Country Update

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Old Dominion’s ‘Sweet’ Indie Publishers Become Farm Chart Success >page 4 Clubs For Major Country Labels

NFL Drafts When Napster went into business 20 years ago this June, “We’re not here to compete with the labels,” says John Ozier, Country Stars it created a now-familiar domino effect that crippled the who heads the new Reservoir publishing office in Nashville >page 9 CD market, undercut record companies’ bottom lines and following a run as ole executive vp creative. “We don’t have subsequently retooled the industry from an album-driven the experience they do in radio promotion and marketing and model to a singles-focused one. sales. If we can get their attention by building these streaming Big Yellow Dog, an independent Nashville music publishing numbers and creating great music, and handing it off to them Shelton, Bryan firm that opened a year before Napster, had no idea at the time or partnering with them, that’s the end goal.” Seeing (Ole) Red how profound that development would become to its own future. Jerrod Niemann’s Judge Jerrod & The Hung Jury is widely >page 10 With the downsizing of regarded as the project the traditional labels, Big that launched the trend Yellow Dog — which counts in Nashville. He recorded Maren Morris Tenille Dan + Shay , the album 10 years ago Townes, Meghan Trainor in his ongoing publishing Prep For Logan Mize Billboard Awards and among its deal with Sea Gayle, then staff writers — has become landed the finished product >page 10 something of a model for at Sony, which introduced independent Nashville his breakthrough, “Lover, pubberies, whose business NIEMANN DENNING MIZE Lover,” to radio. The process Makin’ Tracks: now has them assuming benefitted both sides: Caylee Hammack’s some record-company functions to kick-start the development Niemann was able to make the project without conforming his ‘Family Tree’ of singer-songwriter careers. creativity to a corporation’s viewpoint, and Sony was able to >page 15 Sea Gayle Music (CJ Solar, Everette’s Brent Rupard), sidestep the financial risk of signing a new artist and investing ole (Jordan Davis, Adam Hambrick, Travis Denning) and time and money into his development. Creative Nation (Steve Moakler, Kassi Ashton) are some of “If you put today’s template over it, everybody would do a the leading indie practitioners, though certainly not the only deal like that,” says Sea Gayle executive vp/GM Marc Driskill, Country Coda: ones. They typically hire extra staff — sometimes creating new who left ASCAP to join the company in 2012. Faith Hill departments — to launch music through digital mediums and The major publishers — such as Warner/Chappell, Sony/ Covers No. 1 develop exposure for their writers’ budding artistry. It’s an ATV and Universal Music Publishing — all have created similar >page 20 expansion of duties, though not necessarily one in publishing scenarios, though their deeper pockets and closer ties with

companies’ core mission. labels provide a certain advantage. The path is riskier for indie SHEARER JOHN MIZE: BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE APRIL 29, 2019 | PAGE 2 OF 20 publishers, particularly because the publishing business is one that requires a lot of upfront capital with little or no return, sometimes for three to five years. “You don’t bring in an artist because it sounds like what’s happening now,” says Big Yellow Dog co-owner Carla Wallace. “A lot of times we’re ahead of the game, so you have to sit there and wait. It might be years, and you’re not getting anything — it could be 10 years, you know? But you know it and believe in the music.” Artistic jobs tend to attract colorful, outside-the-box personalities, presenting music business executives with unusual challenges and/or requiring a large amount of hand- holding. But when a songwriter steps out of the typical Nashville writing arrangement, it opens them up to travel, additional financial considerations and public criticism. Not every publisher is suited for that burden. “That artist is volunteering for a whole other level of exposure to the world for their Warner Music Nashville/W.A.R. artist Tucker Beathard dreams, and that takes a certain person, like Carla, who will participate in that,” says (center) visited KSD St. Louis as he promoted his label debut, Big Yellow Dog co-owner Kerry O’Neil. “A lot of people either don’t have the instincts “Better Than Me.” He’s pictured with PD Gail Austin and or the willingness to get out there, and I think that’s been a key part of Big Yellow Dog.” assistant PD/music director Dusty Panhorst. Historically, labels signed artists and worked with them to hone their sound. But when the Napster-led decline in revenue hit in the early 2000s, record companies slashed development budgets and necessarily gravitated to signing artists who had figured out their artistic personality and built their own following. Publishers, who were already in the business of evaluating songs, now assist as their writer-artists discover which of the songs they write translate best to their own performance talents. “If you have them play a few shows and sing those songs live, they start going, ‘No, that’s not really me’ or ‘The audience responded to this,’ and you can take some pictures,” says Creative Nation CEO/co-owner Beth Laird. “You’re just walking along with them, looking for that image and style to merge what is really authentically them and really their sweet spot.” In the process, indie publishers now work more closely with media, agencies, digital More than two dozen artists helped raise $300,000 for John streaming partners, secondary radio and SiriusXM. They also invest money and Berry’s battle with throat cancer during an April 23 benefit at manpower in functions that were not on their radar in earlier eras. City Winery Nashville. From left: Trisha Yearwood, Berry, Garth “It’s not just recording songs, but doing videos, trying to make sure the social media Brooks and Berry’s wife/backup singer Robin Berry. sites are all talking together and everything else,” says Driskill. “You’re essentially a label. You’re doing everything that the label does, trying to build it to the point where [the writer] either takes the form of a touring act or takes the form of a major coming and jumping on board.” Along the way, even the material that does not suit their artistry can still bring a payoff. Trainor (“I Like the Sound of That”), Hambrick (“How Not To”) and Solar (“Up Down”) all co-authored hits for other country acts while they were finding their way as singers. That has been true, too, for singer-songwriter Josh Mirenda (“Somewhere on a Beach,” “They Don’t Know”), the first signee for the new Reservoir office. Ozier hopes to develop him as an artist, but knows that even if Mirenda never finds a home with a label or in widespread terrestrial radio play, he might write something that lands with another act, or the recordings could generate an income via other means. “It’s great for synch and licensing purposes, and it also helps publishers grow their Indie trio Southern Halo visited WGSQ Cookeville, Tenn., while master repertoire,” says Ozier. “I think everybody sees how much money is coming in promoting its new single, “Sunshine.” From left: Southern the door from streaming, so owning masters is something I think you’re going to see Halo’s Natalia Morris and Hannah Morris, WGSQ operations

publishers spend a lot of time and spend a lot of acquisition dollars on.” manager Philip Gibbons and Southern Halo’s Christina Morris. SHUTTERSTOCK DIAMOND RICK BERRY:

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ON THE CHARTS JIM ASKER [email protected] Old Dominion Finds ‘Sweet’ Spot At Country Airplay Summit; Brett Eldredge Gets Some Top 10 ‘Love’

Old Dominion’s “Make It Sweet” (RCA Nashville) becomes the group’s sixth ‘SOMEONE’ IN THE TOP 10 Brett Eldredge banks his eighth Country Airplay Country Airplay No. 1 and fifth in succession as it ascends 3-1 on the chart dated top 10 as “Love Someone” (Atlantic/Warner Music Nashville) strolls 12-10 in May 4. The song hits the summit with an 8% increase to 38 million audience its 43rd frame, up 14% to 22.2 million in audience. On Hot Country Songs, it impressions in the week ending April 28, climbs 19-17. It’s Eldredge’s first such hit according to Nielsen Music. since “The Long Way” reached No. 3 in All five members of the band wrote April 2018. He has tallied five No. 1s. the launch track from their upcoming third full-length studio album with the LOOK AT ‘YOU’ Luke Combs’ debut LP, song’s producer, Shane McAnally. Old This One’s for You (River House/Columbia Dominion consists of Matthew Ramsey, Nashville/Sony Music Nashville), logs a Trevor Rosen, Whit Sellers, Geoff 32nd week at No. 1 on Top Country Albums Sprung and Brad Tursi. (27,000 equivalent album units earned, “From the moment we wrote it, we’ve up 2%). always felt ‘Make It Sweet’ was a special The set breaks out of a tie for the song,” Ramsey tells Billboard. “We wrote ninth-longest reign in the chart’s history, and recorded it all in the same day. We which dates to 1964. It surpasses Lady feel that the song captured the spirit of this Antebellum’s 2010 album Need You Now band in a way we hadn’t been able to do in and Clint Black’s 1989 debut set, Killin’ the past. The guys and I didn’t know it at Time, each of which ruled for 31 frames. the time, but it would set the tone for the This One’s for You is the fifth-longest- entire third album. Having ‘Make It Sweet’ leading No. 1 by a solo male. It’s a week OLD DOMINION go all the way to No. 1 will go down as one from matching Garth Brooks’ 1991 album of our proudest moments.” Ropin’ the Wind for fourth place. Among Old Dominion scored its first Country Airplay No. 1 in November 2015 when solo men, Randy Travis’ 1987 set Always & Forever holds the mark, with 43 “Break Up With Him” led for two weeks. Its next single, “Snapback,” peaked weeks at No. 1. In overall artists, he’s second only to Shania Twain’s 1997 LP at No. 2 in June 2016, followed by five straight leaders: “Song for Another Come on Over, which dominated for 50 weeks. Time” (December 2016; one week), “No Such Thing As a Broken Heart” (September 2017; one), “Written in the Sand” (February 2018; one), “Hotel PRAISE FOR UPCHURCH Hick-hop country-rocker Upchurch debuts at No. 7 Key” (September 2018; two) and “Sweet.” on Top Country Albums with Creeker 2 (Redneck Nation), which starts with The quintet, which was crowned group of the year at the 54th annual 11,000 equivalent album units. Upchurch, aka 27-year-old Nashville native Ryan Academy of Country Music Awards on April 7, owns the second-longest active Edward Church, scores his fourth top 10 on the chart among 12 appearances. run of Country Airplay leaders. Thomas Rhett has the current longest streak, He previously reached the region with King of Dixie (No. 10; December 2017), with six. Creeker (No. 5; May 2018) and Supernatural (No. 6; September 2018). On the Hot Country Songs chart, which blends airplay, streaming and sales With 10,000 copies sold, Creeker 2 opens at No. 1 on the Country Album Sales

data, “Sweet” hits a new high, lifting 9-8. chart. It’s his second No. 1 on the retail list, after Supernatural. ALLEN MASON “I Loved Her First” A song like this comes along once in a lifetime.

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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 29 MAKE IT SWEET RCA Nashville HH No. 1 (1 week) HH Old Dominion 37.970 +2.793 7851 459 1 l2 4 37 EYES ON YOU Dack Janiels/Broken Bow Chase Rice 36.371 +3.252 7557 605 2 3 1 32 HERE TONIGHT BMLG  Brett Young 34.768 -5.388 6929 -1313 3 4 2 25 BEAUTIFUL CRAZY River House/Columbia Nashville Luke Combs 34.431 -1.299 6333 -324 6 l5 5 46 LOVE AIN’T Valory  Eli Young Band 31.968 +3.080 6700 581 4 l6 6 17 GOOD AS YOU Zone 4/RCA Nashville Kane Brown 30.974 +2.469 6472 594 5 l7 9 35 WHISKEY GLASSES Big Loud HH Most Increased Audience HH Morgan Wallen 27.628 +4.042 5975 929 7 l8 8 40 NIGHT SHIFT Capitol Nashville Jon Pardi 27.160 +2.107 5807 365 9 l9 7 27 MISS ME MORE Black River Kelsea Ballerini 26.900 +1.723 5868 326 8 l10 12 43 LOVE SOMEONE Atlantic/WMN  Brett Eldredge 22.233 +2.762 4886 651 10 l11 13 9 LOOK WHAT GOD GAVE HER Valory  Thomas Rhett 20.463 +1.739 4439 330 11 l12 14 38 ON MY WAY TO YOU CoJo/WMN  Cody Johnson 18.994 +0.691 4163 169 12 l13 16 34 RUMOR Curb  Lee Brice 18.964 +2.298 4136 371 13 l14 17 15 GIRL Columbia Nashville Maren Morris 16.500 +1.162 3604 314 14 l15 18 5 GOD’S COUNTRY Warner Bros./WMN HH Airpower HH  Blake Shelton 16.103 +2.921 3446 659 16 l16 20 17 SOME OF IT EMI Nashville Eric Church 14.521 +2.342 3484 443 15 l17 19 11 EVERY LITTLE HONKY TONK BAR MCA Nashville George Strait 12.959 +0.388 3157 80 17 l18 21 26 TALK YOU OUT OF IT BMLG  Florida Georgia Line 12.057 +0.644 3046 66 18 l19 23 16 RAISED ON COUNTRY RCA Nashville HH Airpower HH  Chris Young 11.565 +1.979 2791 358 20 l20 25 11 ALL TO MYSELF Warner Bros./WAR Dan + Shay 10.756 +2.061 2466 469 23 l21 22 55 CAUGHT UP IN THE COUNTRY Curb  Rodney Atkins Featuring The Fisk Jubilee Singers 10.687 +0.413 3045 112 19 l22 24 20 WHAT HAPPENS IN A SMALL TOWN Valory  Brantley Gilbert + Lindsay Ell 10.293 +1.082 2756 333 21 l23 27 5 KNOCKIN’ BOOTS Capitol Nashville HH Most Added HH Luke Bryan 9.356 +1.717 2231 500 25 l24 28 9 REARVIEW TOWN Macon/Broken Bow Jason Aldean 8.707 +1.650 2233 476 24 l25 26 28 BUY MY OWN DRINKS Wheelhouse  Runaway June 8.441 +0.741 2630 180 22 l26 30 25 THE ONES THAT DIDN’T MAKE IT BACK HOME Valory  Justin Moore 7.655 +1.130 1852 296 28 l27 29 11 SOMEBODY’S DAUGHTER Columbia Nashville Tenille Townes 7.374 +0.382 1773 40 29 l28 33 30 BACK TO LIFE Big Machine Rascal Flatts 5.873 +0.986 1894 235 27 l29 32 22 LOVE YOU TOO LATE Warner Bros./WMN Cole Swindell 5.823 +0.809 1627 263 30 l30 31 23 CLOSER TO YOU Big Machine Carly Pearce 5.586 +0.207 1907 147 26

BILLBOARD COUNTRY AIRPLAY PANEL — 150 STATIONS Akron, OH WQMX Detroit WDRQ Memphis WGKX Richmond, Va. WKHK Albany, N.Y. WGNA WYCD WLFP Riverside, Calif. KFRG Albuquerque, N.M. KBQI El Paso, Texas KHEY Miami WKIS Roanoke, Va. WSLC KRST Ft. Myers, Fla. WCKT Milwaukee, WI. WKTI Rochester, N.Y. WBEE Allentown, Pa. WCTO WWGR WMIL Sacramento, Calif. KBEB Atlanta WKHX Ft. Wayne, Ind. WQHK Minneapolis KEEY KNCI WUBL Fresno, Calif. KSKS KMNB KNTY Augusta, Ga. WKXC Gainesville, Fla. WOGK Mobile, Ala. WKSJ St. Louis KSD Austin, Texas KASE Grand Rapids, Mich. WBCT Monmouth/Ocean, N.J. WKMK WIL Bakersfield, Calif. KUZZ Greensboro, N.C. WTQR Monterey, Calif.. KTOM Salt Lake City KSOP Baltimore WPOC Greenville, S.C. WSSL Nashville WKDF KUBL Baton Rouge, La. WYNK Harrisburg, Pa. WRBT WSIX San Antonio, Texas KAJA Birmingham, Ala. WDXB Hartford, Conn. WWYZ Nassau, N.Y. WJVC KCYY WZZK Houston KILT New Bern, N.C. WRNS San Diego KSON Boise, Idaho KAWO KKBQ New Orleans WNOE San Jose, Calif. KRTY KIZN Huntsville, Ala. WDRM New York WNSH Sarasota, Fla. WCTQ Boston WBWL Indianapolis WFMS Norfolk, Va. WGH Seattle KKWF WKLB WLHK WUSH KMPS Buffalo, N.Y. WYRK Jacksonville, Fla. WGNE Oklahoma City, Okla. KJKE Spokane, Wash. KXLY Charleston, S.C. WEZL WQIK KTST Springfield, Mass. WRNX WCKN Johnson City, Tenn. WXBQ Omaha, Neb. KXKT Stockton, Calif. KATM Charlotte, N.C. WKKT Kansas City KBEQ Orlando, Fla. WWKA Syracuse, N.Y. WBBS WSOC WDAF Oxnard-Ventura, CA KHAY Tampa, Fla. WFUS Chattanooga, Tenn. WUSY KFKF Philadelphia WXTU WQYK Chicago WEBG Knoxville, Tenn. WCYQ Phoenix KMLE Tucson, Ariz. KIIM WUSN WIVK KNIX Tulsa, Okla. KTGX Cincinnati WUBE Lafayette, La. KMDL Pittsburgh WDSY KVOO Cleveland WGAR Lakeland, Fla. WPCV WOGI KWEN Colorado Springs, Colo. KATC Las Vegas KCYE WPGB Visalia, Calif. KJUG KCCY KWNR Portland, Maine WPOR Washington, D.C. WMZQ Columbia, S.C. WCOS Lexington, Ky. WBUL WTHT West Palm Beach, Fla. WIRK Columbus, Ohio WCOL Little Rock, Ark. KSSN Portland, Ore. KUPL Wichita, Kan. KFDI Corpus Christi, Texas KRYS Los Angeles KKGO KWJJ KZSN Dallas KPLX Louisville, Ky. WAMZ Providence, R.I. WCTK Wilkes Barre, Pa. WGGY KSCS WQNU Raleigh, NC WQDR Wilmington, Del. WXCY Dayton, Ohio WHKO Madison, Wis. WWQM York, Pa. WGTY Denver KYGO WMAD Reno, Nevada KBUL Des Moines, Iowa KHKI McAllen, Texas KTEX KOLC BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE APRIL 29, 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 36 13 THOUGHT ABOUT YOU McGraw/Columbia Nashville Tim McGraw 5.095 +0.895 1373 189 32 l32 35 28 DAY DRUNK Warner Bros./WEA Morgan Evans 4.930 +0.653 1246 87 33 l33 34 21 EVERY LITTLE THING Triple Tigers Russell Dickerson 4.909 +0.385 1596 97 31 l34 37 23 I DON’T KNOW ABOUT YOU Big Loud HH Breaker HH  Chris Lane 4.676 +0.642 1072 134 34 l35 40 9 LIVING Capitol Nashville Dierks Bentley 3.076 +0.435 807 67 40 l36 41 9 GOOD VIBES Warner Bros./WAR HH Breaker HH  Chris Janson 2.871 +0.247 925 67 37 l37 39 24 I DON’T REMEMBER ME (BEFORE YOU) EMI Nashville Brothers Osborne 2.830 -0.017 923 57 38 l38 45 3 MR. LONELY Big Machine Midland 2.828 +0.631 768 245 43 l39 42 11 REDNECKER Tree Vibez/Big Loud HARDY 2.816 +0.334 1062 207 35 l40 46 20 GIRL GOIN’ NOWHERE Atlantic/WAR  Ashley McBryde 2.508 +0.441 805 70 41 l41 43 14 PRAYED FOR YOU Wide Open/RECORDS/Good Company Matt Stell 2.433 +0.025 774 32 42 l42 47 14 MAKE ME WANT TO Stoney Creek Jimmie Allen 2.313 +0.310 900 79 39 l43 44 15 NOTHING TO DO TOWN Curb  Dylan Scott 2.288 +0.040 970 17 36 l44 48 5 MY MIRACLE Arista Nashville Brad Paisley 2.027 +0.228 591 39 44 l45 49 5 RIDIN’ ROADS Broken Bow Dustin Lynch 1.609 +0.012 518 35 46 l46 51 10 TO A T RCA Nashville Ryan Hurd 1.562 +0.093 423 37 51 l47 52 2 ONE BIG COUNTRY SONG Wheelhouse  LOCASH 1.429 +0.202 303 41 55 l48 53 7 AFTER A FEW Mercury  Travis Denning 1.325 +0.132 519 11 45 l49 54 6 BETTER OFF GONE Big Yellow Dog Logan Mize 1.141 -0.026 462 11 50 l50 56 3 IN BETWEEN Triple Tigers Scotty McCreery 1.098 +0.130 421 66 52 l51 NEW SLOW DANCE IN A PARKING LOT MCA Nashville HH Hot Shot Debut HH Jordan Davis 1.038 +0.498 320 188 54 l52 57 9 ALCOHOL YOU LATER Riser House/Columbia Nashville Mitchell Tenpenny 0.997 +0.113 468 44 48 53 55 14 ROCKIN’ ALL NIGHT LONG Buena Vista/Capitol Nashville Adam Hambrick 0.912 -0.102 502 -15 47 l54 60 9 SOMEONE I USED TO KNOW Southern Ground/Wheelhouse Zac Brown Band 0.809 +0.056 465 47 49 l55 58 4 THE BULL MCA Nashville Kip Moore 0.802 -0.018 282 0 57 l56 NEW SLOWER Curb  Filmore 0.787 +0.521 275 190 58 l57 NEW HEARTBREAK Atlantic/WMN  Hunter Hayes 0.658 +0.004 266 11 59 58 RE-ENTRY HOUSTON, WE GOT A PROBLEM River House/Columbia Nashville Luke Combs 0.647 -0.101 51 -12 - 59 59 3 WORLD FOR TWO 24 Entertainment/Stoney Creek King Calaway 0.635 -0.141 354 -5 53 l60 NEW SOUTHBOUND Capitol Nashville Carrie Underwood 0.605 +0.603 142 140 -

GOING FOR ADDS

5/6 PEARL CLARKIN Girls Of Summer CHANCE MCKINNEY BarFrog Backyard Studio2Bee/Star Farm Nashville TYLER RICH Leave Her Wild TENILLE ARTS Valory Call You Names Reviver 5/20 TUCKER BEATHARD Better Than Me NICK BRENNAN Warner Bros./WAR It’s A Good Time (To Fall In Love) MC1 Nashville 50 5/13 The song lifts 56-50 on Country Airplay, up LOCASH 13% to 1.1 million audience impressions. One Big Country Song SCOTTY Wheelhouse The third single from ’s album McCREERY McCreery In Between Seasons Change follows his first two No. 1s, MICHAEL RAY “Five More Minutes” and “This Is It.” Her World Or Mine Atlantic/WEA BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE APRIL 29, 2019 | PAGE 8 OF 20

AIRPLAY Country Airplay MONITORED BY

MOST ADDED® NEW AND ACTIVE TITLE Imprint/Label Artist ADDS TOTAL TOTAL KNOCKIN’ BOOTS Capitol Nashville Luke Bryan 27 TITLE Imprint/Label Artist AUDIENCE STATIONS ADDS REARVIEW TOWN Macon/Broken Bow Jason Aldean 24 RIVAL Arista Nashville LANCO 0.602 12 6 MR. LONELY Big Machine Midland 17 GOOD LORD Black River Abby Anderson 0.495 17 6 SLOW DANCE IN A PARKING LOT MCA Nashville Jordan Davis 17 KISS THAT GIRL GOODBYE BIG Label Aaron Watson 0.481 25 0 REDNECKER TVM/Big Loud Hardy 15 SLOWER Curb Filmore 12 NO ZIP CODE Blue Chair/Reviver David Lee Murphy 0.457 19 2 ALL TO MYSELF Warner Bros./WAR Dan + Shay 11 FAMILY TREE Capitol Nashville Caylee Hammack 0.454 15 4 THOUGHT ABOUT YOU McGraw/Columbia Nashville Tim McGraw 8 HER WORLD OR MINE Atlantic/WEA Michael Ray 0.311 4 4 MAKE ME WANT TO Stoney Creek Jimmie Allen 8 RAISED ON COUNTRY RCA Nashville Chris Young 7 RECURRENTS MOST INCREASED AUDIENCE THIS TOTAL AUD. WEEK TITLE Imprint/Label Artist (IN MILLIONS) GAIN 1 GIRL LIKE YOU Macon/Broken Bow Jason Aldean 20.338 TITLE Imprint/Label Artist (IN MIILIONS) 2 THIS IS IT Triple Tigers Scotty McCreery 20.243 WHISKEY GLASSES Big Loud Morgan Wallen +4.042 EYES ON YOU Dack Janiels/Broken Bow Chase Rice +3.252 3 SHE GOT THE BEST OF ME River House/Columbia Nashville Luke Combs 19.381 LOVE AIN’T Valory Eli Young Band +3.080 4 BEST SHOT Stoney Creek Jimmie Allen 18.259 GOD’S COUNTRY Warner Bros./WMN Blake Shelton +2.921 5 THERE WAS THIS GIRL BMLG Riley Green 17.476 MAKE IT SWEET RCA Nashville Old Dominion +2.793 6 ONE THAT GOT AWAY Atlantic/WEA Michael Ray 16.320 LOVE SOMEONE Atlantic/WMN Brett Eldredge +2.762 7 GOOD GIRL Broken Bow Dustin Lynch 13.963 GOOD AS YOU Zone 4/RCA Nashville Kane Brown +2.469 8 SIXTEEN Valory Thomas Rhett 13.417 SOME OF IT EMI Nashville Eric Church +2.342 9 TEQUILA Warner Bros./WAR Dan + Shay 13.355 RUMOR Curb Lee Brice +2.298 NIGHT SHIFT Capitol Nashville Jon Pardi +2.107 10 TAKE IT FROM ME MCA Nashville Jordan Davis 13.257 MOST INCREASED PLAYS BILLBOARD COUNTRY BOXSCORE TITLE Imprint/Label Artist GAIN Gross Artist Attendance Ticket Price(s) Venue/Date(s) Capacity Promoter(s) WHISKEY GLASSES Big Loud Morgan Wallen +929 $2,369,993 ERIC CHURCH 27,776 MESSINA TOURING GOD’S COUNTRY Warner Bros./WMN Blake Shelton +659 $139, $15 American Airlines Center, Dallas, Texas/April 12-13 27,776 GROUP/AEG PRESENTS LOVE SOMEONE Atlantic/WMN Brett Eldredge +651 $2,338,406 ERIC CHURCH 29,564 MESSINA TOURING EYES ON YOU Dack Janiels/Broken Bow Chase Rice +605 $139, $23 Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse, Cleveland, Ohio/April 19-20 29,564 GROUP/AEG PRESENTS GOOD AS YOU Zone 4/RCA Nashville Kane Brown +594 $1,736,702 KENNY CHESNEY 12,068 MESSINA TOURING $250, $125 The Anthem, Washington, D.C./April 18-19 12,068 GROUP/AEG PRESENTS LOVE AIN’T Valory Eli Young Band +581 KNOCKIN’ BOOTS Capitol Nashville Luke Bryan +500 $1,113,502 KENNY CHESNEY 14,386 MESSINA TOURING $129, $29 Greensboro Coliseum, Greensborom N.C./April 12 14,386 GROUP/AEG PRESENTS REARVIEW TOWN Macon/Broken Bow Jason Aldean +476 $791,850 KENNY CHESNEY 5,338 MESSINA TOURING ALL TO MYSELF Warner Bros./WAR Dan + Shay +469 $250, $99 Daily’s Place, Jacksonville, Fla./April 13 5,338 GROUP/AEG PRESENTS MAKE IT SWEET RCA Nashville Old Dominion +459 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 APRIL 28, 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 3 15 HAD A THING (Independent)  HH 1 Week at 1 HH Curtis Grimes 1947 119 l11 18 11 IT WAS ONLY ME (Independent)  Casey Baker 1243 148 2 2 10 CRAZY PEOPLE (Independent)  Randy Rogers Band 1835 - 113 l12 15 11 TOUCH THE WATER (Independent)  Jesse Raub Jr. 1233 44 3 1 14 CHEAT ON ME (Independent)  Bri Bagwell 1820 -145 13 14 20 AIN’T ENOUGH BEER (Independent)  Kylie Frey 1212 -16 l4 4 15 COUNTRY SONG TO SING (Independent)  Kevin Fowler 1725 5 l14 16 17 HARD HEADED HEART (Independent)  Clay Hollis 1176 29 l5 6 18 TOP OF MY HEART (Cory Morrow Music)  Cory Morrow 1657 26 l15 17 12 LIKE I LOVE YOU (Independent)  Sarah Hobbs 117 1 35 6 5 19 WALK AWAY (Independent)  Mark Powell 1599 -99 l16 19 9 PUT YOU DOWN TOMORROW (Independent)  Jake Ward 115 2 57 l7 7 17 KISS THAT GIRL GOODBYE (Independent)  Aaron Watson 1568 22 17 12 14 SOMEWHERE BETWEEN I LOVE YOU AND I’M LEAVIN’ (Rounder Rec)  Cody Jinks 113 0 -150 l8 8 15 OTHER SIDE OF THE RADIO (Independent)  Mike Ryan 1555 104 l18 22 4 THE DEVIL DON’T SCARE ME ANYMORE (Independent)  Josh Ward 1115 180 l9 10 9 FELL IN LOVE ON WHISKEY (Independent)  Wade Bowen 1424 108 l19 20 14 LOVE’S TO BLAME (Independent)  Jade Marie Patek 1083 53 l10 9 31 WHATEVER IT TAKES (King Hall Music)  Chad Cooke Band 1388 72 20 13 22 NONE’YA (Independent)  Hayes Carll 993 -286

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 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE APRIL 29, 2019 | PAGE 9 OF 20

NASHVILLE & NATIONAL TOM ROLAND

Music Nashville to enhance promotion of Matt Stell’s debut single, “Pray for You” (No. 41, Country Airplay). Arista Nashville will handle terrestrial promotion in conjunction with Keith Gale’s Good Company … J.P. Allen joined KMLE Phoenix as on-air producer for the morning show on April 22. He arrives from a similar role at top 40 WSTR Atlanta … Sun Broadcast Group hired Natalia Ospina as ad sales assistant, a position with influence on such syndicated titles as The Fitz Show and Country Fried Mix With DJ Sinister. Ospina spent the last three years as Entravision national TV sales account coordinator. Reach her here … Kellie Holeman is the new iHeartMedia/Greensboro-Winston-Salem- High Point, N.C., market president, InsideRadio.com reported. She transfers from a similar role at iHeartMedia/Toledo, Ohio. The Greensboro cluster includes country WTQR … Hall Communications/Providence, R.I., installed April Shibley as promotions manager for its two stations, including country WCTK, according to InsideRadio.com. She previously handled the same job at Cumulus/New York … Bob Simpson will retire from his 17-year post as Jordan Davis performed at KEEY Minneapolis-St. Paul as he promoted Cumulus/Indianapolis production director next month, Talkers.com reported. his new MCA single, “Slow Dance in a Parking Lot.” From left: Universal It leaves him just shy of a 50-year run in broadcasting. His role will be filled Music Group Nashville director of promotion and artist engagement by Jenn White, who segues from an identical job at Entercom/Indianapolis, Chris Fabiani, MCA Nashville director of Midwest promotion Donna which Cumulus recently acquired … Chris Janson hosts Westwood One’s four- Passuntino, Davis and iHeartMedia/Minneapolis-St. Paul senior vp hour Summer Kick-Off special, available for airing May 25-27 … Westwood programming Gregg Swedberg. One personality Elaina Smith will receive a Gracie Award from the Alliance for Women in Media Foundation for her podcast Women Want to Hear Women. NFL DRAFT HITS NASHVILLE The ceremony will take place May 21 in Beverly Hills, Calif. When Luke Bryan played a mini-concert from the roof of Tootsie’s Orchid Lounge during the Stanley Cup Playoffs and the CMA Music Festival in 2017, it ’ROUND THE ROW gave TV audiences a sense of the party spirit in Nashville’s honky-tonk district. Ryman Hospitality announced a joint venture with Gray Television that will The music and sports on-screen mashup occurred again when the National result in a country lifestyle channel to be distributed on TV and through Football League held its annual draft of college players in Music City April 25-27 digital mediums. The Nashville-based enterprise is expected to be up on a giant stage at the foot of Lower Broadway. The event attracted a reported and running during 2020. The deal makes use of Ryman’s Opry-centered 200,000 fans daily to party in the streets while their favorite teams bulked up presence in country music as well as its archives. Gray has TV properties in for the 2019 season. 93 markets … Curb|Word Music signed songwriter-producer Brian Bunn to The draft brought tons of marketing opportunities. Bryan and Taylor Swift a publishing deal. The Christian-based Bunn has secured country cuts from were guests on the ABC telecast; Tim McGraw and Dierks Bentley delivered free the likes of Lee Brice and Dylan Scott … Country-gospel act HighRoad after-draft concerts on successive nights (Bentley’s coincided with the annual joined the artist roster at the Daywind Music Group, assigned to the New Rock & Roll Marathon, which drew 30,000 runners); bars owned by Jason Day imprint. The quartet’s lineup includes leader Sarah Davison, mandolinist Aldean, Bryan and John Rich packed in patrons; and SiriusXM’s The Highway Kristen Bearfield, guitarist Kinsey Kapfhammer and fiddler Lauren held a bonus, midweek edition of its Music Row Happy Hour with NFL stars and Conklin … Previous American Idol contestant Harper Grace added Kore PR musicians — including Jake Owen, Cole Swindell and Lady Antebellum — for media representation … Former Sweet Talk PR executive Montine Felso, stopping by. who left the business to tend to her mother’s failing health, is facing burial Vault Media Group, a company with deep sports ties that plans to launch expenses after end-of-life health costs ate through the estate. A Go Fund Me several new music and entertainment products, threw parties on successive page has been set up to help here. nights, with NFL veterans, 2019 draftees and country stars all intermingling. Rubbing elbows in that setting was significant for many artists, particularly those who play fantasy football. “The draft in football is one of the things that’s so incredibly important for your team,” said Chris Young, who is commissioner of his fantasy league. “That really changes the look of your team if you’re a hyper-fan like I am.” It’s also a big deal for musicians who played football in high school before pursuing music full time. That includes Jerrod Niemann, whose school played in the Texas State Championship each of his four years, and indie artist Cash Campbell, a quarterback who realized after two days of practice in college that he was not cut out to have 300-pound linemen sprawled on top of him. “That was probably not the best career choice for me,” he says. “I didn’t have the size.” The draft included a charity component. A party at Bryan’s 32 Bridge Food + Drink raised more than $120,000 for four Tennessee-based foundations. And the National Museum of African American Music, set to open on Lower Broadway in 2020, held a Sounds of Social Justice panel with Nashville-based R&B artist India.Arie performing after NFL players Derrick Morgan and Malcolm Jenkins discussed using their public platform to promote social change. That aspect of the proceedings held particular sway for Chase Bryant. “You hope some of these kids come in level-headed and stay that way,” said Cole Swindell (left) attended Bryant. “Even as an artist, you come in and you think you’re level-headed, and the T.J. Martell Foundation’s it all goes away. I hope for a good crop of kids coming in.” Best Cellars benefit, co-chaired by Warner Music Nashville Indie artist Dylan Jakobsen (left) RADIO & RECORDS chairman/CEO John Esposito, met KUKN Longview-Kelso, Big Machine Label Group promoted George Briner to Valory president from on April 22. The soiree raised Wash., GM John Paul during his

GM. Reach him here … New York-based RECORDS is partnering with Sony $400,000 for cancer research. radio promotion tour. IMAGES GETTY DIAMOND RICK SWINDELL: BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE APRIL 29, 2019 | PAGE 10 OF 20

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Two rival TV judges will take part when April 30 Ryman Hospitality expands Ole Red • 2016 — Dierks Bentley touches down at Tishomingo, Okla., with a new music and No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs events hall, The Doghouse. Luke Bryan, chart with “Somewhere on a Beach.” in his second season on ABC’s American • 2013 — Keith Urban records “Little Idol, delivers a concert on May 23 during Bit of Everything” with producer the venue’s grand-opening celebration. Nathan Chapman at Nashville’s Blake Shelton, seen regularly on NBC’s Blackbird Studio. The Voice, performs the following night. BENTLEY The weekend will also feature former May 1 Voice contestant Red Marlow and • 1979 — The Judds move to Nashville. Oklahoma musician Jackson Tillman. • 1969 — Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan tape the first installment of The Elsewhere in country concerts, Clint Johnny Cash Show at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium. In the audience: Black, HARDY and King Calaway signed future singer-songwriter John Hiatt. on for the second annual Tailgate Fest in SHELTON Eastvale, Calif., Aug. 17-18. And Jason May 2 Aldean added an Oct. 11 appearance at Globe Life Park in Arlington, Texas, • 2014 — Carrie Underwood writes “Something in the Water” with that will be the last country concert at the MLB venue before it’s mothballed. Chris DeStefano and Brett James in a Tennessee cabin. Also on the bill: Kane Brown, Carly Pearce and DJ Silver. • 2009 — LeAnn Rimes becomes the first major star to sing the national anthem prior to the Kentucky Derby, won by Mine That Two Texas acts have albums that will arrive June 21. Willie Nelson’s Ride Me Bird at Churchill Downs in Louisville. Back Home includes covers of Billy Joel, Mac Davis and the late Guy Clark. Bruce Robison and Kelly Willis issue their fourth project, Beautiful Lie, the May 3 same day. Meanwhile, three just-released EPs share April 26 street dates: • 2004 — Eric Church receives a phone call from Capitol Records on Dylan Scott’s Nothing to Do Town, newcomer Austin Merrill’s Whiskey & his 27th birthday with an invitation to sign with the label. Water and Erin Enderlin’s Chapter One: Tonight I Don’t Give a Damn. May 4 With seven tabs making them the most-nominated country act at this year’s • 1959 — The Kingston Trio’s “Tom Dooley” wins best country and Billboard Music Awards, Dan + Shay are set to perform with Tori Kelly on western performance at the first Grammy Awards presentation. The May 1 as the ceremony emanates from Las Vegas’ MGM Grand Garden Arena folk record, which never made the country chart, beats two Everly on NBC. Kelly Clarkson hosts the show, which also promises Lauren Daigle, Brothers singles, as well as Don Gibson and Jimmie Rodgers. Madonna, Khalid, Panic! at the Disco and the live premiere of Taylor Swift’s new single, “Me!” May 5 • 2018 — Broken Bow releases the Dustin Lynch single “Good Girl” A year after her passing, singer-songwriter Lari White received the to radio. Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Frost School of Music in Coral Gables, • 2017 — Mercury releases Chris Stapleton’s album From A Room: Fla., on April 19. Her surviving husband, songwriter Chuck Cannon (“I Love Volume 1. the Way You Love Me,” “How Do You Like Me Now?!”), accepted it in her honor. He also surprised the room by joining Frost student Christina Martino May 6 as she sang “That’s How You Know (When You’re in Love),” a White/Cannon • 1989 — Keith Whitley plays a concert date at the Armadillo Ballroom co-write that went top 10 in 1995. in Brazoria, Texas, that amounts to his final show.

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Facebook Embraces Music: How The Social Network Is Friending The Industry By Licensing Content Singer-songwriters Filmore and HARDY performed April 23 during the U.S. Trade Rep Calls Out Stream-Ripping, first installment of BMI’s third annual Rooftop on the Row series. From left: BMI associate director of partnerships and events Branden Bosler Countries Failing To Protect Intellectual Property and associate director of writer/publisher relations Josh Tomlinson, In New Reports Filmore, HARDY and BMI associate director of writer/publisher

relations MaryAnn Keen. ZUCKER NATHAN BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE NOVEMBER 19, 2018 | PAGE 11 OF 20 PICTURE THIS: NFL DRAFT PICS Roughly 200,000 people a day hit Lower Broadway in Nashville April 25-27 as the NFL conducted its annual draft of college players in Music City for the first time. The outdoor event took place in the same general footprint where the CMA Music Festival will be held in June.

California-born Valory artist Tyler Rich Luke Bryan raised $120,000 for charity with (center) showed his NFL loyalty during a an April 24 performance at his club, 32 Bridge Chris Young (left) held a salute to service event Vault Media Group party. He’s shown with Food + Drink. From left: Nashville Convention & on April 25 in conjunction with USAA at the Vault president/COO Lawrence Bracco Visitors Bureau president/CEO Butch Spyridon, WME office, performing for servicemen and (left) and founder/CEO Mark Skelly. Vanderbilt office of engagement director Stuart women stationed at Fort Campbell, Ky. Also Dill, Bryan, Nashville Mayor David Briley and appearing was former Cleveland Browns ESPN host Kirk Herbstreit. lineman Joe Thomas.

Love & Theft and David Nail made the rounds during Indie artist Natalie Stovall hung with former a Vault Media Group party. From left: Love & Theft’s Tennessee Titans player Eddie George Stephen Barker Liles, Vault publisher Scott Miller, Taylor Swift (right) joined Robin Roberts (center) and Fox Sports analyst Jay Glazer Nail and BubbleUp Marketing sales manager John on the April 25 ABC telecast as she during a Vault Media Party on April 24. Landers. promotes her new single, “Me!”

Nashville-based R&B artist India.Arie performed for a social justice panel hosted by the National Museum of Lady Antebellum joined SiriusXM host Buzz African American Music, set to open Brainard for an April 24 Music Row Happy Hour in Nashville in 2020. She’s flanked by edition tied into the NFL Draft. From left: Lady A’s Philadelphia Eagles player Malcolm Chase Bryant (left) caught up with SiriusXM

YOUNG: WADE PAYNE AP IMAGES. BRYAN: ETHAN HELMS. RICH: HEATHER DURHAM VAULT MEDI AGROUP. SWIFT: PHIL ELLSWORTH ESPN IMAGES. STOVALL: HEATHER DURHAM VAULT MEDIA GROUP. LOVE AND AND LOVE GROUP. MEDIA VAULT DURHAM HEATHER STOVALL: IMAGES. ESPN ELLSWORTH PHIL SWIFT: AGROUP. MEDI VAULT DURHAM HEATHER RICH: HELMS. ETHAN BRYAN: IMAGES. AP GROUP MEDIA PAYNE VAULT DURHAM WADE HEATHER YOUNG: BRYAN: DAVIS. JASON ANTEBELLUM: LADY GROUP. MEDIA VAULT DURHAM HEATHER THEFT: Dave Haywood, Brainard and Lady A members Jenkins (left) and Georgetown University host Storme Warren during an April 24 Vault Hillary Scott and Charles Kelley. professor Michael Eric Dyson, who Media Group event. moderated. BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE APRIL 29, 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 51 BEAUTIFUL CRAZY No. 1 (10 weeks) Luke Combs 4 1 S.MOFFATT (L.COMBS,W.B.DURRETTE,R.WILLIFORD) RIVER HOUSE/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE GOD’S COUNTRY 2 4 5 5 Blake Shelton 15 2 l S.HENDRICKS (M.HARDY,J.M.SCHMIDT,D.DAWSON) WARNER BROS./WMN EYES ON YOU 3 3 6 36 Chase Rice 2 3 l C. DESTEFANO (C.RICE,C. DESTEFANO,A.GORLEY) DACK JANIELS/BROKEN BOW HH HH 4 8 10 28 WHISKEY GLASSES Digital & Airplay Gainer Morgan Wallen 7 4 l J.MOI (B.BURGESS,K.KADISH) BIG LOUD 5 2 3 32 HERE TONIGHT Brett Young 3 2 D.HUFF (B.YOUNG,B.CAVER,J.EBACH,C.KELLEY) BMLG GOOD AS YOU 6 7 7 27 Kane Brown 6 6 l D.HUFF (K.BROWN,B.BERRYHILL,S.CARTER,T.PHILLIPS,W.WEATHERLY) ZONE 4/RCA NASHVILLE LOOK WHAT GOD GAVE HER 7 6 4 9 Thomas Rhett 11 4 l D.HUFF,J.BUNETTA,THOMAS RHETT (THOMAS RHETT,R.AKINS,J.BUNETTA,J.K.HINDLIN,A.MALIK,J.H.RYAN) VALORY MAKE IT SWEET 8 9 9 29 Old Dominion 1 8 l S.MCANALLY (M.RAMSEY,T. ROSEN,W.SELLERS,G.SPRUNG,B.TURSI,S.MCANALLY) RCA NASHVILLE MISS ME MORE 9 11 11 26 Kelsea Ballerini 9 8 l F.G.WHITEHEAD,J.MASSEY (K.BALLERINI,D.H.HODGES,B.MCLAUGHLIN) BLACK RIVER 10 10 8 49 SPEECHLESS Dan + Shay RC 1 D.SMYERS,S.HENDRICKS (D.SMYERS,S.MOONEY,J.REYNOLDS,L.VELTZ) WARNER BROS./WAR NIGHT SHIFT 11 13 14 36 Jon Pardi 8 11 l B.BUTLER,J.PARDI (T.BROWN,P.LARUE,B.MONTANA) CAPITOL NASHVILLE RUMOR 12 12 13 33 Lee Brice 13 12 l L.BRICE,J.STONE,K.JACOBS,D.FRIZSELL (L.BRICE,K.JACOBS,A.GORLEY) CURB LOVE AIN’T 13 15 17 31 Eli Young Band 5 13 l D.HUFF (R.COPPERMAN,A.GORLEY,S.MCANALLY) VALO RY GIRL 14 14 15 15 Maren Morris 14 9 l G.KURSTIN,M.MORRIS (M.MORRIS,S.AARONS,G.KURSTIN) COLU MBIA NASHVILLE TALK YOU OUT OF IT 15 16 16 33 Florida Georgia Line 18 13 l J.MOI (M.HARDY,H.PHELPS,J.ROGERS,A.VANDERHEYM) BMLG ON MY WAY TO YOU 16 17 18 37 Cody Johnson 12 16 l T.W.WILLMON (BRETT JAMES,T.LANE) COJO/WMN LOVE SOMEONE 17 19 21 26 Brett Eldredge 10 17 l R. COPPERMAN,B.ELDREDGE (B.ELDREDGE,R.COPPERMAN,H.MORGAN) ATLANTIC/WMN KNOCKIN’ BOOTS 18 20 20 4 Luke Bryan 23 18 l J.STEVENS,J.STEVENS (H.LINDSEY,G.SAMPSON,J.M.NITE) CAPITOL NASHVILLE ALL TO MYSELF 19 22 24 16 Dan + Shay 20 19 l D.SMYERS,S.HENDRICKS (D.SMYERS,S.MOONEY,N.GALYON,J.REYNOLDS) WARNER BROS./WAR SOME OF IT 20 23 25 13 Eric Church 16 20 l J.JOYCE (E.CHURCH,J.HYDE,C.DANIELS,B.PINSON) EMI NASHVILLE HH HH 21 27 32 16 REARVIEW TOWN Streaming Gainer Jason Aldean 24 21 l M.KNOX (N.THRASHER,B.PINSON,K.LOVELACE) MACON/BROKEN BOW CAUGHT UP IN THE COUNTRY 22 21 22 40 Rodney Atkins Featuring The Fisk Jubilee Singers 21 21 l R.ATKINS,T.HEWITT,B.BOLLINGER (C.HARRINGTON,J.M.SCHMIDT,M.WALKER) CURB EVERY LITTLE HONKY TONK BAR 23 24 23 11 George Strait 17 22 l C.AINLAY,G.STRAIT (G.STRAIT,B.STRAIT,D.DILLON) MCA NASHVILLE RAISED ON COUNTRY 24 28 31 12 Chris Young 19 24 l C.CROWDER,C.YOUNG (C.YOUNG,C.R.BARLOWE,C.CROWDER) RCA NASHVILLE I DON’T KNOW ABOUT YOU 25 26 28 29 Chris Lane 34 25 l J.MOI (A.GORLEY,M.HARDY,H.PHELPS,J.RODGERS) BIG LOUD

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The track returns to its No. 16 high on Co-penned by Townes, “Daughter” bullets Hot Country Songs. It rises 14-12 on at No. 31 on Hot Country Songs. It gains by CODY Country Airplay, up 4% to 19 million in TENILLE 5% to 7.4 million impressions and pushes JOHNSON TOWNES On My Way radio reach, while posting a 2% gain to Somebody’s 29-27 on Country Airplay while corralling to You 4.3 million U.S. streams. Daughter 1.8 million U.S. streams (up 5%). FRAZER HARRISON/GETTY IMAGES FOR ACM FOR IMAGES HARRISON/GETTY FRAZER BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE APRIL 29, 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 25 26 11 RAINBOW Kacey Musgraves RC 17 I.FITCHUK,D.TASHIAN,K.MUSGRAVES (N.HEMBY,S.MCANALLY,K.MUSGRAVES) MCA NASHVILLE HH HH 27 NEW 1 REMEMBER YOU YOUNG Hot Shot Debut Thomas Rhett - 27 l D.HUFF,J.FRASURE,THOMAS RHETT (THOMAS RHETT,J.FRASURE,A.GORLEY) VALORY REDNECKER 28 30 41 10 HARDY 39 28 l J.MOI,D.COHEN (A.ALBERT,M.HARDY,J.M.SCHMIDT) TREE VIBEZ/BIG LOUD WHAT HAPPENS IN A SMALL TOWN 29 31 35 19 Brantley Gilbert + Lindsay Ell 22 29 l D.HUFF (B.GILBERT,R.AKINS,B.BERRYHILL,J.DUNNE) VA LORY 30 29 27 8 THE BONES Maren Morris - 27 G.KURSTIN (M.MORRIS,J.ROBBINS,L.VELTZ) COLUMBIA NASHVILLE SOMEBODY’S DAUGHTER 31 32 34 8 Tenille Townes 27 31 l J.JOYCE (T.TOWNES,L.LAIRD,BARY DEAN) COLUMBIA NASHVILLE THOUGHT ABOUT YOU 32 45 — 3 Tim McGraw 31 32 l B.GALLIMORE,T.MCGRAW (L.T.MILLER,B.WARREN,B.D.WARREN) MCGRAW/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE LOVE YOU TOO LATE 33 34 37 9 Cole Swindell 29 33 l M.R.CARTER (C.SWINDELL,MICHAEL RAY,B.KINNEY) WARNER BROS./WMN THE ONES THAT DIDN’T MAKE IT BACK HOME 34 37 44 5 Justin Moore 26 34 l J.S.STOVER,S.BORCHETTA (J.MOORE,P.DIGIOVANNI,C.MCGILL,J.S.STOVER) VALORY RIDIN’ ROADS 35 35 48 7 Dustin Lynch 45 26 l Z.CROWELL (D.LYNCH,A.GORLEY,Z.CROWELL) BROKEN BOW BUY MY OWN DRINKS 36 38 42 10 Runaway June 25 36 l D.HUFF (H.MULHOLLAND,J.WAYNE,N.COOKE,H.LINDSEY,J.KEAR) WHEELHOUSE 37 33 33 5 BRAND NEW MAN Brooks & Dunn With Luke Combs RC 30 D.HUFF (K.BROOKS,D.COOK,R.DUNN) ARISTA NASHVILLE CLOSER TO YOU 38 36 39 14 Carly Pearce 30 36 l BUSBEE (H.LINDSEY,G.SAMPSON,T.VERGES) BIG MACHINE EVERY LITTLE THING 39 39 45 5 Russell Dickerson 33 39 l C.BROWN (R.DICKERSON,P.WELLING,C.BROWN) TRIPLE TIGERS BACK TO LIFE 40 43 47 16 Rascal Flatts 28 31 l J.DEE,G.LEVOX,J.D.ROONEY (C.R.BARLOWE,N.MOON,S.MOONEY,F.WILHELM) BIG MACHINE NOTHING TO DO TOWN 41 40 36 11 Dylan Scott 43 35 l M.ALDERMAN,C.GIBBS,J.E.NORMAN (D.SCOTT,M.ALDERMAN,C.TAYLOR) CURB TO A T 42 42 43 11 Ryan Hurd 46 41 l D.HUFF,A.ESHUIS (R.J.HURD,N.SPICER,L.VELTZ) RCA NASHVILLE ONE MAN BAND 43 46 — 4 Old Dominion - 43 l S.MCANALLY (M.RAMSEY,T. ROSEN,B.TURSI,J.OSBORNE) RCA NASHVILLE LIVING 44 44 — 3 Dierks Bentley 35 44 l R. COPPERMAN,J.R.STEWART (R.COPPERMAN,J.M.NITE,A.GORLEY,D.BENTLEY) C APITOL NASHVILLE STRONGER THAN ME Garth Brooks 45 RE-ENTRY 15 RC 38 l G.BROOKS (R.W.TERRY,M.A.ROSSI) PEARL 46 47 50 7 I HOPE Gabby Barrett - 37 R. COPPERMAN (Z.KALE,J.M.NITE,G.BARRETT) GABBY BARRETT/RED LIGHT MANAGEMENT NASHVILLE PRAYED FOR YOU 47 50 — 15 Matt Stell 41 36 l A.BOWERS,M.STELL (M.STELL,A.BOWERS,A.VELTZ) WIDE OPEN/RECORDS/GOOD COMPANY WORLD FOR TWO 48 49 — 4 King Calaway - 43 l R. COPPERMAN,R.DEATON (R.COPPERMAN,J.OSBORNE,J.ABRAHART) 24 ENTERTAINMENT/STONEY CREEK DAY DRUNK 49 NEW 1 Morgan Evans 32 49 l C. DESTEFANO (M.EVANS,C. DESTEFANO,L.ROBBINS) WARNER BROS./WEA 50 41 30 3 NEON MOON Brooks & Dunn With Kacey Musgraves - 30 D.HUFF,K.MUSGRAVES (R.DUNN) ARISTA NASHVILLE

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COUNTRY MARKET WATCH A Weekly National Music Sales Report YEAR-TO-DATE

Year-Over-YearALBUM SALES Album Sales Weekly’15 Unit Sales Overall Unit Sales DIGITAL DIGITAL 2018 2019 CHANGE ALBUMS ’18 4.84 million ALBUMS* TRACKS ’14 Albums 4,838,000 3,592,000 -25.8% ’19 3.59 million This Week 222,000 65,000 700,000 Digital Tracks 15,483,000 11,263,000 -27.3% Last Week 264,000 65,000 689,000 DIGITAL TRACKS SALES Sales by Album Format Change -15.9% 0.0% 1.6% 2018 2019 CHANGE ’18 000.0 million15.48 million This Week Last Year 367,000 109,000 984,000 Physical 3,444,000 2,488,000 -27.8% ’19 11.26 million Change -39.5% -40.4% -28.9% Digital 1,395,000 1,104,000 -20.9% For week ending April 25, 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.

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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 BEAUTIFUL CRAZY GOD’S COUNTRY LUKE COMBS THIS ONE’S FOR YOU 1 1 51 1 1 4 1 1 2 99 1 LUKE COMBS  l BLAKE SHELTON  l RIVER HOUSE/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE 538883*/SMN 2 MEANT TO BE WHISKEY GLASSES DAN + SHAY DAN + SHAY 2 2 74 l2 4 22 2 3 5 44 WARNER BROS. 570796/WMN 0 1 BEBE REXHA & FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE  MORGAN WALLEN  GOD’S COUNTRY LOOK WHAT GOD GAVE HER CHRIS STAPLETON TRAVELLER 3 5 3 3 2 8 3 8 7 208 MERCURY 019405*/UMGN 3 1 l BLAKE SHELTON  THOMAS RHETT  TENNESSEE WHISKEY REMEMBER YOU YOUNG KACEY MUSGRAVES GOLDEN HOUR 4 3 107 4 NEW 4 5 8 51 MCA NASHVILLE 027921*/UMGN 1 CHRIS STAPLETON  l THOMAS RHETT  MAREN MORRIS GIRL 5 4 61 TEQUILA 5 3 51 BEAUTIFUL CRAZY 5 6 6 7 COLUMBIA NASHVILLE 590186*/SMN 1 DAN + SHAY  LUKE COMBS  EYES ON YOU GOOD AS YOU FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE CAN’T SAY I AIN’T COUNTRY 6 6 8 6 5 14 6 9 9 10 BMLG FGL0400* 1 l CHASE RICE  KANE BROWN  WHISKEY GLASSES KNOCKIN’ BOOTS NEW 1 UPCHURCH CREEKER 2 7 l7 13 10 l7 6 4 l7 REDNECK NATION MORGAN WALLEN  LUKE BRYAN  HEAVEN RUMOR KANE BROWN EXPERIMENT 8 8 77 8 7 19 8 10 10 24 ZONE 4/RCA NASHVILLE /SMN 1 KANE BROWN  l LEE BRICE  HERE TONIGHT MISS ME MORE BROOKS & DUNN REBOOT 9 10 11 9 10 25 9 4 1 3 ARISTA NASHVILLE 590311/SMN 1 l BRETT YOUNG  KELSEA BALLERINI  LOOK WHAT GOD GAVE HER EYES ON YOU 12 13 54 JASON ALDEAN REARVIEW TOWN 1 10 7 8 10 11 10 l10 MACON/BROKEN BOW/BMG 538375642*/BBMG (538375730) 0 THOMAS RHETT  l CHASE RICE  SPEECHLESS SPEECHLESS KANE BROWN KANE BROWN 11 9 40 11 12 44 11 11 12 125 ZONE 4/RCA NASHVILLE 530947*/SMN 1 1 DAN + SHAY  l DAN + SHAY  SHE GOT THE BEST OF ME MAKE IT SWEET 13 15 47 MORGAN WALLEN IF I KNOW ME 11 12 12 37 12 13 19 l12 BIG LOUD DIGITAL EX LUKE COMBS  OLD DOMINION  GIRL TEQUILA GEORGE STRAIT HONKY TONK TIME MACHINE 13 14 8 13 8 66 13 7 3 4 MCA NASHVILLE 029300*/UMGN (002930001) 1 l MAREN MORRIS  DAN + SHAY  TALK YOU OUT OF IT GIRL 16 17 149 JON PARDI CALIFORNIA SUNRISE 1 14 16 11 14 15 14 l14 CAPITOL NASHVILLE 024744*/UMGN 1 l FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE  l MAREN MORRIS  RUMOR RAINBOW 17 16 85 THOMAS RHETT LIFE CHANGES 1 15 11 10 15 14 11 l15 VALORY TR0300A/BMLG 1 LEE BRICE  KACEY MUSGRAVES  MISS ME MORE HERE TONIGHT 29 19 32 CARRIE UNDERWOOD CRY PRETTY 1 16 19 7 16 18 10 l16 CAPITOL NASHVILLE 028557*/UMGN 0 l KELSEA BALLERINI  l BRETT YOUNG  YOU MAKE IT EASY TENNESSEE WHISKEY BRETT YOUNG BRETT YOUNG 17 15 65 17 17 172 17 14 11 115 BMLG BY0100A* 1 2 JASON ALDEAN  l CHRIS STAPLETON  18 18 196 ZAC BROWN BAND GREATEST HITS SO FAR... 3 18 17 10 GOOD AS YOU 18 16 35 DOWN TO THE HONKYTONK l18 ROAR/SOUTHERN GROUND/ATLANTIC 546369/AG KANE BROWN  JAKE OWEN  BLAKE SHELTON RELOADED: 20 #1 HITS IN CASE YOU DIDN’T KNOW TALK YOU OUT OF IT 19 18 130 19 19 13 19 21 21 183 WARNER BROS. 551788/WMN 2 BRETT YOUNG  l FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE  BRETT YOUNG TICKET TO L.A. NIGHT SHIFT NIGHT SHIFT 20 20 3 20 22 10 20 20 20 20 BMLG BMBY200A* 1 l JON PARDI  l JON PARDI  KELSEA BALLERINI UNAPOLOGETICALLY HURRICANE WELCOME TO HAZEVILLE 21 22 25 65 3 21 21 131 21 NEW l BLACK RIVER 2017 l LUKE COMBS  l BRANTLEY GILBERT FEAT. COLT FOLD, LUKAS NELSON & WILLIE NELSON  GEORGE STRAIT 50 NUMBER ONES BODY LIKE A BACK ROAD LOVE AIN’T 22 23 115 22 RE-ENTRY 22 15 14 173 MCA NASHVILLE 000459/UMGN (25.98) 7 1 l SAM HUNT  l ELI YOUNG BAND  TIM MCGRAW NUMBER ONE HITS WHAT IFS SHE GOT THE BEST OF ME 23 23 29 170 6 23 22 102 23 20 34 l CURB 79205 (13.98) 1 l KANE BROWN FEAT. LAUREN ALAINA  LUKE COMBS  THOMAS RHETT TANGLED UP DIE A HAPPY MAN SOME OF IT 24 24 31 187 2 24 24 101 24 25 3 l VALORY RT0200A/BMLG 1 l THOMAS RHETT  l ERIC CHURCH  SAM HUNT MONTEVALLO TAKE IT FROM ME I HOPE 25 26 23 219 3 1 25 RE-ENTRY 25 23 8 l MCA NASHVILLE 021502/UMGN l JORDAN DAVIS  GABBY BARRETT  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 2 1 154 MERCURY NASHVILLE 019405*/UMGN 3 1 KACEY MUSGRAVES GOLDEN HOUR 2 1 2 56 MCA NASHVILLE 027921*/UMGN 1 HOZIER WASTELAND, BABY! 3 4 3 8 RUBYWORKS 591795*/COLUMBIA 1

NEW 1 JOHNNYSWIM MOONLIGHT 4 l4 JOHNNYSWIM/BRITANNIA ROW 538466302*/BMG (538466321) 8 7 117 SIMON & GARFUNKEL SIMON AND GARFUNKEL’S GREATEST HITS 3 l5 COLUMBIA 31350/LEGACY 6 9 6 103 CHRIS STAPLETON FROM A ROOM: VOLUME 1 1 1 MERCURY NASHVILLE 026379*/UMGN 4 HOZIER HOZIER The ballad from ’s fourth studio 7 7 5 200 RUBYWORKS 309996*/COLUMBIA 2 1 Rhett album, Center Point Road (due May 31), 8 12 8 159 THE LUMINEERS CLEOPATRA 1 DUALTONE 1738* 1 soars onto Country Digital Song Sales at CHRIS STAPLETON FROM A ROOM: VOLUME 2 THOMAS No. 4 with 10,000 sold in its first week, 9 10 4 73 MERCURY NASHVILLE 027408*/UMGN 0 1 RHETT marking his 20th top 10. On Hot Country 14 10 111 JACK JOHNSON IN BETWEEN DREAMS 8 Remember l10 JACK JOHNSON/BRUSHFIRE /REPUBLIC (13.98) 2 Songs, it enters at No. 27. Americana/Folk Albums ranks the most popular Americana/folk albums of the week, as compiled by Nielsen Music, You Young 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. RICH FURY/ACMA2019/GETTY IMAGES FOR ACM FOR IMAGES FURY/ACMA2019/GETTY RICH BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE APRIL 29, 2019 | PAGE 15 OF 20

MAKIN’ TRACKS TOM ROLAND [email protected] Meet Caylee Hammack And Her Whole Nutty ‘Family Tree’

When new artist Caylee Hammack was a baby, her first word was of the Colors,” Porter Wagoner’s “Satisfied Mind” and Anne Murray’s “Danny’s four-letter variety. Song” — though it’s not so prominent in modern country. Not “mama.” Not “dada.” The first word that ever tumbled out of her mouth, “In the current country climate, people don’t talk about that,” suggests her parents recently told her, was “shit.” Sampson. “A country artist doesn’t want you to think that he has more money “All this makes sense now,” she says with a laugh. “I always seem to put than you, and he doesn’t want you to think he’s poor either. So talking about ‘cigarette’ and ‘shit’ into songs. I don’t know why. I feel like it brings it back money in a song is kind of tough.” to real-life shit.” Before the session was over, they recorded Radio programmers don’t need to worry about the bones of a demo with an ’80s-like new wave bleeping any profanity in Hammack’s debut single, drum sound. “The demo definitely smoked a joint,” “Family Tree.” In fact, “cigarette” doesn’t make it says Sampson. “It was super chill.” into the lyrics either, though that’s only because she But Hammack’s performance provided a gospel went deeper with the imagery. The opening lines thread that would be amplified at a later date. — “Sister smoked all the Camels in the county last “With Caylee’s vocals, it’s kind of hard not to week/She cleaned out the 7/11, sneakin’ in, smellin’ go there,” says Verges. “There’s so much of that in like nicotine” — are loaded up with a tobacco craving her melodies and just what comes out of her mouth as Hammack uses her relatives to introduce herself naturally. She would fit in in any gospel choir in to the world at large. the country.” It’s a family full of characters, too, conveyed Universal Music Publishing Group Nashville through very specific images: her mother’s was impressed when she delivered “Family Tree.” Tupperware party, her father sleeping in front of a Vp creative Cyndi Forman thought it could propel TV football game, cousins rolling a doobie before Hammack’s recording career, and the artist — a “potluck lunch” and a “high-school high,” and a though resistant at first — agreed after a few weeks. HAMMACK grandmother selling the Maytag dryer to get bail Hammack identified fellow UMPG songwriter money for Hammack’s uncle. Note that appliance Mikey Reaves as an ideal co-producer, and they — it’s not just a dryer; it’s a Maytag dryer, a demonstration that Hammack buckled down on “Family Tree,” working with a limited demo budget of $500. pays attention to details. “I had heard the song one time, and I thought it would be a fiesta to work “Details,” she explains, “are what makes the world go around. I even have on,” he says. “The song was just juicy.” told people on my team, ‘Big things don’t matter to me. Little things do.’ ” “Mikey and I probably spent 50-60 hours in that room together going over The detailed nuances of “Family Tree” came together in March 2017 and over things,” recalls Hammack. when Hammack wrote for the first time with songwriters Gordie Sampson He created a drum loop and then layered in percussive programming (“Knockin’ Boots,” “God, Your Mama, and Me”) and Troy Verges (“Wanted,” and unusual percussion. They called in three players to overdub — bassist “Day Drinking”) at Still Working Music in the Orbison Building in Nashville. Nolan Verner, guitarist Rob McNelley and keyboardist Davis Naish — and She walked into the room with three or four ideas, then decided they were — in piggybacked on a gang vocal session at UMPG’s basement studio that Reaves her words, “paltry” — and chucked them. She had logged that specific “Camels” had already put together for his wife, singer-songwriter Emily Hackett, using line into her phone, and it set a standard for the song that would emerge. what he calls “all of our silkiest singer friends.” “That kind of informed the rest of the writing,” notes Sampson, “and we “The bridge is where it really busts open and gets gospelly,” he adds. “I’ve sort of continued to get very descriptive. That line set the pace for an edgy- done so many gang vocal sessions. I’ve never had one like that. There was just yet-fun lyric.” so much energy and so many ideas that were spilling out.” The quirks were organized, intentionally or not. The first verse introduced Reaves created an intro for “Family Tree” by chopping up the hook and her nuclear family, while the circle widened in the second verse to reach pasting it onto the front of the performance, running it through some filters extended relatives. They assigned a trait to every member — some real, some to make it sound like a Sunday-morning AM radio station. that stretch the story a bit — but they did it in a way that feels universal. The “We have this understanding of ‘We will dare to suck,’ ” explains Reaves. current interest in genealogy is fueled, at least in part, by a curiosity about “If there’s something that’s cool, we’ll chase it, and if it ends up not being cool, what oddballs might be hidden among our ancestors. we’ll be honest with ourselves and axe it. I actually thought we maybe would “No one has a completely normal family,” reasons Verges. “If they do, just axe that intro, but then we kept it.” wait a minute, and you’ll hear more.” Hammack signed with Universal and thought “Family Tree” was the ideal They didn’t initially have a title for their portrait of a wacky clan, though as lead single. During a trip she took to Portugal in December with a friend, she they worked their way to the chorus, the phrase “family tree” showed itself. found a ring that featured a tree in a circle. She purchased it and discovered They threw out a bunch of phrases until they stumbled on “Ain’t nothin’ gonna days later that the label was indeed going with that song. shake our family tree.” It asserted the solidarity of the tribe — “The whole “Now I’ve been wearing that ring every single day on the radio tour,” she point of this song is to show that blood is thicker than crazy,” says Hammack says. “I feel like that ring was a sign from God, like, ‘Hey, you’re about to get — but it simultaneously implied that if someone shakes the family tree, they’ll your way. Have fun with it.’ ” uncover a few nuts. Capitol sent “Family Tree” to radio via PlayMPE on March 25. It ranked “We all kind of high-fived when we found that because it just felt right,” No. 5 on the New & Active chart dated April 27. It’s a song with its own says Sampson. unique identity, celebrating the twists, kinks and eccentricities in humanity The chorus was set up, too, with a pre-chorus that puts an exclamation — appropriate for a woman whose first word was “shit.” point on the singer’s priorities: “We got more love than we got money.” It’s “Usually, it’s not the normalcy I like,” she says. “It’s the weirdness in people, an old-school country idea — one that echoes Dolly Parton’s “Coat of Many the little quirks, that endear them to me.” BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE APRIL 29, 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 16 GOOD AS YOU Zone 4/RCA Nashville HH No. 1 (1 week) HH Kane Brown 5122 +323 7.681 l2 2 28 MAKE IT SWEET RCA Nashville Old Dominion 5066 +133 7.806 l3 4 28 EYES ON YOU Dack Janiels/Broken Bow Chase Rice 5055 +263 7.397 l4 5 38 LOVE AIN’T Valory Eli Young Band 4892 +268 7.520 l5 6 39 NIGHT SHIFT Capitol Nashville Jon Pardi 4565 +82 6.656 6 1 31 HERE TONIGHT BMLG Brett Young 4447 -634 7.231 l7 7 28 MISS ME MORE Black River Kelsea Ballerini 4399 +198 6.305 l8 9 33 WHISKEY GLASSES Big Loud Morgan Wallen 4215 +306 6.366 l9 8 35 ON MY WAY TO YOU CoJo/WMN Cody Johnson 4141 +69 6.197 l10 11 40 LOVE SOMEONE Atlantic/WMN Brett Eldredge 3592 +207 5.471 l11 12 9 LOOK WHAT GOD GAVE HER Valory Thomas Rhett 3519 +185 5.125 l12 14 22 RUMOR Curb Lee Brice 3189 +234 4.702 l13 13 11 EVERY LITTLE HONKY TONK BAR MCA Nashville George Strait 3054 +95 4.214 l14 17 16 SOME OF IT EMI Nashville Eric Church 2937 +301 4.148 l15 18 5 GOD’S COUNTRY Warner Bros./WMN Blake Shelton 2911 +425 4.182 l16 15 15 GIRL Columbia Nashville Maren Morris 2801 +99 3.955 l17 16 26 TALK YOU OUT OF IT BMLG Florida Georgia Line 2721 +24 3.548 l18 23 5 KNOCKIN’ BOOTS Capitol Nashville Luke Bryan 2277 +424 3.151 l19 19 52 CAUGHT UP IN THE COUNTRY Curb Rodney Atkins Feat. The Fisk Jubilee Singers 2209 +13 3.141 l20 21 17 WHAT HAPPENS IN A SMALL TOWN Valory Brantley Gilbert & Lindsay Ell 2191 +205 3.008 l21 20 14 RAISED ON COUNTRY RCA Nashville Chris Young 2160 +174 2.817 l22 22 10 REARVIEW TOWN Macon/Broken Bow Jason Aldean 2128 +231 2.774 l23 25 10 ALL TO MYSELF Warner Bros./WAR Dan + Shay 1977 +305 2.739 l24 24 22 BUY MY OWN DRINKS Wheelhouse Runaway June 1818 +68 2.441 l25 26 9 LIVING Capitol Nashville Dierks Bentley 1266 +33 1.668 l26 28 21 CLOSER TO YOU Big Machine Carly Pearce 1232 +127 1.306 l27 29 16 KISS THAT GIRL GOODBYE BIG Label Aaron Watson 1181 +79 1.458 l28 27 11 RAINBOW MCA Nashville Kacey Musgraves 1174 +30 1.220 l29 30 12 THOUGHT ABOUT YOU McGraw/Columbia Nashville Tim McGraw 1087 +102 1.428 l30 35 31 BACK TO LIFE Big Machine Rascal Flatts 911 +151 0.857

BILLBOARD COUNTRY INDICATOR PANEL — 109 STATIONS

Abilene, Texas KEAN Fargo, N.D. KBVB Laurel, Miss. WBBN San Luis Obispo, Calif. KKJG Alexandria, La. KRRV WSTH Lebanon, N.H. WXXK Santa Barbara, Calif. KRAZ Amarillo, Texas KGNC Fayetteville, N.C. WKML Lincoln, Neb KFGE Santa Maria, Calif. KSNI Asheville, N.C. WKSF Flagstaff, Ariz. KAFF Longview, Texas KYKX Sheboygan, Wis. WBFM Atlantic City, N.J. WPUR Flint, Mich. WFBE Lubbock, Texas KLLL Savannah, Ga. WJCL Beaumont, Texas KYKR Florence, Ala. WXFL Lufkin, Texas KYKS WUBB Beckley, W. Va. WJLS Florence, S.C. WEGX Marshalltown, Iowa KXIA Shreveport, La. KXKS Biloxi, Miss. WZKX Ft. Collins, Colo. KUAD Mason City, Iowa KIAI Sioux Cty, Iowa KSUX Bloomington, Ill. WIBL Ft. Smith, Ark. KTCS Medford, Ore. KRWQ South Bend, Ind. WBYT Bluefield, W. Va. WHKX Frederick, Md. WFRE Meridian, Miss. WOKK Springfield, Ill. WFMB Burlington, Vt. WOKO Fredericksburg, Va. WFLS Milwaukee, WI. WKTI Springfield, Mo. KTTS Cape Girardeau, Mo. KEZS Green Bay, Wis. WNCY Montgomery, Ala. WLWI Terre Haute, Ind. WTHI Charleston, W. Va WKWS Hagerstown, Md. WAYZ Morgantown, W. Va. WKKW Topeka, Kan. WIBW WQBE Hot Springs, Ark. KQUS Muskegon, Mich. WMUS Traverse City, Mich. WTCM College Station, Texas KAGG Huntington, Ky. WDGG New London, Conn. WCTY Tupelo, Miss. WWZD Colorado Springs. KCCY Huntington, W. Va. WTCR Odessa, Texas KHKX Utica, N.Y. WFRG Columbia, Mo. KCLR Idaho Falls, Idaho KTHK Palm Springs, Calif. KPLM Victor Valley, CA. KATJ Columbus, Ga. WKCN Jackson, Miss. WMSI Pensacola, Fla. WXBM Waco, Texas WACO WSTH WUSJ Peoria, Ill. WXCL Wausau, Wis. WDEZ Cookeville, Tenn. WGSQ Janesville, Wis. WJVL Poughkeepsie, N.Y. WRWD Wheeling, W. Va. WOVK Dothan, Ala. WTVY Jonesboro, Ark. KDXY Rapid City, S.D. KOUT Williamsport, Pa. WILQ Duluth, Minn. KKCB Joplin, Mo. KIXQ Rockford, Ill. WXXQ Yakima, Wash. KXDD Eau Claire, Wis. WAXX Kalamazoo, Mich. WNWN Rocky Mount, N.C. WDWG Youngstown, Ohio WQXK Elizabeth City, N.C. WRSF Kalispell, Mont. KDBR Saginaw, Mich. WCEN WWGY Erie, Pa. WTWF Kingmah, Ariz. KFLG St. Cloud, Minn. KZPK Westwood One HOT COUNTRY Eugene, Ore. KKNU Lafayette, Ind. WKOA Salina, Kan. KYEZ MAINSTREAM COUNTRY Evansville, Ind. WKDQ Laredo, Texas KRRG Salisbury, Md. WKTT Music Choice TODAY’S COUNTRY Lansing, Mich. WITL San Angelo, Texas KGKL Sirius XM THE HIGHWAY BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE APRIL 29, 2019 | PAGE 17 OF 20 Country Indicator

AUDIENCE WKS PLAYS (IN MILLIONS) THIS LAST ON WEEK WEEK CHART TITLE Imprint/Label Artist THIS WEEK +/– THIS WEEK l31 33 16 LOVE YOU TOO LATE Warner Bros./WMN Cole Swindell 895 +81 0.912 l32 32 25 LADIES IN THE ‘90S 19/Mercury Lauren Alaina 886 +61 0.883 l33 31 14 EVERY LITTLE THING Triple Tigers Russell Dickerson 872 +46 1.031 l34 34 26 I DON’T REMEMBER ME (BEFORE YOU) EMI Nashville Brothers Osborne 855 +48 0.874 l35 38 20 THE ONES THAT DIDN’T MAKE IT BACK HOME Valory Justin Moore 853 +274 1.106 l36 36 7 SOMEBODY’S DAUGHTER Columbia Nashville Tenille Townes 807 +129 1.172 l37 37 7 GOOD VIBES Warner Bros./WAR Chris Janson 775 + 114 0.866 l38 41 3 MR. LONELY Big Machine Midland 666 +185 0.766 l39 40 8 REDNECKER TVM/Big Loud Hardy 610 +100 0.722 l40 42 8 IF I WAS A COWBOY Rebel Engine Stephanie Quayle 525 +48 0.640 l41 43 13 GIRL GOIN’ NOWHERE Atlantic/WAR Ashley McBryde 498 +29 0.483 l42 NEW SOUTHBOUND Capitol Nashville HH Hot Shot Debut/Most Increased Plays/Most Added HH Carrie Underwood 497 +497 0.838 l43 44 10 SOMEWHERE BETWEEN I LOVE YOU AND I’M LEAVIN’ Rounder/Concord Cody Jinks 464 +17 0.472 l44 47 15 I DON’T KNOW ABOUT YOU Big Loud Chris Lane 427 +48 0.431 l45 46 10 AFTER A FEW Mercury Travis Denning 410 +22 0.491 46 45 21 ROCKIN’ ALL NIGHT LONG Buena Vista/Capitol Nashville Adam Hambrick 405 - 11 0.312 l47 48 11 NOTHING TO DO TOWN Curb Dylan Scott 370 +2 0.458 l48 49 7 LOVE TO TRY THEM ON Amerimonte Shane Owens 350 +3 0.442 l49 53 2 SOMEBODY’S GOTTA BE COUNTRY TapeRoom Easton Corbin 349 +82 0.406 l50 52 4 RIDIN’ ROADS Broken Bow Dustin Lynch 300 +25 0.343 l51 50 7 DAY DRUNK Warner Bros./WEA Morgan Evans 300 +10 0.213 52 51 6 THE BULL MCA Nashville Kip Moore 278 -3 0.280 l53 60 2 MY MIRACLE Arista Nashville Brad Paisley 265 +46 0.273 l54 55 2 PRAYED FOR YOU Wide Open/GCE/RECORDS Matt Stell 264 +14 0.246 l55 56 4 BULLETPROOF Free Flow/Nine North/Grassroots/Grapevine Dave McElroy 252 +8 0.267 l56 58 2 CRAZY PEOPLE Tommy Jackson/Thirty Tigers Randy Rogers Band 243 +16 0.374 l57 59 4 MAKE ME WANT TO Stoney Creek Jimmie Allen 233 +8 0.265 l58 NEW LOVING YOU LOVING ON ME Full Circle Wilson Brothers Band 229 +17 0.272 59 57 7 SOMEONE I USED TO KNOW ZB Collective/BMG/Wheelhouse Zac Brown Band 229 -3 0.217 l60 NEW ALCOHOL YOU LATER Riser House/Columbia Nashville Mitchell Tenpenny 198 +1 0.232

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 APRIL 29, 2019 | PAGE 18 OF 20 Country Airplay Index

TITLE Publishing-Licensing Org. G   LOVE AIN’T EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Plain REARVIEW TOWN Songs Of Peer Ltd., ASCAP/ (Songwriter) Chart Position Jane Songs, BMI/Rezolant Music, BMI/Combustion Team Thrash, ASCAP/Songs Of Peer, BMI/New Writers GIRL International Dog Music, BMI/Downtown DMP Engine Music, ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/ Of Sea Gayle Music, BMI/Not A Track Guy Music, BMI/ Songs, BMI/Sony/ATV Songs LLC, BMI/Sony/ATV Music WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Smack Hits, GMR/Smack Songs New House Of Sea Gayle Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., A   Publishing (Australia) Pty Ltd., APRA/EMI April Music, LLC, GMR/Kobalt Music Group Ltd., GMR (R.Copperman, ASCAP/Own My Own Music Publishing, ASCAP (N.Thrasher, Inc., ASCAP/Kurstin Music, ASCAP (M.Morris, S.Aarons, A.Gorley, S.McAnally) 5 B.Pinson, K.Lovelace) 24 AFTER A FEW I’m About To Go RED On Ya Music, G.Kurstin) 14 BMI/Travis Denning Music, BMI/ole, BMI/Crack The Glass LOVE SOMEONE Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI/Paris REDNECKER Buzz Light Beer Music, ASCAP/ Songs, BMI/Stars And Stripes And Maple Leaf Music, GIRL GOIN’ NOWHERE Songs Of Song Factory, Not France Music, BMI/EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/ Downtown DLJ Songs, ASCAP/Relative Music Group, BMI/ BMI/Downtown DMP Songs, BMI/Sound Wagon Songs, BMI/Universal Tunes, SESAC (A.McBryde, J.Bussey) 40 Rezolant Music, BMI/Plain Jane Songs, BMI/Sony/ATV WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Freshy Music, ASCAP/We-Volve ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Music Of The Corn, ASCAP Tree Publishing, BMI/Heather Feather Songs, BMI (B. Music, ASCAP (A.Albert, M.Hardy, J.M.Schmidt) 39 Eldredge, R.Copperman, H.Morgan) 10 (T.Denning, K.Archer, J.Weaver) 48 GOD’S COUNTRY Relative Music Group, BMI/ Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI/ RIDIN’ ROADS Magic Mustang Music Inc., BMI/ ALCOHOL YOU LATER Sony/ATV Countryside, WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Georgia Song Vibez, ASCAP/ LOVE YOU TOO LATE Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Round Hill BMI/Sam Sumser Music, ASCAP/Lava Music, ASCAP/ We-Volve Music, ASCAP/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing BMI/Colden Rainey Music, BMI/Sony/ATV Cross Keys Songs II, ASCAP/Caleb’s College Fund, ASCAP/Spirit Two Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, ASCAP/Lucky Mic Corp., BMI/Neon Cross Music, BMI (M.Hardy, J.M.Schmidt, Publishing, ASCAP/243 Music, ASCAP/Peermusic III, Nashville, ASCAP/Miller Crow Music, ASCAP/Kyler’s Kinda Publishing, BMI/Music Of Parallel, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt D.Dawson) 15 Ltd., BMI/Whiskey Tub Music, BMI (C.Swindell, Michael Ray, Night, ASCAP (D.Lynch, A.Gorley, Z.Crowell) 45 Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI (M.Tenpenny, S.Sumser, B.Kinney) 29 M.Lotten) 52 GOOD AS YOU Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/ ROCKIN’ ALL NIGHT LONG Ole Red Cape Kane Brown Music, BMI/Don’t Be A Gypsy, BMI/ M   Songs, ASCAP/Red Like The Sunset Music, ASCAP/Stars ALL TO MYSELF Beats And Banjos, ASCAP/WB Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/BMG Rights And Stripes And Maple Leaf Music, BMI/Crack The Glass Music Corp., ASCAP/Shay Mooney Music, BMI/Warner- Management (UK) Ltd., PRS/You Want How Much Of MAKE IT SWEET Carrot Seed Songs, ASCAP/WB Songs, BMI/Downtown DMP Songs, BMI/Garda Songs, Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/A Girl Named Charlie, What Publishing, PRS/TDP Publishing, BMI/Track House Music Corp., ASCAP/Smackville Music, ASCAP/Smack SESAC/King Pen Songs, SESAC/Songs Of Downtown, BMI/Buckeye26, ASCAP/Jreynmusic, ASCAP (D.Smyers, Worldwide Entertainment, BMI/Mandy’s Favorite Songs, Songs LLC, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, SESAC (A.Hambrick, K.Archer, P.Good) 53 S.Mooney, N.Galyon, J.Reynolds) 20 BMI (K.Brown, B.Berryhill, S.Carter, T.Phillips, W.Weatherly) 6 ASCAP/Rezsongs, ASCAP/ReHits Music, Inc., ASCAP/ Smacktown Music, ASCAP/Smack Blue, LLC, ASCAP/ RUMOR Mike Curb Music, BMI/Curb Songs, ASCAP/ Unfair Entertainment, ASCAP/MeGusta Music, ASCAP/ Jacobsong, ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/ B   GOOD VIBES ole Red Vinyl Music, BMI/Spirit Two Tiny Handstand, ASCAP/Sharkules Music, ASCAP/ Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., Nashville, ASCAP/Miller Crow Music, ASCAP/Round Hill We’re Really Doin’ It Publishing, ASCAP/Smack Hits, ASCAP (L.Brice, K.Jacobs, A.Gorley) 13 BACK TO LIFE W.B.M. Music Corp., SESAC/ Songs II, ASCAP/Caleb’s College Fund, ASCAP (C.Janson, Bennett’s Dad’s Songs, SESAC/Songs Of Rhythm House Z.Crowell, A.Gorley) 36 GMR/Kobalt Music Group Ltd., GMR (M.Ramsey, T. Rosen, Black, SESAC/Niko Moon Publishing, SESAC/Roc Nation W.Sellers, G.Sprung, B.Tursi, S.McAnally) 1 S   US Music, SESAC/Shay Mooney Music, BMI/Warner- H   Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Farm Thang Music, MAKE ME WANT TO Red Lining Music, SESAC/ SLOW DANCE IN A PARKING LOT Ole Red BMI/Me Gusta Music, BMI (C.R.Barlowe, N.Moon, S.Mooney, Sony/ATV Lakeview, SESAC/Amplified Hour Songs, Cape Songs, ASCAP/Jordan Davis Music, ASCAP/Amylase 28 HEARTBREAK Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Ogden SESAC/Pedal Down Music, ASCAP/Sounds Of Soperman F.Wilhelm)  Avenue Publishing, BMI/Sony/ATV Music Publishing Music Publishing, ASCAP/Curb Songs, ASCAP/Dreamark Songs ‘N Such, ASCAP/Matching Cowlicks Music, ASCAP/ Canada, SOCAN/1217 Songs, ASCAP/Still Working For Publishing, ASCAP (J.Allen, P.Sikes, J.Denmark) 42 WB Music Corp., ASCAP (J.Davis, L.L.Fowler) 51 BEAUTIFUL CRAZY Big Machine Music, BMI/ The Woman, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, Egg Music, BMI/Straight Dimes Publishing, BMI/Works ASCAP/EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Stellar Songs SLOWER Not Listed (Not Listed) 56 Of RHA Music, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Limited, BMI/Dames Booze And Chains, BMI (H.Hayes, MISS ME MORE Songs Of Black River, ASCAP/KNB Corp., BMI/Rowdy Rob Music, BMI (L.Combs, W.B.Durrette, T.Salter, G.Sampson, S.Wilcox) 57 Music, ASCAP/3 Weddings Music, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt R.Williford) 4 Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI/EMI April Music, Inc., SOMEBODY’S DAUGHTER Year Of The Dog ASCAP/Bob Ochoa’s Homemade Salsa, ASCAP (K.Ballerini, Music, ASCAP/Sony/ATV Story Music Publishing, GMR/We HERE TONIGHT Super Big Music, ASCAP/ D.H.Hodges, B.McLaughlin) 9 Are Creative Nation, GMR/Be Barry Quiet, BMI/Creative BETTER OFF GONE Year Of The Dog Music, Caliville Publishing, ASCAP/Songs Of Black River, Pulse Music, BMI/Pulse Nation, BMI (T.Townes, L.Laird, ASCAP/Shakapublishing, ASCAP/Downtown DLJ Songs, ASCAP/Wordspring Music, LLC, SESAC/Memory Days, Bary Dean) 27 ASCAP  49 MR. LONELY WB Music Corp., ASCAP/TipTop Music, (A.Stoklasa, D.Woods)  SESAC/W.B.M. Music Corp., SESAC/The Best I Could Do ASCAP/Tropical Cowboy Publishing, ASCAP/Warner- Publishing, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP (B.Young, Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Kitt Cass Publishing SOME OF IT Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/Longer THE BULL BMG Platinum Songs, BMI/SWMBMGBMI, B.Caver, J.Ebach, C.Kelley) 3 Corporation, BMI/Smack Hits, GMR/Smack Songs LLC, And Louder Music, BMI/Mammaw’s Fried Okra Music, BMI/Lonesome Vinyl Music, BMI/Emileon Songs, GMR/Kobalt Music Group Ltd., GMR/Anderson Fork BMI/Little Louder Songs, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music BMI/Little Louder Songs, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music HOUSTON, WE GOT A PROBLEM Big In The Road Music, ASCAP/Smackville Music, ASCAP/ Publishing America, Inc., BMI/New Writers Of Sea Gayle Publishing America, Inc., BMI (J.R.Stewart, L.Dick) 55 Music Machine, BMI/50 Egg Music, BMI/Straight Smack Songs LLC, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Publishing Music, BMI/Not A Track Guy Music, BMI (E.Church, J.Hyde, Dimes Publishing, BMI/Sullivan S Guns Music, BMI/ LLC, ASCAP (J.Carson, C.Duddy, M.Wystrach, S.McAnally, C.Daniels, B.Pinson) 16 BUY MY OWN DRINKS BMG Platinum Songs, Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Super Big J.Osborne) 38 BMI/BMG Silver Songs, SESAC/BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP/ Music, ASCAP/Jett Music, ASCAP (L.Combs, R.Montana, SOMEONE I USED TO KNOW Weimerhound Rezonate Music, ASCAP/BIRB Music, ASCAP/Champagne J.Singleton) 58 MY MIRACLE House Of Sea Gayle Music, ASCAP/ Music, BMI/Day For The Dead Publishing, SESAC/Reach Whiskey Publishing, ASCAP/Downtown DLJ Songs, Spirit Cataloge Holdings, S.A.R.L./Spirit Two Nashville, Music Tunes, SESAC/Andrew Watt Music, BMI/Songs Of ASCAP/Legends Of Magic Mustang Music, SESAC/Music I   ASCAP/Sony/ATV Cross Keys Publishing, ASCAP/Gary Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI/Siva Moon Of Platinum Pen, SESAC/Wild Wild West Songs, SESAC/ Nicholson Music, ASCAP (B.Paisley, G.Nicholson) 44 Publishing, SESAC/W.B.M. Music Corp., SESAC/Simonetti Thunder Cookie, SESAC/Magic Mustang Music Inc., BMI/ Music Publishing, SESAC/Kobalt Group Music Publishing, Songwriters of Platinum Pen Publishing, BMI/Hannah I DON’T KNOW ABOUT YOU Round Hill SESAC/Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Mendes Music, BMI Songs II, ASCAP/Caleb’s College Fund, ASCAP/WB N   Mulholland Music, BMI (H.Mulholland, J.Wayne, N.Cooke, Music Corp., ASCAP/Who Wants To Buy My Publishing, (Z.A.Brown, A.Wotman, N.Moon, B.Simonetti, S.Mendes) 54 H.Lindsey, J.Kear) 25 ASCAP/Relative Music Group, BMI/One77 Songs, ASCAP/ Highly Combustible Music, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music NIGHT SHIFT Maxx Music, BMI/Let The Road Pave SOUTHBOUND Carrie-Okie Music, BMI/Universal C   Itself, BMI/Razor And Tie Music Publishing, BMI/Mike Publishing LLC, ASCAP (A.Gorley, M.Hardy, H.Phelps, Curb Music, BMI/Rain Town Music, BMI (T.Brown, P.LaRue, Music - Brentwood Benson Publishing, ASCAP/D J.Rodgers) 34 B.Montana) 8 Soul Music, ASCAP/Capitol CMG Genesis, ASCAP/Jack CAUGHT UP IN THE COUNTRY WB Music 10 Publishing, BMI/Songs Of The Corn, BMI/Warner- Corp., ASCAP/Freshy Music, ASCAP/We-Volve Music, I DON’T REMEMBER ME (BEFORE YOU) Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI (C.Underwood, D.A.Garcia, ASCAP/Goes Something Like THIS Music, BMI/Warner- Trampy McCauley, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/ NOTHING TO DO TOWN Curb Songs, ASCAP/ J.Miller) 60 Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Make It Matter Music, Songstein Publishing, ASCAP/All The Kings Pens, ASCAP/ Curb Congregation Songs, SESAC/Music Good Vibes BMI/Sixteen Stars Music, BMI (C.Harrington, J.M.Schmidt, Round Hill Songs BLS JV, ASCAP/Big Loud Proud Songs, Publishing, BMI/Good Times Music, SESAC/Universal T   M.Walker) 21 ASCAP/Matt Drag Music, ASCAP/Smack Hits, GMR/ Music Corp., ASCAP/No Bridge Publishing, ASCAP (D. Scott, M.Alderman, C.Taylor) 43 Smack Songs LLC, GMR/Kobalt Music Group Ltd., GMR (J. TALK YOU OUT OF IT Relative Music Group, CLOSER TO YOU BIRB Music, ASCAP/BMG Gold Osborne, T.J. Osborne, M.Dragstrem, S.McAnally) 37 BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., Songs, ASCAP/1217 Songs, ASCAP/Still Working For The O   BMI/Who Wants To Buy My Publishing, ASCAP/WB Music Woman, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, IN BETWEEN Dagum Music, BMI/Austintatious Corp., ASCAP/Highly Combustible Music, ASCAP/One77 ASCAP/Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Low Z Music, BMI (H. Tunes, BMI/Spirit Cataloge Holdings, S.A.R.L./Spirit Two ONE BIG COUNTRY SONG Songs Of Roc Songs, ASCAP/Castle Bound Music, Inc., SESAC (M.Hardy, Lindsey, G.Sampson, T.Verges) 30 Nashville, ASCAP/House Of Sea Gayle Music, ASCAP/ Nation Music, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., H.Phelps, J.Rogers, A.Vanderheym) 18 Party Of Five Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/ BMI/Telemitry Rhythm House Music, BMI/Round Hill Super Big Music, ASCAP/Jett Music, ASCAP (S.McCreery, Songs II, ASCAP/Caleb’s College Fund, ASCAP/Relative D   F.Rogers, J.L.Alexander, J.Singleton) 50 Music Group, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing THOUGHT ABOUT YOU Warner-Tamerlane America, Inc., BMI (J.Frasure, A.Gorley, M.Hardy) 47 Publishing Corp., BMI/The Country And Western Music, DAY DRUNK Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Round Hill Works, BMI/Big Loud Proud Crowd, BMI/ BMI/SongsbyME, BMI/EMI April Music, Inc., ASCAP/CDS K   Big Loud Brad Music, BMI/Big Loud Brett Songs, BMI Words And Music, ASCAP/Hey Kiddo Music, ASCAP/ THE ONES THAT DIDN’T MAKE IT BACK (L.T.Miller, B.Warren, B.D.Warren) 31 Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, ASCAP (M.Evans, C. KNOCKIN’ BOOTS BIRB Music, ASCAP/BMG Gold HOME Big Music Machine, BMI/Double Barrel Ace DeStefano, L.Robbins) 32 Songs, ASCAP/Still Working For The Woman, ASCAP/ Music, BMI/Universal Music Corp., ASCAP/Paulywood TO A T Universal Music Corp., ASCAP/Lake Allegan Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, ASCAP/EMI April Music, ASCAP/Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Plum Nelly, Pub Club, ASCAP/Red Like The Sunset Music, ASCAP/ Music, Inc., ASCAP/Nite Writer Music, ASCAP (H.Lindsey, BMI/Ole Red Cape Songs, ASCAP/Real Big Red Tunes, Spicer And Everyting Nicer, ASCAP/Ole Red Cape Songs, E   G.Sampson, J.M.Nite) 23 ASCAP (J.Moore, P.DiGiovanni, C.McGill, J.S.Stover) 26 ASCAP/Big Music Machine, BMI/Never Veltz So Good Publishing, BMI (R.J.Hurd, N.Spicer, L.Veltz) 46 EVERY LITTLE HONKY TONK BAR Day ON MY WAY TO YOU WB Music Corp., ASCAP/ Money Music, ASCAP/HoriPro Entertainment Group, L   Songs Of Brett, ASCAP/Atlas Music Publishing, ASCAP/ Inc., ASCAP/Living For The Night Music, BMI/HoriPro External Combustion Music, ASCAP/BMG Gold Songs, W   Entertainment Group, Inc., BMI/Ohio Creek Music, BMI/ LIVING EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Plain Jane ASCAP/Heytone Music, ASCAP (Brett James, T.Lane) 12 Dean’s Cabin Publishing, LLC, BMI (G.Strait, B.Strait, Songs, BMI/Rezolant Music, BMI/EMI April Music, Inc., WHAT HAPPENS IN A SMALL TOWN D.Dillon) 17 ASCAP/Nite Writer Music, ASCAP/Combustion Engine Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Indiana Angel Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Round Hill Songs P   Music, BMI/Ritten by Rhettro, BMI/Don’t Be A Gypsy, EVERY LITTLE THING BMG Platinum Songs, II, ASCAP/DudeTunes, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music BMI/Revelry Music, BMI/Badlandsmgmt, BMI/Songs Of BMI/Kailey’s Dream, BMI/So Essential Tunes, SESAC/Not Publishing LLC, ASCAP (R.Copperman, J.M.Nite, A.Gorley, PRAYED FOR YOU Pedal Down Music, ASCAP/ Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI (B.Gilbert, Just Another Song Publishing, SESAC/Hillbilly Science D.Bentley) 35 Big Spaces Music, BMI/Tunes Of Big Deal Music, SESAC/ R.Akins, B.Berryhill, J.Dunne) 22 And Research Publishing, SESAC/Trailerlily Music, SESAC Songs Of Porterfied Music, SESAC/Sony/ATV Countryside, (R.Dickerson, P.Welling, C.Brown) 33 LOOK WHAT GOD GAVE HER EMI BMI/Sony/ATV Accent, ASCAP (M.Stell, A.Bowers, A.Veltz) 41 WHISKEY GLASSES Warner-Tamerlane Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Cricket On The Line, BMI/ Publishing Corp., BMI/Mr. Buck Lucky, BMI/Bump Into EYES ON YOU Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI/Dack Ritten by Rhettro, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing R   Genius Music, BMI/Sony/ATV Allegro, ASCAP/Over- Janiel’s Publishing, BMI/EMI April Music, Inc., ASCAP/ Corp., BMI/Music Of Big Family, BMI/Dragon Bunny Thought Under-Appreciated Songs, ASCAP/Rezven CDS Words And Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/ Music, BMI/Don Wyan Music, BMI/Maru La La, BMI/ RAISED ON COUNTRY Songs Of Universal, Music, ASCAP/Moving Targest In The Dark, ASCAP (B. Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite MaruSongs, LLC, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing Inc., BMI/They’ve Gone To Plaid Publishing, BMI/W.B.M. Burgess, K.Kadish) 7 Songs, ASCAP (C.Rice, C. DeStefano, A.Gorley) 2 America, Inc., BMI/Rap Kingpin Music, ASCAP/ Music Corp., SESAC/Roc Nation US Music, SESAC/Songs Prescription Songs, LLC., ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Of Rhythm House Black, SESAC/Bennett’s Dad’s Songs, WORLD FOR TWO EMI Blackwood Music Publishing LLC, ASCAP (Thomas Rhett, R.Akins, J.Bunetta, SESAC/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Georgia Song Vibez, Inc., BMI/Plain Jane Songs, BMI/Rezolant Music, BMI/ J.K.Hindlin, A.Malik, J.H.Ryan) 11 ASCAP/Big Crowd Publishing, ASCAP (C.Young, C.R.Barlowe, Anderson Fork In The Road Music, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs C.Crowder) 19 Music Publishing LLC, ASCAP/Smackville Music, ASCAP/ Smack Songs LLC, ASCAP/Lets Get Brunch Publishing, BMI/Artist 101 Publishing Group, BMI (R.Copperman, J.Osborne, J.Abrahart) 59 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE APRIL 29, 2019 | PAGE 19 OF 20 Hot Country Songs Index

TITLE Publishing-Licensing Org. G   M   REMEMBER YOU YOUNG EMI Blackwood Music (Songwriter) Chart Position Inc., BMI/Cricket On The Line, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane GIRL International Dog Music, BMI/Downtown DMP MAKE IT SWEET Carrot Seed Songs, ASCAP/WB Publishing Corp., BMI/Telemitry Rhythm House Music, A   Songs, BMI/Sony/ATV Songs LLC, BMI/Sony/ATV Music Music Corp., ASCAP/Smackville Music, ASCAP/Smack BMI/Songs Of Roc Nation Music, BMI/Combustion Engine Publishing (Australia) Pty Ltd., APRA/EMI April Music, Songs LLC, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Round Hill Songs ALL TO MYSELF Beats And Banjos, ASCAP/WB Inc., ASCAP/Kurstin Music, ASCAP (M.Morris, S.Aarons, ASCAP/Rezsongs, ASCAP/ReHits Music, Inc., ASCAP/ II, ASCAP/Caleb’s College Fund, ASCAP (Thomas Rhett, Music Corp., ASCAP/Shay Mooney Music, BMI/Warner- G.Kurstin) 14 Smacktown Music, ASCAP/Smack Blue, LLC, ASCAP/ J.Frasure, A.Gorley) 27 Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/A Girl Named Charlie, Unfair Entertainment, ASCAP/MeGusta Music, ASCAP/ BMI/Buckeye26, ASCAP/Jreynmusic, ASCAP (D.Smyers, GOD’S COUNTRY Relative Music Group, BMI/ Tiny Handstand, ASCAP/Sharkules Music, ASCAP/ RIDIN’ ROADS Magic Mustang Music Inc., BMI/ S.Mooney, N.Galyon, J.Reynolds) 19 Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI/ We’re Really Doin’ It Publishing, ASCAP/Smack Hits, Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Round Hill WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Georgia Song Vibez, ASCAP/ GMR/Kobalt Music Group Ltd., GMR (M.Ramsey, T. Rosen, Songs II, ASCAP/Caleb’s College Fund, ASCAP/Spirit Two B   We-Volve Music, ASCAP/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing W.Sellers, G.Sprung, B.Tursi, S.McAnally) 8 Nashville, ASCAP/Miller Crow Music, ASCAP/Kyler’s Kinda Corp., BMI/Neon Cross Music, BMI (M.Hardy, J.M.Schmidt, Night, ASCAP (D.Lynch, A.Gorley, Z.Crowell) 35 BACK TO LIFE W.B.M. Music Corp., SESAC/ D.Dawson) 2 MISS ME MORE Songs Of Black River, ASCAP/KNB Bennett’s Dad’s Songs, SESAC/Songs Of Rhythm House Music, ASCAP/3 Weddings Music, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt RUMOR Mike Curb Music, BMI/Curb Songs, ASCAP/ Black, SESAC/Niko Moon Publishing, SESAC/Roc Nation GOOD AS YOU Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/ Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI/EMI April Music, Inc., Jacobsong, ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/ US Music, SESAC/Shay Mooney Music, BMI/Warner- Kane Brown Music, BMI/Don’t Be A Gypsy, BMI/ ASCAP/Bob Ochoa’s Homemade Salsa, ASCAP (K.Ballerini, Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Farm Thang Music, Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/BMG Rights D.H.Hodges, B.McLaughlin) 9 ASCAP (L.Brice, K.Jacobs, A.Gorley) 12 BMI/Me Gusta Music, BMI (C.R.Barlowe, N.Moon, S.Mooney, Management (UK) Ltd., PRS/You Want How Much Of F.Wilhelm) 40 What Publishing, PRS/TDP Publishing, BMI/Track House N   S   Worldwide Entertainment, BMI/Mandy’s Favorite Songs, BEAUTIFUL CRAZY Big Machine Music, BMI/ BMI (K.Brown, B.Berryhill, S.Carter, T.Phillips, W.Weatherly) 6 NEON MOON Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing SOMEBODY’S DAUGHTER Year Of The Dog Egg Music, BMI/Straight Dimes Publishing, BMI/Works America, Inc., BMI/Showbilly Music, BMI (R.Dunn) 50 Music, ASCAP/Sony/ATV Story Music Publishing, GMR/We Of RHA Music, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing H   Are Creative Nation, GMR/Be Barry Quiet, BMI/Creative Corp., BMI/Rowdy Rob Music, BMI (L.Combs, W.B.Durrette, NIGHT SHIFT Maxx Music, BMI/Let The Road Pave Pulse Music, BMI/Pulse Nation, BMI (T.Townes, L.Laird, R.Williford) 1 HERE TONIGHT Super Big Music, ASCAP/ Itself, BMI/Razor And Tie Music Publishing, BMI/Mike Bary Dean) 31 Caliville Publishing, ASCAP/Songs Of Black River, Curb Music, BMI/Rain Town Music, BMI (T.Brown, P.LaRue, THE BONES International Dog Music, BMI/ ASCAP/Wordspring Music, LLC, SESAC/Memory Days, B.Montana) 11 SOME OF IT Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/Longer Downtown DMP Songs, BMI/Jammy Rabbins Music, SESAC/W.B.M. Music Corp., SESAC/The Best I Could Do And Louder Music, BMI/Mammaw’s Fried Okra Music, ASCAP/Round Hill Songs Jimmy Robbins, ASCAP/ Publishing, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP (B.Young, NOTHING TO DO TOWN Curb Songs, ASCAP/ BMI/Little Louder Songs, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Extraordinary Alien Publishing, ASCAP/Oh Denise B.Caver, J.Ebach, C.Kelley) 5 Curb Congregation Songs, SESAC/Music Good Vibes Publishing America, Inc., BMI/New Writers Of Sea Gayle Publishing, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., Publishing, BMI/Good Times Music, SESAC/Universal Music, BMI/Not A Track Guy Music, BMI (E.Church, J.Hyde, BMI/Big Music Machine, BMI (M.Morris, J.Robbins, L.Veltz) 30 I   Music Corp., ASCAP/No Bridge Publishing, ASCAP (D. C.Daniels, B.Pinson) 20 Scott, M.Alderman, C.Taylor) 41 BRAND NEW MAN Sony/ATV Cross Keys I DON’T KNOW ABOUT YOU Round Hill SPEECHLESS Beats And Banjos, ASCAP/WB Publishing, ASCAP/Fort Kix Music, ASCAP/Sony/ATV Songs II, ASCAP/Caleb’s College Fund, ASCAP/WB O   Music Corp., ASCAP/Shay Mooney Music, BMI/Warner- Tree Publishing, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing Music Corp., ASCAP/Who Wants To Buy My Publishing, Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Buckeye26, ASCAP/ ASCAP/Relative Music Group, BMI/One77 Songs, ASCAP/ ONE MAN BAND Carrot Seed Songs, ASCAP/ Jreynmusic, ASCAP/Big Music Machine, BMI/Never Veltz America, Inc., BMI/Showbilly Music, BMI (K.Brooks, D.Cook, Smackville Music, ASCAP/Smack Songs LLC, ASCAP/ R.Dunn) 37 Highly Combustible Music, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music So Good Publishing, BMI (D.Smyers, S.Mooney, J.Reynolds, Publishing LLC, ASCAP (A.Gorley, M.Hardy, H.Phelps, Rezsongs, ASCAP/Reehits World, ASCAP/Smacktown L.Veltz) 10 BUY MY OWN DRINKS BMG Platinum Songs, J.Rodgers) 25 Music, ASCAP/Smack Blue, LLC, ASCAP/Unfair BMI/BMG Silver Songs, SESAC/BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP/ Entertainment, ASCAP/We’re Really Doin’ It Publishing, STRONGER THAN ME Terry And Tom Music, Rezonate Music, ASCAP/BIRB Music, ASCAP/Champagne I HOPE Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI/Revinyl House, ASCAP/Anderson Fork In The Road Music, ASCAP/Sony/ ASCAP/Bedroll Music, ASCAP/Major Bob Music, Inc., Whiskey Publishing, ASCAP/Downtown DLJ Songs, BMI/EMI April Music, Inc., ASCAP/Nite Writer Music, ATV Cross Keys Publishing, ASCAP (M.Ramsey, T. Rosen, ASCAP (R.W.Terry, M.A.Rossi) 45 ASCAP/Legends Of Magic Mustang Music, SESAC/Music ASCAP/Gabby Barrett Publishing Designee, BMI (Z.Kale, B.Tursi, J.Osborne) 43 J.M.Nite, G.Barrett) 46 T   Of Platinum Pen, SESAC/Wild Wild West Songs, SESAC/ THE ONES THAT DIDN’T MAKE IT BACK Thunder Cookie, SESAC/Magic Mustang Music Inc., BMI/ K   HOME Big Music Machine, BMI/Double Barrel Ace TALK YOU OUT OF IT Relative Music Group, Songwriters of Platinum Pen Publishing, BMI/Hannah Music, BMI/Universal Music Corp., ASCAP/Paulywood BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., Mulholland Music, BMI (H.Mulholland, J.Wayne, N.Cooke, KNOCKIN’ BOOTS BIRB Music, ASCAP/BMG Gold Music, ASCAP/Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Plum Nelly, BMI/Who Wants To Buy My Publishing, ASCAP/WB Music H.Lindsey, J.Kear) 36 Songs, ASCAP/Still Working For The Woman, ASCAP/ BMI/Ole Red Cape Songs, ASCAP/Real Big Red Tunes, Corp., ASCAP/Highly Combustible Music, ASCAP/One77 Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, ASCAP/EMI April ASCAP (J.Moore, P.DiGiovanni, C.McGill, J.S.Stover) 34 C   Songs, ASCAP/Castle Bound Music, Inc., SESAC (M.Hardy, Music, Inc., ASCAP/Nite Writer Music, ASCAP (H.Lindsey, H.Phelps, J.Rogers, A.Vanderheym) 15 G.Sampson, J.M.Nite) 18 ON MY WAY TO YOU WB Music Corp., ASCAP/ CAUGHT UP IN THE COUNTRY WB Music Songs Of Brett, ASCAP/Atlas Music Publishing, ASCAP/ Corp., ASCAP/Freshy Music, ASCAP/We-Volve Music, THOUGHT ABOUT YOU Warner-Tamerlane L   External Combustion Music, ASCAP/BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP/Goes Something Like THIS Music, BMI/Warner- Publishing Corp., BMI/The Country And Western Music, ASCAP/Heytone Music, ASCAP (Brett James, T.Lane) 16 BMI/Round Hill Works, BMI/Big Loud Proud Crowd, BMI/ Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Make It Matter Music, LIVING EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Plain Jane BMI/Sixteen Stars Music, BMI (C.Harrington, J.M.Schmidt, Big Loud Brad Music, BMI/Big Loud Brett Songs, BMI Songs, BMI/Rezolant Music, BMI/EMI April Music, Inc., P   (L.T.Miller, B.Warren, B.D.Warren) 32 M.Walker) 22 ASCAP/Nite Writer Music, ASCAP/Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Round Hill Songs PRAYED FOR YOU Pedal Down Music, ASCAP/ TO A T Universal Music Corp., ASCAP/Lake Allegan CLOSER TO YOU BIRB Music, ASCAP/BMG Gold II, ASCAP/DudeTunes, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Big Spaces Music, BMI/Tunes Of Big Deal Music, SESAC/ Songs, ASCAP/1217 Songs, ASCAP/Still Working For The Pub Club, ASCAP/Red Like The Sunset Music, ASCAP/ Publishing LLC, ASCAP (R.Copperman, J.M.Nite, A.Gorley, Songs Of Porterfied Music, SESAC/Sony/ATV Countryside, Spicer And Everyting Nicer, ASCAP/Ole Red Cape Songs, Woman, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, D.Bentley) 44 BMI/Sony/ATV Accent, ASCAP (M.Stell, A.Bowers, A.Veltz) 47 ASCAP/Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Low Z Music, BMI (H. ASCAP/Big Music Machine, BMI/Never Veltz So Good Publishing, BMI (R.J.Hurd, N.Spicer, L.Veltz) 42 Lindsey, G.Sampson, T.Verges) 38 LOOK WHAT GOD GAVE HER EMI R   Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Cricket On The Line, BMI/ W   D   Ritten by Rhettro, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing RAINBOW HappyGoWrucke, BMI/Creative Pulse Music, BMI/These Are Pulse Songs, BMI/Smack Hits, WHAT HAPPENS IN A SMALL TOWN DAY DRUNK Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., Corp., BMI/Music Of Big Family, BMI/Dragon Bunny Music, BMI/Don Wyan Music, BMI/Maru La La, BMI/ GMR/Smack Songs LLC, GMR/Kobalt Music Group Ltd., Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Indiana Angel BMI/SongsbyME, BMI/EMI April Music, Inc., ASCAP/CDS GMR/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/351 Music, Music, BMI/Ritten by Rhettro, BMI/Don’t Be A Gypsy, Words And Music, ASCAP/Hey Kiddo Music, ASCAP/ MaruSongs, LLC, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI/Rap Kingpin Music, ASCAP/ BMI/EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI (N.Hemby, S.McAnally, BMI/Revelry Music, BMI/Badlandsmgmt, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, ASCAP (M.Evans, C. K.Musgraves) 26 Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI (B.Gilbert, DeStefano, L.Robbins) 49 Prescription Songs, LLC., ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, ASCAP (Thomas Rhett, R.Akins, J.Bunetta, R.Akins, B.Berryhill, J.Dunne) 29 J.K.Hindlin, A.Malik, J.H.Ryan) 7 RAISED ON COUNTRY Songs Of Universal, E   Inc., BMI/They’ve Gone To Plaid Publishing, BMI/W.B.M. WHISKEY GLASSES Warner-Tamerlane Music Corp., SESAC/Roc Nation US Music, SESAC/Songs EVERY LITTLE HONKY TONK BAR Day LOVE AIN’T EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Plain Publishing Corp., BMI/Mr. Buck Lucky, BMI/Bump Into Jane Songs, BMI/Rezolant Music, BMI/Combustion Of Rhythm House Black, SESAC/Bennett’s Dad’s Songs, Genius Music, BMI/Sony/ATV Allegro, ASCAP/Over- Money Music, ASCAP/HoriPro Entertainment Group, SESAC/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Georgia Song Vibez, Inc., ASCAP/Living For The Night Music, BMI/HoriPro Engine Music, ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/WB Thought Under-Appreciated Songs, ASCAP/Rezven Music Corp., ASCAP/Smack Hits, GMR/Smack Songs LLC, ASCAP/Big Crowd Publishing, ASCAP (C.Young, C.R.Barlowe, Music, ASCAP/Moving Targest In The Dark, ASCAP (B. Entertainment Group, Inc., BMI/Ohio Creek Music, BMI/ C.Crowder) 24 Dean’s Cabin Publishing, LLC, BMI (G.Strait, B.Strait, GMR/Kobalt Music Group Ltd., GMR (R.Copperman, A.Gorley, Burgess, K.Kadish) 4 S.McAnally) 13 D.Dillon) 23 REARVIEW TOWN Songs Of Peer Ltd., ASCAP/ WORLD FOR TWO EMI Blackwood Music Team Thrash, ASCAP/Songs Of Peer, BMI/New Writers EVERY LITTLE THING BMG Platinum Songs, LOVE SOMEONE Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI/Paris Inc., BMI/Plain Jane Songs, BMI/Rezolant Music, BMI/ Not France Music, BMI/EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/ Of Sea Gayle Music, BMI/Not A Track Guy Music, BMI/ Anderson Fork In The Road Music, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs BMI/Kailey’s Dream, BMI/So Essential Tunes, SESAC/Not New House Of Sea Gayle Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., Just Another Song Publishing, SESAC/Hillbilly Science Rezolant Music, BMI/Plain Jane Songs, BMI/Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, ASCAP/Smackville Music, ASCAP/ Tree Publishing, BMI/Heather Feather Songs, BMI (B. ASCAP/Own My Own Music Publishing, ASCAP (N.Thrasher, Smack Songs LLC, ASCAP/Lets Get Brunch Publishing, And Research Publishing, SESAC/Trailerlily Music, SESAC B.Pinson, K.Lovelace) 21 (R.Dickerson, P.Welling, C.Brown) 39 Eldredge, R.Copperman, H.Morgan) 17 BMI/Artist 101 Publishing Group, BMI (R.Copperman, J.Osborne, J.Abrahart) 48 LOVE YOU TOO LATE Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, REDNECKER Buzz Light Beer Music, ASCAP/ EYES ON YOU Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI/Dack Downtown DLJ Songs, ASCAP/Relative Music Group, BMI/ Janiel’s Publishing, BMI/EMI April Music, Inc., ASCAP/ BMI/Colden Rainey Music, BMI/Sony/ATV Cross Keys Publishing, ASCAP/243 Music, ASCAP/Peermusic III, WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Freshy Music, ASCAP/We-Volve CDS Words And Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/ Music, ASCAP  28 Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite Ltd., BMI/Whiskey Tub Music, BMI (C.Swindell, Michael Ray, (A.Albert, M.Hardy, J.M.Schmidt)  Songs, ASCAP (C.Rice, C. DeStefano, A.Gorley) 3 B.Kinney) 33 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE APRIL 29, 2019 | PAGE 20 OF 20 CODA On April 30, 1994, Faith Hill’s following her role as opening act 25 Years Ago “Piece of My Heart” rose 2-1 on on his Spontaneous Combustion Hot Country Songs, marking her Tour. To date, she boasts nine Hot Faith Hill second No. 1. Big Brother & The Country Songs leaders (among 24 Holding Company originally hit top 10s), including 1997’s “It’s No. 12 on the Billboard Hot 100 Your Love” with McGraw, one of Wore Her in 1968 with the song (which was their six shared top 10s. written by Jerry Ragovoy and Bert In 2017, Hill and McGraw ‘Heart’ At No. 1 Berns), featuring Janis Joplin on signed individual recording lead vocals. contracts with Sony Music “Heart” was released as the Entertainment and released their In 1994, she scored her second second single from Hill’s debut first collaborative LP, The Rest Hot Country Songs leader album, Take Me As I Am, after “Wild of Our Life. The set bowed at No. One” dominated Hot Country 1 on Top Country Albums, and Songs for four weeks. single “Speak to a Girl” reached Born in Ridgeland, Miss., Hill the Hot Country Songs top 10. married Tim McGraw in 1996, —JIM ASKER

Hill during Fan Fair in Nashville in June 1994.

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