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

Dear Readers; RANDALL KING stays at #1 with "She Gone." DERYL DODD's "Let Me Hold You Tonight" is this week's Most Added! is the Greatest Spin Gainer with "You, Me, And A Bottle!" SUNDANCE HEAD's "Not Give A Damn" is this week's top Surging & Emerging track to keep an eye on! Great work everyone! The following stations are frozen for this week. KSAM-FM (Huntsville, TX)

The following song has been moved to RECURRENT status. AUSTIN ENGLISH / Heartache in a Small Town BRANDON RHYDER / I Felt Good Today JENNI DALE LORD BAND / Smile JIMMY BOWEN / Single Down In San Antone JOSH WARD / One More Shot of Whiskey KYLE PARK / Every Day Kind of Love SAM SHUPAK / Her Own Kind of Beautiful For those who don’t use CDX to distribute their new music but wish to be monitored by TRACtion TX, you can now go to our upload center, fill out the necessary information and send your MP3s for fingerprinting here:https://www.cdxcd.com/fingerprinting-upload-center/ .

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WWW.TRACTIONTX.COM Monitored Radio Airplay Vol 5. #15 April 22nd, 2020 L T Wks On Spins + Stations Adds W W - Chart Artist / Song Title / Label 1 1 RANDALL KING/She Gone/Warner Music Nashville/WEA 709 25 42 0 15 2 2 CASEY DONAHEW/Drove Me To The Whiskey/Almost Country Records 704 35 42 0 19 3 3 CURTIS GRIMES/River Road Dream/Curtis Grimes Music 667 6 42 0 12 4 4 FLATLAND CAVALRY/Come Back Down/Flatland Cavalry Music 666 46 39 0 26 5 5 STONEY LARUE/Message In A Bottle/One Chord Song 583 -26 37 0 26 7 6 MIKE RYAN/Dear ,/Mike Ryan Music 556 -10 43 0 29 8 7 DARRIN MORRIS BAND/Dancing in the Rain/DMB Music 541 -6 37 0 21 11 8 CHAD COOKE BAND/Four Minutes/King Hall Music 522 68 34 2 10 10 9 TURNPIKE TROUBADOURS/Unrung/Thirty Tigers 494 -2 36 1 23 13 10 ROBERT RAY/I Found You/Big R.I.G. Country, LLC 480 36 27 0 23 16 11 RANDY ROGERS BAND/You, Me, and a Bottle/Tommy Jackson/Thirty Tigers 471 91 33 2 7 12 12 RECKLESS KELLY/I Only See You With My Eyes Closed/No Big Deal/Thirty Tigers 470 17 32 3 10 14 13 MARK POWELL/Breaking Things/Mark Powell Music 427 8 33 0 14 19 14 WHISKEY MYERS/Bury My Bones/Wiggy Thump/Thirty Tigers 423 60 30 2 9 18 15 JODY BOOTH/Gotta Go Back To Work/SOT 409 46 31 3 14 15 16 DREW FISH BAND/Every Damn Time/Smith Music Group 401 4 30 2 13 20 17 RANDY ROGERS AND WADE BOWEN/Rodeo Clown/Lil' Buddy Toons 372 34 30 4 5 21 18 ELEVEN HUNDRED SPRINGS/This Morning It Was Too Late/State Fair Records 360 32 23 3 14 22 19 PANHANDLERS, THE/No Handle/The Next Waltz 304 16 22 0 14 23 20 CORY MORROW/Always And Forever/CM Music 277 -7 25 2 8 25 21 WILL CARTER/You Feel Like Home/Way Back Records 270 25 20 0 14 24 22 TRISTON MAREZ/Far From Good/Triston Marez Music 268 -12 21 0 12 27 23 DONICE MORACE/Through The Jukebox/Donice Morace Music 244 15 16 0 11 28 24 HAYDEN HADDOCK/Red Dirt Texas/Hayden Haddock Music 239 11 18 0 11 26 25 JON WOLFE/Feels Like Country Music/Fool Hearted Productions 230 -2 20 1 5 17 26 MICKY & THE MOTORCARS/Road To You/Thirty Tigers 228 -136 23 0 30 29 27 JON STORK/Radio Cowboy/Jon Stork Music 218 16 21 0 5 30 28 CROSS RAGS AND YOUNG/Family Name/Cross Rags and Young 212 13 22 1 6 31 29 MARK WINSTON KIRK/Cowboy & The Gypsy/Mark Winston Kirk Music 212 17 16 1 12 32 30 MARIO FLORES/I Only Miss Her When It Rains/Schimflo 186 -6 14 0 18

WWW.TRACTIONTX.COM Monitored Radio Airplay April 22nd, 2020 | PAGE 2 L T Wks On Spins + Stations Adds W W - Chart Artist / Song Title / Label 33 31 JOSH GRIDER/Country's Comin' Back/G-Ride Music 173 -8 17 1 4 36 32 SAM RIGGS/Until My Heart Stops Beating/Major Bob Music 171 13 11 0 18 35 33 CASEY BAKER/We Don't Care Enough To Fight Anymore/Casey Baker Music 158 -5 14 1 10 38 34 PROPHETS AND OUTLAWS/Love Like A Love Song/Prophets and Outlaws Music 155 10 11 1 6 39 35 EVAN FELKER/Whiskey In Your Water/The Next Waltz 132 6 10 0 23 45 36 JUNIOR GORDON/Baby Hold On/Junior Gordon Music 126 30 13 3 2 37 37 STETSON WALKER/Down to One Key/Stetson Walker Music 124 -28 11 0 14 40 38 STEVE HELMS BAND/Imperfection/Steve Helms Band Music 121 -4 10 1 3 41 39 GRANT GILBERT/Held On To/Grant Gilbert Music 111 -2 10 0 2 44 40 READ SOUTHALL BAND/Stickin' N Movin'/Read Southall Band Music 110 12 6 1 4 49 41 KATY MCKENZIE/Advice I Didn't Take/Katy McKenzie Music 103 13 11 2 10 43 42 TEAGUE BROTHERS BAND/Rainbow Bridge/Teague Brothers Music 103 2 9 1 9 48 43 KIN FAUX/Locked up in Lubbock/Kin Faux Music 99 9 12 0 2 47 44 KENDALL SHAFFER/Honky Tonkin' (Whoever Said It Was Easy)/Kendall Shaffer Music 97 6 8 0 4 -- 45 ANNIE ROST/Horseshoes And Hand Grenades/Annie Rost Music 86 19 10 1 1 -- 46 CODY WAYNE/Bad Influence/Cody Wayne Music 85 16 10 1 1 42 47 CARSON JEFFREY/Ranch Girl Dream/Carson Jeffrey Music 84 -23 9 0 3 -- 48 ZACH NEIL/When She Drinks Whiskey/Zach Neil Music 81 2 7 0 1 -- 49 CREED FISHER/I'm Growing Older But I'm Not Growing Up/Creed Fisher Music 79 49 5 2 1 -- 50 DERYL DODD/Let Me Hold You Tonight/Little Red Truck Music 78 78 9 9 1

Number 1 = Most Added = Spin Gainer = Rank Surging & Emerging Stations On Adds 1 SUNDANCE HEAD / Not Give A Damn / Sundance Head Music 8 2 2 LOGAN SAMFORD / I'm Your Fool / Logan Samford Music 6 1 3 RAY WYLIE HUBBARD (FT. RINGO STARR, DON WAS, JOE WALSH, CHRIS ROBINSON) / Bad Trick / Big Machine Records 4 4 4 JAMES LANN / Everydayers / James Lann Music 6 6 5 NO JUSTICE / Trying Not To Fall / Smith Music Group 6 1 6 SAINTS ELEVEN / Love In Hell / Saints Eleven Music 6 6 7 DAVID JOEL & MICKEY GILLEY / If I Had It My Way / Bou Boy'z Entertainment 5 1 8 KENDALL BEARD / Hate Myself (For Loving You) / Kendall Beard Music 7 1 9 JORDAN ROBERT KIRK / Seven Nation Army / Fight In The Dog Music 5 1 10 CODY BRYAN BAND / Lonely Road / Rise Records 4 1

WWW.TRACTIONTX.COM Monitored Radio Airplay April 22nd, 2020 | PAGE 3 Monitored Stations

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

Strikethrough = Removed Bold = Newly Added Underlined = Frozen this Week Double Underlined = Frozen 2(+) Weeks

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Chart Recurrent Methodology

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

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WWW.TRACTIONTX.COM Monitored Radio Airplay April 22nd, 2020 | PAGE 4 Dance Time In Texas with DJ Mike (04/18/20)

THIS WEEK'S FEATURED ARTIST • JON STORK While attending college at the University of Houston, you could find Jon Stork playing guitar on a patio or serving drinks behind a bar. He was told to make a choice between playing music or having a steady job, Fortunately for us he chose music. A newcomer to the Texas Music scene, he has already had success with his 1st number one single Facts and Lies and being nominated for “New Male Vocalist of the Year” by Texas Regional Radio. After opening for other Texas artists like Josh Ward, Roger Creager, and Neal McCoy, He now finds himself becoming a Headline act across the Texas. Not only does he have one of the most entertaining social media games on the Texas Music scene he also has a pet chicken named Ethel. Watch for his newest single RADIO COWBOY to hit the top of the charts soon.

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

REWIND • SONGS STILL PACKIN' THE FLOOR SHUT UP AND DANCE • AARON WATSON RIDE WITH ME • CODY JOHNSON BOOTS ON A DANCE FLOOR • JON WOLFE NEW TONY LAMAS • DERYL DODD

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

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

Mon - Fri 8am • 106.1fm • Conroe, TX DancetimeinTexas.com with DJ Mike (936) 588-2717 WWW.TRACTIONTX.COM Monitored Radio Airplay April 22nd, 2020 | PAGE 5 Most Added Adds DERYL DODD/Let Me Hold You Tonight Little Red Truck Music 9 JAMES LANN/Everydayers James Lann Music 6 SAINTS ELEVEN/Love In Hell Saints Eleven Music 6 RANDY ROGERS AND WADE BOWEN/Rodeo Clown Lil' Buddy Toons 4 RAY WYLIE HUBBARD (FT. RINGO STARR, DON WAS, JOE WALSH, CHRIS ROBINSON)/Bad Trick 4 Big Machine Records RECKLESS KELLY/I Only See You With My Eyes Closed No Big Deal/Thirty Tigers 3 JODY BOOTH/Gotta Go Back To Work SOT 3 ELEVEN HUNDRED SPRINGS/This Morning It Was Too Late State Fair Records 3 JUNIOR GORDON/Baby Hold On "Head over to @livestreamconcert (MUSIC COMES TO YOU- Live Junior Gordon Music 3 Stream Concerts) on Facebook to keep up with the latest live stream events. Feel free to share your station/band events on the page. Like, CHAD COOKE BAND/Four Minutes Follow, Post and Share." King Hall Music 2

Greatest Spin Gainers Increase RANDY ROGERS BAND/You, Me, and a Bottle Tommy Jackson/Thirty Tigers 91 CHAD COOKE BAND/Four Minutes King Hall Music 68 RAY WYLIE HUBBARD (FT. RINGO STARR, DON WAS, JOE WALSH, CHRIS ROBINSON)/Bad Trick 60 Big Machine Records WHISKEY MYERS/Bury My Bones 60 Wiggy Thump/Thirty Tigers Stay safe SAINTS ELEVEN/Love In Hell Saints Eleven Music 54 CREED FISHER/I'm Growing Older But I'm Not Growing Up 49 everyone! Creed Fisher Music JODY BOOTH/Gotta Go Back To Work SOT 46 FLATLAND CAVALRY/Come Back Down Flatland Cavalry Music 46 ROBERT RAY/I Found You Big R.I.G. Country, LLC 36 CASEY DONAHEW/Drove Me To The Whiskey Almost Country Records 35

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