NEWS! SPIN ZONE ! SINGLES CALENDAR! CHART DATA ! NO. 1 ! VOICES OF SECONDARY RADIO! COVERING THE SECONDARY RADIO MARKET SINCE 2002 REPORTING ! PANEL! Thursday, February 12, 2015 CHART NEWS SPINZONE MusicRow’s Rising Women On The Row To Top Ten— is back at the top of the MusicRow CountryBreakout Chart this week with “Lonely Eyes.” Dierks Be Held In March Bentley jumps three spots with “Say You Do” landing at No. 2. MusicRow is proud to announce ’s “What We Ain’t Got” will sit tight at No. 3 again the fourth annual Rising Women this week and Lady Antebellum will also stay put. “Freestyle” On The Row celebration will be remains at No. 4 another week. Jason Aldean’s “Just Gettin’ held Tuesday, March 24, 8:30 Started” is starting its way to the top and is now at No. 5. a.m. at Nashville’s Omni Hotel. is again gaining traction on “A Guy Walks Into A City National Bank will again be Bar” as it moves to No. 6 followed by Easton Corbin’s “Baby the presenting sponsor for the Be My Love Song” at No. 7. Cole Swindell’s “Ain’t Worth The premier event saluting women Whiskey” is up to No. 8 and Eric Paslay has broke the top 10 in Nashville’s music industry. Tickets and Sponsorship Tables with “She Don’t Love You” coming in at No. 9. Josh Turner are available now. Click HERE for more information. will spend another week at No. 10 with “Lay Low.” … DeStefano And James Receive Greatest Gainers— had 351 new spins MusicRow Challenge Coin for “Little Toy Guns,” making her the top gainer this week. Zac Brown Band’s “Homegrown” is also up this week after 320 Two of the top in additional plays. Kenny Chesney continues the climb with Nashville were recently 303 more spins than last week. with Eric presented their MusicRow No. 1 Church is a popular combo, their duet “Raise ‘Em Up” has 277 Challenge Coin for the Grammy new plays this week. And A Thousand Horses’ “Smoke” saw Award Winning “Something In an increase spin count of 266. The Water” by Carrie Underwood. The song, written Debuts— Big & Rich were the top debut this week with “Run by Underwood, Chris Away With You” breaking into the chart at No. 72. Ricky DeStefano and , DeStefano (L) and James (R) Gunn’s “King Of This Town” had a big debut with the song went No. 1 on the MusicRow landing at No. 73. Cody Johnson’s “Cowboy Like Me” debuted CountryBreakout Chart on Nov. 26, 2014. Every artist and at No. 74 followed by Kaitlyn Baker’s “Burn” at No. 75. Smith that reach the top of the chart receive the Challenge N Western is being seen on the chart for the irst time with Coin. To see the full list of winners, click HERE. “Fallen Angel.” Also making a chart debut is Matt Ferris at No. 78 with “She’s Done,” Emily Haines’ “Baby, It’s You” at No, 79 … and Mitchell Tenpenny’s “Black Crow” at No. 80. CRS And CMA Partner For Welcome Reception For CRS 2015 … Country Radio Seminar (CRS) and Association (CMA) have partnered to present the CMA Artist Welcome Reception to open CRS 2015. The networking event for artists and registered attendees of CRS is scheduled for Wednesday, Feb. 25 at the Nashville Convention Center starting at 5:30 p.m. CT. This is the ifth consecutive year the Artist Welcome Reception is on the CRS agenda, but this is the irst year that the CMA has partnered with CRS for the opening event. For more information, click HERE. Big John of WKKW/Morgantown, W. Va. clowns with Johnny Orr and Shale Martin of John & John Ent. during a recent radio … visit to promote Orr’s new single “You Cant Hide Love” Pictured (L-R): Big John, Orr, Martin Thursday, February 12, 2015 WEEKLY CHART DATA SINGLES CALENDAR New On The Chart —Debuting This Week February 16 Artist/song/label—chart pos. Carrie Underwood/Little Toy Guns/Arista Nashville Big & Rich/Run Away With You/New Revolution— 72 Michael Ray//Warner Bros.-WEA Ricky Gunn/King Of This Town/New Canvas Entertainment— 73 Abi Ann/Future Ex Boyfriend/One Country Records Cody Johnson/Cowboy Like Me/Cojo Music— 74 Mitch Goudy/My Girl’s Hand/Third Floor Records Kaitlyn Baker/Burn/Silvercreek Records— 75 Smith N Western/Fallen Angel/80 Proof Music Group Inc.— 76 Jordyn Stoddard/Like Me Til’ You Love Me/J Stodd Matt Farris/She’s Done/Skytone Entertainment— 78 Morgan Riley/Down South/Skytone Emily Haines/Baby It’s You/Evolution— 79 Presley & Taylor/Lookin For A Cowboy/SMG Nashville Mitchell Tenpenny/Black Crow/Creation Lab Records— 80 Cindy Lee Alden/Black Coffee/CLA Music Greatest Spin Increase February 23 Artist/song/label—Spin Increase LoCash/I Love This Life/Reviver Records Carrie Underwood/Little Toy Guns/Arista— 351 David Fanning/Doin’ Country Right/Red Bow Zac Brown Band/Homegrown/Southern Ground— 320 Dan + Shay/Nothin’ Like You/Warner Bros. Kenny Chesney/Wild Child/Blue Chair-Columbia— 303 Amber Hayes/Running Out Of Memories/A OK Keith Urban w/ Eric Church/Raise 'Em Up/Capitol Nashville— 277 Greg Shirley/The Good Drugs/Garage Door-SDMG A Thousand Horses/Smoke/Republic Nashville— 266 ALBUMS CALENDAR Most Added February 17 Artist/song/label—No. of Adds The Mavericks/Mono/The Valory Music Co. Carrie Underwood/Little Toy Guns/Arista—25 Various/Glen Campbell…I’ll Be Me/Big Machine Records Kip Moore/I’m To Blame/MCA Nashville— 17 Aaron Watson/The Underdog/BIG Label-Thirty Tigers Kenny Chesney/Wild Child/Blue Chair-Columbia—17 /Crushin’ It/Arista Nashville-12 March 2 Tim McGraw/Diamond Rings And Old Barstools/Big Machine—11 Aaron Tippin/Aaron Tippin 25/Nippit Records A Thousand Horses/Smoke/Republic Nashville—10 Casting Crowns/Glorious Day: Hymns of Faith/ Johnny Orr Band/You Can’t Hide Love/Johnny Orr— 9 Frankie Ballard/Young And Crazy/Warner Bros. 9 March 3 Rachael Turner/Matches And Moonshine/Rustic Records— 7 Shania Twain/SHANIA: Still The One Live from Vegas [CD/DVD]/ Austin Webb/Country On You/Streamsound— 7 Mercury Nashville Dylan Scott/Lay It On Me/Sidewalk— 7 … On Deck—Soon To Be Charting Artist/song/label—No. of Spins Rachael Turner/Matches and Moonshine/Rustic Records— 142 Kayla Calabrese/Whisper/SMG Nashville— 141 Jeremy Starkel/Burn/Biting Sow— 134 Will Corey/Scattered Smothered Covered/Rockin-Rodeo— 112 Mo Pitney/Country/Curb Records— 108 Frozen Playlist— WAKG, WHWY, WKFC, KSJJ …

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NO. 1 SONG MusicRow Spotlight Ted Cramer/PD/WIFE/Connersville, Ind. Blake Shelton has taken another hit song to the top of The MusicRow How long have you been at the station? Country Breakout Chart. “Lonely I am starting my 9th year at WIFE-FM. Tonight” is the No. 1 song for week 6 of 2015. How many "hats" do you wear every day? I am the PD and MD for three stations, Shelton seems to do no wrong. morning show host. I voice track afternoons Even when he asks a member of his on the sister station. wife’s (Miranda Lambert) group The Pistol Annies to do a duet with What is your philosophy on new music? him about a one-night stand. Branch and Dean, Chris Weaver Band, Rachael Turner stand Ashley Monroe is the female lead on the song and they debuted it alongside Florida Georgia Line, Carrie Underwood and ZBB. Playing together on stage at the CMA Awards last November. It became an independents has helped us as we are No. 1 in our ADI. instant hit and is nearing the 400k sales mark. What role do promoters play in your music decisions? “Lonely Tonight” was written by Brent Anderson and Ryan Promoters deliver news on how singles are doing in markets across Hurd and is featured on Shelton’s Bringing Back The Sunshine the country and are the irst to introduce us to new artists. The album. promoters also are invaluable in putting live shows together as they help get artist info and available times to us. Shelton has been keeping very busy. Between tour dates, he is still a fan-favorite coach on NBC’s The Voice, he recently hosted Why is it important to report to MusicRow? Saturday Night Live and co-headlined a show for the United Way We are the voice for secondary markets more music is bought in of Metropolitan Dallas at AT&T Stadium with Usher. He is also set secondary markets than anywhere else. We also have helped launch to reportedly play Arizona sheriff Wyatt Earp in the Western careers, Florida Georgia Line and Clare Dunn come to mind. spoof, Ridiculous 6. It will be the irst of four original movies Adam Sandler is producing exclusively for Netlix. And of course, Tell us something great about your station and/or city. he will team up with Luke Bryan to form “Bluke” and return to We are home to the state of Indiana's oldest county fair and irst AT&T stadium to host the 50th Annual ACM Awards on Sunday, high school marching band. We also are in our 24th year of hosting a April 15. Country Showdown. ¥ ¥ ¥ Who are some NEW artists that you're excited about? Click here to view a full list of MusicRow’s Challenge Mitchell Tenpenny, Rachael Turner, Leah Turner, Joanna Mosca, Coin recipients. Lizzie Sider..I could list many more.. ¥ ¥ ¥

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Weeks Last Wk This Wk Spins/ % Spin Spins Last Wk On Chart Position Position Artist/Song/Label Reports Power +- # Spins 12 2 1 Blake Shelton/Lonely Tonight/Warner Bros. 3327/88 0 13 3314 19 5 2 /Say You Do/Capitol Nashville 3230/98 3 100 3130 26 3 3 Jake Owen/What We Ain't Got/RCA Nashville 3228/95 2 54 3174 16 4 4 Lady Antebellum/Freestyle/Capitol 3211/96 3 80 3131 13 6 5 Jason Aldean/Just Gettin' Started/Broken Bow 3156/93 4 119 3037 26 7 6 Tyler Farr/A Guy Walks Into A Bar/Columbia Nashville 3036/98 1 23 3013 21 8 7 Easton Corbin/Baby Be My Love Song/Mercury 2577/95 5 126 2451 15 9 8 Cole Swindell/Ain't Worth The Whiskey/Warner Bros. 2467/87 9 194 2273 16 11 9 Eric Paslay/She Don't Love You/EMI Nashville 2341/95 6 129 2212 20 10 10 Josh Turner/Lay Low/MCA 2263/92 2 40 2223 11 12 11 /Mom/Pearl-RCA Nashville 2210/85 4 95 2115 14 14 12 Billy Currington/Don't it/Mercury Nashville 2042/89 6 122 1920 15 13 13 Toby Keith/Drunk Americans/Showdog-Universal 2036/78 2 42 1994 9 18 14 Sam Hunt/Take Your Time/MCA 1986/82 12 218 1768 5 19 15 Zac Brown Band/Homegrown/Southern Ground 1984/85 19 320 1664 6 17 16 Miranda Lambert/Little Red Wagon/RCA Nashville 1983/91 10 175 1808 20 16 17 Erica Nicole/It's Comin' Down/EN Music-PCL 1916/70 5 97 1819 22 1 18 Lee Brice/Drinking Class/Curb 1797/52 -48 -1644 3441 4 24 19 Keith Urban w/ Eric Church/Raise 'Em Up/Capitol Nashville 1698/91 19 277 1421 17 22 20 /Love Me Like You Mean It/Black River 1657/79 7 112 1545 13 21 21 The Swon Brothers/Pray For You/Arista Nashville 1650/87 6 99 1551 29 23 22 Canaan Smith/Love You Like That/Mercury Nashville 1564/70 5 81 1483 8 25 23 /Girl Crush/Capitol Nashville 1554/79 10 136 1418 21 20 24 Jon Pardi/When I've Been Drinkin'/Capitol Nashville 1543/71 -1 -22 1565 14 27 25 Justin Moore/This Kind of Town/Valory 1462/78 6 88 1374 19 26 26 Branch & Dean/Green Light/SSM 1460/60 5 70 1390 12 28 27 Brantley Gilbert/One Hell Of An Amen/Valory 1435/80 5 73 1362 4 32 28 A Thousand Horses/Smoke/Republic Nashville 1425/85 23 266 1159 10 29 29 Rachel Holder/I Think Of You/Curb 1363/63 6 83 1280 9 30 30 /Riot/Big Machine 1281/68 5 60 1221 4 37 31 Tim McGraw/Diamond Rings And Old Barstools/Big Machine 1274/82 25 257 1017 9 35 32 Lonestar/Pretty Good Day/4Star Records 1155/55 11 116 1039 9 36 33 Chris Weaver Band/Time Has Wings/American Roots Records 1122/61 9 94 1028 5 40 34 Mickey Guyton/Better Than You Left Me/Capitol Nashville 1054/70 19 170 884 15 39 35 Kristian Bush/Trailer Hitch/Streamsound 992/45 10 91 901 12 38 36 Chase Rice/Gonna Wanna Tonight/Columbia Nashville 990/58 1 7 983

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Weeks Last Wk This Wk Spins/ % Spin Spins Last Wk On Chart Position Position Artist/Song/Label Reports Power +- # Spins 5 42 37 Reba/Going Out Like That/Nash Icon 951/64 10 90 861 5 43 38 Craig Wayne Boyd/My Baby's Got A Smile On Her Face/Dot Records 915/56 11 91 824 4 47 39 Brad Paisley/Crushin' It/Arista 901/60 32 217 684 3 54 40 Kenny Chesney/Wild Child/Blue Chair-Columbia 898/62 51 303 595 16 41 41 Mike Ryan/Dancing All Around it/Rock & Soul Records 897/43 4 33 864 9 45 42 Haley & Michaels/Just Another Love Song/New Revolution Entertainment 836/50 14 104 732 8 50 43 Dallas Smith/Wastin' Gas/Big Loud Mountain 743/49 17 109 634 10 49 44 John Spicer/Pretty Good At Loving You/Legend Group Records 728/41 11 70 658 14 46 45 Brian Collins/Never Really Left/Blue Light Entertainment 721/48 3 19 702 8 51 46 Steven Lee Olsen/Raised By A Good Time/Columbia Nashville 709/50 13 81 628 11 48 47 Gloriana/Trouble/Warner Bros. 686/34 1 4 682 6 56 48 Austin Webb/Country On You/Streamsound 667/46 25 132 535 12 53 49 Frank Ortega/My Old Man/Villa One 637/33 6 38 599 12 44 50 /Hell Of A Night/Broken Bow 633/44 -16 -117 750 5 58 51 Maddie & Tae/Fly/Dot Records 622/50 24 119 503 4 59 52 Bobby Wills/Never Didn't Love You/Willing Nashville 603/49 22 109 494 5 64 53 Frankie Ballard/Young And Crazy/Warner Bros. 575/39 26 120 455 2 78 54 Carrie Underwood/Little Toy Guns/Arista 556/43 171 351 205 6 62 55 Josh Dorr/Save Your Breath/RCA Nashville 544/40 14 65 479 8 66 56 Granger Smith/Bury Me In Blue Jeans/Pioneer Music 526/34 18 80 446 6 60 57 James Otto/Somewhere Tonight/Ottopilot Records 526/34 8 41 485 11 57 58 The Cains Trio/Be Yourself With Me/DayStreet Records-GMV Nashville 523/30 2 10 513 9 63 59 Chris Chitsey/Lonely In Tucson/Premier Nashville Records 513/28 10 45 468 9 61 60 Jo Dee Messina/He's Messed Up/Dreambound Records LLC 508/30 5 25 483 2 74 61 Kip Moore/I'm To Blame/MCA Nashville 471/39 76 203 268 6 71 62 Dylan Scott/Lay It On Me/Sidewalk Records 437/30 23 83 354 6 69 63 Jason Michael Carroll/God Only Knows/For The Lonely Records 420/34 16 58 362 12 67 64 Aaron Watson/That Look/HTK Records 417/25 -6 -25 442 7 72 65 Crab Apple Lane/Hit The Ground Runnin/Chevelle Records 390/23 13 45 345 6 73 66 Denny Strickland/Swerve On/SMG Records 365/27 13 41 324 8 70 67 Colt Ford/Crank It Up/Average Joe's 342/22 -4 -14 356 2 79 68 DOWNDAY/Stuck On 17/Render 278/24 38 77 201 12 75 69 w/ Sharon White/Forever's Not Long Enough/Skaggs Family Records 275/16 3 9 266 20 33 70 Olivia Lane/Steal Me Away/Big Spark 244/15 -78 -869 1113 2 80 71 James Carothers/I Must Be Alive/ 235/14 19 37 198 1 90 72 Big & Rich/Run Away With You/New Revolution 206/15 53 71 135 1 83 73 Ricky Gunn/King Of This Town/New Canvas Entertainment 204/19 21 35 169 1 86 74 Cody Johnson/Cowboy Like Me/Cojo Music 181/10 22 33 148 1 85 75 Kaitlyn Baker/Burn/Silvercreek Records 178/13 16 25 153 1 84 76 Smith N Western/Fallen Angel/80 Proof Music Group Inc. 170/13 10 15 155 21 34 77 Rick Monroe/Fires Out/MRG Recordings 161/10 -85 -928 1089 1 89 78 Matt Farris/She's Done/Skytone Entertainment 159/12 18 24 135 1 87 79 Emily Haines/Baby It's You/Evolution 154/12 12 17 137 1 95 80 Mitchell Tenpenny/Black Crow/Creation Lab Records 149/13 62 57 92

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