Thursday, December 15, 2016 NEWS CHART ACTION Dolly Parton’s Smoky Mountains Rise Telethon New On The Chart —Debuting This Week Raises Nearly $9 Million Artist/song/label—chart pos. As millions of viewers tuned in to Kenny Chesney/Bar At The End Of The World/Columbia Nashville— 64 watch Dolly Parton’s Smoky Donica Knight/Acting Like A Lady/Donica Knight Music-DKI— 72 Mountains Rise: A Beneit for the My Homegrown Band/American Town/Homegrown Entertainment— 74 People Fund telethon, the event has Tony Jackson/Nashville Cats— 79 brought in nearly $9 million in ! donations so far. Large contributions Greatest Spin Increase were made from artists as well as from Artist/song/label—Spin Increase people across the country. The total Luke Bryan/Fast/Capitol Nashville— 343 amount raised is expected to rise as mail donations are counted and the Jason Aldean/Any Ol’ Barstool/Broken Bow— 258 telethon is reBroadcast to new Kenny Chesney/Bar At The End Of The World/Columbia Nashville— 248 audiences over the next ive days. To Miranda Lambert/We Should Be Friends/RCA Nashville— 207 read the full story, click here. ! !Thomas Rhett/Star Of The Show/Valory Music Co.— 203 ! Most Added Artist/song/label—No. of Adds ! Kenny Chesney/Bar At The End Of The World/Columbia Nashville—20 Drake White Sets First Headlining Tour For 2017 Luke Bryan/Fast/Capitol Nashville—15 Following the release of his deBut Billy Currington/Do I Make You Wanna/Mercury Nashville— 8 album earlier this year, BMLG artist Drake White will kick off his irst Tucker Beathard/Momma And Jesus/Dot Records—7 headlining stint in February 2017. LOCASH/Ring On Every Finger/Reviver Records— 6 White and his band, The Big Fire, will Brett Young/In Case You Didn’t Know/BMLG Records— 6 take The Spark Tour 2017 to 17 clubs Jason Aldean/Any Ol’ Barstool/Broken Bow—6 across the US. White was recently ! named as one of MusicRow‘s 2017 On Deck—Soon To Be Charting Next Big Thing artists, and has opened Artist/song/label—No. of Spins for artists including Willie Nelson, Zac Robby Johnson/Together/Contrast Music Records— 138 Brown Band and Eric Church. To view Tyler Hammond/Tough Girl—131 the full list of dates, click here. ! Brett Young/In Case You Didn’t Know/BMLG Records— 130 ! KayLyn/Show You Around/OTM Records— 128 ! Jordan Rager/Now That I Know Your Name/Broken Bow— 123 ! Paul Barnabee To Exit Sony Music Nashville Sony Music Nashville Sr. VP, Marketing Paul Barnabee will exit his role at the end of 2016, after 22 years with the company, MusicRow has conirmed. Barnabee joined Sony Music Nashville, formerly the RCA Label Group, in 1995, overseeing >inancial operations. He would later head sales, digital Business and operational functions. In 2011, he was named head of Paul BarnaBee marketing for Sony Music Nashville and its three imprints, including RCA, Columbia and Arista Nashville. To read more,! click here. ! Pictured: (L-R) Terra Bella with WOLF/Syracuse, NY’s Skip Clark. Pictured: (L-R) MV2 Entertainment’s Nora Collins with MusicRow’s Troy Stephenson. Pictured: (L-R) K95/Tulsa, OK’s Matt Bradley with Man- Pictured: (L-R) KITX/Hugo, OK’s Will Payne with Thirty Tigers artist Aaron Watson. dolin Entertainment’s Skye Claire. Songwritter Justin Ebach picks up his MusicRow No. 1 Challenge Coin for co-writing Brett Young’s “Sleep Pictured: (L-R) WCFT/Selinsgrove, PA’s Shelly Marx with CJ Solar. Without You.” Thursday, December 15, 2016 ARTIST SPOTLIGHT Cody Joe Hodges !Sponsored by: Tate Music Group & Lamon Records !Current Single: “Tangled In The Christmas Lights” !Songwriter: Cody Joe Hodges & Jamie McKean !Hometown: College Station, TX Artist Bio: While in the Army, Cody was performing on a street corner in Colorado Springs, CO and was discovered by a military afiliate. He was asked to audition for one of the Army's music groups, Harmony in Motion, a vocal ensemble based out of Fort Carson, CO. Shortly after, Cody Joe began traveling across America performing as part of the group. He released a solo album, The Good Stuff, in November 2014. Hodges co-wrote six songs with his wife Jamie. He then teamed up with Lamon Records to record and release a four-song EP entitled One More Drink. The title track was co-written by Hodges and Jamie !and hit #1 on the International Country Music Chart. Fun Facts: -Cody Joe Hodges was just named the 2016 Rising Star for the Country Music Association of Texas. -His most current single "Hellbent On Loving You" was in the Top 75 of the MusicRow CountryBreakout Chart for 7 weeks -“One More Drink" reached #1 on the Top 40 International Country Music Charts, #39 on the New Music Weekly Chart and #31 on the Texas Music Chart -Debut single, "Getting Back to Country,” made it to #1 on the Fan Voted Chart (the >irst Texas artist to ever reach #1 since the chart's inception in 1998). -His debut radio release, "Getting Back to Country,” peaked at #24 on the TRRR Chart, #26 on the Texas Music Charts, #12 on the !International Country Chart. WeBsite: www.codyjoehodges.com 5IBOLTUPFWFSZPOFGPS (JWJOHi(SJQwB$IBODFǮ &OKPZUIF)PMJEBZ#SFBLBOE %&//:453*$,-"/% 8FXJMM4FF:PV*OXJUI /&8.64*$ǮǮǮ % F O O Z 4 / B U J P O %FOOZ4USJDLMBOE %FOOZ4$PVOUSZ $MJDL)FSFUPWJTJUUIF/FXXXXEFOOZTUSJDLMBOEDPN Thursday, December 15, 2016 CALENDAR NO. 1 SONG Singles January 9 !Brett Young/In Case You Didn’t Know/BMLG Records January 17, 2017 !Brothers Osborne/It Ain’t My Fault/EMI Nashville January 23, 2017 Shane Owens/All the Beer In Alabama/AmeriMonte Records Michael Tyler/They Can’t See/Reviver Records !Southern Halo/Living Like That/Southern Halo Records January 30, 2017 !Chelsea Bain/Drinkin’ Alone/Turn 3 Records Albums January 13 Jeannie Seely/Written In Song/Smith Music Group !Natalie Hemby/Puxico/CN Records January 27 Chris Young takes the last No. 1 spot of 2016 on MusicRow’s Lauren Alaina/Road Less Traveled/Mercury Nashville-19-Interscope CountryBreakout Chart with “Sober Saturday Night.” Records ! Brantley Gilbert/The Devil Don’t Sleep/Valory Music Co. Young co-wrote the song with The Warren Brothers (Brett and Brad) ! and co-produced it with Corey Crowder. The song also features Vince February 10 Gill. It is the third single from Young's ifth studio album, I’m Comin’ !Brett Young/Brett Young/BMLG Records !Over. February 17 Young previously reached No. 1 with another collaBoration; “Think Of !Nikki Lane/Highway Queen/New West Records !You” with Cassadee Pope went to the top earlier this year. February 24 Last month, Young established a scholarship for recording industry Little Big Town/The Breaker/Capitol Records Nashville students at his alma mater, Middle Tennessee State University. !Aaron Watson/Vaquero/Big Label Records March 10 Sunny Sweeney/Trophy/Thirty Tigers Click here to view a full list of MusicRow’s Challenge Coin recipients. 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Thursday, December 15, 2016 Weeks % Spin On Chart Last Week This Week Artist / Song / Label Spins / Reports Power Spins +/- 28 2 1 Chris Young / Sober Saturday Night / RCA Nashville 3002/87 3 97 11 4 2 Thomas Rhett / Star Of The Show / Valory Music Co. 2968/86 7 203 17 1 3 Eric Church / Kill A Word / EMI Nashville 2944/77 -8 -241 12 3 4 Blake Shelton / A Guy With A Girl / Warner Bros. 2890/78 3 90 10 6 5 Brad Paisley / Today / Arista Nashville 2727/86 5 137 16 7 6 Lauren Alaina / Road Less Traveled / Mercury Nashville 2476/83 5 111 13 8 7 Jon Pardi / Dirt On My Boots / Capitol Nashville 2473/87 7 165 8 9 8 Little Big Town / Better Man / Capitol Nashville 2461/87 7 160 28 10 9 Josh Turner / Hometown Girl / MCA Nashville 2340/82 3 73 20 11 10 Brantley Gilbert / The Weekend / Valory Music Co.