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T-Rhett’s High-Five Tennessee Tourism Shines A Light For Life Changes >page 4 On The Pathways Of The Stars

Aldean, Church, When drivers park their cars in a beat-up lot at the corner of brings more comprehensive and cohesive awareness of the Bryan On The Road Again Eighth and Church in downtown Nashville, few of them even Volunteer State’s significant music-related sites across multiple >page 10 have an inkling that they’re treading on hallowed ground. genres. The goal is to parlay that into greater state pride and For roughly nine years — from the mid-1940s until 1956 longer visits by tourists who discover just how deep Tennessee’s — the Castle Recording Studio occupied space in the Tulane music roots extend. Hotel at that location, hosting Hank Williams’ recordings of “It’s almost surreal when you’re standing in a place where you Tenille Arts’ “Hey, Good Lookin’ ” and “I Saw the Light,” Kitty Wells’ “It know a song was written or recorded,” says Triplett. “Music is Bachelor Sequel Wasn’t God Who Made Honky a universal language. We all can >page 11 Tonk Angels” and other hit- hear a song that takes us to some making sessions by Country point in our lives that we remember Music Hall of Fame members from high school or college. It’s Bill Monroe, Ernest Tubb, Ray important to most of us.” Americana Duo Gets Price and Little Jimmy Dickens. Plenty of the most iconic music Oscar Nod But without any official markers, sites in the state are already >page 11 the property’s connection to designated in some form. The

Tennessee’s best-known industry blues-centric Beale Street has a has all but disappeared. W.C. Handy statue and markers Makin’ Tracks: The Tennessee Department celebrating B.B. King, Rufus Brantley Gilbert & of Tourist Development is on a Thomas and Lansky Brothers, Lindsay Ell path to correct that oversight the first fashion store where Elvis at hundreds of music-related Presley bought much of his stage >page 15 LYNCH spots across its 440-mile span. wear. The Birthplace of Country The Tennessee Music Pathways Music Museum occupies the site program, initiated by outgoing TDTD commissioner Kevin in Bristol where Jimmie Rodgers, The Carter Family and Country Coda: Triplett, launched with a September 2018 concert on historic Ernest “Pop” Stoneman recorded the sides that became Loretta’s Beale Street in Memphis, where Dustin Lynch, Elle King, known as the Big Bang of Country Music. And Nashville boasts ‘Back’ Road To No. 1 The Isley Brothers and producer Booker T. Jones (Willie a fair amount of museums and markers, though many of its most >page 20 Nelson, Booker T. & The MG’s) performed in celebration of seminal locations remain undefined. Even TDTD employees the initiative’s website. are often unaware that their building stands in the same place

Triplett oversaw the development of the concept, which WSM-AM Nashville used to call home and where Roy Orbison IMAGES GETTY CAMPBELL GREG BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE JANUARY 22, 2019 | PAGE 2 OF 20 cut “Oh, Pretty Woman” at what was then the Fred Foster Sound Studio. Preservation of music history has risen in importance in Nashville as new developers have bought properties in Music Row, taking a wrecking ball to buildings that were central to the creation of heartland culture. The movement was practically shocked into existence when RCA Studio A — a former recording home for George Strait, Bobby Bare and Charley Pride — was nearly torn down and replaced by an apartment complex. “When something becomes endangered, people do get excited about that,” notes Triplett. “What we want is for people to be excited about it consistently enough to where things don’t become endangered.” Under Triplett’s direction, TDTD secured a $4 million budget for the program’s first two years, in which it identified hundreds of physical sites — including recording studios, birthplaces, statues, live venues and cemeteries Chris Young visited KCYY San Antonio on Jan. 14 as he promoted his — with connections to a variety of genres. Using the Pathways website, tourists new single, “Raised On Country.” From left: KCYY personality Beth are able to plot trips to locations of personal interest. Colin Escott (author of Chandler, Young and KCYY personality J.R. Jaus. Hank Williams: The Biography and Good Rockin’ Tonight: Sun Records and the Birth of Rock ‘N’ Roll) was tapped to write synopses for the new markers, and efforts were started to obtain permissions to use copyrighted material in the signage, evaluate the best locations for markers and obtain property easements. As many as 10 markers are ready for installation, with the first likely to involve a living honoree this spring. Triplett, who was appointed by Gov. Bill Haslam in 2015, announced his resignation when newly elected Gov. Bill Lee designated new TDTD commissioner Mark Ezell, whose first day in office was Jan. 22. A former Dean Foods executive, Ezell brings to the department a branding/marketing expertise, best illustrated by a role in the familiar “Got Milk?” mustache campaign. Despite the change in administration, the Pathways program is “not in any jeopardy of going away,” says TDTD assistant commissioner of marketing Brian Wagner. BMI and SESAC held a No. 1 party on Jan. 16 to celebrate Russell The program was inspired in part by tragedy. A memorial in Benton County Dickerson’s “Blue Tacoma,” which topped the Country Airplay chart designates the spot where a plane crashed in 1963, killing Patsy Cline, dated Oct. 13, 2018. From left: “Tacoma” songwriters Casey Brown, Hawkshaw Hawkins and Cowboy Copas, and people still regularly visit the Dickerson and Parker Welling. location. Tennessee Music Pathways recognizes a host of burial sites for artists such George Jones, Dottie West and Chet Atkins, but also acknowledges more upbeat locations including Memphis’ Royal Studios, where Bruno Mars recorded “Uptown Funk!”; the Nashville Palace, a key developmental venue for Randy Travis and Alan Jackson; and the WIVK Knoxville, Tenn., studio where Dolly Parton made her radio debut. By design, Tennessee Music Pathways is intended to help visitors create physical pathways to meaningful properties. But like any good marketing scheme, its deeper motivation is to create an emotional pathway that links visitors to Tennessee by helping them stand in the same spots where their heroes have tread — whether that’s at a functioning concert venue or at a parking lot that once was a space where “Your Cheatin’ Heart” was captured for posterity. “When [people] are happy, they play music,” says Triplett. “When they’re Randy Houser visited ABC’s Good Morning America on Jan. 11 as he grieving, they listen to music. Music is the connector, and we want to connect promoted his new album Magnolia. From left: ABC host Cecilia Vega,

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ON THE CHARTS JIM ASKER [email protected] Thomas Rhett’s ‘Sixteen’ Becomes Fifth Life Changes Single To Top Country Airplay Chart

Thomas Rhett’s “Sixteen” (Valory) ascends 3-1 on Billboard’s Country Airplay Jordan Davis’ “Take It From Me” (MCA Nashville) also bumps into the Country chart (dated Jan. 26), up 6 percent to 40.2 million audience impressions in Airplay top 10, lifting 12-10 (23.4 million, down 1 percent). He earns his second the week ending Jan. 20, according to Nielsen Music. top 10 in as many appearances: His debut hit, “Singles You Up,” topped the Co-written by Rhett, “Sixteen” is his 12th leader on the chart and the fifth tally for a week in April 2018. from his album Life Changes. The set debuted at the summit of the Top Country Albums and all-genre Billboard 200 charts in September 2017, becoming his DOUBLING UP For a second straight week, Luke Combs simultaneously first No. 1 on both rankings. charts two songs, unaccompanied by another artist, Each Life Changes single has topped Country in the Country Airplay top 15, a feat that has not been Airplay. “Sixteen” follows the Maren Morris-assisted achieved in over a dozen years. “She Got the Best of Me” “Craving You,” which led the list dated July 22, (River House/Columbia Nashville), which led for four 2017; “Unforgettable” (Nov. 18, 2017); “Marry weeks starting Oct. 27, 2108, dips 6-7 (28.5 million, Me” (March 10 and 17, 2018); and the title track down 14 percent), while follow-up single “Beautiful (Sept. 8, 2018). Crazy” climbs 15-12 (20.6 million, up 18 percent). Luke Bryan holds the record with six Country Prior to Combs, no artist had logged such a double Airplay No. 1s from one album: 2015’s Kill the Lights. since George Strait, whose “It Just Comes Natural” and Prior to Life Changes, three other albums generated five “Give It Away” ranked at Nos. 12 and 13, respectively, such No. 1s apiece: Brad Paisley’s 5th Gear (2007-08), on Nov. 18, 2006. “Give” had led the list for two weeks Blake Shelton’s Based on a True Story … (2013-14) and beginning that September, and “Natural” was on its Bryan’s Crash My Party (2013-15), his LP that directly way to a two-week reign of its own in February 2007. preceded Kill the Lights. Life Changes had already become Rhett’s second GO, ‘GIRL’ Maren Morris’ “Girl” (Columbia Nashville), straight set to produce at least four Country Airplay the first single from her forthcoming second full-length No. 1s, following his second LP, Tangled Up, which album, launches at No. 28 on Country Airplay with 6.6 yielded “Crash and Burn,” “Die a Happy Man,” million impressions. On the airplay-, streaming- and “T-Shirt” and “Star of the Show” in 2015-17. sales-based Hot Country Songs chart, it starts at No. 44. RHETT “Sixteen” also extends Rhett’s streak to six straight “Girl” was released to country radio on Jan. 17 at 5 p.m. Country Airplay No. 1s. That’s the second-longest ET, so it debuts with roughly three-and-a-half days of active run, behind only Bryan’s stretch of 13 (counting promoted, proper tracked airplay. Morris penned the song with Sarah Aarons, who charts her singles in a lead role). first entry on the lists as a writer, and Greg Kurstin, another first-timer on the tallies. (On the all-genre Billboard Hot 100, Kurstin boasts three No. 1s, NEW TOP 10s Chris Stapleton achieves his third Country Airplay top 10 as including Adele’s 10-week leader “Hello” in 2015-16.) “Millionaire” (Mercury) rises 11-9 (23.7 million impressions, down less than “Girl” ties Morris’ highest Country Airplay debut and marks her best as a 1 percent). He first reached the upper tier with the No. 10-peaking “Nobody lead artist. Thomas Rhett’s “Craving You,” which featured Morris and led the to Blame” in April 2016 and followed with his first No. 1, “Broken Halos,” chart in July 2017, debuted at No. 28 that April. As a lead, she previously arrived

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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 3 22 SIXTEEN Valory  HH No. 1 (1 week) HH  Thomas Rhett 40.228 +2.208 7846 730 1 l2 4 19 GIRL LIKE YOU Macon/Broken Bow Jason Aldean 37.188 +1.105 7017 368 3 3 1 38 GOOD GIRL Broken Bow Dustin Lynch 36.154 -5.020 7014 -902 4 l4 5 29 BURNING MAN Capitol Nashville Dierks Bentley Featuring Brothers Osborne 35.458 +0.739 7219 354 2 l5 7 34 THIS IS IT Triple Tigers Scotty McCreery 34.378 +1.689 6905 458 5 6 2 24 SPEECHLESS Warner Bros./WAR Dan + Shay 32.609 -5.743 5851 -1202 6 7 6 29 SHE GOT THE BEST OF ME River House/Columbia Nashville Luke Combs 28.515 -4.500 5065 -522 10 l8 10 14 WHAT MAKES YOU COUNTRY Capitol Nashville Luke Bryan 27.629 +1.000 5705 366 7 l9 11 40 MILLIONAIRE Mercury  Chris Stapleton 23.742 -0.226 5125 338 9 l10 12 35 TAKE IT FROM ME MCA Nashville Jordan Davis 23.438 -0.322 5126 383 8 l11 13 41 BURN OUT Big Machine Midland 22.311 -0.180 4844 97 11 l12 15 11 BEAUTIFUL CRAZY River House/Columbia Nashville Luke Combs 20.628 +3.125 4042 690 14 l13 14 28 THERE WAS THIS GIRL BMLG  Riley Green 18.590 -0.002 4241 102 12 l14 16 24 DOWN TO THE HONKYTONK Big Loud Jake Owen 17.636 +0.351 4194 242 13 l15 18 19 LOVE WINS Capitol Nashville Carrie Underwood 16.886 +0.871 3585 104 16 l16 17 15 MAKE IT SWEET RCA Nashville Old Dominion 16.669 -0.063 3546 74 17 l17 19 27 ONE THAT GOT AWAY Atlantic/WEA  Michael Ray 16.059 +0.776 3658 209 15 l18 20 26 NIGHT SHIFT Capitol Nashville Jon Pardi 14.404 +0.997 3487 246 18 l19 22 18 HERE TONIGHT BMLG  HH Airpower HH Brett Young 12.360 +0.283 3070 254 19 20 21 22 NEVER COMIN DOWN Hit Red/Capitol Nashville Keith Urban 11.630 -0.663 2881 43 20 l21 24 24 ON MY WAY TO YOU CoJo/WMN  Cody Johnson 10.667 +0.438 2530 263 22 22 23 16 NEON CHURCH McGraw/Columbia Nashville Tim McGraw 9.928 -0.998 2642 -47 21 l23 25 13 MISS ME MORE Black River Kelsea Ballerini 9.846 +0.855 2467 198 23 l24 27 23 EYES ON YOU Dack Janiels/Broken Bow Chase Rice 9.225 +1.771 2332 418 25 l25 26 42 THE DIFFERENCE Valory  Tyler Rich 8.171 -0.148 2421 32 24 l26 29 32 LOVE AIN’T Valory  Eli Young Band 7.395 +0.515 2080 133 26 l27 28 29 LOVE SOMEONE Atlantic/WMN  Brett Eldredge 7.246 -0.055 1998 67 27 l28 NEW GIRL Columbia Nashville HH Hot Debut/Breaker/Most Increased Audience/Most Added HH Maren Morris 6.624 +6.624 113 0 113 0 36 l29 30 41 CAUGHT UP IN THE COUNTRY Curb  Rodney Atkins Featuring The Fisk Jubilee Singers 5.461 +0.196 1716 15 28 30 31 20 RUMOR Curb  Lee Brice 4.945 -0.263 1377 84 30 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE JANUARY 22, 2019 | PAGE 7 OF 20

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 12 TALK YOU OUT OF IT BMLG  Florida Georgia Line 4.910 +0.170 1224 98 33 l32 37 3 GOOD AS YOU Zone 4/RCA Nashville HH Breaker HH Kane Brown 4.798 +1.579 118 9 462 34 l33 33 21 WHISKEY GLASSES Big Loud Morgan Wallen 4.752 +0.155 1546 128 29 l34 34 20 FEELS LIKE A PARTY Wheelhouse  LOCASH 4.150 +0.343 1368 58 31 35 35 27 WHAT WHISKEY DOES Stoney Creek Randy Houser Featuring Hillary Lindsey 3.517 -0.123 113 0 7 37 l36 38 14 BUY MY OWN DRINKS Wheelhouse  Runaway June 3.381 +0.191 1253 123 32 l37 36 31 FRIENDS DON’T Mercury  Maddie & Tae 3.237 -0.064 1077 1 38 l38 39 17 BACK TO LIFE Big Machine Rascal Flatts 3.235 +0.111 116 3 75 35 l39 40 6 WHAT HAPPENS IN A SMALL TOWN Valory  HH Breaker HH Brantley Gilbert + Lindsay Ell 3.189 +0.371 764 189 41 l40 51 3 SOME OF IT EMI Nashville Eric Church 2.652 +0.781 641 294 44 l41 43 9 CLOSER TO YOU Big Machine Carly Pearce 2.632 +0.336 882 132 39 l42 42 8 LOVE YOU TOO LATE Warner Bros./WMN HH Breaker HH Cole Swindell 2.462 +0.021 655 57 43 l43 41 6 DON’T LET THE OLD MAN IN Show Dog Nashville Toby Keith 2.441 -0.048 524 29 51 l44 45 14 DAY DRUNK Warner Bros./WEA Morgan Evans 2.359 +0.304 742 66 42 l45 44 25 YADA YADA YADA EMI Nashville Brandon Lay 2.191 +0.019 845 -31 40 l46 50 7 EVERY LITTLE THING Triple Tigers Russell Dickerson 2.123 +0.243 592 59 47 l47 48 8 STRONGER THAN ME Pearl  Garth Brooks 2.008 +0.078 607 31 46 48 46 11 THE ONES THAT DIDN’T MAKE IT BACK HOME Valory  Justin Moore 1.867 -0.108 547 19 49 49 49 18 BRING IT ON OVER Mercury  Billy Currington 1.741 -0.174 612 18 45 50 47 12 LADIES IN THE ‘90S 19/Mercury  Lauren Alaina 1.680 -0.284 523 -2 52 l51 56 2 RAISED ON COUNTRY RCA Nashville Chris Young 1.628 +0.228 303 50 - 52 52 8 BUCKED OFF Arista Nashville Brad Paisley 1.607 -0.118 588 31 48 l53 53 10 I DON’T REMEMBER ME (BEFORE YOU) EMI Nashville Brothers Osborne 1.542 +0.005 475 3 53 l54 54 21 HOW DOES IT SOUND Dylan Schneider/Placer Dylan Schneider 1.445 -0.035 529 36 50 l55 NEW NOTHING TO DO TOWN Curb  Dylan Scott 1.422 +0.632 378 206 58 56 55 9 I DON’T KNOW ABOUT YOU Big Loud Chris Lane 1.392 -0.022 470 -2 54 l57 59 6 GIRL GOIN’ NOWHERE Atlantic/WAR  Ashley McBryde 1.094 +0.112 397 107 57 58 58 13 90’S COUNTRY Monument/Arista Nashville Walker Hayes 1.007 -0.086 362 -13 59 l59 RE-ENTRY WHEN IT COMES TO LOVING YOU 32 Bridge/EMI Nashville Jon Langston 0.772 +0.002 326 0 60 l60 NEW ROCKIN’ ALL NIGHT LONG Buena Vista/Capitol Nashville Adam Hambrick 0.679 +0.051 420 18 55

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55 2/4 AARON WATSON Kiss That Girl Goodbye Scott’s sixth Country Airplay entry is his BIG Label DYLAN first since “Hooked” (No. 2 peak, September SCOTT LOGAN MIZE Nothing to 2018). It enters at No. 55 with 1.4 million Better Off Gone Do Town audience impressions, up 80 percent. Big Yellow Dog WATSON ERIKA GOLDRING/GETTY IMAGES FOR CURB RECORDS CURB FOR IMAGES GOLDRING/GETTY ERIKA BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE JANUARY 22, 2019 | PAGE 8 OF 20

AIRPLAY Country Airplay MONITORED BY

MOST ADDED® NEW AND ACTIVE TITLE Imprint/Label Artist ADDS TOTAL TOTAL GIRL Columbia Nashville Maren Morris 64 TITLE Imprint/Label Artist AUDIENCE STATIONS ADDS GOOD AS YOU RCA Nashville Kane Brown 28 PRAYED FOR YOU Wide Open/GCE/RECORDS Matt Stell 0.407 7 5 SOME OF IT EMI Nashville Eric Church 16 GOT YOUR NAME ON IT Universal Music Canada Jade Eagleson 0.386 1 0 EYES ON YOU Dack Janiels/Broken Bow Chase Rice 14 MAKE ME WANT TO BBR/Stoney Creek/BMG Jimmie Allen 0.384 4 3 NOTHING TO DO TOWN Curb Dylan Scott 14 WHAT HAPPENS IN A SMALL TOWN Valory Brantley Gilbert & Lindsay Ell 12 TO A T RCA Nashville Ryan Hurd 0.341 1 1 RUMOR Curb Lee Brice 11 BRAND NEW BUZZ B$R/New Revolution Big & Rich 0.328 19 6 ON MY WAY TO YOU CoJo/WMN Cody Johnson 10 ALL TO MYSELF Warner Bros./WAR Dan + Shay 0.267 2 1 CLOSER TO YOU Big Machine Carly Pearce 9 HERE TONIGHT BMLG Brett Young 8 RECURRENTS MOST INCREASED AUDIENCE THIS TOTAL AUD. WEEK TITLE Imprint/Label Artist (IN MILLIONS) GAIN 1 BEST SHOT Stoney Creek Jimmie Allen 28.562 TITLE Imprint/Label Artist (IN MIILIONS) 2 LOSE IT Zone 4/RCA Nashville Kane Brown 22.446 GIRL Columbia Nashville Maren Morris +6.624 BEAUTIFUL CRAZY River House/Columbia Nashville Luke Combs +3.125 3 BLUE TACOMA Triple Tigers Russell Dickerson 17.519 SIXTEEN Valory Thomas Rhett +2.208 4 HEAVEN Zone 4/RCA Nashville Kane Brown 16.509 EYES ON YOU Dack Janiels/Broken Bow Chase Rice +1.771 5 ONE NUMBER AWAY River House/Columbia Nashville Luke Combs 16.096 THIS IS IT Triple Tigers Scotty McCreery +1.689 6 GET ALONG Blue Chair/Warner Bros./WEA Kenny Chesney 15.202 GOOD AS YOU Zone 4/RCA Nashville Kane Brown +1.579 7 TEQUILA Warner Bros./WAR Dan + Shay 14.369 GIRL LIKE YOU Macon/Broken Bow Jason Aldean +1.105 8 HANGIN’ ON RCA Nashville Chris Young 14.142 WHAT MAKES YOU COUNTRY Capitol Nashville Luke Bryan +1.000 9 DRUNK ME Riser House/Columbia Nashville Mitchell Tenpenny 12.747 NIGHT SHIFT Capitol Nashville Jon Pardi +0.997 LOVE WINS Capitol Nashville Carrie Underwood +0.871 10 HOTEL KEY RCA Nashville Old Dominion 12.565 MOST INCREASED PLAYS BILLBOARD COUNTRY BOXSCORE TITLE Imprint/Label Artist GAIN Gross Artist Attendance Ticket Price(s) Venue/Date(s) Capacity Promoter(s) GIRL Columbia Nashville Maren Morris +1130 $120,025 CODY JINKS 3,255 PROMOWEST SIXTEEN Valory Thomas Rhett +730 $40, $32.50 Stage AE, Pittsburgh, Pa., Dec. 13-14 4,600 PRODUCTIONS BEAUTIFUL CRAZY River House/Columbia Nashville Luke Combs +690 $85,050 PISTOL ANNIES 1,410 THE BOWERY GOOD AS YOU Zone 4/RCA Nashville Kane Brown +462 $65, $55 Town Hall, New York, Nov. 2 1,451 PRESENTS THIS IS IT Triple Tigers Scotty McCreery +458 $68,206 BRETT YOUNG 1,810 THE BOWERY $45, $9.75 Township Auditorium, Columbia, S.C., Nov. 30 3,224 PRESENTS EYES ON YOU Dack Janiels/Broken Bow Chase Rice +418 TAKE IT FROM ME MCA Nashville Jordan Davis +383 $58,184 LEE BRICE 1,631 THE BOWERY $39.50, $19.75 Starland Ballroom, Sayreville, N.J., Oct. 25 2,000 PRESENTS GIRL LIKE YOU Macon/Broken Bow Jason Aldean +368 $35,350 THE CHARLIE DANIELS BAND 562 THE BOWERY WHAT MAKES YOU COUNTRY Capitol Nashville Luke Bryan +366 $75, $45 Miller Thgeater, Augusta, Ga., Nov. 17 1,284 PRESENTS BURNING MAN Capitol Nashville Dierks Bentley Feat. Brothers Osborne +354 Reported worldwide boxscore figures for Country artists. Boxscore figures should be submitted to Bob Allen by phone (615-891-1976), fax (615-891-2054) or email ([email protected]). TEXAS REGIONAL RADIO REPORT WEEK ENDING JANUARY 20, 2019

THIS LAST WKS ON TW SPINS THIS LAST WKS ON TW SPINS WEEK WEEK CHART TITLE (Label) ARTIST SPINS +/– WEEK WEEK CHART TITLE (Label) ARTIST SPINS +/– l1 2 16 RIO (Independent)  HH 1 Week at 1 HH Kyle Park 1790 94 11 9 30 LIFE IS (Miles Power)  Cameran Nelson 1232 -235 l2 5 15 SHE REMAINS (Independent)  Jamie Richards 1684 57 l12 14 11 RUN AWAY WITH YOU (Independent)  Robert Ray 116 7 20 3 1 21 ON MY WAY TO YOU (CoJo Music)  Cody Johnson 1679 -18 13 15 25 MISUNDERSTOOD (Vision Ent)  Parker McCollum 112 5 -16 l4 6 19 HONEYWINE (Independent)  Flatland Cavalry 1616 5 14 16 22 TEQUILA MOCKINGBIRD (Independent)  Frank Ray 1050 -75 5 3 26 MY SOUTH (Independent)  Natalie Rose 1583 -78 15 17 26 YOU’RE IN IT (Independent)  Granger Smith 1022 -27 l6 7 10 AIN’T IT BABY (Independent)  Josh Ward 1544 2 16 12 28 I GOT ME (Independent)  Sarah Hobbs 1009 -231 l7 8 18 BETTER PLACE (Independent)  Drew Fish Band 1515 35 l17 20 24 WD-40 & DUCT TAPE (Independent)  Donice Morace 978 23 l8 10 12 SUNDOWN (Little Red Truck)  Deryl Dodd w/ Wade Bowen 1383 58 l18 23 6 GONER (Independent)  William Clark Green 971 75 9 4 20 MIRROR, MIRROR (Independent)  Randall King 1360 -276 19 19 11 BEER BUCKET LIST (Silverado)  David Adam Byrnes 945 -22 l10 11 14 HANG YOUR HAT ON THAT (Independent)  Jon Wolfe 1330 8 20 13 24 FRIDAY’S COMING (Independent)  Pat Green 933 -281

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

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NASHVILLE & NATIONAL TOM ROLAND

ways with the station, according to Talkers.com … Harvey Wells resigned as Midwest Family/Springfield, Ill., market manager, Talkers.com reported. The four-station cluster includes country WUSW … The Country Radio Seminar reinstated its $99 unemployment rate for the Nashville convention Feb. 13-15. The deadline to apply is Jan. 31. Writer-producer Dayton Duncan was added to the CRS agenda with a keynote presentation focused on the Ken Burns documentary Country Music, a 16-hour series that will debut on PBS this fall. ’ROUND THE ROW Cumberland Music Collective acquired acoustic music agency KCA Artists, formerly known as Keith Case & Associates. CMC president/senior agent Lee Olsen, a former KCA agent, brings three KCA employees into the fold: vp Andrew Bestick was an agent, Jess Mosby steps up from agent assistant to agent, and CMC agent assistant Anna Dietz holds the same position she

CAMERON PREMO CAMERON maintained at KCA. The company’s roster includes Radney Foster, The Seldom Luke Bryan visited with two St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Scene and The Fairfield Four. Reach Olsen here, Bestick here, Mosby here patients when he joined a dozen other artists on Bobby Bones’ Million and Dietz here … Moonstruck Management opened Moonstruck Leasing, an Dollar Show, a Jan. 14 benefit that raised more than $200,000. From entertainment coach division … George Strait and Blake Shelton joined the left: patient Kinlee, Bryan, Bones and patient Emma. Paradigm Nashville concert booking roster … Songwriter Houston Phillips signed a publishing deal with MV2 Entertainment. He previously has landed COUNTRY ON THE ROAD AGAIN cuts with Jerrod Niemann, Tyler Farr and Jason Aldean … Adam Steffey For country artists and executives, the last week erased whatever post-holiday joined bluegrass band Volume Five. An 11-time winner of the International lethargy might have been lingering as a variety of tours hit the road full force Bluegrass Music Association’s mandolin player of the year award, Steffey is and a bundle of new packages were unveiled, including upcoming concert a former member of Alison Krauss + Union Station who has played on hits treks for Luke Bryan, Maren Morris and Jason Aldean. by Carrie Underwood and Dixie Chicks … Alabama, Opry Entertainment Eric Church had the most innovative startup, launching his Double Down senior vp programming and artist relations Sally Williams and Kings of Tour in Omaha, Neb., on Jan. 18 as he charts a path that has him playing two Leon are among the recipients at the 11th annual T.J. Martell Foundation shows apiece in every city on the itinerary. Likely setting a tone for the rest Nashville Honors Gala on Feb. 25 at the Omni Nashville Hotel … The of the trek, Church played a total of 70 songs during those two concerts, with International Bluegrass Music Association is accepting applications for its only 13 titles appearing in both set lists. board of directors through Jan. 31. Access the form here … Kane Brown will Dierks Bentley gave his first 2019 show on Jan. 17 in Hamilton, Ontario, receive the Breakthrough Artist Award during the Music Biz Conference on supported by Jon Pardi, Tenille Townes and The Hot Country Knights. Old May 7 in Nashville … Nashville’s Belmont University will formally announce a Dominion sold out Chicago’s Allstate Arena on Jan. 18, joined by Morgan scholarship for guitar players in honor of Country Music Hall of Fame member Evans and Jordan Davis. And Dylan Scott kicked off his Nothin’ to Do Town Harold Bradley on Jan. 25. The launch is being funded by an anonymous Tour on Jan. 17 at the Gramercy Theatre in New York. donor … The SOURCE Hall of Fame Awards will be presented Aug. 27 at the Tour announcements include: Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville … The Nashville Songwriters • Trace Adkins’ Don’t Stop Tour, a 40-date schedule that begins with a Association International set the Nashville Songwriter Awards for Sept. 17 Feb. 9 one-off at the San Antonio Rodeo before it starts in earnest on April at the Ryman Auditorium … Studio guitarist Reggie Young died Jan. 17 in 4 in Cleveland, Miss. Nashville. He participated in several hundred hits in both pop and country, • Tucker Beathard’s Ride On 2019 Tour, which rolls out Feb. 22 at Coyote including titles by Elvis Presley, George Strait, Waylon Jennings and Joe’s in Charlotte, N.C. Kenny Rogers … Maxine Brown Russell died Jan. 21 at Bowman Hospice in • Morris’ Girl: The World Tour, an all-female bill that launches March 9 in Little Rock, Ark. She was the last remaining member of the sibling trio The Chicago with opening acts Cassadee Pope and RaeLynn. The dates are of Browns, best known for the 1959 crossover single “The Three Bells.” The particular interest since they come at a time when terrestrial country radio act, which also featured Jim Ed Brown and Bonnie Brown, was inducted stations are hesitant to play many women, and almost never back to back. into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2015. Maxine’s memorial is set for Carrie Underwood previously announced her own all-femme package —­ the 11 a.m. on Jan. 28 at the First Assembly of God in North Little Rock following Cry Pretty Tour, featuring Maddie & Tae and Runaway June — set to take visitation the prior afternoon at the North Little Rock Funeral Home. Go here off May 1 in Greensboro, N.C. for additional details. • Aldean’s Ride All Night Tour, bolstered by Kane Brown and Carly Pearce, launches in Uncasville, Conn., on May 3. • Bryan’s Sunset Repeat Tour with Cole Swindell and Jon Langston, slated to kick off May 31 in Philadelphia. RADIO & RECORDS Tucker Beathard announced his signing with Warner Music Nashville, eight weeks after releasing his debut album, Nobody’s Everything, on his own Mother Tucker label … Triple Tigers added Gone West to its artist roster and released the band’s debut EP, Tides, on Jan. 18. The group consists of Colbie Caillat, Justin Kawika Young, Jason Reeves and Nelly Joy, who previously worked under the name Danelle Leverett as a member of The JaneDear girls … Songwriter-producer Alex Kline agreed to a publishing deal with the Reviver Entertainment Group … Cumulus/Abilene (Texas) welcomed vp/market manager Paul Divello, who was previously Cumulus/ Maren Morris joined CMT and Premiere Networks personnel to Shreveport (La.) director of sales. The Abilene cluster includes country surprise Cody Alan with a party for his fifth anniversary as host of KBCY … Mitch Morgan joined the morning shift at WVTY Racine, Wis., The CMT After MidNite. From left: CMT Radio executive producer Ashlee Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported. He continues to work afternoon drive McDonald, Alan, Morris and Premiere president Julie Talbott and at sister WMBZ … WKHX Atlanta morning personality Ali Mac has parted senior vp integrated marketing and promotions Rick Murray. 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NASHVILLE & NATIONAL TOM ROLAND

MUSIC NOTES ON THIS DATE IN COUNTRY MUSIC

The Randy Rogers Band enlisted producer Dave Cobb (Chris Stapleton, Jan. 22 Brandi Carlisle) for its eighth album, Hellbent, due April 26. It’s one of more than • 2008 — Warner Bros. releases Blake a dozen new albums and EPs with specific release dates. They include two titles Shelton’s version of Michael Bublé’s that arrived Jan. 18 — HARDY’s EP Where to Find Me and Danny Burns’ North “Home” to radio. Country — plus a bundle of forthcoming packages: Lindi Ortega’s Liberty: Piano • 1994 — Hal Ketchum performs “Small Songbook, Jan. 25; Americana musician Gurf Morlix’s Impossible Blue, Feb. 8; Town Saturday Night” as he joins the Chuck Shaw’s self-titled album, Feb. 8; The Bellamy Brothers’ Over the Moon, Grand Ole Opry. Feb. 15; roots guitarist Arlen Roth’s Tele Masters, Feb. 22; Tim O’Brien’s Tim O’Brien Band, March 15; Stella Parton’s Survivor, March 29; Molly Tuttle’s Jan. 23 SHELTON When You’re Ready, April 5; The Infamous Stringdusters’ Rise Sun, April 5; • 1969 — Elvis Presley records “Suspicious WRIGHT JIM and John Paul White’s The Hurting Kind, April 12. Minds” at American Studios in Memphis.

Tenille Arts made her second Jan. 24 appearance on ABC’s The Bachelor on • 2014 — Russell Dickerson writes “Yours” with Casey Brown and Jan. 21, performing current single “I Parker Welling in Nashville. Hate This” for Colton Underwood and his date, Elyse. Arts held a viewing party Jan. 25 at Nashville’s Back Corner, delivering • 2009 — The Oak Ridge Boys perform at the Grand Opera House in a short set in advance of the show that Galveston, Texas, where their audience includes former President included a moving version of the single George Bush and his wife, Barbara. as well as a tear-inducing new song, “I Called You Names.” Go here for a full Jan. 26 ARTS story about the episode. • 1979 — The Dukes of Hazzard debuts on CBS, starring John Schneider as Bo Duke, Tom Wopat as Luke Duke and Waylon Jennings as The Oscar nominations, announced Jan. 22, included a nod to Nashville- The Balladeer. Jennings also sings the show’s theme, “Good Ol’ Boys.” based Americana duo Dave Rawlings and Gillian Welch for penning a best original song finalist: “When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings,” from Jan. 27 the Netflix movie The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. Actors Tim Blake Nelson and • 2017 — Valory releases Brantley Gilbert’s The Devil Don’t Sleep Willie Watson perform the song in the film — Nelson also covers a couple of album. traditional cowboy numbers: the 1920s composition “Little Joe the Wrangler” • 2016 — Kane Brown announces on Twitter that he has signed with and the Sons of the Pioneers standard “Cool Water.” Rawlings and Welch face RCA. stiff competition from the likes of Lady Gaga, Diane Warren and Kendrick Lamar. The Oscars will be presented Feb. 24. Jan. 28 • 2018 — Chris Stapleton wins three trophies during the 60th annual Bluegrass legend Del McCoury will turn 80 on Feb. 1, and the Grand Ole Grammy Awards at Madison Square Garden in New York: best country Opry will celebrate the occasion on the evening of Feb. 13 with an installment album for From A Room: Volume 1, best country song for “Broken dubbed “Grand Del Opry.” Other guests include Vince Gill, Ricky Skaggs, Halos” and best country solo performance for “Either Way.” Marty Stuart, Sam Bush and The Travelin’ McCourys. Skaggs and Gill will • 1989 — Randy Travis’ “Deeper Than the Holler” climbs to No. 1 on also contribute to the annual Bluegrass Nights at the Ryman series this summer Billboard’s country chart. beginning June 20. Joining them in the lineup are The Earls of Leicester, Dailey & Vincent, Steep Canyon Rangers and Billy Strings. Source: RolandNote.com, the Ultimate Country Music Database

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Waterloo Revival visited WMIL Milwaukee in conjunction with a Independent Music Publicists Grapple With Jan. 18-19 booking at the Fire Pit. From left: WMIL assistant PD/ A Shrinking Media Landscape music director Shanna “Quinn” Hoy, Waterloo Revival’s George Birge, iHeartMedia/Milwaukee operations manager Kerry Wolfe and Waterloo Revival’s Cody Cooper. BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE JANUARY 22, 2019 | PAGE 12 OF 20

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 1 1 35 SPEECHLESS No. 1 (9 weeks) Dan + Shay 6 1 D.SMYERS,S.HENDRICKS (D.SMYERS,S.MOONEY,J.REYNOLDS,L.VELTZ) WARNER BROS./WAR 2 2 2 53 TEQUILA Dan + Shay RC 2 D.SMYERS,S.HENDRICKS (D.SMYERS,J.REYNOLDS,N.GALYON) WARNER BROS./WAR 3 3 3 60 MEANT TO BE Bebe Rexha & Florida Georgia Line RC 1 WILSHIRE (B.REXHA,T.HUBBARD,J.MILLER,D.A.GARCIA) WARNE R BROS./BMLG 4 4 4 31 SHE GOT THE BEST OF ME Luke Combs 7 2 S.MOFFATT (L.COMBS,R.SNYDER,C.WILSON) RIVER HOUSE/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE HH HH 5 7 11 37 BEAUTIFUL CRAZY Airplay Gainer Luke Combs 12 5 l S.MOFFATT (L.COMBS,W.B.DURRETTE,R.WILLIFORD) RIVER HOUSE/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE 6 9 8 23 SIXTEEN Thomas Rhett 1 6 l D.HUFF,J.FRASURE,THOMAS RHETT (THOMAS RHETT,S.M.DOUGLAS,JOE LONDON) VALORY 7 5 5 33 LOSE IT Kane Brown RC 1 D.HUFF (K.BROWN,C.MCGILL,W.WEATHERLY) ZONE 4/RCA NASHVILLE 8 11 12 19 GIRL LIKE YOU Jason Aldean 2 8 l M.KNOX (M.TYLER,J.BOYER,J.MIRENDA) MACON/BROKEN BOW BURNING MAN 9 10 9 30 Dierks Bentley Featuring Brothers Osborne 4 8 l R. COPPERMAN,J.R.STEWART (L.DICK,B.PINSON) CAPITOL NASHVILLE 10 6 6 36 BEST SHOT Jimmie Allen RC 5 A.BOWERS (J.ALLEN,J.LONDON,J.P.WILLIAMS) STONEY CREEK 11 13 14 26 THIS IS IT Scotty McCreery 5 11 l F.ROGERS,D.WELLS,A.ESHUIS (S.MCCREERY,F.ROGERS,A.ESHUIS) TRIPLE TIGERS 12 12 7 25 DRUNK ME Mitchell Tenpenny RC 6 J.M.SCHMIDT,M.TENPENNY (M.TENPENNY,J.M.SCHMIDT,J.T.WILSON) RISER HOUSE/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE 13 14 15 52 MILLIONAIRE Chris Stapleton 9 13 l D.COBB,C.STAPLETON (K.WELCH) MERCURY 14 16 17 17 WHAT MAKES YOU COUNTRY Luke Bryan 8 14 l J.STEVENS,J.STEVENS (L.BRYAN,D.DAVIDSON,A.GORLEY) CAP ITOL NASHVILLE 15 15 16 28 TAKE IT FROM ME Jordan Davis 10 15 P.DIGIOVANNI (J.DAVIS,J.DAVIS,J.GANTT) MCA NASHVILLE 16 17 18 23 DOWN TO THE HONKYTONK Jake Owen 14 16 l J.MOI (R.CLAWSON,L.LAIRD,S.MCANALLY) BIG LOUD 17 18 19 20 LOVE WINS Carrie Underwood 15 17 l D.GARCIA,C.UNDERWOOD (C.UNDERWOOD,D.A.GARCIA,BRETT JAMES) CAPITOL NASHVILLE 18 19 20 18 HERE TONIGHT Brett Young 19 18 D.HUFF (B.YOUNG,B.CAVER,J.EBACH,C.KELLEY) BMLG 19 21 21 31 BURN OUT Midland 11 19 l D.HUFF,S.MCANALLY,J.OSBORNE (J.CARSON,C.DUDDY,M.WYSTRACH,S.MCANALLY,J.OSBORNE) BIG MACHINE 20 20 22 15 MAKE IT SWEET Old Dominion 16 20 S.MCANALLY (M.RAMSEY,T. ROSEN,W.SELLERS,G.SPRUNG,B.TURSI,S.MCANALLY) RCA NASHVILLE 21 22 23 12 MISS ME MORE Kelsea Ballerini 23 21 l F.G.WHITEHEAD,J.MASSEY (K.BALLERINI,D.H.HODGES,B.MCLAUGHLIN) BLACK RIVER 22 24 25 23 ON MY WAY TO YOU Cody Johnson 21 22 l T.W.WILLMON (BRETT JAMES,T.LANE) COJO/WMN 23 23 26 22 NIGHT SHIFT Jon Pardi 18 23 l B.BUTLER,J.PARDI (T.BROWN,P.LARUE,B.MONTANA) CAPITOL NASHVILLE 24 25 24 21 THERE WAS THIS GIRL Riley Green 13 22 l D.HUFF (R.GREEN,ERIK DYLAN) BMLG 25 26 27 17 ONE THAT GOT AWAY Michael Ray 17 25 l S.HENDRICKS (J.FRASURE,T. ROSEN,M.RAMSEY,J.OSBORNE) ATLANTIC/WEA

21 22

The track rises 22-21 on Hot Country Songs The ballad hops to a new KELSEA (up 17 percent to 3.9 million U.S. streams CODY Hot Country Songs high (24-22), gaining BALLERINI JOHNSON Miss Me and 10 percent to 9.8 million in audience) On My Way by 28 percent to 5,000 sold and 12 percent More and climbs 25-23 on Country Airplay. to You to 3.8 million U.S. streams. LLOYD BISHOP/NBC/NBCU PHOTO BANK VIA GETTY IMAGES GETTY VIA BANK PHOTO BISHOP/NBC/NBCU LLOYD USA THUNDER COUNTRY FOR IMAGES DIAMOND/GETTY RICK BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE JANUARY 22, 2019 | PAGE 13 OF 20

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 26 27 28 19 RUMOR Lee Brice 30 26 l L.BRICE,J.STONE,K.JACOBS,D.FRIZSELL (L.BRICE,K.JACOBS,A.GORLEY) CURB HH HH 27 35 42 13 GOOD AS YOU Streaming Gainer Kane Brown 32 17 l D.HUFF (K.BROWN,B.BERRYHILL,S.CARTER,T.PHILLIPS,W.WEATHERLY) ZONE 4/RCA NASHVILLE 28 29 31 14 WHISKEY GLASSES Morgan Wallen 33 28 l J.MOI (B.BURGESS,K.KADISH) BIG LOUD 29 28 29 19 TALK YOU OUT OF IT Florida Georgia Line 31 19 l J.MOI (M.HARDY,H.PHELPS,J.ROGERS,A.VANDERHEYM) BM LG 30 31 33 22 EYES ON YOU Chase Rice 24 30 l C. DESTEFANO (C.RICE,C. DESTEFANO,A.GORLEY) DACK JANIELS/BROKEN BOW 31 30 30 15 NEVER COMIN DOWN Keith Urban 20 30 l J.KERR,K.URBAN (K.URBAN,J.KEAR,J.ABRAHART,SHY CARTER) HIT RED/CAPITOL NASHVILLE 32 33 34 27 THE DIFFERENCE Tyler Rich 25 32 l J.RAYMOND,L.RIMES (R.AKINS,B.BURGESS,D.DAWSON,J.DURRETT) VALORY 33 34 35 15 I DON’T KNOW ABOUT YOU Chris Lane - 33 l J.MOI (A.GORLEY,M.HARDY,H.PHELPS,J.RODGERS) BIG LOUD 34 32 32 15 NEON CHURCH Tim McGraw 22 24 B.GALLIMORE,T.MCGRAW (B.GOLDSMITH,R.E.LIPSEY,B.M.STENNIS) MCGRAW/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE 35 36 38 17 LOVE AIN’T Eli Young Band 26 35 l D.HUFF (R.COPPERMAN,A.GORLEY,S.MCANALLY) VALORY 36 38 36 12 LOVE SOMEONE Brett Eldredge 27 36 l R. COPPERMAN,B.ELDREDGE (B.ELDREDGE,R.COPPERMAN,H.MORGAN) ATLANTIC/W MN 37 39 39 26 CAUGHT UP IN THE COUNTRY Rodney Atkins Featuring The Fisk Jubilee Singers 29 37 l R.ATKINS,T.HEWITT,B.BOLLINGER (C.HARRINGTON,J.M.SCHMIDT,M.WALKER) CURB 38 37 37 4 PRAYED FOR YOU Matt Stell - 37 A.BOWERS,M.STELL (M.STELL,A.BOWERS,A.VELTZ) W IDE OPEN/RECORDS/GOOD COMPANY 39 40 40 6 STRONGER THAN ME Garth Brooks 47 39 G.BROOKS (R.W.TERRY,M.A.ROSSI) PEARL HH HH 40 48 — 2 WHAT WHISKEY DOES Digital Gainer Randy Houser Featuring Hillary Lindsey 35 40 l K.GATTIS (R.HOUSER,K.GATTIS,H.LINDSEY) STONEY CREEK 41 41 43 4 RULES OF BREAKING UP Brandon Ratcliff - 41 S.MCANALLY,P.GOOD (B.RATCLIFF,A.J.BABCOCK,BUSBEE,P.GOOD) MONUMENT/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE 42 43 44 5 WHAT HAPPENS IN A SMALL TOWN Brantley Gilbert + Lindsay Ell 39 31 l D.HUFF (B.GILBERT,R.AKINS,B.BERRYHILL,J.DUNNE) VALORY HH HH 43 NEW 1 NOTHING TO DO TOWN Hot Shot Debut Dylan Scott - 43 l M.ALDERMAN,C.GIBBS,J.E.NORMAN (D.SCOTT,M.ALDERMAN,C.TAYLOR) CURB GIRL 44 NEW 1 Maren Morris 28 44 l G.KURSTIN,M.MORRIS (M.MORRIS,S.AARONS,G.KURSTIN) COLUMBIA NASHVILLE 45 44 47 6 BRING IT ON OVER Billy Currington 49 44 D.HUFF,J.FRASURE (D.DAVIDSON,R.AKINS,B.HAYSLIP,J.FRASURE) MERCURY 46 46 49 4 FRIENDS DON’T Maddie & Tae 37 46 l J.ROBBINS,D.WELLS (M.MARLOW,T.DYE,J.M.NITE,J.EBACH) MER CURY 47 45 45 19 HOMESICK Kane Brown - 24 D.HUFF (K.BROWN,B.BERRYHILL,M.J.MCGINN,T.PHILLIPS) ZONE 4/RCA NASHVILLE 48 47 — 2 TO A T Ryan Hurd - 47 D.HUFF,A.ESHUIS (R.J.HURD,N.SPICER,L.VELTZ) RCA NASHVILLE 49 49 — 2 FEELS LIKE A PARTY LOCASH 34 49 l C.CROWDER,T.HUBBARD (P.BRUST,C.LUCAS,T.HUBBARD,C.CROWDER) WHEEL HOUSE 50 50 — 5 DIE FROM A BROKEN HEART Maddie & Tae - 48 l J.ROBBINS,D.WELLS (M.MARLOW,T.DYE,J.SINGLETON,D.RUTTAN) MERCURY

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

COUNTRY MARKET WATCH A Weekly National Music Sales Report YEAR-TO-DATE Year-Over-Year Album Sales Weekly Unit Sales Overall Unit Sales ALBUM SALES ’15 DIGITAL DIGITAL 2018 2019 CHANGE ALBUMS ALBUMS* TRACKS ’18 566 thousand ’14 Albums 566,000 406,000 -28.3% ’19 406 thousand This Week 199,000 64,000 682,000 Digital Tracks 1,962,000 1,384,000 -29.5% Last Week 208,000 64,000 702,000 Sales by Album Format DIGITAL TRACKS SALES Change -4.3% 0.0% -2.8% 2017 2018 CHANGE ’18 000.0 million1.96 million This Week Last Year 242,000 73,000 933,000 Physical 409,000 278,000 -32.0% ’19 1.38 million Change -17.8% -12.3% -26.9% Digital 158,000 128,000 -19.0% For week ending January 17, 2019. Figures are rounded. Compiled from a national sample of retail store and rack sales reports collected and *Digital album sales are also counted within album sales. provided by Nielsen Music.

For inquiries about any Nielsen Music data, please contact Josh Bennett at 615-807-1338 or [email protected] BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE JANUARY 22, 2019 | PAGE 14 OF 20

SALES, DATA STREAMING & SALES COMPILED BY DATA COMPILED BY

COUNTRY COUNTRY TOP COUNTRY ALBUMS STREAMING SONGS DIGITAL SONG SALES

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

ON CHT ARTIST ARTIST 2 WEEKS 2 WEEKS IMPRINT & NUMBER / DISTRIBUTING LABEL LUKE COMBS THIS ONE’S FOR YOU 1 1 60 MEANT TO BE 1 1 30 SPEECHLESS BEBE REXHA & FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE  DAN + SHAY  1 1 1 85 RIVER HOUSE/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE 538883*/SMN 1 1   SPEECHLESS TEQUILA DAN + SHAY DAN + SHAY 2 2 26 2 2 52 2 2 2 30 1 l DAN + SHAY  DAN + SHAY  l WARNER BROS. 570796/WMN TEQUILA BEAUTIFUL CRAZY CARRIE UNDERWOOD CRY PRETTY 3 3 47 3 3 37 3 11 9 18 1 l DAN + SHAY  l LUKE COMBS  l CAPITOL NASHVILLE 028557*/UMGN 0 KANE BROWN EXPERIMENT 4 4 23 SHE GOT THE BEST OF ME 4 4 21 DOWN TO THE HONKYTONK 4 3 3 10 1 LUKE COMBS  JAKE OWEN  l ZONE 4/RCA NASHVILLE /SMN CHRIS STAPLETON TRAVELLER 5 5 32 LOSE IT 5 5 24 SHE GOT THE BEST OF ME 5 4 4 194 MERCURY 019405*/UMGN 3 1 KANE BROWN  LUKE COMBS  THOMAS RHETT LIFE CHANGES 6 7 37 BEAUTIFUL CRAZY 6 6 11 MISS ME MORE 6 5 5 71 VALORY TR0300A/BMLG 1 1 LUKE COMBS  KELSEA BALLERINI  TENNESSEE WHISKEY RUMOR KANE BROWN KANE BROWN 7 8 93 7 9 5 7 6 6 111 ZONE 4/RCA NASHVILLE 530947*/SMN 1 1 l CHRIS STAPLETON  l LEE BRICE  DRUNK ME TENNESSEE WHISKEY JASON ALDEAN REARVIEW TOWN 8 6 23 8 8 158 8 7 7 40 MACON/BROKEN BOW/BMG 538375642*/BBMG (538375730) 0 1 MITCHELL TENPENNY  l CHRIS STAPLETON  HEAVEN MILLIONAIRE MITCHELL TENPENNY TELLING ALL MY SECRETS 9 9 63 9 11 16 9 8 8 5 RISER HOUSE/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE 587662*/SMN 5 KANE BROWN  l CHRIS STAPLETON  BEST SHOT ON MY WAY TO YOU BRETT YOUNG BRETT YOUNG 10 10 17 10 22 3 10 9 10 101 BMLG BY0100A* 1 2 JIMMIE ALLEN  l CODY JOHNSON  YOU MAKE IT EASY BURNING MAN 11 NEW 1 RANDY HOUSER MAGNOLIA 11 11 11 51 11 10 23 l STONEY CREEK/BMG 538429082*/BBMG JASON ALDEAN  DIERKS BENTLEY FEAT. BROTHERS OSBORNE  IN CASE YOU DIDN’T KNOW GIRL LIKE YOU 12 32 14 159 GEORGE STRAIT 50 NUMBER ONES 1 12 12 116 12 14 14 l MCA NASHVILLE 000459/UMGN (25.98) 7 BRETT YOUNG  l JASON ALDEAN  BRETT YOUNG TICKET TO L.A. 13 13 89 WHAT IFS 13 16 7 SIXTEEN 13 12 12 6 BMLG BMBY200A* 1 KANE BROWN FEAT. LAUREN ALAINA  THOMAS RHETT  JON PARDI CALIFORNIA SUNRISE 14 15 102 BODY LIKE A BACK ROAD 14 17 5 THIS IS IT 14 14 15 135 CAPITOL NASHVILLE 024744*/UMGN 1 1 SAM HUNT  SCOTTY MCCREERY  MERCY MEANT TO BE 15 20 13 15 ERIC CHURCH DESPERATE MAN 1 15 14 43 15 13 60 l EMI NASHVILLE 028733*/UMGN BRETT YOUNG  BEBE REXHA & FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE  KACEY MUSGRAVES GOLDEN HOUR 16 16 117 HURRICANE 16 15 29 LOSE IT 16 13 11 37 MCA NASHVILLE 027921*/UMGN 1 LUKE COMBS  KANE BROWN  SIMPLE GOOD GIRL CHRIS STAPLETON FROM A ROOM: VOLUME 1 17 20 27 17 18 8 17 17 17 89 MERCURY 026379*/UMGN 1 1 l FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE  l DUSTIN LYNCH 

ZAC BROWN BAND GREATEST HITS SO FAR... 18 17 90 DIE A HAPPY MAN 18 20 8 WHISKEY GLASSES 18 18 18 182 ROAR/SOUTHERN GROUND/ATLANTIC 546369/AG 3 THOMAS RHETT  MORGAN WALLEN  HERE TONIGHT DRUNK ME 19 22 31 33 MORGAN WALLEN IF I KNOW ME 11 19 19 3 19 12 26 l BIG LOUD DIGITAL EX BRETT YOUNG  MITCHELL TENPENNY  TAYLOR SWIFT RED 20 18 72 WHEN IT RAINS IT POURS 20 21 58 HEAVEN 20 16 16 163 BIG MACHINE 310400A*/BMLG (18.98) 7 1 LUKE COMBS  KANE BROWN 

FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE DIG YOUR ROOTS 21 21 56 MARRY ME 21 19 5 LAST SHOT 21 21 20 125 BMLG 0300* 1 1 THOMAS RHETT  KIP MOORE  JIMMIE ALLEN MERCURY LANE ONE NUMBER AWAY WHAT MAKES YOU COUNTRY 22 22 40 22 RE-ENTRY 22 19 19 12 STONEY CREEK/BMG 538411072/BBMG 11 LUKE COMBS  l LUKE BRYAN  TIM MCGRAW NUMBER ONE HITS LAST SHOT MAKE IT SWEET 23 23 2 23 RE-ENTRY 23 25 29 159 CURB 79205 (13.98) 1 6 KIP MOORE  l OLD DOMINION  MAREN MORRIS HERO SIXTEEN BEST SHOT 24 23 26 132 1 24 NEW 24 25 17 COLUMBIA NASHVILLE 516885*/SMN 0 l THOMAS RHETT  JIMMIE ALLEN  SAM HUNT MONTEVALLO 25 26 27 205 1 25 25 2 BURNING MAN 25 23 30 SIMPLE MCA NASHVILLE 021502/UMGN 3 DIERKS BENTLEY FEAT. BROTHERS OSBORNE FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE  Top Country Albums ranks the most popular country albums of the week, as compiled by Nielsen Music, The week’s top-streamed and top-selling paid download country songs, respectively, from sales reports based on multi-metric consumption (blending traditional album sales, track equivalent albums, and streaming collected and provided by Nielsen Music. Charts update weekly on Tuesdays at www.Billboard.Biz/ equivalent albums). Copyright 2019, Prometheus Global Media, LLC and Nielsen Music, Inc. All rights reserved. charts. Copyright 2019, Prometheus Global Media, LLC and Nielsen Music, Inc. All rights reserved. SALES DATA COMPILED BY AMERICANA/ FOLK ALBUMS

AGO POS. THIS THIS LAST LAST PEAK CERT. WEEK WEEK ARTIST TITLE WEEKS WEEKS ON CHT 2 WEEKS 2 WEEKS IMPRINT & NUMBER / DISTRIBUTING LABEL CHRIS STAPLETON TRAVELLER 1 1 1 140 MERCURY NASHVILLE 019405*/UMGN 3 1 2 2 2 9 MUMFORD & SONS DELTA 1 l GENTLEMEN OF THE ROAD 0240*/GLASSNOTE KACEY MUSGRAVES GOLDEN HOUR 3 3 3 42 MCA NASHVILLE 027921*/UMGN 1 CHRIS STAPLETON FROM A ROOM: VOLUME 1 4 4 4 89 MERCURY NASHVILLE 026379*/UMGN 1 1 5 5 5 186 HOZIER HOZIER 1 l RUBYWORKS 309996*/COLUMBIA 2 6 6 7 145 THE LUMINEERS CLEOPATRA 1 1 l DUALTONE 1738* 23 SIMON & GARFUNKEL SIMON AND GARFUNKEL’S GREATEST HITS 7 7 6 103 COLUMBIA 31350/LEGACY 3 8 9 8 59 CHRIS STAPLETON FROM A ROOM: VOLUME 2 1 MERCURY NASHVILLE 027408*/UMGN 0 The track re-enters Country Digital Song 9 10 11 181 ED SHEERAN + 2 1 OLD Sales at No. 23 (3,000 sold, up 3 percent). It ELEKTRA 530433*/EMG DOMINION rises 17-16 on Country Airplay and holds at JACK JOHNSON IN BETWEEN DREAMS Make It 10 11 13 97 JACK JOHNSON/BRUSHFIRE /REPUBLIC (13.98) 2 8 No. 20 on Hot Country Songs. Americana/Folk Albums ranks the most popular Americana/folk albums of the week, as compiled by Nielsen Music, Sweet based on multi-metric consumption (blending traditional album sales, track equivalent albums, and streaming equivalent albums). Copyright 2019, Prometheus Global Media, LLC and Nielsen Music, Inc. All rights reserved. JASON DAVIS/GETTY IMAGES FOR AIMP FOR IMAGES DAVIS/GETTY JASON BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE JANUARY 22, 2019 | PAGE 15 OF 20

MAKIN’ TRACKS TOM ROLAND [email protected] Brantley Gilbert, Lindsay Ell Aim To Make Big Noise With ‘Small Town’

Between the dark clothing, the tattoos and the swaggering, hard-rock edge personal contributions included the “little white Jeep” and “hand-me- heard in his brand of country, Brantley Gilbert casts an intentional tough- down Ford” that show up in the bridge. guy image. “This song was word-for-word for me,” says Gilbert. But “What Happens in a Small Town,” a new ballad featuring guest vocalist- While Gilbert’s real-life version of the story has a happy ending, in the song, guitarist Lindsay Ell, provides a peek behind it’s never resolved, leaving the listener to wonder the mask at another part of his personality. if the couple might reunite. His longtime producer Dann Huff (Keith “It’s kind of an unanswered thing,” notes Urban, Kane Brown) insists Gilbert is a “closet Akins. “It keeps saying, ‘I’m still here,’ and she’s romantic.” like, ‘I’m still here,’ and it’s like, ‘We’re over, I’m Gilbert bursts out laughing at the comment done, but I can’t help but see if someone’s sitting — “He would fucking say that,” the singer where I used to sit in your car.’ There’s just responds — but the story at the core of “Small enough space where they don’t see each other Town” supports the notion. It’s a song about two all the time, but they see each other enough.” people in an isolated community who parted They wrote the song after Gilbert did a ways and find that they can’t escape the breakup. Sept. 14 show with Kid Rock in Syracuse, and The town is filled with people and places that the next day in Saratoga Springs, they enlisted reinforce their history together, and their cars one of Rock’s backing singers, Stacy Michelle, periodically pass on the street, reminding them to sing the female part as a reference. Gilbert cut that their ex appears to be moving on with their it at Starstruck just two days later with his regular life, even though their own existence seems to guitarist, Jess Franklin, and studio drummer have ground to a halt. Chris McHugh providing much of the muscle. It’s a storyline Gilbert can personally identify Huff’s biggest challenge came in balancing with. He married Amber Cochran in 2015, but GILBERT (left) and ELL the closet romantic the song revealed with the they had endured a lengthy split in which they gritty part of Gilbert’s artistic persona. both had moved on to other relationships before reconciling. His performance “My only worry with Brantley is if you get it too soft and it’s too sweet, it in “Small Town” is a sonic flashback to the desperation and frustration he doesn’t sound honest,” says Huff. “That was the first conversation: ‘As long experienced during that period. as we can put some hair on this thing, it will be kind of cool.’ ” “I remember her not being in the picture like it was yesterday,” he says. Borchetta suggested Ell as the perfect female foil. Gilbert was afraid she “It sucked. Remembering those feelings, that’s not very hard for me to do. might turn him down, so Borchetta placed the call. Ell had already become For five years, man, thinking about somebody every day and never really acquainted with both Gilbert and his wife, and once she heard “Small Town,” forgetting them and not really having closure there, I don’t think I’ll ever she was onboard by the end of the first chorus. forget the way that felt.” “Not only was the melody great and the track great, but the premise of “Small Town” owes its genesis to another set of difficult emotions. Gilbert the song was a thing where I was like, ‘Yes, I can get behind that,’ ” she says. had a meeting in September 2018 with Big Machine Label Group president/ Ell had experienced her own relationship breakup with radio personality CEO Scott Borchetta, who was laudatory about Gilbert’s forthcoming album Bobby Bones in the small community of Nashville’s music industry, so she but felt it was missing a definitive first single. Gilbert’s initial response came was able to personalize the story in her own way. It was, she says, a “bucket-list from the tough-guy part of his personality. moment” to work on the track at Huff’s house, particularly when she used one “At first, it kind of ruffled my feathers,” he admits. “We’d been working on of his Les Paul guitars to craft a short solo loaded with classic-rock attitude. this thing a long time, and I was so proud of the songs on it. It’s like, ‘Dude, I’ve “As I was playing the solo, he was changing knobs on the amp and trying worked myself to the bone on this record. How do I not have these singles?’ to find the right tone and the right sound,” she says. “It was like Dann Huff But he wouldn’t say that if he didn’t think I had something else in the tank.” was guitar-teching for me, and that is amazing.” Before Gilbert even left Borchetta’s office, they placed a call to songwriter She was so driven to make the track work that she asked to come back the Rhett Akins (“Life Changes,” “Dirt On My Boots”) to ask for last-minute next day to work on it further, even though Huff was happy with the results help during a road trip to upstate New York on Sept. 14-15. Akins agreed to of that first day. go, though he was a tad intimidated by the deadline: They needed the song “I’m pretty thorough on vocals, and she kept saying, ‘Let me do it again,’ ” finished in time for Gilbert’s Sept. 17 recording session. he remembers. “That kind of impresses you. Same thing with the guitar. We “I felt a lot of immediate pressure,” concedes Akins. finished the first night, and I know we spent three or four hours working on Brock Berryhill (“Good As You”) came along, and as he arrived at the Mount it, and I remember her saying, ‘I’d love to come back and do this again.’ ” Juliet, Tenn., parking lot to board the bus, he flashed on “What Happens in a Valory released “Small Town” to country radio via PlayMPE on Dec. 14, Small Town,” an idea he had already started with fellow songwriter Josh Dunne. and it debuted on Country Airplay and Hot Country Songs before the close Gilbert, Akins and Berryhill knocked out an obvious uptempo song first, but of 2018. It’s currently at No. 39 after six weeks on the Airplay chart dated once it was finished, Berryhill brought up “Small Town,” which had a working Jan. 26 and No. 42 after five weeks on Hot Country Songs. chorus and a few lines from the first verse already in place. Fortunately, Gilbert Gilbert is encouraged by the early returns, especially knowing they passed could see his own experiences in Maysville, Ga., in the storyline. a difficult test by writing, while under intense pressure, a potential hit that “We knew where it was going,” says Berryhill. “It was really kind of letting reveals personal vulnerability. Brantley put himself in it.” “We write year-round, and to catch lightning in a bottle doesn’t happen Akins made some minor changes to the chorus, and the full group tweaked very often,” he says. “You don’t just sit down and say, ‘Hey, we’re going to

the first verse a bit, but the rest of the song was created that day. Gilbert’s write a No. 1 song.’ ” LLANES JOSEPH BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE JANUARY 22, 2019 | PAGE 16 OF 20 Country Indicator

AUDIENCE WKS PLAYS (IN MILLIONS) THIS LAST ON WEEK WEEK CHART TITLE Imprint/Label Artist THIS WEEK +/– THIS WEEK l1 3 18 SIXTEEN Valory HH No. 1 (1 week) HH Thomas Rhett 5183 +191 8.117 l2 4 19 GIRL LIKE YOU Macon/Broken Bow Jason Aldean 4864 +231 7.659 l3 5 27 THIS IS IT Triple Tigers Scotty McCreery 4786 +361 7.499 4 1 29 BURNING MAN Capitol Nashville Dierks Bentley Feat. Brothers Osborne 4753 -303 7.922 l5 7 14 WHAT MAKES YOU COUNTRY Capitol Nashville Luke Bryan 4703 +330 7.203 6 2 37 GOOD GIRL Broken Bow Dustin Lynch 4293 -702 7.333 l7 8 39 MILLIONAIRE Mercury Chris Stapleton 4054 +170 6.025 l8 9 35 TAKE IT FROM ME MCA Nashville Jordan Davis 4010 +380 6.028 l9 10 39 BURN OUT Big Machine Midland 3731 +270 5.553 l10 12 24 THERE WAS THIS GIRL BMLG Riley Green 3630 +291 5.599 l11 11 24 DOWN TO THE HONKYTONK Big Loud Jake Owen 3583 +209 5.393 l12 13 19 LOVE WINS Capitol Nashville Carrie Underwood 3187 +285 4.750 l13 18 8 BEAUTIFUL CRAZY River House/Columbia Nashville Luke Combs 3020 +448 4.544 l14 14 25 NIGHT SHIFT Capitol Nashville Jon Pardi 2986 +206 4.302 l15 16 14 MAKE IT SWEET RCA Nashville Old Dominion 2913 +171 4.506 l16 15 22 NEVER COMIN DOWN Hit Red/Capitol Nashville Keith Urban 2777 +15 3.900 l17 19 21 ON MY WAY TO YOU CoJo/WMN Cody Johnson 2657 +179 3.779 l18 20 17 HERE TONIGHT BMLG Brett Young 2636 +299 3.427 l19 21 22 ONE THAT GOT AWAY Atlantic/WEA Michael Ray 2529 +320 3.709 20 17 16 NEON CHURCH McGraw/Columbia Nashville Tim McGraw 2387 -204 3.457 l21 22 14 MISS ME MORE Black River Kelsea Ballerini 2012 +243 2.387 l22 23 31 THE DIFFERENCE Valory Tyler Rich 1734 +89 2.312 l23 24 24 LOVE AIN’T Valory Eli Young Band 1645 +130 2.154 l24 25 26 LOVE SOMEONE Atlantic/WMN Brett Eldredge 1460 +211 1.884 l25 26 12 TALK YOU OUT OF IT BMLG Florida Georgia Line 1289 +82 1.489 l26 27 38 CAUGHT UP IN THE COUNTRY Curb Rodney Atkins Feat. The Fisk Jubilee Singers 1082 +157 1.491 l27 33 14 EYES ON YOU Dack Janiels/Broken Bow Chase Rice 1044 +285 1.307 l28 39 2 GOOD AS YOU RCA Nashville HH Most Increased Plays/Most Added HH Kane Brown 1031 +503 1.741 l29 29 19 WHISKEY GLASSES Big Loud Morgan Wallen 977 +127 0.992 l30 28 17 BACK TO LIFE Big Machine Rascal Flatts 897 +28 0.970

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AUDIENCE WKS PLAYS (IN MILLIONS) THIS LAST ON WEEK WEEK CHART TITLE Imprint/Label Artist THIS WEEK +/– THIS WEEK l31 30 33 FRIENDS DON’T Mercury Maddie & Tae 873 +47 0.992 l32 34 18 FEELS LIKE A PARTY Wheelhouse LOCASH 861 +103 1.228 l33 32 18 BRING IT ON OVER Mercury Billy Currington 822 +16 0.887 l34 35 8 RUMOR Curb Lee Brice 799 +134 0.923 35 31 10 BUCKED OFF Arista Nashville Brad Paisley 790 -23 0.963 l36 38 3 WHAT HAPPENS IN A SMALL TOWN Valory Brantley Gilbert & Lindsay Ell 712 +147 0.896 l37 36 25 WHAT WHISKEY DOES Stoney Creek Randy Houser Feat. Hillary Lindsey 706 +49 0.902 l38 37 28 YADA YADA YADA EMI Nashville Brandon Lay 686 +44 0.643 l39 45 2 SOME OF IT EMI Nashville Eric Church 654 +244 0.783 l40 43 7 CLOSER TO YOU Big Machine Carly Pearce 563 +151 0.592 l41 40 8 BUY MY OWN DRINKS Wheelhouse Runaway June 530 +46 0.697 l42 41 11 LADIES IN THE ‘90S 19/Mercury Lauren Alaina 504 +30 0.402 l43 44 17 THE IN BETWEEN Captain & Bear Cash Campbell 438 +26 0.444 l44 42 13 I THINK TOO MUCH Southern Halo Southern Halo 432 +13 0.443 l45 57 2 KISS THAT GIRL GOODBYE BIG Label Aaron Watson 401 +133 0.504 l46 46 12 I DON’T REMEMBER ME (BEFORE YOU) EMI Nashville Brothers Osborne 377 +12 0.328 l47 49 6 AIN’T IT BABY Josh Ward Josh Ward 366 +32 0.446 l48 48 9 NOW WE’RE GETTIN’ SOMEWHERE Bison Creek James Robert Webb 362 +27 0.367 l49 51 3 DON’T LET THE OLD MAN IN Show Dog Nashville Toby Keith 359 +42 0.440 l50 47 7 ROCKIN’ ALL NIGHT LONG Buena Vista/Capitol Nashville Adam Hambrick 351 +6 0.278 l51 50 10 FINE BY ME Dreamlined/Nightlife Marty Heddin 347 +15 0.405 l52 54 8 WONDER WOMAN Show Dog Nashville Waterloo Revival 315 +32 0.340 l53 NEW GIRL Columbia Nashville HH Hot Shot Debut HH Maren Morris 310 +310 0.510 l54 55 9 WHEN IT COMES TO LOVING YOU 32 Bridge/EMI Nashville Jon Langston 288 +14 0.267 l55 59 2 LOVE YOU TOO LATE Warner Bros./WMN Cole Swindell 285 +19 0.308 l56 60 3 A LITTLE ON THE REDNECK SIDE Dream Walkin’ Smith & Wesley 276 +12 0.300 57 58 6 STRONGER THAN ME Pearl Garth Brooks 266 -2 0.497 58 53 2 RUINED THIS TOWN HH Lee Gantt 261 -30 0.407 l59 NEW GOT MY NAME CHANGED BACK RCA Nashville Pistol Annies 259 +24 0.274 60 52 6 THE ONES THAT DIDN’T MAKE IT BACK HOME Valory Justin Moore 258 -35 0.279

CHARTS LEGEND RANKINGS station downtime for the format. gaining enough audience points MOST INCREASED AUDIENCE/ Country Airplay is ranked by Titles that decline in audience to bullet or if they rank below No. PLAYS total audience impressions but increase in detections will 10 and post a third consecutive Most Increased Audience on for the week ending Sunday also receive a bullet if the total week of (non-bulleted) audience Country Airplay and Most based on monitored airplay of audience erosion for the week decline, regardless of total chart Increased Plays on Country 149 stations by Nielsen BDS. does not exceed 3%. Bullets are weeks. On Country Indicator, Indicator list the songs with the Audience totals on the chart are awarded on Country Indicator to descending, non-bulleted titles greatest week-to-week increases derived, in part, using certain titles gaining plays or remaining below No. 10 are moved to in total audience or plays, Arbitron Inc. copyrighted flat from the previous week. recurrent after 20 weeks or if they respectively. Persons 12+ audience post a third consecutive week of estimates (under license © TIES decline in plays after 10 weeks. AIRPOWER 2019, Arbitron Inc.) Country On Country Airplay, if two songs Awarded on Country Airplay to Indicator is tabulated using are tied in total audience, the song HOT SHOT DEBUT titles ranking inside top 20 in reported playlists and Nielsen with the larger increase in audience Awarded to the highest-ranking plays and audience rankings for BDS-monitored airplay at 109 is placed first. On Country Indicator, new entry on Country Airplay and the first time, with increases in stations, ranked by total plays. if two songs are tied in total plays, Country Indicator, respectively. both plays and audience. the song with the larger increase in BULLETS plays is placed first. MOST ADDED BREAKER l Awarded on Country Airplay The total number of new adds Awarded on Country Airplay to titles gaining audience or RECURRENTS officially reported to Billboard by to titles achieving airplay (at remaining flat from the previous On Country Airplay, descending each reporting station, or by an least one detection) at 60% of week. A song will also receive titles below No. 10 in either automatic-add threshold (seven plays reporting stations for the first a bullet if its percentage loss audience or detections are moved for the first time in a chart tracking time. in audience does not exceed to recurrent after 20 weeks, week, according to Nielsen BDS) for the percentage of monitored provided that they are not still stations that do not report adds. © 2019 Prometheus Global Media, LLC BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE JANUARY 22, 2019 | PAGE 18 OF 20 Country Airplay Index

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

TITLE Publishing-Licensing Org. FRIENDS DON’T Super Big Music, ASCAP/Seven MEANT TO BE BMG Platinum Songs, BMI/ S   (Songwriter) Chart Position Red Brids Publishing, ASCAP/Jehovah Nissi, BMI/Big Big Loud Mountain, BMI/Kiss Me If You Can Music, Machine Music, BMI/EMI April Music, Inc., ASCAP/Memory BMI/T Hubb Publishing, BMI/Round Hill Works, BMI/ SHE GOT THE BEST OF ME Big Music B   Days, SESAC/Wordspring Music, LLC, SESAC/W.B.M. Music Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Songs Of Machine, BMI/50 Egg Music, BMI/Straight Dimes Corp., SESAC (M.Marlow, T.Dye, J.M.Nite, J.Ebach) 46 The Corn, BMI/Jack 10 Publishing, BMI/Universal Music Publishing, BMI/Little Extra Songs, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs BEAUTIFUL CRAZY Big Machine Music, BMI/ - Brentwood Benson Publishing, ASCAP/D Soul Music, Music Publishing LLC, ASCAP/No Cats Round Here Music, Egg Music, BMI/Straight Dimes Publishing, BMI/Works G   ASCAP/Capitol CMG Genesis, ASCAP (B.Rexha, T.Hubbard, ASCAP/Heart Scarred Songs, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Of RHA Music, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing J.Miller, D.A.Garcia) 3 Publishing Corp., BMI/Super LCS Publishing, BMI (L. Corp., BMI/Rowdy Rob Music, BMI (L.Combs, W.B.Durrette, GIRL International Dog Music, BMI/Downtown DMP Combs, R.Snyder, C.Wilson) 4 R.Williford) 5 Songs, BMI/Sony/ATV Songs LLC, BMI/Sony/ATV Music MILLIONAIRE Universal Tunes, SESAC/Spur 66 Publishing (Australia) Pty Ltd., APRA/EMI April Music, Music, SESAC (K.Welch) 13 SIXTEEN EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Cricket On BEST SHOT Red Lining Music, SESAC/Amplified Inc., ASCAP/Kurstin Music, ASCAP (M.Morris, S.Aarons, The Line, BMI/Sony/ATV Ballad, BMI/Eastman Pond Hour Songs, SESAC/Castle Bound Music, Inc., SESAC/Rio G.Kurstin) 44 MISS ME MORE Songs Of Black River, ASCAP/KNB Publishing, BMI/Big Deal Beats, BMI/Brodsky Spensive Bravo Music, Inc., BMI/Blonde Leading Blind, BMI (J.Allen, Music, ASCAP/3 Weddings Music, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Publishing, BMI/Nice Life, BMI (Thomas Rhett, S.M.Douglas, J.London, J.P.Williams) 10 GIRL LIKE YOU Peertunes, Ltd., SESAC/MTNoize, Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI/EMI April Music, Inc., Joe London) 6 SESAC/Jaron Boyer Music, SESAC/Music Of The Corn, ASCAP/Bob Ochoa’s Homemade Salsa, ASCAP (K.Ballerini, BRING IT ON OVER Round Hill Compositions, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP (M.Tyler, J.Boyer, J.Mirenda) 8 D.H.Hodges, B.McLaughlin) 21 SPEECHLESS Beats And Banjos, ASCAP/WB BMI/Natalia’s Music Money, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Music Corp., ASCAP/Shay Mooney Music, BMI/Warner- Publishing Corp., BMI/Ritten by Rhettro, BMI/WB Music GOOD AS YOU Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/ N   Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Buckeye26, ASCAP/ Corp., ASCAP/Thankful For This Music, ASCAP/Pinetucky Kane Brown Music, BMI/Don’t Be A Gypsy, BMI/ Jreynmusic, ASCAP/Big Music Machine, BMI/Never Veltz Road Publishing, ASCAP/Telemitry Rhythm House Music, Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/BMG Rights NEON CHURCH BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP/Go For So Good Publishing, BMI (D.Smyers, S.Mooney, J.Reynolds, BMI/Songs Of Roc Nation Music, BMI (D.Davidson, R.Akins, Management (UK) Ltd., PRS/You Want How Much Of The Goldsmith, ASCAP/Big Deal Beats, BMI/Songs Of L.Veltz) 1 B.Hayslip, J.Frasure) 45 What Publishing, PRS/TDP Publishing, BMI/Track House Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI/Dead Aim Worldwide Entertainment, BMI/Mandy’s Favorite Songs, Music, BMI/The Stennis Mightier Music, BMI/Young Guns STRONGER THAN ME Terry And Tom Music, BURNING MAN Emileon Songs, BMI/Little Louder BMI (K.Brown, B.Berryhill, S.Carter, T.Phillips, W.Weatherly) 27 Publishing, LLC, BMI (B.Goldsmith, R.E.Lipsey, B.M.Stennis) 34 ASCAP/Bedroll Music, ASCAP/Major Bob Music, Inc., Songs, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, ASCAP (R.W.Terry, M.A.Rossi) 39 Inc., BMI/New Writers Of Sea Gayle Music, BMI/Not A H   NEVER COMIN DOWN Songs Of Universal, Inc., Track Guy Music, BMI (L.Dick, B.Pinson) 9 BMI/MAROMA Music, BMI/Songs Of Black River, ASCAP/ T   HERE TONIGHT Super Big Music, ASCAP/ Whistlepig Winners, ASCAP/James Abrahart Publishing BURN OUT WB Music Corp., ASCAP/TipTop Music, Caliville Publishing, ASCAP/Songs Of Black River, Designee, SESAC/Artist 101 Publishing Group, BMI/Songs TAKE IT FROM ME Ole Red Cape Songs, ASCAP/ ASCAP/Tropical Cowboy Publishing, ASCAP/Warner- ASCAP/Wordspring Music, LLC, SESAC/Memory Days, Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI/BMG Jordan Davis Music, ASCAP/ReHits Music, Inc., ASCAP/ Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Kitt Cass Publishing SESAC/W.B.M. Music Corp., SESAC/The Best I Could Do Rights Management (UK) Ltd., PRS/You Want How Much MeGusta Music, ASCAP/Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/ Corporation, BMI/Smack Hits, GMR/Smack Songs LLC, Publishing, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP (B.Young, Of What Publishing, PRS/BMG Platinum Songs, BMI/Lets Songs Of Red Bandana, BMI (J.Davis, J.Davis, J.Gantt) 15 GMR/Kobalt Music Group Ltd., GMR/Songs Of Black River, B.Caver, J.Ebach, C.Kelley) 18 Get Brunch Publishing, BMI (K.Urban, J.Kear, J.Abrahart, Shy Carter) 31 TALK YOU OUT OF IT Relative Music Group, ASCAP/One Little Indian Creek Music, ASCAP (J.Carson, HOMESICK Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Kane BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., C.Duddy, M.Wystrach, S.McAnally, J.Osborne) 19 Brown Music, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., NIGHT SHIFT Maxx Music, BMI/Let The Road Pave BMI/Who Wants To Buy My Publishing, ASCAP/WB Music C   BMI/Don’t Be A Gypsy, BMI/Smackworks Music, SESAC/ Itself, BMI/Razor And Tie Music Publishing, BMI/Mike Corp., ASCAP/Highly Combustible Music, ASCAP/One77 Kobalt Group Music Publishing, SESAC/Smack Blue, LLC, Curb Music, BMI/Rain Town Music, BMI (T.Brown, P.LaRue, Songs, ASCAP/Castle Bound Music, Inc., SESAC (M.Hardy, CAUGHT UP IN THE COUNTRY WB Music SESAC/TDP Publishing, BMI (K.Brown, B.Berryhill, M.J.McGinn, B.Montana) 23 H.Phelps, J.Rogers, A.Vanderheym) 29 Corp., ASCAP/Freshy Music, ASCAP/We-Volve Music, T.Phillips) 47 ASCAP/Goes Something Like THIS Music, BMI/Warner- NOTHING TO DO TOWN Curb Songs, ASCAP/ TEQUILA WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Beats And Banjos, Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Make It Matter Music, I   Curb Congregation Songs, SESAC/Good Vibes Publishing, ASCAP/Buckeye26, ASCAP/Jreynmusic, ASCAP/Warner- BMI/Good Times Music, SESAC/Universal Music Corp., Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/A Girl Named Charlie, BMI/Sixteen Stars Music, BMI (C.Harrington, J.M.Schmidt, I DON’T KNOW ABOUT YOU Round Hill M.Walker) 37 ASCAP/No Bridge Publishing, ASCAP (D.Scott, M.Alderman, BMI (D.Smyers, J.Reynolds, N.Galyon) 2 Songs II, ASCAP/Caleb’s College Fund, ASCAP/WB C.Taylor) 43 D   Music Corp., ASCAP/Who Wants To Buy My Publishing, THERE WAS THIS GIRL Riley Green Publishing ASCAP/Relative Music Group, BMI/One77 Songs, ASCAP/ O   Designee, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/ DIE FROM A BROKEN HEART Super Big Highly Combustible Music, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Peermusic III, Ltd., BMI/Tawnes Van Hawke Publishing, Music, ASCAP/Seven Red Brids Publishing, ASCAP/ Publishing LLC, ASCAP (A.Gorley, M.Hardy, H.Phelps, ONE THAT GOT AWAY Downtown DMP Songs, BMI (R.Green, Erik Dylan) 24 Big Music Machine, BMI/Jehovah Nissi, BMI/Jet Music, J.Rodgers) 33 BMI/Telemitry Productions, BMI/ReHits Music, Inc., ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Thankful For This Music, ASCAP/Smacktown Music, ASCAP/Carrot Seed Songs, THIS IS IT Dagum Music, BMI/Austintatious Tunes, ASCAP/Doc And Maggie Music, SOCAN (M.Marlow, T.Dye, L   ASCAP/Smack Songs LLC, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music BMI/Spirit Two Nashville, ASCAP/Fluid Tunes, ASCAP/ J.Singleton, D.Ruttan) 50 Publishing LLC, ASCAP/Anderson Fork In The Road Music, Smackville Music, ASCAP/Smack Songs LLC, ASCAP/Ice LOSE IT Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Kane Brown ASCAP/Smackville Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP House Tunes, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, THE DIFFERENCE Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Music, BMI/Plum Nelly, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane (J.Frasure, T. Rosen, M.Ramsey, J.Osborne) 25 ASCAP (S.McCreery, F.Rogers, A.Eshuis) 11 Corp., BMI/Ritten by Rhettro, BMI/Mr. Buck Lucky, BMI/ Publishing Corp., BMI/Mandy’s Favorite Songs, BMI/Track Bump Into Genius Music, BMI/Neon Cross Music, BMI/ House Worldwide Entertainment, BMI (K.Brown, C.McGill, ON MY WAY TO YOU WB Music Corp., ASCAP/ TO A T Universal Music Corp., ASCAP/Lake Allegan Magic Mustang Music Inc., BMI (R.Akins, B.Burgess, W.Weatherly) 7 Songs Of Brett, ASCAP/Atlas Music Publishing, ASCAP/ Pub Club, ASCAP/Red Like The Sunset Music, ASCAP/ D.Dawson, J.Durrett) 32 External Combustion Music, ASCAP/BMG Gold Songs, Spicer And Everyting Nicer, ASCAP/Ole Red Cape Songs, LOVE AIN’T EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Plain ASCAP/Heytone Music, ASCAP (Brett James, T.Lane) 22 ASCAP/Big Music Machine, BMI/Never Veltz So Good DOWN TO THE HONKYTONK Round Hill Jane Songs, BMI/Rezolant Music, BMI/Combustion Publishing, BMI (R.J.Hurd, N.Spicer, L.Veltz) 48 Works, BMI/Big Loud Proud Crowd, BMI/Round Hill Engine Music, ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/WB P   Compositions, BMI/Shirt At Work, BMI/Sony/ATV Story Music Corp., ASCAP/Smack Hits, GMR/Smack Songs LLC, W   Music Publishing, GMR/We Are Creative Nation, GMR/ GMR/Kobalt Music Group Ltd., GMR (R.Copperman, A.Gorley, PRAYED FOR YOU Pedal Down Music, ASCAP/ S.McAnally) 35 Big Spaces Music, BMI/Tunes Of Big Deal Music, SESAC/ WHAT HAPPENS IN A SMALL TOWN Smack Hits, GMR/Smack Songs LLC, GMR/Kobalt Music Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Indiana Angel Group Ltd., GMR (R.Clawson, L.Laird, S.McAnally) 16 Songs Of Porterfied Music, SESAC (M.Stell, A.Bowers, LOVE SOMEONE Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI/Paris A.Veltz) 38 Music, BMI/Ritten by Rhettro, BMI/Don’t Be A Gypsy, BMI/Revelry Music, BMI/Badlandsmgmt, BMI/Songs Of DRUNK ME Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI/WB Music Not France Music, BMI/EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/ Corp., ASCAP/Freshy Music, ASCAP/We-Volve Music, Rezolant Music, BMI/Plain Jane Songs, BMI/Sony/ATV R   Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI (B.Gilbert, ASCAP/Legends Of Magic Mustang Music, SESAC/BMG Tree Publishing, BMI/Heather Feather Songs, BMI (B. R.Akins, B.Berryhill, J.Dunne) 42 Eldredge, R.Copperman, H.Morgan) 36 RULES OF BREAKING UP Kobalt Songs Music Silver Songs, SESAC (M.Tenpenny, J.M.Schmidt, J.T.Wilson) 12 Publishing LLC, ASCAP/Haus Of Kings, ASCAP/Twin WHAT MAKES YOU COUNTRY Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/Peanut Mill Songs, BMI/Round E   LOVE WINS Carrie-Okie Music, BMI/Universal Music Spires, ASCAP/King Pen Songs, SESAC/Kobalt Group - Brentwood Benson Publishing, ASCAP/D Soul Music, Music Publishing, SESAC/Porchlight, SESAC/Warner- Hill Compositions, BMI/Natalia’s Music Money, BMI/ EYES ON YOU Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI/Dack ASCAP/Capitol CMG Genesis, ASCAP/Songs Of Brett, Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/7189 Music Publishing, Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., Janiel’s Publishing, BMI/EMI April Music, Inc., ASCAP/ ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP (C.Underwood, D.A.Garcia, BMI/Music Of Big Deal, BMI/Songs Of Downtown, ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite Songs, ASCAP (L.Bryan, D.Davidson, CDS Words And Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/ Brett James) 17 SESAC/Garda Songs, SESAC (B.Ratcliff, A.J.Babcock, busbee, A.Gorley) 14 Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite P.Good) 41 WHAT WHISKEY DOES EMI Blackwood Music Songs, ASCAP (C.Rice, C. DeStefano, A.Gorley) 30 M   RUMOR Mike Curb Music, BMI/Curb Songs, ASCAP/ Inc., BMI/Little Britches Music, BMI/Gattis Music, BMI/ F   MAKE IT SWEET Carrot Seed Songs, ASCAP/WB Jacobsong, ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/ Rezonate Music, ASCAP/BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP/BIRB Music Corp., ASCAP/Smackville Music, ASCAP/Smack Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., Music, ASCAP (R.Houser, K.Gattis, H.Lindsey) 40 FEELS LIKE A PARTY ole Purple Cape Music, Songs LLC, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, ASCAP (L.Brice, K.Jacobs, A.Gorley) 26 BMI/Mars Marley Music, BMI/Big Loud Mountain, BMI/ ASCAP/Rezsongs, ASCAP/ReHits Music, Inc., ASCAP/ WHISKEY GLASSES Warner-Tamerlane Round Hill Works, BMI/T Hubb Publishing, BMI/WB Smacktown Music, ASCAP/Smack Blue, LLC, ASCAP/ Publishing Corp., BMI/Mr. Buck Lucky, BMI/Bump Into Music Corp., ASCAP/Georgia Song Vibez, ASCAP/Big Unfair Entertainment, ASCAP/MeGusta Music, ASCAP/ Genius Music, BMI/Sony/ATV Allegro, ASCAP/Over- Crowd Publishing, ASCAP (P.Brust, C.Lucas, T.Hubbard, Tiny Handstand, ASCAP/Sharkules Music, ASCAP/ Thought Under-Appreciated Songs, ASCAP/Rezven C.Crowder) 49 We’re Really Doin’ It Publishing, ASCAP/Smack Hits, Music, ASCAP/Moving Targest In The Dark, ASCAP (B. GMR/Kobalt Music Group Ltd., GMR (M.Ramsey, T. Rosen, Burgess, K.Kadish) 28 W.Sellers, G.Sprung, B.Tursi, S.McAnally) 20 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE JANUARY 22, 2019 | PAGE 20 OF 20 CODA On Jan. 28, 1978, Loretta Lynn’s Opry in 1962, was inducted into 41 Years Ago “Out of My Head and Back in My Bed” the Country Music Hall of Fame in hit No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Country 1988 and won the Legend Award at Songs chart. Written by Peggy For- Billboard’s 2015 Women in Music Loretta Lynn man and produced by Owen Brad- celebration. ley, the song became Lynn’s 16th On April 1 at Nashville’s Bridge- Was ‘Back’ and most recent leader on the list. stone Arena, an all-star cast will Lynn was born in Butcher Hol- join Lynn for a concert in honor of low, Ky., on April 14, 1932 as the her upcoming 87th birthday. “My At No. 1 second of eight children; the young- birthday wish has come true,” Lynn est, Crystal Gayle, was born in said. “The only other wish I have is 1951. Lynn was just 15 when she that Keith Urban jumps out of my In 1978, the legend scored her married Oliver “Doolittle” Lynn birthday cake!” Replied Urban, one last Hot Country Songs leader. and the much-chronicled drama of the night’s many scheduled per- in their marriage helped fuel her formers, “Your wish is always my craft as a songwriter. command, Miss Loretta!” Lynn joined the Grand Ole —JIM ASKER

Lynn in the late 1970s.

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