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Countrybreakout Chart Covering Secondary Radio Since 2002 COUNTRYBREAKOUT CHART COVERING SECONDARY RADIO SINCE 2002 Thursday, February 9, 2017 NEWS CHART ACTION MusicRow's Country Radio Meet & Greet New On The Chart —Debuting This Week ! Artist/song/label—chart pos. ! Sam Hunt/Body Like A Backroad/MCA Nashville— 41 ! Zac Brown Band/My Old Man/Southern Ground-Elektra—48 ! Keith Urban w/ Carrie Underwood/The Fighter/Capitol Nashville—53 ! Blake Shelton/Every Time I Hear That Song/Warner Bros— 61 ! Frankie Ballard/You’ll Accomp’ny Me/Warner Bros— 74 ! Jackie Lee/Getting Over You/Broken Bow—80 ! ! ! Greatest Spin Increase MusicRow's 15th Annual Country Radio Meet & Greet CountryBreakout Awards will be held Wednesday, Feb. 22. Featured performers are Rachael Artist/song/label—Spin Increase Turner (Rustic Records) and Alex Smith (Lila Records). For more, visit Sam Hunt/Body Like A Backroad/MCA Nashville—496 musicrow.com. Zac Brown Band/My Old Man/Southern Ground-Elektra—464 ! Lady Antebellum/You Look Good/Capitol Nashville— 372 Lady A To Announce ACM Awards Nominees Keith Urban w/ Carrie Underwood/The Fighter/Capitol Nashville—315 ! !Blake Shelton/Every Time I Hear That Song/Warner Bros—238 ! Most Added ! Artist/song/label—No. of Adds ! Zac Brown Band/My Old Man/Southern Ground-Elektra— 40 ! Sam Hunt/Body Like A Backroad/MCA Nashville—31 ! Keith Urban w/ Carrie Underwood/The Fighter/Capitol Nashville—27 ! Blake Shelton/Every Time I Hear That Song/Warner Bros—22 ! Lady Antebellum/You Look Good/Capitol Nashville—11 ! Easton Corbin/A Girl Like You/Mercury Nashville—11 ! Brett Young/In Case You Didn’t Know/BMLG— 6 ! Rachael Turner/Hurts Don’t It/Rustic Records— 6 ! Shane Owens/All The Beer In Alabama/AmeriMonte— 5 Lady Antebellum will appear live on CBS This Morning on Thursday, Feb. ! 16 to announce the nominees for the 52nd Academy of Country Music On Deck—Soon To Be Charting Awards, during the 8 a.m. hour (delayed PT). The 52nd Academy of Artist/song/label—No. of Spins Country Music Awards will broadcast live from T-Mobile Arena in Las Tyler Steel/This Town/Steel Music Group—126 Vegas Sunday, April 2 (live 8:00-11:00 PM, ET/delayed PT) on the CBS Gretchen Wilson/Rowdy/Redneck Records—118 Television Network. Dylan Jakobsen/Silverado/CB Music—116 ! Southern Halo/Living Like That/Southern Halo Records— 115 Natalie Hemby Shines Spotlight On Small Towns, Jamie Stever/This Life Ain’t For Everyone/Tri-Mount Ent.— 112 Family On Puxico Natalie Hemby has penned chart- topping hits for artists including Miranda Lambert, Little Big Town, and Toby Keith, eventually found the inspiration and courage to release her own music. Through revisiting her roots during the making of her 2015 documentary, Puxico, a collection of music emerged by the same title. To read more about Hemby’s story and her visit with MusicRow, click here. ! ! Pictured (L-R): Terra Bella with WLLX/Lawrenceburg, TN’s Ed Carter. Pictured (L-R): WZZK/Birmingham, AL’s Craig Allen, artist Granger Smith and WZZK’s Dana Lundon. Pictured (L-R): v Owner/Publisher Sherod Robertson Pictured (L-R): KMNB/Minneapolis, MN’s Paul Koffy, Lucas Phelan, Wheelhouse Records’ Walker McGuire members with artist Natalie Hemby. Jordan Walker and Johnny McGuire, KMNB’s Lauren MacLeash, Wheelhouse Records’ Teddi Bonadies. Pictured (L-R): Guitarist Nick Gibbens, KITX/Hugo, OK’s Will Smith, Barry Diamond, Seagayle’s CJ Solar, Pictured (L-R): Artist Courtney Dickinson with WTDR/Talladega, AL’s KITX’s Will Payne and band member Michael Hardy. Rebecca Young. Thursday, February 9, 2017 ARTIST SPOTLIGHT Alex Smith !Sponsored by: Lila Records Current EP: !Fear Of Missing Out Available digitally: iTunes - Click here. or !Amazon- Click here. Hometown: !Alexandria, LA Career Highlights: Smith moved to Nashville in June 2016, opened a record label in July, and charted his irst single in September. (Thank you MusicRow stations!). In November, Smith performed his !irst showcase for music industry executives. Smith made his TV debut on Today in Nashville in January 2017. He is writing and looking for material to extend his EP !to a full album. Smith will be a featured performer at the MusicRow CountryBreakout Awards and Radio Meet & Greet on Feb. 22, !2017. Fun Facts about Alex Smith -Learned to play guitar from YouTube and Guitar Hero. -His grandfather and father are musicians. -His label (Lila Records) is named for his grandmother. -He spent his last two summers while in college sleeping on friends’ couches in Nashville, learning about the city and industry. !-Loves candy! XULQJ HDW ^D_L T(LD &/ ) ' ( 1 1 < 6 7 5 , & . / $ 1 ' PdhiZYMn> )RRG DA^a;^muu§v\S 7KH/LVWHQLQJ5RRP&DIH· 2SHQ%DU N]Vga^ZSdc` QG$YH6 3UL]HV SSDCM;`DQmVQQVgMTJ`LDa_MB&VgDD` ^DD` Thursday, February 9, 2017 CALENDAR NO. 1 SONG Singles February 13 Brooke Eden/Act Like You Don’t/Red Bow Records Mo Pitney/Everywhere/Curb Records Frankie Ballard/You’ll Accomp’ny Me/Warner Bros-WAR Olivia Dvorak/Don’t Come Knocking/Spin Doctors Promotions !Cash Creek/The Hard Way/Heartland Records Nashville February 20 Carly Pearce/Every Little Thing/Dot Records !Blake Shelton/Every Time I Hear That Song/Warner Bros February 27 Midland/Drinkin’ Problem/Big Machine !Kip Moore/More Girls Like You/MCA Nashville March 6 Danny Worsnop/Anyone But Me/Earache Records Sarah Dunn Band/Figure It Out/Reznam Records Swon Brothers/Don’t Call Me/TSB Records ! Lauren Alaina has earned her irst No. 1 song on the MusicRow ! CountryBreakout chart with “Road Less Traveled,” which hits the top Albums this week. February 10 ! Brett Young/Brett Young/BMLG Records Alaina co-wrote the song with Jesse Frasure and Meghan Trainor Old Crow Medicine Show/Best Of and is the title track for her debut album on Mercury Nashville. Lari White/Old Friends, New Loves (double-disc EP) ! Cash Creek/The Hard Way/Heartland Records Nashville Watch the music video by clicking here. Claire Guerreso/Heavy [EP]/Ultra Records ! Sarah Darling/Dream Country The former American Idol runner-up will star in her very irst movie, The Steeldrivers/The Steeldrivers (vinyl re-release)/Rounder Road Less Traveled, named after the No. 1 single of the same name. ! The ilm recently began production in Knoxville, Tennessee. February 17 ! Alison Krauss/Windy City/Capitol Records Alaina continues to tour across the U.S. and has her dates listed here. Nikki Lane/Highway Queen/New West Records Jenny Gill/The House Sessions [EP] Click here to view a full list of MusicRow’s Challenge Coin recipients. MusicRow CountryBreakout Chart Reporting Stations WHMA Anniston AL KXIA Marshalltown IA KRRV Alexandria LA WDNB Liberty NY KGKL San Angelo TX WXFL Florence AL KTHK Idaho Falls ID KQKI Morgan City LA WOLF Syracuse NY KMKS Bay City TX WTDR Talladega AL WAAG Galesburg IL WKPE Hyannis, MA WCJW Warsaw NY KXOX Sweetwater TX KCJC Russellville AR WOOZ Carterville IL WVMD Cumberland MD WFRY Watertown NY KYYK Palestine TX KCNY Conway AR WGKC Urbana IL WATZ Alpena MI KWHW Altus OK KMRK Odessa TX KDXY Jonesboro AR WDZQ Decatur IL WTCM Traverse City MI KITX Hugo OK WAKG Danville VA KQUS Hot Springs AR WMCI Mattoon IL KZPK St. Cloud MN KWOX Woodward OK KICR Spokane WA KWCK Searcy AR WRTB Rockford IL KYSM Mankato MN KWEY Weatherford OK WAXX Altoona WI KTTI Yuma AZ WIFE Connersville IN KCLQ Lebanon MO KRKT Albany OR WCOW La Crosse WI KRAZ Santa Barbara CA WYGB Franklin IN KWWR Mexico MO WFGE State College PA WGLR Platteville WI KVAY Lamar CO KAIR Atchison KS KFAV Warrenton MO WCFT Selinsgrove PA WJVL Janesville WI WHWY Destin FL KYEZ Salina KS WQNZ Natchez MS KIQK Rapid City, SD WQPC Prairie du Chien WI WBYZ Baxley GA WGGC Bowling Green KY KZZY Devils Lake ND WDKN Dickson TN WPCK Green Bay WI WTHO Thomson GA WKDZ Cadiz KY KRVN Lexington NE WEIO Huntingdon TN WDGG Huntington WV WUBB Savannah GA WFGS Murray KY KQKX Norfolk NE WLLX Lawrenceburg TN WKKW Morgantown WV KIAI Mason City IA WBKR Owensboro KY KRGI Grand Island NE WUCZ Carthage TN WTNJ Mount Hope WV KSMA Mason City IA WDHR Pikeville KY KQBA Santa Fe NM Renegade Radio Nashville WTCR Huntington WV ! ! !KFTX Corpus Christi TX ! ! Thursday, February 9, 2017 Weeks % Spin On Chart Last Week This Week Artist / Song / Label Spins / Reports Power Spins +/- 22 3 1 Lauren Alaina / Road Less Traveled / Mercury Nashville 2784/83 3 93 30 2 2 Dustin Lynch / Seein’ Red / Broken Bow 2742/72 1 16 9 4 3 Luke Bryan / Fast / Capitol Nashville 2734/84 7 178 38 5 4 Michael Ray / Think A Little Less / Warner Bros. 2724/80 9 216 17 7 5 Kelsea Ballerini / Yeah Boy / Black River Ent 2452/83 3 63 9 9 6 Jason Aldean / Any Ol’ Barstool / Broken Bow 2443/83 6 146 34 6 7 Josh Turner / Hometown Girl / MCA Nashville 2442/82 1 23 26 8 8 Brantley Gilbert / The Weekend / Valory Music Co. 2430/79 4 86 19 1 9 Jon Pardi / Dirt On My Boots / Capitol Nashville 2265/62 -26 -803 13 11 10 Dierks Bentley / Black / Capitol Nashville 2212/83 5 105 7 13 11 Kenny Chesney / Bar At The End Of The World / Columbia Nashville 2138/82 12 230 11 14 12 Miranda Lambert / We Should Be Friends / RCA Nashville 1926/83 1 22 30 15 13 Darius Rucker / If I Told You / Capitol Nashville 1920/74 2 44 24 16 14 Trent Harmon / There’s A Girl / Big Machine 1693/75 3 48 21 17 15 Chris Lane / For Her / Big Loud Records 1508/70 3 45 14 18 16 Justin Moore / Somebody Else Will / Valory Music Co.
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