Country Update

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Dustin Lynch’s Country Consumption Up In 2018 ‘Good’ News >page 4 As Shift To Streaming Continues

Garth Fan Gets Settlement Buy it. Stream it. Watch the video. albums hit 617.98 million, up a whopping 23 percent from 2017. >page 8 Fans have multiple ways to consume music in 2019, and Streaming growth contributed mightily to those bumps. in appropriate fashion, three different artists led four year- Country amassed 50.88 billion streams, a 46 percent inflation end Nielsen Music country lists for 2018 with Luke Combs, over the 2017 numbers. That performance slightly outpaced Florida Georgia Line and Jason Aldean feeling the love on the overall industry, which counted 901 billion streams, a Loretta Lynn’s different platforms. 43 percent increase. All-Star Birthday Actual product sales were down by double digits as consumers FGL’s collaboration with pop singer Bebe Rexha, “Meant >page 9 continue to move in overwhelming numbers to streaming. to Be,” benefited most from that growth as a runaway winner On balance, overall in both on-demand consumption — streaming and measured through digital downloads. Brad Paisley audio-equivalent It racked up 721.6 Has A Field Day album units, which million streams, >page 9 is a combination of outpacing Brown’s

album sales, track- “Heaven,” which equivalent album landed at No. 2 Makin’ Tracks: sales and on-demand with 470.5 million Kane Brown’s audio streaming — streams. (Due to an grew by 10 percent for internal technical ‘Good As You’ FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE and REXHA >page 13 country, which racked error, the original up 48.38 million version of this story audio-equivalent album units. omitted “Meant to Be” from the list.) Brown’s “What Ifs,” a Combs, Aldean, Kane Brown and Chris Stapleton titles duet with Lauren Alaina, was listed as No. 5 among 2018’s Country Coda: fared best in that multipoint hybrid measurement, with on-demand country streams, just a year after placing at No. 3. Conlee’s ‘Eyes’ Stapleton landing two albums — 2015’s Traveller and 2017’s “Meant to Be” easily owned the Digital Songs championship In Focus From A Room: Volume 1 — among the top 10. Combs topped for the year, accruing more than 1 million downloads. >page 18 the heap with 1.075 million audio-equivalent units of This Aldean’s “You Make It Easy” earned 598,000 downloads to One’s for You. claim the No. 2 slot, edging out “Heaven,” which accumulated Country moved in the same direction as the total industry, 589,000 downloads.

though not as dramatically. Total industry audio-equivalent Country registered 46.05 million track sales in 2018, a ASSOCIATION MUSIC COUNTRY COURTESY / JONES DONN

#1 NEW AND ACTIVE 51 First Week Stations WNSH – KKGO – WEBG – WUBL – WXTU – WBWL – WKLB – KMLE – KNIX – KYGO WFUS – WQYK – WJVC – KUPL – WKKT – WSOC – WDSY – WPGB – WOGI – KSOP KUBL – KCYE – KWNR – KBEQ – KRTY – WMIL – WUSH – WGNE – WQIK – WTQR – WIRK WNOE – WWYZ – WKHK – WKMK – WKLI – KHGE – WCTQ – WRBT - WOGK – KXLY WTHT – KJUG – WKXC – WXBQ – WQHK – KKIX – WKML – KPLM – KTOM – KBUL BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE JANUARY 14, 2019 | PAGE 2 OF 18 steep 33 percent drop from the prior year. The industry’s total volume of downloaded tracks likewise dipped with the 411.5 million total, representing a 27 percent decline. Aldean’s Rearview Town ruled country’s album sales, the most traditional form of transactions in the current consumption scheme. It accrued 463,000 purchases to outdistance Carrie Underwood’s Cry Pretty (No. 2, 401,000 sales) and Keith Urban’s Graffiti U (No. 3, 273,000 sales). Stapleton nailed down the No. 4-6 positions with Traveller and both volumes of From A Room. Country totaled 14.14 million album sales in 2018, receding 28.5 percent from its 2017 numbers. That percentage was larger than the industry as a whole, which logged 141.4 million album sales, a 17.7 percent decline. Nielsen Music’s 2018 tracking year ran from Dec. 29, 2017, through Jan. 3, 2019, a quirk in the calendar that covered 53 chart weeks instead of the usual 52. For comparison, Nielsen Music used a 53-week year to represent 2017: Dec. 30, 2016, through Jan. 4, 2018. Thus, the 2017 statistical base for this story is slightly different than the numbers that were compiled a year ago, based on the official 52-week calendar. Following are the 10 best-selling country albums and tracks for 2018, as well as the genre’s 10 most-streamed titles:

Chris Young stopped by Cumulus’ Nashville office to promote his new single, “Raised On Country,” on The Ty Bentli Show. From left: Bentli, Top Country Albums, Total Audio-Equivalent Units, 2018 Young and Cumulus personality Chuck Wicks. 1) Luke Combs, This One’s for You 1,075,000 2) Jason Aldean, Rearview Town 915,000 3) Kane Brown, Kane Brown 820,000 4) Chris Stapleton, Traveller 733,000 5) Thomas Rhett, Life Changes 635,000 6) Carrie Underwood, Cry Pretty 590,000 7) Dan + Shay, Dan + Shay 570,000 8) Brett Young, Brett Young 523,000 9) Chris Stapleton, From A Room, Volume 1 441,000 10) Luke Bryan, What Makes You Country 441,000

Top-Selling Country Albums, 2018 1) Jason Aldean, Rearview Town 463,000 2) Carrie Underwood, Cry Pretty 401,000 3) Keith Urban, Graffiti U 273,000 4) Chris Stapleton, From A Room, Volume 2 249,000 5) Chris Stapleton, Traveller 245,000 6) Chris Stapleton, From A Room, Volume 1 230,000 7) Luke Combs, This One’s for You 223,000 8) Kane Brown, Kane Brown 199,000 9) Alan Jackson, Precious Memories Collection 186,000 10) Dierks Bentley, The Mountain 181,000 Maren Morris visited with Jimmie Allen (right) met with Top-Selling Country Digital Songs, 2018 SiriusXM host Buzz Brainard WQMX Akron, Ohio, PD Ken 1) Bebe Rexha & Florida Georgia Line, “Meant to Be” 1,042,000 on the satcaster’s channel The Steel when he played the Dusty 2) Jason Aldean, “You Make It Easy” 598,000 Highway. Armadillo in nearby Rootstown. 3) Kane Brown, “Heaven” 589,000 4) Dan + Shay , “Tequila” 509,000 5) Thomas Rhett, “Marry Me” 365,000 6) Florida Georgia Line, “Simple” 364,000 7) Brett Young, “Mercy” 352,000 8) Chris Stapleton, “Broken Halos” 334,000 9) Chris Stapleton, “Tennessee Whiskey” 332,000 10) Kenny Chesney, “Get Along” 320,000

Most-Streamed Country Songs, 2018 (By Total On-Demand Streaming, Audio and Video Combined) 1) Bebe Rexha & Florida Georgia Line, “Meant to Be” 721,618,000 2) Kane Brown, “Heaven” 470,494,000 3) Dan + Shay, “Tequila” 354,587,000 4) Chris Stapleton, “Tennessee Whiskey” 340,814,000 5) Kane Brown feat. Lauren Alaina, “What Ifs” 313,430,000 6) Thomas Rhett, “Marry Me” 308,375,000 7) Sam Hunt, “Body Like a Back Road” 272,741,000 Carlton Anderson dropped by the Billboard office in Nashville to play 8) Jason Aldean, “You Make It Easy” 249,390,000 new music for the staff. From left: Anderson, Billboard contributor 9) Luke Combs, “When It Rains It Pours” 232,052,000 Deborah Evans Price and Morris Higham day-to-day manager Robert

10) Brett Young, “In Case You Didn’t Know” 226,996,000 Filhart. PHOTOGLO ANN LEE ANDERSON: “STUNNING! It’s an acoustic ballad that will hit you smack in the middle of your heart. Exquisitely written and performed. An illustration of country music greatness drawn by a master of the genre.”

–ROBERT K. OERMANN

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ON THE CHARTS JIM ASKER [email protected] Dustin Lynch Lands Sixth No. 1 On Country Airplay Chart — And First As A Writer — With ‘Good Girl’

Dustin Lynch’s “Good Girl” (Broken Bow) ascends 2-1 on Billboard’s “Speechless” scores a 10th week atop Country Digital Song Sales (14,000 Country Airplay chart (dated Jan. 19), up 11 percent to 41.2 million audience sold, down 13 percent), holds at its No. 2 high on Country Streaming Songs impressions in the tracking week ending Jan. 13, according to Nielsen Music. (11.3 million U.S. streams, up 8 percent) and dips to No. 2 after four weeks The song becomes his sixth Country Airplay No. 1 and first as a writer. atop Country Airplay (38.4 million audience impressions). He co-authored it with Justin Ebach, who notches the second No. 1 he has penned, and Andy Albert, who achieves his first. BRYAN ‘MAKES’ TOP 10 Luke Bryan’s “What Makes You Country” (Capitol “Shout-out to all of you who continue to support and believe,” Lynch tells Nashville) rises 11-10 on Country Airplay, increasing by 4 percent to Billboard. “Before we even had the lyric finished 26.6 million audience impressions. on this song, I knew it was a special one, and, man, It is Bryan’s 27th Country Airplay top 10, it has been. What a way to kick off 2019.” a total that includes 20 No. 1s. He ties Carrie “Good Girl” — the lead single from his Underwood for 15th place among all acts for upcoming fourth full-studio album — is Lynch’s the most top 10s, dating to the chart’s launch first Country Airplay No. 1 since “Small Town 29 years ago this week (Jan. 20, 1990). George Boy,” which led for four weeks starting in Strait leads, with 61 top 10s. September 2017. Before that, he reigned with Bryan is working on a streak of 13 straight “Seein’ Red” (February 2017, one week), “Mind Country Airplay leaders, the longest active run Reader” (2016, one), “Hell of a Night” (2015, one) among all artists. His previous single, “Sunrise, and “Where It’s At (Yep, Yep)” (2014, two). He first Sunburn, Sunset,” topped the chart for two weeks reached the chart’s top 10 with his debut hit, the in September 2018. No. 2-peaking “Cowboys and Angels,” in 2012. As “Girl” reaches the Country Airplay HERE’S DOLLY Legend Dolly Parton achieves penthouse in its 37th week on the chart, Lynch her 44th Top Country Albums top 10 as her completes his second-longest trip to No. 1: “Hell 2003 album Ultimate Dolly Parton re-enters the of a Night” rose to the top in its 44th frame. chart for the first time since 2004, surging by The song concurrently climbs 10-8 for a new 172 percent to 8,000 equivalent album units. peak on the airplay-, streaming- and sales-based The set debuted at its former No. 20 peak in Hot Country Songs chart. June 2003. LYNCH Why the boost? The album includes Parton’s DYNAMIC DUO Dan + Shay’s “Speechless” 1977 five-week Hot Country Songs No. 1 “Here (Warner Bros./WAR) leads for an eighth week atop You Come Again,” which is being used to promote Hot Country Songs while their previous single, “Tequila,” resides at its No. 2 all-you-can-eat riblets, shrimp and chicken tenders in a TV commercial for peak for an 18th week, extending its mark for the most weeks peaking at the Applebee’s Grill & Bar. The song surges by 39 percent to 3,000 downloads runner-up spot. The duo place at Nos. 1 and 2 simultaneously for a fifth week, the sold in the tracking week. most among duos or groups and second only to Luke Bryan, who concurrently Parton extends her record for the most Top Country Albums top 10s among

controlled the top two spots on Hot Country Songs for nine weeks in 2014. women and ranks second overall only to Willie Nelson, with 51. FILMMAGIC 2018 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE JANUARY 14, 2019 | PAGE 5 OF 18

AIRPLAY Country Airplay MONITORED BY

WKS AUDIENCE (IN MILLIONS) PLAYS THIS LAST ON WEEK WEEK CHART TITLE Imprint/Label Artist THIS WEEK +/– THIS WEEK +/– RANK l1 2 37 GOOD GIRL Broken Bow HH No. 1 (1 week)/ Most Increased Audience HH Dustin Lynch 41.174 +4.179 7916 692 1 2 1 23 SPEECHLESS Warner Bros./WAR Dan + Shay 38.352 -1.363 7053 -435 3 l3 3 21 SIXTEEN Valory  Thomas Rhett 38.020 +2.521 7 116 391 2 l4 6 18 GIRL LIKE YOU Macon/Broken Bow Jason Aldean 36.083 +2.619 6649 420 5 l5 7 28 BURNING MAN Capitol Nashville Dierks Bentley Featuring Brothers Osborne 34.720 +1.843 6865 390 4 6 5 28 SHE GOT THE BEST OF ME River House/Columbia Nashville Luke Combs 33.015 -1.399 5587 -419 7 l7 10 33 THIS IS IT Triple Tigers Scotty McCreery 32.689 +2.259 6447 276 6 8 4 48 BEST SHOT Stoney Creek Jimmie Allen 32.097 -2.434 5368 -453 8 9 8 32 LOSE IT Zone 4/RCA Nashville Kane Brown 28.201 -3.045 5067 -635 10 l10 11 13 WHAT MAKES YOU COUNTRY Capitol Nashville Luke Bryan 26.629 +1.092 5339 425 9 l11 12 39 MILLIONAIRE Mercury  Chris Stapleton 23.968 -0.040 4787 -29 11 l12 13 34 TAKE IT FROM ME MCA Nashville Jordan Davis 23.760 +0.324 4743 98 13 l13 14 40 BURN OUT Big Machine Midland 22.492 +0.770 4747 111 12 l14 15 27 THERE WAS THIS GIRL BMLG  Riley Green 18.586 +0.594 4138 136 14 l15 19 10 BEAUTIFUL CRAZY River House/Columbia Nashville HH Airpower HH Luke Combs 17.503 +2.872 3352 626 19 l16 16 23 DOWN TO THE HONKYTONK Big Loud Jake Owen 17.285 +0.763 3952 138 15 l17 18 14 MAKE IT SWEET RCA Nashville Old Dominion 16.732 +1.558 3472 266 17 l18 17 18 LOVE WINS Capitol Nashville Carrie Underwood 16.015 +0.358 3481 156 16 l19 20 26 ONE THAT GOT AWAY Atlantic/WEA  Michael Ray 15.283 +0.934 3449 205 18 l20 22 25 NIGHT SHIFT Capitol Nashville HH Airpower HH Jon Pardi 13.407 +1.140 3241 261 20 l21 21 21 NEVER COMIN DOWN Hit Red/Capitol Nashville Keith Urban 12.293 +0.078 2838 18 21 l22 24 17 HERE TONIGHT BMLG  Brett Young 12.076 +1.280 2815 277 22 23 23 15 NEON CHURCH McGraw/Columbia Nashville Tim McGraw 10.927 -0.752 2689 -104 23 l24 25 23 ON MY WAY TO YOU CoJo/WMN  Cody Johnson 10.229 +0.251 2267 90 26 l25 26 12 MISS ME MORE Black River Kelsea Ballerini 8.990 +1.033 2269 277 25 l26 27 41 THE DIFFERENCE Valory  Tyler Rich 8.319 +0.389 2389 40 24 l27 29 22 EYES ON YOU Dack Janiels/Broken Bow Chase Rice 7.454 +0.840 1914 212 29 l28 28 28 LOVE SOMEONE Atlantic/WMN  Brett Eldredge 7.301 +0.542 1931 128 28 l29 30 31 LOVE AIN’T Valory  Eli Young Band 6.881 +0.636 1947 101 27 l30 32 40 CAUGHT UP IN THE COUNTRY Curb  Rodney Atkins Featuring The Fisk Jubilee Singers 5.265 +0.314 1701 127 30

BILLBOARD COUNTRY AIRPLAY PANEL — 150 STATIONS Akron, OH WQMX Detroit WDRQ Memphis WGKX Richmond, Va. WKHK Albany, N.Y. WGNA WYCD WLFP Riverside, Calif. KFRG Albuquerque, N.M. KBQI El Paso, Texas KHEY Miami WKIS Roanoke, Va. WSLC KRST Ft. Myers, Fla. WCKT Milwaukee, WI. WKTI Rochester, N.Y. WBEE Allentown, Pa. WCTO WWGR WMIL Sacramento, Calif. KBEB Atlanta WKHX Ft. Wayne, Ind. WQHK Minneapolis KEEY KNCI WUBL Fresno, Calif. KSKS KMNB KNTY Augusta, Ga. WKXC Gainesville, Fla. WOGK Mobile, Ala. WKSJ St. Louis KSD Austin, Texas KASE Grand Rapids, Mich. WBCT Monmouth/Ocean, N.J. WKMK WIL Bakersfield, Calif. KUZZ Greensboro, N.C. WTQR Monterey, Calif.. KTOM Salt Lake City KSOP Baltimore WPOC Greenville, S.C. WSSL Nashville WKDF KUBL Baton Rouge, La. WYNK Harrisburg, Pa. WRBT WSIX San Antonio, Texas KAJA Birmingham, Ala. WDXB Hartford, Conn. WWYZ Nassau, N.Y. WJVC KCYY WZZK Houston KILT New Bern, N.C. WRNS San Diego KSON Boise, Idaho KAWO KKBQ New Orleans WNOE San Jose, Calif. KRTY KIZN Huntsville, Ala. WDRM New York WNSH Sarasota, Fla. WCTQ Boston WBWL Indianapolis WFMS Norfolk, Va. WGH Seattle KKWF WKLB WLHK WUSH KMPS Buffalo, N.Y. WYRK Jacksonville, Fla. WGNE Oklahoma City, Okla. KJKE Spokane, Wash. KXLY Charleston, S.C. WEZL WQIK KTST Springfield, Mass. WRNX WCKN Johnson City, Tenn. WXBQ Omaha, Neb. KXKT Stockton, Calif. KATM Charlotte, N.C. WKKT Kansas City KBEQ Orlando, Fla. WWKA Syracuse, N.Y. WBBS WSOC WDAF Oxnard-Ventura, CA KHAY Tampa, Fla. WFUS Chattanooga, Tenn. WUSY KFKF Philadelphia WXTU WQYK Chicago WEBG Knoxville, Tenn. WCYQ Phoenix KMLE Tucson, Ariz. KIIM WUSN WIVK KNIX Tulsa, Okla. KTGX Cincinnati WUBE Lafayette, La. KMDL Pittsburgh WDSY KVOO Cleveland WGAR Lakeland, Fla. WPCV WOGI KWEN Colorado Springs, Colo. KATC Las Vegas KCYE WPGB Visalia, Calif. KJUG KCCY KWNR Portland, Maine WPOR Washington, D.C. WMZQ Columbia, S.C. WCOS Lexington, Ky. WBUL WTHT West Palm Beach, Fla. WIRK Columbus, Ohio WCOL Little Rock, Ark. KSSN Portland, Ore. KUPL Wichita, Kan. KFDI Corpus Christi, Texas KRYS Los Angeles KKGO KWJJ KZSN Dallas KPLX Louisville, Ky. WAMZ Providence, R.I. WCTK Wilkes Barre, Pa. WGGY KSCS WQNU Raleigh, NC WQDR Wilmington, Del. WXCY Dayton, Ohio WHKO Madison, Wis. WWQM York, Pa. WGTY Denver KYGO WMAD Reno, Nevada KBUL Des Moines, Iowa KHKI McAllen, Texas KTEX KOLC BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE JANUARY 14, 2019 | PAGE 6 OF 18

AIRPLAY Country Airplay MONITORED BY

WKS AUDIENCE (IN MILLIONS) PLAYS THIS LAST ON WEEK WEEK CHART TITLE Imprint/Label Artist THIS WEEK +/– THIS WEEK +/– RANK l31 31 19 RUMOR Curb  Lee Brice 5.208 +0.114 1293 91 33 l32 33 11 TALK YOU OUT OF IT BMLG  Florida Georgia Line 4.740 +0.003 112 6 -5 35 l33 34 20 WHISKEY GLASSES Big Loud Morgan Wallen 4.597 +0.024 1418 52 31 34 35 19 FEELS LIKE A PARTY Wheelhouse  LOCASH 3.807 -0.175 1310 9 32 l35 36 26 WHAT WHISKEY DOES Stoney Creek Randy Houser Featuring Hillary Lindsey 3.640 +0.082 112 3 43 36 l36 38 30 FRIENDS DON’T Mercury  Maddie & Tae 3.301 +0.167 1076 47 38 l37 55 2 GOOD AS YOU Zone 4/RCA Nashville HH Most Added HH Kane Brown 3.219 +1.850 727 455 41 l38 39 13 BUY MY OWN DRINKS Wheelhouse  Runaway June 3.190 +0.266 113 0 54 34 l39 37 16 BACK TO LIFE Big Machine Rascal Flatts 3.124 -0.025 1088 44 37 l40 40 5 WHAT HAPPENS IN A SMALL TOWN Valory  Brantley Gilbert + Lindsay Ell 2.818 +0.370 575 105 46 l41 41 5 DON’T LET THE OLD MAN IN Show Dog Nashville Toby Keith 2.489 +0.086 495 -4 51 l42 42 7 LOVE YOU TOO LATE Warner Bros./WMN Cole Swindell 2.442 +0.038 598 12 43 l43 44 8 CLOSER TO YOU Big Machine Carly Pearce 2.296 +0.147 750 9 40 l44 45 24 YADA YADA YADA EMI Nashville Brandon Lay 2.171 +0.040 876 55 39 45 43 13 DAY DRUNK Warner Bros./WEA Morgan Evans 2.054 -0.104 676 13 42 l46 49 10 THE ONES THAT DIDN’T MAKE IT BACK HOME Valory  Justin Moore 1.976 +0.124 528 27 49 l47 48 11 LADIES IN THE ‘90S 19/Mercury  Lauren Alaina 1.964 +0.022 525 -26 50 l48 51 7 STRONGER THAN ME Pearl  Garth Brooks 1.930 +0.255 576 62 45 49 46 17 BRING IT ON OVER Mercury  Billy Currington 1.915 -0.078 594 -22 44 50 47 6 EVERY LITTLE THING Triple Tigers Russell Dickerson 1.880 -0.069 533 13 48 l51 54 2 SOME OF IT EMI Nashville Eric Church 1.871 +0.480 347 137 59 52 50 7 BUCKED OFF Arista Nashville Brad Paisley 1.725 -0.034 557 -23 47 l53 53 9 I DON’T REMEMBER ME (BEFORE YOU) EMI Nashville Brothers Osborne 1.537 +0.121 472 34 56 54 52 20 HOW DOES IT SOUND Dylan Schneider/Placer Dylan Schneider 1.480 -0.112 493 -5 52 l55 56 8 I DON’T KNOW ABOUT YOU Big Loud Chris Lane 1.414 +0.053 472 41 55 l56 NEW RAISED ON COUNTRY RCA Nashville HH Hot Shot Debut HH Chris Young 1.400 +0.742 253 169 - 57 57 20 I WON’T BE SORRY Blue Chair/Reviver David Lee Murphy 1.261 -0.043 482 -4 54 58 58 12 90’S COUNTRY Monument/Arista Nashville Walker Hayes 1.092 -0.146 375 22 58 l59 60 5 GIRL GOIN’ NOWHERE Atlantic/WAR  Ashley McBryde 0.982 +0.119 290 53 - 60 59 5 GOT MY NAME CHANGED BACK RCA Nashville Pistol Annies 0.942 -0.040 488 28 53

GOING FOR ADDS

1/21 2/4 MATT STELL AARON WATSON Prayed For You Kiss That Girl Goodbye Wide Open/GCE/RECORDS BIG Label RYAN DANIEL LOGAN MIZE Bring On The Night Better Off Gone Spin Doctors/Ryan Daniel Big Yellow Dog

1/28 CHRIS YOUNG Raised On Country 59 RCA Nashville The singer-songwriter’s co-authored ballad HALEY & MICHAELS is her second Country Airplay entry after Taking Off her debut, “A Little Dive Bar in Dahlonega,” Hickory ASHLEY which hit No. 30 in May 2018. “Nowhere” McBRYDE JIMMIE ALLEN Girl Goin’ steps 60-59, increasing by 14 percent to Make Me Want To Nowhere 982,000 audience impressions. BBR/Stoney Creek/BMG HALEY & MICHAELS JON-PAUL BRUNO JON-PAUL 2018 TERRY WYATT TERRY 2018 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE JANUARY 14, 2019 | PAGE 7 OF 18

AIRPLAY Country Airplay MONITORED BY

MOST ADDED® NEW AND ACTIVE TITLE Imprint/Label Artist ADDS TOTAL TOTAL GOOD AS YOU RCA Nashville Kane Brown 24 TITLE Imprint/Label Artist AUDIENCE STATIONS ADDS BEAUTIFUL CRAZY River House/Columbia Nashville Luke Combs 14 NOTHING TO DO TOWN Curb Dylan Scott 0.790 13 7 MISS ME MORE Black River Kelsea Ballerini 11 WHEN IT COMES TO LOVING YOU 32 Bridge/EMI Nashville Jon Langston 0.770 30 1 SOME OF IT EMI Nashville Eric Church 10 SOMEBODY’S DAUGHTER Columbia Nashville Tenille Townes 0.726 24 1 LOVE SOMEONE Atlantic/WMN Brett Eldredge 9 EYES ON YOU Dack Janiels/Broken Bow Chase Rice 9 DANCING AWAY WITH MY HEART Riser House Dillon Carmichael 0.432 18 0 HERE TONIGHT BMLG Brett Young 8 GROWIN’ UP Stoney Creek Walker McGuire 0.425 17 0 ON MY WAY TO YOU CoJo/WMN Cody Johnson 8 GIVE UP THE GHOST Big Machine Lauren Jenkins 0.354 0 0 LOVE AIN’T Valory Eli Young Band 8 RAISED ON COUNTRY RCA Nashville Chris Young 8 RECURRENTS MOST INCREASED AUDIENCE THIS TOTAL AUD. WEEK TITLE Imprint/Label Artist (IN MILLIONS) GAIN 1 LAST SHOT MCA Nashville Kip Moore 21.940 TITLE Imprint/Label Artist (IN MIILIONS) 2 BLUE TACOMA Triple Tigers Russell Dickerson 18.884 GOOD GIRL Broken Bow Dustin Lynch +4.179 BEAUTIFUL CRAZY River House/Columbia Nashville Luke Combs +2.872 3 HEAVEN Zone 4/RCA Nashville Kane Brown 18.000 GIRL LIKE YOU Macon/Broken Bow Jason Aldean +2.619 4 ONE NUMBER AWAY River House/Columbia Nashville Luke Combs 17.117 SIXTEEN Valory Thomas Rhett +2.521 5 TEQUILA Warner Bros./WAR Dan + Shay 15.861 THIS IS IT Triple Tigers Scotty McCreery +2.259 6 GET ALONG Blue Chair/Warner Bros./WEA Kenny Chesney 15.712 GOOD AS YOU Zone 4/RCA Nashville Kane Brown +1.850 7 HANGIN’ ON RCA Nashville Chris Young 15.402 BURNING MAN Capitol Nashville Dierks Bentley Feat. Brothers Osborne +1.843 8 DRUNK ME Riser House/Columbia Nashville Mitchell Tenpenny 14.039 MAKE IT SWEET RCA Nashville Old Dominion +1.558 9 HOTEL KEY RCA Nashville Old Dominion 13.867 HERE TONIGHT BMLG Brett Young +1.280 NIGHT SHIFT Capitol Nashville Jon Pardi +1.140 10 YOU MAKE IT EASY Macon/Broken Bow Jason Aldean 12.803 MOST INCREASED PLAYS BILLBOARD COUNTRY BOXSCORE TITLE Imprint/Label Artist GAIN Gross Artist Attendance Ticket Price(s) Venue/Date(s) Capacity Promoter(s) GOOD GIRL Broken Bow Dustin Lynch +692 $2,298,931 FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE 22,927 CAESARS ENTERTAINMENT/ BEAUTIFUL CRAZY River House/Columbia Nashville Luke Combs +626 $188, $145, $92, $66, $53 Zappos Theater at Planet Hollywood, Las Vegas, Dec. 1-11 24,966 LIVE NATION GOOD AS YOU Zone 4/RCA Nashville Kane Brown +455 $625,721 JOHN PRINE 4,257 NS2 WHAT MAKES YOU COUNTRY Capitol Nashville Luke Bryan +425 $256.50, $81.50 Grand Ole Opry House, Nashville, Dec. 31 4,257 GIRL LIKE YOU Macon/Broken Bow Jason Aldean +420 $302,901 COLE SWINDELL 7,397 LIVE NATION $56, $50.75, $36.75, $25.75 TaxSlayer Center, Moline, Ill., Dec. 7 10,364 SIXTEEN Valory Thomas Rhett +391 BURNING MAN Capitol Nashville Dierks Bentley Feat. Brothers Osborne +390 $262,674 CHRIS YOUNG 4,272 CONCERTS WEST $79.50, $39.50 Ford Center, Evansville, Ind., Oct. 25 8,982 HERE TONIGHT BMLG Brett Young +277 $260,706 KANE BROWN 6,170 AEG MISS ME MORE Black River Kelsea Ballerini +277 $95, $42.50 The Park Theater at Monte Carlo Resort & Casino, Las Vegas, Dec. 15 6,170 THIS IS IT Triple Tigers Scotty McCreery +276 Reported worldwide boxscore figures for Country artists. Boxscore figures should be submitted to Bob Allen by phone (615-891-1976), fax (615-891-2054) or email ([email protected]). TEXAS REGIONAL RADIO REPORT WEEK ENDING JANUARY 13, 2019

THIS LAST WKS ON TW SPINS THIS LAST WKS ON TW SPINS WEEK WEEK CHART TITLE (Label) ARTIST SPINS +/– WEEK WEEK CHART TITLE (Label) ARTIST SPINS +/– l1 1 20 ON MY WAY TO YOU (CoJo Music) HH 3 weeks at 1 HH Cody Johnson 1697 0 l11 11 13 HANG YOUR HAT ON THAT (Independent)  Jon Wolfe 1322 0 l2 2 15 RIO (Independent)  Kyle Park 1696 0 l12 12 27 I GOT ME (Independent)  Sarah Hobbs 1240 0 l3 3 25 MY SOUTH (Independent)  Natalie Rose 1661 0 l13 13 23 FRIDAY’S COMING (Independent)  Pat Green 1214 0 l4 4 19 MIRROR, MIRROR (Independent)  Randall King 1636 0 l14 14 10 RUN AWAY WITH YOU (Independent)  Robert Ray 114 7 0 l5 5 14 SHE REMAINS (Independent)  Jamie Richards 1627 0 l15 15 24 MISUNDERSTOOD (Vision Ent)  Parker McCollum 114 1 0 l6 6 18 HONEYWINE (Independent)  Flatland Cavalry 16 11 0 l16 16 21 TEQUILA MOCKINGBIRD (Independent)  Frank Ray 112 5 0 l7 7 9 AIN’T IT BABY (Independent)  Josh Ward 1542 0 l17 17 25 YOU’RE IN IT (Independent)  Granger Smith 1049 0 l8 8 17 BETTER PLACE (Independent)  Drew Fish Band 1480 0 l18 18 25 SMOOTH TALKIN’ LADY (Smith)  Jason Allen 977 0 l9 9 29 LIFE IS (Miles Power)  Cameran Nelson 1467 0 l19 19 10 BEER BUCKET LIST (Silverado)  David Adam Byrnes 967 0 l10 10 11 SUNDOWN (Little Red Truck)  Deryl Dodd w/ Wade Bowen 1325 0 l20 20 23 WD-40 & DUCT TAPE (Independent)  Donice Morace 955 0

Texas Regional Radio Report Top 100 is compiled from weekly online playlist reports from 86 radio stations located in Texas and surrounding states, including reports from specialty shows, internet and satellite radio outlets. Songs are ranked by total plays. For tracking, complete chart methodology and more information, visit www.texasregionalradio.com, or contact Dave Smith at 817-283-7984. Copyright 2019, Texas Regional Radio Report BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE JANUARY 14, 2019 | PAGE 8 OF 18

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PD/music director … Sean Varicalli started Jan. 14 as WKXC Augusta, Ga., morning host. He was most recently WQDR Raleigh-Durham, N.C., assistant PD/midday personality … Beasley/Tampa-St. Petersburg (Fla.) appointed Steve Triplett vp/market manager for the cluster, which includes country WQYK. He joined the station group four years ago as director of sales before receiving an interim market manager title … Beasley added centralized digital content managing editor Brian Ives to oversee editorial on the company’s websites and social media. He had served as editor-in-chief for Townsquare’s rock platform Loudwire.com … Duhamel Broadcasting sold its five Rapid City, S.D., stations to Riverfront Broadcasting, The Rapid City Journal reported. The cluster includes country KZZI … Entercom chief marketing officer Ruth Gaviria left the company, according to InsideRadio.com. Senior vp ad sales BMI hosted a No. 1 party to celebrate Jason Aldean’s “Drowns the and marketing Jenny Nelson will oversee the department until a replacement Whiskey” on Jan. 8 at Nashville’s Cambria Hotel. From left: Songwriter is found … Townsquare/Danbury, Conn., hired Mike Rich as market president/ Josh Thompson, producer Michael Knox, Aldean and songwriters chief revenue officer, Talkers.com reported. He was CEO of digital media Brandon Kinney and Jeff Middleton. company Irish Studio. Stations now under his guidance include country WDBY … WYRK Buffalo, N.Y., welcomed Dave Fields as brand manager/ afternoon-drive host, according to Talkers.com, shifting him from mornings INJURED GARTH FAN COMPENSATED at adult contemporary sister WMSX. The move allows former WYRK brand A Kentucky woman who nearly lost an eye in a freak accident at a Garth Brooks manager Chris Crowley to focus on programming WMSX. concert is counting her blessings after receiving a $65,000 balloon payment. Jean Ann Crenshaw thought she had an ideal seat when she and four ’ROUND THE ROW friends drove to Nashville for a Dec. 9, 2017, concert at Bridgestone Arena, the The Country Music Association added three new staffers: live events first show in the final city on Brooks’ three-year tour. But a planned balloon- coordinator Emily Arvanitis, integrated marketing director Michelle Kirk and-confetti drop honoring songwriter Mitch Rosell (who penned Brooks’ and sales development and strategy director Megan Sykes. Arvanitis was No. 1 Country Airplay single “Ask Me How I Know”) went awry. When the most recently Sandbox Entertainment executive assistant, Kirk was William balloons failed to drop, a worker used a metal pole to pry the rigging loose, Morris Endeavor brand partnerships agent, and Sykes was Creative Artists but dropped the shaft into the audience in the process. Crenshaw was looking Agency music brand partnerships agent. Reach Arvanitis here, Kirk here up, attempting to collect one of the balloons, but never saw the pole until it hit and Sykes here … Jim Murphy joined New York-based Music Choice as her below the eye, requiring stitches and surgery. head of country programming. He spent the previous five years as Brahmin Iden Entertainment, the balloon company, took responsibility for the Broadcasting/Cheyenne, Wyo., group PD … Marty Brown signed a recording mishap. (In a fan video posted on YouTube, the pole can briefly be seen in the deal with Plowboy … Songwriter Josh Osborne (“Turnin’ Me On,” “Burn right-hand portion of the crowd just after the 4:05 mark.) Out”) agreed to a publishing contract with Sony/ATV Nashville … Warner/ Crenshaw’s nose was broken, scar tissue blocked her tear ducts, and she Chappell Nashville and Cornman Music signed Will Bundy to a joint publishing still feels occasional shooting pain from nerve damage near the eye. Her face agreement … Bluegrass singer-songwriter Ronnie Reno announced plans to remained bruised and swollen for several months, and her husband received retire at the close of 2019 … SOURCE Nashville unveiled a new 12-person nasty glares from strangers who, presumably, thought he had beaten her. board for 2019. Officers include president Alicia Lanier Jones, Fourward; vp Iden’s insurance company, State Farm, agreed to a $65,000 settlement, Kari Barnhart, Regions Bank; treasurer Catherine Stein Moore, Farris, Self covering $25,000 in medical fees and $40,000 for additional damages. & Moore; and secretary Jennifer Turnbow, Nashville Songwriters Association The employee who dropped the pole was shaken by the incident, according International … The Academy of Country Music’s charitable wing, ACM Lifting to Iden GM/vp R.J. Monds, who said it was the first accident the company had Lives, awarded nearly $280,000 in grants to 33 beneficiaries. Go here for the experienced among 2,000-plus balloon drops in over two decades of business. full list … Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame member Sanger D. “Whitey” The employee was reprimanded, though he continues to work for Iden. Monds Shafer died Jan. 12. His legacy includes George Strait’s “All My Ex’s Live in said the company never tried to deny its responsibility. Texas,” Moe Bandy’s “Bandy the Rodeo Clown,” Keith Whitley’s “I Wonder “We do something wrong, we take ownership,” he said. Do You Think of Me” and Merle Haggard’s “That’s the Way Love Goes.” Go Crenshaw and her friends all received refunds for the show, and arena here for funeral details as they become available … Songwriter Phil Thomas representatives reached out to her two days after the accident. Someone died Jan. 5. A former quarterback for Oklahoma State and Mississippi State, from Brooks’ team took down her contact info at the concert before she was he authored Gene Watson’s “Drinkin’ My Way Back Home” and Johnny transported to Vanderbilt Medical Center, though the team never contacted Paycheck’s “Me and the I.R.S.,” as well as cuts by Randy Travis, Alabama her after that. She admits she was “disappointed,” and though she’s less and Montgomery Gentry. enthusiastic about seeing a full Brooks concert, she says she might still end up going to one of his upcoming stadium shows. Since most stadiums do not have roofs, she’s less likely to be injured by overhead objects. “The worst that could happen,” she says, “is a bird could poo on you.” RADIO & RECORDS Reviver Entertainment Group executive vp/GM Gator Michaels gained the role of president for the Reviver imprint … BBR Music Group made two adjustments to the Stoney Creek promotion team. Stan Marczewski was promoted to director of national promotion from director of Midwest regional promotion. Stefani Waters was hired as director of Southeast regional promotion following a run as Los Angeles-based Republic director of pop and rhythm promotion. Reach Marczewski here and Waters here … Building on their relationship with Luke Combs, River House and Sony Music Several Hee Haw alumni, touring as the Kornfield Friends, visited Nashville created a long-term joint venture. First signee in the deal is River with SiriusXM during the Association of Performing Arts Convention House/Columbia Nashville singer-songwriter Jameson Rodgers … WXTU in New York. From left: Misty Rowe, Buck Trent, SiriusXM PD Jeremy

Philadelphia promoted afternoon-drive host Mark Razz to PD from assistant Tepper, Jana Jae and Lulu Roman. LOWRY STEVE ALDEAN: BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE JANUARY 14, 2019 | PAGE 9 OF 18

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MUSIC NOTES ON THIS DATE IN COUNTRY MUSIC

When Loretta Lynn turns 87 on April 14, Jan. 15 blowing out the candles on the cake will • 2016 — Dan + Shay record “From the be nothing next to the blowout that’s Ground Up” and “How Not To” at Ocean planned earlier in the month. She will be Way Studios in Nashville. the subject of an April 1 tribute, Loretta • 2002 — Arista releases Alan Jackson’s Lynn: An All-Star Birthday Celebration album Drive. Concert, at Nashville’s Bridgestone LYNN Arena. Garth Brooks helped announce MCCLISTER DAVID Jan. 16 the event on Jan. 14, with Keith Urban, • 1999 — Ricky Skaggs asks Trisha DAN + SHAY Miranda Lambert, George Strait, Little Big Town, Kacey Musgraves and Yearwood to join the Grand Ole Opry NORRIS ROB Alan Jackson among a boatload of artists planning to perform. Tickets go during a performance on the show at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium. on sale Jan. 18, with net proceeds benefiting the Opry Trust Fund and the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. Jan. 17 • 2018 — Kenny Chesney announces he has signed a recording deal Craig Morgan officially inducted Mark Wills into the Grand Ole Opry on with Warner Bros., ending a relationship of more than two decades Jan. 11 during an installment of the WSM-AM Nashville show held at the with Sony. Ryman Auditorium. It was also a landmark moment for Arista Nashville artist • 2017 — RCA releases “What Ifs” by Kane Brown (featuring Lauren Carlton Anderson, who made his Opry debut. “I did a lot of playing downtown Alaina) to radio. when I moved down here,” Anderson told Billboard staff during a Jan. 9 visit to the Nashville office. “I’ve walked by that building and rubbed my hands on Jan. 18 it a million times, just hoping and praying all this work down there and on the • 2004 — LeAnn Rimes sings the national anthem when the New road was going to pay off.” Coinciding with the Opry debut, Arista released England Patriots host the Indianapolis Colts in the American Football two new Anderson tracks to digital providers: “Country Music Made Me Do Conference title game at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass. The It” and “Keep Abilene Beautiful.” Patriots win, 24-14.

With the title track already at radio, Curb will issue Dylan Scott’s next EP, Jan. 19 Nothing to Do Town, on April 26. The six-song project is among a handful of • 1994 — VH1 premieres Travis Tritt’s “Take It Easy” video, which newly announced titles that have received release dates. Kieran Kane and reunites the Eagles following a 14-year split. Rayna Gellert’s When the Sun Goes Down arrives March 20, and Steve Earle & • 1990 — Reba McEntire’s first movie, the sci-fi picture Tremors, The Dukes’ Guy — a tribute to the late Guy Clark with guests Emmylou Harris, debuts, with Kevin Bacon in the leading role. Jerry Jeff Walker and Rodney Crowell — comes out March 29. Additionally, Columbia Nashville/Legacy slipped a 40-track retrospective, The Essential Jan. 20 Janie Fricke, into the marketplace on Dec. 28. • 1989 — Country stars appear en masse for the George Bush inauguration. Performing for the occasion are The Oak Ridge Boys, “Hit” means something different to Brad Paisley than it does to a baseball Crystal Gayle, Moe Bandy, Steve Wariner, Lee Greenwood, Jody player or a quarterback. But he and a bunch of athletes were a hit at Pepperdine Miller, Randy Travis and Loretta Lynn. University in Malibu, Calif., on Jan. 13 with a sold-out softball game that raised • 1979 — Kenny Rogers’ The Gambler rides to No. 1 on the Billboard more than $1 million for victims of local fires and the November shooting country albums chart, where it remains for 24 of the next 25 weeks. at the Borderline club. Paisley took the field with two NFL quarterbacks — Baker Mayfield and Matt Leinert — plus a bundle of MLB players, including Jan. 21 Christian Yelich, Ryan Braun, Mike Moustakas and Justin Turner. • 2009 — Rascal Flatts’ “My Wish” receives a platinum single from the RIAA. Top Headlines from .com Source: RolandNote.com, the Ultimate Country Music Database Click on headlines below for more details

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SALES, AIRPLAY & STREAMING DATA Hot Country Songs COMPILED BY

TWO COUNTRY THIS LAST WEEKS WKS ON TITLE Artist AIRPLAY PEAK WEEK WEEK AGO CHART PRODUCER (SONGWRITER) IMPRINT / PROMOTION LABEL RANK POSITION 1 1 1 34 SPEECHLESS HH No. 1 (8 weeks) HH Dan + Shay 2 1 D.SMYERS,S.HENDRICKS (D.SMYERS,S.MOONEY,J.REYNOLDS,L.VELTZ) WARNER BROS./WAR 2 2 2 52 TEQUILA Dan + Shay RC 2 D.SMYERS,S.HENDRICKS (D.SMYERS,J.REYNOLDS,N.GALYON) WARNER BROS./WAR 3 3 3 59 MEANT TO BE Bebe Rexha & Florida Georgia Line RC 1 WILSHIRE (B.REXHA,T.HUBBARD,J.MILLER,D.A.GARCIA) WARNE R BROS./BMLG 4 4 4 30 SHE GOT THE BEST OF ME Luke Combs 6 2 S.MOFFATT (L.COMBS,R.SNYDER,C.WILSON) RIVER HOUSE/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE 5 5 5 32 LOSE IT Kane Brown 9 1 D.HUFF (K.BROWN,C.MCGILL,W.WEATHERLY) ZONE 4/RCA NASHVILLE 6 6 6 35 BEST SHOT Jimmie Allen 8 5 A.BOWERS (J.ALLEN,J.LONDON,J.P.WILLIAMS) STONEY CREEK HH HH 7 11 10 36 BEAUTIFUL CRAZY Streaming Gainer Luke Combs 15 6 l S.MOFFATT (L.COMBS,W.B.DURRETTE,R.WILLIFORD) RIVER HOUSE/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE HH HH 8 10 12 28 GOOD GIRL Airplay Gainer Dustin Lynch 1 8 l Z.CROWELL (D.LYNCH,J.EBACH,A.ALBERT) BROKEN BOW SIXTEEN 9 8 8 22 Thomas Rhett 3 8 l D.HUFF,J.FRASURE,THOMAS RHETT (THOMAS RHETT,S.M.DOUGLAS,JOE LONDON) VALORY BURNING MAN 10 9 9 29 Dierks Bentley Featuring Brothers Osborne 5 8 l R. COPPERMAN,J.R.STEWART (L.DICK,B.PINSON) CAPITOL NASHVILLE GIRL LIKE YOU 11 12 11 18 Jason Aldean 4 10 l M.KNOX (M.TYLER,J.BOYER,J.MIRENDA) MACON/BROKEN BOW 12 7 7 24 DRUNK ME Mitchell Tenpenny RC 6 J.M.SCHMIDT,M.TENPENNY (M.TENPENNY,J.M.SCHMIDT,J.T.WILSON) RISER HOUSE/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE THIS IS IT 13 14 14 25 Scotty McCreery 7 13 l F.ROGERS,D.WELLS,A.ESHUIS (S.MCCREERY,F.ROGERS,A.ESHUIS) TRIPLE TIGERS MILLIONAIRE 14 15 15 51 Chris Stapleton 11 14 l D.COBB,C.STAPLETON (K.WELCH) MERCURY TAKE IT FROM ME 15 16 16 27 Jordan Davis 12 15 l P.DIGIOVANNI (J.DAVIS,J.DAVIS,J.GANTT) MCA NASHVILLE WHAT MAKES YOU COUNTRY 16 17 17 16 Luke Bryan 10 16 l J.STEVENS,J.STEVENS (L.BRYAN,D.DAVIDSON,A.GORLEY) CAPITOL NASHVILLE DOWN TO THE HONKYTONK 17 18 18 22 Jake Owen 16 17 l J.MOI (R.CLAWSON,L.LAIRD,S.MCANALLY) BI G LOUD LOVE WINS 18 19 19 19 Carrie Underwood 18 18 l D.GARCIA,C.UNDERWOOD (C.UNDERWOOD,D.A.GARCIA,BRETT JAMES) CAPITOL NASHVILLE HERE TONIGHT 19 20 21 17 Brett Young 22 18 l D.HUFF (B.YOUNG,B.CAVER,J.EBACH,C.KELLEY) BMLG MAKE IT SWEET 20 22 22 14 Old Dominion 17 20 l S.MCANALLY (M.RAMSEY,T. ROSEN,W.SELLERS,G.SPRUNG,B.TURSI,S.MCANALLY) RCA NASHVILLE BURN OUT 21 21 20 30 Midland 13 19 l D.HUFF,S.MCANALLY,J.OSBORNE (J.CARSON,C.DUDDY,M.WYSTRACH,S.MCANALLY,J.OSBORNE) BIG MACHINE MISS ME MORE 22 23 26 11 Kelsea Ballerini 25 22 l F.G.WHITEHEAD,J.MASSEY (K.BALLERINI,D.H.HODGES,B.MCLAUGHLIN) B LACK RIVER NIGHT SHIFT 23 26 24 21 Jon Pardi 20 23 l B.BUTLER,J.PARDI (T.BROWN,P.LARUE,B.MONTANA) CAPITOL NASHVILLE ON MY WAY TO YOU 24 25 23 22 Cody Johnson 24 23 l T.W.WILLMON (BRETT JAMES,T.LANE) COJO/WMN THERE WAS THIS GIRL 25 24 25 20 Riley Green 14 22 l D.HUFF (R.GREEN,ERIK DYLAN) BMLG

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The track returns to its No. 13 Hot Country “Down” holds at No. 30 on Hot Country Songs high. It hops 10-7 on Country Airplay, Songs. It bullets at No 21 on Country Airplay SCOTTY up 7 percent to 32.7 million in radio reach, KEITH (12.3 million, up 1 percent) and corralled McCREERY URBAN This Is It while gaining by 18 percent to 4.1 million Never 1.5 million U.S. streams in the tracking U.S. streams. Comin’ Down week, a 20 percent surge. 2018 GETTY IMAGES. IMAGES. GETTY 2018 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE JANUARY 14, 2019 | PAGE 11 OF 18

SALES, AIRPLAY & STREAMING DATA Hot Country Songs COMPILED BY

TWO COUNTRY THIS LAST WEEKS WKS ON TITLE Artist AIRPLAY PEAK WEEK WEEK AGO CHART PRODUCER (SONGWRITER) IMPRINT / PROMOTION LABEL RANK POSITION ONE THAT GOT AWAY 26 27 29 16 Michael Ray 19 26 l S.HENDRICKS (J.FRASURE,T. ROSEN,M.RAMSEY,J.OSBORNE) ATLANT IC/WEA HH HH 27 28 27 18 RUMOR Digital Gainer Lee Brice 31 27 l L.BRICE,J.STONE,K.JACOBS,D.FRIZSELL (L.BRICE,K.JACOBS,A.GORLEY) CURB TALK YOU OUT OF IT 28 29 30 18 Florida Georgia Line 32 19 l J.MOI (M.HARDY,H.PHELPS,J.ROGERS,A.VANDERHEYM) BMLG WHISKEY GLASSES 29 31 28 13 Morgan Wallen 33 28 l J.MOI (B.BURGESS,K.KADISH) BIG LOUD NEVER COMIN DOWN 30 30 33 14 Keith Urban 21 30 l J.KERR,K.URBAN (K.URBAN,J.KEAR,J.ABRAHART,SHY CARTER) HIT RED/CAPITOL NASHVILLE EYES ON YOU 31 33 34 21 Chase Rice 27 31 l C. DESTEFANO (C.RICE,C. DESTEFANO,A.GORLEY) DACK JANIELS/BROKEN BOW 32 32 31 14 NEON CHURCH Tim McGraw 23 24 B.GALLIMORE,T.MCGRAW (B.GOLDSMITH,R.E.LIPSEY,B.M.STENNIS) MCGRAW/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE THE DIFFERENCE 33 34 36 26 Tyler Rich 26 33 l J.RAYMOND,L.RIMES (R.AKINS,B.BURGESS,D.DAWSON,J.DURRETT) VALORY I DON’T KNOW ABOUT YOU 34 35 35 14 Chris Lane - 34 l J.MOI (A.GORLEY,M.HARDY,H.PHELPS,J.RODGERS) BIG LOUD GOOD AS YOU 35 42 42 12 Kane Brown 37 17 l D.HUFF (K.BROWN,B.BERRYHILL,S.CARTER,T.PHILLIPS,W.WEATHERLY) ZONE 4/RCA NASHVILLE LOVE AIN’T 36 38 39 16 Eli Young Band 29 36 l D.HUFF (R.COPPERMAN,A.GORLEY,S.MCANALLY) VALORY PRAYED FOR YOU 37 37 41 3 Matt Stell - 37 l A.BOWERS,M.STELL (M.STELL,A.BOWERS,A.VELTZ) WIDE OPEN/RECORDS/GOOD COMPANY LOVE SOMEONE 38 36 38 11 Brett Eldredge 28 36 l R. COPPERMAN,B.ELDREDGE (B.ELDREDGE,R.COPPERMAN,H.MORGAN) ATLANTIC/WMN CAUGHT UP IN THE COUNTRY 39 39 37 25 Rodney Atkins Featuring The Fisk Jubilee Singers 30 37 l R.ATKINS,T.HEWITT,B.BOLLINGER (C.HARRINGTON,J.M.SCHMIDT,M.WALKER) CURB STRONGER THAN ME 40 40 43 5 Garth Brooks 48 40 l G.BROOKS (R.W.TERRY,M.A.ROSSI) PEARL RULES OF BREAKING UP 41 43 47 3 Brandon Ratcliff - 41 l S.MCANALLY,P.GOOD (B.RATCLIFF,A.J.BABCOCK,BUSBEE,P.GOOD) MONUMENT/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE HH HH 42 NEW 1 RAISED ON COUNTRY Hot Shot Debut Chris Young - 42 l C.CROWDER, C.YOUNG (C.YOUNG, C.R.BARLOWE, C.CROWDER) RCA NASHVILLE WHAT HAPPENS IN A SMALL TOWN 43 44 45 4 Brantley Gilbert + Lindsay Ell 40 31 l D.HUFF (B.GILBERT,R.AKINS,B.BERRYHILL,J.DUNNE) VALORY BRING IT ON OVER 44 47 — 5 Billy Currington 49 44 l D.HUFF,J.FRASURE (D.DAVIDSON,R.AKINS,B.HAYSLIP,J.FRASURE) MERCURY 45 45 44 18 HOMESICK Kane Brown - 24 D.HUFF (K.BROWN,B.BERRYHILL,M.J.MCGINN,T.PHILLIPS) ZONE 4/RCA NASHVILLE FRIENDS DON’T 46 49 — 3 Maddie & Tae 36 46 l J.ROBBINS,D.WELLS (M.MARLOW,T.DYE,J.M.NITE,J.EBACH) MER CURY TO A T 47 NEW 1 Ryan Hurd - 47 l D.HUFF,A.ESHUIS (R.J.HURD,N.SPICER,L.VELTZ) RCA NASHVILLE WHAT WHISKEY DOES 48 NEW 1 Randy Houser Featuring Hillary Lindsey 35 48 l K.GATTIS (R.HOUSER,K.GATTIS,H.LINDSEY) STONEY CREEK FEELS LIKE A PARTY 49 NEW 1 LOCASH 34 49 l C.CROWDER,T.HUBBARD (P.BRUST,C.LUCAS,T.HUBBARD,C.CROWDER) WHEEL HOUSE DIE FROM A BROKEN HEART Maddie & Tae 50 RE-ENTRY 4 - 48 l J.ROBBINS,D.WELLS (M.MARLOW,T.DYE,J.SINGLETON,D.RUTTAN) MERCURY

The week’s most popular country songs, ranked by radio airplay audience impressions as measured by Nielsen Music, sales data as compiled by Nielsen Music and streaming activity data from online music sources tracked by Nielsen Music. Descending titles below No. 25 are moved to recurrent after 20 weeks.

COUNTRY MARKET WATCH A Weekly National Music Sales Report YEAR-TO-DATE

ALBUMYear-Over-Year SALES Album Sales Weekly ’15Unit Sales Overall Unit Sales DIGITAL DIGITAL 2018 2019 CHANGE ’18 ALBUMS 301 thousand ’14 ALBUMS* TRACKS Albums 301,000 208,000 -30.9% ’19 208 thousand This Week 208,000 64,000 702,000 Digital Tracks 1,032,000 702,000 -32.0% Last Week 240,000 80,000 809,000 DIGITAL TRACKS SALES Sales by Album Format Change -13.3% -20.0% -13.2% 2018 2019 CHANGE ’18 000.0 million 1 million This Week Last Year 265,000 75,000 931,000 Physical 218,000 160,000 -26.6% ’19 702 thousand Change -21.5% -14.7% -24.6% Digital 83,000 80,000 -3.6% For week ending January 10, 2019. Figures are rounded. Compiled from a national sample of retail store and rack sales reports collected and *Digital album sales are also counted within album sales. provided by Nielsen Music.

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SALES, DATA STREAMING & SALES COMPILED BY DATA COMPILED BY

COUNTRY COUNTRY TOP COUNTRY ALBUMS STREAMING SONGS DIGITAL SONG SALES

TITLE TITLE AGO POS. THIS THIS LAST LAST PEAK CERT. WEEK WEEK ARTIST TITLE THIS WEEK LAST WEEK WKS ON CHART THIS WEEK LAST WEEK WKS ON CHART WEEKS WEEKS

ON CHT ARTIST ARTIST 2 WEEKS 2 WEEKS IMPRINT & NUMBER / DISTRIBUTING LABEL MEANT TO BE SPEECHLESS LUKE COMBS THIS ONE’S FOR YOU 1 1 59 1 1 29 l BEBE REXHA & FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE  DAN + SHAY  1 1 2 84 RIVER HOUSE/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE 538883*/SMN 1 1   SPEECHLESS TEQUILA DAN + SHAY DAN + SHAY l2 2 25 2 2 51 2 2 5 29 WARNER BROS. 570796/WMN 1 DAN + SHAY  DAN + SHAY TEQUILA BEAUTIFUL CRAZY KANE BROWN EXPERIMENT 3 3 46 3 4 36 3 3 8 9 ZONE 4/RCA NASHVILLE /SMN 1 l DAN + SHAY  l LUKE COMBS  SHE GOT THE BEST OF ME DOWN TO THE HONKYTONK CHRIS STAPLETON TRAVELLER 4 5 22 4 5 20 4 4 9 193 MERCURY 019405*/UMGN 3 1 l LUKE COMBS  JAKE OWEN  LOSE IT SHE GOT THE BEST OF ME THOMAS RHETT LIFE CHANGES 5 6 31 5 3 23 5 5 11 70 VALORY TR0300A/BMLG 1 1 l KANE BROWN  LUKE COMBS  DRUNK ME MISS ME MORE 6 10 110 KANE BROWN KANE BROWN 1 l6 4 22 6 7 10 l6 ZONE 4/RCA NASHVILLE 530947*/SMN 1 MITCHELL TENPENNY  KELSEA BALLERINI  BEAUTIFUL CRAZY RAISED ON COUNTRY JASON ALDEAN REARVIEW TOWN 7 9 36 7 NEW 7 7 12 39 MACON/BROKEN BOW/BMG 538375642*/BBMG (538375730) 0 1 l LUKE COMBS  l CHRIS YOUNG  TENNESSEE WHISKEY TENNESSEE WHISKEY 8 14 4 MITCHELL TENPENNY TELLING ALL MY SECRETS 5 l8 7 92 8 9 157 l8 RISER HOUSE/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE 587662*/SMN CHRIS STAPLETON  CHRIS STAPLETON  HEAVEN RUMOR BRETT YOUNG BRETT YOUNG 9 8 62 9 18 4 9 10 19 100 BMLG BY0100A* 1 2 l KANE BROWN  l LEE BRICE  DOLLY PARTON ULTIMATE DOLLY PARTON BEST SHOT BURNING MAN RE-ENTRY 45 10 10 10 16 10 12 22 l10 RCA NASHVILLE/BMG HERITAGE 52008/LEGACY (18.98) l JIMMIE ALLEN  DIERKS BENTLEY FEAT. BROTHERS OSBORNE  YOU MAKE IT EASY MILLIONAIRE CARRIE UNDERWOOD CRY PRETTY 11 11 50 11 13 15 11 9 7 17 CAPITOL NASHVILLE 028557*/UMGN 0 1 l JASON ALDEAN  CHRIS STAPLETON  IN CASE YOU DIDN’T KNOW DRUNK ME BRETT YOUNG TICKET TO L.A. 12 12 115 12 10 25 12 12 18 5 BMLG BMBY200A* 1 l BRETT YOUNG  MITCHELL TENPENNY  WHAT IFS MEANT TO BE KACEY MUSGRAVES GOLDEN HOUR 13 15 88 13 6 59 13 11 16 36 MCA NASHVILLE 027921*/UMGN 1 l KANE BROWN FEAT. LAUREN ALAINA  BEBE REXHA & FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE  MERCY GIRL LIKE YOU 15 30 134 JON PARDI CALIFORNIA SUNRISE 1 14 17 42 14 16 13 l14 CAPITOL NASHVILLE 024744*/UMGN 1 l BRETT YOUNG  JASON ALDEAN  ELVIS PRESLEY THE ESSENTIAL ELVIS PRESLEY BODY LIKE A BACK ROAD LOSE IT RE-ENTRY 15 15 15 16 101 15 11 28 l15 RCA/SONY STRATEGIC MARKETING GROUP /LEGACY (25.98) 1 l SAM HUNT () KANE BROWN  HURRICANE SIXTEEN 16 40 162 TAYLOR SWIFT RED 1 16 19 116 16 15 6 l16 BIG MACHINE 310400A*/BMLG (18.98) 7 l LUKE COMBS  THOMAS RHETT  DIE A HAPPY MAN THIS IS IT CHRIS STAPLETON FROM A ROOM: VOLUME 1 17 20 89 17 21 4 17 17 17 88 MERCURY 026379*/UMGN 1 1 l THOMAS RHETT  SCOTTY MCCREERY  WHEN IT RAINS IT POURS GOOD GIRL ZAC BROWN BAND GREATEST HITS SO FAR... 18 21 71 18 22 7 18 18 32 181 ROAR/SOUTHERN GROUND/ATLANTIC 546369/AG 3 l LUKE COMBS  DUSTIN LYNCH  JIMMIE ALLEN MERCURY LANE HERE TONIGHT LAST SHOT 19 43 11 11 19 22 2 19 RE-ENTRY l19 STONEY CREEK/BMG 538411072/BBMG l BRETT YOUNG  l KIP MOORE  ERIC CHURCH DESPERATE MAN SIMPLE WHISKEY GLASSES 20 RE-ENTRY 20 20 7 20 13 15 14 EMI NASHVILLE 028733*/UMGN 1 l FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE  MORGAN WALLEN  FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE DIG YOUR ROOTS MARRY ME HEAVEN 21 20 39 124 1 21 23 55 21 17 57 l BMLG 0300* 1 l THOMAS RHETT  KANE BROWN  MORGAN WALLEN IF I KNOW ME ONE NUMBER AWAY ON MY WAY TO YOU 22 31 — 32 11 22 24 39 22 RE-ENTRY l BIG LOUD DIGITAL EX l LUKE COMBS  l CODY JOHNSON  MAREN MORRIS HERO LAST SHOT SIMPLE 23 26 — 131 1 23 NEW 23 8 29 l COLUMBIA NASHVILLE 516885*/SMN 0 l KIP MOORE  FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE  FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE (EP) SMALL TOWN BOY JOLENE 24 24 — 15 10 24 25 84 24 RE-ENTRY l BMLG DIGITAL EX l DUSTIN LYNCH  l DOLLY PARTON  TIM MCGRAW NUMBER ONE HITS 25 29 — 158 1 6 25 NEW BURNING MAN 25 19 16 BEST SHOT l CURB 79205 (13.98) l DIERKS BENTLEY FEAT. BROTHERS OSBORNE  JIMMIE ALLEN  The week’s top-streamed and top-selling paid download country songs, respectively, from sales reports collected and provided by Nielsen Music. Charts update weekly on Tuesdays at www.Billboard.Biz/ charts. Copyright 2019, Prometheus Global Media, LLC and Nielsen Music, Inc. All rights reserved. SALES DATA COMPILED BY AMERICANA/ FOLK ALBUMS

AGO POS. THIS THIS LAST LAST PEAK CERT. WEEK WEEK ARTIST TITLE WEEKS WEEKS ON CHT 2 WEEKS 2 WEEKS IMPRINT & NUMBER / DISTRIBUTING LABEL CHRIS STAPLETON TRAVELLER 1 1 2 139 MERCURY NASHVILLE 019405*/UMGN 3 1 MUMFORD & SONS DELTA 2 2 1 8 GENTLEMEN OF THE ROAD 0240*/GLASSNOTE 1 KACEY MUSGRAVES GOLDEN HOUR 3 3 3 41 MCA NASHVILLE 027921*/UMGN 1 CHRIS STAPLETON FROM A ROOM: VOLUME 1 4 4 4 88 MERCURY NASHVILLE 026379*/UMGN 1 1 5 5 7 185 HOZIER HOZIER 2 1 RUBYWORKS 309996*/COLUMBIA 25 THE LUMINEERS CLEOPATRA 6 7 9 144 DUALTONE 1738* 1 1 SIMON & GARFUNKEL SIMON AND GARFUNKEL’S GREATEST HITS 7 6 6 102 COLUMBIA 31350/LEGACY 3 DIERKS The collaboration arrives at No. 25 on 8 10 13 71 JAMES TAYLOR GREATEST HITS 8 WARNER BROS. 78094/RHINO (11.98) BENTLEY Country Streaming Songs, up 10 percent to CHRIS STAPLETON FROM A ROOM: VOLUME 2 FEATURING 4.5 million U.S. streams. “Man” moves 7-5 9 8 5 58 MERCURY NASHVILLE 027408*/UMGN 0 1 BROTHERS on Country Airplay and bullets at No. 10 on ED SHEERAN + OSBORNE 10 11 11 180 ELEKTRA 530433*/EMG 2 1 Hot Country Songs. Burning Man Americana/Folk Albums ranks the most popular Americana/folk albums of the week, as compiled by Nielsen Music, based on multi-metric consumption (blending traditional album sales, track equivalent albums, and streaming equivalent albums). Copyright 2019, Prometheus Global Media, LLC and Nielsen Music, Inc. All rights reserved. 2018 JASON MERRITT/ACMA2018 JASON 2018 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE JANUARY 14, 2019 | PAGE 13 OF 18

MAKIN’ TRACKS TOM ROLAND [email protected] Kane Brown Gets 2019 Off To A “Good” Start With A Nod To His 2018 Wedding

Amid all of the holiday bustle at the end of last year, Kane Brown and his When Carter replayed that initial thread for the full group, Berryhill re- team had an extra layer of activity to address. created it on a Stratocaster, filling in the chord structure and emphasizing As the first week of December drew to a close, they had set “Homesick” its Memphis soul feel. Weatherly captured that on a laptop, adding in some — a sweet midtempo ballad that already had a military-themed welcome- slappy percussive effects on the downbeat. Then the words came pouring home video in circulation — as a first single for 2019. Brown even did an out in two batches: liquid, conversational verses that contrast with more interview or two to make it official. stringent, on-the-beat chorus rhythms. By Dec. 10, “Good As You” — bolstered by a video that incorporates “I feel like we wrote a verse to one song, and we wrote a different chorus scenes from Brown’s Oct. 12 wedding to Katelyn Jae — took the slot, and to a different song, and we had to make them work together,” says Phillips. “Homesick” was shelved for likely future “They were a little bit off.” release. So were some of the words. “Girl, you’re “ ‘Good As You’ just felt more January,” more than just the surface” compliments the reasons Brown. “It’s not summer yet, but you’re woman’s depth in a way that’s unconventional, waiting for it to get warm, like closer to March, maybe even grammatically incorrect, but still and once that warmth starts to come around, gets the job done. it’s just a happy song, and I want people to have “I didn’t know what it meant, but it doesn’t a smile on their face.” sound wrong,” notes Brown. “Homesick” co-writer Matthew McGinn And the hook — “I just wanna be good as may have been disappointed with the move, but you” — would likely be “as good as you” if the it was great news for “Good As You” co-writers writers were concerned about their grades in Shy Carter and Will Weatherly. And, perhaps, English class. They tried to do it correctly but a wash for Taylor Phillips and Brock Berryhill, didn’t feel it worked. who co-wrote both songs. But even those two “The ‘as’ would have thrown the syncopation were mildly shocked at the change in single, in of that melody off a little bit,” says Phillips. part because it came without warning. “Still would have worked, but it would have “My stomach dropped,” says Phillips, noting felt a little more cluttered. I don’t know. I felt that his mother actually spotted the switch like it hit.” online. “I looked on his Facebook, and that was BROWN Likewise, the song’s overall message comes the first time I saw it. By the grace of God, I through, though if the premise is taken literally, had co-written both of them. It didn’t devastate me too much. It just kind “I just wanna be good as you” seems more appropriate to say to a mentor or of caught me off guard.” role model than to someone in an equal partnership. It might well have surprised listeners a hair, too, since “Good As You” is “That was a discussion that came up,” recalls Berryhill. “But with the three a slight departure. Brown’s rich, deeper tones have become a trademark in of us I know that are married out of the people who wrote this song, we all his swift ascent to stardom, but this song — the second track on new album would agree that we’re not as good as our wives. There’s a bigger message Experiment — reaches into his basement only for a note or two at a time. The hidden in that. I can’t say that’s wrong.” meat of the melody is pitched in a much higher and more vulnerable range They finished a rough demo quickly while Brown played the show that than he typically mines. night, and back on the bus, Brown took a quick video of the guys singing “With this record, I wanted something that sounded different, and ‘Good along with it. He was so enamored that he shared it on social media a little As You’ is one of those songs that’s outside the box for me,” he says. “It’s a before 1 a.m. different tone of my voice and everything, and that’s what I wanted to start Producer Dann Huff (Keith Urban, Brantley Gilbert) kept the spirit of that 2019 with: something that doesn’t sound like anything that I’ve released yet.” demo intact, making only subtle changes in the final recording. He slowed “Good As You” came together in a flurry once they had the basic core, the tempo a hair and delayed drummer Aaron Sterling’s full arrival until though it took hours to find the starting point. Brown took Phillips, Berryhill the second verse. Huff used Berryhill’s introductory notes from the demo’s and Weatherly with him for a weekend tour run that started at Riverfront guitar solo as a building block before changing up the back half. And he Park in Peoria, Ill., on June 16. Minutes after the bus left Nashville, Brown added some echo to the vocal production, though the bulk of it got removed. messaged Carter and encouraged him to swoop over from St. Louis and “He was using this delay, so every time I would say, ‘Good as you,’ it would pitch in on the writing session. say, ‘Good as you’ again,” remembers Brown. “It made it feel a little more They tried several other musical ideas first, and none of them really jelled. pop than what it already sounds, and Katelyn is the one that pointed that The guys were, believes Phillips, trying too hard to write a wedding song. out. I usually always go with what she says.” Adding to the pressure, he knew that whatever they created would need to Once “Good As You” replaced “Homesick” as the single, RCA released it satisfy the bride, too. to country radio via PlayMPE on Dec. 17. It debuted at No. 55 on the Country “Katelyn is a hard critic,” says Phillips. “I’ve learned that. If she loves it, Airplay chart dated Jan. 12, 2019 (it made a quick splash at No. 17 on Hot Country then he’s going to love it. I don’t feel like I write songs for Kane Brown. I feel Songs even before it became a single). It’s currently at No. 37 on Country Airplay, like I write songs for Kane and Katelyn Brown.” with “Homesick” very much in the mix as a possible later single. As the afternoon turned into early evening, they still had nothing of “When I hear that song, there’s something that just puts a smile on my substance. Finally, Carter and Brown retreated to the back of the bus, and face, and I just hope that for other people as well,” says Brown. “It’s that Carter found a leisurely groove on the mandolin that matches his personality. thing guys want to tell their girls and they don’t really know how to do it, “He just has this vibe and energy to him that’s really special,” notes and hopefully, if they hear that song, they can be like, ‘Hey, here’s what I

Berryhill. “He’s very chill.” feel about you.’ ” LLANES JOSEPH BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE JANUARY 14, 2019 | PAGE 14 OF 18 Country Indicator

AUDIENCE WKS PLAYS (IN MILLIONS) THIS LAST ON WEEK WEEK CHART TITLE Imprint/Label Artist THIS WEEK +/– THIS WEEK l1 3 28 BURNING MAN Capitol Nashville HH No. 1 (1 week) HH Dierks Bentley Feat. Brothers Osborne 5056 +179 7.865 l2 1 36 GOOD GIRL Broken Bow Dustin Lynch 4995 +67 8.403 l3 4 17 SIXTEEN Valory Thomas Rhett 4992 +166 7.935 l4 6 18 GIRL LIKE YOU Macon/Broken Bow Jason Aldean 4633 +279 7.231 l5 7 26 THIS IS IT Triple Tigers Scotty McCreery 4425 +352 6.922 6 2 22 SPEECHLESS Warner Bros./WAR Dan + Shay 4423 -486 7.258 l7 8 13 WHAT MAKES YOU COUNTRY Capitol Nashville Luke Bryan 4373 +369 6.786 l8 9 38 MILLIONAIRE Mercury Chris Stapleton 3884 +185 5.781 l9 10 34 TAKE IT FROM ME MCA Nashville Jordan Davis 3630 +158 5.438 l10 11 38 BURN OUT Big Machine Midland 3461 +137 5.126 l11 12 23 DOWN TO THE HONKYTONK Big Loud Jake Owen 3374 +137 4.966 l12 13 23 THERE WAS THIS GIRL BMLG Riley Green 3339 +314 5.004 l13 15 18 LOVE WINS Capitol Nashville Carrie Underwood 2902 +285 4.346 l14 17 24 NIGHT SHIFT Capitol Nashville Jon Pardi 2780 +176 3.986 l15 14 21 NEVER COMIN DOWN Hit Red/Capitol Nashville Keith Urban 2762 + 112 3.877 l16 18 13 MAKE IT SWEET RCA Nashville Old Dominion 2742 +147 4.120 17 16 15 NEON CHURCH McGraw/Columbia Nashville Tim McGraw 2591 -22 3.899 l18 21 7 BEAUTIFUL CRAZY River House/Columbia Nashville HH Most Increased Plays HH Luke Combs 2572 +563 3.765 l19 19 20 ON MY WAY TO YOU CoJo/WMN Cody Johnson 2478 +171 3.481 l20 20 16 HERE TONIGHT BMLG Brett Young 2337 +259 2.941 l21 22 21 ONE THAT GOT AWAY Atlantic/WEA Michael Ray 2209 +207 3.298 l22 23 13 MISS ME MORE Black River Kelsea Ballerini 1769 +251 2.089 l23 24 30 THE DIFFERENCE Valory Tyler Rich 1645 +146 2.151 l24 25 23 LOVE AIN’T Valory Eli Young Band 1515 +120 1.987 l25 27 25 LOVE SOMEONE Atlantic/WMN Brett Eldredge 1249 +169 1.460 l26 26 11 TALK YOU OUT OF IT BMLG Florida Georgia Line 1207 +79 1.439 l27 28 37 CAUGHT UP IN THE COUNTRY Curb Rodney Atkins Feat. The Fisk Jubilee Singers 925 +92 1.225 l28 29 16 BACK TO LIFE Big Machine Rascal Flatts 869 +54 0.937 l29 32 18 WHISKEY GLASSES Big Loud Morgan Wallen 850 +73 0.854 l30 33 32 FRIENDS DON’T Mercury Maddie & Tae 826 +52 0.899

BILLBOARD COUNTRY INDICATOR PANEL — 109 STATIONS

Abilene, Texas KEAN Fargo, N.D. KBVB Laurel, Miss. WBBN San Luis Obispo, Calif. KKJG Alexandria, La. KRRV WSTH Lebanon, N.H. WXXK Santa Barbara, Calif. KRAZ Amarillo, Texas KGNC Fayetteville, N.C. WKML Lincoln, Neb KFGE Santa Maria, Calif. KSNI Asheville, N.C. WKSF Flagstaff, Ariz. KAFF Longview, Texas KYKX Sheboygan, Wis. WBFM Atlantic City, N.J. WPUR Flint, Mich. WFBE Lubbock, Texas KLLL Savannah, Ga. WJCL Beaumont, Texas KYKR Florence, Ala. WXFL Lufkin, Texas KYKS WUBB Beckley, W. Va. WJLS Florence, S.C. WEGX Marshalltown, Iowa KXIA Shreveport, La. KXKS Biloxi, Miss. WZKX Ft. Collins, Colo. KUAD Mason City, Iowa KIAI Sioux Cty, Iowa KSUX Bloomington, Ill. WIBL Ft. Smith, Ark. KTCS Medford, Ore. KRWQ South Bend, Ind. WBYT Bluefield, W. Va. WHKX Frederick, Md. WFRE Meridian, Miss. WOKK Springfield, Ill. WFMB Burlington, Vt. WOKO Fredericksburg, Va. WFLS Milwaukee, WI. WKTI Springfield, Mo. KTTS Cape Girardeau, Mo. KEZS Green Bay, Wis. WNCY Montgomery, Ala. WLWI Terre Haute, Ind. WTHI Charleston, W. Va WKWS Hagerstown, Md. WAYZ Morgantown, W. Va. WKKW Topeka, Kan. WIBW WQBE Hot Springs, Ark. KQUS Muskegon, Mich. WMUS Traverse City, Mich. WTCM College Station, Texas KAGG Huntington, Ky. WDGG New London, Conn. WCTY Tupelo, Miss. WWZD Colorado Springs. KCCY Huntington, W. Va. WTCR Odessa, Texas KHKX Utica, N.Y. WFRG Columbia, Mo. KCLR Idaho Falls, Idaho KTHK Palm Springs, Calif. KPLM Victor Valley, CA. KATJ Columbus, Ga. WKCN Jackson, Miss. WMSI Pensacola, Fla. WXBM Waco, Texas WACO WSTH WUSJ Peoria, Ill. WXCL Wausau, Wis. WDEZ Cookeville, Tenn. WGSQ Janesville, Wis. WJVL Poughkeepsie, N.Y. WRWD Wheeling, W. Va. WOVK Dothan, Ala. WTVY Jonesboro, Ark. KDXY Rapid City, S.D. KOUT Williamsport, Pa. WILQ Duluth, Minn. KKCB Joplin, Mo. KIXQ Rockford, Ill. WXXQ Yakima, Wash. KXDD Eau Claire, Wis. WAXX Kalamazoo, Mich. WNWN Rocky Mount, N.C. WDWG Youngstown, Ohio WQXK Elizabeth City, N.C. WRSF Kalispell, Mont. KDBR Saginaw, Mich. WCEN WWGY Erie, Pa. WTWF Kingmah, Ariz. KFLG St. Cloud, Minn. KZPK Westwood One HOT COUNTRY Eugene, Ore. KKNU Lafayette, Ind. WKOA Salina, Kan. KYEZ MAINSTREAM COUNTRY Evansville, Ind. WKDQ Laredo, Texas KRRG Salisbury, Md. WKTT Music Choice TODAY’S COUNTRY Lansing, Mich. WITL San Angelo, Texas KGKL Sirius XM THE HIGHWAY BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE JANUARY 14, 2019 | PAGE 15 OF 18 Country Indicator

AUDIENCE WKS PLAYS (IN MILLIONS) THIS LAST ON WEEK WEEK CHART TITLE Imprint/Label Artist THIS WEEK +/– THIS WEEK l31 30 9 BUCKED OFF Arista Nashville Brad Paisley 813 +8 0.998 l32 34 17 BRING IT ON OVER Mercury Billy Currington 806 +32 0.835 l33 35 13 EYES ON YOU Dack Janiels/Broken Bow Chase Rice 759 +102 1.013 l34 36 17 FEELS LIKE A PARTY Wheelhouse LOCASH 758 +109 1.085 l35 39 7 RUMOR Curb Lee Brice 665 +137 0.752 l36 37 24 WHAT WHISKEY DOES Stoney Creek Randy Houser Feat. Hillary Lindsey 657 +29 0.820 l37 38 27 YADA YADA YADA EMI Nashville Brandon Lay 642 +20 0.605 l38 51 2 WHAT HAPPENS IN A SMALL TOWN Valory Brantley Gilbert & Lindsay Ell 565 +262 0.671 l39 NEW GOOD AS YOU RCA Nashville HH Hot Shot Debut / Most Added HH Kane Brown 528 +358 0.884 l40 43 7 BUY MY OWN DRINKS Wheelhouse Runaway June 484 +85 0.625 l41 42 10 LADIES IN THE ‘90S 19/Mercury Lauren Alaina 474 +62 0.405 l42 44 12 I THINK TOO MUCH Southern Halo Southern Halo 419 +41 0.431 l43 48 6 CLOSER TO YOU Big Machine Carly Pearce 412 +78 0.414 l44 45 16 THE IN BETWEEN Captain & Bear Cash Campbell 412 +34 0.438 l45 NEW SOME OF IT EMI Nashville Eric Church 410 +191 0.502 l46 46 11 I DON’T REMEMBER ME (BEFORE YOU) EMI Nashville Brothers Osborne 365 +17 0.341 l47 47 6 ROCKIN’ ALL NIGHT LONG Buena Vista/Capitol Nashville Adam Hambrick 345 +3 0.271 l48 50 8 NOW WE’RE GETTIN’ SOMEWHERE Bison Creek James Robert Webb 335 +17 0.346 l49 52 5 AIN’T IT BABY Josh Ward Josh Ward 334 +31 0.412 l50 49 9 FINE BY ME Dreamlined/Nightlife Marty Heddin 332 +13 0.397 l51 55 2 DON’T LET THE OLD MAN IN Show Dog Nashville Toby Keith 317 +42 0.386 l52 57 5 THE ONES THAT DIDN’T MAKE IT BACK HOME Valory Justin Moore 293 +37 0.340 l53 NEW RUINED THIS TOWN HH Lee Gantt 291 +99 0.463 l54 54 7 WONDER WOMAN Show Dog Nashville Waterloo Revival 283 +3 0.310 l55 56 8 WHEN IT COMES TO LOVING YOU 32 Bridge/EMI Nashville Jon Langston 274 +4 0.255 56 31 22 AMERICAN GIRLS Sea Gayle CJ Solar 273 -514 0.283 l57 NEW KISS THAT GIRL GOODBYE BIG Label Aaron Watson 268 + 111 0.314 58 53 5 STRONGER THAN ME Pearl Garth Brooks 268 -21 0.481 l59 NEW LOVE YOU TOO LATE Warner Bros./WMN Cole Swindell 266 +58 0.260 l60 59 2 A LITTLE ON THE REDNECK SIDE Dream Walkin’ Smith & Wesley 264 +29 0.296

CHARTS LEGEND RANKINGS station downtime for the format. gaining enough audience points MOST INCREASED AUDIENCE/ Country Airplay is ranked by Titles that decline in audience to bullet or if they rank below No. PLAYS total audience impressions but increase in detections will 10 and post a third consecutive Most Increased Audience on for the week ending Sunday also receive a bullet if the total week of (non-bulleted) audience Country Airplay and Most based on monitored airplay of audience erosion for the week decline, regardless of total chart Increased Plays on Country 149 stations by Nielsen BDS. does not exceed 3%. Bullets are weeks. On Country Indicator, Indicator list the songs with the Audience totals on the chart are awarded on Country Indicator to descending, non-bulleted titles greatest week-to-week increases derived, in part, using certain titles gaining plays or remaining below No. 10 are moved to in total audience or plays, Arbitron Inc. copyrighted flat from the previous week. recurrent after 20 weeks or if they respectively. Persons 12+ audience post a third consecutive week of estimates (under license © TIES decline in plays after 10 weeks. AIRPOWER 2019, Arbitron Inc.) Country On Country Airplay, if two songs Awarded on Country Airplay to Indicator is tabulated using are tied in total audience, the song HOT SHOT DEBUT titles ranking inside top 20 in reported playlists and Nielsen with the larger increase in audience Awarded to the highest-ranking plays and audience rankings for BDS-monitored airplay at 109 is placed first. On Country Indicator, new entry on Country Airplay and the first time, with increases in stations, ranked by total plays. if two songs are tied in total plays, Country Indicator, respectively. both plays and audience. the song with the larger increase in BULLETS plays is placed first. MOST ADDED BREAKER l Awarded on Country Airplay The total number of new adds Awarded on Country Airplay to titles gaining audience or RECURRENTS officially reported to Billboard by to titles achieving airplay (at remaining flat from the previous On Country Airplay, descending each reporting station, or by an least one detection) at 60% of week. A song will also receive titles below No. 10 in either automatic-add threshold (seven plays reporting stations for the first a bullet if its percentage loss audience or detections are moved for the first time in a chart tracking time. in audience does not exceed to recurrent after 20 weeks, week, according to Nielsen BDS) for the percentage of monitored provided that they are not still stations that do not report adds. © 2019 Prometheus Global Media, LLC BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE JANUARY 14, 2019 | PAGE 16 OF 18 Country Airplay Index

TITLE Publishing-Licensing Org. E   LOSE IT Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Kane Brown RUMOR Mike Curb Music, BMI/Curb Songs, ASCAP/ (Songwriter) Chart Position Music, BMI/Plum Nelly, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Jacobsong, ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/ EVERY LITTLE THING BMG Platinum Songs, Publishing Corp., BMI/Mandy’s Favorite Songs, BMI/Track Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., BMI/Kailey’s Dream, BMI/So Essential Tunes, SESAC/Not House Worldwide Entertainment, BMI (K.Brown, C.McGill, ASCAP (L.Brice, K.Jacobs, A.Gorley) 31 90’S COUNTRY Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing Just Another Song Publishing, SESAC/Hillbilly Science W.Weatherly) 9 America, Inc., BMI/Spark In Your Pocket, BMI/Songs And Research Publishing, SESAC/Trailerlily Music, SESAC S   Of Smack, BMI/Kobalt Music Group Ltd., GMR/LYRX (R.Dickerson, P.Welling, C.Brown) 50 LOVE AIN’T EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Plain Publishing, LLC, BMI (W.Hayes, S.McAnally, LYRX) 58 Jane Songs, BMI/Rezolant Music, BMI/Combustion SHE GOT THE BEST OF ME Big Music EYES ON YOU Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI/Dack Engine Music, ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/WB Machine, BMI/50 Egg Music, BMI/Straight Dimes B   Janiel’s Publishing, BMI/EMI April Music, Inc., ASCAP/ Music Corp., ASCAP/Smack Hits, GMR/Smack Songs LLC, Publishing, BMI/Little Extra Songs, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs CDS Words And Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/ GMR/Kobalt Music Group Ltd., GMR (R.Copperman, A.Gorley, Music Publishing LLC, ASCAP/No Cats Round Here Music, BACK TO LIFE W.B.M. Music Corp., SESAC/ Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite S.McAnally) 29 ASCAP/Heart Scarred Songs, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Bennett’s Dad’s Songs, SESAC/Songs Of Rhythm House Songs, ASCAP (C.Rice, C. DeStefano, A.Gorley) 27 Publishing Corp., BMI/Super LCS Publishing, BMI (L. Black, SESAC/Niko Moon Publishing, SESAC/Roc Nation LOVE SOMEONE Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI/Paris Combs, R.Snyder, C.Wilson) 6 US Music, SESAC/Shay Mooney Music, BMI/Warner- F   Not France Music, BMI/EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/ Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Farm Thang Music, Rezolant Music, BMI/Plain Jane Songs, BMI/Sony/ATV SIXTEEN EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Cricket On BMI/Me Gusta Music, BMI (C.R.Barlowe, N.Moon, S.Mooney, FEELS LIKE A PARTY ole Purple Cape Music, Tree Publishing, BMI/Heather Feather Songs, BMI (B. The Line, BMI/Sony/ATV Ballad, BMI/Eastman Pond F.Wilhelm) 39 BMI/Mars Marley Music, BMI/Big Loud Mountain, BMI/ Eldredge, R.Copperman, H.Morgan) 28 Publishing, BMI/Big Deal Beats, BMI/Brodsky Spensive Round Hill Works, BMI/T Hubb Publishing, BMI/WB Publishing, BMI/Nice Life, BMI (Thomas Rhett, S.M.Douglas, BEAUTIFUL CRAZY Big Machine Music, BMI/ Music Corp., ASCAP/Georgia Song Vibez, ASCAP/Big LOVE WINS Carrie-Okie Music, BMI/Universal Music Joe London) 3 Egg Music, BMI/Straight Dimes Publishing, BMI/Works Crowd Publishing, ASCAP (P.Brust, C.Lucas, T.Hubbard, - Brentwood Benson Publishing, ASCAP/D Soul Music, Of RHA Music, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing C.Crowder) 34 ASCAP/Capitol CMG Genesis, ASCAP/Songs Of Brett, SOME OF IT Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/Longer Corp., BMI/Rowdy Rob Music, BMI (L.Combs, W.B.Durrette, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP (C.Underwood, D.A.Garcia, And Louder Music, BMI/Mammaw’s Fried Okra Music, R.Williford) 15 FRIENDS DON’T Super Big Music, ASCAP/Seven Brett James) 18 BMI/Little Louder Songs, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Red Brids Publishing, ASCAP/Jehovah Nissi, BMI/Big Publishing America, Inc., BMI/New Writers Of Sea Gayle BEST SHOT Red Lining Music, SESAC/Amplified Machine Music, BMI/EMI April Music, Inc., ASCAP/Memory LOVE YOU TOO LATE Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, Music, BMI/Not A Track Guy Music, BMI (E.Church, J.Hyde, Hour Songs, SESAC/Castle Bound Music, Inc., SESAC/Rio Days, SESAC/Wordspring Music, LLC, SESAC/W.B.M. Music BMI/Colden Rainey Music, BMI/Sony/ATV Cross Keys C.Daniels, B.Pinson) 51 Bravo Music, Inc., BMI/Blonde Leading Blind, BMI (J.Allen, Corp., SESAC (M.Marlow, T.Dye, J.M.Nite, J.Ebach) 36 Publishing, ASCAP/243 Music, ASCAP/Peermusic III, J.London, J.P.Williams) 8 Ltd., BMI/Whiskey Tub Music, BMI (C.Swindell, Michael Ray, SPEECHLESS Beats And Banjos, ASCAP/WB G   B.Kinney) 42 Music Corp., ASCAP/Shay Mooney Music, BMI/Warner- BRING IT ON OVER Round Hill Compositions, Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Buckeye26, ASCAP/ BMI/Natalia’s Music Money, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane GIRL GOIN’ NOWHERE Songs Of Song Factory, M   Jreynmusic, ASCAP/Big Music Machine, BMI/Never Veltz Publishing Corp., BMI/Ritten by Rhettro, BMI/WB Music BMI/Universal Tunes, SESAC (A.McBryde, J.Bussey) 59 So Good Publishing, BMI (D.Smyers, S.Mooney, J.Reynolds, Corp., ASCAP/Thankful For This Music, ASCAP/Pinetucky MAKE IT SWEET Carrot Seed Songs, ASCAP/WB L.Veltz) 2 Road Publishing, ASCAP/Telemitry Rhythm House Music, GIRL LIKE YOU Peertunes, Ltd., SESAC/MTNoize, Music Corp., ASCAP/Smackville Music, ASCAP/Smack BMI/Songs Of Roc Nation Music, BMI (D.Davidson, R.Akins, Songs LLC, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, STRONGER THAN ME Terry And Tom Music, B.Hayslip, J.Frasure) 49 SESAC/Jaron Boyer Music, SESAC/Music Of The Corn, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP (M.Tyler, J.Boyer, J.Mirenda) ASCAP/Rezsongs, ASCAP/ReHits Music, Inc., ASCAP/ ASCAP/Bedroll Music, ASCAP/Major Bob Music, Inc., 4 Smacktown Music, ASCAP/Smack Blue, LLC, ASCAP/ ASCAP (R.W.Terry, M.A.Rossi) 48 BUCKED OFF New House Of Sea Gayle Music,  Unfair Entertainment, ASCAP/MeGusta Music, ASCAP/ ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Own My Own Music Tiny Handstand, ASCAP/Sharkules Music, ASCAP/ Publishing, ASCAP  52 GOOD AS YOU Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/ T   (B.Paisley, C.DuBois, K.Lovelace)  Kane Brown Music, BMI/Don’t Be A Gypsy, BMI/ We’re Really Doin’ It Publishing, ASCAP/Smack Hits, Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/BMG Rights GMR/Kobalt Music Group Ltd., GMR (M.Ramsey, T. Rosen, TAKE IT FROM ME Ole Red Cape Songs, ASCAP/ BURNING MAN Emileon Songs, BMI/Little Louder Management (UK) Ltd., PRS/You Want How Much Of W.Sellers, G.Sprung, B.Tursi, S.McAnally) 17 Jordan Davis Music, ASCAP/ReHits Music, Inc., ASCAP/ Songs, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, What Publishing, PRS/TDP Publishing, BMI/Track House MeGusta Music, ASCAP/Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/ Inc., BMI/New Writers Of Sea Gayle Music, BMI/Not A Worldwide Entertainment, BMI/Mandy’s Favorite Songs, MILLIONAIRE Universal Tunes, SESAC/Spur 66 Songs Of Red Bandana, BMI (J.Davis, J.Davis, J.Gantt) 12 Track Guy Music, BMI (L.Dick, B.Pinson) 5 BMI (K.Brown, B.Berryhill, S.Carter, T.Phillips, W.Weatherly) 37 Music, SESAC (K.Welch) 11 TALK YOU OUT OF IT Relative Music Group, BURN OUT WB Music Corp., ASCAP/TipTop Music, GOOD GIRL Magic Mustang Music Inc., BMI/Warner- MISS ME MORE Songs Of Black River, ASCAP/KNB BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., ASCAP/Tropical Cowboy Publishing, ASCAP/Warner- Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Wordspring Music, LLC, Music, ASCAP/3 Weddings Music, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt BMI/Who Wants To Buy My Publishing, ASCAP/WB Music Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Kitt Cass Publishing SESAC/W.B.M. Music Corp., SESAC/Memory Days, SESAC/ Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI/EMI April Music, Inc., Corp., ASCAP/Highly Combustible Music, ASCAP/One77 Corporation, BMI/Smack Hits, GMR/Smack Songs LLC, Buzz Light Beer Music, ASCAP/Downtown DLJ Songs, ASCAP/Bob Ochoa’s Homemade Salsa, ASCAP (K.Ballerini, Songs, ASCAP/Castle Bound Music, Inc., SESAC (M.Hardy, GMR/Kobalt Music Group Ltd., GMR/Songs Of Black River, D.H.Hodges, B.McLaughlin) 25 H.Phelps, J.Rogers, A.Vanderheym) 32 ASCAP/One Little Indian Creek Music, ASCAP (J.Carson, ASCAP (D.Lynch, J.Ebach, A.Albert) 1 C.Duddy, M.Wystrach, S.McAnally, J.Osborne) 13 GOT MY NAME CHANGED BACK Sony/ATV N   THERE WAS THIS GIRL Riley Green Publishing Tree Publishing, BMI/Pink Dog Publishing, BMI/Monroe Designee, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/ BUY MY OWN DRINKS BMG Platinum Songs, Suede Publishing, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing NEON CHURCH BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP/Go For Peermusic III, Ltd., BMI/Tawnes Van Hawke Publishing, BMI/BMG Silver Songs, SESAC/BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP/ America, Inc., BMI/Mountain Girl Songs 3, ASCAP (M. The Goldsmith, ASCAP/Big Deal Beats, BMI/Songs Of BMI (R.Green, Erik Dylan) 14 Rezonate Music, ASCAP/BIRB Music, ASCAP/Champagne Lambert, A.Monroe, A.Presley) 60 Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI/Dead Aim Whiskey Publishing, ASCAP/Downtown DLJ Songs, Music, BMI/The Stennis Mightier Music, BMI/Young Guns THIS IS IT Dagum Music, BMI/Austintatious Tunes, ASCAP/Legends Of Magic Mustang Music, SESAC/Music Publishing, LLC, BMI  23 Of Platinum Pen, SESAC/Wild Wild West Songs, SESAC/ H   (B.Goldsmith, R.E.Lipsey, B.M.Stennis)  BMI/Spirit Two Nashville, ASCAP/Fluid Tunes, ASCAP/ Thunder Cookie, SESAC/Magic Mustang Music Inc., BMI/ Smackville Music, ASCAP/Smack Songs LLC, ASCAP/Ice Songwriters of Platinum Pen Publishing, BMI/Hannah HERE TONIGHT Super Big Music, ASCAP/ NEVER COMIN DOWN Songs Of Universal, Inc., House Tunes, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, Mulholland Music, BMI (H.Mulholland, J.Wayne, N.Cooke, Caliville Publishing, ASCAP/Songs Of Black River, BMI/MAROMA Music, BMI/Songs Of Black River, ASCAP/ ASCAP (S.McCreery, F.Rogers, A.Eshuis) 7 H.Lindsey, J.Kear) 38 ASCAP/Wordspring Music, LLC, SESAC/Memory Days, Whistlepig Winners, ASCAP/James Abrahart Publishing SESAC/W.B.M. Music Corp., SESAC/The Best I Could Do Designee, SESAC/Artist 101 Publishing Group, BMI/Songs W   Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI/BMG C   Publishing, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP (B.Young, B.Caver, J.Ebach, C.Kelley) 22 Rights Management (UK) Ltd., PRS/You Want How Much WHAT HAPPENS IN A SMALL TOWN Of What Publishing, PRS/BMG Platinum Songs, BMI/Lets Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Indiana Angel CAUGHT UP IN THE COUNTRY WB Music Get Brunch Publishing, BMI (K.Urban, J.Kear, J.Abrahart, Music, BMI/Ritten by Rhettro, BMI/Don’t Be A Gypsy, Corp., ASCAP/Freshy Music, ASCAP/We-Volve Music, HOW DOES IT SOUND Two Black Dogs, ASCAP/ Sony/ATV Cross Keys Publishing, ASCAP/Songs For Shy Carter) 21 BMI/Revelry Music, BMI/Badlandsmgmt, BMI/Songs Of ASCAP/Goes Something Like THIS Music, BMI/Warner- Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI  Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Make It Matter Music, Buddy.ASCAP/Songs From The Rose Hotel, ASCAP/WB (B.Gilbert, Music Corp., ASCAP  54 NIGHT SHIFT Maxx Music, BMI/Let The Road Pave R.Akins, B.Berryhill, J.Dunne) 40 BMI/Sixteen Stars Music, BMI (C.Harrington, J.M.Schmidt, (D.Schneider, J.Johnston, C.Crowder)  Itself, BMI/Razor And Tie Music Publishing, BMI/Mike M.Walker) 30 I   Curb Music, BMI/Rain Town Music, BMI (T.Brown, P.LaRue, WHAT MAKES YOU COUNTRY Sony/ATV B.Montana) 20 Tree Publishing, BMI/Peanut Mill Songs, BMI/Round CLOSER TO YOU BIRB Music, ASCAP/BMG Gold I DON’T KNOW ABOUT YOU Round Hill Hill Compositions, BMI/Natalia’s Music Money, BMI/ Songs, ASCAP/1217 Songs, ASCAP/Still Working For The O   Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., Woman, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, Songs II, ASCAP/Caleb’s College Fund, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Who Wants To Buy My Publishing, ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite Songs, ASCAP (L.Bryan, D.Davidson, ASCAP/Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Low Z Music, BMI (H. THE ONES THAT DIDN’T MAKE IT BACK A.Gorley) 10 Lindsey, G.Sampson, T.Verges) 43 ASCAP/Relative Music Group, BMI/One77 Songs, ASCAP/ Highly Combustible Music, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music HOME Big Music Machine, BMI/Double Barrel Ace Music, BMI/Universal Music Corp., ASCAP/Paulywood WHAT WHISKEY DOES EMI Blackwood Music D   Publishing LLC, ASCAP (A.Gorley, M.Hardy, H.Phelps, J.Rodgers) 55 Music, ASCAP/Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Plum Nelly, Inc., BMI/Little Britches Music, BMI/Gattis Music, BMI/ BMI/Ole Red Cape Songs, ASCAP/Real Big Red Tunes, Rezonate Music, ASCAP/BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP/BIRB DAY DRUNK Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., I DON’T REMEMBER ME (BEFORE YOU) ASCAP (J.Moore, P.DiGiovanni, C.McGill, J.S.Stover) 46 Music, ASCAP (R.Houser, K.Gattis, H.Lindsey) 35 BMI/SongsbyME, BMI/EMI April Music, Inc., ASCAP/CDS Trampy McCauley, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/ Words And Music, ASCAP/Hey Kiddo Music, ASCAP/ Songstein Publishing, ASCAP/All The Kings Pens, ASCAP/ ONE THAT GOT AWAY Downtown DMP Songs, WHISKEY GLASSES Warner-Tamerlane Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, ASCAP (M.Evans, C. Round Hill Songs BLS JV, ASCAP/Big Loud Proud Songs, BMI/Telemitry Productions, BMI/ReHits Music, Inc., Publishing Corp., BMI/Mr. Buck Lucky, BMI/Bump Into DeStefano, L.Robbins) 45 ASCAP/Matt Drag Music, ASCAP/Smack Hits, GMR/ ASCAP/Smacktown Music, ASCAP/Carrot Seed Songs, Genius Music, BMI/Sony/ATV Allegro, ASCAP/Over- Smack Songs LLC, GMR/Kobalt Music Group Ltd., GMR (J. ASCAP/Smack Songs LLC, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Thought Under-Appreciated Songs, ASCAP/Rezven THE DIFFERENCE Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Osborne, T.J. Osborne, M.Dragstrem, S.McAnally) 53 Publishing LLC, ASCAP/Anderson Fork In The Road Music, Music, ASCAP/Moving Targest In The Dark, ASCAP (B. Corp., BMI/Ritten by Rhettro, BMI/Mr. Buck Lucky, BMI/ ASCAP/Smackville Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP Burgess, K.Kadish) 33 Bump Into Genius Music, BMI/Neon Cross Music, BMI/ I WON’T BE SORRY Old Desperados, LLC, ASCAP/ (J.Frasure, T. Rosen, M.Ramsey, J.Osborne) 19 Magic Mustang Music Inc., BMI (R.Akins, B.Burgess, N2D Publishing Company, Inc., ASCAP/Carol Vincent Y   D.Dawson, J.Durrett) 26 And Associates, LLC., ASCAP/Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, ON MY WAY TO YOU WB Music Corp., ASCAP/ BMI/Sony/ATV Cross Keys Publishing, ASCAP (D.L.Murphy, Songs Of Brett, ASCAP/Atlas Music Publishing, ASCAP/ YADA YADA YADA Mid South Mood Maker DON’T LET THE OLD MAN IN Tokeco Tunes, P.Jenkins, J.Sellers) 57 External Combustion Music, ASCAP/BMG Gold Songs, Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Sony/ATV Tree BMI (T.Keith) 41 ASCAP/Heytone Music, ASCAP (Brett James, T.Lane) 24 Publishing, BMI/Heather Feather Songs, BMI/Songs Of L   Universal, Inc., BMI (B.Lay, H.Morgan, M.Reeves) 44 DOWN TO THE HONKYTONK Round Hill R   Works, BMI/Big Loud Proud Crowd, BMI/Round Hill LADIES IN THE ‘90S Warner-Tamerlane Compositions, BMI/Shirt At Work, BMI/Sony/ATV Story Publishing Corp., BMI/Lylas Music, BMI/Songs Of Roc RAISED ON COUNTRY Not Listed (Not Listed) 56 Music Publishing, GMR/We Are Creative Nation, GMR/ Nation Music, BMI/Telemitry Rhythm House Music, BMI/ Smack Hits, GMR/Smack Songs LLC, GMR/Kobalt Music WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Cookie Jar Music LLP, PRS (Lauren Group Ltd., GMR (R.Clawson, L.Laird, S.McAnally) 16 Alaina, J.Frasure, A.Wadge) 47 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE JANUARY 14, 2019 | PAGE 17 OF 18 Hot Country Songs Index

TITLE Publishing-Licensing Org. FRIENDS DON’T Super Big Music, ASCAP/Seven MEANT TO BE BMG Platinum Songs, BMI/ SIXTEEN EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Cricket On (Songwriter) Chart Position Red Brids Publishing, ASCAP/Jehovah Nissi, BMI/Big Big Loud Mountain, BMI/Kiss Me If You Can Music, The Line, BMI/Sony/ATV Ballad, BMI/Eastman Pond Machine Music, BMI/EMI April Music, Inc., ASCAP/Memory BMI/T Hubb Publishing, BMI/Round Hill Works, BMI/ Publishing, BMI/Big Deal Beats, BMI/Brodsky Spensive B   Days, SESAC/Wordspring Music, LLC, SESAC/W.B.M. Music Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Songs Of Publishing, BMI/Nice Life, BMI (Thomas Rhett, S.M.Douglas, Corp., SESAC (M.Marlow, T.Dye, J.M.Nite, J.Ebach) 46 The Corn, BMI/Jack 10 Publishing, BMI/Universal Music Joe London) 9 BEAUTIFUL CRAZY Big Machine Music, BMI/ - Brentwood Benson Publishing, ASCAP/D Soul Music, Egg Music, BMI/Straight Dimes Publishing, BMI/Works G   ASCAP/Capitol CMG Genesis, ASCAP (B.Rexha, T.Hubbard, SPEECHLESS Beats And Banjos, ASCAP/WB Of RHA Music, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing J.Miller, D.A.Garcia) 3 Music Corp., ASCAP/Shay Mooney Music, BMI/Warner- Corp., BMI/Rowdy Rob Music, BMI (L.Combs, W.B.Durrette, GIRL LIKE YOU Peertunes, Ltd., SESAC/MTNoize, Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Buckeye26, ASCAP/ R.Williford) 7 SESAC/Jaron Boyer Music, SESAC/Music Of The Corn, MILLIONAIRE Universal Tunes, SESAC/Spur 66 Jreynmusic, ASCAP/Big Music Machine, BMI/Never Veltz ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP (M.Tyler, J.Boyer, J.Mirenda) Music, SESAC (K.Welch) 14 So Good Publishing, BMI (D.Smyers, S.Mooney, J.Reynolds, BEST SHOT Red Lining Music, SESAC/Amplified 11 L.Veltz) 1 Hour Songs, SESAC/Castle Bound Music, Inc., SESAC/Rio MISS ME MORE Songs Of Black River, ASCAP/KNB Bravo Music, Inc., BMI/Blonde Leading Blind, BMI (J.Allen, GOOD AS YOU Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/ Music, ASCAP/3 Weddings Music, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt STRONGER THAN ME Terry And Tom Music, J.London, J.P.Williams) 6 Kane Brown Music, BMI/Don’t Be A Gypsy, BMI/ Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI/EMI April Music, Inc., ASCAP/Bedroll Music, ASCAP/Major Bob Music, Inc., Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/BMG Rights ASCAP/Bob Ochoa’s Homemade Salsa, ASCAP (K.Ballerini, ASCAP (R.W.Terry, M.A.Rossi) 40 BRING IT ON OVER Round Hill Compositions, Management (UK) Ltd., PRS/You Want How Much Of D.H.Hodges, B.McLaughlin) 22 BMI/Natalia’s Music Money, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane What Publishing, PRS/TDP Publishing, BMI/Track House T   Publishing Corp., BMI/Ritten by Rhettro, BMI/WB Music Worldwide Entertainment, BMI/Mandy’s Favorite Songs, N   Corp., ASCAP/Thankful For This Music, ASCAP/Pinetucky BMI (K.Brown, B.Berryhill, S.Carter, T.Phillips, W.Weatherly) 35 TAKE IT FROM ME Ole Red Cape Songs, ASCAP/ Road Publishing, ASCAP/Telemitry Rhythm House Music, NEON CHURCH BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP/Go For Jordan Davis Music, ASCAP/ReHits Music, Inc., ASCAP/ BMI/Songs Of Roc Nation Music, BMI (D.Davidson, R.Akins, GOOD GIRL Magic Mustang Music Inc., BMI/Warner- The Goldsmith, ASCAP/Big Deal Beats, BMI/Songs Of MeGusta Music, ASCAP/Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/ B.Hayslip, J.Frasure) 44 Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Wordspring Music, LLC, Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI/Dead Aim Songs Of Red Bandana, BMI (J.Davis, J.Davis, J.Gantt) 15 SESAC/W.B.M. Music Corp., SESAC/Memory Days, SESAC/ Music, BMI/The Stennis Mightier Music, BMI/Young Guns BURNING MAN Emileon Songs, BMI/Little Louder Buzz Light Beer Music, ASCAP/Downtown DLJ Songs, Publishing, LLC, BMI (B.Goldsmith, R.E.Lipsey, B.M.Stennis) 32 TALK YOU OUT OF IT Relative Music Group, Songs, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, ASCAP (D.Lynch, J.Ebach, A.Albert) 8 BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., Inc., BMI/New Writers Of Sea Gayle Music, BMI/Not A NEVER COMIN DOWN Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Who Wants To Buy My Publishing, ASCAP/WB Music Track Guy Music, BMI (L.Dick, B.Pinson) 10 H   BMI/MAROMA Music, BMI/Songs Of Black River, ASCAP/ Corp., ASCAP/Highly Combustible Music, ASCAP/One77 Whistlepig Winners, ASCAP/James Abrahart Publishing Songs, ASCAP/Castle Bound Music, Inc., SESAC (M.Hardy, BURN OUT WB Music Corp., ASCAP/TipTop Music, HERE TONIGHT Super Big Music, ASCAP/ Designee, SESAC/Artist 101 Publishing Group, BMI/Songs H.Phelps, J.Rogers, A.Vanderheym) 28 ASCAP/Tropical Cowboy Publishing, ASCAP/Warner- Caliville Publishing, ASCAP/Songs Of Black River, Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI/BMG Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Kitt Cass Publishing ASCAP/Wordspring Music, LLC, SESAC/Memory Days, Rights Management (UK) Ltd., PRS/You Want How Much TEQUILA WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Beats And Banjos, Corporation, BMI/Smack Hits, GMR/Smack Songs LLC, SESAC/W.B.M. Music Corp., SESAC/The Best I Could Do Of What Publishing, PRS/BMG Platinum Songs, BMI/Lets ASCAP/Buckeye26, ASCAP/Jreynmusic, ASCAP/Warner- GMR/Kobalt Music Group Ltd., GMR/Songs Of Black River, Publishing, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP (B.Young, Get Brunch Publishing, BMI (K.Urban, J.Kear, J.Abrahart, Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/A Girl Named Charlie, ASCAP/One Little Indian Creek Music, ASCAP (J.Carson, B.Caver, J.Ebach, C.Kelley) 19 Shy Carter) 30 BMI (D.Smyers, J.Reynolds, N.Galyon) 2 C.Duddy, M.Wystrach, S.McAnally, J.Osborne) 21 HOMESICK Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Kane NIGHT SHIFT Maxx Music, BMI/Let The Road Pave THERE WAS THIS GIRL Riley Green Publishing Brown Music, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., Designee, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/ C   Itself, BMI/Razor And Tie Music Publishing, BMI/Mike BMI/Don’t Be A Gypsy, BMI/Smackworks Music, SESAC/ Curb Music, BMI/Rain Town Music, BMI (T.Brown, P.LaRue, Peermusic III, Ltd., BMI/Tawnes Van Hawke Publishing, CAUGHT UP IN THE COUNTRY WB Music Kobalt Group Music Publishing, SESAC/Smack Blue, LLC, B.Montana) 23 BMI (R.Green, Erik Dylan) 25 Corp., ASCAP/Freshy Music, ASCAP/We-Volve Music, SESAC/TDP Publishing, BMI (K.Brown, B.Berryhill, M.J.McGinn, ASCAP/Goes Something Like THIS Music, BMI/Warner- T.Phillips) 45 O   THIS IS IT Dagum Music, BMI/Austintatious Tunes, Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Make It Matter Music, BMI/Spirit Two Nashville, ASCAP/Fluid Tunes, ASCAP/ BMI/Sixteen Stars Music, BMI (C.Harrington, J.M.Schmidt, I   ONE THAT GOT AWAY Downtown DMP Songs, Smackville Music, ASCAP/Smack Songs LLC, ASCAP/Ice M.Walker) 39 BMI/Telemitry Productions, BMI/ReHits Music, Inc., House Tunes, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, I DON’T KNOW ABOUT YOU Round Hill ASCAP/Smacktown Music, ASCAP/Carrot Seed Songs, ASCAP (S.McCreery, F.Rogers, A.Eshuis) 13 Songs II, ASCAP/Caleb’s College Fund, ASCAP/WB D   ASCAP/Smack Songs LLC, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Music Corp., ASCAP/Who Wants To Buy My Publishing, Publishing LLC, ASCAP/Anderson Fork In The Road Music, TO A T Universal Music Corp., ASCAP/Lake Allegan DIE FROM A BROKEN HEART Super Big ASCAP/Relative Music Group, BMI/One77 Songs, ASCAP/ ASCAP/Smackville Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP Pub Club, ASCAP/Red Like The Sunset Music, ASCAP/ Music, ASCAP/Seven Red Brids Publishing, ASCAP/ Highly Combustible Music, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music (J.Frasure, T. Rosen, M.Ramsey, J.Osborne) 26 Spicer And Everyting Nicer, ASCAP/Ole Red Cape Songs, Big Music Machine, BMI/Jehovah Nissi, BMI/Jet Music, Publishing LLC, ASCAP (A.Gorley, M.Hardy, H.Phelps, ASCAP/Big Music Machine, BMI/Never Veltz So Good ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Thankful For This Music, J.Rodgers) 34 ON MY WAY TO YOU WB Music Corp., ASCAP/ Publishing, BMI (R.J.Hurd, N.Spicer, L.Veltz) 47 ASCAP/Doc And Maggie Music, SOCAN (M.Marlow, T.Dye, Songs Of Brett, ASCAP/Atlas Music Publishing, ASCAP/ J.Singleton, D.Ruttan) 50 L   External Combustion Music, ASCAP/BMG Gold Songs, W   ASCAP/Heytone Music, ASCAP  24 (Brett James, T.Lane)  WHAT HAPPENS IN A SMALL TOWN THE DIFFERENCE Warner-Tamerlane Publishing LOSE IT Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Kane Brown Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Indiana Angel Corp., BMI/Ritten by Rhettro, BMI/Mr. Buck Lucky, BMI/ Music, BMI/Plum Nelly, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane P   Bump Into Genius Music, BMI/Neon Cross Music, BMI/ Publishing Corp., BMI/Mandy’s Favorite Songs, BMI/Track Music, BMI/Ritten by Rhettro, BMI/Don’t Be A Gypsy, House Worldwide Entertainment, BMI (K.Brown, C.McGill, PRAYED FOR YOU Pedal Down Music, ASCAP/ BMI/Revelry Music, BMI/Badlandsmgmt, BMI/Songs Of Magic Mustang Music Inc., BMI (R.Akins, B.Burgess, Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI  D.Dawson, J.Durrett) 33 W.Weatherly) 5 Big Spaces Music, BMI/Tunes Of Big Deal Music, SESAC/ (B.Gilbert, Songs Of Porterfied Music, SESAC (M.Stell, A.Bowers, R.Akins, B.Berryhill, J.Dunne) 43 DOWN TO THE HONKYTONK Round Hill LOVE AIN’T EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Plain A.Veltz) 37 Works, BMI/Big Loud Proud Crowd, BMI/Round Hill Jane Songs, BMI/Rezolant Music, BMI/Combustion WHAT MAKES YOU COUNTRY Sony/ATV Compositions, BMI/Shirt At Work, BMI/Sony/ATV Story Engine Music, ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/WB R   Tree Publishing, BMI/Peanut Mill Songs, BMI/Round Music Corp., ASCAP/Smack Hits, GMR/Smack Songs LLC, Hill Compositions, BMI/Natalia’s Music Money, BMI/ Music Publishing, GMR/We Are Creative Nation, GMR/ RAISED ON COUNTRY Not Listed (Not Listed) 42 Smack Hits, GMR/Smack Songs LLC, GMR/Kobalt Music GMR/Kobalt Music Group Ltd., GMR (R.Copperman, A.Gorley, Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., Group Ltd., GMR  17 S.McAnally) 36 ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite Songs, ASCAP (L.Bryan, D.Davidson, (R.Clawson, L.Laird, S.McAnally)  RULES OF BREAKING UP Kobalt Songs Music A.Gorley) 16 LOVE SOMEONE Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI/Paris Publishing LLC, ASCAP/Haus Of Kings, ASCAP/Twin DRUNK ME Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI/WB Music Spires, ASCAP/King Pen Songs, SESAC/Kobalt Group Corp., ASCAP/Freshy Music, ASCAP/We-Volve Music, Not France Music, BMI/EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/ WHAT WHISKEY DOES EMI Blackwood Music Rezolant Music, BMI/Plain Jane Songs, BMI/Sony/ATV Music Publishing, SESAC/Porchlight, SESAC/Warner- Inc., BMI/Little Britches Music, BMI/Gattis Music, BMI/ ASCAP/Legends Of Magic Mustang Music, SESAC/BMG Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/7189 Music Publishing, Rezonate Music, ASCAP/BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP/BIRB Silver Songs, SESAC (M.Tenpenny, J.M.Schmidt, J.T.Wilson) 12 Tree Publishing, BMI/Heather Feather Songs, BMI (B. 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We’re Really Doin’ It Publishing, ASCAP/Smack Hits, Combs, R.Snyder, C.Wilson) 4 GMR/Kobalt Music Group Ltd., GMR (M.Ramsey, T. Rosen, W.Sellers, G.Sprung, B.Tursi, S.McAnally) 20 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE JANUARY 14, 2019 | PAGE 18 OF 18 CODA On Jan. 21, 1984, John Conlee’s he was singing and learning guitar, 35 Years Ago “In My Eyes” rose 3-1 on Hot and later joined a barbershop Country Songs. Penned by Barbara quartet as a tenor. As an adult, Wyrick, the ballad became his fifth Conlee didn’t pursue his musical John Conlee of seven No. 1s (among 22 top 10s) dreams right away. Early on, he that he banked on the list between became a licensed mortician. He Had His ‘Eyes’ 1978 and 1987. eventually moved to Nashville and Conlee’s debut chart appearance, was an on-air personality at what 1978’s No. 5-peaking “Rose was then an AM top 40 powerhouse, On No. 1 Colored Glasses,” became a WLAC, from 1971 to 1978. signature hit for him, followed by Conlee became a member In 1984, the Kentucky native his first No. 1, “Lady Lay Down,” of the Grand Ole Opry in earned his fifth leader on which led 40 years ago (Jan. 13 1982. Now 72, he still performs 1979). regularly. When not on the road, Hot Country Songs Born Aug. 11, 1946, in Versailles, he resides on his 32-acre Kentucky Ky., Conlee was raised on his farm with wife Gale. family’s tobacco farm. By age 10, —JIM ASKER

A photo of Conlee from his 1986 album Harmony.

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