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Luke Bryan Top Artists Of The Decade OVERALL 1 LUKE BRYAN 2 JASON ALDEAN 3 BLAKE SHELTON 4 FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE 5 KENNY CHESNEY 6 CARRIE UNDERWOOD 7 KEITH URBAN 8 ZAC BROWN BAND 9 THOMAS RHETT 10 LADY ANTEBELLUM 11 TIM MCGRAW 12 CHRIS YOUNG 13 DIERKS BENTLEY 14 ERIC CHURCH Jason 15 MIRANDA LAMBERT Aldean MALE 1 LUKE BRYAN 2 JASON ALDEAN 3 BLAKE SHELTON 4 KENNY CHESNEY 5 KEITH URBAN 6 THOMAS RHETT 7 TIM MCGRAW 8 CHRIS YOUNG 9 DIERKS BENTLEY 10 ERIC CHURCH 11 BRAD PAISLEY 12 13 BILLY CURRINGTON 14 LEE BRICE Blake Shelton 15 FEMALE

1 CARRIE UNDERWOOD uke Bryan is Country Aircheck’s Artist of the Decade and 2 MIRANDA LAMBERT Jake Owen’s “Barefoot Blue Jean Night” is the No. 1 song 3 TAYLOR SWIFT 4 KELSEA BALLERINI of the last 10 years. L 5 MAREN MORRIS Bryan was the only artist to amass more than 19 million airplay points in the last 10 years, doing so on the strength of 27 songs hitting the Country Aircheck/Mediabase 6 JANA KRAMER Top 50 weekly chart during that span, with eight placing in the decade’s Top 100. Bryan 7 REBA MCENTIRE barely bested Jason Aldean for top honors, edging-out his fellow Georgian by fewer than 8 CASSADEE POPE 100,000 airplay points, an extremely narrow margin considering the decade generated 9 LAUREN ALAINA more than 431 million airplay points. Aldean was the only artist to garner more than 18 10 CARLY PEARCE million points. He had 25 songs hit the charts, with seven appearing in the decade’s Top 11 SARA EVANS 100. Blake Shelton charted more songs than any artist in the last 10 years with 30 Top 50s while also posting fi ve hits in the Top 100. The most-heard female of the decade, Carrie 12 CAM Underwood, got more than 11.5 million points courtesy of 22 charted songs. Miranda 13 MARTINA MCBRIDE Lambert was runner-up with 8.5 million points and 15 Top 50s. Top Duo/Group Florida 14 KACEY MUSGRAVES Carrie Underwood Georgia Line tabbed 12.5 million points from 18 charted songs. The Zac Brown Band 15 LINDSAY ELL followed FGL by two million points from 19 Top 50s. Jake Owen’s“Barefoot Blue Jean Night,” written by Dylan Altman, and Terry Sawchuk, led all songs with almost a half million plays and more than 1.5 million points. The top three songs were separated by only 19,000 points, with 100,000 points DUO/GROUP between Nos. 3 and 4. 1 FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE Forty-fi ve different artists have songs in the Top 100, with fi ve posting fi ve or more tunes 2 ZAC BROWN BAND there. Those fi ve, however, accounted for an amazing 30 of those mega-hits; Bryan had 3 LADY ANTEBELLUM eight, Aldean seven, and, with fi ve each were Florida Georgia Line, Thomas Rhett and Shelton. If you’re wondering how the women fared, Underwood had two while second 4 RASCAL FLATTS place Lambert had three in the Top 100. 5 OLD DOMINION The breakdown of the 45 acts in the Top 100 were 32 men with 73 songs, two women 6 THE BAND PERRY with 5 songs and 11 Duos/Groups with 22 songs. 7 DAN + SHAY A total of 1,243 songs got enough Country radio airplay to hit the weekly Top 50 8 LITTLE BIG TOWN in the last 10 years. Of those, 788 songs belonged to 146 different male artists, 204 9 ELI YOUNG BAND came from 61 different women and 268-charted songs were performed by 66 duos or 10 THOMPSON SQUARE groups. Seventeen duets/collaborations featuring a man and a woman hit the top 50. Compiling 10 or more Top 50 hits over the last decade were 26 men, three women and 11 LOCASH eight duos or groups. 12 BROS. OSBORNE As always, all data comes from Mediabase 24/7. The most-heard songs of the decade 13 PARMALEE were determined by taking the stations and weights in the current 157-reporting station 14 BIG & RICH Florida database and calculating the points for every play of every song that hit the Top 50 within Georgia Line that time frame. Special thanks to Mediabase’s Moses Araya for his help in tabulating all 15 MIDLAND those points and plays.

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