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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

Josh Abbott Band takesover the #1 spot!

Vol 3. #18 May 9th, 2018

Dear Readers;

Josh Abbott Band takes over the #1 position with "Girl Down In Texas." Coming in at #50, Frank Ray becomes both the Most Added and Greatest Spin Gainer with "Drive." Hannah Kay's "I'm Gonna (Darian's Song)" is the highest debut at #46. Great work everybody!The following song has been moved to RECURRENT status. CLAY HOLLIS / Look Who's Hurting Now MARK POWELL / What I Do MILES WILLIAMS / She Calls Me Daddy REVEREND'S DAUGHTER / Dreams Come True SUNDANCE HEAD / Everything To LoseThe following station has been frozen for 1 week. KYKX-FM (Tyler, TX) TRACtion TX would like to thank Bryan Adam Joyner for allowing CDX to distribute his recent single to Red Dirt radio and the industry. We really appreciate your support! BRYAN ADAM JOYNER / Ain't No Pat GreenFor those who don’t use CDX to distribute their single but want it to be fingerprinted in TRACtion TX for airplay monitoring, send those MP3's with title, artist, label, and add date to https://spaces.hightail.com/uplink/tractiontx.

Looking forward,Jessie Scott

jessiescott@cdxcd.comTRACtion Texas Chart Director

Josh Abbott BandGirl Down In Texas

Pretty Damn Tough Records

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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Artist / Song Title / Label

Spins +- Stations Adds Wks On Chart

2 1 JOSH ABBOTT BAND/Girl Down In Texas/Pretty Damn Tough Records 663 20 37 1 161 2 CASEY DONAHEW BAND/What Cowboys Do/Almost Country Records 649 -119 42 0 155 3 TURNPIKE TROUBADOURS/Something To Hold On To/Thirty Tigers 645 61 32 0 113 4 AARON WATSON/Run Wild Horses/BIG Label Records 642 18 42 0 144 5 RECKLESS KELLY/Moment In The Sun/No Big Deal Records 590 -34 37 1 167 6 MIKE RYAN/The Rewrite/Rock & Soul 548 -13 36 0 146 7 WADE BOWEN/So Long 6th Street/Thirty Tigers 486 -88 37 0 138 8 JOSH WARD/All About Lovin'/Josh Ward Music 445 15 33 1 510 9 DREW FISH/Flood/Drew Fish Band Music 432 42 31 3 1013 10 JON WOLFE/Any Night In Texas/Jon Wolfe Music 398 46 29 3 69 11 JESSE RAUB JR/Mistakes/Jesse Raub Jr. Music 377 -28 24 0 2511 12 KYLE PARK/Ain't Nobody Hotter/Kyle Park Music 376 6 32 0 1016 13 DALTON DOMINO (FT. JACK INGRAM)/Corners/Lightning Rod Records 347 30 27 1 1014 14 CODY JINKS/Whiskey Bent And Hell Bound/Cody Jinks Music 340 -7 30 1 2218 15 DERYL DODD (W/ MATT HILLYER)/Drinkin' Bout You/Little Red Truck Music 326 12 25 1 1515 16 MARTY HEDDIN/Game Changer/Nightlife Entertainment Group/Dreamlined Entertainment Group 319 -2 22 2 1717 17 RANDALL KING/Tuggin' on My Heartstrings/Randall King Music 292 -23 27 1 919 18 CASE HARDIN/Texas Rain/Case Hardin Music 285 2 20 0 1423 19 POWELL BROTHERS, THE/Coming Home/The Powell Brothers Production 258 10 21 0 1521 20 JAMIE RICHARDS/I'm Not Drinkin'/Jamie Richards Music 247 -7 21 1 620 21 AARON COPELAND/Rain/Aaron Copeland Music 238 -28 21 0 2424 22 ROBERT RAY/Drunk Enough/Big R.I.G. Country, LLC 237 24 18 2 1025 23 WILLIAM CLARK GREEN/Wrapped/Greenhouse Records 204 16 16 0 926 24 MIKE AND THE MOONPIES/Beaches Of Biloxi/Mike And The Moonpies Music 194 14 14 1 1227 25 KOE WETZEL (& THE KONVICTS)/Austin/Koe Wetzel Music 158 -22 12 0 1230 26 TANNER FENOGLIO/This Town/Tanner Fenoglio Music 154 -2 13 0 1234 27 SHOTGUN RIDER/Me And A Memory/Vision Entertainment 152 25 14 1 529 28 CODY JOHNSON/Half A Song/Cojo Music LLC 146 -13 9 0 1143 29 JASON CASSIDY/Falling Too Fast/JC Music 145 59 12 4 231 30 KODY WEST/Shine Out/Kody West Music 139 -1 11 1 9

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Number 1 = Most Added = Spin Gainer =

Bubbling Under PositionCOREY HUNT BAND/Wild Heart Gypsy/Uwharrie Music Group 51JAMIE TALBERT AND THE BAND OF DEMONS/Back In My Arms/Jamtal Records 52JUNIOR GORDON/Before Beer/Junior Gordon Music 53DREW MORELAND/Bench Seat Revival/Drew Moreland Music 54MASON LIVELY/Lonely Comes Back Around/Mason Lively Music 55DRAKE HAYES BAND/Nowhere Texas/Drake Hayes Music 56DUSTIN SONNIER/Neither Do I/Dustin Sonnier Music 57STEVE HELMS BAND/Can I Buy You A Country Song/Steve Helms Band Music 58WILL CARTER/That Kiss/Will Carter Music 59JENNI DALE LORD BAND (FT. JOE ELY)/Already Gone/Jenni Dale Lord Band Music 60

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Artist / Song Title / LabelSpins +- Stations Adds Wks On

Chart

32 31 JON YOUNG/Rubble and Relics/Jon Young Music 138 3 12 1 835 32 KACEY MUSGRAVES/Space Cowboy/MCA Records (UMGN) 122 2 9 0 533 33 RANDY ROGERS BAND, THE (FT. RADNEY FOSTER)/Three Days/Greenhouse Records 121 -8 9 0 739 34 BUFFALO RUCKUS, THE/Lay Your Love on Me/Shiner Records 111 10 10 0 836 35 SAINTS ELEVEN (FT. COURTNEY PATTON)/Let Them Go/Saint's Eleven Music 109 -5 11 0 740 36 JERROD MEDULLA/Unbroken Horses/Jerrod Medulla Music 105 14 6 0 442 37 JOHN BAUMANN/Here I Come/Golden Spread Music 101 14 7 1 3-- 38 JASON JAMES/Here Comes The Heartache/New West Records 100 39 7 1 638 39 ADRIAN JOHNSTON (FT. JORDON ISAAC)/Damn, I Want a Love Like That/Adrian Johnston Music 95 -7 10 1 849 40 HUNTER HUTCHINSON/Lovin' For The Last Time/Hunter Hutchinson Music 93 25 9 4 3-- 41 CODY JOE HODGES/Roll That Way/CJH Music Group 93 29 8 0 648 42 SARAH HOBBS/Tinder/Sarah Hobbs Music 89 20 10 1 541 43 TANNER SPARKS/You Should Probably Leave/Tanner Sparks Music 88 -1 9 0 437 44 DONICE MORACE/Good Hurt Comin' On/Donice Morace Music 77 -33 13 0 25-- 45 RED SHAHAN/Someone Someday/7013 Records 75 13 6 0 2-- 46 HANNAH KAY/ I'm Gonna (Darian's Song)/Hannah Kay Music 73 16 7 0 1-- 47 AMERICAN AQUARIUM/Tough Folks/New West Records 72 45 6 4 145 48 RICH O'TOOLE/Mississippi Baby/Rich O'Toole Music 71 -4 8 0 3-- 49 JAKE BUSH/How Do You Know/Jake Bush Music 69 8 8 0 4-- 50 FRANK RAY/Drive/Frank Ray Music 69 69 5 5 1

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“Monitored Radio Airplay”

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 AddsFRANK RAY/DriveFrank Ray Music 5JASON CASSIDY/Falling Too FastJC Music 4HUNTER HUTCHINSON/Lovin' For The Last TimeHunter Hutchinson Music 4AMERICAN AQUARIUM/Tough FolksNew West Records 4DREW FISH/FloodDrew Fish Band Music 3JON WOLFE/Any Night In TexasJon Wolfe Music 3MARTY HEDDIN/Game ChangerNightlife Entertainment Group/Dreamlined Entertainment Group 2ROBERT RAY/Drunk EnoughBig R.I.G. Country, LLC 2GARY KYLE/RewindGary Kyle Music 2EDDIE SAENZ/Georgia GirlEddie Saenz Music 2

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.

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Greatest Spin Gainers IncreaseFRANK RAY/DriveFrank Ray Music 69TURNPIKE TROUBADOURS/Something To Hold On ToThirty Tigers 61JASON CASSIDY/Falling Too FastJC Music 59JON WOLFE/Any Night In TexasJon Wolfe Music 46AMERICAN AQUARIUM/Tough FolksNew West Records 45DREW FISH/FloodDrew Fish Band Music 42JASON JAMES/Here Comes The HeartacheNew West Records 39DALTON DOMINO (FT. JACK INGRAM)/CornersLightning Rod Records 30

CODY JOE HODGES/Roll That WayCJH Music Group 29

SHOTGUN RIDER/Me And A MemoryVision Entertainment 25