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JULY 10, 2017 | PAGE 1 OF 21 [email protected]

Get Buzzed, Go On The Radio: SiriusXM’s Music Row Happy Hour When Buzz Brainard went to work on Friday, June 30, the shift ard and his team set up at one end of the room, and several included a famous guest, Charles Esten, with a margarita in hundred patrons cheer, yell and press the stage for a chance to his hand, and a Canadian male, Jake, get on the radio. Not that there’s much w iggling his tighter-than-Luke Bryan danger in it — security is on duty, but the blue jeans at the crowd, encouraging guards, according to one staff member, women to grab his fanny. have the easiest job in the place. And yes, some of them did. Their biggest concern this particular Brainard is the MC for SiriusXM’s Music day isn’t protecting the talent. It’s coorRow Happy Hour, a Friday afternoon-drive dinating the access routes when surprise shift that helps workers throw on their guest Esten, of CMT’s Nashville, offers party hats at the start of the weekend. to take selfies with crowd members. And Country stations were prone for years to it’s helping a guest to her feet after she signal the end of the work week by playtrips in her stacked heels on the step up ing George Jones’ “Finally Friday” or to the podium. Johnny Paycheck’s “Take This Job and The parade of average Joe guests is inShove It.” The Happy Hour stretches the triguing. They arrived from such diverse revelry across four hours, beginning at locations as New Jersey and New Mex3 p.m. CT with Brainard doing his best Brainard (right) and guest Esten led ico — bachelor and bachelorette parties, to turn a loud, rambunctious audience the party during the June 30 edition newly engaged couples, convention-goers at Margaritaville on Nashville’s Lower of the Music Row Happy Hour on in town on business and one expectant Broadway into the chatty stars of the show. SiriusXM’s The Highway. husband and wife who let Brainard di“Half those people bring a shot up with vulge the gender of their baby on the air. them while they’re on the air,” says Brainard. “They’ve got their Getting them to open up requires a different set of skills than drinks in their hand already, so it’s pretty easy.” interviewing a celebrity. It’s not a typical radio environment. Instead of a cramped, “When I talk to an artist, I’m crazy for being prepped, and enclosed studio with foam walls, the workplace is a massive I want to know exactly what I’m gonna say,” notes Brainard. second-story restaurant with two-foot pelican statues, tiki bars, “With our subscribers, we get a little bit of information from large palm trees and a blue ceiling painted with clouds. Brain- them on a card, and if I see something that looks interesting,

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BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE maybe I’ll go there. The most important thing is to just listen. It’s a conversation; it’s not an interview. If you listen to these people, they’re telling you about their weekend, and inevitably, there’s something there that’s awesome.” Margaritaville is the ideal location for the Happy Hour — not only is it just a block from SiriusXM’s Nashville home at the Bridgestone Arena, it’s also in the heart of the city’s downtown party district. When artists play Bridgestone or the Ryman Auditorium, just half a block away, it’s convenient for last-minute visits from the likes of Brett Eldredge, Maren Morris or Blake Shelton, who trotted on over after Brainard tweeted him. “Blake didn’t even tell me he’d be here,” says Brainard. “Next thing I know, he comes walking in with a bottle of vodka.” The Happy Hour didn’t start at Margaritaville. Brainard inherited a countdown with a live studio audience more than a year ago when he swapped dayparts with Storme Warren, who now does mornings on The Highway. Warren started taping the countdown, and that left Brainard with an audience and no structure. It soon became a party where the guests signed up in a dvance for 30-minute windows. The move to Margaritaville met some resistance at SiriusXM, but once the company agreed, it brought a wealth of positives: The audience could stay longer, it created a natural cross-promotion with Jimmy Buffett’s Radio Margaritaville channel, the access to alcohol helped loosen up the crowd, and the Happy Hour now has a natural home when it visits such remote l ocations as Canada or Las Vegas. “When we say we’re doing Margaritaville in Vegas, people know where to show up,” says Brainard. Musically, the Happy Hour is mostly a spirited property. Luke Combs’ “Hurricane,” Runaway June’s “Wild West” and Thomas Rhett’s “T-Shirt” all received spins during the June 30 installment, though the shift also included Zac Brown Band’s “My Old Man,” an emotional ballad that’s the antithesis of a party song. “If we’re to the point where we’ve got to drop some music, we might drop the slower songs, but the Highway’s pretty tight,” says Brainard. “We spend a lot of time and effort figuring out what our identity is musically, so I think we pretty much just stick to that and just let the party atmosphere take care of itself.” The good times come across on the air, though the scope of the celebration isn’t quite as obvious. The listeners can’t see the line outside the building b efore the venue opens to Happy Hour visitors at 2 p.m. They don’t see the mass of patrons at the bar, or the preening and posing of tourists looking to score on their vacation, and they don’t get to witness Brainard wading into the crowd to take photos. “Some of them drive for days,” he says. “We can’t get everybody on, and I just can’t imagine disappointing people. If you show up there, I owe it to you [to reach out]. I don’t want to force myself on anybody for a selfie, but I at least want to shake your hand and meet you, get your name and say hi.” And keep the party going, even for the patrons who may not be able to remember it the next day. “That’s why we take selfies,” says Brainard. “So that we can document it.”

JULY 10, 2017 | PAGE 2 OF 21

The Swon Brothers guested on WYCD Detroit when they played the Utica, Mich., bicentennial celebration. From left: WYCD host Rob Stone, Colton Swon, Zach Swon and WYCD host Holly Hutton.

Bill Anderson renewed his publishing agreement with Sony/ATV. From left: Sony/ATV senior vp creative Terry Wakefield, Anderson, Sony/ ATV president/CEO Troy Tomlinson and Straight 8 Entertainment artist manager Lee Willard.

Scotty McCreery visited Cumulus’ Nash campus in Nashville on July 6 for an appearance on the syndicated Ty, Kelly and Chuck show. From left: Ty Bentli, Kelly Ford, McCreery and Chuck Wicks.


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ON THE CHARTS JIM ASKER [email protected]

Rhett, Morris & ‘You’ Crown Airplay; Hunt’s ‘Road’ Sets Top Five Record 2000) and Lonestar’s “Amazed” (1999). (For more on Lonestar’s hit, which led the list 18 years ago this week, see Coda on page 21.) STAR-SPANGLED SALES Sparked by the Fourth of July holiday, patriotic country hits score significant boosts in sales and streaming. On Country Digital Song Sales, Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA,” which originally peaked at No. 7 on Hot Country Songs in 1984, re-enters at a new peak of No. 2, up 1,128 percent to 23,000 d ownloads sold in the week ending July 6. The move bests last year’s action, when “USA” re-entered the sales chart at No. 9 with 19,000 sold (July 23, 2016). The song also surges by 606 percent to 2.2 million U.S. streams. Toby Keith’s 2002 Hot Country Songs No. 1 “ Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American)” reenters Country Digital Song Sales at No. 9 (14,000, up 685 percent) for the first time since July 23, 2016, when it returned with 16,000 sold. The anthem, which reaches the Country Digital Song Sales top 10 for the first time, also hikes by 103 percent to 2.6 million U.S. streams. NEW TOP 10s Billy Currington’s “Do I Make You Wanna” (Mercury) rises 12-8 on Country Airplay, i ncreasing 8 percent to 29.8 million impressions. It’s his 15th top 10 ... Midland achieves its first Country Airplay top 10 with debut single “Drinkin’ Problem” (Big Machine), which moves 11-9 (up 7 percent; 29.8 million in audience).

RADIO STAYS ON ‘ROAD’ Sam Hunt’s “Body Like a Back Road” (MCA N ashville) extends its rule on Hot Country Songs to 22 weeks. Only Florida Georgia Line’s RHETT (left) and MORRIS “Cruise” has led longer, for 24 weeks in 2012 and 2013. “Road” likewise leads Country Streaming Songs (17.8 million U.S. streams, up 6 percent) and Country Digital Song Sales (50,000 AIRPLAY COMPARISON Beginning the week of July 9, the Hot Country Songs sold, up 1 percent) for a 22nd week each. chart now includes a column titled “Country Airplay Rank” for readers to more On Country Airplay, where it ruled for three weeks beginning on the easily compare songs’ positions on Hot Country Songs (which blends radio May 6-dated chart, “Road” ranks in the top five (4-5; 37.2 million impressions, airplay, streaming and sales data) and Country Airplay (based purely on radio up less than 1 percent) for a record-setting 15th week. It passes four tracks that audience impressions). Along with rankings, “RC” denotes songs that have each logged 14 weeks in the top five: Rascal Flatts’ “My Wish” (2006-07), Tim gone to r ecurrent on Country Airplay, while a dash signifies that a song has not McGraw’s “Live Like You Were Dying” (2004), Faith Hill’s “Breathe” (1999- yet appeared on the chart.

RHETT, MORRIS: CHRIS POLK/ACMA2017/GETTY IMAGES FOR ACM

Thomas Rhett’s “Craving You” (Valory), featuring Maren Morris, ascends 2-1 in its 15th week on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart (dated July 22), increasing 7 percent to 45.2 million audience impressions in the week ending July 9, according to Nielsen Music. On the airplay-, streaming- and sales-based Hot Country Songs chart, it pushes to a new high, bumping 4-3. Dave Barnes and Julian Bunetta wrote the duet/launch single from Rhett’s third full-length studio album, due this fall. The love song marks Rhett’s eighth Country Airplay leader, while Morris achieves her first. “I can’t believe we’re sitting here talking about my eighth No. 1 single,” Rhett tells Billboard. “I am so proud to be able to share this with Maren and can’t thank her enough for lending her talent to this song. ‘Craving You’ wasn’t initially written with a female vocal part, but now I can’t imagine the song without her voice on it.” Morris reigns in her fourth Country Airplay a ppearance. Her debut, “My Church,” yielded her p revious high, reaching No. 9 on May 21, 2016. Additionally, Morris’ current solo single, “I Could Use a Love Song” (Columbia Nashville), from her album Hero, ranks at No. 26 on both Country Airplay (9.9 million, up 7 percent) and Hot C ountry Songs. She is the second woman to top Country Airplay in 2017: Lauren Alaina’s “Road Less Traveled” led the April 22 list.


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Country Airplay

THIS WEEK

LAST WEEK

WKS ON CHART

1 l 2 l

2

15

3

45

MY GIRL C urb

3

1

21

EVERY TIME I HEAR THAT SONG W arner Bros./WMN

4 l 5 l 6 l 7 l 8 l 9 l 1 l0 11 l 1 l2 13 l 14 l 15 l 1 l6 17 l 1 l8 19 l 20 l 21 l 2 l2 23 l 2 l4 25 l 26 l 27 l 2 l8 29 l 30 l

6

27

YOURS IF YOU WANT IT B ig Machine

4

23

BODY LIKE A BACK ROAD M CA Nashville

8

22

THE FIGHTER H it Red/Capitol Nashville

9

26

FLATLINER W arner Bros./WMN

12

33

DO I MAKE YOU WANNA M ercury

11

24

10

25

YOU LOOK GOOD C apitol Nashville

13

37

SOMEBODY ELSE WILL V alory

14

18

NO SUCH THING AS A BROKEN HEART R CA Nashville

15

18

SMALL TOWN BOY B roken Bow

Dustin Lynch

16

23

MY OLD MAN S outhern Ground/Elektra/WAR

20

11

THEY DON’T KNOW M acon/Broken Bow

17

26

IT AIN’T MY FAULT E MI Nashville

18

40

FOR HER B ig Loud

AIRPLAY MONITORED BY

AUDIENCE (IN MILLIONS)

PLAYS

TITLE Imprint/LabelArtist

THIS WEEK

+/–

THIS WEEK

+/–

RANK

CRAVING YOU V alory

Thomas Rhett Featuring Maren Morris

45.158

+2.885

7831

428

1

HH No. 1 (1 week) HH

Dylan Scott

43.990

+2.295

7540

428

2

Blake Shelton

42.999

-3.192

7130

-760

3

Rascal Flatts

37.269

+2.175

6458

328

4

Sam Hunt

37.167

+0.097

5996

18

5

Keith Urban Featuring Carrie Underwood

33.355

+1.729

5884

150

6

Cole Swindell

30.134

+1.161

5664

153

7

Billy Currington

29.820

+2.120

5236

417

9

DRINKIN’ PROBLEM B ig MachineMidland

29.810

+1.928

5202

214

10

28.955

-0.045

5290

121

8

Justin Moore

27.970

+0.484

5181

147

11

Old Dominion

26.651

+1.364

4702

259

12

21.147

+2.752

4150

470

13 15

Lady Antebellum

Zac Brown Band

18.011

+0.259

3428

-7

Jason Aldean

16.155

+2.998

2899

304

19

Brothers Osborne

16.054

+0.705

3696

151

14

Chris Lane

15.563

+0.950

3096

123

18

Kip Moore

15.144

+2.217

3230

282

16

Jon Pardi

15.105

+1.610

3180

237

17

Carly Pearce

13.164

+0.728

2819

138

20 22

HH Airpower/Most Increased Audience HH

21

21

MORE GIRLS LIKE YOU M CA Nashville

19

11

HEARTACHE ON THE DANCE FLOOR C apitol Nashville

22

17

EVERY LITTLE THING B ig Machine

24

20

SOMETHIN’ I’M GOOD AT A tlantic/WMN

Brett Eldredge

10.454

+1.133

2594

177

23

34

RING ON EVERY FINGER R eviverLOCASH

10.393

+0.285

2602

122

21

25

16

ASK ME HOW I KNOW P earl

Garth Brooks

10.004

+0.887

2315

149

23

Kane Brown Featuring Lauren Alaina

9.903

+0.993

1936

191

26

Maren Morris

9.884

+0.681

2255

-32

24

Kenny Chesney

9.555

+1.271

2025

280

25

27

21

WHAT IFS Z one 4/RCA Nashville

26

17

I COULD USE A LOVE SONG C olumbia Nashville

28

6

HH Airpower HH

HH Airpower HH

ALL THE PRETTY GIRLS B lue Chair/Columbia Nashville

32

8

31

24

A GIRL LIKE YOU M ercury

33

13

ROUND HERE BUZZ E MI Nashville

29

27

OUTTA STYLE B IG Label

FIX A DRINK W arner Bros./WAR

Chris Janson

7.050

+1.245

1407

156

30

Easton Corbin

6.163

+0.212

1759

159

28

Eric Church

6.091

+0.510

1882

215

27

Aaron Watson

6.073

-0.047

979

50

36

BILLBOARD COUNTRY AIRPLAY PANEL — 144 STATIONS Albany, N.Y. WGNA Albuquerque, N.M. KBQI KRST Allentown, Pa. WCTO Atlanta WKHX WUBL Augusta, Ga. WKXC Austin, Texas KASE Bakersfield, Calif. KUZZ Baltimore WPOC Baton Rouge, La. WYNK Birmingham, Ala. WDXB WZZK Boise, Idaho KAWO KIZN BostonWBWL WKLB Buffalo, N.Y. WYRK Charleston, S.C. WCKN WEZL Charlotte, N.C. WKKT WSOC Chattanooga, Tenn. WUSY ChicagoWEBG WUSN CincinnatiWUBE ClevelandWGAR Colorado Springs, Colo. KATC Columbia, S.C. WCOS Columbus, Ohio WCOL Corpus Christi, Texas KRYS DallasKPLX KSCS Dayton, Ohio WHKO DenverKWOF KYGO Des Moines, Iowa KHKI

DetroitWDRQ WYCD El Paso, Texas KHEY Ft. Myers, Fla. WCKT WWGR Ft. Wayne, Ind. WQHK Fresno, Calif. KSKS Gainesville, Fla. WOGK Grand Rapids, Mich. WBCT Greensboro, N.C. WTQR Greenville, S.C. WSSL Harrisburg, Pa. WRBT Hartford, Conn. WWYZ HoustonKILT KKBQ Huntsville, Ala. WDRM IndianapolisWFMS WLHK Jacksonville, Fla. WGNE WQIK Johnson City, Tenn. WXBQ Kansas City KBEQ WDAF KFKF Knoxville, Tenn. WCYQ WIVK Lafayette, La. KMDL Lakeland, Fla. WPCV Las Vegas KCYE KWNR Lexington, Ky. WBUL Little Rock, Ark. KSSN Los Angeles KKGO Louisville, Ky. WAMZ WQNU Madison, Wis. WWQM McAllen, Texas KTEX

MemphisWGKX WLFP MiamiWKIS MilwaukeeWMIL MinneapolisKEEY KMNB Mobile, Ala. WKSJ Monmouth/Ocean, N.J. WKMK Monterey, Calif.. KTOM Nashville WKDF WSIX Nassau, N.Y. WJVC New Bern, N.C. WRNS New Orleans WNOE New York WNSH Norfolk, Va. WGH WUSH Oklahoma City, Okla. KJKE KTST Omaha, Neb. KXKT Orlando, Fla. WWKA PhiladelphiaWXTU Phoenix KMLE KNIX PittsburghWDSY WOGI WPGB Portland, Maine WPOR WTHT Portland, Ore. KUPL KWJJ Providence, R.I. WCTK Raleigh, N.C. WNCB WQDR Richmond, Va. WKHK Riverside, Calif. KFRG Reno, Nevada KBUL Roanoke, Va. WSLC

Rochester, N.Y. WBEE Sacramento, Calif. KBEB KNCI KNTY St. Louis KSD WIL Salt Lake City KSOP KUBL San Antonio, Texas KAJA KCYY San Diego KSON San Jose, Calif. KRTY Sarasota, Fla. WCTQ SeattleKKWF KMPS Spokane, Wash. KXLY Springfield, Mass. WRNX Stockton, Calif. KATM Syracuse, N.Y. WBBS Tampa, Fla. WFUS WQYK Tucson, Ariz. KIIM Tulsa, Okla. KVOO KWEN Visalia, Calif. KJUG Washington, D.C. WMZQ West Palm Beach, Fla. WIRK Wichita, Kan. KFDI KZSN Wilkes Barre, Pa. WGGY Wilmington, Del. WXCY York, Pa. WGTY


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Country Airplay


THIS WEEK

LAST WEEK

WKS ON CHART


THIS WEEK

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THIS WEEK

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31 l 32 l 3 l3 34 l 35 l 3 l6 37 l 38 l 3 l9 40 l 41 l 4 l2 43 l 4 l4 45 l 4 l6 47 l

34

12

LAST TIME FOR EVERYTHING A rista NashvilleBrad Paisley

5.973

+0.577

1475

113

29

40

4

WHEN IT RAINS IT POURS R iver House/Columbia Nashville

5.299

+1.543

1058

194

34 32

Luke Combs


PLAYS

35

37

THE WAY I TALK B ig Loud

Morgan Wallen

5.076

+0.027

1298

36

36

14

TIN MAN V anner/RCA Nashville

Miranda Lambert

4.550

+0.152

976

95

37

37

19

GREATEST LOVE STORY A rista NashvilleLANCO

4.462

+0.286

1017

36

35

39

18

CALIFORNIA B $R/Thirty Tigers/New Revolution

38

12

GOOD COMPANY R CA Nashville

Big & Rich

4.348

+0.327

1320

17

31

Jake Owen

4.297

+0.107

900

27

38

41

22

JUST A PHASE S toney Creek

Adam Craig

4.026

+0.199

1094

44

33

43

9

LOSING SLEEP R CA Nashville

Chris Young

3.712

+0.474

780

30

41

45

10

SHE’S WITH ME A tlantic/WEA

High Valley

3.496

+0.245

729

18

42

46

4

Lee Brice

3.469

+0.386

661

47

45

42

13

LOVE AGAIN N ash Next/Valory

47

10

TIL TOMORROW W heelhouse

44

11

YOURS T riple Tigers

BOY C urb

HH Breaker HH

Todd O’Neill

3.371

-0.054

682

28

44

Walker McGuire

3.220

+0.216

807

43

40

Russell Dickerson

3.187

+0.004

890

46

39

49

5

LEGENDS B lack River

Kelsea Ballerini

2.309

+0.577

479

51

48

50

3

I WORSHIP THE WOMAN YOU WALKED ON N ash Icon/Big Machine

Ronnie Dunn

2.057

+0.246

399

35

52

57

2

YOU BROKE UP WITH ME M onument/Arista Nashville

Walker Hayes

1.872

+0.548

284

93

-

Scotty McCreery

1.836

-0.117

294

-17

-

Devin Dawson

1.788

+0.134

465

51

50

Brooke Eden

1.659

+0.138

704

70

43 53

48

48

7

FIVE MORE MINUTES D agum

l 50 l 51 l 52 l 53 l 54 l 55 l 5 l6 57 l 5 l8

51

6

ALL ON ME A tlantic/WEA

52

10

54

2

ONES THAT LIKE ME V alory

Brantley Gilbert

1.615

+0.276

393

52

53

3

SINGLES YOU UP M CA Nashville

Jordan Davis

1.592

+0.184

382

28

54

56

14

THEY CAN’T SEE R eviver

Michael Tyler

1.574

+0.251

338

31

58

60

2

49

59 60 l

RE-ENTRY

ACT LIKE YOU DON’T R ed Bow

HH Breaker HH

WAITIN ON YOU S toney Creek

Lindsay Ell

1.391

+0.292

289

22

-

GOD MADE A WOMAN C urb

Jerrod Niemann

1.348

+0.324

537

62

46

475

22

49

59

8

SUNDAY MORNING S toney CreekParmalee

1.314

+0.159

55

3

HAPPENS LIKE THAT W heelhouse

Granger Smith

1.256

-0.013

522

23

47

PREACHIN’ TO THE CHOIR B MLG

A Thousand Horses

1.126

+0.037

344

16

57

Gary Allan

1.053

-0.092

282

-11

-

Jacob Davis

0.995

+0.045

411

15

51

RE-ENTRY

58

5

RE-ENTRY

MESS ME UP E MI Nashville WHAT I WANNA BE B lack River

GOING FOR ADDS 7/17 BRETT YOUNG Like I Loved You BMLG

JOHN SHEARER/GETTY IMAGES PORTRAIT

CHRIS STAPLETON Broken Halos Mercury Nashville DAN + SHAY Road Trippin’ Warner Bros./WAR

32 LUKE COMBS When It Rains It Pours

Combs’ sophomore single follows his thematically similar two-week Country Airplay No. 1 “Hurricane.” “Rains” rises to a new high on the chart (40-32), up 41 percent to 5.3 million audience impressions.

JOE NICHOLS Never Gets Old Red Bow

7/24 KAITIE WADE Don’t Wanna Miss Burning Ground

MICHAEL RAY Get To You Atlantic/WEA

7/31 LEVON Ms. Marianne Columbia Nashville RANDY ROGERS BAND Meet Me Tonight Thirty Tigers


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Country Airplay

MOST ADDED®


NEW AND ACTIVE

TITLE Imprint/LabelArtist ADDS 13 10 10 7 6 6 6 5 5 5

TIN MAN V anner/RCA Nashville Miranda Lambert WHAT IFS Z one 4/RCA Nashville Kane Brown Feat. Lauren Alaina ALL THE PRETTY GIRLS B lue Chair/Columbia Nashville Kenny Chesney THE ONES THAT LIKE ME V alory Brantley Gilbert YOURS T riple Tigers R ussell Dickerson WHEN IT RAINS IT POURS R iver House/Columbia Nashville Luke Combs HAPPENS LIKE THAT W heelhouse Granger Smith EVERY LITTLE THING B ig Machine Carly Pearce OUTTA STYLE B IG Label Aaron Watson I SHOULD GO TO CHURCH SOMETIME C olumbia Nashville Tyler Farr

ADDS

Delta Rae

0.868

31

1

Lauren Alaina

0.809

28

4

Michael Ray

0.762

4

3

I SHOULD GO TO CHURCH SOMETIME C olumbia Nashville Tyler Farr

0.722

31

5

LIFE’S ABOUT TO GET GOOD M ercury

Shania Twain

0.721

19

2

WHEN SOMEONE STOPS LOVING YOU C apitol Nashville Little Big Town

0.664

10

4

A LONG AND HAPPY LIFE V alory DOIN’ FINE 1 9/Interscope/Mercury GET TO YOU Atlantic/WEA

RECURRENTS

MOST INCREASED AUDIENCE GAIN TITLE Imprint/LabelArtist (IN MIILIONS) THEY DON’T KNOW M acon/Broken Bow Jason Aldean CRAVING YOU V alory Thomas Rhett Featuring Maren Morris SMALL TOWN BOY B roken Bow Dustin Lynch MY GIRL C urb Dylan Scott MORE GIRLS LIKE YOU M CA Nashville Kip Moore YOURS IF YOU WANT IT B ig Machine Rascal Flatts DO I MAKE YOU WANNA M ercury Billy Currington DRINKIN’ PROBLEM B ig Machine M idland THE FIGHTER H it Red/Capitol Nashville Keith Urban Feat. Carrie Underwood HEARTACHE ON THE DANCE FLOOR C apitol Nashville Jon Pardi

TOTAL TOTAL TITLE Imprint/LabelArtist AUDIENCE STATIONS

+2.998 +2.885 +2.752 +2.295 +2.217 +2.175 +2.120 +1.928 +1.729 +1.610

THIS WEEK TITLE Imprint/LabelArtist

TOTAL AUD. (IN MILLIONS)

1

IN CASE YOU DIDN’T KNOW B MLG Brett Young 32.357

2

GOD,YOUR MAMA, AND ME B MLG Florida Georgia Line Feat. Backstreet Boys

30.614

3

HURRICANE R iver House/Columbia NashvilleLuke Combs

30.329

4

IF I TOLD YOU Capitol NashvilleDarius Rucker

21.379

5

DIRT ON MY BOOTS C apitol NashvilleJon Pardi

20.707

6

HOW NOT TO W arner Bros./WARDan + Shay

20.638

7

HOMETOWN GIRL M CA NashvilleJosh Turner

17.998

8

MAY WE ALL BMLG Florida Georgia Line Featuring Tim McGraw

15.218

9

A GUY WITH A GIRL W arner Bros./WMNBlake Shelton

14.400

10

WANNA BE THAT SONG A tlantic/WMN Brett Eldredge

12.832

BILLBOARD COUNTRY BOXSCORE

MOST INCREASED PLAYS TITLE Imprint/LabelArtist

GAIN

SMALL TOWN BOY B roken Bow Dustin Lynch CRAVING YOU V alory Thomas Rhett Featuring Maren Morris MY GIRL C urb Dylan Scott DO I MAKE YOU WANNA M ercury Billy Currington YOURS IF YOU WANT IT B ig Machine Rascal Flatts THEY DON’T KNOW M acon/Broken Bow Jason Aldean MORE GIRLS LIKE YOU M CA Nashville Kip Moore ALL THE PRETTY GIRLS B lue Chair/Columbia Nashville Kenny Chesney NO SUCH THING AS A BROKEN HEART R CA Nashville Old Dominion HEARTACHE ON THE DANCE FLOOR C apitol Nashville Jon Pardi

+470 +428 +428 +417 +328 +304 +282 +280 +259 +237

Gross

Artist

Attendance Capacity

Promoter(s)

$738,745 $79.50, $$22 $466,947 $54.50, $24.50 $358,985 $52.50, $30.50 $358,895 $52.50, $25 $346,502 $44.75, $24.75

KENNY CHESNEY Wells Fargo Arena, Des Moines, Iowa, SUGARLAND Van Andel Arena, Grand Rapids, Mich., March 17 SUGARLAND Tyson Events Center, Sioux City, Iowa, SUGARLAND Veterans Memorial Arena, Jacksonville, JASON ALDEAN Mizzou Arena, Columbia, Mo., Jan. 28

12,665 sellout 9,786 10,105 7,674 sellout 7,767 8,883 9,539 sellout

MISCHELL, THE MESSINA GROUP

Ticket Price(s)

Venue/Date(s)

THE MESSINA GROUP/AEG LIVE THE MESSINA GROUP/AEG LIVE THE MESSINA GROUP/AEG LIVE LIVE NATION

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 REPORT WEEK ENDING JULY 2, 2017

THIS WEEK

LAST WKS ON WEEK CHART TITLE (Label)ARTIST

TW SPINS

SPINS +/–

THIS WEEK

HH 1 week at 1 HH Curtis Grimes 1830

158

11 l 12 l 13 l 14 l

12

11

BABY THIS AND BABY THAT ( Independent)

11

18

SHE’LL HAVE YOU BACK (Little Red Truck)

13

19

SHE’LL PUT THE HURT ON YOU (Independent)

LAST WKS ON WEEK CHART TITLE (Label)ARTIST

1 l

4

16

RIGHT ABOUT NOW (Independent)

2

1

18

DON’T FORGET WHERE YOU COME FROM (Independent)

3 l

6

13

CHANGE MY MIND ( Independent)

4

2

14

WILD AS YOU ( Independent)

16

18

NOBODY BUT YOU ( Independent)

5

3

23

SOUNDS LIKE A PLAN (Independent)

Drew Fish Band 1635

-51

15

14

21

HEART BROKE (Independent)

6

7

19

WHEN YOU LOVE SOMEBODY (Independent)

Jamie Richards 1597

-21

10

CONFORMITY ( Independent)

5

18

SECOND HAND SMOKE ( Deep Creek Records)

24

11

MINE AGAIN (I’D BE A FOOL) (Lightning Rod)

8 l

10

14

TOO BAD (Independent)

19

21

9

8

23

A LIFE WHERE WE WORK OUT (Independent)

Flatland Cavalry 1407 -152

23

10

9

17

STONE (Independent)

Whiskey Myers 1298

16 l 17 l 18 l 19 l 20 l

21

7

26

Kyle Park 1810

-29

Josh Ward 1734

99

Cody Johnson 1679 -144

Sam Riggs 1498 -154

Kylie Frey f/Randy Rogers 1411

142

-76

TW SPINS

SPINS +/–

Jon Wolfe 1264

114

Deryl Dodd w/ Roger Creager 1230 Jesse Raub Jr. 1156

9 10

Troy Cartwright 1098

53

Pat Waters 1059

-50

Natalie Rose

951

60

Dalton Domino

949

91

DON’T MESS WITH TEXAS (Independent)

Bradley Banning

944

18

15

HERE SHE COMES ( Independent)

Aaron Copeland

929

50

13

LONESTAR HEAVEN (Independent)

Mario Flores

914

59

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


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NASHVILLE & NATIONAL TOM ROLAND

’ROUND THE ROW

Chris Janson held court with WKMK Monmouth, N.J., staff when he opened for Sam Hunt at the PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel. From left: WKMK music director Brian Morelli and PD Chris Van Zant, Janson, Warner Music Nashville vp original content and radio marketing Chad Schultz and Press Communications vp of programming Mike Ryan.

ECLIPSE SHINES LIGHT ON OPRY

A rare total eclipse is scheduled to darken Nashville on Aug. 21, and the Grand Ole Opry will celebrate the once-in-a-lifetime moment with a pair of extra shows at the Opry House. Little Big Town, Darius Rucker, Wynonna and Charles Esten have c ommitted to an Aug. 20 evening installment of the WSM-AM Nashville broadcast, while an Opry Total Eclipse Plaza Party is set for the afternoon of Aug. 21 as the moon casts a shadow over the Earth. The Plaza Party lineup has yet to be announced, though an official Opry release promises live music, specialty drinks and free eclipse glasses as the company serves a “one-of-a-kind” soundtrack to the event. An eclipse occurs when the moon comes between the sun and the Earth. While all of the continental United States will experience at least a partial eclipse on Aug. 21, a total eclipse — in which only the corona around the sun is visible from the ground — is limited to a 70-mile-wide band that stretches from northern Oregon through Charleston, S.C. Nashville is in the heart of that path, meaning the city will experience its first total eclipse in more than 500 years. The Opry Plaza Party will begin at 11 a.m. The partial eclipse starts at 11:58 a.m. CT and ends at 2:45 p.m. The total eclipse, which lasts a mere two minutes, begins at 1:27 p.m. The Opry is not alone in capitalizing on the phenomenon. The Westin Nashville is holding a rooftop party with priority attendance for guests who book two nights. And the Nashville Sounds minor-league baseball team is hosting its own viewing party in conjunction with several city agencies before a 4:05 p.m. game against the Iowa Cubs.

Columbia Nashville hired Paige Elliott as its Denver-based director of West Coast promotion. She arrives from Capitol Nashville, where she held a similar post for seven years. Reach Elliott here … Bev Moser joined Zach Farnum’s 117 Entertainment Group as vp publicity. The owner of Moments by Moser Photography spent the last nine years as a Digital Rodeo journalist and production manager … Triple 8 Management acquired the Nashville-based Good Time Inc., adding six clients to the company’s roster, including Drew H olcomb & The Neighbors and Kris Allen. The eight-person Good Time staff, headed by founder Paul Steele, will merge with the existing Triple 8 crew. The first signing in Chris Young (left) met up with the expanded firm is a forthcoming Nashville Convention & Visitors album from Universal Music Nash- Corp. president/CEO Butch ville solo artist Dan Tyminski … Big Spyridon when a reported 240,000 Machine Music and Tree Vibez signed people attended the city’s Let songwriter-producer Daniel Ross to Freedom Sing! Music City July 4th, a joint songwriting agreement … The headlined by Young. Scooter Brown Band signed deals with David Corlew & Associates for management, APA Nashville for booking, BFD for distribution and 117 Entertainment for PR in conjunction with a fall album release … Bluegrass band Wilson Banjo Co. signed a recording contract with Bonfire … LaDonna Gatlin, who has performed with The Gatlin Brothers, reached a management and booking agreement with the April Potter Agency as a speaker and singer … Former record executive Howard Stark died June 15 following surgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Associated with ABC/Dunhill in the early 1970s, Stark founded Mary Tyler Moore’s MTM Nashville office with Alan Bernard in 1984. Among the artists and executives who got starts during the label’s run were Judy Rodman, Holly Dunn, Trisha Yearwood and Big Machine Label Group president/CEO Scott Borchetta.

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Cox Media/Atlanta hired Mark Turcotte as general sales manager after a run in a similar post for Midwest Communications/Nashville. Brands listed in the multiplatform market’s holdings include country WNGC Athens, Ga. … Randy “Shotgun” Shannon started July 10 as the morning-show co-host with Charlie McKenzie at WNCY Appleton-Green Bay, Wis., The Green Bay Press-Gazette reported. Shannon moves from the midday time slot … The top programmers from Entercom and CBS Radio will both be part of the executive team as the two companies merge, according to InsideRadio.com. Pat Paxton becomes Entercom president of programming, while CBS transfer Chris Oliviero becomes executive vp programming … “Hot Rod” Thompson joined KNTY Sacramento, Calif., as a fternoon host, Talkers.com reported. He was previously on-air at KCTR Billings, Mont. … Townsquare senior vp programming Kurt Johnson was named Country Radio Broadcasters board president for 2017-2018. A total of 16 new members were elected to the board. Go here for the complete list. Registration for CRB’s 2018 Country Radio Seminar opened July 10 here. CRS is set for Feb. 5-7 in Nashville.

Carly Pearce paid a visit to iHeartMedia’s syndicated The Bobby Bones Show as he championed country’s women with #FemaleFriday.

Michael Ray visited with a longtime supporter, WPCV Lakeland, Fla., personality Sara Michaels, as the station became the first Nielsen-monitored broadcaster to play his new single, “Get To You.”


JULY 10, 2017 | PAGE 11 OF 21

NASHVILLE & NATIONAL TOM ROLAND

MUSIC NOTES

ON THIS DATE IN COUNTRY MUSIC

FGL: JASON KEMPIN

Florida Georgia Line launched its first-ever headlining stadium a ppearance on July 8, performing to a sold-out crowd at Boston’s Fenway Park. As expected, lead-in act Backstreet Boys joined FGL for a run-through of “God, Your Mama, and Me,” which ended with a surprise presentation of a plaque recognizing the song’s recent ascent to No. 1 on Country Airplay. The encore featured both acts, along with Nelly and Chris Lane, on mass versions of “Hot in Herre,” “Everybody (Backstreet’s Back)” and “Cruise.” Upper Management Music r eleased a new Rhonda Vincent and Daryle S i n g l e t a r y a l b u m , A m e r i c a n G randstand, on July 7, the same day Charley Pride’s Music in My Heart arrived through the Music City label. Also in the pipeline are Brandon Rhyder’s self-titled project (July 14, R eserve), Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real’s self-titled album (Aug. 25, Fantasy), Mac McAnally’s Southbound (Aug. 25, FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE Mailboat), The Grascals’ bluegrass set Before Breakfast (Sept. 1, Mountain Home) and Big & Rich’s Did It for the Party (Sept. 15, B$R). A dditionally, Vector plans a Sept. 15 release for A Tribute to John D. Loudermilk. Culled from a live show that Loudermilk a ttended before his death in 2016, the album includes Rodney Crowell’s cover of “Tobacco Road,” Rosanne Cash’s “Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye,” John McFee’s “Indian Reservation” and Ricky Skaggs & The Whites’ “Waterloo.” Oh Boy is assembling a July 27 concert at Nashville’s Basement East with the likes of Brothers Osborne, Jason Isbell, Levi Hummon, Andrew Combs and Amanda Shires covering the songs of John Prine. Proceeds from the event will aid Those Darlins member Jessi Zazu in her fight against c ancer. Her story is documented at a YouCaring page. Backbeat Books will publish songwriter Steve Dorff’s autobiography, I Wrote That One, Too… : A Life in Songwriting From Willie to Whitney, on Nov. 1. His hit list includes George Strait’s “Heartland” and “I Cross My Heart,” Eddie Rabbitt’s “Every Which Way but Loose,” Kenny Rogers’ “Through the Years” and Garth Brooks’ “Baby, Let’s Lay Down and Dance.” Dorff was the musical director for CMT game show The Singing Bee.

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July 12 • 2011 — Warner Bros. releases the Blake Shelton album Red River Blue. • 1993 — Kenny Chesney begins recording his first album. July 13 • 2001 — Reba McEntire and Martina McBride top the biggest allfemale lineup in country music history as the Girls Night Out Tour debuts at Las Vegas’ Mandalay Bay. Also on the bill: Sara Evans, Jamie O’Neal and Carolyn Dawn Johnson. • 1977 — The Country Music Association denies a request by Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson to have their names removed from the awards ballot. The two say they oppose competition among artists and specifically do not want to compete against each other. July 14 • 2015 — Josh Turner sings “God Bless America” during the seventh inning of Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game at Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati. The American League defeats the National League, 6-3. July 15 • 2008 — Darius Rucker makes his Grand Ole Opry debut, performing “Don’t Think I Don’t Think About It” during a three-song set on a Tuesday edition of the show. July 16 • 2012 — Florida Georgia Line signs a recording deal with Republic Nashville. Source: RolandNote.com, the Ultimate Country Music Database

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Sara Evans spoke about her career journey at a Change the Conversation event at the William Morris Endeavor office in Nashville. From left: CMT senior vp music strategy and talent Leslie Fram, Red Light A&R and artist development consultant Tracy Gershon, Evans and Middle Tennessee State University Department of Recording Industry chair Beverly Keel.


JULY 10, 2017 | PAGE 12 OF 21

Hot Country Songs THIS WEEK

1 l 2 3 l 4 l 5 l 6 7 8 9 l 10 l 11 l 12 l 13 l 14 l 15 l 16 l 17 l 18 l 19 l

MOORE: KEVIN WINTER/GETTY IMAGES FOR STAGECOACH; STAPLETON: JEFF KRAVITZ/ACMA2017/FILMMAGIC FOR ACM

20 21 l 22 l 23 l 24 l 25 l

LAST WEEK

1 2 4 5 6 3 7 8 9 10 13 11

TWO WEEKS WKS ON TITLE AGO CHART PRODUCER (SONGWRITER) 1 23 BODY LIKE A BACK ROAD

6 7 5 3 4 8 9 13 19 12

44

HH No. 1 (22 weeks)/Airplay Gainer HH

15 48 29 45 29 21 18 20 24 27

IN CASE YOU DIDN’T KNOW

D.HUFF (B.YOUNG,T.REEVE,K.SCHLIENGER,T.TOMLINSON)

CRAVING YOU

HH Digital & Streaming Gainer HH

J.BUNETTA,D.HUFF,JOE LONDON,THOMAS RHETT (D.M.BARNES,J.BUNETTA)

MY GIRL

M.ALDERMAN,J.E.NORMAN (D.SCOTT,J.KERR)

THE FIGHTER

BUSBEE,K.URBAN (K.URBAN,BUSBEE)

HURRICANE

S.MOFFATT (L.COMBS,T.PHILLIPS,T.ARCHER)

GOD, YOUR MAMA, AND ME

J.MOI (J.KEAR,H.LINDSEY,G.SAMPSON)

EVERY TIME I HEAR THAT SONG

S.HENDRICKS (A.MAYO,C.LINDSEY,B.WARREN,B.D.WARREN)

DO I MAKE YOU WANNA

D.HUFF (A.GORLEY,Z.CROWELL,M.JENKINS,J.FLOWERS)

FLATLINER

M.CARTER (C.SWINDELL,M.BRONLEEWE,J.BOYER)

17

S.MCANALLY (M.RAMSEY,T. ROSEN,B.TURSI,J.FRASURE)

14

15

26

J.DEMARCUS,G.LEVOX,J.D.ROONEY (A.DORFF,J.SINGLETON)

16

17

31

D.HUFF (K.BROWN,M.MCGINN,J.M.SCHMIDT)

17

18

25

S.BORCHETTA,J.S.STOVER (K.ARCHER,A.HAMBRICK,T.OTTOH)

20 22 21 24 23 26

20 16 25 22 26 24 29

24 23 12 33 20 19 8

NO SUCH THING AS A BROKEN HEART YOURS IF YOU WANT IT

KIP MOORE More Girls Like You

3

2

4

6

2

RC

3

RC

4

3

8

9

9

13

10

8

11

7

11

V ALORY

10

8

12

14

4

13

Kane Brown Featuring Lauren Alaina Z ONE 4/RCA NASHVILLE Justin Moore

24

16

11

17

Jon Pardi

19

18

16

18

B IG MACHINE

WHAT IFS

SOMEBODY ELSE WILL

V ALORY

HEARTACHE ON THE DANCE FLOOR

C APITOL NASHVILLE Brothers Osborne E MI NASHVILLE Zac Brown Band

B.BUTLER,J.PARDI (J.PARDI,B.BUTLER,B.LONG)

IT AIN’T MY FAULT

J.JOYCE (J. OSBORNE,T.J. OSBORNE,L.T.MILLER)

MY OLD MAN

D.COBB (Z.BROWN,N.MOON,B.SIMONETTI)

14

10

Carly Pearce B IG MACHINE Chris Lane B IG LOUD Kip Moore

20

21

17

21

18

23

Brett Eldredge A TLANTIC/WMN Jason Aldean

21

22

15

25

S OUTHERN GROUND/ELEKTRA/WAR

EVERY LITTLE THING

BUSBEE (C.PEARCE,BUSBEE,E.SHACKELTON)

FOR HER

J.MOI (M.DRAGSTREM,K.ARCHER,S.BUXTON)

MORE GIRLS LIKE YOU

K.MOORE,D.GARCIA (K.MOORE,S.L.OLSEN,J.MILLER,D.A.GARCIA)

M CA NASHVILLE

SOMETHIN’ I’M GOOD AT

R. COPPERMAN,B.ELDREDGE (B.ELDREDGE,T.DOUGLAS)

THEY DON’T KNOW

M ACON/BROKEN BOW

M.KNOX (J.BOYER,J.MIRENDA,K.ALLISON)

46 The Moore co-write — the first track from his forthcoming third LP — rises 24-23 on Hot Country Songs. It gains 17 percent to 15.1 million in audience, bumping into the Country Airplay top 20 (21-18).

1

Dylan Scott C URB Keith Urban Featuring Carrie Underwood H IT RED/CAPITOL NASHVILLE Luke Combs R IVER HOUSE/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE Florida Georgia Line Featuring Backstreet Boys B MLG Blake Shelton

Lady Antebellum C APITOL NASHVILLE Old Dominion R CA NASHVILLE Rascal Flatts

BUSBEE (H.LINDSEY,R.HURD,BUSBEE)

23

2

W ARNER BROS./WMN

YOU LOOK GOOD

25

RC

Thomas Rhett Featuring Maren Morris

Dustin Lynch B ROKEN BOW Billy Currington M ERCURY Cole Swindell

Z.CROWELL (R.AKINS,B.HAYSLIP,K.FISHMAN)

11

18

1

B IG MACHINE

SMALL TOWN BOY

14

9

5

Brett Young B MLG

M CA NASHVILLE

Midland

S.MCANALLY,D.HUFF,J.OSBORNE (J.CARSON,C.DUDDY,M.WYSTRACH,S.MCANALLY,J.OSBORNE)

15

23

PEAK POSITION

Sam Hunt

W ARNER BROS./WMN

DRINKIN’ PROBLEM

12

19

COUNTRY AIRPLAY RANK

Artist

IMPRINT / PROMOTION LABEL

Z.CROWELL (S.HUNT,Z.CROWELL,J.OSBORNE,S.MCANALLY)

2

SALES, AIRPLAY & STREAMING DATA COMPILED BY

CHRIS STAPLETON Broken Halos

The new single, which Stapleton penned with Mike Henderson, from the former’s album From A Room: Volume 1, bullets at No. 46 on Hot Country Songs, helped by its 22 percent streaming gain to 1.5 million U.S. clicks.


JULY 10, 2017 | PAGE 13 OF 21

Hot Country Songs THIS WEEK

LAST WEEK

26 l 27 l 28 l 29 l 30 l 31 l 32 l 33 l 34 l 35 l 36 l

25

37 38 l 39 l 40 l 41 42 43 44 l 45 l 46 l 47

27

TWO WEEKS WKS ON TITLE AGO CHART PRODUCER (SONGWRITER) 27 16 I COULD USE A LOVE SONG

Maren Morris

25

25

Miranda Lambert

34

15

Luke Combs

32

28

Kenny Chesney

26

29

LOCASH R EVIVER Eric Church E MI NASHVILLE Chris Janson

22

28

29

31

27

32

Garth Brooks

23

33

MAKIN’ ME LOOK GOOD AGAIN

Drake White

RC

32

LAST TIME FOR EVERYTHING

Brad Paisley

31

35

36

4

41

5

28

31

17

L.RIMES (THOMAS RHETT,J.KEAR,J.FRASURE)

31

37

13

J.JOYCE (E.CHURCH,J.HYDE,L.DICK)

34

34

6

32 40 42 29 38 41 39 36 37 44 47 50 46 43

39 35 44 48 21 43 42 40 32 38 45 47 46 49 30

ALL THE PRETTY GIRLS

B.CANNON,K.CHESNEY (N.GALYON,T.L.JAMES,J.OSBORNE)

ROUND HERE BUZZ FIX A DRINK

B.ANDERSON,C.DUBOIS (C.JANSON,C.DUBOIS,A.GORLEY) M.A.MILLER (M.ROSSELL)

47

36

Russell Dickerson

44

21

Easton Corbin

28

38

LANCO

35

37

M ONUMENT/ARISTA NASHVILLE

S.MCANALLY (W.HAYES,K.SACKLEY,T.ARCHER)

YOURS

C.BROWN (P.WELLING,C.BROWN,R.DICKERSON)

T RIPLE TIGERS

A GIRL LIKE YOU

A.GORLEY,W.KIRBY (A.GORLEY,J.FRASURE,R.AKINS)

MERCURY

GREATEST LOVE STORY

16

A RISTA NASHVILLE Morgan Wallen

J.JOYCE (B.LANCASTER)

THE WAY I TALK

20

33

35

Chris Stapleton M ERCURY Chris Young

RC

17

39

26

Scotty McCreery D AGUM Jake Owen R CA NASHVILLE Kelsea Ballerini

48

31

37

44

45

32

-

13

RC

6

J.MOI (J.L.ALEXANDER,B.HAYSLIP,C.MCGILL)

B IG LOUD

EITHER WAY

9

D.COBB,C.STAPLETON (C.STAPLETON,TIM JAMES,K.MARVEL)

LOSING SLEEP

8

C.CROWDER,C.YOUNG (C.YOUNG,J.HOGE,C. DESTEFANO)

R CA NASHVILLE

FIVE MORE MINUTES

7

F.ROGERS (S.MCCREERY,R.ROGERS,M.CRISWELL)

GOOD COMPANY

5

L.BRANCEWELL,J.OWEN (M.ALDERMAN,T.CECIL,J.MULLINS)

LEGENDS

5

F.G.WHITEHEAD,J.MASSEY (K.BALLERINI,F.G.WHITEHEAD,H.LINDSEY)

B LACK RIVER

BROKEN HALOS

12

Chris Stapleton M ERCURY Tim McGraw & Faith Hill M CGRAW/ARISTA NASHVILLE Lee Brice

D.COBB,C.STAPLETON (C.STAPLETON,M.HENDERSON)

SPEAK TO A GIRL

16

B.GALLIMORE,T.MCGRAW,F.HILL (SHY CARTER,D.GIBSON,J.SPARGUR)

BOY

L.BRICE,J.STONE,K.JACOBS,D.FRIZSELL (J.M.NITE,N.GALYON)

C URB

MERCY

Brett Young B MLG Devin Dawson A TLANTIC/WEA

D.HUFF (B.YOUNG,S.MCCONNELL)

HH Hot Shot Debut HH

ALL ON ME

1

NEW

A RISTA NASHVILLE Walker Hayes

YOU BROKE UP WITH ME

14

2

DOT/BMLG

L.WOOTEN,B.PAISLEY (B.PAISLEY,S.AHNQUIST,B.ANDERSON,C.DUBOIS,M.RYAN)

4

4

P EARL

R. COPPERMAN,J.S.STOVER (D.WHITE,M.CRISWELL,S.MINOR)

6

—

W ARNER BROS./WAR

ASK ME HOW I KNOW

12

—

BLUE CHAIR/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE

RING ON EVERY FINGER

20

49

R IVER HOUSE/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE

S.MOFFATT (L.COMBS,R.FULCHER,J.WALKER)

7

48

V ANNER/RCA NASHVILLE

WHEN IT RAINS IT POURS

33

35

C OLUMBIA NASHVILLE

F.LIDDELL,G.WORF,E.MASSE (M.LAMBERT,J.INGRAM,J.R.STEWART)

30

49

l

PEAK POSITION

TIN MAN

15

48

50

COUNTRY AIRPLAY RANK

Artist

IMPRINT / PROMOTION LABEL

BUSBEE,M.MORRIS (M.MORRIS,J.ROBBINS,L.VELTZ)

28

SALES, AIRPLAY & STREAMING DATA COMPILED BY

J.JOYCE (D.DAWSON,J.DURRETT,A.SMITH)

41

19

-

49

49

50

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

COUNTRY MARKET WATCH A Weekly National Music Sales Report

YEAR-TO-DATE Year-Over-Year Album Sales

’15

ALBUM SALES ’16

12.5 million

’17

10.6 million

’16 ’17

49.1 million 000.0 million 37.6 million

For week ending July 6, 2017. Figures are rounded. Compiled from a national sample of retail store and rack sales reports collected and provided by Nielsen Music.

ALBUMS

DIGITAL ALBUMS*

DIGITAL TRACKS

This’14 Week

392,000

145,000

1,409,000

Last Week

356,000

116,000

1,350,000

10.1%

25.0%

4.4%

430,000

150,000

1,781,000

-8.8%

-3.3%

-20.9%

Change

DIGITAL TRACKS SALES

Overall Unit Sales

Weekly Unit Sales

This Week Last Year Change

2016

2017

CHANGE

Albums

12,488,000

10,595,000

-15.2%

Digital Tracks

49,088,000

37,567,000

-23.5%

Sales by Album Format 2016

2017

CHANGE

Physical

8,166,000

7,105,000

-13.0%

Digital

4,321,000

3,490,000

-19.2%

*Digital album sales are also counted within album sales.

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


JULY 10, 2017 | PAGE 14 OF 21 SALES, DATA COMPILED BY

9

CHRIS STAPLETON

FROM A ROOM: VOLUME 1

CHRIS STAPLETON

TRAVELLER

MERCURY 026379*/UMGN

2 l

4

4

114

3

6

7

URBAN RIPCORD 61 KEITH HIT RED/CAPITOL NASHVILLE 023591*/UMGN (025848 AMS & WSEX)

4

3

3

4

LADY ANTEBELLUM

5

5

6

5

LUKE COMBS

6

7

9

7 l

9

8

8

9 l 10 l 11 l

10

MERCURY 019405*/UMGN

1

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MAKIN’ TR ACKS TOM ROLAND [email protected]

The key to understanding Kelsea Ballerini’s “Legends,” the first single from her forthcoming sophomore album, lies in the sixth line as she documents the “blood, sweat and heartbeats” of a love gone by. It’s a slight reworking of a familiar cliche — blood, sweat and tears — that pointedly replaces “tears” with a powerful sign of life. It’s a subtly t ransformative statement, lodged in a transformative song, written roughly two years ago. “I was going through a breakup at the time, and I had written a lot of sassy, angry, bitter songs about it — which you will hear on the record,” says Ballerini. “But I really wanted to write a song about choosing to look back on the relationship fondly, which is hard sometimes when you’re out of something and heartbroken.” The starting place for that exercise was an ascendant piano figure, created by songwriterproducer Forest Glen Whitehead (“Peter Pan,” “Love Me Like You Mean It”) on a v irtual k eyboard in Logic prior to an a ppointment at his off ice with Ballerini and songwriter H illary L indsey (“Blue Ain’t Your Color,” “God, Your Mama, and Me” ). The chords landed on the o ff beats in the measure, while synthetic p ercussion held the tempo together. Something about the pattern seemed appropriate for “ Legends,” a simple title Ballerini had been BALLERINI weighing for a month or two. The title and the chord progression created a grandiose atmosphere, and the song began to unfold with a distinct dramatic flair, almost like a movie. “ ‘Legends’ has that cinematic feel to it,” says Whitehead. “You just immediately get in the vibe of what that track is trying to tell you, and I feel like that’s why she found the title so quickly. It came together pretty easily b ecause it was what was on her heart, and it just aligned perfectly with e verything else that was going on.” They began working at the start of the song with only a vague notion of what the “Legends” chorus would be — “We didn’t even know if we were headed to ‘We were legends,’ ” recounts Ballerini — but they got there with a mix of large concepts and flashes of color. Many of the words — such as “fame,” “glory,” “we went down in history,” “epic” — carry out the big-sized ambitions of that “Legends” title. “I love songs that are consistent; where it all goes together like a puzzle,” says Ballerini. It’s clearly a bright puzzle. Other lyrics — including “golden,” “fire,” “permanent marker” and “We were neon in a gray crowd” — add vivid shades to the proceedings. “We wanted to paint this picture of this couple that was just fearless with their love,” she says. “They were the couple that everyone looked to and looked at and watched.” When they finished writing “Legends,” Ballerini did a quick vocal with Lindsey supplying harmonies over a fairly spare track, one of 214 songs that were considered for the upcoming album. It would stay on the shelf for more than a year before Ballerini recorded it, but it always seemed destined to make the next project, in part because it played such a major role in Ballerini revising her outlook on that broken romance. “This song,” she says, “was the first step of letting it all go and being able to just move on.” With that kind of emotional weight behind it, Whitehead and co-producer

Jason Massey treated “Legends” differently than they did the songs on Ballerini’s The First Time, which was released May 19, 2015. Whitehead and Massey invariably built those songs one instrument at a time, often framing the vocal Ballerini sang the day she wrote the music. But “Legends” needed more of a group approach. “We wanted it to sound epic with a band situation in the choruses,” says Whitehead. “That’s a lot different from the demo vibe, so it was trying to find the balance of the two. The verses are pretty sparse, and then we let the chorus kind of open up and let it be more of a radio chorus in the more ‘up’ sections.” The players gathered at Ronnie’s Place, a Black River studio named after former owner Ronnie Milsap, and provided a new context for Ballerini’s demo vocal. Dave Cohen t ransformed the computerized keyboard into an acoustic piano, Nir Z laid down a film-q uality drum groove, and Rob McNelley punctuated the track with haunting guitar tones. “We just talked about the dynamics being very up and down,” recalls Whitehead. “When it came to the chorus, we needed everybody to the wall, and then whenever it came to the verse, minimal, to create the hills and valleys and the cinematic-ness.” With the live band making a signif icant change to the atmosphere, Ballerini came back in to resing the vocals on “Legends” and match the heightened emotional texture of the production. “I really wanted it to be perfect,” she says. “I’ve never done that before. I’m a big stickler that I want my record to sound like what I sound like in real life. I don’t sound perfect, and sometimes my voice is tired and scratchy, and sometimes I don’t hit all the notes, and that needs to be translated on my record. But for this song, I just wanted to sing it until I felt like it conveyed the emotion of the lyrics.” “Legends” was particularly challenging because it tested her range more than her prior material. “There’s a lot of flips into head voice, which I had never done a lot of before,” she says. “I really wanted to make sure that I could do it and that it translated well.” Ballerini very consciously split the title into two words — “Le” and “gends” — when she sang it, lacing it with an extra dose of gravitas. “It was one of those left-footed things that makes you listen,” she reasons. “We did think about trying to combine the two [syllables], but it just sounded right,” adds Whitehead. “Sometimes, the way somebody says something in conversation might not be the correct way. Whenever she broke the words up, it just had a different ring to it.” Ballerini added “Legends” to her live set during a May 26 performance in Bakersfield, Calif., and Black River released it to radio via PlayMPE on June 7, the same day it received its TV debut on the CMT Music Awards. It’s now at No. 45 in its fifth week on Country Airplay. The song has taken on a different meaning since its inception. Ballerini is engaged to Warner Music Nashville artist Morgan Evans, and she now sees “Legends” as a reflection on the foundation they’ve built in their first year. But it also demonstrates to her the bond between performer and fan base. “It can be any kind of relationship,” says Ballerini, “so it’s kind of been a c hameleon of a song for me, where it has so many different meanings personally. That makes me feel like no matter if someone is in major love, or is falling out of it, or just has a lot of people around them that they have a good relationship with, that they can hear their story in that song.”

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Kelsea Ballerini Turns An Emotional Corner With New Single ‘Legends’


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THE STARK REPORT PHYLLIS STARK [email protected]

Paul DiGiovanni, a rising star in the country music world, recently had a lifechanging experience he describes as “surreal.” Between the time he walked into the Music Row offices of Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG) Nashville to write a song and the time he walked back out a couple of hours later, the celebratory banner outside the building had been changed, with the new one lauding his first No. 1 as a writer, Dan + Shay’s “How Not To.” “I’m still really digesting it,” the songwriter-producer says of having a charttopping song (written with Kevin Bard and Adam Hambrick). “It’s the biggest dream of mine coming true, and I’m just waiting for it to all to sink in.” He may be new to the top of the charts, but DiGiovanni is hardly new to music. He first gained fame as the lead guitarist in the pop-rock band Boys Like Girls, which formed in Massachusetts when he was just 17 and scored a record deal with Columbia. He left high school to tour with the band, which remained active until 2012. During that time, he got his first taste of the country music world when his group recorded the song “Two Is Better Than One” with TayDiGIOVANNI lor Swift for its second album, Love Drunk, in 2009. Now living in Nashville for a little more than three years, DiGiovanni is fully immersed in the format and poised to become a very familiar name. He’s p roducing the debut albums for new Universal Music Group Nashville artists Jordan Davis and Brandon Lay, and also produced Jackie Lee’s current single, “Getting Over You.” He has songwriting credits on projects from Lee, Dustin Lynch and Chase Bryant, as well as multiple cuts from Davis and Lay, and a new cut on the next Dan + Shay album. Additionally, he has become a go-to collaborator for producer Scott H endricks, who tapped him to do the programming (including loops, synths and overall polish) on several Warner Music Nashville albums from a rtists i ncluding Blake Shelton, Chris Janson and Michael Ray. It’s a great partnership, says DiGiovanni, because Hendricks encourages him to “be daring instead of too conservative. I don’t have to be afraid [that an idea]

is too crazy.” DiGiovanni’s success in country music has come under the guidance and nurturing of UMPG Nashville, which signed him to his first publishing deal in September 2015. Despite his obvious potential, UMPG Nashville e xecutive vp/GM Kent Earls says even his team has been astonished by DiGiovanni’s fast ride in a music community generally known as “a seven-to-10-year town.” Senior creative director Missy Roberts brought DiGiovanni into the fold, and Earls says she “has done a tremendous job with Paul. Together, as a team, they have taken things to a new level very quickly. “For a new writer to come in and have the success that Paul’s had already is amazing,” says Earls, who anticipates that several more of Paul’s songs will climb the charts in the next 12 months. “He’s got incredible co-writes coming up out on the road with some of our biggest artists, [and] he’s already writing with a lot of the b iggest w riters in town like Ashley Gorley, Ben Hayslip, Jonathan Singleton and Rhett Akins.” Earls confidently predicts, “We’ll end up with two or three [more] No. 1s in the next year” from DiGiovanni. In the video for “How Not To,” director P atrick Tracy took the storyline in a completely different direction than the one DiGiovanni and his c o-writers intended, with a poignant plot about a young couple who separately hit rock bottom, get introduced at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting and then turn their lives around with each other’s support. DiGiovanni was not only onboard with the new storyline, he and his girlfriend — professional actress and American Idol alum Katie Stevens — appear in the video. Stevens takes the lead role, while DiGiovanni has a cameo as the boyfriend she’s with while she’s still drinking. “I have an embarrassing, stupid little 10-second cameo,” he says. Look for DiGiovanni in the scene where “she’s screaming, and it cuts to my face, and I do this epic eye roll and she throws a lamp at the floor and smashes it.” While more acting may not be in his future, there’s little doubt DiGiovanni is destined to become one of Nashville’s behind-the-scenes superstars.

DIGIOVANNI: DALLAS WILSON

Pop Star-Turned-Country SongwriterProducer Paul DiGiovanni Is On The Fast Track


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+45

0.382

44

12

GOD MADE A WOMAN C urb Jerrod Niemann

351

+31

0.275

46

18

FIGURE IT OUT R eznam/Nine North Sarah Dunn Band

315

+1

0.346

55

2

BOY C urb Lee Brice

306

+60

0.481

51

3

YOURS T riple Tigers Russell Dickerson

291

+24

0.444

49

8

ALL ABOUT YOU MCA Nashville Josh Turner

291

+12

0.301

48

47

11

LIKE YOU THAT WAY M ercury Canaan Smith

288

-21

0.256

49 l 50 l 51 l

53

7

WINNEBAGO R ebel Engine/Star Farm Stephanie Quayle

276

+22

0.275

52

13

THIS SIDE OF YOU M RG Rick Monroe

270

+6

0.266

54

4

HAPPENS LIKE THAT W heelhouse Granger Smith

268

+16

0.369

52

48

24

MISSING W arner Bros./WMN William Michael Morgan

266

-15

0.454

53

50

14

WHAT I WANNA BE B lack River Jacob Davis

265

-5

0.206

l 55 l 56 l 57 l 5 l8 59 l 60 l

56

5

MESS ME UP E MI Nashville Gary Allan

259

+22

0.321

58

2

WHEN SOMEONE STOPS LOVING YOU C apitol Nashville Little Big Town

253

+40

0.239

59

2

SINGLES YOU UP M CA Nashville Jordan Davis

243

+32

0.252

57

2

DRINKIN’ ALONE Turn 3/Grassroots Chelsea Bain

230

+12

0.215

60

2

DIRTY SOUTH R ebel Engine/Star Farm Lucas Hoge

222

+15

0.271

RE-ENTRY

I SHOULD GO TO CHURCH SOMETIME C olumbia Nashville Tyler Farr

219

+16

0.211

RE-ENTRY

THE LITTLE THINGS D ream Walkin’ Smith & Wesley

200

+18

0.208

32

54

PLAYS

CHARTS LEGEND RANKINGS Country Airplay is ranked by total audience impressions for the week ending Sunday based on monitored airplay of 144 stations by Nielsen BDS. Audience totals on the chart are derived, in part, using certain Arbitron Inc. copyrighted Persons 12+ audience estimates (under license © 2017, Arbitron Inc.) Country Indicator is tabulated using reported playlists and Nielsen BDS-monitored airplay at 106 stations, ranked by total plays.

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.

BULLETS

TIES On 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.

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

RECURRENTS On 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

l Awarded on Country Airplay to titles gaining audience or

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 DEBUT Awarded to the highest-ranking new entry on Country Airplay and Country Indicator, respectively. MOST ADDED The 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/ PLAYS Most 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. AIRPOWER Awarded 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. BREAKER Awarded on Country Airplay to titles achieving airplay (at least one detection) at 60% of reporting stations for the first time. © 2017 Prometheus Global Media, LLC


TITLE P ublishing-Licensing Org.

(Songwriter) C hart Position

A ACT LIKE YOU DON’T M agic Mustang Music

Inc., BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/ American Daughter Music, BMI/Castle Bound Music, Inc., SESAC/We Be Pawtying, SESAC/Rio Bravo Music, Inc., BMI/Telemitry Productions, BMI ( B.Eden, C.R.Barlowe, J.Frasure) 5 0

ALL ON ME W arner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp.,

BMI/JJ Music Inc., BMI/Neon Cross Music, BMI/Magic Mustang Music Inc., BMI/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Two Sixteen Publishing, ASCAP ( D.Dawson, J.Durrett, A.Smith) 4 9

ALL THE PRETTY GIRLS W arner-Tamerlane

Publishing Corp., BMI/A Girl Named Charlie, BMI/ BMG Platinum Songs, BMI/SWMBMGBMI, BMI/Once In A Blue Tune Music, BMI/Anderson Fork In The Road Music, ASCAP/Smackville Music, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Publishing America, Inc., ASCAP ( N.Galyon, T.L.James, J.Osborne) 2 6

ASK ME HOW I KNOW R oy Rivers Publishing,

BMI (M.Rossell) 2 3

B BODY LIKE A BACK ROAD U niversal Music

Corp., ASCAP/Sam Hunt Publishing, ASCAP/Highly Combustible Music, ASCAP/I Love Pizza Music, ASCAP/ Songs Of Southside Independent Music Publishing, LLC, ASCAP/Who Wants To Buy My Publishing, ASCAP/Atlas Music Publishing, ASCAP/Anderson Fork In The Road Music, ASCAP/Smackville Music, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Publishing America, Inc., ASCAP/Smack Hits, GMR/ Kobalt Music Group Ltd., GMR (S.Hunt, Z.Crowell, J.Osborne, S.McAnally) 5

BOY E MI April Music, Inc., ASCAP/Jon Mark Nite Music,

ASCAP/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/A Girl Named Charlie, BMI (J.M.Nite, N.Galyon) 4 1 C

CALIFORNIA J Money Music, ASCAP/Big Loud Proud

Crowd, BMI/Magic Mustang Music Inc., BMI/Victown Music, BMI ( J.D.Rich, R.Clawson, V.McGehee) 3 6

CRAVING YOU B MG Gold Songs, ASCAP/

Lawnwranglers, ASCAP/Dragon Bunny Music, BMI (D.M.Barnes, J.Bunetta) 1 D

DO I MAKE YOU WANNA E xternal

Combustion Music, ASCAP/Songs Of Southside Independent Music Publishing, LLC, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Atlas Music Publishing, ASCAP/Who Wants To Buy My Publishing, ASCAP (A.Gorley, Z.Crowell, M.Jenkins, J.Flowers) 8

DRINKIN’ PROBLEM W B Music Corp., ASCAP/Jess

Carson Publishing Designee, ASCAP/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Vaqueros Galacticos Publishing, BMI/Tropical Cowboy Publishing, ASCAP/Smack Hits, GMR/Smack Songs LLC, GMR/Kobalt Songs Publishing America, Inc., ASCAP/Songs Of Black River, ASCAP/ One Little Indian Creek Music, ASCAP ( J.Carson, C.Duddy, M.Wystrach, S.McAnally, J.Osborne) 9 E

EVERY LITTLE THING B MG Gold Songs, ASCAP/

For The Kids Platinum, BMI/7189 Music Publishing, BMI/Better Boat Music, BMI/Songs Of Endurance, BMI/ Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI ( C.Pearce, busbee, E.Shackelton) 2 0

EVERY TIME I HEAR THAT SONG arner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/The Queen W

Of Dot Dot Dot, BMI/Universal Music Corp., ASCAP/Chris Lindsey Songs, ASCAP/EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/ Sagequinnjude Music, BMI/Famlove Songs, BMI (A.Mayo, C.Lindsey, B.Warren, B.D.Warren) 3 F

THE FIGHTER S ongs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/

Mary Rose Music, BMI/7189 Music Publishing, BMI/BMG Platinum Songs, BMI (K.Urban, busbee) 6

FIVE MORE MINUTES D agum Music, BMI/

Spirit Catalog Holdings, S.a.r.l./Spirit Two Nashville, ASCAP/House Of Sea Gayle Music, ASCAP/Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/Dixey Bar Music, BMI ( S.McCreery, R.Rogers, M.Criswell) 4 8

JULY 10, 2017 | PAGE 19 OF 21

Country Airplay Index FIX A DRINK o le Red Vinyl Music, BMI/Buckkilla

LOSING SLEEP E MI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/

SOMEBODY ELSE WILL S tars And Stripes And

FLATLINER S ony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/Colden

LOVE AGAIN C astle Bound Music, Inc., SESAC/We

SOMETHIN’ I’M GOOD AT S ony/ATV

Music, BMI/New House Of Sea Gayle Music, ASCAP/ Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP (C.Janson, C.DuBois, A.Gorley) 2 7 Rainey Music, BMI/Forest For The Trees Music, SESAC/ So Essential Tunes, SESAC/Peertunes, Ltd., SESAC/Jaron Boyer Music, SESAC (C.Swindell, M.Bronleewe, J.Boyer) 7

Goodbye Pants Music, BMI/EMI Foray Music, SESAC/ Write 2 Be Free Music, SESAC/CDS Words And Music, ASACP/EMI April Music, Inc., ASCAP (C.Young, J.Hoge, C. DeStefano) 3 9 Be Pawtying, SESAC/Rio Bravo Music, Inc., BMI/Telemitry Productions, BMI/Super Big Music, ASCAP/Caliville Publishing, ASCAP ( C.R.Barlowe, J.Frasure, B.Young) 4 2

FOR HER R ound Hill Songs BLS JV, ASCAP/Big Loud

Proud Songs, ASCAP/Downtown DMP Songs, BMI/Stars And Stripes And Maple Leaf Music, BMI/Bux Tone Music, BMI (M.Dragstrem, K.Archer, S.Buxton) 1 7 G

A GIRL LIKE YOU C ombustion Engine Music,

ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Rio Bravo Music, Inc., BMI/Telemitry Productions, BMI/Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI (A. Gorley, J.Frasure, R.Akins) 2 8

GOD MADE A WOMAN W arner-Tamerlane

Publishing Corp., BMI/BMG Platinum Songs, BMI/Beads Of Amylase, BMI/Shewmakin’ It Rain, BMI/Mammaw’s Fried Okra Music, BMI/Little Louder Songs, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI ( Michael Ray, J.Shewmake, J.Hyde) 5 5

GOOD COMPANY C urb Congregation Songs,

SESAC/Sixteen Stars Music, BMI/HoriPro Entertainment Group, Inc., BMI/Big Deal Beats, BMI ( M.Alderman, T.Cecil, J.Mullins) 3 7

GREATEST LOVE STORY W arner-Tamerlane

Publishing Corp., BMI/Concession 114 Music, BMI/Neon Cross Music, BMI (B.Lancaster) 3 5 H

HAPPENS LIKE THAT C limbing Windmills Music,

M MESS ME UP E MI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Songs

By Red Room, BMI/Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/ Sadie’s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/ Universal Music Corp., ASCAP/Smack Ink, ASCAP ( R. Copperman, A.Gorley, S.McAnally) 5 9

MORE GIRLS LIKE YOU W B Music Corp.,

ASCAP/Point Break Publishing, ASCAP/Music Of The Corn, ASCAP/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Jack 10 Publishing, BMI/Songs Of Cornman, BMI/ Universal Music - Brentwood Benson Publishing, ASCAP/D Soul Music, ASCAP/Capitol CMG Genesis, ASCAP (K.Moore, S.L.Olsen, J.Miller, D.A.Garcia) 1 8

MY GIRL C urb Songs, ASCAP/Songs Of Black River,

ASCAP (D.Scott, J.Kerr) 2

MY OLD MAN D ay For The Dead Publishing,

SESAC/Simonetti Music Publishing, SESAC/Siva Moon Publishing, SESAC/W.B.M. Music Corp., SESAC (Z.Brown, N.Moon, B.Simonetti) 1 4 N

NO SUCH THING AS A BROKEN HEART S mackville Music, ASCAP/Smack Songs LLC, ASCAP/

Kobalt Songs Publishing America, Inc., ASCAP/ReHits Music, Inc., ASCAP/Smacktown Music, ASCAP/Smack Blue, LLC, SESAC/Unfair Entertainment, ASCAP/Big Deal Notes, ASCAP/Wooden Ships, ASCAP/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Telemitry Productions, BMI/Songs Of Roc Nation Music, BMI (M.Ramsey, T. Rosen, B.Tursi, J.Frasure) 1 2

BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/We-Volve Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Freshy Music, ASCAP/Downtown DLJ Songs, ASCAP/Big Loud Mountain, O BMI/Round Hill Works, BMI/T Hubb Publishing, BMI/ Legends Of Magic Mustang Music, SESAC/W.B.M. Music ONES THAT LIKE ME W arner-Tamerlane Corp., SESAC ( G.Smith, J.M.Schmidt, A.Albert, T.Hubbard, Publishing Corp., BMI/Indiana Angel Music, BMI/ J.Wilson) 5 7 Parallel Music Publishing, LLC, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs HEARTACHE ON THE DANCE FLOOR Publishing America, Inc., ASCAP/Bobby’s Lyrics, Land Golden Vault Music, BMI/Rancho Fiesta Music, BMI/ And Livestock, BMI/Do Write Music, LLC, BMI (B.Gilbert, Bill Butler Music, BMI/Blongsongs, SESAC/Wordspring B.Chaffin, B.Pinson) 5 1 Music, LLC, SESAC/W.B.M. Music Corp., SESAC/Songs Of Song Factroy, BMI/Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI (J.Pardi, OUTTA STYLE Tunes From HTK, BMI ( A.Watson) 3 0 B.Butler, B.Long) 1 9 I I COULD USE A LOVE SONG International

Dog Music, BMI/Round Hill Songs Jimmy Robbins, ASCAP/Jammy Rabbins Music, ASCAP/Extraordinary Alien Publishing, ASCAP/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Oh Denise Publishing, BMI/Big Music Machine, BMI (M.Morris, J.Robbins, L.Veltz) 2 5

IT AIN’T MY FAULT W B Music Corp., ASCAP/

Trampy McCauley, ASCAP/All The Kings Pens, ASCAP/ Songstein Publishing, ASCAP/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/The Country And Western Music, BMI (J. Osborne, T.J. Osborne, L.T.Miller) 1 6

I WORSHIP THE WOMAN YOU WALKED ON S ony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/

Round Hill Works, BMI/Songs Of Windswept Pacific, BMI/Rev’d Up Music, BMI/BMG Platinum Songs, BMI/ Almo Music Corp., BMI/Mullintone Music, ASCAP ( B. DiPiero, M.D.Jenkins, T.Mullins) 4 6 J

JUST A PHASE S ony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/

EMI Music Publishing Australia Pty Ltd., APRA/EMI April Music, Inc., ASCAP/Dontcallmebrett Musicm, BMI (A.Craig, L.Rimes, J.Beavers) 3 8 L

LAST TIME FOR EVERYTHING N ew House

Of Sea Gayle Music, ASCAP/Songs For Margo, ASCAP ( B. Paisley, S.Ahnquist, B.Anderson, C.DuBois, M.Ryan) 3 1

LEGENDS S ongs Of Black River, ASCAP/KNB Music,

ASCAP/Write Me Like You Mean It, ASCAP/BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP/Rezonant Music Publishing LLC, ASCAP ( K. Ballerini, F.G.Whitehead, H.Lindsey) 4 5

P

PREACHIN’ TO THE CHOIR S ony/ATV Tree

Publishing, BMI/Heather Feather Songs, BMI/Big Loud Mountain, BMI/Round Hill Works, BMI/Big Loud Proud Crowd, BMI/Big Loud Brad Music, BMI/Big Loud Brett Songs, BMI ( H.Morgan, M.Wallen, B.Warren, B.D.Warren) 5 8 R

RING ON EVERY FINGER B ig Machine Music,

BMI/Big Yellow Dog Music, ASCAP/Major Bob Music, Inc., ASCAP/EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Cricket On The Line, BMI ( Thomas Rhett, J.Kear, J.Frasure) 2 2

ROUND HERE BUZZ S ony/ATV Tree Publishing,

BMI/Longer And Louder Music, BMI/Little Louder Songs, BMI/Mammaw’s Fried Okra Music, BMI/Emileon Songs, BMI (E.Church, J.Hyde, L.Dick) 2 9 S

SHE’S WITH ME S pruce Road Publishing,

GMR/Sony/ATV Tunes, GMR/Centricity Tunes, GMR/ CentricSongs, SESAC/The Stennis Mightier Music, BMI/ Young Guns Publishing, LLC, BMI/Dead Aim Music, BMI/ Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI ( B. Rempel, S.Mosley, B.Stennis) 4 0

SINGLES YOU UP O le Red Cape Songs, ASCAP/

Word Music, LLC, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/ Wordspring Music, LLC, SESAC/Memory Days, SESAC/ W.B.M. Music Corp., SESAC ( J.Davis, S.D.Jones, J.Ebach) 5 2

SMALL TOWN BOY E MI Blackwood Music Inc.,

BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Thankful For This Music, ASCAP/Play It Again Entertainment, BMI/Round Hill Works, BMI ( R. Akins, B.Hayslip, K.Fishman) 1 3

Maple Leaf Music, BMI/Downtown DMP Songs, BMI/Ole Red Cape Songs, ASCAP/Red Like The Sunset Music, ASCAP/BMG Platinum Songs, BMI/Songs For Elle, BMI (K. Archer, A.Hambrick, T.Ottoh) 1 1 Countryside, BMI/Paris Not France Music, BMI/Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/Tomdouglasmusic, BMI ( B.Eldredge, T.Douglas) 2 1

SUNDAY MORNING S ongs Of Universal, Inc.,

BMI/Songs By JMT, BMI/EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Rezolant Music, BMI/Anderson Fork In The Road Music, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Publishing America, Inc., ASCAP/Smack Songs LLC, ASCAP ( M.Thomas, R.Copperman, J.Osborne) 5 6 T

THEY CAN’T SEE P eertunes, Ltd., SESAC/MTNoize,

SESAC/Jaron Boyer Music, SESAC/Scribblin’ Dixie Music, ASCAP (M.Tyler, J.Boyer, B.Hood) 5 3

THEY DON’T KNOW P eertunes, Ltd., SESAC/

Jaron Boyer Music, SESAC/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Music Of The Corn, ASCAP/This Is Magic Mustang Music, ASCAP (J.Boyer, J.Mirenda, K.Allison) 1 5

TIL TOMORROW E xtremely Corrosive Music, BMI/

Music Of Atlas Holdings, BMI/On Cor Music, BMI/PAJ Music, BMI/Write Write Write Music, SESAC/Batter’s Box, SESAC/Old Guns And Young Bulletts, SESAC ( J.Walker, J.McGuire, B.Carper, T.Matthews) 4 3

TIN MAN S ony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/Pink Dog

Publishing, BMI/Beat Up Ford Publishing, BMI/BMG Platinum Songs, BMI/SWMBMGBMI, BMI/Lonesome Vinyl Music, BMI/Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI (M.Lambert, J.Ingram, J.R.Stewart) 3 4 W

WAITIN ON YOU M agic Mustang Music Inc., BMI/

Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Lindsay Ell Music, BMI/Ole Red Cape Songs, ASCAP/Red Like The Sunset Music, ASCAP/BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP/Lanercost Publishing, ASCAP ( L.Ell, A.Hambrick, A.DeRoberts) 5 4

THE WAY I TALK W B Music Corp., ASCAP/

Damn Country Music, ASCAP/Thankful For This Music, ASCAP/Pinetucky Road Publishing, ASCAP/Universal Music Corp., ASCAP/Round Room Recoreds, ASCAP (J.L.Alexander, B.Hayslip, C.McGill) 3 3

WHAT IFS S ongs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Kane Brown

Music, BMI/Smacksters Music, ASCAP/Smack Blue, LLC, SESAC/Kobalt Group Music Publishing, SESAC/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Freshy Music, ASCAP/We-Volve Music, ASCAP (K.Brown, M.McGinn, J.M.Schmidt) 2 4

WHAT I WANNA BE S ongs Of Black River,

ASCAP/Bent Prop Publishing, ASCAP/Write Me Like You Mean It, ASCAP/Ole Red Cape Songs, ASCAP/Red Like The Sunset Music, ASCAP (J.Davis, F.G.Whitehead, A.Hambrick) 6 0

WHEN IT RAINS IT POURS B ig Machine

Music, BMI/Straight Dimes Publishing, BMI/Works Of RHA Music, BMI/Atlas Music Publishing, ASCAP/ Extremely Combustible Music, BMI/PAJ Music, BMI ( L. Combs, R.Fulcher, J.Walker) 3 2 Y

YOU BROKE UP WITH ME S ongs Of Smack,

BMI/Spark In Your Pocket, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI/Razor And Tie, APRA/BMG Platinum Songs, BMI (W.Hayes, K.Sackley, T.Archer) 4 7

YOU LOOK GOOD H illarodyRathbone Music,

ASCAP/BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP/Universal Music Corp., ASCAP/Lake Allegan Pub Club, ASCAP/7189 Music Publishing, BMI/BMG Platinum Songs, BMI (H.Lindsey, R.Hurd, busbee) 1 0

YOURS H illbilly Science And Research Publishing,

SESAC/Trailerlily Music, SESAC/So Essential Tunes, SESAC/Not Just Another Song Publishing, SESAC/BMG Platinum Songs, BMI/Kailey’s Dream, BMI (P.Welling, C.Brown, R.Dickerson) 4 4

YOURS IF YOU WANT IT S ongs Of Universal,

Inc., BMI/Morendorffin Music, BMI/Super Big Music, ASCAP/Jett Music, ASCAP (A.Dorff, J.Singleton) 4


JULY 10, 2017 | PAGE 20 OF 21

Hot Country Songs Index TITLE P ublishing-Licensing Org.

I

(Songwriter) C hart Position

I COULD USE A LOVE SONG International

Dog Music, BMI/Round Hill Songs Jimmy Robbins, ASCAP/Jammy Rabbins Music, ASCAP/Extraordinary Alien Publishing, ASCAP/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Oh Denise Publishing, BMI/Big Music Machine, BMI (M.Morris, J.Robbins, L.Veltz) 2 6

A ALL ON ME W arner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp.,

BMI/JJ Music Inc., BMI/Neon Cross Music, BMI/Magic Mustang Music Inc., BMI/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Two Sixteen Publishing, ASCAP ( D.Dawson, J.Durrett, A.Smith) 5 0

IN CASE YOU DIDN’T KNOW S uper Big

ALL THE PRETTY GIRLS W arner-Tamerlane

Music, ASCAP/Caliville Publishing, ASCAP/Brown Hound Publishing, BMI/Kyle Schlienger Productions, ASCAP/Big Spaces Music, BMI/Bootheel Music, BMI/Big Mosquito Music, BMI/Amplified Admin., BMI ( B.Young, T.Reeve, K.Schlienger, T.Tomlinson) 2

Publishing Corp., BMI/A Girl Named Charlie, BMI/ BMG Platinum Songs, BMI/SWMBMGBMI, BMI/Once In A Blue Tune Music, BMI/Anderson Fork In The Road Music, ASCAP/Smackville Music, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Publishing America, Inc., ASCAP ( N.Galyon, T.L.James, J.Osborne) 2 9

DAWSON

ASK ME HOW I KNOW R oy Rivers Publishing,

BMI (M.Rossell) 3 3

F B

BODY LIKE A BACK ROAD U niversal Music

Corp., ASCAP/Sam Hunt Publishing, ASCAP/Highly Combustible Music, ASCAP/I Love Pizza Music, ASCAP/ Songs Of Southside Independent Music Publishing, LLC, ASCAP/Who Wants To Buy My Publishing, ASCAP/Atlas Music Publishing, ASCAP/Anderson Fork In The Road Music, ASCAP/Smackville Music, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Publishing America, Inc., ASCAP/Smack Hits, GMR/ Kobalt Music Group Ltd., GMR (S.Hunt, Z.Crowell, J.Osborne, S.McAnally) 1 BOY E MI April Music, Inc., ASCAP/Jon Mark Nite Music,

ASCAP/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/A Girl Named Charlie, BMI (J.M.Nite, N.Galyon) 4 8 BROKEN HALOS W B Music Corp., ASCAP/House Of

Sea Gayle Music, ASCAP/Spirit Catalog Holdings, S.a.r.l./ Spirit Two Nashville, ASCAP/Straight Six Music, BMI (C. Stapleton, M.Henderson) 4 6 C CRAVING YOU B MG Gold Songs, ASCAP/

Lawnwranglers, ASCAP/Dragon Bunny Music, BMI (D.M.Barnes, J.Bunetta) 3 D DO I MAKE YOU WANNA E xternal

Combustion Music, ASCAP/Songs Of Southside Independent Music Publishing, LLC, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Atlas Music Publishing, ASCAP/Who Wants To Buy My Publishing, ASCAP (A.Gorley, Z.Crowell, M.Jenkins, J.Flowers) 1 1 DRINKIN’ PROBLEM W B Music Corp., ASCAP/Jess

Carson Publishing Designee, ASCAP/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Vaqueros Galacticos Publishing, BMI/Tropical Cowboy Publishing, ASCAP/Smack Hits, GMR/Smack Songs LLC, GMR/Kobalt Songs Publishing America, Inc., ASCAP/Songs Of Black River, ASCAP/ One Little Indian Creek Music, ASCAP ( J.Carson, C.Duddy, M.Wystrach, S.McAnally, J.Osborne) 9 E EITHER WAY W B Music Corp., ASCAP/New Sea

Gayle Music, ASCAP/Spirit Catalog Holdings, S.a.r.l./Spirit Two Nashville, ASCAP/Music Of Windswept, ASCAP/3 Ring Music, ASCAP/BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP/Songs Of Windswept Pacific, BMI/Songs Of Thortch, BMI (C. Stapleton, Tim James, K.Marvel) 4 1 EVERY LITTLE THING B MG Gold Songs, ASCAP/

For The Kids Platinum, BMI/7189 Music Publishing, BMI/Better Boat Music, BMI/Songs Of Endurance, BMI/ Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI ( C.Pearce, busbee, E.Shackelton) 2 1 EVERY TIME I HEAR THAT SONG arner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/The Queen W

Of Dot Dot Dot, BMI/Universal Music Corp., ASCAP/Chris Lindsey Songs, ASCAP/EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/ Sagequinnjude Music, BMI/Famlove Songs, BMI (A.Mayo, C.Lindsey, B.Warren, B.D.Warren) 8

THE FIGHTER S ongs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/

Mary Rose Music, BMI/7189 Music Publishing, BMI/BMG Platinum Songs, BMI (K.Urban, busbee) 5 FIVE MORE MINUTES D agum Music, BMI/

Spirit Catalog Holdings, S.a.r.l./Spirit Two Nashville, ASCAP/House Of Sea Gayle Music, ASCAP/Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/Dixey Bar Music, BMI ( S.McCreery, R.Rogers, M.Criswell) 4 3 FIX A DRINK o le Red Vinyl Music, BMI/Buckkilla

Music, BMI/New House Of Sea Gayle Music, ASCAP/ Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP (C.Janson, C.DuBois, A.Gorley) 3 2 FLATLINER S ony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/Colden

Rainey Music, BMI/Forest For The Trees Music, SESAC/ So Essential Tunes, SESAC/Peertunes, Ltd., SESAC/Jaron Boyer Music, SESAC (C.Swindell, M.Bronleewe, J.Boyer) 1 2 FOR HER R ound Hill Songs BLS JV, ASCAP/Big Loud

Proud Songs, ASCAP/Downtown DMP Songs, BMI/Stars And Stripes And Maple Leaf Music, BMI/Bux Tone Music, BMI (M.Dragstrem, K.Archer, S.Buxton) 2 2 G A GIRL LIKE YOU C ombustion Engine Music,

ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Rio Bravo Music, Inc., BMI/Telemitry Productions, BMI/Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI (A. Gorley, J.Frasure, R.Akins) 3 8 GOD, YOUR MAMA, AND ME Y ear Of The

Dog Music, ASCAP/Champagne Whiskey Publishing, BMI/HillarodyRathbone Music, ASCAP/BMG Firefly, ASCAP/Dash8 Music, ASCAP (J.Kear, H.Lindsey, G.Sampson) 7 GOOD COMPANY C urb Congregation Songs,

SESAC/Sixteen Stars Music, BMI/HoriPro Entertainment Group, Inc., BMI/Big Deal Beats, BMI ( M.Alderman, T.Cecil, J.Mullins) 4 4 GREATEST LOVE STORY W arner-Tamerlane

Publishing Corp., BMI/Concession 114 Music, BMI/Neon Cross Music, BMI (B.Lancaster) 3 9 H HEARTACHE ON THE DANCE FLOOR G olden Vault Music, BMI/Rancho Fiesta Music, BMI/

Bill Butler Music, BMI/Blongsongs, SESAC/Wordspring Music, LLC, SESAC/W.B.M. Music Corp., SESAC/Songs Of Song Factroy, BMI/Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI (J.Pardi, B.Butler, B.Long) 1 8 HURRICANE 5 0 Egg, BMI/Straight Dimes Publishing,

BMI/Big Machine Music, BMI/Intune Publishing, BMI/ BMG Platinum Songs, BMI/TDP Publishing, BMI/WarnerTamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI ( L.Combs, T.Phillips, T.Archer) 6

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18 Years Ago

Lonestar ‘Amazed’ Audiences At No. 1 In 1999, the group scored its biggest hit, which also topped the Billboard Hot 100 in 2000

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On July 17, 1999, Lonestar logged its third trip to No. 1 on Hot Country Songs with what became its s i g n at u re s o n g , a s “A m a z e d ” a scended 2-1 for the first of eight weeks at the summit. No song had led the list for that long since David Houston’s nine-week No. 1 “Almost Persuaded” in 1966. Aided by a pop remix, the ballad crossed over to pop a nd adu lt formats. On March 4, 2000, it became the first country No. 1 to rule the all-genre Billboard Hot 100 since Kenny R ogers and Dolly Parton’s “Islands in the Stream” in 1983.

Lonestar debuted in 1995 with t he No. 8 Hot C ou nt r y S ongs hit “ Tequila Talkin’,” sporting an original lineup of frontman Richie M cDonald, John Rich, Dean Sams, Michael Britt and Keech Rainwater. The band has banked 36 entries on the chart, i ncluding 18 top 10s and nine No. 1s. Rich, who is now half the duo of Big & Rich, left Lonestar in 1998. Outside of McDonald’s departure from 20072011, the other four founders have remained intact and still record and perform as Lonestar today. In 2016, the group released its 10th studio album, Never Enders. —JIM ASKER

Lonestar performed at Shepherd’s Bush Empire in the United Kingdom in October 2016.

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