CARRIE UNDERWOOD Heartbeat Arista Nashville (SMN)

CONTENTS New music March is on!

— Charts Dear Readers; Hearts are light and there’s a renewed feeling around the CDX building this week as it appears Spring is here (or arriving) and we have an abundance of great music to deliver to country radio. We’ve been hopping from meeting to meeting these past few days and hearing the singles we are servicing in the coming weeks makes us as excited as a March hare. You should be too...great stuff coming! We are also very excited to look at the chart this week and see our customers doing so well on the TRACtion Monitored Chart. We need to point out a few and send out hearty...CONGRATULATIONS to Carrie Underwood and the team at Sony Music Nashville for grabbing the top spot this week with “Heartbeat”. The Most added single to the TRACtion Monitored Chart also makes its chart debut this week… congratulations to the team at EMI Records Nashville and Brothers Osborne (UMGN) for being MOST PAGE 2-4 ADDED (21) and debuting at #48 with “21 Summer”. The GREATEST SPIN GAINER kudos this — week are sent to the Team at Valory Music Co. (BMLG) and Thomas Rhett for their awesome 334 spin increase on “T-Shirt”. Also, congratulations to the following for making their chart debut this week: Chart Breakouts BROTHERS OSBORNE/21 Summer/EMI Records Nashville (UMGN) PAGE 5-6 SAM HUNT/Make You Miss Me/MCA Records (UMGN) — /Southernality/Republic Nashville (BMLG) Currently On CDX MATT GARY/It’s On You/17 Music Entertainment (in2une) PAGE 6 JASON PRITCHETT (FT. BILLY DEAN)/Already A Dead Man/BDMG — PETE SCOBELL/Walkin’ A Wire/FrogBonz Entertainment A famous man once asked the question “What is truth?” Here at CDX, our truth is about creating connections. Whether it’s within the industry or between musicians and listeners, our goal with TRACtion is to establish a strong foundation with these connections and spread positive change across The CDX-TRACtion weekly the spectrum of . Onward! newsletter is published on Wed. mornings by CDX, Inc. — Connecting Nashville’s music Stay tuned, industry and country radio for over 25 years. For more information call Joe Kelly 615-292-0123 or email VP/GM Joe CDX VP/GM [email protected] Kelly- [email protected]

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2 1 CARRIE UNDERWOOD/Heartbeat/Arista Nashville (SMN) 3186 38 100 0 6 1 2 KEITH URBAN/Break On Me/Capitol Records Nashville (UMGN) 3064 -224 98 0 6 3 3 RANDY HOUSER/We Went/Stoney Creek Records (BBRMG) 3058 63 96 0 6 5 4 BRETT ELDREDGE/Drunk On Your Love/Atlantic (WMN) 2906 127 101 1 6 4 5 /Confession/Republic Nashville (BMLG) 2886 25 98 0 6 7 6 COLE SWINDELL/You Should Be Here/Warner Bros. Records (WMN) 2785 258 95 0 6 6 7 /Beautiful Drug/Varvatos (BMLG) 2693 92 96 2 6 8 8 CHRIS STAPLETON/Nobody To Blame/Mercury Records (UMGN) 2560 50 100 0 6 10 9 RASCAL FLATTS/I Like The Sound Of That/ (BMLG) 2388 177 97 1 6 11 10 OLD DOMINION/Snapback/RCA Nashville (SMN) 2353 161 97 0 6 12 11 MAREN MORRIS/My Church/Columbia Nashville (SMN) 2338 164 98 2 6 14 12 CHASE BRYANT/Little Bit Of You/Red Bow Records (BBRMG) 2205 173 91 3 6 13 13 LEE BRICE/That Don't Sound Like You/Curb Records 2199 55 95 1 6 17 14 CHRIS YOUNG (WITH )/Think of You/RCA Nashville (SMN) 2115 281 97 0 6 15 15 MICHAEL RAY/Real Men Love Jesus/Warner Bros. Records (WMN) 2019 14 96 0 6 16 16 DUSTIN LYNCH/Mind Reader/Broken Bow Records (BBRMG) 2001 116 94 0 6 18 17 DIERKS BENTLEY/Somewhere On A Beach/Capitol Records Nashville (UMGN) 1982 213 97 2 6 20 18 JON PARDI/Head Over Boots/Capitol Records Nashville (UMGN) 1871 140 90 1 6 23 19 TIM MCGRAW/Humble and Kind/Big Machine Records (BMLG) 1849 287 91 2 6 19 20 /Better In Boots/Columbia Nashville (SMN) 1780 40 93 3 6 22 21 MADDIE & TAE/Shut Up And Fish/ (BMLG) 1699 124 90 0 6 21 22 BRANTLEY GILBERT/Stone Cold Sober/Valory Music Co. (BMLG) 1691 88 92 2 6 29 23 THOMAS RHETT/T-Shirt/Valory Music Co. (BMLG) 1415 334 87 13 4 26 24 FRANKIE BALLARD/It All Started With A Beer/Warner Bros. Records (WMN) 1351 133 87 0 6 24 25 DAVID NAIL/Night's On Fire/MCA Records (UMGN) 1329 49 81 1 6 25 26 CHRIS LANE/Fix/Big Loud Records 1327 95 84 1 6 27 27 JUSTIN MOORE/You Look Like I Need A Drink/Valory Music Co. (BMLG) 1234 70 85 4 6 28 28 CANAAN SMITH/Hole In A Bottle/Mercury Records (UMGN) 1188 74 81 2 6 30 29 /Running For You/MCA Records (UMGN) 977 45 75 3 6 31 30 ERIC PASLAY/High Class/EMI Records Nashville (UMGN) 892 74 66 0 6

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34 31 ERIC CHURCH/Record Year/EMI Records Nashville (UMGN) 823 212 64 14 3 32 32 BIG & RICH (FT. TIM MCGRAW)/Lovin' Lately/Big & Rich Records 755 33 65 2 6 33 33 DYLAN SCOTT/Crazy Over Me/Curb Records 641 5 57 2 6 35 34 JENNIFER NETTLES/Unlove You/Big Machine Records (BMLG) 613 92 52 6 6 42 35 CAM/Mayday/Arista Nashville (SMN) 558 166 52 14 4 36 36 CHRIS JANSON/Power Of Positive Drinkin'/Warner Bros. Records (WMN) 547 30 50 5 6 40 37 DAN + SHAY/From The Ground Up/Warner Bros. Records (WMN) 535 122 48 13 2 39 38 WILLIAM MICHAEL MORGAN/I Met A Girl/Warner Bros. Records (WMN) 500 71 45 3 6 37 39 TRACE ADKINS/Jesus and Jones/Wheelhouse (BBRMG) 471 -9 46 2 6 43 40 /Livin' The Dream/Dot Records (BMLG) 405 33 36 3 6 44 41 BILLY CURRINGTON/It Don't Hurt Like It Used To/Mercury Records (UMGN) 395 52 40 2 6 46 42 TOBY KEITH/Beautiful Stranger/Show Dog/Universal 335 28 28 1 6 45 43 LOCASH/I Know Somebody/Reviver Records 314 -1 33 5 5 47 44 LAUREN ALAINA/Next Boyfriend/Mercury Records (UMGN) 299 6 30 2 6 48 45 RACHAEL TURNER/I Don't Love You/Rustic Records Incorporated 232 -8 20 1 6 53 46 KANE BROWN/Used To Love You Sober/RCA Nashville (SMN) 227 62 19 7 2 50 47 JORDAN RAGER (WITH JASON ALDEAN)/Southern Boy/Broken Bow Records (BBRMG) 216 38 22 3 4 -- 48 BROTHERS OSBORNE/21 Summer/EMI Records Nashville (UMGN) 200 200 21 21 1 49 49 LINDSAY ELL/By The Way/Stoney Creek Records (BBRMG) 192 0 19 0 5 -- 50 SAM HUNT/Make You Miss Me/MCA Records (UMGN) 191 191 12 12 1 52 51 VINCE GILL (FT. LITTLE BIG TOWN)/Take Me Down/MCA Records (UMGN) 180 7 17 3 3 51 52 LOVE AND THEFT/Whiskey On My Breath/Thirty Tigers 174 -1 16 0 5 55 53 BRANDY CLARK/Girl Next Door/Warner Bros. Records (WMN) 169 38 14 2 6 54 54 OLIVIA LANE/Make My Own Sunshine/Big Spark Music Group 161 25 19 3 5 -- 55 A THOUSAND HORSES/Southernality/Republic Nashville (BMLG) 122 103 10 10 1 57 56 PRESLEY & TAYLOR/While You Were Gone/SMG Records Nashville 111 11 9 1 4 -- 57 MATT GARY/It's On You/17 Music Entertainment (in2une) 98 85 3 3 1 59 58 SARABETH/Runnin' Outta Lipstick/Circle S Records 97 11 10 1 6 60 59 CLARE DUNN/Tuxedo/MCA Records (UMGN) 94 14 11 5 2 63 60 RACHELE LYNAE/Quicksand/Momentum Label Group 94 18 9 2 6

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67 61 STICKERS, THE/Countrified/Wodarek Music 89 17 9 0 6 61 62 SPENCER'S OWN/Livin' In The Moment/Electric House 87 9 11 2 2 65 63 SOUTHERN HALO/Little White Dress/Southern Halo Records 87 12 8 1 5 64 64 CALLIE TWISSELMAN/Hung Me On The Line/Sugar Cube Records 86 10 8 1 4 58 65 RANDY ROGERS BAND, THE/Neon Blues/Thirty Tigers 85 -9 9 1 2 77 66 HIGH VALLEY/Make You Mine/Atlantic (WMN) 84 32 6 3 2 69 67 DAVE AND WHITNEY/Alibi/Chelsea Creek Entertainment 80 14 6 0 6 66 68 DREW BALDRIDGE/Dance With Ya/Cold River 79 6 7 0 6 75 69 ROBBY JOHNSON/Hate Me Tonight/Contrast Music Records Nashville 75 22 9 1 6 73 70 SCOTT BRANTLEY/Good Thing Going/Studio Gold Nashville 75 18 7 2 6 62 71 /Kids With Cars/Blaster Records 74 -3 7 0 6 -- 72 JASON PRITCHETT (FT. BILLY DEAN)/Already A Dead Man/BDMG 71 59 6 6 1 79 73 SAMMY SADLER/No Place To Land/S Records 69 22 7 2 2 72 74 BROSEPH E. LEE/Right Where She Wants Me/Broseph E. Lee Music 68 7 8 2 6 76 75 HOMEGROWN BAND/She Loves To Ride/Homegrown Entertainment LLC 68 15 8 2 6 80 76 CHRIS CHITSEY/Just Don't Know It Yet/Premier Nashville Records 63 17 9 4 6 -- 77 PETE SCOBELL/Walkin' A Wire/FrogBonz Entertainment 63 32 7 3 1 68 78 TARA THOMPSON/Someone To Take Your Place/Valory Music Co. (BMLG) 61 -8 7 0 2 71 79 JERROD NIEMANN/Yellow Brick Road/SMG Records Nashville 57 -7 5 0 4 -- 80 /Red, White & You/Dot Records (BMLG) 53 8 5 1 4 Number 1 = TRACtion only recognizes detections on songs that have been “fingerprinted.” We do our best to obtain and fingerprint all new releases; songs serviced through CDX are encoded automatically. A Most Added = song .wav file and information can also be sent to [email protected]. Spin Gainer =

Monitored Stations Albany, OR KRKT-FM Grand Forks, ND KYCK-FM Mason City, IA KIAI-FM Superior, NE KRFS-FM Albertville, AL WQSB-FM Grand Island, NE KRGI-FM Mattoon, IL WMCI-FM Tulare, CA KJUG-FM Alexandria, LA KRRV-FM Greenville, MS WDMS-FM Miami, AZ KQSS-FM Tupelo, MS WWMS-FM Altoona, WI WAXX-FM Hardinsburg, KY WXBC-FM Moncks Corner, SC WCKN-FM Union City, TN KYTN-FM Ardmore, OK KKAJ-FM Harrison, AR KHBZ-FM Morgantown, WV WKKW-FM Waltham, MA WKLB-FM Baxley, GA WBYZ-FM Hazard, KY WSGS-FM Mount Hope, WV WTNJ-FM Warrenton, MO KFAV-FM Big Stone Gap, VA WAXM-FM Hoisington, KS KHOK-FM Natchez, MS WQNZ-FM Weatherford, OK KWEY-FM Bowling Green, KY WBVR-FM Honolulu, HI KHCM-FM New Philadelphia, OH WTUZ-FM West Bend, WI WMBZ-FM Bowling Green, KY WGGC-FM Hot Springs, AR KQUS-FM Normal, IL WIBL-FM West Plains, MO KKDY-FM Cadiz, KY WKDZ-FM Hugo, OK KITX-FM Odessa, TX KMRK-FM Worthington, MN KUSQ-FM Cape Girardeau, MO KEZS-FM Huntingdon, TN WEIO-FM Ontonagon, MI WUPY-FM Carterville, IL WOOZ-FM Huntington, WV WDGG-FM Oskaloosa, IA KBOE-FM Charleston, WV WKWS-FM Hyannis, MA WKPE-FM Owensboro, KY WBKR-FM Cheboygan, MI WMKC-FM Idaho Falls, ID KTHK-FM Oxford, AL WHMA-FM Clinton, MO KDKD-FM Iron Mountain, MI WJNR-FM Palestine, TX KYYK-FM Connersville, IN WIFE-FM Jackson, WY KJAX-FM Pikeville, KY WDHR-FM Cottonwood, AZ KVRD-FM Jamestown, ND KYNU-FM Pittsburg, KS KKOW-FM Crossville, TN WOWF-FM Janesville, WI WJVL-FM Platteville, WI WGLR-FM Cumberland, MD WVMD-FM Jonesboro, AR KDXY-FM Pulaski, TN WKSR-FM Danville, VA WAKG-FM Lamar, CO KVAY-FM Ruston, LA KXKZ-FM Dayton, OH WHKO-FM Laredo, TX KRRG-FM Salina, KS KYEZ-FM Decatur, IL WDZQ-FM Lawrence, KS KMXN-FM Salisbury, MD WKTT-FM Destin, FL WHWY-FM Lexington, NE KRVN-FM Sandpoint, ID KICR-FM Dickson, TN WDKN-AM Liberty, NY WDNB-FM Scottsbluff, NE KNEB-FM Douglas, GA WOKA-FM Linden, AL WINL-FM Searcy, AR KCNY-FM Elkins, WV WDNE-FM London, KY WKFC-FM Selinsgrove, PA WWBE-FM Florence, AL WXFL-FM Longview, TX KYKX-FM Shawano, WI WJMQ-FM Flagstaff, AZ KSED-FM Luckey, OH WPFX-FM Sparta, WI WCOW-FM Frankfort, KY WVKY-FM Mankato, MN KYSM-FM Spokane, WA KXLY-FM Franklin, IN WYGB-FM Marion, VA WMEV-FM St. Cloud, MN KZPK-FM Geneva, OH WKKY-FM Marshalltown, IA KXIA-FM State College, PA WFGE-FM Bold= Newly Added Underlined = Frozen this Week WWW.CDXNASHVILLE.COM/CDX-TRACTION “Monitored Radio Airplay” Mar. 9, 2016 | PAGE 4 Most Added Adds BROTHERS OSBORNE/21 Summer/ EMI Records Nashville (UMGN) 21 ERIC CHURCH/Record Year/ EMI Records Nashville (UMGN) 14 CAM/Mayday/ Arista Nashville (SMN) 14 THOMAS RHETT/T-Shirt/ Valory Music Co. (BMLG) 13 DAN + SHAY/From The Ground Up/ Warner Bros. Records (WMN) 13 SAM HUNT/Make You Miss Me/ MCA Records (UMGN) 12 A THOUSAND HORSES/Southernality/ Republic Nashville (BMLG) 10 KANE BROWN/Used To Love You Sober/ RCA Nashville (SMN) 7 JENNIFER NETTLES/Unlove You/ Big Machine Records (BMLG) 6 JASON PRITCHETT (FT. BILLY DEAN)/ Southern Halo swung by Renegade Radio Nashville during their 6 Already A Dead Man/BDMG radio tour. (L-R) Christina Morris, Natalia Morris, Robby Lynn from Renegade Radio, and Hannah Morris.

Greatest Spin Increase Increase THOMAS RHETT/T-Shirt/ Valory Music Co. (BMLG) 334 TIM MCGRAW/Humble and Kind/ Big Machine Records (BMLG) 287 CHRIS YOUNG (WITH CASSADEE POPE)/Think of You/ RCA Nashville (SMN) 281 COLE SWINDELL/You Should Be Here/ Warner Bros. Records (WMN) 258 DIERKS BENTLEY/Somewhere On A Beach/ Capitol Records Nashville (UMGN) 213 ERIC CHURCH/Record Year/ EMI Records Nashville (UMGN) 212 BROTHERS OSBORNE/21 Summer/ EMI Records Nashville (UMGN) 200 SAM HUNT/Make You Miss Me/ MCA Records (UMGN) 191 RASCAL FLATTS/I Like The Sound Of That/ Big Machine Records (BMLG) 177 CHASE BRYANT/Little Bit Of You/ 173 CDX artist, Kelsea Ballerini, performing for Twitter during her Red Bow Records (BBRMG) first visit to Australia.

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KANE BROWN/Used To Love You Sober/RCA CYNDI LAUPER/Funnel Of Love/Heartaches By The Number/ Sire Records CASEY DONAHEW/Feels This Right/Almost Country Records BRIAN COLLINS/Healing Highway/Blue Light Ent. SIERRA BLACK/Heart On Ice/O.m.g Ent. BROTHERS OSBORNE/21 Summer/EMI Records Nashville SAM HUNT/Make You Miss Me/MCA Nashville JANA KRAMER/Said No One Ever/Elektra Nashville/ Warner Music Nashville LONESTAR/Never Enders/Shanachie Entertainment DENNIE HALL/Different Just The Same/DH Music MIKE SMITH/Little Bit Of Us/22 Records LESLIE COURS MATHER/That Was The Whiskey/Lioneyes Records CDX Volume 631-(building) JAKE OWEN/American Country Love Song/RCA Nashville LUKE BRYAN/HUNTIN’, Fishin’ And Lovin’ Every Day/ Volume 630 artist, Kane Brown, meeting his little big fans at 97.1 Capitol Records Nashville HANK FM. KELSEA BALLERINI/Peter Pan/Black River Entertainment ALAN JACKSON/The One You’re Waiting On/ACR/EMI JOHN ANDERSON/Magic Mama/Bayou Boys Music Group Bubbling Under Position VINCE HATFIELD/American Oil From American Soil/Blue Moon Records DIANNA CORCORAN/God Did Good/ 81 GINA MILLER/Angel From Montgomery/Playback Records Krian Music Group MARY FLETCHER/Called Him Dad/Red & Black Entertainment BRIAN COLLINS/Healing Highway/ Blue Light Entertainment LLC 82 JESSIE G/Drop A Line/Hook And Line Records MACY MARTIN/Baby What Ya Doing/ CASSIDY HUCKABAY/I Heard It Through The Grapevine/ Go Time Records 83 Cassidy Huckabay Music ERIC CHESSER/I Can't Read Your Mind/ 84 ALEXANDRA DEMETREE/You Still Think I’m Beautiful/SSM Nashville BIG BIG Records Nashville JAKE WORTHINGTON/Just Keep Falling In Love/ W3 Music, LLC 85 MITCHELL TENPENNY/Love & Rock N' Roll/ Creation Lab Records 86 CDX is the ONLY resource offering digital and CD distribution of new Country music CAINS, THE/Knock Knock/ 87 to all key radio programming decision makers, labels, publishing companies and GMV Nashville music business execs. In addition to our proprietary InstaTrack download delivery JAKE MCVEY/Ya'll Girls/ Purple Cow Records 88 system, mobile app and numerous new music digital blasts, we deliver a compilation CHASE RICE/Whisper/ CD to our entire database on the third Monday of each month. For more information Columbia Nashville (SMN) 89 please contact Joe Kelly ([email protected]) or Pam Lovelace ([email protected]) RYAN BROSHEAR/Spin Me/ 90 615-292-0123 Painted Horse Records

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