratulate them on with Australia’s CMC Rocks festival, the Country Music Association presented their big wins, and the surprise phone calls were captured on video. two international trophies. Chugg Entertainment managing director Susan Combs, McBryde and LANCO are also nominated in the male artist, female Heymann received the Joe Walker Meador International Award, and artist and group of the year categories. Underwood and each new-artist winner Australian act Travis Collins earned the Jeff Walker Global Country Artist will also perform at the awards show in Las Vegas. Award … Rascal Flatts will receive a star on the Walk of Champions at the Previously announced performers include Brandi Carlile, Kelly Clarkson, Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt on March 28 … The Dierks Bentley, Miranda Lambert, Reba McEntire, George Strait, Brothers Association of Independent Music Publishers unveiled its finalists for the Osborne, Kane Brown, Little Big Town, Maren Morris, Thomas Rhett,Chris fourth annual AIMP Nashville Awards, with Ashley Gorley, Hillary Lindsey, Stapleton and Jason Aldean, who was named ACM Dick Clark Artist of the Jessie Jo Dillon, Josh Osborne, Ross Copperman and Shane McAnally up Decade. Additionally, newly announced Country Music Hall of Fame inductees for songwriter of the year. The awards will be presented April 30. Go here for Brooks & Dunn will perform, as well as Eric Church, Dan + Shay and Florida the complete ballot … The Unsigned Only Music Competition is accepting Georgia Line. Video Only entries through March 29 here. Country artists in the extensive The ACM Awards show will air April 7 from 8 p.m.-11 p.m. ET on CBS. judging panel include Jack Ingram and Craig Campbell. —Annie Reuter RADIO & RECORDS Jason Aldean announced March 25 that Tyler Farr is the first outside artist signed to Night Train, a joint venture Aldean established with the BBR Music Group … Triple Tigers promoted Laura Hostelley to director of marketing from product manager … Big Loud promoted Brianne Deslippe to vp promotion for Canada from national director of promotion. She remains GM for the Toronto-based division. Reach her here … Cumulus/Memphis re-signed WGKX PD/morning co-host Duane Shannon to a multiyear deal, extending his eight-year relationship with the station. Additionally, Shannon is PD for adult contemporary WKIM … Angel Aristone was promoted to iHeartMedia executive vp communications from vp … Cash Warren and Carly Quinn take the morning reins at WGH Norfolk-Virginia Beach, Va., InsideRadio. com reported. Warren previously worked as KNGC Amarillo, Texas, PD/ morning co-host, using the name Jason Kidd. Quinn segues from Cumulus/ Youngstown, Ohio, where she worked on country WQXK and classic rock WYFM … Cox Media/Houston adds Leti Aguilera as general sales manager, effective April 8, according to InsideRadio.com. She was previously Mexican WLEY Chicago GM. The Cox cluster includes country stations KKBQ and Little Big Town’s Karen Fairchild KTHT … Chris Huff rose to KILT Houston PD from assistant PD/music director, Cody Johnson (right) met with joined with Nordstrom to host a Talkers.com reported … Entercom/Minneapolis-St. Paul added vp sales Ben Cox Media/Houston director of March 19 celebration of fashion Hoffman, according to Talkers.com. The cluster includes country KMNB. operations Johnny Chiang when he designer Christian Louboutin’s Hoffman transfers from the senior vp/market manager role at Entercom/ played a sold-out RodeoHouston 2019 collection at her Nashville- Indianapolis, which is being acquired by Cumulus. concert on March 15. area home. BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE MARCH 25, 2019 | PAGE 10 OF 19

NASHVILLE & NATIONAL TOM ROLAND

MUSIC NOTES ON THIS DATE IN COUNTRY MUSIC

Brooks & Dunn are capitalizing March 26 nicely on the March 18 • 2018 — Lauren Alaina is named new announcement of their Country female vocalist of the year at the 53rd Music Hall of Fame induction. annual Academy of Country Music Their collaborative album Reboot Awards, while Brett Young is tabbed — featuring remakes of their hits new male vocalist and Midland takes with such new-generation acts new vocal duo or group. as Kane Brown, Cody Johnson ALAINA and Brett Young — arrives April 5. March 27 MATTHEWS JAKE The duo will perform during the • 2008 — Trace Adkins sings “You’re Gonna Miss This” during the Academy of Country Music Awards season finale of Donald Trump’s NBC series The Celebrity Apprentice, on April 7, it has six dates set in its won by his opponent Piers Morgan. Making cameo appearances are Las Vegas residency with Reba Eddie Montgomery, Dean Sams and Ronnie Milsap. McEntire in June and July, and an FROM LEFT: DUNN, • 1999 — Kenny Chesney starts a six-week stay at the top of the exhibit dedicated to it at the Hall SHELTON and BROOKS Billboard country chart with “How Forever Feels.” of Fame and Museum will open Aug. 9. Additionally, the pair — Kix March 28 Brooks and Ronnie Dunn — kicked off a four-episode appearance on March 25 • 2009 — Reba McEntire MC’s Celebrity Fight Night at the Marriott as guest mentors for Blake Shelton’s team on NBC’s The Voice. Desert Ridge Resort in Phoenix. Jon Bon Jovi performs as Arizona quarterback Kurt Warner receives the Muhammad Ali Friends don’t need to wait much longer for new Maddie & Tae music. A five- Leadership Award. song EP — One Heart to Another, paced by first single “Friends Don’t” — is due April 26, five days before they hit the road on Carrie Underwood’s 2019 tour. March 29 May 3 brings two other new releases: Americana artist Rhiannon Giddens • 2016 — Capitol releases Keith Urban’s “Wasted Time” to radio. releases concept album there is no Other, recorded with Italian instrumentalist • 2004 — Dierks Bentley undergoes knee surgery in Nashville nine Francesco Turrisi, and Daniel Tashian, who co-produced Kacey Musgraves’ days after an onstage accident leaves him with a torn ligament and Golden Hour, issues a children’s album, I Love Rainy Days. bruised knee bone.

May 9 will mark 30 years since the death of Keith Whitley, and the anniversary March 30 will be observed with a tribute concert at the Country Music Hall of Fame’s • 2013 – Kacey Musgraves sings “Merry Go ’Round” during her Grand CMA Theater. Hosted by Whitley’s former wife, Lorrie Morgan, and their Ole Opry debut. son, Jesse Whitley, the lineup boasts more than 15 artists, including Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood, Joe Diffie, Mark Chesnutt and Tracy Lawrence. March 31 • 2017 — Jason Aldean records “You Make It Easy” at Treasure Isle Ashley McBryde got an unexpected boost on March 20 when her December in Nashville. 2018 appearance on CBS This Morning Saturday earned a Daytime Emmy • 2003 — The Cincinnati Reds open the Great American Ball Park Award nomination for outstanding musical performance. Additionally, the with a 10-1 loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates. President George W. Bush syndicated Pickler & Ben appeared twice on the list: Kellie Pickler and Ben throws out the first pitch, with music from Clay Walker and Lee Aaron are up for outstanding informative talk show host, and Ben Rector’s Greenwood, who sings “God Bless the U.S.A.” performance during one episode competes with McBryde for musical performance. The awards will be presented May 5 in Pasadena, Calif. April 1 • 2014 — Warner Bros. releases Dan + Shay’s debut album, Where It All Began. Top Headlines from .com • 1979 — Mark Herndon joins Alabama as the band’s drummer. Click on headlines below for more details Source: RolandNote.com, the Ultimate Country Music Database No Country For Old, Or Young, Women On Tour: Why Female Artists Are Looking Elsewhere

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30 Years Of Nick Of Time: How Bonnie Raitt’s Kathy Mattea received the American Master Award from Boston- based Berklee College of Music when the school’s 34th annual trip ‘Underdog Record’ Swept The Grammys to Nashville brought students to Warner Music Nashville. From left: And Saved Her Career Mattea and Berklee president Roger Brown, assistant professor Mark Wessel, chair of songwriting Bonnie Hayes and New York executive

director Stephen Webber. RYAN NAVA BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE MARCH 25, 2019 | PAGE 11 OF 19

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 1 1 46 BEAUTIFUL CRAZY No. 1 (5 weeks)/Digital Gainer Luke Combs 1 1 l S.MOFFATT (L.COMBS,W.B.DURRETTE,R.WILLIFORD) RIVER HOUSE/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE 2 2 2 62 TEQUILA Dan + Shay RC 1 D.SMYERS,S.HENDRICKS (D.SMYERS,J.REYNOLDS,N.GALYON) WARNER BROS./WAR 3 3 3 69 MEANT TO BE Bebe Rexha & Florida Georgia Line RC 1 WILSHIRE (B.REXHA,T.HUBBARD,J.MILLER,D.A.GARCIA) WARNE R BROS./BMLG HH HH 4 5 8 61 MILLIONAIRE Airplay Gainer Chris Stapleton 2 4 l D.COBB,C.STAPLETON (K.WELCH) MERCURY 5 4 4 44 SPEECHLESS Dan + Shay RC 1 D.SMYERS,S.HENDRICKS (D.SMYERS,S.MOONEY,J.REYNOLDS,L.VELTZ) WARNER BROS./WAR HERE TONIGHT 6 8 10 27 Brett Young 3 6 l D.HUFF (B.YOUNG,B.CAVER,J.EBACH,C.KELLEY) BMLG EYES ON YOU 7 10 14 31 Chase Rice 9 7 l C. DESTEFANO (C.RICE,C. DESTEFANO,A.GORLEY) DACK JANIELS/BROKEN BOW 8 7 7 37 TAKE IT FROM ME Jordan Davis RC 4 P.DIGIOVANNI (J.DAVIS,J.DAVIS,J.GANTT) MCA NASHVILLE 9 6 6 35 THIS IS IT Scotty McCreery 8 3 F.ROGERS,D.WELLS,A.ESHUIS (S.MCCREERY,F.ROGERS,A.ESHUIS) TRIPLE TIGERS GOOD AS YOU 10 11 17 22 Kane Brown 11 10 l D.HUFF (K.BROWN,B.BERRYHILL,S.CARTER,T.PHILLIPS,W.WEATHERLY) ZONE 4/RCA NASHVILLE THERE WAS THIS GIRL 11 12 15 30 Riley Green 4 11 l D.HUFF (R.GREEN,ERIK DYLAN) BMLG WHISKEY GLASSES 12 15 20 23 Morgan Wallen 17 12 l J.MOI (B.BURGESS,K.KADISH) BI G LOUD MAKE IT SWEET 13 14 16 24 Old Dominion 7 12 l S.MCANALLY (M.RAMSEY,T. ROSEN,W.SELLERS,G.SPRUNG,B.TURSI,S.MCANALLY) RCA NASHVILLE MISS ME MORE 14 17 18 21 Kelsea Ballerini 12 14 l F.G.WHITEHEAD,J.MASSEY (K.BALLERINI,D.H.HODGES,B.MCLAUGHLIN) BLACK RIVER ONE THAT GOT AWAY 15 18 22 26 Michael Ray 5 15 l S.HENDRICKS (J.FRASURE,T. ROSEN,M.RAMSEY,J.OSBORNE) ATLANTIC/WEA LOOK WHAT GOD GAVE HER 16 16 5 4 Thomas Rhett 18 5 l D.HUFF,J.BUNETTA,THOMAS RHETT (THOMAS RHETT,R.AKINS,J.BUNETTA,J.K.HINDLIN,A.MALIK,J.H.RYAN) VALORY 17 13 13 32 DOWN TO THE HONKYTONK Jake Owen 10 11 J.MOI (R.CLAWSON,L.LAIRD,S.MCANALLY) BI G LOUD 18 9 27 10 GIRL Maren Morris 24 9 G.KURSTIN,M.MORRIS (M.MORRIS,S.AARONS,G.KURSTIN) COLUMBIA NASHVILLE NIGHT SHIFT 19 19 21 31 Jon Pardi 13 19 l B.BUTLER,J.PARDI (T.BROWN,P.LARUE,B.MONTANA) CAPITOL NASHVILLE RUMOR 20 20 26 28 Lee Brice 20 20 l L.BRICE,J.STONE,K.JACOBS,D.FRIZSELL (L.BRICE,K.JACOBS,A.GORLEY) CURB TALK YOU OUT OF IT 21 22 23 28 Florida Georgia Line 22 13 l J.MOI (M.HARDY,H.PHELPS,J.ROGERS,A.VANDERHEYM) BMLG ON MY WAY TO YOU 22 23 25 32 Cody Johnson 15 16 l T.W.WILLMON (BRETT JAMES,T.LANE) COJO/WMN 23 24 24 29 LOVE WINS Carrie Underwood 14 14 D.GARCIA,C.UNDERWOOD (C.UNDERWOOD,D.A.GARCIA,BRETT JAMES) CAPITOL NASHVILLE 24 21 12 26 WHAT MAKES YOU COUNTRY Luke Bryan RC 7 J.STEVENS,J.STEVENS (L.BRYAN,D.DAVIDSON,A.GORLEY) CAPITOL NASHVILLE LOVE AIN’T 25 25 28 26 Eli Young Band 16 25 l D.HUFF (R.COPPERMAN,A.GORLEY,S.MCANALLY) VALORY

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After the March 15 premiere of its official video, the launch single from Young’s The title cut from Aldean’s latest album CHRIS forthcoming eighth LP lifts 36-33 on Hot JASON jumps 50-39 on Hot Country Songs. YOUNG ALDEAN Raised on Country Songs (up 68 percent to 2.2 million Rearview It climbs 41-36 on Country Airplay, up Country U.S. streams and 28 percent to 2,000 sold). Town 25 percent to 4.1 million in audience. R. DIAMOND/GETTY IMAGES DIAMOND/GETTY R. IHEARTMEDIA FOR IMAGES MAZUR/GETTY KEVIN BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE MARCH 25, 2019 | PAGE 12 OF 19

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 CAUGHT UP IN THE COUNTRY 26 27 31 35 Rodney Atkins Featuring The Fisk Jubilee Singers 23 26 l R.ATKINS,T.HEWITT,B.BOLLINGER (C.HARRINGTON,J.M.SCHMIDT,M.WALKER) CURB LOVE SOMEONE 27 29 30 21 Brett Eldredge 19 27 l R. COPPERMAN,B.ELDREDGE (B.ELDREDGE,R.COPPERMAN,H.MORGAN) ATLANTIC/WMN 28 28 29 6 RAINBOW Kacey Musgraves 34 17 I.FITCHUK,D.TASHIAN,K.MUSGRAVES (N.HEMBY,S.MCANALLY,K.MUSGRAVES) MCA NASHVILLE EVERY LITTLE HONKY TONK BAR 29 31 32 6 George Strait 21 29 l C.AINLAY,G.STRAIT (G.STRAIT,B.STRAIT,D.DILLON) MC A NASHVILLE I DON’T KNOW ABOUT YOU 30 32 34 24 Chris Lane 41 30 l J.MOI (A.GORLEY,M.HARDY,H.PHELPS,J.RODGERS) BIG LOUD 31 30 — 3 THE BONES Maren Morris - 30 G.KURSTIN (M.MORRIS,J.ROBBINS,L.VELTZ) COLUMBIA NASHVILLE ALL TO MYSELF 32 33 35 11 Dan + Shay 31 29 l D.SMYERS,S.HENDRICKS (D.SMYERS,S.MOONEY,N.GALYON,J.REYNOLDS) WARNER BROS./WAR HH HH 33 36 38 7 RAISED ON COUNTRY Streaming Gainer Chris Young 26 33 l C.CROWDER,C.YOUNG (C.YOUNG,C.R.BARLOWE,C.CROWDER) RCA NASHVILLE SOME OF IT 34 35 37 8 Eric Church 25 34 l J.JOYCE (E.CHURCH,J.HYDE,C.DANIELS,B.PINSON) EMI NASHVILLE 35 34 36 14 WHAT HAPPENS IN A SMALL TOWN Brantley Gilbert + Lindsay Ell 27 31 D.HUFF (B.GILBERT,R.AKINS,B.BERRYHILL,J.DUNNE) VALORY SOMEBODY’S DAUGHTER 36 38 40 3 Tenille Townes 30 36 l J.JOYCE (T.TOWNES,L.LAIRD,BARY DEAN) COLUMBIA NASHVILLE 37 26 — 2 RIDIN’ ROADS Dustin Lynch - 26 Z.CROWELL (D.LYNCH,A.GORLEY,Z.CROWELL) BROKEN BOW LOVE YOU TOO LATE 38 40 49 4 Cole Swindell 33 38 l M.R.CARTER (C.SWINDELL,MICHAEL RAY,B.KINNEY) WARNER BROS./WMN REARVIEW TOWN 39 50 45 11 Jason Aldean 36 24 l M.KNOX (N.THRASHER,B.PINSON,K.LOVELACE) MACON/BROKEN BOW BUY MY OWN DRINKS 40 42 44 5 Runaway June 28 40 l D.HUFF (H.MULHOLLAND,J.WAYNE,N.COOKE,H.LINDSEY,J.KEAR) WHEELHOUSE REDNECKER 41 41 46 5 HARDY 43 41 l J.MOI,D.COHEN (A.ALBERT,M.HARDY,J.M.SCHMIDT) TREE VIBEZ/BIG LOUD CLOSER TO YOU 42 43 43 9 Carly Pearce 38 39 l BUSBEE (H.LINDSEY,G.SAMPSON,T.VERGES) B IG MACHINE HH HH 43 NEW 1 THE WEIGHT OF THE BADGE Hot Shot Debut George Strait - 43 l C.AINLAY,G.STRAIT (G.STRAIT,B.STRAIT,D.DILLON) MCA NASHVILLE FEELS LIKE A PARTY 44 48 48 9 LOCASH 29 44 l C.CROWDER,T.HUBBARD (P.BRUST,C.LUCAS,T.HUBBARD,C.CROWDER) WHEELHOUSE 45 44 42 6 TO A T Ryan Hurd - 42 D.HUFF,A.ESHUIS (R.J.HURD,N.SPICER,L.VELTZ) RCA NASHVILLE I HOPE 46 49 — 2 Gabby Barrett - 46 l R. COPPERMAN (Z.KALE,J.M.NITE,G.BARRETT) GABBY BARRETT/RED LIGHT MANAGEMENT NASHVILLE 47 39 39 13 FRIENDS DON’T Maddie & Tae RC 39 J.ROBBINS,D.WELLS (M.MARLOW,T.DYE,J.M.NITE,J.EBACH) MERCURY WHAT WHISKEY DOES Randy Houser Featuring Hillary Lindsey 48 RE-ENTRY 6 32 40 l K.GATTIS (R.HOUSER,K.GATTIS,H.LINDSEY) STONEY CREEK BACK TO LIFE Rascal Flatts 49 RE-ENTRY 11 39 31 l J.DEE,G.LEVOX,J.D.ROONEY (C.R.BARLOWE,N.MOON,S.MOONEY,F.WILHELM) BIG MACHINE THE ONES THAT DIDN’T MAKE IT BACK HOME 50 NEW 1 Justin Moore 35 50 l J.S.STOVER,S.BORCHETTA (J.MOORE,P.DIGIOVANNI,C.MCGILL,J.S.STOVER) VALORY

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-YearALBUM SALES Album Sales Weekly’15 Unit Sales Overall Unit Sales DIGITAL DIGITAL 2018 2019 CHANGE ALBUMS ’18 3.09 million ALBUMS* TRACKS ’14 Albums 3,090,000 2,342,000 -24.2% ’19 2.34 million This Week 207,000 57,000 688,000 Digital Tracks 10,476,000 7,641,000 -27.1% Last Week 229,000 69,000 698,000 DIGITAL TRACKS SALES Sales by Album Format Change -9.6% -17.4% -1.4% 2018 2019 CHANGE ’18 000.0 million10.47 million This Week Last Year 305,000 91,000 919,000 Physical 2,212,000 1,610,000 -27.2% ’19 7.64 million Change -32.1% -37.4% -25.1% Digital 898,000 732,000 -18.5% For week ending March 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.

For inquiries about any Nielsen Music data, please contact Josh Bennett at 615-807-1338 or [email protected] BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE MARCH 25, 2019 | PAGE 13 OF 19

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 LUKE COMBS THIS ONE’S FOR YOU 1 1 46 1 2 46 1 2 1 94 1 l LUKE COMBS  l LUKE COMBS  l RIVER HOUSE/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE 538883*/SMN 2 MEANT TO BE LOOK WHAT GOD GAVE HER MAREN MORRIS GIRL l2 2 69 2 4 3 2 1 — 2 COLUMBIA NASHVILLE 590186*/SMN 1 BEBE REXHA & FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE  THOMAS RHETT  TENNESSEE WHISKEY SPEECHLESS DAN + SHAY DAN + SHAY 3 4 102 3 3 39 3 4 3 39 1 l CHRIS STAPLETON  DAN + SHAY  l WARNER BROS. 570796/WMN 0 TEQUILA THE WEIGHT OF THE BADGE CHRIS STAPLETON TRAVELLER 4 3 56 4 NEW 4 6 5 203 1 l DAN + SHAY  l GEORGE STRAIT  l MERCURY 019405*/UMGN 3 HEAVEN WHISKEY GLASSES FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE CAN’T SAY I AIN’T COUNTRY 5 6 72 5 6 17 5 3 2 5 BMLG FGL0400* 1 l KANE BROWN  l MORGAN WALLEN  SPEECHLESS MISS ME MORE KACEY MUSGRAVES GOLDEN HOUR 6 7 35 6 5 20 6 5 4 46 MCA NASHVILLE 027921*/UMGN 1 l DAN + SHAY  l KELSEA BALLERINI  KANE BROWN KANE BROWN 7 5 3 GIRL 7 7 9 GOOD AS YOU 7 7 6 120 ZONE 4/RCA NASHVILLE 530947*/SMN 1 1 MAREN MORRIS  KANE BROWN  TAKE IT FROM ME RAINBOW 8 9 8 49 JASON ALDEAN REARVIEW TOWN 1 8 8 5 l8 11 6 l MACON/BROKEN BOW/BMG 538375642*/BBMG (538375730) 0 JORDAN DAVIS  KACEY MUSGRAVES  SHE GOT THE BEST OF ME TEQUILA KANE BROWN EXPERIMENT 9 10 32 9 8 61 9 8 7 19 ZONE 4/RCA NASHVILLE /SMN 1 l LUKE COMBS  DAN + SHAY  TALK YOU OUT OF IT GIRL 10 20 10 168 GEORGE STRAIT 50 NUMBER ONES 1 10 11 6 10 12 9 l MCA NASHVILLE 000459/UMGN (25.98) 7 l FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE  l MAREN MORRIS  WHISKEY GLASSES RUMOR THOMAS RHETT LIFE CHANGES 11 15 5 11 9 14 11 10 9 80 VALORY TR0300A/BMLG 1 1 l MORGAN WALLEN  LEE BRICE  IN CASE YOU DIDN’T KNOW DOWN TO THE HONKYTONK 12 12 11 144 JON PARDI CALIFORNIA SUNRISE 1 12 12 125 12 10 30 l CAPITOL NASHVILLE 024744*/UMGN 1 l BRETT YOUNG  JAKE OWEN  RUMOR TENNESSEE WHISKEY 13 14 14 42 MORGAN WALLEN IF I KNOW ME 11 13 13 5 13 13 167 l BIG LOUD DIGITAL EX l LEE BRICE  l CHRIS STAPLETON  LOOK WHAT GOD GAVE HER MILLIONAIRE ZAC BROWN BAND GREATEST HITS SO FAR... 14 16 3 14 14 25 14 13 13 191 ROAR/SOUTHERN GROUND/ATLANTIC 546369/AG 3 l THOMAS RHETT  l CHRIS STAPLETON  YOU MAKE IT EASY EYES ON YOU 15 15 12 110 BRETT YOUNG BRETT YOUNG 2 15 14 60 15 16 5 l BMLG BY0100A* 1 JASON ALDEAN  l CHASE RICE  TIM MCGRAW 35 BIGGEST HITS MILLIONAIRE I HOPE 16 RE-ENTRY 58 8 16 25 4 16 15 4 l CURB 79413 l CHRIS STAPLETON  l GABBY BARRETT  EYES ON YOU RIDIN’ ROADS BLAKE SHELTON RELOADED: 20 #1 HITS 17 21 3 17 1 2 17 16 15 178 WARNER BROS. 551788/WMN 2 l CHASE RICE  DUSTIN LYNCH  BODY LIKE A BACK ROAD TALK YOU OUT OF IT 18 19 17 68 CHRIS STAPLETON FROM A ROOM: VOLUME 2 1 18 19 110 18 18 9 l MERCURY 027408*/UMGN 0 l SAM HUNT  l FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE  GOOD AS YOU MY MIRACLE JORDAN DAVIS HOME STATE 19 20 5 19 NEW 19 17 19 40 MCA NASHVILLE 028014/UMGN 6 l KANE BROWN  l BRAD PAISLEY  CODY JOHNSON AIN’T NOTHIN’ TO IT WHAT IFS HERE TONIGHT 20 23 22 9 1 20 17 97 20 17 6 l COJO 574233*/WMN l KANE BROWN FEAT. LAUREN ALAINA  l BRETT YOUNG  CHRIS STAPLETON FROM A ROOM: VOLUME 1 THE BONES ON MY WAY TO YOU 21 23 2 21 21 10 21 18 18 98 MERCURY 026379*/UMGN 1 1 l MAREN MORRIS  l CODY JOHNSON  CARRIE UNDERWOOD CRY PRETTY HURRICANE MEANT TO BE 22 18 126 22 20 69 22 11 16 27 CAPITOL NASHVILLE 028557*/UMGN 0 1 l LUKE COMBS  BEBE REXHA & FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE  LUKE BRYAN WHAT MAKES YOU COUNTRY THIS IS IT MAKE IT SWEET 23 22 21 67 1 23 9 9 23 23 14 l CAPITOL NASHVILLE 027589*/UMGN 0 SCOTTY MCCREERY  l OLD DOMINION  BRETT YOUNG TICKET TO L.A. HERE TONIGHT NIGHT SHIFT 24 29 20 15 1 24 24 6 24 24 6 l BMLG BMBY200A* l BRETT YOUNG  l JON PARDI  SAM HUNT MONTEVALLO 25 27 26 214 3 1 25 22 99 DIE A HAPPY MAN 25 NEW EVERY LITTLE HONKY TONK BAR l MCA NASHVILLE 021502/UMGN THOMAS RHETT  l GEORGE STRAIT  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 HOZIER WASTELAND, BABY! 1 1 1 3 RUBYWORKS 591795*/COLUMBIA 1 2 3 3 149 CHRIS STAPLETON TRAVELLER 1 l MERCURY NASHVILLE 019405*/UMGN 3 KACEY MUSGRAVES GOLDEN HOUR 3 2 2 51 MCA NASHVILLE 027921*/UMGN 1 4 4 4 18 MUMFORD & SONS DELTA 1 l GENTLEMEN OF THE ROAD 0240*/GLASSNOTE HOZIER HOZIER 5 5 5 195 RUBYWORKS 309996*/COLUMBIA 2 1 6 10 7 68 CHRIS STAPLETON FROM A ROOM: VOLUME 2 0 1 l MERCURY NASHVILLE 027408*/UMGN 19 SIMON & GARFUNKEL SIMON AND GARFUNKEL’S GREATEST HITS 7 7 6 112 COLUMBIA 31350/LEGACY 3 Paisley’s new single honors his wife of 16 8 9 8 98 CHRIS STAPLETON FROM A ROOM: VOLUME 1 1 MERCURY NASHVILLE 026379*/UMGN 1 years, actress Kimberly Williams-Paisley. It 9 13 9 154 THE LUMINEERS CLEOPATRA 1 1 BRAD enters Country Digital Song Sales at No. 19 DUALTONE 1738* PAISLEY (4,000 sold) in its first full week of tracking. 10 14 10 106 JACK JOHNSON IN BETWEEN DREAMS 8 My Miracle l JACK JOHNSON/BRUSHFIRE /REPUBLIC (13.98) 2 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. JOHN MEDINA/GETTY IMAGES MEDINA/GETTY JOHN BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE MARCH 25, 2019 | PAGE 14 OF 19

MAKIN’ TRACKS TOM ROLAND [email protected] Singer-Songwriter John King Turns ‘Goodbye’ Into An Artistic Re-introduction

Few things will tell you more about a person’s character than how they handle he says with a laugh. “For Ariana Grande, I’m sure it wouldn’t be a problem or hard times. whatever, but I always like writing songs that challenge you vocally.” Do they step up to the plate? Do they fall apart? Do they try to hang the blame Verse two puts the singer in a barroom, immersed in alcohol, loneliness — on someone else? perhaps a little guilt — and a whole lot of uncertainty about what’s ahead if For singer-songwriter John King, bad news meant he needed to go full bore neither person apologizes. “It’s not too late,” he concludes, then breaks into into the future. He was signed for a few years to both a recording contract and the chorus once again. a publishing deal with Black River. He scored A bridge adds one more dimension as the one No. 1 single as a songwriter on Randy singer’s internal dialogue emerges. “You think Houser’s “We Went,” but King’s artist career you’re tough?” he asks himself before projecting was a little less fruitful. Black River released two a tragic finality: watching in a cloud of dust as singles, and only one of those charted: “Tonight the woman he loves drives away. Tonight,” which peaked at No. 39 on Country Is that threat enough to save them? Will this Airplay in 2014. couple survive its fight? When his recording deal ended, he could have “I don’t know,” says King. “Tell me how gotten mad. Instead, he got busy. it ends.” “I wrote some of my best songs in that period,” “I feel like the singer comes to their senses in says King. “I was a little bit like, ‘OK, I need to go the end,” adds DiGiovanni. write some of the best songs I’ve ever written. I “I think it’s over,” counters Paulin. “He’s made need to build up the artillery, because it’s time his bed, and now he’s gotta lie in it. Or drink in it.” to go a different path.’ So it re-energized me as Things were not over for “Try Saying a writer in a good way.” Goodbye.” The track DiGiovanni created “Try Saying Goodbye,” released to radio on during the writing session set the foundation Feb. 19 by his management company, Narvel for the demo, and King wrapped the day with a Blackstock’s Starstruck Entertainment, was passionate read of the relationship mystery — so written right around that period — either right effective that that vocal became the centerpiece before or right after King split with Black River — KING of the final release. and it coincidentally explores the dissolution of a “John just has such an old soul,” says Paulin. relationship. Black River didn’t trigger the song. “He can sing a lot of stuff that other people don’t Neither did any real-life breakup. Instead, it emerged from a conversation with necessarily do — and make you believe it.” fellow songwriters Paul DiGiovanni (“How Not To,” “The Ones That Didn’t DiGiovanni continued working on the demo for a short time, inserting a triple Make It Back Home”) and Jamie Paulin (“Backwoods,” “How I’ll Always Be”) hand clap into the verses that subtly enhances the unresolved tension. Once that about handling a dispute with a significant other. demo was completed, they closed it up, feeling like it was too good to release “We’ve all been in long-term relationships, and we were talking about how without a game plan. you go through those struggles, like those little turning points where you get Over the next couple of years, King continued writing and recording new into arguments and it’d be so easy just to give up and quit,” remembers King. material, releasing music independently to build his presence online. And when “It’s worth it if you have the right person to push through, and sometimes that it felt right, DiGiovanni brought bass player Jimmie Lee Sloas, drummer Chris includes swallowing your pride and saying you’re sorry, even when you think McHugh and guitarist Derek Wells into Starstruck to give the existing demo of you’re not wrong.” “Try Saying Goodbye” a human touch. Their contributions included a sudden, The song’s lyrical hook came directly from the conversation: “If you think hard ending that simulates the closing of a door. The studio date had its own saying I’m sorry is hard,” mused Paulin, “try saying goodbye.” minor computer-related tension. That’s all they needed for a title. DiGiovanni, working in his home studio, “I opened up the session because it was from two years ago or so, and I always developed the musical threads that would provide a foundation. have my fingers crossed,” says DiGiovanni. “I was like, ‘Man, I hope I have all “I started doing a little finger-picky thing on the acoustic guitar that you these plug-ins and everything is still there and this hard drive doesn’t die.’ But hear at the intro,” he says. “I think I recorded that into the track, and we were I got in, and that was a sigh of relief.” just doing the little drum beat kind of feel. We didn’t actually establish what “Try Saying Goodbye” got a start on streaming platforms, earning 1 million the chords were until I put that bassline in the verse.” on-demand streams in its first six weeks. Starstruck put it out to radio on PlayMPE They started right from the opening line, setting a scene in which two people to gain further traction, whether that means carrying it forward in independent have a significant blowup: Tears fall, the door slams, and they’re not even sure fashion or eventually landing with a major label. what started it. The singer cuts through the tension at the start of the chorus — “We’ve talked about labels, but we haven’t taken any meetings yet and we “Hey” — shifting into a higher pitch and a common-sense reminder: “Nobody haven’t shopped around at all,” says King. “We’re so happy with the way it’s said love was easy.” going — you know, don’t fix it if it ain’t broke. But obviously my goal is to get “It kind of grabs your attention,” says King of that “hey.” “It [changes] it from back to country radio, and we all know that the labels have the power to make telling a story to, ‘Hey, I’m talking to you now.’ ” that happen.” That chorus lasts four lines before it gets to the “Try Saying Goodbye” title, In the meantime, “Try Saying Goodbye” continues to connect, bringing up which originally ended rather plainly. The open-vowel ending of “goodbye” the old adage that pride goes before a fall and relating it in a way that listeners felt a little incomplete, so King developed an eight-note rollercoaster tag that can apply to disputes in their own relationships, both romantic and familial. became a de facto earworm. “In everything I’ve ever experienced, every little argument I’ve gotten in,” “It’s a pretty complicated little run, melodically, for a country boy like me,” says King, “nothing is ever worth losing that person.” BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE MARCH 25, 2019 | PAGE 15 OF 19 Country Indicator

AUDIENCE WKS PLAYS (IN MILLIONS) THIS LAST ON WEEK WEEK CHART TITLE Imprint/Label Artist THIS WEEK +/– THIS WEEK l1 3 26 HERE TONIGHT BMLG HH No. 1 (1 week) HH Brett Young 4960 +152 7.357 2 1 33 THERE WAS THIS GIRL BMLG Riley Green 4869 -151 7.758 3 2 17 BEAUTIFUL CRAZY River House/Columbia Nashville Luke Combs 4801 -165 7.670 l4 5 31 ONE THAT GOT AWAY Atlantic/WEA Michael Ray 4654 +262 7.161 5 4 48 MILLIONAIRE Mercury Chris Stapleton 4611 -97 7.311 l6 6 23 MAKE IT SWEET RCA Nashville Old Dominion 4310 +121 6.412 l7 7 30 ON MY WAY TO YOU CoJo/WMN Cody Johnson 3931 +77 5.775 l8 11 23 EYES ON YOU Dack Janiels/Broken Bow HH Most Increased Plays HH Chase Rice 3858 +455 5.454 l9 9 33 DOWN TO THE HONKYTONK Big Loud Jake Owen 3843 +184 5.885 l10 8 34 NIGHT SHIFT Capitol Nashville Jon Pardi 3818 +62 5.374 l11 12 23 MISS ME MORE Black River Kelsea Ballerini 3510 +166 5.004 12 10 28 LOVE WINS Capitol Nashville Carrie Underwood 3437 - 112 5.075 l13 14 33 LOVE AIN’T Valory Eli Young Band 3410 +304 5.070 l14 13 11 GOOD AS YOU Zone 4/RCA Nashville Kane Brown 3361 +200 4.956 l15 16 28 WHISKEY GLASSES Big Loud Morgan Wallen 2822 +426 3.901 l16 15 35 LOVE SOMEONE Atlantic/WMN Brett Eldredge 2614 +155 3.690 l17 18 21 TALK YOU OUT OF IT BMLG Florida Georgia Line 2479 +252 3.152 l18 17 6 EVERY LITTLE HONKY TONK BAR MCA Nashville George Strait 2461 +230 3.487 l19 20 4 LOOK WHAT GOD GAVE HER Valory Thomas Rhett 2410 +405 3.486 l20 19 17 RUMOR Curb Lee Brice 2312 +204 3.171 l21 21 10 GIRL Columbia Nashville Maren Morris 1954 +204 2.508 l22 22 47 CAUGHT UP IN THE COUNTRY Curb Rodney Atkins Feat. The Fisk Jubilee Singers 1895 +194 2.664 l23 23 11 SOME OF IT EMI Nashville Eric Church 1780 +145 2.449 l24 24 12 WHAT HAPPENS IN A SMALL TOWN Valory Brantley Gilbert & Lindsay Ell 1642 +122 2.047 l25 25 17 BUY MY OWN DRINKS Wheelhouse Runaway June 1463 +92 1.932 l26 28 5 REARVIEW TOWN Macon/Broken Bow HH Most Added HH Jason Aldean 1385 +274 1.949 l27 26 27 FEELS LIKE A PARTY Wheelhouse LOCASH 1377 +44 1.651 l28 27 9 RAISED ON COUNTRY RCA Nashville Chris Young 1368 +102 1.774 l29 29 6 RAINBOW MCA Nashville Kacey Musgraves 1131 +42 1.290 l30 30 34 WHAT WHISKEY DOES Stoney Creek Randy Houser Feat. Hillary Lindsey 964 +53 1.206

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 MARCH 25, 2019 | PAGE 16 OF 19 Country Indicator

AUDIENCE WKS PLAYS (IN MILLIONS) THIS LAST ON WEEK WEEK CHART TITLE Imprint/Label Artist THIS WEEK +/– THIS WEEK l31 31 11 KISS THAT GIRL GOODBYE BIG Label Aaron Watson 927 +61 1.222 l32 34 5 ALL TO MYSELF Warner Bros./WAR Dan + Shay 918 +137 1.139 l33 32 7 THOUGHT ABOUT YOU McGraw/Columbia Nashville Tim McGraw 865 +38 1.208 l34 36 4 LIVING Capitol Nashville Dierks Bentley 839 +137 1.205 35 33 16 CLOSER TO YOU Big Machine Carly Pearce 802 -18 0.857 l36 35 26 BACK TO LIFE Big Machine Rascal Flatts 770 +22 0.731 l37 37 20 LADIES IN THE ‘90S 19/Mercury Lauren Alaina 756 +56 0.770 l38 38 21 I DON’T REMEMBER ME (BEFORE YOU) EMI Nashville Brothers Osborne 662 +53 0.695 l39 42 9 EVERY LITTLE THING Triple Tigers Russell Dickerson 564 + 119 0.679 l40 39 11 LOVE YOU TOO LATE Warner Bros./WMN Cole Swindell 535 +32 0.615 l41 40 26 THE IN BETWEEN Captain & Bear Cash Campbell 517 +45 0.527 l42 41 3 REDNECKER Tree Vibez/Big Loud Hardy 483 +32 0.482 l43 45 12 A LITTLE ON THE REDNECK SIDE Dream Walkin’ Smith & Wesley 431 +15 0.503 l44 48 2 GOOD VIBES Warner Bros./WAR Chris Janson 419 +62 0.431 l45 46 16 ROCKIN’ ALL NIGHT LONG Buena Vista/Capitol Nashville Adam Hambrick 419 +24 0.377 46 44 6 NOTHING TO DO TOWN Curb Dylan Scott 405 -15 0.434 47 43 18 NOW WE’RE GETTIN’ SOMEWHERE Bison Creek James Robert Webb 394 -29 0.410 l48 47 8 GIRL GOIN’ NOWHERE Atlantic/WAR Ashley McBryde 386 +14 0.388 l49 49 5 SOMEWHERE BETWEEN I LOVE YOU AND I’M LEAVIN’ Rounder/Concord Cody Jinks 379 +32 0.422 l50 50 15 THE ONES THAT DIDN’T MAKE IT BACK HOME Valory Justin Moore 371 +25 0.531 l51 51 5 AFTER A FEW Mercury Travis Denning 347 +20 0.400 l52 57 2 SOMEBODY’S DAUGHTER Columbia Nashville Tenille Townes 305 +62 0.419 l53 54 3 IF I WAS A COWBOY Rebel Engine Stephanie Quayle 305 +47 0.401 l54 58 5 GET AWAY High4Records/Curve Music/Grassroots Ryan Sims 270 +32 0.276 l55 53 2 DAY DRUNK Warner Bros./WEA Morgan Evans 262 +3 0.228 l56 56 10 I DON’T KNOW ABOUT YOU Big Loud Chris Lane 256 +2 0.276 l57 59 2 SOMEONE I USED TO KNOW ZB Collective/BMG/Wheelhouse Zac Brown Band 240 +23 0.199 l58 60 2 LOVE TO TRY THEM ON Amerimonte Shane Owens 225 +12 0.317 l59 NEW THE BULL MCA Nashville HH Hot Shot Debut HH Kip Moore 208 +20 0.250 60 55 3 BRAND NEW MAN Arista Nashville Brooks & Dunn w/ Luke Combs 197 -59 0.347

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 MARCH 25, 2019 | PAGE 17 OF 19 Country Airplay Index

TITLE Publishing-Licensing Org. EYES ON YOU Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI/Dack LOVE AIN’T EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Plain RAISED ON COUNTRY Songs Of Universal, Janiel’s Publishing, BMI/EMI April Music, Inc., ASCAP/ Jane Songs, BMI/Rezolant Music, BMI/Combustion Inc., BMI/They’ve Gone To Plaid Publishing, BMI/W.B.M. (Songwriter) Chart Position CDS Words And Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/ Engine Music, ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., SESAC/Roc Nation US Music, SESAC/Songs Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite Music Corp., ASCAP/Smack Hits, GMR/Smack Songs LLC, Of Rhythm House Black, SESAC/Bennett’s Dad’s Songs, 90’S COUNTRY Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing Songs, ASCAP (C.Rice, C. DeStefano, A.Gorley) 9 GMR/Kobalt Music Group Ltd., GMR (R.Copperman, A.Gorley, SESAC/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Georgia Song Vibez, America, Inc., BMI/Spark In Your Pocket, BMI/Songs Of S.McAnally) 16 ASCAP/Big Crowd Publishing, ASCAP (C.Young, C.R.Barlowe, Smack, BMI/Smack Hits, GMR/Smack Songs LLC, GMR/ F   C.Crowder) 26 Kobalt Music Group Ltd., GMR/LYRX Publishing, LLC, BMI LOVE SOMEONE Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI/Paris (W.Hayes, S.McAnally, LYRX) 54 FEELS LIKE A PARTY ole Purple Cape Music, Not France Music, BMI/EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/ REARVIEW TOWN Songs Of Peer Ltd., ASCAP/ BMI/Mars Marley Music, BMI/Big Loud Mountain, BMI/ Rezolant Music, BMI/Plain Jane Songs, BMI/Sony/ATV Team Thrash, ASCAP/Songs Of Peer, BMI/New Writers A   Round Hill Works, BMI/T Hubb Publishing, BMI/WB Tree Publishing, BMI/Heather Feather Songs, BMI (B. Of Sea Gayle Music, BMI/Not A Track Guy Music, BMI/ Music Corp., ASCAP/Georgia Song Vibez, ASCAP/Big Eldredge, R.Copperman, H.Morgan) 19 New House Of Sea Gayle Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., AFTER A FEW I’m About To Go RED On Ya Music, Crowd Publishing, ASCAP (P.Brust, C.Lucas, T.Hubbard, ASCAP/Own My Own Music Publishing, ASCAP (N.Thrasher, BMI/Travis Denning Music, BMI/ole, BMI/Crack The Glass C.Crowder) 29 LOVE WINS Carrie-Okie Music, BMI/Universal Music B.Pinson, K.Lovelace) 36 Songs, BMI/Stars And Stripes And Maple Leaf Music, - Brentwood Benson Publishing, ASCAP/D Soul Music, BMI/Downtown DMP Songs, BMI/Sound Wagon Songs, FREEDOM Spirit Of Nashville One, BMI/Sony/ ASCAP/Capitol CMG Genesis, ASCAP/Songs Of Brett, REDNECKER Buzz Light Beer Music, ASCAP/ ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Music Of The Corn, ASCAP ATV Countryside, BMI/Songs Of XO, BMI/We In Good ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP (C.Underwood, D.A.Garcia, Downtown DLJ Songs, ASCAP/Relative Music Group, BMI/ (T.Denning, K.Archer, J.Weaver) 58 Company, BMI/Get It Done Music Entertainment Global, Brett James) 14 WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Freshy Music, ASCAP/We-Volve BMI/Sony/ATV Accent, ASCAP/XOXOMG, ASCAP (J. Music, ASCAP (A.Albert, M.Hardy, J.M.Schmidt) 43 ALCOHOL YOU LATER Sony/ATV Countryside, Brunswick, T.Cecil, J.Dreyer, J.Pierce) 52 LOVE YOU TOO LATE Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/Sam Sumser Music, ASCAP/Lava Music, ASCAP/ BMI/Colden Rainey Music, BMI/Sony/ATV Cross Keys ROCKIN’ ALL NIGHT LONG Ole Red Cape Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, ASCAP/Lucky Mic G   Publishing, ASCAP/243 Music, ASCAP/Peermusic III, Songs, ASCAP/Red Like The Sunset Music, ASCAP/Stars Publishing, BMI/Music Of Parallel, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Ltd., BMI/Whiskey Tub Music, BMI (C.Swindell, Michael Ray, And Stripes And Maple Leaf Music, BMI/Crack The Glass 33 Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI (M.Tenpenny, S.Sumser, GIRL International Dog Music, BMI/Downtown DMP B.Kinney)  Songs, BMI/Downtown DMP Songs, BMI/Garda Songs, M.Lotten) 56 Songs, BMI/Sony/ATV Songs LLC, BMI/Sony/ATV Music SESAC/King Pen Songs, SESAC/Songs Of Downtown, Publishing (Australia) Pty Ltd., APRA/EMI April Music, M   SESAC (A.Hambrick, K.Archer, P.Good) 55 ALL TO MYSELF Beats And Banjos, ASCAP/WB Inc., ASCAP/Kurstin Music, ASCAP (M.Morris, S.Aarons, Music Corp., ASCAP/Shay Mooney Music, BMI/Warner- G.Kurstin) 24 MAKE IT SWEET Carrot Seed Songs, ASCAP/WB RUMOR Mike Curb Music, BMI/Curb Songs, ASCAP/ Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/A Girl Named Charlie, Music Corp., ASCAP/Smackville Music, ASCAP/Smack Jacobsong, ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/ BMI/Buckeye26, ASCAP/Jreynmusic, ASCAP (D.Smyers, GIRL GOIN’ NOWHERE Songs Of Song Factory, Songs LLC, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., S.Mooney, N.Galyon, J.Reynolds) 31 BMI/Universal Tunes, SESAC  53 ASCAP/Rezsongs, ASCAP/ReHits Music, Inc., ASCAP/ ASCAP (L.Brice, K.Jacobs, A.Gorley) 20 (A.McBryde, J.Bussey)  Smacktown Music, ASCAP/Smack Blue, LLC, ASCAP/ B   GIRL LIKE YOU Peertunes, Ltd., SESAC/MTNoize, Unfair Entertainment, ASCAP/MeGusta Music, ASCAP/ S   SESAC/Jaron Boyer Music, SESAC/Music Of The Corn, Tiny Handstand, ASCAP/Sharkules Music, ASCAP/ BACK TO LIFE W.B.M. Music Corp., SESAC/ ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP  6 We’re Really Doin’ It Publishing, ASCAP/Smack Hits, SOMEBODY’S DAUGHTER Year Of The Dog (M.Tyler, J.Boyer, J.Mirenda)  GMR/Kobalt Music Group Ltd., GMR (M.Ramsey, T. Rosen, Music, ASCAP/Sony/ATV Story Music Publishing, GMR/We Bennett’s Dad’s Songs, SESAC/Songs Of Rhythm House W.Sellers, G.Sprung, B.Tursi, S.McAnally) 7 Black, SESAC/Niko Moon Publishing, SESAC/Roc Nation GOOD AS YOU Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/ Are Creative Nation, GMR/Be Barry Quiet, BMI/Creative US Music, SESAC/Shay Mooney Music, BMI/Warner- Kane Brown Music, BMI/Don’t Be A Gypsy, BMI/ Pulse Music, BMI/Pulse Nation, BMI (T.Townes, L.Laird, Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Farm Thang Music, Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/BMG Rights MAKE ME WANT TO Red Lining Music, SESAC/ Bary Dean) 30 BMI/Me Gusta Music, BMI (C.R.Barlowe, N.Moon, S.Mooney, Management (UK) Ltd., PRS/You Want How Much Of Sony/ATV Lakeview, SESAC/Amplified Hour Songs, F.Wilhelm) 39 What Publishing, PRS/TDP Publishing, BMI/Track House SESAC/Pedal Down Music, ASCAP/Sounds Of Soperman SOME OF IT Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/Longer Worldwide Entertainment, BMI/Mandy’s Favorite Songs, Music Publishing, ASCAP/Curb Songs, ASCAP/Dreamark And Louder Music, BMI/Mammaw’s Fried Okra Music, BEAUTIFUL CRAZY Big Machine Music, BMI/ BMI (K.Brown, B.Berryhill, S.Carter, T.Phillips, W.Weatherly) 11 Publishing, ASCAP (J.Allen, P.Sikes, J.Denmark) 51 BMI/Little Louder Songs, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Egg Music, BMI/Straight Dimes Publishing, BMI/Works Publishing America, Inc., BMI/New Writers Of Sea Gayle Of RHA Music, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing GOOD VIBES ole Red Vinyl Music, BMI/Spirit Two MILLIONAIRE Universal Tunes, SESAC/Spur 66 Music, BMI/Not A Track Guy Music, BMI (E.Church, J.Hyde, Corp., BMI/Rowdy Rob Music, BMI (L.Combs, W.B.Durrette, Nashville, ASCAP/Miller Crow Music, ASCAP/Round Hill Music, SESAC (K.Welch) 2 C.Daniels, B.Pinson) 25 R.Williford) 1 Songs II, ASCAP/Caleb’s College Fund, ASCAP (C.Janson, Z.Crowell, A.Gorley) 48 MISS ME MORE Songs Of Black River, ASCAP/KNB SOMEONE I USED TO KNOW Weimerhound BETTER OFF GONE Year Of The Dog Music, Music, ASCAP/3 Weddings Music, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music, BMI/Day For The Dead Publishing, SESAC/Reach ASCAP/Shakapublishing, ASCAP/Downtown DLJ Songs, Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI/EMI April Music, Inc., Music Tunes, SESAC/Andrew Watt Music, BMI/Songs Of ASCAP (A.Stoklasa, D.Woods) 60 H   ASCAP/Bob Ochoa’s Homemade Salsa, ASCAP (K.Ballerini, Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI/Siva Moon D.H.Hodges, B.McLaughlin) 12 Publishing, SESAC/W.B.M. Music Corp., SESAC/Simonetti HERE TONIGHT Super Big Music, ASCAP/ Music Publishing, SESAC/Kobalt Group Music Publishing, BUY MY OWN DRINKS BMG Platinum Songs, Caliville Publishing, ASCAP/Songs Of Black River, SESAC/Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Mendes Music, BMI BMI/BMG Silver Songs, SESAC/BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP/ ASCAP/Wordspring Music, LLC, SESAC/Memory Days, N   (Z.A.Brown, A.Wotman, N.Moon, B.Simonetti, S.Mendes) 59 Rezonate Music, ASCAP/BIRB Music, ASCAP/Champagne SESAC/W.B.M. Music Corp., SESAC/The Best I Could Do Whiskey Publishing, ASCAP/Downtown DLJ Songs, Publishing, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP (B.Young, NIGHT SHIFT Maxx Music, BMI/Let The Road Pave ASCAP/Legends Of Magic Mustang Music, SESAC/Music B.Caver, J.Ebach, C.Kelley) 3 Itself, BMI/Razor And Tie Music Publishing, BMI/Mike T   Of Platinum Pen, SESAC/Wild Wild West Songs, SESAC/ Curb Music, BMI/Rain Town Music, BMI (T.Brown, P.LaRue, Thunder Cookie, SESAC/Magic Mustang Music Inc., BMI/ B.Montana) 13 TALK YOU OUT OF IT Relative Music Group, Songwriters of Platinum Pen Publishing, BMI/Hannah HOW DOES IT SOUND Two Black Dogs, ASCAP/ BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., Mulholland Music, BMI (H.Mulholland, J.Wayne, N.Cooke, Sony/ATV Cross Keys Publishing, ASCAP/Songs For BMI/Who Wants To Buy My Publishing, ASCAP/WB Music 28 Buddy.ASCAP/Songs From The Rose Hotel, ASCAP/WB NOTHING TO DO TOWN Curb Songs, ASCAP/ H.Lindsey, J.Kear)  Music Corp., ASCAP  47 Curb Congregation Songs, SESAC/Music Good Vibes Corp., ASCAP/Highly Combustible Music, ASCAP/One77 (D.Schneider, J.Johnston, C.Crowder)  Publishing, BMI/Good Times Music, SESAC/Universal Songs, ASCAP/Castle Bound Music, Inc., SESAC (M.Hardy, C   Music Corp., ASCAP/No Bridge Publishing, ASCAP (D. H.Phelps, J.Rogers, A.Vanderheym) 22 I   Scott, M.Alderman, C.Taylor) 50 CAUGHT UP IN THE COUNTRY WB Music THERE WAS THIS GIRL Riley Green Publishing Corp., ASCAP/Freshy Music, ASCAP/We-Volve Music, I DON’T KNOW ABOUT YOU Round Hill O   Designee, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/ ASCAP/Goes Something Like THIS Music, BMI/Warner- Songs II, ASCAP/Caleb’s College Fund, ASCAP/WB Peermusic III, Ltd., BMI/Tawnes Van Hawke Publishing, Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Make It Matter Music, Music Corp., ASCAP/Who Wants To Buy My Publishing, THE ONES THAT DIDN’T MAKE IT BACK BMI (R.Green, Erik Dylan) 4 BMI/Sixteen Stars Music, BMI (C.Harrington, J.M.Schmidt, ASCAP/Relative Music Group, BMI/One77 Songs, ASCAP/ HOME Big Music Machine, BMI/Double Barrel Ace M.Walker) 23 Highly Combustible Music, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, ASCAP (A.Gorley, M.Hardy, H.Phelps, Music, BMI/Universal Music Corp., ASCAP/Paulywood THIS IS IT Dagum Music, BMI/Austintatious Tunes, 41 Music, ASCAP/Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Plum Nelly, BMI/Spirit Two Nashville, ASCAP/Fluid Tunes, ASCAP/ CLOSER TO YOU BIRB Music, ASCAP/BMG Gold J.Rodgers)  BMI/Ole Red Cape Songs, ASCAP/Real Big Red Tunes, Smackville Music, ASCAP/Smack Songs LLC, ASCAP/Ice Songs, ASCAP/1217 Songs, ASCAP/Still Working For The ASCAP (J.Moore, P.DiGiovanni, C.McGill, J.S.Stover) 35 House Tunes, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, I DON’T REMEMBER ME (BEFORE YOU) ASCAP (S.McCreery, F.Rogers, A.Eshuis) 8 Woman, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, Trampy McCauley, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/ ASCAP/Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Low Z Music, BMI (H. Songstein Publishing, ASCAP/All The Kings Pens, ASCAP/ ONE THAT GOT AWAY Downtown DMP Songs, Lindsey, G.Sampson, T.Verges) 38 Round Hill Songs BLS JV, ASCAP/Big Loud Proud Songs, BMI/Telemitry Productions, BMI/ReHits Music, Inc., THOUGHT ABOUT YOU Warner-Tamerlane ASCAP/Matt Drag Music, ASCAP/Smack Hits, GMR/ ASCAP/Smacktown Music, ASCAP/Carrot Seed Songs, Publishing Corp., BMI/The Country And Western Music, D   Smack Songs LLC, GMR/Kobalt Music Group Ltd., GMR (J. ASCAP/Smack Songs LLC, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music BMI/Round Hill Works, BMI/Big Loud Proud Crowd, BMI/ Osborne, T.J. Osborne, M.Dragstrem, S.McAnally) 44 Publishing LLC, ASCAP/Anderson Fork In The Road Music, Big Loud Brad Music, BMI/Big Loud Brett Songs, BMI DAY DRUNK Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., ASCAP/Smackville Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/ (L.T.Miller, B.Warren, B.D.Warren) 42 BMI/SongsbyME, BMI/EMI April Music, Inc., ASCAP/CDS Sony/ATV Cross Keys Publishing, ASCAP (J.Frasure, T. Words And Music, ASCAP/Hey Kiddo Music, ASCAP/ L   Rosen, M.Ramsey, J.Osborne) 5 TO A T Universal Music Corp., ASCAP/Lake Allegan Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, ASCAP (M.Evans, C. Pub Club, ASCAP/Red Like The Sunset Music, ASCAP/ DeStefano, L.Robbins) 37 LADIES IN THE ‘90S Warner-Tamerlane ON MY WAY TO YOU WB Music Corp., ASCAP/ Spicer And Everyting Nicer, ASCAP/Ole Red Cape Songs, Publishing Corp., BMI/Lylas Music, BMI/Songs Of Roc Songs Of Brett, ASCAP/Atlas Music Publishing, ASCAP/ ASCAP/Big Music Machine, BMI/Never Veltz So Good Nation Music, BMI/Telemitry Rhythm House Music, BMI/ Publishing, BMI (R.J.Hurd, N.Spicer, L.Veltz) 57 DOWN TO THE HONKYTONK Round Hill WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Cookie Jar Music LLP, PRS (Lauren External Combustion Music, ASCAP/BMG Gold Songs, Works, BMI/Big Loud Proud Crowd, BMI/Round Hill Alaina, J.Frasure, A.Wadge) 45 ASCAP/Heytone Music, ASCAP (Brett James, T.Lane) 15 Compositions, BMI/Shirt At Work, BMI/Sony/ATV Story W   Music Publishing, GMR/We Are Creative Nation, GMR/ LIVING EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Plain Jane P   Smack Hits, GMR/Smack Songs LLC, GMR/Kobalt Music Songs, BMI/Rezolant Music, BMI/EMI April Music, Inc., WHAT HAPPENS IN A SMALL TOWN Group Ltd., GMR (R.Clawson, L.Laird, S.McAnally) 10 ASCAP/Nite Writer Music, ASCAP/Combustion Engine PRAYED FOR YOU Pedal Down Music, ASCAP/ Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Indiana Angel Music, ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/WB Music Big Spaces Music, BMI/Tunes Of Big Deal Music, SESAC/ Music, BMI/Ritten by Rhettro, BMI/Don’t Be A Gypsy, E   Corp., ASCAP/DudeTunes, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Songs Of Porterfied Music, SESAC/Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI/Revelry Music, BMI/Badlandsmgmt, BMI/Songs Of BMI/Sony/ATV Accent, ASCAP  49 Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI (B.Gilbert, Publishing LLC, ASCAP (R.Copperman, J.M.Nite, A.Gorley, (M.Stell, A.Bowers, A.Veltz)  27 EVERY LITTLE HONKY TONK BAR Day D.Bentley) 46 R.Akins, B.Berryhill, J.Dunne)  Money Music, ASCAP/HoriPro Entertainment Group, R   Inc., ASCAP/Living For The Night Music, BMI/HoriPro LOOK WHAT GOD GAVE HER EMI WHAT WHISKEY DOES EMI Blackwood Music Entertainment Group, Inc., BMI/Ohio Creek Music, BMI/ Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Cricket On The Line, BMI/ RAINBOW HappyGoWrucke, BMI/Creative Pulse Inc., BMI/Little Britches Music, BMI/Gattis Music, BMI/ Dean’s Cabin Publishing, LLC, BMI (G.Strait, B.Strait, Ritten by Rhettro, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Music, BMI/These Are Pulse Songs, BMI/Smack Hits, Rezonate Music, ASCAP/BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP/BIRB D.Dillon) 21 Corp., BMI/Music Of Big Family, BMI/Dragon Bunny GMR/Smack Songs LLC, GMR/Kobalt Music Group Ltd., Music, ASCAP (R.Houser, K.Gattis, H.Lindsey) 32 Music, BMI/Don Wyan Music, BMI/Maru La La, BMI/ GMR/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/351 Music, EVERY LITTLE THING BMG Platinum Songs, MaruSongs, LLC, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing BMI/EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI (N.Hemby, S.McAnally, WHISKEY GLASSES Warner-Tamerlane BMI/Kailey’s Dream, BMI/So Essential Tunes, SESAC/Not America, Inc., BMI/Rap Kingpin Music, ASCAP/ K.Musgraves) 34 Publishing Corp., BMI/Mr. Buck Lucky, BMI/Bump Into Just Another Song Publishing, SESAC/Hillbilly Science Prescription Songs, LLC., ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Genius Music, BMI/Sony/ATV Allegro, ASCAP/Over- And Research Publishing, SESAC/Trailerlily Music, SESAC Publishing LLC, ASCAP (Thomas Rhett, R.Akins, J.Bunetta, Thought Under-Appreciated Songs, ASCAP/Rezven  40 J.K.Hindlin, A.Malik, J.H.Ryan) 18 Music, ASCAP/Moving Targest In The Dark, ASCAP (B. (R.Dickerson, P.Welling, C.Brown)  Burgess, K.Kadish) 17 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE MARCH 25, 2019 | PAGE 18 OF 19 Hot Country Songs Index

TITLE Publishing-Licensing Org. FRIENDS DON’T Super Big Music, ASCAP/Seven MEANT TO BE BMG Platinum Songs, BMI/ SOME OF IT Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/Longer (Songwriter) Chart Position Red Brids Publishing, ASCAP/Jehovah Nissi, BMI/Big Big Loud Mountain, BMI/Kiss Me If You Can Music, And Louder Music, BMI/Mammaw’s Fried Okra Music, Machine Music, BMI/EMI April Music, Inc., ASCAP/Memory BMI/T Hubb Publishing, BMI/Round Hill Works, BMI/ BMI/Little Louder Songs, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music A   Days, SESAC/Wordspring Music, LLC, SESAC/W.B.M. Music Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Songs Of Publishing America, Inc., BMI/New Writers Of Sea Gayle Corp., SESAC/Nite Writer Music, ASCAP (M.Marlow, T.Dye, The Corn, BMI/Jack 10 Publishing, BMI/Universal Music Music, BMI/Not A Track Guy Music, BMI (E.Church, J.Hyde, ALL TO MYSELF Beats And Banjos, ASCAP/WB J.M.Nite, J.Ebach) 47 - Brentwood Benson Publishing, ASCAP/D Soul Music, C.Daniels, B.Pinson) 34 Music Corp., ASCAP/Shay Mooney Music, BMI/Warner- ASCAP/Capitol CMG Genesis, ASCAP (B.Rexha, T.Hubbard, Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/A Girl Named Charlie, G   J.Miller, D.A.Garcia) 3 SPEECHLESS Beats And Banjos, ASCAP/WB BMI/Buckeye26, ASCAP/Jreynmusic, ASCAP  Music Corp., ASCAP/Shay Mooney Music, BMI/Warner- (D.Smyers, GIRL International Dog Music, BMI/Downtown DMP S.Mooney, N.Galyon, J.Reynolds) 32 MILLIONAIRE Universal Tunes, SESAC/Spur 66 Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Buckeye26, ASCAP/ Songs, BMI/Sony/ATV Songs LLC, BMI/Sony/ATV Music Music, SESAC (K.Welch) 4 Jreynmusic, ASCAP/Big Music Machine, BMI/Never Veltz B   Publishing (Australia) Pty Ltd., APRA/EMI April Music, So Good Publishing, BMI (D.Smyers, S.Mooney, J.Reynolds, Inc., ASCAP/Kurstin Music, ASCAP (M.Morris, S.Aarons, MISS ME MORE Songs Of Black River, ASCAP/KNB L.Veltz) 5 BACK TO LIFE W.B.M. Music Corp., SESAC/ G.Kurstin) 18 Music, ASCAP/3 Weddings Music, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Bennett’s Dad’s Songs, SESAC/Songs Of Rhythm House Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI/EMI April Music, Inc., T   Black, SESAC/Niko Moon Publishing, SESAC/Roc Nation GOOD AS YOU Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/ ASCAP/Bob Ochoa’s Homemade Salsa, ASCAP (K.Ballerini, US Music, SESAC/Shay Mooney Music, BMI/Warner- Kane Brown Music, BMI/Don’t Be A Gypsy, BMI/ D.H.Hodges, B.McLaughlin) 14 TAKE IT FROM ME Ole Red Cape Songs, ASCAP/ Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Farm Thang Music, Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/BMG Rights Jordan Davis Music, ASCAP/ReHits Music, Inc., ASCAP/ BMI/Me Gusta Music, BMI (C.R.Barlowe, N.Moon, S.Mooney, Management (UK) Ltd., PRS/You Want How Much Of N   MeGusta Music, ASCAP/Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/ F.Wilhelm) 49 What Publishing, PRS/TDP Publishing, BMI/Track House Songs Of Red Bandana, BMI (J.Davis, J.Davis, J.Gantt) 8 Worldwide Entertainment, BMI/Mandy’s Favorite Songs, NIGHT SHIFT Maxx Music, BMI/Let The Road Pave BEAUTIFUL CRAZY Big Machine Music, BMI/ BMI (K.Brown, B.Berryhill, S.Carter, T.Phillips, W.Weatherly) 10 Itself, BMI/Razor And Tie Music Publishing, BMI/Mike TALK YOU OUT OF IT Relative Music Group, Egg Music, BMI/Straight Dimes Publishing, BMI/Works Curb Music, BMI/Rain Town Music, BMI (T.Brown, P.LaRue, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., Of RHA Music, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing H   B.Montana) 19 BMI/Who Wants To Buy My Publishing, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., BMI/Rowdy Rob Music, BMI  Corp., ASCAP/Highly Combustible Music, ASCAP/One77 (L.Combs, W.B.Durrette, HERE TONIGHT Super Big Music, ASCAP/ O   R.Williford) 1 Songs, ASCAP/Castle Bound Music, Inc., SESAC (M.Hardy, Caliville Publishing, ASCAP/Songs Of Black River, H.Phelps, J.Rogers, A.Vanderheym) 21 ASCAP/Wordspring Music, LLC, SESAC/Memory Days, THE ONES THAT DIDN’T MAKE IT BACK THE BONES International Dog Music, BMI/ HOME Big Music Machine, BMI/Double Barrel Ace Downtown DMP Songs, BMI/Jammy Rabbins Music, SESAC/W.B.M. Music Corp., SESAC/The Best I Could Do TEQUILA WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Beats And Banjos, Publishing, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP (B.Young, Music, BMI/Universal Music Corp., ASCAP/Paulywood ASCAP/Buckeye26, ASCAP/Jreynmusic, ASCAP/Warner- ASCAP/Round Hill Songs Jimmy Robbins, ASCAP/ Music, ASCAP/Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Plum Nelly, Extraordinary Alien Publishing, ASCAP/Oh Denise B.Caver, J.Ebach, C.Kelley) 6 Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/A Girl Named Charlie, BMI/Ole Red Cape Songs, ASCAP/Real Big Red Tunes, BMI (D.Smyers, J.Reynolds, N.Galyon) 2 Publishing, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., ASCAP (J.Moore, P.DiGiovanni, C.McGill, J.S.Stover) 50 BMI/Big Music Machine, BMI  31 I   (M.Morris, J.Robbins, L.Veltz)  THERE WAS THIS GIRL Riley Green Publishing I DON’T KNOW ABOUT YOU Round Hill ONE THAT GOT AWAY Downtown DMP Songs, Designee, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/ BUY MY OWN DRINKS BMG Platinum Songs, BMI/Telemitry Productions, BMI/ReHits Music, Inc., BMI/BMG Silver Songs, SESAC/BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP/ Songs II, ASCAP/Caleb’s College Fund, ASCAP/WB Peermusic III, Ltd., BMI/Tawnes Van Hawke Publishing, Music Corp., ASCAP/Who Wants To Buy My Publishing, ASCAP/Smacktown Music, ASCAP/Carrot Seed Songs, BMI (R.Green, Erik Dylan) 11 Rezonate Music, ASCAP/BIRB Music, ASCAP/Champagne ASCAP/Smack Songs LLC, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Whiskey Publishing, ASCAP/Downtown DLJ Songs, ASCAP/Relative Music Group, BMI/One77 Songs, ASCAP/ Highly Combustible Music, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, ASCAP/Anderson Fork In The Road Music, THIS IS IT Dagum Music, BMI/Austintatious Tunes, ASCAP/Legends Of Magic Mustang Music, SESAC/Music Publishing LLC, ASCAP (A.Gorley, M.Hardy, H.Phelps, ASCAP/Smackville Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/ BMI/Spirit Two Nashville, ASCAP/Fluid Tunes, ASCAP/ Of Platinum Pen, SESAC/Wild Wild West Songs, SESAC/ J.Rodgers) 30 Sony/ATV Cross Keys Publishing, ASCAP (J.Frasure, T. Smackville Music, ASCAP/Smack Songs LLC, ASCAP/Ice Thunder Cookie, SESAC/Magic Mustang Music Inc., BMI/ Rosen, M.Ramsey, J.Osborne) 15 House Tunes, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, Songwriters of Platinum Pen Publishing, BMI/Hannah I HOPE Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI/Revinyl House, ASCAP (S.McCreery, F.Rogers, A.Eshuis) 9 Mulholland Music, BMI (H.Mulholland, J.Wayne, N.Cooke, BMI/EMI April Music, Inc., ASCAP/Nite Writer Music, ON MY WAY TO YOU WB Music Corp., ASCAP/ H.Lindsey, J.Kear) 40 ASCAP/Gabby Barrett Publishing Designee, BMI (Z.Kale, Songs Of Brett, ASCAP/Atlas Music Publishing, ASCAP/ TO A T Universal Music Corp., ASCAP/Lake Allegan J.M.Nite, G.Barrett) 46 External Combustion Music, ASCAP/BMG Gold Songs, Pub Club, ASCAP/Red Like The Sunset Music, ASCAP/ C   ASCAP/Heytone Music, ASCAP (Brett James, T.Lane) 22 Spicer And Everyting Nicer, ASCAP/Ole Red Cape Songs, L   CAUGHT UP IN THE COUNTRY WB Music ASCAP/Big Music Machine, BMI/Never Veltz So Good R   Publishing, BMI (R.J.Hurd, N.Spicer, L.Veltz) 45 Corp., ASCAP/Freshy Music, ASCAP/We-Volve Music, LOOK WHAT GOD GAVE HER EMI ASCAP/Goes Something Like THIS Music, BMI/Warner- Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Cricket On The Line, BMI/ RAINBOW HappyGoWrucke, BMI/Creative Pulse W   Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Make It Matter Music, Ritten by Rhettro, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Music, BMI/These Are Pulse Songs, BMI/Smack Hits, BMI/Sixteen Stars Music, BMI (C.Harrington, J.M.Schmidt, Corp., BMI/Music Of Big Family, BMI/Dragon Bunny GMR/Smack Songs LLC, GMR/Kobalt Music Group Ltd., THE WEIGHT OF THE BADGE Day Money M.Walker) 26 Music, BMI/Don Wyan Music, BMI/Maru La La, BMI/ GMR/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/351 Music, Music, ASCAP/HoriPro Entertainment Group, Inc., ASCAP/ MaruSongs, LLC, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing BMI/EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI (N.Hemby, S.McAnally, Living For The Night Music, BMI/HoriPro Entertainment CLOSER TO YOU BIRB Music, ASCAP/BMG Gold America, Inc., BMI/Rap Kingpin Music, ASCAP/ K.Musgraves) 28 Group, Inc., BMI/Ohio Creek Music, BMI/Dean’s Cabin Songs, ASCAP/1217 Songs, ASCAP/Still Working For The Prescription Songs, LLC., ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Publishing, LLC, BMI (G.Strait, B.Strait, D.Dillon) 43 Woman, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, Publishing LLC, ASCAP (Thomas Rhett, R.Akins, J.Bunetta, RAISED ON COUNTRY Songs Of Universal, ASCAP/Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Low Z Music, BMI (H. J.K.Hindlin, A.Malik, J.H.Ryan) 16 Inc., BMI/They’ve Gone To Plaid Publishing, BMI/W.B.M. WHAT HAPPENS IN A SMALL TOWN Lindsey, G.Sampson, T.Verges) 42 Music Corp., SESAC/Roc Nation US Music, SESAC/Songs Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Indiana Angel LOVE AIN’T EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Plain Of Rhythm House Black, SESAC/Bennett’s Dad’s Songs, Music, BMI/Ritten by Rhettro, BMI/Don’t Be A Gypsy, D   Jane Songs, BMI/Rezolant Music, BMI/Combustion SESAC/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Georgia Song Vibez, BMI/Revelry Music, BMI/Badlandsmgmt, BMI/Songs Of DOWN TO THE HONKYTONK Round Hill Engine Music, ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/WB ASCAP/Big Crowd Publishing, ASCAP (C.Young, C.R.Barlowe, Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI (B.Gilbert, Works, BMI/Big Loud Proud Crowd, BMI/Round Hill Music Corp., ASCAP/Smack Hits, GMR/Smack Songs LLC, C.Crowder) 33 R.Akins, B.Berryhill, J.Dunne) 35 Compositions, BMI/Shirt At Work, BMI/Sony/ATV Story GMR/Kobalt Music Group Ltd., GMR (R.Copperman, A.Gorley, S.McAnally) 25 REARVIEW TOWN Songs Of Peer Ltd., ASCAP/ WHAT MAKES YOU COUNTRY Sony/ATV Music Publishing, GMR/We Are Creative Nation, GMR/ Team Thrash, ASCAP/Songs Of Peer, BMI/New Writers Tree Publishing, BMI/Peanut Mill Songs, BMI/Round Smack Hits, GMR/Smack Songs LLC, GMR/Kobalt Music LOVE SOMEONE Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI/Paris Of Sea Gayle Music, BMI/Not A Track Guy Music, BMI/ Hill Compositions, BMI/Natalia’s Music Money, BMI/ Group Ltd., GMR (R.Clawson, L.Laird, S.McAnally) 17 Not France Music, BMI/EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/ New House Of Sea Gayle Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Own My Own Music Publishing, ASCAP  ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite Songs, ASCAP  E   Rezolant Music, BMI/Plain Jane Songs, BMI/Sony/ATV (N.Thrasher, (L.Bryan, D.Davidson, Tree Publishing, BMI/Heather Feather Songs, BMI (B. B.Pinson, K.Lovelace) 39 A.Gorley) 24 EVERY LITTLE HONKY TONK BAR Day Eldredge, R.Copperman, H.Morgan) 27 Money Music, ASCAP/HoriPro Entertainment Group, REDNECKER Buzz Light Beer Music, ASCAP/ WHAT WHISKEY DOES EMI Blackwood Music Inc., ASCAP/Living For The Night Music, BMI/HoriPro LOVE WINS Carrie-Okie Music, BMI/Universal Music Downtown DLJ Songs, ASCAP/Relative Music Group, BMI/ Inc., BMI/Little Britches Music, BMI/Gattis Music, BMI/ Entertainment Group, Inc., BMI/Ohio Creek Music, BMI/ - Brentwood Benson Publishing, ASCAP/D Soul Music, WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Freshy Music, ASCAP/We-Volve Rezonate Music, ASCAP/BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP/BIRB Dean’s Cabin Publishing, LLC, BMI (G.Strait, B.Strait, ASCAP/Capitol CMG Genesis, ASCAP/Songs Of Brett, Music, ASCAP (A.Albert, M.Hardy, J.M.Schmidt) 41 Music, ASCAP (R.Houser, K.Gattis, H.Lindsey) 48 D.Dillon) 29 ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP (C.Underwood, D.A.Garcia, Brett James) 23 RIDIN’ ROADS Magic Mustang Music Inc., BMI/ WHISKEY GLASSES Warner-Tamerlane EYES ON YOU Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI/Dack Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Round Hill Publishing Corp., BMI/Mr. Buck Lucky, BMI/Bump Into Janiel’s Publishing, BMI/EMI April Music, Inc., ASCAP/ LOVE YOU TOO LATE Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, Songs II, ASCAP/Caleb’s College Fund, ASCAP/Spirit Two Genius Music, BMI/Sony/ATV Allegro, ASCAP/Over- CDS Words And Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/ BMI/Colden Rainey Music, BMI/Sony/ATV Cross Keys Nashville, ASCAP/Miller Crow Music, ASCAP/Kyler’s Kinda Thought Under-Appreciated Songs, ASCAP/Rezven Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite Publishing, ASCAP/243 Music, ASCAP/Peermusic III, Night, ASCAP (D.Lynch, A.Gorley, Z.Crowell) 37 Music, ASCAP/Moving Targest In The Dark, ASCAP (B. Songs, ASCAP (C.Rice, C. DeStefano, A.Gorley) 7 Ltd., BMI/Whiskey Tub Music, BMI (C.Swindell, Michael Ray, Burgess, K.Kadish) 12 B.Kinney) 38 RUMOR Mike Curb Music, BMI/Curb Songs, ASCAP/ Jacobsong, ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/ F   M   Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., FEELS LIKE A PARTY ole Purple Cape Music, ASCAP (L.Brice, K.Jacobs, A.Gorley) 20 BMI/Mars Marley Music, BMI/Big Loud Mountain, BMI/ MAKE IT SWEET Carrot Seed Songs, ASCAP/WB Round Hill Works, BMI/T Hubb Publishing, BMI/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Smackville Music, ASCAP/Smack S   Music Corp., ASCAP/Georgia Song Vibez, ASCAP/Big Songs LLC, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, ASCAP/Rezsongs, ASCAP/ReHits Music, Inc., ASCAP/ SOMEBODY’S DAUGHTER Year Of The Dog Crowd Publishing, ASCAP (P.Brust, C.Lucas, T.Hubbard, Music, ASCAP/Sony/ATV Story Music Publishing, GMR/We C.Crowder) 44 Smacktown Music, ASCAP/Smack Blue, LLC, ASCAP/ Unfair Entertainment, ASCAP/MeGusta Music, ASCAP/ Are Creative Nation, GMR/Be Barry Quiet, BMI/Creative Tiny Handstand, ASCAP/Sharkules Music, ASCAP/ Pulse Music, BMI/Pulse Nation, BMI (T.Townes, L.Laird, We’re Really Doin’ It Publishing, ASCAP/Smack Hits, Bary Dean) 36 GMR/Kobalt Music Group Ltd., GMR (M.Ramsey, T. Rosen, W.Sellers, G.Sprung, B.Tursi, S.McAnally) 13 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE MARCH 25, 2019 | PAGE 19 OF 19 CODA 10 Years Ago Darius Rucker Got Another ‘Like’ From Country Radio In 2009, the Hootie & The Blowfish frontman scored his second No. 1 country single

On March 28, 2009, Darius Rucker’s second single from his debut country recent single, “For the First Time,” “It Won’t Be Like This for Long” began album, Learn to Live, which arrived led Country Airplay in June 2018 and a three-week reign — his longest — on at No. 1 on Top Country Albums in reached No. 7 on Hot Country Songs. Hot Country Songs. October 2008. Learn to Live produced Hootie & The Blowfish, which Rucker was already well established three Hot Country Songs leaders, with signed to Universal Music Group as the leader of pop-rock outfit “Don’t Think I Don’t Think About Nashville in December, have been on Hootie & The Blowfish, the owners It” and “Alright” bookending “Like.” hiatus for 10 years. However, Rucker, of two Billboard 200 No. 1s. “Like,” The Charleston, S.C.-born singer- 52, is embarking on a tour with them which Rucker wrote with Chris DuBois songwriter has rolled up six leaders beginning in May. and Ashley Gorley, was released as the on the list among 10 top 10s. His most —JIM ASKER

Rucker at the 44th annual Academy of Country Music Awards in April 2009.

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