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February 10, 2020, Issue 691 Power Gold: Concentration Game This edition of Country Aircheck’s Power Gold is led by eight artists who combine for 46 of the Top 100 most-heard Gold hits. and lead the parade with seven songs apiece, followed by and with six each. Rounding out the top PG hit-makers are , , and , all with five hits in the Top 100. One artist – – places four songs in this elite group, meaning that nine acts are responsible for 50% of the current Power Gold. More thoughts on that later. Twenty-three songs from 20 artists are new Luke Bryan to the Top 100 since we ran the list last year (CAW 1/14/19). Interestingly, four songs in that group are more than five years old and are actually making a return appearance to the PG 100. They are Tim McGraw’s “Live Like You Were Dying” (2004), Bentley’s “Free And Easy (Down The Staff Hearted: WNCY/Appleton, WI’s Shotgun Shannon, Luke Road I Go)” (2007), Bryan’s “I See You” (2015) and FGL’s “Sippin’ Reid, Charli McKenzie, Hannah, Dan Stone and PJ (l-r) show On Fire” (2015). off the station’s 23rd annual Y100 Country Cares for St. Jude This Top 100 Power Gold – along with the airplay information in Kids Radiothon total. the previous paragraph – is culled from Mediabase 24/7 and music airplay information from the Country Aircheck/Mediabase reporting panel for the week of January 26-Feb. 1, 2020. Here’s CMA Sets Trend For Industry the Top 10: Know your audience. That’s the goal of CMA’s new research tool TrendWatch, launched last week (CAT 2/4). The monthly 1. Dustin Lynch/Small Town Boy snapshot of consumer behavior relative to is based 2. Darius Rucker/Wagon Wheel on independent research of 12,000 music 3. /When It Rains It Pours listeners. February’s first installment focused on 4. / a growth in country listening, which is a good 5. Florida Georgia Line/Cruise thing to know for a number of reasons. 6. f// “The goal is to educate the industry on 7. Zac Brown Band/Chicken Fried Florida Georgia Line the country music consumer of today and 8. Blake Shelton/A Guy With A Girl monitor shifts as our audience expands,” says 9. / Make You Wanna CMA Sr. Dir./Consumer Insights & Research 10. Blake Shelton/Honey Bee Karen Stump. “We focused on defining key Karen Stump (continued on page 7) engagement metrics that would translate to the

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My Tunes: Jim Dorman industry broadly but also worked to develop a study that represented the broad country music audience that it has become.” iHeartMedia/Wichita cluster PD Jim Any country professional whose efforts intersect with those Dorman discusses his most influential outside the format/genre can find application. “The data has music: uses in selling country as a genre, supporting brand opportunities 1. The Beach Boys: Growing up in Southern with partners and tracking shifts in engagements relative to new CA, it was a rite of passage to be a Beach Boys initiatives at the genre level by access providers, just to name a fan. I have more than 60 different Beach Boys’ few,” Stump says. “The ongoing understanding of these country on vinyl. audience behaviors is an educational opportunity for all of us as 2. The first concert I ever attended was Jim Dorman we seek to grow the genre.” The Beach Boys at the Dec. 9, An outgrowth of CMA’s 2017 study The State of Country Music 1977. That was a religious experience for a huge fan. Streaming, TrendWatch’s first iteration – sent to members via 3. Electric Light Orchestra’s Discovery: I was a huge Jeff email – pulled insights from May to December 2019. A standout Lynne fan. in its findings was the overall increase in daily listening among 4. The Rolling Stones’ Bridges to Babylon Tour at RFK the country audience, from 25% in May to 27% by year’s end. But Stadium: The second best concert I ever attended. ...what exactly is “daily country listening?” “Any platform they can 5. Chicago: I love their non-wimpy music. Show me an artist choose to listen to country music, which includes AM/FM radio, with a horn section, and I’m in. satellite radio, all major DSPs, their personal CD collection, digital • Highly regarded music you’ve actually never heard: songs and albums, TV and video (which includes YouTube and I have yet to listen to a . The only songs Vevo),” says Stump. I’ve heard are the singles. Additional findings: • An “important” piece or style of music you just don’t The shift in more daily listeners is most evident among 18- to get: Bluegrass. 34-year-old and 50- to 64-year-old country listeners. • An album you listened to incessantly: Runaway June’s The average country listener spends roughly 50% of their music new album [Blue Roses]. Their version of “Fast As You” is an listening time with country and the same share with other genres. amazing cover. Country audience size held steady across 2019 with one in two • An obscure or non-country song everyone should adults listening to country at least monthly. listen to right now: Plastic Bertrand’s “Ça Plane Pour Moi.” CMA members can expect the monthly update of key measures, You can’t sit still listening. Plus, it has a Beach Boys-feel to me plus a more detailed version shared on a quarterly basis. The … at least with the background singers. information is expected to evolve and grow but will keep tabs on • Music you’d rather not admit to enjoying: Prior to baseline trends. Additional insights may include demographic this moment, I would never have admitted to listening to the segmentation and regional analysis. Membership can be applied Backstreet Boys. for here. –Caitlin DeForest

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Flip Side Effects: The C’Ya On The Flipside II Concert raises $200,000 for The Troy Gentry Foundation Wednesday (2/5) at the House.

Chart Chat News & Notes Congratulations to , Steve Hodges, Shane Pat Green will perform during the Texas Heritage Allen and the Columbia promotion team on ’ Association 2020 Hall of Fame Awards Show Feb. landing at No. 1 with “The Bones.” The song 22 at Austin’s Paramount Theatre. is the second single from Morris’ second studio Doug Stone and Terry McBride signed with APA Nashville. album, Girl, and is Morris’ third career No. Michael Ray, Emily Weisband and Blessing Offor 1. Songwriters are , Laura have joined Save The Music and SongFarm.org’s Hometown to Veltz and Morris. Hometown lineup (CAT 1/22). And kudos to Allen and the Columbia reps ’s and will perform on notching 40 adds for Luke Combs’ “Does during One Country’s inaugural meal packing event at Cross To Me” featuring , topping this Maren Morris Point Church in Nashville 12-4pm CT Saturday (2/15). Register to week’s board for a second consecutive week. volunteer here.

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85 hits, or fully 33% of all the music on Country radio during the The Week’s Top Stories survey week. Next I added the number of titles they had in the Top Full coverage at countryaircheck.com. 1000 most-played Gold songs. I found they delivered 239 hits; • WDAF/Kansas City PD Mike Kennedy discusses the finer 21% of all the music on Country radio during the survey week. points of stepping away (and back) in last week’s (2/3) Country Taking the analysis a step further, I then totaled all of the airplay Aircheck Weekly. from artists whose number of Currents/Recurrents/Gold totaled • filed for an IPO. (CAT 2/7) at least 15 titles among the 1,144 songs (144 Recurrent and • Steve “Shotgun” Kelly has joined KKOW/Pittsburg, MO as 1000 Gold titles.) What I found is that 21 artists had 505 songs, PD/afternoon personality. (CAT 2/6) which represents 44% of all the music heard on Country radio the • Aaron “Woody” Woods joined WHKO/Dayton for week of the survey. Looking at the Top 100 Power Gold/Currents/ mornings. (CAT 2/5) Recurrents, those same 21 acts had 119 of the total, representing • Sun Broadcast Group acquired Envision Networks. (CAT 2/4) 46% of all airplay. • Check out the ACM Radio Awards nominees here. (CAT 2/3) For those who think 1000 Gold songs is too deep, I also ran • Florida Georgia Line have signed with Full Stop the stats in the examples above using the Top 250 Gold songs, Management. (CAT 2/3) which is more in-line with the average Country station’s Gold category. All airplay from the nine core Top 100 Power Gold Power Gold: Concentration Game artists accounted for 123 Gold/Currents/Recurrents or 30% of the (continued from page 1) music heard. Tabulating airplay from the three categories for the 21 artists referenced above, they posted 187 songs, 46% of all A pair of songs from the ‘90s made the list – and both belong for that week. to McGraw: “Where The Green Grass Grows” (1998) and I realize that’s a lot of numbers, but they’re needed to understand “Something Like That” (1999). Another 23 are from 2000-2009 how few artists represent so much music on the average Country while 75 are from 2010-2017. station. This format has always loved its superstars. But I can only Thirty male solo artists and 10 groups/duos contribute to the wonder what kind of impact this concentration of music by a relative top 100. The 30 men posted 74 songs while groups/duos had handful of artists can have on the listener. 24 songs. Underwood and are the only solo If you’d like to see previous Power Gold charts, visit the female artists to have songs in the Top 100: Underwood with the Country Aircheck archives and select the following issues of aforementioned quintet of hits and Lambert with a pair. This is the the weekly: CAW 1/14/19, CAW 1/29/18, CAW 4/17/17, CAW fifth consecutive year that Carrie and Miranda are the only two 7/5/16, CAW 6/15/15, CAW 5/19/14, CAW 4/29/13, CAW solo women with songs in the Top 100. Five other PG tunes had 5/7/12, CAW 7/11/11 and CAW 9/27/10. –Lon Helton female leads: Lady Antebellum (3) and and with one each. By comparison, the Jan. ’19 PG Top 100 featured 70 songs from 27 different male artists, seven songs from two women and 23 songs from nine groups/duos. Side note: At the top of this piece it was noted that nine artists have 50 of the Top 100 Power Gold tunes. Of course, all of those artists also have current hits, plus songs in Recurrent. Seeing that so few artists delivered half of the Top 100 Power Gold made me wonder about the overall artist concentration of country music on the radio today. Lon Helton, [email protected] To examine the overall airplay impact of the nine acts in the Chuck Aly, [email protected] first paragraph, I tabulated the number of songs they had on the Caitlin DeForest, [email protected] current chart, Mediabase’s list of Recurrents – there are 144 of Monta Vaden, [email protected] them – and in the Top 100 Power Gold. I found they delivered (615) 320-1450

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Send news to [email protected] February 10, 2020 Page 10 29 49 CARRIE UNDERWOOD Country’s Power Gold 51 50 LOCASH I Love This Life Here are Country’s top 100 Power Gold songs for airplay from Jan. 26 - Feb 1, 2020, according to Mediabase 24/7. -- 51 CHRIS STAPLETON Broken Halos 18 52 CARRIE UNDERWOOD Church Bells Jan ‘19 Feb ‘20 Artist Title Rank Rank 59 53 JASON ALDEAN She's Country

-- 54 LANCO Greatest Love Story -- 1 DUSTIN LYNCH Small Town Boy 56 55 FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE Get Your Shine On 3 2 DARIUS RUCKER Wagon Wheel 62 56 LUKE BRYAN Play It Again -- 3 LUKE COMBS When It Rains It Pours 34 57 Take A Back Road -- 4 SAM HUNT Body Like A Back Road 2 5 FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE Cruise 71 58 LITTLE BIG TOWN Boondocks 33 59 LADY ANTEBELLUM Bartender -- 6 K. BROWN f/L. ALAINA What Ifs 8 7 ZAC BROWN BAND Chicken Fried 46 60 TIM MCGRAW Something Like That 1 8 BLAKE SHELTON A Guy With A Girl 37 61 THOMAS RHETT 62 BRETT YOUNG In Case You Didn't Know -- 9 BILLY CURRINGTON Do I Make You Wanna --

4 10 BLAKE SHELTON Honey Bee -- 63 OLD DOMINION No Such Thing As A Broken... 70 64 KENNY CHESNEY I Go Back -- 11 6 12 41 65 RANDY HOUSER How Country Feels

-- 13 My Girl 67 66 JASON ALDEAN

25 14 JASON ALDEAN -- 67 Hometown Girl 17 15 CARRIE UNDERWOOD 58 68 CARRIE UNDERWOOD All-American Girl 7 16 MIRANDA LAMBERT Mama's Broken Heart 28 69 CHRIS YOUNG I'm Comin' Over

16 17 DIERKS BENTLEY Somewhere On A Beach -- 70 SCOTTY MCCREERY Five More Minutes

-- 18 LUKE BRYAN 13 71 SAM HUNT 36 19 FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE 82 72 THOMAS RHETT 63 20 KIP MOORE Somethin' 'Bout A Truck 52 73 LADY ANTEBELLUM Downtown 15 21 Bottoms Up 81 74 K. CHESNEY f/U. KRACKER When The Sun Goes Down 14 22 CARRIE UNDERWOOD Blown Away 64 75 KID ROCK All Summer Long 20 23 Somebody Like You 85 76 RODNEY ATKINS Watching You 23 24 ERIC CHURCH 83 77 KENNY CHESNEY Save It For A Rainy Day 43 25 JASON ALDEAN 73 78 THOMAS RHETT 35 26 LUKE BRYAN I Don't Want This Night To End 91 79 FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE Stay 31 27 ZBB f/JIMMY BUFFETT Knee Deep 44 80 LADY ANTEBELLUM Need You Now

-- 28 THOMAS RHETT Unforgettable 54 81 DIERKS BENTLEY 27 29 RANDY HOUSER Runnin' Outta Moonlight 77 82 DIERKS BENTLEY What Was I Thinkin' 5 30 FGL f/T. MCGRAW May We All 19 83 BILLY CURRINGTON It Don't Hurt Like It Used To 26 31 Don't Ya 49 84 JOE NICHOLS Gimmie That Girl

-- 32 LUKE COMBS Hurricane 68 85 JASON ALDEAN 10 33 Are You Gonna Kiss Me Or Not THOMPSON SQUARE 72 86 BLAKE SHELTON 11 34 JASON ALDEAN -- 87 TIM MCGRAW Live Like You Were Dying 9 35 ERIC CHURCH Springsteen 65 88 OLD DOMINION Break Up With Him 12 36 BLAKE SHELTON Boys 'Round Here 80 89 TIM MCGRAW Where The Green Grass Grows 50 37 Life Is A Highway 90 90 BILLY CURRINGTON 39 38 ZAC BROWN BAND Homegrown

-- 91 FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE Sippin' On Fire -- 39 BLAKE SHELTON I'll Name The Dogs 79 92 ZAC BROWN BAND 75 40 KEITH URBAN Long Hot Summer 94 93 LUKE BRYAN -- 41 KENNY CHESNEY All The Pretty Girls 94 LUKE BRYAN I See You 30 42 ZAC BROWN BAND Toes -- 24 95 THOMAS RHETT T-Shirt 40 43 LUKE BRYAN Country Girl (Shake It For Me) 32 44 DARIUS RUCKER Alright 38 96 SAM HUNT Take Your Time 48 45 FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE Round Here 88 97 Even If It Breaks Your Heart

22 46 KENNY CHESNEY American Kids -- 98 DIERKS BENTLEY Free And Easy (Down The... 42 47 LUKE BRYAN That's My Kind Of Night -- 99 BRETT YOUNG Like I Loved You 53 48 ZAC BROWN BAND Whatever It Is 91 100 MIRANDA LAMBERT Gunpowder & Lead ©2020 Country Aircheck™ — All rights reserved. Sign up free at www.countryaircheck.com. Send news to [email protected]

February 10, 2020 LW TW Artist/Title (Label) Total Points +/- Points Total Plays +/- Plays Audience +/- Aud Stations ADDS

2 MAREN MORRIS 26985 2438 8569 728 49.595 4.942 154 0 1 The Bones (Columbia) ✔

3 2 SAM HUNT/ (MCA) 24427 1223 7706 430 43.768 3.345 157 0

5 3 / (Stoney Creek) 20988 758 6688 224 38.424 2.636 157 0

6 4 KANE BROWN/Homesick (RCA) 19713 584 6309 243 36.086 1.102 157 0

4 5 DAN + SHAY & JUSTIN BIEBER/10,000 Hours (Warner/WAR) 19529 -3493 5934 -1324 38.377 -4.438 155 0

1 6 JON PARDI/ (Capitol) 18771 -9621 6060 -2755 39.855 -14.311 157 0

7 7 JASON ALDEAN/We Back (Macon Music/Broken Bow) 18551 1033 5773 262 32.721 1.685 157 0

8 8 JAKE OWEN/Homemade () 17660 1513 5492 582 34.486 2.635 156 0

9 9 LUKE BRYAN/What She Wants Tonight (Capitol) 17527 1502 5487 435 31.153 2.358 157 0

11 10 & BLAKE SHELTON/Dive Bar (Pearl) ✔ 16653 1611 5226 489 27.653 2.539 157 0

10 11 JORDAN DAVIS/Slow Dance In A Parking Lot (MCA) 16453 1248 5241 428 29.147 1.731 157 0

13 12 BRETT YOUNG/Catch (BMLGR) 15220 934 4597 302 28.792 2.025 157 0

12 13 / (Warner/WEA) 14652 337 4649 105 26.076 0.36 156 0

14 14 RILEY GREEN/I Wish Grandpas Never Died (BMLGR) 14509 574 4827 133 24.972 0.411 157 0

15 15 C. PEARCE & L. BRICE/I Hope You're Happy Now (Big Machine/Curb) 13084 454 4089 131 22.486 0.895 157 0

16 16 / (Mercury) 11788 343 3807 166 20.335 1.043 154 0 -- 18 17 /I Hope (Warner/WAR) 11597 1269 3657 450 20.044 2.372 151 4

17 18 /Homecoming Queen? (Black River) 11420 372 3776 84 18.571 0.976 157 0

19 19 /Chasin' You (Big Loud) 10841 655 3412 267 18.737 1.405 155 1

21 20 THOMAS RHETT f/J. PARDI/Beer Can't Fix (Valory) ✔ 10269 1703 3109 503 17.915 2.303 156 5

20 21 / (RCA) 9638 320 3040 75 15.758 0.234 144 0

22 22 SCOTTY MCCREERY/In Between (Triple Tigers) 9139 644 2868 171 14.914 0.573 151 0

28 23 B. SHELTON w/G. STEFANI/Nobody But You (Warner/WMN) ✔ 8177 2712 2542 809 13.122 4.359 146 9

23 24 ERIC CHURCH/Monsters (EMI Nashville) 7753 -56 2536 12 12.591 -0.376 152 2

25 25 MICHAEL RAY/Her World Or Mine (Warner/WEA) 6838 380 2056 86 11.408 0.951 141 3 ©2020 Country Aircheck™ — All rights reserved. Sign up free at www.countryaircheck.com. Send news to [email protected]

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LW TW Artist/Title (Label) Total Points +/- Points Total Plays +/- Plays Audience +/- Aud Stations ADDS

26 26 FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE/Blessings (BMLGR) 6755 687 2123 222 10.619 0.864 139 2

24 27 LOCASH/One Big Country Song (Wheelhouse) 6669 97 2080 17 11.427 0.19 144 1

LUKE COMBS f/E. CHURCH/Does To Me (River House/Columbia) ✔ 6076 3340 1700 960 10.457 5.599 119 40

27 29 CAYLEE HAMMACK/Family Tree (Capitol) 5651 -6 1915 15 7.621 -0.353 141 1

29 30 /Lonely If You Are (Dack Janiels/Broken Bow) 4625 71 1331 22 6.938 0.06 128 3

30 31 GONE WEST/What Could've Been (Triple Tigers) 4608 84 1366 31 7.551 0.135 131 2

31 32 CARRIE UNDERWOOD/Drinking Alone (Capitol) 4547 216 1447 54 6.029 0.177 128 2

32 33 /Why We Drink (Valory) 4434 150 1389 67 7.223 0.502 126 2

33 34 MADDIE & TAE/Die From A Broken Heart (Mercury) 3600 155 1105 57 5.396 0.327 123 2

38 35 MIRANDA LAMBERT/Bluebird (RCA) 3309 506 990 134 4.392 0.659 92 4

35 36 KIP MOORE/She's Mine (MCA) 3214 201 1039 53 4.392 0.021 118 4

36 37 JON LANGSTON/Now You Know (32 Bridge/EMI Nashville) 3163 158 1014 54 3.889 0.07 110 2

34 38 CHRIS YOUNG/Drowning (RCA) 3148 43 923 32 5.171 -0.065 103 4

37 39 BILLY CURRINGTON/Details (Mercury) 3095 119 934 30 5.027 0.184 104 4

41 40 JAMESON RODGERS/Some Girls (River House/Columbia) 2840 331 891 63 2.999 0.421 106 3

40 41 RAYNE JOHNSON/Front Seat (Legend/Studio2Bee) 2814 83 744 20 4.66 -0.086 72 1

42 42 CHRIS JANSON/Done (Warner/WAR) 2387 105 757 62 2.689 0.066 88 6

46 43 ELI YOUNG BAND/Break It In (Valory) 2342 174 695 50 3.645 0.363 87 1

43 44 ASHLEY MCBRYDE/One Night Standards (Warner/WAR) 2330 91 705 35 3.128 0.353 71 4

50 45 / (Wide Open/Records/Arista) 2235 254 633 59 3.591 0.487 87 3

45 46 LAUREN ALAINA/Getting Good (Mercury) 2164 -24 706 -1 2.117 -0.107 93 2

48 47 DILLON CARMICHAEL/I Do For You (Riser House) 2102 78 723 37 3.421 0.261 80 1

47 48 LITTLE BIG TOWN/Over Drinking (Capitol) 2080 -62 599 -8 2.969 0.123 97 2

49 49 RUNAWAY JUNE/Head Over Heels (Wheelhouse) 2073 80 637 33 3.184 -0.265 81 0

Debut 50 MIDLAND/Cheatin' Songs (Big Machine) 2020 289 498 107 2.778 0.417 76 9

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Country Aircheck Add Leaders Adds Activator Top Point Gainers LUKE COMBS f/E. CHURCH/Does To Me (River House/Columbia) 40 B. SHELTON w/G. STEFANI/Nobody But You (Warner/WMN) 1122 ✔ HARDY f/L. ALAINA & D. DAWSON/One Beer (TVM/Big Loud) 33 LINDSAY ELL/I Don't Love You (Stoney Creek) 13 LUKE BRYAN/What She Wants Tonight (Capitol) 898 ✔ BLAKE SHELTON w/G. STEFANI/Nobody But You (Warner/WMN) 9 GABBY BARRETT/I Hope (Warner/WAR) 863 ✔ MIDLAND/Cheatin' Songs (Big Machine) 9 DUSTIN LYNCH/Momma's House (Broken Bow) 7 JAKE OWEN/Homemade (Big Loud) 845 ✔ CHRIS JANSON/Done (Warner/WAR) 6 THOMAS RHETT f/J. PARDI/Beer Can't Fix (Valory) 5 SAM HUNT/Kinfolks (MCA) 578 ✔ ASHLEY MCBRYDE/One Night Standards (Warner/WAR) 4 L. COMBS f/E. CHURCH/Does To Me (River House/Columbia) 560 BILLY CURRINGTON/Details (Mercury) 4 CHRIS YOUNG/Drowning (RCA) 4 JORDAN DAVIS/Slow Dance In A Parking Lot (MCA) 548 DYLAN SCOTT/Nobody (Curb) 4 GABBY BARRETT/I Hope (Warner/WAR) 4 MORGAN WALLEN/Chasin' You (Big Loud) 536 KIP MOORE/She's Mine (MCA) 4 BRETT YOUNG/Catch (BMLGR) 534 MIRANDA LAMBERT/Bluebird (RCA) 4 MORGAN EVANS/Diamonds (Warner/WEA) 4 MAREN MORRIS/The Bones (Columbia) 434 Country Aircheck Top Point Gainers Activator Top Spin Gainers LUKE COMBS f/E. CHURCH/Does To Me (River House/Columbia) 3340 ✔ B. SHELTON w/G. STEFANI/Nobody But You (Warner/WMN) 210 BLAKE SHELTON w/G. STEFANI/Nobody But You (Warner/WMN) 2712 ✔ LUKE BRYAN/What She Wants Tonight (Capitol) 169 MAREN MORRIS/The Bones (Columbia) 2438 ✔ GABBY BARRETT/I Hope (Warner/WAR) 156 THOMAS RHETT f/J. PARDI/Beer Can’t Fix (Valory) 1703 ✔ JAKE OWEN/Homemade (Big Loud) 151 G. BROOKS & B. SHELTON/Dive Bar (Pearl) 1611 ✔ MORGAN WALLEN/Chasin' You (Big Loud) 109 JAKE OWEN/Homemade (Big Loud) 1513 JORDAN DAVIS/Slow Dance In A Parking Lot (MCA) 100 LUKE BRYAN/What She Wants Tonight (Capitol) 1502 BRETT YOUNG/Catch (BMLGR) 97 GABBY BARRETT/I Hope (Warner/WAR) 1269 LUKE COMBS f/E. CHURCH/Does To Me (River House/Columbia) 95 JORDAN DAVIS/Slow Dance In A Parking Lot (MCA) 1248 MAREN MORRIS/The Bones (Columbia) 91 SAM HUNT/Kinfolks (MCA) 1223 SAM HUNT/Kinfolks (MCA) 80 Country Aircheck Top Spin Gainers Country Aircheck Top Recurrents Points LUKE COMBS f/E. CHURCH/Does To Me (River House/Columbia) 960 LUKE COMBS/Even Though I'm Leaving (River House/Columbia) 17959 BLAKE SHELTON w/G. STEFANI/Nobody But You (Warner/WMN) 809 OLD DOMINION/One Man Band (RCA) 15327 MAREN MORRIS/The Bones (Columbia) 728 DUSTIN LYNCH/Ridin' Roads (Broken Bow) 13871 JAKE OWEN/Homemade (Big Loud) 582 LADY ANTEBELLUM/What If I Never Get Over You (BMLGR) 13730 THOMAS RHETT f/J. PARDI/Beer Can't Fix (Valory) 503 MATT STELL/ (Wide Open/Records/GCE/Arista) 11482 G. BROOKS & B. SHELTON/Dive Bar (Pearl) 489 MORGAN WALLEN/ (Big Loud) 10676 GABBY BARRETT/I Hope (Warner/WAR) 450 CHRIS JANSON/Good Vibes (Warner/WAR) 9375 LUKE BRYAN/What She Wants Tonight (Capitol) 435 DIERKS BENTLEY/Living (Capitol) 9072 SAM HUNT/Kinfolks (MCA) 430 THOMAS RHETT/ (Valory) 9026 JORDAN DAVIS/Slow Dance In A Parking Lot (MCA) 428 /I Don't Know About You (Big Loud) 8454

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Chart Page 3 February 10, 2020 A D D D AT E S COUNTRY AIRCHECK ACTIVITY ] MATT STELL/Everywhere But On (Wide Open/Records/Arista) Moves 50-45* February 18 2,235 points, 633 spins CHRIS BANDI/Man Enough Now (Wide Open/Records/GCE) 3 adds: KFDI, KHGE, WRNX TYLER FARR/Only Truck In Town (Night Train/Broken Bow) DYLAN SCOTT/Nobody (Curb) LAUREN ALAINA/Getting Good (Mercury) LADY ANTEBELLUM/What I’m Leaving For (BMLGR) Moves 45-46 2,164 points, 706 spins 2 adds: WKKT, WMAD February 24 KING CALAWAY/No Matter What (Stoney Creek) DILLON CARMICHAEL/I Do For You (Riser House) Moves 48-47* 2,102 points, 723 spins 1 add: WQMX March 2 OLD DOMINION/ (RCA) LITTLE BIG TOWN/Over Drinking (Capitol) Moves 47-48 2,080 points, 599 spins 2 adds: PCCO, WRNX Send yours to [email protected] RUNAWAY JUNE/Head Over Heels (Wheelhouse) Remains at 49* 2,073 points, 637 spins; no adds

MIDLAND/Cheatin’ Songs (Big Machine) Debuts at 50* 2,020 points, 498 spins CHECK OUT 2/14 9 adds: KCYE, *KHKI, KWJJ, WAVW, WKML, WNOE, WRNX, WWGR, WXBQ Carly Pearce (Big Machine) Pearce’s self-titled sophomore album boasts BRANTLEY GILBERT/Fire’t Up (Valory) 13 songs, including two duets (“I Hope You’re 1,771 points, 552 spins Happy Now” with and “Finish Your 1 add: WKXC Sentences” with Michael Ray) and contributions from artists and songwriters including Kelsea Ballerini, Thomas CHRIS LANE/Big, Big Plans (Big Loud) Rhett, Hillary Lindsey, and Shane McAnally. 1,688 points, 517 spins 1 add: WKIS Niko Moon Good Time (RCA) LINDSAY ELL/I Don’t Love You (Stoney Creek) Produced by Moon and Joshua Murty, the 1,584 points, 474 spins debut EP features five songs co-written by Moon 13 adds including: *KATC, *KATM, *KHKI, *KIIM, *KIZN, alongside contributors like his wife, Anna, on *KPLX, *KRST, *WFMS, *WGKX, *WIVK songs including the title track and latest release “Paradise To Me.”

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Chart Page 4 February 10, 2020 LW TW Artist/Title (Label) Points +/- Points Plays +/- Plays Stations ADDS

1 SAM HUNT 12431 578 2329 80 51 0 1 Kinfolks (MCA) ✔ 3 2 MAREN MORRIS/The Bones (Columbia) 12058 434 2402 91 50 1 4 3 JIMMIE ALLEN/Make Me Want To (Stoney Creek) 9820 -175 1893 -26 47 0 2 4 JON PARDI/Heartache Medication (Capitol) 9756 -2095 1842 -445 47 0 5 5 KANE BROWN/Homesick (RCA) 9637 256 1824 50 48 0 6 6 JASON ALDEAN/We Back (Macon Music/Broken Bow) 9548 237 1787 57 51 0 9 7 LUKE BRYAN/What She Wants Tonight (Capitol) ✔ 9282 898 1715 169 51 0 8 8 RILEY GREEN/I Wish Grandpas Never Died (BMLGR) 9193 11 1795 0 51 0 12 9 JAKE OWEN/Homemade (Big Loud) ✔ 8330 845 1569 151 48 0 10 10 JORDAN DAVIS/Slow Dance In A Parking Lot (MCA) 8275 548 1585 100 51 0 11 11 INGRID ANDRESS/More Hearts Than Mine (Warner/WEA) 7766 168 1520 31 51 0 13 12 CARLY PEARCE & LEE BRICE/I Hope You're Happy Now (Big Machine/Curb) 7042 49 1329 13 50 0 16 13 BRETT YOUNG/Catch (BMLGR) 6704 534 1268 97 51 0 14 14 GARTH BROOKS & BLAKE SHELTON/Dive Bar (Pearl) 6640 -84 1295 -15 44 0 15 15 KELSEA BALLERINI/Homecoming Queen? (Black River) 6540 -89 1197 -13 51 0 17 16 TRAVIS DENNING/After A Few (Mercury) 6255 219 1169 33 48 1 18 17 ERIC CHURCH/Monsters (EMI Nashville) 5568 -166 997 -19 51 0 20 18 GABBY BARRETT/I Hope (Warner/WAR) ✔ 5066 863 972 156 50 2 19 19 THOMAS RHETT f/J. PARDI/Beer Can't Fix (Valory) 4891 406 899 80 49 2 25 20 BLAKE SHELTON w/G. STEFANI/Nobody But You (Warner/WMN) ✔ 4479 1122 789 210 47 5 22 21 MORGAN WALLEN/Chasin' You (Big Loud) 4378 536 859 109 48 0 21 22 RYAN HURD/To A T (RCA) 4049 186 776 35 50 0 23 23 FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE/Blessings (BMLGR) 3971 278 730 54 47 2 24 24 SCOTTY MCCREERY/In Between (Triple Tigers) 3755 270 731 48 46 2 26 25 CAYLEE HAMMACK/Family Tree (Capitol) 2838 93 563 14 45 0 27 26 CARRIE UNDERWOOD/Drinking Alone (Capitol) 2776 224 482 34 43 0 28 27 JUSTIN MOORE/Why We Drink (Valory) 2561 181 492 29 43 3 29 28 MICHAEL RAY/Her World Or Mine (Warner/WEA) 2351 396 421 71 43 4 32 29 LUKE COMBS f/E. CHURCH/Does To Me (River House/Columbia) 2244 560 371 95 32 12 31 30 MIRANDA LAMBERT/Bluebird (RCA) 2051 201 320 31 28 1

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LW TW Artist/Title (Label) Points +/- Points Plays +/- Plays Stations Adds 30 31 LOCASH/One Big Country Song (Wheelhouse) 1827 -97 344 -16 41 0 33 32 CHRIS JANSON/Done (Warner/WAR) 1424 92 224 19 22 1 34 33 MADDIE & TAE/Die From A Broken Heart (Mercury) 1320 123 293 24 38 2 35 34 AARON WATSON/Country Radio (Big) 1123 61 203 10 15 0 41 35 KIP MOORE/She's Mine (MCA) 1057 289 208 56 30 2 37 36 CHRIS YOUNG/Drowning (RCA) 966 47 139 2 24 0 38 37 BILLY CURRINGTON/Details (Mercury) 956 74 171 13 27 0 39 38 JAMESON RODGERS/Some Girls (River House/Columbia) 876 12 149 6 15 0 36 39 CHASE RICE/Lonely If You Are (Dack Janiels/Broken Bow) 868 -70 178 -13 31 0 40 40 GONE WEST/What Could've Been (Triple Tigers) 858 -1 187 -1 34 0 45 41 JON LANGSTON/Now You Know (32 Bridge/EMI Nashville) 798 94 167 15 32 0 43 42 HARDY f/L. ALAINA & D. DAWSON/One Beer (TVM/Big Loud) 790 60 79 6 1 0 42 43 ELI YOUNG BAND/Break It In (Valory) 731 -7 122 -1 11 0 47 44 ASHLEY MCBRYDE/One Night Standards (Warner/WAR) 721 22 100 -2 7 1 Debut 45 LINDSAY ELL/I Don't Love You (Stoney Creek) 657 255 109 65 11 8 44 46 LITTLE BIG TOWN/Over Drinking (Capitol) 643 -62 103 -10 22 1 52 47 TAYLA PARX f/FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE/Fight (Atlantic) 640 80 64 8 1 0 48 48 MADDIE & TAE/Bathroom Floor (Mercury) 640 -10 64 -1 1 0 46 49 KANE BROWN/For My Daughter (RCA) 640 -60 64 -6 1 0 51 50 INGRID ANDRESS/Lady Like (Warner/WEA) 620 30 62 3 1 0 49 51 BRETT YOUNG f/G. DEGRAW/Chapters (BMLGR) 620 -10 62 -1 1 0 50 52 DILLON CARMICHAEL/I Do For You (Riser House) 570 -44 115 -8 20 0 54 53 PARKER MCCOLLUM/Pretty Heart (MCA) 560 20 62 2 4 0 53 54 JOSH WARD/One More Shot Of Whiskey (---) 522 -33 95 -6 9 0 Debut 55 GRANGER SMITH/That's Why I Love Dirt Roads (Wheelhouse) 517 67 93 14 15 0 55 56 RAYNE JOHNSON/Front Seat (Legend/Studio2Bee) 507 -23 110 -5 20 0 56 57 LAUREN ALAINA/Getting Good (Mercury) 502 -5 92 -1 11 0 Re-Enter 58 DIPLO & MORGAN WALLEN/Heartless (Columbia) 484 40 49 4 2 0 Debut 59 JORDAN DAVIS f/J. MICHAELS/Cool Anymore (MCA) 480 60 48 6 1 0 Debut 60 MATT STELL/Everywhere But On (Wide Open/Records/Arista) 477 27 86 0 20 0 ©2020 Country Aircheck™ — All rights reserved. Sign up free at www.countryaircheck.com. Send news to [email protected]

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