Country Update

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INSIDE BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE [email protected]

Kane Brown, Jimmie Allen Reign Urban, Musgraves, Stapleton: >page 4 CMA Winners Reflect Culture In Transition

Friendship Rules At ASCAP, BMI When author-futurist David Houle dubbed the current window press corps backstage that its job remains vital in spite of the >page 11 of time “the Shift Age,” the former Country Radio Seminar attacks it has endured in these uncertain times. keynote speaker recognized that culture had entered a period “You are not the enemy of the people,” quipped T.J. Osborne. where digital transformations, exploding populations and To be certain, the CMAs produced plenty of stability, dwindling resources would change our perceptions of reality. beginning with Underwood and Brad Paisley’s return as hosts Maren Morris Preps As we speed through a period Houle billed as “the for an 11th straight year. Underwood’s victory was her fifth win Next Album Transformation Decade,” the 52nd annual Country Music in the category and second in the last three years. Meanwhile, >page 13 Association Awards aptly embraced the tug between past and the Osbornes copped their third consecutive duo trophy, present on Nov. 14. Some of its key trophies went to Keith Stapleton snagged his fourth straight male vocalist honor (and Urban, Chris Stapleton and Kacey upped his win total to 13 trophies in a Musgraves — artists whose work four-year period), and guitarist Mac The CMAs: In Pictures reflects both a deep reverence for McAnally snared his 10th musician of >page 14 history and a hunger for something the year accolade, surpassing Country

new. The CMA’s new artist of the Music Hall of Famer Chet Atkins in year, Luke Combs, represented the the process. Makin’ Tracks: changing nature of the business But the night held distinct shifts, ‘Miss’ Kelsea itself, given his ability to use online too. Old Dominion’s ascent as vocal Hits Back tools to market and sell his music group of the year loosened Little Big >page 18 before he pacted with the legacy- Town’s six-year grip on the category, model label system. Female vocalist while Combs’ new artist trophy made winner Carrie Underwood and him only the second act in history — vocal event victors Kenny Chesney behind 2016 winner Maren Morris — Country Coda: and David Lee Murphy employed to win the award after using his indie Silver Fox music in the past year that — if social and streaming stats to garner a Strikes Gold listeners received it in the right mind deal with a major label. >page 23 frame — provides reassurance in the “It’s uncharted territory,” said tumultuous societal framework that Combs backstage. “Guys like myself all that transformation has produced. and Kane [Brown] and Dan + Shay, And vocal duo of the year Brothers Brett Young, are kind of lucky to be in a URBAN

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on their own and kind of been adopted by the Nashville system.” That unstoppable digital growth is part of what has created the unease in the culture. Advances in green energy technologies, online sales and self- driving cars have negatively impacted current and future job prospects in coal, brick-and-mortar retail and transportation services, and that has led to understandable fear in the hinterlands. Underwood addressed that fear in a meaningful way with her current single, “Love Wins,” finishing her CMA performance of the song with her hands raised to form a heart symbol. Meanwhile, “Everything’s Gonna Be Alright” — which brought Chesney his 10th CMA Award and Murphy his first — represented country’s ability to bring a modicum of serenity to all the turbulence. “I’m really proud of the notes and comments that I’ve gotten from people

that were having something rough go on in IMAGES DIAMOND/GETTY RICK POPE: their life and it made a small difference,” CMT celebrated its Next Women of Country program with a Nov. 13 said Murphy on the red carpet at the ASCAP event at Nashville’s City Winery. From left: Cassadee Pope, Ingrid Country Music Awards on Nov. 12. “It’s Andress, CMT senior vp music strategy Leslie Fram, Natalie Stovall crazy [in the world], and we didn’t intend and Erin Enderlin. to write a song about making everybody go, ‘Hey, [it’s OK].’ That’s not how it started out, but that’s what it became, and I think it’s a message that kind of resonates with a lot of people.” Stapleton’s haul represented the same sort of reassurance. “Broken Halos,” a song co-written by Mike Henderson that views grief with an orderly acceptance, claimed both single and song of the year. It became the 21st song winner in the CMA’s 52-year awards history to incorporate death in its storyline, underscoring the genre’s COMBS

COMBS: JAMIES CHRAMM JAMIES COMBS: historical willingness to tackle tough subject matter. The Nashville Association of Talent Directors recognized Bill Anderson Stapleton appropriately dedicated one of those victories to 12 people who (center) during the eighth annual NATD Honors Gala on Nov. 7 at had lost their lives one week prior in a massacre at Borderline Bar & Grill, Nashville’s Hermitage Hotel. He is pictured with Jamey Johnson (left) a country club in Thousand Oaks, Calif. The CMAs started with a moment and Mark Wills. of silence, guided by Garth Brooks, as the awards were shadowed for a second straight year with a mass shooting at a country concert site. That’s one aspect of the Transformation Decade that country — and society as a whole — have yet to effectively address, though the genre’s artists continue to bravely roll on. In the meantime, stylistically, country pushes ever forward. Musgraves, who has often cited such heritage artists as Glen Campbell and Marty Robbins among her biggest influences, pulled off the album win with Golden Hour, a project that deftly mixed old-soul melancholy and classic country wordplay with modern pop textures. “She kind of knew from the get-go that she wanted to be somebody that’s moving the genre forward while still honoring some of the things that are part of her country DNA,” said Daniel Tashian, who co-produced Golden Hour with Ian Fitchuk, on the red carpet. “She loves banjo, she loves steel guitar, she loves country topics — she loves all those things, but she also loves Justin Moore hosted a one-hour Veterans Day special for Cumulus on [atmospheric electronic genre] vaporwave, and she loves futurism. She really Nov. 12. From left: Valory national director of promotion and marketing has both of these things, and it’s unusual.” Ashley Sidoti, WKDF Nashville PD John Shomby, Moore and Cumulus That’s perhaps a sign of the duality necessary for artists who can continue vp country formats Charlie Cook. to succeed in the Shift Age. That dichotomy is at the core of Urban’s sound. He combined his interest in both past and present music this year with “Coming Home,” a title that successfully grafted edgy modern-pop sonics atop a 50-year- old guitar riff from Merle Haggard’s “Mama Tried.” Urban, who waited 13 years to claim his second entertainer trophy, is known for crafting guitar solos on the fly in his live concerts, literally living on the edge between mastery and disaster. And it’s that sort of daring that will separate the innovators from the followers as the Shift Age marches forward. “At the end of the day, I’m an artist. We create,” said Urban backstage. “The struggle for me in touring is that at some point you can get to a place where you’re re-creating. The death for an artist is to re-create. That’s why I’m tinkering with the show every day, because it keeps me engaged and keeps it fresh, and it keeps it real and present. Being present is everything. It’s so important to be in the moment. We get to do that every night.” The CMA had a moment on Nov. 14. And its music continues its transition Ryan Michaels and Shannon Haley of the duo Haley & Michaels visited for another year until the 2019 edition reveals how the genre — and the society with KRTY San Jose GM Nate Deaton (center) when the pair performed it feeds and represents — is progressing for a 53rd time. at Live in the Vineyard in Napa, Calif.

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ON THE CHARTS JIM ASKER [email protected] Kane Brown Rules Top Country Albums And Hot Country Songs; Jimmie Allen’s ‘Best Shot’ Crowns Country Airplay

Kane Brown’s second studio full-length, Experiment (Zone 4/RCA Nashville/ and sales-based Hot Country Songs chart as Experiment lead single “Lose Sony Music Nashville), arrives as his second No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Country It” leaps 6-1. Albums chart dated Nov. 24. It earns 124,000 equivalent album units (105,000 “Lose” dethrones Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line’s country-pop in traditional album sales) in its first week (ending Nov. 15), according to crossover smash “Meant to Be” (Warner Bros./Big Machine Label Group), Nielsen Music. The sums mark Brown’s biggest week in both consumption which debuted at the apex on Dec. 16, 2017, and spent a record 50 total weeks and album sales. a No. 1. On the all-genre Billboard The song also lifts 6-2 on 200, Experiment enters as ALLEN Country Streaming Songs Brown’s first No. 1. It’s the (8.7 million U.S. streams, third country set to lead the up 27 percent) and 5-3 on the list in 2018, following Carrie Country Airplay chart (36.1 Underwood’s Cry Pretty million in audience, up 10 (Sept. 29) and Jason Aldean’s percent). Rearview Town (April 28). Four Brown earns his second such albums did so in 2017. Hot Country Songs No. 1 and The 25-year-old Brown’s becomes the first artist to Experiment follows his self- simultaneously lead the list titled first LP, which debuted and Top Country Albums since atop the Dec. 24, 2016-dated he did so on Oct. 28, 2017, when Top Country Albums chart. “What Ifs” (featuring Lauren After spending its first frame at Alaina) spent its second of five No. 1, it logged 11 more weeks weeks at No. 1 on the former at the summit, beginning Oct. and Kane Brown led the latter. BROWN 28, 2017, following its reissue with bonus tracks. The set ‘SHOT’ TO THE TOP Singer- reached No. 5 on the Billboard 200. songwriter Jimmie Allen’s “Best Shot” (Stoney Creek) rises 3-1 in its 40th Brown signed to RCA Nashville in early 2016 after building a following week on ­Country ­Airplay. The song increases by 4 percent to 42 million au- through social media starting in 2014, mainly by posting covers of songs by dience impressions. such artists as George Strait, Brantley Gilbert and Alan Jackson. Prior The 32-year-old Allen — who hails from Milton, Del. — co-wrote “Shot” to his deal with RCA, Brown independently released the six-song EP Closer, with Josh Landon and JP Williams. It is the freshman single from his first LP, which debuted on Top Country Albums at No. 22 in June 2015 and peaked at Mercury Lane, which debuted and peaked at No. 11 on Top Country Albums No. 7 that November. Five-song follow-up EP Chapter 1 (on RCA) debuted (Oct. 27). and peaked at No. 3 in April 2016. “Shot” is the third debut hit to top Country Airplay in 2018, following Jordan Davis’ “Singles You Up” (April 21) and Russell Dickerson’s “Yours” (Jan. 27

‘LOSE’ WINS Kane Brown concurrently crowns the airplay-, streaming- and Feb. 3). LLANES JOSEPH ALLEN: SIRIUSXM; COURTESY BROWN:

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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 3 40 BEST SHOT Stoney Creek HH No. 1 (1 week) HH  Jimmie Allen 41.976 +1.478 8046 322 1 2 1 20 SHE GOT THE BEST OF ME River House/Columbia Nashville Luke Combs 41.081 -1.716 7054 -518 2 l3 5 24 LOSE IT Zone 4/RCA Nashville Kane Brown 36.051 +3.170 6888 371 3 l4 4 40 RICH Columbia Nashville Maren Morris 34.344 +0.865 6738 180 4 5 2 38 HANGIN’ ON RCA Nashville Chris Young 34.314 -6.307 6146 -1483 5 l6 7 34 DRUNK ME Riser House/Columbia Nashville Mitchell Tenpenny 30.195 +1.968 5896 275 6 l7 8 15 SPEECHLESS Warner Bros./WAR Dan + Shay 29.601 +2.980 5727 594 7 8 6 38 BLUE TACOMA Triple Tigers Russell Dickerson 27.715 -1.393 4734 -328 8 l9 9 47 LAST SHOT MCA Nashville Kip Moore 21.300 +0.663 4696 297 9 l10 10 18 TURNIN’ ME ON Warner Bros./WMN Blake Shelton 21.228 +0.634 4442 295 10 l11 12 20 BURNING MAN Capitol Nashville Dierks Bentley Featuring Brothers Osborne 21.012 +2.047 4256 412 11 l12 13 13 SIXTEEN Valory  Thomas Rhett 20.534 +2.126 4 111 429 12 l13 15 29 GOOD GIRL Broken Bow Dustin Lynch 19.414 +2.442 3996 405 13 l14 14 19 DESPERATE MAN EMI Nashville Eric Church 17.601 -0.005 3759 16 14 l15 16 31 MILLIONAIRE Mercury  Chris Stapleton 17.038 +1.280 3614 230 15 l16 17 25 THIS IS IT Triple Tigers Scotty McCreery 16.278 +2.183 3566 394 16 l17 20 10 GIRL LIKE YOU Macon/Broken Bow HH Airpower HH  Jason Aldean 15.078 +2.479 3100 485 19 l18 21 5 WHAT MAKES YOU COUNTRY Capitol Nashville Luke Bryan 14.343 +3.172 2764 699 22 l19 19 26 TAKE IT FROM ME MCA Nashville Jordan Davis 14.136 +1.051 3212 221 18 l20 18 32 BURN OUT Big Machine Midland 13.903 -0.004 3320 154 17 l21 23 15 DOWN TO THE HONKYTONK Big Loud Jake Owen 11.648 +1.101 2953 239 20 l22 22 19 THERE WAS THIS GIRL BMLG  Riley Green 11.601 +1.056 2946 314 21 l23 24 7 NEON CHURCH McGraw/Columbia Nashville Tim McGraw 11.154 +1.034 2487 176 23 l24 NEW BUCKED OFF Arista Nashville HH Hot Shot Debut/Breaker/Most Increased Audience/Most Added HH  Brad Paisley 7.931 +7.931 1258 1258 31 l25 27 17 NIGHT SHIFT Capitol Nashville Jon Pardi 7. 0 01 +0.478 1758 180 27 l26 26 18 ONE THAT GOT AWAY Atlantic/WEA  Michael Ray 6.918 +0.356 1805 210 25 l27 29 10 LOVE WINS Capitol Nashville Carrie Underwood 6.902 +0.888 1600 182 28 l28 25 13 BETTER BOAT Blue Chair/Warner Bros./WEA Kenny Chesney Featuring Mindy Smith 6.826 +0.212 1887 101 24 l29 28 15 ON MY WAY TO YOU CoJo/WMN  Cody Johnson 6.702 +0.193 1321 85 30 l30 31 6 MAKE IT SWEET RCA Nashville HH Breaker HH Old Dominion 6.644 +1.248 1243 295 32 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE NOVEMBER 19, 2018 | PAGE 7 OF 23

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 30 13 NEVER COMIN DOWN Hit Red/Capitol Nashville Keith Urban 6.015 +0.569 1569 172 29 l32 32 33 THE DIFFERENCE Valory  Tyler Rich 5.697 +0.320 1762 -18 26 l33 34 9 HERE TONIGHT BMLG  Brett Young 5.415 +0.438 1241 186 33 34 33 23 LOVE AIN’T Valory  Eli Young Band 4.838 -0.187 1208 55 34 35 35 20 LOVE SOMEONE Atlantic/WMN  Brett Eldredge 3.635 -0.049 912 -21 39 l36 37 14 EYES ON YOU Dack Janiels/Broken Bow Chase Rice 3.395 +0.324 1033 91 37 l37 36 32 CAUGHT UP IN THE COUNTRY Curb  Rodney Atkins Featuring The Fisk Jubilee Singers 3.328 +0.147 116 5 68 35 l38 38 26 YOU’RE IN IT Wheelhouse  Granger Smith 3.054 +0.048 112 6 -2 36 l39 41 4 MISS ME MORE Black River HH Breaker HH Kelsea Ballerini 2.923 +0.373 766 91 43 l40 43 11 RUMOR Curb  Lee Brice 2.655 +0.291 686 76 49 l41 40 18 WHAT WHISKEY DOES Stoney Creek Randy Houser Featuring Hillary Lindsey 2.591 -0.046 920 16 38 42 39 15 GOODBYE SUMMER Valory/BMLG  Danielle Bradbery With Thomas Rhett 2.567 -0.243 886 -150 40 l43 42 22 FRIENDS DON’T Mercury  Maddie & Tae 2.485 -0.028 749 43 44 l44 45 12 WHISKEY GLASSES Big Loud Morgan Wallen 2.429 +0.300 853 86 41 l45 46 3 TALK YOU OUT OF IT BMLG  Florida Georgia Line 2.356 +0.437 636 173 50 46 44 8 BACK TO LIFE Big Machine Rascal Flatts 2.185 -0.100 746 107 46 l47 49 16 YADA YADA YADA EMI Nashville Brandon Lay 1.914 +0.217 749 38 45 l48 50 11 FEELS LIKE A PARTY Wheelhouse  LOCASH 1.858 +0.198 802 21 42 l49 53 2 THE ONES THAT DIDN’T MAKE IT BACK HOME Valory  Justin Moore 1.820 +0.286 463 76 53 l50 47 5 DAY DRUNK Warner Bros./WEA Morgan Evans 1.799 +0.026 477 31 52 51 48 5 BUY MY OWN DRINKS Wheelhouse  Runaway June 1.662 -0.082 694 26 47 52 51 21 DROP EVERYTHING Arista Nashville Carlton Anderson 1.641 -0.017 691 -30 48 l53 52 12 I WON’T BE SORRY Blue Chair/Reviver David Lee Murphy 1.591 -0.001 489 6 51 l54 57 3 LADIES IN THE ‘90S 19/Mercury  Lauren Alaina 1.463 +0.284 392 80 56 l55 56 13 FLOATIN’ Sturgeon General Uncle Kracker 1.388 +0.174 340 32 57 l56 55 12 HOW DOES IT SOUND Dylan Schneider/Placer Dylan Schneider 1.342 +0.106 457 29 55 l57 58 2 BEAUTIFUL CRAZY River House/Columbia Nashville Luke Combs 1.305 +0.189 315 63 58 l58 54 9 BRING IT ON OVER Mercury  Billy Currington 1.293 +0.045 457 45 54 l59 59 4 90’S COUNTRY Monument/Arista Nashville Walker Hayes 1.163 +0.209 286 48 - l60 60 2 I DON’T REMEMBER ME (BEFORE YOU) EMI Nashville Brothers Osborne 0.950 +0.025 313 9 59

GOING FOR ADDS

12/3 RUSSELL DICKERSON Every Little Thing Triple Tigers

12/10 DEVIN DAWSON Dark Horse Atlantic/WEA 54

The tribute to Shania Twain, Faith Hill, Britney LAUREN and others who inspired lifts ALAINA Spears Alaina Ladies in 57-54 on Country Airplay, up 24 percent to the ’90s 1.5 million audience impressions. DAWSON DONN JONES DONN

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AIRPLAY Country Airplay MONITORED BY

MOST ADDED® NEW AND ACTIVE TITLE Imprint/Label Artist ADDS TOTAL TOTAL BUCKED OFF Arista Nashville Brad Paisley 62 TITLE Imprint/Label Artist AUDIENCE STATIONS ADDS WHAT MAKES YOU COUNTRY Capitol Nashville Luke Bryan 32 I DON’T KNOW ABOUT YOU Big Loud Chris Lane 0.927 21 1 BACK TO LIFE Big Machine Rascal Flatts 17 STRONGER THAN ME Pearl Garth Brooks 0.693 1 1 TALK YOU OUT OF IT BMLG Florida Georgia Line 14 CLOSER TO YOU Big Machine Carly Pearce 0.563 9 5 LOVE WINS Capitol Nashville Carrie Underwood 13 NIGHT SHIFT Capitol Nashville Jon Pardi 12 LOVE YOU TOO LATE Warner Bros./WMN Cole Swindell 0.423 8 6 NEVER COMIN DOWN Hit Red/Capitol Nashville Keith Urban 12 GOT MY NAME CHANGED BACK RCA Nashville Pistol Annies 0.405 8 1 MAKE IT SWEET RCA Nashville Old Dominion 12 CALL YOUR MAMA Arista Nashville Seth Ennis 0.401 16 0 HERE TONIGHT BMLG Brett Young 10 GIRL LIKE YOU Macon/Broken Bow Jason Aldean 7 RECURRENTS MOST INCREASED AUDIENCE THIS TOTAL AUD. WEEK TITLE Imprint/Label Artist (IN MILLIONS) GAIN 1 HOTEL KEY RCA Nashville Old Dominion 19.343 TITLE Imprint/Label Artist (IN MIILIONS) 2 ONE NUMBER AWAY River House/Columbia Nashville Luke Combs 19.001 BUCKED OFF Arista Nashville Brad Paisley +7.931 WHAT MAKES YOU COUNTRY Capitol Nashville Luke Bryan +3.172 3 HEAVEN Zone 4/RCA Nashville Kane Brown 18.829 LOSE IT Zone 4/RCA Nashville Kane Brown +3.170 4 TEQUILA Warner Bros./WAR Dan + Shay 17.603 SPEECHLESS Warner Bros./WAR Dan + Shay +2.980 5 GET ALONG Blue Chair/Warner Bros./WEA Kenny Chesney 16.873 GIRL LIKE YOU Macon/Broken Bow Jason Aldean +2.479 6 DROWNS THE WHISKEY Macon/Broken Bow Jason Aldean Feat. Miranda Lambert 16.676 GOOD GIRL Broken Bow Dustin Lynch +2.442 7 SUNRISE, SUNBURN, SUNSET Capitol Nashville Luke Bryan 14.505 THIS IS IT Triple Tigers Scotty McCreery +2.183 8 SIMPLE BMLG Florida Georgia Line 13.022 SIXTEEN Valory Thomas Rhett +2.126 9 SINGLES YOU UP MCA Nashville Jordan Davis 12.287 BURNING MAN Capitol Nashville Dierks Bentley Feat. Brothers Osborne +2.047 DRUNK ME Riser House/Columbia Nashville Mitchell Tenpenny +1.968 10 SMALL TOWN BOY Broken Bow Dustin Lynch 12.121 MOST INCREASED PLAYS BILLBOARD COUNTRY BOXSCORE TITLE Imprint/Label Artist GAIN Gross Artist Attendance Ticket Price(s) Venue/Date(s) Capacity Promoter(s) BUCKED OFF Arista Nashville Brad Paisley +1258 $1,041,068 CHRIS STAPLETON 13,072 WHAT MAKES YOU COUNTRY Capitol Nashville Luke Bryan +699 $88.75, $63.75, $38.75 Madison Square Garden, New York/Nov. 2 13,072 LIVE NATION SPEECHLESS Warner Bros./WAR Dan + Shay +594 $896,080 MIRANDA LAMBERT & LITTLE BIG TOWN 14,884 GIRL LIKE YOU Macon/Broken Bow Jason Aldean +485 $90.50, $80.50, $66, $50 Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre, Tinley Park, Ill./Aug. 25 21,130 LIVE NATION SIXTEEN Valory Thomas Rhett +429 $769,247 MIRANDA LAMBERT & LITTLE BIG TOWN 14,998 $88.75, $33.25 DTE Energy Music Theatre, Clarkston, Mich./Aug. 24 14,998 LIVE NATION BURNING MAN Capitol Nashville Dierks Bentley Feat. Brothers Osborne +412 GOOD GIRL Broken Bow Dustin Lynch +405 $754,934 MIRANDA LAMBERT & LITTLE BIG TOWN 14,256 $99.25, $33.25 Budweiser Stage, Toronto/Aug. 23 8,883 LIVE NATION THIS IS IT Triple Tigers Scotty McCreery +394 $346,502 JASON ALDEAN 9,539 LOSE IT Zone 4/RCA Nashville Kane Brown +371 $44.75, $24.75 Mizzou Arena, Columbia, Mo., Jan. 28 sellout LIVE NATION BEST SHOT Stoney Creek Jimmie Allen +322 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 NOVEMBER 18, 2018

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 2 14 IF YOU WERE A COWBOY (Independent) HH 1 Week at 1 HH Bri Bagwell 1829 243 l11 14 21 I GOT ME (Independent)  Sarah Hobbs 1221 107 2 1 14 ON MY WAY TO YOU (CoJo Music)  Cody Johnson 1719 -31 l12 16 18 MISUNDERSTOOD (Vision Ent)  Parker McCollum 116 7 96 l3 4 13 MIRROR, MIRROR (Independent)  Randall King 1715 144 l13 12 19 SMOOTH TALKIN’ LADY (Smith)  Jason Allen 116 1 6 l4 3 17 FRIDAY’S COMING (Independent)  Pat Green 1643 67 14 6 18 SITTIN’ HERE (Independent)  Jesse Raub Jr. w/Cody Johnson 1110 -346 l5 5 23 LIFE IS (Miles Power)  Cameran Nelson 1524 13 l15 23 3 AIN’T IT BABY (Independent)  Josh Ward 1098 256 l6 10 12 HONEYWINE (Independent)  Flatland Cavalry 1432 84 l16 19 11 BETTER PLACE (Independent)  Drew Fish Band 1090 84 l7 9 19 MY SOUTH (Independent)  Natalie Rose 1421 46 17 8 26 KEEP IT COUNTRY (Independent)  Mark Powell 1073 -326 l8 11 9 RIO (Independent)  Kyle Park 1354 65 l18 17 19 YOU’RE IN IT (Independent)  Granger Smith 1062 39 l9 13 8 SHE REMAINS (Independent)  Jamie Richards 1348 199 l19 20 15 TEQUILA MOCKINGBIRD (Independent)  Frank Ray 965 27 10 7 16 DAMN GOOD GOODBYE (Independent)  Mike Ryan 1347 -69 20 15 18 DEATH, DYIN’ & DEVILED EGGS (Independent)  Wade Bowen 940 -173

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 2018, Texas Regional Radio Report

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NASHVILLE & NATIONAL TOM ROLAND

Northeast promotion and marketing. He most recently held a similar post at the now-folded Red Bow. Reach Davis here … Rachel Reynolds joined Concord Music on Nov. 12 as senior director of creative content production for the company’s numerous imprints, including Rounder. She spent the previous 12 years at KCRW Los Angeles, the last three of which as producer of its flagship music show, Morning Becomes Eclectic. Reynolds relocates to Nashville with the new post … Tom “Cadillac Jack” Kapsalis started as assistant PD/midday host at WYCD Detroit on Nov. 19. It represents a return to the market after a journey that most recently placed Kapsalis in a similar role at WQYK Tampa, Fla. … Entercom welcomes Sarah Harris on Jan. 2 to a newly created position, vp social impact, with oversight of the chain’s social responsibility platform Entercom Cares. Harris leaves her role as founder and senior vp of Incite, a social marketing division within Emmis … Steel City Media filed a reorganization plan to rebound from Chapter 11 bankruptcy, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported. The firm operates two stations in Pennsylvania and four in Kansas City, including country outlets KFKF and Jesse Frasure claimed songwriter of the year honors during the BMI KBEQ … WQIK Jacksonville, Fla., promoted John Scott to PD, according to Country Awards in Nashville on Nov. 13. From left: BMI executive vp InsideRadio.com. He was already in place at the station as music director/on- creative and licensing Mike Steinberg, Frasure, BMI president/CEO air talent … Entercom/Minneapolis-St. Paul operations manager Andy Bloom Mike O’Neill and BMI Nashville vp creative Jody Williams. left the company, Talkers.com reported. He oversaw three signals, including country KMNB … Brett Young hosts Westwood One’s A Thanksgiving Weekend ASCAP, BMI HONOR FRIENDS Celebration, a four-hour special available for airing Nov. 22-25 … Amy Brown Rival performing rights organizations ASCAP and BMI exhibited friendly of iHeartMedia’s The Bobby Bones Show launched her own podcast, 4 Things overlap in the mostly congenial Nashville music industry as friends and With Amy Brown, on Nov. 15. It boasts a theme song penned by Walker Hayes. frequent co-writers Ashley Gorley and Jesse Frasure won the PROs’ respective country songwriter of the year trophies on Nov. 12 and Nov. 13, while Warner/ ’ROUND THE ROW Chappell took publisher honors at both events. The Academy of Country Music promoted Maddy Stessman to administration Gorley reigned at ASCAP for the sixth time after landing six songs among manager after two years as events coordinator … Joe Mullins & The Radio the agency’s 44 most-played country titles. Ironically, Frasure introduced Ramblers signed a recording deal with bluegrass label Billy Blue … New duo Gorley that night, then claimed the BMI honors the next evening for penning Merle Monroe joins the Pinecastle artist roster. The act consists of Tim Raybon, five of that society’s 50 most-played songs. The two writers shared credits on formerly of The Raybon Brothers, and banjo player Daniel Grindstaff … Irish- three of the honored copyrights: Easton Corbin’s hit “A Girl Like You” and Americana artist Danny Burns signed a recording contract with Bonfire. His the Thomas Rhett singles “Unforgettable” and “Marry Me.” first album, North Country, arrives Jan. 18 with a guest list that includes Tift Both writers approached their victories with a distinct humility. Gorley Merritt, Dan Tyminski and Mindy Smith … Luke Laird’s Creative Nation indicated on the ASCAP red carpet that he continues to pick up new ideas signed NEEDTOBREATHE frontman Bear Rinehart to a publishing and about the craft from his fellow writers. management deal in partnership with Pulse Music Group … Luke Wooten’s “All the successful writers I know admit that they’re still learning how to Warehouse West added singer-songwriter Willie Shaw to the roster in an do it,” he said. “It’s a lot of trial and error.” artist development/publishing deal … Services for Country Music Hall of Fame Frasure, meanwhile, deflected praise toward his wife, Rhythm House vp member Roy Clark are set for 11 a.m. CT on Nov. 21 at Rhema Bible Church creative Stevie Frasure, and an emotional diagnosis she received at Vanderbilt in Broken Arrow, Okla., outside Tulsa. A stunningly facile guitarist and gifted Breast Clinic. comic, Clark died of complications from pneumonia at his Oklahoma home “My wife had a double mastectomy three weeks ago,” said Frasure during on Nov. 15. Best known as the longtime co-host of Hee Haw, he logged nine his ASCAP acceptance speech. “She’s sitting here looking stunning. So the top 10 country singles from 1963-1976, including the chart-topping “Come only thing that could be more special than me standing here right now is the Live With Me” and a Charles Aznevour-penned signature piece, “Yesterday, fact that she’s cancer-free.” When I Was Young.” Clark won five instrumental trophies and entertainer Warner/Chappell’s publisher titles came from having a stake in 19 of the 44 of the year from the Country Music Association. He snagged two entertainer honored songs in the ASCAP ceremony and from its sister, Warner-Tamerlane, honors from the Academy of Country Music and received its Pioneer Award owning at least a portion of 20 of the most-played BMI titles. in 1996. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to St. Jude Sam Hunt, Josh Osborne and Zach Crowell earned ASCAP’s country song Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis. crown for “Body Like a Back Road,” while Brett Young figured prominently both nights. He accepted ASCAP’s country songwriter-artist of the year honor by video due to being in Hawaii for his honeymoon, but was on hand at BMI the next night to celebrate with two of his three co-writers, Tyler Reeve and Trent Tomlinson, as they snagged BMI’s country song of the year with “In Case You Didn’t Know.” Lee Ann Womack picked up the ASCAP Golden Note Award after a salute by Buddy Miller, Chris Stapleton, Alison Krauss and “A Little Past Little Rock” songwriter Tony Lane. Steve Cropper snared the BMI Icon bucket as a parade of artists covered his songs, including a non-Nashville surprise: John Legend, who offered a rich and slinky rendition of “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay.” Go here for the full ASCAP story and here for the complete BMI piece.

RADIO & RECORDS Lee Ann Womack received the ASCAP Golden Note Award during Country-turned-pop artist Taylor Swift announced Nov. 19 that she has the ASCAP Country Music Awards on Nov. 12 in Nashville. From left: signed with Universal Music Group. She moves forward on the Republic ASCAP executive vp membership John Titta, Womack, ASCAP CEO imprint and will retain ownership of her future masters. Go here for the full Beth Matthews, ASCAP president/chairman Paul Williams and ASCAP story … Aaron Watson’s BIG Label Records hired Jeff Davis as director of vp Nashville membership Michael Martin.

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Days before Maren Morris joined Chris Stapleton, Mavis Staples and Marty ON THIS DATE IN COUNTRY MUSIC Stuart on the Country Music Association Awards, she put the finishing touches on her next album, nailing the final vocals on Nov. 11 and prepping it for Nov. 20 delivery to Sony Music Nashville. “It was good to have a deadline to finish it • 2010 — Surprise guest Roy Clark joins because I would probably keep listening to mixes forever,” she said on the red headliner Brad Paisley for a guitar duet on carpet with her husband, “Sunrise, Sunset, Sunburn” songwriter Ryan Hurd, at “(Ghost) Riders in the Sky” at the BOK Center her side. Look for the first single shortly after the new year, once “Rich” (No. 4, in Tulsa, Okla. Clark also teams with Paisley, Country Airplay) has completed its chart run. Justin Moore and Darius Rucker on the closer “Alcohol.” CLARK The USA Network contest Real Country debuted Nov. 13, and one of its competitors, Nov. 21 Jamie Floyd, is already poised to take full • 1998 — Garth Brooks performs at Reed Arena in College Station, advantage of the opportunity. Floyd authored Texas, the last of 348 shows in a tour that ran two-and-a-half years. “The Blade,” the title song on a Grammy- It proves to be his final concert before his retirement from the road. nominated Ashley Monroe album, and she intends to officially release her own version Nov. 22 on Dec. 12. It’s one of the songs Floyd sings • 2016 — Tracy Lawrence raises $133,000 for the Nashville Rescue FLOYD FLOYD: JAMIE SCHRAMM JAMIE FLOYD: during the series for a judges panel that Mission during the second Mission Possible benefit at the Wildhorse includes Shania Twain, Jake Owen and Saloon, joined by Big & Rich, Jerrod Niemann, Ben Rue and Halfway Travis Tritt. “The Blade” got high marks from reviewers in its original version, to Hazard. and it’s classic enough that it could become a signature. “I want that song to be my ‘Burning House,’ I want that song to be my ‘The House That Built Me,’ ” Nov. 23 says Floyd. “There’s a place for those songs in country music.” • 1978 — The Oak Ridge Boys sing “Callin’ Baton Rouge” and “Come On In” while riding a turkey float down Broadway in the Macy’s Two of Nashville’s iconic modern-day outlaws are taking up worthy causes for Thanksgiving Day Parade. a day. Jamey Johnson delivered a benefit concert at Nashville’s City Winery on Nov. 18 for the Robert Spotswood Memorial Fund, with receipts pegged to Nov. 24 the Challenged Athletes Foundation. Chris Stapleton will also headline the • 2013 — Taylor Swift tops the winners list with four trophies at ABC’s annual Mack, Jack & McConaughey Gala — an Austin event named for Texas American Music Awards, held at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles. Longhorns coach Mack Brown, Jack Ingram and Matthew McConaughey Other country victors include Florida Georgia Line, Luke Bryan — with the April 25 show aiding a host of local charities. and Lady Antebellum. • 1958 — Decca releases Brenda Lee’s holiday classic “Rockin’ Around With Thanksgiving nearing, Thomas Rhett’s tour schedule is booked into the Christmas Tree.” Memorial Day and beyond. He will launch the Very Hot Summer Tour on May 17 with support acts Dustin Lynch, Russell Dickerson and Rhett Nov. 25 Akins. Walker Hayes has meanwhile plotted the Dream On It Tour with • 2017 — Luke Combs rises to the top spot on the Billboard Hot Country opening act Filmore beginning Jan. 31, 2019, and Whiskey Myers plans to Songs chart with “When It Rains It Pours.” hit eight European territories during a Die Rockin’ Tour that launches Jan. 25 in Nashville. Also of note: Garth Brooks’ first stadium date of 2019, at the Nov. 26 Dome at America’s Center in St. Louis, is already sold out after moving more • 2008 — Four Christmases makes its debut in movie theaters. Its cast than 70,000 tickets, a reported venue record. includes Dwight Yoakam, Tim McGraw, Sissy Spacek, Robert Duvall, Reese Witherspoon, Mary Steenburgen and Vince Vaughn. • 1968 — Glen Campbell records “Galveston” at Los Angeles’ Capitol Top Headlines from .com Recording Studios. Click on headlines below for more details Source: RolandNote.com, the Ultimate Country Music Database 2018 CMA Awards Spur 521% Sales Gain For Kacey Musgraves, Kelsea Ballerini, Luke Combs & More

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Nielsen Releases In-Depth Statistics On Live Music Behavior: 52 Percent Of Americans Attend Shows Pistol Annies talked with SiriusXM host Storme Warren as the Bebe Rexha Deconstructs ‘Meant To Be’ On satcaster temporarily turned its channel The Highway into CMA The Billboard Chart Beat Podcast Awards Radio. From left: group member Ashley Monroe, Warren and group members Miranda Lambert and Angaleena Presley. BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE NOVEMBER 19, 2018 | PAGE 14 OF 23 CMA Week In Pictures The 52nd annual Country Music Association Awards brought hundreds of artists and executives together for a range of events that celebrated the genre, peaking with Keith Urban’s entertainer of the year win and Chris Stapleton’s three victories during the ABC telecast on Nov. 14. The following are a few of the images from the awards and related activities:

Thomas Rhett (center) met up with Big Machine Label Group execs at the FGL Chris Janson (right) partied with Warner House after winning music video for “Marry Music Nashville chairman/CEO John Me.” He celebrated with Valory GM George Esposito at the label’s post-show party. Chris Stapleton repeated as male vocalist of the year, Briner (left) and BMLG president/CEO Scott while “Broken Halos” won single and song. Borchetta.

Chris Young (left) joined Sony Music Garth Brooks walked the Kacey Musgraves’ album of the year, Golden Hour, contributed to Nashville chairman/CEO Randy Goodman red carpet prior to debuting Universal Music Group Nashville’s party spirit at the JW Marriott. as the label celebrated at an afterparty. “Stronger Than Me” during the From left: UMGN chairman/CEO Mike Dungan, Musgraves and telecast. UMGN president Cindy Mabe.

David Lee Murphy chatted with WIVK Knoxville, Tenn., during radio remote broadcasts in advance of the awards. Indie artist Lucas Hoge Brothers Osborne’s John Osborne (left) and From left: Reviver executive vp/GM Gator Michaels, WIVK commanded attention on the red T.J. Osborne grabbed their third straight vocal personality Tony Randall, Murphy and WIVK personality carpet with a jacket he ordered

STAPLETON, HOGE: JAMIE SCHRAMM; RHETT: JASON KEMPIN; BROOKS, BROTHERS OSBORNE: JOHN RUSSELL; RUSSELL; JOHN OSBORNE: BROTHERS BROOKS, KEMPIN; JASON RHETT: SCHRAMM; JAMIE HOGE: STAPLETON, RUSSELL JOHN POIZNER; ALAN YOUNG: HOLLO; CHRIS MUSGRAVES: duo honor. Kris Rochester. online. BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE NOVEMBER 19, 2018 | PAGE 15 OF 23

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 6 6 24 LOSE IT No. 1 (1 Week)/Digital & Streaming Gainer Kane Brown 3 1 l D.HUFF (K.BROWN,C.MCGILL,W.WEATHERLY) ZONE 4/RCA NASHVILLE 2 1 1 51 MEANT TO BE Bebe Rexha & Florida Georgia Line RC 1 WILSHIRE (B.REXHA,T.HUBBARD,J.MILLER,D.A.GARCIA) WARNER BROS./BMLG SHE GOT THE BEST OF ME 3 2 2 22 Luke Combs 2 2 l S.MOFFATT (L.COMBS,R.SNYDER,C.WILSON) RIVER HOUSE/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE TEQUILA 4 3 3 44 Dan + Shay RC 2 l D.SMYERS,S.HENDRICKS (D.SMYERS,J.REYNOLDS,N.GALYON) WARNER BROS./WAR HH HH 5 4 4 26 SPEECHLESS Airplay Gainer Dan + Shay 7 4 l D.SMYERS,S.HENDRICKS (D.SMYERS,S.MOONEY,J.REYNOLDS,L.VELTZ) WARNER BROS./WAR BEST SHOT 6 5 5 27 Jimmie Allen 1 5 l A.BOWERS (J.ALLEN,J.LONDON,J.P.WILLIAMS) STONEY CREEK DRUNK ME 7 7 7 16 Mitchell Tenpenny 6 7 l J.M.SCHMIDT,M.TENPENNY (M.TENPENNY,J.M.SCHMIDT,J.T.WILSON) RISER HOUSE/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE 8 8 8 38 HANGIN’ ON Chris Young 5 8 C.YOUNG,C.CROWDER (C.YOUNG,C.CROWDER,J.HOGE) RCA NASHVILLE RICH 9 9 10 34 Maren Morris 4 9 l BUSBEE,M.MORRIS (M.MORRIS,J.J.DILLON,L.VELTZ) COLUMB IA NASHVILLE BURNING MAN 10 12 13 21 Dierks Bentley Featuring Brothers Osborne 11 10 l R. COPPERMAN,J.R.STEWART (L.DICK,B.PINSON) CAPITOL NASHVILLE 11 10 9 25 BLUE TACOMA Russell Dickerson 8 5 C.BROWN (R.DICKERSON,C.BROWN,P.WELLING) TRIPLE TIGERS 12 11 11 25 SIMPLE Florida Georgia Line RC 2 J.MOI (T.HUBBARD,B.KELLEY,M.HARDY,M.HOLMAN) BMLG SIXTEEN 13 17 19 14 Thomas Rhett 12 13 l D.HUFF,J.FRASURE,THOMAS RHETT (THOMAS RHETT,S.M.DOUGLAS,JOE LONDON) VALORY GOOD GIRL 14 15 17 20 Dustin Lynch 13 14 l Z.CROWELL (D.LYNCH,J.EBACH,A.ALBERT) BROKEN BOW DESPERATE MAN 15 14 14 19 Eric Church 14 8 l J.JOYCE (E.CHURCH,R.W.HUBBARD) EMI NASHVILLE LAST SHOT 16 13 15 23 Kip Moore 9 13 l K.MOORE (K.MOORE,D.COUCH,D.L.MURPHY) MCA NASHVILLE MILLIONAIRE 17 18 18 43 Chris Stapleton 15 17 l D.COBB,C.STAPLETON (K.WELCH) MERCURY TURNIN’ ME ON 18 16 16 13 Blake Shelton 10 16 l S.HENDRICKS (B.SHELTON,J.L.ALEXANDER,J.OSBORNE) WARNER BROS./WMN GIRL LIKE YOU 19 19 22 10 Jason Aldean 17 19 l M.KNOX (M.TYLER,J.BOYER,J.MIRENDA) MACON/BROKEN BOW THIS IS IT 20 21 27 17 Scotty McCreery 16 20 l F.ROGERS,D.WELLS,A.ESHUIS (S.MCCREERY,F.ROGERS,A.ESHUIS) TRIPLE TIGERS TAKE IT FROM ME 21 20 25 19 Jordan Davis 19 20 l P.DIGIOVANNI (J.DAVIS,J.DAVIS,J.GANTT) MCA NASHVILLE BEAUTIFUL CRAZY 22 22 21 28 Luke Combs - 6 l S.MOFFATT (L.COMBS,W.B.DURRETTE,R.WILLIFORD) RIVER HOUSE/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE DOWN TO THE HONKYTONK 23 23 26 14 Jake Owen 21 23 l J.MOI (R.CLAWSON,L.LAIRD,S.MCANALLY) BIG LOUD BURN OUT 24 26 28 22 Midland 20 24 l D.HUFF,S.MCANALLY,J.OSBORNE (J.CARSON,C.DUDDY,M.WYSTRACH,S.MCANALLY,J.OSBORNE) BIG MACHINE 25 25 24 26 SUNRISE, SUNBURN, SUNSET Luke Bryan RC 4 J.STEVENS,J.STEVENS (Z.CROWELL,R.J.HURD,C.MCGILL) CAPITOL NASHVILLE

10 37 The act’s first vocal group of the year win After Bentley performed the song at the at the Country Music Association Awards 52th annual Country Music Association bumps “Sweet” 38-37 on Hot Country DIERKS BENTLEY Awards on Nov. 14, it surges by 51 percent to Songs. It’s supported by a 44 percent burst 7,000 sold and rises 12-10 on Hot Country OLD to 1.5 million U.S. streams and a 23 percent Feat. BROTHERS DOMINION OSBORNE Songs. It marks Bentley’s 23rd top 10 and Make It gain to 6.6 million in audience as it bumps Burning Man Brothers Osborne’s second. Sweet 31-30 on Country Airplay. BENTLEY: DONN JONES; OLD DOMIOION: JOSEPH LLANES JOSEPH DOMIOION: OLD JONES; DONN BENTLEY: BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE NOVEMBER 19, 2018 | PAGE 16 OF 23

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 WHAT MAKES YOU COUNTRY 26 29 35 8 Luke Bryan 18 26 l J.STEVENS,J.STEVENS (L.BRYAN,D.DAVIDSON,A.GORLEY) CAPITOL NASHVILLE HH HH 27 NEW 1 SOMEONE I USED TO KNOW Hot Shot Debut Zac Brown Band - 27 l ANDREW WATT (Z.BROWN,A.WOTMAN,N.MOON,B.SIMONETTI,S.MENDES) SOUTHERN GROUND HOMESICK 28 47 48 10 Kane Brown - 24 l D.HUFF (K.BROWN,B.BERRYHILL,M.J.MCGINN,T.PHILLIPS) ZON E 4/RCA NASHVILLE NEON CHURCH 29 27 29 6 Tim McGraw 23 27 l B.GALLIMORE,T.MCGRAW (B.GOLDSMITH,R.E.LIPSEY,B.M.STENNIS) MCGRAW/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE THERE WAS THIS GIRL 30 28 30 12 Riley Green 22 28 l D.HUFF (R.GREEN,ERIK DYLAN) BMLG LOVE WINS 31 32 33 11 Carrie Underwood 27 26 l D.GARCIA,C.UNDERWOOD (C.UNDERWOOD,D.A.GARCIA,BRETT JAMES) CAPITOL NASHVILLE GOOD AS YOU 32 45 42 4 Kane Brown - 17 l D.HUFF (K.BROWN,B.BERRYHILL,S.CARTER,T.PHILLIPS,W.WEATHERLY) ZONE 4/RCA NASHVILLE HERE TONIGHT 33 33 34 9 Brett Young 33 32 l D.HUFF (B.YOUNG,B.CAVER,J.EBACH,C.KELLEY) BMLG NIGHT SHIFT 34 30 32 13 Jon Pardi 25 30 l B.BUTLER,J.PARDI (T.BROWN,P.LARUE,B.MONTANA) CAPITOL NASHVILLE ON MY WAY TO YOU 35 31 31 14 Cody Johnson 29 25 l T.W.WILLMON (BRETT JAMES,T.LANE) COJO/WMN NEVER COMIN DOWN 36 44 46 6 Keith Urban 31 36 l J.KERR,K.URBAN (K.URBAN,J.KEAR,J.ABRAHART,SHY CARTER) HIT RED/CAPITOL NASHVILLE MAKE IT SWEET 37 38 36 6 Old Dominion 30 28 l S.MCANALLY (M.RAMSEY,T. ROSEN,W.SELLERS,G.SPRUNG,B.TURSI,S.MCANALLY) RCA NASHVILLE MISS ME MORE Kelsea Ballerini 38 RE-ENTRY 3 39 28 l F.G.WHITEHEAD,J.MASSEY (K.BALLERINI,D.H.HODGES,B.MCLAUGHLIN) BLACK RIVER BETTER BOAT 39 36 37 9 Kenny Chesney Featuring Mindy Smith 28 36 l B.CANNON,K.CHESNEY (L.ROSE,T.MEADOWS) BLUE CHAIR/WARNER BROS./WEA WEEKEND Kane Brown 40 RE-ENTRY 3 - 37 l D.HUFF (K.BROWN,C.MCGILL,W.WEATHERLY) ZONE 4/RCA NASHVILLE TALK YOU OUT OF IT 41 46 — 10 Florida Georgia Line 45 19 l J.MOI (M.HARDY,H.PHELPS,J.ROGERS,A.VANDERHEYM) BMLG BABY COME BACK TO ME 42 NEW 1 Kane Brown - 42 l D.HUFF (K.BROWN,C.MCGILL,M.J.MCGINN,W.WEATHERLY) ZONE 4/RCA NASHVILLE RUMOR 43 39 38 10 Lee Brice 40 38 l L.BRICE,J.STONE,K.JACOBS,D.FRIZSELL (L.BRICE,K.JACOBS,A.GORLEY) CURB ONE THAT GOT AWAY 44 41 41 8 Michael Ray 26 41 l S.HENDRICKS (J.FRASURE,T. ROSEN,M.RAMSEY,J.OSBORNE) ATLANTIC/WEA 45 40 43 8 LOVE AIN’T Eli Young Band 34 40 D.HUFF (R.COPPERMAN,A.GORLEY,S.MCANALLY) VALORY 46 37 39 18 THE DIFFERENCE Tyler Rich 32 37 J.RAYMOND,L.RIMES (R.AKINS,B.BURGESS,D.DAWSON,J.DURRETT) VALORY 47 34 40 5 WHISKEY GLASSES Morgan Wallen 44 34 J.MOI (B.BURGESS,K.KADISH) BIG LOUD 48 42 47 13 EYES ON YOU Chase Rice 36 42 C. DESTEFANO (C.RICE,C. DESTEFANO,A.GORLEY) DACK JANIELS/BROKEN BOW 49 35 45 6 I DON’T KNOW ABOUT YOU Chris Lane - 35 J.MOI (A.GORLEY,M.HARDY,H.PHELPS,J.RODGERS) BIG LOUD 50 43 44 17 CAUGHT UP IN THE COUNTRY Rodney Atkins Featuring The Fisk Jubilee Singers 37 42 R.ATKINS,T.HEWITT,B.BOLLINGER (C.HARRINGTON,J.M.SCHMIDT,M.WALKER) CURB

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 DIGITAL DIGITAL 2017 2018 CHANGE ALBUM SALES ALBUMS ’15 ALBUMS* TRACKS Albums 17,829,000 13,492,000 -24.3% ’17 17.8 million This’14 Week 354,000 85,000 705,000 ’18 13.5 million Digital Tracks 58,723,000 42,377,000 -27.8% Last Week 284,000 78,000 656,000 Sales by Album Format Change DIGITAL TRACKS SALES 24.6% 9.0% 7.5% 2017 2018 CHANGE ’17 000.0 million12.1 million This Week Last Year 495,000 124,000 990,000 Physical 12,029,000 9,608,000 -20.1% ’18 9.6 million Change -28.5% -31.5% -28.8% Digital 5,800,000 3,894,000 -32.9% For week ending Nov. 15, 2018. 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.

For inquiries about any Nielsen Music data, please contact Josh Bennett at 615-807-1338 or [email protected] BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE NOVEMBER 19, 2018 | PAGE 17 OF 23

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 MEANT TO BE SOMEONE I USED TO KNOW KANE BROWN EXPERIMENT 1 1 51 1 NEW 1 NEW 1 1 BEBE REXHA & FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE l ZAC BROWN BAND l ZONE 4/RCA NASHVILLE /SMN LOSE IT SHE GOT THE BEST OF ME LUKE COMBS THIS ONE’S FOR YOU 2 6 23 2 3 15 2 1 76 1 l KANE BROWN l LUKE COMBS l2 RIVER HOUSE/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE 538883*/SMN 1 SPEECHLESS SPEECHLESS DAN + SHAY DAN + SHAY 3 2 17 3 1 21 3 3 21 1 l DAN + SHAY l DAN + SHAY l3 WARNER BROS. 570796/WMN   TEQUILA TEQUILA 4 4 185 CHRIS STAPLETON TRAVELLER 1 l4 3 38 l4 7 43 l4 MERCURY 019405*/UMGN 3 DAN + SHAY DAN + SHAY HEAVEN MEANT TO BE 5 5 102 KANE BROWN KANE BROWN 1 5 4 54 l5 10 51 l5 ZONE 4/RCA NASHVILLE 530947*/SMN 1 KANE BROWN BEBE REXHA & FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE TENNESSEE WHISKEY MERCY 7 8 31 JASON ALDEAN REARVIEW TOWN 1 l6 5 84 l6 15 33 l6 MACON/BROKEN BOW/BMG 538375642*/BBMG (538375730) 0 CHRIS STAPLETON BRETT YOUNG DRUNK ME BROKEN HALOS CARRIE UNDERWOOD CRY PRETTY 7 7 14 7 RE-ENTRY 7 6 7 9 CAPITOL NASHVILLE 028557*/UMGN 0 1 MITCHELL TENPENNY l CHRIS STAPLETON SHE GOT THE BEST OF ME BURNING MAN THOMAS RHETT LIFE CHANGES 8 8 14 8 11 14 8 10 9 62 VALORY TR0300A/BMLG 1 1 LUKE COMBS l DIERKS BENTLEY FEAT. BROTHERS OSBORNE ROCKIN’ AROUND THE CHRISTMAS TREE TENNESSEE WHISKEY 11 10 92 BRETT YOUNG BRETT YOUNG 2 9 RE-ENTRY 9 4 149 l9 BMLG BY0100A* 1 l BRENDA LEE CHRIS STAPLETON BEAUTIFUL CRAZY MISS ME MORE PISTOL ANNIES INTERSTATE GOSPEL 10 9 28 10 RE-ENTRY 10 1 — 2 RCA NASHVILLE 589142*/SMN 1 LUKE COMBS l KELSEA BALLERINI MERCY BEST SHOT ERIC CHURCH DESPERATE MAN 11 15 34 11 2 8 11 9 6 6 EMI NASHVILLE 028733*/UMGN 1 l BRETT YOUNG JIMMIE ALLEN HURRICANE DRUNK ME 15 12 80 CHRIS STAPLETON FROM A ROOM: VOLUME 1 1 12 10 109 12 6 17 l12 MERCURY 026379*/UMGN 1 LUKE COMBS MITCHELL TENPENNY WHAT IFS DROWNS THE WHISKEY 27 27 150 GEORGE STRAIT 50 NUMBER ONES 1 13 11 80 13 RE-ENTRY l13 MCA NASHVILLE 000459/UMGN (25.98) 7 KANE BROWN FEAT. LAUREN ALAINA l JASON ALDEAN FEAT. MIRANDA LAMBERT YOU MAKE IT EASY NEVER COMIN DOWN JON PARDI CALIFORNIA SUNRISE 14 14 42 14 NEW 14 14 11 126 CAPITOL NASHVILLE 024744*/UMGN 0 1 JASON ALDEAN l KEITH URBAN A HOLLY JOLLY CHRISTMAS DOWN TO THE HONKYTONK ZAC BROWN BAND GREATEST HITS SO FAR... 15 RE-ENTRY 15 8 12 15 17 14 173 ROAR/SOUTHERN GROUND/ATLANTIC 546369/AG 3 l BURL IVES JAKE OWEN BODY LIKE A BACK ROAD MILLIONAIRE 34 — 26 ELVIS PRESLEY THE CLASSIC CHRISTMAS ALBUM 16 16 13 93 16 14 7 l16 RCA 45538/LEGACY (9.98) SAM HUNT l CHRIS STAPLETON KACEY MUSGRAVES GOLDEN HOUR JINGLE BELL ROCK BABY COME BACK TO ME RE-ENTRY 28 1 17 RE-ENTRY 17 NEW l17 MCA NASHVILLE 027921*/UMGN l BOBBY HELMS l KANE BROWN DIE A HAPPY MAN HEAVEN DIERKS BENTLEY THE MOUNTAIN 18 17 85 18 17 52 18 13 40 23 CAPITOL NASHVILLE 028286*/UMGN 1 THOMAS RHETT l KANE BROWN JOSH TURNER I SERVE A SAVIOR SIMPLE DESPERATE MAN 19 12 24 19 23 17 19 8 2 3 MCA NASHVILLE 028988/UMGN 2 FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE l ERIC CHURCH SAM HUNT MONTEVALLO MARRY ME BEAUTIFUL CRAZY 20 18 48 20 16 28 20 18 13 196 MCA NASHVILLE 021502/UMGN 3 1 THOMAS RHETT l LUKE COMBS

FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE DIG YOUR ROOTS 21 16 8 BEST SHOT 21 12 24 SIMPLE 21 20 15 116 BMLG 0300* 1 1 JIMMIE ALLEN FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE CHRIS STAPLETON FROM A ROOM: VOLUME 2 ONE NUMBER AWAY SLOW BURN 22 23 21 50 1 22 19 36 22 NEW l MERCURY 027408*/UMGN 0 LUKE COMBS l KACEY MUSGRAVES COLE SWINDELL ALL OF IT 23 12 23 13 1 23 20 108 IN CASE YOU DIDN’T KNOW 23 13 5 GIRL LIKE YOU WARNER BROS. 572705/WMN BRETT YOUNG JASON ALDEAN BLAKE SHELTON RELOADED: 20 #1 HITS SMALL TOWN BOY LOVE WINS 24 19 16 160 2 24 21 82 24 RE-ENTRY WARNER BROS. 551788/WMN DUSTIN LYNCH l CARRIE UNDERWOOD ELVIS PRESLEY THE ESSENTIAL ELVIS PRESLEY 25 RE-ENTRY 11 1 25 25 22 76 BLUE AIN’T YOUR COLOR 25 5 69 IN CASE YOU DIDN’T KNOW l RCA/SONY STRATEGIC MARKETING GROUP /LEGACY (25.98) KEITH URBAN BRETT YOUNG 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 2018, Prometheus Global Media, LLC and Nielsen Music, Inc. All rights reserved. charts. Copyright 2018, 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 1 3 1 131 CHRIS STAPLETON TRAVELLER 1 l MERCURY NASHVILLE 019405*/UMGN 3 PISTOL ANNIES INTERSTATE GOSPEL 2 1 — 2 RCA NASHVILLE 589142*/SMN 1 4 2 80 CHRIS STAPLETON FROM A ROOM: VOLUME 1 1 l3 MERCURY NASHVILLE 026379*/UMGN 1 BOB DYLAN MORE BLOOD, MORE TRACKS: THE BOOTLEG SERIES, VOL. 14 4 2 — 2 COLUMBIA 585898*/LEGACY 2 23 16 33 KACEY MUSGRAVES GOLDEN HOUR 1 l5 MCA NASHVILLE 027921*/UMGN 6 6 3 177 HOZIER HOZIER 2 1 l RUBYWORKS 309996*/COLUMBIA 1 8 7 50 CHRIS STAPLETON FROM A ROOM: VOLUME 2 1 The act debuted the track, which Zac Brown l7 MERCURY NASHVILLE 027408*/UMGN 0 wrote with Shawn Mendes, among others, 8 7 4 136 THE LUMINEERS CLEOPATRA 1 DUALTONE 1738* 1 on NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy ZAC BROWN 9 9 6 94 SIMON & GARFUNKEL SIMON AND GARFUNKEL’S GREATEST HITS 3 Fallon on Nov. 6. It enters Country Digital COLUMBIA 31350/LEGACY BAND Someone I Song Sales (17,000) as the group’s second 10 10 8 172 ED SHEERAN + 2 1 ELEKTRA 530433*/EMG Used to Know No. 1, following “Homegrown” in 2015. 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 2018, Prometheus Global Media, LLC and Nielsen Music, Inc. All rights reserved. JIMMY FONTAINE JIMMY BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE NOVEMBER 19, 2018 | PAGE 18 OF 23

MAKIN’ TRACKS TOM ROLAND [email protected]

Kelsea Ballerini’s ‘Miss Me More’ Dances On The Ashes Of Dysfunction

When Kelsea Ballerini took the stage during the Nov. 14 Country Music “It’s not completely locked into the tempo of the song,” says Hodges. “It’s Association Awards, the presentation made her a queen for three minutes. close enough that it feels right, but it’s not robotic. If I were in my studio and The choreographed routine featured male dancers thrashing around the I had more tools available to me, it probably would have been a temptation to stage, then ultimately lifting her skyward in a chair, much like Cleopatra’s B.C. make it sound completely perfect.” slaves carried their queen through Egypt on a litter. That existential imagery The lyrics delineated some of the sacrifices Ballerini had made for the old is appropriate for the song “Miss Me More,” an boyfriend — the albums she had put away, the heels ascendant storyline of a woman rising like a phoenix BALLERINI she had stopped wearing to avoid accentuating his from the ashes of a burned-out relationship. height and the bright red lipstick she had “retired,” “It’s the biggest awards-show performance I’ve an uncommon word for a song. ever done,” says Ballerini, “kind of interpreting “We wanted ‘red lipstick’ in the opening line, emotions into dance.” and I wanted something that kind of had the ‘reh’ The CMA production took on a bit more of a [sound],” she remembers. “ ‘Retired’ just kind of Hollywood sheen than might normally be applied fit. It’s like a puzzle.” to a country song, but that ties nicely with its Meanwhile, the call-and-answer nature of the germination. Ballerini broke a personal rule by chorus benefited from the Greatest Hits series, booking a co-writing session while she was in Los which showcased music from specific five-year Angeles working on the six-episode 2016 ABC windows in pop music. series Greatest Hits, which she co-hosted with “I feel like it came up in conversation, something Arsenio Hall. about ’90s R&B and how they would do all these “I didn’t write songs in L.A. on purpose because call-and-response things with the R&B groups and my songs have always been on that country-pop boy bands from that era,” notes Hodges. “It’s almost line, and I’ve always walked it really carefully and like the angel and the devil on the shoulder, like, ‘I never wanted to cross it ever,” she says. “I felt in thought this would happen, but it really didn’t.’ I my brain somehow that if I wrote a song in L.A., I think that all fit into place really well.” would cross that line, not thinking that the common Hodges asked for a couple of weeks to get moved denominator would be me and I could always rein into his new place in Nashville before he finished it back in.” the demo, so the last song he wrote in Los Angeles But she also had not counted on being “out of became the first demo he completed in Music my comfort zone,” she says, by spending a week City. Like the guitar riff, it wasn’t perfect — one of in production on a TV show. Writing a song, she his speakers was busted in the move, so he had to determined, might help ground her a bit more, so she direct-messaged a imagine a stereo production while working in mono. singer-songwriter she followed on Twitter — Brett “Leland” McLaughlin Once Whitehead and Massey took on the master recording, they transformed (Selena Gomez’s “Fetish,” Troye Sivan’s “My My My!”) — and introduced the central guitar lick. It kicks “Miss Me More” off in a cloud of hazy processing herself. McLaughlin knew her music and happened to be available the next and goes through a transformation over the next three minutes, closing with morning, her only available window during the week, and he pulled in simple, acoustic clarity. songwriter David Hodges (“Because of You,” “See You Again”), a former “David’s guitar is the first thing you hear,” says Whitehead. “It may be Evanescence member who was set to move to Nashville on May 26, the day layered with a couple more instruments in the mix, but what I did think was after their appointment. Hodges’ gear and most of his instruments were interesting that got held off till the end is the mandolin part. There is a main already packed, but he showed up at a room on the Paramount film lot with mandolin lick that happens only on the outro — maybe after the second chorus a guitar he rarely uses and a laptop with a small number of effects, unsure and outro — that I feel takes the song somewhere different than when you first of what he was walking into. started listening to it.” “I had never met or written with Brett or Kelsea before, so it was new for Two minutes and 15 seconds in, Massey incorporated a programmed cello all of us,” says Hodges. “A lot of my brain was on the logistics of ‘When do I that turned the pre-chorus into a moody bridge section. And to heighten the have to get on the road tomorrow?’ and ‘Do I have everything put together?,’ call-and-answer aspect of the chorus, a fluttery supporting vocal got an but man, I feel like we hit the ground running.” instrumental enhancement, practically introducing an extra voice. Ballerini knew what she wanted to say. “Miss Me More” was a reaction “The wailing part in the background is layered with guitar,” explains to a controlling ex-boyfriend who had done his best to box her in. She had Whitehead. “To add something with it always hits the ear differently. You’re held the idea back in Nashville appointments for at least a year, fearing her hearing the same melody, but it’s sung by voice and it’s played by guitar, so it co-writers would be caught up in the personal part of it, but writing in Los just creates this really wide unique effect.” Angeles changed that dynamic. Black River issued “Miss Me More” to country radio on Sept. 26, and it rose “I felt safe to really just go there with the sass, which sounds like it’s easy 41-39 in its fourth week on Country Airplay. to do, but it’s not when you’re in a room with people that know who you’re With her Dec. 2, 2017, marriage to Morgan Evans, Ballerini is clearly past writing about,” she says. “That’s where the freedom of really letting [people the relationship that inspired “Miss Me More,” though she’s confident that know] how I felt came through.” listeners will recognize it’s less about exes than about self-empowerment. Hodges came up with a short, jiggly guitar lick and put it on a loop so that it “As much as it is talking about a past relationship, it’s really just talking repeated throughout the song. The meter was imprecise, but that gave it some about how it’s so important to always fight for yourself and to always work on character — enough that Ballerini’s producers, Forest Glen Whitehead and rediscovering who you are,” she says. “That’s an important message — not just

Jason Massey, kept Hodges’ original riff as the basis for the master version. for females, but for everyone in different chapters of your life.” JONES DONN BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE NOVEMBER 19, 2018 | PAGE 19 OF 23 Country Indicator

AUDIENCE WKS PLAYS (IN MILLIONS) THIS LAST ON WEEK WEEK CHART TITLE Imprint/Label Artist THIS WEEK +/– THIS WEEK l1 2 34 BEST SHOT BBR/Stoney Creek/BMG HH No. 1 (1 week) HH Jimmie Allen 5088 +20 8.096 2 1 23 LOSE IT Zone 4/RCA Nashville Kane Brown 5003 -222 8.217 l3 4 40 RICH Columbia Nashville Maren Morris 4682 +54 7.316 l4 6 31 DRUNK ME Riser House/Columbia Nashville Mitchell Tenpenny 4348 +94 6.811 l5 7 14 SPEECHLESS Warner Bros./WAR HH Most Increased Plays HH Dan + Shay 4342 +472 6.725 6 3 39 HANGIN’ ON RCA Nashville Chris Young 4274 -715 7.424 l7 9 44 LAST SHOT MCA Nashville Kip Moore 3964 +166 5.824 8 5 20 SHE GOT THE BEST OF ME River House/Columbia Nashville Luke Combs 3931 -438 6.876 l9 8 17 TURNIN’ ME ON Warner Bros./WMN Blake Shelton 3916 + 115 6.027 l10 10 20 BURNING MAN Capitol Nashville Dierks Bentley Feat. Brothers Osborne 3811 +227 5.777 l11 13 9 SIXTEEN Valory Thomas Rhett 3406 +280 5.301 l12 14 28 GOOD GIRL Broken Bow Dustin Lynch 3183 +347 4.944 13 12 19 DESPERATE MAN EMI Nashville Eric Church 3162 -99 4.828 l14 15 30 MILLIONAIRE Mercury Chris Stapleton 3043 +334 4.461 l15 18 15 DOWN TO THE HONKYTONK Big Loud Jake Owen 2709 +150 3.636 l16 17 26 TAKE IT FROM ME MCA Nashville Jordan Davis 2690 +100 3.694 l17 16 30 BURN OUT Big Machine Midland 2688 +97 3.721 l18 19 10 GIRL LIKE YOU Macon/Broken Bow Jason Aldean 2638 +234 3.682 l19 21 18 THIS IS IT Triple Tigers Scotty McCreery 2456 +346 3.817 l20 20 7 NEON CHURCH McGraw/Columbia Nashville Tim McGraw 2396 +101 3.642 l21 23 5 WHAT MAKES YOU COUNTRY Capitol Nashville Luke Bryan 2379 +467 3.552 l22 22 15 THERE WAS THIS GIRL BMLG Riley Green 2160 +180 2.754 l23 24 13 BETTER BOAT Blue Chair/Warner Bros./WEA Kenny Chesney Feat. Mindy Smith 1993 +90 2.732 l24 25 13 NEVER COMIN DOWN Hit Red/Capitol Nashville Keith Urban 1962 +106 2.673 l25 26 16 NIGHT SHIFT Capitol Nashville Jon Pardi 1586 + 115 1.900 l26 27 12 ON MY WAY TO YOU CoJo/WMN Cody Johnson 1547 +98 2.036 l27 28 10 LOVE WINS Capitol Nashville Carrie Underwood 1501 +81 1.840 l28 29 5 MAKE IT SWEET RCA Nashville Old Dominion 1446 +339 2.150 l29 30 34 DAVID ASHLEY PARKER FROM POWDER SPRINGS Mercury Travis Denning 1060 +30 1.155 l30 33 13 ONE THAT GOT AWAY Atlantic/WEA Michael Ray 1038 +123 1.168

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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 NOVEMBER 19, 2018 | PAGE 20 OF 23 Country Indicator

AUDIENCE WKS PLAYS (IN MILLIONS) THIS LAST ON WEEK WEEK CHART TITLE Imprint/Label Artist THIS WEEK +/– THIS WEEK l31 34 15 LOVE AIN’T Valory Eli Young Band 1017 +109 1.367 l32 31 22 THE DIFFERENCE Valory Tyler Rich 968 +5 1.295 l33 35 8 HERE TONIGHT BMLG Brett Young 943 +82 1.033 34 32 15 GOODBYE SUMMER Valory/BMLG Danielle Bradbery w/ Thomas Rhett 767 -150 0.976 l35 36 9 BRING IT ON OVER Mercury Billy Currington 744 +50 0.842 l36 37 8 BACK TO LIFE Big Machine Rascal Flatts 698 +81 0.832 l37 38 29 CAUGHT UP IN THE COUNTRY Curb Rodney Atkins Feat. The Fisk Jubilee Singers 653 +49 0.791 l38 40 14 AMERICAN GIRLS Sea Gayle CJ Solar 599 +16 0.693 39 39 19 YADA YADA YADA EMI Nashville Brandon Lay 584 -18 0.456 40 41 16 WHAT WHISKEY DOES Stoney Creek Randy Houser Feat. Hillary Lindsey 564 -16 0.675 l41 42 24 FRIENDS DON’T Mercury Maddie & Tae 555 +15 0.467 l42 44 17 LOVE SOMEONE Atlantic/WMN Brett Eldredge 547 +26 0.666 l43 45 6 MUST BE THE WHISKEY Rounder/Concord Cody Jinks 537 +54 0.576 l44 43 10 WHISKEY GLASSES Big Loud Morgan Wallen 535 +13 0.437 l45 48 5 MISS ME MORE Black River Kelsea Ballerini 533 +128 0.580 l46 50 3 TALK YOU OUT OF IT BMLG Florida Georgia Line 513 + 111 0.684 47 46 18 YOU’RE IN IT Wheelhouse Granger Smith 425 -7 0.396 l48 NEW BUCKED OFF Arista Nashville HH Hot Shot Debut/Most Added HH Brad Paisley 381 +381 0.662 l49 52 5 EYES ON YOU Dack Janiels/Broken Bow Chase Rice 362 +63 0.365 l50 51 9 FEELS LIKE A PARTY Wheelhouse LOCASH 351 +16 0.493 l51 54 8 THE IN BETWEEN Captain & Bear Cash Campbell 300 +24 0.317 52 53 12 MORE MCA Nashville Clare Dunn 285 - 11 0.270 l53 57 2 LADIES IN THE ‘90S 19/Mercury Lauren Alaina 274 +24 0.314 l54 58 4 I THINK TOO MUCH Southern Halo Southern Halo 268 +21 0.312 l55 59 3 I DON’T REMEMBER ME (BEFORE YOU) EMI Nashville Brothers Osborne 262 +20 0.254 56 55 11 MAYBE Plateau Sam Austin 250 -6 0.267 57 56 4 ONE MORE RED LIGHT Awake Cassadee Pope 248 -3 0.222 58 47 19 THAT GOT THE GIRL Almost Country/Thirty Tigers Casey Donahew 229 -190 0.377 l59 NEW TEQUILA MOCKINGBIRD White Knuckle Frank Ray 220 +27 0.239 l60 NEW FINE BY ME Nightlife Marty Heddin 220 +19 0.281

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 2018, 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. © 2018 Prometheus Global Media, LLC BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE NOVEMBER 19, 2018 | PAGE 21 OF 23 Country Airplay Index

TITLE Publishing-Licensing Org. DOWN TO THE HONKYTONK Round Hill L   R   (Songwriter) Chart Position Works, BMI/Big Loud Proud Crowd, BMI/Round Hill Compositions, BMI/Shirt At Work, BMI/Sony/ATV Story LADIES IN THE ‘90S Warner-Tamerlane RICH International Dog Music, BMI/Nettwerk One Music Publishing, GMR/We Are Creative Nation, GMR/ Publishing Corp., BMI/Lylas Music, BMI/Songs Of Roc B Music, BMI/Unlimited, BMI/Revelry Music, BMI/Jay 90’S COUNTRY Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing Smack Hits, GMR/Smack Songs LLC, GMR/Kobalt Music Nation Music, BMI/Telemitry Rhythm House Music, BMI/ Gatsby Music, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., America, Inc., BMI/Spark In Your Pocket, BMI/Songs Group Ltd., GMR (R.Clawson, L.Laird, S.McAnally) 21 WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Cookie Jar Music LLP, PRS (Lauren BMI/Oh Denise Publishing, BMI/Big Music Machine, BMI Of Smack, BMI/Kobalt Music Group Ltd., GMR/LYRX Alaina, J.Frasure, A.Wadge) 54 (M.Morris, J.J.Dillon, L.Veltz) 4 Publishing, LLC, BMI (W.Hayes, S.McAnally, LYRX) 59 DROP EVERYTHING Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Ritten by Rhettro, BMI/Matt Drag LAST SHOT WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Point Break RUMOR Mike Curb Music, BMI/Curb Songs, ASCAP/ B   Music, ASCAP/Round Hill Songs BLS JV, ASCAP/Big Loud Publishing, ASCAP/Music Of The Corn, ASCAP/Songs Jacobsong, ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/ Proud Songs, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Sadie’s From The Couch, BMI/Old Desperados, LLC, ASCAP/N2D Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., BACK TO LIFE W.B.M. Music Corp., SESAC/ Favorite Songs, ASCAP/Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP Publishing Company, Inc., ASCAP/Carol Vincent And ASCAP (L.Brice, K.Jacobs, A.Gorley) 40 Bennett’s Dad’s Songs, SESAC/Songs Of Rhythm House (R.Akins, M.Dragstrem, A.Gorley) 52 Associates, LLC., ASCAP (K.Moore, D.Couch, D.L.Murphy) 9 Black, SESAC/Niko Moon Publishing, SESAC/Roc Nation S   US Music, SESAC/Shay Mooney Music, BMI/Warner- DRUNK ME Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI/WB Music LOSE IT Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Kane Brown Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Farm Thang Music, Corp., ASCAP/Freshy Music, ASCAP/We-Volve Music, Music, BMI/Plum Nelly, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane SHE GOT THE BEST OF ME Big Music BMI/Me Gusta Music, BMI (C.R.Barlowe, N.Moon, S.Mooney, ASCAP/Legends Of Magic Mustang Music, SESAC/BMG Publishing Corp., BMI/Mandy’s Favorite Songs, BMI/Track Machine, BMI/50 Egg Music, BMI/Straight Dimes F.Wilhelm) 46 Silver Songs, SESAC (M.Tenpenny, J.M.Schmidt, J.T.Wilson) 6 House Worldwide Entertainment, BMI (K.Brown, C.McGill, Publishing, BMI/Little Extra Songs, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs W.Weatherly) 3 Music Publishing LLC, ASCAP/No Cats Round Here Music, BEAUTIFUL CRAZY Big Machine Music, BMI/ E   ASCAP/Heart Scarred Songs, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Egg Music, BMI/Straight Dimes Publishing, BMI/Works LOVE AIN’T EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Plain Publishing Corp., BMI/Super LCS Publishing, BMI (L. Of RHA Music, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing EYES ON YOU Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI/Dack Jane Songs, BMI/Rezolant Music, BMI/Combustion Combs, R.Snyder, C.Wilson) 2 Corp., BMI/Rowdy Rob Music, BMI (L.Combs, W.B.Durrette, Janiel’s Publishing, BMI/EMI April Music, Inc., ASCAP/ Engine Music, ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/WB R.Williford) 57 CDS Words And Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/ Music Corp., ASCAP/Smack Hits, GMR/Smack Songs LLC, SIXTEEN EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Cricket On Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite GMR/Kobalt Music Group Ltd., GMR (R.Copperman, A.Gorley, The Line, BMI/Sony/ATV Ballad, BMI/Eastman Pond BEST SHOT Red Lining Music, SESAC/Amplified Songs, ASCAP (C.Rice, C. DeStefano, A.Gorley) 36 S.McAnally) 34 Publishing, BMI/Big Deal Beats, BMI/Brodsky Spensive Hour Songs, SESAC/Castle Bound Music, Inc., SESAC/Rio Publishing, BMI/Nice Life, BMI (Thomas Rhett, S.M.Douglas, Bravo Music, Inc., BMI/Blonde Leading Blind, BMI (J.Allen, F   LOVE SOMEONE Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI/Paris Joe London) 12 J.London, J.P.Williams) 1 Not France Music, BMI/EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/ FEELS LIKE A PARTY ole Purple Cape Music, Rezolant Music, BMI/Plain Jane Songs, BMI/Sony/ATV SPEECHLESS Beats And Banjos, ASCAP/WB BETTER BOAT Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Mars Marley Music, BMI/Big Loud Mountain, BMI/ Tree Publishing, BMI/Heather Feather Songs, BMI (B. Music Corp., ASCAP/Shay Mooney Music, BMI/Warner- BMI/Liz Rose Music, LLC, BMI/It’s Killer Music, BMI/She Round Hill Works, BMI/T Hubb Publishing, BMI/WB Eldredge, R.Copperman, H.Morgan) 35 Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Buckeye26, ASCAP/ And I, LLC, BMI/Songs Of Mighty Isis Music, BMI/Songs Music Corp., ASCAP/Georgia Song Vibez, ASCAP/Big Jreynmusic, ASCAP/Big Music Machine, BMI/Never Veltz Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI (L.Rose, Crowd Publishing, ASCAP (P.Brust, C.Lucas, T.Hubbard, LOVE WINS Carrie-Okie Music, BMI/Universal Music So Good Publishing, BMI (D.Smyers, S.Mooney, J.Reynolds, T.Meadows) 28 C.Crowder) 48 - Brentwood Benson Publishing, ASCAP/D Soul Music, L.Veltz) 7 ASCAP/Capitol CMG Genesis, ASCAP/Songs Of Brett, BLUE TACOMA Kailey’s Dream, BMI/Music That FLOATIN’ Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/ ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP (C.Underwood, D.A.Garcia, T   Is Russelled, BMI/BMG Platinum Songs, BMI/Provident Gaje Music, Inc., BMI/Internal Combustion Music, BMI/ Brett James) 27 Music Group, ASCAP/Hillbilly Science And Research One77 Songs, BMI/Southside Independent Music TAKE IT FROM ME Ole Red Cape Songs, ASCAP/ Publishing, SESAC/Trailerlily Music, SESAC/Stephen Publishing, LLC, BMI/Kickin’ Grids Music, BMI/Leo M   Jordan Davis Music, ASCAP/ReHits Music, Inc., ASCAP/ Harris, BMI/Tyler Barksdale, BMI (R.Dickerson, C.Brown, Rosewater Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP (M. MeGusta Music, ASCAP/Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/ P.Welling) 8 Shafer, B.Daly, Z.Maloy) 55 MAKE IT SWEET Carrot Seed Songs, ASCAP/WB Songs Of Red Bandana, BMI (J.Davis, J.Davis, J.Gantt) 19 Music Corp., ASCAP/Smackville Music, ASCAP/Smack BRING IT ON OVER Round Hill Compositions, FRIENDS DON’T Super Big Music, ASCAP/Seven Songs LLC, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, TALK YOU OUT OF IT Relative Music Group, BMI/Natalia’s Music Money, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Red Brids Publishing, ASCAP/Jehovah Nissi, BMI/Big ASCAP/Rezsongs, ASCAP/ReHits Music, Inc., ASCAP/ BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., Publishing Corp., BMI/Ritten by Rhettro, BMI/WB Music Machine Music, BMI/EMI April Music, Inc., ASCAP/Memory Smacktown Music, ASCAP/Smack Blue, LLC, ASCAP/ BMI/Who Wants To Buy My Publishing, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Thankful For This Music, ASCAP/Pinetucky Days, SESAC/Wordspring Music, LLC, SESAC/W.B.M. Music Unfair Entertainment, ASCAP/MeGusta Music, ASCAP/ Corp., ASCAP/Highly Combustible Music, ASCAP/One77 Road Publishing, ASCAP/Telemitry Rhythm House Music, Corp., SESAC (M.Marlow, T.Dye, J.M.Nite, J.Ebach) 43 Tiny Handstand, ASCAP/Sharkules Music, ASCAP/ Songs, BMI/Castle Bound Music, Inc., SESAC (M.Hardy, BMI/Songs Of Roc Nation Music, BMI (D.Davidson, R.Akins, We’re Really Doin’ It Publishing, ASCAP/Smack Hits, H.Phelps, J.Rogers, A.Vanderheym) 45 B.Hayslip, J.Frasure) 58 G   GMR/Kobalt Music Group Ltd., GMR (M.Ramsey, T. Rosen, W.Sellers, G.Sprung, B.Tursi, S.McAnally) 30 THERE WAS THIS GIRL Riley Green Publishing BUCKED OFF New House Of Sea Gayle Music, GIRL LIKE YOU Peertunes, Ltd., SESAC/MTNoize, Designee, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/ ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Own My Own Music SESAC/Jaron Boyer Music, SESAC/Music Of The Corn, MILLIONAIRE Universal Tunes, SESAC/Spur 66 Peermusic III, Ltd., BMI/Tawnes Van Hawke Publishing, Publishing, ASCAP (B.Paisley, C.DuBois, K.Lovelace) 24 ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP (M.Tyler, J.Boyer, J.Mirenda) Music, SESAC (K.Welch) 15 BMI (R.Green, Erik Dylan) 22 17 BURNING MAN Emileon Songs, BMI/Little Louder MISS ME MORE Songs Of Black River, ASCAP/KNB THIS IS IT Dagum Music, BMI/Austintatious Tunes, Songs, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, GOODBYE SUMMER Warner-Tamerlane Music, ASCAP/3 Weddings Music, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt BMI/Spirit Two Nashville, ASCAP/Fluid Tunes, ASCAP/ Inc., BMI/New Writers Of Sea Gayle Music, BMI/Not A Publishing Corp., BMI/EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/ Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI/EMI April Music, Inc., Smackville Music, ASCAP/Smack Songs LLC, ASCAP/Ice Track Guy Music, BMI (L.Dick, B.Pinson) 11 Cricket On The Line, BMI/Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI/ ASCAP/Bob Ochoa’s Homemade Salsa, ASCAP (K.Ballerini, House Tunes, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, Songs For Buddy.ASCAP/Dragon Bunny Music, BMI/Music D.H.Hodges, B.McLaughlin) 39 ASCAP (S.McCreery, F.Rogers, A.Eshuis) 16 BURN OUT WB Music Corp., ASCAP/TipTop Music, Of Big Family, BMI (Thomas Rhett, J.Bunetta, J.Johnston, ASCAP/Tropical Cowboy Publishing, ASCAP/Warner- R.Akins) 42 N   TURNIN’ ME ON Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/ Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Kitt Cass Publishing Thankful For This Music, ASCAP/Damn Country Music Corporation, BMI/Smack Hits, GMR/Smack Songs LLC, GOOD GIRL Magic Mustang Music Inc., BMI/Warner- NEON CHURCH BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP/Go For Publishing, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Anderson GMR/Kobalt Music Group Ltd., GMR/Songs Of Black River, Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Wordspring Music, LLC, The Goldsmith, ASCAP/Big Deal Beats, BMI/Songs Of Fork In The Road Music, ASCAP/Smackville Music, ASCAP/One Little Indian Creek Music, ASCAP (J.Carson, SESAC/W.B.M. Music Corp., SESAC/Memory Days, SESAC/ Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI/Dead Aim ASCAP/Smack Songs LLC, ASCAP (B.Shelton, J.L.Alexander, C.Duddy, M.Wystrach, S.McAnally, J.Osborne) 20 Buzz Light Beer Music, ASCAP/Downtown DLJ Songs, Music, BMI/The Stennis Mightier Music, BMI/Young Guns J.Osborne) 10 ASCAP (D.Lynch, J.Ebach, A.Albert) 13 Publishing, LLC, BMI (B.Goldsmith, R.E.Lipsey, B.M.Stennis) 23 BUY MY OWN DRINKS BMG Platinum Songs, BMI/BMG Silver Songs, SESAC/BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP/ W   Rezonate Music, ASCAP/BIRB Music, ASCAP/Champagne H   NEVER COMIN DOWN Songs Of Universal, Inc., Whiskey Publishing, ASCAP/Downtown DLJ Songs, BMI/MAROMA Music, BMI/Songs Of Black River, ASCAP/ WHAT MAKES YOU COUNTRY Sony/ATV ASCAP/Legends Of Magic Mustang Music, SESAC/Music HANGIN’ ON EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/ Whistlepig Winners, ASCAP/James Abrahart Publishing Tree Publishing, BMI/Peanut Mill Songs, BMI/Round Of Platinum Pen, SESAC/Wild Wild West Songs, SESAC/ Goodbye Pants Music, BMI/Songs From The Rose Hotel, Designee, SESAC/Artist 101 Publishing Group, BMI/Songs Hill Compositions, BMI/Natalia’s Music Money, BMI/ Thunder Cookie, SESAC/Magic Mustang Music Inc., BMI/ ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/EMI Foray Music, SESAC/ Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI/BMG Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., Songwriters of Platinum Pen Publishing, BMI/Hannah Write 2 Be Free Music, SESAC (C.Young, C.Crowder, J.Hoge) 5 Rights Management (UK) Ltd., PRS/You Want How Much ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite Songs, ASCAP (L.Bryan, D.Davidson, Mulholland Music, BMI (H.Mulholland, J.Wayne, N.Cooke, Of What Publishing, PRS/BMG Platinum Songs, BMI/Lets A.Gorley) 18 H.Lindsey, J.Kear) 51 HERE TONIGHT Super Big Music, ASCAP/ Get Brunch Publishing, BMI (K.Urban, J.Kear, J.Abrahart, Caliville Publishing, ASCAP/Songs Of Black River, Shy Carter) 31 WHAT WHISKEY DOES EMI Blackwood Music C   ASCAP/Wordspring Music, LLC, SESAC/Memory Days, Inc., BMI/Little Britches Music, BMI/Gattis Music, BMI/ SESAC/W.B.M. Music Corp., SESAC/The Best I Could Do NIGHT SHIFT Maxx Music, BMI/Let The Road Pave Rezonate Music, ASCAP/BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP/BIRB Publishing, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP (B.Young, Itself, BMI/Razor And Tie Music Publishing, BMI/Mike Music, ASCAP (R.Houser, K.Gattis, H.Lindsey) 41 CAUGHT UP IN THE COUNTRY WB Music B.Caver, J.Ebach, C.Kelley) 33 Curb Music, BMI/Rain Town Music, BMI (T.Brown, P.LaRue, Corp., ASCAP/Freshy Music, ASCAP/We-Volve Music, B.Montana) 25 ASCAP/Goes Something Like THIS Music, BMI/Warner- WHISKEY GLASSES Warner-Tamerlane Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Make It Matter Music, HOW DOES IT SOUND Two Black Dogs, ASCAP/ Publishing Corp., BMI/Mr. Buck Lucky, BMI/Bump Into BMI/Sixteen Stars Music, BMI (C.Harrington, J.M.Schmidt, Sony/ATV Cross Keys Publishing, ASCAP/Songs For O   Genius Music, BMI/Sony/ATV Allegro, ASCAP/Over- M.Walker) 37 Buddy.ASCAP/Songs From The Rose Hotel, ASCAP/WB Thought Under-Appreciated Songs, ASCAP/Rezven Music Corp., ASCAP (D.Schneider, J.Johnston, C.Crowder) 56 THE ONES THAT DIDN’T MAKE IT BACK Music, ASCAP/Moving Targest In The Dark, ASCAP (B. HOME Big Music Machine, BMI/Double Barrel Ace Burgess, K.Kadish) 44 D   Music, BMI/Universal Music Corp., ASCAP/Paulywood I   Music, ASCAP/Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Plum Nelly, DAY DRUNK Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Ole Red Cape Songs, ASCAP/Real Big Red Tunes, Y   BMI/SongsbyME, BMI/EMI April Music, Inc., ASCAP/CDS I DON’T REMEMBER ME (BEFORE YOU) ASCAP (J.Moore, P.DiGiovanni, C.McGill, J.S.Stover) 49 Words And Music, ASCAP/Hey Kiddo Music, ASCAP/ Trampy McCauley, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/ YADA YADA YADA Mid South Mood Maker Songstein Publishing, ASCAP/All The Kings Pens, ASCAP/ Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Sony/ATV Tree Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, ASCAP (M.Evans, C. ONE THAT GOT AWAY Downtown DMP Songs, DeStefano, L.Robbins) 50 Round Hill Songs BLS JV, ASCAP/Big Loud Proud Songs, Publishing, BMI/Heather Feather Songs, BMI/Songs Of ASCAP/Matt Drag Music, ASCAP/Smack Hits, GMR/ BMI/Telemitry Productions, BMI/ReHits Music, Inc., Universal, Inc., BMI (B.Lay, H.Morgan, M.Reeves) 47 Smack Songs LLC, GMR/Kobalt Music Group Ltd., GMR (J. ASCAP/Smacktown Music, ASCAP/Carrot Seed Songs, DESPERATE MAN Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/ Osborne, T.J. Osborne, M.Dragstrem, S.McAnally) 60 ASCAP/Smack Songs LLC, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Longer And Louder Music, BMI/Snake Farm Publishing, Publishing LLC, ASCAP/Anderson Fork In The Road Music, YOU’RE IN IT Spirit Two Nashville, ASCAP/Fluid SESAC/BMG Cicada, SESAC (E.Church, R.W.Hubbard) 14 ASCAP/Smackville Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP Tunes, ASCAP/Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Block Of I WON’T BE SORRY Old Desperados, LLC, ASCAP/  26 Marble Music, BMI/SNG Music, LLP, BMI/Rizer Point N2D Publishing Company, Inc., ASCAP/Carol Vincent (J.Frasure, T. Rosen, M.Ramsey, J.Osborne)  Publishing, BMI (F.Rogers, J.Adams, M.Nesler) 38 THE DIFFERENCE Warner-Tamerlane Publishing And Associates, LLC., ASCAP/Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, Corp., BMI/Ritten by Rhettro, BMI/Mr. Buck Lucky, BMI/ BMI/Sony/ATV Cross Keys Publishing, ASCAP (D.L.Murphy, ON MY WAY TO YOU WB Music Corp., ASCAP/ Bump Into Genius Music, BMI/Neon Cross Music, BMI/ P.Jenkins, J.Sellers) 53 Songs Of Brett, ASCAP/Atlas Music Publishing, ASCAP/ Magic Mustang Music Inc., BMI (R.Akins, B.Burgess, External Combustion Music, ASCAP/BMG Gold Songs, D.Dawson, J.Durrett) 32 ASCAP/Heytone Music, ASCAP (Brett James, T.Lane) 29 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE NOVEMBER 19, 2018 | PAGE 22 OF 23 Hot Country Songs Index

TITLE Publishing-Licensing Org. G   MEANT TO BE BMG Platinum Songs, BMI/ SIXTEEN EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Cricket On (Songwriter) Chart Position Big Loud Mountain, BMI/Kiss Me If You Can Music, The Line, BMI/Sony/ATV Ballad, BMI/Eastman Pond GIRL LIKE YOU Peertunes, Ltd., SESAC/MTNoize, BMI/T Hubb Publishing, BMI/Round Hill Works, BMI/ Publishing, BMI/Big Deal Beats, BMI/Brodsky Spensive B   SESAC/Jaron Boyer Music, SESAC/Music Of The Corn, Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Songs Of Publishing, BMI/Nice Life, BMI (Thomas Rhett, S.M.Douglas, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP (M.Tyler, J.Boyer, J.Mirenda) The Corn, BMI/Jack 10 Publishing, BMI/Universal Music Joe London) 13 BABY COME BACK TO ME Songs Of 19 - Brentwood Benson Publishing, ASCAP/D Soul Music, Universal, Inc., BMI/Kane Brown Music, BMI/Plum Nelly, ASCAP/Capitol CMG Genesis, ASCAP (B.Rexha, T.Hubbard, SOMEONE I USED TO KNOW Weimerhound GOOD AS YOU Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/ BMI/Smackworks Music, SESAC/Smack Blue, LLC, SESAC/ J.Miller, D.A.Garcia) 2 Music, BMI/Day For The Dead Publishing, SESAC/Reach Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Track House Kane Brown Music, BMI/Don’t Be A Gypsy, BMI/ Music Tunes, SESAC/Andrew Watt Music, BMI/Songs Of Worldwide Entertainment, BMI/Mandy’s Favorite Songs, Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/BMG Rights MILLIONAIRE Universal Tunes, SESAC/Spur 66 Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI/Siva Moon BMI (K.Brown, C.McGill, M.J.McGinn, W.Weatherly) 42 Management (UK) Ltd., PRS/You Want How Much Of Music, SESAC (K.Welch) 17 Publishing, SESAC/W.B.M. Music Corp., SESAC/Simonetti What Publishing, PRS/TDP Publishing, BMI/Track House Music Publishing, SESAC/Kobalt Group Music Publishing, BEAUTIFUL CRAZY Big Machine Music, BMI/ Worldwide Entertainment, BMI/Mandy’s Favorite Songs, MISS ME MORE Songs Of Black River, ASCAP/KNB SESAC/Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Mendes Music, BMI Egg Music, BMI/Straight Dimes Publishing, BMI/Works BMI (K.Brown, B.Berryhill, S.Carter, T.Phillips, W.Weatherly) 32 Music, ASCAP/3 Weddings Music, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt (Z.Brown, A.Wotman, N.Moon, B.Simonetti, S.Mendes) 27 Of RHA Music, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI/EMI April Music, Inc., Corp., BMI/Rowdy Rob Music, BMI (L.Combs, W.B.Durrette, GOOD GIRL Magic Mustang Music Inc., BMI/Warner- ASCAP/Bob Ochoa’s Homemade Salsa, ASCAP (K.Ballerini, SPEECHLESS Beats And Banjos, ASCAP/WB R.Williford) 22 Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Wordspring Music, LLC, D.H.Hodges, B.McLaughlin) 38 Music Corp., ASCAP/Shay Mooney Music, BMI/Warner- SESAC/W.B.M. Music Corp., SESAC/Memory Days, SESAC/ Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Buckeye26, ASCAP/ BEST SHOT Red Lining Music, SESAC/Amplified Buzz Light Beer Music, ASCAP/Downtown DLJ Songs, N   Jreynmusic, ASCAP/Big Music Machine, BMI/Never Veltz Hour Songs, SESAC/Castle Bound Music, Inc., SESAC/Rio ASCAP (D.Lynch, J.Ebach, A.Albert) 14 So Good Publishing, BMI (D.Smyers, S.Mooney, J.Reynolds, NEON CHURCH BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP/Go For Bravo Music, Inc., BMI/Blonde Leading Blind, BMI (J.Allen, L.Veltz) 5 J.London, J.P.Williams) 6 H   The Goldsmith, ASCAP/Big Deal Beats, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI/Dead Aim SUNRISE, SUNBURN, SUNSET WB Music BETTER BOAT Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., HANGIN’ ON EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/ Music, BMI/The Stennis Mightier Music, BMI/Young Guns Corp., ASCAP/Highly Combustible Music, ASCAP/Songs BMI/Liz Rose Music, LLC, BMI/It’s Killer Music, BMI/She Goodbye Pants Music, BMI/Songs From The Rose Hotel, Publishing, LLC, BMI (B.Goldsmith, R.E.Lipsey, B.M.Stennis) 29 Of Southside Independent Music Publishing, LLC, ASCAP/ And I, LLC, BMI/Songs Of Mighty Isis Music, BMI/Songs ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/EMI Foray Music, SESAC/ Atlas Music Publishing, ASCAP/Who Wants To Buy My Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI (L.Rose, Write 2 Be Free Music, SESAC (C.Young, C.Crowder, J.Hoge) 8 NEVER COMIN DOWN Songs Of Universal, Inc., Publishing, ASCAP/I Love Pizza Music, ASCAP/Universal BMI/MAROMA Music, BMI/Songs Of Black River, ASCAP/ T.Meadows) 39 HERE TONIGHT Super Big Music, ASCAP/ Music Corp., ASCAP/Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Plum Whistlepig Winners, ASCAP/James Abrahart Publishing Nelly, BMI/Lake Allegan Pub Club, ASCAP  Caliville Publishing, ASCAP/Songs Of Black River, Designee, SESAC/Artist 101 Publishing Group, BMI/Songs (Z.Crowell, BLUE TACOMA Kailey’s Dream, BMI/Music That R.J.Hurd, C.McGill) 25 Is Russelled, BMI/BMG Platinum Songs, BMI/Provident ASCAP/Wordspring Music, LLC, SESAC/Memory Days, Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI/BMG SESAC/W.B.M. Music Corp., SESAC/The Best I Could Do Music Group, ASCAP/Hillbilly Science And Research Rights Management (UK) Ltd., PRS/You Want How Much T   Publishing, SESAC/Trailerlily Music, SESAC/Stephen Publishing, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP (B.Young, Of What Publishing, PRS/BMG Platinum Songs, BMI/Lets Harris, BMI/Tyler Barksdale, BMI (R.Dickerson, C.Brown, B.Caver, J.Ebach, C.Kelley) 33 Get Brunch Publishing, BMI (K.Urban, J.Kear, J.Abrahart, TAKE IT FROM ME Ole Red Cape Songs, ASCAP/ P.Welling) 11 Shy Carter) 36 Jordan Davis Music, ASCAP/ReHits Music, Inc., ASCAP/ HOMESICK Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Kane MeGusta Music, ASCAP/Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/ Brown Music, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BURNING MAN Emileon Songs, BMI/Little Louder NIGHT SHIFT Maxx Music, BMI/Let The Road Pave Songs Of Red Bandana, BMI (J.Davis, J.Davis, J.Gantt) 21 Songs, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, BMI/Don’t Be A Gypsy, BMI/Smackworks Music, SESAC/ Itself, BMI/Razor And Tie Music Publishing, BMI/Mike Inc., BMI/New Writers Of Sea Gayle Music, BMI/Not A Kobalt Group Music Publishing, SESAC/Smack Blue, LLC, Curb Music, BMI/Rain Town Music, BMI (T.Brown, P.LaRue, TALK YOU OUT OF IT Relative Music Group, Track Guy Music, BMI (L.Dick, B.Pinson) 10 SESAC/TDP Publishing, BMI (K.Brown, B.Berryhill, M.J.McGinn, B.Montana) 34 BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., T.Phillips) 28 BMI/Who Wants To Buy My Publishing, ASCAP/WB Music BURN OUT WB Music Corp., ASCAP/TipTop Music, O   Corp., ASCAP/Highly Combustible Music, ASCAP/One77 ASCAP/Tropical Cowboy Publishing, ASCAP/Warner- I   Songs, BMI/Castle Bound Music, Inc., SESAC (M.Hardy, Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Kitt Cass Publishing ONE THAT GOT AWAY Downtown DMP Songs, 41 I DON’T KNOW ABOUT YOU Round Hill BMI/Telemitry Productions, BMI/ReHits Music, Inc., H.Phelps, J.Rogers, A.Vanderheym)  Corporation, BMI/Smack Hits, GMR/Smack Songs LLC, Songs II, ASCAP/Caleb’s College Fund, ASCAP/WB ASCAP/Smacktown Music, ASCAP/Carrot Seed Songs, TEQUILA WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Beats And Banjos, GMR/Kobalt Music Group Ltd., GMR/Songs Of Black River, Music Corp., ASCAP/Who Wants To Buy My Publishing, ASCAP/One Little Indian Creek Music, ASCAP (J.Carson, ASCAP/Smack Songs LLC, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music ASCAP/Buckeye26, ASCAP/Jreynmusic, ASCAP/Warner- ASCAP/Relative Music Group, BMI/One77 Songs, BMI/ Publishing LLC, ASCAP/Anderson Fork In The Road Music, Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/A Girl Named Charlie, C.Duddy, M.Wystrach, S.McAnally, J.Osborne) 24 Highly Combustible Music, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music ASCAP/Smackville Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP BMI (D.Smyers, J.Reynolds, N.Galyon) 4 C   Publishing LLC, ASCAP (A.Gorley, M.Hardy, H.Phelps, (J.Frasure, T. Rosen, M.Ramsey, J.Osborne) 44 J.Rodgers) 49 THERE WAS THIS GIRL Riley Green Publishing CAUGHT UP IN THE COUNTRY WB Music ON MY WAY TO YOU WB Music Corp., ASCAP/ Designee, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/ Corp., ASCAP/Freshy Music, ASCAP/We-Volve Music, L   Songs Of Brett, ASCAP/Atlas Music Publishing, ASCAP/ Peermusic III, Ltd., BMI/Tawnes Van Hawke Publishing, ASCAP/Goes Something Like THIS Music, BMI/Warner- External Combustion Music, ASCAP/BMG Gold Songs, BMI (R.Green, Erik Dylan) 30 LAST SHOT WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Point Break ASCAP/Heytone Music, ASCAP  35 Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Make It Matter Music, Publishing, ASCAP/Music Of The Corn, ASCAP/Songs (Brett James, T.Lane)  THIS IS IT Dagum Music, BMI/Austintatious Tunes, BMI/Sixteen Stars Music, BMI (C.Harrington, J.M.Schmidt, From The Couch, BMI/Old Desperados, LLC, ASCAP/N2D M.Walker) 50 R   BMI/Spirit Two Nashville, ASCAP/Fluid Tunes, ASCAP/ Publishing Company, Inc., ASCAP/Carol Vincent And Smackville Music, ASCAP/Smack Songs LLC, ASCAP/Ice Associates, LLC., ASCAP  16 RICH International Dog Music, BMI/Nettwerk One D   (K.Moore, D.Couch, D.L.Murphy)  House Tunes, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, B Music, BMI/Unlimited, BMI/Revelry Music, BMI/Jay ASCAP (S.McCreery, F.Rogers, A.Eshuis) 20 DESPERATE MAN Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/ LOSE IT Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Kane Brown Gatsby Music, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., Music, BMI/Plum Nelly, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Longer And Louder Music, BMI/Snake Farm Publishing, BMI/Oh Denise Publishing, BMI/Big Music Machine, BMI TURNIN’ ME ON Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/ SESAC/BMG Cicada, SESAC (E.Church, R.W.Hubbard) 15 Publishing Corp., BMI/Mandy’s Favorite Songs, BMI/Track (M.Morris, J.J.Dillon, L.Veltz) 9 Thankful For This Music, ASCAP/Damn Country Music House Worldwide Entertainment, BMI (K.Brown, C.McGill, Publishing, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Anderson THE DIFFERENCE Warner-Tamerlane Publishing W.Weatherly) 1 RUMOR Mike Curb Music, BMI/Curb Songs, ASCAP/ Fork In The Road Music, ASCAP/Smackville Music, Corp., BMI/Ritten by Rhettro, BMI/Mr. Buck Lucky, BMI/ Jacobsong, ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/ ASCAP/Smack Songs LLC, ASCAP  LOVE AIN’T EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Plain Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., (B.Shelton, J.L.Alexander, Bump Into Genius Music, BMI/Neon Cross Music, BMI/ J.Osborne) 18 Magic Mustang Music Inc., BMI (R.Akins, B.Burgess, Jane Songs, BMI/Rezolant Music, BMI/Combustion ASCAP (L.Brice, K.Jacobs, A.Gorley) 43 Engine Music, ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/WB D.Dawson, J.Durrett) 46 W   Music Corp., ASCAP/Smack Hits, GMR/Smack Songs LLC, S   DOWN TO THE HONKYTONK Round Hill GMR/Kobalt Music Group Ltd., GMR (R.Copperman, A.Gorley, WEEKEND Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Kane Works, BMI/Big Loud Proud Crowd, BMI/Round Hill S.McAnally) 45 SHE GOT THE BEST OF ME Big Music Brown Music, BMI/Plum Nelly, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Compositions, BMI/Shirt At Work, BMI/Sony/ATV Story Machine, BMI/50 Egg Music, BMI/Straight Dimes Publishing Corp., BMI/Track House Worldwide Music Publishing, GMR/We Are Creative Nation, GMR/ LOVE WINS Carrie-Okie Music, BMI/Universal Music Publishing, BMI/Little Extra Songs, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Entertainment, BMI/Mandy’s Favorite Songs, BMI  - Brentwood Benson Publishing, ASCAP/D Soul Music, Music Publishing LLC, ASCAP/No Cats Round Here Music, (K. Smack Hits, GMR/Smack Songs LLC, GMR/Kobalt Music Brown, C.McGill, W.Weatherly) 40 Group Ltd., GMR (R.Clawson, L.Laird, S.McAnally) 23 ASCAP/Capitol CMG Genesis, ASCAP/Songs Of Brett, ASCAP/Heart Scarred Songs, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP (C.Underwood, D.A.Garcia, Publishing Corp., BMI/Super LCS Publishing, BMI (L. WHAT MAKES YOU COUNTRY Sony/ATV DRUNK ME Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI/WB Music Brett James) 31 Combs, R.Snyder, C.Wilson) 3 Tree Publishing, BMI/Peanut Mill Songs, BMI/Round Corp., ASCAP/Freshy Music, ASCAP/We-Volve Music, Hill Compositions, BMI/Natalia’s Music Money, BMI/ ASCAP/Legends Of Magic Mustang Music, SESAC/BMG M   SIMPLE Hubb Publishing, BMI/Big Loud Mountain, Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., Silver Songs, SESAC (M.Tenpenny, J.M.Schmidt, J.T.Wilson) 7 BMI/Pranch Ringle Music, BMI/Round Hill Works, BMI/ ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite Songs, ASCAP  MAKE IT SWEET Carrot Seed Songs, ASCAP/WB Relative Music Group, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music (L.Bryan, D.Davidson, A.Gorley) 26 E   Music Corp., ASCAP/Smackville Music, ASCAP/Smack Publishing America, Inc., BMI/BMG Bumblebee, BMI/ Songs LLC, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, Rygo Music, BMI/Art In The Fodder Music, BMI/Songs WHISKEY GLASSES Warner-Tamerlane EYES ON YOU Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI/Dack ASCAP/Rezsongs, ASCAP/ReHits Music, Inc., ASCAP/ Of Universal, Inc., BMI (T.Hubbard, B.Kelley, M.Hardy, Publishing Corp., BMI/Mr. Buck Lucky, BMI/Bump Into Janiel’s Publishing, BMI/EMI April Music, Inc., ASCAP/ Smacktown Music, ASCAP/Smack Blue, LLC, ASCAP/ M.Holman) 12 Genius Music, BMI/Sony/ATV Allegro, ASCAP/Over- CDS Words And Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/ Unfair Entertainment, ASCAP/MeGusta Music, ASCAP/ Thought Under-Appreciated Songs, ASCAP/Rezven Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite Tiny Handstand, ASCAP/Sharkules Music, ASCAP/ Music, ASCAP/Moving Targest In The Dark, ASCAP  We’re Really Doin’ It Publishing, ASCAP/Smack Hits, (B. Songs, ASCAP (C.Rice, C. DeStefano, A.Gorley) 48 Burgess, K.Kadish) 47 GMR/Kobalt Music Group Ltd., GMR (M.Ramsey, T. Rosen, W.Sellers, G.Sprung, B.Tursi, S.McAnally) 37 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE NOVEMBER 19, 2018 | PAGE 23 OF 23 CODA On Nov. 24, 1973, Charlie Rich’s Many other artists have recorded 45 Years Ago “The Most Beautiful Girl” began a the song, including Andy Williams three-week reign atop Billboard’s and Slim Whitman, although Charlie Rich’s Hot Country Songs chart. Written perhaps its most memorable by Billy Sherrill (who also produced tribute was in a 1992 episode of the track), Norro Wilson and Rory Seinfeld, when Jason Alexander, ‘Girl’ Hit No. 1 Bourke, “Girl” also hit No. 1 on the as George Costanza, sang a couple Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks of lines while lamenting about a that December. former girlfriend. The Silver Fox scored his Rich posted 45 Hot Country Born in Colt, Ark., Rich settled biggest crossover hit in 1973 Songs appearances from 1968-81, in Memphis after serving in the U.S. including nine No. 1s and 17 top 10s, Air Force. In the late 1950s, he was with his unique brand of country that a session musician at Sun Records incorporated pop, gospel, rockabilly, for the likes of Johnny Cash and jazz and blues. “Girl” was his second Jerry Lee Lewis before launching leader on the chart, following his own success. He died in 1995 “Behind Closed Doors” in April 1973. at age 62. —JIM ASKER

REWINDING THE COUNTRY CHARTS

Rich, circa 1977. PRESS ASSOCIATED