Cody Jinks Keeps Going at #1! "Ain't a Train" Late August Records

CODY JINKS Cody Jinks keeps going at #1! "Ain't A Train" Late August Records

Dear Readers; CODY JINKS holds the #1 spot this week with "Ain't A Train." CHAD COOKE BAND's "Cowboy's Cowgirl" is this week's Most Added. AARON WATSON's "Whisper My Name" is the Greatest Spin Gainer this week! JACK INGRAM's "Times Like These" is the top Surging & Emerging track to keep an eye on! Great work everyone! The following stations have been frozen for this week. KHLB-FM (Mason, TX) KIKK-FM (HD3) (Houston, TX) KORA-FM (Bryan, TX) KRMX-FM (Waco, TX) KRVN-FM (Lexington, NE) KWOX-FM (Woodward, OK)

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WWW.TRACTIONTX.COM Monitored Radio Airplay Vol 5. #33 Aug 26th, 2020 L T Wks On Spins + Stations Adds W W - Chart Artist / Song Title / Label 1 1 CODY JINKS/Ain't A Train/Late August Records 858 7 49 1 15 2 2 JON WOLFE/Feels Like Country Music/Fool Hearted Productions 837 50 47 0 23 8 3 AARON WATSON/Whisper My Name/BIG Label Records 725 85 44 3 9 3 4 MIKE RYAN/Ghost Town/Mike Ryan Music 720 20 43 1 13 7 5 CURTIS GRIMES/Little Bit/Curtis Grimes Music 684 32 45 1 14 9 6 WILLIAM CLARK GREEN/Poor/Bill Grease Records 638 59 42 2 14 6 7 PARKER MCCOLLUM/Like A Cowboy/Parker McCollum Music 631 -38 39 3 17 10 8 RANDALL KING/Hey Cowgirl/Warner Music Nashville/WEA 591 49 40 2 9 5 9 DAVID ADAM BYRNES/Neon Town/David Adam Byrnes Music 558 -122 43 0 18 13 10 STONEY LARUE (DUET WITH TANYA TUCKER)/Meet In The Middle/One Chord Song 541 51 42 4 8 11 11 JAMES LANN/Everydayers/James Lann Music 531 24 35 1 18 12 12 DERYL DODD/Let Me Hold You Tonight/Little Red Truck Music 510 16 31 0 19 4 13 JON STORK/Radio Cowboy/Jon Stork Music 491 -195 39 0 23 14 14 KYLIE FREY/Spur of The Moment/Kylie Frey Music 419 -55 38 1 12 15 15 JOSH GRIDER/Country's Comin' Back/G-Ride Music 416 -10 37 1 22 18 16 SUNDANCE HEAD/Not Give A Damn/Sundance Head Music 372 18 28 2 18 17 17 AMERICAN AQUARIUM/The Luckier You Get/New West Records 368 4 28 1 16 19 18 CODY HIBBARD/Just For The Record/Cody Hibbard Music 364 17 32 3 9 21 19 JODY BOOTH & TRACY BYRD/Lonesome On'ry and Mean/SOT 363 56 32 3 9 20 20 MARK POWELL/Project/Mark Powell Music 345 4 26 3 11 23 21 JESSE RAUB JR/I'd Look Good On You/Jesse Raub Jr. Music 343 64 29 1 8 22 22 DARRIN MORRIS BAND/Country To The Bone/Darrin Morris Band Music 318 14 26 1 13 16 23 CORY MORROW/Always And Forever/CM Music 300 -65 27 0 26 24 24 GRANT GILBERT/Held On To/Grant Gilbert Music 277 6 24 0 20 25 25 CLAY HOLLIS/Here I Go Again/Clay Hollis Music 261 18 26 1 13 26 26 JOHN BAUMANN/Next Ride Around The Sun/The Next Waltz 241 9 14 1 13 27 27 KIN FAUX/Locked up in Lubbock/Kin Faux Music 216 -12 21 0 20 28 28 KOLBY COOPER/If I Still Had It/Kolby Cooper Music 214 4 13 2 7 31 29 SUNNY SWEENEY/Poet's Prayer/Aunt Daddy / Thirty Tigers 193 12 12 2 12 30 30 CREED FISHER/I'm Growing Older But I'm Not Growing Up/Creed Fisher Music 191 7 21 3 18

WWW.TRACTIONTX.COM Monitored Radio Airplay Aug 26th, 2020 | PAGE 2 L T Wks On Spins + Stations Adds W W - Chart Artist / Song Title / Label 29 31 JOSH ABBOTT BAND/The Luckiest/Josh Abbott Band Music 191 -5 13 1 7 43 32 CHAD COOKE BAND/Cowboy's Cowgirl/King Hall Music 186 63 18 8 2 33 33 SCOTTY ALEXANDER/Damn You Whiskey/Orville Records 183 11 13 1 10 41 34 KALEB MCINTIRE/Still Some Kinda Crazy/Kaleb McIntire Band Music 168 44 15 2 6 34 35 STATELINE BAND, THE/Time Clock/The Stateline Band Music 162 10 18 1 5 37 36 KOE WETZEL/Sundy or Mundy/Koe Wetzel Music 161 27 7 1 2 32 37 HILL COUNTRY/Dixie Darlin'/Hill Country Music 160 -14 13 0 8 35 38 JAKE BUSH/Gravity & You/Jake Bush Music 157 12 13 1 4 39 39 TANNER FENOGLIO/Cheap Gasoline/Tanner Fenoglio Music 143 13 10 0 4 38 40 FLATLAND CAVALRY/War With My Mind/The Next Waltz 136 5 9 1 11 36 41 ROSS COOPER/Hello Sunshine/Ross Cooper Music/Start Swimming Entertainment 133 -1 13 1 5 42 42 SAINTS ELEVEN/Love In Hell/Saints Eleven Music 122 -1 13 0 18 44 43 NED LEDOUX/Dance With Your Spurs On/Powder River 120 8 13 1 4 46 44 WILL CARTER/Fallin' In Love/Way Back Records 120 24 11 2 3 47 45 MARK WINSTON KIRK/She's My Whiskey/AMG Country 112 20 10 2 2 40 46 HAYDEN BAKER/Waitin' On Love/Hayden Baker Music 110 -15 12 0 3 48 47 RAGLAND/Trailer Like You/Ragland Music 101 14 10 1 7 -- 48 JUDSON COLE BAND/Crash & Burn/Judson Cole Band Music 98 21 7 0 1 50 49 CHARLEY CROCKETT/Welcome To Hard Times/Son of Davy / Thirty Tigers 96 15 6 0 2 -- 50 POWELL BROTHERS, THE/How It's Done/Tolar Powell Entertainment 88 21 7 1 1

Number 1 = Most Added = Spin Gainer = Rank Surging & Emerging Stations On Adds 1 JACK INGRAM / Times Like These / The Next Waltz 4 3 2 MATT CASTILLO / Say It / Texace Records 10 1 3 RICH O'TOOLE / Peter and Paul / Buffalo Roam Records 8 1 4 KAITLYN KOHLER / Too Many Love Songs / Kaitlyn Kohler Music 8 6 5 JON STORK / Another Town / Jon Stork Music 6 6 6 GEORGE NAVARRO / When She's Drinkin' / George Navarro Music 7 2 7 WILLIAM BECKMANN / Someday / Highway 90 Records 5 2 8 JOSHUA RAY WALKER / Bronco Billy's / State Fair Records 7 3 9 BRANDI BEHLEN / Wine in a Coffee Cup / Brandi Behlen Music 4 1 10 HOLLY TUCKER / Rhythm Of You / Holly Tucker Music 5 1

WWW.TRACTIONTX.COM Monitored Radio Airplay Aug 26th, 2020 | PAGE 3 Monitored Stations

KAXA-FM Kerrville, TX KKCN-FM San Angelo, TX KRVF-FM Kerens, TX KXOX-FM Sweetwater,TX KBSO-FM Corpus Christi, TX KMOM-FM Aberdeen, SD KRVN-FM Lexington, NE KYKC-FM Ada, OK KBST-FM Big Spring, TX KNES-FM Fairfield, TX KSDR-FM Watertown, SD KYKM-FM Yoakum, TX KDLO-FM Watertown, SD KOKE-FM Austin, TX KSEL-FM Portales, NM KYKX-FM Longview,TX KEOK-FM Tahlequah, OK KOLI-FM Wichita Falls, TX KSLI-FM Abilene, TX KYYK-FM Palestine, TX KERP-FM Dodge City, KS KORA-FM Bryan, TX KSTV-FM Dublin, TX coyotecountryradio.com KFLP-FM Floydada, TX KORQ-FM Abilene, TX KTTU-FM HD4 (K226CH-FX) Lubbock, TX madeintexasradio.com KFTX-FM Corpus Christi, TX KOXE-FM Brownwood, TX KTTX-FM Brenham, TX texasboundradio.com KFWR-FM Ft. Worth, TX KPAK-FM Alva, OK KTXM-FM Hallettsville, TX texashomegrownradio.com KFYN-FM Paris, TX KPUR-FM Canyon, TX KUSH-AM Cushing, OK TexasRedHotRadio.com KGFY-FM Stillwater, OK KQSC-AM Colorado Springs, CO KUSQ-FM Worthington, MN troubadourcountryradio.com KHLB-FM Mason, TX KQZQ-FM Kiowa, KS KVMK-FM College Station, TX TBJS Radio Poteau, OK KHWL-FM Hobart, OK KRBL-FM Levelland,TX KVRP-FM Haskell, TX UvaldeRadio.net KHYI-FM Howe, TX KRMX-FM Waco, TX KVST-FM Montgomery, TX KIKK-FM (HD3) Houston, TX KRRG-FM Laredo, TX KWOX-FM Woodward, OK KKAJ-FM Ardmore, OK KRUN-AM Ballinger, TX KXKZ-FM Ruston, LA

Strikethrough = Removed Bold = Newly Added Underlined = Frozen this Week Double Underlined = Frozen 2(+) Weeks

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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.

WWW.TRACTIONTX.COM Monitored Radio Airplay Aug 26th, 2020 | PAGE 4 Dance Time In Texas with DJ Mike (08/21/20)

THIS WEEK'S FEATURED ARTIST • CHAD COOKE BAND Four modern-day cowboy crooners from Houston who are addicted to Mexican food and margaritas, are becoming a crowd favorite on the Texas music scene as they take over the stage with their rowdy brand of Texas Country Music entertaining whiskey-drinkin’, two-steppin’, rowdy fans one night at a time. Already finding success on Texas Radio with hits like4 Minutes, Life Behind Bars and Whatever it Takes (which set a record for becoming the longest charting single on Texas Radio at 42 weeks) The Chad Cooke Band is back again with the fastest rising song on the charts. Jumping from 91 to 42 in only its 2nd week on the charts. Look for this to be the next #1 hit for Chad, Dallas, Kevin, and Mike. COWBOY'S COWGIRL

TOP TEXAS RED DIRT SONGS 1. AIN'T A TRAIN • CODY JINKS 2. FEELS LIKE COUNTRY MUSIC • JON WOLFE 3. NEON TOWN • DAVID ADAM BYRNES 4. GHOST TOWN • MIKE RYAN 5. RADIO COWBOY • JON STORK 6. LITTLE BIT • CURTIS GRIMES 7. WHISPER MY NAME • AARON WATSON 8. LIKE A COWBOY • PARKER McCOLLUM 9. SPUR OF THE MOMENT • KYLIE FREY 10. HEY COWGIRL • RANDALL KING

REWIND • SONGS STILL PACKIN' THE FLOOR TONIGHT'S NOT THE NIGHT • RANDY ROGERS BAND VELVET • STONEY LaRUE PUT YOURSELF IN MY SHOES • CLINT BLACK WEAR MY RING • BART CROW BAND

NEW SONGS OF THE WEEK COUNTRY TO THE BONE • DARRIN MORRIS BAND COWBOY'S COWGIRL • CHAD COOKE BAND DAMN GOOD MAN • SEASON AMMONS GRAVITY & YOU • JAKE BUSH HOW IT'S DONE • THE POWELL BROTHERS I'D LOOK GOOD ON YOU • JESSE RAUB JR

DJ Mike Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/djmikebilansky Email: [email protected] Phone: (936) 588-2717 CHART RESEARCH Song rankings based on the Texas Country Music Chart and Traction TX Chart. The officially recognized charts of the Texas Country Music Association. DANCE TIME IN TEXAS Countdown of the Top Texas Red Dirt Songs Packin’ the Dance oors

Mon - Fri 8am • 106.1fm • Conroe, TX DancetimeinTexas.com with DJ Mike (936) 588-2717 WWW.TRACTIONTX.COM Monitored Radio Airplay Aug 26th, 2020 | PAGE 5 Most Added Adds CHAD COOKE BAND/Cowboy's Cowgirl King Hall Music 8 KAITLYN KOHLER/Too Many Love Songs Kaitlyn Kohler Music 6 JON STORK/Another Town Jon Stork Music 6 STONEY LARUE (DUET WITH TANYA TUCKER)/Meet In The Middle One Chord Song 4 CODY JOHNSON/Dear Rodeo Stay safe Warner/Cojo Records/WMN 4 DUSTIN SONNIER/Missin' You Mississippi 4 Dustin Sonnier Music everyone! RANDY OVERTON/That's My Name Randy Overton Music 4 AARON WATSON/Whisper My Name BIG Label Records 3 PARKER MCCOLLUM/Like A Cowboy Parker McCollum Music 3 JODY BOOTH & TRACY BYRD/Lonesome On'ry and Mean SOT 3

Greatest Spin Gainers Increase AARON WATSON/Whisper My Name BIG Label Records 85 JACK INGRAM/Times Like These The Next Waltz 77 JESSE RAUB JR/I'd Look Good On You Jesse Raub Jr. Music 64 JON STORK/Another Town Jon Stork Music 63 CHAD COOKE BAND/Cowboy's Cowgirl King Hall Music 63 WILLIAM CLARK GREEN/Poor Bill Grease Records 59 JODY BOOTH & TRACY BYRD/Lonesome On'ry and Mean SOT 56 STONEY LARUE (DUET WITH TANYA TUCKER)/Meet In The Middle One Chord Song 51 JON WOLFE/Feels Like Country Music Fool Hearted Productions 50 Syndicated Country is a resource guide for countdown, specialty shows RANDALL KING/Hey Cowgirl 49 and podcasts available to radio looking to enhance their programming. Warner Music Nashville/WEA You can go to www.syndicatedcountry.com to see more!

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