Country Update

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Wallen, Lewis Chart Kelsea Ballerini Keeps Perspective As High >page 4 She Moves Forward In Landmark Week

Crow, Cash: Powerful “Redemption” Video Kelsea Ballerini’s tour bus smelled like a floral shop. certainly recognized the significance. She wiped away tears >page 12 Parked outside the Knoxville (Tenn.) Civic Coliseum on with an Opry napkin in the press room — and again onstage — April 18, the vehicle had a string of fresh-cut bouquets spread as she joined the Opry. And she shed more tears in a bedazzled across most of the available tabletops and Opry T-shirt as she sang “High School” and counters, about half of the arrangements “In Between,” two songs about 20-some- NFL Drafts Country sent to her by an appreciative Trisha Year- things processing their teenage past, during Stars wood. Ballerini, who makes it a point to the break-down set of her Knoxville show. >page 13 cover a legacy country title in each of her “Whenever I get overwhelmed, it’s my go- Grand Ole Opry appearances, had per- to,” she says of those crying spurts. “When formed Yearwood’s 1992 single “Walk- you have a moment like that, that means away Joe” two nights prior with Carrie you’re present, and if you’re not present for CMA Fest: Eli, Rice, Underwood as Ballerini was inducted an Opry induction, you’re doing something McBryde into the Opry. wrong. I’ll take the tears.” >page 13 The appearances in Nashville and Knox- The meaning behind her new develop-

ville provided a one-two punch as Ballerini ments is not lost on Ballerini. Growing up experienced landmark moments in both her in Knoxville, she frequently saw regional Makin’ Tracks: current hometown and her original city of hero Dolly Parton riding in the Christmas LANCO’s Anthemic residence. The WSM-AM Nashville Opry BALLERINI parade. As Ballerini transitioned into her “Rival” membership is often billed, as it was the own country career, she looked to the likes >page 18 night of her induction, as a welcome to a family, an entry to a of Taylor Swift, Reba McEntire and Underwood as inspira- place where the future Ballerini can continue to perform well tions: “I wouldn’t know what it looks like to be a female in country after her commercial peak period has subsided. music without Carrie Underwood,” said Ballerini at the Opry. Her father, former WIVK Knoxville sales manager Ed Bal- But Opry officials likewise know what an influential devel- Country Coda: lerini, welcomed his daughter and her band for a lunchtime oping star looks like, and Ballerini emerges as a key addition to A Rascal Flatts cookout before her homecoming concert at the coliseum, a sort the roster, the first solo female inducted during her hitmaking Anniversary of back-to-the-future trip as she topped the bill at a venue where years since Underwood was inducted by Garth Brooks in 2008. >page 23 she saw Kelly Clarkson, Little Big Town and Sugarland as an “You will be inspiring artists for generations,” said Opry GM impressionable young girl. Sally Williams while leading a toast to Ballerini backstage at her

Thus, the week was a full-circle experience for Ballerini, who induction. “They’re going to look up to you, and they’re going to HOLLO CHRIS BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE APRIL 22, 2019 | PAGE 2 OF 23 come to you for advice and to help them be courageous, like you were courageous.” Much as Ballerini was inspired by Underwood and Clarkson, she is already emerging as an artist that young girls follow zealously. The Knoxville audience had plenty of under-18 females who intently mouthed the words to her songs — not just the choruses, but the verses, too. Even the album cuts. Those songs were packaged with lots of pop production — programmed in- struments and phat bass sounds — and her multiple wardrobes went heavy on bright colors and flashy sparkles. The set had its fair share of lighter material: “Dibs,” “I Hate Love Songs” and “Love Me Like You Mean It,” for example, are playful, feel-good pieces that don’t require in-depth analysis. By contrast, “In Between” and her signature encore hit, “Peter Pan,” are portraits of self-aware women: Their lives come with plenty of hurdles, but they’re able to learn from experience and become better human beings in the process. Tellingly, Ashley McBryde met up with KXLY Spokane, Wash., assistant PD/ her linear “Get Over Yourself” included a video message that could be instructive music director Tim Cotter when she played The Nashville North in for both young women and young men: “It’s never OK to call a woman a bitch.” Post Falls. From left: Atlantic/W.A.R. West Coast manager of regional Despite that teachable moment, Ballerini plays down her significance as a radio and streaming Raffaella Braun, McBryde and Cotter. conduit for her followers’ growth or behavior. “The second that I start thinking that what I’m doing is influencing a new generation, it puts me on a pedestal that I’m not on,” she says. “The way that I try to think of my career is, I’m new, I have a lot of dues to pay, I’m very lucky to have things that have happened so far, like hits on the radio when it’s hard for women to have hits on the radio, [or] an Opry freaking induction when I felt like that’s something that would happen way later I my life, if ever. For me, my responsibility lies in making good music, and that’s kind of where my focus is.” Ballerini’s night out at the Opry provided some current parameters for that output. The restrained, conversational approach to “Walkaway Joe” was a stark contrast to the bright sass of her current single, “Miss Me More” (No. 7, on the Country Airplay chart). Maren Morris spent time with local radio when she performed at Hous- “Those two songs are like the spectrum of country music,” she says. ton’s Revention Music Center on April 18. From left: Columbia Nash- They’re similar to what she sees in her future. Ballerini has already written ville manager of Southwest promotion Mark Janese, KILT Houston and recorded a pair of songs that are likely singles off the next album, and she PD Chris Huff, Morris and Cox Media/Houston director of operations expects to write more songs for that project — a follow-up to her sophomore re- Johnny Chiang. lease, Unapologetically — during the next few months. “If things end up like I think they’re going to with the two songs we have picked right now — which a lot could change — I think it’s like that,” she says of the new music, “kind of painting the most traditional song along with the most progressive song back-to-back just to show the range of the album before the album comes out.” That’s apropos for Ballerini at a time when she’s climbing the ladder in her career. Even as she stops and smells the floral sprays on her bus, she’s intent on remembering the more mundane hometown experiences that led her to this po- sition. A country artist, particularly an Opry member, is practically required to keep a foot planted in the past, even when he or she is stepping into the future. “That’s why I protect my inner fan girl,” says Ballerini. “Every single show I do, every meet-and-greet I do, I always want to be a fan first and always have Brett Young’s “Here Tonight” spends a second week at No. 1 on the that perspective. The years of buying the nose-bleed seats and waiting in line Country Airplay chart dated April 27. Celebrating in the Big Machine for hours, those are the years that make me appreciate where I am right now. I Label Group office: BMLG president/CEO Scott Borchetta, Young

never want to lose that perspective.” and Lady Antebellum’s Charles Kelley, who cowrote “Here Tonight.” MOORE REBECCA MCBRYDE:

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ON THE CHARTS JIM ASKER [email protected] Morgan Wallen’s ‘Whiskey Glasses’ Hits Country Airplay Top 10; Aaron Lewis’ ‘State’ Starts At No. 2 On Top Country Albums

Singer-songwriter Morgan Wallen earns his second top 10 on Billboard’s have now ruled for multiple weeks. “Here” follows “Mercy,” which dominated Country Airplay chart as “Whiskey Glasses” (Big Loud) rises 11-9 in its 34th for two frames in August 2018; “Like I Loved You” (three, January 2018); week on the survey (dated April 27). The song gained by 18% to 23.6 mil- and “In Case You Didn’t Know” (two, June 2017). (His first hit, “Sleep With- lion audience impressions in the week ending out You,” reached No. 2 in December 2016.) April 21, according to Nielsen Music. “Here” marks the fifth multiweek Country On the airplay-, streaming- and sales-pow- Airplay No. 1 in 2019 following Luke Combs’ ered Hot Country Songs chart, “Glasses” glides “Beautiful Crazy” (seven weeks at the sum- 10-8. mit), Scotty McCreery’s “This Is It,” Jason The track, written by Ben Burgess and Kevin Aldean’s “Girl Like You” and Dan + Shay’s Kadish, follows Wallen’s “Up Down” (featuring “Speechless” (two each). The sum outpaces Florida Georgia Line), which led the Country four multiframe leaders through this point in Airplay list on June 30, 2018, becoming his first both 2018 and 2017. No. 1 (and FGL’s 12th of 14 leaders). Wallen’s debut entry, “The Way I Talk,” LEWIS LEADS Aaron Lewis’ third country LP, reached No. 30 on Country Airplay in May 2017. State I’m In (Valory/BMLG), debuts at No. 2 on All three singles are from his freshman LP, If I Top Country Albums with 23,000 equivalent Know Me, which entered at its No. 11 Top Coun- album units (22,000 in traditional album sales) try Albums peak in May 2018. in the week ending April 18. On the all-genre In addition to his two Country Airplay top 10s Billboard 200, State starts at No. 18. as a credited artist, Wallen co-wrote Jason Al- State, produced by Buddy Cannon, in- dean’s “You Make It Easy” with Florida Georgia cludes 10 songs, six of which were co-written Line’s Tyler Hubbard and Brian Kelley, and by Lewis, who continues his segue to coun- Jordan Schmidt. The song led Country Airplay try after scoring initial success as founding for a week in May 2018. member/lead vocalist of Staind. The hard- rock band has notched three No. 1 albums on ‘HERE’ EXTENSION Brett Young’s “Here To- the Billboard 200. night” (Big Machine Label Group) lengthens State marks Lewis’ first country album since its stay in the Country Airplay penthouse to a Sinner, which became his second Top Coun- second week, increasing by 8% to 40.2 million try Albums leader when it arrived at the apex in radio reach. on Oct. 8, 2016, with 39,000 copies sold, his Young’s fourth Country Airplay leader is the sales best week in the country format to date. lead single from his sophomore major-label LP, He made his country debut with his 2011 EP, Ticket to L.A., which launched as his first Top Town Line (38,000 sold in its first week). In Country Albums No. 1 last December. 2012, his first solo LP, The Road , debuted and WALLEN

All four of Young’s Country Airplay No. 1s peaked at No. 7 (21,000 sold). IMAGES HUNT/GETTY NICHOLAS

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AIRPLAY Country Airplay MONITORED BY

WKS AUDIENCE (IN MILLIONS) PLAYS THIS LAST ON WEEK WEEK CHART TITLE Imprint/Label Artist THIS WEEK +/– THIS WEEK +/– RANK l1 1 31 HERE TONIGHT BMLG  HH No. 1 (2 weeks) HH Brett Young 40.156 +3.011 8242 580 1 2 2 24 BEAUTIFUL CRAZY River House/Columbia Nashville Luke Combs 35.730 -0.601 6657 -378 4 l3 4 28 MAKE IT SWEET RCA Nashville Old Dominion 35.177 +2.503 7392 505 2 l4 5 36 EYES ON YOU Dack Janiels/Broken Bow Chase Rice 33.119 +2.390 6952 410 3 l5 7 45 LOVE AIN’T Valory  HH Most Increased Audience HH Eli Young Band 28.888 +3.939 6 119 664 5 l6 8 16 GOOD AS YOU Zone 4/RCA Nashville Kane Brown 28.505 +3.859 5878 729 6 l7 10 26 MISS ME MORE Black River Kelsea Ballerini 25.178 +2.019 5542 308 7 l8 9 39 NIGHT SHIFT Capitol Nashville Jon Pardi 25.053 +1.693 5442 275 8 l9 11 34 WHISKEY GLASSES Big Loud Morgan Wallen 23.587 +3.589 5046 634 9 10 6 40 ONE THAT GOT AWAY Atlantic/WEA  Michael Ray 22.092 -6.399 4481 -1210 10 11 3 41 THERE WAS THIS GIRL BMLG  Riley Green 22.029 -13.406 4223 -3578 13 l12 13 42 LOVE SOMEONE Atlantic/WMN  Brett Eldredge 19.471 +1.556 4235 255 12 l13 14 8 LOOK WHAT GOD GAVE HER Valory  Thomas Rhett 18.724 +0.828 4109 136 14 l14 15 37 ON MY WAY TO YOU CoJo/WMN  Cody Johnson 18.302 +0.472 3994 -36 15 l15 12 32 LOVE WINS Capitol Nashville Carrie Underwood 18.015 -0.066 4476 108 11 l16 16 33 RUMOR Curb  Lee Brice 16.666 +1.257 3765 141 16 l17 17 14 GIRL Columbia Nashville Maren Morris 15.338 +2.027 3290 293 17 l18 21 4 GOD’S COUNTRY Warner Bros./WMN Blake Shelton 13.182 +2.907 2787 638 22 l19 18 10 EVERY LITTLE HONKY TONK BAR MCA Nashville George Strait 12.571 +0.108 3077 74 18 l20 19 16 SOME OF IT EMI Nashville Eric Church 12.179 +1.160 3041 222 19 l21 20 25 TALK YOU OUT OF IT BMLG  Florida Georgia Line 11.413 +0.641 2980 108 20 l22 22 54 CAUGHT UP IN THE COUNTRY Curb  Rodney Atkins Featuring The Fisk Jubilee Singers 10.275 +0.367 2933 131 21 l23 23 15 RAISED ON COUNTRY RCA Nashville Chris Young 9.586 +0.641 2433 172 24 l24 24 19 WHAT HAPPENS IN A SMALL TOWN Valory  Brantley Gilbert + Lindsay Ell 9.211 +1.122 2423 240 25 l25 25 10 ALL TO MYSELF Warner Bros./WAR Dan + Shay 8.695 +1.498 1997 341 26 l26 26 27 BUY MY OWN DRINKS Wheelhouse  Runaway June 7.701 +0.598 2450 222 23 l27 28 4 KNOCKIN’ BOOTS Capitol Nashville Luke Bryan 7.638 +1.116 1731 419 30 l28 29 8 REARVIEW TOWN Macon/Broken Bow Jason Aldean 7.058 +0.864 1757 180 28 l29 27 10 SOMEBODY’S DAUGHTER Columbia Nashville Tenille Townes 6.992 +0.452 1733 207 29 l30 30 24 THE ONES THAT DIDN’T MAKE IT BACK HOME Valory  Justin Moore 6.525 +1.153 1556 291 32

BILLBOARD COUNTRY AIRPLAY PANEL — 150 STATIONS Akron, OH WQMX Detroit WDRQ Memphis WGKX Richmond, Va. WKHK Albany, N.Y. WGNA WYCD WLFP Riverside, Calif. KFRG Albuquerque, N.M. KBQI El Paso, Texas KHEY Miami WKIS Roanoke, Va. WSLC KRST Ft. Myers, Fla. WCKT Milwaukee, WI. WKTI Rochester, N.Y. WBEE Allentown, Pa. WCTO WWGR WMIL Sacramento, Calif. KBEB Atlanta WKHX Ft. Wayne, Ind. WQHK Minneapolis KEEY KNCI WUBL Fresno, Calif. KSKS KMNB KNTY Augusta, Ga. WKXC Gainesville, Fla. WOGK Mobile, Ala. WKSJ St. Louis KSD Austin, Texas KASE Grand Rapids, Mich. WBCT Monmouth/Ocean, N.J. WKMK WIL Bakersfield, Calif. KUZZ Greensboro, N.C. WTQR Monterey, Calif.. KTOM Salt Lake City KSOP Baltimore WPOC Greenville, S.C. WSSL Nashville WKDF KUBL Baton Rouge, La. WYNK Harrisburg, Pa. WRBT WSIX San Antonio, Texas KAJA Birmingham, Ala. WDXB Hartford, Conn. WWYZ Nassau, N.Y. WJVC KCYY WZZK Houston KILT New Bern, N.C. WRNS San Diego KSON Boise, Idaho KAWO KKBQ New Orleans WNOE San Jose, Calif. KRTY KIZN Huntsville, Ala. WDRM New York WNSH Sarasota, Fla. WCTQ Boston WBWL Indianapolis WFMS Norfolk, Va. WGH Seattle KKWF WKLB WLHK WUSH KMPS Buffalo, N.Y. WYRK Jacksonville, Fla. WGNE Oklahoma City, Okla. KJKE Spokane, Wash. KXLY Charleston, S.C. WEZL WQIK KTST Springfield, Mass. WRNX WCKN Johnson City, Tenn. WXBQ Omaha, Neb. KXKT Stockton, Calif. KATM Charlotte, N.C. WKKT Kansas City KBEQ Orlando, Fla. WWKA Syracuse, N.Y. WBBS WSOC WDAF Oxnard-Ventura, CA KHAY Tampa, Fla. WFUS Chattanooga, Tenn. WUSY KFKF Philadelphia WXTU WQYK Chicago WEBG Knoxville, Tenn. WCYQ Phoenix KMLE Tucson, Ariz. KIIM WUSN WIVK KNIX Tulsa, Okla. KTGX Cincinnati WUBE Lafayette, La. KMDL Pittsburgh WDSY KVOO Cleveland WGAR Lakeland, Fla. WPCV WOGI KWEN Colorado Springs, Colo. KATC Las Vegas KCYE WPGB Visalia, Calif. KJUG KCCY KWNR Portland, Maine WPOR Washington, D.C. WMZQ Columbia, S.C. WCOS Lexington, Ky. WBUL WTHT West Palm Beach, Fla. WIRK Columbus, Ohio WCOL Little Rock, Ark. KSSN Portland, Ore. KUPL Wichita, Kan. KFDI Corpus Christi, Texas KRYS Los Angeles KKGO KWJJ KZSN Dallas KPLX Louisville, Ky. WAMZ Providence, R.I. WCTK Wilkes Barre, Pa. WGGY KSCS WQNU Raleigh, NC WQDR Wilmington, Del. WXCY Dayton, Ohio WHKO Madison, Wis. WWQM York, Pa. WGTY Denver KYGO WMAD Reno, Nevada KBUL Des Moines, Iowa KHKI McAllen, Texas KTEX KOLC BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE APRIL 22, 2019 | PAGE 7 OF 23

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 31 22 CLOSER TO YOU Big Machine Carly Pearce 5.379 +0.683 1760 17 27 l32 33 21 LOVE YOU TOO LATE Warner Bros./WMN Cole Swindell 5.014 +0.530 1364 29 34 l33 34 29 BACK TO LIFE Big Machine Rascal Flatts 4.888 +0.578 1659 152 31 l34 36 20 EVERY LITTLE THING Triple Tigers Russell Dickerson 4.524 +0.540 1499 114 33 l35 37 27 DAY DRUNK Warner Bros./WEA Morgan Evans 4.277 +0.335 115 9 3 37 l36 39 12 THOUGHT ABOUT YOU McGraw/Columbia Nashville Tim McGraw 4.200 +0.518 118 4 97 36 l37 38 22 I DON’T KNOW ABOUT YOU Big Loud Chris Lane 4.033 +0.291 938 8 39 38 35 11 RAINBOW MCA Nashville Kacey Musgraves 3.934 -0.185 1208 22 35 l39 41 23 I DON’T REMEMBER ME (BEFORE YOU) EMI Nashville Brothers Osborne 2.846 +0.199 866 28 40 l40 43 8 LIVING Capitol Nashville HH Breaker HH Dierks Bentley 2.641 +0.316 740 25 45 l41 44 8 GOOD VIBES Warner Bros./WAR Chris Janson 2.624 +0.342 858 79 41 l42 42 10 REDNECKER Tree Vibez/Big Loud HARDY 2.482 +0.069 855 31 42 l43 46 13 PRAYED FOR YOU Wide Open/RECORDS/Good Company Matt Stell 2.408 +0.314 742 131 44 l44 45 14 NOTHING TO DO TOWN Curb  Dylan Scott 2.248 +0.032 953 38 38 l45 58 2 MR. LONELY Big Machine Midland 2.197 +1.289 523 304 48 46 47 19 GIRL GOIN’ NOWHERE Atlantic/WAR  Ashley McBryde 2.067 -0.022 735 -5 46 l47 48 13 MAKE ME WANT TO Stoney Creek Jimmie Allen 2.003 +0.001 821 13 43 l48 49 4 MY MIRACLE Arista Nashville Brad Paisley 1.799 +0.092 552 19 47 l49 51 4 RIDIN’ ROADS Broken Bow Dustin Lynch 1.596 +0.201 483 59 51 l50 RE-ENTRY OLD TOWN ROAD Columbia  HH Most Added HH Lil Nas X 1.520 +0.978 250 128 - l51 50 9 TO A T RCA Nashville Ryan Hurd 1.469 -0.036 386 9 55 l52 NEW ONE BIG COUNTRY SONG Wheelhouse  HH Hot Shot Debut HH LOCASH 1.226 +0.748 262 185 59 l53 52 6 AFTER A FEW Mercury  Travis Denning 1.193 +0.075 508 23 50 l54 53 5 BETTER OFF GONE Big Yellow Dog Logan Mize 1.167 +0.081 451 27 52 55 54 13 ROCKIN’ ALL NIGHT LONG Buena Vista/Capitol Nashville Adam Hambrick 1.015 -0.064 517 14 49 l56 57 2 IN BETWEEN Triple Tigers Scotty McCreery 0.968 +0.056 355 32 57 57 56 8 ALCOHOL YOU LATER Riser House/Columbia Nashville Mitchell Tenpenny 0.884 -0.060 424 -10 53 58 55 3 THE BULL MCA Nashville Kip Moore 0.820 -0.217 282 -33 58 l59 RE-ENTRY WORLD FOR TWO 24 Entertainment/Stoney Creek King Calaway 0.776 +0.181 359 67 56 60 59 8 SOMEONE I USED TO KNOW Southern Ground/Wheelhouse Zac Brown Band 0.753 -0.153 418 -26 54

GOING FOR ADDS

4/29 TENILLE ARTS Call You Names ADAM CRAIG Reviver If You’re Lucky Stoney Creek TUCKER BEATHARD Better Than Me HIGH VALLEY Warner Bros./WAR Single Man Atlantic/WEA 5/13 RILEY GREEN In Love By Now LOCASH BMLG One Big Country Song Wheelhouse SOUTHERN HALO 52 Sunshine PEARL CLARKIN Southern Halo Girls Of Summer BarFrog The duo of Chris Lucas and Preston Brust 5/6 LOCASH makes its 11th Country Airplay appearance One Big CHANCE MCKINNEY Country as the track enters at No. 52 with 1.2 million Backyard Song audience impressions. Studio2Bee/Star Farm Nashville KEVIN MAZUR/GETTY IMAGES FOR SIRIUSXM FOR IMAGES MAZUR/GETTY KEVIN BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE APRIL 22, 2019 | PAGE 8 OF 23

AIRPLAY Country Airplay MONITORED BY

MOST ADDED® NEW AND ACTIVE TITLE Imprint/Label Artist ADDS TOTAL TOTAL OLD TOWN ROAD Columbia Lil Nas X 30 TITLE Imprint/Label Artist AUDIENCE STATIONS ADDS KNOCKIN’ BOOTS Capitol Nashville Luke Bryan 23 HEARTBREAK Atlantic/WMN Hunter Hayes 0.654 21 1 ALL TO MYSELF Warner Bros./WAR Dan + Shay 22 SLOW DANCE IN A PARKING LOT MCA Nashville Jordan Davis 0.540 2 0 MR. LONELY Big Machine Midland 17 NEON MOON Arista Nashville Brooks & Dunn w/ Kacey Musgraves 0.515 0 0 GOD’S COUNTRY Warner Bros./WMN Blake Shelton 15 PRAYED FOR YOU Wide Open/GCE/RECORDS Matt Stell 15 KISS THAT GIRL GOODBYE BIG Label Aaron Watson 0.438 25 1 THE ONES THAT DIDN’T MAKE IT BACK HOME Valory Justin Moore 14 FAMILY TREE Capitol Nashville Caylee Hammack 0.404 11 8 REARVIEW TOWN Macon/Broken Bow Jason Aldean 10 GOOD LORD Black River Abby Anderson 0.383 11 6 ONE BIG COUNTRY SONG Wheelhouse LOCASH 8 FAMILY TREE Capitol Nashville Caylee Hammack 8 RECURRENTS MOST INCREASED AUDIENCE THIS TOTAL AUD. WEEK TITLE Imprint/Label Artist (IN MILLIONS) GAIN 1 THIS IS IT Triple Tigers Scotty McCreery 20.989 TITLE Imprint/Label Artist (IN MIILIONS) 2 GIRL LIKE YOU Macon/Broken Bow Jason Aldean 20.963 LOVE AIN’T Valory Eli Young Band +3.939 GOOD AS YOU Zone 4/RCA Nashville Kane Brown +3.859 3 BEST SHOT Stoney Creek Jimmie Allen 19.629 WHISKEY GLASSES Big Loud Morgan Wallen +3.589 4 SHE GOT THE BEST OF ME River House/Columbia Nashville Luke Combs 18.805 HERE TONIGHT BMLG Brett Young +3.011 5 GOOD GIRL Broken Bow Dustin Lynch 14.783 GOD’S COUNTRY Warner Bros./WMN Blake Shelton +2.907 6 SIXTEEN Valory Thomas Rhett 14.088 MAKE IT SWEET RCA Nashville Old Dominion +2.503 7 TAKE IT FROM ME MCA Nashville Jordan Davis 13.672 EYES ON YOU Dack Janiels/Broken Bow Chase Rice +2.390 8 TEQUILA Warner Bros./WAR Dan + Shay 13.624 GIRL Columbia Nashville Maren Morris +2.027 9 SPEECHLESS Warner Bros./WAR Dan + Shay 13.199 MISS ME MORE Black River Kelsea Ballerini +2.019 NIGHT SHIFT Capitol Nashville Jon Pardi +1.693 10 BLUE TACOMA Triple Tigers Russell Dickerson 12.361 MOST INCREASED PLAYS BILLBOARD COUNTRY BOXSCORE TITLE Imprint/Label Artist GAIN Gross Artist Attendance Ticket Price(s) Venue/Date(s) Capacity Promoter(s) GOOD AS YOU Zone 4/RCA Nashville Kane Brown +729 $12,660,700 GEORGE STRAIT 80,108 MESSINA TOURING LOVE AIN’T Valory Eli Young Band +664 $400, $30 NRG Stadium, Houston, Texas/March 17 80,108 GROUP/AEG PRESENTS GOD’S COUNTRY Warner Bros./WMN Blake Shelton +638 $11,999,961 GEORGE STRAIT 55,255 MESSINA TOURING WHISKEY GLASSES Big Loud Morgan Wallen +634 $495, $49 Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Atlanta, Ga./March 30 55,255 GROUP/AEG PRESENTS HERE TONIGHT BMLG Brett Young +580 $970,923.00 ZAC BROWN BAND 17,653 $144.50, $29.75 Ak-Chin Pavilion, Phoenix, Ariz./March 15 19,158 LIVE NATION MAKE IT SWEET RCA Nashville Old Dominion +505 KNOCKIN’ BOOTS Capitol Nashville Luke Bryan +419 $843,108.00 ALABAMA 11,414 OUTBACK $129.50, $79.50, $59.50, $35 PPG Paints Arena, Pittsburgh, Pa./March 15 12,464 CONCERTS EYES ON YOU Dack Janiels/Broken Bow Chase Rice +410 $691,107.00 ZAC BROWN BAND 8,816 ALL TO MYSELF Warner Bros./WAR Dan + Shay +341 $119.50, $39.50 Smoothie King Center, New Orleans, La./March 9 12,256 LIVE NATION MISS ME MORE Black River Kelsea Ballerini +308 Reported worldwide boxscore figures for Country artists. Boxscore figures should be submitted to Bob Allen by phone (615-891-1976), fax (615-891-2054) or email ([email protected]). TEXAS REGIONAL RADIO REPORT WEEK ENDING APRIL 21, 2019

THIS LAST WKS ON TW SPINS THIS LAST WKS ON TW SPINS WEEK WEEK CHART TITLE (Label) ARTIST SPINS +/– WEEK WEEK CHART TITLE (Label) ARTIST SPINS +/– l1 2 13 CHEAT ON ME (Independent)  HH 1 Weeks at 1 HH Bri Bagwell 1965 135 11 4 19 I’M YOUR ONLY FLAW (Independent)  Josh Abbott Band 1283 -445 l2 1 9 CRAZY PEOPLE (Independent)  Randy Rogers Band 1948 26 12 9 13 SOMEWHERE BETWEEN I LOVE YOU AND I’M LEAVIN’ (Rounder Rec)  Cody Jinks 1280 -192 l3 3 14 HAD A THING (Independent)  Curtis Grimes 1828 60 13 8 21 NONE’YA (Independent)  Hayes Carll 1279 -241 l4 7 14 COUNTRY SONG TO SING (Independent)  Kevin Fowler 1720 120 l14 13 19 AIN’T ENOUGH BEER (Independent)  Kylie Frey 1228 16 l5 5 18 WALK AWAY (Independent)  Mark Powell 1698 36 l15 16 10 TOUCH THE WATER (Independent)  Jesse Raub Jr. 118 9 132 l6 6 17 TOP OF MY HEART (Cory Morrow Music)  Cory Morrow 1631 17 l16 17 16 HARD HEADED HEART (Independent)  Clay Hollis 114 7 92 l7 10 16 KISS THAT GIRL GOODBYE (Independent)  Aaron Watson 1546 104 l17 18 11 LIKE I LOVE YOU (Independent)  Sarah Hobbs 113 6 139 l8 11 14 OTHER SIDE OF THE RADIO (Independent)  Mike Ryan 1451 131 l18 20 10 IT WAS ONLY ME (Independent)  Casey Baker 1095 134 l9 14 30 WHATEVER IT TAKES (King Hall Music)  Chad Cooke Band 1316 112 l19 19 8 PUT YOU DOWN TOMORROW (Independent)  Jake Ward 1095 131 l10 15 8 FELL IN LOVE ON WHISKEY (Independent)  Wade Bowen 1316 124 l20 21 13 LOVE’S TO BLAME (Independent)  Jade Marie Patek 1030 80

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NASHVILLE & NATIONAL TOM ROLAND

“It opens the heart to an understanding of the state of our world and where we are right now,” said Carter Cash. “I’m so grateful that Sheryl has the cour- age to make these statements and know that my father also joins with her.” Go here to see the “Redemption Day” video. —Additional reporting by Annie Reuter.

RADIO & RECORDS Universal Music Group Nashville promoted Chris Schuler to vp promotion and radio marketing from director… Jeff Cage was installed as iHeartMedia/ St. Louis Region senior vp programming, a role that also makes him iHeart- Media/Des Moines, Iowa, senior vp programming. He has oversight of 33 sta- tions in two states, including Iowa country outlets KDXA-HD2 Des Moines, WLLR Davenport and KKSY Cedar Rapids; and Missouri country signals KSD St. Louis and KSWF Springfield. Cage spent the last 15 years at iHeartMedia/ Little Rock, Ark., where he was PD for two noncountry stations… KIZN Boise, Sheryl Crow visited Cumulus’ Nash campus on April 19 to promote Idaho, hired Alana Lynn for middays. She previously was KMLE Phoenix music “Redemption Day,” a duet with the late Johnny Cash, on The Ty Bentli director/morning personality… Townsquare/Lawton, Okla., appointed Lisa Show. From left: Bentli, Crow and co-host Chuck Wicks. Guertin as market president/chief revenue officer, InsideRadio.com reported. The three-station cluster’s assets include country KLAW. Guertin arrives from Griffin Communications/Tulsa, Okla., where she served as local and national CROW, CASH JOINED IN POWERFUL VIDEO sales manager for two TV stations… Lilly Broadcasting is purchasing three sta- Atom bombs. Graveyards. Smoke-spewing factories. Ice shelves dropping tions in Warren, Pa., including country WKNB, from Iorio Broadcasting for into the ocean. Donald Trump. Abraham Lincoln. Jesus Christ. One child $900,000, according to InsideRadio.com… Townsquare/New Jersey added struggling to make sense. vp partnership sales Kristin Roderick, Talkers.com reported. She previously Valory released a powerful video of Sheryl Crow’s “Redemption Day” in was Townsquare/New York director of regional partnerships. The chain’s lone timely fashion. Produced by Shaun Silva (Kenny Chesney, Jason Aldean), country station in Jersey is WPUR Atlantic City… WMSI Jackson, Miss., per- the clip embeds a series of poignant images mixed with the visage and voices sonality Rick Adams left the station after three decades, according to Talkers. of Crow and the late Johnny Cash, who recorded a weathered version of the com, as he segues out of broadcasting and into real estate… Country Radio song just weeks before his death in September 2003. Broadcasters finalized the agenda committee for the 2020 Country Radio The collaboration, the first release from Crow’s forthcoming duets album, Seminar with 22 members on the panel. The roster features 13 new members, arrived on video platforms on April 18, the same day that special counsel Rob- including Christopher Barber of Townsquare/Rockford, Ill.; Katie McCart- ert Mueller issued a detailed report on what appears to be a corrupt White ney, Monument Records; Stacy Blythe, Big Loud; and Stephanie Callihan, House. Within the next four days, America observed Good Friday, Easter Entercom/Austin. Go here for the complete list. Sunday and Earth Day, calendar events that relate specifically to the signifi- cant messages in Crow’s gripping video. ’ROUND THE ROW “As an artist, I can’t be the mom of two kids and not address the elephant in BMG Music signed singer-songwriter Ryan Kinder and songwriter Jason the room,” Crow told reporters in a prerelease event at the Cash Cabin Studio Duke (“Dibs”) to publishing deals… Songwriter Bill Whyte, who has landed in Hendersonville, Tenn., flanked by Big Machine Label Group president/ cuts with Joe Nichols and Hillary Scott & The Scott Family, joined the writ- CEO Scott Borchetta and Cash’s son, John Carter Cash. “The idea behind ing staff at bluegrass/Americana publishing house Billy Blue… Roots music the video is that every decision that we make as a people or as a person, our act Nu-Blu signed a recording deal with California-based Turnberry. A DVD, children are right behind us... You model for them what it is that is right. You The Stories We Can Tell, is the first project pending for the partnership. model for them what we should all stand for. You model compassion, empa- thy, acceptance, the ability to listen and not be ugly. “I’m somebody’s kid,” added Crow. “I witnessed the Vietnam War. I wit- nessed nightly news and Walter Cronkite, people coming home in body bags with the flag draped over them. I wore the POW bracelet; I was 7. I didn’t know what that meant. Our kids witness history, they witness all of that. The big- gest informant of our kids and the way they see the world is us, and that’s the whole idea behind the video.” Penned by Crow following a trip to Bosnia with Hillary Clinton, “Redemp- tion Day” was featured on the singer’s 1996 self-titled album. After Crow per- formed at the funeral of June Carter in May 2003, Cash approached Crow about “Redemption Day,” telling her that he thought it might be the center- piece of the album he was working on. His version eventually appeared on the posthumous 2010 project American VI: Ain’t No Grave. Crow’s production of “Redemption Day” employs a dark, heavy piano that mimics the sound of Cash’s ominous cover of Nine Inch Nails’ “Hurt,” named single of the year by the Country Music Association in 2003. The new hybrid is featured on an album that also pairs Crow with artists such as Keith Rich- ards, Stevie Nicks and Don Henley. The Man in Black is an appropriate co-messenger. When he was invited to play the White House in 1970, he declined requests by President Richard Chris Janson hung with WFUS Wade Hayes was featured on Nixon to play other artists’ songs and instead delivered “What Is Truth,” a Tampa-St. Petersburg, Fla., PD Westwood One’s Country Gold pointed protest of the Vietnam War. Nixon’s administration, which ended in Cindy Spicer when he played with Terri Clark on the episode infamy, is the one most often compared to the current president, and Carter the Tortuga Music Festival in that aired the weekend of Cash believes his father would have approved of Crow’s passionate video. Fort Lauderdale on April 12. April 19-21. BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE APRIL 22, 2019 | PAGE 13 OF 23

NASHVILLE & NATIONAL TOM ROLAND

MUSIC NOTES ON THIS DATE IN COUNTRY MUSIC

The NFL Draft moves out of New York April 23 for the first time in years with the action • 2016 — Tim McGraw’s “Humble and Kind” rises to No. 1 on the centered in downtown Nashville, where Billboard Hot Country Singles chart. producers have wedged a mammoth stage • 1999 — Charlie Daniels’ Volunteer Jam at the far end of Broadway’s honky-tonk boasts Montgomery Gentry, Molly district. The combination will likely pro- Hatchet and surprises Billy Ray Cyrus, vide plenty of mash-ups between pro ath- Rhett Akins, Lee Roy Parnell and Garth letes and heartland artists, both on- and Brooks, who joins Daniels on “Drinkin’ off-camera. Luke Bryan gets some prime- My Baby Goodbye” at Nashville’s First time attention on April 25 as ABC airs live American Music Center. BRYAN network coverage for the first time. Amer- ABC SJODIN CRAIG ican Idol figure and iHeartMedia person- April 24 DANIELS ality Bobby Bones will work the streets for additional color. Hours earlier, • 2018 — MCA releases the Jordan Davis Chris Young joins former Cleveland Browns lineman Joe Thomas in an event single “Take It From Me” to radio. at WME celebrating military personnel and their families. SiriusXM also has a • •1969 — Barbara Mandrell holds her first recording session, for Music Row Happy Hour edition set for April 24 with Cole Swindell and Justin Columbia Records. Moore expected along with NFL stars at Margaritaville. April 25 Plans for the Country Music Association’s annual CMA Music Festival con- • 2012 — Brad Paisley appears on an episode of the animated Comedy tinue to unfold. Cumulus rebranded its NASH FM Country Kick Off Party as Central series South Park, singing the national anthem at a fictitious Bentli Bash 2019, drawing attention to its syndicated morning program The Denver Nuggets basketball game and performing “I Swear” with the Ty Bentli Show. Eli Young Band headlines the Cannery with support from Tyler character Eric Cartman. Rich and Jessie Ritter on June 4. The official Ascend Amphitheater events are solidifying, too. Free for the last two years, the shows are now ticketed events. April 26 Partial lineups include Chase Rice and LOCASH (on June 6), Brett Young • 2014 — Jake Owen is the musical guest at Peyton Manning’s and Jordan Davis (June 7), and Cody Johnson and Ashley McBryde (June 8). Celebration of Caring Gala in Indianapolis. Manning climbs onstage to sing “Folsom Prison Blues” with Owen. The final lineup for an April 23 benefit for Music Health Alliance and John • 1994 — Nicholasville, Ky., declares John Michael Montgomery Day Berry, who was diagnosed with throat cancer, is impressive. Over two dozen and gives him the key to the city. acts will play City Winery Nashville, including Vince Gill, The Oak Ridge Boys, Radney Foster, Darryl Worley, Clint Black, Exile and Lee Roy Parnell. April 27 Additionally, Blake Shelton and Cale Dodds will play a Musicians On Call • 1978 — Kenny Rogers dominates the 13th annual Academy of benefit at the CMA Theater on May 31. Awards will be presented that night to Country Music Awards at Los Angeles’ Shrine Auditorium, winning Lauren Alaina, Warner Music Nashville senior vp artist development Shane four honors: top male vocalist; album of the year, for Kenny Rogers; Tarleton and Cumulus vp country formats Charlie Cook. and single record and song of the year, for “Lucille.”

Songwriter-producer Ross Copperman (Dierks Bentley, Brett Eldredge) April 28 marked Earth Day with the April 22 release of “We Should Plant a Tree,” a • 2017 — Luke Combs nabs a gold single from the RIAA for “Hurricane.” song that puts his voice out front instead of behind the glass. The track came • 2004 — The windshield of Joe Diffie’s bus is shattered on Interstate 40 just four days after another of his artist efforts, “Stars Are on Your Side,” was when a brick is thrown from an overpass. Diffie travels more than used in ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy. 11 hours with clear tape holding the window together to make a show in Charlotte, N.C. Top Headlines from .com April 29 Click on the headlines below for more details • 1989 — RCA releases Clint Black’s debut album, Killin’ Time.

More Younger Consumers Abandoning Radio For Source: RolandNote.com, the Ultimate Country Music Database Digital-Only Listening On Their Devices: Study

Nashville Metro Council Supports Songwriters With Resolution Against Streaming Services’ CRB Appeal

Billy Ray Cyrus’ “Achy Breaky Heart” Surges In Streams And Sales After “Old Town Road” Remix Release

Music’s Big Players: One-Fifth Of Streamers Drive Majority Of Profits And Should Be A New Industry Focus (Op-Ed) Songwriters who contributed to Rodney Atkins’ Take a Back Road received RIAA-certified gold albums on April 16 as Curb threw Digital Music Consumption Has Led To Increase In a launch party for Atkins’ new project, Caught Up in the Country. Greenhouse Gas Emissions, New Study Finds From left: songwriter Rhett Akins, producer Ted Hewitt, Atkins and

songwriter Luke Laird. MANTLOW MOLLY

BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE APRIL 22, 2019 | PAGE 15 OF 23

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 50 BEAUTIFUL CRAZY No. 1 (9 weeks) Luke Combs 2 1 S.MOFFATT (L.COMBS,W.B.DURRETTE,R.WILLIFORD) RIVER HOUSE/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE HERE TONIGHT 2 3 3 31 Brett Young 1 2 l D.HUFF (B.YOUNG,B.CAVER,J.EBACH,C.KELLEY) BMLG EYES ON YOU 3 6 6 35 Chase Rice 4 3 l C. DESTEFANO (C.RICE,C. DESTEFANO,A.GORLEY) DACK JANIELS/BROKEN BOW HH HH 4 5 5 4 GOD’S COUNTRY Streaming Gainer Blake Shelton 18 4 l S.HENDRICKS (M.HARDY,J.M.SCHMIDT,D.DAWSON) WARNER BROS./WMN 5 2 2 66 TEQUILA Dan + Shay RC 1 D.SMYERS,S.HENDRICKS (D.SMYERS,J.REYNOLDS,N.GALYON) WARNER BROS./WAR 6 4 13 8 LOOK WHAT GOD GAVE HER Thomas Rhett 13 4 D.HUFF,J.BUNETTA,THOMAS RHETT (THOMAS RHETT,R.AKINS,J.BUNETTA,J.K.HINDLIN,A.MALIK,J.H.RYAN) VALORY HH HH 7 7 9 26 GOOD AS YOU Airplay Gainer Kane Brown 6 7 l D.HUFF (K.BROWN,B.BERRYHILL,S.CARTER,T.PHILLIPS,W.WEATHERLY) ZONE 4/RCA NASHVILLE HH HH 8 10 8 27 WHISKEY GLASSES Digital Gainer Morgan Wallen 9 8 l J.MOI (B.BURGESS,K.KADISH) BIG LOUD 9 9 12 28 MAKE IT SWEET Old Dominion 3 9 S.MCANALLY (M.RAMSEY,T. ROSEN,W.SELLERS,G.SPRUNG,B.TURSI,S.MCANALLY) RCA NASHVILLE 10 8 7 48 SPEECHLESS Dan + Shay RC 1 D.SMYERS,S.HENDRICKS (D.SMYERS,S.MOONEY,J.REYNOLDS,L.VELTZ) WARNER BROS./WAR MISS ME MORE 11 11 11 25 Kelsea Ballerini 7 8 l F.G.WHITEHEAD,J.MASSEY (K.BALLERINI,D.H.HODGES,B.MCLAUGHLIN) BLACK RIVER RUMOR 12 13 17 32 Lee Brice 16 12 l L.BRICE,J.STONE,K.JACOBS,D.FRIZSELL (L.BRICE,K.JACOBS,A.GORLEY) CURB NIGHT SHIFT 13 14 16 35 Jon Pardi 8 13 l B.BUTLER,J.PARDI (T.BROWN,P.LARUE,B.MONTANA) CAPITOL NASHVILLE GIRL 14 15 15 14 Maren Morris 17 9 l G.KURSTIN,M.MORRIS (M.MORRIS,S.AARONS,G.KURSTIN) COLU MBIA NASHVILLE LOVE AIN’T 15 17 20 30 Eli Young Band 5 15 l D.HUFF (R.COPPERMAN,A.GORLEY,S.MCANALLY) VALORY TALK YOU OUT OF IT 16 16 18 32 Florida Georgia Line 21 13 l J.MOI (M.HARDY,H.PHELPS,J.ROGERS,A.VANDERHEYM) BMLG ON MY WAY TO YOU 17 18 19 36 Cody Johnson 14 16 l T.W.WILLMON (BRETT JAMES,T.LANE) COJO/W MN 18 19 21 33 LOVE WINS Carrie Underwood 15 14 D.GARCIA,C.UNDERWOOD (C.UNDERWOOD,D.A.GARCIA,BRETT JAMES) CAPITOL NASHVILLE LOVE SOMEONE 19 21 23 25 Brett Eldredge 12 19 l R. COPPERMAN,B.ELDREDGE (B.ELDREDGE,R.COPPERMAN,H.MORGAN) ATLANTIC/W MN 20 20 25 3 KNOCKIN’ BOOTS Luke Bryan 27 20 J.STEVENS,J.STEVENS (H.LINDSEY,G.SAMPSON,J.M.NITE) CAPITOL NASHVILLE CAUGHT UP IN THE COUNTRY 21 22 24 39 Rodney Atkins Featuring The Fisk Jubilee Singers 22 21 l R.ATKINS,T.HEWITT,B.BOLLINGER (C.HARRINGTON,J.M.SCHMIDT,M.WALKER) CURB ALL TO MYSELF 22 24 26 15 Dan + Shay 25 22 l D.SMYERS,S.HENDRICKS (D.SMYERS,S.MOONEY,N.GALYON,J.REYNOLDS) W ARNER BROS./WAR SOME OF IT 23 25 28 12 Eric Church 20 23 l J.JOYCE (E.CHURCH,J.HYDE,C.DANIELS,B.PINSON) EMI NASHVILLE 24 23 22 10 EVERY LITTLE HONKY TONK BAR George Strait 19 22 C.AINLAY,G.STRAIT (G.STRAIT,B.STRAIT,D.DILLON) MCA NASHVILLE 25 26 27 10 RAINBOW Kacey Musgraves 38 17 I.FITCHUK,D.TASHIAN,K.MUSGRAVES (N.HEMBY,S.MCANALLY,K.MUSGRAVES) MCA NASHVILLE

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In its 35th frame, “Night Shift” punches The playful track lifts 42-38 on Hot Country in at a new peak (14-13). It gains by 7% to Songs and holds at No. 26 on Country Airplay JON 25.1 million impressions as it bumps 9-8 on RUNAWAY (7.7 million, up 8%). The trio will join Carrie PARDI JUNE Night Shift Country Airplay, and by 9% to 5.7 million U.S. Buy My Underwood on her Cry Pretty Tour 360, streams. Own Drinks which begins in Greensboro, N.C., on May 1. JASON KEMPIN/GETTY IMAGES KEMPIN/GETTY JASON ACM FOR IMAGES HARRISON/GETTY FRAZER BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE APRIL 22, 2019 | PAGE 16 OF 23

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 I DON’T KNOW ABOUT YOU 26 28 29 28 Chris Lane 37 26 l J.MOI (A.GORLEY,M.HARDY,H.PHELPS,J.RODGERS) BIG LOUD REARVIEW TOWN 27 32 32 15 Jason Aldean 28 24 l M.KNOX (N.THRASHER,B.PINSON,K.LOVELACE) MACON/BROKEN BOW RAISED ON COUNTRY 28 31 31 11 Chris Young 23 28 l C.CROWDER,C.YOUNG (C.YOUNG,C.R.BARLOWE,C.CROWDER) RCA NASHVILLE 29 27 30 7 THE BONES Maren Morris - 27 G.KURSTIN (M.MORRIS,J.ROBBINS,L.VELTZ) COLUMBIA NASHVILLE REDNECKER 30 41 42 9 HARDY 42 30 l J.MOI,D.COHEN (A.ALBERT,M.HARDY,J.M.SCHMIDT) TREE VIBEZ/BIG LOUD WHAT HAPPENS IN A SMALL TOWN 31 35 33 18 Brantley Gilbert + Lindsay Ell 24 31 l D.HUFF (B.GILBERT,R.AKINS,B.BERRYHILL,J.DUNNE) VALORY SOMEBODY’S DAUGHTER 32 34 34 7 Tenille Townes 29 32 l J.JOYCE (T.TOWNES,L.LAIRD,BARY DEAN) COLUMB IA NASHVILLE 33 33 — 4 BRAND NEW MAN Brooks & Dunn With Luke Combs RC 30 D.HUFF (K.BROOKS,D.COOK,R.DUNN) ARISTA NASHVILLE LOVE YOU TOO LATE 34 37 37 8 Cole Swindell 32 34 l M.R.CARTER (C.SWINDELL,MICHAEL RAY,B.KINNEY) WARNER BROS./WMN RIDIN’ ROADS 35 48 43 6 Dustin Lynch 49 26 l Z.CROWELL (D.LYNCH,A.GORLEY,Z.CROWELL) BROKEN BOW 36 39 38 13 CLOSER TO YOU Carly Pearce 31 36 BUSBEE (H.LINDSEY,G.SAMPSON,T.VERGES) BIG MACHINE THE ONES THAT DIDN’T MAKE IT BACK HOME 37 44 47 4 Justin Moore 30 37 l J.S.STOVER,S.BORCHETTA (J.MOORE,P.DIGIOVANNI,C.MCGILL,J.S.STOVER) VALORY BUY MY OWN DRINKS 38 42 40 9 Runaway June 26 36 l D.HUFF (H.MULHOLLAND,J.WAYNE,N.COOKE,H.LINDSEY,J.KEAR) WHEELHOUSE EVERY LITTLE THING 39 45 46 4 Russell Dickerson 34 39 l C.BROWN (R.DICKERSON,P.WELLING,C.BROWN) TRIPLE TIGERS 40 36 35 10 NOTHING TO DO TOWN Dylan Scott 44 35 M.ALDERMAN,C.GIBBS,J.E.NORMAN (D.SCOTT,M.ALDERMAN,C.TAYLOR) CURB 41 30 — 2 NEON MOON Brooks & Dunn With Kacey Musgraves - 30 D.HUFF,K.MUSGRAVES (R.DUNN) ARISTA NASHVILLE 42 43 41 10 TO A T Ryan Hurd - 41 D.HUFF,A.ESHUIS (R.J.HURD,N.SPICER,L.VELTZ) RCA NASHVILLE BACK TO LIFE 43 47 48 15 Rascal Flatts 33 31 l J.DEE,G.LEVOX,J.D.ROONEY (C.R.BARLOWE,N.MOON,S.MOONEY,F.WILHELM) BIG MACHINE LIVING Dierks Bentley 44 RE-ENTRY 2 40 44 l R. COPPERMAN,J.R.STEWART (R.COPPERMAN,J.M.NITE,A.GORLEY,D.BENTLEY) C APITOL NASHVILLE THOUGHT ABOUT YOU Tim McGraw 45 RE-ENTRY 2 36 45 l B.GALLIMORE,T.MCGRAW (L.T.MILLER,B.WARREN,B.D.WARREN) MCGRAW/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE ONE MAN BAND Old Dominion 46 RE-ENTRY 3 - 46 l S.MCANALLY (M.RAMSEY,T. ROSEN,B.TURSI,J.OSBORNE) RCA NASHVILLE 47 50 45 6 I HOPE Gabby Barrett - 37 R. COPPERMAN (Z.KALE,J.M.NITE,G.BARRETT) GABBY BARRETT/RED LIGHT MANAGEMENT NASHVILLE HH HH 48 NEW 1 NOT LIKE US Hot Shot Debut Brantley Gilbert - 48 l D.HUFF,M.ELIZONDO (B.GILBERT,THOMAS RHETT,B.BERRYHILL,A.WADGE) VALORY WORLD FOR TWO King Calaway 49 RE-ENTRY 3 - 43 l R. COPPERMAN,R.DEATON (R.COPPERMAN,J.OSBORNE,J.ABRAHART) 24 ENTERTAINMENT/STONEY CREEK PRAYED FOR YOU Matt Stell 50 RE-ENTRY 14 43 36 l A.BOWERS,M.STELL (M.STELL,A.BOWERS,A.VELTZ) WIDE OPEN/RECORDS/GOOD COMPANY

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’15 Unit Sales Overall Unit Sales DIGITAL DIGITAL 2018 2019 CHANGE ALBUMS ’18 4.33 million ALBUMS* TRACKS ’14 Albums 4,328,000 3,371,000 -22.1% ’19 3.37 million This Week 264,000 65,000 689,000 Digital Tracks 14,268,000 10,562,000 -26.0% Last Week 302,000 109,000 866,000 DIGITAL TRACKS SALES Sales by Album Format Change -12.6% -40.4% -20.4% 2018 2019 CHANGE ’18 000.0 million14.27 million This Week Last Year 509,000 147,000 1,215,000 Physical 3,081,000 2,332,000 -24.3% ’19 10.56 million Change -48.1% -55.8% -43.3% Digital 1,247,000 1,039,000 -16.7% For week ending April 18, 2019. Figures are rounded. Compiled from a national sample of retail store and rack sales reports collected and *Digital album sales are also counted within album sales. provided by Nielsen Music.

For inquiries about any Nielsen Music data, please contact Josh Bennett at 615-807-1338 or [email protected] BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE APRIL 22, 2019 | PAGE 17 OF 23

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 LUKE COMBS THIS ONE’S FOR YOU 1 1 50 BEAUTIFUL CRAZY 1 1 3 GOD’S COUNTRY LUKE COMBS  BLAKE SHELTON  1 2 2 98 RIVER HOUSE/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE 538883*/SMN 2 1   MEANT TO BE LOOK WHAT GOD GAVE HER AARON LEWIS STATE I’M IN 2 2 73 2 2 7 NEW 1 2 l BEBE REXHA & FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE  THOMAS RHETT  l2 VALORY AL0200A*/BMLG DAN + SHAY DAN + SHAY 3 3 106 TENNESSEE WHISKEY 3 3 50 BEAUTIFUL CRAZY 3 5 3 43 WARNER BROS. 570796/WMN 0 1 CHRIS STAPLETON  LUKE COMBS  TEQUILA WHISKEY GLASSES BROOKS & DUNN REBOOT 4 4 60 4 11 21 4 1 — 2 ARISTA NASHVILLE 590311/SMN 1 DAN + SHAY  l MORGAN WALLEN  GOD’S COUNTRY GOOD AS YOU 8 6 50 KACEY MUSGRAVES GOLDEN HOUR 1 l5 21 2 5 5 13 l5 MCA NASHVILLE 027921*/UMGN BLAKE SHELTON  KANE BROWN  EYES ON YOU KNOCKIN’ BOOTS MAREN MORRIS GIRL 6 12 7 6 10 3 6 6 4 6 COLUMBIA NASHVILLE 590186*/SMN 1 l CHASE RICE  LUKE BRYAN  LOOK WHAT GOD GAVE HER RUMOR GEORGE STRAIT HONKY TONK TIME MACHINE 7 7 7 7 19 18 7 3 1 3 MCA NASHVILLE 029300*/UMGN (002930001) 1 l THOMAS RHETT  l LEE BRICE  HEAVEN TEQUILA CHRIS STAPLETON TRAVELLER 8 5 76 8 6 65 8 7 5 207 MERCURY 019405*/UMGN 3 1 l KANE BROWN  DAN + SHAY  SPEECHLESS NOT LIKE US FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE CAN’T SAY I AIN’T COUNTRY 9 6 39 9 NEW 9 9 7 9 BMLG FGL0400* 1 DAN + SHAY  l BRANTLEY GILBERT  HERE TONIGHT MISS ME MORE KANE BROWN EXPERIMENT 10 11 10 10 15 24 10 10 9 23 ZONE 4/RCA NASHVILLE /SMN 1 l BRETT YOUNG  KELSEA BALLERINI  RUMOR EYES ON YOU KANE BROWN KANE BROWN 11 13 9 11 24 9 11 12 10 124 ZONE 4/RCA NASHVILLE 530947*/SMN 1 1 l LEE BRICE  l CHASE RICE  SHE GOT THE BEST OF ME SPEECHLESS JASON ALDEAN REARVIEW TOWN 12 8 36 12 13 43 12 13 11 53 MACON/BROKEN BOW/BMG 538375642*/BBMG (538375730) 0 1 l LUKE COMBS  DAN + SHAY  WHISKEY GLASSES MAKE IT SWEET 15 13 46 MORGAN WALLEN IF I KNOW ME 11 13 9 9 13 12 18 l13 BIG LOUD DIGITAL EX l MORGAN WALLEN  OLD DOMINION  BRETT YOUNG BRETT YOUNG 14 10 7 GIRL 14 16 10 RAINBOW 14 11 17 114 BMLG BY0100A* 1 2 MAREN MORRIS  KACEY MUSGRAVES  YOU MAKE IT EASY GIRL GEORGE STRAIT 50 NUMBER ONES 15 14 64 15 22 13 15 14 12 172 MCA NASHVILLE 000459/UMGN (25.98) 7 1 l JASON ALDEAN  MAREN MORRIS  TALK YOU OUT OF IT DOWN TO THE HONKYTONK 17 16 148 JON PARDI CALIFORNIA SUNRISE 1 16 15 10 16 17 34 l16 CAPITOL NASHVILLE 024744*/UMGN 1 l FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE  JAKE OWEN  GOOD AS YOU TENNESSEE WHISKEY THOMAS RHETT LIFE CHANGES 17 16 9 17 20 171 17 16 15 84 VALORY TR0300A/BMLG 1 1 l KANE BROWN  CHRIS STAPLETON  ZAC BROWN BAND GREATEST HITS SO FAR... IN CASE YOU DIDN’T KNOW HERE TONIGHT 18 18 195 3 18 17 129 18 RE-ENTRY l18 ROAR/SOUTHERN GROUND/ATLANTIC 546369/AG l BRETT YOUNG  BRETT YOUNG  REBA MCENTIRE STRONGER THAN THE TRUTH MISS ME MORE TALK YOU OUT OF IT 19 18 6 19 RE-ENTRY 19 4 — 2 ROCKIN’ R/BIG MACHINE RM0600A/BMLG 4 l KELSEA BALLERINI  FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE  BRETT YOUNG TICKET TO L.A. NIGHT SHIFT SHE GOT THE BEST OF ME 20 25 2 20 RE-ENTRY 20 20 21 19 BMLG BMBY200A* 1 l JON PARDI  LUKE COMBS  BLAKE SHELTON RELOADED: 20 #1 HITS HURRICANE MERCY 21 19 130 21 7 36 21 21 19 182 WARNER BROS. 551788/WMN 2 l LUKE COMBS  BRETT YOUNG  KELSEA BALLERINI UNAPOLOGETICALLY WHAT IFS NIGHT SHIFT 22 25 22 64 3 22 24 101 22 RE-ENTRY l BLACK RIVER 2017 l KANE BROWN FEAT. LAUREN ALAINA  l JON PARDI  TIM MCGRAW NUMBER ONE HITS BODY LIKE A BACK ROAD I HOPE 23 29 26 169 6 23 22 114 23 RE-ENTRY CURB 79205 (13.98) 1 l SAM HUNT  GABBY BARRETT  THOMAS RHETT TANGLED UP DIE A HAPPY MAN ROOTS AND WINGS 24 31 28 186 2 24 RE-ENTRY 24 NEW l VALORY RT0200A/BMLG 1 THOMAS RHETT  l JESSIE JAMES DECKER  CHRIS STAPLETON FROM A ROOM: VOLUME 1 WHEN IT RAINS IT POURS SOME OF IT 25 27 25 102 1 25 RE-ENTRY 25 RE-ENTRY MERCURY 026379*/UMGN 1 LUKE COMBS  l ERIC CHURCH  Top Country Albums ranks the most popular country albums of the week, as compiled by Nielsen Music, The week’s top-streamed and top-selling paid download country songs, respectively, from sales reports based on multi-metric consumption (blending traditional album sales, track equivalent albums, and streaming collected and provided by Nielsen Music. Charts update weekly on Tuesdays at www.Billboard.Biz/ equivalent albums). Copyright 2019, Prometheus Global Media, LLC and Nielsen Music, Inc. All rights reserved. charts. Copyright 2019, Prometheus Global Media, LLC and Nielsen Music, Inc. All rights reserved. SALES DATA COMPILED BY AMERICANA/ FOLK ALBUMS

AGO POS. THIS THIS LAST LAST PEAK CERT. WEEK WEEK ARTIST TITLE WEEKS WEEKS ON CHT 2 WEEKS 2 WEEKS IMPRINT & NUMBER / DISTRIBUTING LABEL 1 2 2 55 KACEY MUSGRAVES GOLDEN HOUR 1 l MCA NASHVILLE 027921*/UMGN CHRIS STAPLETON TRAVELLER 2 1 1 153 MERCURY NASHVILLE 019405*/UMGN 3 1

NEW 1 MELISSA ETHERIDGE THE MEDICINE SHOW 3 l3 MLE 00921*/CONCORD (00922) HOZIER WASTELAND, BABY! 4 3 3 7 RUBYWORKS 591795*/COLUMBIA 1

NEW 1 BOB DYLAN BLOOD ON THE TRACKS: TEST PRESSING 5 l5 COLUMBIA 59322* RSD 2019/LEGACY SHOVELS & ROPE BY BLOOD 6 NEW 1 6 l DUALTONE 1971* 9 HOZIER HOZIER 7 5 6 199 RUBYWORKS 309996*/COLUMBIA 2 1 The song, which will be used in an upcoming 8 7 8 116 SIMON & GARFUNKEL SIMON AND GARFUNKEL’S GREATEST HITS 3 COLUMBIA 31350/LEGACY NASCAR marketing campaign, arrives at CHRIS STAPLETON FROM A ROOM: VOLUME 1 BRANTLEY No. 9 on Country Digital Song Sales with 9 6 9 102 MERCURY NASHVILLE 026379*/UMGN 1 1 GILBERT 5,000 sold. Gilbert’s seventh top 10 on the CHRIS STAPLETON FROM A ROOM: VOLUME 2 Not Like Us 10 4 7 72 MERCURY NASHVILLE 027408*/UMGN 0 1 chart also enters Hot Country Songs at No. 48. 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 2019, Prometheus Global Media, LLC and Nielsen Music, Inc. All rights reserved. MAT HAYWARD/GETTY IMAGES HAYWARD/GETTY MAT BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE APRIL 22, 2019 | PAGE 18 OF 23

MAKIN’ TRACKS TOM ROLAND [email protected] LANCO Fashions A Winning Anthem, ‘Rival,’ From A Five-Note Riff

When CBS viewers got a look at LANCO during the 54th annual Academy of Once they knocked out the chorus, the first verse beckoned, and they used Country Music (ACM) Awards, they received a booster shot of audio and video the five-note hook as a setup for those opening lines. Lancaster took the reins. adrenaline: bassist Chandler Baldwin bouncing in place, drummer Tripp “I kind of started spitballing and free-versing the verses,” he says. “It was Howell fiercely flailing his mane and his sticks, and guitarist Eric Steedly quiet for a second, so I said, ‘Never back down, never gonna quit/Other side stomping and twirling during an intentionally ratty solo. of the tracks, hometown kids.’ I kind of spit that out and that kind of framed “Rival,” the band’s new single, is a high-octane chest-pounder, the kind of where we could go in the verses.” song that defines LANCO as a live act. It’s also the kind of song that has been For Lancaster, who grew up in a working-class suburb but had friends in missing from the group’s radio playbook. toney Brentwood and Franklin, the “other “ ‘Greatest Love Story’ and ‘Born to side of the tracks” line was real. Love You’ are awesome songs, but they “I had to cross train tracks every day I haven’t necessarily showcased how big went to school in Smyrna,” he says. “I ac- our live show is,” says Howell. “We’re so tually did grow up on the other side of the energetic, so this is one of the first oppor- tracks, both metaphorically and literally.” tunities for us to showcase that with one “Rival” had just one verse and chorus of our recorded songs.” when they finished that writing session, Appropriately, “Rival” is a song that but Howell and Lancaster weren’t done, arose during an outdoor concert tour, especially after the rest of LANCO re- not in a small, enclosed writing room. sponded a few days down the road. LANCO had the opening slot during “The process when we write songs, or Dierks Bentley’s 2018 Mountain High Brandon writes songs, is to start singing it Tour, and as roadies changed the set be- at soundcheck,” says Howell. “If one per- tween Brothers Osborne and Bentley, a son starts playing, then that person likes simple, anthemic groove from one song it, and two or three people start playing, on the soundtrack caught Howell’s ear. LANCO you might have something there. When “He really wanted to write off that everyone picks up their instrument and tempo,” recalls lead vocalist Brandon Lancaster. “A lot of times when you starts working on it right then, you know that’s a song.” write a song, songwriters either have the hook or the melody, but that’s the Howell and Lancaster wrote and rewrote a second verse, in person and cool thing about having different guys in the band. Literally, the drummer through texting, for weeks, though it didn’t coalesce until LANCO started could say, ‘I want to write to this drum beat.’ ” recording in November with producer Jay Joyce (Eric Church, Ashley Mc- Howell popped onto the bus and put together a big-sounding backbeat on Bryde) at St. Charles Studio, a former church in East Nashville. the laptop, and he came up with a soaring, five-note hook. There was some- “Jay was really big on the ending, like, ‘There’s got to be a line where you thing inspirational about the combination. He headed off to a tent to hang lyrically give them the finger,’ ” says Lancaster. “That’s where ‘If you don’t with the band, but when he played it for Lancaster, the songwriting bug took like it you can shut your mouth’ came from.” over. They tumbled back into the bus and started writing somewhere around Howell, the originator, pounded out the foundational rhythm with the same 1 or 2 a.m. as the vehicle pulled away from the venue — presumably the Is- kind of forceful attitude that inhabits Queen’s “We Will Rock You.” leta Amphitheater in Albuquerque, N.M., where the tour stopped on Sept. 28, “The basic drum beat is straightforward,” says Howell. “The kick is mas- 2018. Four hours or so down the road toward Phoenix, they had a full chorus sive, the snare has a cool effect on it, and I played the high-hat straight up on and first verse that seemed like it would be ideal for the live show. the verses. Jay put this little effect on it that makes it sound like it’s almost re- That five-note hook was key. Howell couldn’t come up with words that versed, which made the song a little weird, but it feels really cool.” seemed appropriate, and Lancaster suggested leaving it as a wordless, gang- Steedly gave it a wild guitar solo, and LANCO gathered about 10 voices — vocal chant — “Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh” — similar in effect to Bruce Springsteen’s bandmembers, recording crew and a few spouses — to nail the final gang vocal. “Born to Run.” The notes themselves were extraordinarily anthemic, led by Among the finishing touches, Joyce chopped up one of Lancaster’s vocal per- a half note and two quarter notes pulled straight from a major chord. They’re formances of the line “never back down, never gonna quit” and ran it through the same three notes, in the same rhythm, as the first three notes in the hooks a filter to create an off-kilter Jew’s harp effect. of two other big-sounding songs: Beck’s alt-rock slacker anthem “Loser” and “If it catches you off guard and people scratch their heads about it, I’m OK the U.S. Navy’s Tin Pan Alley-bred fight song “Anchors Aweigh.” (Copyright with that,” says Lancaster. “That’s cool. It’s something to talk about.” neophytes should not be alarmed at the similarities; filing an infringement “Rival” was one of several songs that Arista considered as a first single, but suit over these three notes would be as ridiculous as Hallmark claiming own- when LANCO debuted it at the first show on Luke Combs’ Beer Never Broke ership of the phrase “Sorry for your loss”). My Heart Tour (Jan. 31 in Birmingham, Ala.), the audience response was Lancaster, in fact, steered “Rival” in a thematic direction that was in direct overwhelming. People moved with the drum beat and chanted along with that opposition to “Loser.” Where Beck’s song mocks self-flagellation (“I’m a loser, five-note riff. As a result, Arista issued it to country radio through PlayMPE baby/So why don’t you kill me”), “Rival” is a message of self-empowerment, on April 1 with an April 22 add date. using opposition as a motivator. Should it emerge as a hit, it would be prophetic: Lancaster riffed “I’m win- “It was kind of like a therapy session for Brandon and I,” says Howell. “You ning, I’m winning, I’m winning” in the final chorus. LANCO’s ACM victory hear so many ‘no’s’ before you hear one ‘yes’ in the music industry. You have as new group of the year already made it a winner, though the real point in to have some form of self-confidence in order to keep going. In that song, it all of it is simply about finding confidence and taking pride in one’s work. was like, ‘You know what, dude? I do roar, and you’re going to be the chip on “I’m a really competitive person,” says Lancaster. “But at the end of the day, my shoulder to get through this, to keep working.’ ” you are a musician and you’re making art. There’s not really a scoreboard.” BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE APRIL 22, 2019 | PAGE 19 OF 23 Country Indicator

AUDIENCE WKS PLAYS (IN MILLIONS) THIS LAST ON WEEK WEEK CHART TITLE Imprint/Label Artist THIS WEEK +/– THIS WEEK 1 1 30 HERE TONIGHT BMLG HH No. 1 (5 weeks) HH Brett Young 5081 -229 8.099 l2 2 27 MAKE IT SWEET RCA Nashville Old Dominion 4933 +191 7.360 l3 6 15 GOOD AS YOU Zone 4/RCA Nashville Kane Brown 4799 +438 7.082 l4 3 27 EYES ON YOU Dack Janiels/Broken Bow Chase Rice 4792 +310 6.980 l5 7 37 LOVE AIN’T Valory Eli Young Band 4624 +507 7. 11 9 l6 5 38 NIGHT SHIFT Capitol Nashville Jon Pardi 4483 +97 6.477 l7 8 27 MISS ME MORE Black River Kelsea Ballerini 4201 +123 6.037 l8 9 34 ON MY WAY TO YOU CoJo/WMN Cody Johnson 4072 +25 6.051 l9 12 32 WHISKEY GLASSES Big Loud HH Most Increased Plays HH Morgan Wallen 3909 +527 5.867 10 10 21 BEAUTIFUL CRAZY River House/Columbia Nashville Luke Combs 3410 -446 5.912 l11 14 39 LOVE SOMEONE Atlantic/WMN Brett Eldredge 3385 +230 5 . 111 l12 13 8 LOOK WHAT GOD GAVE HER Valory Thomas Rhett 3334 +178 4.935 l13 15 10 EVERY LITTLE HONKY TONK BAR MCA Nashville George Strait 2959 +66 3.996 l14 16 21 RUMOR Curb Lee Brice 2955 +179 4.148 l15 18 14 GIRL Columbia Nashville Maren Morris 2702 +231 3.754 l16 17 25 TALK YOU OUT OF IT BMLG Florida Georgia Line 2697 +85 3.441 l17 19 15 SOME OF IT EMI Nashville Eric Church 2636 +208 3.491 l18 20 4 GOD’S COUNTRY Warner Bros./WMN Blake Shelton 2486 +393 3.662 l19 21 51 CAUGHT UP IN THE COUNTRY Curb Rodney Atkins Feat. The Fisk Jubilee Singers 2196 + 110 3.072 l20 23 13 RAISED ON COUNTRY RCA Nashville Chris Young 1986 +172 2.655 l21 22 16 WHAT HAPPENS IN A SMALL TOWN Valory Brantley Gilbert & Lindsay Ell 1986 +146 2.616 l22 24 9 REARVIEW TOWN Macon/Broken Bow Jason Aldean 1897 +125 2.553 l23 26 4 KNOCKIN’ BOOTS Capitol Nashville HH Most Added HH Luke Bryan 1853 +434 2.595 l24 25 21 BUY MY OWN DRINKS Wheelhouse Runaway June 1750 +128 2.322 l25 27 9 ALL TO MYSELF Warner Bros./WAR Dan + Shay 1672 +398 2.308 l26 30 8 LIVING Capitol Nashville Dierks Bentley 1233 +153 1.676 27 28 10 RAINBOW MCA Nashville Kacey Musgraves 1144 -86 1.270 l28 32 20 CLOSER TO YOU Big Machine Carly Pearce 1105 +73 1.191 l29 31 15 KISS THAT GIRL GOODBYE BIG Label Aaron Watson 1102 +49 1.403 l30 33 11 THOUGHT ABOUT YOU McGraw/Columbia Nashville Tim McGraw 985 +79 1.241

BILLBOARD COUNTRY INDICATOR PANEL — 109 STATIONS

Abilene, Texas KEAN Fargo, N.D. KBVB Laurel, Miss. WBBN San Luis Obispo, Calif. KKJG Alexandria, La. KRRV WSTH Lebanon, N.H. WXXK Santa Barbara, Calif. KRAZ Amarillo, Texas KGNC Fayetteville, N.C. WKML Lincoln, Neb KFGE Santa Maria, Calif. KSNI Asheville, N.C. WKSF Flagstaff, Ariz. KAFF Longview, Texas KYKX Sheboygan, Wis. WBFM Atlantic City, N.J. WPUR Flint, Mich. WFBE Lubbock, Texas KLLL Savannah, Ga. WJCL Beaumont, Texas KYKR Florence, Ala. WXFL Lufkin, Texas KYKS WUBB Beckley, W. Va. WJLS Florence, S.C. WEGX Marshalltown, Iowa KXIA Shreveport, La. KXKS Biloxi, Miss. WZKX Ft. Collins, Colo. KUAD Mason City, Iowa KIAI Sioux Cty, Iowa KSUX Bloomington, Ill. WIBL Ft. Smith, Ark. KTCS Medford, Ore. KRWQ South Bend, Ind. WBYT Bluefield, W. Va. WHKX Frederick, Md. WFRE Meridian, Miss. WOKK Springfield, Ill. WFMB Burlington, Vt. WOKO Fredericksburg, Va. WFLS Milwaukee, WI. WKTI Springfield, Mo. KTTS Cape Girardeau, Mo. KEZS Green Bay, Wis. WNCY Montgomery, Ala. WLWI Terre Haute, Ind. WTHI Charleston, W. Va WKWS Hagerstown, Md. WAYZ Morgantown, W. Va. WKKW Topeka, Kan. WIBW WQBE Hot Springs, Ark. KQUS Muskegon, Mich. WMUS Traverse City, Mich. WTCM College Station, Texas KAGG Huntington, Ky. WDGG New London, Conn. WCTY Tupelo, Miss. WWZD Colorado Springs. KCCY Huntington, W. Va. WTCR Odessa, Texas KHKX Utica, N.Y. WFRG Columbia, Mo. KCLR Idaho Falls, Idaho KTHK Palm Springs, Calif. KPLM Victor Valley, CA. KATJ Columbus, Ga. WKCN Jackson, Miss. WMSI Pensacola, Fla. WXBM Waco, Texas WACO WSTH WUSJ Peoria, Ill. WXCL Wausau, Wis. WDEZ Cookeville, Tenn. WGSQ Janesville, Wis. WJVL Poughkeepsie, N.Y. WRWD Wheeling, W. Va. WOVK Dothan, Ala. WTVY Jonesboro, Ark. KDXY Rapid City, S.D. KOUT Williamsport, Pa. WILQ Duluth, Minn. KKCB Joplin, Mo. KIXQ Rockford, Ill. WXXQ Yakima, Wash. KXDD Eau Claire, Wis. WAXX Kalamazoo, Mich. WNWN Rocky Mount, N.C. WDWG Youngstown, Ohio WQXK Elizabeth City, N.C. WRSF Kalispell, Mont. KDBR Saginaw, Mich. WCEN WWGY Erie, Pa. WTWF Kingmah, Ariz. KFLG St. Cloud, Minn. KZPK Westwood One HOT COUNTRY Eugene, Ore. KKNU Lafayette, Ind. WKOA Salina, Kan. KYEZ MAINSTREAM COUNTRY Evansville, Ind. WKDQ Laredo, Texas KRRG Salisbury, Md. WKTT Music Choice TODAY’S COUNTRY Lansing, Mich. WITL San Angelo, Texas KGKL Sirius XM THE HIGHWAY BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE APRIL 22, 2019 | PAGE 20 OF 23 Country Indicator

AUDIENCE WKS PLAYS (IN MILLIONS) THIS LAST ON WEEK WEEK CHART TITLE Imprint/Label Artist THIS WEEK +/– THIS WEEK l31 37 13 EVERY LITTLE THING Triple Tigers Russell Dickerson 826 + 111 1.020 l32 34 24 LADIES IN THE ‘90S 19/Mercury Lauren Alaina 825 +5 0.840 l33 36 15 LOVE YOU TOO LATE Warner Bros./WMN Cole Swindell 814 +50 0.866 l34 35 25 I DON’T REMEMBER ME (BEFORE YOU) EMI Nashville Brothers Osborne 807 +33 0.855 l35 38 30 BACK TO LIFE Big Machine Rascal Flatts 760 +49 0.702 l36 42 6 SOMEBODY’S DAUGHTER Columbia Nashville Tenille Townes 678 +168 0.971 l37 39 6 GOOD VIBES Warner Bros./WAR Chris Janson 661 +85 0.787 l38 44 19 THE ONES THAT DIDN’T MAKE IT BACK HOME Valory Justin Moore 579 +125 0.722 l39 41 16 A LITTLE ON THE REDNECK SIDE Dream Walkin’ Smith & Wesley 561 +49 0.605 l40 43 7 REDNECKER TVM/Big Loud Hardy 510 +30 0.550 l41 52 2 MR. LONELY Big Machine Midland 481 +193 0.525 l42 45 7 IF I WAS A COWBOY Rebel Engine Stephanie Quayle 477 +50 0.592 l43 48 12 GIRL GOIN’ NOWHERE Atlantic/WAR Ashley McBryde 469 +58 0.457 l44 46 9 SOMEWHERE BETWEEN I LOVE YOU AND I’M LEAVIN’ Rounder/Concord Cody Jinks 447 +24 0.458 l45 47 20 ROCKIN’ ALL NIGHT LONG Buena Vista/Capitol Nashville Adam Hambrick 416 +2 0.375 l46 50 9 AFTER A FEW Mercury Travis Denning 388 0 0.473 l47 51 14 I DON’T KNOW ABOUT YOU Big Loud Chris Lane 379 +21 0.345 48 49 10 NOTHING TO DO TOWN Curb Dylan Scott 368 -23 0.435 l49 56 6 LOVE TO TRY THEM ON Amerimonte Shane Owens 347 +77 0.465 l50 53 6 DAY DRUNK Warner Bros./WEA Morgan Evans 290 +14 0.239 l51 57 5 THE BULL MCA Nashville Kip Moore 281 +19 0.337 l52 54 3 RIDIN’ ROADS Broken Bow Dustin Lynch 275 +2 0.302 l53 NEW SOMEBODY’S GOTTA BE COUNTRY TapeRoom HH Hot Shot Debut HH Easton Corbin 267 +68 0.337 54 55 9 GET AWAY High4Records/Curve Music/Grassroots Ryan Sims 252 -20 0.254 l55 NEW PRAYED FOR YOU Wide Open/GCE/RECORDS Matt Stell 250 +48 0.210 l56 59 3 BULLETPROOF Free Flow/Nine North/Grassroots/Grapevine Dave McElroy 244 +15 0.251 57 58 6 SOMEONE I USED TO KNOW ZB Collective/BMG/Wheelhouse Zac Brown Band 232 -4 0.196 l58 NEW CRAZY PEOPLE Tommy Jackson/Thirty Tigers Randy Rogers Band 227 +19 0.360 l59 60 3 MAKE ME WANT TO Stoney Creek Jimmie Allen 225 +8 0.254 l60 NEW MY MIRACLE Arista Nashville Brad Paisley 219 +3 0.224

CHARTS LEGEND RANKINGS station downtime for the format. gaining enough audience points MOST INCREASED AUDIENCE/ Country Airplay is ranked by Titles that decline in audience to bullet or if they rank below No. PLAYS total audience impressions but increase in detections will 10 and post a third consecutive Most Increased Audience on for the week ending Sunday also receive a bullet if the total week of (non-bulleted) audience Country Airplay and Most based on monitored airplay of audience erosion for the week decline, regardless of total chart Increased Plays on Country 149 stations by Nielsen BDS. does not exceed 3%. Bullets are weeks. On Country Indicator, Indicator list the songs with the Audience totals on the chart are awarded on Country Indicator to descending, non-bulleted titles greatest week-to-week increases derived, in part, using certain titles gaining plays or remaining below No. 10 are moved to in total audience or plays, Arbitron Inc. copyrighted flat from the previous week. recurrent after 20 weeks or if they respectively. Persons 12+ audience post a third consecutive week of estimates (under license © TIES decline in plays after 10 weeks. AIRPOWER 2019, Arbitron Inc.) Country On Country Airplay, if two songs Awarded on Country Airplay to Indicator is tabulated using are tied in total audience, the song HOT SHOT DEBUT titles ranking inside top 20 in reported playlists and Nielsen with the larger increase in audience Awarded to the highest-ranking plays and audience rankings for BDS-monitored airplay at 109 is placed first. On Country Indicator, new entry on Country Airplay and the first time, with increases in stations, ranked by total plays. if two songs are tied in total plays, Country Indicator, respectively. both plays and audience. the song with the larger increase in BULLETS plays is placed first. MOST ADDED BREAKER l Awarded on Country Airplay The total number of new adds Awarded on Country Airplay to titles gaining audience or RECURRENTS officially reported to Billboard by to titles achieving airplay (at remaining flat from the previous On Country Airplay, descending each reporting station, or by an least one detection) at 60% of week. A song will also receive titles below No. 10 in either automatic-add threshold (seven plays reporting stations for the first a bullet if its percentage loss audience or detections are moved for the first time in a chart tracking time. in audience does not exceed to recurrent after 20 weeks, week, according to Nielsen BDS) for the percentage of monitored provided that they are not still stations that do not report adds. © 2019 Prometheus Global Media, LLC BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE APRIL 22, 2019 | PAGE 21 OF 23 Country Airplay Index

TITLE Publishing-Licensing Org. GIRL GOIN’ NOWHERE Songs Of Song Factory, M   REARVIEW TOWN Songs Of Peer Ltd., ASCAP/ (Songwriter) Chart Position BMI/Universal Tunes, SESAC (A.McBryde, J.Bussey) 46 Team Thrash, ASCAP/Songs Of Peer, BMI/New Writers MAKE IT SWEET Carrot Seed Songs, ASCAP/WB Of Sea Gayle Music, BMI/Not A Track Guy Music, BMI/ GOD’S COUNTRY Relative Music Group, BMI/ Music Corp., ASCAP/Smackville Music, ASCAP/Smack New House Of Sea Gayle Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., A   Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI/ Songs LLC, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, ASCAP/Own My Own Music Publishing, ASCAP (N.Thrasher, WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Georgia Song Vibez, ASCAP/ ASCAP/Rezsongs, ASCAP/ReHits Music, Inc., ASCAP/ B.Pinson, K.Lovelace) 28 AFTER A FEW I’m About To Go RED On Ya Music, We-Volve Music, ASCAP/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Smacktown Music, ASCAP/Smack Blue, LLC, ASCAP/ BMI/Travis Denning Music, BMI/ole, BMI/Crack The Glass Corp., BMI/Neon Cross Music, BMI (M.Hardy, J.M.Schmidt, Unfair Entertainment, ASCAP/MeGusta Music, ASCAP/ REDNECKER Buzz Light Beer Music, ASCAP/ Songs, BMI/Stars And Stripes And Maple Leaf Music, D.Dawson) 18 Tiny Handstand, ASCAP/Sharkules Music, ASCAP/ Downtown DLJ Songs, ASCAP/Relative Music Group, BMI/ BMI/Downtown DMP Songs, BMI/Sound Wagon Songs, We’re Really Doin’ It Publishing, ASCAP/Smack Hits, WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Freshy Music, ASCAP/We-Volve ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Music Of The Corn, ASCAP GOOD AS YOU Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/ GMR/Kobalt Music Group Ltd., GMR (M.Ramsey, T. Rosen, Music, ASCAP (A.Albert, M.Hardy, J.M.Schmidt) 42 (T.Denning, K.Archer, J.Weaver) 53 Kane Brown Music, BMI/Don’t Be A Gypsy, BMI/ W.Sellers, G.Sprung, B.Tursi, S.McAnally) 3 Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/BMG Rights RIDIN’ ROADS Magic Mustang Music Inc., BMI/ ALCOHOL YOU LATER Sony/ATV Countryside, Management (UK) Ltd., PRS/You Want How Much Of MAKE ME WANT TO Red Lining Music, SESAC/ Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Round Hill BMI/Sam Sumser Music, ASCAP/Lava Music, ASCAP/ What Publishing, PRS/TDP Publishing, BMI/Track House Sony/ATV Lakeview, SESAC/Amplified Hour Songs, Songs II, ASCAP/Caleb’s College Fund, ASCAP/Spirit Two Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, ASCAP/Lucky Mic Worldwide Entertainment, BMI/Mandy’s Favorite Songs, SESAC/Pedal Down Music, ASCAP/Sounds Of Soperman Nashville, ASCAP/Miller Crow Music, ASCAP/Kyler’s Kinda Publishing, BMI/Music Of Parallel, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt BMI (K.Brown, B.Berryhill, S.Carter, T.Phillips, W.Weatherly) 6 Music Publishing, ASCAP/Curb Songs, ASCAP/Dreamark Night, ASCAP (D.Lynch, A.Gorley, Z.Crowell) 49 Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI (M.Tenpenny, S.Sumser, Publishing, ASCAP (J.Allen, P.Sikes, J.Denmark) 47 M.Lotten) 57 GOOD VIBES ole Red Vinyl Music, BMI/Spirit Two ROCKIN’ ALL NIGHT LONG Ole Red Cape Nashville, ASCAP/Miller Crow Music, ASCAP/Round Hill MISS ME MORE Songs Of Black River, ASCAP/KNB Songs, ASCAP/Red Like The Sunset Music, ASCAP/Stars ALL TO MYSELF Beats And Banjos, ASCAP/WB Songs II, ASCAP/Caleb’s College Fund, ASCAP (C.Janson, Music, ASCAP/3 Weddings Music, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt And Stripes And Maple Leaf Music, BMI/Crack The Glass Music Corp., ASCAP/Shay Mooney Music, BMI/Warner- Z.Crowell, A.Gorley) 41 Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI/EMI April Music, Inc., Songs, BMI/Downtown DMP Songs, BMI/Garda Songs, Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/A Girl Named Charlie, ASCAP/Bob Ochoa’s Homemade Salsa, ASCAP (K.Ballerini, SESAC/King Pen Songs, SESAC/Songs Of Downtown, BMI/Buckeye26, ASCAP/Jreynmusic, ASCAP (D.Smyers, H   D.H.Hodges, B.McLaughlin) 7 SESAC (A.Hambrick, K.Archer, P.Good) 55 S.Mooney, N.Galyon, J.Reynolds) 25 MR. LONELY WB Music Corp., ASCAP/TipTop Music, RUMOR Mike Curb Music, BMI/Curb Songs, ASCAP/ HERE TONIGHT Super Big Music, ASCAP/ ASCAP/Tropical Cowboy Publishing, ASCAP/Warner- Jacobsong, ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/ B   Caliville Publishing, ASCAP/Songs Of Black River, Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Kitt Cass Publishing Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Wordspring Music, LLC, SESAC/Memory Days, Corporation, BMI/Smack Hits, GMR/Smack Songs LLC, ASCAP (L.Brice, K.Jacobs, A.Gorley) 16 BACK TO LIFE W.B.M. Music Corp., SESAC/ SESAC/W.B.M. Music Corp., SESAC/The Best I Could Do GMR/Kobalt Music Group Ltd., GMR/Anderson Fork Bennett’s Dad’s Songs, SESAC/Songs Of Rhythm House Publishing, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP (B.Young, In The Road Music, ASCAP/Smackville Music, ASCAP/ Black, SESAC/Niko Moon Publishing, SESAC/Roc Nation B.Caver, J.Ebach, C.Kelley) 1 Smack Songs LLC, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Publishing S   US Music, SESAC/Shay Mooney Music, BMI/Warner- LLC, ASCAP (J.Carson, C.Duddy, M.Wystrach, S.McAnally, Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Farm Thang Music, I   J.Osborne) 45 SOMEBODY’S DAUGHTER Year Of The Dog BMI/Me Gusta Music, BMI (C.R.Barlowe, N.Moon, S.Mooney, Music, ASCAP/Sony/ATV Story Music Publishing, GMR/We 33 F.Wilhelm)  I DON’T KNOW ABOUT YOU Round Hill MY MIRACLE House Of Sea Gayle Music, ASCAP/ Are Creative Nation, GMR/Be Barry Quiet, BMI/Creative Songs II, ASCAP/Caleb’s College Fund, ASCAP/WB Spirit Cataloge Holdings, S.A.R.L./Spirit Two Nashville, Pulse Music, BMI/Pulse Nation, BMI (T.Townes, L.Laird, BEAUTIFUL CRAZY Big Machine Music, BMI/ Music Corp., ASCAP/Who Wants To Buy My Publishing, ASCAP/Sony/ATV Cross Keys Publishing, ASCAP/Gary Bary Dean) 29 Egg Music, BMI/Straight Dimes Publishing, BMI/Works ASCAP/Relative Music Group, BMI/One77 Songs, ASCAP/ Nicholson Music, ASCAP (B.Paisley, G.Nicholson) 48 Of RHA Music, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Highly Combustible Music, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music SOME OF IT Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/Longer Corp., BMI/Rowdy Rob Music, BMI (L.Combs, W.B.Durrette, Publishing LLC, ASCAP (A.Gorley, M.Hardy, H.Phelps, And Louder Music, BMI/Mammaw’s Fried Okra Music, R.Williford) 2 J.Rodgers) 37 N   BMI/Little Louder Songs, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI/New Writers Of Sea Gayle BETTER OFF GONE Year Of The Dog Music, I DON’T REMEMBER ME (BEFORE YOU) NIGHT SHIFT Maxx Music, BMI/Let The Road Pave Music, BMI/Not A Track Guy Music, BMI (E.Church, J.Hyde, ASCAP/Shakapublishing, ASCAP/Downtown DLJ Songs, Trampy McCauley, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/ Itself, BMI/Razor And Tie Music Publishing, BMI/Mike C.Daniels, B.Pinson) 20 ASCAP (A.Stoklasa, D.Woods) 54 Songstein Publishing, ASCAP/All The Kings Pens, ASCAP/ Curb Music, BMI/Rain Town Music, BMI (T.Brown, P.LaRue, Round Hill Songs BLS JV, ASCAP/Big Loud Proud Songs, B.Montana) 8 SOMEONE I USED TO KNOW Weimerhound THE BULL BMG Platinum Songs, BMI/SWMBMGBMI, ASCAP/Matt Drag Music, ASCAP/Smack Hits, GMR/ Music, BMI/Day For The Dead Publishing, SESAC/Reach BMI/Lonesome Vinyl Music, BMI/Emileon Songs, Smack Songs LLC, GMR/Kobalt Music Group Ltd., GMR (J. NOTHING TO DO TOWN Curb Songs, ASCAP/ Music Tunes, SESAC/Andrew Watt Music, BMI/Songs Of BMI/Little Louder Songs, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Osborne, T.J. Osborne, M.Dragstrem, S.McAnally) 39 Curb Congregation Songs, SESAC/Music Good Vibes Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI/Siva Moon Publishing America, Inc., BMI (J.R.Stewart, L.Dick) 58 Publishing, BMI/Good Times Music, SESAC/Universal Publishing, SESAC/W.B.M. Music Corp., SESAC/Simonetti IN BETWEEN Dagum Music, BMI/Austintatious Music Corp., ASCAP/No Bridge Publishing, ASCAP (D. Music Publishing, SESAC/Kobalt Group Music Publishing, Tunes, BMI/Spirit Cataloge Holdings, S.A.R.L./Spirit Two Scott, M.Alderman, C.Taylor) 44 SESAC/Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Mendes Music, BMI BUY MY OWN DRINKS BMG Platinum Songs, (Z.A.Brown, A.Wotman, N.Moon, B.Simonetti, S.Mendes) 60 BMI/BMG Silver Songs, SESAC/BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP/ Nashville, ASCAP/House Of Sea Gayle Music, ASCAP/ Rezonate Music, ASCAP/BIRB Music, ASCAP/Champagne Party Of Five Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/ O   Super Big Music, ASCAP/Jett Music, ASCAP (S.McCreery, T   Whiskey Publishing, ASCAP/Downtown DLJ Songs, 56 ASCAP/Legends Of Magic Mustang Music, SESAC/Music F.Rogers, J.L.Alexander, J.Singleton)  OLD TOWN ROAD Montero Lamar Hill Publishing Of Platinum Pen, SESAC/Wild Wild West Songs, SESAC/ Designee, ASCAP/Form And Texture Inc., ASCAP/Kobalt TALK YOU OUT OF IT Relative Music Group, Thunder Cookie, SESAC/Magic Mustang Music Inc., BMI/ K   Songs Music Publishing LLC, ASCAP/Songs Of Universal, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., Songwriters of Platinum Pen Publishing, BMI/Hannah Inc., BMI/Songs in the Key of Mink, BMI/Sunnageronimo BMI/Who Wants To Buy My Publishing, ASCAP/WB Music Mulholland Music, BMI (H.Mulholland, J.Wayne, N.Cooke, KNOCKIN’ BOOTS BIRB Music, ASCAP/BMG Gold Publishing, Inc., BMI/Jozzy Donald Publishing Designee, Corp., ASCAP/Highly Combustible Music, ASCAP/One77 H.Lindsey, J.Kear) 26 Songs, ASCAP/Still Working For The Woman, ASCAP/ ASCAP (M.L.Hill, M.T.Reznor, A.M.Ross, B.R.Cyrus, J.A.Donald) 50 Songs, ASCAP/Castle Bound Music, Inc., SESAC (M.Hardy, Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, ASCAP/EMI April H.Phelps, J.Rogers, A.Vanderheym) 21 C   Music, Inc., ASCAP/Nite Writer Music, ASCAP (H.Lindsey, ONE BIG COUNTRY SONG Songs Of Roc G.Sampson, J.M.Nite) 27 Nation Music, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., THERE WAS THIS GIRL Riley Green Publishing BMI/Telemitry Rhythm House Music, BMI/Round Hill Designee, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/ CAUGHT UP IN THE COUNTRY WB Music Songs II, ASCAP/Caleb’s College Fund, ASCAP/Relative Peermusic III, Ltd., BMI/Tawnes Van Hawke Publishing, Corp., ASCAP/Freshy Music, ASCAP/We-Volve Music, L   Music Group, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing BMI (R.Green, Erik Dylan) 11 ASCAP/Goes Something Like THIS Music, BMI/Warner- America, Inc., BMI (J.Frasure, A.Gorley, M.Hardy) 52 Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Make It Matter Music, LIVING EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Plain Jane BMI/Sixteen Stars Music, BMI (C.Harrington, J.M.Schmidt, Songs, BMI/Rezolant Music, BMI/EMI April Music, Inc., THOUGHT ABOUT YOU Warner-Tamerlane M.Walker) 22 ASCAP/Nite Writer Music, ASCAP/Combustion Engine THE ONES THAT DIDN’T MAKE IT BACK Publishing Corp., BMI/The Country And Western Music, Music, ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/WB Music HOME Big Music Machine, BMI/Double Barrel Ace BMI/Round Hill Works, BMI/Big Loud Proud Crowd, BMI/ Corp., ASCAP/DudeTunes, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Music, BMI/Universal Music Corp., ASCAP/Paulywood Big Loud Brad Music, BMI/Big Loud Brett Songs, BMI CLOSER TO YOU BIRB Music, ASCAP/BMG Gold Music, ASCAP/Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Plum Nelly, (L.T.Miller, B.Warren, B.D.Warren) 36 Songs, ASCAP/1217 Songs, ASCAP/Still Working For The Publishing LLC, ASCAP (R.Copperman, J.M.Nite, A.Gorley, BMI/Ole Red Cape Songs, ASCAP/Real Big Red Tunes, Woman, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, D.Bentley) 40 ASCAP  30 ASCAP/Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Low Z Music, BMI (H. (J.Moore, P.DiGiovanni, C.McGill, J.S.Stover)  TO A T Universal Music Corp., ASCAP/Lake Allegan Lindsey, G.Sampson, T.Verges) 31 LOOK WHAT GOD GAVE HER EMI Pub Club, ASCAP/Red Like The Sunset Music, ASCAP/ Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Cricket On The Line, BMI/ ONE THAT GOT AWAY Downtown DMP Songs, Spicer And Everyting Nicer, ASCAP/Ole Red Cape Songs, Ritten by Rhettro, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing BMI/Telemitry Productions, BMI/ReHits Music, Inc., ASCAP/Big Music Machine, BMI/Never Veltz So Good D   ASCAP/Smacktown Music, ASCAP/Carrot Seed Songs, Publishing, BMI (R.J.Hurd, N.Spicer, L.Veltz) 51 Corp., BMI/Music Of Big Family, BMI/Dragon Bunny ASCAP/Smack Songs LLC, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music DAY DRUNK Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., Music, BMI/Don Wyan Music, BMI/Maru La La, BMI/ Publishing LLC, ASCAP/Anderson Fork In The Road Music, BMI/SongsbyME, BMI/EMI April Music, Inc., ASCAP/CDS MaruSongs, LLC, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing ASCAP/Smackville Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/ W   Words And Music, ASCAP/Hey Kiddo Music, ASCAP/ America, Inc., BMI/Rap Kingpin Music, ASCAP/ Sony/ATV Cross Keys Publishing, ASCAP (J.Frasure, T. Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, ASCAP (M.Evans, C. Prescription Songs, LLC., ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Rosen, M.Ramsey, J.Osborne) 10 WHAT HAPPENS IN A SMALL TOWN DeStefano, L.Robbins) 35 Publishing LLC, ASCAP (Thomas Rhett, R.Akins, J.Bunetta, Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Indiana Angel J.K.Hindlin, A.Malik, J.H.Ryan) 13 Music, BMI/Ritten by Rhettro, BMI/Don’t Be A Gypsy, ON MY WAY TO YOU WB Music Corp., ASCAP/ BMI/Revelry Music, BMI/Badlandsmgmt, BMI/Songs Of E   LOVE AIN’T EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Plain Songs Of Brett, ASCAP/Atlas Music Publishing, ASCAP/ Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI (B.Gilbert, Jane Songs, BMI/Rezolant Music, BMI/Combustion External Combustion Music, ASCAP/BMG Gold Songs, R.Akins, B.Berryhill, J.Dunne) 24 EVERY LITTLE HONKY TONK BAR Day Engine Music, ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/ ASCAP/Heytone Music, ASCAP (Brett James, T.Lane) 14 Money Music, ASCAP/HoriPro Entertainment Group, WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Smack Hits, GMR/Smack Songs WHISKEY GLASSES Warner-Tamerlane Inc., ASCAP/Living For The Night Music, BMI/HoriPro LLC, GMR/Kobalt Music Group Ltd., GMR (R.Copperman, P   Publishing Corp., BMI/Mr. Buck Lucky, BMI/Bump Into Entertainment Group, Inc., BMI/Ohio Creek Music, BMI/ A.Gorley, S.McAnally) 5 Genius Music, BMI/Sony/ATV Allegro, ASCAP/Over- Dean’s Cabin Publishing, LLC, BMI (G.Strait, B.Strait, PRAYED FOR YOU Pedal Down Music, ASCAP/ Thought Under-Appreciated Songs, ASCAP/Rezven D.Dillon) 19 LOVE SOMEONE Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI/Paris Big Spaces Music, BMI/Tunes Of Big Deal Music, SESAC/ Music, ASCAP/Moving Targest In The Dark, ASCAP (B. Not France Music, BMI/EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/ Songs Of Porterfied Music, SESAC/Sony/ATV Countryside, Burgess, K.Kadish) 9 EVERY LITTLE THING BMG Platinum Songs, Rezolant Music, BMI/Plain Jane Songs, BMI/Sony/ATV BMI/Sony/ATV Accent, ASCAP (M.Stell, A.Bowers, A.Veltz) 43 BMI/Kailey’s Dream, BMI/So Essential Tunes, SESAC/Not Tree Publishing, BMI/Heather Feather Songs, BMI (B. Just Another Song Publishing, SESAC/Hillbilly Science Eldredge, R.Copperman, H.Morgan) 12 WORLD FOR TWO EMI Blackwood Music And Research Publishing, SESAC/Trailerlily Music, SESAC R   Inc., BMI/Plain Jane Songs, BMI/Rezolant Music, BMI/ (R.Dickerson, P.Welling, C.Brown) 34 Anderson Fork In The Road Music, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs LOVE WINS Carrie-Okie Music, BMI/Universal Music RAINBOW HappyGoWrucke, BMI/Creative Pulse Music Publishing LLC, ASCAP/Smackville Music, ASCAP/ - Brentwood Benson Publishing, ASCAP/D Soul Music, Music, BMI/These Are Pulse Songs, BMI/Smack Hits, Smack Songs LLC, ASCAP/Lets Get Brunch Publishing, EYES ON YOU Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI/Dack ASCAP/Capitol CMG Genesis, ASCAP/Songs Of Brett, GMR/Smack Songs LLC, GMR/Kobalt Music Group Ltd., BMI/Artist 101 Publishing Group, BMI (R.Copperman, Janiel’s Publishing, BMI/EMI April Music, Inc., ASCAP/ ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP (C.Underwood, D.A.Garcia, GMR/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/351 Music, J.Osborne, J.Abrahart) 59 CDS Words And Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/ Brett James) 15 BMI/EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI (N.Hemby, S.McAnally, Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite K.Musgraves) 38 Songs, ASCAP (C.Rice, C. DeStefano, A.Gorley) 4 LOVE YOU TOO LATE Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/Colden Rainey Music, BMI/Sony/ATV Cross Keys RAISED ON COUNTRY Songs Of Universal, G   Publishing, ASCAP/243 Music, ASCAP/Peermusic III, Inc., BMI/They’ve Gone To Plaid Publishing, BMI/W.B.M. Ltd., BMI/Whiskey Tub Music, BMI (C.Swindell, Michael Ray, Music Corp., SESAC/Roc Nation US Music, SESAC/Songs GIRL International Dog Music, BMI/Downtown DMP B.Kinney) 32 Of Rhythm House Black, SESAC/Bennett’s Dad’s Songs, Songs, BMI/Sony/ATV Songs LLC, BMI/Sony/ATV Music SESAC/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Georgia Song Vibez, Publishing (Australia) Pty Ltd., APRA/EMI April Music, ASCAP/Big Crowd Publishing, ASCAP (C.Young, C.R.Barlowe, Inc., ASCAP/Kurstin Music, ASCAP (M.Morris, S.Aarons, C.Crowder) 23 G.Kurstin) 17 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE APRIL 22, 2019 | PAGE 22 OF 23 Hot Country Songs Index

TITLE Publishing-Licensing Org. GOD’S COUNTRY Relative Music Group, BMI/ M   REARVIEW TOWN Songs Of Peer Ltd., ASCAP/ (Songwriter) Chart Position Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI/ Team Thrash, ASCAP/Songs Of Peer, BMI/New Writers WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Georgia Song Vibez, ASCAP/ MAKE IT SWEET Carrot Seed Songs, ASCAP/WB Of Sea Gayle Music, BMI/Not A Track Guy Music, BMI/ A   We-Volve Music, ASCAP/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Music Corp., ASCAP/Smackville Music, ASCAP/Smack New House Of Sea Gayle Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., Corp., BMI/Neon Cross Music, BMI (M.Hardy, J.M.Schmidt, Songs LLC, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, ASCAP/Own My Own Music Publishing, ASCAP (N.Thrasher, ALL TO MYSELF Beats And Banjos, ASCAP/WB D.Dawson) 4 ASCAP/Rezsongs, ASCAP/ReHits Music, Inc., ASCAP/ B.Pinson, K.Lovelace) 27 Music Corp., ASCAP/Shay Mooney Music, BMI/Warner- Smacktown Music, ASCAP/Smack Blue, LLC, ASCAP/ Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/A Girl Named Charlie, GOOD AS YOU Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/ Unfair Entertainment, ASCAP/MeGusta Music, ASCAP/ REDNECKER Buzz Light Beer Music, ASCAP/ BMI/Buckeye26, ASCAP/Jreynmusic, ASCAP (D.Smyers, Kane Brown Music, BMI/Don’t Be A Gypsy, BMI/ Tiny Handstand, ASCAP/Sharkules Music, ASCAP/ Downtown DLJ Songs, ASCAP/Relative Music Group, BMI/ S.Mooney, N.Galyon, J.Reynolds) 22 Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/BMG Rights We’re Really Doin’ It Publishing, ASCAP/Smack Hits, WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Freshy Music, ASCAP/We-Volve Management (UK) Ltd., PRS/You Want How Much Of GMR/Kobalt Music Group Ltd., GMR (M.Ramsey, T. Rosen, Music, ASCAP (A.Albert, M.Hardy, J.M.Schmidt) 30 B   What Publishing, PRS/TDP Publishing, BMI/Track House W.Sellers, G.Sprung, B.Tursi, S.McAnally) 9 Worldwide Entertainment, BMI/Mandy’s Favorite Songs, RIDIN’ ROADS Magic Mustang Music Inc., BMI/ BACK TO LIFE W.B.M. Music Corp., SESAC/ BMI (K.Brown, B.Berryhill, S.Carter, T.Phillips, W.Weatherly) 7 MISS ME MORE Songs Of Black River, ASCAP/KNB Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Round Hill Bennett’s Dad’s Songs, SESAC/Songs Of Rhythm House Music, ASCAP/3 Weddings Music, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Songs II, ASCAP/Caleb’s College Fund, ASCAP/Spirit Two Black, SESAC/Niko Moon Publishing, SESAC/Roc Nation H   Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI/EMI April Music, Inc., Nashville, ASCAP/Miller Crow Music, ASCAP/Kyler’s Kinda US Music, SESAC/Shay Mooney Music, BMI/Warner- ASCAP/Bob Ochoa’s Homemade Salsa, ASCAP (K.Ballerini, Night, ASCAP (D.Lynch, A.Gorley, Z.Crowell) 35 Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Farm Thang Music, HERE TONIGHT Super Big Music, ASCAP/ D.H.Hodges, B.McLaughlin) 11 BMI/Me Gusta Music, BMI (C.R.Barlowe, N.Moon, S.Mooney, Caliville Publishing, ASCAP/Songs Of Black River, RUMOR Mike Curb Music, BMI/Curb Songs, ASCAP/ F.Wilhelm) 43 ASCAP/Wordspring Music, LLC, SESAC/Memory Days, N   Jacobsong, ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/ SESAC/W.B.M. Music Corp., SESAC/The Best I Could Do Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., BEAUTIFUL CRAZY Big Machine Music, BMI/ Publishing, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP (B.Young, NEON MOON Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing ASCAP (L.Brice, K.Jacobs, A.Gorley) 12 Egg Music, BMI/Straight Dimes Publishing, BMI/Works B.Caver, J.Ebach, C.Kelley) 2 America, Inc., BMI/Showbilly Music, BMI (R.Dunn) 41 Of RHA Music, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing S   Corp., BMI/Rowdy Rob Music, BMI (L.Combs, W.B.Durrette, I   NIGHT SHIFT Maxx Music, BMI/Let The Road Pave R.Williford) 1 Itself, BMI/Razor And Tie Music Publishing, BMI/Mike SOMEBODY’S DAUGHTER Year Of The Dog I DON’T KNOW ABOUT YOU Round Hill Curb Music, BMI/Rain Town Music, BMI (T.Brown, P.LaRue, Music, ASCAP/Sony/ATV Story Music Publishing, GMR/We THE BONES International Dog Music, BMI/ Songs II, ASCAP/Caleb’s College Fund, ASCAP/WB B.Montana) 13 Are Creative Nation, GMR/Be Barry Quiet, BMI/Creative Downtown DMP Songs, BMI/Jammy Rabbins Music, Music Corp., ASCAP/Who Wants To Buy My Publishing, Pulse Music, BMI/Pulse Nation, BMI (T.Townes, L.Laird, ASCAP/Round Hill Songs Jimmy Robbins, ASCAP/ ASCAP/Relative Music Group, BMI/One77 Songs, ASCAP/ NOTHING TO DO TOWN Curb Songs, ASCAP/ Bary Dean) 32 Extraordinary Alien Publishing, ASCAP/Oh Denise Highly Combustible Music, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Curb Congregation Songs, SESAC/Music Good Vibes Publishing, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., Publishing LLC, ASCAP (A.Gorley, M.Hardy, H.Phelps, Publishing, BMI/Good Times Music, SESAC/Universal SOME OF IT Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/Longer BMI/Big Music Machine, BMI (M.Morris, J.Robbins, L.Veltz) 29 J.Rodgers) 26 Music Corp., ASCAP/No Bridge Publishing, ASCAP (D. And Louder Music, BMI/Mammaw’s Fried Okra Music, Scott, M.Alderman, C.Taylor) 40 BMI/Little Louder Songs, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music BRAND NEW MAN Sony/ATV Cross Keys I HOPE Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI/Revinyl House, Publishing America, Inc., BMI/New Writers Of Sea Gayle Publishing, ASCAP/Fort Kix Music, ASCAP/Sony/ATV BMI/EMI April Music, Inc., ASCAP/Nite Writer Music, NOT LIKE US Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., Music, BMI/Not A Track Guy Music, BMI (E.Church, J.Hyde, Tree Publishing, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing ASCAP/Gabby Barrett Publishing Designee, BMI (Z.Kale, BMI/Indiana Angel Music, BMI/Ritten by Rhettro, BMI/ C.Daniels, B.Pinson) 23 America, Inc., BMI/Showbilly Music, BMI (K.Brooks, D.Cook, J.M.Nite, G.Barrett) 47 Don’t Be A Gypsy, BMI/Cookie Jar Music LLP, PRS/ R.Dunn) 33 Warner/Chappell Music Publishing Ltd., PRS/WB SPEECHLESS Beats And Banjos, ASCAP/WB K   Music Corp., ASCAP (B.Gilbert, Thomas Rhett, B.Berryhill, Music Corp., ASCAP/Shay Mooney Music, BMI/Warner- BUY MY OWN DRINKS BMG Platinum Songs, A.Wadge) 48 Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Buckeye26, ASCAP/ BMI/BMG Silver Songs, SESAC/BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP/ KNOCKIN’ BOOTS BIRB Music, ASCAP/BMG Gold Jreynmusic, ASCAP/Big Music Machine, BMI/Never Veltz Rezonate Music, ASCAP/BIRB Music, ASCAP/Champagne Songs, ASCAP/Still Working For The Woman, ASCAP/ O   So Good Publishing, BMI (D.Smyers, S.Mooney, J.Reynolds, Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, ASCAP/EMI April L.Veltz) 10 Whiskey Publishing, ASCAP/Downtown DLJ Songs, ONE MAN BAND Carrot Seed Songs, ASCAP/ ASCAP/Legends Of Magic Mustang Music, SESAC/Music Music, Inc., ASCAP/Nite Writer Music, ASCAP (H.Lindsey, G.Sampson, J.M.Nite) 20 Smackville Music, ASCAP/Smack Songs LLC, ASCAP/ T   Of Platinum Pen, SESAC/Wild Wild West Songs, SESAC/ Rezsongs, ASCAP/Reehits World, ASCAP/Smacktown Thunder Cookie, SESAC/Magic Mustang Music Inc., BMI/ L   Music, ASCAP/Smack Blue, LLC, ASCAP/Unfair TALK YOU OUT OF IT Relative Music Group, Songwriters of Platinum Pen Publishing, BMI/Hannah Entertainment, ASCAP/We’re Really Doin’ It Publishing, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., Mulholland Music, BMI (H.Mulholland, J.Wayne, N.Cooke, LIVING EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Plain Jane ASCAP/Anderson Fork In The Road Music, ASCAP/Sony/ BMI/Who Wants To Buy My Publishing, ASCAP/WB Music H.Lindsey, J.Kear) 38 Songs, BMI/Rezolant Music, BMI/EMI April Music, Inc., ATV Cross Keys Publishing, ASCAP (M.Ramsey, T. Rosen, Corp., ASCAP/Highly Combustible Music, ASCAP/One77 ASCAP/Nite Writer Music, ASCAP/Combustion Engine C   B.Tursi, J.Osborne) 46 Songs, ASCAP/Castle Bound Music, Inc., SESAC (M.Hardy, Music, ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/WB Music H.Phelps, J.Rogers, A.Vanderheym) 16 Corp., ASCAP/DudeTunes, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music THE ONES THAT DIDN’T MAKE IT BACK CAUGHT UP IN THE COUNTRY WB Music HOME Big Music Machine, BMI/Double Barrel Ace Corp., ASCAP/Freshy Music, ASCAP/We-Volve Music, Publishing LLC, ASCAP (R.Copperman, J.M.Nite, A.Gorley, TEQUILA WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Beats And Banjos, D.Bentley) 44 Music, BMI/Universal Music Corp., ASCAP/Paulywood ASCAP/Buckeye26, ASCAP/Jreynmusic, ASCAP/Warner- ASCAP/Goes Something Like THIS Music, BMI/Warner- Music, ASCAP/Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Plum Nelly, Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Make It Matter Music, Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/A Girl Named Charlie, LOOK WHAT GOD GAVE HER EMI BMI/Ole Red Cape Songs, ASCAP/Real Big Red Tunes, BMI (D.Smyers, J.Reynolds, N.Galyon) 5 BMI/Sixteen Stars Music, BMI (C.Harrington, J.M.Schmidt, Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Cricket On The Line, BMI/ ASCAP (J.Moore, P.DiGiovanni, C.McGill, J.S.Stover) 37 M.Walker) 21 Ritten by Rhettro, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing THOUGHT ABOUT YOU Warner-Tamerlane Corp., BMI/Music Of Big Family, BMI/Dragon Bunny ON MY WAY TO YOU WB Music Corp., ASCAP/ Publishing Corp., BMI/The Country And Western Music, CLOSER TO YOU BIRB Music, ASCAP/BMG Gold Songs Of Brett, ASCAP/Atlas Music Publishing, ASCAP/ Songs, ASCAP/1217 Songs, ASCAP/Still Working For The Music, BMI/Don Wyan Music, BMI/Maru La La, BMI/ BMI/Round Hill Works, BMI/Big Loud Proud Crowd, BMI/ MaruSongs, LLC, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing External Combustion Music, ASCAP/BMG Gold Songs, Big Loud Brad Music, BMI/Big Loud Brett Songs, BMI Woman, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, ASCAP/Heytone Music, ASCAP (Brett James, T.Lane) 17 ASCAP/Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Low Z Music, BMI (H. America, Inc., BMI/Rap Kingpin Music, ASCAP/ (L.T.Miller, B.Warren, B.D.Warren) 45 Lindsey, G.Sampson, T.Verges) 36 Prescription Songs, LLC., ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, ASCAP (Thomas Rhett, R.Akins, J.Bunetta, P   TO A T Universal Music Corp., ASCAP/Lake Allegan J.K.Hindlin, A.Malik, J.H.Ryan) 6 Pub Club, ASCAP/Red Like The Sunset Music, ASCAP/ E   PRAYED FOR YOU Pedal Down Music, ASCAP/ Spicer And Everyting Nicer, ASCAP/Ole Red Cape Songs, Big Spaces Music, BMI/Tunes Of Big Deal Music, SESAC/ EVERY LITTLE HONKY TONK BAR Day LOVE AIN’T EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Plain ASCAP/Big Music Machine, BMI/Never Veltz So Good Jane Songs, BMI/Rezolant Music, BMI/Combustion Songs Of Porterfied Music, SESAC/Sony/ATV Countryside, Publishing, BMI (R.J.Hurd, N.Spicer, L.Veltz) 42 Money Music, ASCAP/HoriPro Entertainment Group, BMI/Sony/ATV Accent, ASCAP  50 Inc., ASCAP/Living For The Night Music, BMI/HoriPro Engine Music, ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/WB (M.Stell, A.Bowers, A.Veltz)  Entertainment Group, Inc., BMI/Ohio Creek Music, BMI/ Music Corp., ASCAP/Smack Hits, GMR/Smack Songs LLC, W   GMR/Kobalt Music Group Ltd., GMR (R.Copperman, A.Gorley, R   Dean’s Cabin Publishing, LLC, BMI (G.Strait, B.Strait, WHAT HAPPENS IN A SMALL TOWN D.Dillon) 24 S.McAnally) 15 RAINBOW HappyGoWrucke, BMI/Creative Pulse Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Indiana Angel LOVE SOMEONE Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI/Paris Music, BMI/These Are Pulse Songs, BMI/Smack Hits, Music, BMI/Ritten by Rhettro, BMI/Don’t Be A Gypsy, EVERY LITTLE THING BMG Platinum Songs, BMI/Revelry Music, BMI/Badlandsmgmt, BMI/Songs Of BMI/Kailey’s Dream, BMI/So Essential Tunes, SESAC/Not Not France Music, BMI/EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/ GMR/Smack Songs LLC, GMR/Kobalt Music Group Ltd., Rezolant Music, BMI/Plain Jane Songs, BMI/Sony/ATV GMR/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/351 Music, Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI (B.Gilbert, Just Another Song Publishing, SESAC/Hillbilly Science 31 And Research Publishing, SESAC/Trailerlily Music, SESAC Tree Publishing, BMI/Heather Feather Songs, BMI (B. BMI/EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI (N.Hemby, S.McAnally, R.Akins, B.Berryhill, J.Dunne)  Eldredge, R.Copperman, H.Morgan) 19 K.Musgraves) 25 (R.Dickerson, P.Welling, C.Brown) 39 WHISKEY GLASSES Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Mr. Buck Lucky, BMI/Bump Into EYES ON YOU Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI/Dack LOVE WINS Carrie-Okie Music, BMI/Universal Music RAISED ON COUNTRY Songs Of Universal, - Brentwood Benson Publishing, ASCAP/D Soul Music, Inc., BMI/They’ve Gone To Plaid Publishing, BMI/W.B.M. Genius Music, BMI/Sony/ATV Allegro, ASCAP/Over- Janiel’s Publishing, BMI/EMI April Music, Inc., ASCAP/ Thought Under-Appreciated Songs, ASCAP/Rezven CDS Words And Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/ ASCAP/Capitol CMG Genesis, ASCAP/Songs Of Brett, Music Corp., SESAC/Roc Nation US Music, SESAC/Songs ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP (C.Underwood, D.A.Garcia, Of Rhythm House Black, SESAC/Bennett’s Dad’s Songs, Music, ASCAP/Moving Targest In The Dark, ASCAP (B. 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On April 25, 2009, Rascal Flatts Dunn have notched the most among The set marked Rascal Flatts’ landed its 10th No. 1 on Billboard’s duos (20); twosome Florida Georgia last proper album released on Lyric Country Airplay chart as “Here Comes Line matches Rascal Flatts with 14 Street, the group’s label dating to its Goodbye” bounded 6-1. chart-toppers. 2000 chart debut. The act signed to Having since upped its count to 14 “Goodbye,” written by 2007 Ameri- Big Machine and, beginning with the leaders on the list (which launched in can Idol contestant Chris Sligh and Clint 2010 LP Nothing Like This, has racked 1990), the trio of Gary LeVox, Jay De- Lagerberg, was released as the first three more No. 1s on Top Country Marcus and Joe Don Rooney boasts single from Unstoppable, which bowed Albums. the most No. 1s among all acts of at least as Rascal Flatts’ fifth No. 1 on the Top The band kicks off its Summer Playl- three members. Kenny Chesney has Country Albums chart concurrent with ist Tour in Cincinnati on May 16. the most overall (30), while Brooks & the song’s Country Airplay coronation. —GARY TRUST

From left: Rooney, LeVox and DeMarcus of Rascal Flatts in 2009.

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