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Their current music doesnt sound like bro-country, but Thomas Rhett and Brett Eldredge have a budding bromance. Their R&B-tinged singles are both in the top five on Country Airplay, they both have soul-singed sophomore albums on the Septem-ber release schedule, and Rhett actually makes an appearance on Eldredges album in the groovalicious You Cant Stop Me.

If thats not enough, they can be seen together on TV in certain parts of the United States doing Zaxbys fast-food com mercia ls . A nd their co-headlining Suits and Boots Tour, presented by CMT, launches Oct. 29 in New York.

So how did these two be-come an item?

Our friendship really star ted when we did the Zaxbys commercial and we were at Tyler Hubbards wedding, says Rhett. We kind of realized that we had a lot of the same friends. And my wife loves him, and you cant deny that Brett is just the most ultimate dude in the world.

Plus, friendship is heavily influenced by people sharing a common world view. And not many share the world view of an artist especially that of a singer making soul music for

country fans with their second album in 2015.Were both in a really cool spot where our careers have kind

of risen together, notes Eldredge.Eldredge got a bit of a head start. His debut single, Ray-

mond, was released to radio five years ago on Aug. 30, 2010 but it wasnt until his third release, 2012s Dont Ya, that

his career kicked into gear. That single and the two that followed it, Beat of the Music and Mean to Me, rose to No. 1.

Meanwhile, Rhett made h is f i rst app ea ra nce i n 2012 with Something to Do With My Hands and similarly hit his stride on the third release, with It Goes Like This, Get Me Some of That and Make Me Wanna each reaching the Country Airplay pinna-cle in succession.

In the process, both of them found their grooves, and they ended up being similar textures. Eldredge, whose love for Frank Sinatra had him marketed initially as a crooner, locked onto more of a blue-eyed soul identity. His versatility actually made that process something of a challenge.

I grew up listening to so many different kinds of music from

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Sinatra to Brooks & Dunn to Vince Gill to Ray Charles, says Eldredge. And I loved Ray Charles. When I hear Ray Charles voice, I literally get chills.

By contrast, Rhetts rhythmic leanings were evident from the start. Part of his history includes doing hip-hop songs at the occasional concert by his father, singer-songwriter Rhett Akins, as a pre-teen, and Rhetts debut album had a handful of songs that played with rap and disco. His 2014 single Make Me Wanna, inspired by the Bee Gees Stayin Alive, increased his confidence in a country/R&B hybrid, and his new album Tangled Up, due Sept. 25 ventures into Motown, funk and hip-hop, testing boundaries that previously seemed unreachable for a country song.

We went all the way to the line [of acceptability], and we might have crossed it slightly, says Rhett of Tangled Up. I think the moment we might have crossed it slightly was when we were like, OK, I think were done, and I think we need to stop at these 13 tracks and put them out. Im that kind of guy, and Ive always been that kind of guy, that really loves going farther than I probably should.

One of the biggest differences between the two is their regional background. Rhett hails from Georgia, a state that has bred a long line of recent country hitmakers, including Jason Aldean, Brantley Gilbert, Luke Bryan and one-half of Florida Georgia Line, just for starters.

Eldredge grew up in the Midwest Paris, Ill., to be exact. Fewer country stars have graduated from there Illinois lineage includes Gretchen Wilson, Alison Krauss, David Lee Murphy and Suzy Bogguss though the region is a natural piece of the genres audience.

Iowas one of the countriest states ever, says Rhett Akins of Illinois neighbor.

Its one of the reasons that Eldredge named his new album Illinois, is-sued Sept. 11 after his home state. He also wrote the title track with Tom Douglas (The House That Built Me, Raise Em Up), weaving in the corn-fields, snow drifts and Little League baseball that inform his cultural history.

No matter how far you go in life, that place that you come from is what makes you who you are, says Eldredge. And Illinois made me who I am.

The Georgia/Illinois pairing of Rhett and Eldredge on the Suits and Boots Tour seems like a natural. Theyre close enough in career stature that they plan to flip a coin to establish the closing act on the first night and trade off the role after that, though theyll do a tandem set as a finale each evening that makes it a pure co-headlining arrangement.

Theyre in artistically similar places, bringing an R&B flavor to contempo-rary country, and in a visually similar spot, too, often wearing suits onstage. Which is one reason they chose the Suits and Boots moniker for the tour, though, if they wanted to rhyme, Brett and Rhett was available, too.

My idea was calling it Thomas Brett, says Rhett, but we wanted to have like a legit title, and I think [Suits and Boots] kind of fits.

The R&B material emphasizes the playful part of their nature. But the fash-ion component is meant to offset that with a little more weight.

People like Bradley Cooper in the movies I take em even more seri-ously, says Eldredge, when they throw a suit on.

Toby Keith visited with WIL St. Louis staff when he played the Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre on Sept. 5. From left are WIL assistant PD/music director Danny Montana, WIL personality Bo Matthews, Keith, WIL personality Jim Day and Show Dog Nashville vp promotion Rick Moxley.

Canaan Smith was a surprise performer during the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museums Nightfall at the Hall event on Sept. 8. From left are Hall of Fame vp development Lisa Purcell, performers Seth Alley and Levi Hummon, Smith and Hall of Fame membership and database manager Amanda Richard.

Wheelhouse artist Granger Smith performed Sept. 9 at the KEEY Minneapolis-St. Paul Roadhouse. From left are KEEY music director Kia Becht, Smith, KEEY assistant PD Levi Jessen and iHeartMedia/Minneapolis senior vp programming Gregg Swedberg.


Thomas Rhetts single Crash and Burn (Valory) steps 2-1 on Billboards Country Airplay chart (dated Sept. 26), drawing 47.2 audience impressions (up 1 percent), according to Nielsen Music.

The first single from Rhetts second studio album, Tangled Up, due Sept. 25, is his fourth Country Airplay No. 1, following It Goes Like This (three weeks on top in October-November 2013); Get Me Some of That (one, May 2014); and Make Me Wanna (one, March 2015). Burn marks Rhetts fastest trip to No. 1, reaching the summit in 23 weeks. His other chart-toppers took 29, 28 and 32 weeks, respectively.

Burn, co-written by Jesse Frasure and Chris Stapleton, boasts an R&B/pop influ-ence that Rhett felt was a bit of a reach for country radio. I seriously cant believe this is my fourth No. 1 in a row. [In between That and Wanna, Brantley Gilberts Small Town Throwdown, featuring Rhett and Jus-tin Moore, reached No. 8.] This one is my fa-vorite, though, because it was a gutsy call to release as a single, Rhett tells Billboard. Its so fun when you try something different and it works in a big way. I feel very blessed to be celebrating today.

Country radio has clearly embraced the vibe of Crash. This one was an instant hit, says WYCD Detroit PD Tim Roberts. Yeah, so its not the countriest record. It has a fun, soulful groove that sticks in your head. Listeners love it; thats all that matters. Roberts adds that country has traditionally been somewhat of a melting pot, anyway. Respectfully, I think that some well-meaning musicologists tend to overthink things. Our job has always been to serve music up listeners love, and they truly do with this song.

Echoes WKLB Boston PD Mike Brophey of Crash, Its just a great song. Its relatable, has solid tempo and is in heavy rotation, so thats a great

performance story. As far as it being unique, it certainly did not offend WKLB listeners; it had the opposite effect. We are enjoying an eclectic format with a lot of different sounds, so this song fits right in.

On Sept. 23, two days prior to the release of Tangled Up, Rhett will perform in concert at AT&T Stadium in Dallas. As part of the event, billed as Tangled Up in Texas, attendees (who, beforehand, would be wise to get in a good hamstring stretch) will attempt the world record for the largest-ever game of Twister.

Meanwhile, Stapleton continues his resur-gence on Top Country Albums, following the re-cent relaunch of his album Traveller (Mercury/Universal Music Group Nashville). Bolstered by three Country Music Association Award nomi-nations (album, new artist and male vocalist of the year), the set gains by 45 percent to 4,000 sold, claiming Greatest Gainer honors as it rises 20-13 in its 19th week.

NEW TOP 10s Cam collects her first top 10 on Hot Country Songs, as Burning House (Arista Nashville) climbs 11-8. The ballad lifts 22-19 on Country Airplay (18.9 million audi-ence impressions, up with 11 percent). Mad-die & Tae, whose Start Here debuted at No. 2 on the Sept. 19 Top Country Albums chart, achieve their second top 10 on Hot Country Songs, as Fly (Dot) floats 12-9; it bullets at No. 10 on Country Airplay (28.2 million, up

6 percent). The duos debut hit, Girl in a Country Song, peaked at No. 3 on Hot Country Songs and No. 1 on Country Airplay in December 2014.

CRAZY TALK Dylan Scotts Crazy Over Me (Curb) doesnt go for adds at country radio until Oct. 19, but the track, boosted by support from SiriusXMs The Highway, bows at No. 14 on Country Digital Songs. It starts with 16,000 first-week downloads sold.

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BILLBOARD COUNTRY AIRPLAY PANEL 150 STATIONSAlbany, 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 KQFCBoston WKLBBuffalo, N.Y. WYRKCharleston, S.C. WCKN WEZLCharlotte, N.C. WKKT WSOCChattanooga, Tenn. WUSYChicago WEBG WUSNCincinnati WUBECleveland WGARColorado Springs, Colo. KATCColumbia, S.C. WCOSColumbus, Ohio WCOLCorpus Christi, Texas KRYSDallas KPLX KSCSDenver KWOF KYGODes Moines, Iowa KHKI KJJYDetroit WYCD

El Paso, Texas KHEYFt. Myers, Fla. WCKT WWGRFt. Wayne, Ind. WQHKFresno, Calif. KSKSGainesville, Fla. WOGKGrand Rapids, Mich. WBCTGreensboro, N.C. WPAW WTQRGreenville, S.C. WESC 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. WWQMMcAllen, Texas KTEXMemphis WGKX

Miami WKISMilwaukee WMILMinneapolis KEEY KMNBMobile, Ala. WKSJMonmouth/Ocean, N.J. WKMKMonterey, Calif.. KTOMNashville WKDF WSIX WSM-FMNassau, N.Y. WJVCNew Bern, N.C. WRNSNew Orleans WNOENew York WNSHNorfolk, Va. WGH WUSHOklahoma City, Okla. KJKE KTSTOmaha, Neb. KXKTOrlando, Fla. WWKAPhiladelphia WXTUPhoenix KMLE KNIXPittsburgh WDSY WOGI WPGBPortland, Maine WPOR WTHTPortland, Ore. KUPL KWJJProvidence, R.I. WCTKRaleigh, N.C. WNCB WQDRRichmond, Va. WKHKRiverside, Calif. KFRGRoanoke, Va. WSLCRochester, N.Y. WBEE

Sacramento, Calif. KBEB KNCI KNTYSt. Louis KSD WILSalt Lake City KEGA KSOP KUBLSan Antonio, Texas KAJA KCYYSan Diego KSONSan Jose, Calif. KRTY KSJOSanta Rosa, Calif. KFGYSarasota, Fla. WCTQSeattle KKWF KMPSShreveport, La. KXKSSpokane, Wash. KXLYSpringfield, Mass. WRNXSpringfield, Mo. KTTSStockton, Calif. KATMSyracuse, N.Y. WBBSTampa, Fla. WFUS WQYKTucson, Ariz. KIIMTulsa, Okla. KTGX 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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l1 2 23 CRASH AND BURN Valory HH No. 1 (1 week) HH Thomas Rhett 47.168 +0.648 7949 270 1l2 3 14 JOHN COUGAR, JOHN DEERE, JOHN 3:16 Hit Red/Capitol Nashville Keith Urban 44.730 +1.518 7585 320 3l3 4 20 BUY ME A BOAT Warner Bros./WAR Chris Janson 44.690 +2.243 7771 358 2l4 6 13 SAVE IT FOR A RAINY DAY Blue Chair/Columbia Nashville Kenny Chesney 43.868 +3.751 7122 464 5l5 7 21 LOSE MY MIND Atlantic/WMN Brett Eldredge 41.916 +3.493 7364 633 46 1 45 HELL OF A NIGHT Broken Bow Dustin Lynch 35.812 -12.547 6177 -2104 6

7 5 32 HOUSE PARTY MCA Nashville Sam Hunt 34.658 -6.652 5564 -1423 7

l8 8 6 STRIP IT DOWN Capitol Nashville Luke Bryan 31.508 +3.809 5163 599 8l9 9 14 ANYTHING GOES Republic Nashville Florida Georgia Line 28.715 +2.137 4774 307 11l10 10 34 FLY Dot Maddie & Tae 28.155 +1.563 4993 522 9l11 12 45 GONNA WANNA TONIGHT Dack Janiels/Columbia Nashville Chase Rice 27.899 +2.076 4844 346 10l12 14 33 BREAK UP WITH HIM RCA Nashville Old Dominion 27.174 +2.894 4406 618 13l13 13 23 LET ME SEE YA GIRL Warner Bros./WMN Cole Swindell 26.996 +2.594 4664 365 12l14 17 4 SMOKE BREAK 19/Arista Nashville HH Most Increased Audience HH Carrie Underwood 25.299 +4.191 4156 648 15l15 15 30 NOTHIN LIKE YOU Warner Bros./WAR Dan + Shay 24.550 +2.349 4282 330 14l16 16 8 GONNA Warner Bros./WMN Blake Shelton 23.878 +2.441 3913 416 16l17 19 26 LONG STRETCH OF LOVE Capitol Nashville Lady Antebellum 20.651 +1.206 3559 161 19l18 18 16 REAL LIFE RCA Nashville Jake Owen 19.672 +0.076 3657 -52 18l19 22 12 BURNING HOUSE Arista Nashville HH Airpower HH Cam 18.892 +1.874 3686 247 17l20 20 16 IM COMIN OVER RCA Nashville Chris Young 18.874 +1.017 3160 190 21l21 23 6 TOP OF THE WORLD McGraw/Big Machine Tim McGraw 17.159 +2.050 3126 228 22l22 27 7 GONNA KNOW WE WERE HERE Broken Bow Jason Aldean 14.596 +1.374 2705 326 24l23 24 35 RUN AWAY WITH YOU B$R/New Revolution Big & Rich 14.588 +0.716 3161 73 20l24 25 24 STAY A LITTLE LONGER EMI Nashville Brothers Osborne 13.933 +0.551 2661 265 25l25 26 32 ALREADY CALLIN YOU MINE Stoney Creek Parmalee 13.546 +0.282 2903 70 23l26 28 11 DIBS Black River Kelsea Ballerini 10.653 +0.622 2282 155 26l27 29 29 I LOVE THIS LIFE Reviver LoCash 10.007 +0.821 1839 189 29l28 30 29 I GOT THE BOY Elektra Nashville/WAR Jana Kramer 9.501 +0.641 2078 117 27l29 31 17 21 Atlantic/WMN Hunter Hayes 8.472 +0.389 1853 134 28l30 35 5 LIVE FOREVER Republic Nashville The Band Perry 5.666 +0.843 1146 247 33


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The track surges 17-14 on Country Airplay, up by 20 percent to 25.3 million

in audience impressions. Aiding its exposure: Under wood performed the

song on NBCs The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (Sept. 10).

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l31 32 22 LITTLE BIT OF YOU Red Bow Chase Bryant 5.487 +0.157 1498 183 30l32 37 11 (THIS AINT NO) DRUNK DIAL Republic Nashville A Thousand Horses 5.393 +0.970 1089 77 36l33 36 15 WE WENT Stoney Creek Randy Houser 5.124 +0.596 1454 189 3134 34 16 SOUTHERN STYLE Capitol Nashville Darius Rucker 4.859 -0.204 1165 24 32

35 33 13 SMOKIN AND DRINKIN RCA Nashville Miranda Lambert Featuring Little Big Town 4.827 -0.273 1092 -28 35

l36 38 8 BLUE BANDANA Sea Gayle/Arista Nashville Jerrod Niemann 4.337 +0.373 1076 55 37l37 39 12 RISER Capitol Nashville Dierks Bentley 4.293 +0.463 1034 135 38l38 41 14 THAT DONT SOUND LIKE YOU Curb Lee Brice 3.468 +0.244 1114 -24 34l39 40 15 DRINKIN TOWN WITH A FOOTBALL PROBLEM Mercury Billy Currington 3.331 +0.023 779 32 41l40 45 8 YUP Mercury Easton Corbin 2.905 +0.465 589 64 42l41 47 8 HONEY, IM GOOD. S-Curve/Valory Andy Grammer Duet With Eli Young Band 2.872 +0.633 313 37 54l42 42 12 WHITE LIGHTNING Big Machine The Cadillac Three 2.828 +0.044 911 41 39l43 43 14 TOMORROW TONIGHT Red Bow Craig Campbell 2.670 +0.061 898 -24 40l44 46 8 AINT NO TRUCKS IN TEXAS Nash Icon/Valory Ronnie Dunn 2.384 +0.109 549 13 43l45 51 10 BACKROAD SONG Wheelhouse Granger Smith 1.902 +0.595 170 56 -l46 53 2 COUNTRY NATION Arista Nashville Brad Paisley 1.846 +0.742 349 142 5247 44 13 LOVE IS YOUR NAME Dot Steven Tyler 1.843 -0.613 518 -186 45

l48 49 7 NIGHTS ON FIRE MCA Nashville David Nail 1.830 +0.278 524 73 44l49 48 4 UNTIL THEY DONT LOVE YOU Starstruck/Nash Icon/Valory Reba 1.728 +0.077 306 14 55l50 56 3 PAIN KILLER Capitol Nashville Little Big Town 1.478 +0.491 430 96 48l51 60 2 BREAK UP IN A SMALL TOWN MCA Nashville Sam Hunt 1.408 +0.539 263 111 -52 50 9 MOVE ON MCA Nashville Clare Dunn 1.369 -0.051 406 -31 49

l53 NEW BOY & A GIRL THING Curb HH Hot Shot Debut HH Mo Pitney 1.288 +0.454 313 119 53l54 NEW BEAUTIFUL DRUG John Varvatos/Republic/BMLG/Southern Ground Zac Brown Band 1.228 +0.937 171 133 -l55 58 2 STONE COLD SOBER Valory HH Most Added HH Brantley Gilbert 1.228 +0.325 299 100 56l56 RE-ENTRY I AM INVINCIBLE Republic Nashville Cassadee Pope 1.145 +0.402 287 154 57l57 55 4 HOLE IN A BOTTLE Mercury Canaan Smith 1.145 +0.131 396 49 50l58 52 10 CRAZY TOO G-Force/New Revolution Lucy Angel 1.141 +0.001 442 41 47l59 54 6 BAD FOR YOU Big Machine Waterloo Revival 1.130 +0.037 490 51 46l60 RE-ENTRY BETTER IN BOOTS Columbia Nashville Tyler Farr 1.110 +0.235 380 44 51

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ALABAMA Wasnt Through Lovin You Yet BMG

BLACKJACK BILLY Night Light Reviver

CRAIG MORGAN When Im Gone Black River

JOE NICHOLS Freaks Like Me Red Bow

MATT GARY Its On You in2une

SAM HUNT Break Up In A Small Town MCA Nashville

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AARON WATSON Getaway Truck BIG Label/Thirty Tigers

ABI ANN Truck Candy in2une

DUSTIN LYNCH Mind Reader Broken Bow

LAUREN ALAINA Next Boyfriend 19/Interscope/Mercury

THOMAS RHETT Die A Happy Man Valory

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GRANGER SMITH Backroad Song Wheelhouse

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MOST ADDEDTITLE Imprint/Label Artist ADDSSTONE COLD SOBER Valory Brantley Gilbert 14I LIKE THE SOUND OF THAT Big Machine Rascal Flatts 14COUNTRY NATION Arista Nashville Brad Paisley 13I AM INVINCIBLE Republic Nashville Cassadee Pope 11LIVE FOREVER Republic Nashville The Band Perry 10BOY & A GIRL THING Curb Mo Pitney 10SOUTHERN BELLE 19/Interscope/Mercury Scotty McCreery 9BREAK UP IN A SMALL TOWN MCA Nashville Sam Hunt 9I LOVE THIS LIFE Reviver LoCash 7HEAD OVER BOOTS Capitol Nashville Jon Pardi 7

MOST INCREASED PLAYSTITLE Imprint/Label Artist GAINSMOKE BREAK 19/Arista Nashville Carrie Underwood +648LOSE MY MIND Atlantic/WMN Brett Eldredge +633BREAK UP WITH HIM RCA Nashville Old Dominion +618STRIP IT DOWN Capitol Nashville Luke Bryan +599FLY Dot Maddie & Tae +522SAVE IT FOR A RAINY DAY Blue Chair/Columbia Nashville Kenny Chesney +464GONNA Warner Bros./WMN Blake Shelton +416LET ME SEE YA GIRL Warner Bros./WMN Cole Swindell +365BUY ME A BOAT Warner Bros./WAR Chris Janson +358GONNA WANNA TONIGHT Dack Janiels/Columbia Nashville Chase Rice +346

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SMOKE BREAK 19/Arista Nashville Carrie Underwood +4.191STRIP IT DOWN Capitol Nashville Luke Bryan +3.809SAVE IT FOR A RAINY DAY Blue Chair/Columbia Nashville Kenny Chesney +3.751LOSE MY MIND Atlantic/WMN Brett Eldredge +3.493BREAK UP WITH HIM RCA Nashville Old Dominion +2.894LET ME SEE YA GIRL Warner Bros./WMN Cole Swindell +2.594GONNA Warner Bros./WMN Blake Shelton +2.441NOTHIN LIKE YOU Warner Bros./WAR Dan + Shay +2.349BUY ME A BOAT Warner Bros./WAR Chris Janson +2.243ANYTHING GOES Republic Nashville Florida Georgia Line +2.137

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

$11,624,917 KENNY CHESNEY 120,206 THE MESSINA GROUP/AEG LIVE$265, $59.50 Gillette Stadium, Foxborough, Mass./Aug. 28-29 two sellouts

$4,903,524 KENNY CHESNEY 49,285 THE MESSINA GROUP/AEG LIVE$255, $41 Ford Field, Detroit/Aug. 22 sellout

$1,512,334 LUKE BRYAN 24,393IN-HOUSE$79.50, $39.50 Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion, Gilford, N.H./July 20-22 three sellouts

$905,344 SHANIA TWAIN 9,436AEG LIVE$136, $46 Chesapeake Energy Arena, Oklahoma City/Aug. 12 10,342

$898,901 KENNY CHESNEY 13,381 THE MESSINA GROUP/AEG LIVE$149.25, $43.75 Darlings Waterfront Pavilion, Bangor, Maine/Aug. 13 sellout

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 ([email protected]).

TEXAS REGIONAL RADIO REPORTWEEK ENDING SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

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 2015, Texas Regional Radio Report

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l1 2 20 EASY (Independent) HH 1 week at 1 HH Cody Canada & The Departed 1972 222

l2 3 23 LIVIN THE GOOD LIFE (RROC) Matt Kimbrow 1769 1183 1 18 WHILE I WAS AWAY (Independent) Pat Green 1691 -256

l4 6 13 REAL COOL HAND (No Big Deal) Reckless Kelly 1502 88

l5 5 20 OLD WITH YOU (Independent) Cory Morrow 1492 48

l6 8 11 DOWN HERE (Independent) Turnpike Troubadours 1464 77

l7 9 17 SMILE THAT SMILE (Independent) Curtis Grimes 1420 1008 7 25 SHELTER FROM THE RAIN (Independent) Whiskey Myers 1399 0

l9 11 16 LIFE COMES AT YOU FAST (Independent) Bart Crow Band 1325 74

l10 13 15 TEASIN ME (Hammer Down) Miles Williams 1267 85

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11 4 17 SUN SHINES ON A DREAMER (Sea Gayle) Wade Bowen 1249 -206

12 12 15 WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND (Independent) Kyle Park 1240 -5

l13 14 8 DAMN THIS OL HONKY TONK DREAM (KF) Kevin Fowler & Deryl Dodd 1234 104

l14 25 8 LOSER (Almost Country) Casey Donahew Band 1074 214

l15 16 12 GIRLS I DATE (Independent) Mike Ryan 1064 10716 10 24 BACKROAD SONG (Independent) Granger Smith 1062 -231

l17 18 12 YOU DREAM ILL DRIVE (Independent) Josh Grider 1061 135

l18 15 18 DONT OWN THE RIGHT (Boo Clap/Thirty Tigers) Uncle Lucius 1039 73

l19 19 8 LADY BUG (Independent) Randy Rogers & Wade Bowen 1001 84

l20 17 9 PHONE CALLS (BGM) TJ Broscoff 992 43

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(IN MILLIONS)1 YOUNG & CRAZY Warner Bros./WAR Frankie Ballard 21.420

2 KISS YOU IN THE MORNING Atlantic/WEA Michael Ray 20.463

3 LIKE A WRECKING BALL EMI Nashville Eric Church 17.722

4 TONIGHT LOOKS GOOD ON YOU Broken Bow Jason Aldean 17.197

5 HOMEGROWN John Varvatos/Republic/BMLG/Southern Ground Zac Brown Band 16.453

6 LOVING YOU EASY John Varvatos/Republic/BMLG/Southern Ground Zac Brown Band 16.220

7 KICK THE DUST UP Capitol Nashville Luke Bryan 16.192

8 SANGRIA Warner Bros./WMN Blake Shelton 14.835

9 LOVE YOU LIKE THAT Mercury Canaan Smith 14.675

10 ONE HELL OF AN AMEN Valory Brantley Gilbert 14.472

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REAL MEN LOVE JESUS Atlantic/WEA Michael Ray 1.071 14 5

I MET A GIRL Warner Bros./WMN William Michael Morgan 1.031 19 5

SOUTHERN BELLE 19/Interscope/Mercury Scotty McCreery 0.896 20 9

I LIKE THE SOUND OF THAT Big Machine Rascal Flatts 0.868 14 14

HEY YALL Warner Bros./WMN Cole Swindell 0.699 1 0

WHISKEY ON MY BREATH Thirty Tigers Love And Theft 0.493 19 2


SONGWRITERS, STAND UP! Nashville songwriters were encouraged during a National Music Publishers Association town hall meeting on Sept. 9 to make their voices heard as the government reviews an antiquated system that regulates royalties.

NMPA president/CEO David Israelite used slides and financial data to demonstrate that songwriters and publishers are in a David-and-Goliath bat-tle for fairness as consumers transition from a music-purchase economy to a streaming model. The $2 billion publishing industry spent $1.9 million to lobby Congress in 2014, just 2 percent of the $79.8 million investment that its adversaries, including Spotify, made in politicking. The latter business, valued at $8 billion by analysts, is four times the economic size of music publishers.

Hundreds of songwriters attended, including Bill Anderson, Ashley Gor-ley (Kick the Dust Up), Tom Douglas (The House That Built Me), Wood Newton (Bobbie Sue), Steve Bogard (Carried Away) and Lee Thomas Miller (Crushin It). Israelite encouraged them to stand together as a com-munity and to enlist with writer agencies particularly the Nashville Song-writers Association International as their representatives work to revise procedures and rate mechanisms that were established in older eras. Copyright in the digital era is built upon a system that was started to solve player-piano disputes before even the radio became a public commodity. Songwriter roy-alties are doled out in smaller percentages in the United States than in other developed countries, according to Israelite.

One of the biggest issues, he said, is that every congressman has broadcast-ers among their constituents, while songwriters are concentrated in smaller areas. Legislators are often unaware of songwriters who grew up their districts and unfamiliar with the economics of their business.

Put a songwriter in front of a member, said Israelite. Theyll listen to us.

MOVERS & SHAKERSKNIX Phoenix picked up three nominations in the Country Music Association Broadcast Awards, which will be acknowledged during the CMA Awards tele-cast on Nov. 4 on ABC. KNIX is up for major-market radio station of the year, while two shifts Barrel Boy @ Night, featuring Eric Gruneisen, and Ben and Matt in the Morning, with Ben Campbell and Matt McAllister are finalists for broadcast personality. Outlets with two nominations include WUSY Chat-

tanooga, Tenn.; WKKT Charlotte-Gastonia, N.C.; WPOC Baltimore; WLHK Indianapolis; WMIL Mil-waukee; WUBE Cincinnati; WBBS Syracuse, N.Y.; WCTO Sarasota-Bradenton, Fla.; WIVK Knoxville, Tenn.; and WCLR Columbia, Mo. National nominees include The Big D and Bubba Show, The Crook and Chase Countdown and The Lia Show, featuring Lia Knight. Go here for the full list SiriusXM senior director of country programming John Marks will

step down from his position on Sept. 22 to tend to family issues. New York-based senior director of music programming Al Skop will fill the position on an interim basis WWGA Talapoosa, Ga., tapped Rhubarb Jones to voicetrack its midday shift, The Atlanta Journal Constitution reported WUSW Spring-field, Ill., welcomes Brian Pierce and Kellie Michaels to mornings, according to The Springfield State Journal Register. The couple worked most recently at KFDI Wichita, Kan. WLSC Loris, S.C., flipped to classic country from talk on Sept. 14, according to The Myrtle Beach Sun News Alpha Media flipped KDES Palm Springs, Calif., to country and hired Matt Ganssle as KYKX Longport, Texas, PD, RadioInfo.com reported. Ganssle was most recently PD at KSJJ Bend, Ore. Also from RadioInfo.com: WDRQ Detroit fills middays with Jes-sica Poxson, formerly part of Americas Morning Show Debra Mark has left the morning show at KKGO Los Angeles, InsideRadio.com reported S. Cory Willis took the production director job at Cumulus/Pensacola, Fla., accord-ing to InsideRadio.com. The five-station cluster includes country WXBM.

ROUND THE ROWSony Music Nashville made a pair of promotion staff changes, effective Sept. 14. Cliff Blake took over as Columbia Nashville director of Northeast regional promotion after a run in the same post for sister imprint Arista. Luke Jensen joined the Arista team as manager of regional promotion after working as a regional director for Blaster Meanwhile, Bart Allmand joined Blaster on Sept. 14 as Southeast regional director of promotion. He was recently Big

Loud Mountain vp record promotion. Reach Allmand here Big Machine Label Group added Mike Craft as senior vp f inance. He was previously Sony Music Nashville senior vp finance and operations Warner Music Nashville promoted Stephanie Haymes to

manager of A&R from assistant Sony Music Nashville signed singer-song-writer Maren Morris to a recording deal and assigned her to the Columbia roster. Shes the first new artist added since Randy Goodman took over as SMN chairman/CEO in July Bluegrass label Mountain Fever signed Junior Sisk & Ramblers to a recording contract Toronto-based ole signed co-pub-lishing deals with three songwriters. They include Gord Bamford, who won three Canadian Country Music Association Awards on Sept. 13, and former CCMA winner George Canyon. In addition, ole inked a co-publishing ar-rangement with Buddy Owens, a co-writer of Bamfords new single, Dont Let Her Be Gone Los Angeles-based songwriter Joe Ginsberg (Little Red Wagon) agreed to a publishing deal with BMG Nashville Sony ATV and Nashville-based Whizbang signed singer-songwriter Daphne Willis to a co-publishing contract The Society of Leaders in Development (SOLID) is soliciting members for 2016 through Oct. 15 here . The organization focuses on young executives in Nashvilles entertainment industries The Grammy Foundation is accepting letters of inquiry for its 2016 grant program through Oct. 1. Go here for more info.

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The Band Perry cut loose with Nash Icon host Scott Gaines during an invitation-only event in Dallas. From left are TBPs Neil Perry, Gaines and group members Kimberly Perry and Reid Perry.

Steven Tyler and Kelsea Ballerini shared a moment when they read the nominees for the 49th an-nual Country Music Association Awards on Sept. 9 on ABCs Good Morning America. Ballerini col-lected her first two CMA nods.

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MUSIC NOTESThis years nominees roll call for the Country Music Association Awards seems to have moved toward a Grammy-style list with support for finalists who didnt necessarily connect with mainstream country radio in the last year. While such CMA categories as vocal duo, video and musical event have often featured non-hit artists and material, the entertainer, album and male and female vocalist categories are all populated with at least one artist who hasnt had a top 10 single dur-ing the eligibility period, including Kacey Musgraves, Chris Staple-ton, Garth Brooks and Lee Ann Womack. Granted, three of those acts reached No. 1 or No. 2 on the Top Country Albums chart, and all have had hits as an artist or song-writer in the past. Still, it suggests CMA voters are taking the time to look beyond radio playlists to judge whats working, creatively and/or financially, in the format.

Dierks Bentley is expanding his Whiskey Row restaurant and bar: A new franchise opens Sept. 17 in Tempe, Ariz., less than 7 miles from the first Row locale in Scottsdale. Established in tandem with Riot Hos-pitality, the joint offers games, alcohol and food. A third Whiskey Row is re-portedly planned for Chicago. Additionally, the RFD-TV music series Larrys Country Diner will come to life as a restaurant and entertainment venue in the Nashville area, with groundbreaking set for Sept. 16 on U.S. Highway 70.

Trace Adkins, Colt Ford and Aaron Lewis are set to appear Sept. 16 at Brantley Gilberts Chattanooga Unite: A Tribute on the River. The concert pays hom-age to five soldiers who were slain at their base on July 16. The concert wraps a day of activities that includes a parade, performances by Jamey Johnson and Harry Connick Jr., and a memorial event MCd by Samuel L. Jackson.

Canaan Smith is apparently a good fit with both listeners and brands. The Dickies clothing company has tabbed the newcomer as a spokesman for its denim line. The association comes as he prepares for his first headlining tour, an 11-date club romp that begins Nov. 6 at Coyote Joes in Charlotte, N.C., and wraps Dec. 11 at the Revolution Music Room in Little Rock, Ark.

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ON THIS DATE IN COUNTRY MUSIC

Sept. 14 2010 Atlantic announces it has signed Hunter Hayes to a record-

ing deal.

Sept. 15 2014 EMI releases Eric Churchs Talladega to radio. 2009 Rosanne Cash delivers a private show at the Country Music

Hall of Fame. Surprise guest Vince Gill joins her on Seven Year Ache for an audience including Bobby Bare, Rodney Crowell, Jimmy Fortune, Hank Cochran and Harold Bradley.

Sept. 16 2012 Keith Urban has his first day on cam-

era as pre-taped portions of Foxs American Idol are shot at Lincoln Center in New York. Urban is joined at the judges table by Mariah Carey, Nicki Minaj and Randy Jackson.

1995 Tim McGraw begins a five-week stay at the top of the Bill-board country chart with I Like It, I Love It.

Sept. 17 2012 Rascal Flatts receives a star in the Hollywood Walk of Fame

near the Sergeant Supply Store at 6664 Hollywood Blvd. 1985 A front-page story in The New York Times proclaims that

country music is dead. The piece writes off Alabama and Hank Williams Jr. as not really country.

Sept. 18 2008 As Craig Morgan sings Rose Colored Glasses, John Con-

lee walks onstage during a free show for soldiers at Fort Bragg in Fayetteville, N.C., to invite Morgan to join the Grand Ole Opry.

2005 Willie Nelsons Farm Aid is held at the Tweeter Center in Tinley Park, Ill. Talent includes Kenny Chesney, Emmylou Harris, John Mayer, Arlo Guthrie, Los Lonely Boys, John Mellencamp, Neil Young and Dave Matthews.

Sept. 19 1975 The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band performs The Battle of New

Orleans on NBCs The Midnight Special.

Sept. 20 1955 Tennessee Ernie Ford records the Merle Travis-written Six-

teen Tons at the Capitol Recording Studio on Melrose Avenue in Hollywood.

Source: RolandNote.com, the Ultimate Country Music Database

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Martina McBride and Kelly Clarkson will headline the first stop in a four-city Rock the Room Tour that raises money for Musicians On Call, an organi-zation that brings artists to the bedside of hospitalized patients. The women perform Oct. 21 at City Winery in Nashville, with other events in the works for New York, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.

The Music City concert honors Warner Music Nashville vp/creative director Shane Tarleton, a noted MOC advocate, and the headliners arent the only musicians on the bill. Special guest Reba McEntire adds a third big voice to the lineup, with additional surprise guests expected.

Go here for ticket and sponsorship info.

TWEET OF THE WEEKMusic often unites people from different worlds. But sometimes, as in the case of Toronto-based eOne Music Canada director of media relations Eric Alper (@ThatEricAlper), it keeps people in their own worlds:

Im not antisocial. I just have a massive music collection. What more do I need?

To follow BCU, go to Twitter.com/bbcountryupdate.

Maddie & Tae visited 11 pavilions at the Epcot Center in Orlando, Fla., with a Radio Disney contest winner on Sept. 8. From left are Maddie Marlow, Radio Disney vp programming/GM Phil Guerini and Tae Dye.

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Hot Country SongsSALES, AIRPLAY & STREAMING DATA COMPILED BYHot Country Songs

Aldean s latest steps 34-31 on Hot Country Songs. It makes its biggest jump on Country

Airplay, marching 27-22 (14.6 million audience impressions, up 10 percent).

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Debuting at No. 44 on Hot Country Songs, the track is a patriotic, country/rock ode

to working folks, country radio and college football. Paisley performed it on Sept. 5 on ESPNs College GameDay season-opener.

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1 1 1 38 HOUSE PARTY HH No. 1 (6 weeks) HH Sam Hunt Z.CROWELL,S.MCANALLY (S.HUNT,Z.CROWELL,J.FLOWERS) MCA NASHVILLE 1 1

l2 3 3 21 BUY ME A BOAT Chris Janson C.JANSON,C.DUBOIS,B.ANDERSON (C.JANSON,C.DUBOIS) WARNER BROS./WAR 0 2

l3 4 2 23 CRASH AND BURN HH Digital Gainer HH Thomas Rhett D.HUFF,J.FRASURE (J.FRASURE,C.STAPLETON) VALORY 0 2

l4 2 4 15 JOHN COUGAR, JOHN DEERE, JOHN 3:16 Keith Urban D.HUFF,K.URBAN (S.MCANALLY,R.COPPERMAN,J.OSBORNE) HIT RED/CAPITOL NASHVILLE 2

l5 5 7 8 STRIP IT DOWN Luke Bryan J.STEVENS,J.STEVENS (L.BRYAN,J.M.NITE,R.COPPERMAN) CAPITOL NASHVILLE 5

l6 6 8 21 LOSE MY MIND Brett Eldredge R. COPPERMAN,B.ELDREDGE (B.ELDREDGE,H.MORGAN,R.COPPERMAN,B.BURTON,T.D.CALLAWAY,G.F.REVERBERI,G.P.REVERBERI) ATLANTIC/WMN 6

l7 9 11 12 SAVE IT FOR A RAINY DAY Kenny Chesney B.CANNON,K.CHESNEY (A.DORFF,M.RAMSEY,B.TURSI) BLUE CHAIR/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE 7

l8 11 12 14 BURNING HOUSE Cam J.BHASKER,T.JOHNSON (C.OCHS,T.JOHNSON,J.BHASKER) ARISTA NASHVILLE 8

l9 12 16 30 FLY Maddie & Tae D.HUFF (M.MARLOW,T.DYE,T.VARTANYAN) DOT 910 10 6 18 KICK THE DUST UP Luke Bryan J.STEVENS,J.STEVENS (D.DAVIDSON,C. DESTEFANO,A.GORLEY) CAPITOL NASHVILLE 1

l11 13 14 20 ANYTHING GOES Florida Georgia Line J.MOI (F.MCTEIGUE,C.G.TOMPKINS,C.WISEMAN) REPUBLIC NASHVILLE 11

l12 14 15 27 BREAK UP WITH HIM Old Dominion S.MCANALLY (M.RAMSEY,T. ROSEN,B.TURSI,G.SPRUNG,W.SELLERS) RCA NASHVILLE 12

l13 15 5 4 SMOKE BREAK HH Airplay Gainer HH Carrie Underwood J.JOYCE (C.UNDERWOOD,C. DESTEFANO,H.LINDSEY) 19/ARISTA NASHVILLE 5

l14 16 17 18 IM COMIN OVER Chris Young C.CROWDER,C.YOUNG (C.YOUNG,C.CROWDER,J.HOGE) RCA NASHVILLE 8

l15 18 19 22 LET ME SEE YA GIRL Cole Swindell M.CARTER (C.SWINDELL,M.CARTER,J.STEVENS) WARNER BROS./WMN 15

l16 20 22 24 NOTHIN LIKE YOU Dan + Shay C. DESTEFANO (D.SMYERS,S.MOONEY,A.GORLEY,C. DESTEFANO) WARNER BROS./WAR 16

l17 21 23 36 GONNA WANNA TONIGHT Chase Rice C. DESTEFANO (S.MCANALLY,J.M.NITE,J.ROBBINS) DACK JANIELS/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE 1718 17 13 21 LOVING YOU EASY Zac Brown Band Z.BROWN (Z.BROWN,N.MOON,A.ANDERSON) JOHN VARVATOS/REPUBLIC/BMLG/SOUTHERN GROUND 4

19 19 18 26 SANGRIA Blake Shelton S.HENDRICKS (J.T.HARDING,J.OSBORNE,T. ROSEN) WARNER BROS./WMN 0 3

20 22 21 16 REAL LIFE Jake Owen S.MCANALLY,R. COPPERMAN (R.COPPERMAN,A.GORLEY,S.MCANALLY,J.OSBORNE) RCA NASHVILLE 17

l21 24 27 7 GONNA Blake Shelton S.HENDRICKS (L.LAIRD,C.WISEMAN) WARNER BROS./WMN 21

l22 25 25 23 STAY A LITTLE LONGER Brothers Osborne J.JOYCE (J. OSBORNE,T.J. OSBORNE,S.MCANALLY) EMI NASHVILLE 22

l23 26 26 12 LONG STRETCH OF LOVE Lady Antebellum N.CHAPMAN,LADY ANTEBELLUM (D.HAYWOOD,C.KELLEY,H.SCOTT,J.KEAR) CAPITOL NASHVILLE 23

l24 27 28 30 I GOT THE BOY Jana Kramer S.HENDRICKS (T.NICHOLS,C.HARRINGTON,J.L.SPEARS) ELEKTRA NASHVILLE/WAR 24

l25 29 32 6 TOP OF THE WORLD Tim McGraw B.GALLIMORE,T.MCGRAW (J.ROBBINS,J.M.NITE,J.OSBORNE) MCGRAW/BIG MACHINE 25


For inquiries about any Nielsen Music data, please contact Josh Bennett at 615-807-1338 or [email protected]

The weeks 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 28 29 5 DIBS Kelsea Ballerini F.G.WHITEHEAD,J.MASSEY (K.BALLERINI,J.KERR,R.GRIFFIN,J.DUKE) BLACK RIVER 26

l27 30 33 23 ALREADY CALLIN YOU MINE Parmalee NV (M.THOMAS,S.THOMAS,B.KNOX,P.ODONNELL,W.KIRBY) STONEY CREEK 27

l28 31 31 5 RUN AWAY WITH YOU Big & Rich J.RICH,B.KENNY (J.D.RICH,MICHAEL RAY) B$R/NEW REVOLUTION 28

l29 32 30 17 21 Hunter Hayes D.HUFF,H.HAYES (D.DAVIDSON,K.LOVELACE,A.GORLEY,H.HAYES) ATLANTIC/WMN 29

l30 33 22 BREAK UP IN A SMALL TOWN Sam Hunt Z.CROWELL,S.MCANALLY (S.HUNT,Z.CROWELL,S.MCANALLY) MCA NASHVILLE 30

l31 34 36 7 GONNA KNOW WE WERE HERE Jason Aldean M.KNOX (B.BEAVERS,BRETT JAMES) BROKEN BOW 12

l32 35 35 17 I LOVE THIS LIFE LoCash L.RIMES,P.BRUST,C.LUCAS (D.MYRICK,C.JANSON,C.LUCAS,P.BRUST) REVIVER 3233 36 34 12 SMOKIN AND DRINKIN Miranda Lambert Featuring Little Big Town F.LIDDELL,C.AINLAY,G.WORF (N.HEMBY,L.LAIRD,S.MCANALLY) RCA NASHVILLE 33

l34 NEW 1 WANNA BE THAT SONG HH Hot Shot Debut HH Brett Eldredge R. COPPERMAN,B.ELDREDGE (B.ELDREDGE,R.COPPERMAN,SCOOTER CARUSOE) ATLANTIC/WAR 34

l35 37 38 11 RISER Dierks Bentley R. COPPERMAN (S.MOAKLER,T.MEADOWS) CAPITOL NASHVILLE 35

l36 NEW 1 CRAZY OVER ME Dylan Scott M.ALDERMAN,J.E.NORMAN (D.SCOTT,M.ALDERMAN) CURB 36

l37 38 40 4 LIVE FOREVER The Band Perry REDONE,D.HUFF (N.KHAYAT,C.J.HARRIS, JR.,K.PERRY,R.PERRY,N.PERRY,J.ANDREWS,K.O.KJELLHOLM) REPUBLIC NASHVILLE 33

l38 39 39 15 WE WENT Randy Houser D.GEORGE (J.WILSON,M.ROGERS,J.KING) STONEY CREEK 33

l39 NEW 1 T-SHIRT Thomas Rhett NOT LISTED (NOT LISTED) VALORY 39

l40 41 42 11 THAT DONT SOUND LIKE YOU Lee Brice J.STONE,L.BRICE (L.BRICE,R.AKINS,A.GORLEY) CURB 39

l41 50 2 FRIEND ZONE Danielle Bradbery D.HUFF (D.BRADBERY,M.BLUE,J.LINDBRANT,S.SHORT) REPUBLIC NASHVILLE 41

l42 42 44 3 LITTLE BIT OF YOU Chase Bryant D.GEORGE,C.BRYANT (C.BRYANT,D.GEORGE,A.GORLEY) RED BOW 42

l43 46 6 SOUNDS OF SUMMER HH Streaming Gainer HH Dierks Bentley R. COPPERMAN (Z.CROWELL,M.JENKINS,A.SANDERS) CAPITOL NASHVILLE 39

l44 RE-ENTRY 2 COUNTRY NATION Brad Paisley L.WOOTEN,B.PAISLEY (B.PAISLEY,C.DUBOIS,K.LOVELACE) ARISTA NASHVILLE 37

l45 43 48 3 BLUE BANDANA Jerrod Niemann J.L.SLOAS,J.L.NIEMANN (B.GOLDSMITH,C.J. SOLAR,A.S.WILLS) SEA GAYLE/ARISTA NASHVILLE 43

l46 45 50 3 (THIS AINT NO) DRUNK DIAL A Thousand Horses D.COBB (M.HOBBY,C.CROWDER,N.MASON,C.DODDS) REPUBLIC NASHVILLE 4547 40 43 4 SOUTHERN STYLE Darius Rucker F.ROGERS (D.RUCKER,R.RUTHERFORD,T.JAMES) CAPITOL NASHVILLE 40

l48 44 45 9 WHITE LIGHTNING The Cadillac Three D.HUFF,J.NIEBANK (J.JOHNSTON) BIG MACHINE 43

l49 47 10 LOVE IS YOUR NAME Steven Tyler D.HUFF (L.LEE,E.PASLAY) DOT 19

l50 RE-ENTRY 2 BROKE MY HEART David Nail F.LIDDELL,C.AINLAY,G.WORF (D.NAIL,SCOOTER CARUSOE,J.SINGLETON) MCA NASHVILLE 47

For week ending September 10, 2015. Figures are rounded. Compiled from a national sample of retail store and rack sales reports collected and provided by Nielsen Music.

ALBUMSDIGITAL

ALBUMS*DIGITAL TRACKS

This Week 418,000 128,000 1,897,000

Last Week 473,000 160,000 1,946,000

Change -11.6% -20.0% -2.5%

This Week Last Year 466,000 146,000 2,348,000

Change -10.3% -12.3% -19.2%

*Digital album sales are also counted within album sales.

Weekly Unit SalesYear-Over-Year Album Sales2014 2015 CHANGE

Albums 20,220,000 18,778,000 -7.1%

Digital Tracks 99,047,000 83,188,000 -16.0%

Overall Unit Sales

2014 2015 CHANGE

Physical 13,409,000 11,922,000 9.0%

Digital 6,811,000 6,856,000 0.7%

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Thanks to an old-fashioned country shuffle, Pardi s song stands out for its

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l2 3 24 HOUSE PARTYSAM HUNT (MCA Nashville/UMGN)

l3 5 21 BUY ME A BOATCHRIS JANSON (Warner Bros./WMN)4 2 12 BURNING HOUSE

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5 4 14 JOHN COUGAR, JOHN DEERE, JOHN 3:16KEITH URBAN (Hit Red/Capitol Nashville/UMGN)

l6 8 23 CRASH AND BURNTHOMAS RHETT (Valory/BMLG)7 6 31 LIKE A WRECKING BALL

ERIC CHURCH (EMI Nashville/UMGN)

8 7 17 KICK THE DUST UPLUKE BRYAN (Capitol Nashville/UMGN)

9 9 3 SMOKE BREAKCARRIE UNDERWOOD (19/Arista Nashville/SMN)

l10 10 20 LOSE MY MINDBRETT ELDREDGE (Atlantic/WMN)

l11 11 18 BREAK UP WITH HIMOLD DOMINION (RCA Nashville/SMN)

l12 14 17 ANYTHING GOESFLORIDA GEORGIA LINE (Republic Nashville/BMLG)13 12 38 GIRL CRUSH

LITTLE BIG TOWN (Capitol Nashville/UMGN)

l14 NEW CRAZY OVER MEDYLAN SCOTT (Curb)

l15 NEW WANNA BE THAT SONGBRETT ELDREDGE (Atlantic/WMN)16 13 18 IM COMIN OVER

CHRIS YOUNG (RCA Nashville/SMN)

17 15 9 SAVE IT FOR A RAINY DAYKENNY CHESNEY (Blue Chair/Columbia Nashville/SMN)

18 17 26 TONIGHT LOOKS GOOD ON YOUJASON ALDEAN (Broken Bow/BBMG)

19 18 46 TAKE YOUR TIMESAM HUNT (MCA Nashville/UMGN)

20 20 13 STAY A LITTLE LONGERBROTHERS OSBORNE (EMI Nashville/UMGN)

21 16 17 FLYMADDIE & TAE (Dot/Republic/BMLG)

22 21 17 HELL OF A NIGHTDUSTIN LYNCH (Broken Bow/BBMG)

23 19 21 LOVING YOU EASYZAC BROWN BAND (John Varvatos/Southern Ground/BMLG/Republic)

l24 34 2 FRIEND ZONEDANIELLE BRADBERY (Republic Nashville/BMLG)

l25 26 34 BREAK UP IN A SMALL TOWNSAM HUNT (MCA Nashville/UMGN)

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27 25 24 SANGRIABLAKE SHELTON (Warner Bros./WMN)

28 24 13 GONNA WANNA TONIGHTCHASE RICE (Dack Janiels)

29 23 17 LET ME SEE YA GIRLCOLE SWINDELL (Warner Bros./WMN)

l30 27 8 NOTHIN LIKE YOUDAN + SHAY (Warner Bros./WMN)

l31 29 7 DIBSKELSEA BALLERINI (Black River)32 28 8 SMOKIN AND DRINKIN

MIRANDA LAMBERT FEAT. LITTLE BIG TOWN (RCA Nashville/SMN)

l33 NEW T-SHIRTTHOMAS RHETT (Valory/BMLG)

l34 36 2 ALREADY CALLIN YOU MINEPARMALEE (Stoney Creek/BBMG)

l35 33 182 CHICKEN FRIEDZAC BROWN BAND (Home Grown/Bigger Picture/Atlantic/AG)36 30 30 I GOT THE BOY

JANA KRAMER (Elektra Nashville/WMN)

l37 38 3 GONNABLAKE SHELTON (Warner Bros./WMN)38 31 27 ONE HELL OF AN AMEN

BRANTLEY GILBERT (Valory/BMLG)

l39 39 7 WE WENTRANDY HOUSER (Stoney Creek/BBMG)

l40 43 35 HOMEGROWNZAC BROWN BAND (John Varvatos/Southern Ground/BMLG/Republic)

l41 47 4 LIVE FOREVERTHE BAND PERRY (Republic Nashville/BMLG)42 40 92 PLAY IT AGAIN

LUKE BRYAN (Capitol Nashville/UMGN)

l43 RE-ENTRY LOVE ME LIKE YOU MEAN ITKELSEA BALLERINI (Black River)44 32 113 WAGON WHEEL

DARIUS RUCKER (Capitol Nashville/UMGN)

l45 44 88 TOESZAC BROWN BAND (Home Grown/Bigger Picture/Atlantic/AG)46 41 50 MAMAS BROKEN HEART

MIRANDA LAMBERT (RCA Nashville/SMN)

l47 RE-ENTRY CRUISEFLORIDA GEORGIA LINE (Republic Nashville/BMLG)48 35 18 YOUNG & CRAZY

FRANKIE BALLARD (Warner Bros./WMN)

l49 NEW HEAD OVER BOOTSJON PARDI (Capitol Nashville/UMGN)

l50 49 3 I LOVE THIS LIFELOCASH (Reviver)Top-selling paid download country songs compiled from sales reports collected and provided by Nielsen Music. Charts update weekly on Thurdays at www.Billboard.Biz/charts. Copyright 2015, Prometheus Global Media, LLC and Nielsen Music, Inc. All rights reserved.

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2 3 4 46 SAM HUNT MontevalloMCA NASHVILLE 021502/UMGN 0

3 2 2 MADDIE & TAE Start HereDOT/REPUBLIC 023172/BMLG

4 4 5 20 ZAC BROWN BAND JEKYLL + HYDEJOHN VARVATOS/SOUTHERN GROUND/BMLG 022962/REPUBLIC)

5 5 6 83 ERIC CHURCH The OutsidersEMI NASHVILLE 019402*/UMGN 1

6 6 3 4 ELVIS PRESLEY Elvis Presley ForeverUSPS/RCA 512373/SONY COMMERCIAL MUSIC GROUP

7 7 2 3 KIP MOORE Wild OnesMCA NASHVILLE 019941/UMGN

8 8 7 48 FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE Anything GoesREPUBLIC NASHVILLE /BMLG 0

9 9 9 47 LITTLE BIG TOWN Pain KillerCAPITOL NASHVILLE 021360*/UMGN

10 10 8 8 ALAN JACKSON Angels And AlcoholACR/EMI NASHVILLE 022814/UMGN

11 11 10 69 BRANTLEY GILBERT Just As I AmVALORY BG0200A/BMLG 0

12 12 12 49 JASON ALDEAN Old Boots, New DirtBROKEN BOW 7105/BBMG 1

l13 20 25 19 CHRIS STAPLETON TravellerMERCURY 019405*/UMGN14 16 15 14 VARIOUS ARTISTS NOW Thats What I Call Country, Volume 8SONY MUSIC/UNIVERSAL 023341/UME

15 15 2 VARIOUS ARTISTS Mud Digger, Volume 6BACKROAD 272/AVERAGE JOES

16 14 13 110 LUKE BRYAN Crash My PartyCAPITOL NASHVILLE 018733/UMGN 2 2

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18 18 11 8 JASON ISBELL Something More Than FreeSOUTHEASTERN 9986*/THIRTY TIGERS

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Mention Michael Rays sophomore single to someone who has never heard it, and youre likely to get an eye roll over Real Men Love Jesus.

The title suggests that its more a gospel song than a country one, but after a listen or two, its clear that the subject matter is a little more earthbound.

This song is not a Jesus song, Warner Music Nashville (WMN) senior vp A&R Scott Hendricks insists. Its not. I know there have already been some people who have had a little bit of a kickback on it, but you know what? They better be watching out for lightning.

The song does indeed incorporate a touch of religion, but its real focus is the kind of bal-anced character that, in Rays view, the good Lord would approve of in an all-American male.

Its about being a good man, and the equalizing of being tough and being sensi-tive, says Ray. This song embodies a lot.

If the title Real Men Love Jesus sounds like a bumper sticker, theres a reason. Song-writer Brett Warren (Little Bit of Every-thing, Red Solo Cup) saw that phrase on two different fenders while driving to a song-writing appointment in 2014, and it was al-most as if he was receiving guidance from above.

When I saw the second one, I said, I just need to write that song, recalls Brett.

He barely waited for his co-writers to sit down, according to Lance Miller (Drink to That All Night, Beer With Jesus), be-fore introducing the title to the group, which included brother Brad Warren (Highway Dont Care, Wrong Baby Wrong) and co-writer Adam Sanders (Hell of a Night, Aint Worth the Whiskey). And they trusted Bretts enthusiasm.

When he gets passionate about a title, it makes us all pay attention, be-cause he can be a good leader in the room when the right ideas there, says Miller. And that happened that day.

That doesnt mean there wasnt resistance. Brad expected it would be a gospel song and was inclined to pass. But he turned the tables on himself and dove in on it.

I was going through a time there where my motto was consider the op-posite, because my instincts are so wrong so often, he says. Instead of saying, No, I went, Yeah. If Im thinking no, its got to be a great idea.

And it was. Bretts focus was more on the real men portion of the title than on the Jesus part, and he suggested that they create a list of all the at-tributes that make up a real man and try to put them in a three-minute song.

I got two sons and two daughters, explains Brett. I wanted to make a list of everything I want my boys to be, and everything I want the boys to be that my daughters are going to marry.

As a result, it became a mix of the rugged and the tender. On one hand, the guy they hold up is the ultimate mans man he likes football and cowboys, works long hours and isnt afraid to get his hands dirty. On the other hand, hes sensitive enough to call home without a reason, to profess his faith and to say I love you without embarrassment.

The irony is the guy in the song is way more manly than I am, admits Brad. And, by the way Brett, Lance and Adam, Ill speak for them, too this is the kind of guy we want to be, but not necessarily the guy we al-ways are.

Brett decided to demo the song at a future session, though Brad thought it wasnt a likely hit and that they should save it for another day. For a second time in the process, he went against his instincts and moved forward with the song at that session. Brad patterned the guitar intro after a 1992 Ozzy Osbourne single, Mama, Im Coming Home (No. 2, Mainstream Rock), and was surprised with the final demo.

When we got it back, I was like, Wow, thats the shit, he says. I hadnt realized it before.

Thomas Rhett was the first artist to glom onto Real Men Love Jesus in summer 2014, and he started playing it live while he had it on hold. But when his sophomore album went in more of an R&B direction, he let go of it in early 2015. Several acts were interested, but Ray was the most passionate after hear-ing Real Men on a demo CD compiled by WMN vp A&R Cris Lacy. Rays grandfather, Amos Roach, had died Feb. 4, 2015 just nine days after WMN released Rays debut single, Kiss You in the Morning, to radio and Real Men hit Ray while the wounds were still fresh.

It reminded me of my grandfather and my dad and the guys that raised me, he says. One of the lines that stuck out to me [was] in the chorus, To say I love you, they dont need a reason

Ray liked it enough that he talked the song up with some of his fellow artists, and Love and Thefts Stephen Barker Liles called Brad to lobby on his behalf. The writers gave the song to Ray, and he recorded it during the final round of sessions for his debut album at Nashvilles Ocean Way Studios. Hendricks

stacked the arrangement with several non-standard guitars two 12-strings and a nine-string and they created enough vibration in the track that the musicians kept embellishments to a minimum.

The hardest thing was to get all those string things to work together so that its not just one big wash of stringed instruments, says Hendricks.

The gritty weight of the song coupled with the rich texture of those gui-tars immediately set it apart as they put the finishing touches on the album.

The first go-through with the band, one of the guys was like, This is going to be great, recalls Ray. You could just feel it. It was one of those moments in the studio that stood out in the whole recording process.

Ray practically guaranteed that the emotion would be there when he cut his final vocals on Real Men. The background wallpaper on his cellphone is a photo of his grandfather, so he turned off the ringer and held the device while he delivered the song.

That emotional content is a major reason WMN shipped it to broadcasters through Play MPE on Aug. 24. Early believers brought it to a No. 59 debut on Country Airplay, but it slipped to No. 61 in its second week on the list. The label expected such resistance, though feedback from people who worked Carrie Underwoods Jesus, Take the Wheel provided some confidence. There were a lot of people who said that would never f ly, notes Hendricks.

For their part, the writers are convinced that Real Men has its best chance in the hands of Michael Ray.

I know that we got the right guy singing it, says Miller. I cant wait to see what hes able to do with it.

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MAKIN TRACKS TOM ROLAND [email protected]

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For all the successes Jewel has enjoyed in her professional life, its a seemingly rich inner life that drives the singer-songwriter, and has been the source of both her greatest pain and her biggest victories. Much of that life is explored both on her latest album, Picking Up the Pieces (her first for new label home Sugar Hill), and in her memoir, Never Broken: Songs Are Only Half the Story, due Sept. 15.

The album, which dropped Sept. 11, is her first set of new material since her second Big Machine Label Group (BMLG) country project, Sweet and Wild, in 2010. In the interim, she gave birth to son Kase, now 4; released a pair of childrens albums and a holiday set; and amicably divorced rodeo star husband Ty Murray after six years of marriage and 16 as a couple. While some of the songs on Picking Up the Pieces pre-date the divorce, the pain of the split finds its way into others. With the new set, Jewel aimed to return to the folky sound that put her on the map two decades ago with her multiplatinum 1995 debut re-lease, Pieces of You. The current project was recorded in Nashville, where Jewel, 41, has lived with Kase for two-and-a-half years. Billboard Country Update sat down with Jewel to chat about music, motivation and more esoteric things.

In the albums liner notes, you thank Nashville producer Paul Worley for kicking me in the butt by backing out and making me produce this CD. What happened there?[Paul] came in a week before pre-production and said, Im not going to do the record, and I was pissed. He said, Youre going to thank me You need to be doing this. I just thought he took another gig and was bail-ing on me, and I was pretty upset about it.

Ive produced some of my own records myself, but they werent this type of work. Im comfortable in the studio, but I always felt I had more to learn from other people than what I knew on my own. That has helped me a lot as an artist, but at the same time it can also hold you back. Paul felt the same thing. He felt no one should put a filter on me, that I had the vision for what I wanted. It really was the kick in the pants I probably needed.

Was producing yourself a good experience?It was. I knew I didnt want to have a label when I started recording and would shop it at the end. I wanted no influences. Whenever you have anybody around, no matter how transparent of a producer they are, it is a filter that you become interpreted through. My job is to serve emotion, and if emotion gets diluted, I didnt do my job. I wanted this record to feel like there was something from my vein to your vein.

During your time on BMLG, was country music a comfortable fit for you?I loved it. Its funny, when I [first] got signed when I was living in a car I didnt know a thing about the business. So I went to my label and said, Can we get You Were Meant for Me played on country radio? Its a country song. Its a shuffle. Im shocked it got played on pop radio. I thought it should be a natural fit for country, but Atlantic Records in New York didnt have a relationship with country radio. Its then that I learned theres these completely separate systems.

When I first came out, country radio was Shania Twain and Faith Hill. It was a lot more pop than what I was. [But] as a singer-songwriter, I knew I had to get into the country business, because it was the only place I could tell stories. [So] it was an awesome experience for me. Its felt like a great home. For the first time in my life I was asked, Why did you write this lyric? [by country] radio. [At pop radio], I was just asked, Whats your favorite nail color? Im like, Really? Did you ask Beck that?

Will anything be worked to radio from this project?I went into the studio thinking, Im not going to think about radio. Im not going to think about genre. Im not going to think about tempo. To get that out of my head and make a record pure and independent from all the stuff you learn over 20 years was really difficult. My Fathers Daughter is being taken to Ameri-cana. Country has changed a lot. Right now where its at, I cant really see any of my stuff getting on there.

How did your collaboration with Dolly Parton on My Fathers Daugh-ter come to be?As a kid growing up with an outhouse, my heroes were always Dolly Parton and

Loretta Lynn. They were the only other icons Id heard of that were raised similarly to me. I liked that they had the courage to say, This is exactly who and what the hell I am. So I got the courage to ask her to sing on the record, and she agreed. I never thought Id be producing Dolly Parton on a record. That was weird.

Does she take direction well?Shes such a pro and everything you would hope she would be: Shows up 15 minutes early, has her notes, knows her parts, and shes just like, Honey, dont you be nervous about bossing me around. You get what you need out of me while you got me. You dont know how much longer Im going to be around. Sweeter than hell.

How was collaborating with Rodney Crowell on It Doesnt Hurt Right Now?We wrote a couple of songs together and just had a

real poets affinity for each other. Hes a real craftsman. Its not often youre around people in the business that care so much about the craft. A lot of people just want to be famous.

What can your fans can expect from the book?People often ask me, How did you go from being raised in the sticks, to being abused, to moving out at 15, to being homeless at 18? I did it really consciously. Imperfectly, but I knew at 15 girls like me end up in the ditch, pregnant or in an abusive relationship. I wanted to beat those odds. If I was to look at nature vs. nurture, how would I ever know my nature by how I was nurtured? And if you become what youre raised around, what did that say about my future and my hopes? Could I re-nurture myself? I started asking myself those questions at 15, writing them down in my journal. Id read a bunch of philosophy. It set me on a path, and writing for me just became my medicine and my way of tracking my progress. It accidentally became a career, but its never what I considered my greatest success. My greatest success is that I kept standing up and I never let my life make me bitter ...

My life has been an open story in a lot of ways, but theres a lot of things I went through that I never shared, and the worst things I suffered were at the height of my career. I kept my mouth shut and got about rebuilding and never talked about it. So this is really the first time I talk about what those setbacks were [includ-ing] being millions of dollars in debt by the time I was 33.

At the back of the book I list 20 takeaways that helped me overcome agora-phobia and all kinds of things. Im now building a website based on those 20 things. I created these exercises for myself to help retrain my brain, change my way of thinking and challenge my beliefs. They changed my life. I really believe if you have tenacity and a willingness to say, I am accountable. I am not a vic-tim, then you can create tremendous change in your life.

Post-Divorce, Jewel Picks Up The Pieces With New Album, Book

THE STARK REPORT PHYLLIS STARK [email protected]

JEWEL

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l4 5 21 LOSE MY MIND Atlantic/WMN Brett Eldredge 4089 +138 4.985l5 4 19 BUY ME A BOAT Warner Bros./WAR Chris Janson 4071 +29 5.263l6 10 6 STRIP IT DOWN Capitol Nashville Luke Bryan 3364 +410 4.057l7 9 14 ANYTHING GOES Republic Nashville Florida Georgia Line 3248 +121 3.529l8 12 36 FLY Dot Maddie & Tae 2951 +215 3.527l9 15 39 GONNA WANNA TONIGHT Dack Janiels/Columbia Nashville Chase Rice 2869 +166 3.610l10 14 22 LET ME SEE YA GIRL Warner Bros./WMN Cole Swindell 2856 +142 3.165l11 11 27 LONG STRETCH OF LOVE Capitol Nashville Lady Antebellum 2740 +3 3.04712 13 16 REAL LIFE RCA Nashville Jake Owen 2648 -70 3.038

l13 16 7 GONNA Warner Bros./WMN Blake Shelton 2600 +128 3.137l14 18 4 SMOKE BREAK 19/Arista Nashville HH Most Increased Plays HH Carrie Underwood 2567 +451 2.834l15 19 18 BREAK UP WITH HIM RCA Nashville Old Dominion 2278 +165 2.494l16 17 11 BURNING HOUSE Arista Nashville Cam 2261 +102 2.570l17 21 25 NOTHIN LIKE YOU Warner Bros./WAR Dan + Shay 2230 +153 2.793l18 20 17 IM COMIN OVER RCA Nashville Chris Young 2182 +88 2.325l19 22 6 TOP OF THE WORLD McGraw/Big Machine Tim McGraw 1980 +230 2.468l20 23 25 STAY A LITTLE LONGER EMI Nashville Brothers Osborne 1796 +103 1.735l21 24 9 DIBS Black River Kelsea Ballerini 1637 +88 1.459l22 26 6 GONNA KNOW WE WERE HERE Broken Bow Jason Aldean 1603 +224 1.828l23 25 14 SMOKIN AND DRINKIN RCA Nashville Miranda Lambert Feat. Little Big Town 1436 +33 1.374l24 27 31 ALREADY CALLIN YOU MINE Stoney Creek Parmalee 1364 +54 1.606l25 29 5 LIVE FOREVER Republic Nashville The Band Perry 1320 +229 1.158l26 28 12 RISER Capitol Nashville Dierks Bentley 1297 +177 1.261l27 31 27 I GOT THE BOY Elektra Nashville/WAR Jana Kramer 1182 +144 1.210l28 30 20 SOUTHERN STYLE Capitol Nashville Darius Rucker 1059 +16 0.978l29 32 16 21 Atlantic/WMN Hunter Hayes 1027 +2 1.123l30 33 12 (THIS AINT NO) DRUNK DIAL Republic Nashville A Thousand Horses 984 +3 0.899


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CHARTS LEGENDRANKINGSCountry Airplay is ranked by total audience impressions for the week ending Sunday based on monitored airplay of 150 stations by Nielsen BDS. Audience totals on the chart are derived, in part, using certain Arbitron Inc. copyrighted Persons 12+ audience estimates (under license 2015, Arbitron Inc.) Country Indicator is tabulated using reported playlists and Nielsen BDS-monitored airplay at 105 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 35 16 WE WENT Stoney Creek Randy Houser 935 +83 0.891l32 34 14 DRINKIN TOWN WITH A FOOTBALL PROBLEM Mercury Nashville Billy Currington 922 +36 0.599l33 36 7 BLUE BANDANA Sea Gayle/Arista Nashville Jerrod Niemann 784 +66 0.657l34 37 17 THAT DONT SOUND LIKE YOU Curb Lee Brice 674 +34 0.541l35 39 26 I LOVE THIS LIFE Reviver LoCash 597 +87 0.662l36 41 3 PAIN KILLER Capitol Little Big Town 583 +137 0.438l37 50 2 COUNTRY NATION Arista Nashville HH Most Added HH Brad Paisley 562 +321 0.724l38 38 15 YOU PART 2 Big Spark Olivia Lane 549 +23 0.241l39 43 7 YUP Mercury Easton Corbin 480 +47 0.299l40 42 11 SHINE A LITTLE LOVE Blue Light Brian Collins 469 +30 0.187l41 40 10 JIM AND JACK AND HANK ACR/EMI Nashville Alan Jackson 469 +7 0.087l42 44 11 LITTLE BIT OF YOU Red Bow Chase Bryant 439 +27 0.382l43 45 8 NIGHTS ON FIRE MCA Nashville David Nail 431 +50 0.316l44 46 11 MOVE ON MCA Nashville Clare Dunn 401 +30 0.20945 47 13 GREAT MINDS DRINK ALIKE MRG Rick Monroe 332 -3 0.116

l46 48 6 AINT NO TRUCKS IN TEXAS Nash Icon/Valory Ronnie Dunn 317 +12 0.25547 49 9 TOMORROW TONIGHT Red Bow Craig Campbell 273 -1 0.278

l48 51 6 SUMMER GIRLS Supergroup/Nine North/Turnpike/Edgehill Music Nashville Boone 270 +34 0.116l49 NEW STONE COLD SOBER Valory HH Hot Shot Debut HH Brantley Gilbert 246 +136 0.223l50 53 3 HOLE IN A BOTTLE Mercury Canaan Smith 245 +32 0.125l51 56 3 BETTER IN BOOTS Columbia Nashville Tyler Farr 238 +41 0.110l52 58 2 CRAZY ENOUGH Willing Nashville Bobby Wills 224 +28 0.026l53 55 4 IM MAKING MINE GTR Erica Nicole 205 +4 0.046l54 57 4 DIME STORE COWGIRL Mercury Nashville Kacey Musgraves 204 +7 0.07755 52 10 THE FORGETTER SSM Nashville Branch & Dean 200 -14 0.031

l56 NEW SOUTHERN BELLE 19/Interscope/Mercury Scotty McCreery 197 +47 0.056l57 59 2 ME AND JOHNNY CASH Cingle/Star Farm Nashville Rainey Qualley 193 +5 0.119l58 60 10 WHITE LIGHTNING Big Machine The Cadillac Three 181 +24 0.092l59 NEW I AM INVINCIBLE Republic Nashville Cassadee Pope 159 +70 0.17160 54 11 LOVE IS YOUR NAME Dot Steven Tyler 157 -49 0.168


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EMI April Music, Inc., ASCAP/Didnt Have To Be Music Publishing, ASCAP/External Combustion Music, ASCAP/Songs Of Southside Independent Music Publishing, LLC, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Atlas Music Publishing, ASCAP/Ogden Avenue Publishing, BMI/Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI (D.Davidson, K.Lovelace, A.Gorley, H.Hayes) 29

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AINT NO TRUCKS IN TEXAS Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Fonde Moutian Music, BMI/Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/Casa Jaco Music, BMI/Songs Of Peer Ltd., ASCAP/Team Thrash, ASCAP (W.Mobley, T.Martin, N.Thrasher) 44

ALREADY CALLIN YOU MINE 27861 Music, BMI/Revelry Music, BMI/Gallo And Landers Music LLC, BMI/Sixteen Stars Music, BMI/HoriPro Entertainment Group, Inc., BMI/Rooster Pecked Music, BMI/Steel Wheels Music, BMI/Big Loud Bucks, BMI/Kirbtone Music, BMI (M.Thomas, S.Thomas, B.Knox, P.ODonnell, W.Kirby) 25

ANYTHING GOES Rusty Muffler Songs, ASCAP/Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., ASCAP/Big Loud Songs, ASCAP/Play Animal, ASCAP/Big Loud Shirt Industries, ASCAP (F.McTeigue, C.G.Tompkins, C.Wiseman) 9

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BACKROAD SONG Climbing Windmills, BMI/House Of Sea Gayle Music, ASCAP (G.Smith, F.Rogers) 45

BAD FOR YOU Raincreek Publishing, ASCAP/C.R. Cooper Publishing, ASCAP/EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Songs By Red Room, BMI/EMI April Music, Inc., ASCAP/Jon Mark Nite Music, ASCAP (G.Birge, C.Cooper, R.Copperman, J.M.Nite) 59

BEAUTIFUL DRUG Day For The Dead Publishing, SESAC/Southern Ground, SESAC (Z.Brown, N.Moon) 54

BETTER IN BOOTS Legends Of Magic Mustang Music, SESAC/W.B.M. Music Corp., SESAC/This Is Magic Mustang Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Music Of Platinum Pen, SESAC/Hatchoo Music, SESAC/Thunder Cookie, SESAC (J.Wilson, D.Pittenger, N.Cooke) 60

BLUE BANDANA Go For The Goldsmith, ASCAP/House Of Sea Gayle Music, ASCAP/ClearBox Rights, ASCAP/Living Wills, BMI/Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI (B.Goldsmith, C.J. Solar, A.S.Wills) 36

BOY & A GIRL THING Mike Curb Music, BMI/Shes My Darlin Music, ASCAP/House Of Sea Gayle Music, ASCAP (M.Pitney, D.Sampson) 53

BREAK UP IN A SMALL TOWN Universal Music Corporation, ASCAP/Three Mules Music, ASCAP/External Combustion Music, ASCAP/Who Wants To Buy My Publishing, ASCAP/Songs Of Southside Independent Music Publishing, LLC, ASCAP/Smack Ink, ASCAP (S.Hunt, Z.Crowell, S.McAnally) 51

BREAK UP WITH HIM Sonic Geo Music, ASCAP/Calhoun Enterprises, ASCAP/Music Of RPM, ASCAP/HoriPro Entertainment Group, Inc., ASCAP/ReHits Music, Inc., ASCAP/Smacktown Music, ASCAP/Wrensong Publishing Corp., ASCAP/Songs Of Big Deal, ASCAP/BMG Rights Management (US) LLC, ASCAP/Sharkules Music, ASCAP/Tiny Handstand, ASCAP (M.Ramsey, T. Rosen, B.Tursi, G.Sprung, W.Sellers) 12

BURNING HOUSE Marvelous Oaks Records, ASCAP/One Year Yesterday Publishing, BMI/Jeff Bhasker Publishing Designee, BMI/Sony/ATV Songs LLC, BMI/Way Above Music, BMI (C.Ochs, T.Johnson, J.Bhasker) 19

BUY ME A BOAT Buckkilla Music, BMI/Red Vinyl Music, Inc., BMI/House Of Sea Gayle Music, ASCAP (C.Janson, C.DuBois) 3

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COUNTRY NATION House Of Sea Gayle Music, ASCAP/Making The Turn Music, BMI/Do Write Music, LLC, BMI (B.Paisley, C.DuBois, K.Lovelace) 46

TITLE Publishing-Licensing Org. (Songwriter) Chart Position

CRASH AND BURN Rio Bravo Music, Inc., BMI/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Ken Tucky Music, ASCAP (J.Frasure, C.Stapleton) 1

CRAZY TOO International Dog Music, BMI/Clarity Tree Music, BMI/Universal Music Corporation, ASCAP/Smack Ink, ASCAP/Songs of Parallel, ASCAP/Vista Loma Music, ASCAP (K.Rochelle, S.McAnally, L.Clark) 58

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DIBS Songs Of Black River, ASCAP/KNB Music, ASCAP/DHM Administration, ASCAP/Nyssa Music, ASCAP/Jason Duke Music, ASCAP (K.Ballerini, J.Kerr, R.Griffin, J.Duke) 26

DRINKIN TOWN WITH A FOOTBALL PROBLEM EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Line In The Sand, BMI/Taste Of Crow Music, BMI/Your Ears Will Never Go Hungry, BMI/Archenland Music, BMI/Gypsy Girl Music, BMI (A.Henningsen, B.Henningsen, C.Henningsen, E.McDavid Elkins, V.A.Olivarez) 39

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FLY Super Big Music, ASCAP/Not Your Average Girl Music, ASCAP/Silva Tone Music, ASCAP (M.Marlow, T.Dye, T.Vartanyan) 10

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GONNA Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Creative Nation Music, BMI/Twangin And Slangin Songs, BMI/Big Loud Shirt Industries, ASCAP (L.Laird, C.Wiseman) 16

GONNA KNOW WE WERE HERE BMG Platinum Songs, BMI/BMG Rights Management, BMI/Music Of Big Deal, BMI/Stalefish Music, BMI/BMG Rights Management (US) LLC, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Songs Of Brett, ASCAP/External Combustion Music, ASCAP (B.Beavers, Brett James) 22

GONNA WANNA TONIGHT Universal Music Corporation, ASCAP/Smack Ink, ASCAP/EMI April Music, Inc., ASCAP/Jon Mark Nite Music, ASCAP/Extraordinary Alien Publishing, ASCAP (S.McAnally, J.M.Nite, J.Robbins) 11

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HELL OF A NIGHT External Combustion Music, ASCAP/Songs Of Southside Independent Music Publishing, LLC, ASCAP/Who Wants To Buy My Publishing, ASCAP/Year Of The Dog Music, ASCAP/Peertunes, Ltd., SESAC/Jaron Boyer Music, SESAC (Z.Crowell, A.Sanders, J.Boyer) 6

HOLE IN A BOTTLE BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP/Skinny Fat Nashville Music, BMI/BMG Platinum Songs, BMI/Music Of Big Deal, BMI/Stalefish Music, BMI/Songs From The Couch, BMI (C.Smith, B.Beavers, D.Couch) 57

HONEY, IM GOOD. Ladder Soul Music, BMI/S-Curve Songs Worldwide, BMI/Chrysalis Songs, BMI/Sony/ATV Tunes LLC, ASCAP/Nolan W. Sipe Music, ASACP/Margetts Road Music, ASCAP (A.Grammer, N.W.Sipe) 41

HOUSE PARTY Universal Music Corporation, ASCAP/Sam Hunt Publishing, ASCAP/Three Mules Music, ASCAP/External Combustion Music, ASCAP/Who Wants To Buy My Publishing, ASCAP/Songs Of Southside Independent Music Publishing, LLC, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP (S.Hunt, Z.Crowell, J.Flowers) 7

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I AM INVINCIBLE Brett Boyett Music, BMI/Harmony - HLO Music, BMI/Nashty Music, BMI/EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI (B.Boyett, N.Overstreet) 56

I GOT THE BOY Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Nichols Boys Music, BMI/Made For This Music, BMI/All For This Music, BMI/Sweet Jamie Music, Inc., BMI (T.Nichols, C.Harrington, J.L.Spears) 28

I LOVE THIS LIFE Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/Red Vinyl Music, Inc., BMI/Round Hill, BMI (D.Myrick, C.Janson, C.Lucas, P.Brust) 27

IM COMIN OVER EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Goodbye Pants Music, BMI/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Songs From The Rose Hotel, ASCAP/EMI Foray Music, SESAC/Write 2 Be Free Music, SESAC (C.Young, C.Crowder, J.Hoge) 20

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JOHN COUGAR, JOHN DEERE, JOHN 3:16 Smack Hits, GMR/Kobalt Music Group Ltd., GMR/EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Songs By Red Room, BMI/Songs Of Black River, ASCAP/One Little Indian Creek Music, ASCAP (S.McAnally, R.Copperman, J.Osborne) 2

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LET ME SEE YA GIRL Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/243 Music, ASCAP/Sony/ATV Cross Keys Publishing, ASCAP (C.Swindell, M.Carter, J.Stevens) 13

LITTLE BIT OF YOU Orbison Music, LLC, BMI/BMG Rights Management, BMI/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Funky Friar Music, ASCAP/Sadies Favorite Songs, ASCAP/Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP (C.Bryant, D.George, A.Gorley) 31

LIVE FOREVER Sony/ATV Songs LLC, BMI/Songs Of RedOne, BMI/Songs By Team Red, SESAC/Lionheart Music Group, SESAC/Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI/Pearlfeather Publishing, BMI/When I Go To The Moon Music, BMI/Famdamily Music, BMI/SONGS Music Publishing, LLC, ASCAP/Songs Of SMP, ASCAP (N.Khayat, C.J.Harris, Jr., K.Perry, R.Perry, N.Perry, J.Andrews, K.O.Kjellholm) 30

LONG STRETCH OF LOVE Beards And Bullets Music, ASCAP/30A Getaway Songs, ASCAP/Hobbs Hill Publishing, SESAC/Global Dog Music, ASCAP/Book Of Spells, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/W.B.M. Music Corp., SESAC (D.Haywood, C.Kelley, H.Scott, J.Kear) 17

LOSE MY MIND Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI/Paris Not France Music, BMI/Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Songs By Red Room, BMI/Universal Music Italia, srl/Killer Tracks, BMI/Warner/Chappell Music Publishing Ltd., PRS/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/BMG Chrysalis Music, ASCAP/BMG Rights Management (US) LLC, ASCAP (B.Eldredge, H.Morgan, R.Copperman, B.Burton, T.D.Callaway, G.F.Reverberi, G.P.Reverberi) 5

LOVE IS YOUR NAME Round Hill Works, BMI/Hear Candy Music, BMI/Riding Songs, LLC, BMI/Spirit Catalog Holdings, S.a.r.l./Five Stone Publishing, ASCAP/Spirit Two Nashville Music, Inc., ASCAP (L.Lee, E.Paslay) 47

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MOVE ON BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP/Leer Jet 87 Publishing, ASCAP/BMG Rights Management (US) LLC, ASCAP/Rio Bravo Music, Inc., BMI/Telemitry Productions, BMI (C.Dunn, J.Frasure) 52

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NIGHTS ON FIRE Super Big Music, ASCAP/Jett Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Doc And Maggie Music, SOCAN/Thankful For This Music, ASCAP (J.Singleton, D.Ruttan) 48

NOTHIN LIKE YOU WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Beats And Banjos, ASCAP/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Shay Mooney Music, ASCAP/Highly Combustible Music, ASCAP/Sadies Favorite Songs, ASCAP/EMI April Music, Inc., ASCAP/Sugar Glider Music, ASCAP (D.Smyers, S.Mooney, A.Gorley, C. DeStefano) 15

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PAIN KILLER Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Little Big Town, BMI/Southside Independent Music Publishing, LLC, BMI/Internal Combustion Music, BMI/Kickin Grids Music, BMI/HillarodyRathbone Music, ASCAP/BMG Chrysalis Mu

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