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Kelsea, Combs Make Chart News ACM Surprise: How Golden Hour Brought >page 4 Six Nominations To A ‘Hack Of All Trades’

Zac Brown Band’s Great Escape When Ian Fitchuk showed up at a studio on Feb. 20 for trouble accepting recognition.” >page 9 a Carly Pearce recording session, the moment had an awkward Fitchuk has gotten plenty in recent years, particularly the kind air about it. want most — numerous calls for repeat business — as he The Academy of had announced its has steadily built his reputation in Nashville. He plays keyboards nominations just hours earlier, and Fitchuk — who had never on most of the tracks on ’ new Girl and Austin Bashes been an ACM finalist — appeared contributes and/or drums Bolster Lineups six different times on the ballot. on the latest by Shania >page 10 He was up for producer of the year, Twain, , Lucie Silvas, and ’ Golden Midland, Ruston Kelly and Brett Hour — which he co-produced Eldredge. Fitchuk also plays with Musgraves and buddy Daniel bass on ’s The Country Singer Tashian — was in the running Mountain, which will compete Shifts To Politics for album. Fitchuk also became with Golden Hour for album of the >page 10 the first person nominated year when the ACMs are handed

simultaneously in four different out April 7 in Las Vegas. categories: bass player, “He’s such a musical guy,” says Makin’ Tracks: , piano/keyboards The Mountain co-producer Ross HARDY Gets player and specialty instrument(s) Copperman. “[Engineer] Reid ‘’ player of the year. Shippen actually told me after >page 14 At least three people at the Feb. we booked Ian on the session, ‘You 20 session —Pearce, drummer know, Ross, Ian doesn’t really do Aaron Sterling and guitarist bass on sessions, but know what Derek Wells — were fellow a great musician he is.’ Reid was nominees, but Fitchuk was the that confident in him. We flew Country Coda: FITCHUK Historic Keith center of the conversation. For him out to Telluride [Colo.] to be Whitley Moment someone who makes his living in the bass player.” >page 19 a support role, that spotlight brought some uneasiness. Fitchuk’s approach to the instrument shows a nuanced “I felt a little sheepish,” says Fitchuk during a break at a uniqueness. In Bentley’s current single, “Living,” the bass lifts session in north Nashville, where he’s producing new music and rolls quietly from one measure into the next through the for Canadian singer- . “I have first verse, creating subtle movement to help push the narrative BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE APRIL 1, 2019 | PAGE 2 OF 19 forward without calling attention to Fitchuk. He clearly works well with others. “The fact that Ian plays drums doesn’t hurt,” says Bentley. “He and [drummer] Matt [Chamberlain] really spoke well together on a musical communicational level.” Fitchuk is well trained for that sort of communication. The native’s parents are classical musicians with side pursuits: His father plays viola but earned his college degree by studying voice; his mother is a flutist who is also a member of a bagpipe band. Both are music teachers as well, and they schooled their son by example to meld personal creativity into the needs of the group. The younger Fitchuk was particularly enamored of pop records that featured complex arrangements or emotions, and he moved to Nashville in 2000 to study piano at Belmont University. That didn’t last long — he joined jam band The Dahlia Llamas and toured long enough to realize he preferred steady local work over the grind of the road. Producing an album by singer-songwriter Griffin House in 2004 helped him transition into regular studio work, and Fitchuk welcomed Brooks & Dunn as guest advisors for four became a part of Nashville’s underground scene. episodes of the current season of NBC’s . From left: Ronnie Two 2009 projects — Landon Pigg’s melancholy track “Falling in Love Dunn, Shelton and Kix Brooks. in a Coffee Shop” and Mindy Smith’s moody album Stupid Love — made a particular impression within the community, though it was years before that became apparent. Both Musgraves and Morris cited Smith’s album as an influence. “It just goes to show: Do your best at all times,” reflects Fitchuk. “The seeds that you plant, you don’t have control over how they’re going to grow in the end.” Morris had flirted with Fitchuk as a producer before she instead landed with , but she recommended Fitchuk to Musgraves, who worked with him and Tashian to write and produce the first five tracks for what became Golden Hour. Her management, Sandbox Entertainment, thought so highly of the work that the company self-financed the album and unveiled it to Nashville only after it was completed. Commercial expectations were not particularly high — “It seemed too arty,” says Fitchuk — but the album’s mix of acoustic and programmed elements, plus its moody vibe, connected at a deep level with her audience and the Nashville music community. headlined a March 26 installment of the Country Music “She has this melancholic voice that is both comforting and sad at the same Association’s CMA Series at Nashville’s Listening Room time,” he says. “Then we have that song ‘Happy & Sad.’ The topic of that song during the Tin Pan South Songwriters Festival. From left: songwriter somewhat frames, I think, the album as a whole, which isn’t just trying to make Shane Minor (“Chillin’ It”), Atkins and songwriter Rose Falcon you feel one way or another. It’s trying to accept the human experience as a (“Friday Night”). complex and layered experience.” Not surprisingly, Fitchuk has layered more work atop the notoriety Golden Hour has yielded. His professional dance card of late has included Edwards, Eldredge, Lady Antebellum and , and he’s expecting to work with non-country acts Leon Bridges and Hailee Steinfeld. Some of those efforts have been joint projects with Tashian, who is likewise a fellow band member in Skyline Motel, a Fleetwood Mac-like ensemble they formed on the side with Nashville singer-songwriters Sarah Buxton and Kate York. Fitchuk primarily plays drums with the unit, which opened for Musgraves during her recent four- night stand at Nashville’s in advance of a forthcoming EP. Meanwhile, Fitchuk’s versatility is evident on Musgraves’ “Rainbow,” which is currently No. 38 on . His piano is the sole instrument backing her on the recording, taken from perhaps 11 attempts on 11 different days; she sang it at the close of each Golden Hour recording session, and the single is the best take of those informal performances. visited Cumulus’ syndicated morning program, The Ty He was the lone visible musician when she performed it at the Grammy Bentli Show, in support of new single “Ridin’ Roads.” From left: Bentli, Awards, where Golden Hour earned album of the year, and it was — much like Lynch and Bentli Show co-hosts Tricia “T.J.” Jenkins and Chuck Wicks. the day that he secured those ACM nominations — a bit awkward. After he flubbed some chords in the dark at dress rehearsal, he asked for a light on the keyboard, but it was never clear until the on-camera live performance started that that request had been fulfilled. He froze slightly at the bridge, missed a chord and, for a split second, harbored a fear that without that chord, the whole song would fall apart. It did not — “Rainbow” was one of the highlights of the telecast — and Fitchuk does what comes naturally in explaining that situation: He puts the focus on the artist. “Kacey, thank God, came back in, and everything was fine,” he says. “It was terrifying, but I thought she did a great job.” Fitchuk, who calls himself a “hack of all trades,” can thus be taken at face value when he looks ahead with humility to the ACMs, downplaying his role as a single musician and focusing on how he syncs up with the larger group, in which he clearly belongs. “I don’t necessarily expect to win any of those musician categories,” he says. Scotty McCreery (center) celebrated the chart-topping success of “I don’t. I’m just thankful that of all those people in all those categories, pretty “This Is It” with co-writers/co-producers Aaron Eshuis (left) and Frank

much most of them are really close friends.” Rogers during a March 20 No. 1 party hosted by ASCAP and BMI. RODE ED MCCREERY: CMA. BERRY HUNTER ATKINS:

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ON THE CHARTS JIM ASKER [email protected] Ballerini Adds One ‘More’ Top 10; Extends Airplay Reign

Kelsea Ballerini nets her sixth top 10 on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart, Airplay, Country Streaming Songs, Country Digital Song Sales and Top which combines airplay, streaming and sales data, as “” (Black Country Albums. He concurrently leads the lists for a third frame. Only Kane River) jumps 14-8 on the list dated April 6. Brown has previously achieved the feat, on Oct. 28, 2017. The track is the just the second top 10 for a female artist unaccompanied by Combs’ “Beautiful Crazy” (River House/Columbia Nashville) rules another act in 2019, following Maren Morris’ “Girl” (No. 9). That’s as many as in Country Airplay for a sixth week (40.1 million, up less than 1 percent), the same span last year — when the same two artists hit the top 10: Ballerini with marking the list’s longest-leading No. 1 since ’s “Die a Happy “Legends” (No. 10 peak) and Morris with “” (No. 7). In Man,” which dominated for six weeks beginning in January 2016. “Crazy” is 2017, two solo women also reached the region through the same stretch (Lauren the 21st song to top Country Airplay for at least six weeks in the chart’s 29- Alaina and ), down from six in 2016 and three in 2015. year history and is two frames shy of the record: and Jimmy “Miss” re-enters Country Streaming Songs at a new No. 14 Buffett’s “It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere,” which led for high, up 30 percent to 5.5 million U.S. streams in the week eight weeks in 2003. ending March 28, according to Nielsen Music, while logging “Crazy” also commands Hot Country Songs and Country 7,000 sold in the same frame (down 2 percent) as it lifts Streaming Songs (13.4 million, up 11 percent) for a sixth 6-4 on Country Digital Song Sales. The track bumps 12-11 week. On Country Digital Song Sales, it prevails for a seventh on Country Airplay, with a 5 percent boost to 19.6 million week (11,000 sold, down 9 percent). audience impressions in the week ending March 31. Meanwhile, Combs’ debut LP, This One’s for You, logs Ballerini is supporting on the latter’s a 30th week at No. 1 on (25,000 Meaning of Life Tour and advising for Clarkson on NBC’s equivalent album units, up 3 percent). The set is just the The Voice. “Miss,” which Ballerini co-wrote, is her first Hot 11th to reach the milestone since the chart launched in Country Songs top 10 since “Legends.” She led the list for 1964 and is the first since Lady Antebellum’s Need You two weeks starting Sept. 24, 2016, with “Peter Pan.” (31 weeks on top) in 2010-11. It’s the first album by BALLERINI a solo male to reach the threshold since Billy Ray Cyrus’ UP TO THE TOP 10 banks his ninth Hot Country Some Gave All (34 weeks 1992-93), passing the 29-week Songs top 10 as “” (Big ) leaps 17-9. It boasts reigns of ’s Traveller (2015-17) and Tim McGraw’s Not a 24.2 million impressions (up 8 percent) as it climbs 10-7 on Country Airplay, Moment Too Soon (1994). 4.9 million U.S. streams (up 36 percent) and 5,000 sold (up 7 percent). PARDI CLOCKS IN adds his fourth Country Airplay top 10 as A TOAST FOR WALLEN Also on Hot Country Songs, ’s “Night Shift” (Capitol Nashville) strides 13-9 (21 million, up 10 percent). He “” () bumps 12-10 to become his second top 10. collects his first top 10 since 2017’s No. 3-peaking “Heartache on the Dance It’s up 11 percent to 8,000 sold, 9 percent to 16.2 million in radio reach and Floor,” which followed the No. 1s “” and “.” 8 percent to 6.2 million U.S. streams. Wallen first hit the top 10 with “Up Down” (featuring Florida Line; No. 5, June 2018). ‘GOOD’ TIME banks his fourth Country Airplay top 10 as “Good as You” (Zone 4/RCA Nashville) hops 11-10 (20.9 million, up ONE ‘HAPPY MAN’ Luke Combs continues his historic run atop all five 11 percent). It follows his No. 1s “Lose It,” “Heaven” and “” (featuring

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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 21 BEAUTIFUL CRAZY River House/Columbia Nashville HH No. 1 (6 weeks) HH Luke Combs 40.069 +0.065 7987 -168 1 l2 3 28 HERE TONIGHT BMLG  Brett Young 33.922 +3.258 7 117 580 3 l3 5 37 Atlantic/WEA  Michael Ray 33.451 +3.309 7310 726 2 l4 4 38 THERE WAS THIS GIRL BMLG  Riley Green 31.756 +1.546 7038 323 4 l5 7 25 MAKE IT SWEET RCA Nashville Old Dominion 27.696 +1.276 6102 478 5 l6 9 33 EYES ON YOU Dack Janiels/Broken Bow Chase Rice 26.462 +2.155 5903 496 6 l7 10 34 DOWN TO THE HONKYTONK Big Loud Jake Owen 24.150 +1.743 5853 336 7 8 2 50 MILLIONAIRE Mercury  Chris Stapleton 22.899 -12.521 4081 -3706 13 l9 13 36 NIGHT SHIFT Capitol Nashville Jon Pardi 21.003 +1.974 4824 446 8 l10 11 13 GOOD AS YOU Zone 4/RCA Nashville Kane Brown 20.913 +2.078 4465 368 9 l11 12 23 MISS ME MORE Black River 19.645 +0.881 4463 225 10 l12 16 42 LOVE AIN’T Valory  Eli Young Band 19.143 +1.182 4451 244 11 l13 15 34 ON MY WAY TO YOU CoJo/WMN  18.066 -0.009 3958 58 14 l14 14 29 LOVE WINS Capitol Nashville Carrie Underwood 17.742 -0.563 4323 102 12 l15 18 5 Valory  Thomas Rhett 16.597 +2.892 3661 657 16 l16 17 31 WHISKEY GLASSES Big Loud Morgan Wallen 16.196 +1.307 3905 235 15 l17 19 39 LOVE SOMEONE Atlantic/WMN  15.234 +1.468 3573 299 17 l18 20 30 RUMOR Curb  12.929 +0.718 3164 169 18 l19 21 7 EVERY LITTLE HONKY TONK BAR MCA Nashville HH Airpower HH 12.295 +1.215 2764 360 20 l20 24 11 GIRL Columbia Nashville Maren Morris 10.299 +1.879 2588 502 22 l21 22 22 TALK YOU OUT OF IT BMLG  10.134 +0.374 2842 42 19 l22 23 51 CAUGHT UP IN THE COUNTRY Curb  Rodney Atkins Featuring The Fisk Jubilee Singers 9.303 +0.534 2690 142 21 l23 25 13 SOME OF IT EMI Nashville 9.218 +1.605 2357 477 23 l24 NEW GOD’S COUNTRY Warner Bros./WMN HH Hot Shot Debut/ Breaker/ Most Increased Audience/ Most Added HH Blake Shelton 9.143 +9.143 1457 1457 29 l25 26 12 RAISED ON COUNTRY RCA Nashville 7.821 +0.334 1925 155 27 l26 27 16 WHAT HAPPENS IN A SMALL TOWN Valory  + Lindsay Ell 7.450 +0.370 2 112 39 25 27 28 24 BUY MY OWN DRINKS Wheelhouse  Runaway June 6.935 -0.097 2225 -39 24 l28 29 30 FEELS LIKE A PARTY Wheelhouse  LOCASH 6.019 +0.307 1971 71 26 l29 30 7 SOMEBODY’S DAUGHTER Columbia Nashville 5.814 +0.298 1338 55 32 l30 31 7 ALL TO MYSELF Warner Bros./WAR Dan + Shay 5.306 +0.272 1207 117 36

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, 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 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 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 KKWF WKLB WLHK WUSH KMPS Buffalo, N.Y. WYRK Jacksonville, Fla. WGNE 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 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 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 KYGO WMAD Reno, Nevada KBUL Des Moines, Iowa KHKI McAllen, Texas KTEX KOLC BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE APRIL 1, 2019 | PAGE 7 OF 19

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 36 5 REARVIEW TOWN Macon/Broken Bow 4.983 +0.817 1257 167 34 l32 35 21 THE ONES THAT DIDN’T MAKE IT BACK HOME Valory  4.643 +0.540 114 6 114 38 l33 32 37 WHAT WHISKEY DOES Stoney Creek Randy Houser Featuring Hillary Lindsey 4.643 +0.006 1692 44 28 l34 33 18 LOVE YOU TOO LATE Warner Bros./WMN 4.459 +0.203 117 3 64 37 l35 40 17 EVERY LITTLE THING Triple Tigers Russell Dickerson 4.234 +0.631 1335 111 33 l36 38 19 CLOSER TO YOU Big Machine Carly Pearce 4.179 +0.339 1449 68 30 l37 39 26 BACK TO LIFE Big Machine 4.107 +0.388 1437 -3 31 38 34 8 RAINBOW MCA Nashville Kacey Musgraves 4.005 -0.226 1232 10 35 l39 41 19 I DON’T KNOW ABOUT YOU Big Loud 3.921 +0.389 909 58 42 40 37 24 DAY DRUNK Warner Bros./WEA Morgan Evans 3.829 -0.239 1111 0 39 l41 42 9 THOUGHT ABOUT YOU McGraw/Columbia Nashville Tim McGraw 3.214 +0.397 1001 157 40 l42 45 22 LADIES IN THE ‘90S 19/Mercury  Lauren Alaina 2.792 +0.290 932 7 41 l43 44 20 I DON’T REMEMBER ME (BEFORE YOU) EMI Nashville 2.603 -0.021 815 30 45 44 43 8 REDNECKER Tree Vibez/Big Loud HARDY 2.546 -0.247 825 32 44 l45 48 5 GOOD VIBES Warner Bros./WAR Chris Janson 2.364 +0.303 665 47 47 l46 46 5 LIVING Capitol Nashville Dierks Bentley 2.305 +0.077 641 35 48 l47 50 11 NOTHING TO DO TOWN Curb  Dylan Scott 2.111 +0.109 878 43 43 l48 NEW KNOCKIN’ BOOTS Capitol Nashville 1.955 +1.955 351 351 57 49 49 10 PRAYED FOR YOU Wide Open/RECORDS/Good Company Matt Stell 1.764 -0.147 501 -16 51 l50 53 16 GIRL GOIN’ NOWHERE Atlantic/WAR  Ashley McBryde 1.678 +0.470 626 50 49 51 51 10 MAKE ME WANT TO Stoney Creek 1.606 -0.149 725 8 46 l52 NEW RIDIN’ ROADS Broken Bow Dustin Lynch 1.428 +0.760 364 225 56 l53 60 2 BETTER OFF GONE Big Yellow Dog Logan Mize 1.258 +0.531 430 82 53 l54 57 6 RCA Nashville 1.143 +0.212 318 19 58 l55 58 3 AFTER A FEW Mercury  1.087 +0.189 474 22 52 l56 55 10 ROCKIN’ ALL NIGHT LONG Buena Vista/Capitol Nashville Adam Hambrick 1.050 +0.057 559 -1 50 l57 NEW MY MIRACLE Arista Nashville 0.853 +0.280 262 157 59 58 59 5 Southern Ground/Wheelhouse Band 0.840 -0.046 371 -37 55 59 56 5 ALCOHOL YOU LATER Riser House/Columbia Nashville 0.773 -0.194 389 6 54

60 RE-ENTRY HOUSTON, WE GOT A PROBLEM River House/Columbia Nashville Luke Combs 0.581 -0.114 80 -8 -

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4/8 Family Tree CAROLINE JONES Capitol Nashville Chasin’ Me Mailboat/New Revolution 4/22 LUKE BRYAN Knockin’ Boots KOLT BARBER Capitol Nashville Cowboy Jerry Duncan QUEEVA How Do You Know LUCAS HOGE CMD That’ll Be The Day Forge 48 RACHEL WAMMACK Enough ROB MAYES RCA Nashville Closer AWAL/AristoMedia Bryan’s playful new single previews his LUKE BRYAN 4/15 album expected by late 2019. It debuts at Knockin’ Boots No. 48 on Country Airplay with 2 million ABBY ANDERSON impressions, marking his 35th career entry. Good Lord Black River JOHN SALANGSANG/INVISION/AP JOHN BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE APRIL 1, 2019 | PAGE 8 OF 19

AIRPLAY Country Airplay MONITORED BY

MOST ADDED® NEW AND ACTIVE TITLE Imprint/Label Artist ADDS TOTAL TOTAL GOD’S COUNTRY Warner Bros./WMN Blake Shelton 80 TITLE Imprint/Label Artist AUDIENCE STATIONS ADDS SOME OF IT EMI Nashville Eric Church 19 WORLD FOR TWO Stoney Creek King Calaway 0.517 19 1 KNOCKIN’ BOOTS Capitol Nashville Luke Bryan 19 HEARTBREAK Atlantic/WMN  0.450 15 13 HEARTBREAK Atlantic/WMN Hunter Hayes 13 RIVAL Arista Nashville LANCO 0.393 3 2 THOUGHT ABOUT YOU McGraw/Columbia Nashville Tim McGraw 10 LIVING Capitol Nashville Dierks Bentley 10 SHALLOW Big Machine Danielle Bradbery Feat. Parker McCollum 0.378 2 1 RIDIN’ ROADS Broken Bow Dustin Lynch 10 IF MY HAD A HEART Awake  0.197 4 0 RAINBOW MCA Nashville Kacey Musgraves 9 DARK HORSE Atlantic/WEA  0.182 12 0 REARVIEW TOWN Macon/Broken Bow Jason Aldean 9 MY MIRACLE Arista Nashville Brad Paisley 8 RECURRENTS MOST INCREASED AUDIENCE THIS TOTAL AUD. WEEK TITLE Imprint/Label Artist (IN MILLIONS) GAIN 1 GIRL LIKE YOU Macon/Broken Bow Jason Aldean 25.417 TITLE Imprint/Label Artist (IN MIILIONS) 2 THIS IS IT Triple Tigers Scotty McCreery 23.699 GOD’S COUNTRY Warner Bros./WMN Blake Shelton +9.143 ONE THAT GOT AWAY Atlantic/WEA Michael Ray +3.309 3 BEST SHOT Stoney Creek Jimmie Allen 22.071 HERE TONIGHT BMLG Brett Young +3.258 4 SHE GOT THE BEST OF ME River House/Columbia Nashville Luke Combs 19.472 LOOK WHAT GOD GAVE HER Valory Thomas Rhett +2.892 5 TAKE IT FROM ME MCA Nashville Jordan Davis 16.698 EYES ON YOU Dack Janiels/Broken Bow Chase Rice +2.155 6 SPEECHLESS Warner Bros./WAR Dan + Shay 15.496 GOOD AS YOU Zone 4/RCA Nashville Kane Brown +2.078 7 GOOD GIRL Broken Bow Dustin Lynch 15.228 NIGHT SHIFT Capitol Nashville Jon Pardi +1.974 8 SIXTEEN Valory Thomas Rhett 14.214 KNOCKIN’ BOOTS Capitol Nashville Luke Bryan +1.955 9 TEQUILA Warner Bros./WAR Dan + Shay 13.331 GIRL Columbia Nashville Maren Morris +1.879 DOWN TO THE HONKYTONK Big Loud Jake Owen +1.743 10 Capitol Nashville Luke Bryan 12.924 MOST INCREASED PLAYS BILLBOARD COUNTRY BOXSCORE TITLE Imprint/Label Artist GAIN Gross Artist Attendance Ticket Price(s) Venue/Date(s) Capacity Promoter(s) GOD’S COUNTRY Warner Bros./WMN Blake Shelton +1457 $2,972,763 ERIC CHURCH 31,570 MESSINA TOURING ONE THAT GOT AWAY Atlantic/WEA Michael Ray +726 $149, $29 Greensboro Coliseum, Greensboro, N.C./March 15-16 31,570 GROUP/AEG PRESENTS LOOK WHAT GOD GAVE HER Valory Thomas Rhett +657 $1,275,949 BLAKE SHELTON 13,785 MESSINA TOURING HERE TONIGHT BMLG Brett Young +580 $129, $29 Xcel Energy Center, St. Paul, Minn./March 15 13,785 GROUP/AEG PRESENTS GIRL Columbia Nashville Maren Morris +502 $1,049,614 BLAKE SHELTON 11,760 MESSINA TOURING $129, $18.75 Wells Fargo Arena, Des Moines, Iowa/March 14 11,760 GROUP/AEG PRESENTS EYES ON YOU Dack Janiels/Broken Bow Chase Rice +496 MAKE IT SWEET RCA Nashville Old Dominion +478 $927,588 BLAKE SHELTON 7,780 MESSINA TOURING $129, $49 Resch Center, Green Bay, Wis./March 16 7,780 GROUP/AEG PRESENTS SOME OF IT EMI Nashville Eric Church +477 $353,937 DIERKS BENTLEY 4,735 LIVE NATION, NIGHT SHIFT Capitol Nashville Jon Pardi +446 $87.43 , $72.35 Tribute Communities Centre, Oshawa, Ont./Jan. 19 4,735 SPECTRA PRESENTS GOOD AS YOU Zone 4/RCA Nashville Kane Brown +368 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 MARCH 24, 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 4 9 SOMEWHERE BETWEEN I LOVE YOU AND I’M LEAVIN’ (Rounder Rec) HH 1 Week at 1 HH Cody Jinks 1771 115 l11 12 10 COUNTRY SONG TO SING (Independent)  Kevin Fowler 1369 60 l2 3 20 (Independent)  Robert Ray 1746 61 l12 13 12 KISS THAT GIRL GOODBYE (Independent)  Aaron Watson 1258 22 l3 2 15 I’M YOUR ONLY FLAW (Independent)  Josh Abbott Band 1733 42 l13 16 10 OTHER SIDE OF THE RADIO (Independent)  Mike Ryan 1232 136 l4 6 9 CHEAT ON ME (Independent)  Bri Bagwell 1702 114 l14 15 15 AIN’T ENOUGH BEER (Independent)  Kylie Frey 118 5 29 l5 5 14 WALK AWAY (Independent)  Mark Powell 1701 54 15 14 21 LEAVE HER WILD (Dean Dillon’s Wildcatter )  114 4 -14 l6 7 10 HAD A THING (Independent)  Curtis Grimes 1688 107 l16 17 26 WHATEVER IT TAKES (King Hall Music)  Chad Cooke Band 1112 37 l7 8 17 NONE’YA (Independent)  Hayes Carll 1642 92 17 18 30 ON MY WAY TO YOU (CoJo Music)  Cody Johnson 980 -36 l8 10 5 CRAZY PEOPLE (Independent)  Randy Rogers Band 1591 135 18 9 20 BEER BUCKET LIST (Silverado)  David Adam Byrnes 907 -578 9 1 15 GONER (Independent)  William Clark Green 1575 -156 l19 21 14 PAY NO RENT (Independent)  Turnpike Troubadours 902 28 l10 11 13 TOP OF MY HEART (Cory Morrow Music)  Cory Morrow 1430 36 l20 23 12 HARD HEADED HEART (Independent)  Clay Hollis 867 73

Texas Regional Radio Report Top 100 is compiled from weekly online playlist reports from 86 radio stations located in Texas and surrounding states, including reports from specialty shows, internet and satellite radio outlets. Songs are ranked by total plays. For tracking, complete chart methodology and more information, visit www.texasregionalradio.com, or contact Dave Smith at 817-283-7984. Copyright 2019, Texas Regional Radio Report BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE APRIL 1, 2019 | PAGE 9 OF 19

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and the Aloha Trust. The deal gives iHeartMedia seven stations in Erie, Pa., and Mina, N.Y., while Connoisseur picks up two signals in Frederick, Md., including country WFRE ... Westwood One landed The Ty Bentli Show as the first American program to air in the . The show will air during afternoon on Country , a national signal launched by Bauer Media ... Carletta Blake joined WGAR Cleveland as PD, InsideRadio. com reported. She will arrive April 8 from WNCB Raleigh-Durham, N.C., where she served as PD/midday host ... Andrea Burtscher was promoted to KMLE Phoenix music director, according to InsideRadio.com. She adds the role to her existing duties as Entercom/Phoenix marketing/promotions director ... KXBL/KVOO Tulsa, Okla., PD Brian Jennings left the station after 15 months, Talkers.com reported ... Chuck Knight was named iHeartMedia/ San Antonio-Austin regional senior vp programming, according to Talkers. com. Country signals in the territory include KAJA and KRPT San Antonio and KASE and KVET Austin. JASON DAVIS/GETTY IMAGES FOR 20TH CENTURY FOX CENTURY 20TH FOR IMAGES DAVIS/GETTY JASON With her song “Hold On” featured on the soundtrack for the movie ’ROUND THE ROW Breakthrough, Mickey Guyton attended the film’s Nashville premiere The RIAA hired Jackie Jones as vp artist and industry relations in Nashville. on March 14. From left: Breakthrough star Chrissy Metz and producer She was previously CMT director of music and talent … The Academy of Country DeVon Franklin, and Guyton. Music made six staff changes, including two new hires and four promotions. Newcomers include ACM Lifting Lives and strategic partnerships coordinator AT BRIDGESTONE Taylor Wolf and events assistant Danielle Bardier. Wolf was previously an “I don’t care what it says in the newspaper; this is the greatest country in HCA human resources coordinator, while Bardier is a former radio executive the world.” who spent 2018 as a sponsorship and event coordinator for Boston-based Zac Brown’s proclamation, a setup to the signature Zac Brown Band hit Harpoon Brewery. The ACM promoted executive vp finance and operations “,” summarized the band’s biggest success during a March 28 Tom Torii, from senior vp; director strategic partnerships Jen Heaton, from stop at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena. Across two hours and 20 minutes, the senior manager; manager events Lanni Gagnon, from coordinator; and group spun through a variety of styles ­— country ballads, classic-rock pieces, manager awards and membership Carrie Tekautz, from coordinator … The island-flecked chill music and Southern — to effect an escape from the Country Music Association promoted Catharine McNelly to senior director daily stresses of modern American culture. of communications after less than 18 months as a director. Concurrently, The set included more than two dozen titles, scads of solos and a surprise the CMA retained Stephanie Shank as manager of production and talent appearance by rock-bass veteran Billy Sheehan (David Lee Roth, Mr. Big), relations. She worked previously for CMA as a freelance communications who journeyed through a fearless cacophony of sound during an extended manager. Reach McNelly here and Shank here … Zac Brown Band signed cover of The Allman Brothers Band’s “Whipping Post.” with William Morris Endeavor … Singer-songwriter Sam Riggs signed a Except for the presence of a couple soldiers in full salute in the midst of publishing deal with Major Bob Music. Riggs is already affiliated with Triple 8 “Chicken Fried,” Brown’s set was noticeably absent of production trickery. Management … Universal Music Publishing Nashville signed Claire Wright to Large video screens used sometimes-fantastical animation to enhance the her first songwriting contract … Sam Outlaw secured representation with The escapism, but the band relied mostly on tasteful musicianship and a small Anvil Management. He will make his debut on May 3 … The modicum of choreographed motion to make its emotional point. (The blocking 2019 American Music Awards are slated for Nov. 24 on ABC … Margaret was ragged enough that Brown actually wandered in front of fiddler Jimmy Lewis Warwick died March 29 in Louisiana. As a songwriter, she penned De Martini, clumsily messing up a videocam angle during an extended solo). David Houston’s “Mountain of Love,” ’ “” and Guitarists Brown, and all had opportunities to a handful of Jeannie C. Riley singles. Warwick and her husband, Alton stretch out instrumentally and display their technical skills, as did De Martini Warwick, owned the rights to The Louisiana Hayride, a former barn dance in the fever-pitched pickin’ on The Charlie Daniels Band’s “The Devil Went show aired by KWKH Shreveport, La. A celebration of life is planned for April 2 Down to Georgia.” But three well-received ballads — “,” “Free” at Shreveport’s Municipal Auditorium, which previously housed The Hayride. and “” — underscored the strength and passion in Brown’s The family suggests memorial contributions be made in Warwick’s memory lead voice and the enduring connection of a well-told story. to an animal rescue agency. Their “Chicken Fried” allegiance to their country played well, but even stronger was Brown and company’s wide-ranging brand of country music. RADIO & RECORDS The Reviver Entertainment Group chose April Fools’ Day to announce a new imprint, DAVMORECORDS, guided by Reviver Records president Gator Michaels. The label’s moniker derives from the first names of Reviver Entertainment Group president/CEO David Ross and his father, veteran publishing/promotion executive Moe Shulman. New signees Thompson Square and Aaron Goodvin were assigned to DAVMORECORDS ... started April 1 as the midday personality at KXBL Tulsa, Okla. The “Pickup Man” singer will voice-track the shows remotely, usually from his home in Nashville ... KXKC Lafayette, La., added Danita Maldonado as afternoon-drive host and web/social media manager. It marks a return to radio for Maldonado, who spent the last seven years as the Midland-Odessa, Texas-based owner of the Blaze social media firm ... Ashley Bourque rejoined New Warner Music Nashville signee Tucker Beathard (center) Country Radio Broadcasters on April 1 as project manager/associate director stopped in at WFMS Indianapolis during his radio promotion tour. brand marketing and strategic partnerships. She spent the last two years as He’s shown with WMN Northeast/Midwest manager/WAR radio and an event planner with Chancey Charm and the Museum. Reach streaming Anna Cage and Cumulus/Indianapolis operations manager her here ... Connoisseur Media swapped nine stations involving iHeartMedia Christopher “Boomer” Layfield. BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE APRIL 1, 2019 | PAGE 10 OF 19

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The lineups for two annual country-centered Austin bashes took stronger April 2 shape on April 1 with talent announcements for ’s signature • 2010 — Reba McEntire brings out two Fourth of July Picnic and for ’s contribution to the two-day Mack, surprise acts during a concert at the Jack & McConaughey benefit with former football coach Mack Brown and Thompson-Boling Arena in Knoxville, actor Matthew McConaughey. Nelson’s show, slated for Circuit of the Tenn.: Brooks & Dunn join her on “Cowgirls Americas’ Austin 360 Amphitheater, Don’t Cry,” and Kelly Clarkson appears for will feature Luke Combs, Jamey “Because of You.” Johnson, , Steve Earle & • 1994 — Little Texas tops the Billboard The Dukes, Nathaniel Rateliff & The country chart for the first time with CLARKSON Night Sweats and Hayes Carll, among “My Love.” others, on Independence Day. The Jack Ingram & Friends show on April 26 at the April 3 Austin City Limits Live Moody Theater • 2011 — Warner Bros. releases Blake Shelton’s “Honey Bee” to radio. boasts Wade Bowen, Butch Walker, • 2002 — Brad Paisley receives the Nashville Songwriters Association Holly Williams and more to be named. International’s songwriter/artist of the year award. A previously announced April 25 Mack, Jack & McConaughey concert featuring April 4

DAVID MCCLISTER DAVID Chris Stapleton is already sold out. • 2018 — Kane Brown collects platinum awards from the RIAA for his self-titled album and for the single “Heaven.” C.W. McCall, best known for his 1975 INGRAM million-selling novelty “Convoy,” April 5 managed to become mayor of Ouray, • 2017 — The Country Music Association announces Alan Jackson, Colo. So maybe one of can make it in the U.S. Senate. the late Jerry Reed and songwriter Don Schlitz as the 2017 inductees Stokes Nielson, who sang lead on the defunct band’s 2008 hit “,” in the Country Music Hall of Fame. announced on March 29 his candidacy for the seat of retiring Tennessee Sen. Lamar Alexander. Earliest competition for the Brentwood, Tenn., resident April 6 comes from a Democratic attorney, James Mackler. Election Day is still 18 • 2009 — The Academy of Country Music hails George Strait as artist months away, so the field will likely expand. of the decade during a taping for a CBS-TV special at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. Wanda Jackson announced her retirement from touring on March 28, • 1999 — Columbia releases Montgomery Gentry’s debut album, citing travel and safety issues. A member of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Tattoos & Scars. she garnered three top five country singles in the 1950s and 1960s while establishing herself as a female pioneer in . Now 81, she still April 7 plans to make public appearances, though she’ll be more selective about the • 2016 — Carrie Underwood performs “Something in the Water” as commitments on her calendar. airs for the last time on Fox. • 1959 — Marty Robbins records “El Paso” and “Big Iron” in the same Aaron Watson set a June 21 release date for his next album, Red Bandana, session at Bradley Film & Recording Studio in Nashville while cutting with current single “Kiss That Girl Goodbye” pacing the 20-track collection. the entire Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs album in a single day. Watson shares the release date with Buddy & Julie Miller, whose Breakdown on 20th Ave. South represents their first album in a decade. Also on the way are April 8 Will Carter’s Good Bad Idea on April 12 and Jenny Tolman’s There Goes the • 2004 — MLB’s San Diego Padres play their first game at the new Petco Neighborhood on July 19. Park. , Chad Brock and Daryle Singletary perform “Take Me Out to the Ballgame,” and former President Jimmy Carter throws the first pitch. The Padres beat the San Francisco Giants, 4-3.

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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 47 BEAUTIFUL CRAZY No. 1 (6 weeks) Luke Combs 1 1 l S.MOFFATT (L.COMBS,W.B.DURRETTE,R.WILLIFORD) RIVER HOUSE/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE 2 2 2 63 TEQUILA Dan + Shay RC 1 D.SMYERS,S.HENDRICKS (D.SMYERS,J.REYNOLDS,N.GALYON) WARNER BROS./WAR 3 3 3 70 MEANT TO BE Bebe Rexha & Florida Georgia Line RC 1 WILSHIRE (B.REXHA,T.HUBBARD,J.MILLER,D.A.GARCIA) WARNE R BROS./BMLG HERE TONIGHT 4 6 8 28 Brett Young 2 4 l D.HUFF (B.YOUNG,B.CAVER,J.EBACH,C.KELLEY) BMLG 5 5 4 45 SPEECHLESS Dan + Shay RC 1 D.SMYERS,S.HENDRICKS (D.SMYERS,S.MOONEY,J.REYNOLDS,L.VELTZ) WARNER BROS./WAR EYES ON YOU 6 7 10 32 Chase Rice 6 6 l C. DESTEFANO (C.RICE,C. DESTEFANO,A.GORLEY) DACK JANIELS/BROKEN BOW GOOD AS YOU 7 10 11 23 Kane Brown 10 7 l D.HUFF (K.BROWN,B.BERRYHILL,S.CARTER,T.PHILLIPS,W.WEATHERLY) ZONE 4/RCA NASHVILLE HH HH 8 14 17 22 MISS ME MORE Streaming Gainer Kelsea Ballerini 11 8 l F.G.WHITEHEAD,J.MASSEY (K.BALLERINI,D.H.HODGES,B.MCLAUGHLIN) BLACK RIVER DOWN TO THE HONKYTONK 9 17 13 33 Jake Owen 7 9 l J.MOI (R.CLAWSON,L.LAIRD,S.MCANALLY) BIG LOUD HH HH 10 12 15 24 WHISKEY GLASSES Digital Gainer Morgan Wallen 16 10 l J.MOI (B.BURGESS,K.KADISH) BIG LOUD HH HH 11 15 18 27 ONE THAT GOT AWAY Airplay Gainer Michael Ray 3 11 l S.HENDRICKS (J.FRASURE,T. ROSEN,M.RAMSEY,J.OSBORNE) ATLANTIC/WEA LOOK WHAT GOD GAVE HER 12 16 16 5 Thomas Rhett 15 5 l D.HUFF,J.BUNETTA,THOMAS RHETT (THOMAS RHETT,R.AKINS,J.BUNETTA,J.K.HINDLIN,A.MALIK,J.H.RYAN) VALORY THERE WAS THIS GIRL 13 11 12 31 Riley Green 4 11 l D.HUFF (R.GREEN,ERIK DYLAN) BMLG MAKE IT SWEET 14 13 14 25 Old Dominion 5 12 l S.MCANALLY (M.RAMSEY,T. ROSEN,W.SELLERS,G.SPRUNG,B.TURSI,S.MCANALLY) RCA NASHVILLE GIRL 15 18 9 11 Maren Morris 20 9 l G.KURSTIN,M.MORRIS (M.MORRIS,S.AARONS,G.KURSTIN) COLUMBIA NASHVILLE NIGHT SHIFT 16 19 19 32 Jon Pardi 9 16 l B.BUTLER,J.PARDI (T.BROWN,P.LARUE,B.MONTANA) CAPITOL NASHVILLE RUMOR 17 20 20 29 Lee Brice 18 17 l L.BRICE,J.STONE,K.JACOBS,D.FRIZSELL (L.BRICE,K.JACOBS,A.GORLEY) CURB TALK YOU OUT OF IT 18 21 22 29 Florida Georgia Line 21 13 l J.MOI (M.HARDY,H.PHELPS,J.ROGERS,A.VANDERHEYM) BMLG ON MY WAY TO YOU 19 22 23 33 Cody Johnson 13 16 l T.W.WILLMON (,T.LANE) COJO/WMN LOVE WINS 20 23 24 30 Carrie Underwood 14 14 l D.GARCIA,C.UNDERWOOD (C.UNDERWOOD,D.A.GARCIA,BRETT JAMES) CAPITOL NASHVILLE LOVE AIN’T 21 25 25 27 Eli Young Band 12 21 l D.HUFF (R.COPPERMAN,A.GORLEY,S.MCANALLY) VALORY CAUGHT UP IN THE COUNTRY 22 26 27 36 Rodney Atkins Featuring The Fisk Jubilee Singers 22 22 l R.ATKINS,T.HEWITT,B.BOLLINGER (C.HARRINGTON,J.M.SCHMIDT,M.WALKER) CURB LOVE SOMEONE 23 27 29 22 Brett Eldredge 17 23 l R. COPPERMAN,B.ELDREDGE (B.ELDREDGE,R.COPPERMAN,H.MORGAN) ATLANTIC/WMN RAINBOW 24 28 28 7 Kacey Musgraves 38 17 l I.FITCHUK,D.TASHIAN,K.MUSGRAVES (N.HEMBY,S.MCANALLY,K.MUSGRAVES) MCA NASHVILLE EVERY LITTLE HONKY TONK BAR 25 29 31 7 George Strait 19 25 l C.AINLAY,G.STRAIT (G.STRAIT,B.STRAIT,D.DILLON) MCA NASHVILLE

15 45 The debut single from the Arkansas native re-enters Hot Country Songs at “Girl” climbs 18-15 on Hot Country Songs. It No. 45. It gains a boost of 24 percent MAREN rises by 22 percent to 10.3 million in audience ADAM to 1.8 million streams while bulleting at MORRIS HAMBRICK Girl as it pushes 24-20 on Country Airplay and Rockin’ All No. 56 on Country Airplay (1.1 million gains by 7 percent to 6.8 million U.S. streams. Night Long impressions, up 6 percent). MORRIS: JORDAN STRAUSS/INVISION/AP. STRAUSS/INVISION/AP. JORDAN MORRIS: MUSIC AMAZON FOR IMAGES KEMPIN/GETTY JASON HAMBRICK: BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE APRIL 1, 2019 | PAGE 12 OF 19

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 30 32 25 Chris Lane 39 26 l J.MOI (A.GORLEY,M.HARDY,H.PHELPS,J.RODGERS) BIG LOUD THE BONES 27 31 30 4 Maren Morris - 27 l G.KURSTIN (M.MORRIS,J.ROBBINS,L.VELTZ) COLUMBIA NASHVILLE ALL TO MYSELF 28 32 33 12 Dan + Shay 30 28 l D.SMYERS,S.HENDRICKS (D.SMYERS,S.MOONEY,N.GALYON,J.REYNOLDS) WARNER BROS./WAR SOME OF IT 29 34 35 9 Eric Church 23 29 l J.JOYCE (E.CHURCH,J.HYDE,C.DANIELS,B.PINSON) EMI NASHVILLE RAISED ON COUNTRY 30 33 36 8 Chris Young 25 30 l C.CROWDER,C.YOUNG (C.YOUNG,C.R.BARLOWE,C.CROWDER) RCA NASHVILLE REARVIEW TOWN 31 39 50 12 Jason Aldean 31 24 l M.KNOX (N.THRASHER,B.PINSON,K.LOVELACE) MACON/BROKEN BOW WHAT HAPPENS IN A SMALL TOWN 32 35 34 15 Brantley Gilbert + Lindsay Ell 26 31 l D.HUFF (B.GILBERT,R.AKINS,B.BERRYHILL,J.DUNNE) VALORY SOMEBODY’S DAUGHTER 33 36 38 4 Tenille Townes 29 33 l J.JOYCE (T.TOWNES,L.LAIRD,BARY DEAN) COLUMBIA NASHVILLE LOVE YOU TOO LATE 34 38 40 5 Cole Swindell 34 34 l M.R.CARTER (C.SWINDELL,MICHAEL RAY,B.KINNEY) WARNER BROS./WMN REDNECKER 35 41 41 6 HARDY 44 35 l J.MOI,D.COHEN (A.ALBERT,M.HARDY,J.M.SCHMIDT) TREE VIBEZ/BIG LOUD BUY MY OWN DRINKS 36 40 42 6 Runaway June 27 36 l D.HUFF (H.MULHOLLAND,J.WAYNE,N.COOKE,H.LINDSEY,J.KEAR) WHEELHOUSE I HOPE 37 46 49 3 - 37 l R. COPPERMAN (Z.KALE,J.M.NITE,G.BARRETT) GABBY BARRETT/RED LIGHT MANAGEMENT NASHVILLE CLOSER TO YOU 38 42 43 10 Carly Pearce 36 38 l BUSBEE (H.LINDSEY,G.SAMPSON,T.VERGES) BIG MACHINE NOTHING TO DO TOWN Dylan Scott 39 RE-ENTRY 7 47 39 l M.ALDERMAN,C.GIBBS,J.E.NORMAN (D.SCOTT,M.ALDERMAN,C.TAYLOR) CURB FEELS LIKE A PARTY 40 44 48 10 LOCASH 28 40 l C.CROWDER,T.HUBBARD (P.BRUST,C.LUCAS,T.HUBBARD,C.CROWDER) WHEELHOUSE TO A T 41 45 44 7 Ryan Hurd - 41 l D.HUFF,A.ESHUIS (R.J.HURD,N.SPICER,L.VELTZ) RCA NASHVILLE 42 37 26 3 RIDIN’ ROADS Dustin Lynch - 26 Z.CROWELL (D.LYNCH,A.GORLEY,Z.CROWELL) BROKEN BOW HH HH 43 NEW 1 WORLD FOR TWO Hot Shot Debut King Calaway - 43 l R. COPPERMAN,R.DEATON (R.COPPERMAN,J.OSBORNE,J.ABRAHART) 24 ENTERTAINMENT/STONEY CREEK BACK TO LIFE 44 49 — 12 Rascal Flatts 37 31 l J.DEE,G.LEVOX,J.D.ROONEY (C.R.BARLOWE,N.MOON,S.MOONEY,F.WILHELM) BIG MACHINE ROCKIN’ ALL NIGHT LONG Adam Hambrick 45 RE-ENTRY 2 - 45 l J.S.STOVER (A.HAMBRICK,K.ARCHER,P.GOOD) BUENA VISTA/CAPITOL NASHVILLE GOD’S COUNTRY 46 NEW 1 Blake Shelton 24 46 l S.HENDRICKS (M.HARDY,J.M.SCHMIDT,D.DAWSON) WARNER BROS./WMN WHAT WHISKEY DOES 47 48 — 7 Randy Houser Featuring Hillary Lindsey 33 40 l K.GATTIS (R.HOUSER,K.GATTIS,H.LINDSEY) STONEY CREEK PRAYED FOR YOU Matt Stell 48 RE-ENTRY 12 49 36 l A.BOWERS,M.STELL (M.STELL,A.BOWERS,A.VELTZ) WIDE OPEN/RECORDS/GOOD COMPANY ONE MAN BAND Old Dominion 49 RE-ENTRY 2 - 48 l S.MCANALLY (M.RAMSEY,T. ROSEN,B.TURSI,J.OSBORNE) RCA NASHVILLE EVERY LITTLE THING 50 NEW 1 Russell Dickerson 35 50 l C.BROWN (R.DICKERSON,P.WELLING,C.BROWN) TRIPLE TIGERS

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-Year Album Sales Weekly Unit Sales Overall Unit Sales ALBUM SALES ’15 DIGITAL DIGITAL 2018 2019 CHANGE ALBUMS ’18 3.39 million ALBUMS* TRACKS ’14 Albums 3,395,000 2,539,000 -25.2% ’19 2.53 million This Week 198,000 53,000 663,000 Digital Tracks 11,395,000 8,304,000 -27.1% Last Week 207,000 57,000 688,000 Sales by Album Format DIGITAL TRACKS SALES Change -4.3% -7.0% -3.6% 2018 2019 CHANGE ’18 000.0 million11.39 million This Week Last Year 282,000 75,000 914,000 Physical 2,426,000 1,754,000 -27.7% ’19 8.30 million Change -29.8% -29.3% -27.5% Digital 970,000 786,000 -19.0% For week ending March 28, 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.

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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 BEAUTIFUL CRAZY BEAUTIFUL CRAZY LUKE COMBS THIS ONE’S FOR YOU 1 1 47 1 1 47 1 1 2 95 1 l LUKE COMBS  LUKE COMBS  l RIVER HOUSE/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE 538883*/SMN 2 MEANT TO BE LOOK WHAT GOD GAVE HER MAREN MORRIS GIRL l2 2 70 l2 2 4 2 2 1 3 COLUMBIA NASHVILLE 590186*/SMN 1 BEBE REXHA & FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE  THOMAS RHETT  TENNESSEE WHISKEY WHISKEY GLASSES DAN + SHAY DAN + SHAY 3 3 103 3 5 18 3 3 4 40 WARNER BROS. 570796/WMN 0 1 l CHRIS STAPLETON  l MORGAN WALLEN  CHRIS STAPLETON TRAVELLER 4 4 57 TEQUILA 4 6 21 MISS ME MORE 4 4 6 204 MERCURY 019405*/UMGN 3 1 DAN + SHAY  KELSEA BALLERINI  HEAVEN GOOD AS YOU KACEY MUSGRAVES GOLDEN HOUR 5 5 73 5 7 10 5 6 5 47 MCA NASHVILLE 027921*/UMGN 1 l KANE BROWN  l KANE BROWN  SPEECHLESS SPEECHLESS FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE CAN’T SAY I AIN’T COUNTRY 6 6 36 6 3 40 6 5 3 6 BMLG FGL0400* 1 l DAN + SHAY  DAN + SHAY  GIRL RAINBOW 8 9 50 JASON ALDEAN REARVIEW TOWN 1 l7 7 4 7 8 7 l7 MACON/BROKEN BOW/BMG 538375642*/BBMG (538375730) 0 MAREN MORRIS  KACEY MUSGRAVES  SHE GOT THE BEST OF ME RUMOR KANE BROWN KANE BROWN 8 9 33 8 11 15 8 7 7 121 ZONE 4/RCA NASHVILLE 530947*/SMN 1 1 l LUKE COMBS  l LEE BRICE  TALK YOU OUT OF IT TEQUILA 9 8 20 KANE BROWN EXPERIMENT 1 9 10 7 9 9 62 l9 ZONE 4/RCA NASHVILLE /SMN l FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE  DAN + SHAY  TAKE IT FROM ME DOWN TO THE HONKYTONK 22 11 28 CARRIE UNDERWOOD 1 10 8 6 10 12 31 l10 CAPITOL NASHVILLE 028557*/UMGN 0 JORDAN DAVIS  l JAKE OWEN  WHISKEY GLASSES GIRL GEORGE STRAIT 11 11 6 11 10 10 11 10 20 169 MCA NASHVILLE 000459/UMGN (25.98) 7 1 l MORGAN WALLEN  MAREN MORRIS  IN CASE YOU DIDN’T KNOW EYES ON YOU THOMAS RHETT LIFE CHANGES 12 12 126 12 15 6 12 11 10 81 VALORY TR0300A/BMLG 1 1 l BRETT YOUNG  l CHASE RICE  YOU MAKE IT EASY MILLIONAIRE 13 14 43 MORGAN WALLEN IF I KNOW ME 11 13 15 61 13 14 26 l13 BIG LOUD DIGITAL EX l JASON ALDEAN  CHRIS STAPLETON  MISS ME MORE I HOPE 12 12 145 JON PARDI 1 14 RE-ENTRY 14 16 5 l14 CAPITOL NASHVILLE 024744*/UMGN 1 l KELSEA BALLERINI  l GABBY BARRETT  LOOK WHAT GOD GAVE HER TENNESSEE WHISKEY 14 13 192 ZAC BROWN BAND GREATEST HITS SO FAR... 3 15 14 4 15 13 168 l15 ROAR/SOUTHERN GROUND/ATLANTIC 546369/AG l THOMAS RHETT  CHRIS STAPLETON  RUMOR TALK YOU OUT OF IT 15 15 111 BRETT YOUNG BRETT YOUNG 2 16 13 6 16 18 10 l16 BMLG BY0100A* 1 l LEE BRICE  l FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE  GOOD AS YOU HERE TONIGHT BLAKE SHELTON RELOADED: 20 #1 HITS 17 19 6 17 20 7 17 17 16 179 WARNER BROS. 551788/WMN 2 l KANE BROWN  l BRETT YOUNG  EYES ON YOU MAKE IT SWEET JORDAN DAVIS HOME STATE 18 17 4 18 23 15 18 19 17 41 MCA NASHVILLE 028014/UMGN 6 l CHASE RICE  l OLD DOMINION  KELSEA BALLERINI MILLIONAIRE NIGHT SHIFT 28 32 61 3 19 16 5 19 24 7 l19 BLACK RIVER 2017 l CHRIS STAPLETON  l JON PARDI  CHRIS STAPLETON FROM A ROOM: VOLUME 2 THIS IS IT ON MY WAY TO YOU 20 23 10 20 21 11 20 18 19 69 MERCURY 027408*/UMGN 0 1 l SCOTTY MCCREERY  CODY JOHNSON  CHRIS STAPLETON FROM A ROOM: VOLUME 1 MEANT TO BE 21 18 111 21 22 70 21 21 18 99 MERCURY 026379*/UMGN 1 1 l   BEBE REXHA & FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE  BRETT YOUNG TICKET TO L.A. WHAT IFS SHE GOT THE BEST OF ME 22 24 29 16 1 22 20 98 22 RE-ENTRY l BMLG BMBY200A* l KANE BROWN FEAT. LAUREN ALAINA  l LUKE COMBS  TIM MCGRAW NUMBER ONE HITS HURRICANE SOME OF IT 23 RE-ENTRY 166 6 23 22 127 23 NEW l CURB 79205 (13.98) 1 l LUKE COMBS  l ERIC CHURCH  LUKE BRYAN WHAT MAKES YOU COUNTRY THE BONES HEAVEN 24 23 22 68 1 24 21 3 24 RE-ENTRY CAPITOL NASHVILLE 027589*/UMGN 0 l MAREN MORRIS  l KANE BROWN  CODY JOHNSON AIN’T NOTHIN’ TO IT 25 20 23 10 1 25 24 7 HERE TONIGHT 25 NEW SHALLOW COJO 574233*/WMN l BRETT YOUNG  l  FEAT. PARKER MCCOLLUM  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 WASTELAND, BABY! 1 1 1 4 RUBYWORKS 591795*/COLUMBIA 1 CHRIS STAPLETON TRAVELLER 2 2 3 150 MERCURY NASHVILLE 019405*/UMGN 3 1 KACEY MUSGRAVES GOLDEN HOUR 3 3 2 52 MCA NASHVILLE 027921*/UMGN 1

NEW 1 ANDREW BIRD MY FINEST WORK YET 4 l4 WEGAWAM/LOMA VISTA 000556*/CONCORD HOZIER HOZIER 5 5 5 196 RUBYWORKS 309996*/COLUMBIA 2 1 6 4 4 19 MUMFORD & SONS DELTA 1 GENTLEMEN OF THE ROAD 0240*/GLASSNOTE 23 CHRIS STAPLETON FROM A ROOM: VOLUME 2 7 6 10 69 MERCURY NASHVILLE 027408*/UMGN 0 1 8 7 7 113 SIMON & GARFUNKEL SIMON AND GARFUNKEL’S GREATEST HITS 3 l COLUMBIA 31350/LEGACY The track zooms by 32 percent to 8 9 99 CHRIS STAPLETON FROM A ROOM: VOLUME 1 1 ERIC 3,000 sold as it arrives on Country l9 MERCURY NASHVILLE 026379*/UMGN 1 CHURCH Digital Song Sales at No. 23. On Hot BY THE WAY, I FORGIVE YOU RE-ENTRY 15 1 Some of It l10 LOW COUNTRY SOUND/ELEKTRA 565226*/EMG Country Songs, it pushes 34-29. 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. DAVID BECKER/GETTY IMAGES BECKER/GETTY DAVID BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE APRIL 1, 2019 | PAGE 14 OF 19

MAKIN’ TRACKS TOM ROLAND [email protected] HARDY’s ‘Rednecker’ Vaults Him From Ace Songwriter To Budding Vocal Star

Ridiculous battles in redneck history: have otherwise not been referenced before and are beyond the cliché. The • August 1973: A diner at a Memphis restaurant breaks Jerry Lee Lewis’ song wouldn’t be the same if we had wrote it with anybody but him.” nose after Lewis calls the man’s female companion a “redneck whore.” Weeks went by after they returned to Nashville before they decided to finish • December 1985: Johnny Paycheck shoots a patron at an Ohio bar after “Rednecker.” They added a bridge, which allowed them to drop in a Dale the man asks the singer if he has ever eaten turtle meat. Earnhardt reference. • December 2010: A Florida trailer park resident is arrested for breaking “Listen,” says Schmidt, “you’ve got to get as many Earnhardt references his neighbor’s glasses in an argument about the late Conway Twitty’s as you can in a song called ‘Rednecker.’ ” sexual orientation. They also put together a melody and the supporting arrangement during Add to that hodgepodge of believe-it-or- that second writing session, with Schmidt not fights a fictitious laugher — HARDY’s driving that part of the conversation under debut single, “Rednecker.” The title isn’t the influence of a new purchase: an EverTune even a real word, and the chorus is a litany guitar, which never goes out of tune. He of pride in stuff that most people would likely commandeered the demo, too, and once the not want to argue about: whose accent is the production kicked in, they took “Rednecker” most Southern, who can stuff more chewing more seriously. tobacco between their cheek and gum, who “I kind of always just considered it this lives in a smaller town. joke song,” admits Schmidt. “I was like, ‘I “It means different things for different bet we’ll do a demo someday, but it’s not people,” says HARDY. “I have a lot of people really high on anybody’s priority list.’ And that come up and tell me it’s hilarious, and a then once we did the demo, we were all like, lot of people come up and tell me it’s badass. ‘Holy shit, this is awesome. I think people are I think that’s one really cool thing about that going to dig this.’ ” song. It’s a statement song, but depending on Indeed, Blake Shelton took a hard look the listener, some people just get humor out at “Rednecker” as a possible collaboration. of it. Some people get offended and think that was interested, too, but I’m talking to them, which is fine because HARDY had undergone a transformation that’s kind of what the song stands for.” in the months after they had written it. “Rednecker” was a late-night mistake HARDY had penned several Florida HARDY during a January 2018 songwriting retreat Georgia Line hits — including “Simple,” in Winter Park, Colo. A bevy of writers lodged “Talk You Out of It” and the Morgan Wallen in a large, private house and had a fairly relaxing routine for a few days: ski collaboration “Up Down” — and FGL and Big Loud were lobbying HARDY to in the morning, write songs in the afternoon and hang out at night. There’s become an artist. He took his time making that decision. a small amount of uncertainty about some of the details — “To be honest, it “We would talk to him a little bit, and I would see him four months later, and was a little fuzzy because we were in Colorado,” confesses HARDY — but I’m like, ‘Wow, you look like you lost weight.’ He’s like, ‘Yeah, I lost 20 pounds.’” that initial writing session took place in the attic room occupied by co-writer recalls producer (Jake Owen, FGL). “Two months later, he’s down Jordan M. Schmidt (“You Make It Easy,” “Drunk Me”), somewhere around like another 15 pounds. You could see he was starting to really contemplate 2 a.m. Schmidt played a track he had written that day for HARDY and co- doing the artist thing and getting himself excited about it. Finally we all started writer Andy Albert (“Good Girl,” “If the Boot Fits”), and Albert offered an talking and he wanted to do it.” unfiltered critique. HARDY was convinced “Rednecker” had big potential, and he persuaded his “I was like, ‘Man, this track is really good; it just needs to sound a little co-writers to nix the Shelton and Smith opportunities so he could tackle it. Once rednecker,’ ” remembers Albert. “HARDY just had his eyes light up, and so he signed with Big Loud, Moi and co-producer/keyboard player Dave Cohen did Jordan, and then we were just like, ‘OK, we aren’t leaving this room till built a new track from the ground up, amping up the Southern rock elements, we write that song.’ ” then taking a group of musicians into Ocean Way to fill it out. It came along fast. HARDY chipped in the opening line of the chorus, “My HARDY “loved that big adrenaline-style rock,” says Moi. “The ideological town’s smaller than your town,” and Schmidt threw out the next: “And I got stamp of the record was to just kind of make sure it rocked, make sure the a bigger buck and bass on my wall.” drums were real big, make sure the solos were like Southern rock. It’s not It was unusual. They had no guitars and no actual instruments in the room, twangy . We kind of avoided all of the modern, super-poppy gags that so they just hammered out lyrics with an eye toward consistent phrasing. The are going on and kept it more rock/Southern rock-type stuff.” chorus wound to its ultimate, ridiculous conclusion — “You may think that “Rednecker” emerged as the most-streamed track from HARDY’s debut EP, you’re redneck/But I’m rednecker than you” — and they settled in next on and the connection was palpable as fans passionately sang the words verbatim the verses. The opening stanza recognized the back-roads cred of the song’s at live shows. Big Loud released it to country radio via PlayMPE on Feb. 1; it antagonist, while the second verse let the protagonist build his own small- rides to No. 44 in its eighth week on Country Airplay as it establishes him with town qualifications even higher. The writers found a number of images that country listeners as a new small-town spokesman. screamed “small town” — including a Mossy Oak hat, a Southern Pride tattoo “That one just represents my sound,” says HARDY. “It was a good way to and a floorboard covered in Slim Jim wrappers — while steering clear of clichés. lead off and introduce people to who I am and kind of what my lyrics, what my “I honestly give a lot of that credit to HARDY,” says Albert. “That’s sort of songwriting is like, what my sound is. It just sounds like a cornerstone, kind his expertise. He’s from a real small town in Mississippi, and he sees things of a career song, if it takes off.”

and has lived that life for a long time and knows things about the details that It’s a ridiculous redneck battle that’s absolutely worth the fight. KLEIN ROBBY BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE APRIL 1, 2019 | PAGE 15 OF 19 Country Indicator

AUDIENCE WKS PLAYS (IN MILLIONS) THIS LAST ON WEEK WEEK CHART TITLE Imprint/Label Artist THIS WEEK +/– THIS WEEK l1 1 27 HERE TONIGHT BMLG HH No. 1 (2 weeks) HH Brett Young 5062 +102 7.789 l2 4 32 ONE THAT GOT AWAY Atlantic/WEA Michael Ray 4960 +306 7.765 l3 2 34 THERE WAS THIS GIRL BMLG Riley Green 4914 +45 7.949 4 3 18 BEAUTIFUL CRAZY River House/Columbia Nashville Luke Combs 4762 -39 7.490 l5 6 24 MAKE IT SWEET RCA Nashville Old Dominion 4452 +142 6.604 l6 8 24 EYES ON YOU Dack Janiels/Broken Bow Chase Rice 4253 +395 6.017 l7 10 35 NIGHT SHIFT Capitol Nashville Jon Pardi 4008 +190 5.659 l8 7 31 ON MY WAY TO YOU CoJo/WMN Cody Johnson 3947 +16 5.848 l9 11 24 MISS ME MORE Black River Kelsea Ballerini 3696 +186 5.220 l10 14 12 GOOD AS YOU Zone 4/RCA Nashville Kane Brown 3690 +329 5.638 l11 13 34 LOVE AIN’T Valory Eli Young Band 3582 +172 5.434 12 9 34 DOWN TO THE HONKYTONK Big Loud Jake Owen 3531 -312 5.553 l13 12 29 LOVE WINS Capitol Nashville Carrie Underwood 3446 +9 5.073 l14 15 29 WHISKEY GLASSES Big Loud Morgan Wallen 2927 +105 4.149 l15 19 5 LOOK WHAT GOD GAVE HER Valory Thomas Rhett 2813 +403 4.236 l16 16 36 LOVE SOMEONE Atlantic/WMN Brett Eldredge 2785 +171 3.939 l17 18 7 EVERY LITTLE HONKY TONK BAR MCA Nashville George Strait 2654 +193 3.678 l18 17 22 TALK YOU OUT OF IT BMLG Florida Georgia Line 2555 +76 3.213 l19 20 18 RUMOR Curb Lee Brice 2490 +178 3.503 l20 21 11 GIRL Columbia Nashville Maren Morris 2188 +234 2.835 l21 23 12 SOME OF IT EMI Nashville Eric Church 2084 +304 2.819 l22 22 48 CAUGHT UP IN THE COUNTRY Curb Rodney Atkins Feat. The Fisk Jubilee Singers 1986 +91 2.893 l23 24 13 WHAT HAPPENS IN A SMALL TOWN Valory Brantley Gilbert & Lindsay Ell 1743 +101 2.304 l24 26 6 REARVIEW TOWN Macon/Broken Bow Jason Aldean 1550 +165 2.210 l25 28 10 RAISED ON COUNTRY RCA Nashville Chris Young 1531 +163 2.113 l26 25 18 BUY MY OWN DRINKS Wheelhouse Runaway June 1475 +12 1.992 l27 27 28 FEELS LIKE A PARTY Wheelhouse LOCASH 1444 +67 1.798 l28 29 7 RAINBOW MCA Nashville Kacey Musgraves 1173 +42 1.285 l29 30 35 WHAT WHISKEY DOES Stoney Creek Randy Houser Feat. Hillary Lindsey 1010 +46 1.282 l30 31 12 KISS THAT GIRL GOODBYE BIG Label Aaron Watson 975 +48 1.271

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 1, 2019 | PAGE 16 OF 19 Country Indicator

AUDIENCE WKS PLAYS (IN MILLIONS) THIS LAST ON WEEK WEEK CHART TITLE Imprint/Label Artist THIS WEEK +/– THIS WEEK l31 34 5 LIVING Capitol Nashville Dierks Bentley 962 +123 1.361 l32 32 6 ALL TO MYSELF Warner Bros./WAR Dan + Shay 932 +14 1.203 l33 33 8 THOUGHT ABOUT YOU McGraw/Columbia Nashville Tim McGraw 894 +29 1.181 l34 35 17 CLOSER TO YOU Big Machine Carly Pearce 833 +31 0.881 l35 36 27 BACK TO LIFE Big Machine Rascal Flatts 790 +20 0.772 l36 NEW GOD’S COUNTRY Warner Bros./WMN HH Hot Shot Debut/Most Increased Plays/Most Added HH Blake Shelton 771 +771 1.346 l37 37 21 LADIES IN THE ‘90S 19/Mercury Lauren Alaina 769 +13 0.784 l38 38 22 I DON’T REMEMBER ME (BEFORE YOU) EMI Nashville Brothers Osborne 696 +34 0.759 l39 39 10 EVERY LITTLE THING Triple Tigers Russell Dickerson 635 +71 0.836 l40 40 12 LOVE YOU TOO LATE Warner Bros./WMN Cole Swindell 608 +73 0.660 l41 42 4 REDNECKER Tree Vibez/Big Loud Hardy 544 +61 0.492 l42 41 27 THE IN BETWEEN Captain & Bear Cash Campbell 527 +10 0.550 l43 43 13 A LITTLE ON THE REDNECK SIDE Dream Walkin’ Smith & Wesley 491 +60 0.579 l44 44 3 GOOD VIBES Warner Bros./WAR Chris Janson 474 +55 0.524 l45 45 17 ROCKIN’ ALL NIGHT LONG Buena Vista/Capitol Nashville Adam Hambrick 422 +3 0.374 l46 46 7 NOTHING TO DO TOWN Curb Dylan Scott 413 +8 0.467 l47 50 16 THE ONES THAT DIDN’T MAKE IT BACK HOME Valory Justin Moore 398 +27 0.538 l48 49 6 SOMEWHERE BETWEEN I LOVE YOU AND I’M LEAVIN’ Rounder/Concord Cody Jinks 391 +12 0.427 49 48 9 GIRL GOIN’ NOWHERE Atlantic/WAR Ashley McBryde 381 -5 0.394 l50 53 4 IF I WAS A COWBOY Rebel Engine Stephanie Quayle 370 +65 0.502 l51 51 6 AFTER A FEW Mercury Travis Denning 365 +18 0.429 l52 52 3 SOMEBODY’S DAUGHTER Columbia Nashville Tenille Townes 361 +56 0.475 l53 54 6 GET AWAY High4Records/Curve Music/Grassroots Ryan Sims 273 +3 0.277 l54 NEW KNOCKIN’ BOOTS Capitol Nashville Luke Bryan 272 +272 0.439 l55 55 3 DAY DRUNK Warner Bros./WEA Morgan Evans 270 +8 0.243 l56 56 11 I DON’T KNOW ABOUT YOU Big Loud Chris Lane 268 +12 0.298 l57 57 3 SOMEONE I USED TO KNOW ZB Collective/BMG/Wheelhouse Zac Brown Band 252 +12 0.231 l58 59 2 THE BULL MCA Nashville Kip Moore 245 +37 0.281 l59 58 3 LOVE TO TRY THEM ON Amerimonte Shane Owens 242 +17 0.335 l60 NEW MAKE ME WANT TO Stoney Creek Jimmie Allen 213 +21 0.266

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 1, 2019 | PAGE 17 OF 19 Country Airplay Index

TITLE Publishing-Licensing Org. F   LOVE AIN’T EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Plain RAISED ON COUNTRY Songs Of Universal, (Songwriter) Chart Position Jane Songs, BMI/Rezolant Music, BMI/Combustion Inc., BMI/They’ve Gone To Plaid Publishing, BMI/W.B.M. FEELS LIKE A PARTY ole Purple Cape Music, Engine Music, ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., SESAC/Roc Nation US Music, SESAC/Songs BMI/Mars Marley Music, BMI/Big Loud Mountain, BMI/ Music Corp., ASCAP/Smack Hits, GMR/Smack Songs LLC, Of Rhythm House Black, SESAC/Bennett’s Dad’s Songs, A   Round Hill Works, BMI/T Hubb Publishing, BMI/WB GMR/Kobalt Music Group Ltd., GMR (R.Copperman, A.Gorley, SESAC/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Georgia Song Vibez, Music Corp., ASCAP/Georgia Song Vibez, ASCAP/Big S.McAnally) 12 ASCAP/Big Crowd Publishing, ASCAP (C.Young, C.R.Barlowe, AFTER A FEW I’m About To Go RED On Ya Music, Crowd Publishing, ASCAP (P.Brust, C.Lucas, T.Hubbard, C.Crowder) 25 BMI/Travis Denning Music, BMI/ole, BMI/Crack The Glass C.Crowder) 28 LOVE SOMEONE Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI/Paris Songs, BMI/Stars And Stripes And Maple Leaf Music, Not France Music, BMI/EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/ REARVIEW TOWN Songs Of Peer Ltd., ASCAP/ BMI/Downtown DMP Songs, BMI/Sound Wagon Songs, G   Rezolant Music, BMI/Plain Jane Songs, BMI/Sony/ATV Team Thrash, ASCAP/Songs Of Peer, BMI/New Writers ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Music Of The Corn, ASCAP Tree Publishing, BMI/Heather Feather Songs, BMI (B. Of Sea Gayle Music, BMI/Not A Track Guy Music, BMI/ (T.Denning, K.Archer, J.Weaver) 55 Eldredge, R.Copperman, H.Morgan) 17 New House Of Sea Gayle Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., GIRL International Dog Music, BMI/Downtown DMP ASCAP/Own My Own Music Publishing, ASCAP (N.Thrasher, Songs, BMI/Sony/ATV Songs LLC, BMI/Sony/ATV Music 31 ALCOHOL YOU LATER Sony/ATV Countryside, Publishing (Australia) Pty Ltd., APRA/EMI April Music, LOVE WINS Carrie-Okie Music, BMI/Universal Music B.Pinson, K.Lovelace)  BMI/Sam Sumser Music, ASCAP/Lava Music, ASCAP/ Inc., ASCAP/Kurstin Music, ASCAP (M.Morris, S.Aarons, - Brentwood Benson Publishing, ASCAP/D , Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, ASCAP/Lucky Mic G.Kurstin) 20 ASCAP/Capitol CMG Genesis, ASCAP/Songs Of Brett, REDNECKER Buzz Light Beer Music, ASCAP/ Publishing, BMI/Music Of Parallel, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP (C.Underwood, D.A.Garcia, Downtown DLJ Songs, ASCAP/Relative Music Group, BMI/ Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI (M.Tenpenny, S.Sumser, Brett James) 14 WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Freshy Music, ASCAP/We-Volve GIRL GOIN’ NOWHERE Songs Of Song Factory, Music, ASCAP  44 M.Lotten) 59 BMI/Universal Tunes, SESAC  50 (A.Albert, M.Hardy, J.M.Schmidt)  (A.McBryde, J.Bussey)  LOVE YOU TOO LATE Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, ALL TO MYSELF Beats And , ASCAP/WB BMI/Colden Rainey Music, BMI/Sony/ATV Cross Keys RIDIN’ ROADS Magic Mustang Music Inc., BMI/ Music Corp., ASCAP/Shay Mooney Music, BMI/Warner- GOD’S COUNTRY Relative Music Group, BMI/ Publishing, ASCAP/243 Music, ASCAP/Peermusic III, Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Round Hill Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/A Girl Named Charlie, Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI/ Ltd., BMI/Whiskey Tub Music, BMI (C.Swindell, Michael Ray, Songs II, ASCAP/Caleb’s College Fund, ASCAP/Spirit Two BMI/Buckeye26, ASCAP/Jreynmusic, ASCAP (D.Smyers, WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Georgia Song Vibez, ASCAP/ B.Kinney) 34 Nashville, ASCAP/Miller Crow Music, ASCAP/Kyler’s Kinda We-Volve Music, ASCAP/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Night, ASCAP (D.Lynch, A.Gorley, Z.Crowell) 52 S.Mooney, N.Galyon, J.Reynolds) 30 Corp., BMI/Neon Cross Music, BMI (M.Hardy, J.M.Schmidt, D.Dawson) 24 M   B   ROCKIN’ ALL NIGHT LONG Ole Red Cape Songs, ASCAP/Red Like The Sunset Music, ASCAP/Stars GOOD AS YOU Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/ MAKE IT SWEET Carrot Seed Songs, ASCAP/WB And Stripes And Maple Leaf Music, BMI/Crack The Glass BACK TO LIFE W.B.M. Music Corp., SESAC/ Kane Brown Music, BMI/Don’t Be A Gypsy, BMI/ Music Corp., ASCAP/Smackville Music, ASCAP/Smack Songs, BMI/Downtown DMP Songs, BMI/Garda Songs, Bennett’s Dad’s Songs, SESAC/Songs Of Rhythm House Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/BMG Rights Songs LLC, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, SESAC/King Pen Songs, SESAC/Songs Of Downtown, Black, SESAC/ Publishing, SESAC/Roc Nation Management (UK) Ltd., PRS/You Want How Much Of ASCAP/Rezsongs, ASCAP/ReHits Music, Inc., ASCAP/ SESAC  56 US Music, SESAC/Shay Mooney Music, BMI/Warner- What Publishing, PRS/TDP Publishing, BMI/Track House Smacktown Music, ASCAP/Smack Blue, LLC, ASCAP/ (A.Hambrick, K.Archer, P.Good)  Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Farm Thang Music, Worldwide Entertainment, BMI/Mandy’s Favorite Songs, Unfair Entertainment, ASCAP/MeGusta Music, ASCAP/ BMI/Me Gusta Music, BMI (C.R.Barlowe, N.Moon, S.Mooney, BMI (K.Brown, B.Berryhill, S.Carter, T.Phillips, W.Weatherly) 10 Tiny Handstand, ASCAP/Sharkules Music, ASCAP/ RUMOR Mike Curb Music, BMI/Curb Songs, ASCAP/ F.Wilhelm) 37 We’re Really Doin’ It Publishing, ASCAP/Smack Hits, Jacobsong, ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/ GMR/Kobalt Music Group Ltd., GMR (M.Ramsey, T. Rosen, Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., GOOD VIBES ole Red Vinyl Music, BMI/Spirit Two 5 ASCAP  18 BEAUTIFUL CRAZY Big Machine Music, BMI/ Nashville, ASCAP/Miller Crow Music, ASCAP/Round Hill W.Sellers, G.Sprung, B.Tursi, S.McAnally)  (L.Brice, K.Jacobs, A.Gorley)  Egg Music, BMI/Straight Dimes Publishing, BMI/Works Songs II, ASCAP/Caleb’s College Fund, ASCAP (C.Janson, Of RHA Music, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Z.Crowell, A.Gorley) 45 MAKE ME WANT TO Red Lining Music, SESAC/ S   Corp., BMI/Rowdy Rob Music, BMI (L.Combs, W.B.Durrette, Sony/ATV Lakeview, SESAC/Amplified Hour Songs, R.Williford) 1 SESAC/Pedal Down Music, ASCAP/Sounds Of Soperman SOMEBODY’S DAUGHTER Year Of The Dog H   Music Publishing, ASCAP/Curb Songs, ASCAP/Dreamark Music, ASCAP/Sony/ATV Story Music Publishing, GMR/We BETTER OFF GONE Year Of The Dog Music, Publishing, ASCAP (J.Allen, P.Sikes, J.Denmark) 51 Are Creative Nation, GMR/Be Barry Quiet, BMI/Creative ASCAP/Shakapublishing, ASCAP/Downtown DLJ Songs, HERE TONIGHT Super Big Music, ASCAP/ Pulse Music, BMI/Pulse Nation, BMI (T.Townes, L.Laird, ASCAP (A.Stoklasa, D.Woods) 53 Caliville Publishing, ASCAP/Songs Of Black River, MILLIONAIRE Universal Tunes, SESAC/Spur 66 Bary Dean) 29 ASCAP/Wordspring Music, LLC, SESAC/Memory Days, Music, SESAC  8 SESAC/W.B.M. Music Corp., SESAC/The Best I Could Do (K.Welch)  BUY MY OWN DRINKS BMG Platinum Songs, Publishing, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP (B.Young, SOME OF IT Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/Longer BMI/BMG Silver Songs, SESAC/BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP/ B.Caver, J.Ebach, C.Kelley) 2 MISS ME MORE Songs Of Black River, ASCAP/KNB And Louder Music, BMI/Mammaw’s Fried Okra Music, Rezonate Music, ASCAP/BIRB Music, ASCAP/Champagne Music, ASCAP/3 Weddings Music, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt BMI/Little Louder Songs, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Whiskey Publishing, ASCAP/Downtown DLJ Songs, Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI/EMI April Music, Inc., Publishing America, Inc., BMI/New Writers Of Sea Gayle ASCAP/Legends Of Magic Mustang Music, SESAC/Music HOUSTON, WE GOT A PROBLEM Big ASCAP/Bob Ochoa’s Homemade Salsa, ASCAP (K.Ballerini, Music, BMI/Not A Track Guy Music, BMI (E.Church, J.Hyde, Music Machine, BMI/50 Egg Music, BMI/Straight 11 23 Of Platinum Pen, SESAC/Wild Wild West Songs, SESAC/ Dimes Publishing, BMI/Sullivan S Guns Music, BMI/ D.H.Hodges, B.McLaughlin)  C.Daniels, B.Pinson)  Thunder Cookie, SESAC/Magic Mustang Music Inc., BMI/ Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Super Big Songwriters of Platinum Pen Publishing, BMI/Hannah MY MIRACLE Not Listed (Not Listed) 57 SOMEONE I USED TO KNOW Weimerhound Mulholland Music, BMI (H.Mulholland, J.Wayne, N.Cooke, Music, ASCAP/Jett Music, ASCAP (L.Combs, R.Montana, Music, BMI/Day For The Dead Publishing, SESAC/Reach H.Lindsey, J.Kear) 27 J.Singleton) 60 Music Tunes, SESAC/Andrew Watt Music, BMI/Songs Of N   Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI/Siva Moon C   I   Publishing, SESAC/W.B.M. Music Corp., SESAC/Simonetti NIGHT SHIFT Maxx Music, BMI/ Pave Music Publishing, SESAC/Kobalt Group Music Publishing, I DON’T KNOW ABOUT YOU Round Hill Itself, BMI/Razor And Tie Music Publishing, BMI/Mike SESAC/Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Mendes Music, BMI CAUGHT UP IN THE COUNTRY WB Music Songs II, ASCAP/Caleb’s College Fund, ASCAP/WB Curb Music, BMI/Rain Town Music, BMI (T.Brown, P.LaRue, (Z.A.Brown, A.Wotman, N.Moon, B.Simonetti, S.Mendes) 58 Corp., ASCAP/Freshy Music, ASCAP/We-Volve Music, B.Montana) 9 ASCAP/Goes Something Like THIS Music, BMI/Warner- Music Corp., ASCAP/Who Wants To Buy My Publishing, ASCAP/Relative Music Group, BMI/One77 Songs, ASCAP/ T   Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Make It Matter Music, Highly Combustible Music, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music NOTHING TO DO TOWN Curb Songs, ASCAP/ BMI/Sixteen Stars Music, BMI (C.Harrington, J.M.Schmidt, Publishing LLC, ASCAP (A.Gorley, M.Hardy, H.Phelps, Curb Congregation Songs, SESAC/Music Good Vibes M.Walker) 22 J.Rodgers) 39 Publishing, BMI/Good Times Music, SESAC/Universal TALK YOU OUT OF IT Relative Music Group, Music Corp., ASCAP/No Bridge Publishing, ASCAP (D. BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., CLOSER TO YOU BIRB Music, ASCAP/BMG Gold Scott, M.Alderman, C.Taylor) 47 BMI/Who Wants To Buy My Publishing, ASCAP/WB Music Songs, ASCAP/1217 Songs, ASCAP/Still Working For The I DON’T REMEMBER ME (BEFORE YOU) Corp., ASCAP/Highly Combustible Music, ASCAP/One77 Woman, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, Trampy McCauley, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/ Songs, ASCAP/Castle Bound Music, Inc., SESAC (M.Hardy, ASCAP/Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Low Z Music, BMI (H. Songstein Publishing, ASCAP/All The Kings Pens, ASCAP/ O   H.Phelps, J.Rogers, A.Vanderheym) 21 Lindsey, G.Sampson, T.Verges) 36 Round Hill Songs BLS JV, ASCAP/Big Loud Proud Songs, ASCAP/Matt Drag Music, ASCAP/Smack Hits, GMR/ THE ONES THAT DIDN’T MAKE IT BACK Smack Songs LLC, GMR/Kobalt Music Group Ltd., GMR (J. HOME Big Music Machine, BMI/Double Barrel Ace THERE WAS THIS GIRL Riley Green Publishing D   Osborne, T.J. Osborne, M.Dragstrem, S.McAnally) 43 Designee, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/ Music, BMI/Universal Music Corp., ASCAP/Paulywood Peermusic III, Ltd., BMI/Tawnes Van Hawke Publishing, Music, ASCAP/Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Plum Nelly, BMI  4 DAY DRUNK Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., K   BMI/Ole Red Cape Songs, ASCAP/Real Big Red Tunes, (R.Green, Erik Dylan)  BMI/SongsbyME, BMI/EMI April Music, Inc., ASCAP/CDS ASCAP (J.Moore, P.DiGiovanni, C.McGill, J.S.Stover) 32 Words And Music, ASCAP/Hey Kiddo Music, ASCAP/ THOUGHT ABOUT YOU Warner-Tamerlane Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, ASCAP (M.Evans, C. KNOCKIN’ BOOTS BIRB Music, ASCAP/BMG Gold Publishing Corp., BMI/The Country And Western Music, DeStefano, L.Robbins) 40 Songs, ASCAP/Still Working For The Woman, ASCAP/ ONE THAT GOT AWAY Downtown DMP Songs, BMI/Round Hill Works, BMI/Big Loud Proud Crowd, BMI/ Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, ASCAP/EMI April BMI/Telemitry Productions, BMI/ReHits Music, Inc., Big Loud Brad Music, BMI/Big Loud Brett Songs, BMI Music, Inc., ASCAP/Nite Writer Music, ASCAP (H.Lindsey, ASCAP/Smacktown Music, ASCAP/Carrot Seed Songs, 41 DOWN TO THE HONKYTONK Round Hill G.Sampson, J.M.Nite) 48 ASCAP/Smack Songs LLC, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music (L.T.Miller, B.Warren, B.D.Warren)  Works, BMI/Big Loud Proud Crowd, BMI/Round Hill Publishing LLC, ASCAP/Anderson Fork In The Road Music, Compositions, BMI/Shirt At Work, BMI/Sony/ATV Story ASCAP/Smackville Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/ TO A T Universal Music Corp., ASCAP/Lake Allegan Music Publishing, GMR/We Are Creative Nation, GMR/ L   Sony/ATV Cross Keys Publishing, ASCAP (J.Frasure, T. Pub Club, ASCAP/Red Like The Sunset Music, ASCAP/ Smack Hits, GMR/Smack Songs LLC, GMR/Kobalt Music Rosen, M.Ramsey, J.Osborne) 3 Spicer And Everyting Nicer, ASCAP/Ole Red Cape Songs, Group Ltd., GMR (R.Clawson, L.Laird, S.McAnally) 7 LADIES IN THE ‘90S Warner-Tamerlane ASCAP/Big Music Machine, BMI/Never Veltz So Good Publishing Corp., BMI/Lylas Music, BMI/Songs Of Roc Publishing, BMI (R.J.Hurd, N.Spicer, L.Veltz) 54 Nation Music, BMI/Telemitry Rhythm House Music, BMI/ ON MY WAY TO YOU WB Music Corp., ASCAP/ E   WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Cookie Jar Music LLP, PRS (Lauren Songs Of Brett, ASCAP/Atlas Music Publishing, ASCAP/ Alaina, J.Frasure, A.Wadge) 42 External Combustion Music, ASCAP/BMG Gold Songs, W   EVERY LITTLE HONKY TONK BAR Day ASCAP/Heytone Music, ASCAP (Brett James, T.Lane) 13 WHAT HAPPENS IN A SMALL TOWN Money Music, ASCAP/HoriPro Entertainment Group, LIVING EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Plain Jane Inc., ASCAP/Living For The Night Music, BMI/HoriPro P   Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Indiana Angel Entertainment Group, Inc., BMI/Ohio Creek Music, BMI/ Songs, BMI/Rezolant Music, BMI/EMI April Music, Inc., Music, BMI/Ritten by Rhettro, BMI/Don’t Be A Gypsy, Dean’s Cabin Publishing, LLC, BMI (G.Strait, B.Strait, ASCAP/Nite Writer Music, ASCAP/Combustion Engine BMI/Revelry Music, BMI/Badlandsmgmt, BMI/Songs Of 19 Music, ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/WB Music PRAYED FOR YOU Pedal Down Music, ASCAP/ Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI (B.Gilbert, D.Dillon)  Corp., ASCAP/DudeTunes, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Big Spaces Music, BMI/Tunes Of Big Deal Music, SESAC/ R.Akins, B.Berryhill, J.Dunne) 26 Publishing LLC, ASCAP (R.Copperman, J.M.Nite, A.Gorley, Songs Of Porterfied Music, SESAC/Sony/ATV Countryside, EVERY LITTLE THING BMG Platinum Songs, 46 BMI/Sony/ATV Accent, ASCAP  49 D.Bentley)  (M.Stell, A.Bowers, A.Veltz)  WHAT WHISKEY DOES EMI Blackwood Music BMI/Kailey’s Dream, BMI/So Essential Tunes, SESAC/Not Inc., BMI/Little Britches Music, BMI/Gattis Music, BMI/ Just Another Song Publishing, SESAC/Hillbilly Science LOOK WHAT GOD GAVE HER EMI R   Rezonate Music, ASCAP/BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP/BIRB And Research Publishing, SESAC/Trailerlily Music, SESAC Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Cricket On The Line, BMI/ Music, ASCAP  33 (R.Dickerson, P.Welling, C.Brown) 35 Ritten by Rhettro, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing (R.Houser, K.Gattis, H.Lindsey)  Corp., BMI/Music Of Big Family, BMI/Dragon Bunny RAINBOW HappyGoWrucke, BMI/Creative Pulse Music, BMI/These Are Pulse Songs, BMI/Smack Hits, WHISKEY GLASSES Warner-Tamerlane EYES ON YOU Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI/Dack Music, BMI/Don Wyan Music, BMI/Maru La La, BMI/ GMR/Smack Songs LLC, GMR/Kobalt Music Group Ltd., Publishing Corp., BMI/Mr. Buck Lucky, BMI/Bump Into Janiel’s Publishing, BMI/EMI April Music, Inc., ASCAP/ MaruSongs, LLC, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing GMR/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/351 Music, Genius Music, BMI/Sony/ATV Allegro, ASCAP/Over- CDS Words And Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/ America, Inc., BMI/Rap Kingpin Music, ASCAP/ BMI/EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI (N.Hemby, S.McAnally, Thought Under-Appreciated Songs, ASCAP/Rezven Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite Prescription Songs, LLC., ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music 38 Songs, ASCAP (C.Rice, C. DeStefano, A.Gorley) 6 Publishing LLC, ASCAP (Thomas Rhett, R.Akins, J.Bunetta, K.Musgraves)  Music, ASCAP/Moving Targest In The Dark, ASCAP (B. J.K.Hindlin, A.Malik, J.H.Ryan) 15 Burgess, K.Kadish) 16 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE APRIL 1, 2019 | PAGE 18 OF 19 Hot Country Songs Index

TITLE Publishing-Licensing Org. G   MEANT TO BE BMG Platinum Songs, BMI/ ROCKIN’ ALL NIGHT LONG Ole Red Cape (Songwriter) Chart Position Big Loud Mountain, BMI/Kiss Me If You Can Music, Songs, ASCAP/Red Like The Sunset Music, ASCAP/Stars GIRL International Dog Music, BMI/Downtown DMP BMI/T Hubb Publishing, BMI/Round Hill Works, BMI/ And Stripes And Maple Leaf Music, BMI/Crack The Glass Songs, BMI/Sony/ATV Songs LLC, BMI/Sony/ATV Music Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Songs Of Songs, BMI/Downtown DMP Songs, BMI/Garda Songs, A   Publishing (Australia) Pty Ltd., APRA/EMI April Music, The Corn, BMI/Jack 10 Publishing, BMI/Universal Music SESAC/King Pen Songs, SESAC/Songs Of Downtown, Inc., ASCAP/Kurstin Music, ASCAP (M.Morris, S.Aarons, - Brentwood Benson Publishing, ASCAP/D Soul Music, SESAC (A.Hambrick, K.Archer, P.Good) 45 ALL TO MYSELF Beats And Banjos, ASCAP/WB G.Kurstin) 15 ASCAP/Capitol CMG Genesis, ASCAP (B.Rexha, T.Hubbard, Music Corp., ASCAP/Shay Mooney Music, BMI/Warner- J.Miller, D.A.Garcia) 3 RUMOR Mike Curb Music, BMI/Curb Songs, ASCAP/ Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/A Girl Named Charlie, GOD’S COUNTRY Relative Music Group, BMI/ Jacobsong, ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/ BMI/Buckeye26, ASCAP/Jreynmusic, ASCAP (D.Smyers, Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI/ MISS ME MORE Songs Of Black River, ASCAP/KNB Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., S.Mooney, N.Galyon, J.Reynolds) 28 WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Georgia Song Vibez, ASCAP/ Music, ASCAP/3 Weddings Music, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt ASCAP (L.Brice, K.Jacobs, A.Gorley) 17 We-Volve Music, ASCAP/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI/EMI April Music, Inc., B   Corp., BMI/Neon Cross Music, BMI (M.Hardy, J.M.Schmidt, ASCAP/Bob Ochoa’s Homemade Salsa, ASCAP (K.Ballerini, S   D.Dawson) 46 D.H.Hodges, B.McLaughlin) 8 BACK TO LIFE W.B.M. Music Corp., SESAC/ SOMEBODY’S DAUGHTER Year Of The Dog Bennett’s Dad’s Songs, SESAC/Songs Of Rhythm House GOOD AS YOU Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/ N   Music, ASCAP/Sony/ATV Story Music Publishing, GMR/We Black, SESAC/Niko Moon Publishing, SESAC/Roc Nation Kane Brown Music, BMI/Don’t Be A Gypsy, BMI/ Are Creative Nation, GMR/Be Barry Quiet, BMI/Creative US Music, SESAC/Shay Mooney Music, BMI/Warner- Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/BMG Rights NIGHT SHIFT Maxx Music, BMI/Let The Road Pave Pulse Music, BMI/Pulse Nation, BMI (T.Townes, L.Laird, Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Farm Thang Music, Management (UK) Ltd., PRS/You Want How Much Of Itself, BMI/Razor And Tie Music Publishing, BMI/Mike Bary Dean) 33 BMI/Me Gusta Music, BMI (C.R.Barlowe, N.Moon, S.Mooney, What Publishing, PRS/TDP Publishing, BMI/Track House Curb Music, BMI/Rain Town Music, BMI (T.Brown, P.LaRue, F.Wilhelm) 44 Worldwide Entertainment, BMI/Mandy’s Favorite Songs, B.Montana) 16 SOME OF IT Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/Longer BMI (K.Brown, B.Berryhill, S.Carter, T.Phillips, W.Weatherly) 7 And Louder Music, BMI/Mammaw’s Fried Okra Music, BEAUTIFUL CRAZY Big Machine Music, BMI/ NOTHING TO DO TOWN Curb Songs, ASCAP/ BMI/Little Louder Songs, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Egg Music, BMI/Straight Dimes Publishing, BMI/Works H   Curb Congregation Songs, SESAC/Music Good Vibes Publishing America, Inc., BMI/New Writers Of Sea Gayle Of RHA Music, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Publishing, BMI/Good Times Music, SESAC/Universal Music, BMI/Not A Track Guy Music, BMI (E.Church, J.Hyde, Corp., BMI/Rowdy Rob Music, BMI (L.Combs, W.B.Durrette, HERE TONIGHT Super Big Music, ASCAP/ Music Corp., ASCAP/No Bridge Publishing, ASCAP (D. C.Daniels, B.Pinson) 29 R.Williford) 1 Caliville Publishing, ASCAP/Songs Of Black River, Scott, M.Alderman, C.Taylor) 39 ASCAP/Wordspring Music, LLC, SESAC/Memory Days, SPEECHLESS Beats And Banjos, ASCAP/WB THE BONES International Dog Music, BMI/ Downtown DMP Songs, BMI/Jammy Rabbins Music, SESAC/W.B.M. Music Corp., SESAC/The Best I Could Do O   Music Corp., ASCAP/Shay Mooney Music, BMI/Warner- ASCAP/Round Hill Songs , ASCAP/ Publishing, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP (B.Young, Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Buckeye26, ASCAP/ Extraordinary Alien Publishing, ASCAP/Oh Denise B.Caver, J.Ebach, C.Kelley) 4 ONE MAN BAND Carrot Seed Songs, ASCAP/ Jreynmusic, ASCAP/Big Music Machine, BMI/Never Veltz Publishing, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., Smackville Music, ASCAP/Smack Songs LLC, ASCAP/ So Good Publishing, BMI (D.Smyers, S.Mooney, J.Reynolds, I   Rezsongs, ASCAP/Reehits World, ASCAP/Smacktown L.Veltz) 5 BMI/Big Music Machine, BMI (M.Morris, J.Robbins, L.Veltz) 27 Music, ASCAP/Smack Blue, LLC, ASCAP/Unfair I DON’T KNOW ABOUT YOU Round Hill Entertainment, ASCAP/We’re Really Doin’ It Publishing, T   BUY MY OWN DRINKS BMG Platinum Songs, Songs II, ASCAP/Caleb’s College Fund, ASCAP/WB ASCAP/Anderson Fork In The Road Music, ASCAP (M. BMI/BMG Silver Songs, SESAC/BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP/ Music Corp., ASCAP/Who Wants To Buy My Publishing, Ramsey, T. Rosen, B.Tursi, J.Osborne) 49 TALK YOU OUT OF IT Relative Music Group, Rezonate Music, ASCAP/BIRB Music, ASCAP/Champagne ASCAP/Relative Music Group, BMI/One77 Songs, ASCAP/ BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., Whiskey Publishing, ASCAP/Downtown DLJ Songs, Highly Combustible Music, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music ONE THAT GOT AWAY Downtown DMP Songs, BMI/Who Wants To Buy My Publishing, ASCAP/WB Music ASCAP/Legends Of Magic Mustang Music, SESAC/Music Publishing LLC, ASCAP (A.Gorley, M.Hardy, H.Phelps, BMI/Telemitry Productions, BMI/ReHits Music, Inc., Corp., ASCAP/Highly Combustible Music, ASCAP/One77 Of Platinum Pen, SESAC/Wild Wild West Songs, SESAC/ J.Rodgers) 26 ASCAP/Smacktown Music, ASCAP/Carrot Seed Songs, Songs, ASCAP/Castle Bound Music, Inc., SESAC (M.Hardy, Thunder Cookie, SESAC/Magic Mustang Music Inc., BMI/ ASCAP/Smack Songs LLC, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music H.Phelps, J.Rogers, A.Vanderheym) 18 Songwriters of Platinum Pen Publishing, BMI/Hannah I HOPE Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI/Revinyl House, Publishing LLC, ASCAP/Anderson Fork In The Road Music, Mulholland Music, BMI (H.Mulholland, J.Wayne, N.Cooke, BMI/EMI April Music, Inc., ASCAP/Nite Writer Music, ASCAP/Smackville Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/ TEQUILA WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Beats And Banjos, H.Lindsey, J.Kear) 36 ASCAP/Gabby Barrett Publishing Designee, BMI (Z.Kale, Sony/ATV Cross Keys Publishing, ASCAP (J.Frasure, T. ASCAP/Buckeye26, ASCAP/Jreynmusic, ASCAP/Warner- J.M.Nite, G.Barrett) 37 Rosen, M.Ramsey, J.Osborne) 11 Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/A Girl Named Charlie, C   BMI (D.Smyers, J.Reynolds, N.Galyon) 2 L   ON MY WAY TO YOU WB Music Corp., ASCAP/ CAUGHT UP IN THE COUNTRY WB Music Songs Of Brett, ASCAP/Atlas Music Publishing, ASCAP/ THERE WAS THIS GIRL Riley Green Publishing Corp., ASCAP/Freshy Music, ASCAP/We-Volve Music, LOOK WHAT GOD GAVE HER EMI External Combustion Music, ASCAP/BMG Gold Songs, Designee, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/ ASCAP/Goes Something Like THIS Music, BMI/Warner- Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Cricket On The Line, BMI/ ASCAP/Heytone Music, ASCAP (Brett James, T.Lane) 19 Peermusic III, Ltd., BMI/Tawnes Van Hawke Publishing, Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Make It Matter Music, Ritten by Rhettro, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing BMI (R.Green, Erik Dylan) 13 BMI/Sixteen Stars Music, BMI (C.Harrington, J.M.Schmidt, Corp., BMI/Music Of Big Family, BMI/Dragon Bunny P   M.Walker) 22 Music, BMI/Don Wyan Music, BMI/Maru La La, BMI/ TO A T Universal Music Corp., ASCAP/Lake Allegan MaruSongs, LLC, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing PRAYED FOR YOU Pedal Down Music, ASCAP/ Pub Club, ASCAP/Red Like The Sunset Music, ASCAP/ CLOSER TO YOU BIRB Music, ASCAP/BMG Gold America, Inc., BMI/Rap Kingpin Music, ASCAP/ Big Spaces Music, BMI/Tunes Of Big Deal Music, SESAC/ Spicer And Everyting Nicer, ASCAP/Ole Red Cape Songs, Songs, ASCAP/1217 Songs, ASCAP/Still Working For The Prescription Songs, LLC., ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Songs Of Porterfied Music, SESAC/Sony/ATV Countryside, ASCAP/Big Music Machine, BMI/Never Veltz So Good Woman, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, Publishing LLC, ASCAP (Thomas Rhett, R.Akins, J.Bunetta, BMI/Sony/ATV Accent, ASCAP (M.Stell, A.Bowers, A.Veltz) 48 Publishing, BMI (R.J.Hurd, N.Spicer, L.Veltz) 41 ASCAP/Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Low Z Music, BMI (H. J.K.Hindlin, A.Malik, J.H.Ryan) 12 Lindsey, G.Sampson, T.Verges) 38 R   W   LOVE AIN’T EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Plain D   Jane Songs, BMI/Rezolant Music, BMI/Combustion RAINBOW HappyGoWrucke, BMI/Creative Pulse WHAT HAPPENS IN A SMALL TOWN Engine Music, ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/WB Music, BMI/These Are Pulse Songs, BMI/Smack Hits, Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Indiana Angel DOWN TO THE HONKYTONK Round Hill Music Corp., ASCAP/Smack Hits, GMR/Smack Songs LLC, GMR/Smack Songs LLC, GMR/Kobalt Music Group Ltd., Music, BMI/Ritten by Rhettro, BMI/Don’t Be A Gypsy, Works, BMI/Big Loud Proud Crowd, BMI/Round Hill GMR/Kobalt Music Group Ltd., GMR (R.Copperman, A.Gorley, GMR/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/351 Music, BMI/Revelry Music, BMI/Badlandsmgmt, BMI/Songs Of Compositions, BMI/Shirt At Work, BMI/Sony/ATV Story S.McAnally) 21 BMI/EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI (N.Hemby, S.McAnally, Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI (B.Gilbert, Music Publishing, GMR/We Are Creative Nation, GMR/ K.Musgraves) 24 R.Akins, B.Berryhill, J.Dunne) 32 Smack Hits, GMR/Smack Songs LLC, GMR/Kobalt Music LOVE SOMEONE Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI/Paris Group Ltd., GMR (R.Clawson, L.Laird, S.McAnally) 9 Not France Music, BMI/EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/ RAISED ON COUNTRY Songs Of Universal, WHAT WHISKEY DOES EMI Blackwood Music Rezolant Music, BMI/Plain Jane Songs, BMI/Sony/ATV Inc., BMI/They’ve Gone To Plaid Publishing, BMI/W.B.M. 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Rosen, Music Corp., ASCAP/Georgia Song Vibez, ASCAP/Big 14 Crowd Publishing, ASCAP (P.Brust, C.Lucas, T.Hubbard, W.Sellers, G.Sprung, B.Tursi, S.McAnally)  C.Crowder) 40 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE APRIL 1, 2019 | PAGE 19 OF 19 CODA On April 8, 1989, Keith Whitley’s posthumously added his fourth 30 Years Ago “I’m No Stranger to the Rain” began and fifth leaders, “I Wonder Do You a two-week stay atop Billboard’s Hot Think of Me” and “It Ain’t Nothin’,” Keith Whitley Country Songs chart. in 1989-90. Penned by Sonny Curtis and Born in Ashland, Ky., Whitley Scored His Ron Hellard, the ballad appeared began as a bluegrass artist. He on Whitley’s second album, Don’t eventually moved to Nashville and Last No. 1 Close Your Eyes, his last released signed with RCA Records in 1984. during his lifetime. “Rain” hit In 1986, he married country singer Before Passing No. 1 just before he died of alcohol Lorrie Morgan. After Whitley’s poisoning at his Nashville home on passing, she added her vocals to “I’m No Stranger to the Rain” May 9, 1989. He was 33. his previously recorded “’Til a “Rain” became Whitley’s third Tear Becomes a Rose,” which hit topped Hot Country Songs of five Hot Country Songs No. 1s No. 13 on Hot Country Songs in (among 10 top 10s), following 1990. It also won vocal event of “When You Say Nothing at All” the year at the 1990 Country Music and “Don’t Close Your Eyes.” He Association Awards. —JIM ASKER

REWINDING THE COUNTRY CHARTS

Whitley, circa 1988. IMAGES ARCHIVES/GETTY OCHS ABBOTT/MICHAEL WARING