Cody Johnson Cody Johnson Stays At Number 1! On My Way To You CoJo Music LLC
Dear Readers; CONTENTS CODY JOHNSON holds on to the #1 position this week with "On My Way To You!" ROBERT RAY's "Run Away With You" wins the honor of the Most Added this week. KYLE PARK's "Rio" is this week's Greatest Spin Gainer. The honor of Highest Debut goes to COPPER CHIEF's — "Body Aches" at position #40! Great work everyone. Charts The following songs have been moved to RECURRENT status. JESSE RAUB JR. (FT. CODY JOHNSON) / Sittin' Here MARK POWELL / Keep It Country The following stations have been frozen for this week. KECO-FM (Elk City, OK) texashomegrownradio.com (Stephenville, TX) TRACtion TX would like to thank BRAD HINES for allowing CDX to distribute his latest single to Red Dirt radio and the industry. We really appreciate your support! BRAD HINES / The Sad Christmas Song For those who don’t use CDX to distribute their new music but wish to be monitored by TRACtion TX, please send your MP3s along with the artist name, song title, record label and add date to https://spaces.hightail.com/uplink/tractiontx. PAGE 2-3 — Monitored Panel List PAGE 5 Chart Breakouts PAGE 5 —
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WWW.TRACTIONTX.COM “Monitored Radio Airplay” Vol 3. #49 Dec 12th, 2018 L T Wks On Spins + Stations Adds W W - Chart Artist / Song Title / Label 1 1 CODY JOHNSON/On My Way To You/Cojo Music LLC 895 36 42 0 15 2 2 RANDALL KING/Mirror Mirror/Randall King Music 659 2 32 1 16 3 3 FLATLAND CAVALRY/Honeywine/Flatland Cavalry Music 574 1 34 1 14 5 4 KYLE PARK/Rio/Kyle Park Music 537 67 31 0 12 6 5 JOSH WARD/Ain't It Baby/Josh Ward Music 484 41 32 3 5 8 6 PAT GREEN/Friday's Comin'/Greenhorse Music 448 16 30 1 19 7 7 PARKER MCCOLLUM/Misunderstood/Vision Entertainment 425 -15 29 1 20 9 8 JAMIE RICHARDS/She Remains/Jamie Richards Music 418 11 24 1 9 4 9 BRI BAGWELL/If You Were A Cowboy/Bri Bagwell Music 384 -105 26 0 13 10 10 STONEY LARUE/You Oughta Know Me/Stoney LaRue Music 371 19 26 0 24 11 11 ADAM HOOD (FT. BRENT COBB)/She Don't Love Me/Southern Songs 361 23 28 0 15 12 12 JON WOLFE/Hang Your Hat on That/Jon Wolfe Music 333 0 28 1 11 18 13 DREW FISH/Better Place/Drew Fish Band Music 329 62 25 2 9 15 14 NATALIE ROSE/My South/Natalie Rose Music 307 11 22 0 17 13 15 CAMERAN NELSON/Life Is/Miles Power Records 295 -7 24 0 19 16 16 SARAH HOBBS/I Got Me/Sarah Hobbs Music 289 1 25 3 19 17 17 ELI YOUNG BAND/Love Ain't/Valory Music Co. (BMLG) 282 7 28 0 23 19 18 GRANGER SMITH/You're In It/Wheelhouse (BBRMG) 275 9 26 1 22 21 19 WILLIAM CLARK GREEN/Goner/William Clark Green Music 239 57 16 2 4 24 20 DONICE MORACE/WD-40 & Duct Tape/Donice Morace Music 207 34 15 0 18 28 21 ROBERT RAY/Run Away With You/Big R.I.G. Country, LLC 196 40 12 4 5 20 22 JASON ALLEN/Smooth Talkin' Lady/Texas 222 189 -25 17 0 15 26 23 DAVID ADAM BYRNES/Beer Bucket List/Silverado Records 188 19 14 2 5 22 24 JOSH GRIDER/Pictures Do/Josh Grider Music 178 -4 13 2 7 23 25 FRANK RAY/Tequila Mockingbird/White Knuckles Productions 171 -3 20 1 16 30 26 MARTY HEDDIN/Fine By Me/Dreamlined Entertainment Group (in2une) 151 8 14 0 10 27 27 SHOTGUN RIDER/I'm Not Alright/Torrez Music Group 150 -11 9 0 8 29 28 DERYL DODD (FT. WADE BOWEN)/Sundown/Little Red Truck Music 144 -3 14 1 4 35 29 JAKE BUSH/If These Walls Could Talk/Jake Bush Music 136 26 11 1 14 31 30 DUSTIN SONNIER/Drinkin' Alone/Songs Of Sadness To Salve The Soul 130 1 11 0 11
WWW.TRACTIONTX.COM “Monitored Radio Airplay” Dec 12th, 2018 | PAGE 2 L T Wks On Spins + Stations Adds W W - Chart Artist / Song Title / Label 34 31 MASON LIVELY/Heavy Toll/Mason Lively Music 128 9 10 0 7 36 32 JOHN BAUMANN/Lonely In Bars/John Baumann Music 127 19 8 1 10 37 33 SUNDANCE HEAD/Leave Her Wild/In2une 126 22 12 1 7 32 34 POWELL BROTHERS, THE/Somewhere Down The Road/Powell Brothers Entertainment 122 -4 11 0 12 45 35 JOSH ABBOTT BAND/I'm Your Only Flaw/Pretty Damn Tough Records 114 42 10 2 2 33 36 JON YOUNG/Oh The Things I have Seen/Jon Young Music 113 -6 10 0 16 38 37 HAYES CARLL/None'ya/Dualtone Records 109 17 8 1 3 39 38 KENNA DANIELLE/I-35 Reasons/Kenna Danielle Music 94 6 9 0 17 42 39 ISAAC JACOB BAND (FT. MIKE HARMEIER)/The Price We Gotta Pay/Union 28 Records 92 16 5 0 9 -- 40 COPPER CHIEF/Body Aches/Copper Chief Music 87 33 7 2 1 50 41 COMANCHE MOON/Oilfield Blues/Comanche Moon Music 85 20 6 3 2 40 42 JASON EADY/I Lost My Mind In Carolina/Old Guitar Records 84 4 5 0 4 49 43 SAINTS ELEVEN/My Heart/Saints Eleven Music 80 13 8 1 8 48 44 JUDSON COLE BAND/Battles/Judson Cole Band 75 6 8 2 3 43 45 CALAMITY JANES/Light It Up/Calamity Janes Music 74 0 6 0 16 47 46 MATT CALDWELL/Lights Out/Matt Caldwell Music 74 3 6 0 4 46 47 DJANGO WALKER/Somewhere In This Town Tonight/Lazy Kid Music 74 2 5 1 3 44 48 DREW MORELAND/God And Cash/Drew Moreland Music 70 -4 5 1 5 41 49 SHEA ABSHIER & THE NIGHTHOWLERS/As You Weep/Shea Abshier & the Nighthowlers Music 68 -9 8 0 6 -- 50 SAM MORROW/Paid By The Mile/Forty Below Records 66 4 4 0 1
Number 1 = Most Added = Spin Gainer = Bubbling Under Position
BUFFALO RUCKUS, THE/Carolina Calls/Buffalo Ruckus Music 51 DRAKE HAYES BAND/Blood Red Moon/Drake Hayes Music 52 JERROD MEDULLA/Sometimes Forever/Jerrod Medulla Music 53 JAMIE LIN WILSON/Oklahoma Stars/Jamie Lin Wilson Music 54 BLACK LILLIES, THE/Ten Years/Attack Monkey/Thirty Tigers 55 COREY HUNT BAND/I'm Doing Fine/Uwharrie Music Group 56 FELIX TRUVERE/Fake It Till I Make It/Felix Truvere Music 57 JAKE FLINT/Long Road Back Home/Jake Flint Music 58 GARRETT FORD/Woke Up In Waco/Garrett Ford Music 59 CHARLIE SHAFTER/Billy Creek/Charlie Shafter Music 60
WWW.TRACTIONTX.COM “Monitored Radio Airplay” Dec 12th, 2018 | PAGE 3 Monitored Stations KABW-FM Abilene, TX KKCN-FM San Angelo, TX KRUN-AM Ballinger, TX KWOX-FM Woodward, OK KBSO-FM Corpus Christi, TX KKGQ-FM Wichita, KS KRVF-FM Kerens, TX KXKZ-FM Ruston, LA KBST-FM Big Spring, TX KMRK-FM Odessa, TX KRVN-FM Lexington, NE KYKM-FM Yoakum, TX KECO-FM Elk City, OK KNUE-FM Tyler, TX KSAM-FM Huntsville, TX KYKS-FM Lufkin, TX KERP-FM Dodge City, KS KOKE-FM Austin, TX KSCH-FM Sulphur Springs, TX KYKX-FM Longview,TX KFLP-FM Floydada, TX KOLI-FM Wichita Falls, TX KSCN-FM Pittsburg, TX KYYK-FM Palestine, TX KFTX-FM Corpus Christi, TX KORA-FM Bryan, TX KSNY-FM Snyder, TX coyotecountryradio.com KFWR-FM Ft. Worth, TX KOXE-FM Brownwood, TX KTCS-FM Ft. Smith, AR madeintexasradio.com KFYN-FM Paris, TX KOYN-FM Paris, TX KTFW-FM Ft. Worth, TX texashomegrownradio.com KHKX-FM Odessa, TX KPAK-FM Alva, OK KTTX-FM Brenham, TX KHLB-FM Mason, TX KPUR-FM Canyon, TX KTXM-FM Hallettsville, TX KHYI-FM Howe, TX KQSC-AM Colorado Springs, CO KUSH-AM Cushing, OK KIKK-FM (HD2) Houston, TX KRBL-FM Levelland,TX KUSQ-FM Worthington, MN KKAJ-FM Ardmore, OK KRRG-FM Laredo, TX KVST-FM Montgomery, TX Strikethrough = Removed Bold = Newly Added Underlined = Frozen this Week Double Underlined = Frozen 2 Weeks
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. Send a song MP3 file with title, artist, label, and add date to https://spaces.hightail.com/uplink/tractiontx for fingerprinting.
Chart Recurrent Methodology
When does a song move to recurrent on the With this in mind, the CDX TRACtion Texas chart? It is one of the more challenging issues we recurrent policy grades each chart position on a encountered in creating the CDX TRACtion Texas curve, using an algorithm that considers the chart chart system. Rather than relying on subjective position and spin history for that song. Newly editorial decisions, we’ve chosen to automate this serviced singles are allowed 20 weeks to chart process using the weekly chart data as a marker. before being removed from chart consideration. Once a status change is actively being considered We strive to avoid having singles past their prime by the algorithm, the cumulative amount of spin create a logjam on the chart, because that stifles loss from the single’s previous peak spin count upward momentum for up-and-coming singles. is the trigger. The allowable spin loss varies as a But we also try to ensure that singles “on the percentage, depending on the chart position. bubble” are not removed prematurely. As long-time chart watchers know, singles often take a while In addition to making sure that only singles with to establish a solid base among early believers at significant downward movement become recurrent, radio before they truly find their legs. Due to any this methodology also benefits slow-developing number of reasons, the path to peak chart position singles in several ways. For instance, the allowable rarely includes straight-line, week-over-week spin spin loss (as a percentage) is very generous at the and/or chart position growth. lower reaches of the chart to accommodate the lower spin counts. Additionally, if a single is at On a monitored airplay chart like CDX TRACtion risk of being moved to recurrent status with two Texas, the reality is that new singles bounce around consecutive weeks of minor spin loss, it can still a bit spin-wise and position-wise, particularly return to positive spin growth the following week, in the lower half of the chart. Even small spin which will reset the clock. increases and decreases can be magnified as fairly significant up-or-down chart position moves.
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WWW.TRACTIONTX.COM “Monitored Radio Airplay” Dec 12th, 2018 | PAGE 4 Most Added Adds ROBERT RAY/Run Away With You Big R.I.G. Country, LLC 4 JOSH WARD/Ain't It Baby Josh Ward Music 3 SARAH HOBBS/I Got Me Sarah Hobbs Music 3 COMANCHE MOON/Oilfield Blues Comanche Moon Music 3 DREW FISH/Better Place Drew Fish Band Music 2 WILLIAM CLARK GREEN/Goner William Clark Green Music 2 DAVID ADAM BYRNES/Beer Bucket List Silverado Records 2 JOSH GRIDER/Pictures Do Josh Grider Music 2 JOSH ABBOTT BAND/I'm Your Only Flaw Pretty Damn Tough Records 2 COPPER CHIEF/Body Aches Copper Chief Music 2 Melissa Osborne of KYOX in Comanche and Jake Bush.
Greatest Spin Gainers Increase KYLE PARK/Rio Kyle Park Music 67 DREW FISH/Better Place Drew Fish Band Music 62 WILLIAM CLARK GREEN/Goner William Clark Green Music 57 JOSH ABBOTT BAND/I'm Your Only Flaw Pretty Damn Tough Records 42 JOSH WARD/Ain't It Baby Josh Ward Music 41 ROBERT RAY/Run Away With You Big R.I.G. Country, LLC 40 CODY JOHNSON/On My Way To You Cojo Music LLC 36 DONICE MORACE/WD-40 & Duct Tape Donice Morace Music 34 COPPER CHIEF/Body Aches Copper Chief Music 33 JAKE BUSH/If These Walls Could Talk Jake Bush Music 26 Kayla Kay of Big Star Radio Group/KSNY in Snyder and Jake Bush.
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