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ISSUE 15 MUSIC EDITION NOVEMBER 27, 2006 Forget The Turkey, It’s Time For Christmas (Music)! CHECK THE HALLS Thanksgiving means food, football and a four-day Country Aircheck’s final 2006Music Edition weekend to most people, to programmers it means it’s time with charts will be published on Monday, December 18, to start putting those Christmas songs on the radio. While we with publication resuming on January 8, 2007. Regular can’t help with that bloated feeling you’re experiencing right publication of Country Aircheck Today will cease about now, we can get your 2006 Christmas library spruced with the Thursday, December 21 issue, and resume on Thursday, January 4. Look for our debut print up with a look back at the most-played holiday tunes of 2005, publication containing the year’s Top 100 songs in courtesy of Mediabase 24/7. mid-December. >>Christmas Country Gold 17. MONTGOMERY GENTRY/Merry Christmas From ... 1. VINCE VANCE & THE VALIANTS/All I Want For Christmas... 18. ELVIS PRESLEY/Blue Christmas 2. JEFF FOXWORTHY/12 Redneck Days Of Christmas 19. DOLLY PARTON/Hard Candy Christmas 3. CLINT BLACK/’Til Santa’s Gone 20. GARTH BROOKS/Santa Looked A Lot Like Daddy 4. BRENDA LEE/Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree 5. BOBBY HELMS/Jingle Bell Rock >>Top 2005 Country Christmas Currents & Recurrents 6. SKIP EWING/Christmas Carol 7. JOE DIFFIE/Leroy The Redneck Reindeer 1. JOE NICHOLS/Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow 8. ALABAMA/Christmas In Dixie 2. KENNY CHESNEY/Jingle Bells 9. ALAN JACKSON/A Holly Jolly Christmas 3. TIM McGRAW/Dear Santa 10. ALAN JACKSON/I Only Want You For Christmas 4. STEVE AZAR/Catfish Christmas 11. FAITH HILL/Where Are You Christmas 5. ALAN JACKSON/Santa Claus Is Coming To Town 12. GEORGE STRAIT/Christmas Cookies 6. LeANN RIMES/Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree 13. LEANN RIMES/Put A Little Holiday… 7. KENNY CHESNEY/Pretty Paper 14. NEWSONG/The Christmas Shoes 8. TRACY BYRD/Jingle Bells 15. RICOCHET/Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow 16. BURL IVES/Have A Holly Jolly Christmas ©2006 Country Aircheck™ — All rights reserved. To subscribe visit www.countryaircheck.com November 27, 2006 Country Aircheck Music Edition Page 2 9. JOE NICHOLS/White Christmas DATE CHECK 10. JOE NICHOLS/I’ll Be Home For Christmas 11. JOSH GRACIN/Please Come Home For Christmas February 27 - Country Radio & DJ Hall of Fame Dinner. 12. MONY L. ALLEN/All I Want For Christmas ... www.crb.org 13. NEAL McCOY/Merry Christmas Darling February 28 to March 2 - CRS-38. 14. JO DEE MESSINA/Silver Bells www.crb.org 15. CLINT BLACK/Christmas With You May 15 - 42nd Annual ACM Awards. Thomas New Regent Regional VP www.acmcountry.com As part of a restructuring of senior management, Regent You want to be in early, anyway, because the CRB has Evansville-Owensboro, IN VP/GM Mark Thomas has added some events on Wednesday. In addition to a 2007 Hall been promoted to Regional VP. In addition to overseeing the of Fame Panel, other new sessions include an Arbitron People company’s stations in those two markets and Flint, MI, he’ll Meter panel and the ASCAP-sponsored KCRS Live! songwriter add oversight for the St. Cloud, MN six-station cluster, which showcase (does this mean only songwriters from west of the includes market leading Country WWJO. Regent also owns Mississippi will be appearing?) Also on Wednesday is the Artist market-leading Country WKDQ/Evansville and WBKR/ Radio Tape Session (ARTS), the Curb Records sponsored Owensboro. None of its Flint stations are Country. luncheon and three additional artist showcases. Toby Keith will Additionally, Regional VP Mike Grimsley, who perform at the ACM/United Stations-sponsored Music City Jam oversees Regent’s stations in Lafayette, LA and El Paso, on Wednesday night. TX, will add oversight duties for the company’s Peoria, IL The keynote event on Thursday, March 1 is sponsored by and Bloomington, IL clusters. Country outlets owned by KCCS Productions and will feature WSIX/Nashville morning Regent in those markets include market-leading WBWN/ personality Gerry House interviewing Jon Bon Jovi. A Bloomington and WFYR/Peoria, which was No. 2 in Spring presentation by Edison Media Research on Hispanic-Americans 2006, but No. 1 in Fall 2005 (noticing a trend here, yet?) and Country Radio will be held on Thursday afternoon. CRS-38 Early Bird Deadline Is Thursday; Montage Goes RED For Distribution New Events Added Montage Music Group has signed a distribution deal with If you want to take advantage of the CRB’s low-low early RED Distribution, a division of Sony BMG. Label President/ bird registration rate of $499, you must get your stuff to them by CEO Allen Butler says, “I am very happy to be associated this Thursday, Nov. 30. After that, it jumps to $1 million. OK, so with Bob Morelli and everyone at RED again. I am confident it doesn’t go up that much. But you can save your company some that our product is in very capable hands and I look forward to serious dough by going to www.CRB.org and signing-up for CRS- having them on our team.” 38, set for Feb. 28-March 2 at the Nashville Convention Center. RED EVP/GM Bob Morelli adds, “I have worked with And, be sure to come in a day early for the Country Radio Allen during his days of running Arista Nashville promotion. and Country Music DJ Hall of Fame inductions and dinner. Come As a fan, I watched Allen run and developed Sony/Nashville see Les Acree, Larry Daniels and Bob Moody head into the into the powerhouse country label it became. I couldn’t be Country Radio HOF while Joe Ladd and Big John Trimble enter happier that he chose RED to be the home for his new label, the CMDJHOF. This has become one of the industries greatest -- and we hope to add our expertise and partnership in making and most fun -- evenings. Don’t miss it! this one of the premiere labels in Nashville.” ©2006 Country Aircheck™ — All rights reserved. Send news to [email protected] November 27, 2006 Country Aircheck Music Edition Page 3 TUBE CHECK Capitol’s Weathersby Rises Tuesday (11/28) – Brad Paisley, Good Morning Capitol Director/Media & Public Relations Dixie America (ABC). Weathersby has been promoted to Sr. Director. Weathersby joined the label in 2003. She and Director/Media & Public Wednesday (11/29) – Billy Ray Cyrus, The Relations Judy McDonough share media responsibilities for Collection (GAC). the label, reporting to Sr. VP/Marketing Fletcher Foster. Thursday (11/30) – Wynonna Judd, Good Morning “Dixie’s contributions in building this label’s publicity America (ABC); Wynonna Judd, The View (ABC); department as well as her contributions in the development of Sheryl Crow, The Oprah Winfrey Show (NBC); our artists over the past three and a half years have been truly Trent Tomlinson, Top 20 Countdown (CMT). apparent,” Foster says. “I’m really glad that we can recognize her hard work and dedication.” Friday (12/1) – Faith Hill, Tim McGraw, Top Ten Countdown (CMT). Gentry Pleads To Misdemeanor Saturday (12/2) – Lindsey Buckingham, Little Big A statement from Sony BMG (11/27) addresses Troy Town, CMT Crossroads (CMT); Phil Vassar, GAC Gentry pleading guilty to a lesser offense of inaccurately Specials (GAC); Alison Krauss, Dierks Bentley, Jack tagging a bear, a misdemeanor. The plea was entered in a case Ingram, Sugarland, The Randy Rogers Band, CMT Insider (CMT). stemming from the hunting of an allegedly tame black bear in Minnesota two years ago. “I did participate in improperly Sunday (12/3) – Mike Snider, Dolly Parton, Southern tagging the animal I shot, without realizing the seriousness of Fried Flicks With Hazel Smith (CMT). what I was doing,” Gentry says. “For that, I am truly sorry. I relied on the experts around me for guidance, and I regret Monday (12/4) – Johnny Cash, 60 Minutes Uncut (CMT). that today. Not so much because I was fined and punished, but because it appears that I don’t have respect for the law. This has been a humbling experience for me, and one which I deeply regret.” Chart Chat Are those Rascal Flatts guys hot, or what? Not only Radio News do they have the No. 1 Country song this week with “My Kudos: KUPL/Portland’s Feed The Hungry Radio-a-thon Wish,” but the Lyric Street trio also has the No. 2 song on recently raised $62,000 during a 13-hour live broadcast the Mediabase AC chart with “What Hurts The Most.” That benefiting the Portland Rescue Mission. song, by the way, also went Top 10 on Mediabase’s Hot AC list and Top 25 on the Top 40 chart! It should be a might fine Web: Clear Channel Online is featuring Keith Urban in its Christmas for Gary, Joe Don and Jay -- not to mention all In-Concert series, with clips from Urban’s September show at the happy little elves whistling a happy tune at the label (is Atlanta’s Fox Theater added each week. Details at that mixing metaphors -- or meta-dwarves?) led by President www.clearchannelmusic.com. Randy Goodman and VP/Promotion Kevin Herring. ©2006 Country Aircheck™ — All rights reserved. To subscribe visit www.countryaircheck.com November 27, 2006 Country Aircheck Music Edition Page 4 Industry News Plateau Music has signed a distribution agreement with BIRTHDAYS Aspirion Records, to release April Taylor’s I Wanna Live Tuesday (11/28) - Kristine Arnold, Cheryl Cranford, Like That. The album is set for a January release.