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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

Jon Wolfe hits #1!

Vol 3. #29 July 25th, 2018

Dear Readers;

JON WOLFE takes the #1 spot with "Any Night In Texas." JOSH ABBOTT BAND's "The Night Is Ours" takes the honors of Most Added, Greatest Spin Gainer, and Highest Debut at position #36! Great work everybody!The following songs have been moved to RECURRENT status. CODY JOHNSON / Half A Song HUNTER HUTCHINSON / Lovin' For The Last Time JERRY AUDLEY / Childish Games MARTY HEDDIN / Game Changer MIKE AND THE MOONPIES / Beaches Of Biloxi THOMAS MICHAEL RILEY / Get Back Up and Ride The following stations have been frozen for 1 week. KFYN-FM (Paris, TX) KRVF-FM (Kerens, TX)The following station has been frozen for 2 week. KOYN-FM (Paris, TX)TRACtion TX would like to thank DRAKE HAYES BAND for allowing CDX to distribute their latest singles to Red Dirt radio and the industry. We really appreciate your support! DRAKE HAYES BAND / Blood Red MoonFor 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

Jon WolfeAny Night In Texas

Jon Wolfe Music

CONTENTS—

Charts

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Monitored Panel ListPAGE 5

Chart BreakoutsPAGE 6

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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

2 1 JON WOLFE/Any Night In Texas/Jon Wolfe Music 654 26 32 0 171 2 KYLE PARK/Ain't Nobody Hotter/Kyle Park Music 587 -60 36 0 213 3 RANDALL KING/Tuggin' on My Heartstrings/Randall King Music 513 -81 32 0 204 4 DREW FISH/Flood/Drew Fish Band Music 494 -81 32 0 218 5 WILLIAM CLARK GREEN/Hit You Where It Hurts/William Clark Green Music 482 60 29 0 67 6 CODY JINKS/Must Be The Whiskey/Rounder Records/Concord Music 476 50 30 1 59 7 KEVIN FOWLER/Beach Please/Kevin Fowler Records 446 32 29 1 76 8 DALTON DOMINO (FT. JACK INGRAM)/Corners/Lightning Rod Records 434 -41 30 0 2112 9 CASEY DONAHEW/That Got The Girl/Almost Country Records 432 39 30 3 75 10 JOSH WARD/All About Lovin'/Josh Ward Music 427 -55 29 0 1610 11 JASON BOLAND & THE STRAGGLERS (FT. SUNNY SWEENEY)/I Don't Deserve You/Proud Souls Entertainment 417 15 28 0 1111 12 AARON WATSON/Run Wild Horses/BIG Label Records 404 5 40 0 2514 13 TURNPIKE TROUBADOURS/A Tornado Warning/Thirty Tigers 347 24 23 0 413 14 JERROD MEDULLA/Unbroken Horses/Jerrod Medulla Music 339 -23 20 0 1515 15 JAMIE RICHARDS/I'm Not Drinkin'/Jamie Richards Music 309 -6 24 0 1719 16 STONEY LARUE/You Oughta Know Me/Stoney LaRue Music 302 40 22 1 416 17 FRANK RAY/The Drive/Frank Ray Music 287 -25 22 0 1222 18 CURTIS GRIMES/Put My Money On That/Lonely River Music 284 51 22 4 417 19 CASE HARDIN/Texas Rain/Case Hardin Music 275 -18 20 0 2518 20 JOSH GRIDER/Less and Less/Josh Grider Music 274 11 19 0 820 21 JASON CASSIDY/Falling Too Fast/JC Music 272 15 22 0 1321 22 CLAY HOLLIS/Can't Let a Good Thing Get Away/Clay Hollis Music 251 17 17 1 627 23 ELI YOUNG BAND/Love Ain't/Valory Music Co. (BMLG) 217 18 18 3 326 24 DERYL DODD/Ode To Cody Jinks/Little Red Truck Music 216 16 18 1 623 25 SHOTGUN RIDER/Me And A Memory/Vision Entertainment 192 -19 20 0 1640 26 GRANGER SMITH/You're In It/Wheelhouse (BBRMG) 175 61 13 1 232 27 JOHN BAUMANN/Here I Come/Golden Spread Music 173 10 12 0 1438 28 AMERICAN AQUARIUM/Tough Folks/New West Records 172 44 12 2 1229 29 MARK POWELL/Keep It Country/Mark Powell Music 165 -13 12 1 633 30 DREW MORELAND/Bench Seat Revival/Drew Moreland Music 163 7 15 0 11

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Number 1 = Most Added = Spin Gainer =

Bubbling Under PositionCOMANCHE MOON/The One That You Love/Comanche Moon Music 51CAMERAN NELSON/Life Is/Miles Power Records 52SARAH HOBBS/I Got Me/Sarah Hobbs Music 53PROPHETS AND OUTLAWS/Sweet Soft Southern Smile/Prophets and Outlaws Music 54DAMON CURTIS/Here's To Goodbye/Damon Curtis Music 55MATT & THE HERDSMEN/Hello Heartache/Matt & The Herdsmen Productions 56JASON JAMES/Here Comes The Heartache/New West Records 57STETSON WALKER/Say Hello To Goodbye/Stetson Walker Music 58MORGAN ASHLEY/Your Girl/Universal Artists 59BRADLEY BANNING/More/Bradley Banning Music 60

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Chart

30 31 ADRIAN JOHNSTON (FT. JORDON ISAAC)/Damn, I Want a Love Like That/Adrian Johnston Music 163 -9 13 0 1925 32 KODY WEST/Shine Out/Kody West Music 160 -44 19 0 2034 33 GLEN TEMPLETON/Hip To Be Country/Glen Templeton Music 160 6 11 0 831 34 BUFFALO RUCKUS, THE/Lay Your Love on Me/Shiner Records 154 -13 15 1 1935 35 GREAT DIVIDE, THE/Bound To Be There Soon/The Great Divide Music 151 -1 12 0 7-- 36 JOSH ABBOTT BAND/The Night Is Ours/Pretty Damn Tough Records 143 139 10 10 137 37 RED SHAHAN/Someone Someday/7013 Records 132 4 11 0 13-- 38 CORY MORROW/Whiskey And Pride/Cory Morrow Music 123 99 9 7 143 39 STEVE HELMS BAND/Can I Buy You A Country Song/Steve Helms Band Music 121 13 13 1 836 40 JUNIOR GORDON/Before Beer/Junior Gordon Music 120 -18 13 0 1239 41 SAINTS ELEVEN (FT. COURTNEY PATTON)/Let Them Go/Saint's Eleven Music 115 -11 10 0 1842 42 NED LEDOUX/Brother Highway/Powder River 113 4 12 0 447 43 MASON LIVELY/Lonely Comes Back Around/Mason Lively Music 108 16 11 0 5-- 44 ROBERT RAY/Two Steppin' At A Time/Big R.I.G. Country, LLC 100 31 6 2 144 45 GARY KYLE/Rewind/Gary Kyle Music 97 -4 9 0 646 46 RAY JOHNSTON BAND/Tennessee Me/Lil Dude Records 95 -3 8 0 2-- 47 CODY BRYAN BAND/Texas Highway/Cody Bryan Band Music 94 23 9 1 245 48 JADE MARIE PATEK/Dead Flowers/Jade Marie Patek Music 93 -6 5 0 5-- 49 EDDIE SAENZ/Georgia Girl/Eddie Saenz Music 89 9 8 0 1-- 50 ZACH COFFEY/Wildfire/Zach Coffey Music 86 6 8 0 1

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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, TXKJDL-FM Levelland, TX

KKAJ-FM Ardmore, OKKKCN-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, COKRRG-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 AddsJOSH ABBOTT BAND/The Night Is OursPretty Damn Tough Records 10CORY MORROW/Whiskey And PrideCory Morrow Music 7CURTIS GRIMES/Put My Money On ThatLonely River Music 4CASEY DONAHEW/That Got The GirlAlmost Country Records 3ELI YOUNG BAND/Love Ain'tValory Music Co. (BMLG) 3AMERICAN AQUARIUM/Tough FolksNew West Records 2ROBERT RAY/Two Steppin' At A TimeBig R.I.G. Country, LLC 2CAMERAN NELSON/Life IsMiles Power Records 2MICHAEL GUTIERREZ/Keep On Rollin'Bar Frog Music 2TANNER SPARKS/Good IntentionsTanner Sparks Music 2

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Greatest Spin Gainers IncreaseJOSH ABBOTT BAND/The Night Is OursPretty Damn Tough Records 139CORY MORROW/Whiskey And PrideCory Morrow Music 99GRANGER SMITH/You're In ItWheelhouse (BBRMG) 61WILLIAM CLARK GREEN/Hit You Where It HurtsWilliam Clark Green Music 60CURTIS GRIMES/Put My Money On ThatLonely River Music 51CODY JINKS/Must Be The WhiskeyRounder Records/Concord Music 50AMERICAN AQUARIUM/Tough FolksNew West Records 44STONEY LARUE/You Oughta Know MeStoney LaRue Music 40

CASEY DONAHEW/That Got The GirlAlmost Country Records 39

CAMERAN NELSON/Life IsMiles Power Records 38

Natalie Rose with Rae Rae and Jody Lee Caudle at Texas Home Grown Radio in Stephenville, Texas.

William Clark Green and Jamie Talbert at the fundraiser that was held for Jody Lee Caudle of Texas Homegrown Radio.