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Radio Woes: Citadel Actress Brittany Murphy Files Bankruptcy Dead At 32 Citadel Broadcasting Actress Brittany Murphy, filed for bankruptcy known for roles in romantic yesterday and comedies starting with the announced plans to ‘90s hit Clueless, died Sunday reorganize. The radio morning at her Los Angeles station owner is trading controlling interest home. She was 32. in the company to its creditors in exchange The LA County coroner Brittany Murphy for a write-down on about $1.4 billion in debt. says her death appears to be from natural Citadel says normal operations will continue causes, adding that foul play is not suspected, at its over 220 stations during the bankruptcy and that her “medical history” may have and reorganization process. been a factor. The company took on a great deal of debt Following her breakout role in Clueless, when it purchased ABC Radio Networks a few Murphy moved on up to Uptown Girls, Just years ago. Adding to its financial problems Married, and more serious roles in Girl, was a significant decrease in advertising Interrupted and 8 Mile. revenues. Citadel also experienced a 14 She also appeared in the Sylvester percent revenue drop in the third quarter, Stallone film The Expendables, which is which equated to a $21.3 million loss. scheduled to be released next year. The radio business as a whole is struggling. Colorado company NextMedia is in a situation similar to Citadel, but on a smaller scale. Spin Zone by Jon Freeman NextMedia filed for bankruptcy protection Here we have it, the final Country- under a pre-arranged plan that will hand Breakout™ Chart of 2009. Before I launch over control to its creditors. The privately into my usual spin and trend analysis, I’d held company owns 36 stations. like to update readers on some important The New York Times reports that Clear changes with MusicRow and the chart. Channel Communications sold $2.5 billion Our first chart edition of 2010 will be in bonds last week through its Clear Channel compiled on Thursday, January 7 so reporting Outdoor affiliate, which will go toward paying will open at the beginning of that week down some of its debt. (Jan 4). In order to keep the information

as timely as possible, the radio-oriented version of @MusicRow Week-At-A-Glance (featuring the chart, data lists, etc.) will now appear on Fridays instead of Mondays. We will no longer publish @MusicRow on Monday, as we move to a twice a week schedule Wednesdays and Fridays. Secondly, there are criteria updates for our radio reporting panel. Reporters will be expected to maintain between 35-70 currents in rotation, and only songs spinning 5 times or more per week will count toward the current requirement. Songs Click to see MusicRow Calendars spinning less than 5 times per week will not be considered in rotation. This will likely affect some of the current panel membership, and announcements about panel departures/ additions will be made in early January. Additionally, panel members will from time to time randomly be asked to supply music scheduling logs to us for comparison and verification of their submitted spins. We thank you all for your support, and look forward to seeing you in 2010! #1 Reba "Consider Me Gone" Starstruck/Valory Music Co. In the final CountryBreakout™ Chart installment of 2009, Reba’s “Consider Me Gone” regains the No. 1 spot after falling Going For Adds Lady Antebellum/American Honey/ to the No. 2 spot for two weeks. In talking January 4 Capitol about her current Valory/Starstruck album Alan Jackson/It’s Just That Way/ Keep On Loving You, produced with Tony Arista February 1 Brown and Mark Wright, Reba touts the benefits of scaling back. “I always Taylor Swift/Fearless/Big Machine Sammy Kershaw/Better Than I thought bigger was better, but I like the intimacy of staying out there Rascal Flatts/Unstoppable/Lyric Used To Be/Big Hit Records onstage with my fans instead of going back and changing clothes fifteen Street times,” she says. “I like that fourth wall being broken. I like what I’m February 8 wearing and how I’m wearing my hair. I wear my cowboy boots and they January 11 Brady Seals/Been There Drunk are more me than any other look I’ve ever had in my 33-year career.” Steve Azar/Sunshine/Ride Records That/StarCity/Nine North Reba’s 2010 North American tour with George Strait kicks off January 22 in Baltimore and closes April 10 in Des Moines.

In the final chart edition of 2009, we end the year with with “What’s On My Mind,” a first chart entry for the Reba’s “Consider Me Gone” back at No. 1. Reba previously Shongaloo Records singer. Many other artists supported by had the No. 1 two weeks ago, but was interrupted for two chart independent labels dot the top 40, including Houston cycles by Dierks Bentley’s “I Wanna Make You Close Your County (Stroudavarious), Burns & Poe (Blue Steel), Eyes,” which slips back to No. 2. Positions 3 through 7 remain SingleTree (Big 7), and Williams Riley (Golden). unchanged, with Darius Rucker, Tim McGraw, Miranda Lambert, Toby Keith and George Strait all still showing Frozen Playlists: KCJC, KMKS, KNAH, KNCQ, KVOM, KXKZ, KYKX, strong growth. KZPK, WJMQ, WQSI, WTRS Brad Paisley’s “American Saturday Night” and Keith New On The Chart—Debuting This Week Urban’s “‘Til Summer Comes Around” are neck and neck at Artist/song/label chart pos. No. 13 and 14, respectively. Both picked up over 200 spins, Brad Wolf/Tan Lines/Evergreen ...... 68 Hank Williams Jr./All The Roads/Curb ...... 71 and look to be positioned for chart domination in early 2010. Sean Hogan/Heartbreak Song/Lakeland Heart ...... 73 Outdoing both in the spin gains department is Carrie Jordan Carter/John Deere Letter ...... 74 Underwood’s “Temporary Home,” currently at No. 32 and rising. Clay Walker/She Won't Be Lonely Long/Curb ...... 75 As always, there are quite a few artists from smaller Lucky Seven Greatest Spin Increase independent labels getting some listener ears. Cody McCarver Artist/song/label spin+ has always fared well on this chart, and his “White Trash With Carrie Underwood/Temporary Home/Arista ...... 288 Money” moves up to No. 25. BamaJam Records artist Matt Keith Urban/Til Summer Comes Around/Capitol ...... 280 Toby Keith/Cryin' For Me (Wayman's Song)/Show Dog...... 233 Kennon is part of a larger (but still independent) label family Brad Paisley/American Saturday Night/Arista ...... 230 related to Stroudavarious Records. His song “The Call” is at Taylor Swift/Fearless/Big Machine ...... 228 No. 30 and becoming a sensation at secondary and major Love and Theft/Dancing In Circles/Lyric Street ...... 224 market radio. Just behind Kennon at No. 31 is Bekka Bramlett Lady Antebellum/American Honey/Capitol ...... 221 On Deck—Soon To Be Charting Artist/song/label spins Amanda Henkel/Break My Stride/PLC ...... 244 Greatest Spin Gain Anna Garrott/What A Way To Go/Blue Steel ...... 244 Taylor Swift/Fearless/Big Machine ...... 228 The New Relics/Beautiful/Spinville/Blues Alley ...... 215 Lady Antebellum/American Honey/Capitol ...... 211 Carrie Underwood Nathan Lee Jackson/Desperate Man/Star City/Nine North ...... 193 "Temporary Home" Ty Williams/Barn On The Rooftop/Cherry Heart ...... 191 Arista Nashville/19 Records Chris Filer/Joy Ride ...... 187 Veronica Ballestrini/Out There Somewhere/TimBob ...... 181 For the second consecutive week, Carrie Telluride/Stay/American Roots/Quarterback ...... 180 Underwood’s “Temporary Home” is the CountryBreakout™ Chart’s Greatest Spin Two Week Most Added* Gain. Programmers are latching onto the Artist/song/label new adds song, giving it 288 new spins and moving it Alan Jackson/It's Just That Way/Arista ...... 40 to No. 32. Underwood recently received the Carrie Underwood/Temporary Home/Arista ...... 39 2009 Harmony Award at the Symphony Ball’s Love and Theft/Dancing In Circles/Lyric Street ...... 36 25th anniversary event on Saturday, December 12. The Harmony Award Zac Brown Band/Highway 20 Ride/Atlantic/Bigger Picture ...... 32 is presented annually at Nashville’s Symphony Ball to individuals who Taylor Swift/Fearless/Big Machine ...... 20 have demonstrated continued interest and support of music in Nashville. Lady Antebellum/American Honey/Capitol ...... 18 Underwood will further that support in 2010, when her 45 date Play On The Band Perry/Hip To My Heart/Republic Nashville ...... 18 Tour launches in Reading, PA March 11 with Craig Morgan and Sons of Chris Young/The Man I Want To Be/RCA ...... 17 Sylvia supporting. Brad Wolf/Tan Lines/Evergreen ...... 16 *Total Adds rec’d over two weeks

Momentum Mover Power Chart Debut Alan Jackson Brad Wolf "It's Just That Way" "Tan Lines" Arista Nashville Warner Music Nashville It’s nice to know you can depend on some Singer/Guitarist Brad Wolf’s “Tan Lines” things. Take Alan Jackson, for instance. His has quietly but quickly been making upward steady, workman-like output consistently progress on the CountryBreakout™ Chart. puts his albums and singles in the upper This week it has broken through, after a reaches of the charts and earns him gain of 71 spins, to become the week’s numerous nominations at awards shows. His biggest debut at No. 68. The Caryville, latest, “It’s Just That Way,” is slated to go Tennessee native originally came to Nashville for adds on January 4, but CountryBreakout™ panelists have already for a weekend, hoping to hear some great music, and decided to stay. His begun spinning it enthusiastically. The comfortable love song bears the formidable guitar skills and presence in Nashville’s fabled honky-tonks Jackson signature style and will appear on his upcoming 2010 album helped Wolf land a publishing deal with Warner-Chappell, and later, release. Jackson’s most recent release, Songs of Love and Heartache, sideman gigs with Marty Brown and Vern Gosdin. A brief involvement was a Cracker Barrel exclusive featuring two previously unreleased with Warner Bros. followed, during which Wolf released the single songs. The CD was part of the Alan Jackson Collection, a complete line “Strictly Business”—used to soundtrack parts of The Apprentice TV of merchandise including clothing, food items and collectibles, show. Wolf’s major label deal ultimately didn’t work out but he is back developed around the singer. on the scene with a new team and single. “I’ve lived every emotion there is,” says Wolf, “and I put everything I’ve lived into my songs.”

Weeks Last Wk This Wk Spins/ % Spin Spins Last Wk On Chart Position Position Artist/Song/Label Repts Power +- # Spins

20 2 1 Reba/Consider Me Gone/Starstruck/Valory 3925/105 2 63 3862 22 1 2 Dierks Bentley/I Wanna Make You Close Your Eyes/Capitol 3815/103 -1 -58 3873 16 3 3 Darius Rucker/History In The Making/Capitol 3614/105 1 22 3592 14 4 4 Tim McGraw/Southern Voice/Curb 3386/96 1 21 3365 18 5 5 Miranda Lambert/White Liar/Columbia 3260/94 3 110 3150 10 6 6 Toby Keith/Cryin' For Me (Wayman's Song)/Show Dog Nashville 3161/103 8 233 2928 11 7 7 George Strait/Twang/MCA 2923/94 2 69 2854 13 9 8 Jason Aldean/The Truth/Broken Bow 2860/93 7 176 2684 14 10 9 Billy Currington/That's How Country Boys Roll/Mercury 2737/93 2 64 2673 26 8 10 Sarah Buxton/Outside My Window/Lyric Street 2728/102 1 27 2701 9 12 11 Blake Shelton/Hillbilly Bone/Warner Bros. 2663/105 7 164 2499 16 13 12 Josh Turner/Why Don't We Just Dance/MCA 2531/90 2 42 2489 7 16 13 Brad Paisley/American Saturday Night/Arista 2384/90 11 230 2154 6 19 14 Keith Urban/Til Summer Comes Around/Capitol 2356/100 13 280 2076 10 14 15 Eric Church/Hell On The Heart/Capitol 2304/102 4 97 2207 14 17 16 Gloriana/How Far Do You Wanna Go?/Emblem/Warner Bros. 2185/97 3 58 2127 28 11 17 Jake Owen/Eight Second Ride/RCA 2158/76 -15 -383 2541 11 20 18 Justin Moore/Backwoods/Valory Music 1995/98 2 39 1956 9 22 19 Joe Nichols/Gimmie That Girl/Universal South 1940/100 9 159 1781 19 21 20 Jason Michael Carroll/Hurry Home/Arista 1918/81 1 25 1893 13 24 21 Easton Corbin/A Little More Country Than That/Mercury 1849/81 6 104 1745 14 26 22 Steel Magnolia/Keep On Loving You/Big Machine 1709/88 6 90 1619 12 23 23 Jimmy Wayne feat. Daryl Hall & John Oates/Sara Smile/Valory Music 1700/82 -4 -76 1776 8 27 24 Randy Houser/Whistlin' Dixie/Universal South 1693/94 5 76 1617 19 28 25 Cody McCarver/White Trash With Money/E1/PLC 1655/71 5 73 1582 15 25 26 Phil Vassar/Everywhere I Go/Universal South 1541/77 -8 -138 1679 16 29 27 Josh Thompson/Beer On The Table/Columbia 1509/70 6 90 1419 34 15 28 Luke Bryan/Do I/Capitol 1404/43 -36 -786 2190

Weeks Last Wk This Wk Spins/ % Spin Spins Last Wk On Chart Position Position Artist/Song/Label Repts Power +- # Spins

18 18 29 Lady Antebellum/Need You Now/Capitol 1391/40 -33 -699 2090 11 30 30 Matt Kennon/The Call/BamaJam 1336/82 4 54 1282 18 31 31 Bekka Bramlett/What's On My Mind/Shongaloo Records 1313/57 4 47 1266 3 38 32 Carrie Underwood/Temporary Home/Arista 1310/82 28 288 1022 21 32 33 Keni Thomas/Gunslinger/RBM/Tenacity 1250/58 2 22 1228 3 40 34 Zac Brown Band/Highway 20 Ride/Atlantic 1182/75 20 201 981 14 33 35 Kellie Pickler/Didn't You Know How Much I Loved You/RCA 1170/66 3 33 1137 13 36 36 Houston County/I Can't Make It Rain/Stroudavarious 1165/68 8 88 1077 6 37 37 Burns & Poe/Don't Get No Better Than That/Bluesteel Records 1148/62 12 123 1025 7 39 38 SingleTree/Ms. What's Her Name/Big 7 1114/66 12 118 996 13 35 39 Williams Riley/Country Livin'/Golden Music 1099/70 2 18 1081 15 34 40 Mica Roberts/Days You Live For/Show Dog Nashville 1073/57 -5 -56 1129 3 45 41 Love and Theft/Dancing In Circles/Lyric Street 968/73 30 224 744 10 42 42 Jack Ingram feat. Patty Griffin/Seeing Stars/Big Machine 908/57 3 24 884 4 47 43 Chris Young/The Man I Want To Be/RCA 871/56 23 165 706 4 46 44 The Band Perry/Hip To My Heart/Republic Nashville 836/61 15 108 728 17 44 45 Steve Richard/Stomp/Force MP 769/36 0 0 769 7 49 46 Rodney Atkins/Chasin' Girls/Curb 688/46 2 12 676 5 52 47 Gwen Sebastian/Hard Rain/Lofton Creek / Open Road 676/49 10 60 616 10 50 48 Bomshel/19 & Crazy/Curb 668/41 5 32 636 4 55 49 Montgomery Gentry/Oughta Be More Songs About That/Columbia 656/48 10 58 598 13 51 50 Jeff Sable/Rainy Days at the Beach/American Eagle Recordings 653/34 3 18 635 11 54 51 Richie Fields/Losing You/Joint Journey 622/33 3 21 601 11 53 52 Buddy Jewell/Somebody Who Would Die For You/New Revolution 617/38 2 10 607 10 56 53 Hannah McNeil/What Am I Getting Up For/Red/Jerry Duncan PromoSpinville 586/39 7 36 550 9 57 54 Sammy Sadler with Steve Wariner/I'll Always Have Denver/E1 570/37 8 40 530 3 62 55 Jonathan Singleton & The Grove/Look Who's Back In Love/Universal South 523/42 23 98 425 9 59 56 Bryan White/The Little Things/Just A Pup Records 510/31 5 23 487 5 60 57 Lee Ann Womack/There Is A God/MCA 504/35 4 20 484 2 72 58 Alan Jackson/It's Just That Way/Arista 500/40 61 189 311 5 61 59 Gretchen Wilson/Work Hard, Play Harder/Redneck Records 485/31 6 27 458 3 66 60 Mark Chesnutt/Going On Later On/Lofton Creek 463/32 18 72 391 2 69 61 Jessica Harp/A Woman Needs/Warner Music Nashville 435/35 32 105 330 12 65 62 Dion Pride/We All Gotta Live Here/WeBlast Records 386/23 -3 -10 396 5 67 63 Megan Munroe/Pennies In The Ocean/Diamond 374/23 3 10 364 2 71 64 Mark Wills/Crazy White Boy/Tenacity Records 368/31 18 56 312 5 70 65 Billy Joe Royal/Hard Rock to Roll/ 368/28 12 40 328 4 68 66 Mark Wayne Glasmire/Everything Is Gonna Be Alright/Traceway/Spinville 359/23 6 21 338 2 74 67 Darren Kozelksy/Real Superman/Major 7th/Spinville/Nine North 330/34 15 42 288 1 80 68 Brad Wolf/Tan Lines/Evergreen 324/29 28 71 253 17 41 69 Taylor Swift/Fifteen/Big Machine 313/14 -65 -579 892 2 73 70 Aaron Watson/The Road/Big Label/Edgehill 304/24 4 13 291 1 79 71 Hank Williams Jr./All The Roads/Curb 295/21 15 38 257 15 64 72 Carrie Underwood/Cowboy Casanova/Arista 292/8 -27 -108 400 1 76 73 Sean Hogan/Heartbreak Song/Lakeland Heart Records 284/19 8 20 264 1 83 74 Jordan Carter/John Deere Letter/ 265/17 14 32 233 1 86 75 Clay Walker/She Won't Be Lonely Long/Curb 257/21 24 49 208