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2021 JULY 12 CountryInsider.com | Sign Up For Daily Email Here Monument Hires Luke Jensen To Lead Promotion Team: Who Is This Guy? ’ Luke Jensen is not an ex-professional tennis player turned ESPN analyst. Nor is he a former Confederate soldier who now plies his trade as a bounty hunter. Instead, he’s a former radio guy with almost 20 years of experience as a programmer and on-air host to go with a decade as a promotion man. Now, he’s Monument’s VP of promotion, succeeding Drew Bland. Having the same name as tennis player Luke Jensen helped him meet Dave Matthews once, though. And he has the cover art of Western writer William W. Johnstone’s “Luke Jensen Bounty Hunter” novel hanging in his bathroom. (Continued on page 4)

COUNTRY INSIDER TOP 5: Association Announces “CMA Summer Jam,” A New Concert Event and TV Special. Building The Buzz: KIIM Tucson’s Buzz Jackson Reflects On His Hall Of Fame Career. WPOC Morning Host Laurie DeYoung Nominated For 2021 Radio Hall Of Fame. , and Lead Lineup For Stagecoach 2022. And Kane Brown’s “Famous Friends” Holds Mediabase’s No. 1 Spot A Second Week.

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CMA Readies “Summer Jam” Concert Event, TV Special. The summer of 2021 may not have seen a CMA Fest, but it will get a “CMA Summer Jam,” a two-night concert event that will be filmed for a three-hour special on ABC later this summer. The concerts take place Tuesday, July 27, and Wednesday, July 28, at Nashville’s Ascend Amphitheater. First-night performers include , Mickey Guyton, , , Gwen Stefani, , Carrie Underwood, Lainey Wilson and Dwight Yoakam. Jimmie Allen, Gabby Barrett, , Brothers Osborne, Luke Combs, Florida Georgia Line, Miranda Lambert, and Thomas Rhett will perform on the second night. Tickets go on sale this Wednesday (10am CT).

2021 Radio Hall Of Fame Nominees Include WPOC’s Laurie De Young. Laurie De Young, the longtime morning host for iHeartMedia WPOC-FM Baltimore (93.1), is among the nominees for the 2021 Radio Hall Of Fame. De Young, who joined WPOC in 1985, contends in the Active Local/Regional category. Twenty-four people and shows in six categories were chosen by the RHOF Nominating Committee, with input from the radio industry and listeners. Voting for inductees begins today. The 2021 Radio Hall of Fame inductees will be announced Monday, Aug. 16, and honored in-person at the 2021 Radio Hall of Fame induction ceremony Oct. 28 at Chicago’s Wintrust Grand Banking Hall.

Hurricane Sally Relief Efforts Net WYCT Pensacola NAB Service Award. ADX Communications “Cat Country 98.7” WYCT Pensacola, FL’s relief efforts after Hurricane Sally in 2020 earned the station a 2021 Celebration of Service to America Award from the National Association of Broadcasters Leadership Foundation. The station’s “Mission Restore Hope” campaign raised $300,000 in partnership with United Way of West Florida and TV partner WEAR-TV for local organization funding rebuilding efforts.

Stagecoach 2022 Lineup Has Suprises To Go With Its Country Superstars. R&B great Smokey Robinson and rock group The Black Crowes are on the bill for next year’s Stagecoach, set for Friday, April 29-Sunday, May 1, 2022. Thomas Rhett, Carrie Underwood and Luke Combs headline the lineup, headline the show, says event organizer Goldenvoice. Rhett and Underwood were scheduled headliners for Stagecoach 2020, an early pandemic casualty. Other acts slated for the Indio, CA, festival include Jimmie Allen, , Brothers Osborne, Midland and .

3 | JULY 12, 2021 CountryInsider.com Meet Monument’s Luke Jensen. (Continued from page 1) Jensen joins the Monument team after five years as the promotion director’s number. He called her, a regional promotion manager for Arista Nashville, and, the next thing he knew, he had an internship. where he worked with artists like and Carrie Underwood. Arista initially helped promote “Shortly thereafter, my country music life started,” Monument releases he says, “because of that song.” after Jason Owen Like many teenagers starting in radio, Jensen liked and Shane McAnally to hang around the radio station, hoping for his big revived Monument in break. collaboration with Entertainment. “I missed my prom to “We were always so impressed by how Luke hang out at the radio motivated the rest of the team and believed in station,” he says. “I missed what we were doing,” McAnally says. homecoming to hang out at the radio station.” Jensen calls co-president Owen and McAnally and He was at the station GM Katie McCartney, to whom he now reports, as the Friday the overnight “three of the brightest young minds in this town. host called out. Jensen “They all have very different skill sets, with Shane still remembers the first being a writer, Jason with his management and song he played: Trisha television background, and Katie with marketing. If Yearwood’s “Better Your I want to grow and learn more about this business, Heart Than Mine.” I need to surround myself with people who can Jensen considers Mike Kennedy, who programmed teach me more. I don’t know if there’s a better trio KBEQ for years and now is PD across town at of people at any operation in Nashville that can “106.5 The Wolf” WDAF, an early mentor. teach me what they can.” “Mike was the first program director I worked for Jensen grew up in central Kansas, moving to at Q104,” Jensen says. “It all weaves back to him Overland Park in the Kansas City area in time to multiple times.” After Jensen got his start at KBEQ, attend high school, where he befriended a young Kennedy hired him to do the night shift at KXBZ Jason Sudeikis. Manhattan, KS, which he owned. From there, “We went to the same school freshman and Jensen graduated to KZKX Lincoln, NE, where he sophomore year — Rockhurst High School,” Jensen hosted afternoons and served as MD. “Then Mike says. “We were both the smart-asses.” called again,” he says.

That means he’s really looking forward to next “For a brief time, Mike, his wife and I did the week’s second-season premiere of “Ted Lasso.” morning show on Top 40 KMXV in Kansas City. “Jason is just a genius in my opinion, and it is still Then we all went back to country and I joined Mike surreal every time I see him on TV,” Jensen says. again to do the overnight shift at Q104, and then [moved] to nights. That was my second run with Not long after he and Sudeikis had their first Mike. I moved to WSOC classes together, Jensen in Charlotte to do the had a life-altering moment: afternoon show. I was While driving along the there for four years until Shawnee Mission Parkway, Mike called again. Then I he heard ’ went back to Kansas City “Rodeo” on the radio. and did the morning show and program director on A few days later, he the hot AC station, “Star 102,” for two years. Then I spotted “Q104” KBEQ’s jumped back into country at KVOO Tulsa as the PD mobile studio at a remote, for four years before I got into records.” introduced himself to the station engineer and got (Continued on page 7)

4 | JULY 12, 2021 CountryInsider.com How KIIM’s Buzz Jackson Built A Buzz-Worthy Career In Tucson. Buzz Jackson’s work outside of KIIM Jackson grew up listening to WNBC in Long Island, NY, Tucson, AZ (99.5) may have helped earn him a spot in and spent many late nights tuning into AM stations in the Country Radio Hall of Fame as much as his work Cincinnati, Chicago, and , DC. He inside the station. knew by age 5 that he wanted a radio career.

That’s because the longtime KIIM PD/afternoon host “We would go on vacation and I would make my mom embodies the importance of an on-air personality’s take me to the local radio station to see if I could community involvement. bamboozle myself into a tour,” he says. “The magic has always been the theater-of-the-mind aspect, where “I made it a mission early on to be involved in the you can create pictures in people’s heads and have a community as much as I could, to make myself the one-on-one relationship through a microphone.” face of the radio station, at least in the afternoons,” Jackson tells Country Insider. Jackson earned a degree in radio, TV and film at Syracuse University, spending every possible hour in “The radio station has always been its radio station as Jam Master Andy. more than what comes out of the He landed a weekend overnights spot speaker. It is a living, breathing at Top 40 WOVV West Palm Beach, FL, organism. The music you play brings then secured his first full-time gig with the audience in, but there is more to Top 40 WTHZ Tallahassee, FL, staying it than just the music. Some of that there a year. is personality, some is being in the community, some is the ‘stationality,’ if He spent another year at Daytona you will, that makes it unique.” Beach’s WNFI, until it flipped from Top 40 to Rock 40. “They decided I didn’t Of course, Jackson’s work inside the fit the format so they canned me,” he station continues to make history. He says. “The first thing I was able to get programs a station that consistently is overnights in country. It was the dominates the market’s ratings. He recently won the beginning of the country era.” Academy of Country Music Award for medium-market On-Air Personality of the Year, which he also nabbed For two years, he was part of a ragtag team of Top in 2009. He received a similar award from the Country 40 jocks tasked with converting Orlando soft AC Music Association in 2014. WWLV into “Young Country B94.5” WCFB. The first day they went on the air, consultant Rusty Walker told “He is a 100-percent radio guy,” says Cumulus Media them, “Go have fun.” They took his advice to heart, VP of Country Charlie Cook. “Buzz is committed to the introducing silly stunts and goofy contests. “None of us music and to prepping every day for an entertaining knew what we were doing,” he says. “We all learned as show. A lot of talent take their show seriously, but Buzz we went.” really makes it a priority every day.” Jackson spent six months at a heritage AC station Cook, a fellow Hall of Famer, says Jackson is considered but decided he liked country more. He began doing one of the top PDs within Cumulus. “Buzz understands afternoons at WROO Jacksonville, which quickly made what makes KIIM a perennial market leader. What him MD and then PD. He was there nearly seven years Buzz appreciates is the place that KIIM has in the before joining KIIM in 2001. market, for years the country station in Tucson, and he takes it as a responsibility to continue that legacy.” “My wife and I thought, ‘We’ll try this for a year. Get some great call letters in the resume,’” he says. “The Jackson also hosts a nationally syndicated show for next thing you know, you’ve got a house and a kid and three dozen Mainstream country celebrating your 20th anniversary.” affiliates. “We get to provide quality talent to stations that otherwise might not be able to afford it,” he says. “It’s nice to become part of the community. That gives “And, where possible, it’s an opportunity to promote you the opportunity to meet your neighbors and see charity or community organizations with a national what moves them and what their concerns are, and footprint like the American Red Cross.” how you can get involved in the community to make it a better place to live.” — Beverly Keel 5 | JULY 12, 2021 CountryInsider.com POWER TITLE AIRPLAY RETENTION CALL OUT AUDIO POWER SALES COMPOSITE # ARTIST - LABEL 4 5 1 2 4 1 1 LUKE COMBS - River House/Columbia Famous Friends 1 3 2 3 5 2 2 CHRIS YOUNG & KANE BROWN - RCA Nashville Single Saturday Night 2 1 6 17 8 3 3 COLE SWINDELL - Warner/WMN Blame It On You 3 7 9 7 19 4 4 - Macon Music/Broken Bow Settling Down 7 2 15 9 16 5 5 MIRANDA LAMBERT - RCA Nashville Things A Man Oughta Know 13 9 12 12 11 6 6 LAINEY WILSON - Broken Bow Gone 5 4 5 4 21 7 7 DIERKS BENTLEY - Capitol Nashville Glad You Exist 9 13 3 8 17 8 8 DAN + SHAY - Warner/WAR My Boy 16 10 8 22 14 9 9 ELVIE SHANE - Wheelhouse Lil Bit 45 x x 1 1 10 10 NELLY & FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE - BMLGR/RECORDS/Colu NATIONAL CALLOUT TITLE N`EAST MID WEST WEST SOUTH # ARTIST Forever After All 3 1 1 2 1 Combs, Luke Famous Friends 9 3 2 19 2 Young, Chris & Kane Brown Glad You Exist 2 4 7 13 3 Dan + Shay Drinkin' Beer. Talkin' God. Amen. 5 2 3 15 4 Rice, Chase Feat. Florida Georgia Line Gone 8 6 17 1 5 Bentley, Dierks Single Saturday Night 14 8 16 4 6 Swindell, Cole You Time 6 10 6 16 7 McCreery, Scotty My Boy 4 11 5 23 8 Shane, Elvie Blame It On You 10 7 25 10 9 Aldean, Jason Half Of My Hometown 19 5 4 45 10 Ballerini, Kelsea Feat. ACTION - UNDEREXPOSED TITLE AIRPLAY COMPOSITE # ARTIST - LABEL NELLY & FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE 45 10 1 35 - Lil Bit ELLE KING & MIRANDA LAMBERT 36 14 2 22 - Drunk (And I Don't Wanna Go..) 50 28 3 22 - Sand In My Boots LILY ROSE 49 36 4 13 - Villain 33 21 5 12 - Half Of My Hometown f/KChesney 41 30 6 11 - The Worst Country Song Of... RYAN HURD W/MAREN MORRIS 24 15 7 9 - Chasing After You LAINEY WILSON 13 6 8 7 - Things A Man Oughta Know ELVIE SHANE 16 9 9 7 - My Boy 35 29 10 6 - Thinking 'Bout You f/M. Porter Meet Monument’s Luke Jensen. (Continued from page 4) McCartney recalls first meeting Jensen during his His vacations indulge it further. He recently took a KVOO years when she was working for Lyric Street weeklong trip to Costa Rica. In December, he plans Records. “We had an immediate connection then to go to Patagonia. “It’s going to be an eight-day and continued a friendship over the years since,” trek in southern Chile where we hike a 90-mile loop she says. around a mountain and sleep in tents,” he says.

Jensen got into radio just as country music was As Jensen joins Monument, the roster includes hitting its 1990s stride, meeting the likes of Alan Brandon Ratcliff, Teddy Robb, Alex Hall, Tigirlily Jackson and when and two acts — and Walker Hayes — they played shows in the market or talking to Tim whose current records have them on the cusp of McGraw and Toby breakthroughs. Keith when they “I have been a fan of Caitlyn’s for a while and finally called the station. get the chance to see her,” Jensen says. “I would put “That was one of the her at the top of the vocalist list in Nashville. She most magical times has the voice of an angel.” in country music,” he says. Smith’s “I Can’t” feat Old Dominion is at No. 41 on the Mediabase country chart. Hayes’ viral streaming He left radio for hit “Fancy Like” is at No. 66, and it doesn’t go for Nashville in 2012, impact until Monday, Aug. 2. looking for a place he could change jobs without leaving town. Having “This is what everybody’s trying to get to happen, a home base doesn’t mean staying home, though. and it’s happening with Walker,” he says. “This is a Promotion work indulges his passion for travel. huge moment for Walker and the format.”

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7 | JULY 12, 2021 CountryInsider.com What’s Your Station’s Legacy? Finding The Qualities That Create Lasting Relationships. By definition, a lasting legacy is all about the accomplish all of that and never have that one actions you take during your life and the way those thing that creates lasting, emotional relationships actions affect how people remember you. Your with listeners, that compels them to share the parents have left you a legacy in some form, and experience with others. you may be doing the same with your family as an What can you do, as a programmer, with individual. your staff to create that lasting legacy for Paralleling to our industry, your station in your market and in your what do you think is your radio listeners’ minds? station’s legacy? Have you actually ever really thought about it? Let’s What all the stations mentioned above had in think about the legacy that some common is that they had an audience that would of the all-time classic radio stations have left for us. shout and scream about them. The listeners knew WABC in , WLS in Chicago that they were a part of something special, and the and KHJ in were three station continuously made them feel that way. You stations that gave us the successful could mention the station name, and they would Top 40 hit- with their know right away what the station meant to them. quick-draw personalities and top-of-the-charts Make a list, with your staff, of music. WSM-AM in Nashville what listeners need your station popularized country music across to be and what would matter a lot of the most to them. You can call the nation with its items on that list a set of core live broadcasts. values if you like. These are the

attributes that will never change Think about the legacy of the stations you grew up about the station day in and day listening to. How do you remember those stations out. It’s a list that will lead to and how they captured and kept your interest? I building that legacy. A list that grew up with WFIL in Philadelphia and remember you would reference daily. the “cool” factor they had among my peers. (That’s the reason I got into this business!!) Some suggestions could be integrity, honesty, We are definitely in a much different time than fun, a strong sense of community, etc. Make the aforementioned group, but one thing will your station matter every day in every way to the always remain the same. What can you do, as a listener, and you are on the road to creating that programmer, with your staff to create that lasting lasting legacy. legacy for your station in your market and in your listeners’ minds? Reach John: 757-323-1460

[email protected] First, you must realize that this is not an industry thing; it’s all about the listeners. It has nothing countrysradiocoach.com to do with station awards and accolades. It has everything to do with how you create lasting memorability for your audience.

You’ve seen articles here written about how a station has a heart, how to finds its “why” and various ideas and exercises to get the listeners to spend more time with the station. Those things all are a part of the process. However, you can

8 | JULY 12, 2021 CountryInsider.com Clockwise from top: RECORDS Nashville’s Jamice Jennings, Chris Bandi, WCOL PD Danny Zuko and Flanningan’s owner David Straub at Bandi’s sold-out show at Flannigan’s in Columbus, OH.

Tennessee Department of Tourism Development’s Mark Ezell and pose by the new Music Pathways marker at Brooks’ Arrington Vineyards.

Logan Wheless (r) guest-hosted “The Q Morning Crew” on WQDR Raleigh, NC, with father Mike Wheless last week.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee declared July 3 “Alabama Day” in Tennessee. L-R: Alabama’s Randy Owen, Shawn Barr, Lee and Alabama’s Teddy Gentry

Brad Paisley performs before 350,000 people in Nashville during a July 4 concert.

Artist and Lewis Brice (r) recently proposed to girlfriend Denelle Manzer during a fishing trip to .

Monument Records artist Alex Hall makes his Grand Ole Opry debut.

9 | JULY 12, 2021 CountryInsider.com NM. She now “Big Rick” Daniels RADIO serves as Ernesto will exit his role Hubbard Broadcasting “New Garcia’s co-host, as PD/morning Country 103.1” WIRK West Palm succeeding Cynthia host at White Beach, FL’s Tim Leary spent Mendoza, who River Broadcasting July 4 diving with has left for other WKKG sharks after raising opportunities. Joey Bloomington, IN $6,580 to benefit Hernandez, PD/ (101.5) after a little the Wounded morning host at Top 40 sister “Hot more than five months with the Veterans Relief 103” KHQT, assumes Taylor’s KGRT station. Daniels, who is taking on a Fund. Leary and afternoon spot. Taylor came to new opportunity, will be with WKKG morning co-host KGRT from Columbus, GA, in July until Wednesday, July 21. Before Chelsea Taylor led 2020. joining WKKG in January, Daniels the fundraiser, which exceeded was at Reising Radio Partners its goal of raising $5,000 in five Peyton Adams “KORN Country 100.3” WYGB days. Leary then joined Wounded is named midday Franklin, IN, where he hosted Veterans Relief Fund’s Dive For host at Mid- mornings. Freedom in Florida. West Family Broadcasting hot Val Townsend exits “Clay & SummitMedia Louisville AC WDKB DeKalb, Company” on names Steve Fehder president, IL (94.9). Adams WYRK Buffalo, NY (106.5) after overseeing country previously hosted the daypart at almost five years. Townsend “Q103.1” WQNU, the station from 2012-2014. She detailed her late-May departure in hot AC “Mix 106.9” was most recently serving as a a series of threads on her Twitter WVEZ, classic rock weekend/fill-in host at Audacy feed. Townsend “107.7 The Eagle” country “US99” WUSN Chicago. joined WYRK in WSFR and adult August 2016 and R&B “103.9 The Annaliese Lemieux-Kaplan also had hosted Groove” WRKA. joins Cash Warren in mornings afternoons on soft- Fehder most recently has been at Max Media “97.3 The Eagle” AC sister “96.1 The serving as market manager for WGH Newport Breeze” WMSX. Her Kensington Digital Media in News-Norfolk, VA, slot there has been filled by Brandi Nashville. He previously managed starting Monday, Hunter, who also hosts mornings WVEZ in the 90s when it was July 19. She at Townsquare soft-AC “94.3 Lite- under Prism Radio Partners succeeds Carly FM” WKXP Poughkeepsie, NY. ownership. Quinn, who exited “Clay & Company” won medium- at the end of May. market broadcast awards from the Country Radio Hall of Famer Lemieux-Kaplan previously served Academy of Country Music and the Brian Gary comes out of as MD and morning co-host at Country Music Association in 2020 retirement to host Saga Communications AC “Z 95.1” while Townsend was a part of the afternoons on WQMZ Charlottesville, VA. show with Clay Moden and Rob Music Ventures Banks, who remain. talk KFKA-AM Ft. JD Justice is named morning Collins, CO (1310). host at City Broadcasting Beasley Media Group Chief Starting Monday, KDJS-FM Montevideo, MN Communications OfficerHeidi July 19, “The Good (95.3). Justice, Raphael is among the Buffalo Afternoon Guy who succeeds Broadcasters with Brian Gary” will air weekdays Eric “Buckner” Association Hall 3pm-5pm MT and will cover news, Holmquist in of Fame Class of sports and entertainment. Gary mornings, is also 2021. Early in her spent 30 years across town at named OM of the career Raphael, a Townsquare Media country “K99” cluster. He was Western New York KUAD before retiring in 2019. most recently at native, worked at Midwest Communications “Kat Buffalo stations Morgan Taylor moved from Country 98.9” Duluth, MN, serving WECK, WGR, WHTT and WGRF. The afternoons to mornings last week as Brand Manager and morning 2021 class will be inducted at the at Adams Radio Group “Your host before his November 2020 Association’s Hall of Fame Dinner, Country 103.9” KGRT Las Cruces, exit. 10 | JULY 12, 2021 CountryInsider.com We connect music industry professionals with healthcare resources. For mental health services, medicine, doctors, clinics, hospitals, and financial assistance—we are your free, non-profit resource for all things healthcare.

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THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT Music Health Alliance is a 501(c)3 public charity former President of MCA Records barn to house the 100,000-watt INDUSTRY Nashville. Brown will be recognized Americana-format public radio Ash Bowers has stepped away during this year’s double induction station. “WMOT and Music City from his role as president of ceremony Oct. 21 at the Gem Roots have worked together RECORDS Nashville to fully focus Theater in Kannapolis, NC. The 2020 for nearly three years to bring attention on Wide Open Music, ceremony was canceled due to Americana and Roots music to the management company he co- COVID-19. middle Tennessee on WMOT founded. Bowers 89.5,” WMOT Executive Director was appointed to Warner Chappell Music Val Hoeppner said in a release. lead the RECORDS Nashville has signed Wade “This new space will allow that Nashville office Bowen to a worldwide publishing partnership to continue to grow and upon its launch agreement. As an artist, Bowen expand while growing our music last fall; it was has had three albums land in community in Middle Tennessee his first label- the Top 10 of Billboard’s Country and beyond.” executive position. Albums chart. RECORDS CEO/ He has released The Bluebird Café will open its Founder Barry Weiss is running 12 albums which doors to an in-person audience the Nashville office on an interim include two live Friday. Singer- Joel basis as Bowers’ replacement is projects, a gospel Shewmake, Annie Mosher and Jason sought. album and his Matthews will perform. The famed “Hold My Beer” Nashville venue, which has been The 2022 30A Songwriters Festival series with fellow closed to the public since March 2020 in South Walton, FL, has announced singer- due to COVID-19, its initial lineup of performers, which songwriter Randy Rogers. Bowen announced its include , Rodney is a BMI songwriter and managed opening on social Crowell, Steve Earle, by Red Light Management. He is media Thursday. and Amy Grant. More than 230 represented by WME. “After a long and songwriters challenging year and are expected Following its 2020 and 2021 in- a half, we are ecstatic to perform person cancelation due to COVID-19, to announce that The Bluebird Cafe’s in 30 venues the Music Business Association’s doors will soon be opening, and we during the Music Biz Conference will return will once again have music filling our 13th festival, to Nashville in 2022. The conference room!” the venue said. which runs Jan. 14-17, 2022. The will be held May 9-12 at the JW festival will benefit local nonprofit Marriott Nashville. Registration The International Bluegrass Cultural Arts Alliance of Walton will open in Music Association has revealed County. The 2022 festival theme will September. Those its nominees for the 2021 IBMA honor Bob Dylan’s “New Morning,” who purchased Industry & Momentum Awards. with select musicians perform all registrations for Broadcaster of the Year nominees of the songs on the 1970 album in the canceled 2020 are SiriusXM’s Kyle Cantrell; North sequence. and 2021 Music Biz Carolina Public Radio’s Barb Heller; Conferences will be Bluegrass Country Radio’s Brad The Music Hall automatically credited for the 2022 Kolodner; of Fame will honor producer and registration. KALW’s Peter industry executive Thompson; Tony Brown and WMMT with a Lifetime Whitesburg, KY Achievement (88.7) Saturday Award for his morning host contributions to Alfred “Big Al” American music. Weekley. The broadcast winners The GRAMMY- will be announced at a luncheon winning producer The Roots Barn, a 600-seat Thursday, Sept. 30, during the 2021 and pianist has produced songs performance space, is coming to World of Bluegrass convention. for , Reba McEntire Madison, TN, next spring. Middle and . He also co-founded Tennessee State University WMOT Universal South Records and is the Murfreesboro (89.5) will have a remote studio adjacent to the 12 | JULY 12, 2021 CountryInsider.com 28, following two sold-out jewelry and ARTISTS performance dates. “They say accessories, as Mary Chapin Carpenter, who good things come in threes, well as Tucker’s had more than a dozen Top 20 so we’ll be ready to shake it up personal country hits during the 1990s, even more on Saturday night!” itinerary for a is part of the Hall of McBryde, who makes her Ryman 1980 tour; her Fame’s class of 2021. Carpenter, headlining debut Aug. 26, said in shoot schedule a native of a release. Caitlyn Smith will open for a 1981 Princeton, NJ, appearance on joins 22 other “Love Boat”; her SAG-AFTRA union inductees card; and a copy of the “Book of including Mormon” given her by her father, former Jesse “Beau” Tucker. Online Philadelphia bidding is open now. Eagles quarterback the Aug. 28 show. Drake Milligan will release his and NFL self-titled debut EP on Friday, July analyst Ron Jaworski, former U.S. Martina McBride will release 23, via BBR Music Group/Stoney Supreme Court Justice Antonin “Greatest Hits: The RCA Years” Creek Records. “The greatest Scalia and rock singer and exclusively on vinyl Aug. 20. The pleasure of creating this EP was songwriter Patti Smith. The 13th double LP includes “Independence getting a annual induction ceremony will be Day,” “Concrete Angel,” “This masterclass in held as a virtual event in October One’s For The Girls” and “A Broken country music and will air on local radio and Wing.” “When I signed my record from the best television. deal with RCA in 1991, vinyl was songwriters, out, and CD’s were in,” McBride musicians, Jon Pardi will headline Big said in a release. “Even though I’ve producers Machine Music City Grand always been happy to have my and engineers Prix’s Saturday, Aug. 7 concert. name on any form of recorded that Nashville The IndyCar race’s accompanying music, I’ve always hoped to see has to offer,” Milligan said in a festival, which runs Aug. 6-8, will my music on vinyl. … I’m excited release. Milligan co-wrote each be staged on that everyone will be able to song on the five-track project. a temporary add it to their vinyl collection.” Collaborators include , 2.17-mile will carry an exclusive , Terry McBride, Phil grand-prix edition on sea-blue vinyl. O’Donnell and Brandon Hood. circuit in downtown Florida Georgia Line, Dierks Kalie Shorr will release the five- Nashville and Bentley and Blake Shelton track EP “I Got Here by Accident” around the headline WE Fest’s return to Friday, August 13, via TMWRK Nissan Stadium Detroit Lakes, Records. “Amy” campus. Performers throughout MN, Aug. 5-7. and “Love the weekend include Brooks & Performances Child” are Dunn, , Tyler Farr, include available ahead , , LANCO, Russell of the project’s Justin Moore, , Riley Dickerson, Eli unveiling. “If Green, Jamey Johnson and Mötley Young Band, I could only Crüe frontman Vince Neil. Lindsay Ell, play one song and Maddie & to introduce Ashley Tae. Kellie Pickler will emcee myself to a McBryde the festival. A complete lineup stranger, it would be ‘Love Child,’” has added a and tickets are available via the Shorr said in a release. “It’s a third Ryman festival’s website. three-minute autobiography that Auditorium covers everything from being a headlining More than 450 items belonging to first-generation American, to my performance Tanya Tucker will be auctioned love for Fleetwood Mac and tarot for Saturday, off on Saturday, July 24. Lots cards.” “I Got Here by Accident” Aug. in the auction, conducted by was produced by Butch Walker. GWS Auctions, include clothing, 13 | JULY 12, 2021 CountryInsider.com JULY 12, 2021 LW TW Artist/Title (Label) Total Points +/- Points Total Plays +/- Plays Audience +/- Aud 6a-7p % 1 1 CHRIS YOUNG & KANE BROWN / Famous Friends (RCA 33070 411 9121 122 42.484 0.558 4736 52 Nashville) 3 2 COLE SWINDELL / Single Saturday Night (Warner/WMN) 30229 1120 8308 245 39.939 1.827 4428 53

4 3 JASON ALDEAN / Blame It On You (Macon Music/Broken 29175 1149 7915 364 37.808 1.251 4019 51 Bow) 8 4 CHASE RICE F/F.G.L. / Drinkin' Beer Talkin' God Amen 25936 4087 7130 1151 33.444 6.181 3637 51 (Dack Janiels/BBR-BMLG) 7 5 MIRANDA LAMBERT / Settling Down (RCA Nashville) 22667 230 6252 114 28.999 -0.012 2929 47

9 6 DAN + SHAY / Glad You Exist (Warner/WAR) 21474 1671 5813 436 25.773 1.545 2927 50

6 7 DIERKS BENTLEY / Gone (Capitol Nashville) 21317 -4771 5843 -1128 27.496 -9.054 3312 57 11 8 JUSTIN MOORE / We Didn't Have Much (Valory) 19332 1283 5344 338 25.109 2.194 2763 52

10 9 BLAKE SHELTON / Minimum Wage (Warner/WMN) 18991 234 5181 52 22.777 -0.094 2447 47

15 10 LUKE BRYAN / Waves (Capitol Nashville) 17950 2441 4885 611 23.648 4.052 2492 51

14 11 THOMAS RHETT / Country Again (Valory) 17702 1360 4943 382 22.342 1.673 2509 51

13 12 LAINEY WILSON / Things A Man Oughta Know (Broken Bow) 17515 1085 4793 217 21.086 1.533 2286 48

12 13 WITH P!NK / One Too Many (RCA/Capitol 16862 393 4678 93 19.525 -0.008 2285 49 Nashville) 16 14 SCOTTY MCCREERY / You Time (Triple Tigers) 15178 1403 4182 415 17.892 2.28 1892 45

5 15 JORDAN DAVIS / Almost Maybes (MCA Nashville) 14813 -12438 4025 -3628 17.514 -13.334 2163 54 19 16 / Cold Beer Calling...f/L. Combs 13834 1411 3817 414 15.178 1.011 1589 42 (River House/Columbia Nash) 17 17 CARLY PEARCE / (Big Machine) 13778 218 3884 53 15.495 -0.139 1562 40

18 18 ELVIE SHANE / My Boy (Wheelhouse) 13687 883 4015 291 14.738 1.352 1741 43

20 19 OLD DOMINION / I Was On A Boat That Day (Arista Nashville) 13439 1764 3659 453 15.683 1.958 1648 45

21 20 LEE BRICE / Memory I Don't Mess With (Curb) 12754 1805 3400 445 14.708 1.894 1357 40

22 21 / Like A Lady (BMLG) 9979 677 2620 136 10.355 0.501 880 34

23 22 JIMMIE ALLEN & BRAD PAISLEY / Freedom Was A 9924 968 2614 232 10.102 1.03 867 33 Highway (Stoney Creek) 24 23 KENNY CHESNEY / Knowing You (Blue Chair/Warner/WEA) 9426 564 2709 177 10.772 1.925 1025 38

25 24 RYAN HURD W/MAREN MORRIS / Chasing After You 9342 830 2571 224 9.248 1.402 852 33 (Arista Nashville) 26 25 MICHAEL RAY / Whiskey And Rain (Warner/WEA) 8216 1434 2178 354 8.161 1.045 642 29

14 | JULY 12, 2021 CountryInsider.com/Newsletters CountryInsider.comAUGUST 7, 2020 | 1 JULY 12, 2021 LW TW Artist/Title (Label) Total Points +/- Points Total Plays +/- Plays Audience +/- Aud 6a-7p % 27 26 PRISCILLA BLOCK / Just About Over You (Mercury 7997 1336 2140 355 8.041 1.461 597 28 Nashville/InDent) 28 27 JON PARDI / Tequila Little Time (Capitol Nashville) 7481 1348 2017 400 7.612 1.196 568 28

29 28 / Home Sweet (Triple Tigers) 6276 327 1648 86 6.236 0.427 413 25

30 29 CALLISTA CLARK / It's 'Cause I Am (Big Machine) 6028 448 1689 139 5.587 0.829 569 34

31 30 DUSTIN LYNCH / Thinking 'Bout You f/M. Porter (Broken Bow) 5785 545 1493 162 5.872 0.031 390 26

33 31 ZAC BROWN BAND / Same Boat (Home Grown/Warner/WAR) 5450 722 1441 203 6.052 1.371 516 36

32 32 / You Should Probably Leave 5428 618 1476 190 6.313 0.467 498 34 (Mercury Nashville) 34 33 KELSEA BALLERINI / Half Of My Hometown f/KChesney 5301 652 1501 148 5.821 1.331 476 32 (Black River Entertainment) 35 34 PARKER MCCOLLUM / To Be Loved By You (MCA Nashville) 5047 434 1346 108 4.125 0.519 332 25

36 35 INGRID ANDRESS / Lady Like (Warner/WEA) 4343 -13 1159 17 3.614 -0.1 269 23

37 36 HARDY / Give Heaven Some Hell (Big Loud) 4292 297 1196 69 3.945 0.046 276 23

38 37 MATT STELL / That Ain't Me... (Arista Nashville/RECORDS) 3610 262 1021 52 2.574 0.227 201 20

39 38 / Getting Over Him w/Jon Pardi 3327 260 949 60 2.184 0.33 171 18 (Mercury Nashville) 40 39 BRETT YOUNG / Not Yet (BMLG) 3237 175 878 33 3.112 -0.358 180 21

41 40 ELLE KING & MIRANDA LAMBERT / Drunk (And I Don't 3020 211 762 70 3.129 0.241 295 39 Wanna Go..) (RCA/Columbia Nashville) 42 41 CAITLYN SMITH / I Can't f/Old Dominion (Monument) 2958 149 850 30 1.914 0.337 161 19

43 42 RILEY GREEN / If It Wasn't For Trucks (BMLG) 2811 203 847 54 1.921 0.187 225 27

44 43 BRANTLEY GILBERT / The Worst Country Song Of... (Valory) 2610 126 634 14 3.79 1.597 203 32

45 44 BROTHERS OSBORNE / I'm Not For Everyone (EMI Nashville) 2540 162 714 41 1.695 0.273 146 20

48 45 CHRIS BANDI / Would Have Loved Her (RECORDS Nashville) 2102 21 662 7 1.05 -0.026 99 15

47 46 / My Masterpiece (Capitol Nashville) 2083 -4 608 -5 2.588 -0.187 108 18 50 47 LARRY FLEET / Where I Find God (Big Loud) 1960 112 599 34 1.629 0.186 178 30

65 48 / Old School (Show Dog Nashville) 1811 843 532 239 1.076 0.404 116 22

52 49 CHRIS LANE / Fill Them Boots (Big Loud) 1783 90 524 32 1.517 -0.058 124 24

53 50 NATE BARNES / You Ain't Pretty (Quartz Hill) 1742 57 566 13 0.995 0.043 111 20

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