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INSIDE

Chesney’s ‘Pretty’ Good Chart Week

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ASCAP, BMI Honor Kelsea, Keith

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Earls Pick Up A Bluegrass Threepeat

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Billy Ray, Miley Take Their ‘Boots’ To

Tootsie’s >page 11

Makin’ Tracks: Jana Kramer’s Addictive

Indie Single >page 15

Country Coda: Montgomery

Gentry’s ‘Proud’ Moment >page 20

When the crackling started during Jason Aldean’s Oct. 1 performance of “When She Says Baby,” most of the 20,000-30,000 people at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas thought it was a sound problem.

But within moments, as the popping noises intensified, it became evident something more sinister was occurring. A celebratory concert was under siege, and everyone was a potential target.

“It wasn’t an accident,” SiriusXM personality Storme Warren said hours later while still in a state of disbelief. “This was a deliberate act, and we were all sitting ducks.”

News reports called it the deadliest attack in modern American history. A wealt hy 64-year- old, Stephen Paddock, opened fire on the audience, with some reports indicating he may have had more than an hour to attack concertgoers with rapid-fire automatic guns from a 32nd-floor room in the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, several hundred yards away from the outdoor venue. Some 59 people were reported dead with 527 injured, though it was possible both numbers could escalate.

The attack is the latest in a series of horrific concert tragedies that have affected the country music business this decade. A stage collapse at a 2011 Sugarland concert in Indianapo-

lis left seven dead and more than 40 injured. Two June 2016 incidents in Orlando, Fla. — the killing of former The Voice contestant Christina Grimmie by an obsessive fan and the attack on the Pulse nightclub by a lone gunman that left 49 dead — coincided with the CMA Music Festival, heightening

the sense of vulnerability that artists a nd t hei r entou rages feel when performing in public. And just last month, Montgomery Gentry ’s Troy Gentry died in a helicopter crash near the Flying W Airport & Resort in Medford, N.J.

Wa r ren, who wa s t he MC for Gentry’s public memorial, was in the middle of the chaos in Las Vegas. He was standing at the side of the stage with Jake Owen’s road manager, Greg Fowler, taking in the Aldean show, only to go diving for safety behind a mass of concrete under the

stage when they realized they were under fire. As the initial reports began pouring out in a media frenzy, Warren discovered he had been in the vicinity of the killer — who had checked into the hotel on Sept. 28 — for several days.

The shooting “happened four floors above my room,” says Warren. “So whoever he was, I probably went up the elevator with him a few times.”

The “whoever” points to the difficulty of patrolling concerts

‘We Were All Sitting Ducks’: Reflecting On The Vegas Massacre

BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE Tom.Roland@billboard.com

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Las Vegas Police formed a perimeter around the road leading to the Mandalay Hotel after Paddock opened fire on the

Route 91 Harvest Festival on Oct. 1.

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in an era when firearms are plentiful. In the initial hours after the incident, law enforcement indicated Paddock had no prior record and was not on their radar, though searches of his property and his hotel accommodations turned up several thousand rounds of ammo.

Facilities have stepped up security in recent years, with metal detectors a familiar sight at many venues. But outdoor festivals in densely trafficked locations create more issues. The CMA Music Festival in Nashville, the Downtown Hoedown in Detroit and Route 91 are among those tucked into urban centers. While there is always a risk of a tragic incident, Las Vegas law enforcement officials admitted they never anticipated Paddock’s strategy — treating a high-rise hotel as a deer stand — as a potential scenario.

It was, President Donald Trump said in a press conference, “an act of pure evil.” He ordered flags be flown at half-staff, and the White House observed a moment of silence in the afternoon. Other vigils sprouted up — several in Las Vegas, and another announced by the Country Music Association at the Ascend Amphitheater in Nashville. The CMA delayed the final round of awards balloting, originally set for Oct. 2, for a day as the industry grappled with the tragedy.

In addition to Aldean, a number of artists were present when the shots rang out, including Owen, Chris Young and Luke Combs, who said in an interview on NBC’s Today that he was adamant the offensive would not stop him from pursuing his dream.

“It’s obviously disturbing to know that he was up there waiting for his opportunity,” said Combs of the killer. “At the same time, I don’t want to be scared or put any shows of mine on hold. I feel like that’s what this person wants to happen.”

Aldean’s record label, BBR Music Group, indirectly echoed that sentiment, noting in an official statement the tacit agreement made between an artist and the public. The performer puts his body in front of thousands of strangers, expecting they’re there to enjoy themselves. The public anticipates a communal experience. Few genres have a thinner wall between artist and fan than country.

“The country music community is a family, and our listeners are a part of that family,” said BBR executive vp Jon Loba in the statement. “They put food on our tables and allow our artists and staff to live our dreams by going to events like last night. While our artists and staff are safe, our hearts are broken for those listeners in our extended family who just wanted to share a night of great music and the camaraderie that is the hallmark of country music.”

Warren saw that camaraderie in action when the shooting subsided. Before the first responders arrived en masse, concertgoers still on the grounds were doing what they could for the hundreds of fellow fans that were wounded or injured.

“There was humanity that really stuck up for one another and really helped,” he said. “There were veterans running around going, ‘I’m trained. I can help. Is anybody hurt?’ ”

He adds, “You always just trust people to be good. Why would you step onstage believing someone that was out there was being bad? You would never do your job. Why would you even think that?”

It’s another form of the question everyone is asking: Why?

Aaron Watson performed a Sept. 24 concert sponsored by WBWL Boston at Café 939. From left at the show: WBWL midday personality Jessica Callahan, Watson and WBWL PD Lance Houston.

Chris Janson spent time with WSIX Nashville execs on Sept. 27 when he played the WSM-AM show the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville. From left: iHeartCountry senior vp programming Rod Phillips, Janson and iHeartMedia/Nashville senior vp programming Gator Harrison.

Dustin Lynch met with local country radio staff when he performed in Chicago on Sept. 23. From left: WEBG personality Emily Bermann, Broken Bow national director of promotion Jim Malito, WEBG PD Steve Stewart, Lynch, WUSN assistant PD/music director Marci Braun and WEBG personality Brooke Taylor.

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Kenny Chesney’s “All the Pretty Girls” (Blue Chair/Columbia Nashville) rises 2-1 on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart (dated Oct. 14), increasing 7 percent to 47 million audience impressions in the week ending Oct. 1, according to Nielsen Music. On Hot Country Songs, the single remains bulleted at its No. 7 peak.

Chesney banks his 28th Country Airplay No. 1, a roll that began more than 20 years ago on the chart dated Aug. 30, 1997, when “She’s Got It All,” his ninth entry, became his first No. 1, for three weeks.

“Few songs have as much summer in them as ‘All the Pretty Girls,’ which is why I wanted to record it,” Chesney tells Billboard of the song (which debuted on the June 17 chart, four days before summer started). “To me, there’s a special excitement that is summer and being young and alive. I think the guys caught that in the studio, and in a year that we weren’t on the road, I think I still got to be a part of No Shoes Nation’s summer through this song.”

“Pretty Girls” was written by Nicolle Gaylon, Tommy Lee James and Josh Osborne, and is the fourth single from Chesney’s album Cosmic Hallelujah. It follows “Bar at the End of the World,” which peaked at No. 10 on the Country Airplay list dated May 13; “Setting the World on Fire,” featuring P!nk (No. 1, Nov. 5, 2016); and “Noise” (No. 6, July 16, 2016).

In collecting his 28th Country Airplay No. 1, Chesney is right behind Tim McGraw’s record 29, dating to the chart’s Jan. 20, 1990, inception. Alan Jackson and George Strait share third place with 26 No. 1s apiece.

ALBUM ARRIVALS Thomas Rhett’s Life Changes (Valory/Big Machine Label Group) leads Top Country Albums for a third week (27,000 equivalent album units, down 31 percent). Meanwhile, three debuts populate the top 10.

Arriving at No. 2 is Texas trio Midland’s first full-length, On the Rocks (Big Machine/BMLG) (20,000). The set opens atop Country Album Sales with 17,000 sold.

Rocks follows Midland’s self-titled EP, which peaked at No. 38 on Top Country Albums (Aug. 5). The group’s launch song, “Drinkin’ Problem,” hit No. 3 on Country Airplay. Follow-up “Make a Little” jumps 54-41, soaring 151 percent to 3.1 million impressions.

A cappella country outfit Home Free bounds onto Top Country Albums at No. 3 with Timeless (Columbia), earning 16,000 units (almost all in pure sales) and marking the act’s strongest sales week.

Home Free broke through when it won the 2013 season of NBC’s The Sing-Off. Timeless marks its fifth appearance on Top Country Albums and fourth top 10.

Its 2016 holiday set Full of (Even More) Cheer is its highest-peaking (No. 2).

Singer-songwriter Chris Janson’s second full-length, Everybody (Warner Bros./Warner Music Nashville), bows at No. 7 on Top Country Albums (11,000 units; 8,000 in pure sales). The set follows his first LP, Buy Me a Boat, which started and peaked at No. 4 on the Top Country Albums chart dated Nov. 21, 2015 (19,000 sold).

Everybody has produced two singles thus far: “Holdin’ Her” peaked at Nos. 20 and 25 on Country Airplay and Hot Country Songs, respectively. “Fix a Drink” holds at its No. 10 high on Country Airplay, increasing 14 percent to 27.9 million, while leaping to a new Hot Country Songs peak (17-11).

‘ROAD’ GOES ON Sam Hunt’s “Body Like a Back Road” (MCA Nashville) continues its Hot Country Songs domination, stretching its record No. 1 run to 34 weeks.

The track adds another record, becoming the longest-leading Country Streaming Songs No. 1: 34 weeks. Although down 5 percent to 12.3 million U.S. streams, “Body” passes Florida Georgia Line’s “Cruise,” which led for 33 weeks in 2013 and 2014. “Body” now wears the crown for the longest reign on three of Billboard’s main country songs charts: Hot Country Songs, Country Streaming Songs and Country Digital Song Sales (31 weeks). It led Country Airplay for three weeks beginning May 6.

‘Pretty’ Good: Chesney Scores 28th Country Airplay No. 1; Midland, Home Free And Janson

Make Top 10 Debuts On Country Albums

ON THE CHARTS JIM ASKER jim.asker@billboard.com

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l1 2 18 ALL THE PRETTY GIRLS Blue Chair/Columbia Nashville HH No. 1 (1 week) HH Kenny Chesney 47.037 +3.132 8224 433 1

2 1 30 SMALL TOWN BOY Broken Bow Dustin Lynch 43.115 -2.607 6784 -745 4

l3 4 33 WHAT IFS Zone 4/RCA Nashville Kane Brown Featuring Lauren Alaina 42.191 +2.314 7317 310 2

l4 5 23 THEY DON’T KNOW Macon/Broken Bow Jason Aldean 40.139 +1.383 7292 244 3

5 3 23 HEARTACHE ON THE DANCE FLOOR Capitol Nashville Jon Pardi 34.300 -9.311 5262 -2470 10

l6 7 10 UNFORGETTABLE Valory Thomas Rhett 32.896 +3.272 5387 476 9

l7 8 16 WHEN IT RAINS IT POURS River House/Columbia Nashville Luke Combs 32.208 +2.641 5939 678 5

l8 6 33 MORE GIRLS LIKE YOU MCA Nashville Kip Moore 32.145 +1.770 5884 287 6

l9 9 29 EVERY LITTLE THING Big Machine Carly Pearce 29.721 +2.043 5741 310 7

l10 10 20 FIX A DRINK Warner Bros./WAR Chris Janson 27.883 +3.321 5470 559 8

l11 14 6 LIGHT IT UP Capitol Nashville Luke Bryan 23.031 +1.489 4082 260 14

l12 11 29 I COULD USE A LOVE SONG Columbia Nashville Maren Morris 22.598 +1.057 4166 106 13

l13 13 28 ASK ME HOW I KNOW Pearl Garth Brooks 22.498 +1.300 4239 140 12

l14 12 38 IT AIN’T MY FAULT EMI Nashville Brothers Osborne 22.051 +0.421 4603 4 11

l15 15 31 GREATEST LOVE STORY Arista Nashville LANCO 21.346 +2.324 4027 225 15

l16 18 4 I’LL NAME THE DOGS Warner Bros./WMN HH Most Increased Audience HH Blake Shelton 19.116 +3.819 3376 645 18

l17 17 25 ROUND HERE BUZZ EMI Nashville Eric Church 18.783 +1.203 3847 95 16

l18 16 46 RING ON EVERY FINGER Reviver LOCASH 17.379 -0.356 3557 44 17

l19 19 9 SMOOTH BMLG Florida Georgia Line 15.371 +1.551 3142 308 19

l20 20 24 LAST TIME FOR EVERYTHING Arista Nashville Brad Paisley 13.516 +0.147 2695 -240 20

l21 21 21 LOSING SLEEP RCA Nashville Chris Young 13.009 +0.993 2531 150 22

l22 22 11 LIKE I LOVED YOU BMLG Brett Young 11.211 +1.191 2412 254 24

l23 25 23 YOURS Triple Tigers Russell Dickerson 10.781 +1.286 2509 298 23

l24 24 39 OUTTA STYLE BIG Label Aaron Watson 10.218 +0.853 2201 142 26

l25 23 36 A GIRL LIKE YOU Mercury Easton Corbin 10.093 +0.027 2665 54 21

l26 27 14 YOU BROKE UP WITH ME Monument/Arista Nashville Walker Hayes 10.000 +1.370 2081 256 27

l27 26 18 ALL ON ME Atlantic/WEA Devin Dawson 9.830 +0.915 1952 187 28

l28 28 26 TIN MAN Vanner/RCA Nashville Miranda Lambert 8.155 +0.638 1814 89 29

l29 29 28 CALIFORNIA B$R/Thirty Tigers/New Revolution Big & Rich 7.809 +0.734 2229 30 25

l30 30 17 LEGENDS Black River Kelsea Ballerini 5.149 +0.354 1404 73 30

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BILLBOARD COUNTRY AIRPLAY PANEL — 149 STATIONSAkron, OH WQMXAlbany, N.Y. WGNAAlbuquerque, N.M. KBQI KRSTAllentown, Pa. WCTOAtlanta WKHX WUBLAugusta, Ga. WKXCAustin, Texas KASEBakersfield, Calif. KUZZBaltimore WPOCBaton Rouge, La. WYNKBirmingham, Ala. WDXB WZZKBoise, Idaho KAWO KIZNBoston WBWL WKLBBuffalo, N.Y. WYRKCharleston, S.C. WEZLCharlotte, N.C. WKKT WSOCChattanooga, Tenn. WUSYChicago WEBG WUSNCincinnati WUBECleveland WGARColorado Springs, Colo. KATCColumbia, S.C. WCOSColumbus, Ohio WCOLCorpus Christi, Texas KRYSDallas KPLX KSCSDayton, Ohio WHKODenver KWOF KYGODes Moines, Iowa KHKI

Detroit WDRQ WYCDEl Paso, Texas KHEYFt. Myers, Fla. WCKT WWGRFt. Wayne, Ind. WQHKFresno, Calif. KSKSGainesville, Fla. WOGKGrand Rapids, Mich. WBCTGreensboro, N.C. WTQRGreenville, S.C. WSSLHarrisburg, Pa. WRBTHartford, Conn. WWYZHouston KILT KKBQHuntsville, Ala. WDRMIndianapolis WFMS WLHKJacksonville, Fla. WGNE WQIKJohnson City, Tenn. WXBQKansas City KBEQ WDAF KFKFKnoxville, Tenn. WCYQ WIVKLafayette, La. KMDLLakeland, Fla. WPCVLas Vegas KCYE KWNRLexington, Ky. WBULLittle Rock, Ark. KSSNLos Angeles KKGOLouisville, Ky. WAMZ WQNUMadison, Wis. WWQM WMADMcAllen, Texas KTEX

Memphis WGKX WLFPMiami WKISMilwaukee WMILMinneapolis KEEY KMNBMobile, Ala. WKSJMonmouth/Ocean, N.J. WKMKMonterey, Calif.. KTOMNashville WKDF WSIXNassau, N.Y. WJVCNew Bern, N.C. WRNSNew Orleans WNOENew York WNSHNorfolk, Va. WGH WUSHOklahoma City, Okla. KJKE KTSTOmaha, Neb. KXKTOrlando, Fla. WWKAOxnard-Ventura, CA KHAYPhiladelphia WXTUPhoenix KMLE KNIXPittsburgh WDSY WOGI WPGBPortland, Maine WPOR WTHTPortland, Ore. KUPL KWJJProvidence, R.I. WCTKRaleigh, N.C. WNCB WQDRReno, Nevada KBUL KOLCRichmond, Va. WKHK

Riverside, Calif. KFRGRoanoke, Va. WSLCRochester, N.Y. WBEESacramento, Calif. KBEB KNCI KNTYSt. Louis KSD WILSalt Lake City KSOP KUBLSan Antonio, Texas KAJA KCYYSan Diego KSONSan Jose, Calif. KRTYSarasota, Fla. WCTQSeattle KKWF KMPSSpokane, Wash. KXLYSpringfield, Mass. WRNXStockton, Calif. KATMSyracuse, N.Y. WBBSTampa, Fla. WFUS WQYKTucson, Ariz. KIIMTulsa, Okla. KVOO KWENVisalia, Calif. KJUGWashington, D.C. WMZQWest Palm Beach, Fla. WIRKWichita, Kan. KFDI KZSNWilkes Barre, Pa. WGGYWilmington, Del. WXCYYork, Pa. WGTY

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Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims of

the Las Vegas shooting and their families.

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CHARLES PARKER Bring Back The Sun Mach 3/Jerry Duncan

JACKSON MICHELSON Rollin’ Curb

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ASHLEY MCBRYDE A Little Dive Bar In Dahlonega Atlantic/WAR

DELTA RAE No Peace In Quiet Valory

DUSHANE BAND Can’t Slow Down KES

TRAILERHAWK Car Marco/Hundred Proof/Jerry Duncan

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CRAIG WAYNE BOYD Stuck In My Head Copperline/1608

DUSTIN LYNCH I’d Be Jealous Too Broken Bow

MORGAN EVANS Kiss Somebody Warner Bros./WEA

GOING FOR ADDS

The sophomore single from Lady A ’s same-named album follows “You Look Good,” which reached Nos. 4 and 8 on Country Airplay and

Hot Country Songs, respectively. “Heart” surges 567 percent to 1.3 million audience

impressions and opens on Country Airplay at No. 57, marking the group’s 27th appearance.

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l31 31 22 SHE’S WITH ME Atlantic/WEA High Valley 4.885 +0.412 1080 103 34

l32 33 11 BROKEN HALOS Mercury Chris Stapleton 4.687 +0.206 1194 50 32

l33 34 19 FIVE MORE MINUTES Triple Tigers Scotty McCreery 4.461 +0.221 1004 42 37

l34 32 16 BOY Curb Lee Brice 4.450 +0.107 1038 77 35

l35 35 15 HAPPENS LIKE THAT Wheelhouse Granger Smith 3.851 +0.224 1332 111 31

l36 40 3 WRITTEN IN THE SAND RCA Nashville Old Dominion 3.711 +0.964 538 122 46

l37 38 6 THE LONG WAY Atlantic/WMN Brett Eldredge 3.655 +0.890 792 108 38

l38 37 15 SINGLES YOU UP MCA Nashville Jordan Davis 3.633 +0.732 1023 157 36

l39 36 14 ONES THAT LIKE ME Valory Brantley Gilbert 3.397 +0.076 1130 31 33

l40 39 11 GET TO YOU Atlantic/WEA HH Breaker HH Michael Ray 3.194 +0.409 772 85 39

l41 54 2 MAKE A LITTLE Big Machine HH Most Added HH Midland 3.112 +1.872 620 398 44

l42 41 7 ROOTS Southern Ground/Elektra/WAR HH Breaker HH Zac Brown Band 2.457 +0.116 770 77 40

l43 42 10 ROAD TRIPPIN’ Warner Bros./WAR Dan + Shay 2.111 +0.023 766 62 41

l44 43 20 SUNDAY MORNING Stoney Creek Parmalee 2.085 +0.148 674 53 43

l45 44 5 STAY DOWNTOWN Warner Bros./WMN Cole Swindell 1.991 +0.075 534 21 47

46 45 8 FOR THE FIRST TIME Capitol Nashville Darius Rucker 1.872 -0.201 525 20 48

47 47 7 WHEN SOMEONE STOPS LOVING YOU Capitol Nashville Little Big Town 1.539 -0.070 744 26 42

l48 50 13 WAITING ON YOU Stoney Creek Lindsay Ell 1.530 +0.135 473 35 51

l49 48 5 THREE CHORDS & THE TRUTH Dack Janiels/Broken Bow Chase Rice 1.530 +0.045 512 31 49

50 46 5 HOOKED Curb Dylan Scott 1.516 -0.143 446 55 52

l51 57 3 DRINK A LITTLE BEER Valory Thomas Rhett Featuring Rhett Akins 1.500 +0.038 163 13 -

l52 49 9 DOIN’ FINE 19/Interscope/Mercury Lauren Alaina 1.487 +0.057 552 9 45

l53 51 8 SWAY Big Machine Danielle Bradbery 1.352 +0.030 426 39 53

l54 52 9 ALL ABOUT YOU MCA Nashville Josh Turner 1.343 +0.114 509 -7 50

l55 53 5 BACK TO US Big Machine Rascal Flatts 1.311 +0.077 363 26 54

l56 58 7 LOVE IN A BAR RCA Nashville Ryan Hurd 1.295 +0.474 342 12 55

l57 NEW HEART BREAK Capitol Nashville HH Hot Shot Debut HH Lady Antebellum 1.275 +1.084 222 162 -

l58 56 3 NEVER GETS OLD Red Bow Joe Nichols 1.011 +0.077 337 -10 56

l59 55 4 WAKE ME UP Mercury Billy Currington 0.999 +0.088 302 98 59

l60 NEW WILD WEST This Is Hit/Wheelhouse Runaway June 0.936 +0.350 248 158 -

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MOST ADDED®TITLE Imprint/Label Artist ADDSMAKE A LITTLE Big Machine Midland 20LIKE I LOVED YOU BMLG Brett Young 16WILD WEST Wheelhouse Runaway June 12I’LL NAME THE DOGS Warner Bros./WMN Blake Shelton 11WRITTEN IN THE SAND RCA Nashville Old Dominion 11YOU BROKE UP WITH ME Monument/Arista Nashville Walker Hayes 10THE LONG WAY Atlantic/WMN Brett Eldredge 9HEART BREAK Capitol Nashville Lady Antebellum 9ALL ON ME Atlantic/WEA Devin Dawson 8STAY DOWNTOWN Warner Bros./WMN Cole Swindell 8

MOST INCREASED PLAYSTITLE Imprint/Label Artist GAINWHEN IT RAINS IT POURS River House/Columbia Nashville Luke Combs +678I’LL NAME THE DOGS Warner Bros./WMN Blake Shelton +645FIX A DRINK Warner Bros./WAR Chris Janson +559UNFORGETTABLE Valory Thomas Rhett +476ALL THE PRETTY GIRLS Blue Chair/Columbia Nashville Kenny Chesney +433MAKE A LITTLE Big Machine Midland +398WHAT IFS Zone 4/RCA Nashville Kane Brown Featuring Lauren Alaina +310EVERY LITTLE THING Big Machine Carly Pearce +310SMOOTH BMLG Florida Georgia Line +308YOURS Triple Tigers Russell Dickerson +298

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I’LL NAME THE DOGS Warner Bros./WMN Blake Shelton +3.819FIX A DRINK Warner Bros./WAR Chris Janson +3.321UNFORGETTABLE Valory Thomas Rhett +3.272ALL THE PRETTY GIRLS Blue Chair/Columbia Nashville Kenny Chesney +3.132WHEN IT RAINS IT POURS River House/Columbia Nashville Luke Combs +2.641GREATEST LOVE STORY Arista Nashville LANCO +2.324WHAT IFS Zone 4/RCA Nashville Kane Brown Featuring Lauren Alaina +2.314EVERY LITTLE THING Big Machine Carly Pearce +2.043MAKE A LITTLE Big Machine Midland +1.872MORE GIRLS LIKE YOU MCA Nashville Kip Moore +1.770

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BILLBOARD COUNTRY BOXSCOREGross Artist AttendanceTicket Price(s) Venue/Date(s) Capacity Promoter(s)

$820,107 DIERKS BENTLEY 24,527 LIVE NATION$65.75, $18.75 Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre, Tinley Park, Ill./July 28 28,570

$720,386 DIERKS BENTLEY 24,560 LIVE NATION$72, $20 Klipsch Music Center, Noblesville, Ind./July 22 sellout

$691,574 DIERKS BENTLEY 22,179 LIVE NATION$67.75, $19.50 BB&T Pavilion, Camden, N.J./Aug. 5 25,199

$668,590 DIERKS BENTLEY 18,486 LIVE NATION$71.75, $31.75 Toyota Amphitheatre, Wheatland, Calif./Aug. 19 sellout

$664,284 DIERKS BENTLEY 18,494 LIVE NATION$70.75, $20 Blossom Music Center, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio/July 27 20,411

Reported worldwide boxscore figures for Country artists. Boxscore figures should be submitted to Bob Allen by phone (615-891-1976), fax (615-891-2054) or email (bob.allen@billboard.com).

TEXAS REGIONAL RADIO REPORTWEEK ENDING OCTOBER 1, 2017

Texas Regional Radio Report Top 100 is compiled from weekly online playlist reports from 86 radio stations located in Texas and surrounding states, including reports from specialty shows, internet and satellite radio outlets. Songs are ranked by total plays. For tracking, complete chart methodology and more information, visit www.texasregionalradio.com, or contact Dave Smith at 817-283-7984. Copyright 2017, Texas Regional Radio Report

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2 1 12 COUNTRY SONG (Independent) Casey Donahew Band 1670 -94

3 3 14 MOVIN’ ON (KF Music) Kevin Fowler 1566 -41

l4 4 14 TEXAS WOMEN, TENNESSEE WHISKEY (Independent) Josh Abbott Band 1556 63

l5 8 15 MEET ME TONIGHT (Independent) Randy Rogers Band 1364 3

l6 10 15 HOW I WANNA BE (Republic) Sundance Head 1341 54

7 7 23 CONFORMITY (Independent) Natalie Rose 1336 -40

8 5 16 BIG TIME LONESOME (Independent) Jake Worthington 1324 -166

l9 11 16 RADIO (No Big Deal) Reckless Kelly 1287 42

l10 15 16 HAPPENS LIKE THAT (Independent) Granger Smith 1197 28

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12 13 21 NEW ORLEANS (Independent) Shane Smith & The Saints 1184 -5

l13 17 12 SIPPIN’ ON SHINE (Independent) Jerrett Zoch and The OSR Band 1138 96

14 12 19 ARMADILLO (Independent) Junior Gordon 1119 -83

15 14 24 MINE AGAIN (I’D BE A FOOL) (Lightning Rod) Dalton Domino 1116 -63

l16 19 14 LITTLE BIT OF RUST (Independent) Will Hoge 1064 92

l17 18 17 RAINY DAY MONEY (Texas Evolution) Mark McKinney 1020 30

l18 20 6 DON’T CALL (Independent) Bri Bagwell 1007 73

l19 23 9 GOD AND GEORGE STRAIT (Independent) Rich O’Toole 1002 136

20 6 17 RESTLESS (Independent) Jake Ward 991 -486

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(IN MILLIONS)1 BODY LIKE A BACK ROAD MCA Nashville Sam Hunt 31.959

2 DO I MAKE YOU WANNA Mercury Billy Currington 27.420

3 NO SUCH THING AS A BROKEN HEART RCA Nashville Old Dominion 25.620

4 IN CASE YOU DIDN’T KNOW BMLG Brett Young 22.448

5 CRAVING YOU Valory Thomas Rhett Featuring Maren Morris 21.931

6 HURRICANE River House/Columbia Nashville Luke Combs 19.786

7 MY GIRL Curb Dylan Scott 19.192

8 SOMEBODY ELSE WILL Valory Justin Moore 15.597

9 DRINKIN’ PROBLEM Big Machine Midland 13.975

10 HOMETOWN GIRL MCA Nashville Josh Turner 13.643

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STATIONS ADDSSIXTEEN Valory Thomas Rhett 0.920 4 1

HELL IF I KNOW Red Bow Chase Bryant 0.814 30 2

NAMASTE Songs In The Key Of B Bobby Bones And The Raging Idiots 0.810 11 0

KINDA DON’T CARE Valory Justin Moore 0.788 24 8

BETTER ME Average Joes Montgomery Gentry 0.759 9 3

LONELY CALL Warner Bros./WMN RaeLynn 0.718 24 1

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URBAN, KELSEA HAILED BY BMI, ASCAPKelsea Ballerini, Keith Urban and songwriter Bob DiPiero (“Southern Voice,” “Blue Clear Sky”) will receive significant achievement honors from ASCAP and BMI when the performing rights organizations hand out their country song-writer awards in the days preceding the 51st annual Country Music Awards.

Ballerini will pick up the ASCAP Vanguard Award on Nov. 6 at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium. Previously bestowed on such acts as Chris Stapleton, Walk the Moon and The Civil Wars, the trophy recognizes ASCAP members poised to influence music’s future.

DiPiero will be named a BMI Icon during a Nov. 7 ceremony at BMI’s Music Row office. With a hit list that dates back to the early 1980s – when the Oak Ridge Boys gave him his first No. 1 single with 1983’s “American Made” – DiPiero has emerged as one of the genre’s most colorful songwriters, using his early experiences in Ohio bar bands as a litmus test for hooks. DiPiero wrote such titles as “The Church On Cumberland Road,” “Wink” and “You Can’t Take The Honky Tonk Out Of The Girl,” and joins such previous BMI Icons as Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson.

Urban is in line for the BMI Champion Award, honoring his efforts at en-gaging future generations of music makers. He’s been active in numerous music-education campaigns, raised more than $2.6 million for the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum and even gifted a young guitarist he’d never met with an expensive pedal at an instrument store.

Singer/songwriter Rodney Crowell (“Please Remember Me,” “Leaving Louisiana In The Broad Daylight”) will also receive the ASCAP Founders Award, as previously announced.

The CMAs air Nov. 8 on CBS from Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena.

MOVERS AND SHAKERSRobby Bridges re-signed with Cumulus/Detroit as director of FM programming. The cluster includes country WDRQ and classic country WDRQ-HD2 … Shawnda McNeal started Oct. 2 at KIZN Boise, Idaho, where she joined Cory Mikhals as morning co-host and took over the midday shift. McNeal most recently worked mornings at alternative KDGE Dallas-Fort Worth … WGGI Wilkes-Barre, Pa., changed hands as Entercom divested three stations in preparation for a merger with CBS Radio. The new ownership is Educational Media Foundation, a Rocklin, Calif.-based nonprofit that operates contemporary Christian music stations … Matt McAllister picked up a morning shift at KKWF Seattle, The Arizona Republic reported. He worked most recently in the same daypart at KNIX Phoenix. His former morning-show producer, Joe Wallace, makes the move to Washington, too … WKTI Milwaukee hired Karen Dalessandro as music director/morning host, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. A member of the Country Radio Hall of Fame, Dalessandro had retired from broadcasting in March following nearly two decades at cross-town WMIL … Sylvia Cariker, known on-air as Casey McBride, completed her last full-time shift at KUZZ Bakersfield, Calif., on Sept. 29, The Bakersfield Californian reported. She continues to work with the station in a part-time

capacity … Drew Salamon joined iHeartMedia/Virginia-Carolina as vp sales, a position that represents 53 stations, according to InsideRa-dio.com. He shifts from an equivalent position in the chain’s Pittsburgh re-gion … WKIS Miami afternoon talent Bryan LaRoche left the station, In-sideRadio.com reported, in favor of a post as club-fitting specialist with the PGA National Resort & Spa in Palm Beach Gardens … Chris Mur-phy was officially appointed WUSW Springfield, Ill., PD after serving in an interim basis, according to Talk-ers.com. Murphy is also PD for adult contemporary sister WNNS.

’ROUND THE ROWSongwriter Aaron Eshuis signed a publishing deal with SmackSongs, administered by Kobalt. He has pre-viously landed cuts with A Thou-sand Horses, Rascal Flatts and Cole Swindell … Singer-songwriter Josh Phillips joined the Big Machine roster, launching the arrangement with a five-song EP, Lee County … Bluegrass singer-guitarist Molly Tuttle signed a recording deal with indie Compass … Hayley Orrantia, a regular on ABC series The Goldbergs, signed a touring and branding deal with APA Nashville … Singer-actress Keeira Lyn Ford signed with Kore Public Relations. Ford was a competitor on CMT’s Can You Duet? and has had roles in My Wife and Kids and How I Met Your Mother … BBR/BMG hired the United Kingdom’s Lime Tree Music to represent Walker McGuire for both PR and radio promo-tion as the duo makes its first trip to London this week … Bill Miller purchased the Southern Turf building in Nashville’s Printers Alley district. Miller, who also owns the Johnny Cash Museum, is a majority owner in Skull’s Rainbow Room, one of the businesses in the Turf facility … Nashville voice coach Renee Grant-Williams will begin a series of articles on vocal technique for In Tune Monthly, beginning with the magazine’s October issue … The Military De-partment of Tennessee recognized Journey Home project co-founder David Corlew with the distinguished patriot medal. Corlew manages Charlie Dan-iels … Thiel Audio is opening its first retail space at the Pinnacle in Symphony Place in downtown Nashville … Media mogul Hugh Hefner died Sept. 27. In addition to founding Playboy magazine, he also created a Playboy record label, which yielded hits in the 1970s for Barbi Benton, Bobby Borchers and Mickey Gilley … Ken Stilts died Sept. 24 following a battle with Alzheimer’s disease. The founder of Dimension Records managed a number of artists dur-ing his active years, including The Judds, Carl Perkins and Terry McBride.

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Walker Hayes performed for KRTY San Jose on Sept. 20 at the Rodeo Club. From left: KRTY vp sales Tina Ferguson, Hayes and KRTY GM Nate Deaton and promotions director Jamie Pauhl.

Old Dominion visited with KSON San Diego assistant PD/music director Brooks O’Brian when it opened for Thomas Rhett on Sept. 24 at the Viejas Arena. From left: band members Geoff Sprung and Trevor Rosen, O’Brian and band members Matthew Ramsey and Brad Tursi.

Chris Stapleton (right) hung out backstage with Harry Styles on Sept. 22 during the iHeartRadio Music Festival at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.

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MUSIC NOTESThe Earls of Leicester took entertainer of the year for a third straight time during the 28th annual International Bluegrass Music Awards on Sept. 28 in Raleigh, N.C. Lead singer Shawn Camp took male vocalist for the sec-ond time in three years. The Earls also include Dobro ace Jerry Douglas, mandolinist Jeff White, banjoist Charlie Cushman, fiddler Johnny Warren and bassist Barry Bales. The awards also included a precedent-setting trophy for Molly Tuttle, the first female ever to be named guitar player of the year.

Spotify hosted a Welcome Home party for pop star Miley Cyrus at a legendary country venue in Nashville. Some 140 fans crowded into Tootsie’s Orchid Lounge, across the alley from the Ryman Au-d itor iu m , for a S ept . 29 performance celebrating the release of her album Younger Now. Her father, Billy Ray Cyrus, showed up for a romp through his 25-year-old hit “Achy Breaky Heart” and for a duet with his daughter on “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’.” Tootsie’s was a wa-tering hole for such country figures as Mel Tillis, Jim Reeves and Marty Robbins when the Grand Ole Opry resided at the Ryman.

Ryman Hospitality opened its Ole Red Tishomingo over the weekend as local resident Blake Shelton hosted a private function on Sept. 29 and a public block party on Sept. 30 featuring RaeLynn and Grand Ole Opry members Ronnie Milsap, Jeannie Seely and John Conlee. The first night yielded a $32,000 check for local cancer charity J.C. Reaching Out. A second Ole Red outlet will open in Nashville next spring.

Roughly 25 years after he first considered writing an autobiography, Garth Brooks is tackling his memoirs in a big way with plans to roll out his career story in five parts. The first volume, Part 1, The First Five Years, will be published Nov. 14. It features about 150 previously unpublished photos, session details and a five-CD, 52-song compilation that includes private demos.

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Jerrod Niemann celebrated his new album — This Ride, due Oct. 6 — with a Sept. 26 soiree at Hemingway’s in Nashville. From left at the party: Curb vp promotion Ryan Dokke and CEO Jim Ed Norman, Niemann and Curb vp/GM Taylor Childress and national director of promotion Mike Rogers.

ON THIS DATE IN COUNTRY MUSIC

Oct. 2 • 1991 — George Bush becomes the first president to attend the

Country Music Association Awards, where Garth Brooks wins four trophies: entertainer of the year, album (No Fences), single (“Friends in Low Places”) and music video (“The Thunder Rolls”).

Oct. 3 • 2014 — As Little Big Town performs “Pontoon” at the Grand Ole

Opry, Reba McEntire joins the band on harmony, then invites it to become Opry members.

• 20 06 — RC A relea ses Chris Young’s self-titled debut album.

Oct. 4 • 2012 — Michael Ray, a singer

coached by John Rich, performs “Barefoot Blue Jean Night” on the f inale of the CW show The Next and wins the competition. R ay chokes up as he delivers “Springsteen” while the credits roll.

• 1975 — Willie Nelson picks up his first No. 1 single as an artist on the Billboard country chart with “Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain.”

Oct. 5 • 2016 — Tim McGraw and Faith Hill receive stars on the Music City

Walk of Fame in Nashville.

Oct. 6 • 2011 — Cole Swindell and Michael Carter write a future Luke

Bryan hit, “Roller Coaster,” in the back of one of Bryan’s tour buses in Valdosta, Ga.

• 1977 — RCA releases Dolly Parton’s “Here You Come Again.”

Oct. 7 • 2008 – Josh Turner and John Rich attend as presidential candidates

John McCain and Barack Obama debate on national TV from Nashville’s Belmont University.

Oct. 8 • 1957 — Jerry Lee Lewis records “Great Balls of Fire” at the Sun

Recording Studio on Union Avenue in Memphis.

Source: RolandNote.com, the Ultimate Country Music Database

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bumps by 2 percent to 3.5 million U.S. streams and 2 percent to 6,000 downloads sold while

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1 1 1 35 BODY LIKE A BACK ROAD HH No. 1 (34 weeks) HH Sam Hunt Z.CROWELL (S.HUNT,Z.CROWELL,J.OSBORNE,S.MCANALLY) MCA NASHVILLE

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l2 2 2 43 WHAT IFS Kane Brown Featuring Lauren Alaina D.HUFF (K.BROWN,M.MCGINN,J.M.SCHMIDT) ZONE 4/RCA NASHVILLE 3 2

3 3 3 32 SMALL TOWN BOY Dustin Lynch Z.CROWELL (R.AKINS,B.HAYSLIP,K.FISHMAN) BROKEN BOW 2 2

l4 4 5 16 WHEN IT RAINS IT POURS HH Streaming Gainer HH Luke Combs S.MOFFATT (L.COMBS,R.FULCHER,J.WALKER) RIVER HOUSE/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE

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l5 6 4 9 UNFORGETTABLE Thomas Rhett D.HUFF,J.FRASURE,THOMAS RHETT (THOMAS RHETT,J.FRASURE,A.GORLEY,S.MCANALLY) VALORY 6 4

6 5 6 21 HEARTACHE ON THE DANCE FLOOR Jon Pardi B.BUTLER,J.PARDI (J.PARDI,B.BUTLER,B.LONG) CAPITOL NASHVILLE 5 5

l7 7 7 17 ALL THE PRETTY GIRLS Kenny Chesney B.CANNON,K.CHESNEY (N.GALYON,T.L.JAMES,J.OSBORNE) BLUE CHAIR/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE 1 7

l8 9 14 28 GREATEST LOVE STORY LANCO J.JOYCE (B.LANCASTER) ARISTA NASHVILLE 15 8

l9 10 12 24 EVERY LITTLE THING Carly Pearce BUSBEE (C.PEARCE,BUSBEE,E.SHACKELTON) BIG MACHINE 9 9

l10 8 11 20 THEY DON’T KNOW Jason Aldean M.KNOX (J.BOYER,J.MIRENDA,K.ALLISON) MACON/BROKEN BOW 4 8

l11 17 19 18 FIX A DRINK HH Digital Gainer HH Chris Janson B.ANDERSON,C.DUBOIS (C.JANSON,C.DUBOIS,A.GORLEY) WARNER BROS./WAR

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l12 13 16 6 LIGHT IT UP Luke Bryan J.STEVENS,J.STEVENS (L.BRYAN,B.TURSI) CAPITOL NASHVILLE 11 11

l13 14 10 4 I’LL NAME THE DOGS HH Airplay Gainer HH Blake Shelton S.HENDRICKS (M.DRAGSTREM,B.HAYSLIP,J.THOMPSON) WARNER BROS./WMN

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l14 12 15 32 MORE GIRLS LIKE YOU Kip Moore K.MOORE,D.GARCIA (K.MOORE,S.L.OLSEN,J.MILLER,D.A.GARCIA) MCA NASHVILLE 8 12

l15 15 18 28 I COULD USE A LOVE SONG Maren Morris BUSBEE,M.MORRIS (M.MORRIS,J.ROBBINS,L.VELTZ) COLUMBIA NASHVILLE 12 15

l16 16 17 36 IT AIN’T MY FAULT Brothers Osborne J.JOYCE (J. OSBORNE,T.J. OSBORNE,L.T.MILLER) EMI NASHVILLE 14 14

l17 18 21 20 LOSING SLEEP Chris Young C.CROWDER,C.YOUNG (C.YOUNG,J.HOGE,C. DESTEFANO) RCA NASHVILLE 21 17

l18 19 26 10 LIKE I LOVED YOU Brett Young D.HUFF (B.YOUNG,J.LEE) BMLG 22 18

l19 20 20 25 ROUND HERE BUZZ Eric Church J.JOYCE (E.CHURCH,J.HYDE,L.DICK) EMI NASHVILLE 17 19

l20 21 22 11 SMOOTH Florida Georgia Line J.MOI (T.HUBBARD,B.KELLEY,N.GALYON,J.M.SCHMIDT) BMLG 19 20

l21 22 24 19 ASK ME HOW I KNOW Garth Brooks M.A.MILLER (M.ROSSELL) PEARL 13 21

l22 25 28 18 YOU BROKE UP WITH ME Walker Hayes S.MCANALLY (W.HAYES,K.SACKLEY,T.ARCHER) MONUMENT/ARISTA NASHVILLE 26 22

l23 23 27 16 YOURS Russell Dickerson C.BROWN (P.WELLING,C.BROWN,R.DICKERSON) TRIPLE TIGERS 23 21

l24 24 25 29 RING ON EVERY FINGER LOCASH L.RIMES (THOMAS RHETT,J.KEAR,J.FRASURE) REVIVER 18 22

l25 26 30 24 TIN MAN Miranda Lambert F.LIDDELL,G.WORF,E.MASSE (M.LAMBERT,J.INGRAM,J.R.STEWART) VANNER/RCA NASHVILLE 28 15

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For inquiries about any Nielsen Music data, please contact Josh Bennett at 615-807-1338 or josh.bennett@nielsen.com

The week’s most popular country songs, ranked by radio airplay audience impressions as measured by Nielsen Music, sales data as compiled by Nielsen Music and streaming activity data from online music sources tracked by Nielsen Music. Descending titles below No. 25 are moved to recurrent after 20 weeks.

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l26 27 32 13 ALL ON ME Devin Dawson J.JOYCE (D.DAWSON,J.DURRETT,A.SMITH) ATLANTIC/WEA 27 26

l27 28 31 24 LAST TIME FOR EVERYTHING Brad Paisley L.WOOTEN,B.PAISLEY (B.PAISLEY,S.AHNQUIST,B.ANDERSON,C.DUBOIS,M.RYAN) ARISTA NASHVILLE 20 26

l28 NEW 1 HIGH SCHOOL HH Hot Shot Debut HH Kelsea Ballerini F.G.WHITEHEAD,J.MASSEY (K.BALLERINI) BLACK RIVER

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l29 31 40 24 BROKEN HALOS Chris Stapleton D.COBB,C.STAPLETON (C.STAPLETON,M.HENDERSON) MERCURY 32 13

l30 30 34 26 A GIRL LIKE YOU Easton Corbin A.GORLEY,W.KIRBY (A.GORLEY,J.FRASURE,R.AKINS) MERCURY 25 30

l31 32 39 17 LEGENDS Kelsea Ballerini F.G.WHITEHEAD,J.MASSEY (K.BALLERINI,F.G.WHITEHEAD,H.LINDSEY) BLACK RIVER 30 31

l32 33 44 19 FIVE MORE MINUTES Scotty McCreery F.ROGERS (S.MCCREERY,R.ROGERS,M.CRISWELL) TRIPLE TIGERS 33 31

l33 36 47 15 BOY Lee Brice L.BRICE,J.STONE,K.JACOBS,D.FRIZSELL (J.M.NITE,N.GALYON) CURB 34 19

l34 38 46 12 WRITTEN IN THE SAND Old Dominion S.MCANALLY (M.RAMSEY,T. ROSEN,B.TURSI,S.MCANALLY) RCA NASHVILLE 36 31

l35 35 37 15 OUTTA STYLE Aaron Watson M.ALTMAN,A.WATSON (A.WATSON) BIG LABEL 24 31

36 29 13 3 FOUND YOU Kane Brown D.HUFF (K.BROWN,B.BERRYHILL,J.MULLINS,T.PHILLIPS) ZONE 4/RCA NASHVILLE - 13

l37 37 43 12 CALIFORNIA Big & Rich B.KENNY,J.D.RICH (J.D.RICH,R.CLAWSON,V.MCGEHEE) B$R/THIRTY TIGERS/NEW REVOLUTION 29 34

l38 41 45 11 SINGLES YOU UP Jordan Davis P.DIGIOVANNI (J.DAVIS,S.D.JONES,J.EBACH) MCA NASHVILLE 38 36

l39 NEW 1 DON’T Darius Rucker R. COPPERMAN (A.DOLEAC,A.J.BABCOCK,P.GOOD) CAPITOL NASHVILLE - 39

l40 43 50 4 HAPPENS LIKE THAT Granger Smith G.SMITH,F.ROGERS,D.WELLS (G.SMITH,J.M.SCHMIDT,A.ALBERT,T.HUBBARD,J.WILSON) WHEELHOUSE 35 40

l41 45 — 7 SHE’S WITH ME High Valley S.MOSLEY,M.O’CONNOR (B.REMPEL,S.MOSLEY,B.STENNIS) ATLANTIC/WEA 31 41

42 34 23 3 MARRY ME Thomas Rhett D.HUFF,J.FRASURE,THOMAS RHETT (THOMAS RHETT,J.FRASURE,A.GORLEY,S.MCANALLY) VALORY - 23

43 39 29 4 LIFE CHANGES Thomas Rhett D.HUFF,J.FRASURE,THOMAS RHETT (THOMAS RHETT,R.AKINS,J.FRASURE,A.GORLEY) VALORY - 25

l44 47 — 6 THE LONG WAY Brett Eldredge R. COPPERMAN,B.ELDREDGE (B.ELDREDGE,M.ROGERS) ATLANTIC/WMN 37 38

l45 48 — 4 ONES THAT LIKE ME Brantley Gilbert D.HUFF (B.GILBERT,B.CHAFFIN,B.PINSON) VALORY 39 45

46 42 33 7 SIXTEEN Thomas Rhett D.HUFF,J.FRASURE,THOMAS RHETT (THOMAS RHETT,S.M.DOUGLAS,JOE LONDON) VALORY - 24

47 40 — 2 BETTER ME Montgomery Gentry N.GORDON (J.MOORE,J.HOGE,R.MONTANA) AVERAGE JOES - 40

48 44 — 7 WHEN SOMEONE STOPS LOVING YOU Little Big Town J.JOYCE (H.LINDSEY,C.MCGILL,L.MCKENNA) CAPITOL NASHVILLE 47 40

l49 NEW 1 GET TO YOU Michael Ray S.HENDRICKS (A.STOKLASA,P.DOVGALYUK) ATLANTIC/WEA 40 49

l50 NEW 1 HOOKED Dylan Scott M.ALDERMAN,C.GIBBS,E.NORMAN (L.RIMES,S.ENNIS,M.EVANS) CURB 50 50

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For week ending Sept. 21, 2017. Figures are rounded. Compiled from a national sample of retail store and rack sales reports collected and provided by Nielsen Music.

COUNTRY MARKET WATCHA Weekly National Music Sales Report

ALBUMSDIGITAL

ALBUMS*DIGITAL TRACKS

This Week 328,000 106,000 1,026,000

Last Week 344,000 132,000 1,075,000

Change -4.7% -19.7% -4.6%

This Week Last Year 413,000 155,000 1,340,000

Change -20.6% -31.6% -23.4%

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Weekly Unit SalesYear-Over-Year Album Sales2016 2017 CHANGE

Albums 17,772,000 14,671,000 -17.4%

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Physical 11,578,000 9,743,000 -15.8%

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l2 NEW 1 MIDLAND ON THE ROCKSBIG MACHINE ML0100H*/BMLG 2

l3 NEW 1 HOME FREE TIMELESSCOLUMBIA 547681 3

4 4 5 17 LUKE COMBS THIS ONE’S FOR YOURIVER HOUSE/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE 538883*/SMN 1

5 5 7 126 CHRIS STAPLETON TRAVELLERMERCURY 019405*/UMGN 2 1

6 3 2 3 DUSTIN LYNCH CURRENT MOODBROKEN BOW 7934/BBMG 2

l7 NEW 1 CHRIS JANSON EVERYBODYWARNER BROS. 563377/WMN 7

8 6 4 43 KANE BROWN KANE BROWNZONE 4/RCA NASHVILLE 530947*/SMN 1

l9 7 9 33 BRETT YOUNG BRETT YOUNGBMLG BY0100A* 0 2

10 8 10 137 SAM HUNT MONTEVALLOMCA NASHVILLE 021502/UMGN 3 1

l11 9 11 67 JON PARDI CALIFORNIA SUNRISECAPITOL NASHVILLE 024744*/UMGN 0 1

12 10 15 21 CHRIS STAPLETON FROM A ROOM: VOLUME 1MERCURY 026379*/UMGN 0 1

13 11 12 57 FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE DIG YOUR ROOTSBMLG 0300* 1 1

14 14 16 73 KEITH URBAN RIPCORDHIT RED/CAPITOL NASHVILLE 023591*/UMGN (025848 AMS & WSEX) 1 1

15 12 8 5 OLD DOMINION HAPPY ENDINGSRCA NASHVILLE 542939*/SMN 1

16 13 13 105 THOMAS RHETT TANGLED UPVALORY RT0200A/BMLG 1 2

l17 16 19 114 ZAC BROWN BAND GREATEST HITS SO FAR...ROAR/SOUTHERN GROUND/ATLANTIC 546369/AG 3

l18 22 29 100 ERIC CHURCH MR. MISUNDERSTOODEMI NASHVILLE 024200*/UMGN 0 2

l19 19 22 55 JASON ALDEAN THEY DON’T KNOWMACON/BROKEN BOW 2227/BBMG 1

20 18 20 80 BROTHERS OSBORNE PAWN SHOPEMI NASHVILLE 022364*/UMGN 3

21 17 21 69 MAREN MORRIS HEROCOLUMBIA NASHVILLE 516885*/SMN 0 1

l22 21 25 112 LUKE BRYAN KILL THE LIGHTSCAPITOL NASHVILLE 022813/UMGN 2 1

23 20 23 101 BLAKE SHELTON RELOADED: 20 #1 HITSWARNER BROS. 551788/WMN 2

l24 24 28 146 LUKE BRYAN CRASH MY PARTYCAPITOL NASHVILLE 018733/UMGN 4 1

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l8 7 3 I’LL NAME THE DOGS BLAKE SHELTON

l9 9 15 EVERY LITTLE THING CARLY PEARCE

10 8 15 HEARTACHE ON THE DANCE FLOOR JON PARDI

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13 11 52 IN CASE YOU DIDN’T KNOW BRETT YOUNG

l14 20 11 YOU BROKE UP WITH ME WALKER HAYES

15 14 6 LIGHT IT UP LUKE BRYAN

16 13 20 IT AIN’T MY FAULT BROTHERS OSBORNE

17 16 6 ALL THE PRETTY GIRLS KENNY CHESNEY

18 18 91 TENNESSEE WHISKEY CHRIS STAPLETON

19 19 3 LOSING SLEEP CHRIS YOUNG

l20 21 22 TIN MAN MIRANDA LAMBERT

l21 RE-ENTRY FIX A DRINK CHRIS JANSON

l22 RE-ENTRY BOY LEE BRICE

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l24 RE-ENTRY YOURS RUSSELL DICKERSON

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l5 12 36 IN CASE YOU DIDN’T KNOW BRETT YOUNG

6 4 9 UNFORGETTABLE THOMAS RHETT

l7 6 37 HURRICANE LUKE COMBS

l8 7 14 HEARTACHE ON THE DANCE FLOOR JON PARDI

l9 8 100 TENNESSEE WHISKEY CHRIS STAPLETON

l10 9 54 BLUE AIN’T YOUR COLOR KEITH URBAN

l11 10 105 DIE A HAPPY MAN THOMAS RHETT

12 11 74 H.O.L.Y. FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE

l13 16 4 GREATEST LOVE STORY LANCO

14 13 26 CRAVING YOU THOMAS RHETT FEAT. MAREN MORRIS

l15 18 2 LOSING SLEEP CHRIS YOUNG

16 14 43 DIRT ON MY BOOTS JON PARDI

l17 19 2 LIKE I LOVED YOU BRETT YOUNG

l18 20 5 LIGHT IT UP LUKE BRYAN

19 15 18 DRINKIN’ PROBLEM MIDLAND

l20 23 4 I COULD USE A LOVE SONG MAREN MORRIS

21 21 3 I’LL NAME THE DOGS BLAKE SHELTON

l22 RE-ENTRY ALL THE PRETTY GIRLS KENNY CHESNEY

23 22 57 MAY WE ALL FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE FEAT. TIM MCGRAW

l24 24 31 THE FIGHTER KEITH URBAN FEAT. CARRIE UNDERWOOD

25 RE-ENTRY MY GIRL DYLAN SCOTT

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Top Country Albums ranks the most popular country albums of the week, as compiled by Nielsen Music, based on multi-metric consumption (blending traditional album sales, track equivalent albums, and streaming equivalent albums). Copyright 2017, Prometheus Global Media, LLC and Nielsen Music, Inc. All rights reserved.

Americana/Folk Albums ranks the most popular Americana/folk albums of the week, as compiled by Nielsen Music, based on multi-metric consumption (blending traditional album sales, track equivalent albums, and streaming equivalent albums). Copyright 2017, Prometheus Global Media, LLC and Nielsen Music, Inc. All rights reserved.

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In the nearly six years since Elektra released Jana Kramer’s first hit, “Why You Wanna,” Kramer has experienced a roller-coaster ride in her love life. There was an engagement, and subsequent breakup, with Brantley Gilbert. That was followed by a marriage to former NFL player Michael Caussin, producing a child and a complicated split, though the two are working to rebuild their relationship.

Psychology Today has confirmed that there is such a thing as addiction to love, and — like any other form of dependency — it leads people to engage in behaviors with obvious negative consequences. Kramer is the first to say she has experienced it.

“I’ve had my heart broken in ways I never thought was possible and woke up making some really bad decisions, and I was sober when I did it,” she says. “Like, I married some dude when I was 19 — knew him for a week and went through a drive-thru in [Las] Vegas. You would’ve thought I would’ve been drunk as hell going through it, but no — I just wanted to be wrapped up in the idea of love.”

Not surprisingly, Kramer delivers a convincing vocal when she addresses the intensity of romantic addiction in her f irst independent single, “I’ve Done Love.” Receiving airplay on SiriusXM since its Aug. 17 release on Kramer’s own label, Sophie Dog, the song lists a handful of well-known vices — including alcohol, cocaine and ecstasy — and equates their power to that of love. The difference, of course, is that no one needs those other substances to survive, but love is essential to a healthy existence.

“Every time I break down a song, or when I’m working on a role, I always ask myself, ‘What is that character or the artist or that person looking for?’ ” says Kramer, a former One Tree Hill star. “It always comes down to love.”

“I’ve Done Love” came her way following Kramer’s departure from Warner Music Nashville in February. She went to lunch with songwriter Nicolle Galyon (“All the Pretty Girls,” “Smooth”) to discuss some other material, and their cursory acquaintance turned into a friendship as they got to know each other.

A week or two later, Galyon had a co-writing session with Shane McAnally (“Body Like a Back Road,” “Unforgettable”) and Josh Osborne (“Drinkin’ Problem,” “Take Your Time”), and when Kramer’s name came up, McAnally suggested sending her “I’ve Done Love,” a song the three had written in 2016.

“It’s a little darker thing, and we knew it was going to be a tough sell,” says Osborne. “But we knew if the right artist got it, it’s a song that’s saying something in a different way that we’ve all experienced.”

“I’ve Done Love” was penned at Smack Songs after the trio originally attempted to write with the title “Love and Stuff.” It didn’t sing well, and as they tried to work through it, Osborne brought up the title to the 2010 Jake Gyllenhaal movie Love & Other Drugs. They couldn’t make it work, either, though it morphed into “I’ve Done Love.”

“I’ve never done a drug in my life, but I have done love, as cheesy as that sounds,” says Galyon. “The song spoke to me as someone who has never done drugs.”

Once they locked into the new title and a lyrical direction — with the singer recounting the chemicals she has not experienced — the music began to take shape, with Osborne creating a hypnotic acoustic guitar pattern on a minor chord.

“It needed a dark, sinister tone to it,” he says, “because the phrase ‘I’ve Done Love,’ it has a certain weight to it that we had to try to match with the music.”

The chorus shifted slightly, focusing on a major chord while reaching a higher frequency with a relentless, almost anthemic cadence. Wrapping two

verses and a chorus was comparatively easy, but they needed another section to bring it home. McAnally suggested a bridge that might have a hooky, chanty quality, and they found a solution that started “Love, love what I need.” In essence, it underscored that the song was about love and not about the drugs they had listed.

McAnally and Osborne produced a demo on a day Galyon was unavailable, a nd she added her voice later, t hou g h t he major-chord chorus was too cheery. They took it to engineer Scott Williamson, who transformed it with a remix.

“He had a great way to make the whole song lift but still have a darkness and a kind of edge to it,” says Osborne. “Once we were able to capture that on the demo, then the song kind of made sense.”

When Kramer heard that demo in the spring, she was adamant that it become her f irst indie release. Galyon co-produced it with Brad Winters (Haley Georgia, Jon Langston), cutting the basic instruments at The Tracking Room in Nashville on June 5. They kept most of the demo’s basic sound, but scaled back just a hair on its attitude.

“The original demo had some grittier guitars and was a little more bombastic,” says Winters. “We kept this record a little bit more reserved and played more to what Jana does well.”

Guitarist Kris Donegan enhanced Osborne’s original intro part by creating a second rhythmic line for the core acoustic foundation. And the end product finds a number of instruments and synth effects sneaking in and out.

“Hindsight’s always 20/20, but once we were digging into the track, we realized we had lots of cool, little moments,” says Winters. “The song itself is really about how love is just like drugs, and all this stuff in your life winds up being a little bit chaotic. So what wound up happening, almost by accident, was this thematic element of instruments coming in and going out just like stuff creeps into your life, wreaks havoc for a second and then goes back into the shadows.”

Kramer recorded her vocals with Galyon and Winters at his basement studio in the RareSpark building on Music Row. She was able to access the song’s emotion immediately, and needed no more than 90 minutes to wrap it up.

“That song is my life,” she says. “Whether I’m acting or singing, you just tell the truth and it’s going to come out authentic.”

Emily Weisband overdubbed background vocals, and Winters and his wife, Lindsey Winters, added more harmonies at the last minute to thicken the effect, but they kept those voices in the background, allowing Kramer to dominate.

“Jana has a really unique tone that sounds like there’s a teardrop in her voice,” says Galyon. “She has that cry and that little break that makes her Jana. It was cool to hear that on this song.”

In its first month of release, “I’ve Done Love” racked up roughly 600,000 streams on YouTube alone, and when Kramer debuted the song live at Boston’s Wilbur Theater on Sept. 14, she was stunned that the audience knew the chorus verbatim.

“I felt stupid, but I started crying,” she says. “It’s just so cool to have the hard work pay off and hear people sing it back and know that they can relate to it.”

Kramer is in talks with a couple of labels, though she clearly wasn’t going to wait around for someone else to release new music. She’s not desperate to sign another deal, just as she’s no longer desperate to be in love.

“It’s like this thing you’re chasing,” she says of her former addiction. “Once you find it in yourself is when you stop chasing it.”

Jana Kramer Serves Up Addictive ‘I’ve Done Love’ As First Indie Single

MAKIN’ TRACKS TOM ROLAND tom.roland@billboard.com

KRAMER

BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE OCTOBER 2, 2017 | PAGE 15 OF 20

BILLBOARD COUNTRY INDICATOR PANEL — 106 STATIONS

Abilene, Texas KEANAlexandria, La. KRRVAmarillo, Texas KGNCAsheville, N.C. WKSFAtlantic City, N.J. WPURBeaumont, Texas KYKRBeckley, W. Va. WJLSBiloxi, Miss. WZKXBloomington, Ill. WIBLBluefield, W. Va. WHKXBurlington, Vt. WOKOCape Girardeau, Mo. KEZSCharleston, W. Va WKWS WQBECollege Station, Texas KAGGColumbia, Mo. KCLRColumbus, Ga. WKCN WSTH Cookeville, Tenn. WGSQDothan, Ala. WTVYDuluth, Minn. KKCBEau Claire, Wis. WAXXElizabeth City, N.C. WRSFErie, Pa. WTWFEugene, Ore. KKNUEvansville, Ind. WKDQFargo, N.D. KBVB WSTH

Fayetteville, N.C. WKMLFlagstaff, Ariz. KAFFFlint, Mich. WFBEFlorence, Ala. WXFLFlorence, S.C. WEGXFt. Collins, Colo. KUADFt. Smith, Ark. KTCSFrederick, Md. WFREFredericksburg, Va. WFLSGreen Bay, Wis. WNCYHagerstown, Md. WAYZHot Springs, Ark. KQUSHuntington, Ky. WDGGHuntington, W. Va. WTCRIdaho Falls, Idaho KTHKJackson, Miss. WMSI WUSJJanesville, Wis. WJVL Jonesboro, Ark. KDXYJoplin, Mo. KIXQKalamazoo, Mich. WNWNKalispell, Mont. KDBRKingmah, Ariz. KFLGLafayette, Ind. WKOALaredo, Texas KRRGLansing, Mich. WITLLaurel, Miss. WBBN

Lebanon, N.H. WXXKLincoln, Neb KFGELongview, Texas KYKXLubbock, Texas KLLLLufkin, Texas KYKSMason City, Iowa KIAIMedford, Ore. KRWQMeridian, Miss. WOKKMontgomery, Ala. WLWIMorgantown, W. Va. WKKWMuskegon, Mich. WMUSNew London, Conn. WCTYOdessa, Texas KHKXPalm Springs, Calif. KPLMPensacola, Fla. WXBMPeoria, Ill. WXCL Poughkeepsie, N.Y. WRWDRapid City, S.D. KOUTRockford, Ill. WXXQRocky Mount, N.C. WDWGSaginaw, Mich. WCENSt. Cloud, Minn. KZPKSalina, Kan. KYEZSalisbury, Md. WKTTSan Angelo, Texas KGKLSan Luis Obispo, Calif. KKJG

Santa Barbara, Calif. KRAZSanta Maria, Calif. KSNISheboygan, Wis. WBFMSavannah, Ga. WJCL WUBBShreveport, La. KXKSSioux Cty, Iowa KSUXSouth Bend, Ind. WBYTSpringfield, Ill. WFMBSpringfield, Mo. KTTSTerre Haute, Ind. WTHITopeka, Kan. WIBWTraverse City, Mich. WTCMTupelo, Miss. WWZDUtica, N.Y. WFRGVictor Valley, CA. KATJWaco, Texas WACOWausau, Wis. WDEZWheeling, W. Va. WOVKWilliamsport, Pa. WILQYakima, Wash. KXDDYoungstown, Ohio WQXK WWGYWestwood One HOT COUNTRY MAINSTREAM COUNTRYMusic Choice TODAY’S COUNTRYSirius XM THE HIGHWAY

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1 1 18 ALL THE PRETTY GIRLS Blue Chair/Columbia Nashville HH No. 1 (2 weeks) HH Kenny Chesney 4788 -169 7.730

l2 2 24 THEY DON’T KNOW Macon/Broken Bow Jason Aldean 4734 +78 7.371

l3 4 26 WHAT IFS Zone 4/RCA Nashville Kane Brown Feat. Lauren Alaina 4520 +183 7.097

l4 5 32 MORE GIRLS LIKE YOU MCA Nashville Kip Moore 4329 +65 6.545

l5 6 16 WHEN IT RAINS IT POURS River House/Columbia Nashville Luke Combs 4200 +271 6.408

l6 7 26 EVERY LITTLE THING Big Machine Carly Pearce 3929 +98 6.056

l7 10 10 UNFORGETTABLE Valory Thomas Rhett 3687 +201 5.740

l8 11 20 FIX A DRINK Warner Bros./WAR Chris Janson 3671 +284 5.570

9 8 38 IT AIN’T MY FAULT EMI Nashville Brothers Osborne 3640 -88 5.464

10 3 24 HEARTACHE ON THE DANCE FLOOR Capitol Nashville Jon Pardi 3337 -1113 6.027

11 12 27 ROUND HERE BUZZ EMI Nashville Eric Church 3070 -18 4.848

12 13 29 I COULD USE A LOVE SONG Columbia Nashville Maren Morris 3043 -4 4.588

l13 14 6 LIGHT IT UP Capitol Nashville Luke Bryan 2898 +170 4.464

l14 15 30 GREATEST LOVE STORY Arista Nashville LANCO 2801 +189 4.150

l15 16 28 ASK ME HOW I KNOW Pearl Garth Brooks 2625 +46 4.144

l16 18 46 OUTTA STYLE BIG Label Aaron Watson 2562 +56 3.632

l17 20 9 SMOOTH BMLG Florida Georgia Line 2329 +132 3.514

l18 21 45 RING ON EVERY FINGER Reviver LOCASH 2323 +169 3.560

l19 22 4 I’LL NAME THE DOGS Warner Bros./WMN HH Most Increased Plays HH Blake Shelton 2300 +404 3.447

l20 19 35 A GIRL LIKE YOU Mercury Easton Corbin 2294 +72 3.090

21 17 25 LAST TIME FOR EVERYTHING Arista Nashville Brad Paisley 2246 -322 3.418

l22 24 11 LIKE I LOVED YOU BMLG Brett Young 2014 +168 2.715

l23 23 19 LOSING SLEEP RCA Nashville Chris Young 1966 +72 2.619

24 25 30 CALIFORNIA B$R/New Revolution Big & Rich 1591 -23 2.206

l25 26 15 YOURS Triple Tigers Russell Dickerson 1483 +116 1.957

l26 27 26 TIN MAN Vanner/RCA Nashville Miranda Lambert 1402 +91 1.879

l27 28 15 LEGENDS Black River Kelsea Ballerini 1360 +80 1.562

l28 31 10 BROKEN HALOS Mercury Chris Stapleton 1009 +138 1.314

l29 34 8 YOU BROKE UP WITH ME Monument/Arista Nashville HH Most Added HH Walker Hayes 988 +193 1.174

l30 30 5 ALL ON ME Atlantic/WEA Devin Dawson 984 +109 1.276

Country IndicatorBILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE OCTOBER 2, 2017 | PAGE 16 OF 20

CHARTS LEGENDRANKINGSCountry Airplay is ranked by total audience impressions for the week ending Sunday based on monitored airplay of 149 stations by Nielsen BDS. Audience totals on the chart are derived, in part, using certain Arbitron Inc. copyrighted Persons 12+ audience estimates (under license © 2017, Arbitron Inc.) Country Indicator is tabulated using reported playlists and Nielsen BDS-monitored airplay at 106 stations, ranked by total plays.

BULLETSl Awarded on Country Airplay to titles gaining audience or remaining flat from the previous week. A song will also receive a bullet if its percentage loss in audience does not exceed the percentage of monitored

station downtime for the format. Titles that decline in audience but increase in detections will also receive a bullet if the total audience erosion for the week does not exceed 3%. Bullets are awarded on Country Indicator to titles gaining plays or remaining flat from the previous week.

TIESOn Country Airplay, if two songs are tied in total audience, the song with the larger increase in audience is placed first. On Country Indicator, if two songs are tied in total plays, the song with the larger increase in plays is placed first.

RECURRENTSOn Country Airplay, descending titles below No. 10 in either audience or detections are moved to recurrent after 20 weeks, provided that they are not still

gaining enough audience points to bullet or if they rank below No. 10 and post a third consecutive week of (non-bulleted) audience decline, regardless of total chart weeks. On Country Indicator, descending, non-bulleted titles below No. 10 are moved to recurrent after 20 weeks or if they post a third consecutive week of decline in plays after 10 weeks.

HOT SHOT DEBUTAwarded to the highest-ranking new entry on Country Airplay and Country Indicator, respectively.

MOST ADDEDThe total number of new adds officially reported to Billboard by each reporting station, or by an automatic-add threshold (seven plays for the first time in a chart tracking week, according to Nielsen BDS) for stations that do not report adds.

MOST INCREASED AUDIENCE/PLAYSMost Increased Audience on Country Airplay and Most Increased Plays on Country Indicator list the songs with the greatest week-to-week increases in total audience or plays, respectively.

AIRPOWERAwarded on Country Airplay to titles ranking inside top 20 in plays and audience rankings for the first time, with increases in both plays and audience.

BREAKERAwarded on Country Airplay to titles achieving airplay (at least one detection) at 60% of reporting stations for the first time.

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l31 29 13 THE ONES THAT LIKE ME Valory Brantley Gilbert 904 +22 1.023

l32 33 8 ROOTS Southern Ground/Elektra/WAR Zac Brown Band 864 +29 1.321

33 32 14 WHEN SOMEONE STOPS LOVING YOU Capitol Nashville Little Big Town 861 -9 0.824

l34 36 16 HAPPENS LIKE THAT Wheelhouse Granger Smith 777 +29 0.912

l35 35 25 WILD AS YOU CoJo Cody Johnson 774 0 0.893

l36 38 14 SINGLES YOU UP MCA Nashville Jordan Davis 624 +59 0.675

l37 37 14 BOY Curb Lee Brice 584 +17 0.801

l38 41 6 THE LONG WAY Atlantic/WMN Brett Eldredge 544 +44 0.651

l39 39 19 DOIN’ FINE 19/Interscope/Mercury Lauren Alaina 543 +7 0.653

l40 40 20 ALL ABOUT YOU MCA Nashville Josh Turner 516 +11 0.626

l41 42 9 FOR THE FIRST TIME Capitol Nashville Darius Rucker 505 +16 0.626

l42 43 8 ROAD TRIPPIN’ Warner Bros./WAR Dan + Shay 482 +7 0.598

l43 45 9 FIVE MORE MINUTES Triple Tigers Scotty McCreery 453 +41 0.578

l44 47 4 WRITTEN IN THE SAND RCA Nashville Old Dominion 386 +46 0.480

l45 46 4 STAY DOWNTOWN Warner Bros./WMN Cole Swindell 367 +10 0.447

l46 55 2 HEART BREAK Capitol Nashville Lady Antebellum 346 +112 0.409

l47 49 9 SHE’S WITH ME Atlantic/WEA High Valley 346 +33 0.497

l48 59 2 MAKE A LITTLE Big Machine Midland 321 +117 0.403

49 48 4 KINDA DON’T CARE Valory Justin Moore 311 -4 0.346

l50 50 9 TOO BAD Deep Frey’d Kylie Frey Feat. Randy Rogers 296 0 0.273

l51 52 4 SPEAKERS, BLEACHERS AND PREACHERS EMI Nashville Brandon Lay 275 +27 0.233

l52 53 7 GET TO YOU Atlantic/WEA Michael Ray 251 +5 0.284

l53 NEW WAKE ME UP Mercury HH Hot Shot Debut HH Billy Currington 240 +60 0.329

l54 54 7 WHAT GUY WOULDN’T Show Dog Nashville Waterloo Revival 237 +1 0.263

l55 57 3 SWAY Big Machine Danielle Bradbery 231 +23 0.166

l56 58 4 19 Amerimonte Shane Owens 218 +12 0.250

57 56 7 WHERE WE’D BE 3AM Vibe/Nine North Linde LaChance 206 -21 0.205

l58 NEW TROUBLE Six Shooter/Thirty Tigers Sam Outlaw 192 +18 0.208

l59 NEW SMALL TOWN SUPERSTARS G&N Jagertown 181 +38 0.155

60 60 3 BACK TO US Big Machine Rascal Flatts 179 -3 0.197

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Country Airplay IndexA

ALL ABOUT YOU Round Hill Songs Big Loud Songs, ASCAP/Big Loud Shirt Industries, ASCAP/Red Toe Rocker, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Music Of The Corn, ASCAP (C.Wiseman, J.Weaver) 54

ALL ON ME Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/JJ Music Inc., BMI/Neon Cross Music, BMI/Magic Mustang Music Inc., BMI/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Two Sixteen Publishing, ASCAP (D.Dawson, J.Durrett, A.Smith) 27

ALL THE PRETTY GIRLS Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/A Girl Named Charlie, BMI/BMG Platinum Songs, BMI/SWMBMGBMI, BMI/Once In A Blue Tune Music, BMI/Anderson Fork In The Road Music, ASCAP/Smackville Music, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Publishing America, Inc., ASCAP (N.Galyon, T.L.James, J.Osborne) 1

ASK ME HOW I KNOW Roy Rivers Publishing, BMI (M.Rossell) 13

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BACK TO US Castle Bound Music, Inc., SESAC/We Be Pawtying, SESAC/3 Weddings Music, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI/Big Music Machine, BMI/Two Laine Collections, BMI (C.R.Barlowe, D.H.Hodges, J.Thompson) 55

BOY EMI April Music, Inc., ASCAP/Jon Mark Nite Music, ASCAP/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/A Girl Named Charlie, BMI (J.M.Nite, N.Galyon) 34

BROKEN HALOS WB Music Corp., ASCAP/House Of Sea Gayle Music, ASCAP/Spirit Catalog Holdings, S.a.r.l./Spirit Two Nashville, ASCAP/Straight Six Music, BMI (C.Stapleton, M.Henderson) 32

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CALIFORNIA J Money Music, ASCAP/Big Loud Proud Crowd, BMI/Magic Mustang Music Inc., BMI/Victown Music, BMI (J.D.Rich, R.Clawson, V.McGehee) 29

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DOIN’ FINE Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Lylas Music, BMI/Better Boat Music, BMI/BMG Platinum Songs, BMI/Jam Writers Group, BMI/Hello I Love You Music, BMI (Lauren Alaina, E.Shackelton, busbee) 52

DRINK A LITTLE BEER Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Ritten by Rhettro, BMI/Songs Of Roc Nation Music, BMI/Telemitry Rhythm House Music, BMI/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Pinetucky Road Publishing, ASCAP/Thankful For This Music, ASCAP (R.Akins, J.Frasure, B.Hayslip) 51

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EVERY LITTLE THING BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP/For The Kids Platinum, BMI/7189 Music Publishing, BMI/Better Boat Music, BMI/Songs Of Endurance, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI (C.Pearce, bus-bee, E.Shackelton) 9

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FIVE MORE MINUTES Dagum Music, BMI/Spirit Catalog Holdings, S.a.r.l./Spirit Two Nashville, ASCAP/House Of Sea Gayle Music, ASCAP/Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/Dixey Bar Music, BMI (S.McCreery, R.Rogers, M.Criswell) 33

FIX A DRINK ole Red Vinyl Music, BMI/Buckkilla Music, BMI/New House Of Sea Gayle Music, ASCAP/Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP (C.Janson, C.DuBois, A.Gorley) 10

FOR THE FIRST TIME Sony/ATV Accent, ASCAP/GrowingMusic, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Funky Friar Music, ASCAP/Scrambler Music, ASCAP/Abbotts Creek Music Two, ASCAP (D.Rucker, D.George, Scooter Carusoe) 46

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GET TO YOU Year Of The Dog Music, ASCAP/ole Green Vinyl Music, ASCAP (A.Stoklasa, P.Dovgalyuk) 40

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A GIRL LIKE YOU Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Rio Bravo Music, Inc., BMI/Telemitry Productions, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI (A.Gorley, J.Frasure, R.Akins) 25

GREATEST LOVE STORY Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Concession 114 Music, BMI/Neon Cross Music, BMI (B.Lancaster) 15

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HAPPENS LIKE THAT Climbing Windmills Music, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/We-Volve Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Freshy Music, ASCAP/Downtown DLJ Songs, ASCAP/Big Loud Mountain, BMI/Round Hill Works, BMI/T Hubb Publishing, BMI/Legends Of Magic Mustang Music, SESAC/W.B.M. Music Corp., SESAC (G.Smith, J.M.Schmidt, A.Albert, T.Hubbard, J.Wilson) 35

HEARTACHE ON THE DANCE FLOOR Golden Vault Music, BMI/Rancho Fiesta Music, BMI/Bill Butler Music, BMI/Blongsongs, SESAC/Wordspring Music, LLC, SESAC/W.B.M. Music Corp., SESAC/Songs Of Song Factroy, BMI/Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI (J.Pardi, B.Butler, B.Long) 5

HEART BREAK WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Haywoodja Cut That Song, ASCAP/The Best I Could Do Publishing, ASCAP/W.B.M. Music Corp., SESAC/EKT Publishing, SESCA/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Songs Of Roc Nation Music, BMI/Telemitry Rhythm House Music, BMI/A Girl Named Charlie, BMI (D.Haywood, C.Kelley, H.Scott, J.Frasure, N.Galyon) 57

HOOKED WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Songs From The Rose Hotel, ASCAP/EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Koala T Tunes, BMI/SongsbyME, BMI (L.Rimes, S.Ennis, M.Evans) 50

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I COULD USE A LOVE SONG International Dog Music, BMI/Round Hill Songs Jimmy Robbins, ASCAP/Jammy Rabbins Music, ASCAP/Extraordinary Alien Publishing, ASCAP/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Oh Denise Publishing, BMI/Big Music Machine, BMI (M.Morris, J.Robbins, L.Veltz) 12

I’LL NAME THE DOGS Round Hill Songs BLS JV, ASCAP/Big Loud Proud Songs, ASCAP/Matt Drag Music, ASCAP/Pinetucky Road Publishing, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Thankful For This Music, ASCAP/Big Music Machine, BMI/Two Laine Collections, BMI (M.Dragstrem, B.Hayslip, J.Thompson) 16

IT AIN’T MY FAULT WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Trampy McCauley, ASCAP/All The Kings Pens, ASCAP/Songstein Publishing, ASCAP/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/The Country And Western Music, BMI (J. Osborne, T.J. Osborne, L.T.Miller) 14

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LAST TIME FOR EVERYTHING New House Of Sea Gayle Music, ASCAP/Songs For Margo, ASCAP (B.Paisley, S.Ahnquist, B.Anderson, C.DuBois, M.Ryan) 20

LEGENDS Songs Of Black River, ASCAP/KNB Music, ASCAP/Write Me Like You Mean It, ASCAP/BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP/Rezonant Music Publishing LLC, ASCAP (K.Ballerini, F.G.Whitehead, H.Lindsey) 30

LIGHT IT UP Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/Peanut Mill Songs, BMI/Big Deal Notes, ASCAP/Wooden Ships, ASCAP (L.Bryan, B.Tursi) 11

LIKE I LOVED YOU Super Big Music, ASCAP/Caliville Publishing, ASCAP/Big Machine Music, BMI/ole Purple Cape Music, BMI/Honey Lee Music, BMI (B.Young, J.Lee) 22

THE LONG WAY Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI/Paris Not France Music, BMI/ole Canalco Publishing, ASCAP (B.Eldredge, M.Rogers) 37

LOSING SLEEP EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Goodbye Pants Music, BMI/EMI Foray Music, SESAC/Write 2 Be Free Music, SESAC/CDS Words And Music, ASACP/EMI April Music, Inc., ASCAP (C.Young, J.Hoge, C. DeStefano) 21

LOVE IN A BAR Universal Music Corp., ASCAP/Lake Allegan Pub Club, ASCAP/Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI (R.Hurd, J.Hyde) 56

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MAKE A LITTLE WB Music Corp., ASCAP/TipTop Music, ASCAP/Tropical Cowboy Publishing, ASCAP/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Kitt Cass Publishing Corporation, BMI/Smack Hits, GMR/Smack Songs LLC, GMR/Kobalt Songs Publishing American, Inc., GMR/Anderson Fork In The Road Music, ASCAP/Smackville Music, ASCAP/Smack Songs LLC, ASCAP (J.Carson, C.Duddy, M.Wystrach, S.McAnally, J.Osborne) 41

MORE GIRLS LIKE YOU WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Point Break Publishing, ASCAP/Music Of The Corn, ASCAP/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Jack 10 Publishing, BMI/Songs Of Cornman, BMI/Universal Music - Brentwood Benson Publishing, ASCAP/D Soul Music, ASCAP/Capitol CMG Genesis, ASCAP (K.Moore, S.L.Olsen, J.Miller, D.A.Garcia) 8

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NEVER GETS OLD Creative Pulse Music, BMI/These Are Pulse Songs, BMI/Highway 76 Songs, BMI/EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Great Day At This Music, BMI/Watch This Girl Publishing, BMI (S.Moakler, C.Harrington) 58

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ONES THAT LIKE ME Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Indiana Angel Music, BMI/Parallel Music Publishing, LLC, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Publishing America, Inc., ASCAP/Bobby’s Lyrics, Land And Livestock, BMI/Do Write Music, LLC, BMI (B.Gilbert, B.Chaffin, B.Pinson) 39

OUTTA STYLE Tunes From HTK, BMI (A.Watson) 24

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RING ON EVERY FINGER Big Yellow Dog Music, ASCAP/Major Bob Music, Inc., ASCAP/EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Cricket On The Line, BMI (Thomas Rhett, J.Kear, J.Frasure) 18

ROAD TRIPPIN’ WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Beats And Banjos, ASCAP/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Shay Mooney Music, ASCAP/EMI April Music, Inc., ASCAP/Twintipskier Music, ASCAP (D.Smyers, S.Mooney, M.Johnson) 43

ROOTS Day For The Dead Publishing, SESAC/Reach Music Tunes, SESAC/Siva Moon Publishing, SESAC/W.B.M. Music Corp., SESAC/Simonetti Music Publishing, SESAC/Kobalt Group Music Publishing, SESAC/Poppsolotamus Music, SESAC (Z.Brown, N.Moon, B.Simonetti, C.Bowles) 42

ROUND HERE BUZZ Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/Longer And Louder Music, BMI/Little Louder Songs, BMI/Mammaw’s Fried Okra Music, BMI/Emileon Songs, BMI (E.Church, J.Hyde, L.Dick) 17

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SHE’S WITH ME Spruce Road Publishing, GMR/Capitol CMG Zenith, GMR/Sony/ATV Tunes, GMR/Centricity Tunes, GMR/CentricSongs, SESAC/The Stennis Mightier Music, BMI/Young Guns Publishing, LLC, BMI/Dead Aim Music, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI/Capitol CMG Amplifier, SESAC (B.Rempel, S.Mosley, B.Stennis) 31

SINGLES YOU UP Ole Red Cape Songs, ASCAP/Word Music, LLC, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Wordspring Music, LLC, SESAC/Memory Days, SESAC/W.B.M. Music Corp., SESAC (J.Davis, S.D.Jones, J.Ebach) 38

SMALL TOWN BOY EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Thankful For This Music, ASCAP/Play It Again Entertainment, BMI/Round Hill Works, BMI (R.Akins, B.Hayslip, K.Fishman) 2

SMOOTH Big Loud Mountain, BMI/T Hubb Publishing, BMI/Pranch Ringle Music, BMI/Round Hill Works, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/A Girl Named Charlie, BMI/Freshy Music, ASCAP/We-Volve Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP (T.Hubbard, B.Kelley, N.Galyon, J.M.Schmidt) 19

STAY DOWNTOWN Universal Music Corp., ASCAP/No Bridge Publishing, ASCAP/Round Hill Songs Big Loud Songs, ASCAP/Big Loud Proud Songs, ASCAP (C.Taylor, M.Dragstrem) 45

SUNDAY MORNING Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Songs By JMT, BMI/EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Rezolant Music, BMI/Anderson Fork In The Road Music, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Publishing America, Inc., ASCAP/Smackville Music, ASCAP/Smack Songs LLC, ASCAP (M.Thomas, R.Copperman, J.Osborne) 44

SWAY Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/One Voice Global Publishing, BMI/Canal Music Publishing BV, BUMA/Warner/Chappell Music Scandinavia AB, STIM/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Thankful For This Music, ASCAP (D.Bradbery, J.Fransson, E.Weisband) 53

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THEY DON’T KNOW Peertunes, Ltd., SESAC/Jaron Boyer Music, SESAC/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Music Of The Corn, ASCAP/This Is Magic Mustang Music, ASCAP (J.Boyer, J.Mirenda, K.Allison) 4

THREE CHORDS & THE TRUTH Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI/Dack Janiel’s Publishing, BMI/EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Rezolant Music, BMI/EMI April Music, Inc., ASCAP (C.Rice, R.Copperman, J.M.Nite) 49

TIN MAN Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/Pink Dog Publishing, BMI/Beat Up Ford Publishing, BMI/BMG Platinum Songs, BMI/SWMBMGBMI, BMI/Lonesome Vinyl Music, BMI/Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI (M.Lambert, J.Ingram, J.R.Stewart) 28

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UNFORGETTABLE EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Cricket On The Line, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Songs Of Roc Nation Music, BMI/Telemitry Rhythm House Music, BMI/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/Smack Hits, GMR/Smack Songs LLC, GMR/Kobalt Songs Publishing American, Inc., GMR (Thomas Rhett, J.Frasure, A.Gorley, S.McAnally) 6

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WAITING ON YOU Magic Mustang Music Inc., BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Lindsay Ell Music, BMI/Ole Red Cape Songs, ASCAP/Red Like The Sunset Music, ASCAP/BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP/Lanercost Publishing, ASCAP (L.Ell, A.Hambrick, A.DeRoberts) 48

WAKE ME UP One Little Indian Creek Music, ASCAP/Songs Of Black River, ASCAP/Extraordinary Alien Publishing, ASCAP/Universal Music Corp., ASCAP/Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP (J.Osborne, J.Robbins, A.Gorley) 59

WHAT IFS Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Kane Brown Music, BMI/Smackworks Music, SESAC/Smack Blue, LLC, SESAC/Kobalt Group Music Publishing, SESAC/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Freshy Music, ASCAP/We-Volve Music, ASCAP (K.Brown, M.McGinn, J.M.Schmidt) 3

WHEN IT RAINS IT POURS Big Machine Music, BMI/Straight Dimes Publishing, BMI/Works Of RHA Music, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Atlas Music Publishing, ASCAP/Extremely Combustible Music, BMI/PAJ Music, BMI (L.Combs, R.Fulcher, J.Walker) 7

WHEN SOMEONE STOPS LOVING YOU HillarodyRathbone Music, ASCAP/BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP/Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Plum Nelly, BMI/Maps And Records Music, BMI/Creative Pulse Music, BMI/These Are Pulse Songs, BMI (H.Lindsey, C.McGill, L.McKenna) 47

WILD WEST Not Listed (Not Listed) 60

WRITTEN IN THE SAND ReHits Music, Inc., ASCAP/MeGusta Music, ASCAP/Smacktown Music, ASCAP/Unfair Entertainment, ASCAP/Big Deal Notes, ASCAP/Wooden Ships, ASCAP/Smackville Music, ASCAP/Smack Songs LLC, ASCAP/Carrot Seed Songs, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Publishing America, Inc., ASCAP/Smack Hits, GMR/Smack Songs LLC, GMR/Kobalt Songs Publishing American, Inc., GMR (M.Ramsey, T. Rosen, B.Tursi, S.McAnally) 36

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YOU BROKE UP WITH ME Songs Of Smack, BMI/Spark In Your Pocket, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI/Razor And Tie, APRA/BMG Platinum Songs, BMI (W.Hayes, K.Sackley, T.Archer) 26

YOURS Hillbilly Science And Research Publishing, SESAC/Trailerlily Music, SESAC/So Essential Tunes, SESAC/Not Just Another Song Publishing, SESAC/BMG Platinum Songs, BMI/Kailey’s Dream, BMI (P.Welling, C.Brown, R.Dickerson) 23

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Hot Country Songs IndexA

ALL ON ME Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/JJ Music Inc., BMI/Neon Cross Music, BMI/Magic Mustang Music Inc., BMI/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Two Sixteen Publishing, ASCAP (D.Dawson, J.Durrett, A.Smith) 26

ALL THE PRETTY GIRLS Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/A Girl Named Charlie, BMI/BMG Platinum Songs, BMI/SWMBMGBMI, BMI/Once In A Blue Tune Music, BMI/Anderson Fork In The Road Music, ASCAP/Smackville Music, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Publishing America, Inc., ASCAP (N.Galyon, T.L.James, J.Osborne) 7

ASK ME HOW I KNOW Roy Rivers Publishing, BMI (M.Rossell) 21

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BETTER ME BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP/Team Destiny, ASCAP/JMZL Music, ASCAP/EMI Foray Music, SESAC/Write 2 Be Free Music, SESAC/Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI (J.Moore, J.Hoge, R.Montana) 47

BODY LIKE A BACK ROAD Universal Music Corp., ASCAP/Sam Hunt Publishing, ASCAP/Highly Combustible Music, ASCAP/I Love Pizza Music, ASCAP/Songs Of Southside Independent Music Publishing, LLC, ASCAP/Who Wants To Buy My Publishing, ASCAP/Atlas Music Publishing, ASCAP/Anderson Fork In The Road Music, ASCAP/Smackville Music, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Publishing America, Inc., ASCAP/Smack Hits, GMR/Kobalt Songs Publishing American, Inc., GMR (S.Hunt, Z.Crowell, J.Osborne, S.McAnally) 1

BOY EMI April Music, Inc., ASCAP/Jon Mark Nite Music, ASCAP/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/A Girl Named Charlie, BMI (J.M.Nite, N.Galyon) 33

BROKEN HALOS WB Music Corp., ASCAP/House Of Sea Gayle Music, ASCAP/Spirit Catalog Holdings, S.a.r.l./Spirit Two Nashville, ASCAP/Straight Six Music, BMI (C.Stapleton, M.Henderson) 29

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CALIFORNIA J Money Music, ASCAP/Big Loud Proud Crowd, BMI/Magic Mustang Music Inc., BMI/Victown Music, BMI (J.D.Rich, R.Clawson, V.McGehee) 37

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DON’T Sony/ATV Accent, ASCAP/King Pen Songs, SESAC/Garda Songs, SESAC/Songs Of Downtown, SESAC (A.Doleac, A.J.Babcock, P.Good) 39

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EVERY LITTLE THING BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP/For The Kids Platinum, BMI/7189 Music Publishing, BMI/Better Boat Music, BMI/Songs Of Endurance, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI (C.Pearce, bus-bee, E.Shackelton) 9

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FIVE MORE MINUTES Dagum Music, BMI/Spirit Catalog Holdings, S.a.r.l./Spirit Two Nashville, ASCAP/House Of Sea Gayle Music, ASCAP/Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/Dixey Bar Music, BMI (S.McCreery, R.Rogers, M.Criswell) 32

FIX A DRINK ole Red Vinyl Music, BMI/Buckkilla Music, BMI/New House Of Sea Gayle Music, ASCAP/Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP (C.Janson, C.DuBois, A.Gorley) 11

FOUND YOU Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Kane Brown Music, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Don’t Be A Gypsy, BMI/Big Deal Beats, BMI (K.Brown, B.Berryhill, J.Mullins, T.Phillips) 36

TITLE Publishing-Licensing Org. (Songwriter) Chart Position

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GET TO YOU Year Of The Dog Music, ASCAP/ole Green Vinyl Music, ASCAP (A.Stoklasa, P.Dovgalyuk) 49

A GIRL LIKE YOU Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Rio Bravo Music, Inc., BMI/Telemitry Productions, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI (A.Gorley, J.Frasure, R.Akins) 30

GREATEST LOVE STORY Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Concession 114 Music, BMI/Neon Cross Music, BMI (B.Lancaster) 8

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HAPPENS LIKE THAT Climbing Windmills Music, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/We-Volve Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Freshy Music, ASCAP/Downtown DLJ Songs, ASCAP/Big Loud Mountain, BMI/Round Hill Works, BMI/T Hubb Publishing, BMI/Legends Of Magic Mustang Music, SESAC/W.B.M. Music Corp., SESAC (G.Smith, J.M.Schmidt, A.Albert, T.Hubbard, J.Wilson) 40

HEARTACHE ON THE DANCE FLOOR Golden Vault Music, BMI/Rancho Fiesta Music, BMI/Bill Butler Music, BMI/Blongsongs, SESAC/Wordspring Music, LLC, SESAC/W.B.M. Music Corp., SESAC/Songs Of Song Factroy, BMI/Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI (J.Pardi, B.Butler, B.Long) 6

HIGH SCHOOL Songs Of Black River, ASCAP/KNB Music, ASCAP (K.Ballerini) 28

HOOKED WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Songs From The Rose Hotel, ASCAP/EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Koala T Tunes, BMI/SongsbyME, BMI (L.Rimes, S.Ennis, M.Evans) 50

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I COULD USE A LOVE SONG International Dog Music, BMI/Round Hill Songs Jimmy Robbins, ASCAP/Jammy Rabbins Music, ASCAP/Extraordinary Alien Publishing, ASCAP/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Oh Denise Publishing, BMI/Big Music Machine, BMI (M.Morris, J.Robbins, L.Veltz) 15

I’LL NAME THE DOGS Round Hill Songs BLS JV, ASCAP/Big Loud Proud Songs, ASCAP/Matt Drag Music, ASCAP/Pinetucky Road Publishing, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Thankful For This Music, ASCAP/Big Music Machine, BMI/Two Laine Collections, BMI (M.Dragstrem, B.Hayslip, J.Thompson) 13

IT AIN’T MY FAULT WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Trampy McCauley, ASCAP/All The Kings Pens, ASCAP/Songstein Publishing, ASCAP/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/The Country And Western Music, BMI (J. Osborne, T.J. Osborne, L.T.Miller) 16

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LAST TIME FOR EVERYTHING New House Of Sea Gayle Music, ASCAP/Songs For Margo, ASCAP (B.Paisley, S.Ahnquist, B.Anderson, C.DuBois, M.Ryan) 27

LEGENDS Songs Of Black River, ASCAP/KNB Music, ASCAP/Write Me Like You Mean It, ASCAP/BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP/Rezonant Music Publishing LLC, ASCAP (K.Ballerini, F.G.Whitehead, H.Lindsey) 31

LIFE CHANGES EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Cricket On The Line, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Ritten by Rhettro, BMI/Telemitry Rhythm House Music, BMI/Songs Of Roc Nation Music, BMI/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP (Thomas Rhett, R.Akins, J.Frasure, A.Gorley) 43

LIGHT IT UP Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/Peanut Mill Songs, BMI/Big Deal Notes, ASCAP/Wooden Ships, ASCAP (L.Bryan, B.Tursi) 12

LIKE I LOVED YOU Super Big Music, ASCAP/Caliville Publishing, ASCAP/Big Machine Music, BMI/ole Purple Cape Music, BMI/Honey Lee Music, BMI (B.Young, J.Lee) 18

THE LONG WAY Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI/Paris Not France Music, BMI/ole Canalco Publishing, ASCAP (B.Eldredge, M.Rogers) 44

LOSING SLEEP EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Goodbye Pants Music, BMI/EMI Foray Music, SESAC/Write 2 Be Free Music, SESAC/CDS Words And Music, ASACP/EMI April Music, Inc., ASCAP (C.Young, J.Hoge, C. DeStefano) 17

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MARRY ME EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Cricket On The Line, BMI/Rio Bravo Music, Inc., BMI/Telemitry Productions, BMI/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/Smack Hits, GMR/Smack Songs LLC, GMR/Kobalt Songs Publishing American, Inc., GMR (Thomas Rhett, J.Frasure, A.Gorley, S.McAnally) 42

MORE GIRLS LIKE YOU WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Point Break Publishing, ASCAP/Music Of The Corn, ASCAP/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Jack 10 Publishing, BMI/Songs Of Cornman, BMI/Universal Music - Brentwood Benson Publishing, ASCAP/D Soul Music, ASCAP/Capitol CMG Genesis, ASCAP (K.Moore, S.L.Olsen, J.Miller, D.A.Garcia) 14

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ONES THAT LIKE ME Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Indiana Angel Music, BMI/Parallel Music Publishing, LLC, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Publishing America, Inc., ASCAP/Bobby’s Lyrics, Land And Livestock, BMI/Do Write Music, LLC, BMI (B.Gilbert, B.Chaffin, B.Pinson) 45

OUTTA STYLE Tunes From HTK, BMI (A.Watson) 35

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RING ON EVERY FINGER Big Yellow Dog Music, ASCAP/Major Bob Music, Inc., ASCAP/EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Cricket On The Line, BMI (Thomas Rhett, J.Kear, J.Frasure) 24

ROUND HERE BUZZ Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/Longer And Louder Music, BMI/Little Louder Songs, BMI/Mammaw’s Fried Okra Music, BMI/Emileon Songs, BMI (E.Church, J.Hyde, L.Dick) 19

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SHE’S WITH ME Spruce Road Publishing, GMR/Capitol CMG Zenith, GMR/Sony/ATV Tunes, GMR/Centricity Tunes, GMR/CentricSongs, SESAC/The Stennis Mightier Music, BMI/Young Guns Publishing, LLC, BMI/Dead Aim Music, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI/Capitol CMG Amplifier, SESAC (B.Rempel, S.Mosley, B.Stennis) 41

SINGLES YOU UP Ole Red Cape Songs, ASCAP/Word Music, LLC, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Wordspring Music, LLC, SESAC/Memory Days, SESAC/W.B.M. Music Corp., SESAC (J.Davis, S.D.Jones, J.Ebach) 38

SIXTEEN EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Cricket On The Line, BMI/Sony/ATV Ballad, BMI/Eastman Pond Publishing, BMI/Big Deal Beats, BMI/Brodsky Spensive Publishing, BMI/Nice Life, BMI (Thomas Rhett, S.M.Douglas, Joe London) 46

SMALL TOWN BOY EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Thankful For This Music, ASCAP/Play It Again Entertainment, BMI/Round Hill Works, BMI (R.Akins, B.Hayslip, K.Fishman) 3

SMOOTH Big Loud Mountain, BMI/T Hubb Publishing, BMI/Pranch Ringle Music, BMI/Round Hill Works, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/A Girl Named Charlie, BMI/Freshy Music, ASCAP/We-Volve Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP (T.Hubbard, B.Kelley, N.Galyon, J.M.Schmidt) 20

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THEY DON’T KNOW Peertunes, Ltd., SESAC/Jaron Boyer Music, SESAC/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Music Of The Corn, ASCAP/This Is Magic Mustang Music, ASCAP (J.Boyer, J.Mirenda, K.Allison) 10

TIN MAN Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/Pink Dog Publishing, BMI/Beat Up Ford Publishing, BMI/BMG Platinum Songs, BMI/SWMBMGBMI, BMI/Lonesome Vinyl Music, BMI/Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI (M.Lambert, J.Ingram, J.R.Stewart) 25

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UNFORGETTABLE EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Cricket On The Line, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Songs Of Roc Nation Music, BMI/Telemitry Rhythm House Music, BMI/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/Smack Hits, GMR/Smack Songs LLC, GMR/Kobalt Songs Publishing American, Inc., GMR (Thomas Rhett, J.Frasure, A.Gorley, S.McAnally) 5

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WHAT IFS Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Kane Brown Music, BMI/Smackworks Music, SESAC/Smack Blue, LLC, SESAC/Kobalt Group Music Publishing, SESAC/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Freshy Music, ASCAP/We-Volve Music, ASCAP (K.Brown, M.McGinn, J.M.Schmidt) 2

WHEN IT RAINS IT POURS Big Machine Music, BMI/Straight Dimes Publishing, BMI/Works Of RHA Music, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Atlas Music Publishing, ASCAP/Extremely Combustible Music, BMI/PAJ Music, BMI (L.Combs, R.Fulcher, J.Walker) 4

WHEN SOMEONE STOPS LOVING YOU HillarodyRathbone Music, ASCAP/BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP/Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Plum Nelly, BMI/Maps And Records Music, BMI/Creative Pulse Music, BMI/These Are Pulse Songs, BMI (H.Lindsey, C.McGill, L.McKenna) 48

WRITTEN IN THE SAND ReHits Music, Inc., ASCAP/MeGusta Music, ASCAP/Smacktown Music, ASCAP/Unfair Entertainment, ASCAP/Big Deal Notes, ASCAP/Wooden Ships, ASCAP/Smackville Music, ASCAP/Smack Songs LLC, ASCAP/Carrot Seed Songs, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Publishing America, Inc., ASCAP/Smack Hits, GMR/Smack Songs LLC, GMR/Kobalt Songs Publishing American, Inc., GMR (M.Ramsey, T. Rosen, B.Tursi, S.McAnally) 34

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YOU BROKE UP WITH ME Songs Of Smack, BMI/Spark In Your Pocket, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI/Razor And Tie, APRA/BMG Platinum Songs, BMI (W.Hayes, K.Sackley, T.Archer) 22

YOURS Hillbilly Science And Research Publishing, SESAC/Trailerlily Music, SESAC/So Essential Tunes, SESAC/Not Just Another Song Publishing, SESAC/BMG Platinum Songs, BMI/Kailey’s Dream, BMI (P.Welling, C.Brown, R.Dickerson) 23

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O n O c t . 8, 20 05, Montgom-ery Gentry’s “Something to Be Proud Of ” ascended 2-1 for its first of two weeks atop Hot Country Songs. Penned by Jeffrey Steele, Julian Williams and Chris Wal-lin, the f lag-waving “Proud” was released from the album You Do Your Thing. The track became the pair’s second of five No. 1s among 16 top 10s.

Montgomery Gentry consisted o f K e n t u c k y n a t i v e s E d d i e M o n t g o m e r y , 5 3 ( w h o s e younger brother is John Michael Montgomery), and Troy Gentry,

who died in a helicopter crash at age 50 on Sept. 8.

Near the end of a Sept. 14 memorial service for Gentry, held at Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry House, the duo’s newly recorded “Better Me” was played. It was released as a single the following day and debuted at No. 40 on the Oct. 7 Hot Country Songs chart, marking the duo’s 29th entry. MG’s run began with 1999’s No. 13-peak-ing “Hillbilly Shoes.” The pair first led with “If You Ever Stop Loving Me” in 2004 and last reigned with 2008’s

“Roll With Me,” the twosome’s biggest Hot Country Songs hit. —JIM ASKER

12 Years AgoMontgomery Gentry Stood ‘Proud’ At No. 1“Something to Be Proud Of,” a patriotic anthem, became the duo’s second leader

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