RANDALL KING Randall King Takes The Top Spot! "Takin' Me A Heartbreak" Randall King Music Dear Readers; CONTENTS RANDALL KING takes over the #1 position this week with "Takin' Me A Heartbreak." RANDY ROGERS BAND's — "I'll Never Get Over You" repeats as this week's Most Added! CODY JOHNSON's "Nothin' On You" is both this week's Charts Greatest Spin Gainer and Highest Debut, coming in at position at #38! Great work everyone! The following stations have been frozen for this week. KHLB-FM (Mason, TX) KKGQ-FM (Wichita, KS) KTXM-FM (Hallettsville, TX) KYKM-FM (Yoakum, TX) KYYK-FM (Palestine, TX)

The following stations have been FROZEN for 2 consecutive weeks. KTTU-FM HD4 (K226CH-FX) (Lubbock, TX) texashomegrownradio.com (Stephenville, TX) The following station has been removed from the chart panel. PAGE 2-3 IRCounty.com

— The following songs have been moved to RECURRENT status. Monitored Panel List ADRIAN JOHNSTON / Honky Tonk Wife PAGE 5 CODY FORREST / The Way She Loves Me DENNIS ALAN / Calling Me Back Home Chart Breakouts GARRETT FORD / Repaint These Walls PAGE 5 SONNY MORGAN / It's A Beautiful World — TRACtion TX thanks the following artists who used CDX to distribute their latest releases to Texas Red Dirt radio and the industry. We really appreciate your support! BACKWOOD DEVIL / Southern Brave

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WWW.TRACTIONTX.COM “Monitored Radio Airplay” Vol 4. #28 July 17th, 2019 L T Wks On Spins + Stations Adds W W - Chart Artist / Song Title / Label 3 1 RANDALL KING/Takin' Me A Heartbreak/Randall King Music 716 10 36 0 17 2 2 JOSH WARD/The Devil Don't Scare Me Anymore/Josh Ward Music 660 -83 36 0 14 1 3 WADE BOWEN/Fell In Love On Whiskey/Thirty Tigers 647 -132 42 0 20 4 4 JAKE WARD/Put You Down Tomorrow/Jake Ward Music 645 6 34 0 20 5 5 FLATLAND CAVALRY/Old School/Flatland Cavalry Music 598 -2 37 0 16 6 6 SARAH HOBBS/Like I Love You/Sarah Hobbs Music 524 -29 31 0 21 8 7 CASEY DONAHEW/Let's Make A Love Song/Almost Country Records 515 -5 32 1 11 11 8 WILLIAM CLARK GREEN/Stay/Bill Grease Records 487 16 34 5 10 7 9 CHAD COOKE BAND/Whatever It Takes/Chad Cooke Band Music 487 -56 29 0 26 9 10 JAMES LANN/Memory Like You/Ari-Tex Records 480 -18 28 0 17 12 11 JAMIE RICHARDS/Privileges Of Youth/Jamie Richards Music 453 -4 30 1 10 10 12 JUNIOR GORDON/Loved 'Em Everyone/Junior Gordon Music 439 -43 29 0 20 13 13 DERYL DODD/I'm So Outta Style/Little Red Truck Music 396 -15 25 0 12 17 14 STONEY LARUE/Hill Country Boogaloo/One Chord Song/Smith Group 364 10 27 2 6 14 15 TURNPIKE TROUBADOURS/The Winding Stair Mountain Blues/Thirty Tigers 358 -23 26 1 8 15 16 KYLIE FREY/Ain't Enough Beer/Kylie Frey Music 357 -18 28 1 25 16 17 PROPHETS AND OUTLAWS/Dreamer/Prophets and Outlaws Music 349 -15 21 0 15 19 18 JACK INGRAM/Where There's A Willie/Beat Up Ford Records 346 11 26 1 15 20 19 JON WOLFE/Some Ol' Bar In The 90s/Jon Wolfe Music 311 -2 27 0 8 18 20 CODY WAYNE/Small Town/Cody Wayne Music 300 -53 21 1 17 21 21 KYLIE RAE HARRIS/Big Ol' Heartache/Torrez Music Group 253 -36 23 0 21 22 22 RAY JOHNSTON BAND/Beautiful You/Ray Johnston Music 251 -1 16 1 17 24 23 ROBERT RAY/Good Country Song/Big R.I.G. Country, LLC 236 -5 14 1 8 27 24 SHANE SMITH AND THE SAINTS/Heaven Knows/Geronimo West Records 220 9 15 1 7 25 25 HOLLY TUCKER/Country Music Won't Let Me/M&D Records 208 -28 17 1 13 26 26 SCOTTY ALEXANDER/My First Beer/Scotty Alexander Music 198 -15 15 0 12 41 27 RANDY ROGERS BAND/I'll Never Get Over You/Tommy Jackson/Thirty Tigers 197 73 17 9 2 29 28 CURTIS GRIMES/Still/Curtis Grimes Music 191 28 19 4 5 33 29 WHISKEY MYERS/Rolling Stone/Wiggy Thump/Thirty Tigers 188 39 16 5 3 23 30 JADE MARIE PATEK/Love's to Blame/Jade Marie Patek Music 185 -64 20 0 23

WWW.TRACTIONTX.COM “Monitored Radio Airplay” July 17th, 2019 | PAGE 2 L T Wks On Spins + Stations Adds W W - Chart Artist / Song Title / Label 28 31 MARIO FLORES/That Man/Schimflo 156 -13 12 0 15 30 32 WILLIAM BECKMANN/I Wanna See You Tonight/William Beckmann Music 146 -12 16 0 19 31 33 ABE MAC BAND/Crazy/Abe Mac Music 146 -10 8 0 10 32 34 MASON LIVELY/Early Grave/Mason Lively Music 140 -10 12 0 8 35 35 JAMES COOK/Let 'Em Run/James Cook Music 138 -4 12 1 14 36 36 FRANK RAY/Just for a Minute/Frank Ray Music 131 -10 14 0 10 39 37 DREW FISH/The Devil You Know/Reel Records 129 -3 17 2 5 -- 38 CODY JOHNSON/Nothin' On You/Cojo Music LLC 125 122 9 9 1 42 39 RAGLAND/Footsteps/Ragland Music 123 4 11 0 8 -- 40 HAYES CARLL/If I May Be So Bold/Dualtone Records 123 37 8 1 1 34 41 SUNDANCE HEAD/Close Enough To Walk/Wildcatter 122 -25 12 0 13 38 42 STETSON WALKER/That's When the Party Starts/Stetson Walker Music 112 -22 13 0 17 37 43 MARK MCKINNEY/Cinnamon Shore/Mark McKinney Music 112 -28 10 0 4 45 44 KAITLIN BUTTS/White River/Kaitlin Butts Music 111 5 8 1 4 43 45 POWELL BROTHERS, THE/The Way You Are/Tolar Powell Entertainment 108 -7 9 0 10 -- 46 TANYA TUCKER/The Wheels Of Laredo/Fantasy Records/Concord 107 23 10 2 1 44 47 MORGAN ASHLEY/Come Find Me/Morgan Ashley Music 100 -7 9 1 5 40 48 FELIX TRUVERE/Always Somethin'/Felix Truvere Music 97 -28 13 0 11 48 49 DONICE MORACE/The Blues Are Alive And Well/Donice Morace Music 97 -1 8 1 3 47 50 ZACH COFFEY/Nobody Frames Bad Days/Zach Coffey Music 94 -5 8 0 6

Number 1 = Most Added = Spin Gainer = Bubbling Under Position

HAYDEN HADDOCK/Everywhere I Need To Be/Hayden Haddock Music 51 WYNN WILLIAMS/Yeah Buddy/Wynn Williams Music 52 MARTY HEDDIN/A Little Less Lonely/Nightlife Entertainment Group/Dreamlined Entertainment Group 53 GARY KYLE/American Flags/Gary Kyle Music 54 LAUREN CORZINE/Ain't That Lonely/Lauren Corzine Music 55 DUSTY NEUMAN/Spike Drivin' Blues/Marathon Music Group 56 MARK POWELL/This Bar Needs A Town/Mark Powell Music 57 JODY BOOTH/Life of My Love/S.O.T. Records 58 SAINTS ELEVEN (FT. WALT WILKINS)/Strange Round Here/Saints Eleven Music 59 DREW MORELAND/Road Stone/Drew Moreland Music 60

WWW.TRACTIONTX.COM “Monitored Radio Airplay” July 17th, 2019 | PAGE 3 Monitored Stations KAXA-FM Kerrville, TX KNES-FM Fairfield, TX KSSL-FM Post, TX madeintexasradio.com KBSO-FM Corpus Christi, TX KOKE-FM Austin, TX KTTU-FM HD4 (K226CH-FX) Lubbock, TX texasboundradio.com KBST-FM Big Spring, TX KOLI-FM Wichita Falls, TX KTTX-FM Brenham, TX texashomegrownradio.com KECO-FM Elk City, OK KORA-FM Bryan, TX KTXM-FM Hallettsville, TX TexasRedHotRadio.com KERP-FM Dodge City, KS KOXE-FM Brownwood, TX KUSH-AM Cushing, OK TBJS Radio Poteau, OK KFLP-FM Floydada, TX KPAK-FM Alva, OK KUSQ-FM Worthington, MN KFTX-FM Corpus Christi, TX KPUR-FM Canyon, TX KVST-FM Montgomery, TX KFWR-FM Ft. Worth, TX KQSC-AM Colorado Springs, CO KWOX-FM Woodward, OK KFYN-FM Paris, TX KQZQ-FM Kiowa, KS KXKZ-FM Ruston, LA KHLB-FM Mason, TX KRBL-FM Levelland,TX KXOX-FM Sweetwater,TX KHYI-FM Howe, TX KRRG-FM Laredo, TX KYKC-FM Ada, OK KIKK-FM (HD2) Houston, TX KRUN-AM Ballinger, TX KYKM-FM Yoakum, TX KKAJ-FM Ardmore, OK KRVF-FM Kerens, TX KYKX-FM Longview,TX KKCN-FM San Angelo, TX KRVN-FM Lexington, NE KYYK-FM Palestine, TX KKGQ-FM Wichita, KS KSAM-FM Huntsville, TX coyotecountryradio.com KMOM-FM Aberdeen, SD KSEL-FM Portales, NM ircountry.com Strikethrough = Removed Bold = Newly Added Underlined = Frozen this Week Double Underlined = Frozen 2 Weeks

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Chart Recurrent Methodology

When does a song move to recurrent on the With this in mind, the CDX TRACtion Texas chart? It is one of the more challenging issues we recurrent policy grades each chart position on a encountered in creating the CDX TRACtion Texas curve, using an algorithm that considers the chart chart system. Rather than relying on subjective position and spin history for that song. Newly editorial decisions, we’ve chosen to automate this serviced singles are allowed 20 weeks to chart process using the weekly chart data as a marker. before being removed from chart consideration. Once a status change is actively being considered We strive to avoid having singles past their prime by the algorithm, the cumulative amount of spin create a logjam on the chart, because that stifles loss from the single’s previous peak spin count upward momentum for up-and-coming singles. is the trigger. The allowable spin loss varies as a But we also try to ensure that singles “on the percentage, depending on the chart position. bubble” are not removed prematurely. As long-time chart watchers know, singles often take a while In addition to making sure that only singles with to establish a solid base among early believers at significant downward movement become recurrent, radio before they truly find their legs. Due to any this methodology also benefits slow-developing number of reasons, the path to peak chart position singles in several ways. For instance, the allowable rarely includes straight-line, week-over-week spin spin loss (as a percentage) is very generous at the and/or chart position growth. lower reaches of the chart to accommodate the lower spin counts. Additionally, if a single is at On a monitored airplay chart like CDX TRACtion risk of being moved to recurrent status with two Texas, the reality is that new singles bounce around consecutive weeks of minor spin loss, it can still a bit spin-wise and position-wise, particularly return to positive spin growth the following week, in the lower half of the chart. Even small spin which will reset the clock. increases and decreases can be magnified as fairly significant up-or-down chart position moves.

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WWW.TRACTIONTX.COM “Monitored Radio Airplay” July 17th, 2019 | PAGE 4 Most Added Adds RANDY ROGERS BAND/I'll Never Get Over You Tommy Jackson/Thirty Tigers 9 CODY JOHNSON/Nothin' On You Cojo Music LLC 9 MARK POWELL/This Bar Needs A Town Mark Powell Music 6 WILLIAM CLARK GREEN/Stay Bill Grease Records 5 WHISKEY MYERS/Rolling Stone Wiggy Thump/Thirty Tigers 5 CURTIS GRIMES/Still/Curtis Grimes Music 4 MATT MERCADO/I Should've Never Left Mexico Matt Mercado Music 3 STONEY LARUE/Hill Country Boogaloo One Chord Song/Smith Group 2 DREW FISH/The Devil You Know Reel Records 2 Cody Canada and Colby Ericson (KQZQ/KKDT) chat in the Green TANYA TUCKER/The Wheels Of Laredo 2 Fantasy Records/Concord room after Cody Canada and The Departed played at Wave in Wichita, KS.

Greatest Spin Gainers Increase CODY JOHNSON/Nothin' On You Cojo Music LLC 122 RANDY ROGERS BAND/I'll Never Get Over You Tommy Jackson/Thirty Tigers 73 MARK POWELL/This Bar Needs A Town Mark Powell Music 73 WHISKEY MYERS/Rolling Stone Wiggy Thump/Thirty Tigers 39 HAYES CARLL/If I May Be So Bold Dualtone Records 37 CASEY BAKER/Life Has Taken Its Toll On Me Casey Baker Music 31 CURTIS GRIMES/Still Curtis Grimes Music 28 MATT MERCADO/I Should've Never Left Mexico Matt Mercado Music 26 TANYA TUCKER/The Wheels Of Laredo Fantasy Records/Concord 23 KEVIN FOWLER/Better With Beer Drew Fish and Wynn Williams stop in Wichita, KS to see Colby Kevin Fowler Records 21 Ericson (PD, KQZQ/KKDT, Host 35 South) and appear on this week’s 35 South Show!

WWW.TRACTIONTX.COM “Monitored Radio Airplay” July 17th, 2019 | PAGE 5 Bob Mitchell, Rodney Crowell and Chuck Taylor at The Range (KHYI). Shayne Hollinger, Rodney Crowell and Bob Mitchell at The Ranch.

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