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BILLBOARD.COM/NEWSLETTERS NOVEMBER 5, 2018 | PAGE 1 OF 18

INSIDE BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE [email protected]

Josh Turner Serves Up A Winner Country Artists Fight Back Against >page 4 Rising Tide Of Bullies

Shania, Jake, Travis Prep Real Country When Capitol Nashville released ’s “Love indicating that bullying victims are twice as likely to carry >page 8 Wins,” the song provided background music for a Disney firearms to schools as their classmates. #ChooseKindness PSA designed to provide a counter balance “Not many people really understand,” says Rain, a Florida to bullying. n a t i v e w h o s e The message is anti - bullying Brett Eldredge just one piece in a song “ S t i c k s Covers Queen landscape with an and Stones” was >page 9 increasing num- produced by A-list ber of anti-bully- guitarist B i f f ing stances in the Watson (Chris cou nt r y genre. Young, George Brett Young Gets Kane Brown — Strait). “Even Advance Notice whose sopho- teachers that I >page 9 more , Ex- know and I love

periment, is due don’t understand CHRIS UNDERWOOD RAIN Nov. 9 — laid out completely how Makin’ Tracks: bullying tactics b u l l y i n g h a s Rachel Reinert he encountered as a kid in “Learning,” a powerful track on changed and gone from verbal and physical bullying like when Comes Out Of his self-titled debut. Kelsea Ballerini’s new single, “Miss Me my dad was a kid. Now it’s so much more than that. Bullies have The ‘Dark’ More,” heralds her own personal rebound from an emotionally an advantage. They can go online, completely anonymous, and >page 13 abusive boyfriend, and three emerging young acts — Jessie just ruin somebody’s life. I think it needs to be talked about Chris, 21; Dylan Brady, 20; and Sahara Rain, 15 — all have more than it is.” incorporated anti-bullying platforms into their public efforts. Brady and Chris are in full agreement. With that in mind, The topic is timely. The agenda and behaviors of President they both have visited schools to perform and speak. They share Country Coda: When Donald Trump — whose public actions have included mocking a their own bullying stories and chat one-on-one with kids as a ’s disabled person, dismissing female reporters and scapegoating result. Key in their presentations is assuring those students ‘Roses’ Bloomed immigrants and minorities — will figure into the narrative who are being abused now that better days are ahead. The mere >page 18 during this week’s midterm elections on Nov. 6. First lady fact that the artists can climb onstage is an example of that Melania Trump’s #BeBest campaign calls attention to cyber- kind of resilience.

bullying. And the rash of recent mass shootings led to studies “Because of the bullying I went through, I suffer from anxiety NICHOLAS ST. RANDEE UNDERWOOD: BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE NOVEMBER 5, 2018 | PAGE 2 OF 18

and depression and horrible stage fright,” says Chris, who has addressed roughly 70 schools in 2018 and hopes to make 100 by year’s end. “I couldn’t speak in front of people, let alone sing in front of people anymore, so I’ve come a long way from that point. But it was bad. It really tore me apart.” Musicians are often targets. Vulnerability is at the heart of any creative endeavor, and because the value of art is subjective, a bully can demean someone’s work and never believe their assessment is wrong. Brady’s situation was exacerbated by Tourette’s syndrome, a neurological disorder that expresses itself in physical tics or, for some patients, uncontrollable verbal outbursts. He was bullied over being a musician — not for his condition — but Tourette’s contributed to the inferiority issues that the bullying triggered. “The five things that make it heightened are anxiety, fatigue, illness, excitement and nerves,” says Brady, whose upcoming EP is being produced by guitarist Joe Don Rooney. “Every day, I was nervous and anxious going to school, and so I would be ticking more, so something I’d deal with Carly Pearce and Michael Ray (left) covered Keith Whitley’s “When every day was the pain of my tics.” You Say Nothing at All” when they visited with SiriusXM host Storme Bullying, according to StopBullying.gov, is Warren on the Highway channel. the repeated abuse of power to intimidate or BRADY demean the weaker person in a relationship, and it can be expressed in numerous ways. It has a rich history in , woven into such songs as ’s schoolyard tale “Coat of Many Colors,” Johnny Paycheck’s workplace fantasy “Take This Job and Shove It” and Martina McBride’s interpersonal dramas “Independence Day,” “Concrete Angel” and “.” One could argue that the volume of songs about country pride is a direct response to artists feeling that mainstream media has dismissed the genre for decades. Brown’s “Learning,” in which he documents being beaten by a stepfather and ridiculed by classmates for his biracial heritage, is a powerful modern example. And he suggests that treatment is part of what has made him a bit mysterious as an adult. He can be guarded in interviews, he says, as “a protection thing.” The nature of most journalism requires reporters to drop in for short bits of time with a subject, and that works against the kind of relationship Brown needs to overcome his childhood programming. “If you do get to know me, I’ll tell everything to you, like my whole life,” he says. “I don’t want to tell that to the wrong people.” BROWN BROWN: COURTESY OF APPLE MUSIC APPLE OF COURTESY BROWN: Domestic violence and domineering romantic relationships are subsets of bullying. Ballerini’s new single, “Miss Me More,” details her personal resurrection from chatted with CMT Margo Price made a surprise a relationship with an ex-boyfriend who insisted on controlling her appearance host Cody Alan when Brooks held appearance Oct. 30 during a and her friendships, and it has made her a role model for fans who have been the first-ever concert at historic concert rally for Texas Senate known to confide in her about their own relationship stories at meet-and-greets. Notre Dame Stadium on Oct. 20. candidate Beto O’Rourke in Irving. “I definitely have had a lot of young girls — or a lot of girls my age and a lot of older girls, too — just like with ‘Peter Pan,’ come to me and be like, ‘Oh, I’ve dated a Peter Pan’ or ‘I’ve been in that relationship where I kind of lost myself,’ ” she says. “It’s a common thing.” That bullying issue is part of what’s at the heart of the election on Nov. 6. The slaughter of Jews in a Pittsburgh congregation; the Nazi march in Charlottesville, Va.; and the alleged abuse at the center of the Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court controversy are all examples of bullying behaviors that have become more prevalent in public discourse. Voters will be making a statement, at least in part, on that topic. “It’s not OK for anybody to be mean to anyone, and it goes for any celebrity across the board,” says Chris, who will be recording a duet with New Kids on the Block’s Danny Wood on Nov. 7. “Kids are watching, and there’s so much junk on the internet and TV that kids are learning from. We need more artists and politicians in the world who are good role models to the kids who are watching their every move.” Bullying behaviors inspired Underwood to write “Love Wins.” And the inspirational phrases she voiced in the Disney #ChooseKindness campaign underscore the values behind country’s heightened awareness of bullies. “There’s so much negativity out there,” she says. “There’s a million different Gwen Sebastian stopped by WSM-AM Nashville on Oct. 30. She is ways you can be mean, and we just need to build each other up and be more shown with WSM personality Charlie Mattos (left) and WSM morning tolerant and more kind and think about other people’s feelings.” host Bill Cody.

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ON THE CHARTS JIM ASKER [email protected] ’s Faith-Based ‘’ Debuts; Dan + Shay And Maren Morris Go Top 10

Josh Turner’s first faith-based set, I Serve a Savior (MCA Nashville/ working on Deep South at the time,” Turner recently mused. “When it came Nashville), bows at No. 2 on Billboard’s Top time to actually record Savior, I wanted it to feel new, but also have the feel Country chart (dated Nov. 10) with 15,000 equivalent album units of an old-time hymn. As things progressed, I wanted it to be the title track. (14,000 in traditional album sales) in the week ending Nov. 1, according “Everything just kind of fell into place. I felt like it was my time and, more to Nielsen Music. importantly, that it was God’s time.” Savior also arrives at No. 2 on Top Christian Albums, marking the singer-’s first NEW TOP 10s On , which appearance on the tally. combines , streaming and sales data, Maren “I’m floored. God is good,” Turner tells Billboard. Morris earns her fourth top 10 as “Rich” (Columbia “I had no expectations going into this project, other Nashville) rises 11-10. It gains by 5 percent to than to make a record I was proud to share. I’m 30.7 million audience impressions as it holds at especially thankful my fans have embraced it. its No. 5 high on . Morris adds her I want [listeners] to feel some hope and joy that first Hot Country Songs top 10 since “I Could Use maybe they’ve never experienced before, even a Love Song,” which peaked at No. 7 on Jan. 20; it if they don’t understand where it’s coming from topped Country Airplay the same week. exactly. I’d love for them to seek out truth.” Dan + Shay collect their fifth Country Airplay The 12-song Savior, which is Turner’s seventh top 10 as “Speechless” (Warner Bros./WAR) studio set, marks his eighth Top Country Albums pushes 11-10 (22.6 million, up 11 percent). The top 10 (encompassing his seven LPs and a live pair’s first four top 10s all reached No. 1: “Nothin’ release; three of them reached No. 1). Before Savior, Like You” (2015), “From the Ground Up” (2016), Deep South debuted at No. 1 on the chart dated “How Not To” (2017) and this year’s “Tequila” (two April 1, 2017. Turner has also led with Punching weeks, beginning July 7). Bag in 2012 and sophomore album Your Man in TURNER 2006. His debut LP, , peaked at ONE OF COMBS’ ‘BEST’ HITS Luke Combs’ “She No. 3 in 2004. Got the Best of Me” (River House/Columbia While Savior is Turner’s first full-fledged Christian-based album, he’s no Nashville) holds at the Country Airplay summit (44.9 million, up 2 percent), stranger to inspirational songs. “Long Black Train,” his second Hot Country stretching its lead to three weeks and becoming the longest-leading of his four Songs entry, and “” (which hit Nos. 13 and 16 in 2004 and 2007, career-opening No. 1s. Combs first reigned with his debut hit, “Hurricane,” respectively), appear in updated versions on the new set. The bulk of the for two weeks starting on the chart dated May 27, 2017. He followed with album features traditional hymns, which Turner became familiar with while “When It Rains It Pours,” which also dominated for two frames, beginning growing up in South Carolina, including “How Great Thou Art” (featuring Nov. 4, 2017, and “One Number Away,” which led June 9. Sonya Isaacs), “Amazing Grace” and “Great Is Thy Faithfulness,” plus the “Best” is the third song that has led Country Airplay for a year-best three iconic “I Saw the Light,” penned by . weeks in 2018. ’s “Most People Are Good” hit No. 1 on March 31, The title song, which Turner co-wrote in 2016, led to the set’s creation. after Brett Young’s “Like I Loved You” ruled the first three weeks of the year,

“The thought of doing this album hadn’t even come to me yet, and I was still starting Jan. 3. IMAGES GETTY TURNER: BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE NOVEMBER 5, 2018 | PAGE 5 OF 18

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 1 18 SHE GOT THE BEST OF ME River House/Columbia Nashville HH No. 1 (3 weeks) HH  Luke Combs 44.941 +0.967 8207 4 1 l2 2 36 HANGIN’ ON RCA Nashville 40.252 +2.803 7512 488 2 l3 3 38 BEST SHOT Stoney Creek HH Most Increased Audience HH Jimmie Allen 37.905 +5.539 7210 953 3 4 4 36 BLUE TACOMA Triple Tigers Russell Dickerson 30.890 -1.415 5420 -139 7 l5 5 38 RICH Columbia Nashville Maren Morris 30.663 +1.532 6099 231 4 l6 6 22 LOSE IT Zone 4/RCA Nashville Kane Brown 29.544 +1.017 5889 238 5 l7 7 47 DRUNK GIRL Warner Bros./WAR 27.659 +0.634 5748 121 6 8 8 33 HOTEL KEY RCA Nashville Old Dominion 26.212 -1.000 4631 -65 9 l9 9 32 DRUNK ME Riser House/Columbia Nashville 26.162 +1.526 5141 115 8 l10 11 13 SPEECHLESS Warner Bros./WAR Dan + Shay 22.524 +2.141 4244 434 11 l11 13 16 TURNIN’ ME ON Warner Bros./WMN 20.148 +1.238 4034 219 13 l12 12 20 ALL DAY LONG Pearl  Garth Brooks 20.052 +0.343 4588 242 10 l13 14 45 LAST SHOT MCA Nashville Kip Moore 19.465 +1.317 4132 227 12 l14 15 17 DESPERATE MAN EMI Nashville 17.507 +0.278 3698 26 14 l15 16 18 BURNING MAN Capitol Nashville Dierks Bentley Featuring 17.482 +1.629 3639 256 15 l16 18 11 SIXTEEN Valory  Thomas Rhett 16.490 +2.280 3255 449 17 l17 17 29 BABE Big Machine Featuring 15.738 +0.028 3572 78 16 l18 20 27 GOOD GIRL Broken Bow HH Airpower HH Dustin Lynch 15.050 +2.117 3244 498 18 l19 19 29 MILLIONAIRE Mercury  14.258 +0.833 3161 155 19 l20 21 30 BURN OUT Big Machine Midland 13.382 +0.492 3107 128 20 l21 22 24 TAKE IT FROM ME MCA Nashville Jordan Davis 12.201 +0.813 2915 129 21 l22 23 23 THIS IS IT Triple Tigers Scotty McCreery 12.013 +1.515 2870 224 22 l23 24 8 GIRL LIKE YOU Macon/Broken Bow 11.332 +1.593 2376 364 25 l24 25 5 McGraw/Columbia Nashville Tim McGraw 10.357 +1.246 2281 234 26 l25 26 17 THERE WAS THIS GIRL BMLG  Riley Green 9.896 +0.936 2541 150 23 l26 27 13 DOWN TO THE HONKYTONK Big Loud 9.338 +0.418 2460 49 24 l27 31 3 WHAT MAKES YOU COUNTRY Capitol Nashville HH Breaker/Most Added HH Luke Bryan 9.001 +3.402 1673 625 28 l28 28 11 BETTER BOAT Blue Chair/Warner Bros./WEA Kenny Chesney Featuring Mindy Smith 6.471 +0.155 1648 100 29 l29 30 13 ON MY WAY TO YOU CoJo/WMN  Cody Johnson 6.415 +0.202 116 3 75 35 l30 29 16 ONE THAT GOT AWAY Atlantic/WEA  Michael Ray 6.362 +0.026 1550 28 30 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE NOVEMBER 5, 2018 | PAGE 6 OF 18

AIRPLAY Country Airplay MONITORED BY

WKS AUDIENCE (IN MILLIONS) PLAYS THIS LAST ON WEEK WEEK CHART TITLE Imprint/Label Artist THIS WEEK +/– THIS WEEK +/– RANK l31 32 15 NIGHT SHIFT Capitol Nashville Jon Pardi 6.118 +0.614 1447 137 31 l32 34 8 LOVE WINS Capitol Nashville Carrie Underwood 5.686 +0.406 1370 132 32 l33 33 11 NEVER COMIN DOWN Hit Red/Capitol Nashville Keith Urban 5.510 +0.075 1337 43 33 l34 35 31 THE DIFFERENCE Valory  Tyler Rich 5.188 +0.240 1735 39 27 l35 38 21 LOVE AIN’T Valory  Eli Young Band 4.932 +0.875 118 4 99 34 l36 36 4 RCA Nashville Old Dominion 4.810 +0.430 776 102 45 l37 37 7 HERE TONIGHT BMLG  Brett Young 4.748 +0.611 978 115 39 l38 40 18 LOVE SOMEONE Atlantic/WMN  Brett Eldredge 3.400 +0.250 890 50 41 l39 41 30 CAUGHT UP IN THE COUNTRY Curb  Rodney Atkins Featuring The Fisk Jubilee Singers 3.129 +0.246 110 3 48 36 l40 43 13 GOODBYE SUMMER Valory/BMLG  HH Breaker HH With Thomas Rhett 2.878 +0.167 1039 34 38 l41 42 24 YOU’RE IN IT Wheelhouse  Granger Smith 2.795 +0.080 1085 16 37 l42 44 12 EYES ON YOU Dack Janiels/Broken Bow Chase Rice 2.675 +0.030 924 89 40 l43 45 6 BACK TO LIFE Big Machine Rascal Flatts 2.436 +0.125 671 54 49 l44 54 2 MISS ME MORE Black River Kelsea Ballerini 2.414 +0.881 513 116 52 l45 47 16 WHAT WHISKEY DOES Stoney Creek Randy Houser Featuring 2.347 +0.311 873 61 42 l46 46 20 FRIENDS DON’T Mercury  Maddie & Tae 2.309 +0.046 732 25 46 l47 49 9 RUMOR Curb  Lee Brice 2.293 +0.333 578 56 50 l48 48 10 WHISKEY GLASSES Big Loud 1.999 +0.001 783 24 44 l49 50 14 YADA YADA YADA EMI Nashville Brandon Lay 1.831 -0.031 730 10 47 l50 55 3 DAY DRUNK Warner Bros./WEA Morgan Evans 1.717 +0.228 416 51 56 l51 52 9 FEELS LIKE A PARTY Wheelhouse  LOCASH 1.679 -0.003 799 26 43 52 51 19 DROP EVERYTHING Arista Nashville Carlton Anderson 1.632 -0.106 683 -39 48 l53 56 10 I WON’T BE SORRY Blue Chair/Reviver David Lee Murphy 1.466 +0.158 472 8 53 l54 57 7 BRING IT ON OVER Mercury  Billy Currington 1.452 +0.170 445 24 54 55 53 11 FLOATIN’ Sturgeon General Uncle Kracker 1.409 -0.126 336 -18 57 l56 60 3 BUY MY OWN DRINKS Wheelhouse  Runaway June 1.230 +0.160 567 -24 51 l57 59 10 HOW DOES IT SOUND Dylan Schneider/Placer Dylan Schneider 1.207 +0.065 418 29 55 l58 NEW LADIES IN THE ‘90S 19/Mercury HH Hot Shot Debut HH Lauren Alaina 1.078 +0.182 312 18 59 l59 NEW TALK YOU OUT OF IT BMLG  1.034 +0.698 213 146 - 60 58 12 DAMAGE RCA Nashville Rachel Wammack 0.995 -0.157 245 -75 -

GOING FOR ADDS 11/19 CARLY PEARCE Closer To You Big Machine Warner Bros./WMN 56 SHARI ROWE Home For Christmas In its third week on Country Airplay, “Drinks” RUNAWAY (Underneath The hops 60-56, increasing by 15 percent to JUNE Desert Sky) Buy My 1.2 million audience impressions. It also lifts Own Drinks by 6 percent to 108,000 U.S. streams. Maven/KORE/TM SWINDELL GETTY IMAGES GETTY BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE NOVEMBER 5, 2018 | PAGE 7 OF 18

AIRPLAY Country Airplay MONITORED BY

MOST ADDED® NEW AND ACTIVE TITLE Imprint/Label Artist ADDS TOTAL TOTAL WHAT MAKES YOU COUNTRY Capitol Nashville Luke Bryan 32 TITLE Imprint/Label Artist AUDIENCE STATIONS ADDS GIRL LIKE YOU Macon/Broken Bow Jason Aldean 13 90’S COUNTRY Monument/Arista Nashville Walker Hayes 0.979 18 1 SIXTEEN Valory Thomas Rhett 10 I DON’T KNOW ABOUT YOU Big Loud Chris Lane 0.930 19 4 TALK YOU OUT OF IT BMLG Florida Georgia Line 10 MORE MCA Nashville Clare Dunn 0.905 36 0 BETTER BOAT Blue Chair/Warner Bros./WEA Kenny Chesney Feat. Mindy Smith 9 MAKE IT SWEET RCA Nashville Old Dominion 8 THE ONES THAT DIDN’T MAKE IT BACK HOME Valory Justin Moore 0.862 16 7 THE ONES THAT DIDN’T MAKE IT BACK HOME Valory Justin Moore 7 BEAUTIFUL CRAZY River House/Columbia Nashville Luke Combs 0.857 10 0 ONE THAT GOT AWAY Atlantic/WEA Michael Ray 6 I DON’T REMEMBER ME (BEFORE YOU) EMI Nashville Brothers Osborne 0.856 20 1 ON MY WAY TO YOU CoJo/WMN Cody Johnson 6 BACK TO LIFE Big Machine Rascal Flatts 6 RECURRENTS MOST INCREASED AUDIENCE THIS TOTAL AUD. WEEK TITLE Imprint/Label Artist (IN MILLIONS) GAIN 1 TEQUILA Warner Bros./WAR Dan + Shay 20.709 TITLE Imprint/Label Artist (IN MIILIONS) 2 HEAVEN Zone 4/RCA Nashville Kane Brown 20.198 BEST SHOT Stoney Creek Jimmie Allen +5.539 WHAT MAKES YOU COUNTRY Capitol Nashville Luke Bryan +3.402 3 ONE NUMBER AWAY River House/Columbia Nashville Luke Combs 19.341 HANGIN’ ON RCA Nashville Chris Young +2.803 4 DROWNS THE WHISKEY Macon/Broken Bow Jason Aldean Feat. 18.142 SIXTEEN Valory Thomas Rhett +2.280 5 GET ALONG Blue Chair/Warner Bros./WEA Kenny Chesney 17.538 SPEECHLESS Warner Bros./WAR Dan + Shay +2.141 6 SUNRISE, SUNBURN, SUNSET Capitol Nashville Luke Bryan 17.490 GOOD GIRL Broken Bow Dustin Lynch +2.117 7 SIMPLE BMLG Florida Georgia Line 16.907 BURNING MAN Capitol Nashville Dierks Bentley Feat. Brothers Osborne +1.629 8 BREAK UP IN THE END Warner Bros./WMN Cole Swindell 16.280 GIRL LIKE YOU Macon/Broken Bow Jason Aldean +1.593 9 YOU MAKE IT EASY Macon/Broken Bow Jason Aldean 12.904 RICH Columbia Nashville Maren Morris +1.532 DRUNK ME Riser House/Columbia Nashville Mitchell Tenpenny +1.526 10 SMALL TOWN BOY Broken Bow Dustin Lynch 12.573 MOST INCREASED PLAYS BILLBOARD COUNTRY BOXSCORE TITLE Imprint/Label Artist GAIN Gross Artist Attendance Ticket Price(s) Venue/Date(s) Capacity Promoter(s) BEST SHOT Stoney Creek Jimmie Allen +953 $4,176,604 62,885 WHAT MAKES YOU COUNTRY Capitol Nashville Luke Bryan +625 $66.63 Citi Field, Flushing, N.Y./July 29 62,885 LIVE NATION GOOD GIRL Broken Bow Dustin Lynch +498 $1,618,464 ZAC BROWN BAND 21,841 HANGIN’ ON RCA Nashville Chris Young +488 $74.10 Great American Ball Park, Cincinnati, Ohio/Aug. 4 33,600 LIVE NATION SIXTEEN Valory Thomas Rhett +449 $1,396,251 ZAC BROWN BAND 39,167 $35.65 Alpine Valley Music Theatre, East Troy, Wis./Aug. 12 79,398 LIVE NATION SPEECHLESS Warner Bros./WAR Dan + Shay +434 GIRL LIKE YOU Macon/Broken Bow Jason Aldean +364 $692,670 ZAC BROWN BAND 17,990 $38.50 Blossom Music Center, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio/Aug. 2 20,704 LIVE NATION BURNING MAN Capitol Nashville Dierks Bentley Feat. Brothers Osborne +256 $684,885 ’S OUTLAW MUSIC FESTIVAL 13,544 ALL DAY LONG Pearl Garth Brooks +242 $50.57 BB&T Pavilion, Camden, N.J./Sept. 15 23,322 LIVE NATION LOSE IT Zone 4/RCA Nashville Kane Brown +238 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 NOVEMBER 4, 2018

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 5 16 SITTIN’ HERE (Independent)  HH 1 Week at 1 HH Jesse Raub Jr. w/Cody Johnson 1660 169 l11 14 10 HONEYWINE (Independent)  Flatland Cavalry 1272 225 2 1 14 DAMN GOOD GOODBYE (Independent)  Mike Ryan 1617 -56 12 4 17 THE NIGHT IS OURS (JAB)  Josh Abbott Band 1214 -316 l3 7 12 ON MY WAY TO YOU (CoJo Music)  Cody Johnson 1607 151 l13 12 20 A TORNADO WARNING (Thirty Tigers)  Turnpike Troubadours 1088 3 l4 6 15 FRIDAY’S COMING (Independent)  Pat Green 1567 79 l14 18 7 RIO (Independent)  Kyle Park 1085 114 5 3 24 KEEP IT COUNTRY (Independent)  Mark Powell 1550 -5 l15 17 17 SMOOTH TALKIN’ LADY (Smith)  Jason Allen 1038 56 l6 10 12 IF YOU WERE A COWBOY (Independent)  Bri Bagwell 1500 177 l16 23 6 SHE REMAINS (Independent)  Jamie Richards 1030 147 l7 9 21 LIFE IS (Miles Power)  Cameran Nelson 1468 87 l17 15 17 YOU’RE IN IT (Independent)  Granger Smith 1019 2 l8 8 11 MIRROR, MIRROR (Independent)  Randall King 1450 43 l18 21 19 I GOT ME (Independent)  Sarah Hobbs 984 80 9 2 16 DEATH, DYIN’ & DEVILED EGGS (Independent)  Wade Bowen 1445 -199 19 20 16 MISUNDERSTOOD (Vision Ent)  Parker McCollum 941 -7 10 11 17 MY SOUTH (Independent)  Natalie Rose 1292 -9 20 16 21 MUST BE THE WHISKEY (Rounder Rec)  Cody Jinks 926 -57

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 2018, Texas Regional Radio Report BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE NOVEMBER 5, 2018 | PAGE 8 OF 18

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Bertshinger has departed the WDSY Pittsburgh morning show after a year in the position, according to Talkers.com … CMT is syndicating a Thanksgiving title, CMT After Midnite Friendsgiving Special. Cody Alan hosts the four-hour program, available to air Nov. 21-25. ’ROUND THE ROW Robert Filhart joined Morris Higham Management as manager for Carlton Anderson. Filhart previously was ASCAP Nashville creative director. Reach him here … The Country Music Association hired three new staff members. CMA EDU coordinator Kate Kaltenbach previously was talent buyer/social media consultant at Klein’s Entertainment. New CMA social marketing coordinator Devin Samuel takes her post after providing independent support for the CMA Music Festival and CMA Awards program book as a creative services assistant. New CMA social marketing coordinator Katie Storey formerly worked as an independent CMA contractor and as quartermaster assistant for the Pilgrimage Music Festival. Additionally, the CMA promoted dropped by Cumulus’ Nash campus on Oct. 25 to Lindsey Jones to CMA Foundation project manager from project manager promote their album on the syndicated morning of community outreach, while Katherine Wong was named marketing show Ty, Kelly and Chuck Mornings. From left: group member coordinator after working as marketing/social coordinator. Reach Kaltenbach , co-host Ty Bentli, group member Miranda Lambert, here, Samuel here and Storey here … Songwriter Jesse Lee (“Peter Pan,” “Like co-host Chuck Wicks and group member . I Loved You”) signed a publishing deal with Disney Music Group … Warner/ Chappell Nashville extended its agreement with songwriter Lee Thomas Miller REAL COUNTRY SEEKS UNIQUENESS (“It Ain’t My Fault,” “Perfect Storm”) … New Hall of Fame inductee If the USA Network’s Real Country finds even one artist who is able to jump Steve Dorff (“I Cross My Heart,” “Through the Years”) enacted a concert the numerous hurdles that block them from stardom, the show will have booking contract with Music City Artists and established management through ­accomplished its goal. Leadership Artists … Independent artist Jake Rose signed with publishing The series debuts Nov. 13 with Shania Twain among the executive ­producers. company Sony/ATV. He’s already affiliated with Rezonant Music publishing, Twenty-one artists in various stages of development vie for a grand- prize package­ Nathan Chapman’s Starts With Music artist development firm and LeAnn that includes $100,000 and a performance at the . Among the Phelan’s LP Creative Management … Florida Georgia Line held an official competitors are six-time Texas Regional Radio female vocalist of the year Bri grand opening for its creative compound, including Meet + Greet, Tree Vibez Bagwell; Jamie Floyd, co-writer of the Grammy-nominated “The Blade”; and Music and Tribe Kelley Trading Post … The eighth annual Touring Career Tony Jackson, who has been heavily advertised on RFD-TV. Workshop, a vocational growth program for concert roadies, is set for Nov. 13 “I want to see talent that has done the whole process of finding out who they at Nashville’s Soundcheck Annex. Go here to register … The CMA Foundation are,” says Twain, drawing a distinction between Real Country and American plans to award $3.5 million in music education in 2019, reinvesting revenue Idol. “I think we can do more for them as artists on the panel.” from the 2018 CMA Music Festival. The foundation is also accepting entries USA Network has had previous success in country talent competitions. for its fourth annual Music Teachers of Excellence Awards here … The 15th Nashville Star, introduced in 2003, provided an early showcase for Miranda annual Rumble on the Row is set for March 1, 2019, at Liberty Hall in Franklin, Lambert, Chris Young and , though each of them developed­ Tenn., with proceeds benefiting Charley Foundation. Competitors include in different ways after that experience. Scott Gaines, WKHX Atlanta; Chris Waters, Pearl Records; Adam Davis, “That’s the beauty of this business,” says Real Country panelist Jake Owen. Nashville; Alan Bullington, MGC Sports; country artist Andy “You can hope and you can dream, but nobody has a road map.” Velo; Brandon Perdue, Riser House/Song Factory; Jenny Sciullo, Phivestarr Taped at Nashville’s Municipal Auditorium, the Real Country set takes on Productions; and Farrah Usmani, Loeb & Loeb … Dave Rowland died Nov. 1 a blingy, honky-tonk atmosphere. There is no pre-set notion of who might in Nashville of complications from a stroke. A former member of gospel group ­succeed — Twain designed the show to encompass everything from ­traditional The Stamps Quartet, he formed the country trio Dave & Sugar, which teamed country to modern bro-country, putting the emphasis on individuality. him with two female singers. They charted 11 top 10 singles between 1976 It’s an ideal that all of the panelists, including Travis Tritt, are passionate­ and 1981, including the chart-topping “,” “Tear about. It’s also a precept that and Johnny Cash presented Time” and “Golden Tears.” In lieu of flowers, the family suggests donations to him. be made in Rowland’s name to the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at “To hell what anybody else thinks,” says Tritt. “Just be you.” Vanderbilt. RADIO & RECORDS Veteran record executive Mike Borchetta is no longer consulting with Rebel Engine, the recording home of Stephanie Quayle ... Kelly Ford has departed the Cumulus morning show Ty, Kelly and Chuck Mornings, repeatedly acknowledging the split to listeners on her Twitter page. “Greater things coming,” she wrote in one post. “Of this I’m sure” … Cumulus/ Detroit director of FM programming Robby Bridges told staff on Nov. 1 he is leaving at the end of the year to be closer to family. His duties include the PD role at country WDRQ … WSM-AM Nashville adds the WoodSongs Old- Time Radio Hour as a weekly Sunday-night show beginning Nov. 11. Folk singer Michael Johnathon hosts the program, originating from Lexington, Ky. … WVTY Racine, Wis., dropped its adult contemporary format in favor of country, according to The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. The signal reaches Toby Keith posed with reps from rival radio stations when he played Milwaukee, where WKTI shifted from country to sports … Dave Jansen joined the Red Rock Resort in on Oct. 26. From left: Show Dog iHeartMedia/Minneapolis-St. Paul as vp sales, according to InsideRadio. Nashville director of West Coast promotion Ron Bradley, KWNR PD com. He previously was Comcast/Minneapolis-St. Paul interactive sales Wayne “Big D” Danielson, Keith and KCYE music director Emmanuel manager. The iHeartRadio cluster includes country KEEY … Bill “Broadway” “Ransom” Garcia. BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE NOVEMBER 5, 2018 | PAGE 9 OF 18

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MUSIC NOTES ON THIS DATE IN COUNTRY MUSIC

Rami Malek isn’t the only guy saluting Freddie Mercury these days. The Queen Nov. 6 biopic Bohemian Rhapsody opened Nov. 2, while a Peloton treadmill commercial • 2006 — Hosts Brooks & Dunn win three aired Nov. 4 with “Crazy Little Thing trophies — single, vocal duo and music Called Love” as the soundtrack. But video of the year — and Ronnie Dunn it’s not the Queen original — there are takes another for co-writing the song of two different versions of the spot, with the year, “Believe,” at the 40th annual Brett Eldredge covering the tune in CMA Awards on ABC. one ad. Meghan Trainor provides • 1993 — Reba McEntire and Linda vocals on the other The rockabilly- Davis share the No. 1 position on the tinged “Crazy Little Thing” became a Billboard country singles chart with DAVIS country hit in 1999, peaking at No. 12 “Does He Love You.” in a remake by Dwight Yoakam. Nov. 7 Brett Young has been announced • 2013 — Broken Bow releases Jason Aldean’s single “When She Says as the songwriter/artist of the year Baby” to radio. for the 56th annual ASCAP Country • 1988 — Production begins in Memphis on Great Balls of Fire, a Music Awards, set for Nov. 12 in movie about the life of Jerry Lee Lewis, with Dennis Quaid playing Nashville. Previous winners of the The Killer. trophy include , Brad ELDREDGE

ELDREDGE MICHELE LAURITA MICHELE ELDREDGE Paisley, Dierks Bentley, Nov. 8 and 2017 recipient • 2017 — Kane Brown earns a gold album from the RIAA. of Old Dominion. The Young announcement is a departure: Typically, the • 2015 — “Luke Bryan: Dirt Road Diary” ends a six-month run at songwriter/artist and country songwriter of the year remain a secret until Nashville’s Country Music Hall of Fame. The exhibit featured photos, the night of the awards. awards and his Little League uniform and glove.

Now picture this: Author Don Cusic has assembled a coffee-table book that Nov. 9 explores the history of Nashville’s development as a music capital. Nashville • 2016 — Garth Brooks and perform “Baby, It’s Sound: An Illustrated Timeline is a collection of short stories and large-format Cold Outside” at Disney World in Orlando, Fla., as producers shoot photos spanning two centuries, from legislator Davey Crockett’s holiday specials for ABC and the Disney Channel. obsession to Sturgill Simpson’s Americana Grammy Award. Reedy Press • 1998 — Charlie Daniels performs the national anthem before the published the 232-page tome. In other publishing news, Steelers host the Green Bay Packers on Monday Night Football from is preparing for the Nov. 13 release of its first children’s book, Time to Get Pittsburgh’s Three Rivers Stadium. The Steelers win, 27-20. Dressed; and author Jake Brown profiles a passel of composers in Nashville Songwriter Vol. II: The Inside Stories Behind Country Music’s Greatest Hits. Nov. 10 • 1983 — Alabama records “Roll On (Eighteen Wheeler).” The Kentucky HeadHunters have their second concert album on the docket with Live at the Ramblin’ Man Fair due Jan. 11, 2019. It’s rounded out with three Nov. 11 previously unreleased tracks featuring late pianist Johnnie Johnson, known • 2008 — Big Machine releases Taylor Swift’s album Fearless. for his work with Chuck Berry. Other albums in the queue include an Acme Feed & Seed concert project, Nathan Belt & The Buckles: A Rockin’ Christmas Nov. 12 (due Nov. 23); Granger Smith’s They Were There: A Hero’s Documentary • 2003 — George Strait receives the National Medal of Arts from (Nov. 30); Tommy Emmanuel & John Knowles’ Heart Songs (Jan. 11); and President George W. Bush and the National Endowment for the Arts Sean McConnell’s Secondhand Smoke (Feb. 8). in a ceremony at the White House. Austin City Limits also becomes the first TV program to win the honor. Top Headlines from .com Source: RolandNote.com, the Ultimate Country Music Database Click on headlines below for more details

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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 49 MEANT TO BE No. 1 (49 Weeks)/Streaming Gainer Bebe Rexha & Florida Georgia Line RC 1 l WILSHIRE (B.REXHA,T.HUBBARD,J.MILLER,D.A.GARCIA) WARNER BROS./BMLG SHE GOT THE BEST OF ME 2 2 2 20 Luke Combs 1 2 l S.MOFFATT (L.COMBS,R.SNYDER,C.WILSON) RIVER HOUSE/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE 3 3 3 42 TEQUILA Dan + Shay RC 2 D.SMYERS,S.HENDRICKS (D.SMYERS,J.REYNOLDS,N.GALYON) WA RNER BROS./WAR SPEECHLESS 4 4 6 24 Dan + Shay 10 4 l D.SMYERS,S.HENDRICKS (D.SMYERS,S.MOONEY,J.REYNOLDS,L.VELTZ) WARNER BROS./WAR HH HH 5 6 9 25 BEST SHOT Digital & Airplay Gainer Jimmie Allen 3 5 l A.BOWERS (J.ALLEN,J.LONDON,J.P.WILLIAMS) STONEY CREEK LOSE IT 6 5 8 22 Kane Brown 6 5 l D.HUFF (K.BROWN,C.MCGILL,W.WEATHERLY) ZONE 4/RCA NASHVILLE DRUNK ME 7 7 10 14 Mitchell Tenpenny 9 7 l J.M.SCHMIDT,M.TENPENNY (M.TENPENNY,J.M.SCHMIDT,J.T.WILSON) RISER HOUSE/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE HANGIN’ ON 8 9 11 36 Chris Young 2 8 l C.YOUNG,C.CROWDER (C.YOUNG,C.CROWDER,J.HOGE) RCA NASHVILLE 9 8 7 23 BLUE TACOMA Russell Dickerson 4 5 C.BROWN (R.DICKERSON,C.BROWN,P.WELLING) TRIPLE TIGERS RICH 10 11 13 32 Maren Morris 5 10 l BUSBEE,M.MORRIS (M.MORRIS,J.J.DILLON,L.VELTZ) COLUMBIA NASHVILLE 11 10 5 23 SIMPLE Florida Georgia Line RC 2 J.MOI (T.HUBBARD,B.KELLEY,M.HARDY,M.HOLMAN) BMLG DRUNK GIRL 12 12 14 43 Chris Janson 7 12 l S.HENDRICKS (C.JANSON,SCOOTER CARUSOE,T.DOUGLAS) WARNER BROS./WAR BURNING MAN 13 15 18 19 Dierks Bentley Featuring Brothers Osborne 15 13 l R. COPPERMAN,J.R.STEWART (L.DICK,B.PINSON) CA PITOL NASHVILLE 14 13 15 17 DESPERATE MAN Eric Church 14 8 J.JOYCE (E.CHURCH,R.W.HUBBARD) EMI NASHVILLE LAST SHOT 15 19 22 21 Kip Moore 13 15 l K.MOORE (K.MOORE,D.COUCH,D.L.MURPHY) MCA NASHVILLE TURNIN’ ME ON 16 18 19 11 Blake Shelton 11 16 l S.HENDRICKS (B.SHELTON,J.L.ALEXANDER,J.OSBORNE) WARNER BROS./WMN GOOD GIRL 17 21 25 18 Dustin Lynch 18 17 l Z.CROWELL (D.LYNCH,J.EBACH,A.ALBERT) BR OKEN BOW MILLIONAIRE 18 20 24 41 Chris Stapleton 19 18 l D.COBB,C.STAPLETON (K.WELCH) MERCURY SIXTEEN 19 25 33 12 Thomas Rhett 16 19 l D.HUFF,J.FRASURE,THOMAS RHETT (THOMAS RHETT,S.M.DOUGLAS,JOE LONDON) VALORY BABE 20 22 23 29 Sugarland Featuring Taylor Swift 17 8 l K.BUSH,J.NETTLES,J.RAYMOND (T.SWIFT,P.T.MONAHAN) BIG MACHINE BEAUTIFUL CRAZY 21 24 20 26 Luke Combs - 6 l S.MOFFATT (L.COMBS,W.B.DURRETTE,R.WILLIFORD) RIVER HOUSE/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE GIRL LIKE YOU 22 26 30 8 Jason Aldean 23 22 l M.KNOX (M.TYLER,J.BOYER,J.MIRENDA) MACON/BROKEN BOW ALL DAY LONG 23 23 21 19 Garth Brooks 12 21 l G.BROOKS (M.ROSSELL,B.KENNEDY,T.G.BROOKS) PEARL 24 16 16 24 SUNRISE, SUNBURN, SUNSET Luke Bryan RC 4 J.STEVENS,J.STEVENS (Z.CROWELL,R.HURD,C.MCGILL) CAPITOL NASHVILLE TAKE IT FROM ME 25 28 27 17 Jordan Davis 21 25 l P.DIGIOVANNI (J.DAVIS,J.DAVIS,J.GANTT) MCA NASHVILLE

19 35 The ballad that Rhett co-wrote bounds The title track from Bryan’s latest album 26-19 for a new high on Hot Country Songs. jumps 50-35 on Hot Country Songs. It makes twin 11 percent gains to 2.7 million It surges by 61 percent to 9 million THOMAS U.S. streams and 2,000 sold while pushing LUKE BRYAN audience impressions as it rises 31-27 RHETT What Makes Sixteen 18-16 on Country Airplay (16.5 million in You Country on Country Airplay and 14 percent to audience, up 16 percent). 534,000 U.S. streams. GETTY IMAGES GETTY BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE NOVEMBER 5, 2018 | PAGE 11 OF 18

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 DOWN TO THE HONKYTONK 26 27 26 12 Jake Owen 26 26 l J.MOI (R.CLAWSON,L.LAIRD,S.MCANALLY) BIG LOUD THIS IS IT 27 29 31 15 Scotty McCreery 22 27 l F.ROGERS,D.WELLS,A.ESHUIS (S.MCCREERY,F.ROGERS,A.ESHUIS) TRIPLE TIGERS BURN OUT 28 30 29 20 Midland 20 28 l D.HUFF,S.MCANALLY,J.OSBORNE (J.CARSON,C.DUDDY,M.WYSTRACH,S.MCANALLY,J.OSBORNE) BIG MACHINE NEON CHURCH 29 31 32 4 Tim McGraw 24 29 l B.GALLIMORE,T.MCGRAW (B.GOLDSMITH,R.E.LIPSEY,B.M.STENNIS) MCGRAW/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE THERE WAS THIS GIRL 30 32 34 10 Riley Green 25 30 l D.HUFF (R.GREEN,ERIK DYLAN) BMLG ON MY WAY TO YOU 31 36 36 12 Cody Johnson 29 25 l T.W.WILLMON (,T.LANE) COJO/WMN NIGHT SHIFT 32 34 35 11 Jon Pardi 31 32 l B.BUTLER,J.PARDI (T.BROWN,P.LARUE,B.MONTANA) CAPITOL NASHVILLE LOVE WINS 33 35 37 9 Carrie Underwood 32 26 l D.GARCIA,C.UNDERWOOD (C.UNDERWOOD,D.A.GARCIA,BRETT JAMES) CAPITOL NASHVILLE HERE TONIGHT 34 38 41 7 Brett Young 37 32 l D.HUFF (B.YOUNG,B.CAVER,J.EBACH,C.KELLEY) BMLG WHAT MAKES YOU COUNTRY 35 50 — 6 Luke Bryan 27 31 l J.STEVENS,J.STEVENS (L.BRYAN,D.DAVIDSON,A.GORLEY) CAPITOL NASHVILLE 36 33 28 4 MAKE IT SWEET Old Dominion 36 28 S.MCANALLY (M.RAMSEY,T. ROSEN,W.SELLERS,G.SPRUNG,B.TURSI,S.MCANALLY) RCA NASHVILLE BETTER BOAT 37 37 38 7 Kenny Chesney Featuring Mindy Smith 28 37 l B.CANNON,K.CHESNEY (L.ROSE,T.MEADOWS) BLUE CHAIR/WARNER BROS./WEA RUMOR 38 39 40 8 Lee Brice 47 38 l L.BRICE,J.STONE,K.JACOBS,D.FRIZSELL (L.BRICE,K.JACOBS,A.GORLEY) CURB THE DIFFERENCE 39 40 39 16 Tyler Rich 34 39 l J.RAYMOND,L.RIMES (R.AKINS,B.BURGESS,D.DAWSON,J.DURRETT) VALORY WHISKEY GLASSES 40 41 47 3 Morgan Wallen 48 40 l J.MOI (B.BURGESS,K.KADISH) BIG LOUD ONE THAT GOT AWAY 41 42 42 6 Michael Ray 30 41 l S.HENDRICKS (J.FRASURE,T. ROSEN,M.RAMSEY,J.OSBORNE) ATLANTIC/WEA 42 17 — 2 GOOD AS YOU Kane Brown - 17 D.HUFF (K.BROWN,B.BERRYHILL,S.CARTER,T.PHILLIPS,W.WEATHERLY) ZONE 4/RCA NASHVILLE LOVE AIN’T 43 44 — 6 Eli Young Band 35 43 l D.HUFF (R.COPPERMAN,A.GORLEY,S.MCANALLY) VALORY CAUGHT UP IN THE COUNTRY 44 47 — 15 Rodney Atkins Featuring The Fisk Jubilee Singers 39 42 l R.ATKINS,T.HEWITT,B.BOLLINGER (C.HARRINGTON,J.M.SCHMIDT,M.WALKER) CU RB I DON’T KNOW ABOUT YOU 45 48 — 4 Chris Lane - 45 l J.MOI (A.GORLEY,M.HARDY,H.PHELPS,J.RODGERS) BIG LOUD NEVER COMIN DOWN 46 45 48 4 Keith Urban 33 45 l J.KERR,K.URBAN (K.URBAN,J.KEAR,J.ABRAHART,SHY CARTER) H IT RED/CAPITOL NASHVILLE EYES ON YOU 47 46 44 11 Chase Rice 42 42 l C. DESTEFANO (C.RICE,C. DESTEFANO,A.GORLEY) DACK JANIELS/BROKEN BOW 48 43 43 8 HOMESICK Kane Brown - 24 D.HUFF (K.BROWN,B.BERRYHILL,M.J.MCGINN,T.PHILLIPS) ZONE 4/RCA NASHVILLE LOVE SOMEONE Brett Eldredge 49 RE-ENTRY 2 38 46 l R. COPPERMAN,B.ELDREDGE (B.ELDREDGE,R.COPPERMAN,H.MORGAN) ATLAN TIC/WMN 50 49 49 16 DAVID ASHLEY PARKER FROM POWDER SPRINGS Travis Denning RC 37 J.S.STOVER (T.DENNING,J.R.STEWART,J.L.ALEXANDER) MERCURY

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

COUNTRY MARKET WATCH A Weekly National Music Sales Report YEAR-TO-DATE Year-Over-YearALBUM SALES Album Sales Weekly Unit’15 Sales Overall Unit Sales DIGITAL DIGITAL 2017 2018 CHANGE ’17 ALBUMS 16.7 million ’14 ALBUMS* TRACKS Albums 16,745,000 12,858,000 -23.2% ’18 12.9 million This Week 222,000 62,000 616,000 Digital Tracks 57,000 57,000 0.0% Last Week 221,000 59,000 654,000 DIGITAL TRACKS SALES Sales by Album Format Change 0.5% 5.1% -5.8% 2017 2018 CHANGE ’17 000.0 million11.3 million This Week Last Year 551,000 96,000 849,000 Physical 11,263,000 9,137,000 -18.9% ’18 5.5 million Change -59.7% -35.4% -27.4% Digital 5,481,000 3,732,000 -31.9% For week ending Nov. 1, 2018. Figures are rounded. Compiled from a national sample of retail store and rack sales reports collected and *Digital album sales are also counted within album sales. provided by Nielsen Music.

For inquiries about any Nielsen Music data, please contact Josh Bennett at 615-807-1338 or [email protected] BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE NOVEMBER 5, 2018 | PAGE 12 OF 18

SALES, DATA STREAMING & SALES COMPILED BY DATA COMPILED BY

COUNTRY COUNTRY TOP COUNTRY ALBUMS STREAMING SONGS DIGITAL SONG SALES

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

ON CHT ARTIST ARTIST 2 WEEKS 2 WEEKS IMPRINT & NUMBER / DISTRIBUTING LABEL MEANT TO BE SPEECHLESS LUKE COMBS THIS ONE’S FOR YOU 1 1 49 1 2 19 l BEBE REXHA & FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE l DAN + SHAY 1 1 2 74 RIVER HOUSE/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE 538883*/SMN 1 1   TENNESSEE WHISKEY SHE GOT THE BEST OF ME JOSH TURNER I SERVE A SAVIOR 2 3 82 2 3 13 NEW 1 2 l CHRIS STAPLETON LUKE COMBS l2 MCA NASHVILLE 028988/UMGN HEAVEN BEST SHOT DAN + SHAY DAN + SHAY 3 2 52 3 6 6 5 5 19 1 l KANE BROWN l JIMMIE ALLEN l3 WARNER BROS. 570796/WMN   TEQUILA DRUNK ME CHRIS STAPLETON TRAVELLER 4 4 36 4 4 15 4 6 6 183 MERCURY 019405*/UMGN 3 1 l DAN + SHAY MITCHELL TENPENNY SPEECHLESS TENNESSEE WHISKEY KANE BROWN KANE BROWN 5 5 15 5 11 147 5 7 7 100 ZONE 4/RCA NASHVILLE 530947*/SMN 1 1 l DAN + SHAY l CHRIS STAPLETON SHE GOT THE BEST OF ME DOWN TO THE HONKYTONK ERIC CHURCH DESPERATE MAN 6 6 12 6 7 10 6 4 1 4 EMI NASHVILLE 028733*/UMGN 1 l LUKE COMBS l JAKE OWEN BEAUTIFUL CRAZY TEQUILA CARRIE UNDERWOOD CRY PRETTY 7 8 26 7 8 41 7 8 3 7 CAPITOL NASHVILLE 028557*/UMGN 0 1 l LUKE COMBS DAN + SHAY DRUNK ME SIMPLE JASON ALDEAN REARVIEW TOWN 8 9 12 8 5 22 8 2 4 29 MACON/BROKEN BOW/BMG 538375642*/BBMG (538375730) 0 1 l MITCHELL TENPENNY FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE LOSE IT LOSE IT THOMAS RHETT LIFE CHANGES 9 7 21 9 10 20 9 9 8 60 VALORY TR0300A/BMLG 1 1 l KANE BROWN KANE BROWN WHAT IFS MEANT TO BE BRETT YOUNG BRETT YOUNG 10 11 78 10 12 49 10 10 10 90 BMLG BY0100A* 1 2 l KANE BROWN FEAT. LAUREN ALAINA BEBE REXHA & FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE YOU MAKE IT EASY DEAR RODEO 11 12 124 JON PARDI SUNRISE 1 11 14 40 11 NEW l11 CAPITOL NASHVILLE 024744*/UMGN 0 l JASON ALDEAN l CODY JOHNSON BODY LIKE A BACK ROAD GIRL LIKE YOU CHRIS STAPLETON FROM A ROOM: VOLUME 1 12 13 91 12 18 3 12 13 13 78 MERCURY 026379*/UMGN 1 1 l SAM HUNT l JASON ALDEAN HURRICANE BURNING MAN 15 16 194 SAM HUNT MONTEVALLO 1 13 12 107 13 15 12 l13 MCA NASHVILLE 021502/UMGN 3 l LUKE COMBS l DIERKS BENTLEY FEAT. BROTHERS OSBORNE SIMPLE MILLIONAIRE ZAC BROWN BAND GREATEST HITS SO FAR... 14 10 22 14 17 5 14 12 14 171 ROAR/SOUTHERN GROUND/ATLANTIC 546369/AG 3 l FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE l CHRIS STAPLETON MERCY BEAUTIFUL CRAZY 16 20 114 FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE DIG YOUR ROOTS 1 15 17 32 15 14 26 l15 BMLG 0300* 1 l BRETT YOUNG LUKE COMBS DIE A HAPPY MAN HEAVEN BLAKE SHELTON RELOADED: 20 #1 HITS 16 16 83 16 16 50 16 17 18 158 WARNER BROS. 551788/WMN 2 l THOMAS RHETT KANE BROWN MARRY ME RICH THOMAS RHETT TANGLED UP 17 15 46 17 19 4 17 18 19 162 VALORY RT0200A/BMLG 1 2 l THOMAS RHETT l MAREN MORRIS KELSEA BALLERINI UNAPOLOGETICALLY ONE NUMBER AWAY DRUNK GIRL RE-ENTRY 41 3 18 20 34 18 23 13 l18 BLACK RIVER 2017 l LUKE COMBS l CHRIS JANSON WHITEY MORGAN AND THE 78’S HARD TIMES AND WHITE LINES SMALL TOWN BOY MAKE IT SWEET NEW 1 19 19 18 80 19 13 4 l19 WHITEY MORGAN 004* l DUSTIN LYNCH OLD DOMINION TIM MCGRAW NUMBER ONE HITS BREAK UP IN THE END DESPERATE MAN 20 19 13 20 20 15 20 19 22 150 CURB 79205 (13.98) 1 6 l COLE SWINDELL ERIC CHURCH CHRIS STAPLETON FROM A ROOM: VOLUME 2 H.O.L.Y. LAST SHOT 21 RE-ENTRY 21 25 2 21 21 25 48 MERCURY 027408*/UMGN 0 1 l FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE l KIP MOORE LUKE BRYAN WHAT MAKES YOU COUNTRY BEST SHOT BABE 22 21 6 22 22 18 22 23 24 47 CAPITOL NASHVILLE 027589*/UMGN 1 l JIMMIE ALLEN SUGARLAND FEAT. TAYLOR SWIFT COLE SWINDELL WHEN IT RAINS IT POURS TURNIN’ ME ON 23 14 15 11 1 23 22 68 23 RE-ENTRY WARNER BROS. 572705/WMN l LUKE COMBS l BLAKE SHELTON MORGAN WALLEN IF I KNOW ME IN CASE YOU DIDN’T KNOW WHISKEY GLASSES 24 24 30 27 11 24 24 106 24 NEW DIGITAL EX l BRETT YOUNG l MORGAN WALLEN TAYLOR SWIFT RED BROKEN HALOS TAKE ME HOME, COUNTRY ROADS 25 20 27 152 1 25 RE-ENTRY 25 RE-ENTRY BIG MACHINE 310400A*/BMLG (18.98) 7 l CHRIS STAPLETON l JOHN DENVER 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 2018, Prometheus Global Media, LLC and Nielsen Music, Inc. All rights reserved. charts. Copyright 2018, 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 2 129 MERCURY NASHVILLE 019405*/UMGN 3 1 CHRIS STAPLETON FROM A ROOM: VOLUME 1 2 4 4 78 MERCURY NASHVILLE 026379*/UMGN 1 1 HOZIER HOZIER 3 5 6 175 RUBYWORKS 309996*/COLUMBIA 2 1 THE LUMINEERS CLEOPATRA 4 6 8 134 DUALTONE 1738* 1 1

NEW 1 WHITEY MORGAN AND THE 78’S HARD TIMES AND WHITE LINES 5 l5 WHITEY MORGAN 004* 6 7 9 92 SIMON & GARFUNKEL SIMON AND GARFUNKEL’S GREATEST HITS 3 COLUMBIA 31350/LEGACY 11 CHRIS STAPLETON FROM A ROOM: VOLUME 2 7 8 10 48 MERCURY NASHVILLE 027408*/UMGN 0 1 The latest track from the singer-songwriter’s 8 9 11 170 ED SHEERAN + 1 ELEKTRA 530433*/EMG 2 album Ain’t Nothin’ to It, due Jan. 18, 2019, JOHN MAYER CONTINUUM CODY opens at No. 11 on Country Digital Song 9 10 12 92 AWARE/COLUMBIA 27976*/LEGACY (18.98) 4 8 JOHNSON Sales with 4,000 sold in its first week. “On THE LUMINEERS THE LUMINEERS Dear Rodeo 10 11 13 185 DUALTONE 1608* 3 1 My Way to You” topped the tally in August. Americana/Folk Albums ranks the most popular Americana/folk albums of the week, as compiled by Nielsen Music, based on multi-metric consumption (blending traditional album sales, track equivalent albums, and streaming equivalent albums). Copyright 2018, Prometheus Global Media, LLC and Nielsen Music, Inc. All rights reserved. GETTY IMAGES GETTY BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE NOVEMBER 5, 2018 | PAGE 13 OF 18

MAKIN’ TRACKS TOM ROLAND [email protected]

Gloriana Refugee Reinert Shines Bright In Hard-Won Solo Release ‘Dark Star’

When Rachel Reinert announced her departure from Gloriana in January fears that accompany fame and legacy: Will I be forgotten? Perhaps worse, 2016, she fully intended to move in a different direction. She did not anticipate will I be remembered differently than I want to be? that that direction would be down. “There’s just so much pressure on artists to be ‘OK, what now? What’s next?’ “A lot of people expected that I would turn around and have a record deal, — especially coming out of that world that she was in, where you’re really and have opportunities, and be releasing new music, and all these things were geared toward the Top of the Pops kind of thing,” says Pisapia. “That’s really going to come together for me instantly,” she recalls. The belief was that “I scary to kind of go back to the reinvention phase. It’s like, ‘I’m over here. You would be able to build off of this really great can’t see me, but I’m still here, and I’m going stepping stone that I had with Gloriana, and REINERT to be better than ever.’ ” that just wasn’t the case.” While the “Dark Star” verses alluded to Instead, Reinert felt shut out. She had her emotional state, the chorus embraced a difficult time booking songwriting the luminous possibilities in semi-galactic appointments, and people she thought were terminology. It featured long notes that friends didn’t respond to her emails. New emphasized the purity of Reinert’s voice — artists popped up almost daily and seemed a clarity akin to previous country hitmakers to vault past her. She went more than two years Suzy Bogguss and Jennifer Hanson — while without playing a live show, and she eventually moving across a chord structure (beginning had to sell her house. Meanwhile, Reinert with a one chord and moving to a five-minor) frequently read notes on social media from that embraced the haunting uncertainty. fans who thought she had quit the business They pulled together the demo in unison, entirely. Somehow, the career she desperately and Reinert and Rhoads worked further on the wanted seemed to be slipping out of her orbit lead vocal and lush, tension-filled harmonies and for reasons she couldn’t quite grasp. while Pisapia took off on a vacation. “I was,” she says, “super, super frustrated.” “We wanted four-part harmonies where The pressure was astronomical, but that certain notes are doing suspensions and sixths also yielded a rather prophetic creative and things like that,” says Rhoads, “sort of masterpiece. “Dark Star,” written in the in the Fleetwood Mac vein with really thick spring of 2017, encapsulates all the angst and harmonies on some parts.” mystery of her position while maintaining a Producer Davis Naish was highly ray of optimism that the downtime she respectful of the demo, particularly those experienced is exactly what she required. detailed harmonies. He and Reinert “I had this whirlwind life from 18 to 26, reconstructed them faithfully on the master and I didn’t really know struggle,” she notes. version, enhancing them with additional “Not to this degree. I feel like I relate to people performances to create a bit of a hypnotic on such a deeper level now, and this normalcy choir effect. I’ve experienced over the last three years has “It’s three-part harmony in every way had such a huge impact on me [not only] as a person, but also as a songwriter.” possible, and then I probably had Rachel do each part four times, so I would “Dark Star” came from exploring her story with co-writers k.s. Rhoads say there’s probably anywhere from 16-24 tracks of us, and some of those are and Joe Pisapia on a day when they all were latching onto bittersweet musical us singing into the same mic together, so that’s even more voices,” says Naish. sources: the fragility of Neil Young’s “Harvest Moon,” the rainy-day pop of “I truly just dissected what they did and then repeated it. It’s a masterful job Nashville band The Silver Seas, the moody swirl of Fleetwood Mac’s “Dreams” of background vocals.” and “Rhiannon,” and the languid melancholy of Chris Isaak’s “Wicked Game.” Naish initially replaced a counter-melody from the demo with a “That track creates a whole world of a genre that I aspire to in one song,” more standard guitar, then had Rob McNelley switch it back to banjo when says Pisapia of “Wicked Game.” Reinert balked. Pisapia had similarly left a band, adult-alternative act Guster, after eight “That’s a totally non-negotiable item in this song,” says Naish. years, and his affinity for Reinert’s situation helped bring her issues and her Violinist Eleonore Denig hid a plucky, six-piece string part in a handful of emotional state into focus. creases, and McNelley also threw in a short, curvy guitar section that provides “I was fired up that day,” says Reinert. “It kind of turned into this whole thing a slight melodic detour in the back half of the production. of me talking about how ‘I feel like I’m just falling through the atmosphere “My reference for the song is George Harrison’s ‘My Sweet Lord,’ so I really right now.’ ” wanted a George Harrison moment to happen, and that like fell in my lap,” That led to galaxian metaphors and eventually to a recognition that she says Naish. “That’s the thing that really tied a bow on it for me.” had become a dark star, a cauldron of energy who was producing light that Reinert’s management, 333 Entertainment, launched “Dark Star” to country the public simply had yet to see. radio via PlayMPE on Oct. 9. It showcases the ringing expressiveness in her “That feeling of starting over is universal,” observes Rhoads. “We can all voice and finds acceptance in the uncertain periods that pock nearly every feel that. And then a question when you’re writing a song is, how particular life. And with that message, it sets up a healing connection between Reinert do you get? I like to get away from [the real-life premise] just enough that you and the listener. can tell a story and everybody else can apply their own story to it.” “There’s no progress without that kind of struggle,” she reasons. “There’s no The opening line — “I’m not scared of the unknown” — was a note from breakthrough without the breakdowns. It makes me feel even more optimistic Reinert to herself, and the rest of the lyrics explored some of the particular about my future.” BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE NOVEMBER 5, 2018 | PAGE 14 OF 18 Country Indicator

AUDIENCE WKS PLAYS (IN MILLIONS) THIS LAST ON WEEK WEEK CHART TITLE Imprint/Label Artist THIS WEEK +/– THIS WEEK l1 2 37 HANGIN’ ON RCA Nashville HH No. 1 (1 week) HH Chris Young 5234 +121 8.109 2 1 18 SHE GOT THE BEST OF ME River House/Columbia Nashville Luke Combs 5058 -147 8.009 l3 3 21 LOSE IT Zone 4/RCA Nashville Kane Brown 5056 +200 7.623 l4 5 32 BEST SHOT BBR/Stoney Creek/BMG Jimmie Allen 4790 +514 7.213 l5 4 38 RICH Columbia Nashville Maren Morris 4545 +85 7.041 l6 7 29 DRUNK ME Riser House/Columbia Nashville Mitchell Tenpenny 3967 +309 5.962 l7 9 15 TURNIN’ ME ON Warner Bros./WMN Blake Shelton 3747 +298 5.785 l8 11 20 ALL DAY LONG Pearl Garth Brooks 3653 +251 5.229 l9 8 42 LAST SHOT MCA Nashville Kip Moore 3636 +157 5.099 10 6 47 DRUNK GIRL Warner Bros./WAR Chris Janson 3431 -348 5.590 l11 12 18 BURNING MAN Capitol Nashville Dierks Bentley Feat. Brothers Osborne 3415 +185 4.809 l12 14 12 SPEECHLESS Warner Bros./WAR Dan + Shay 3197 +279 4.555 l13 13 17 DESPERATE MAN EMI Nashville Eric Church 3173 +149 4.723 l14 20 7 SIXTEEN Valory HH Most Increased Plays HH Thomas Rhett 2774 +539 4.079 l15 19 26 GOOD GIRL Broken Bow Dustin Lynch 2592 +340 3.808 l16 15 28 BURN OUT Big Machine Midland 2572 +99 3.412 l17 16 13 DOWN TO THE HONKYTONK Big Loud Jake Owen 2520 +105 3.145 l18 17 24 TAKE IT FROM ME MCA Nashville Jordan Davis 2448 +46 3.268 l19 18 28 MILLIONAIRE Mercury Chris Stapleton 2440 +64 3.273 l20 21 8 GIRL LIKE YOU Macon/Broken Bow Jason Aldean 2253 +177 2.844 l21 22 5 NEON CHURCH McGraw/Columbia Nashville Tim McGraw 2247 +232 3.356 l22 25 13 THERE WAS THIS GIRL BMLG Riley Green 1858 +141 2.168 l23 24 11 BETTER BOAT Blue Chair/Warner Bros./WEA Kenny Chesney Feat. Mindy Smith 1822 +89 2.365 l24 26 16 THIS IS IT Triple Tigers Scotty McCreery 1789 +191 2.421 l25 23 11 NEVER COMIN DOWN Hit Red/Capitol Nashville Keith Urban 1774 +39 2.513 l26 31 3 WHAT MAKES YOU COUNTRY Capitol Nashville HH Most Added HH Luke Bryan 1431 +449 2.131 l27 27 8 LOVE WINS Capitol Nashville Carrie Underwood 1389 +69 1.616 l28 28 14 NIGHT SHIFT Capitol Nashville Jon Pardi 1339 +139 1.568 l29 29 10 ON MY WAY TO YOU CoJo/WMN Cody Johnson 1323 +149 1.668 30 30 32 DAVID ASHLEY PARKER FROM POWDER SPRINGS Mercury Travis Denning 1031 -51 1.095 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE NOVEMBER 5, 2018 | PAGE 15 OF 18 Country Indicator

AUDIENCE WKS PLAYS (IN MILLIONS) THIS LAST ON WEEK WEEK CHART TITLE Imprint/Label Artist THIS WEEK +/– THIS WEEK l31 34 20 THE DIFFERENCE Valory Tyler Rich 884 +69 1.055 l32 33 11 ONE THAT GOT AWAY Atlantic/WEA Michael Ray 882 +45 1.043 l33 32 13 GOODBYE SUMMER Valory/BMLG Danielle Bradbery w/ Thomas Rhett 855 +3 1.045 l34 35 13 LOVE AIN’T Valory Eli Young Band 847 +86 1.053 l35 43 3 MAKE IT SWEET RCA Nashville Old Dominion 828 +268 1.0 01 l36 38 6 HERE TONIGHT BMLG Brett Young 809 +175 0.898 l37 36 17 THAT GOT THE GIRL Almost Country/Thirty Tigers Casey Donahew 724 +46 0.830 l38 37 7 BRING IT ON OVER Mercury Billy Currington 668 +25 0.824 l39 41 6 BACK TO LIFE Big Machine Rascal Flatts 613 +48 0.744 l40 42 14 WHAT WHISKEY DOES Stoney Creek Randy Houser Feat. Hillary Lindsey 608 +44 0.741 41 39 17 YADA YADA YADA EMI Nashville Brandon Lay 584 -16 0.452 42 40 27 CAUGHT UP IN THE COUNTRY Curb Rodney Atkins Feat. The Fisk Jubilee Singers 575 -14 0.665 l43 44 12 AMERICAN GIRLS Sea Gayle CJ Solar 564 +27 0.588 44 45 22 FRIENDS DON’T Mercury Maddie & Tae 508 -7 0.426 l45 47 8 WHISKEY GLASSES Big Loud Morgan Wallen 498 +33 0.379 46 46 15 LOVE SOMEONE Atlantic/WMN Brett Eldredge 476 -16 0.551 l47 48 4 MUST BE THE WHISKEY Rounder/Concord Cody Jinks 462 +54 0.492 l48 49 17 MAKE HIM WAIT Black River Abby Anderson 416 +9 0.301 l49 50 16 YOU’RE IN IT Wheelhouse Granger Smith 391 +26 0.366 l50 51 7 FEELS LIKE A PARTY Wheelhouse LOCASH 320 +3 0.504 l51 54 3 MISS ME MORE Black River Kelsea Ballerini 299 +36 0.376 l52 52 10 MORE MCA Nashville Clare Dunn 298 +3 0.262 l53 55 6 THE IN BETWEEN Captain & Bear Cash Campbell 276 +14 0.309 54 53 9 MAYBE Plateau Sam Austin 252 -16 0.265 l55 56 2 ONE MORE RED LIGHT Awake Cassadee Pope 242 +8 0.217 l56 60 3 EYES ON YOU Dack Janiels/Broken Bow Chase Rice 240 +34 0.219 l57 58 2 I THINK TOO MUCH Southern Halo Southern Halo 230 +13 0.281 l58 NEW TALK YOU OUT OF IT BMLG HH Hot Shot Debut HH Florida Georgia Line 226 +101 0.300 l59 NEW I DON’T REMEMBER ME (BEFORE YOU) EMI Nashville Brothers Osborne 219 +32 0.192 60 57 4 DROP EVERYTHING Arista Nashville Carlton Anderson 210 -21 0.403

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 2018, 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. © 2018 Prometheus Global Media, LLC BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE NOVEMBER 5, 2018 | PAGE 16 OF 18 Country Airplay Index

TITLE Publishing-Licensing Org. DESPERATE MAN Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/ HOW DOES IT SOUND Two Black Dogs, ASCAP/ R   (Songwriter) Chart Position Longer And Louder Music, BMI/Snake Farm Publishing, Sony/ATV Cross Keys Publishing, ASCAP/Songs For SESAC/BMG Silver Songs, SESAC (E.Church, R.W.Hubbard) 15 Buddy.ASCAP/Songs From The Rose Hotel, ASCAP/WB RICH International Dog Music, BMI/Nettwerk One Music Corp., ASCAP (D.Schneider, J.Johnston, C.Crowder) 59 B Music, BMI/Unlimited, BMI/Revelry Music, BMI/Jay A   THE DIFFERENCE Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Gatsby Music, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., Corp., BMI/Ritten by Rhettro, BMI/Mr. Buck Lucky, BMI/ I   BMI/Oh Denise Publishing, BMI/Big Music Machine, BMI ALL DAY LONG Rezemblance Music, BMI/Songs Bump Into Genius Music, BMI/Neon Cross Music, BMI/ (M.Morris, J.J.Dillon, L.Veltz) 5 Of Reehits, BMI/Roy Rivers Publishing, BMI/Cowboy Hat Magic Mustang Music Inc., BMI (R.Akins, B.Burgess, I WON’T BE SORRY Old Desperados, LLC, ASCAP/ Trick, ASCAP/Major Bob Music, Inc., ASCAP/No Fences D.Dawson, J.Durrett) 35 N2D Publishing Company, Inc., ASCAP/Carol Vincent RUMOR Mike Curb Music, BMI/Curb Songs, ASCAP/ Music, ASCAP (M.Rossell, B.Kennedy, T.G.Brooks) 12 And Associates, LLC., ASCAP/Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, Jacobsong, ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/ DOWN TO THE HONKYTONK Round Hill BMI/Sony/ATV Cross Keys Publishing, ASCAP (D.L.Murphy, Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., B   Works, BMI/Big Loud Proud Crowd, BMI/Round Hill P.Jenkins, J.Sellers) 56 ASCAP (L.Brice, K.Jacobs, A.Gorley) 49 Compositions, BMI/Shirt At Work, BMI/Sony/ATV Story BABE Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/EMI April Music, Music Publishing, GMR/We Are Creative Nation, GMR/ L   S   Inc., ASCAP/Taylor Swift Music, BMI/Monoman Music, Smack Hits, GMR/Smack Songs LLC, GMR/Kobalt Music ASCAP (T.Swift, P.T.Monahan) 17 Group Ltd., GMR (R.Clawson, L.Laird, S.McAnally) 27 LAST SHOT WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Point Break SHE GOT THE BEST OF ME Big Music Publishing, ASCAP/Music Of The Corn, ASCAP/Songs Machine, BMI/50 Egg Music, BMI/Straight Dimes BACK TO LIFE W.B.M. Music Corp., SESAC/Bennett’s DROP EVERYTHING Warner-Tamerlane From The Couch, BMI/Old Desperados, LLC, ASCAP/N2D Publishing, BMI/Little Extra Songs, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Dad’s Songs, SESAC/Songs Of Rhythm Black, SESAC/Niko Publishing Corp., BMI/Ritten by Rhettro, BMI/Matt Drag Publishing Company, Inc., ASCAP/Carol Vincent And Music Publishing LLC, ASCAP/No Cats Round Here Music, Moon Publishing, SESAC/Roc Nation US Music, SESAC/ Music, ASCAP/Round Hill Songs BLS JV, ASCAP/Big Loud Associates, LLC., ASCAP (K.Moore, D.Couch, D.L.Murphy) 14 ASCAP/Heart Scarred Songs, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Shay Mooney Music, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Proud Songs, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Sadie’s Publishing Corp., BMI/Super LCS Publishing, BMI (L. Corp., BMI/Farm Thang Music, BMI/Me Gusta Music, BMI Favorite Songs, ASCAP/Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP LOSE IT Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Kane Brown Combs, R.Snyder, C.Wilson) 1 (C.R.Barlowe, N.Moon, S.Mooney, F.Wilhelm) 45 (R.Akins, M.Dragstrem, A.Gorley) 51 Music, BMI/Plum Nelly, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Mandy’s Favorite Songs, BMI/Track SIXTEEN EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Cricket On BEST SHOT Red Lining Music, SESAC/Amplified DRUNK GIRL ole Red Vinyl Music, BMI/Buckkilla House ENT, BMI (K.Brown, C.McGill, W.Weatherly) 6 The Line, BMI/Sony/ATV Ballad, BMI/Eastman Pond Hour Songs, SESAC/Castle Bound Music, Inc., SESAC/Rio Music, BMI/Scrambler Music, ASCAP/Abbotts Creek Publishing, BMI/Big Deal Beats, BMI/Brodsky Spensive Bravo Music, Inc., BMI/Blonde Leading Blind, BMI (J.Allen, Music Two, ASCAP/Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/ LOVE AIN’T EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Plain Publishing, BMI/Nice Life, BMI (Thomas Rhett, S.M.Douglas, J.London, J.P.Williams) 3 Tomdouglasmusic, BMI (C.Janson, Scooter Carusoe, Jane Songs, BMI/Rezolant Music, BMI/Combustion Joe London) 18 T.Douglas) 7 Engine Music, ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/WB BETTER BOAT Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., Music Corp., ASCAP/Smack Hits, GMR/Smack Songs LLC, SPEECHLESS Beats And , ASCAP/WB BMI/Liz Rose Music, LLC, BMI/It’s Killer Music, BMI/She DRUNK ME Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI/WB Music GMR/Kobalt Music Group Ltd., GMR (R.Copperman, A.Gorley, Music Corp., ASCAP/Shay Mooney Music, BMI/Warner- And I, LLC, BMI/Songs Of Mighty Isis Music, BMI/Songs Corp., ASCAP/Freshy Music, ASCAP/We-Volve Music, S.McAnally) 38 Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Buckeye26, ASCAP/ Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI (L.Rose, ASCAP/Legends Of Magic Mustang Music, SESAC/BMG Jreynmusic, ASCAP/Big Music Machine, BMI/Never Veltz T.Meadows) 28 Silver Songs, SESAC (M.Tenpenny, J.M.Schmidt, J.Wilson) 9 LOVE SOMEONE Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI/Paris So Good Publishing, BMI (D.Smyers, S.Mooney, J.Reynolds, Not France Music, BMI/EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/ L.Veltz) 11 BLUE TACOMA BMG Platinum Songs, BMI/ E   Rezolant Music, BMI/Plain Jane Songs, BMI/Sony/ATV Provident Music Group, ASCAP/Hillbilly Science And Tree Publishing, BMI/Heather Feather Songs, BMI (B. T   Research Publishing, SESAC/Trailerlily Music, SESAC/ EYES ON YOU Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI/Dack Eldredge, R.Copperman, H.Morgan) 40 Stephen Harris, BMI/Tyler Barksdale, BMI (R.Dickerson, Janiel’s Publishing, BMI/EMI April Music, Inc., ASCAP/ TAKE IT FROM ME Ole Red Cape Songs, ASCAP/ C.Brown, P.Welling) 4 CDS Words And Music, ASACP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/ LOVE WINS Carrie-Okie Music, BMI/Universal Music Jordan Davis Music, ASCAP/ReHits Music, Inc., ASCAP/ Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite - Brentwood Benson Publishing, ASCAP/D Soul Music, MeGusta Music, ASCAP/Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/ BREAK UP IN THE END EMI April Music, Inc., Songs, ASCAP (C.Rice, C. DeStefano, A.Gorley) 44 ASCAP/Capitol CMG Genesis, ASCAP/Songs Of Brett, Songs Of Red Bandana, BMI (J.Davis, J.Davis, J.Gantt) 22 ASCAP/Nite Writer Music, ASCAP/Songs Of Universal, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP (C.Underwood, D.A.Garcia, Inc., BMI/Plum Nelly, BMI/Big Music Machine, BMI/ F   Brett James) 34 THERE WAS THIS GIRL Riley Green Publishing Big Ass Pile Of Dimes Music, BMI (J.M.Nite, C.McGill, Designee, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/ J.J.Dillon) 10 FEELS LIKE A PARTY ole Purple Cape Music, M   Peermusic III, Ltd., BMI/Tawnes Van Hwke Publishing, BMI/Mars Marley Music, BMI/Big Loud Mountain, BMI/ BMI (R.Green, Erik Dylan) 26 BRING IT ON OVER Round Hill Compositions, Round Hill Works, BMI/T Hubb Publishing, BMI/WB MAKE IT SWEET Carrot Seed Songs, ASCAP/WB BMI/Natalia’s Music Money, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Music Corp., ASCAP/Georgia Song Vibez, ASCAP/Big Music Corp., ASCAP/Smackville Music, ASCAP/Smack THIS IS IT Dagum Music, BMI/Austintatious Tunes, Publishing Corp., BMI/Ritten by Rhettro, BMI/WB Music Crowd Publishing, ASCAP (P.Brust, C.Lucas, T.Hubbard, Songs LLC, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, BMI/Spirit Two Nashville, ASCAP/Fluid Tunes, ASCAP/ Corp., ASCAP/Thankful For This Music, ASCAP/Pinetucky C.Crowder) 52 ASCAP/Rezsongs, ASCAP/ReHits Music, Inc., ASCAP/ Smackville Music, ASCAP/Smack Songs LLC, ASCAP/Ice Road Publishing, ASCAP/Telemitry Rhythm House Music, Smacktown Music, ASCAP/Smack Blue, LLC, ASCAP/ House Tunes, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, BMI/Songs Of Roc Nation Music, BMI (D.Davidson, R.Akins, FLOATIN’ Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/ Unfair Entertainment, ASCAP/MeGusta Music, ASCAP/ ASCAP (S.McCreery, F.Rogers, A.Eshuis) 23 B.Hayslip, J.Frasure) 57 Gaje Music, BMI/Internal Combustion Music, BMI/One77 Tiny Handstand, ASCAP/Sharkules Music, ASCAP/ Songs, BMI/Southside Independent Music Publishing, We’re Really Doin’ It Publishing, ASCAP/Smack Hits, TURNIN’ ME ON Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/ BURNING MAN Emileon Songs, BMI/Little Louder LLC, BMI/Kickin’ Grids Music, BMI/Leo Rosewater GMR/Kobalt Music Group Ltd., GMR (M.Ramsey, T. Rosen, Thankful For This Music, ASCAP/, Songs, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, Publishing, ASACP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP (M.Shafer, W.Sellers, G.Sprung, B.Tursi, S.McAnally) 36 ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Anderson Fork In The Inc., BMI/New Writers Of , BMI/Not A B.Daly, Z.Maloy) 53 Road Music, ASCAP/Smackville Music, ASCAP/Smack Track Guy Music, BMI (L.Dick, B.Pinson) 16 MILLIONAIRE Universal Tunes, SESAC/Spur 66 Songs LLC, ASCAP (B.Shelton, J.L.Alexander, J.Osborne) 13 FRIENDS DON’T Super Big Music, ASCAP/Seven Music, SESAC (K.Welch) 19 BURN OUT WB Music Corp., ASCAP/TipTop Music, Red Brids Publishing, ASCAP/Jehovah Nissi, BMI/Big W   ASCAP/Tropical Cowboy Publishing, ASCAP/Warner- Machine Music, BMI/EMI April Music, Inc., ASCAP/Memory MISS ME MORE Songs Of Black River, ASCAP/KNB Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Kitt Cass Publishing Days, SESAC/Wordspring Music, LLC, SESAC/W.B.M. Music Music, ASCAP/3 Weddings Music, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt WHAT MAKES YOU COUNTRY Sony/ATV Corporation, BMI/Smack Hits, GMR/Smack Songs LLC, Corp., SESAC (M.Marlow, T.Dye, J.M.Nite, J.Ebach) 46 Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI/EMI April Music, Inc., Tree Publishing, BMI/Peanut Mill Songs, BMI/Round GMR/Kobalt Music Group Ltd., GMR/Songs Of Black River, ASCAP/Bob Ochoa’s Homemade Salsa, ASCAP (K.Ballerini, Hill Compositions, BMI/Natalia’s Music Money, BMI/ ASCAP/One Little Indian Creek Music, ASCAP (J.Carson, G   D.H.Hodges, B.McLaughlin) 54 Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., C.Duddy, M.Wystrach, S.McAnally, J.Osborne) 21 ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite Songs, ASCAP (L.Bryan, D.Davidson, GIRL LIKE YOU Peertunes, Ltd., SESAC/MTNoize, N   A.Gorley) 31 BUY MY OWN DRINKS BMG Platinum Songs, SESAC/Jaron Boyer Music, SESAC/Music Of The Corn, BMI/BMG Silver Songs, SESAC/BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP/ ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP (M.Tyler, J.Boyer, J.Mirenda) NEON CHURCH BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP/Songs Of WHAT WHISKEY DOES EMI Blackwood Music Rezonate Music, ASCAP/BIRB Music, ASCAP/Champagne 24 Big Deal, ASCAP/Go For The Goldsmith, ASCAP/Big Deal Inc., BMI/Little Britches Music, BMI/Gattis Music, BMI/ Whiskey Publishing, ASCAP/Downtown DLJ Songs, Beats, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, Rezonate Music, ASCAP/BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP/BIRB ASCAP (H.Mulholland, J.Wayne, N.Cooke, H.Lindsey, J.Kear) 60 GOODBYE SUMMER Warner-Tamerlane Inc., BMI/Dead Aim Music, BMI/The Stennis Mightier Music, ASCAP (R.Houser, K.Gattis, H.Lindsey) 47 Publishing Corp., BMI/EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/ Music, BMI/Young Guns Publishing, LLC, BMI (B.Goldsmith, C   Cricket On The Line, BMI/Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI/ R.E.Lipsey, B.M.Stennis) 25 WHISKEY GLASSES Warner-Tamerlane Songs For Buddy.ASCAP/Dragon Bunny Music, BMI Publishing Corp., BMI/Mr. Buck Lucky, BMI/Bump Into CAUGHT UP IN THE COUNTRY WB Music (Thomas Rhett, J.Bunetta, J.Johnston, R.Akins) 43 NEVER COMIN DOWN Songs Of Universal, Inc., Genius Music, BMI/Sony/ATV Allegro, ASCAP/Over- Corp., ASCAP/Freshy Music, ASCAP/We-Volve Music, BMI/MAROMA Music, BMI/Songs Of Black River, ASCAP/ Thought Under-Appreciated Songs, ASCAP (B.Burgess, ASCAP/Goes Something Like THIS Music, BMI/Warner- GOOD GIRL Magic Mustang Music Inc., BMI/Warner- Whistlepig Winners, ASCAP/James Abrahart Publishing K.Kadish) 48 Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Make It Matter Music, Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Wordspring Music, LLC, Designee, SESAC/Artist 101 Publishing Group, BMI/Songs BMI/Sixteen Stars Music, BMI (C.Harrington, J.M.Schmidt, SESAC/W.B.M. Music Corp., SESAC/Memory Days, SESAC/ Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI/BMG Y   M.Walker) 41 Buzz Light Beer Music, ASCAP/Downtown DLJ Songs, Rights Management (UK) Ltd., PRS/You Want How Much ASCAP (D.Lynch, J.Ebach, A.Albert) 20 Of What Publishing, PRS/BMG Platinum Songs, BMI (K. YADA YADA YADA Mid South Mood Maker D   Urban, J.Kear, J.Abrahart, Shy Carter) 33 Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Sony/ATV Tree H   Publishing, BMI/Heather Feather Songs, BMI/Songs Of DAMAGE Universal Music Corp., ASCAP/Rachel NIGHT SHIFT Maxx Music, BMI/Let The Road Pave Universal, Inc., BMI (B.Lay, H.Morgan, M.Reeves) 50 Wammack Publishing, ASCAP/Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, HANGIN’ ON EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/ Itself, BMI/Razor And Tie Music Publishing, BMI/Mike BMI/Tomdouglasmusic, BMI/Weddings Music, BMI/ Goodbye Pants Music, BMI/Songs From The Rose Hotel, Curb Music, BMI/Rain Town Music, BMI (T.Brown, P.LaRue, YOU’RE IN IT Spirit Two Nashville, ASCAP/Fluid Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI (R. ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/EMI Foray Music, SESAC/ B.Montana) 32 Tunes, ASCAP/Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Block Of Wammack, T.Douglas, D.H.Hodges) 58 Write 2 Be Free Music, SESAC (C.Young, C.Crowder, J.Hoge) 2 Marble Music, BMI/SNG Music, LLP, BMI/Rizer Point O   Publishing, BMI (F.Rogers, J.Adams, M.Nesler) 42 DAVID ASHLEY PARKER FROM HERE TONIGHT Super Big Music, ASCAP/ POWDER SPRINGS I’m About To Go RED On Caliville Publishing, ASCAP/Songs Of Black River, ONE THAT GOT AWAY Downtown DMP Songs, Ya Music, BMI/Travis Denning Music, BMI/ole, BMI/BMG ASCAP/Wordspring Music, LLC, SESAC/Memory Days, BMI/Telemitry Productions, BMI/ReHits Music, Inc., Platinum Songs, BMI/SWMBMGBMI, BMI/Lonesome Vinyl SESAC/W.B.M. Music Corp., SESAC/The Best I Could Do ASCAP/Smacktown Music, ASCAP/Carrot Seed Songs, Music, BMI/Thankful For This Music, ASCAP/WB Music Publishing, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP (B.Young, ASCAP/Smack Songs LLC, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Corp., ASCAP/Damn Country Music, ASCAP (T.Denning, B.Caver, J.Ebach, C.Kelley) 37 Publishing LLC, ASCAP/Anderson Fork In The Road J.R.Stewart, J.L.Alexander) 39 Music, ASCAP/Smackville Music, ASCAP (J.Frasure, T. Rosen, HOTEL KEY Smackville Music, ASCAP/WB Music M.Ramsey, J.Osborne) 29 DAY DRUNK Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., Corp., ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, ASCAP/ BMI/SongsbyME, BMI/EMI April Music, Inc., ASCAP/CDS Carrot Seed Songs, ASCAP/ReHits Music, Inc., ASCAP/ ON MY WAY TO YOU WB Music Corp., ASCAP/ Words And Music, ASACP/Hey Kiddo Music, ASCAP/ MeGusta Music, ASCAP/Unfair Entertainment, ASCAP/ Songs Of Brett, ASCAP/Atlas Music Publishing, ASCAP/ Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, ASCAP (M.Evans, C. Anderson Fork In The Road Music, ASCAP/Smack Songs External Combustion Music, ASCAP/BMG Gold Songs, DeStefano, L.Robbins) 55 LLC, ASCAP (M.Ramsey, T. Rosen, J.Osborne) 8 ASCAP/Heytone Music, ASCAP (Brett James, T.Lane) 30 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE NOVEMBER 5, 2018 | PAGE 17 OF 18 Hot Country Songs Index

TITLE Publishing-Licensing Org. DROWNS THE WHISKEY Big Music Machine, LOVE AIN’T EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Plain S   (Songwriter) Chart Position BMI/Two Laine Collections, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Jane Songs, BMI/Rezolant Music, BMI/Combustion Publishing Corp., BMI/Better Boat Music, BMI/Sony/ATV Engine Music, ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/WB SHE GOT THE BEST OF ME Big Music A   Tree Publishing, BMI/Songs Of Red Bandana, BMI/Tom Music Corp., ASCAP/Smack Hits, GMR/Smack Songs LLC, Machine, BMI/50 Egg Music, BMI/Straight Dimes Tom Leis Music, BMI (J.Thompson, J.Middleton, B.Kinney) 14 GMR/Kobalt Music Group Ltd., GMR (R.Copperman, A.Gorley, Publishing, BMI/Little Extra Songs, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs ALL DAY LONG Rezemblance Music, BMI/Songs S.McAnally) 44 Music Publishing LLC, ASCAP/No Cats Round Here Music, Of Reehits, BMI/Roy Rivers Publishing, BMI/Cowboy Hat DRUNK GIRL ole Red Vinyl Music, BMI/Buckkilla ASCAP/Heart Scarred Songs, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Trick, ASCAP/Major Bob Music, Inc., ASCAP/No Fences Music, BMI/Scrambler Music, ASCAP/Abbotts Creek LOVE WINS Carrie-Okie Music, BMI/Universal Music Publishing Corp., BMI/Super LCS Publishing, BMI (L. Music, ASCAP (M.Rossell, B.Kennedy, T.G.Brooks) 23 Music Two, ASCAP/Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/ - Brentwood Benson Publishing, ASCAP/D Soul Music, Combs, R.Snyder, C.Wilson) 2 Tomdouglasmusic, BMI (C.Janson, Scooter Carusoe, ASCAP/Capitol CMG Genesis, ASCAP/Songs Of Brett, B   T.Douglas) 12 ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP (C.Underwood, D.A.Garcia, SIMPLE Hubb Publishing, BMI/Big Loud Mountain, Brett James) 35 BMI/Pranch Ringle Music, BMI/Round Hill Works, BMI/ BABE Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/EMI April Music, DRUNK ME Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI/WB Music Relative Music Group, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Inc., ASCAP/Taylor Swift Music, BMI/Monoman Music, Corp., ASCAP/Freshy Music, ASCAP/We-Volve Music, M   Publishing America, Inc., BMI/BMG Bumblebee, BMI/ ASCAP (T.Swift, P.T.Monahan) 22 ASCAP/Legends Of Magic Mustang Music, SESAC/BMG Rygo Music, BMI/Art In The Fodder Music, BMI/Songs Silver Songs, SESAC (M.Tenpenny, J.M.Schmidt, J.Wilson) 7 MAKE IT SWEET Carrot Seed Songs, ASCAP/WB Of Universal, Inc., BMI (T.Hubbard, B.Kelley, M.Hardy, BEAUTIFUL CRAZY Big Machine Music, BMI/ Music Corp., ASCAP/Smackville Music, ASCAP/Smack M.Holman) 10 Egg Music, BMI/Straight Dimes Publishing, BMI/Works E   Songs LLC, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, Of RHA Music, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing ASCAP/Rezsongs, ASCAP/ReHits Music, Inc., ASCAP/ SIXTEEN EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Cricket On Corp., BMI/Rowdy Rob Music, BMI (L.Combs, W.B.Durrette, EYES ON YOU Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI/Dack Smacktown Music, ASCAP/Smack Blue, LLC, ASCAP/ The Line, BMI/Sony/ATV Ballad, BMI/Eastman Pond R.Williford) 24 Janiel’s Publishing, BMI/EMI April Music, Inc., ASCAP/ Unfair Entertainment, ASCAP/MeGusta Music, ASCAP/ Publishing, BMI/Big Deal Beats, BMI/Brodsky Spensive CDS Words And Music, ASACP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/ Tiny Handstand, ASCAP/Sharkules Music, ASCAP/ Publishing, BMI/Nice Life, BMI (Thomas Rhett, S.M.Douglas, BEST SHOT Red Lining Music, SESAC/Amplified Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite We’re Really Doin’ It Publishing, ASCAP/Smack Hits, Joe London) 25 Hour Songs, SESAC/Castle Bound Music, Inc., SESAC/Rio Songs, ASCAP (C.Rice, C. DeStefano, A.Gorley) 46 GMR/Kobalt Music Group Ltd., GMR (M.Ramsey, T. Rosen, Bravo Music, Inc., BMI/Blonde Leading Blind, BMI (J.Allen, W.Sellers, G.Sprung, B.Tursi, S.McAnally) 33 SPEECHLESS Beats And Banjos, ASCAP/WB J.London, J.P.Williams) 6 G   Music Corp., ASCAP/Shay Mooney Music, BMI/Warner- MEANT TO BE BMG Platinum Songs, BMI/ Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Buckeye26, ASCAP/ BETTER BOAT Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., GIRL LIKE YOU Peertunes, Ltd., SESAC/MTNoize, Big Loud Mountain, BMI/Kiss Me If You Can Music, Jreynmusic, ASCAP/Big Music Machine, BMI/Never Veltz BMI/Liz Rose Music, LLC, BMI/It’s Killer Music, BMI/She SESAC/Jaron Boyer Music, SESAC/Music Of The Corn, BMI/T Hubb Publishing, BMI/Round Hill Works, BMI/ So Good Publishing, BMI  ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP  (D.Smyers, S.Mooney, J.Reynolds, And I, LLC, BMI/Songs Of Mighty Isis Music, BMI/Songs (M.Tyler, J.Boyer, J.Mirenda) Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Songs Of L.Veltz) 4 Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI (L.Rose, 26 The Corn, BMI/Jack 10 Publishing, BMI/Universal Music T.Meadows) 37 - Brentwood Benson Publishing, ASCAP/D Soul Music, SUNRISE, SUNBURN, SUNSET Highly GOOD AS YOU Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/ Combustible Music, ASCAP/Songs Of Southside BLUE TACOMA BMG Platinum Songs, BMI/ Kane Brown Music, BMI/Don’t Be A Gypsy, BMI/ ASCAP/Capitol CMG Genesis, ASCAP (B.Rexha, T.Hubbard, J.Miller, D.A.Garcia) 1 Independent Music Publishing, LLC, ASCAP/Atlas Music Provident Music Group, ASCAP/Hillbilly Science And Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/BMG Rights Publishing, ASCAP/Who Wants To Buy My Publishing, Management (UK) Ltd., PRS/You Want How Much Of Research Publishing, SESAC/Trailerlily Music, SESAC/ MILLIONAIRE Universal Tunes, SESAC/Spur 66 ASCAP/I Love Pizza Music, ASCAP/Universal Music Corp., Stephen Harris, BMI/Tyler Barksdale, BMI (R.Dickerson, What Publishing, PRS/TDP Publishing, BMI/Track House Music, SESAC  20 ASCAP/Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Plum Nelly, BMI  Worldwide Entertainment, BMI/Mandy’s Favorite Songs, (K.Welch)  (Z. C.Brown, P.Welling) 8 Crowell, R.Hurd, C.McGill) 16 BMI (K.Brown, B.Berryhill, S.Carter, T.Phillips, W.Weatherly) 17 N   BURNING MAN Emileon Songs, BMI/Little Louder T   Songs, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, GOOD GIRL Magic Mustang Music Inc., BMI/Warner- NEON CHURCH BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP/Songs Of Inc., BMI/New Writers Of Sea Gayle Music, BMI/Not A Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Wordspring Music, LLC, Big Deal, ASCAP/Go For The Goldsmith, ASCAP/Big Deal TAKE IT FROM ME Ole Red Cape Songs, ASCAP/ Track Guy Music, BMI (L.Dick, B.Pinson) 15 SESAC/W.B.M. Music Corp., SESAC/Memory Days, SESAC/ Beats, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, Jordan Davis Music, ASCAP/ReHits Music, Inc., ASCAP/ Buzz Light Beer Music, ASCAP/Downtown DLJ Songs, Inc., BMI/Dead Aim Music, BMI/The Stennis Mightier MeGusta Music, ASCAP/Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/ BURN OUT WB Music Corp., ASCAP/TipTop Music, ASCAP (D.Lynch, J.Ebach, A.Albert) 21 Music, BMI/Young Guns Publishing, LLC, BMI (B.Goldsmith, Songs Of Red Bandana, BMI (J.Davis, J.Davis, J.Gantt) 28 ASCAP/Tropical Cowboy Publishing, ASCAP/Warner- R.E.Lipsey, B.M.Stennis) 31 Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Kitt Cass Publishing H   TEQUILA WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Beats And Banjos, Corporation, BMI/Smack Hits, GMR/Smack Songs LLC, NEVER COMIN DOWN Songs Of Universal, Inc., ASCAP/Buckeye26, ASCAP/Jreynmusic, ASCAP/Warner- GMR/Kobalt Music Group Ltd., GMR/Songs Of Black River, HANGIN’ ON EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/ BMI/MAROMA Music, BMI/Songs Of Black River, ASCAP/ Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/A Girl Named Charlie, Goodbye Pants Music, BMI/Songs From The Rose Hotel, ASCAP/One Little Indian Creek Music, ASCAP (J.Carson, Whistlepig Winners, ASCAP/James Abrahart Publishing BMI (D.Smyers, J.Reynolds, N.Galyon) 3 C.Duddy, M.Wystrach, S.McAnally, J.Osborne) 30 ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/EMI Foray Music, SESAC/ Designee, SESAC/Artist 101 Publishing Group, BMI/Songs Write 2 Be Free Music, SESAC (C.Young, C.Crowder, J.Hoge) 9 Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI/BMG THERE WAS THIS GIRL Riley Green Publishing C   Rights Management (UK) Ltd., PRS/You Want How Much Designee, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/ HERE TONIGHT Super Big Music, ASCAP/ Peermusic III, Ltd., BMI/Tawnes Van Hwke Publishing, Caliville Publishing, ASCAP/Songs Of Black River, Of What Publishing, PRS/BMG Platinum Songs, BMI (K. CAUGHT UP IN THE COUNTRY WB Music BMI (R.Green, Erik Dylan) 32 Corp., ASCAP/Freshy Music, ASCAP/We-Volve Music, ASCAP/Wordspring Music, LLC, SESAC/Memory Days, Urban, J.Kear, J.Abrahart, Shy Carter) 45 SESAC/W.B.M. Music Corp., SESAC/The Best I Could Do ASCAP/Goes Something Like THIS Music, BMI/Warner- NIGHT SHIFT Maxx Music, BMI/Let The Road Pave THIS IS IT Dagum Music, BMI/Austintatious Tunes, Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Make It Matter Music, Publishing, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP (B.Young, Itself, BMI/Razor And Tie Music Publishing, BMI/Mike BMI/Spirit Two Nashville, ASCAP/Fluid Tunes, ASCAP/ 38 BMI/Sixteen Stars Music, BMI (C.Harrington, J.M.Schmidt, B.Caver, J.Ebach, C.Kelley)  Curb Music, BMI/Rain Town Music, BMI (T.Brown, P.LaRue, Smackville Music, ASCAP/Smack Songs LLC, ASCAP/Ice M.Walker) 47 B.Montana) 34 House Tunes, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, HOMESICK Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Kane ASCAP  29 Brown Music, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., (S.McCreery, F.Rogers, A.Eshuis)  D   O   BMI/Don’t Be A Gypsy, BMI/Smackworks Music, SESAC/ TURNIN’ ME ON Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/ DAVID ASHLEY PARKER FROM Kobalt Group Music Publishing, SESAC/Smack Blue, LLC, ONE THAT GOT AWAY Downtown DMP Songs, Thankful For This Music, ASCAP/Damn Country Music, POWDER SPRINGS I’m About To Go RED On SESAC/TDP Publishing, BMI (K.Brown, B.Berryhill, M.J.McGinn, BMI/Telemitry Productions, BMI/ReHits Music, Inc., ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Anderson Fork In The Ya Music, BMI/Travis Denning Music, BMI/ole, BMI/BMG T.Phillips) 43 ASCAP/Smacktown Music, ASCAP/Carrot Seed Songs, Road Music, ASCAP/Smackville Music, ASCAP/Smack Platinum Songs, BMI/SWMBMGBMI, BMI/Lonesome Vinyl ASCAP/Smack Songs LLC, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Songs LLC, ASCAP (B.Shelton, J.L.Alexander, J.Osborne) 18 Music, BMI/Thankful For This Music, ASCAP/WB Music I   Publishing LLC, ASCAP/Anderson Fork In The Road Corp., ASCAP/Damn Country Music, ASCAP (T.Denning, Music, ASCAP/Smackville Music, ASCAP  W   49 I DON’T KNOW ABOUT YOU Round Hill (J.Frasure, T. Rosen, J.R.Stewart, J.L.Alexander)  M.Ramsey, J.Osborne) 42 Songs II, ASCAP/Caleb’s College Fund, ASCAP/WB WHAT MAKES YOU COUNTRY Sony/ATV DESPERATE MAN Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/ Music Corp., ASCAP/Who Wants To Buy My Publishing, ON MY WAY TO YOU WB Music Corp., ASCAP/ Tree Publishing, BMI/Peanut Mill Songs, BMI/Round Longer And Louder Music, BMI/Snake Farm Publishing, ASCAP/Relative Music Group, BMI/One77 Songs, BMI/ Songs Of Brett, ASCAP/Atlas Music Publishing, ASCAP/ Hill Compositions, BMI/Natalia’s Music Money, BMI/ SESAC/BMG Silver Songs, SESAC (E.Church, R.W.Hubbard) 13 Highly Combustible Music, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music External Combustion Music, ASCAP/BMG Gold Songs, Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., Publishing LLC, ASCAP  (A.Gorley, M.Hardy, H.Phelps, ASCAP/Heytone Music, ASCAP (Brett James, T.Lane) 36 ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite Songs, ASCAP (L.Bryan, D.Davidson, THE DIFFERENCE Warner-Tamerlane Publishing J.Rodgers) 48 50 Corp., BMI/Ritten by Rhettro, BMI/Mr. Buck Lucky, BMI/ A.Gorley)  R   Bump Into Genius Music, BMI/Neon Cross Music, BMI/ L   WHISKEY GLASSES Warner-Tamerlane Magic Mustang Music Inc., BMI (R.Akins, B.Burgess, RICH International Dog Music, BMI/Nettwerk One Publishing Corp., BMI/Mr. Buck Lucky, BMI/Bump Into D.Dawson, J.Durrett) 40 LAST SHOT WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Point Break B Music, BMI/Unlimited, BMI/Revelry Music, BMI/Jay Genius Music, BMI/Sony/ATV Allegro, ASCAP/Over- Publishing, ASCAP/Music Of The Corn, ASCAP/Songs Gatsby Music, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., Thought Under-Appreciated Songs, ASCAP (B.Burgess, DOWN TO THE HONKYTONK Round Hill From The Couch, BMI/Old Desperados, LLC, ASCAP/N2D BMI/Oh Denise Publishing, BMI/Big Music Machine, BMI 41 Works, BMI/Big Loud Proud Crowd, BMI/Round Hill Publishing Company, Inc., ASCAP/Carol Vincent And K.Kadish)  (M.Morris, J.J.Dillon, L.Veltz) 11 Compositions, BMI/Shirt At Work, BMI/Sony/ATV Story Associates, LLC., ASCAP (K.Moore, D.Couch, D.L.Murphy) 19 Music Publishing, GMR/We Are Creative Nation, GMR/ RUMOR Mike Curb Music, BMI/Curb Songs, ASCAP/ Smack Hits, GMR/Smack Songs LLC, GMR/Kobalt Music LOSE IT Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Kane Brown Jacobsong, ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/ Group Ltd., GMR (R.Clawson, L.Laird, S.McAnally) 27 Music, BMI/Plum Nelly, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., Publishing Corp., BMI/Mandy’s Favorite Songs, BMI/Track ASCAP (L.Brice, K.Jacobs, A.Gorley) 39 House Worldwide Entertainment, BMI (K.Brown, C.McGill, W.Weatherly) 5 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE NOVEMBER 5, 2018 | PAGE 18 OF 18 CODA On Nov. 10, 1973, “,” . scored one 45 Years Ago the debut single from then-14-year- Hot 100 No. 1, “,” in old Marie Osmond, climbed 2-1 on 1971, among four top 10s. Marie Osmond Hot Country Songs for its first of As a duo, Donny & Marie two weeks at the summit. Osmond broke out as America’s “Roses” was initially a Billboard darlings, reaching their peak Rose To No. 1 Hot 100 hit for , who popularity with ABC’s Donny & took it to No. 5 in 1960. Osmond’s Marie, their variety series that ran In 1973, the then-teen star version reached the same rank, from 1976-79. scored her first solo hit marking her lone solo top 10 on Following “Roses,” Marie scored the all-genre chart. three additional Hot Country Songs Osmond was born in Ogden, , No. 1s from 1985-86. Now 59, she as the eighth of nine children and is currently performing alongside the only girl. By the time her career Donny in a string of shows at the launched, her singing siblings, The and remains Osmonds, were already stars, with in her national spokesperson role Donny becoming a full-fledged for NutriSystem. —JIM ASKER

REWINDING THE COUNTRY CHARTS

Osmond in 1974. WALTER/WIREIMAGE CHRIS