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Larry Gatlin Washington, DC’S Corey Spotlighting Individual Inductees Leading up to the Oct
September 3 2019, Issue 669 Pick Six: Label Draft 2019 Seven years ago, Country Aircheck’s Fantasy Label Draft began as an entertaining forum for radio pros to chat about artists and make bold predictions for the year to come. For the first six seasons, VP/GM Chuck Aly served as commissioner and declared winners based upon a method that is just questionable enough to have come from the New England Patriots’ camp, “Chuck’s Eyeball Test.” But this is 2019, and all bets are off. No participation trophies here! What good is a game without a winner? And how do you declare a winner without a score? As a new commissioner takes the field, a painstaking analysis was done to determine a fair- yet-competitive points system, which has been ratified by this year’s ownership group – KUPL/Portland’s MoJoe Roberts; KFRG/ Riverside, CA’s Heather Kind Of A Pig Deal: Premiere’s Bobby Bones, coach Chad Morris, Froglear; KRYS/Corpus Valory’s Justin Moore and singer/songwriter Joe Nichols (l-r) at MoJoe Roberts Kay Manley the Arkansas Razorbacks game Saturday (8/31). Christi, TX’s “Big Frank” Edwards; WGKX/Memphis’ Kay Manley; WMZQ/ NSHoF 2019: Larry Gatlin Washington, DC’s Corey Spotlighting individual inductees leading up to the Oct. Calhoun; and KWEN/Tulsa’s 14 Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame Gala continues with Jenny Law. But more on that songwriter/artist Larry Gatlin. Performing together as The Gatlin during post-game. Brothers for more than six decades, Larry, Steve Heather For his final call as the and Rudy are celebrating the 40th anniversary Corey -
Countrybreakout Chart Covering Secondary Radio Since 2002
COUNTRYBREAKOUT CHART COVERING SECONDARY RADIO SINCE 2002 Thursday, February 21, 2019 NEWS CHART ACTION New On The Chart —Debuting This Week KZPK’s Brook Stephens Takes Home 2019 song/artist/label—Chart Position Rainbow/Kacey Musgraves/MCA Nashville — 57 CRS/Country Aircheck Awards All To Myself/Dan + Shay/Warner Bros./WAR — 71 Make Me Want To/Jimmie Allen/Stoney Creek Records — 74 Ya Got Me Reelin/Brian James Schram/Rocktagon Worldwide Music — 79 Someone I Used To Know/Zac Brown Band/ZBB Collective/BMG/ Wheelhouse Records — 80 Greatest Spin Increase song/artist/label—Spin Increase Every Little Honky Tonk Bar/George Strait/MCA Nashville — 418 Good As You/Kane Brown/RCA Nashville — 209 Rainbow/Kacey Musgraves/MCA Nashville — 188 Talk You Out Of It/Florida Georgia Line/BMLG — 162 Raised On Country/Chris Young/RCA Nashville — 156 Some Of It/Eric Church/EMI Records Nashville — 156 Living/Dierks Bentley/Capitol — 145 The 2019 CRS/Country Aircheck Awards were presented Feb. 15 during the New Faces of Country Music Show at Nashville's Omni Hotel during Most Added Country Radio Seminar. MusicRow CountryBreakout Chart reporter song/artist/label—No. of Adds Brook Stephens, of KZPK in St. Cloud, MN was honored with the Every Little Honky Tonk Bar/George Strait/MCA Nashville — 30 awards for Small Market Music Director of the Year and Small Market Rainbow/Kacey Musgraves/MCA Nashville — 13 Personality of the Year. Living/Dierks Bentley/Capitol — 13 Rearview Town/Jason Aldean/Broken Bow — 12 Track List, Songwriters Revealed For Maren Til The Cows Come Home/Lockeland — 11 Raised On Country/Chris Young/RCA Nashville — 10 Morris’ GIRL Album Someone I Used To Know/Zac Brown Band/ZBB Collective/BMG/ Wheelhouse Records — 8 On Deck—Soon To Be Charting song/artist/label—No. -
Country Airplay; Brooks and Shelton ‘Dive’ In
Country Update BILLBOARD.COM/NEWSLETTERS JUNE 24, 2019 | PAGE 1 OF 19 INSIDE BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE [email protected] Thomas Rhett’s Behind-The-Scenes Country Songwriters “Look” Cooks >page 4 Embracing Front-Of-Stage Artist Opportunities Midland’s “Lonely” Shoutout When Brett James sings “I Hold On” on the new Music City Puxico in 2017 and is working on an Elektra album as a member >page 9 Hit-Makers EP Songs & Symphony, there’s a ring of what-ifs of The Highwomen, featuring bandmates Maren Morris, about it. Brandi Carlile and Amanda Shires. Nominated for the Country Music Association’s song of Indeed, among the list of writers who have issued recent the year in 2014, “I Hold On” gets a new treatment in the projects are Liz Rose (“Cry Pretty”), Heather Morgan (“Love Tanya Tucker’s recording with lush orchestration atop its throbbing guitar- Someone”), and Jeff Hyde (“Some of It,” “We Were”), who Street Cred based arrangement. put out Norman >page 10 James sings it with Rockwell World an appropriate in 2018. gospel-/soul-tinged Others who tone. Had a few have enhanced Marty Party breaks happened their careers with In The Hall differently, one a lbu ms i nclude >page 10 could envision an f o r m e r L y r i c alternate world in Street artist Sarah JAMES HUMMON which James, rather HEMBY Buxton ( “ S u n Makin’ Tracks: than co-writer Daze”), who has Riley Green’s Dierks Bentley, was the singer who made “I Hold On” a hit. done some recording with fellow songwriters and musicians Sophomore Single James actually has recorded an entire album that’s expected under the band name Skyline Motel; Lori McKenna (“Humble >page 14 later this year, making him part of a wave of writers who are and Kind”), who counts a series of albums along with her stepping into the spotlight with their own multisong projects. -
Country Update
Country Update BILLBOARD.COM/NEWSLETTERS JUNE 3, 2019 | PAGE 1 OF 20 INSIDE BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE [email protected] Morgan Wallen’s You Don’t Know Me From Adam: ‘Glasses’ In Fashion >page 4 Building A Fan Base At CMA Fest Power Players & Long-Term Thinking How do you fit into the genre but stand out from the crowd? microcosm of the challenge. Fans who browse the festival’s artist >page 10 When the Country Music Association launches the four-day lineup page are likely to spot Hambrick since his first name, CMA Music Festival on June 6, hundreds of country artists will Adam, puts him near the top of the alphabetical list. But the same be grappling with that question as they seek the attention and/ is true for four other developing artists named Adam — Adam or approval of 80,000-100,000 fans per day. Craig, Adam Doleac, Adam Wakefield and Adam Yarger Toby, T.G., Dierks: Many, perhaps — all of whom, Late CMA Fest Notes most, of those like Hambrick, >page 11 fans, sign up for the want to establish festival because their name in a of the night-time competitive field. lineups at Nissan Even beyond Is A Pulitzer In Stadium, where the Adam family of Tim McGraw’s the genre’s most artists, the festival Future? iconic attractions has a built-in >page 11 — including rivalry to it. At headliners any given moment DOLEAC HAMBRICK CRAIG Florida Georgia from 10 a.m. to 5 Makin’ Tracks: Line, Carrie p.m., as many as Gotta ‘Love That’ Underwood, Tim McGraw and Luke Bryan — pack tens of nine different stages will have music simultaneously, firing Seaforth thousands into an NFL venue and shoot most of the footage up artists’ desire to win. -
Country Update
Country Update BILLBOARD.COM/NEWSLETTERS AUGUST 26, 2019 | PAGE 1 OF 20 INSIDE BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE [email protected] Jason Aldean’s ‘Rearview’ Is Change The Conversation’s Beverly Keel: Up Front >page 4 A SOURCE Of Inspiration For Nashville Women Midland, Billboard “Once upon a time, in the 1990s, there were lots of successful The battle Keel and her cohorts are waging is one that Assist CMA Noms women in country music who found their own voices, and country SOURCE began to recognize when the organization was founded >page 10 fans were eager to hear what they had to say.” in 1991. Women in the business were often Lauren Alaina’s introduction of Cliffie pushed into specific vocations — secretarial Stone Icon Award-winner Martina McBride jobs or publicity, for example — and frequently during the Academy of Country Music’s ACM overlooked as sources of marketing expertise Football Goes Honors on Aug. 21 made a pointed statement and information, even though women were Country about the fate of women in modern country. In considered country’s target audience. >page 11 her youth, Alaina considered McBride to be an SOURCE established its awards program in artistic role model, a symbol of what she could 2003 to call attention to specific women who to achieve in the future. helped build Nashville’s music community into Alabama, Alaina But today’s young women can find the successful industry it is today. Keel is one Tour Delays fewer examples for their own futures in of seven new members — including Bluebird country’s contemporary landscape. -
Songs by Title
16,341 (11-2020) (Title-Artist) Songs by Title 16,341 (11-2020) (Title-Artist) Title Artist Title Artist (I Wanna Be) Your Adams, Bryan (Medley) Little Ole Cuddy, Shawn Underwear Wine Drinker Me & (Medley) 70's Estefan, Gloria Welcome Home & 'Moment' (Part 3) Walk Right Back (Medley) Abba 2017 De Toppers, The (Medley) Maggie May Stewart, Rod (Medley) Are You Jackson, Alan & Hot Legs & Da Ya Washed In The Blood Think I'm Sexy & I'll Fly Away (Medley) Pure Love De Toppers, The (Medley) Beatles Darin, Bobby (Medley) Queen (Part De Toppers, The (Live Remix) 2) (Medley) Bohemian Queen (Medley) Rhythm Is Estefan, Gloria & Rhapsody & Killer Gonna Get You & 1- Miami Sound Queen & The March 2-3 Machine Of The Black Queen (Medley) Rick Astley De Toppers, The (Live) (Medley) Secrets Mud (Medley) Burning Survivor That You Keep & Cat Heart & Eye Of The Crept In & Tiger Feet Tiger (Down 3 (Medley) Stand By Wynette, Tammy Semitones) Your Man & D-I-V-O- (Medley) Charley English, Michael R-C-E Pride (Medley) Stars Stars On 45 (Medley) Elton John De Toppers, The Sisters (Andrews (Medley) Full Monty (Duets) Williams, Sisters) Robbie & Tom Jones (Medley) Tainted Pussycat Dolls (Medley) Generation Dalida Love + Where Did 78 (French) Our Love Go (Medley) George De Toppers, The (Medley) Teddy Bear Richard, Cliff Michael, Wham (Live) & Too Much (Medley) Give Me Benson, George (Medley) Trini Lopez De Toppers, The The Night & Never (Live) Give Up On A Good (Medley) We Love De Toppers, The Thing The 90 S (Medley) Gold & Only Spandau Ballet (Medley) Y.M.C.A. -
Countrybreakout Chart Covering Secondary Radio Since 2002
COUNTRYBREAKOUT CHART COVERING SECONDARY RADIO SINCE 2002 Thursday, April 18, 2019 NEWS CHART ACTION New On The Chart —Debuting This Week CRB Reveals CRS Agenda song/artist/label—Chart Position Committee Members In Between/Scotty McCreery/Triple Tigers Records — 77 Wild/Katlyn Lowe/HK and J Records — 78 I Love The Lie/Kree Harrison/Visionary Records — 79 I Can Do Hard Things/Jennifer Nettles/Big Machine — 80 Greatest Spin Increase song/artist/label—Spin Increase Knockin' Boots/Luke Bryan/Capitol — 290 God's Country/Blake Shelton/Warner Bros. — 271 Mr. Lonely/Midland/Big Machine — 210 The Country Radio Broadcasters have announced the individuals who Look What God Gave Her/Thomas Rhett/Valory — 173 will serve on the 2019-2020 CRS Agenda Committee to plan for CRS Every Little Honky Tonk Bar/George Strait/MCA Nashville — 143 2020, set for Feb. 19-21. Agenda chair Judy Lakin will return for her Some Of It/Eric Church/EMI Records Nashville — 141 second year, and will guide segment leaders to steer key areas of Raised On Country/Chris Young/RCA Nashville — 117 educational curriculum, including radio, programming, digital, tech, streaming, label promotion, sales, and marketing. Click here to see the Somebody's Daughter/Tenille Townes/Columbia — 109 list. Most Added song/artist/label—No. of Adds Brantley Gilbert Announces Mr. Lonely/Midland/Big Machine — 11 Good Vibes/Chris Janson/Warner Bros. — 9 2019 Not Like Us Tour Good Lord/Abby Anderson/Black River Entertainment — 6 Family Tree/Caylee Hammack/Capitol — 6 Knockin' Boots/Luke Bryan/Capitol — 6 Somebody's Daughter/Tenille Townes/Columbia — 6 That'll Be the Day/Lucas Hoge/Forge Entertainment — 5 On Deck—Soon To Be Charting song/artist/label—No. -
ACM Preview with Pete Fisher PBS: Country Radio Has a Role
March 25, 2019, Issue 645 ACM Preview With Pete Fisher As Nashville prepares for Vegas and Vegas prepares to go country, Academy of Country Music CEO Pete Fisher details what can be expected of the 54th ACM Awards (4/7) and associat- ed events. CA: Host Reba McEntire has missed some appearances the last week or two fighting off an illness. Any concern for April 7? PF: Nothing of the sort. Vegas is a betting town, and I’m putting my money on her being there. She’s done an amazing job with the promotional work a host must undertake to help make a show like this successful. And she’s just the consummate pro – able to accomplish in a couple of hours what most Buzz Feed: Pearl’s Garth Brooks with KIIM/Tucson’s Buzz humans would take days to do. Jackson and family. Pictured (l-r) are wife Dena and daughter What are some of the highlights you’re Elizabeth, Brooks and Jackson. looking forward to on the telecast? We’re really excited about the way every- PBS: Country Radio Has A Role Pete Fisher thing has come together. We’re debuting a “Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of ... hate and death and brand new set, which we do every three to dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing. It covers a lot of five years. It looks great. Lineup wise, country music’s story is just territory, country music does.” Johnny Cash once summed up the so exciting this year. We’ve got Reba, new Hall of Famers Brooks whole of country music with that quote, which & Dunn, George Strait – real legends and icons – as well as the only moderately expounds upon the oft-quoted incredible stories happening with Luke Combs, Dan + Shay, Kane Harlan Howard’s description of our genre as Brown and Brandi Carlile. -
Cbochartdraft MASTER Copy
COUNTRYBREAKOUT CHART COVERING SECONDARY RADIO SINCE 2002 Thursday, June 20, 2019 NEWS CHART ACTION Luke Combs Places Five Tracks In Billboard’s New On The Chart —Debuting This Week song/artist/label—Chart Position Hot Country Songs Top 25 Dive Bar/Garth Brooks feat. Blake Shelton/Pearl Records — 38 One Man Band/Old Dominion/RCA Nashville — 61 Made In America/Tracy Lawrence/LMG — 74 We The People/Colt Ford/Average Joe's — 77 A Little Less Lonely/Marty Heddin/Nightlife Entertainment Group/ Dreamlined Entertainment Group — 78 Girls Of Summer/Pearl Clarkin/Bar Frog Music — 79 Greatest Spin Increase song/artist/label—Spin Increase Just a week after being invited to be the newest member of the Grand Dive Bar/Garth Brooks feat. Blake Shelton/Pearl Records — 572 Ole Opry, Luke Combs continues to break records by charting fve We Were/Keith Urban/Capitol — 297 tracks from his new EP, The Prequel, on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs Top Every Girl In This Town/Trisha Yearwood/Gwendolyn Records — 256 25—a feat not accomplished by any artist in since Johnny Cash in 1959. Beer Never Broke My Heart/Luke Combs/Columbia — 223 The tracks are also in the Top 10 of Billboard’s Country Songs Sales chart. One Man Band/Old Dominion/RCA Nashville — 171 Click here to read more. Day Drunk/Morgan Evans/Warner Bros./WMN/WEA — 161 Chase Rice To Kick Off AM/PM Tour This Fall Most Added song/artist/label—No. of Adds Dive Bar/Garth Brooks feat. Blake Shelton/Pearl Records — 38 Every Girl In This Town/Trisha Yearwood/Gwendolyn Records — 14 One Man Band/Old Dominion/RCA Nashville — 11 Day Drunk/Morgan Evans/Warner Bros./WMN/WEA — 9 Heartache Medication/Jon Pardi/Capitol — 8 There's A Beach Somewhere/Celeste Kellogg/Driving East Entertainment — 7 On Deck—Soon To Be Charting song/artist/label—No. -
BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE [email protected]
Country Update BILLBOARD.COM/NEWSLETTERS MARCH 25, 2019 | PAGE 1 OF 19 INSIDE BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE [email protected] Luke Combs’ ‘Crazy’ Milestone Jake Owen: ‘Greetings’ From >page 4 His Honky-Tonk Trip ACM Tabs New Artist Winners The chorus of Jake Owen’s current top 10 single, “Down to career journey, which has yielded 10 Country Airplay top 10 >page 9 the Honkytonk,” playfully discounts the importance of a spot titles, including seven No. 1s. Instead of the programmed in the Country Music Hall of Fame or on the Hollywood Walk drums and plug-in effects that are fairly standard in modern of Fame: “I might not go down in history/But I’ll go down to country, Owen drapes the album in guitars — biting honky- the honky-tonk.” tonk electrics, ringing acoustics and Paul Franklin’s tangy Brooks & Dunn So it’s ironic that “Down to the Honkytonk” went down in steel — and reconnects with the twang in his Florida-bred Build On Hall history by picking up an Academy of Country Music Award accent and the rich basement tones that dominated his >page 10 nomination for single of the year. (The 54th early recordings. annual event is scheduled for April 7 in Las “He’s a classic-country-song jukebox,” Vegas.) The timing was ideal, bringing him says producer Joey Moi (Florida Georgia attention as “Honkytonk” hits the home Line, Morgan Wallen). “He can sit there Maddie & Tae stretch in its chart climb (it’s at No. 10 on and play any old, old classic country song for On The Way the Country Airplay list dated March 30) and hours and hours and hours, and he sings in >page 10 as his first Big Loud album, Greetings From… this awesome, great baritone country voice, Jake, is released March 29. -
BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE [email protected]
Country Update BILLBOARD.COM/NEWSLETTERS SEPTEMBER 23, 2019 | PAGE 1 OF 23 INSIDE BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE [email protected] Bentley “Living” It Up On Chart Cody Johnson, “God’s Country” And The >page 4 Evolution Of The Classic Country Song Chuck Dauphin Remembered When the Nashville Songwriters Association International his second Warner Music Nashville album, Durango — owned >page 10 (NSAI) gave out its annual awards on Sept. 17, songwriter of by Howie Edelman — decided that throwing a party for some the year Josh Osborne (“Hotel Key,” “Kiss Somebody”) and of the old guard might familiarize them with Johnson’s music the trio that penned song of the year “Break Up in the End” — and inspire them to dig into their catalogs for the gems that Chase McGill, Jessie Jo Dillon and Jon Nite — claimed their never quite got cut. Brantley Gilbert’s trophies on the stage of the historic Ryman Auditorium. Durango A&R executive Scott Gunter specifically asked Tootsie’s Role But when Durango Management held a Sept. 18 event to for songs that were written before 2000, and by the next day, >page 12 find songs for untapped music Cody Johnson, and thankful those current notes were hitmakers were already rolling in Luke Bryan Switches not on the invite from the likes of It Up list. Instead, the Allen Shamblin >page 12 aptly named ( “ T h e H o u s e back-alley That Built Me”), h a n g o u t O l d Steve Bogard Makin’ Tracks: Glory filled up (“Carried Away”) Chris Young’s with writers such and Kerry Kurt as Mike Reid Phillips ( “ I “Drowning” STRAIT JOHNSON OSBORNE >page 17 (“Stranger in Don’t Need Your My House”), Jim Rockin’ Chair”), McBride (“Chattahoochee”), Michael P. -
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COUNTRYBREAKOUT CHART COVERING SECONDARY RADIO SINCE 2002 Thursday, June 27, 2019 NEWS CHART ACTION New On The Chart —Debuting This Week 31st Annual MusicRow Awards Winners song/artist/label—Chart Position April May/James Robert Webb/Bison Creek Records — 71 My One And Only Weakness/Cash Creek/Heartland Records Nashville — 77 Classic/Rachel Steele/Brick Road Records — 79 Jackpot/Arlene Quinn/Willow Sound — 80 Greatest Spin Increase song/artist/label—Spin Increase Dive Bar/Garth Brooks feat. Blake Shelton/Pearl Records — 472 We Were/Keith Urban/Capitol — 210 Every Girl In This Town/Trisha Yearwood/Gwendolyn Records — 191 What If I Never Get Over You/Lady Antebellum/BMLG — 164 I Don't Know About You/Chris Lane/Big Loud Records — 141 One Man Band/Old Dominion/RCA Nashville — 133 Heartache Medication/Jon Pardi/Capitol — 133 Rearview Town/Jason Aldean/Broken Bow — 132 MusicRow Magazine revealed the winners for the 31st annual MusicRow Most Added Awards Wednesday night (June 26) during a celebration at Nashville’s song/artist/label—No. of Adds War Memorial Auditorium. Dive Bar/Garth Brooks feat. Blake Shelton/Pearl Records — 22 All We Have/Rachel Reinert/Green Iris Records — 12 Winners were celebrated in 11 categories, honoring songwriters, Every Girl In This Town/Trisha Yearwood/Gwendolyn Records — 8 musicians, artists, producers, publishers, labels and talent agencies for Catch/Brett Young/BMLG — 8 their work over the past year. MusicRow Magazine Publisher/Owner One Man Band/Old Dominion/RCA Nashville — 8 Sherod Robertson co-hosted the evening alongside media personality Homemade/Jake Owen/Big Loud Records — 5 Alecia Davis.