"NEWS! "SPIN ZONE ! "SINGLES CALENDAR! "CHART DATA ! "NO. 1 SONG! VOICES OF SECONDARY RADIO! " COVERING THE SECONDARY RADIO MARKET SINCE 2002 REPORTING ! PANEL! Thursday, September 25, 2014 " NEWS SPIN ZONE CHART " " Blake Re-joins Sony Music Nashville Top Ten— Miranda LaMbert & Carrie Underwood take the top spot this Cliff Blake will join the Arista Nashville week with “Somethin’ Bad.” Little Big Town moves two spots to No. 2 with promotion team on Oct. 1, serving as “Day Drinking.” Chase Rice’s “Ready Set Roll” is at No. 3 followed by Jason Director, Regional Promotion. Most Aldean’s “Burnin’ It Down” at No. 4. SaM Hunt jumps two spots to No. 5 recently Director, Northeast/Midwest with “Leave The Night On.” Keith Urban is also up two with “Somewhere Promotion for RepuBlic Nashville, In My Car” landing at No. 6. Making a debut in the Top 10 is Blake Blake’s new post Brings him Back into Shelton’s “Neon Light” at No. 7. David Nail makes a return to the Top 10 the Sony Music Nashville family, where with “Kiss You Tonight” at No. 8. And also making deButs in the Top 10 he previously spent more than Give include Scotty McCreery at No. 9 with “Feelin’ It” and Rascal Flatts’ years as part of the Columbia Nashville “Payback” at No. 10. promo team. Blake’s extensive industry background spans 25 years in " broadcasting, followed by 16 years in Greatest Gainers— Eric Church was the highest gainer this week with the record industry, during which he “Talladega” up 513 spins. Brad Paisley jumped nine spots after 358 more has Been a three-time nominee for plays for “Perfect Storm.” Tim McGraw saw “Shotgun Rider” up 354 spins, Regional Promotion Director of the taking it to No. 24. Kenny Chesney’s “Til It’s Gone” had 303 spins in its Year. Girst week. And Blake Shelton made it to the Top 10 thanks to 302 more … "plays of “Neon Light.” Debuts— Kenny Chesney had the highest debut with “Til It’s Gone” Luke Laird Receives No. 1 Challenge Coins coming in at No. 65. Jon Pardi is on the chart at No. 70 with “When I’ve Been Drinkin’.” Branch & Dean’s “Green Light” is at No. 73 and also Creative Nation’s Luke making deButs are Eric Von at No. 74 with “I Can’t Help But Smile” and Laird was presented two Cody Johnson at No. 75 with “Me And My Kind.” Dierks Bentley is on the No. 1 Challenge Coins at chart with “Say You Do” making it to No. 76 in the Girst week. Skylar his Nashville ofice. Laird Elise’s “You’ll Never Understand” is making a deBut this week at No. 78 as co-wrote two songs that is Ray Scott’s “Drinkin’ Beer” at No. 79. SaM Austin is at No. 80 with have hit the top of the “When She Does It.” MusicRow CountryBreakout Chart. " Eric Church’s “Give Me … Back My Hometown” was a two-week No. 1 song back in March of this year. Pictured (L-R): MusicRow Chart Director Troy Laird’s most recent hit Stephenson, Laird, MusicRow Owner/Publisher was Kenny Chesney’s Sherod Robertson “American Kids,” which peaked at the top on Aug. 14. All artists and songwriters that reach No. 1 receive the MusicRow Challenge Coin. To see the full list of recipients, click HERE. … Trisha Yearwood’s Project Out Nov. 17 Trisha Yearwood’s 12th studio alBum and Girst release on RCA Nashville/Gwendolyn Records will debut Nov. 17. PrizeFighter: Hit After Hit offers 16 tracks and is a combination of new material and fan favorites. The lead single and title track features harmonies By Kelly Clarkson. “PrizeFighter” was penned by Sarah Buxton, Jessi Alexander, and Ross CopperMan. Veronica Ballestrini visits with WGGC/Bowling Green, Prizeighter: Hit After Hit is Yearwood’s irst Ky. Pictured (L-R): WGGC’s Moose Michaels, alBum since 2007′s Heaven, Heartache, and the Ballestrini, WGGC’s Greg Almond Power of Love. Yearwood is currently on husband Garth Brooks’ World Tour. … Thursday, September 25, 2014 " SINGLES CALENDAR WEEKLY CHART DATA SepteMber 29 " Eric Church/Talladega/EMI Nashville New On The Chart —Debuting This Week Sara Evans/Put My Heart Down/RCA Nashville Artist/song/label—chart pos. Chuck Wicks/Saturday Afternoon/Blaster Denny Strickland/Swerve On/Denny Strickland Kenny Chesney/Til It’s Gone/Blue Chair-Columbia— 65 " Jon Pardi/When I’ve Been Drinkin’/Capitol Nashville—70 October 6 Branch & Dean/Green Light/SSM— 73 Dierks Bentley/Say You Do/Capitol Nashville Eric Von/I Can’t Help But Smile/HMG— 74 The Railers/Kinda Dig The Feeling/Warner Bros-WMN Cody Johnson/Me And My Kind —75 " Dierks Bentley/Say You Do/Capitol Nashville— 76 October 13 Kenny Chesney/Til It’s Gone/Blue Chair-Columbia Skylar Elise/You’ll Never Understand/Sugar Money— 78 Nashville Ray Scott/Drinkin’ Beer/deciBel Nashville— 79 The Band Perry/Gentle On My Mind/Republic Nashville SaM Austin/When She Does It— 80 Eric Paslay/She Don’t Love You/EMI Nashville Lo-Fi/When You’re Over Me/Gasoline Records " Andy Ross/What We Do For Fun Around Here/Buckshot Greatest Spin Increase Collective Artist/song/label—Spin Increase Crab Apple Lane/Hit The Ground Runnin’/Chevelle Eric Church/Talladega/EMI Nashville— 513 Records Brad Paisley/Perfect Storm/Arista— 358 " Tim McGraw/Shotgun Rider/Big Machine— 354 October 27 Jo Dee Messina/He’s Messed Up/Dreambound Records Kenny Chesney/Til It’s Gone/Blue Chair-Columbia— 303 "Blake Shelton/Neon Light/Warner Bros— 302 Most Added Artist/song/label—No. of Adds Eric Church/Talladega/EMI Nashville— 34 Branch & Dean/Green Light/SSM—25 Kenny Chesney/Til It’s Gone/Blue Chair-Columbia— 23 Dierks Bentley/Say You Do/Capitol Nashville— 19 Josh Turner/Lay Low/MCA Nashville— 18 Kayla Adams celeBrates her single “SoBer & Sorry” with members of several Erica Nicole/It’s Comin’ Down/EN Music-PCL— 16 Arkansas Radio Stations. Pictured (L-R): Dean Scallan Producer managing Jon Pardi/When I’ve Been Drinkin’/Capitol Nashville— 16 member SSM Entertainment, Heath ShelBy KWCK/Searcy, Ark., Tom Duke KQUS/Hot Springs, Ark., Adams, JR Runyon KCNY/Conway, Ark., Jarrett Joe Nichols/Hard To Be Cool/Red Bow— 14 Jackson KCJC/Russellville, Ark. Lee Brice/Drinking Class/CurB— 13 "Trisha Yearwood/PrizeFighter/Gwendolyn-RCA Nashville— 10 On Deck—Soon To Be Charting Artist/song/label—No. of Spins Jared Blake/Stomp/Skiddco Records— 179 Gracia Harrison/JezeBel/Broken Compass Music Group— 179 JaMes Robert Webb/Party In The Barn/Bison Creek Records— 172 Gunnar and the Grizzly Boys/Standard American/Average Joe’s— 160 "Tanya Marie Harris/Second Hand Dreams/Arrow Entertainment— 154 Frozen Playlists – WKPC, WXXK, WTCM Steve Kelly (R) KHBZ/Harrison, Ark. Meet & Greets Eric Church " (L) at a recent stop of The Chief’s “The Outsiders” Tour in Little Rock, Ark. " • • • Thursday, September 25, 2014 NO. 1 SONG Voices Of Independent Promotions " Ann Chrisman/Owner-Ann Chrisman Promotions, The girls are at the top! Nashville, TN Miranda Lambert and Carrie " Underwood have claimed the How did you get into the radio proMotions No. 1 spot on this week’s business? MusicRow CountryBreakout I was working a retail management joB when an Chart with “Somethin’ Bad.” amazing lady named Gerrie McDowell asked me to intern with at Gerrico Promotions and I was It took 17 weeks for the Sony hooked. Thank you Gerrie, my dear sweet Nashville stars to raise this mentor and friend without you this would not ASCAP song, written By Chris have been possible! DeStefano, Brett JaMes and Priscilla Renea. Not only receiving airplay on secondary What is your favorite thing about your radio, But critical acclaim. Our work? own Robert K. OerMann said Talking to my programmers, hearing aBout of the single: “a Thelma-and- their work, family & lives outside of the radio Louise stomper…attitude with station. Oh yeah and working from home pizzazz.” CMA voters nominated the duet in two categories this year, Musical Event and Music Video. We’ll Gind out the results in the ABC-TV Broadcast, What is best about working with Radio when the latter half of the duo will host the 48th Annual CMA Awards, set for stations on the MusicRow Panel? Nov. 5. The majority of our stations on this panel truly care about the panel that they report to. They Female powerhouse director Trey Fanjoy brought Nine to Five together with will play new music whether the music is on Charlie’s Angels in late June, for a video with now over 15 million views. major or an indie laBel. I Gind that most of our guys still tend to judge each single on it’s merit By the time you’re reading this report, the pregnant Underwood will have shared some “exciting news” on NBC’s Today show (Sept. 26). Lambert, who as well as each artists major or indie. The stations that care aBout this panel also recently celeBrated a No. 1 with another duet she had on Keith Urban’s care aBout their markets and are willing to introduce new artists to their listeners. I alBum, has Been hitting the Beach and runway in recent days displaying her respect and appreciate their openness! styled physique. In the meantime, catch her Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum exhiBit, slated to run through Nov. 9 in Nashville. Tell us about one of your proudest accoMplishMents? " I have gotten to work a lot of great music in the last 3 years. So there has Been proud • • • accomplishments in the last 3 years so to pick just one is tough.