Thursday, September 22, 2016 NEWS CHART ACTION Kenny Chesney Reveals Track List, New On The Chart —Debuting This Week Cover For New Album Artist/song/label—chart pos. Kenny Chesney has Jon Pardi/Dirt On My Boots/Capitol Nashville— 53 announced the 11 songs and Artists of Then, Now, and Forever/Forever Country/MCA— 75 an album cover for his next James Dupree/Stoned To Death/Purfectt Pitch LLC— 76 project, Cosmic Hallelujah. The RaeLynn/Love Triangle/Warner Bros.— 77 project will be released by Randy Houser/Chasing Down A Good Time/Stoney Creek—78 Blue Chair Records/Columbia Casey Donahew/Kiss Me/Almost Country Entertainment— 79 Nashville on Oct. 28. Chesney Aaron Goodvin/Woman In Love/Warner Music Canada-AJG Music Group— delayed the original release 80 date after inding “Setting the World on Fire” and recording it ! as a duet with Pink. He also Greatest Spin Increase dropped the album’s original Artist/song/label—Spin Increase title, Some Town Somewhere. Florida Georgia Line w/ Tim McGraw/May We All/BMLG Records— 266 Cosmic Hallelujah is Chesney’s Jon Pardi/Dirt On My Boots/Capitol Nashville— 259 irst new album since 2014’s Kenny Chesney w/ Pink/Setting The World On Fire/Columbia Nashville— The Big Revival. Read the full story here. 256 ! Carrie Underwood/Dirty Laundry/Arista Nashville—249 The Valory Music Co. Signs The Church Sisters Keith Urban/Blue Ain’t Your Color/Capitol Nashville— 220 The Valory Music Co. has ! added The Church Sisters to Most Added its artist roster. Comprised of Artist/song/label—No. of Adds fraternal twins Savannah and Jon Pardi/Dirt On My Boots/Capitol Nashville—21 Sarah, the 20-year-old Virginia Artists of Then, Now, and Forever/Forever Country/MCA— 12 natives have been touring the Chris Lane/For Her/Big Loud Records— 10 country since age 14. They have released the video for Dylan Scott/My Girl/Curb— 10 their rendition of Lukas ! Graham’s hit “7 Years,” which On Deck—Soon To Be Charting can be seen by clicking here. Artist/song/label—No. of Spins The duo joins the roster’s Denny Strickland/Get A Grip/Red Star Productions— 180 artists including Brantley Mike Smith/Green Eyed Girl— 167 Gilbert, Thomas Rhett, Justin Courtney Dickinson/Young Forever— 165 The Church Sisters. Photo: Joseph Llanes Moore, Eli Young Band and Trace Adkins/Lit/Wheelhouse Records—164 Tara Thompson. The full story Luke Combs/Hurricane/Thirty Tigers— 162 can be found here. ! Lee Brice, Justin Moore Plot Co-Headlining Tour Lee Brice and Justin Moore will take to the road beginning in January with their co- headlining American Made Tour. The trek will launch Jan. 12 in Indianapolis’ Bankers Life Fieldhouse. William Michael Morgan and Brett Young round out the Lee Brice (L), Justin Moore (R) tour as direct support. Read the story with a list of dates/locations by clicking here. Pictured: (L - R) MusicRow’s Troy Stephenson, artist Mike Ryan and MusicRow’s Pictured: (L - R) JR Runyon from KCNY/Conway, AR with Mandolin Sherod Robertson. Entertainment’s Skye Claire. Pictured: (L - R) Artist Courtney Dickinson with Jesse Pictured: (L - R) KTHK/Idaho Falls’ Don Jarrett with Dierks Bentley. from KIAI/Mason City, IA. Pictured: Marie Osmond with KLMJ/Hampton, IA’s Mike Betten (R) and his wife Janet (L). Pictured: (L-R) Artist Amy Rose with MusicRow’s Troy Stephenson. Thursday, September 22, 2016 ARTIST SPOTLIGHT Alex Smith !Sponsored By: Lila Records Single: “Load It Up” Songwriters: !Alex Smith Hometown: !Alexandria, LA !Website: www.AlexSmithMusic.net Artist Bio: After graduating college and fulilling a promise to his parents, Alex Smith moved to Nashville to continue to pursue his passion of music. Upon his arrival he released his current single, “Load It Up,” which made the charts within weeks of its release. On his own indie label, “Load It Up” continues to speed up the charts each week with genuine listener support from radio airplay. He has spent the last six weeks visiting radio stations and greeting fans all over the country. He is always active on his website and Facebook and !loves to interact with his followers. Fun Facts: -Alex is a candy addict…Favorite Candy: Sweet Tart Jelly !Beans. !-Didn’t play guitar until Guitar Hero came out. !-His father and grandfather were both musicians. !-Opened for Brett Eldredge and Uncle Kracker. Connect with Alex: -Couch-hopped for two summers in Nashville before moving there this year. Thursday, September 22, 2016 CALENDAR NO. 1 SONG Singles September 26 Tyler Farr/Our Town/Columbia Nashville George Strait/Goin’ Goin’ Gone/MCA Nashville Dan + Shay/How Not To/Warner Bros Jennifer Nettles/Hey Heartbreak/Big Machine !Jeremy Bowman/Like A Song On The Radio/Funky Cowboy Records October 3 Brooke Eden/Diamonds/Red Bow Records Mallory Johnson/Tupelo/Big Hit Records James Robert Webb/Put It In Drive/Bison Creek Records !Kaitlyn Baker/To Pieces/Wise Records October 10 Love and Theft/Candyland/Curb Records Kelsea Ballerini/Yeah Boy/Black River Ent Ryan Follesse/Put A Label On It/BMLG Records Tim Elliott/What’s Not To Love/Boggs River Entertainment Jamie Stever/This Life Ain’t For Everyone/Tri-Mount Entertainment With only being on the chart for eight weeks, Kenny and P!nk will Drew Baldridge w/ Emily Weisband/Rebound/Cold River-New remain at No. 1 for another week with “Setting The World On Fire.” Revolution ! Radio Romance/Secrets It is the irst time in two years that a song has been No. 1 for two Tyler Hammond/Tough Girl weeks in a row. In addition, Chesney will collect his sixth MusicRow ! No. 1 Challenge Coin. Albums ! September 23 Chesney recently released the track list and cover art for his new Luke Bryan/Farm Tour…Here’s to the Farmer [EP]/Capitol Records album, Cosmic Hallelujah. Nashville ! Dwight Yoakam/Swimmin’ Pools, Movie Stars…/Sugar Hill Records “Setting The World On Fire” was written by Ross Copperman, Matt Justin Moore/Kinda Don’t Care (Vinyl)/Valory Music Co. Jenkins, and Josh Osborne. Glen Campbell/That Christmas Feeling (Vinyl)/Capitol Nashville- UME Merle Haggard/Merle Haggard’s Christmas Present (Vinyl)/Capitol Nashville-UME Trisha Yearwood/ICON Christmas/MCA Nashville-UME Click here to view a full list of MusicRow’s Challenge Coin recipients. 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Thursday, September 22, 2016 Weeks % Spin On Chart Last Week This Week Artist / Song / Label Spins / Reports Power Spins +/- 8 1 1 Kenny Chesney w/ Pink / Setting The World On Fire / Columbia Nashville 3318/88 8 256 10 3 2 Miranda Lambert / Vice / RCA 2817/87 6 159 15 2 3 Old Dominion / Song For Another Time / RCA Nashville 2799/89 5 139 10 6 4 Luke Bryan / Move / Capitol Nashville 2798/84 8 212 23 4 5 Brett Young / Sleep Without You / Republic 2763/86 5 128 20 5 6 Cole Swindell / Middle Of A Memory / Warner Bros. 2708/77 5 117 13 7 7 Tim McGraw / How I’ll Always Be / Big Machine 2657/89 7 170 10 9 8 Jason Aldean / A Little More Summertime / Broken Bow 2597/81 8 201 14 8 9 Maren Morris / 80s Mercedes / Columbia Nashville 2512/86 3 73 22 10 10 Chris Stapleton / Parachute / Mercury 2230/78 -2 -38 6 12 11 Keith Urban / Blue Ain’t Your Color / Capitol Nashville 2220/86 11 220 7 15 12 Florida Georgia Line w/ Tim McGraw / May We All / BMLG Records 2217/89 14 266 16 11 13 Chris Young / Sober Saturday Night / RCA Nashville 2083/84 3 61 28 13 14 Granger Smith / If The Boot Fits / Wheelhouse Records 2028/79 3 65 19 16 15 Brett Eldredge / Wanna Be That Song / Warner Bros. 1936/75 3 50 20 17 16 Jerrod Niemann w/ Lee Brice / A Little More Love / Curb 1767/76 4 76 5 18 17 Carrie Underwood / Dirty Laundry / Arista 1764/82 16 249 16 19 18 Josh Turner / Hometown Girl / MCA Nashville 1548/76 10 143 5 20 19 Eric Church / Kill A Word / EMI Nashville 1466/82 17 213 18 21 20 Easton Corbin / Are You With Me / Mercury 1247/64 5 55 12 22 21 Darius Rucker / If I Told You / Capitol Nashville 1192/66 6 65 21 23 22 Chris Janson / Holdin’ Her / Warner Bros 1136/59 2 18 8 26 23 Brantley Gilbert / The Weekend / Valory Music Co.