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It’s ’s Campbells’ Soup: Craig Campbell The ‘Time’ >page 4 Artist Hires Craig Campbell The Publicist

Now See These: When his phone pinged several years ago, Campbell his first single, “What a Girl Will Make You Do,” on Feb. 12, re- Chesney, Midland, Entertainment Group founder Craig Campbell opened a text calling the home-life theme of his 2010 debut, “Family Man.” Clark from a number he didn’t recognize: “I’m coming home late “When people hear this song, they will know me,” the artist >page 9 from the studio. Will you pick says. “That had a lot to do with up some milk and bread on your picking this song.” way home?” For listeners within the busi- “Who is this?” he wrote back. ness, they also have to know Country Regroups “Mindy.” which Craig Campbell they’re >page 10 “Mindy who?” addressing. It’s not exactly “YOUR WIFE!” a new problem, though their That exchange was perhaps current working relationship a prelude to a new chapter in heightens the dynamic. In Grammys Tout Campbell’s professional life. the mid-2000s, Campbell the Country Women Mindy Campbell thought she new G. first found out about >page 10 was texting the artist Craig Campbell the O.G. while trying Campbell. Now the two men out for the USA Network show with the same name are work- Nashville Star. Judge Tracy Makin’ Tracks: ing together in a potentially Gershon told the artist that a Dan + Shay ‘Exist’ confusing manner: Music publicist was already working >page 14 journalists are receiving press with the same moniker. The releases about Craig Campbell two were destined to collide the artist from the address of as the new G. made a name for Craig Campbell the publicist. himself. Country Coda: Or, as the publicist likes to Artist Craig Campbell (left) enlisted publicist Craig “As I started singing demos Aldean, Clarkson’s call himself, Campbell the O.G. Campbell for a 2019 charity event before partnering and making my rounds musi- ‘’ Power “I’m the new G,” Campbell again to promote new music this year. cally, that’s when the confusion >page 17 the artist announces. started, because I think people The arrangement accompanies a new chapter in the artist’s were not distinguishing in their phones who was who,” the art- career. Following a stint at Broken Bow, he has relaunched as ist says. “So I’d get calls for him, he’d get calls for me. It was a an independent artist on his own Grindstone label. He released lot of fun for a while.” BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE MARCH 8, 2021 | PAGE 2 OF 17

There was, for example, the time the new G. received press guidelines from a fellow artist. “ called me one time. He said, ‘Look, I will do an audio interview. I will not do a video interview,’ just right out of the gate,” remembers Campbell the artist. “I said, ‘Who do you think this is?’ He said, ‘Who is this?’ I said, ‘This is Craig the singer.’ He said, ‘Oh, all right. I’ll call you later.’ And hung up.” Sometimes the singer has inadvertently received inside information. “Somebody called me about an artist who had gotten arrested in the middle of the night,” he notes. “I still have the voicemail, basically saying, ‘We need to cut this off, you know. We need to nip this in the bud before it gets too far Brad Paisley performed “Off Road” and discussed his ambitious food down the road, blah, blah, blah. Just wanted to give you the heads-up. When distribution charity, The Store, on March 4 on ABC’s The View, where you wake up in the morning, you’re probably going to hear about it.’ ” the hosts include Whoopi Goldberg. Along the way, the two Craig Campbells became friends, thanks in part to publisher Jimmy Metts, who lived next door to the publicist. When the artist became a regular on Lower Broadway, Metts talked the publicist into frequent visits to the club. “I would go down to The Stage downtown with Jimmy and listen to Craig play,” the O.G. says. “He’d be on the or he’d be on guitar, just all over the place, and I thought he was just so cool. He was so entertaining. I was work- ing at Sony [Music Nashville] at the time, and I tried to get A&R people to go down to The Stage and listen to him and never could get anyone to go down.” Campbell the publicist has, however, been able to get press coverage for art- ists through the years, and that’s the main reason the Campbells are linked up now. Campbell Entertainment currently represents , Gretchen Wilson and Skip Ewing, and his past associations include Patty Loveless, Dixie Chicks and . Campbell the artist knew what he was Eleven months after she donated $1 million to Vanderbilt University getting. Medical Center to assist with COVID-19 vaccine research, Dolly Parton “With this particular decision, I didn’t have to ask anybody,” the new G. received her first dose of the vaccine on March 2 from Vanderbilt says. “I knew that he was great.” Dr. Naji Abumrad. Since the artist doesn’t need tour press during the pandemic, he has hired the O.G. PR guy on an a la carte basis as he introduces new music into the mar- ketplace. The music comes with a story: In addition to the full-circle return to family-man themes, the Grindstone imprint overlaps with another business Campbell the artist is establishing with Mindy — Grindstone Cowboy, a cof- fee shop in Eagleville, Tenn., that they hope will eventually become a chain. The artist also hopes the Campbell/Campbell business relationship grows. “I’d like to get to a point where I can put him on retainer, like it should be, ’cause I know [a publicist’s] value,” the artist says. “I’m glad to have him on the team at the moment.” Part of being on the team in this case means being as transparent as possible to avoid confusion with media, particularly reporters who do not regularly cover country who may think they’re getting an email from the artist Craig Campbell as releases show up in their inbox. The Campbell Entertainment executive often signs his emails “Craig Campbell,” “Publicist” or “CC O.G.” Hailey Whitters (right) discussed her new , Living the Dream, on “I’ll have to be really careful when I do make those pitches and emphasize the March 5 edition of the Apple Music Country show Today’s Country that I’m his publicist,” the O.G. says. “And that I’m not his dad.” Radio With Kelleigh Bannen.

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ONBILLBOARD THE CHARTS COUNTRY JIM ASKER UPDATE [email protected] MARCH 8, 2021 | PAGE 4 OF 17 ON STHEa CHARTSmH JIMunt ASKER’ [email protected] Southside Rules Top Country ;Niko Brett Moon Young Having ‘Catc Ah ‘Good’-es Fifth Time’ Airplay Leader;Atop Travis Hot Country Denning Songs Makes And History Charts Sam Hunt’s second studio full-length, and first in over five years, Southside sales (up 21%) in the tracking week. On Country Airplay, it hops 18-15 (11.9 mil- (MCA Nashville/ Nashville), debuts at No. 1 on Billboard’s lion audience impressions, up 16%). TopNiko Country Moon Albums’s debut chart single dated as a recording April 18. artist, In its “Goodfirst week Time” (ending (RCA Nashville),April 9), it first to reach . This week, it enters the top 20 (22-20; earnedsimultaneously 46,000 equivalent ascends toalbum No. 1 units, on Billboard including’s airplay-, 16,000 sales- in album and streaming- sales, ac- TRY7,000 TO equivalent ‘CATCH’ albumUP WITH units, YOUNG up 7%). Brett Youngachieves his fifth consecutive cordingbased to Hot Nielsen /MRC Songs chart Data. and Country Airplay, both dated March 13. and total Country Airplay No. 1 as “Catch” (Big Machine Label Group) ascends SouthsideThe track marks jumps Hunt’s 3-1 on second Hot Country No. 1 on Songs the and 5-1 on Country Airplay, ‘ONES’ IS 10 Gabby Barrett2-1, notches increasing her second 13% to career-opening 36.6 million impressions. Country chartcrowning and fourth the latter top 10. list It with follows a 16% freshman gain to 28.9 LP million audience impressions Airplay top 10 as “The Good Ones”Young’s (Warner first Musicof six chart Nashville/WAR) entries, “Sleep rises With - Montevalloin the week, which ending arrived March at 7,the according summit into MRCNo - Data. 11-9 (13.4 million impressions,out upYou,” 8%). reached The song, No. which 2 in December Barrett co-wrote, 2016. He vemberIn 2014 the week and reignedending March for nine 4, weeks.“Good Time”To date, gained by 6% to 9.3 million U.S. follows her launch crossover hit,followed “I Hope.” with That the multiweektune led Country No. 1s Airplay“In Case for You Montevallostreams. has It lifts earned 4-1 on 3.9 Country million Streaming units, with Songs, 1.4 award- a week inDidn’t April Know” and reigned (two weeks, on Hot June Country 2017), “Like Songs I Lovedfor millioning Moon in album his first sales. chart-topper on the ranking. The song 26 weeksYou” through (three, the January chart 2018),dated March“Mercy” 6. (two,Her latest August Montevalloalso sold 4,000 has spent downloads 267 weeks (up on 8%) the in list, that tying span. pushes 2018)9-6 on and the “Here chart, Tonight” with 8.3 (two,million April streams 2019). (up Luke BryanMoon’s co-wroteCrash My Party “Good as the Time” sixth-longest- with his wife, 36%) and “Catch”4,000 sold completes in the tracking his longest week. journey to No. 1, runningAnna titles Moon in ;the Jordan chart’s Minton 56-year; history.Joshua Murty; and having taken 46 weeks to reach the apex. It out- Mark Trussell ‘DRUNK’ DIALS UP DEBUT Elle King Miranda On the all-genre. , Southside ar- paces the 30-week climb of “Here and Tonight.” “I want to give a big, big thank-you to everyone who Lambert’s “Drunk (And I Don’t Wanna Go Home)” rives at No. 5, awarding Hunt his second top 10 On , “Catch” pushes 7-5 for has believed in me and believed in ‘Good Time’,” MoonHUNT YOUNG (RCA) enters Hot Country Songs at No. 21. The col- after the No. 3-peaking Montevallo. a new high. happily tells Billboard. “I also want to thank country laboration, released Feb. 26, sold 14,000 downloads in Hunt first released the EPX2C , which debuted radio and streaming platforms for allowing me to con- its opening week and begins at No. 1 on Country Digital and peaked at No. 5 on Top Country Albums in August 2014. Following COMBS ‘DOES’ IT AGAIN Luke Combs’ “Does to Me” (River House/Columbia nect with all of their amazing country music fans. This Song Sales, becoming King’s first leader and Lambert’s Montevallofirst No., 1Between has been the a dreamPines: Acousticof mine for Mixtape a really started long at its No. 7 high in Nashville), featuring Ericthird. Church “Drunk”, ascends also collected 11-8 on Country 2.5 million Airplay, streams up 10% in to Novembertime. I love 2015. connecting with people and I’ve always 24.7 million in audience.its first The frame. song is Combs’ eighth straight career-opening Montevallowanted to be produced able to do five it with singles, country four music, of which and hit y’all the pinnacle of Country top 10, following a recordKing run matches of seven her consecutive best debut out-of-the-gate, on Hot Country Songs, properly Airplay:have made“Leave that the possible. Night On,” From “Take the bottom Your Time,” of my heart,“House Party” and “Make promoted No. 1 singles.as ’s “Different for Girls,” on which she’s Youthank Miss Me.”you all!” “Break Up in a Small Town” peaked at No. 2. Church adds his 15thfeatured, Country also Airplay opened top 10.at No. 21 in June 2016 before HuntMoon’s co-penned simultaneous all 12 songs takeover on Southside atop Hot, includingCountry “Body Like a Back peaking at No. 3 that September. It ruled Country Air- MOON Road,”Songs which and wasCountry released Airplay in 2017. marks The the smash second hit within ruled Country Airplay for THAT TOOK QUITE ‘Aplay FEW’ that MONTHS October. Travis Denning shatters the record for threetwo weeks months, and since the airplay-, Luke Combs streaming-’ “Better and Together” sales-based hit Hot Country Songs the most weeks it has takenKing to broke penetrate through the withCountry her blues-popAirplay top hit 10 “Ex’s as “After & chartthe for summit a then-record of both charts 34 frames. dated It Feb. now 6. ranks Among second debut only singles, to Bebe Moon Rexha achieves and aOh’s,” Few” which (Mercury reached Nashville) No. 10 climbs on the 12-10Billboard in its Hot 57th 100 week, in 2015. up 4% The to song21.4 milis - Floridathe first Georgia such twofer Line’s since “Meant Nov. to 15, Be” 2014, (50 weeks when Samatop Huntthe latter’s “Leave list in the 2017-18). Night” lionher firstin radio of five reach. top 10s on Adult Alternative Airplay so far; her latest, “The “Downtown’stopped both tallies. Dead,” which is also on the new set, reached Nos. 14 and 15 LetThe Go,” song hit No.surpasses 4 in November. two tracks that took 50 weeks each to enter the top 10: on HotMoon, Country who Songs was born and in Country Tyler, Texas, Airplay, initially respectively, achieved success in June as a2018. - “Kin- Easton“Drunk” Corbin marks’s “A Lambert’s Girl Like You,” third-highest which reached start onNo. Hot 10 inCountry January Songs, 2018 be - folks”producer led Country before signingAirplay to on RCA Feb. Nashville 29, becoming as a recording Hunt’s seventhartist in 2019. No. 1. He It hit has forefollowing peaking “Vice,” at No. which 6 that debutedFebruary, and and peaked Aaron at Watson No. 2 in’s August “Outta Style,”2016, and which No.co-penned 3 on Hot Country three Zac Songs. Brown Band Country Airplay No. 1s: “Keep Me in Mind” achieved“Somethin’ its Bad,”No. 10 with high Carrie in December Underwood 2017., which launched at No. 5 in June

Latest(2011), single “Homegrown” “Hard to Forget”and “Loving jumps You 17-9 Easy” on (bothHot Country in 2015). Songs. It’s his 2014“After” and checkedis Denning’s into the second penthouse Country that Airplay July. The entry. latter “David is Lambert’s Ashley fifthParker IMAGES KEMPIN/GETTY JASON “Good Time” is the title-track lead single from Moon’s four-song EP, his and most recent leader. eighth top 10, having corralled 8.2 million U.S. streams (up 96%) and 5,000 in From Powder Springs” traveled to No. 32 in September 2018. ETHAN MICHAEL YOUNG: VIA MARTIN/NHLI GETTY HUNT: IMAGES. IMAGES MILLER/GETTY

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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 5 47 GOOD TIME RCA Nashville HH No. 1 (1 Week)/Most Increased Audience HH Niko Moon 28.949 +3.954 7819 759 1 l2 2 42 JUST THE WAY Stoney Creek Parmalee x Blanco Brown 28.709 +0.918 7708 235 2 3 1 21 DOWN TO ONE Capitol Nashville 26.710 -3.079 6789 -950 4 l4 4 17 WHAT’S YOUR COUNTRY SONG Valory  26.466 +1.061 6953 496 3 5 3 23 BETTER TOGETHER River House/Columbia Nashville Luke Combs 25.364 -0.952 6411 -242 5 l6 7 45 LADY BMLG  Brett Young 22.734 +2.610 5889 583 6 l7 8 26 LONG LIVE BMLG  21.268 +1.110 5686 397 7 l8 9 28 STARTING OVER Mercury Nashville Chris Stapleton 19.472 +0.322 5616 20 8 l9 11 39 THE GOOD ONES Warner Music Nashville/WAR Gabby Barrett 18.381 +1.348 5102 225 9 l10 10 55 MOMMA’S HOUSE Broken Bow 18.246 +1.078 5001 303 10 l11 12 56 SOMEBODY LIKE THAT 19th & Grand Tenille Arts 15.728 +0.768 4517 220 11 l12 13 38 HOW THEY REMEMBER YOU Big Machine 14.498 +0.382 4280 111 12 l13 15 42 MADE FOR YOU Big Loud Jake Owen 14.231 +1.551 4015 212 13 l14 14 46 NOBODY Curb  Dylan Scott 13.744 +0.874 3975 106 14 l15 16 18 HELL OF A VIEW EMI Nashville Eric Church 11.838 +0.409 3566 98 16 l16 17 40 ALMOST MAYBES MCA Nashville Jordan Davis 11.435 +0.455 3597 62 15 l17 19 22 BREAKING UP WAS EASY IN THE 90’S MCA Nashville Sam Hunt 10.882 +1.543 3319 288 17 l18 18 8 UNDIVIDED McGraw/BMLG/Big Machine Tim McGraw & 10.260 +0.210 2897 -41 19 l19 20 24 ONE TOO MANY Hit Red/Capitol Nashville Keith Urban Duet With P!nk 9.395 +0.350 3005 55 18 l20 22 20 GONE Capitol Nashville HH Airpower HH Dierks Bentley 8.847 +1.015 2766 150 20 l21 21 8 MINIMUM WAGE Warner Music Nashville/WMN 8.492 +0.678 2615 136 21 l22 23 24 SETTLING DOWN Vanner/RCA Nashville 7.643 +0.196 2604 47 22 l23 24 17 BLAME IT ON YOU Macon/Broken Bow 7.060 +0.218 2245 146 24 l24 27 36 Warner Music Nashville/WMN 6.138 +1.042 2109 280 26 l25 26 14 FAMOUS FRIENDS RCA Nashville + Kane Brown 6.120 +0.596 2022 139 28 l26 25 42 ALL NIGHT EMI Nashville Brothers Osborne 5.951 +0.088 2546 49 23 l27 28 5 GLAD YOU EXIST Warner Music Nashville/WAR Dan + Shay 5.409 +0.373 1914 107 29 l28 29 20 WE DIDN’T HAVE MUCH Valory  Justin Moore 4.969 +0.336 1719 84 30 l29 31 24 NEXT GIRL Big Machine Carly Pearce 4.876 +0.464 2199 230 25 l30 30 38 HARD DAYS Valory  Brantley Gilbert 4.843 +0.231 2043 36 27

COUNTRY AIRPLAY CHART LEGEND

RANKINGS audience does not exceed are not still gaining enough MOST INCREASED AUDIENCE Country Airplay is ranked by the percentage of monitored audience points to bullet or if Most Increased Audience on total audience impressions station downtime for the they rank below No. 10 and Country Airplay lists the songs for the week ending Sunday format. Titles that decline post a third consecutive week with the greatest week-to-week based on monitored airplay in audience but increase in of (non-bulleted) audience increases in total audience. of 148 stations by MRC detections will also receive decline, regardless of total Data. Audience totals on the a bullet if the total audience chart weeks. AIRPOWER chart are derived, in part, erosion for the week does not Awarded on Country Airplay to using certain Nielsen Audio- exceed 3%. HOT SHOT DEBUT titles ranking inside top 20 in copyrighted Persons 12+ Awarded to the highest-ranking plays and audience rankings for audience estimates (under TIES new entry on Country Airplay. the first time, with increases in license © 2021, Nielsen Audio). On Country Airplay, if two both plays and audience. The list of all Country Airplay songs are tied in total MOST ADDED chart reporters can be viewed audience, the song with the The total number of new adds BREAKER on MRC Data’s platforms. larger increase in audience is officially reported to Billboard Awarded on Country Airplay placed first. by each reporting station, or to titles achieving airplay (at BULLETS by an automatic-add threshold least one detection) at 60% of l Awarded on Country Airplay RECURRENTS (seven plays for the first time reporting stations for the first to titles gaining audience On Country Airplay, descending in a chart tracking week, time. or remaining flat from the titles below No. 10 in either according to MRC Data) for previous week. A song audience or detections are stations that do not report © 2021 Billboard Media, LLC will also receive a bullet moved to recurrent after 20 adds. if its percentage loss in weeks, provided that they BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE MARCH 8, 2021 | PAGE 7 OF 17

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 32 22 MY BOY Wheelhouse  Elvie Shane 2.992 +0.080 1218 -12 34 l32 33 33 WINE, BEER, WHISKEY Capitol Nashville Little Big Town 2.905 +0.018 1333 4 31 l33 37 14 DRINKIN’ BEER. TALKIN’ GOD. AMEN. Dack Janiels/BMLG/Broken Bow Chase Rice Featuring Florida Georgia Line 2.717 +0.522 1221 169 33 l34 34 26 DEAR RODEO CoJo/Warner Music Nashville/WMN Cody Johnson & Reba McEntire 2.692 +0.083 544 11 50 l35 43 8 FOREVER AFTER ALL River House/Columbia Nashville Luke Combs 2.499 +0.739 724 237 40 l36 39 18 YOU TIME Triple Tigers Scotty McCreery 2.392 +0.342 1229 124 32 l37 35 19 WORSHIP YOU RCA Nashville Kane Brown 2.374 +0.056 117 9 -2 35 l38 36 24 JUST ABOUT OVER YOU inDent/Mercury Nashville Priscilla Block 2.275 +0.051 912 8 38 l39 38 13 SHALLOW Pearl  Garth Brooks & Trisha Yearwood 2.221 +0.153 969 31 37 l40 42 18 MEMORY I DON’T MESS WITH Curb  Lee Brice 1.967 +0.064 1001 47 36 l41 44 13 COLD BEER CALLING MY NAME Combustion/River House/Columbia Nashville Jameson Rodgers Featuring Luke Combs 1.889 +0.310 662 32 47 l42 41 7 Capitol Nashville 1.870 -0.046 625 28 48 l43 46 15 LADY LIKE Atlantic/Warner Music Nashville/WEA Ingrid Andress 1.694 +0.291 687 75 45 l44 48 7 HOME SWEET Triple Tigers Russell Dickerson 1.513 +0.236 618 54 49 l45 54 11 THINGS A MAN OUGHTA KNOW Broken Bow HH Most Added/Breaker HH Lainey Wilson 1.448 +0.600 817 270 39 l46 47 3 I CAN’T Monument  Caitlyn Smith Featuring Old Dominion 1.399 +0.034 349 50 56 47 45 29 WHAT DO I KNOW Arista Nashville Robert Counts 1.294 -0.106 702 -71 42 l48 50 6 FREEDOM WAS A HIGHWAY Stoney Creek Jimmie Allen & Brad Paisley 1.245 +0.190 706 46 41 l49 60 2 CHASING AFTER YOU Arista Nashville Ryan Hurd With Maren Morris 1.208 +0.586 314 101 59 l50 49 20 WHISKEY AND RAIN Warner Music Nashville/WEA Michael Ray 1.134 +0.013 688 11 44 l51 52 25 BEERS TO CATCH UP ON Wheelhouse  LOCASH 1.106 +0.113 673 -10 46 l52 53 14 HEAVEN ON DIRT Monument  Teddy Robb 1.061 +0.132 700 44 43 l53 NEW GETTING OVER HIM 19/Mercury Nashville HH Hot Shot Debut HH Duet With Jon Pardi 0.874 +0.493 345 120 57 l54 NEW GIVE HEAVEN SOME HELL Big Loud HARDY 0.808 +0.160 482 45 51 l55 RE-ENTRY IF IT WASN’T FOR TRUCKS BMLG  Riley Green 0.800 +0.167 472 28 52 l56 55 3 TO BE LOVED BY YOU MCA Nashville Parker McCollum 0.800 +0.014 322 40 58 57 59 6 NEED A BAR SOMETIMES Show Dog Nashville Clay Walker 0.716 -0.074 444 3 53 l58 58 14 WHERE I FIND GOD Big Loud Larry Fleet 0.705 +0.016 403 -6 54 59 57 14 WANT ME BACK Stoney Creek Lindsay Ell 0.640 -0.060 386 -33 55 l60 NEW THAT AIN’T ME NO MORE RECORDS/Arista Nashville Matt Stell 0.598 +0.273 291 98 60

GOING FOR ADDS

3/15 3/29 CALLISTA CLARK Knowing You It’s ‘Cause I Am Blue Chair/Warner Music Nashville/Wea Big Machine LADY A SHENANDOAH & BLAKE Like A Lady SHELTON BMLG Then A Girl Walks In Not Listed QUEEVA Show Off Not Listed

3/22 20 RYAN HURD W/ MAREN MORRIS The track enters the Country Airplay chart’s Chasing After You top 20, climbing 22-20, up 13% to 8.8 million Arista Nashville impressions. Bentley earns his 27th top 20 DIERKS BENTLEY hit; 25 have reached the top 10 and 17 have Gone gone on to No. 1. CLARK FORD FAIRCHILD FORD

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AIRPLAY Country Airplay MONITORED BY

MOST ADDED® NEW AND ACTIVE TITLE Imprint/Label Artist ADDS TOTAL TOTAL THINGS A MAN OUGHTA KNOW Broken Bow Lainey Wilson 24 TITLE Imprint/Label Artist AUDIENCE STATIONS ADDS CHASING AFTER YOU Arista Nashville Ryan Hurd With Maren Morris 21 MARTHA DIVINE Warner Music Nashville/WMN Ashley McBryde 0.412 26 1 GETTING OVER HIM 19/Mercury Nashville Lauren Alaina Duet With Jon Pardi 10 COMPASSION Common Exchange Brittney Spencer 0.301 0 0 BLAME IT ON YOU Macon/Broken Bow Jason Aldean 9 VILLAIN Back Block/Republic/Big Loud Lily Rose 0.279 2 0 GLAD YOU EXIST Warner Music Nashville/WAR Dan + Shay 9 FOREVER AFTER ALL River House/Columbia Nashville Luke Combs 9 GOOD DAY (2021) Warner Music Nashville/WMN Brett Eldredge 0.221 5 4 THAT AIN’T ME NO MORE RECORDS/Arista Nashville Matt Stell 8 ABBY Mercury Nashville Travis Denning 0.213 1 0 FAMOUS FRIENDS RCA Nashville Chris Young & Kane Brown 6 JUST FRIENDS Capitol Nashville Caylee Hammack 0.201 23 4 SHALLOW Pearl Garth Brooks & Trisha Yearwood 6 HOME SWEET Triple Tigers Russell Dickerson 6 RECURRENTS MOST INCREASED AUDIENCE THIS TOTAL AUD. WEEK TITLE Imprint/Label Artist (IN MILLIONS) GAIN 1 ONE OF THEM GIRLS Curb Lee Brice 19.513 TITLE Imprint/Label Artist (IN MIILIONS) 2 BEERS AND SUNSHINE Capitol Nashville Darius Rucker 17.195 GOOD TIME RCA Nashville Niko Moon +3.954 LADY BMLG Brett Young +2.610 3 LOVE YOU LIKE I USED TO Triple Tigers Russell Dickerson 17.155 MADE FOR YOU Big Loud Jake Owen +1.551 4 BIG, BIG PLANS Big Loud  13.003 BREAKING UP WAS EASY IN THE 90’S MCA Nashville Sam Hunt +1.544 5 HAPPY ANYWHERE Warner Music Nashville/WMN Blake Shelton Featuring 12.074 THE GOOD ONES Warner Music Nashville/WAR Gabby Barrett +1.348 6 I HOPE Warner Music Nashville/WAR Gabby Barrett 11.802 LONG LIVE BMLG Florida Georgia Line +1.110 7 THE BONES Columbia Nashville Maren Morris 9.004 MOMMA’S HOUSE Broken Bow Dustin Lynch +1.078 8 LOVIN’ ON YOU River House/Columbia Nashville Luke Combs 8.975 WHAT’S YOUR COUNTRY SONG Valory Thomas Rhett +1.061 9 SOME GIRLS Combustion/River House/Columbia Nashville Jameson Rodgers 7.843 SINGLE SATURDAY NIGHT Warner Music Nashville/WMN Cole Swindell +1.042 GONE Capitol Nashville Dierks Bentley +1.015 10 GOT Macon/Broken Bow Jason Aldean 7.636 MOST INCREASED PLAYS TITLE Imprint/Label Artist GAIN GOOD TIME RCA Nashville Niko Moon +759 LADY BMLG Brett Young +583 WHAT’S YOUR COUNTRY SONG Valory Thomas Rhett +496 LONG LIVE BMLG Florida Georgia Line +397 MOMMA’S HOUSE Broken Bow Dustin Lynch +303 BREAKING UP WAS EASY IN THE 90’S MCA Nashville Sam Hunt +288 SINGLE SATURDAY NIGHT Warner Music Nashville/WMN Cole Swindell +280 THINGS A MAN OUGHTA KNOW Broken Bow Lainey Wilson +270 FOREVER AFTER ALL River House/Columbia Nashville Luke Combs +237 JUST THE WAY Stoney Creek Parmalee x Blanco Brown +235 YOUNG LANE YOUNG: SETH KUPERSMITH, LANE: RANDY SHAFFER RANDY LANE: KUPERSMITH, SETH YOUNG: TEXAS REGIONAL RADIO REPORT WEEK ENDING MARCH 7, 2021

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 2 21 OLD SCHOOL (Independent) HH 1 Week at 1 HH David Adam Byrnes 2217 353 l11 13 16 FULL-TIME FOOL (Independent)  The Stateline Band 119 5 72 l2 3 15 CALLIN’ ALL HEARTS (Independent)  Terry McBride 1893 77 l12 15 20 COWBOY’S DAUGHTER (Independent)  Scotty Alexander 113 4 14 l3 4 28 MISSIN’ YOU, MISSISSIPPI (Independent)  Dustin Sonnier 1892 109 13 6 17 SILVERADO SATURDAY NIGHT (BIG Label )  Aaron Watson 112 9 -479 l4 5 17 OUTSIDE LOOKIN IN (Little Red Truck)  Deryl Dodd 1670 49 l14 22 19 RECKLESS (Independent)  Cross Rags and Young 1020 141 l5 7 20 HONKY TONK IN HEAVEN (Independent)  Kin Faux 1598 90 l15 17 14 WINE WON’T WORK (Independent)  Ariel Hutchins 1007 82 l6 8 15 BRINGING COUNTRY BACK (King Hall Music)  Chad Cooke Band 1541 91 l16 16 19 THE TRUTH (Independent)  Cody Hibbard 978 51 l7 9 17 I WILL (Independent)  Darrin Morris Band 1435 21 l17 18 7 I HOPE I’M HOLDING YOU (Independent)  Mark Powell 976 60 8 1 19 DEVIL’S RED HOT SAUCE (Independent)  James Lann 1398 -720 l18 23 8 BETTER BY THE BEER (Independent)  Jake Bush 940 103 l9 12 8 SETTLE ME DOWN (Independent)  Josh Abbott Band 1289 140 l19 21 19 FINGERS AND THUMBS (Independent)  Teague Brothers Band 934 50 l10 11 12 LOST IN A KISS (Independent)  George Navarro 119 6 43 l20 20 14 I BLEED (Dean Dillon’s Wildcatter )  Sundance Head 905 20

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 972-252-8777. Copyright 2021, Texas Regional Radio Report BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE MARCH 8, 2021 | PAGE 9 OF 17

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Paul director of sales … Adams Radio/ Salisbury-Ocean City, Md., hired Aaron “Goose” Seller as operations manager for the five-station cluster, including country WUSX. He arrives after a stint as Sound Management/ South Bend, Ind., operations man- ager … CKRY , , morn- ing co-host Robyn Adair plans to re- tire at the end of April after 32 years at the station, RadioInk.com re- ported … WNAW-AM Pittsfield-North Adams, Mass., flipped to country from adult contemporary, according to Tenille Arts (left) and producer RadioInsight.com, simulcasting on FM Alex Kline took a moment to Jordan Davis and What’s Eating America host Andrew Zimmern via a new translator. Rich Whitman, recognize International Women’s appeared March 4 on the Outdoor Channel’s Outdoors Adventures. who handles afternoons at adult con- Day on March 8 as Arts’ single, From left: co-host Mitch Petrie, Zimmern, Davis and co-hosts Mary temporary sister WBEC-FM, will also “Somebody Like That,” moved O’Neill Phillips and Zach Phillips. host WNAW’s morning show. Dave Fi- to No. 11 on Country Airplay, erro shifts to afternoons from morn- extending the success of an ultra- COUNTRY HEADS TO TV, DOCS, BOXES ings, while former weekend talent rare occurrence: a song by a solo Country music is coming to a screen, large or small, near you. Ryan Pause takes over middays … BBC country female artist produced by A load of projects and appearances are teed up for country acts in the near Radio 2’s The Country Show With Bob a solo female. future on film or TV, including a couple of documentaries, a DVD box set and Harris features a one-hour special edi- a video getting a movie-like marketing effort. Kenny Chesney, Midland and tion in conjunction with the Country the late Guy Clark are all part of the barrage as the genre finds ways to connect Music Association on March 11. An via visual platforms with fans at a time when extension of the CMA in-person concerts are limited. Series, the lineup includes Cam, Here’s a rundown of some of those visual Brett Young, Ashley McBryde and efforts: Shy Carter. • Midland: The Sonic Ranch captures the pre-stardom formation of Mark Wystrach, ’ROUND THE ROW Cameron Duddy and Jess Carson, whose trio Shannon Leigh (Turbeville) Keenan came together through an unplanned meetup returns to Triple 7 Public Relations to at Duddy’s wedding and sessions at an El serve as vp of the Nashville division. Paso, Texas, studio. A documentary debuts on A Triple 7 staff member from 2010- CMT on March 19, the same day that a 12-cut 2016, Keenan worked in the interim soundtrack will be released. as Turbeville Insurance director • Six virtual screenings of Without Getting of marketing and public relations, Killed or Caught, a documentary about Clark, overseeing the messaging for five are set for March 23-April 25, following the South Carolina locations … Tennessee- Songs From the Cellar had its CHESNEY ALLISTER ANN ALLISTER film’s premiere on March 18 at the South by based event manager Gabriel Vasquez season premiere on March 4 Southwest Film Festival. Each of the new and video director Roman White on the Grand Ole Opry’s Circle screenings includes a discussion with one or more guests, such as Rodney formed Rove Productions and signed network with host Crowell or Kix Brooks. Go here for details. with UTA. The company’s first project (left). Among this season’s • Time Life has assembled a 10-DVD set, Austin City Limits Country, featur- — A Week Away, filmed in Nashville — guests is Old Dominion frontman ing 164 live performances from the PBS series’ four-decade history. Among debuts March 26 on Netflix … Singer- Matthew Ramsey. the acts represented are George Strait, Tim McGraw, Alison Krauss & Union songwriter Alana Springsteen signed Station, Dolly Parton and Willie Nelson. a joint management deal with Morris • Chesney’s video for “Knowing You” is being treated as a film release, Higham and Scooter Braun’s SB with a trailer already running in advance of its March 12 premiere on CMT Projects. Her first release under the platforms, including the Viacom Times Square billboard. Warner Music new arrangement is “Trying Not Nashville has backed the campaign by mailing “Knowing You” movie posters To,” a collaboration with Roman to media and partners. Alexander, due March 19 … The • Shy Carter’s “Good Love” is being used as the promotional music for the Grammy Awards Premiere Ceremony, Hallmark Channel’s Spring Fling series of seven March movies. Carter is also on a pre-telecast event in which the bulk board to perform the song on March 12 during the third hour of NBC’s Today. of the evening’s winners are revealed, • Levi Hummon will also perform March 12, on NBC’s follow-up talk show, will be livestreamed at 2 p.m. CT on Today With Hoda & Jenna. March 14 at Grammy.com … The Grammy Museum launched a RADIO & RECORDS® Grammy Week Auction on March 8 Singer-songwriter Brian Callihan signed a recording deal on Feb. 25 with with prize packages and signed Reviver … Entercom/Miami named Claudia Menegus the market manager, memorabilia from artists of multiple Scotty McCreery’s “You Time” giving her oversight of country WKIS. The post adds to her existing role as re- genres, including country figures video played multiple times on gional president of Gainesville, Memphis, Miami and Orlando … Townsquare/ Ashley McBryde, Brandi Carlile, the CMT billboard in New York’s Faribault-Owatonna, Minn., added market president Tom Kreutzian. He spent Tanya Tucker and Brantley Gilbert. Times Square on Feb. 27, the day nearly two decades with Spectrum Reach, most recently as Minneapolis-St. Go here to bid through March 23. of its release. BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE MARCH 8, 2021 | PAGE 10 OF 17

NASHVILLE & NATIONAL TOM ROLAND

MUSIC NOTES ON THIS DATE IN COUNTRY MUSIC

Time to regroup! Three country ensembles with roots in the ’90s created a March 9 flurry of activity on successive days last week. It started on March 3, when • 2018 — Kane Brown begins writing “Home- singer-songwriter Terry McBride, guitarist Ray Herndon and drummer Billy sick” on his tour bus outside Coyote Joe’s in Thomas announced they had re-formed McBride & The Ride. On March 4, Charlotte, N.C., with Brock Berryhill, Mat- Richie McDonald departed for the second time. (He went solo from thew McGinn and Taylor Phillips. 2008-2011.) McDonald will devote his • 1976 — has a star en- time to The Frontmen of Country Music, tered in the Hollywood Walk of Fame, BROWN which teams him with right next to Humphrey Bogart’s, at LLANES JOSEPH lead singer Larry Stewart and former 6320 Hollywood Blvd. Little Texas member . On March 5, Lonestar officially replaced Mc- March 10 Donald with Drew Womack, who was a • 2011 — Riders in the Sky perform a welcoming concert for the re- founding member of the ’90s band Sons turning crew of the Space Shuttle Discovery at Ellington Airport of the Desert. in Houston. • 2001 — Diamond Rio takes “One More Day” to No. 1 on the Bill- Country’s women may get short shrift board Hot Country Songs chart. on many platforms, but they will be the genre’s focus at the 63rd annual Grammy March 11 Awards on March 14. Four country acts • 2019 — The third nightclub in the Ole Red chain, named after the were announced as performers on the Blake Shelton hit, opens in Gatlinburg, Tenn. Grand-opening week McBRIDE CBS broadcast, and all of them are fe- DENTON LEE JASON is branded Spring Blake. males: Mickey Guyton, Maren Morris, • 1981 — Epic releases ’ remake of Lester Flatt & Earl Brandi Carlile and Miranda Lambert. Additionally, — whose Scruggs’ “Don’t Get Above Your Raising,” Skaggs’ first single for “Love Story (Taylor’s Version)” topped the Feb. 27 Hot Country Songs chart the label. — is a part of the night’s lineup. March 12 Thomas Rhett has put the COVID-19 era to good use — in addition to family • 1991 — Garth Brooks records the Billy Joel-written “Shameless” time, he has compiled a big backlog of creative work, enough to fill two albums. at Jack’s Tracks in Nashville. The first half of a double-disc set, Country Again: Side A, will arrive April 30, with Rhett having co-written all 11 tracks. Other newly announced projects March 13 on the way include Brett Kissel’s What Is Life?, due April 9; Miles Gannett’s • 2020 — Sturgill Simpson visits a hospital emergency room with chest Meridian, April 16; the Jack Ingram, Miranda Lambert, and Jon Randall col- pains, a fever and a spike in blood pressure. The doctor declines to laboration The Marfa Tapes, May 7; and Mark Collie’s Book of My Blues, June 4. test him for COVID-19, saying he does not fit the profile. Simpson is eventually diagnosed with the coronavirus. Miranda Lambert’s trademark pink highlights will make their way into Casa Rosa, a Nashville bar that’s opening this summer with Lambert’s name on it. A March 14 “Pink House” will feature select pieces of memorabilia from her career, includ- • 2017 — Brothers Osborne is named new vocal duo or group of the ing a rhinestone saddle, clothing and the birdcage used in her “Bluebird” video. year by the , 19 days before the 52nd an- Tufted pink booths will also be part of the décor as she makes Tex-Mex cuisine nual ceremony. Maren Morris is crowned new female vocalist, and a part of the experience. Partner TC Restaurant Group is also involved with Jon Pardi takes new male. area bars named for Jason Aldean, Luke Bryan and Florida Georgia Line. March 15 • 2008 — Randy Travis invites to join the Grand Top Headlines from .com Ole Opry, moments after she performs his song “I Told You So” on Click on headlines below for more details the show. Travis then sings “Forever and Ever, Amen.” • 2005 — Epic releases Miranda Lambert’s first major-label album, Kerosene. To Incorporate Facebook Music Video Streams Source: RolandNote.com, the Ultimate Country Music Database

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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 HH HH 1 3 4 40 GOOD TIME No. 1 (1 Week)/Airplay Gainer Niko Moon 1 1 l N.MOON,J.MURTY (N.MOON,J.MINTON,A.MOON,J.MURTY,M.TRUSSELL) RCA NASHVILLE 2 1 2 97 I HOPE Gabby Barrett RC 1 R.COPPERMAN,Z.KALE (Z.KALE,J.M.NITE,G.BARRETT) WARNER MUSIC NASHVILLE/WAR 3 2 3 39 BETTER TOGETHER Luke Combs 5 1 S.MOFFATT (L.COMBS,D.ISBELL,R.MONTANA) RIVER HOUSE/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE JUST THE WAY 4 4 6 55 Parmalee x Blanco Brown 2 4 l D.FANNING (M.THOMAS,K.BARD,N.W.SIPE) STONEY CREEK DOWN TO ONE 5 5 8 20 Luke Bryan 3 5 l J.STEVENS,J.STEVENS (K.FISHMAN,D.DAVIDSON,J.EBACH) CAPITOL NASHVILLE HH HH 6 9 12 37 THE GOOD ONES Streaming Gainer Gabby Barrett 9 6 l R.COPPERMAN,Z.KALE (G.BARRETT,E.LANDIS,J.MCCORMICK,Z.KALE) WARNER MUSIC NASHVILLE/WAR WHAT’S YOUR COUNTRY SONG 7 7 13 17 Thomas Rhett 4 7 l D.HUFF,J.FRASURE (THOMAS RHETT,R.AKINS,J.FRASURE,A.GORLEY,P.WELLING) VALORY 8 6 5 28 STARTING OVER Chris Stapleton 8 4 D.COBB,C.STAPLETON (C.STAPLETON,M.HENDERSON) MERCURY NASHVILLE LONG LIVE 9 11 9 26 Florida Georgia Line 7 9 l C.CROWDER,T.HUBBARD,B.KELLEY (T.HUBBARD,B.KELLEY,C.CROWDER,D.A.GARCIA,J.MILLER) BMLG 10 8 7 30 BEERS AND SUNSHINE Darius Rucker RC 7 R.COPPERMAN (D.RUCKER,R.COPPERMAN,J.T.HARDING,J.OSBORNE) CAPITOL NASHVILLE LADY 11 13 15 44 Brett Young 6 11 l D.HUFF (B.YOUNG,R.COPPERMAN,J.M.NITE) BMLG 12 10 11 8 WASTED ON YOU - 1 J.MOI,J.DURRETT (M.WALLEN,E.K.SMITH,J.THOMPSON,CHARLIE HANDSOME) REPUBLIC/BIG LOUD FOREVER AFTER ALL 13 14 16 19 Luke Combs 35 1 l CHIP MATTHEWS,J.D.SINGLETON,L.COMBS (L.COMBS,D.PARKER,R.WILLIFORD) RIVER HOUSE/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE MOMMA’S HOUSE 14 16 18 41 Dustin Lynch 10 14 l Z.CROWELL (D.SCHNEIDER,M.LOTTEN,R.CLAWSON,J.T.WILSON) BROKEN BOW 15 12 14 8 SAND IN MY BOOTS Morgan Wallen - 5 J.MOI (A.GORLEY,M.W.HARDY,J.OSBORNE) REPUBLIC/BIG LOUD HELL OF A VIEW 16 15 19 19 Eric Church 15 15 l J.JOYCE (E.CHURCH,C.BEATHARD,M.CRISWELL) EMI NASHVILLE SOMEBODY LIKE THAT 17 17 20 23 Tenille Arts 11 17 l A.KLINE (T.ARTS,A.KLINE,A.M.CRUZ) 19TH & GRAND HH HH 18 19 21 25 ONE TOO MANY Digital Gainer Keith Urban Duet With P!nk 19 13 l K.URBAN,PHD,CUTFATHER (D.H.DAVIDSEN,P.WALLEVIK,M.H.HANSEN,J.NORTON,C.TIGHE) HIT RED/CAPITOL NASHVILLE ALMOST MAYBES 19 20 23 42 Jordan Davis 16 19 l P.DIGIOVANNI (J.DAVIS,J.FRASURE,H.LINDSEY) MCA NASHVILLE MADE FOR YOU 20 21 28 9 Jake Owen 13 20 l J.MOI (B.DAVIS,J.HYDE,N.A.MEDLEY) BIG LOUD HH HH 21 NEW 1 DRUNK (AND I DON’T WANNA GO HOME) Hot Shot Debut Elle King & Miranda Lambert - 21 l M.JOHNSON,B.PADDOCK (ELLE KING,M.JOHNSON) RCA GLAD YOU EXIST 22 22 22 4 Dan + Shay 27 16 l D.SMYERS (D.SMYERS,J.REYNOLDS,T.M.PARKS,S.MOONEY,R.L.TAYLOR) W ARNER MUSIC NASHVILLE/WAR BREAKING UP WAS EASY IN THE 90’S 23 24 27 20 Sam Hunt 17 23 l Z.CROWELL (S.L.HUNT,C.LA CORTE,Z.CROWELL,E.K.SMITH,J.OSBORNE) MCA NASHVILLE 24 18 17 15 SOMEBODY’S PROBLEM Morgan Wallen - 3 J.MOI (M.WALLEN,R.CLAWSON,J.DURRETT,E.K.SMITH) REPUBLIC/BIG LOUD NOBODY 25 23 25 15 Dylan Scott 14 23 l M.ALDERMAN,C.GIBBS,J.E.NORMAN (D.SCOTT,M.ALDERMAN,D.WILSON) CURB

COUNTRY SONGWRITERSTM COUNTRY PRODUCERSTM

#1 #1 1 7 WKS  1 44 WKS JOEY MOI  2 MORGAN WALLEN  2 ROSS COPPERMAN  3 JON NITE  3 DANN HUFF  TIE 4 GABBY BARRETT  4  TIE 4 ZACH KALE  5 SCOTT MOFFATT  6 ERNEST KEITH SMITH  6 ZACH KALE  7 ASHLEY GORLEY  7 ZACH CROWELL  8 LUKE COMBS  8 DAVID FANNING  9  TIE 9 JOSH MURTY  10 COREY CROWDER  NITE TIE 9 NIKO MOON 

The weekly Country Songwriters and Country Producers charts are based on total points accrued by a songwriter and producer, respectively, for each attributed song that appears on the Hot Country Songs chart. As with Billboard’s yearly recaps, multiple writers or producers split points for each song equally (and the dividing of points will lead to occasional ties on rankings). BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE MARCH 8, 2021 | PAGE 12 OF 17

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 GONE 26 27 34 20 Dierks Bentley 20 26 l D.GARCIA (N.GALYON,B.JOHNSON,N.MOON) CAPITOL NASHVILLE HOW THEY REMEMBER YOU 27 28 24 25 Rascal Flatts 12 24 l D.HUFF (M.BEESON,J.OSBORNE,A.SHAMBLIN) BIG MACHINE 28 26 31 21 SETTLING DOWN Miranda Lambert 22 26 J.JOYCE (M.LAMBERT,L.DICK,N. HEMBY) VANNER/RCA NASHVILLE FAMOUS FRIENDS 29 33 40 4 Chris Young + Kane Brown 25 29 l C.YOUNG,C.CROWDER (C.YOUNG,C.R.BARLOWE,C.CROWDER) RCA NASHVILLE MINIMUM WAGE 30 34 33 5 Blake Shelton 21 30 l S.HENDRICKS (C.CROWDER,N.GALYON,J.FRASURE) WARNER MUSIC NASHVILLE/WMN LIL BIT 31 29 39 15 & Florida Georgia Line - 28 l J.M.SCHMIDT (T.HUBBARD,J.M.SCHMIDT,B.REDFERRIN,C.HAYNES, JR.) RECORDS/COLUMB IA UNDIVIDED 32 36 35 7 Tim McGraw & Tyler Hubbard 18 23 l C.CROWDER,T.HUBBARD,T.MCGRAW,B.GALLIMORE (T.HUBBARD,C.LOOCKE) MCGRAW/BMLG/BIG MACHINE 33 30 26 8 865 Morgan Wallen - 13 J.MOI (J.BYRON,B.PENDERGRASS) REPUBLIC/BIG LOUD 34 35 30 15 STILL GOIN DOWN Morgan Wallen - 8 J.MOI (M.WALLEN,M.W.HARDY,CHARLIE HANDSOME) REPUBLIC /BIG LOUD WINE, BEER, WHISKEY 35 38 38 30 Little Big Town 32 23 l LITTLE BIG TOWN (T.BROWN,K.FAIRCHILD,S.MCCONNELL,K.SCHLAPMAN,P.SWEET,J.WESTBROOK) CAPITOL NASHVILLE 36 32 29 8 WARNING Morgan Wallen - 10 J.MOI,CHARLIE HANDSOME (E.K.SMITH,A.GORLEY,CHARLIE HANDSOME) REPUBLI C/BIG LOUD BLAME IT ON YOU 37 40 42 5 Jason Aldean 23 37 l M.KNOX (K.M.ALLISON,J.EDWARDS,T.KENNEDY,M.TYLER,B.WHITE) MACON/BROKEN BOW 38 31 46 11 NEXT GIRL Carly Pearce 29 31 S.MCANALLY,J.OSBORNE (C.PEARCE,S.MCANALLY,J.OSBORNE) BIG MACHINE 39 39 36 18 SHALLOW Garth Brooks & Trisha Yearwood 39 30 G.BROOKS (S.G.GERMANOTTA,M.D.RONSON,A.ROSSOMANDO,ANDREW WYATT) PEARL 40 25 1 3 LOVE STORY (TAYLOR’S VERSION) Taylor Swift - 1 C.ROWE,T.SWIFT (T.SWIFT) REPUBLIC/MCA NASHVILLE 41 37 32 8 DANGEROUS Morgan Wallen - 17 J.MOI (M.WALLEN,E.K.SMITH) REPUBLIC/BIG LOUD SINGLE SATURDAY NIGHT 42 44 48 18 Cole Swindell 24 42 l M.R.CARTER (A.GORLEY,M.W.HARDY,M.L.HOLMAN) WARNER MUSIC NASHVILLE/WMN 43 41 41 14 WORSHIP YOU Kane Brown 37 24 D.HUFF (K.BROWN,A.IZQUIERDO,M.J.MCGINN,CHARLIE HANDSOME) RCA NASHVILLE ALL NIGHT 44 45 44 26 Brothers Osborne 26 25 l J.JOYCE (J. OSBORNE,T.J. OSBORNE,A.DEROBERTS) EMI NASHVILLE 45 43 45 15 LIVIN’ THE DREAM Morgan Wallen - 19 J.MOI (M.WALLEN,B.BURGESS,J.DURRETT,M.W.HARDY) REPUBLIC/BIG LOUD DRINKIN’ BEER. TALKIN’ GOD. AMEN. 46 NEW 1 Chase Rice Featuring Florida Georgia Line 33 46 l C.CROWDER,C.RICE,T.HUBBARD,B.KELLEY (C.RICE,C.CROWDER,H.PHELPS,C.DODDS) DACK JANIELS/BMLG/BROKEN BOW 47 42 43 8 NEON EYES Morgan Wallen - 18 J.MOI (M.WALLEN,M.L.HOLMAN,B.BURGESS) REPUBLIC/BIG LOUD MEMORY I DON’T MESS WITH 48 49 — 7 Lee Brice 40 38 l B.GLOVER,K.JACOBS,L.BRICE (L.BRICE,B.MONTANA,B.DAVIS) CURB 49 46 37 3 CHASING AFTER YOU Ryan Hurd With Maren Morris 49 37 A.ESHUIS,T.REIMER (B.ADDINGTON,J.FLOWERS) ARISTA NASHVILLE JUST ABOUT OVER YOU Priscilla Block 50 RE-ENTRY 4 38 40 l J.JOHNSON (P.BLOCK,S.JONES,E.K.KROLL) INDENT/MERCURY NASHVILLE

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

COUNTRY MARKET WATCH A Weekly National Music Sales Report

WEEKLY UNIT COUNT YEAR-TO-DATE YEAR-OVER-YEAR

ALBUM AUDIO VIDEO CONSUMPTION ON-DEMAND ON-DEMAND 2020 2021 CHANGE ALBUM CONSUMPTION This Week 1,255,000 1,429,095,000 135,762,000 Album ’20 9.59 million Consumption 9,587,000 11,101,000 15.8% ’21 11.10 million Last Week 1,218,000 1,394,990,000 134,515,000 Album Sales 1,490,000 1,423,000 -4.5% Change 3.0% 2.4% 0.9% TOTAL ON-DEMAND STREAMS Audio On-Demand 10,158,426,000 12,320,730,000 21.3% ’20 11.48 billion This Week Last Year 1,125,000 1,194,807,000 134,532,000 ’21 13.50 billion Change 11.6% 19.6% 0.9% Video On-Demand 1,323,449,000 1,180,251,000 -10.8%

All data measures U.S. activity as of the week ending March 4, 2021. All units counts are rounded to the nearest thousand. Album consumption units — also known as albums plus TEA plus SEA — consists of album sales; track-equivalent album (TEA) sales whereby 10 tracks equal one consumption unit; and stream equivalent albums (SEA) whereby 1,250 paid and/or 3,750 ad-supported audio on-demand streams (OAD) equal one consumption unit.

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SALES, DATA STREAMING & SALES COMPILED BY DATA COMPILED BY

COUNTRY COUNTRY TOP COUNTRY ALBUMS 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 WASTED ON YOU DRUNK (AND I DON’T WANNA GO HOME) MORGAN WALLEN DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM 1 1 8 1 NEW MORGAN WALLEN  l ELLE KING & MIRANDA LAMBERT  1 1 1 8 BIG LOUD 033180*/REPUBLIC 1   GOOD TIME THE GOOD ONES LUKE COMBS WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET l2 4 8 2 1 19 2 2 2 69 RIVER HOUSE/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE 595687*/SMN 2 1 NIKO MOON  GABBY BARRETT  BETTER TOGETHER BEERS AND SUNSHINE LUKE COMBS THIS ONE’S FOR YOU 3 2 23 3 17 8 3 3 5 196 RIVER HOUSE/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE 538883*/SMN 3 1 LUKE COMBS  l DARIUS RUCKER  MORGAN WALLEN IF I KNOW ME 4 3 8 SAND IN MY BOOTS 4 3 23 GOOD TIME 4 4 4 144 BIG LOUD 783* 1 1 MORGAN WALLEN  NIKO MOON  TENNESSEE WHISKEY STARTING OVER CHRIS STAPLETON STARTING OVER 5 6 204 5 6 27 5 5 6 16 MERCURY NASHVILLE 032689*/UMGN 1 l CHRIS STAPLETON  CHRIS STAPLETON  THE GOOD ONES BETTER TOGETHER 6 8 305 CHRIS STAPLETON TRAVELLER 1 l6 18 3 6 5 36 l6 MERCURY NASHVILLE 019405*/UMGN 4 GABBY BARRETT  LUKE COMBS  FOREVER AFTER ALL DOWN TO ONE 8 11 37 GABBY BARRETT GOLDMINE 4 l7 5 19 7 10 8 l7 WARNER MUSIC NASHVILLE 629930/WMN LUKE COMBS  LUKE BRYAN  JUST THE WAY WHAT’S YOUR COUNTRY SONG FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE LIFE ROLLS ON 8 9 4 8 12 16 8 7 3 3 BMLG FG0500A* 3 l PARMALEE X BLANCO BROWN  THOMAS RHETT  STARTING OVER WINE, BEER, WHISKEY 25 13 250 GEORGE STRAIT 50 NUMBER ONES 1 9 7 27 9 7 34 l9 MCA NASHVILLE 000459/UMGN (25.98) 7 CHRIS STAPLETON  LITTLE BIG TOWN  LEE BRICE HEY WORLD 10 8 71 I HOPE 10 8 15 LIL BIT 10 9 10 15 CURB 79537* 7 GABBY BARRETT  NELLY & FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE  DOWN TO ONE I HOPE 12 19 30 LUKE BRYAN BORN HERE LIVE HERE DIE HERE 1 11 16 2 11 11 79 l11 CAPITOL NASHVILLE 031777/UMGN 0 l LUKE BRYAN  GABBY BARRETT  LONG LIVE DON’T CLOSE YOUR EYES EAGLES HOTEL 12 RE-ENTRY 12 RE-ENTRY 12 10 15 164 ASYLUM/ELEKTRA 103*/RHINO (18.98) 5 l FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE  l KEITH WHITLEY  SOMEBODY’S PROBLEM TENNESSEE WHISKEY 13 17 48 SAM HUNT SOUTHSIDE 1 13 10 15 13 13 259 l13 MCA NASHVILLE 031776*/UMGN MORGAN WALLEN  CHRIS STAPLETON  HEARTLESS ONE TOO MANY 16 18 291 BAND GREATEST HITS SO FAR... 3 14 12 78 14 19 20 l14 HOME GROWN 546369*/BMG l DIPLO PRESENTS THOMAS WESLEY FEAT. MORGAN WALLEN  l KEITH URBAN DUET WITH P!NK  BEERS AND SUNSHINE WASTED ON YOU KANE BROWN MIXTAPE, VOL. 1 (EP) 15 15 3 15 9 8 15 14 16 29 RCA NASHVILLE DIGITAL EX/SMN 2 l DARIUS RUCKER  MORGAN WALLEN  ONE OF THEM GIRLS HELL OF A VIEW TAYLOR SWIFT RED 16 17 35 16 15 12 16 11 9 274 BIG MACHINE 310400A*/BMLG (18.98) 7 1 l LEE BRICE  ERIC CHURCH 

ELVIS PRESLEY THE ESSENTIAL ELVIS PRESLEY 17 11 43 MORE THAN MY HOMETOWN 17 14 19 FOREVER AFTER ALL 17 15 14 102 RCA/SONY STRATEGIC MARKETING GROUP 89048*/LEGACY (25.98) 1 11 MORGAN WALLEN  LUKE COMBS  WHAT’S YOUR COUNTRY SONG LADY TYLER CHILDERS PURGATORY 18 23 2 18 22 5 18 19 21 86 HICKMAN HOLLER 001*/THIRTY TIGERS 0 12 l THOMAS RHETT  BRETT YOUNG  TIM MCGRAW NUMBER ONE HITS COVER ME UP NEVER BREAK HEART 21 24 248 6 19 13 13 19 NEW l19 CURB 79205 (13.98) 1 MORGAN WALLEN  l ERIC CHURCH  NIKO MOON GOOD TIME (EP) WHISKEY GLASSES SAND IN MY BOOTS 22 30 9 20 20 21 106 20 16 8 l20 RCA NASHVILLE 973051 WS VS EX/SMN l MORGAN WALLEN  MORGAN WALLEN  TAYLOR SWIFT SPEAK NOW BEAUTIFUL CRAZY JUST THE WAY 21 22 142 21 1 21 23 12 135 BIG MACHINE TS0300A/BMLG (18.98) 6 1 l LUKE COMBS  PARMALEE X BLANCO BROWN 

RASCAL FLATTS TWENTY YEARS OF RASCAL FLATTS: THE GREATEST HITS 22 19 29 7 SUMMERS 22 18 4 GLAD YOU EXIST 22 24 20 22 LYRIC STREET/BIG MACHINE RF0650A*/BMLG 9 MORGAN WALLEN  DAN + SHAY  KANE BROWN KANE BROWN THE BONES FAMOUS FRIENDS 23 26 22 222 1 23 25 78 23 1 ZONE 4/RCA NASHVILLE 530947*/SMN 2 l MAREN MORRIS  CHRIS YOUNG + KANE BROWN  BROOKS & DUNN THE GREATEST HITS COLLECTION GOT WHAT I GOT SOUL 24 29 33 218 2 24 14 38 24 NEW l ARISTA NASHVILLE 18852/LEGACY (18.98/12.98) 4 JASON ALDEAN  l LEE BRICE  JOHNNY CASH THE GREATEST: THE NUMBER ONES MEANT TO BE HOLE IN THE BOTTLE 25 RE-ENTRY 103 25 25 RE-ENTRY 25 21 10 l COLUMBIA NASHVILLE 90333/LEGACY (9.98) l BEBE REXHA & FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE    Top Country Albums ranks the most popular country albums of the week, as compiled by MRC Data, based The week’s top-streamed and top-selling paid download country songs, respectively, from sales on multi-metric consumption (blending traditional album sales, track equivalent albums, and streaming reports collected and provided by MRC Data. Charts update weekly on Tuesdays at www.Billboard.Biz/ equivalent albums). Copyright 2021, Billboard Media, LLC and MRC Data. All rights reserved. charts. Copyright 2021, Billboard Media, LLC and MRC Data. All rights reserved. SALES DATA SALES DATA COMPILED BY COMPILED BY AMERICANA/ FOLK ALBUMS BLUEGRASS ALBUMS

AGO AGO POS. POS. THIS THIS THIS LAST LAST LAST PEAK PEAK CERT. CERT. WEEK WEEK ARTIST TITLE WEEK WEEK ARTIST TITLE WEEKS WEEKS WEEKS ON CHT ON CHT 2 WEEKS 2 WEEKS IMPRINT & NUMBER / DISTRIBUTING LABEL 2 WEEKS IMPRINT & NUMBER / DISTRIBUTING LABEL 1 NEW 1 LITTLE OBLIVIONS 1 1 1 1 20 STURGILL SIMPSON CUTTIN’ GRASS, VOL. 1: THE BUTCHER SHOPPE SESSIONS 1 l MATADOR 1632* l HIGH TOP MOUNTAIN 58784*/THIRTY TIGERS (56285) CHRIS STAPLETON STARTING OVER GARY BREWER & THE KENTUCKY RAMBLERS 40TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION 2 1 1 16 MERCURY NASHVILLE 032689*/UMGN 1 2 2 2 35 STRETCH GRASS 4050 1 2 2 251 CHRIS STAPLETON TRAVELLER 1 4 3 75 BILLY STRINGS HOME 1 l3 MERCURY NASHVILLE 019405*/UMGN 4 l3 ROUNDER 610063*/CONCORD NEW 1 BOB DYLAN WITH SPECIAL GUEST 1970 4 4 5 4 5 THE DEAD SOUTH SERVED LIVE 2 l4 COLUMBIA 985641/LEGACY SIX SHOOTER 144* NEW 1 NEIL YOUNG WITH CRAZY HORSE WAY DOWN IN THE RUST BUCKET 5 6 6 12 STURGILL SIMPSON CUTTIN’ GRASS, VOL. 2: THE COWBOY ARMS SESSIONS 2 l5 REPRISE 628752*/WARNER l5 HIGH TOP MOUNTAIN DIGITAL EX/THIRTY TIGERS HOZIER HOZIER THE DEAD SOUTH SUGAR & JOY 6 3 3 297 RUBYWORKS/COLUMBIA 309996*/LEGACY 3 1 6 9 8 73 SIX SHOOTER 129* 1

7 4 4 103 TYLER CHILDERS PURGATORY 2 NEW 1 BARRY ABERNATHY BARRY ABERNATHY & FRIENDS 7 HICKMAN HOLLER 001*/THIRTY TIGERS 0 l7 BILLY BLUE SIMON & GARFUNKEL SIMON AND GARFUNKEL’S GREATEST HITS YO-YO MA/STUART DUNCAN/EDGAR MEYER/CHRIS THILE NOT OUR FIRST GOAT RODEO 8 5 5 214 COLUMBIA 31350/LEGACY 3 8 8 5 37 SOUND POSTINGS/SONY CLASSICAL 973855*/SONY MASTERWORKS 1 THE LUMINEERS CLEOPATRA STEEP CANYON RANGERS ARM IN ARM 9 6 6 256 DUALTONE 1738* 1 1 9 12 11 18 YEP ROC 2698* 2 GOLDEN HOUR CHOSEN ROAD APPALACHIAN WORSHIP: DELUXE EDITION 10 7 8 153 MCA NASHVILLE 027921*/UMGN 0 1 10 7 — 20 SONG GARDEN 1255 4 Americana/Folk Albums ranks the most popular Americana/folk albums of the week, as compiled by MRC Data, Bluegrass Albums ranks the most popular bluegrass albums of the week, as compiled by MRC Data, based on album based on multi-metric consumption (blending traditional album sales, track equivalent albums, and streaming sales. Copyright 2021, Billboard Media, LLC and MRC Data. All rights reserved. equivalent albums). Copyright 2021, Billboard Media, LLC and MRC Data. All rights reserved. BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE MARCH 8, 2021 | PAGE 14 OF 17

MAKIN’ TRACKS TOM ROLAND [email protected]

Dan + Shay Lean On Positivity For Their Latest Number, ‘Glad You Exist’

Leave it to a duo with a plus sign in its name to fashion mathematical coun- kind of like, ‘I don’t know how I feel about that.’ And Tayla and Ryan were like, try hits. ‘This is the coolest line,’ like that’s the T-shirt or that’s girls looking at each Dan + Shay’s 2019 single “10,000 Hours,” written and recorded with Jus- other in the crowd and going, ‘Here’s to everyone, but mostly us.’ It’s a cool tin Bieber, tallies up a potential five-figure investment of time to create what little line that I don’t think would have been thrown out in Nashville, and we the singer envisions as the perfect twosome. Likewise, the duo’s new single — all finally came around to it.” “Glad You Exist,” released by Warner Music Nashville on Feb. 5 — contrasts a Each section — the verses, the chorus and the purposely repetitive bridge — “couple billion people in the world” with two who found each other, inspiring uses a different form of melodic syncopation to keep the sonic scenes changing. a two-minute, 25-second love song. And they added a roller coaster post-chorus that Adhering to the macro and micro imagery in lightens the mood and creates a sort of aural palate that message, “Glad You Exist” was written with cleanser before launching into the next section. a Dan + Shay arena audience in mind, though the “It’s one more little cherry on top,” notes title’s existence is drawn from the intimate home Mooney. “We just loved singing it in the room, life of the duo’s Dan Smyers, who frequently tells and for whatever reason, it sounds very happy and his wife, Abby Law Smyers, “I’m glad you exist.” it kind of completes the overall message and vibe That core thought — “I love you,” “I appreciate of the song.” you,” “You matter to me” — was intended to work When they wrote “10,000 Hours” a few months even beyond a romantic level in concert as Dan + later, Bieber’s release schedule moved it to the Shay would perform an acoustic segment on a plus- front of the line, and “Glad You Exist” had to wait, shaped stage in the middle of the venue. particularly because of the two songs’ numerical “It was just us imagining ourselves standing similarities. But that also gave Dan + Shay time there in the middle of the arena with 15,000 peo- to invent and refine. Appropriate for a song with ple around us, just having a moment together,” mathematical logic, the final product uses a heavy says Smyers. volume of individual performances. Smyers esti- While the world at large heard “10,000 Hours” mates that 80 vocal tracks are stacked in “Exist,” first, “Glad You Exist” pre-dated it. They wrote it particularly jaw-dropping, given the relative sim- in February 2019 during the week that precedes plicity of the arrangement. the Grammy Awards as Dan + Shay worked at a Bryan Sutton played the acoustic guitar in the rented home in the Hollywood hills with Nashville finale, and Smyers handled most of (if not all) the DAN + SHAY songwriter Jordan Reynolds (“Tequila,” “Speech- other instruments. He applied some wood-block ef- less”), pop composer Tayla Parx (’s fects from his ever-expanding collection of sounds, “, next,” Panic at the Disco!’s “High Hopes”) and songwriter-producer compiled on his hard drive labeled “Dan Made Samples.” Ryan Lewis, best known for his collaborations with Macklemore. The oddest of the tones in “Glad You Exist” appears in the post-chorus: an Lewis brought a load of interesting musical tracks to the appointment, and ascendant, space-age flip that’s a bit like on helium. In truth, the quintet tried its best to turn them into high-production songs. Invariably, it’s Mooney, manipulated and stretched into sonic territory beyond his own the ideas didn’t work for Dan + Shay. real-life reach. “I just was like, ‘We’re not going to leave today and not have something “It’s a pitch-shift vocal thing,” says Smyers, “and it was just another little — there’s too many good writers in this room for this to be a waste,’ ” recalls layer. When you think you’ve heard it all, and then here’s one little piece of Reynolds. “I just picked up a guitar and started playing.” ear candy that doesn’t happen again for about another 45, 50 seconds — What He broke into an ultra-simple, four-chord progression full of playful syn- was that? — you got to keep listening or you got to go back and listen again. We copation, with the triads emphasizing after beats while the guitarist’s right always like to throw little Easter eggs in like that.” thumb centers the root notes on the first and third counts of each bar. The It’s unknown if that part might make it into the scheme when Dan + Shay part is so musician-friendly that the left ring and pinky fingers never move finally play “Glad You Exist” in arenas. from their starting frets. “I’ve been practicing with helium, but it’s hard to transition back off the he- Smyers pulled out the “Glad You Exist” title, and they started barreling lium,” deadpans Mooney. “They don’t have any quick helium that I’ve found through a universally understood idea: a celebration of that one ideal partner in my research so far.” who appears rather improbably from the multitude of misfit matches. With The duo’s first live performance of “Glad You Exist” came in an acoustic, the guitar providing a steady, unobtrusive undercurrent, the group had plenty pre-taped moment for Country Radio Seminar attendees in February, shot of room to move around in the topline, and they made use of the opportunity. in frigid 33-degree weather in front of a scenic pool at the East Ivy Mansion “Tayla Parx, she’s so good with melodies,” says Dan + Shay lead vocalist in Nashville. Shay Mooney. “We were kind of going all over the place, trying to figure out The single rises to No. 27 on the Country Airplay chart dated March 13. what we wanted it to sound like in the vibe. Obviously, the message was in- In the meantime, Dan + Shay encouraged fans to post their own personal ap- credible, and we were just trying not to mess that up the whole time.” preciations at gladyouexist.com. The collective messages mirror the song’s The opening lists a series of hurdles the couple overcame early — “The things overall theme, hinting at the billions of one-on-one friendships and relation- that bring someone together in a relationship are when you go through hard ships that keep many people moving in a positive direction across the globe, things together,” reasons Reynolds — and that personal victory, set against even in adverse times. the masses, becomes the central focus of “Glad You Exist.” “I think there’s more hope than there’s been in the last 11 or 12 months

“I remember the ‘Here’s to everyone, but mostly us’ — Tayla threw up that right now, which is awesome,” says Smyers. “This song, this positive mes- POWELL CATHERINE line, and it kind of hit us funny,” says Reynolds. “Me, Dan and Shay were all sage, after all we’ve been through — I just feel like it’s the right time for it.” BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE MARCH 8, 2021 | PAGE 15 OF 17 Country Airplay Index

TITLE Publishing-Licensing Org. G   L   SOMEBODY LIKE THAT Oven Music Inc., (Songwriter) Chart Position BMI/Ziggys Z Music, SESAC/Tunes Of Big Deal Music, GETTING OVER HIM Lylas Music, BMI/Warner- LADY Super Big Music, ASCAP/Caliville Publishing, SESAC/Songs Of Porterfied Music, SESAC (T.Arts, A.Kline, Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Universal Music ASCAP/EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/EMI April Music, A.M.Cruz) 11 A   Corp., ASCAP/Paulywood Music, ASCAP/WC Music Inc., ASCAP/Iris In The Sky With Diamonds, BMI/Nite Corp., ASCAP/Weistribe Publishing, ASCAP/Sony/ATV Writer Music, ASCAP (B.Young, R.Copperman, J.M.Nite) 6 STARTING OVER I Wrote These Songs, ASCAP/WC ALL NIGHT All The Kings Pens, ASCAP/Trampy Cross Keys Publishing, ASCAP (Lauren Alaina, P.DiGiovanni, Music Corp., ASCAP/Straight Six Music, BMI/Wixen Music McCauley, ASCAP/WC Music Corp., ASCAP/Songstein E.L.Weisband) 53 LADY LIKE Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/What Is An Publishing, BMI (C.Stapleton, M.Henderson) 8 Publishing, ASCAP/Songs In The Key Of Claire, ASCAP/ Ingrid, BMI/Straight From The Art Music, BMI/Songs For Patriot Games Publishing, ASCAP/DTCM Ave, ASCAP (J. GIVE HEAVEN SOME HELL Relative Music A Stone Heart, BMI/Universal Music Corp., ASCAP/Happy T   Osborne, T.J. Osborne, A.DeRoberts) 26 Group, BMI/Rednecker Music, BMI/Round Hill Songs II, Rock Publishing, ASCAP (I.Andress, S.Ellis, D.Southerland) 43 ASCAP/Caleb’s College Fund, ASCAP/8 Minutes Twenty TEQUILA LITTLE TIME Sony Countryside, ALMOST MAYBES Ole Red Cape Songs, ASCAP/ Seconds Publishing, BMI/Artist Publishing Group West, LONG LIVE Big Loud Mountain, BMI/T Hubb BMI/Cowboy And Gus Publishing, BMI/Happy Song Jordan Davis Music, ASCAP/Anthem Entertainment, ASCAP/Big Blue Nation Music, ASCAP/Nontypical Music, Publishing, BMI/Pranch Ringle Music, BMI/Round Factory, BMI/Ritten By Rhettro, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane ASCAP/Roc Nation WC Publishing Designee, BMI/ ASCAP/Who Wants To Buy My Publishing, ASCAP/ Hill Works, BMI/WC Music Corp., ASCAP/Big Crowd Publishing Corp., BMI/Sony/ATV Story Music Publishing, Telemitry Rhythm House Music, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane WC Music Corp., ASCAP (M.W.Hardy, A.Gorley, B.Johnson, Publishing, ASCAP/Georgia Song Vibez, ASCAP/Spirit GMR/We Are Creative Nation, GMR/Suzanne James Publishing Corp., BMI/BIRB Music, ASCAP/BMG Gold H.Phelps) 54 Two Music Inc., ASCAP/4TheKidz Music, ASCAP/Spirit Songs, GMR (J.Pardi, R.Akins, L.Laird) 42 Songs, ASCAP (J.Davis, J.Frasure, H.Lindsey) 16 Vault Songs, ASCAP/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., GLAD YOU EXIST Monet Music, BMI/Warner- BMI/Jack 10 Publishing, BMI/Songs Of The Corn, BMI (T. THAT AIN’T ME NO MORE New House Of Sea B   Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Spokane Boy Music, Hubbard, B.Kelley, C.Crowder, D.A.Garcia, J.Miller) 7 Gayle Music, ASCAP/Music Of MAM, ASCAP/MV2 Music, BMI/Jreynmusic, ASCAP/Buckeye26, ASCAP/Shay BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., BEERS TO CATCH UP ON Warner-Tamerlane Mooney Music, BMI/WC Music Corp., ASCAP/Beats And M   BMI/Rednecker Music, BMI/Relative Music Group, BMI/ Publishing Corp., BMI/Ritten By Rhettro, BMI/Ole Banjos, ASCAP (D.Smyers, J.Reynolds, T.M.Parks, S.Mooney, New Writers Of Sea Gayle Music, BMI/West Pass Music, Red Cape Songs, ASCAP/Real Big Red Tunes, ASCAP/ R.L.Taylor) 27 MADE FOR YOU Plaid Flag Music, BMI/Sony Tree BMI/WC Music Corp., ASCAP/Who Wants To Buy My Universal Music Corp., ASCAP (R.Akins, J.S.Stover, Publishing, BMI/Dixie Stars Music, ASCAP/Son Of a Carl Publishing, ASCAP/Nontypical Music, ASCAP (S.Ahnquist, P.DiGiovanni) 51 GONE Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/A Boy Music, ASCAP/HoriPro Entertainment Group, Inc., ASCAP N.Donley, M.W.Hardy, J.Mitchell, H.Phelps) 60 Named Ford, BMI/Ben There Wrote That Publishing, (B.Davis, J.Hyde, N.A.Medley) 13 BETTER TOGETHER Big Music Machine, BMI/50 BMI/Artist 101 Publishing Group, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt THINGS A MAN OUGHTA KNOW Sony/ Egg Music, BMI/Straight Dimes Publishing, BMI/ Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI/Hits From The Tape MEMORY I DON’T MESS WITH Love ATV Accent, ASCAP/Super Big Music, ASCAP/Jett Music, Sony Countryside, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Room, BMI/Round Hill Compositions, BMI/W.C.M. Music Cannons Publishing, SESAC/W.C.M. Music Corp., SESAC/ ASCAP/Sony Countryside, BMI (L.Wilson, J.D.Singleton, Corp., BMI/Sullivan S Guns Music, BMI (L.Combs, D.Isbell, Corp., SESAC/Niko Moon Publishing, SESAC (N.Galyon, Mike Curb Music, BMI/Is That The Train Music, BMI/ J.Nix) 45 R.Montana) 5 B.Johnson, N.Moon) 20 Anthem Music Publishing I, BMI/Twangville Music, BMI/ Songs About Jack, BMI/Write Or Die Music, BMI/Warner- TO BE LOVED BY YOU Warner-Tamerlane BLAME IT ON YOU Makena Cove Music, ASCAP/ THE GOOD ONES GBF Music Global, BMI/Sony Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI (L.Brice, B.Montana, Publishing Corp., BMI/Parkermac Publishing, BMI/Ritten BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP/Zona Blue Music, BMI/Lee 45 Tree Publishing, BMI/BMG Platinum Songs US, BMI/ B.Davis) 40 By Rhettro, BMI (P.McCollum, R.Akins) 56 Music Publishing, BMI/Irishsonmusic, BMI/BMG Platinum BMG Blue, BMI/Fox Landis Lyrics, BMI/Songs Of Jim Songs US, BMI/Peertunes, Ltd., SESAC/MTNoize, SESAC/ McCormick, BMI/Sony Countryside, BMI/Revinyl House, MINIMUM WAGE A Boy Named Ford, BMI/Big U   SB21 Music Publishing, SESAC/BW Tunes, SESAC BMI (G.Barrett, E.Landis, J.McCormick, Z.Kale) 9 Crowd Publishing, ASCAP/Georgia Song Vibez, ASCAP/ (K.M.Allison, J.Edwards, T.Kennedy, M.Tyler, B.White) 23 Songs Of Roc Nation Music, BMI/WC Music Corp., ASCAP/ UNDIVIDED T Tree Music, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane GOOD TIME W.C.M. Music Corp., SESAC/Niko Moon Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI (C.Crowder, Publishing Corp., BMI/Straight Outta Georgia Songs, BREAKING UP WAS EASY IN THE 90’S Publishing, SESAC/Here Comes The Boom Music, BMI/ N.Galyon, J.Frasure) 21 SESAC/Tree Vibez Bus Vibez, SESAC/W.C.M. Music Corp., Universal Music Corp., ASCAP/Between the Pines, LLC, Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI/ SESAC (T.Hubbard, C.Loocke) 18 ASCAP/BIPOD, ASCAP/Spirit Two Nashville, ASCAP/Miller Anna Moon Publishing, ASCAP/WC Music Corp., ASCAP/ MOMMA’S HOUSE Sony/ATV Cross Keys Crow Music, ASCAP/Kyler’s Kinda Night, ASCAP/Songs Joshua Murty Publishing, ASCAP/Mark Trussell Music, Publishing, ASCAP/Two Black Dogs, ASCAP/ole Music W   Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Ern Dog Music, BMI/Big Loud ASCAP/Future Heartbeat Publishing, ASCAP (N.Moon, Of Parallel, BMI/Lucky Mic Publishing, BMI/Round Hill Mountain, BMI/Tree Vibez Music, LLC, BMI/Sony/ATV J.Minton, A.Moon, J.Murty, M.Trussell) 1 Compositions, BMI/Ford Drives A Chevy, BMI/Shirt At WANT ME BACK Magic Mustang Music, BMI/ Accent, ASCAP/Smackborne Music, ASCAP (S.L.Hunt, C.La Work, BMI/Legends Of Magic Mustang Music, SESAC/BMG Corte, Z.Crowell, E.K.Smith, J.Osborne) 17 BMG Platinum Songs US, BMI/Kane Brown Music, BMI/ H   Cicada, SESAC (D.Schneider, M.Lotten, R.Clawson, J.T.Wilson) 10 Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Koala T Tunes, BMI/EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/McGinntellectual Property, C   HARD DAYS Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., MY BOY Rome Phrey Songs, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs SESAC/Kobalt Group Music Publishing, SESAC/True Blue BMI/Indiana Angel Music, BMI/Don’t Be A Gypsy, BMI/ Music Publishing LLC, ASCAP/Rome Phrey Publishing, Works, SESAC (L.Ell, K.Brown, L.Rimes, M.J.McGinn) 59 CHASING AFTER YOU Songs Of Mojo Two, Spirit Of Nashville One, BMI (B.Gilbert, J.Bell, B.Berryhill, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., ASCAP/Addington Music, BMI/WC Music Corp., ASCAP/ J.Brunswick, L.Wall) 30 BMI/Nick Columbia Publishing, ASCAP/Block Of Marble WE DIDN’T HAVE MUCH Universal Music Corp., Who Wants To Buy My Publishing, ASCAP/Highly Music, BMI/Lee Starr Publishing, BMI/SNG Music, LLP, BMI ASCAP/Paulywood Music, ASCAP/Sullivan S Guns Music, Combustible Music, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music HEAVEN ON DIRT Haus Of Kings, ASCAP/Twin (E.Shane, R.Sutton, N.Columbia, L.Starr) 31 BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Tunes Publishing LLC, ASCAP/Get Ur Seek On, ASCAP (B. Spires, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, From The Red White And Blue School, ASCAP/Anthem Addington, J.Flowers) 49 ASCAP/King Pen Songs, SESAC/Smackworks Music, N   Music Publishing II, ASCAP (P.DiGiovanni, R.Montana, SESAC/Kobalt Group Music Publishing, SESAC/Ben Lau, J.S.Stover) 28 COLD BEER CALLING MY NAME Highly BMI (B.Ratcliff, P.Good, A.J.Babcock, B.Foster) 52 NEED A BAR SOMETIMES Peertunes, Combustible Music, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Ltd., SESAC/Marlow Sinclair Songs, SESAC/Reservoir WHAT DO I KNOW Sony/ATV Cross Keys Publishing LLC, ASCAP/One77 Songs, ASCAP/WC Music HELL OF A VIEW Sony Tree Publishing, BMI/ Media Music, ASCAP/Mirendawrites, ASCAP/Raincreek Publishing, ASCAP/EMI April Music, Inc., ASCAP/Dos Corp., ASCAP/Who Wants To Buy My Publishing, ASCAP/ Longer And Louder Music, BMI/Seven Ring Circus Songs, Publishing, ASCAP/Espiritu de Leon, BMI (C.Walker, J.Boyer, Hobos Music, ASCAP/Relative Music Group, BMI/Songs Of Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Sonofgroceries BMI/Little Louder Songs, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music J.Mirenda, G.Birge) 57 Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI/New Writers Music, BMI/Extremely Combustible Music, BMI/Songs Publishing America, Inc., BMI/Spirit Of Nashville One, Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI/Castle Of Sea Gayle Music, BMI/West Pass Music, BMI (R.Counts, BMI/Tunes Of Fluid, BMI/Rust And Chrome Music, BMI (E. NEXT GIRL Smackborne Music, ASCAP/Sony/ATV M.W.Hardy, J.Mitchell) 47 Bound Music, Inc., SESAC (J.Rodgers, H.Phelps, Brett Tyler, Church, C.Beathard, M.Criswell) 15 A.Vanderheym) 41 Accent, ASCAP/Warner Geo Met Ric Music, GMR/Tempo Investments-Smack Hits, GMR/Smackwood Music, GMR/ WHAT’S YOUR COUNTRY SONG EMI HOME SWEET BMG Platinum Songs US, BMI/ For The Kids Gold, ASCAP/BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP (C. Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Cricket On The Line, BMI/ D   Music That Is Russelled, BMI/Blue Corolla Oklahoma, Pearce, S.McAnally, J.Osborne) 29 Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Ritten By SESAC/Feel Your Creative Pulse Music, SESAC/The Best I Rhettro, BMI/Telemitry Rhythm House Music, BMI/Songs DEAR RODEO Songs From The Couch, BMI/Cori’s Could Do Publishing, ASCAP/WC Music Corp., ASCAP (R. NOBODY Curb Congregation Songs, SESAC/Good Of Roc Nation Music, BMI/Tunes by TrailerParker, BMI/ Daddy’s Publishing, BMI (D.Couch, C.D.Johnson) 34 Dickerson, C.Brown, C.Kelley) 44 Vibes, Good Times Music, SESAC/Curb Songs, ASCAP/ Songs Of Home Team Music, BMI/Round Hill Songs Songs Of Riser House, BMI/Sony Countryside, BMI (D. II, ASCAP/Caleb’s College Fund, ASCAP (Thomas Rhett, DOWN TO ONE Play It Again Entertainment, BMI/ HOW THEY REMEMBER YOU Son Of Ron Scott, M.Alderman, D.Wilson) 14 R.Akins, J.Frasure, A.Gorley, P.Welling) 4 Kyle Fishman Music, BMI/Round Hill Compositions, BMI/ Songs, ASCAP/Downtown DLJ Songs, ASCAP/Sony/ATV Natalia’s Music Money, BMI/Memory Days, SESAC/Curb Cross Keys Publishing, ASCAP/Smackville Music, ASCAP/ O   WHERE I FIND GOD Jolly To the Roger, BMI/ Wordspring Music, SESAC/W.C.M. Music Corp., SESAC (K. Smack Songs LLC, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Publishing Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Make It Fishman, D.Davidson, J.Ebach) 3 LLC, ASCAP/Built On , ASCAP (M.Beeson, ONE TOO MANY Kobalt Songs Music Publishing Better Music, BMI/Sony Tree Publishing, BMI (L.Fleet, J.Osborne, A.Shamblin) 12 LLC, ASCAP/Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, C.R.Harrington) 58 DRINKIN’ BEER. TALKIN’ GOD. AMEN. Inc., BMI/Reservoir 416, BMI/WC Music Corp., ASCAP/ Sony Countryside, BMI/Georgia Song Vibez, ASCAP/ I   James Norton Publishing Designee, ASCAP (D.H.Davidsen, WHISKEY AND RAIN Warner-Tamerlane Big Crowd Publishing, ASCAP/WC Music Corp., ASCAP/ P.Wallevik, M.H.Hansen, J.Norton, C.Tighe) 19 Publishing Corp., BMI/Telemitry Rhythm House Music, Nontypical Music, ASCAP/Who Wants To Buy My I CAN’T Songs Of The Corn, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane BMI/Songs Of Roc Nation Music, BMI/Big Music Machine, Publishing, ASCAP/Cale Dodds Publishing, ASCAP (C.Rice, Publishing Corp., BMI/Noodlehead Publishing, BMI/BMG BMI/Two Laine Collections, BMI (J.Frasure, J.Thompson) 50 C.Crowder, H.Phelps, C.Dodds) 33 Platinum Songs US, BMI/For The Kids Platinum, BMI/ S   Legitimate Efforts Music, BMI/BMG Silver Songs, SESAC SETTLING DOWN Sony Tree Publishing, BMI/ WINE, BEER, WHISKEY Razor And Tie Music F   (C.Smith, B.West, S.Wilson Jr.) 46 Pink Dog Publishing, BMI/Emileon Songs, BMI/Songs Publishing, BMI/Tofer The Musical, BMI/Warner- Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI/Songs Of Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Silent Desert Music, FAMOUS FRIENDS Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/ IF IT WASN’T FOR TRUCKS Peermusic III, Universal, Inc., BMI/Wrucke For You Publishing, BMI (M. BMI/Self Made Entertainment, BMI (T.Brown, K.Fairchild, They’ve Gone To Plaid Publishing, BMI/W.C.M. Music Ltd., BMI/Sullivan S Guns Music, BMI/Back 40 Publishing 22 S.McConnell, K.Schlapman, P.Sweet, J.Westbrook) 32 Corp., SESAC/Roc Nation US Music, SESAC/Bennett’s International, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., Lambert, L.Dick, N. Hemby)  Dad’s Songs, SESAC/Songs Of Rhythm House Black, BMI (R.Green, Erik Dylan, R.Montana) 55 SESAC/WC Music Corp., ASCAP/Georgia Song Vibez, SHALLOW Sony/ATV Songs LLC, BMI/Warner-Barham WORSHIP YOU Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/ ASCAP/Big Crowd Publishing, ASCAP (C.Young, C.R.Barlowe, Music LLC, BMI/SG Songs Worldwide, BMI/Warner-Olive Kane Brown Music, BMI/BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP/AIX 25 J   Music LLC, ASCAP/Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Concord Publishing, ASCAP/Kobalt Group Music Publishing, C.Crowder)  Publishing, BMI/Zelig Publishing, BMI/Stephaniesays SESAC/McGinntellectual Property, SESAC/True Blue JUST ABOUT OVER YOU Scilla’s Song Shop Music, ASCAP/Downtown DLJ Songs, ASCAP/White Works, SESAC/Krispy Pork Gang, BMI (K.Brown, A.Izquierdo, FOREVER AFTER ALL Big Music Machine, Publising, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., Bull Music Group, BMI/Downtown DMP Songs, BMI M.J.McGinn, Charlie Handsome) 37 BMI/50 Egg Music, BMI/Straight Dimes Publishing, BMI/ BMI/91 Dogs Publishing, BMI/Emily Kroll Music, ASCAP (P. (S.G.Germanotta, M.D.Ronson, A.Rossomando, Andrew Wyatt) 39 Works For RHA Music, BMI/Rowdy Rob Music, BMI/Sony Block, S.Jones, E.K.Kroll) 38 Tree Publishing, BMI/Oak Tree Swing Publishing, BMI (L. Y   Combs, D.Parker, R.Williford) 35 SINGLE SATURDAY NIGHT Round Hill Songs JUST THE WAY Sony Countryside, BMI/JM Thomas II, ASCAP/Caleb’s College Fund, ASCAP/Relative Music YOU TIME Dagum Music, BMI/Spirit Two Nashville, Music, BMI/Sony/ATV Tunes LLC, ASCAP/Kevin Bard Group, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, ASCAP/Fluid Tunes, ASCAP/Smackville Music, ASCAP/ FREEDOM WAS A HIGHWAY Sony/ Music, ASCAP/Margetts Road Music, ASCAP/Nolan W. Inc., BMI/Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Art In The Fodder Smack Songs LLC, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Publishing ATV Lakeview, SESAC/Red Lining Music, SESAC/Sony Sipe Music, ASACP  2 Countryside, BMI/Big Spaces Music, BMI/Sony/ATV (M.Thomas, K.Bard, N.W.Sipe)  Music, BMI/Hark Molman Songs, BMI/BMG Platinum LLC, ASCAP (S.McCreery, F.Rogers, A.Eshuis) 36 Accent, ASCAP/Nepasongs, ASCAP (J.Allen, A.Bowers, Songs US, BMI/Ju Jettsu Music, BMI/Rednecker Music, M.Rogers) 48 BMI (A.Gorley, M.W.Hardy, M.L.Holman) 24 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE MARCH 8, 2021 | PAGE 16 OF 17 Hot Country Songs Index

TITLE Publishing-Licensing Org. F   LIL BIT Big Loud Mountain, BMI/T Hubb Publishing, SETTLING DOWN Sony Tree Publishing, BMI/ (Songwriter) Chart Position BMI/Round Hill Works, BMI/Sony/ATV Accent, ASCAP/ Pink Dog Publishing, BMI/Emileon Songs, BMI/Songs FAMOUS FRIENDS Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/ Pile Of Schmidt Songs, ASCAP/The Money Tree Vibez, Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI/Songs Of 865 Big Loud Mountain, BMI/Blake Pendergrass They’ve Gone To Plaid Publishing, BMI/W.C.M. Music ASCAP/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/WC Universal, Inc., BMI/Wrucke For You Publishing, BMI (M. Publishing Designee, BMI (J.Byron, B.Pendergrass) 33 Corp., SESAC/Roc Nation US Music, SESAC/Bennett’s Music Corp., ASCAP (T.Hubbard, J.M.Schmidt, B.Redferrin, Lambert, L.Dick, N. Hemby) 28 Dad’s Songs, SESAC/Songs Of Rhythm House Black, C.Haynes, Jr.) 31 A   SESAC/WC Music Corp., ASCAP/Georgia Song Vibez, SHALLOW Sony/ATV Songs LLC, BMI/Warner-Barham ASCAP/Big Crowd Publishing, ASCAP (C.Young, C.R.Barlowe, LIVIN’ THE DREAM Big Loud Mountain, BMI/Bo Music LLC, BMI/SG Songs Worldwide, BMI/Warner-Olive ALL NIGHT All The Kings Pens, ASCAP/Trampy C.Crowder) 29 Wallace Publishing, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Music LLC, ASCAP/Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Concord McCauley, ASCAP/WC Music Corp., ASCAP/Songstein Corp., BMI/This Songs For You Pops, BMI (M.Wallen, Publishing, BMI/Zelig Publishing, BMI/Stephaniesays Publishing, ASCAP/Songs In The Key Of Claire, ASCAP/ FOREVER AFTER ALL Big Music Machine, B.Burgess, J.Durrett, M.W.Hardy) 45 Music, ASCAP/Downtown DLJ Songs, ASCAP/White Patriot Games Publishing, ASCAP/DTCM Ave, ASCAP (J. BMI/50 Egg Music, BMI/Straight Dimes Publishing, BMI/ Bull Music Group, BMI/Downtown DMP Songs, BMI 44 LONG LIVE Big Loud Mountain, BMI/T Hubb Osborne, T.J. Osborne, A.DeRoberts)  Works For RHA Music, BMI/Rowdy Rob Music, BMI/Sony (S.G.Germanotta, M.D.Ronson, A.Rossomando, Andrew Wyatt) 39 Tree Publishing, BMI/Oak Tree Swing Publishing, BMI (L. Publishing, BMI/Pranch Ringle Music, BMI/Round ALMOST MAYBES Ole Red Cape Songs, ASCAP/ Combs, D.Parker, R.Williford) 13 Hill Works, BMI/WC Music Corp., ASCAP/Big Crowd SINGLE SATURDAY NIGHT Round Hill Songs Jordan Davis Music, ASCAP/Anthem Entertainment, Publishing, ASCAP/Georgia Song Vibez, ASCAP/Spirit II, ASCAP/Caleb’s College Fund, ASCAP/Relative Music ASCAP/Roc Nation WC Publishing Designee, BMI/ G   Two Music Inc., ASCAP/4TheKidz Music, ASCAP/Spirit Group, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, Telemitry Rhythm House Music, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Vault Songs, ASCAP/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., Inc., BMI/Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Art In The Fodder Publishing Corp., BMI/BIRB Music, ASCAP/BMG Gold GLAD YOU EXIST Monet Music, BMI/Warner- Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Spokane Boy Music, BMI/Jack 10 Publishing, BMI/Songs Of The Corn, BMI (T. Music, BMI/Hark Molman Songs, BMI/BMG Platinum Songs, ASCAP (J.Davis, J.Frasure, H.Lindsey) 19 BMI/Jreynmusic, ASCAP/Buckeye26, ASCAP/Shay Hubbard, B.Kelley, C.Crowder, D.A.Garcia, J.Miller) 9 Songs US, BMI/Ju Jettsu Music, BMI/Rednecker Music, B   Mooney Music, BMI/WC Music Corp., ASCAP/Beats And LOVE STORY (TAYLOR’S VERSION) Taylor BMI (A.Gorley, M.W.Hardy, M.L.Holman) 42 Banjos, ASCAP (D.Smyers, J.Reynolds, T.M.Parks, S.Mooney, Swift Music, BMI/Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Sony Tree BEERS AND SUNSHINE Sony/ATV Accent, R.L.Taylor) 22 SOMEBODY LIKE THAT Oven Music Inc., ASCAP/GrowingMusic Publishing, ASCAP/EMI Blackwood Publishing, BMI (T.Swift) 40 BMI/Ziggys Z Music, SESAC/Tunes Of Big Deal Music, Music Inc., BMI/Iris In The Sky With Diamonds, BMI/WC GONE Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/A Boy M   SESAC/Songs Of Porterfied Music, SESAC (T.Arts, A.Kline, Music Corp., ASCAP/Detroit Records And Tapes, ASCAP/ Named Ford, BMI/Ben There Wrote That Publishing, A.M.Cruz) 17 BMI/Artist 101 Publishing Group, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt MADE FOR YOU Plaid Flag Music, BMI/Sony Tree Sony/ATV Cross Keys Publishing, ASCAP/Smackborne SOMEBODY’S PROBLEM Big Loud Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI/Hits From The Tape Publishing, BMI/Dixie Stars Music, ASCAP/Son Of a Carl Music, ASCAP (D.Rucker, R.Copperman, J.T.Harding, J.Osborne) Mountain, BMI/Bo Wallace Publishing, BMI/Round Hill Room, BMI/Round Hill Compositions, BMI/W.C.M. Music Music, ASCAP/HoriPro Entertainment Group, Inc., ASCAP 10 Compositions, BMI/Ford Drives A Chevy, BMI/Shirt At Corp., SESAC/Niko Moon Publishing, SESAC (N.Galyon, (B.Davis, J.Hyde, N.A.Medley) 20 BETTER TOGETHER Big Music Machine, BMI/50 B.Johnson, N.Moon) 26 Work, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/ Egg Music, BMI/Straight Dimes Publishing, BMI/ MEMORY I DON’T MESS WITH Love Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Em Dog Music, BMI/ Sony Countryside, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing THE GOOD ONES GBF Music Global, BMI/Sony Cannons Publishing, SESAC/W.C.M. Music Corp., SESAC/ Jimmy Sad Publishing, BMI (M.Wallen, R.Clawson, J.Durrett, Corp., BMI/Sullivan S Guns Music, BMI (L.Combs, D.Isbell, Tree Publishing, BMI/BMG Platinum Songs US, BMI/ Mike Curb Music, BMI/Is That The Train Music, BMI/ E.K.Smith) 24 3 BMG Blue, BMI/Fox Landis Lyrics, BMI/Songs Of Jim R.Montana)  Anthem Music Publishing I, BMI/Twangville Music, BMI/ STARTING OVER I Wrote These Songs, ASCAP/WC McCormick, BMI/Sony Countryside, BMI/Revinyl House, Songs About Jack, BMI/Write Or Die Music, BMI/Warner- Music Corp., ASCAP/Straight Six Music, BMI/Wixen Music BLAME IT ON YOU Makena Cove Music, ASCAP/ BMI (G.Barrett, E.Landis, J.McCormick, Z.Kale) 6 Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI (L.Brice, B.Montana, Publishing, BMI (C.Stapleton, M.Henderson) 8 BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP/Zona Blue Music, BMI/Lee 45 B.Davis) 48 Music Publishing, BMI/Irishsonmusic, BMI/BMG Platinum GOOD TIME W.C.M. Music Corp., SESAC/Niko Moon STILL GOIN DOWN Big Loud Mountain, BMI/ Publishing, SESAC/Here Comes The Boom Music, BMI/ MINIMUM WAGE A Boy Named Ford, BMI/Big Songs US, BMI/Peertunes, Ltd., SESAC/MTNoize, SESAC/ Round Hill Compositions, BMI/Relative Music Group, Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI/ Crowd Publishing, ASCAP/Georgia Song Vibez, ASCAP/ SB21 Music Publishing, SESAC/BW Tunes, SESAC BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., 37 Anna Moon Publishing, ASCAP/WC Music Corp., ASCAP/ Songs Of Roc Nation Music, BMI/WC Music Corp., ASCAP/ (K.M.Allison, J.Edwards, T.Kennedy, M.Tyler, B.White)  BMI/Sony/ATV Songs LLC, BMI (M.Wallen, M.W.Hardy, Charlie Joshua Murty Publishing, ASCAP/Mark Trussell Music, Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI (C.Crowder, Handsome) 34 BREAKING UP WAS EASY IN THE 90’S ASCAP/Future Heartbeat Publishing, ASCAP (N.Moon, N.Galyon, J.Frasure) 30 Universal Music Corp., ASCAP/Between the Pines, LLC, J.Minton, A.Moon, J.Murty, M.Trussell) 1 U   ASCAP/BIPOD, ASCAP/Spirit Two Nashville, ASCAP/Miller MOMMA’S HOUSE Sony/ATV Cross Keys Crow Music, ASCAP/Kyler’s Kinda Night, ASCAP/Songs H   Publishing, ASCAP/Two Black Dogs, ASCAP/ole Music UNDIVIDED T Tree Music, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Ern Dog Music, BMI/Big Loud Of Parallel, BMI/Lucky Mic Publishing, BMI/Round Hill Publishing Corp., BMI/Straight Outta Georgia Songs, HELL OF A VIEW Sony Tree Publishing, BMI/ Mountain, BMI/Tree Vibez Music, LLC, BMI/Sony/ATV Compositions, BMI/Ford Drives A Chevy, BMI/Shirt At SESAC/Tree Vibez Bus Vibez, SESAC/W.C.M. Music Corp., Longer And Louder Music, BMI/Seven Ring Circus Songs, Accent, ASCAP/Smackborne Music, ASCAP (S.L.Hunt, C.La Work, BMI/Legends Of Magic Mustang Music, SESAC/BMG SESAC (T.Hubbard, C.Loocke) 32 Corte, Z.Crowell, E.K.Smith, J.Osborne) 23 BMI/Little Louder Songs, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Cicada, SESAC (D.Schneider, M.Lotten, R.Clawson, J.T.Wilson) 14 Publishing America, Inc., BMI/Spirit Of Nashville One, W   C   BMI/Tunes Of Fluid, BMI/Rust And Chrome Music, BMI (E. N   Church, C.Beathard, M.Criswell) 16 WARNING Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Big Loud CHASING AFTER YOU Songs Of Mojo Two, NEON EYES Big Loud Mountain, BMI/BMG Platinum Mountain, BMI/Tree Vibez Music, LLC, BMI/Ern Dog Music, ASCAP/Addington Music, BMI/WC Music Corp., ASCAP/ HOW THEY REMEMBER YOU Son Of Ron Songs US, BMI/Ju Jettsu Music, BMI/Songs Of Universal, BMI/Caleb’s College Fund, ASCAP/Sony/ATV Songs LLC, Who Wants To Buy My Publishing, ASCAP/Highly Songs, ASCAP/Downtown DLJ Songs, ASCAP/Sony/ATV Inc., BMI/Art In The Fodder Music, BMI/Hark Molman BMI (E.K.Smith, A.Gorley, Charlie Handsome) 36 Combustible Music, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Cross Keys Publishing, ASCAP/Smackville Music, ASCAP/ Songs, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/ Publishing LLC, ASCAP/Get Ur Seek On, ASCAP (B. Smack Songs LLC, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Publishing Bump Into Genius Music, BMI (M.Wallen, M.L.Holman, WASTED ON YOU Big Loud Mountain, BMI/Bo Addington, J.Flowers) 49 LLC, ASCAP/Built On Rock Music, ASCAP (M.Beeson, B.Burgess) 47 Wallace Publishing, BMI/Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/ J.Osborne, A.Shamblin) 27 Em Dog Music, BMI/Red Bandana Publishing, BMI/MV2 D   NEXT GIRL Smackborne Music, ASCAP/Sony/ATV Music, BMI/Sony/ATV Songs LLC, BMI (M.Wallen, E.K.Smith, I   Accent, ASCAP/Warner Geo Met Ric Music, GMR/Tempo J.Thompson, Charlie Handsome) 12 DANGEROUS Big Loud Mountain, BMI/Bo Wallace Investments-Smack Hits, GMR/Smackwood Music, GMR/ I HOPE Sony Countryside, BMI/GBF Music Global, BMI/ Publishing, BMI/Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Ern Dog For The Kids Gold, ASCAP/BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP (C. WHAT’S YOUR COUNTRY SONG EMI Music, BMI (M.Wallen, E.K.Smith) 41 Revinyl House, BMI/EMI April Music, Inc., ASCAP/Nite Pearce, S.McAnally, J.Osborne) 38 Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Cricket On The Line, BMI/ Writer Music, ASCAP/Sony Tree Publishing, BMI (Z.Kale, Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Ritten By DOWN TO ONE Play It Again Entertainment, BMI/ J.M.Nite, G.Barrett) 2 NOBODY Curb Congregation Songs, SESAC/Good Rhettro, BMI/Telemitry Rhythm House Music, BMI/Songs Kyle Fishman Music, BMI/Round Hill Compositions, BMI/ Vibes, Good Times Music, SESAC/Curb Songs, ASCAP/ Of Roc Nation Music, BMI/Tunes by TrailerParker, BMI/ Natalia’s Music Money, BMI/Memory Days, SESAC/Curb J   Songs Of Riser House, BMI/Sony Countryside, BMI (D. Songs Of Home Team Music, BMI/Round Hill Songs Wordspring Music, SESAC/W.C.M. Music Corp., SESAC (K. JUST ABOUT OVER YOU Scilla’s Song Shop Scott, M.Alderman, D.Wilson) 25 Fishman, D.Davidson, J.Ebach) 5 II, ASCAP/Caleb’s College Fund, ASCAP (Thomas Rhett, Publising, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., O   R.Akins, J.Frasure, A.Gorley, P.Welling) 7 DRINKIN’ BEER. TALKIN’ GOD. AMEN. BMI/91 Dogs Publishing, BMI/Emily Kroll Music, ASCAP (P. Sony Countryside, BMI/Georgia Song Vibez, ASCAP/ Block, S.Jones, E.K.Kroll) 50 ONE TOO MANY Kobalt Songs Music Publishing WINE, BEER, WHISKEY Razor And Tie Music Big Crowd Publishing, ASCAP/WC Music Corp., ASCAP/ LLC, ASCAP/Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, Publishing, BMI/Tofer The Musical, BMI/Warner- JUST THE WAY Sony Countryside, BMI/JM Thomas Nontypical Music, ASCAP/Who Wants To Buy My Inc., BMI/Reservoir 416, BMI/WC Music Corp., ASCAP/ Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Silent Desert Music, Music, BMI/Sony/ATV Tunes LLC, ASCAP/Kevin Bard Publishing, ASCAP/Cale Dodds Publishing, ASCAP (C.Rice, James Norton Publishing Designee, ASCAP (D.H.Davidsen, BMI/Self Made Entertainment, BMI (T.Brown, K.Fairchild, C.Crowder, H.Phelps, C.Dodds) 46 Music, ASCAP/Margetts Road Music, ASCAP/Nolan W. P.Wallevik, M.H.Hansen, J.Norton, C.Tighe) 18 S.McConnell, K.Schlapman, P.Sweet, J.Westbrook) 35 Sipe Music, ASACP (M.Thomas, K.Bard, N.W.Sipe) 4 DRUNK (AND I DON’T WANNA GO S   WORSHIP YOU Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/ HOME) Elle King Music, BMI/EMI Blackwood Music L   Kane Brown Music, BMI/BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP/AIX SAND IN MY BOOTS Round Hill Songs II, ASCAP/ Publishing, ASCAP/Kobalt Group Music Publishing, Inc., BMI/Real Johnson Publishing, BMI/WC Music Corp., LADY Super Big Music, ASCAP/Caliville Publishing, ASCAP (Elle King, M.Johnson) 21 Caleb’s College Fund, ASCAP/Relative Music Group, BMI/ SESAC/McGinntellectual Property, SESAC/True Blue ASCAP/EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/EMI April Music, Sony/ATV Accent, ASCAP/Smackborne Music, ASCAP (A. Works, SESAC/Krispy Pork Gang, BMI (K.Brown, A.Izquierdo, Inc., ASCAP/Iris In The Sky With Diamonds, BMI/Nite Gorley, M.W.Hardy, J.Osborne) 15 M.J.McGinn, Charlie Handsome) 43 Writer Music, ASCAP (B.Young, R.Copperman, J.M.Nite) 11 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE MARCH 8, 2021 | PAGE 17 OF 17

CODA 10 Years Ago Jason Aldean & Began Their ‘Stay’ At No. 1 “Don’t You Wanna Stay” became Aldean’s fifth Hot Country Songs leader and Clarkson’s first On March 12, 2011, Jason Aldean’s Born in Macon, Ga., Aldean, now 2007 — after Clarkson’s original hit “Don’t You Wanna Stay,” with Kelly 44, signed with his label home, Broken No. 7 on the all-genre Clarkson, started a three-week reign Bow Records, in 2005. He has notched in 2005 — and “Under the Mistletoe,” on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart. 33 Hot Country Songs top 10s. with Brett Eldredge, jingled to No. 10 Authored by Andy Gibson, Paul Jen- Fort Worth, Texas, native Clarkson, in December 2020. kins and Jason Sellers, the duet became 38, the winner of the inaugural season of Clarkson, who has collected 11 the fifth of Aldean’s nine No. 1s on the in 2002, boasts two other Hot 100 top 10s, is back for a seventh sea- survey. It also won for musical event of Hot Country Songs top 10s, which are son as a coach on NBC’s The Voice, whose the year at the 45th annual Country also collaborations. “Because of You,” 20th-season premiere aired March 1. Music Association Awards. with Reba McEntire, reached No. 2 in —JIM ASKER

Aldean (left) and Clarkson at the 2011 CMA Music Festival in Nashville, Tenn.

REWINDING THE COUNTRY CHARTS FREDERICK BREEDON IV/GETTY IMAGES IV/GETTY BREEDON FREDERICK