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The TRACtion Texas weekly newsletter is published on Tues. evenings by CDX, Inc. — Connecting the music industry with Texas Red Dirt radio. For more information call 615-292-0123 or email VP/GM Joe Kelly- joe@cdxcd.com

Cody Johnson takes the #1 spot!

Vol 3. #40 Oct 10th, 2018

Dear Readers;We are saddened to announce that Jeri Lynne Smith passed away this morning 10/9/18 in Ballinger, TX. Jeri Lynne was On Air Personality/Music Director/Program Director/Sales Manager/Chief Cook and Bottle Washer(whatever was needed!) at KRUN RADIO in Ballinger. She was a fierce Texas Music Supporter from it's very beginning and was instrumental in the careers of so many artists and industry people alike. She welcomed every artist, big and small, into her station and treated all with the same love, kindness and respect. She was an inspiration to everyone she met and will be missed deeply by her family, along with her extended music family. Please keep all in your prayers.

Funeral Services will be held at 1:30 PM, Friday, October 12, 2018 at Glory Road Cowboy Church with Myron Halford officiating. In lieu of flowers the family request donations be made to a charity of your choice.

CODY JOHNSON takes the #1 position this week with "On My Way To You." BRI BAGWELL's "If You Were A Cowboy" is this week's Most Added while WADE BOWEN's "Death, Dyin' and Deviled Eggs" is the Greatest Spin Gainer!

The following songs have been moved to RECURRENT status. AMERICAN AQUARIUM / Tough Folks BRIANA ADAMS / Gone COURTNEY PATTON / Shove CURTIS GRIMES / Put My Money On That DAVID FRIZZELL, MARTY HAGGARD / Lefty, Merle & Me JAY COMINSKY / I'm A Musician JEFF DUGAN / Bad Time To Be A Good Ol' Boy JOHNNY BUSH (FEATURING DALE WATSON) / I Gotta Get Drunk KEVIN FOWLER / Beach Please RUMOR TOWN / When The Smoke Clears SAINTS ELEVEN (FT. COURTNEY PATTON) / Let Them Go SNAKE RIVER RED / Damn Oklahoma WESLEY MICHAEL HAYES / Sing Pain WILLIAM CLARK GREEN / Hit You Where It Hurts XAVIER JOSEPH / Long Overdue

The following station has been frozen for 2 weeks. KMRK-FM (Odessa, TX)

The following stations have been frozen for 1 week. KOYN-FM (Paris, TX) texashomegrownradio.com (Stephenville, TX)

TRACtion TX would like to thank TREY GONZALEZ and JARON BELL for allowing CDX to distribute their latest singles to Red Dirt radio and the industry. We really appreciate your support! TREY GONZALEZ / Here I Am JARON BELL / Missin' You

For those who don’t use CDX to distribute their new music but wish to be monitored by TRACtion TX, please send your MP3s along with the artist name, song title, record label and add date to https://spaces.hightail.com/uplink/tractiontx.

Looking forward,Jessie Scott

jessiescott@cdxcd.comTRACtion Texas Chart Director

Cody JohnsonOn My Way To You

CoJo Music LLC

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Charts

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Monitored Panel ListPAGE 5

Chart BreakoutsPAGE 5

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Stay tuned,Joe Kelly

CDX VP/GM joe@cdxcd.com

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TRACtion Texas Chart Newsletter RatesShare Your Good News Through Us

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Artist / Song Title / Label

Spins +- Stations Adds Wks On Chart

4 1 CODY JOHNSON/On My Way To You/Cojo Music LLC 651 72 34 3 63 2 JOSH ABBOTT BAND/The Night Is Ours/Pretty Damn Tough Records 615 7 31 0 121 3 CORY MORROW/Whiskey And Pride/Cory Morrow Music 605 -22 30 1 125 4 CODY JINKS/Must Be The Whiskey/Rounder Records/Concord Music 578 16 34 0 162 5 CASEY DONAHEW/That Got The Girl/Almost Country Records 540 -74 33 1 186 6 MIKE RYAN/Damn Good Goodbye/Mike Ryan Music 519 64 30 1 1011 7 WADE BOWEN/Death, Dyin' and Deviled Eggs/Wade Bowen Music 485 76 30 2 118 8 TURNPIKE TROUBADOURS/A Tornado Warning/Thirty Tigers 429 -3 27 0 1510 9 ROBERT RAY/Two Steppin' At A Time/Big R.I.G. Country, LLC 428 13 24 0 1214 10 PAT GREEN/Friday's Comin'/Greenhorse Music 397 16 24 0 1015 11 CLAY HOLLIS/Can't Let a Good Thing Get Away/Clay Hollis Music 377 1 25 1 1718 12 RANDALL KING/Mirror Mirror/Randall King Music 360 39 28 2 713 13 STONEY LARUE/You Oughta Know Me/Stoney LaRue Music 356 -32 24 0 1519 14 ELI YOUNG BAND/Love Ain't/Valory Music Co. (BMLG) 331 15 25 0 1416 15 JASON CASSIDY/Falling Too Fast/JC Music 327 -1 23 0 2417 16 PARKER MCCOLLUM/Misunderstood/Vision Entertainment 325 1 18 0 1124 17 BRI BAGWELL/If You Were A Cowboy/Bri Bagwell Music 273 47 21 4 422 18 FLATLAND CAVALRY/Honeywine/Flatland Cavalry Music 267 -4 20 3 523 19 MARK POWELL/Keep It Country/Mark Powell Music 263 -4 19 1 1721 20 GRANGER SMITH/You're In It/Wheelhouse (BBRMG) 257 -19 23 0 1326 21 CAMERAN NELSON/Life Is/Miles Power Records 254 32 23 1 1020 22 DERYL DODD/Ode To Cody Jinks/Little Red Truck Music 245 -47 18 1 1725 23 KYLE PARK/Rio/Kyle Park Music 224 1 14 1 327 24 RAY JOHNSTON BAND/Tennessee Me/Lil Dude Records 207 13 15 0 1329 25 NATALIE ROSE/My South/Natalie Rose Music 205 21 18 2 828 26 JESSE RAUB JR. (FT. CODY JOHNSON)/Sittin' Here/Jesse Raub Jr. Music 204 15 22 0 933 27 ADAM HOOD (FT. BRENT COBB)/She Don't Love Me/Adam Hood Music 196 52 17 1 630 28 GREAT DIVIDE, THE/Bound To Be There Soon/The Great Divide Music 169 -10 11 0 1832 29 SARAH HOBBS/I Got Me/Sarah Hobbs Music 161 12 16 1 1037 30 MATT & THE HERDSMEN/Hello Heartache/Matt & The Herdsmen Productions 128 19 10 1 10

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Number 1 = Most Added = Spin Gainer =

Bubbling Under PositionJAMIE LIN WILSON/The Being Gone/Jamie Lin Wilson Music 51SHEA ABSHIER & THE NIGHTHOWLERS/As You Weep/Shea Abshier & the Nighthowlers Music 52DRAKE HAYES BAND/Blood Red Moon/Drake Hayes Music 53STRYKER BROTHERS, THE/Charlie Duke Took Country Music To The Moon/Scriptorium/Thirty Tigers 54BRADLEY BANNING/More/Bradley Banning Music 55SHOTGUN RIDER/I'm Not Alright/Torrez Music Group 56CHANCE RAY/Roll On By/Chance Ray Music 57EDDIE SAENZ/Georgia Girl/Eddie Saenz Music 58DREW FISH/Better Place/Drew Fish Band Music 59DREW MORELAND/God And Cash/Drew Moreland Music 60

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35 31 JASON ALLEN/Smooth Talkin' Lady/Texas 222 119 -6 12 1 643 32 JON WOLFE/Hang Your Hat on That/Jon Wolfe Music 111 30 9 4 234 33 CODY BRYAN BAND/Texas Highway/Cody Bryan Band Music 111 -16 7 0 1339 34 JAKE BUSH/If These Walls Could Talk/Jake Bush Music 111 10 7 0 536 35 STETSON WALKER/Say Hello To Goodbye/Stetson Walker Music 106 -4 11 0 838 36 DONICE MORACE/WD-40 & Duct Tape/Donice Morace Music 101 0 9 0 940 37 CODY WAYNE/Good Ole Country Song/Cody Wayne Music 100 2 7 0 948 38 FRANK RAY/Tequila Mockingbird/White Knuckles Productions 96 27 11 1 741 39 ZACH COFFEY/Wildfire/Zach Coffey Music 96 -2 8 0 1246 40 JON YOUNG/Oh The Things I have Seen/Jon Young Music 94 22 8 0 742 41 KENNA DANIELLE/I-35 Reasons/Kenna Danielle Music 79 -3 9 1 845 42 KEVIN GALLOWAY/Miles And Miles/Nine Mile Records 79 6 3 0 347 43 DUSTIN SONNIER/Drinkin' Alone/Songs Of Sadness To Salve The Soul 78 8 6 0 2-- 44 POWELL BROTHERS, THE/Somewhere Down The Road/Powell Brothers Entertainment 71 8 8 1 350 45 ISAAC JACOB BAND (FT. MIKE HARMEIER)/The Price We Gotta Pay/Union 28 Records 70 4 4 0 3-- 46 DUSTY NEUMAN/Going Down To Austin/Dusty Neuman Music 67 3 5 0 1-- 47 MARTY HEDDIN/Fine By Me/Dreamlined Entertainment Group (in2une) 66 10 7 0 149 48 CALAMITY JANES/Light It Up/Calamity Janes Music 65 -3 5 0 744 49 KALEB MCINTIRE BAND/Love Song/Kaleb McIntire Band Music 62 -12 7 0 5-- 50 JOHN BAUMANN/Lonely In Bars/John Baumann Music 61 50 4 4 1

“Monitored Radio Airplay”

Chart Recurrent Methodology

When does a song move to recurrent on the chart? It is one of the more challenging issues we encountered in creating the CDX TRACtion Texas chart system. Rather than relying on subjective editorial decisions, we’ve chosen to automate this process using the weekly chart data as a marker.

We strive to avoid having singles past their prime create a logjam on the chart, because that stifles upward momentum for up-and-coming singles. But we also try to ensure that singles “on the bubble” are not removed prematurely. As long-time chart watchers know, singles often take a while to establish a solid base among early believers at radio before they truly find their legs. Due to any number of reasons, the path to peak chart position rarely includes straight-line, week-over-week spin and/or chart position growth.

On a monitored airplay chart like CDX TRACtion Texas, the reality is that new singles bounce around a bit spin-wise and position-wise, particularly in the lower half of the chart. Even small spin increases and decreases can be magnified as fairly significant up-or-down chart position moves.

With this in mind, the CDX TRACtion Texas recurrent policy grades each chart position on a curve, using an algorithm that considers the chart position and spin history for that song. Newly serviced singles are allowed 20 weeks to chart before being removed from chart consideration. Once a status change is actively being considered by the algorithm, the cumulative amount of spin loss from the single’s previous peak spin count is the trigger. The allowable spin loss varies as a percentage, depending on the chart position.

In addition to making sure that only singles with significant downward movement become recurrent, this methodology also benefits slow-developing singles in several ways. For instance, the allowable spin loss (as a percentage) is very generous at the lower reaches of the chart to accommodate the lower spin counts. Additionally, if a single is at risk of being moved to recurrent status with two consecutive weeks of minor spin loss, it can still return to positive spin growth the following week, which will reset the clock.

TRACtion only recognizes detections on songs that have been “fingerprinted.” We do our best to obtain and fingerprint all new releases; songs serviced through CDX are encoded automatically. Send a song MP3 file with title, artist, label, and add date to

https://spaces.hightail.com/uplink/tractiontx for fingerprinting.

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Monitored Stations KABW-FM Abilene, TXKBSO-FM Corpus Christi, TXKBST-FM Big Spring, TXKECO-FM Elk City, OKKERP-FM Dodge City, KSKFLP-FM Floydada, TXKFTX-FM Corpus Christi, TXKFWR-FM Ft. Worth, TXKFYN-FM Paris, TXKHKX-FM Odessa, TXKHLB-FM Mason, TXKHYI-FM Howe, TXKIKK-FM (HD2) Houston, TXKKAJ-FM Ardmore, OK

KKCN-FM San Angelo, TXKKGQ-FM Wichita, KSKMRK-FM Odessa, TXKNUE-FM Tyler, TXKOKE-FM Austin, TXKOLI-FM Wichita Falls, TXKORA-FM Bryan, TXKOXE-FM Brownwood, TXKOYN-FM Paris, TXKPAK-FM Alva, OKKPUR-FM Canyon, TXKQSC-AM Colorado Springs, COKRBL-FM Levelland,TXKRRG-FM Laredo, TX

KRUN-AM Ballinger, TXKRVF-FM Kerens, TXKRVN-FM Lexington, NEKSAM-FM Huntsville, TXKSCH-FM Sulphur Springs, TXKSCN-FM Pittsburg, TXKSNY-FM Snyder, TXKTCS-FM Ft. Smith, ARKTFW-FM Ft. Worth, TXKTTX-FM Brenham, TXKTXM-FM Hallettsville, TXKUSH-AM Cushing, OKKUSQ-FM Worthington, MNKVST-FM Montgomery, TX

KWOX-FM Woodward, OKKXKZ-FM Ruston, LAKYKM-FM Yoakum, TXKYKS-FM Lufkin, TXKYKX-FM Longview,TXKYYK-FM Palestine, TXcoyotecountryradio.commadeintexasradio.comtexashomegrownradio.com

Underlined = Frozen this Week Double Underlined = Frozen 2 WeeksBold = Newly AddedStrikethrough = Removed

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Most Added AddsBRI BAGWELL/If You Were A CowboyBri Bagwell Music 4JON WOLFE/Hang Your Hat on ThatJon Wolfe Music 4JOHN BAUMANN/Lonely In BarsJohn Baumann Music 4CODY JOHNSON/On My Way To YouCojo Music LLC 3FLATLAND CAVALRY/HoneywineFlatland Cavalry Music 3WADE BOWEN/Death, Dyin' and Deviled EggsWade Bowen Music 2RANDALL KING/Mirror MirrorRandall King Music 2NATALIE ROSE/My SouthNatalie Rose Music 2STRYKER BROTHERS, THE/Charlie Duke Took Country Music To The MoonScriptorium/Thirty Tigers 2SHOTGUN RIDER/I'm Not AlrightTorrez Music Group 2

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Greatest Spin Gainers IncreaseWADE BOWEN/Death, Dyin' and Deviled EggsWade Bowen Music 76CODY JOHNSON/On My Way To YouCojo Music LLC 72MIKE RYAN/Damn Good GoodbyeMike Ryan Music 64ADAM HOOD (FT. BRENT COBB)/She Don't Love MeAdam Hood Music 52JOHN BAUMANN/Lonely In BarsJohn Baumann Music 50STRYKER BROTHERS, THE/Charlie Duke Took Country Music To The MoonScriptorium/Thirty Tigers 48BRI BAGWELL/If You Were A CowboyBri Bagwell Music 47JAMIE RICHARDS/She RemainsJamie Richards Music 43

RANDALL KING/Mirror MirrorRandall King Music 39

CAMERAN NELSON/Life IsMiles Power Records 32

(L-R) Jeri Smith and Granger Smith

(L-R) Kevin Fowler and Jeri Smith.