RANDALL KING Randall King takes the #1 spot! "She Gone" Warner Music Nashville/WEA

Dear Readers; RANDALL KING peaks at #1 with "She Gone." THE PANHANDLERS' "No Handle" are this week's Most Added! RECKLESS KELLY is the Greatest Spin Gainer with "I Only See You With My Eyes Closed"! MORGAN ASHLEY's "Wild Card" is this week's top Surging & Emerging track to keep an eye on! Great work everyone! The following stations are frozen for this week. KSDR-FM (Watertown, SD) KYKX-FM (Tyler, TX)

The following station has been frozen for 2 weeks. KFYN-FM (Paris, TX)

The following song has been moved to RECURRENT status. CREED FISHER / A Few Good Ol' Cowboys DALE PHILIPS / One Hit Wonder FLATLAND CAVALRY / Sober Heart Of Mine HARRY LUGE / Music And Wine POWELL BROTHERS, THE / Whatever Is Left RAGLAND / Love, Liquor, And A Place To Die SCOTTY ALEXANDER / Go Away WILLIAM CLARK GREEN / She Loves Horses For those who don’t use CDX to distribute their new music but wish to be monitored by TRACtion TX, you can now go to our upload center, fill out the necessary information and send your MP3s for fingerprinting here:https://www.cdxcd.com/fingerprinting-upload-center/ .

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WWW.TRACTIONTX.COM Monitored Radio Airplay Vol 5. #15 April 15th, 2020 L T Wks On Spins + Stations Adds W W - Chart Artist / Song Title / Label 2 1 RANDALL KING/She Gone/Warner Music Nashville/WEA 684 0 42 0 14 4 2 CASEY DONAHEW/Drove Me To The Whiskey/Almost Country Records 669 9 42 1 18 5 3 CURTIS GRIMES/River Road Dream/Curtis Grimes Music 661 24 42 1 11 3 4 FLATLAND CAVALRY/Come Back Down/Flatland Cavalry Music 620 -53 38 0 25 6 5 STONEY LARUE/Message In A Bottle/One Chord Song 609 -26 38 0 25 1 6 JOSH WARD/One More Shot of Whiskey/Josh Ward Music 578 -111 43 0 19 9 7 MIKE RYAN/Dear Country Music,/Mike Ryan Music 566 6 43 1 28 10 8 DARRIN MORRIS BAND/Dancing in the Rain/DMB Music 547 21 37 1 20 7 9 KYLE PARK/Every Day Kind of Love/Kyle Park Music 545 -74 40 0 32 11 10 TURNPIKE TROUBADOURS/Unrung/Thirty Tigers 496 15 35 0 22 13 11 CHAD COOKE BAND/Four Minutes/King Hall Music 454 24 32 0 9 14 12 RECKLESS KELLY/I Only See You With My Eyes Closed/No Big Deal/Thirty Tigers 453 55 29 2 9 12 13 ROBERT RAY/I Found You/Big R.I.G. Country, LLC 444 -6 27 0 22 15 14 MARK POWELL/Breaking Things/Mark Powell Music 419 24 33 1 13 18 15 DREW FISH BAND/Every Damn Time/Smith Music Group 397 36 28 1 12 16 16 RANDY ROGERS BAND/You, Me, and a Bottle/Tommy Jackson/Thirty Tigers 380 7 30 2 6 17 17 MICKY & THE MOTORCARS/Road To You/Thirty Tigers 364 -6 29 0 29 20 18 JODY BOOTH/Gotta Go Back To Work/SOT 363 22 29 0 13 19 19 WHISKEY MYERS/Bury My Bones/Wiggy Thump/Thirty Tigers 363 5 28 0 8 22 20 RANDY ROGERS AND WADE BOWEN/Rodeo Clown/Lil' Buddy Toons 338 52 26 3 4 21 21 ELEVEN HUNDRED SPRINGS/This Morning It Was Too Late/State Fair Records 328 8 19 1 13 23 22 PANHANDLERS, THE/No Handle/The Next Waltz 288 5 22 4 13 24 23 CORY MORROW/Always And Forever/CM Music 284 3 22 1 7 27 24 TRISTON MAREZ/Far From Good/Triston Marez Music 280 45 21 3 11 25 25 WILL CARTER/You Feel Like Home/Way Back Records 245 1 20 0 13 29 26 JON WOLFE/Feels Like Country Music/Fool Hearted Productions 232 23 19 2 4 26 27 DONICE MORACE/Through The Jukebox/Donice Morace Music 229 -10 16 0 10 28 28 HAYDEN HADDOCK/Red Dirt Texas/Hayden Haddock Music 228 -1 19 0 10 30 29 JON STORK/Radio Cowboy/Jon Stork Music 202 -6 21 2 4 34 30 CROSS RAGS AND YOUNG/Family Name/Cross Rags and Young 199 23 21 4 5

WWW.TRACTIONTX.COM Monitored Radio Airplay April 15th, 2020 | PAGE 2 L T Wks On Spins + Stations Adds W W - Chart Artist / Song Title / Label 32 31 MARK WINSTON KIRK/Cowboy & The Gypsy/Mark Winston Kirk Music 195 -8 16 1 11 31 32 MARIO FLORES/I Only Miss Her When It Rains/Schimflo 192 -14 15 0 17 37 33 JOSH GRIDER/Country's Comin' Back/G-Ride Music 181 38 17 2 3 33 34 AUSTIN ENGLISH/Heartache in a Small Town/Austin English Music 165 -25 12 0 12 35 35 CASEY BAKER/We Don't Care Enough To Fight Anymore/Casey Baker Music 163 4 13 1 9 36 36 SAM RIGGS/Until My Heart Stops Beating/Major Bob Music 158 5 11 0 17 41 37 STETSON WALKER/Down to One Key/Stetson Walker Music 152 22 13 1 13 40 38 PROPHETS AND OUTLAWS/Love Like A Love Song/Prophets and Outlaws Music 145 12 10 0 5 38 39 EVAN FELKER/Whiskey In Your Water/The Next Waltz 126 -11 10 0 22 49 40 STEVE HELMS BAND/Imperfection/Steve Helms Band Music 125 36 9 2 2 -- 41 GRANT GILBERT/Held On To/Grant Gilbert Music 113 31 10 2 1 45 42 CARSON JEFFREY/Ranch Girl Dream/Carson Jeffrey Music 107 9 10 1 2 43 43 TEAGUE BROTHERS BAND/Rainbow Bridge/Teague Brothers Music 101 -11 8 0 8 46 44 READ SOUTHALL BAND/Stickin' N Movin'/Read Southall Band Music 98 1 5 0 3 -- 45 JUNIOR GORDON/Baby Hold On/Junior Gordon Music 96 18 10 0 1 47 46 JAMES COOK/Wake The Dead/James Cook Music 92 -1 8 0 8 44 47 KENDALL SHAFFER/Honky Tonkin' (Whoever Said It Was Easy)/Kendall Shaffer Music 91 -12 8 0 3 -- 48 KIN FAUX/Locked up in Lubbock/Kin Faux Music 90 22 12 4 1 50 49 KATY MCKENZIE/Advice I Didn't Take/Katy McKenzie Music 90 3 9 0 9 -- 50 ISAAC JACOB BAND/I Don't Love You Anymore/Isaac Jacob Band Music 87 8 6 0 5

Number 1 = Most Added = Spin Gainer = Rank Surging & Emerging Stations On Adds 1 MORGAN ASHLEY / Wild Card / Morgan Ashley Music 8 1 2 BRANDON ALAN / Love You The Same / Brandon Alan Music 7 3 3 SUNDANCE HEAD / Not Give A Damn / Sundance Head Music 6 2 4 BRANDI BEHLEN / Just A Little Crazy / Brandi Behlen Music 6 1 5 SUSAN HICKMAN / Rewind / Susan Hickman Music 5 2 6 CODY HIBBARD / Just For The Record / Cody Hibbard Music 6 2 7 DAVID JOEL & MICKEY GILLEY / If I Had It My Way / Bou Boy'z Entertainment 4 4 8 MARCY GRACE / Like I Do / Marcy Grace Music 6 1 9 CREED FISHER / I'm Growing Older But I'm Not Growing Up / Creed Fisher Music 3 3 10 JAKE FLINT / What's You Name / Jake Flint Music 3 3

WWW.TRACTIONTX.COM Monitored Radio Airplay April 15th, 2020 | PAGE 3 Monitored Stations

KAXA-FM Kerrville, TX KKCN-FM San Angelo, TX KRVF-FM Kerens, TX KYKC-FM Ada, OK KBSO-FM Corpus Christi, TX KMOM-FM Aberdeen, SD KRVN-FM Lexington, NE KYKM-FM Yoakum, TX KBST-FM Big Spring, TX KNES-FM Fairfield, TX KSAM-FM Huntsville, TX KYKX-FM Longview,TX KDLO-FM Watertown, SD KOKE-FM Austin, TX KSDR-FM Watertown, SD KYYK-FM Palestine, TX KEOK-FM Tahlequah, OK KOLI-FM Wichita Falls, TX KSEL-FM Portales, NM coyotecountryradio.com KERP-FM Dodge City, KS KORA-FM Bryan, TX KTTU-FM HD4 (K226CH-FX) Lubbock, TX madeintexasradio.com KFLP-FM Floydada, TX KOXE-FM Brownwood, TX KTTX-FM Brenham, TX texasboundradio.com KFTX-FM Corpus Christi, TX KPAK-FM Alva, OK KTXM-FM Hallettsville, TX texashomegrownradio.com KFWR-FM Ft. Worth, TX KPUR-FM Canyon, TX KUSH-AM Cushing, OK TexasRedHotRadio.com KFYN-FM Paris, TX KQSC-AM Colorado Springs, CO KUSQ-FM Worthington, MN troubadourcountryradio.com KGFY-FM Stillwater, OK KQZQ-FM Kiowa, KS KVMK-FM College Station, TX TBJS Radio Poteau, OK KHLB-FM Mason, TX KRBL-FM Levelland,TX KVST-FM Montgomery, TX UvaldeRadio.net KHYI-FM Howe, TX KRMX-FM Waco, TX KWOX-FM Woodward, OK KIKK-FM (HD2) Houston, TX KRRG-FM Laredo, TX KXKZ-FM Ruston, LA KKAJ-FM Ardmore, OK KRUN-AM Ballinger, TX KXOX-FM Sweetwater,TX

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Chart Recurrent Methodology

When does a song move to recurrent on the With this in mind, the CDX TRACtion Texas chart? It is one of the more challenging issues we recurrent policy grades each chart position on a encountered in creating the CDX TRACtion Texas curve, using an algorithm that considers the chart chart system. Rather than relying on subjective position and spin history for that song. Newly editorial decisions, we’ve chosen to automate this serviced singles are allowed 20 weeks to chart process using the weekly chart data as a marker. before being removed from chart consideration. Once a status change is actively being considered We strive to avoid having singles past their prime by the algorithm, the cumulative amount of spin create a logjam on the chart, because that stifles loss from the single’s previous peak spin count upward momentum for up-and-coming singles. is the trigger. The allowable spin loss varies as a But we also try to ensure that singles “on the percentage, depending on the chart position. bubble” are not removed prematurely. As long-time chart watchers know, singles often take a while In addition to making sure that only singles with to establish a solid base among early believers at significant downward movement become recurrent, radio before they truly find their legs. Due to any this methodology also benefits slow-developing number of reasons, the path to peak chart position singles in several ways. For instance, the allowable rarely includes straight-line, week-over-week spin spin loss (as a percentage) is very generous at the and/or chart position growth. lower reaches of the chart to accommodate the lower spin counts. Additionally, if a single is at On a monitored airplay chart like CDX TRACtion risk of being moved to recurrent status with two Texas, the reality is that new singles bounce around consecutive weeks of minor spin loss, it can still a bit spin-wise and position-wise, particularly return to positive spin growth the following week, in the lower half of the chart. Even small spin which will reset the clock. increases and decreases can be magnified as fairly significant up-or-down chart position moves.

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WWW.TRACTIONTX.COM Monitored Radio Airplay April 15th, 2020 | PAGE 4 Dance Time In Texas with DJ Mike (04/10/20)

THIS WEEK'S FEATURED ARTIST • JUNIOR GORDON It use to be that when you said your hometown was Alvin, Texas, everyone thought of a famous baseball player by the name of Nolan Ryan, Now, there is another. Junior Gordon may have started in Alvin but has become a fan favorite across Texas Oklahoma, and Louisiana. After opening for Cody Johnson, Lee Brice, Tracy Lawrence and Eli Young, The band now find themselves headlining the bigger dance halls in Texas. After remaking TG Shepards classic, I Loved Em Every one, They focused on their latest CD "Made in America" which found success with hits like "Watered Down" and "Barbed Wire and Roses". Now with their next release off that CD, this is "Baby Hold On"

TOP TEXAS RED DIRT SONGS 1. ONE MORE SHOT OF WHISKEY • JOSH WARD 2. SHE GONE • RANDALL KING 3. MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE • STONEY LaRUE 4. COMEBACK DOWN • FLATLAND CAVALRY 5. RIVER ROAD DREAM • CURTIS GRIMES 6. SHE LOVES HORSES • WILLIAM CLARK GREEN 7. EVERY DAY KIND OF LOVE • KYLE PARK 8. DEAR COUNTRY MUSIC • MIKE RYAN 9. DANCING IN THE RAIN • DARRIN MORRIS 10. DROVE ME TO WHISKEY • CASEY DONAHEW

REWIND • SONGS STILL PACKIN' THE FLOOR GETAWAY TRUCK • AARON WATSON LET IT RAIN • JAMES LANN BACKROAD SONG • GRANGER SMITH FOOL HEARTED MEMORY • GEORGE STRAIT

NEW SONGS OF THE WEEK RADIO COWBOY • JON STORK RODEO CLOWN • RANDY ROGERS & WADE BOWEN TIME CLOCK • THE STATELINE BAND FEELS LIKE COUNTRY MUSIC • JON WOLFE

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

Mon - Fri 8am • 106.1fm • Conroe, TX DancetimeinTexas.com with DJ Mike (936) 588-2717 WWW.TRACTIONTX.COM Monitored Radio Airplay April 15th, 2020 | PAGE 5 Most Added Adds PANHANDLERS, THE / No Handle The Next Waltz 4 CROSS RAGS AND YOUNG/Family Name Cross Rags and Young 4 KIN FAUX/Locked up in Lubbock Kin Faux Music 4 DAVID JOEL & MICKEY GILLEY/If I Had It My Way Bou Boy'z Entertainment 4 RANDY ROGERS AND WADE BOWEN/Rodeo Clown Lil' Buddy Toons 3 TRISTON MAREZ/Far From Good Triston Marez Music 3 BRANDON ALAN/Love You The Same Brandon Alan Music 3 JAKE FLINT/What's You Name Jake Flint Music 3 CREED FISHER/I'm Growing Older But I'm Not Growing Up Creed Fisher Music 3 "Head over to @livestreamconcert (MUSIC COMES TO YOU- Live Stream Concerts) on Facebook to keep up with the latest live stream RANDY ROGERS BAND/You, Me, and a Bottle 2 events. Feel free to share your station/band events on the page. Like, Tommy Jackson/Thirty Tigers Follow, Post and Share."

Greatest Spin Gainers Increase RECKLESS KELLY/I Only See You With My Eyes Closed No Big Deal/Thirty Tigers 55 RANDY ROGERS AND WADE BOWEN/Rodeo Clown Lil' Buddy Toons 52 TRISTON MAREZ/Far From Good Triston Marez Music 45 JOSH GRIDER/Country's Comin' Back G-Ride Music 38 STEVE HELMS BAND/Imperfection Stay safe Steve Helms Band Music 36 DREW FISH BAND/Every Damn Time 36 Smith Music Group everyone! GRANT GILBERT/Held On To Grant Gilbert Music 31 WILL BANNISTER/Easy To Love Will Bannister Music 29 CREED FISHER/I'm Growing Older But I'm Not Growing Up Creed Fisher Music 28 CHAD COOKE BAND/Four Minutes King Hall Music 24

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