Issue 564 WEEKLY
August 21, 2017, Issue 564 WEEKLY YTD Charts: Down The Stretch As we make the turn for home in this year’s chart races, here’s how Country radio airplay stacks up as measured by the top songs, top artists and top labels at the three-quarter pole of the chart year. Tim McGraw leads the Top 10 artists, garnering the most airplay points for the first three-quarters of the 2017 chart year. He leads Blake Shelton by a nose. Trailing Blake, the rest of the field has Florida Georgia Line, Jason Aldean, Brett Young, Keith Urban, Luke Bryan, Thomas Rhett, Jon Pardi and Dustin Lynch. While the Top 10 is led by an artist who had his first hit some 23 years ago, four of those 10 – Lynch, Pardi, Rhett, and Young – Scored Rangers: Big Label’s Aaron Watson pulls in a Texas- have been on the national scene five or fewer sized crowd for a performance at Globe Life Park in Arlington, TX Saturday (8/19). Pictured (l-r) are KSCS’ Trapper John years. The second-place non-solo male act Morris, Cumulus/Dallas’ Rebecca Kaplan, Country Aircheck’s Tim McGraw is Old Dominion, at No. 12. Women aren’t Paul Williams, KSCS & KPLX’s Mac Daniels, Watson, KSCS’ faring too well thus far, with Lauren Alaina Mark “Hawkeye” Louis, the label’s Gwen Foster and CDA coming in at 20 and Kelsea Ballerini at 22. Entertainment’s Gino Genaro. The Hits: Jon Pardi’s “Dirt On My Boots” has posted more airplay points than any other Radio Names OD’s “Happy Endings” song at this point in the chart year and has a “Forty radio programmers, a handful of Sony staffers and Old narrow lead on Blake Shelton’s “A Guy With Dominion convene on the back of a boat …” is not the begin- A Girl.” Rounding out the Top 10 are Sam ning of a bad joke.
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