"NEWS! "SPIN ZONE ! "SINGLES CALENDAR! "CHART DATA ! "NO. 1 SONG! VOICES OF SECONDARY RADIO! " COVERING THE SECONDARY RADIO MARKET SINCE 2002 REPORTING ! PANEL! Thursday, October 30, 2014 " SPIN ZONE CHART NEWS" " Garth Returns To Arkansas Top Ten— Blake Shelton’s “Neon Light” is the No. 1 Song Garth Brooks will return to week after climbing for 12 weeks. Maddie & Tae jump two Little Rock, Ark. for the 4irst spots to No. 2 with “Girl In A Country Song.” Scotty McCreery time in 23 years as part of The Garth Brooks World Tour with is also up two with “Feelin’ It” landing at No. 3. Brad Paisley’s Trisha Yearwood. The concerts “Perfect Storm” is at No. 4 followed by Tim McGraw’s will be held Friday, Dec. 12 at “Shotgun Rider” at No. 5. Frankie Ballard is up to No. 6 with and Saturday, Dec. 13. Tickets “Sunshine & Whiskey.” Carrie Underwood’s “Something In will be on sale Friday, Nov. 7 at The Water,” Garth Brooks’ “People Loving People,” Darius 10 a.m. CST. There will be an Garth Brooks eight ticket limit per purchase. Rucker’s “Homegrown Honey,” and Eric Church’s “Talladega” … are all in the Top 10 for the First Time at No. 7, No. 8, No. 9, DeStefano Receives Another No. 1 and No. 10 respectively. Challenge Coin " Chris DeStefano recently Greatest Gainers— Florida Georgia Line was the big gainer visited MusicRow‘s of4ice, this week with “Sun Daze” gaining 616 new spins. Kenny where he was feted for two Chesney moved to No. 11 with “Til It’s Gone” up 378 followed chart-topping singles on by Carrie Underwood’s “Something In The Water.” That was MusicRow’s Country Breakout up 352 new plays and took her to the Top 10. The Band chart, including the Miranda Lambert/Carrie Underwood Perry’s “Gentle On My Mind” was up 335 spins and Lady duet “Somethin’ Bad,” (penned Antebellum’s “Freestyle” gained 326 new plays. with Brett James and Priscilla Renea), and Chase (L-R): MusicRow Chart Director Troy " Rice’s “Ready Set Stephenson, Chris DeStefano, Sony/ DeButs— Justin Moore had the highest debut with “This ATV’s Josh Van Valkenburg, and Kind Of Town” coming in at No. 63. Billy Currington made it Roll” (penned with Rice and MusicRow Owner/Publisher Sherod Rhett Akins). These mark Robertson to No. 67 as a debut with “Don’t It.” Brian Collins is debuts DeStefano’s second and third “Never Really Left” on the chart at No. 73. Other songs on for MusicRow Challenge Coins, respectively. His irst was for this 4irst time include Gunnar And The Grizzly Boys “Rewind,” recorded by Rascal Flatts. “Standard American” at No. 78, J. Michael Harter’s “Holy … Cowgirl” at No. 79 and Hicks’ “Hayride” at No. 80. Arista Nashville Signs Logan Mize … Kansas native Logan Mize has joined the Sony Music’s Arista Nashville imprint. Mize’s 4irst single with the major label will be “Can’t Get Away from a Good Time,” penned by Mize, Blake Chafin, and Kelly Archer. The single will ship to Country radio on Nov. 17, of4icially impacting on Jan. 19, 2015. He previously charted “Good Life” in 2012 with Big Yellow Dog. To Logan Mize Read the full story, click HERE. Toby Tucker of WDZQ/Decatur, IL meets up with Chris Young … before a show in The Land of Lincoln. Young’s single “Lonely Eyes” is climbing the MusicRow chart and is at No. 15. … (L-R): Tucker, Young, Toby’s Signi4icant Other Hannah Allen Thursday, October 30, 2014 SINGLES CALENDAR WEEKLY CHART DATA " " November 3 New On The Chart —DeButing This Week Dustin Lynch/Hell Of A Night/Broken Bow Artist/song/label—chart pos. Cole Swindell/Ain’t Worth The Whiskey/Warner Bros. Justin Moore/This Kind Of Town/Valory— 63 The Swon Brothers/Pray For You/Arista Nashville Dylan Scott/Lay It On Me/Sidewalk Records Billy Currington/Don’t It/Mercury Nashville— 67 Dallas Smith/Wastin’ Gas/Big Loud Mountain Brian Collins/Never Really Left/Blue Light Entertainment— 73 " Gunnar And The Grizzly Boys/Standard American/Average November 10 Joe’s— 78 Chase Rice/Gonna Wanna Tonight/Columbia Nashville J. Michael Harter/Holy Cowgirl/GMV Nashville-Anozire Owen Howell/Backyard Party/Salazar Harper Records Records—79 "The Stickers/Country Proud/Wodarek Music LLC "Hicks/Hayride/MTS Records— 80 November 17 Greatest Spin Increase Rodney Atkins/Eat Sleep Love You Repeat/Curb Artist/song/label—Spin Increase Kristy Lee Cook/Lookin’ For A Cowgirl/Broken Bow Florida Georgia Line/Sun Daze/Republic Nashville—616 Brandon Alan/Through The Cracks/Creative Arts Group Kenny Chesney/Til It’s Gone/Blue Chair-Columbia— 378 Vish/I Was Born To Love You/Karma One Records LLC Carrie Underwood/Something In The Water/Arista Nashville Haley & Michaels/Just Another Love Song/H&M Music, LLC — 352 Brushville/Baby’s Got Her Boots On/Brushville, LLC. The Band Perry/Gentle On My Mind/Republic Nashville— 335 " Lady Antebellum/Freestyle/Capitol— 326 November 24 Tate Stevens/Better At Night/RPM Entertainment " Most Added James Otto/Somewhere Tonight/Ottopilot Records Artist/song/label—No. of Adds " Florida Georgia Line/Sun Daze/Republic Nashville—38 DecemBer 1 Billy Currington/Don’t It/Mercury Nashviile—16 Steven Lee Olsen/Raised By A Good Time/Columbia Nashville " ToBy Keith/Drunk Americans/Show Dog-Universal—14 January 19 The Band Perry/Gentle On My Mind/Republic Nashville—13 Logan Mize/Can’t Get Away From A Good Time/Arista Nashville Lady Antebellum/Freestyle/Capitol—12 " Justin Moore/This Kind Of Town/Valory— 12 … " On Deck—Soon To Be Charting Artist/song/label—No. of Spins Tanya Marie Harris/Second Hand Dreams/Arrow Entertainment—211 Sarah Dunn Band/You Or The Whiskey/Audacity—197 Will Hoge/Middle Of America/Cumberland Recordings—194 Billy Ray Cyrus/Like A Country Song/Melody Roundup Music— 190 Shane Gamble /Beautiful Work/Rt. 50 Music-Nine North "Records—178 Frozen Playlist- KMKS, KICR, WTRS, WTCM, WFGE " Mellisa Frost (R) of KRRV/Alexandria, LA welcomes Amber • • • Hayes (L) to town before a recent show. Thursday, October 30, 2014 NO. 1 SONG Voices Of Secondary Radio " Free Man/WDKN-Dickson, TN If Blake Shelton has been " praying for another No. 1, How long have you Been at the No. 1 No. 1, we’ve got his station? light at the end of the Five years this coming January tunnel. For the past 12 How many "hats" do you wear each weeks the Warner day? Nashville entertainer has Music Director, Traf4ic Director, been trying to un-break his Afternoon Host, and Sports Director heart at the bars, and this What is your philosophy on adding week performed "Neon new music to your playlist? Light" over 3,500 times to I like getting out in front on the major take the No. 1 spot on our artists as quickly as possible. As far as CountryBreakout Chart. indies go, I like to represent them well on our list but typically prefer a song Andrew Dorff, Mark Irwin and Josh Kear wrote the song, at least chart before we get on board. The one exception to that is if we which was produced by Shelton’s mainstay producer Scott have a local artist to report like Bernie Nelson or Larry Fleet, then we Hendricks. The lagship artist released the title as the lead single are on board right away. from his quality, ninth studio album Bringing Back The Sunshine. Why is it important for you to report to MusicRow? MusicRow is really our stations lone link to the labels and artists. We MusicRow’s RoBert K. Oermann reported of the single in late really enjoy the opportunities that are provided by being on the list. August, “Honky-tonk heartbreak brought right up to date with a Tell us something GREAT aBout your station and/or city? (Feel sensational groove and brilliantly clever lyrics. Absolutely free to BRAG!) irresistible.” It was not only the critics who enjoyed the song, but We are far and away the best news and sports provider in our county. fans have cha-chinged the single 260K+ times on top of album We cover two high school sports programs as well as news for the sales already ringing in at over 150K. entire county. We also like to think that being so close to Nashville (Dickson is 45 minutes out) that we must have a pretty special music Since Shelton is in Los Angeles on NBC’s The Voice, his soonest playlist to win people away from the "Big Three" in Nashvegas. tour date is not until 2015. But tune in to see him every Monday Who are some of the New Artists that you are excited aBout? and Tuesday night on the network. Be sure to also listen out for I really like what Kayla Adams and Kayla CalaBrese are doing as they his next radio single, because if they’re off this album, there’s try to break in and I had a fantastic trio in studio recently called The "bound to be another chart topper! "Cains Trio. I think they all have the potential to be great in the future. " • • • Click here to view a full list of MusicRow’s Challenge Coin recipients. 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