BILLBOARD.COM/NEWSLETTERS SEPTEMBER 11, 2017 PAGE 1 OF 20. As Gen Z Matures, Country Moves Into A New Age With Huge Potential

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1 Country Update BILLBOARD.COM/NEWSLETTERS SEPTEMBER 11, 2017 PAGE 1 OF 20 INSIDE BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE Tom.Roand@biboard.com Cary Pierces Top 10 >page 4 Don Wiiams, Troy Gentry Remembered >page 10 Adean, Paisey, Kris In Muti-Act Events >page 11 Boom: Tracy, Dirt, Hayes Reease Set >page 11 Makin Tracks: Newbie Tenie Arts Fires Up Cod Feet >page 15 Country Coda: George Hamiton IV s Abiene >page 20 As Gen Z Matures, Country Moves Into A New Age With Huge Potentia Te 13-year-od Warner Music Nashvie (WMN) signee Tegan Marie that teens in another era might have been aughed at by cassmates for istening to country music, and the reaction is one of compete disbeief. Reay? she scoffs. It s a very famiy-friendy genre, and a ot of my friends ove country music, she adds. They want to hear good music and isten to it with their parents, and have a good time with it. Marie is a cardcarrying member of Generation Z, a bock of adut-bound consumers that marketers are increasingy targeting. The age group is important for country music s future today s youth are tomorrow s aduts, and though country has its roots in adut audiences, it seems more paatabe to younger music fans every year. You go to a Kesea Baerini show and ook at the audience, there s a younger audience than ever, says Disney Channes Wordwide vp music strategy Phi Guerini, who oversees youth-driven Radio Disney Country and its terrestria outet, KDRC Los Angees. There s daughters and their moms, and the same can be said ony maybe sighty oder at a Forida Georgia Line show. I went to a Sam Hunt show a few weeks ago, and if I didn t know that Sam Hunt was a country music artist, it coud have been a Shawn Mendes show. It coud have been any number of things. That deveopment is partiay a resut of a ong-term effort by the country music industry to reach younger consumers. Aabama in the 80s and Garth Brooks in the 90s were among the artists who increased the genre s success among coege students. Tayor Swift made the music even more youthfu by reaching teenage girs in arge numbers during the ate 2000s. Younger consumers are an attractive segment. They have fewer responsibiities and thus tend to spend a arger percentage of their income on entertainment. Pus, if they re introduced to country at a young age, they re more ikey to continue consuming the genre as they mature. By 2020 just three years from now they re projected to make up roughy 40 percent of the American consumer base. We re a, I think, setting up for a better and more sustainabe future by ensuring that we re bringing younger fans into the space, says Guerini. Members of Gen Z ike the Miennias, Gen X and Baby MARIE FANNING EMISUNSHINE MARIE: SWEETY HIGH; FANNING: MV2 ENTERTAINMENT WENDY PEARL/PR

2 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE SEPTEMBER 11, 2017 PAGE 2 OF 20 Boomers before them are generay shaped by their reationship to word events, cutura trends and technoogica deveopments. Aged 4-21, according to Sweety High CEO Frank Simonetti, they were born after the introduction of the internet. That has made it easier for them to sampe arge quantities of music on demand, but it has aso become simper for ambitious artists to connect with music decision-makers. They have access to everything they want in the pam of their hand, so they are much smarter and cuturay iterate a ot younger, says Simonetti, whose media company grew a management reationship with Marie through its focus on Gen Z femaes. Socia media has made it [possibe to] broadcast yoursef, so the concept that you coud put yoursef out there is something that s just a compete norm for Gen Z. Using YouTube videos was the introductory route for Kane Brown, who at age 23 is ony two years oder than the most mature Gen Z members. Marie simiary impressed Sweety High execs by posting repeated videos, eventuay eading to a management dea and to the WMN recording contract that has her currenty recording new music with producer Scott Hendricks (Bake Sheton, Dan + Shay). Even 13-year-od EmiSunshine, whose raw, mountain voca stye and acoustic-eaning instrumentation might seem i-suited for marketing via binary code, has boosted her career over the past four years through the internet, racking up 460,000 Facebook foowers and amassing a reported 14 miion YouTube pays, incuding amost 3 miion for a street performance of Fosom Prison Bues. Sunshine reeased an abum, Ragged Dreams, on Aug. 25, stocking it with her own songs about robbery, death and even autism. Some of it s going to be a itte bit sad and depressing, but it makes me happy in a way, she says. A ot of peope isten to a ot more party songs and different things ike that, but I fee ike you need to appreciate the songs that bring out the heartache and the misery to get to the happiness. Sunshine s brand of country is something of a throwback. Infideity, prison, hardship and heartbreak were the stuff of such cassic songs as Mere Haggard s Mama Tried, Tammy Wynette s Stand By Your Man or Hank Wiiams Your Cheatin Heart. But modern Nashvie songwriters are more focused on feeding radio s desire for more upift and ceebration. And that penchant for positivity connects with youth, as MV2 Entertainment artist David Fanning discovered. Fanning, who has co-produced hits for Thompson Square and Parmaee, is roing out a brand of country that mixes the genre with eectronic dance music. Dreamers, the first tite in a four-ep series to be reeased over the next year, is oaded with encouragement, and that s an idea message for Gen Z, which is ooking to buid its future. You don t know the feeing of heartbreak as much when you re 13 or 14, he says. You re thinking you want to get out there and do something. Conditioned from the crade to expect access to the music they want when they want it, current teens are thus more ikey than their oder reatives to jump among genres in their istening habits. Younger kids are more passionate now about music then I ve ever seen, says Fanning. They just move from one to the other quicker. They re aso more ikey to respond to their parents tastes. Born into a vioent post-9/11 word, with the United States constanty at war and mass tragedies frequenty in the headines, they re more ikey to ook for guidance from their parents, which aso makes them more prone to pass music back and forth with their eders. What we see with Gen Z is they are very coaborative with the parents, says Simonetti. They share content, they share trave; for better or for worse, that s a change that we can identify between the miennia generation and Gen Z. That s great news for country. With ess stigma attached to it, with the music more in ine with younger isteners attitudes and with its famiy-friendy branding, country has a big opportunity with Gen Z. Whie most of country s teen acts in earier eras particuary Tanya Tucker, Marie Osmond and LeAnn Rimes were required to sing songs with more mature messages to reach oder isteners, that s no onger the case. Marie, EmiSunshine and Daniee Bradbery (at 21, she sneaks into the top end of Gen Z) have the abiity to speak the anguage of their peers and to connect right aongside the pop and rock acts that more historicay targeted their age group. The net effect is a new generation that doesn t have a ot of preconceived notions but gets served a wider variety of things, says Simonetti. It aso has a much greater potentia to ove a wide variety of things. Dustin Lynch paid a visit to Pandora s New York office in support of his new abum, Current Mood. From eft: Pandora vp artist marketing, industry reations Jeff Zuchowski, Lynch and Pandora head of country music programming Rache Whitney. Coe Swinde wecomed oca media onto his bus when he opened for Dierks Bentey in Denver on Sept. 2. From eft: Swinde, KUSA-TV meteoroogist Kathy Sabine and KYGO PD John E. Kage. Thomas Rhett visited Cumuus Nash campus to promote his new abum, Life Changes, on the syndicated program Ty, Kei and Chuck. From eft: Rhett with show hosts Ty Benti, Key Ford and Chuck Wicks. Chris Stapeton covered George Strait s When Did You Stop Loving Me during the Academy of Country Music s annua ACM Honors, which were recorded in August at Nashvie s Ryman Auditorium. The event airs as a CBS specia on Sept. 15. From eft: Stapeton, Strait and ACM CEO Pete Fisher. STAPLETON: GETTY IMAGES FOR ACM

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4 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE SEPTEMBER 11, 2017 PAGE 4 OF 20 ON THE CHARTS JIM ASKER jim.asker@biboard.com Pearce Cracks Airpay Top 10, But How Are Women Faring On The Chart In 2017? Cary Pearce earns her first top 10 on Biboard s Country Airpay chart as her debut hit, Every Litte Thing (Big Machine), cimbs 12-9 (24.2 miion, up 10 percent, according to Niesen Music). This achievement encouraged us to take a ook at how many soo women have reached the region this year and how the resuts compare historicay, as the topic of women popuating radio payists (or the ack of) has initiated much chatter in recent years. In the first 38 chart weeks of 2017, one soo woman has topped Country Airpay, with three others (incuding Pearce), hitting the top 10. Lauren Aaina ed the Apri 22 ist when Road Less Traveed became her first No. 1. Kesea Baerini s Yeah Boy peaked at No. 3 (May 13), and Carrie Underwood s Dirty Laundry hit No. 2 (Jan. 21). How does that stack up to a year ago? In the first 38 weeks of 2016, seven songs by soo women reached the top 10, incuding four No. 1s by two artists: Baerini s Dibs and Peter Pan, PEARCE and Underwood s Heartbeat and Church Bes. The other three top 10s: Burning House by Cam (No. 2), I Got the Boy by Jana Kramer (No. 6) and My Church by Maren Morris (No. 9). Five years ago, in the first 38 frames of 2012, six songs by soo women achieved Country Airpay top 10 success, three of which hit No. 1. And a decade ago, six songs by soo femaes aso reached that region, incuding Tayor Swift s first two top 10s: Tim McGraw (No. 6) and Teardrops on My Guitar (No. 2). When comparing those years, not much variance is evident. KKBQ Houston PD Johnny Chiang says that a song s potentia, not an artist s gender, is what shoud determine initia airpay. Mae, femae, group it just doesn t matter. It s about how good the song is. If any programmers are actuay favoring mae acts over femaes, it s just dumb. WWQM Madison, Wis., PD Fetcher Keyes notes, Morris My Church did not reach No. 1 on the chart, but we just tested 400 songs and Church ranked 15th. That means she s reaching critica mass. As for Pearce, Chiang fees strongy about her chances for further success. We ve been on Every Litte Thing since day one, and it s stronger than ever, he says. I m a beiever. The song is a hit. SPEAKING OF SWIFT With Tayor Swift back with arguaby her most pop singe yet, Look What You Made Me Do (Big Machine/Repubic), at No. 1 on the Biboard Hot 100 for a second week, Johnny Chiang adds that her segue from country has impacted women s totas at her former radio base. Let s face it: When Tayor Swift eft the format, it was a huge bow for the genre, he says. She has a giant, oya egion of fans; a ot of them are now istening to pop stations. With Swift s new song being the event that it is, I put some of her country tracks back in rotation. We re paying Tim McGraw, Red, Love Story and a few others again. Swift is aso nominated for her first CMA ALAINA Award since 2014, as the writer of Litte Big Town s Better Man, which is up for song and singe of the year. Better Man topped Hot Country Songs and Country Airpay for two weeks each earier in Before transitioning to pop with 2014 s 1989, Swift scored seven No. 1s on Country Airpay, among 18 top 10s. She ast appeared on the chart when her pop smash Shake It Off, 1989 s ead singe, spent a week at No. 58. But not a programmers are reviving Swift s country cataog. It s reay about how we songs research for us, not how popuar someone ike Swift is. Honesty, she never tested that we here, notes Fetcher Keyes. MEANWHILE Dustin Lynch s Sma Town Boy (Broken Bow) eads the Country Airpay chart for a second week, increasing 5 percent to 48.8 miion audience impressions in the week ending Sept. 10, Pus, Luke Combs ands his second top 10 as When It Rains It Pours (River House/Coumbia Nashvie) jumps (23.8 miion, up 20 percent). His breakthrough hit, Hurricane, ed for two weeks beginning May 27. PEARCE, ALAINA: GETTY IMAGES

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6 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE SEPTEMBER 11, 2017 PAGE 6 OF 20 WKS ON CHART TITLE Imprint/Labe Artist AUDIENCE (IN MILLIONS) +/ +/ RANK SMALL TOWN BOY Broken Bow HH No. 1 (2 weeks) HH Dustin Lynch NO SUCH THING AS A BROKEN HEART RCA Nashvie Od Dominion ALL THE PRETTY GIRLS Bue Chair/Coumbia Nashvie Kenny Chesney HEARTACHE ON THE DANCE FLOOR Capito Nashvie Jon Pardi Country Airpay THEY DON T KNOW Macon/Broken Bow Jason Adean WHAT IFS Zone 4/RCA Nashvie Kane Brown Featuring Lauren Aaina DO I MAKE YOU WANNA Mercury Biy Currington MORE GIRLS LIKE YOU MCA Nashvie Kip Moore EVERY LITTLE THING Big Machine Cary Pearce WHEN IT RAINS IT POURS River House/Coumbia Nashvie Luke Combs UNFORGETTABLE Vaory Thomas Rhett FIX A DRINK Warner Bros./WAR Chris Janson IT AIN T MY FAULT EMI Nashvie Brothers Osborne ASK ME HOW I KNOW Pear Garth Brooks I COULD USE A LOVE SONG Coumbia Nashvie Maren Morris LIGHT IT UP Capito Nashvie HH Airpower HH Luke Bryan ROUND HERE BUZZ EMI Nashvie Eric Church GREATEST LOVE STORY Arista Nashvie HH Airpower HH LANCO RING ON EVERY FINGER Reviver LOCASH TIME FOR EVERYTHING Arista Nashvie HH Airpower HH Brad Paisey SMOOTH BMLG Forida Georgia Line LOSING SLEEP RCA Nashvie Chris Young NEW I LL NAME THE DOGS Warner Bros./WMN HH Hot Shot Debut/Breaker/Most Increased Audience/Most Added HH Bake Sheton A GIRL LIKE YOU Mercury Easton Corbin YOURS Tripe Tigers Russe Dickerson OUTTA STYLE BIG Labe Aaron Watson YOU BROKE UP WITH ME Monument/Arista Nashvie Waker Hayes ALL ON ME Atantic/WEA Devin Dawson RE-ENTRY CALIFORNIA B$R/Thirty Tigers/New Revoution Big & Rich LIKE I LOVED YOU BMLG Brett Young PLAYS AIRPLAY MONITORED BY

7 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE SEPTEMBER 11, 2017 PAGE 7 OF 20 WKS ON CHART TITLE Imprint/Labe Artist AUDIENCE (IN MILLIONS) +/ +/ RANK TIN MAN Vanner/RCA Nashvie Miranda Lambert LEGENDS Back River Kesea Baerini BOY Curb Lee Brice SHE S WITH ME Atantic/WEA High Vaey HAPPENS LIKE THAT Wheehouse Granger Smith ONES THAT LIKE ME Vaory Brantey Gibert BROKEN HALOS Mercury Chris Stapeton FIVE MORE MINUTES Tripe Tigers Scotty McCreery SINGLES YOU UP MCA Nashvie Jordan Davis THE LONG WAY Atantic/WMN Brett Edredge TIL TOMORROW Wheehouse Waker McGuire GET TO YOU Atantic/WEA Michae Ray ROOTS Southern Ground/Eektra/WAR Zac Brown Band STAY DOWNTOWN Warner Bros./WMN Coe Swinde SUNDAY MORNING Stoney Creek Parmaee WAITING ON YOU Stoney Creek Lindsay E ROAD TRIPPIN Warner Bros./WAR Dan + Shay FOR THE FIRST TIME Capito Nashvie Darius Rucker DOIN FINE 19/Interscope/Mercury Lauren Aaina MESS ME UP EMI Nashvie Gary Aan THREE CHORDS & THE TRUTH Dack Janies/Broken Bow Chase Rice WHEN SOMEONE STOPS LOVING YOU Capito Nashvie Litte Big Town Country Airpay SWAY Big Machine Daniee Bradbery HOOKED Curb Dyan Scott ALL ABOUT YOU MCA Nashvie Josh Turner LOVE IN A BAR RCA Nashvie Ryan Hurd I SHOULD GO TO CHURCH SOMETIME Coumbia Nashvie Tyer Farr BACK TO US Big Machine Rasca Fatts NEW WAKE ME UP Mercury Biy Currington NEW NEVER GETS OLD Red Bow Joe Nichos GOING FOR ADDS PLAYS AIRPLAY MONITORED BY GETTY IMAGES 23 BLAKE SHELTON I Name the Dogs Sheton s 45th Country Airpay appearance he has notched 24 No. 1s eans traditiona, fueed by fiddes and guitars. The first singe from his forthcoming abum debuts at No. 23 with 10 miion first-week audience impressions. 9/18 DUGGER BAND East Tennessee Son Dugger Band JAMES MEADOWS Caroina Moon Jerry Duncan/Tower/Marco JUSTIN MOORE Kinda Don t Care Vaory OLD DOMINION Written In The Sand RCA Nashvie 9/25 GAL FRIDAY Scrapyard Rundies JUSTIN KEMP BAND Sti Breathin Jerry Duncan MIDLAND Make A Litte Big Machine RUNAWAY JUNE Wid West Wheehouse 10/2 KID ROCK Tennessee Mountain Top Red Bow WILLIAM MICHAEL MORGAN Viny Warner Bros./WMN

8 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE SEPTEMBER 11, 2017 PAGE 8 OF 20 Country Airpay AIRPLAY MONITORED BY MOST ADDED TITLE Imprint/Labe Artist ADDS I LL NAME THE DOGS Warner Bros./WMN Bake Sheton 73 SMOOTH BMLG Forida Georgia Line 22 ROAD TRIPPIN Warner Bros./WAR Dan + Shay 18 STAY DOWNTOWN Warner Bros./WMN Coe Swinde 16 BROKEN HALOS Mercury Chris Stapeton 15 THE LONG WAY Atantic/WMN Brett Edredge 11 YOU BROKE UP WITH ME Monument/Arista Nashvie Waker Hayes 10 LIKE I LOVED YOU BMLG Brett Young 9 LIGHT IT UP Capito Nashvie Luke Bryan 8 ROOTS Southern Ground/Eektra/WAR Zac Brown Band 7 MOST INCREASED AUDIENCE TITLE Imprint/Labe Artist GAIN (IN MIILIONS) I LL NAME THE DOGS Warner Bros./WMN Bake Sheton ALL THE PRETTY GIRLS Bue Chair/Coumbia Nashvie Kenny Chesney WHEN IT RAINS IT POURS River House/Coumbia Nashvie Luke Combs LIGHT IT UP Capito Nashvie Luke Bryan UNFORGETTABLE Vaory Thomas Rhett THEY DON T KNOW Macon/Broken Bow Jason Adean HEARTACHE ON THE DANCE FLOOR Capito Nashvie Jon Pardi WHAT IFS Zone 4/RCA Nashvie Kane Brown Featuring Lauren Aaina SMALL TOWN BOY Broken Bow Dustin Lynch MORE GIRLS LIKE YOU MCA Nashvie Kip Moore TITLE Imprint/Labe NEW AND ACTIVE Artist RECURRENTS TOTAL AUDIENCE TOTAL STATIONS HELL IF I KNOW Red Bow Chase Bryant MOVIN ON Kevin Fower Kevin Fower WILD WEST Wheehouse Runaway June WRITTEN IN THE SAND RCA Nashvie Od Dominion SPEAKERS, BLEACHERS AND PREACHERS EMI Nashvie Brandon Lay MAKE A LITTLE Big Machine Midand TITLE Imprint/Labe Artist TOTAL AUD. (IN MILLIONS) 1 BODY LIKE A BACK ROAD MCA Nashvie Sam Hunt CRAVING YOU Vaory Thomas Rhett Featuring Maren Morris MY GIRL Curb Dyan Scott IN CASE YOU DIDN T KNOW BMLG Brett Young DRINKIN PROBLEM Big Machine Midand HURRICANE River House/Coumbia Nashvie Luke Combs SOMEBODY ELSE WILL Vaory Justin Moore FOR HER Big Loud Chris Lane YOU LOOK GOOD Capito Nashvie Lady Antebeum EVERY TIME I HEAR THAT SONG Warner Bros./WMN Bake Sheton ADDS MOST INCREASED PLAYS TITLE Imprint/Labe Artist GAIN I LL NAME THE DOGS Warner Bros./WMN Bake Sheton LIGHT IT UP Capito Nashvie Luke Bryan +670 ALL THE PRETTY GIRLS Bue Chair/Coumbia Nashvie Kenny Chesney +664 UNFORGETTABLE Vaory Thomas Rhett +524 EVERY LITTLE THING Big Machine Cary Pearce +494 MORE GIRLS LIKE YOU MCA Nashvie Kip Moore +468 HEARTACHE ON THE DANCE FLOOR Capito Nashvie Jon Pardi +445 WHEN IT RAINS IT POURS River House/Coumbia Nashvie Luke Combs +435 SMOOTH BMLG Forida Georgia Line +435 WHAT IFS Zone 4/RCA Nashvie Kane Brown Featuring Lauren Aaina +343 BILLBOARD COUNTRY BOXSCORE Gross Artist Attendance Ticket Price(s) Venue/Date(s) Capacity Promoter(s) $12,095,688 KENNY CHESNEY 121,642 MESSINA TOURING $265, $60 Giette Stadium, Foxborough, Mass./Aug. 25, 27 two seouts GROUP/AEG PRESENTS $1,086,305 KENNY CHESNEY 13,910 MESSINA TOURING $130, $100 Mohegan Sun Arena, Uncasvie, Conn./Aug two seouts GROUP/AEG PRESENTS $718,642 KENNY CHESNEY 9,580 MESSINA TOURING GROUP/AEG PRESENTS, $112, $45.75 Amphitheater at the Wharf, Orange Beach, Aa./Aug. 5 seout RED MOUNTAIN ENTERTAINMENT $623,301 ZAC BROWN BAND 19,014 $85.75, $35.75 Lakeview Amphitheater, Geddes, N.Y./June 24 19,622 LIVE NATION $603,775 KENNY CHESNEY 7,124 MESSINA TOURING GROUP/AEG PRESENTS, $125, $45 Tuscaoosa (Aa.) Amphitheater/Aug. 4 seout RED MOUNTAIN ENTERTAINMENT Reported wordwide boxscore figures for Country artists. Boxscore figures shoud be submitted to Bob Aen by phone ( ), fax ( ) or emai (bob.aen@biboard.com). TEXAS REGIONAL RADIO REPORT ENDING SEPTEMBER 10, 2017 WKS ON CHART TITLE (Labe) ARTIST TW SPINS BIG TIME LONESOME (Independent) HH 1 week at 1 HH Jake Worthington RESTLESS (Independent) Jake Ward NO WORDS (Independent) Cody Jinks COUNTRY SONG (Independent) Casey Donahew Band MOVIN ON (KF Music) Kevin Fower RIVER FLOATIN (Independent) Jason Cassidy DRINKIN DAYS (Greenhorse) Pat Green TEXAS WOMEN, TENNESSEE WHISKEY (Independent) Josh Abbott Band CONFORMITY (Independent) Nataie Rose MEET ME TONIGHT (Independent) Randy Rogers Band SPINS +/ WKS ON CHART TITLE (Labe) ARTIST TW SPINS ARMADILLO (Independent) Junior Gordon HOW I WANNA BE (Repubic) Sundance Head SHE LL PUT THE HURT ON YOU (Independent) Jesse Raub Jr RADIO (No Big Dea) Reckess Key MINE AGAIN (I D BE A FOOL) (Lightning Rod) Daton Domino HAPPENS LIKE THAT (Independent) Granger Smith NEW ORLEANS (Independent) Shane Smith & The Saints HERE SHE COMES (Independent) Aaron Copeand BABY AND BABY THAT (Independent) Jon Wofe RAINY DAY MONEY (Texas Evoution) Mark McKinney SPINS +/ Texas Regiona Radio Report Top 100 is compied from weeky onine payist reports from 86 radio stations ocated in Texas and surrounding states, incuding reports from speciaty shows, internet and sateite radio outets. Songs are ranked by tota pays. For tracking, compete chart methodoogy and more information, visit or contact Dave Smith at Copyright 2017, Texas Regiona Radio Report

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10 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE SEPTEMBER 11, 2017 PAGE 10 OF 20 NASHVILLE & NATIONAL TOM ROLAND TASOS KATOPODIS/GETTY IMAGES FOR PEPSI Reviver artists LoCash and Michae Tyer performed Sept. 9 at a Washington Redskins 2017 kickoff concert in Leesburg, Va., presented by Pepsi and WMZQ Washington, D.C. From eft: retired Skins tacke Chris Samues, LoCash s Chris Lucas, Tyer, LoCash s Preston Brust and retired Skins receiver Santana Moss. GENTRY, WILLIAMS REMEMBERED One was so ow-key that he was nicknamed the Gente Giant, the other heped bring the fire back to country music by infusing the genre with Southern-rock bravado. Country Music Ha of Fame member Don Wiiams and Montgomery Gentry vocaist Troy Gentry died on Sept. 8, their passings reported roughy 30 minutes apart. They represented different eras and very different approaches to their ife s work, but both added something significant to the breadth of the genre. The circumstances of Wiiams death were not reveaed appropriate for a man who was uncomfortabe with the imeight. He was circumspect about his privacy, reserved in his between-song patter onstage and succinct but thoughtfu in interviews. Instead, Wiiams et his music do the taking, and it said penty. He pied up 44 top 10 country singes from , appying his rich tone to invariaby smart songs about the human condition. His arrangements were aways uncuttered, aowing the messages to resonate through Academy of Country Music singe record of the year Tusa Time, Urban Cowboy-era crossover hit I Beieve in You, iterary masterpiece Good Oe Boys Like Me or commitment symbos You re My Best Friend and Ti the Rivers A Run Dry. Keith Urban has often cited Wiiams stomping groove as an infuence, one that found its pace with itte hoopa. Gentry s death, the resut of a heicopter accident, was a horrifying reminder to a music community that reies heaviy on transportation just how imperied their vocations can be. Montgomery Gentry arrived in 1999, an era when the genre had become exceptionay sugary. The Kentucky duo s anthemic edge exempified in working-cass signatures My Town, Back When I Knew It A and She Coudn t Change Me bended with such acts as Toby Keith, Big & Rich and, ater, Jason Adean to bring more zeaous firepower to the idiom s mix. Montgomery Gentry joined the Grand Oe Opry in 2009, ensuring that buecoar pride and a raucous spirit woud remain a key piece of the country puzze. A pubic ceebration of Gentry s ife is set for 11 a.m. on Sept. 14 at Nashvie s Grand Oe Opry House. In ieu of fowers, his famiy requests that donations be made to the T.J. Marte Foundation or the American Red Cross. The service wi be ivestreamed here. MOVERS & SHAKERS Country Radio Broadcasters hired Darcie Van Etten as marketing manager for Country Radio Seminar and other CRB initiatives. She was previousy Round Hi Music administration coordinator. Reach her here Bobby Bones and iheartmedia estabished the Nashvie Podcast Network, with seven initia offerings, incuding reguar podcasts by Bones, Jake Owen and Kristian Bush Apha Media sod 18 radio stations and two transators in Southeastern markets to Dick Broadcasting, InsideRadio.com reported. Country stations in the transfer incude WQZL and WRNS Greenvie, N.C.; WQSL Jacksonvie, N.C.; WUBB Hiton Head, S.C.; and cassic country WGCO Savannah, Ga. Nikki Cor was appointed marketing director for iheartmedia/ Charotte, N.C., and the Caroinas, according to Takers.com. The chain s eight country outets in the two-state territory incude WKKT Charotte; WCOS Coumbia, S.C.; and WEZL Chareston, S.C. Cor was previousy iheart Media/Richmond, Va., promotions director iheartmedia/ Macon, Ga., senior vp programming Brent Hensee eft his position, Takers.com reported. Country stations in the nine-signa custer incude WIHB- AM and WIHB-FM. ROUND THE ROW Warner/Chappe and Warner Music Nashvie hired Katie Jeen as creative manager of synchronization, a combined position that puts her in charge of both the composition and Zac Brown (eft) was presented a Home Depot Chaenge coin honoring his support of veterans by Korean War vet Jack Lucas as the Home Depot Foundation aunched its annua Ceebration of Service campaign at Brown s Camp Southern Ground in Atanta on Sept. 7. recording copyrights invoved in icensing to fim, TV and new media. She was previousy Secret Road Music head of artist reations Warner Music Nashvie promoted Cris Lacy to senior vp A&R from vp Michee Lorge joined Jen Vessio s 1220 Entertainment as a pubicist. The company s cient ist incudes Jana Kramer, Litte Big Town and Jon Pardi, among others. Lorge previousy hed a simiar post at A Eyes Media. Reach her here Entertainment attorneys Stephanie Tayor and Jeremy Brook have formed Tayor Brook Law. The two were previousy coeagues at Stites & Harbison before Brook went independent in January. Reach Tayor here and Brook here Songwriter Hunter Leath signed a dea with Daywind Pubishing, intent on marketing to both the country and Christian genres Audra McLaughin, a former member of Bake Sheton s team on NBC s The Voice, signed with Kore Pubic Reations for media Rodney Crowe wi receive the ASCAP Founders Award on Nov. 6 during the ASCAP Country Music Awards at Nashvie s Ryman Auditorium Charey Pride, booking agent Bobby Roberts and Nashvie Predators CEO Sean Henry were added to the ist of honorees during the Nashvie Association of Taent Directors seventh annua NATD Honors Gaa on Nov. 14 at the Hermitage Hote. Previousy announced for recognition were Jeannie Seey; David Corew, Bue Hat Records; Barbara Hubbard, American Coegiate Showcase; and Butch Spyridon, Nashvie Convention & Visitors Corporation Former DreamWorks chief of creative Rick Rekeda is featured in the first instament of an NATD Speaker Series on Sept. 21 at ASCAP in Nashvie. Rekeda has founded a new company, UnboxMyStory. com. Go here for more info. Stoney Creek singer-songwriter Lindsay E payed a three-song conference-room set for Biboard and Niesen Music staff on Sept. 7, becoming the first artist to visit Biboard s new Nashvie office. She is pictured with Biboard country chart manager Jim Asker (eft) and Stoney Creek vp promotion Chris Loss.

11 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE SEPTEMBER 11, 2017 PAGE 11 OF 20 NASHVILLE & NATIONAL TOM ROLAND MUSIC NOTES Hurricane Irma s tumutuous attack on Forida was difficut to fathom. Some of the Beasey Radio Group s stations were knocked off the air because of fooding, and it s ikey that musicians and broadcasters suffered persona osses as we. The Recording Academy s MusiCares program created a specia fund for victims of Hurricane Harvey, and that effort is being expanded to embrace faout from Irma. Music professionas can appy for assistance here. Chris Stapeton, Forida Georgia Line, Jason Adean, Luke Bryan and Keith Urban wi be haied as CMT Artists of the Year in a ive specia of the same name that airs Oct. 18 from Nashvie s Schermerhorn Symphony Center. It s one of severa upcoming mutiartist events. Graham Nash is joined by Ricky Skaggs and Americana acts The Mik Carton Kids, The Secret Sisters and River Whyess in a Sept. 15 edition of ivestream series Skyvie Live. Brad Paisey eads URBAN a Sunday instament of the Grand Oe Opry with Tyer Farr and Chase Bryant on Oct. 1 to raise money for the Sarah Cannon cancer program. And CMT pans to air The Life & Songs of Kris Kristofferson, a concert tribute shot in March 2016, on Oct. 27. It features Eric Church, Reba McEntire, Wiie Neson and Darius Rucker, among others. The cataog of Tracy Lawrence is revisited in a coaborative abum, Good Oe Days, due Nov. 10 through Lawrence Music Group. Performances incude duets with Tim McGraw on Time Marches On, Justin Moore on Aibis, Dustin Lynch on Texas Tornado and Jason Adean on Can t Break It to My Heart. Aso on the way is a two-disc Nitty Gritty Dirt Band retrospective, Anthoogy (Sept. 29, Capito Nashvie), and Waker Hayes debut, boom. (Dec. 8, Monument). Lady Antebeum cosed the North American eg of the You Look Good Tour on Sept. 9 at Nashvie s Bridgestone Arena, giving the hometown audience a sense of the energy that a two-piece horn section brings to the show. The musicians incorporated the horn riff from Koo & The Gang s Hoywood Swingin into the opener and added penty of choreography and some Chicago-ike arrangements to the trio s materia. Opening acts Brett Young and Kesea Baerini returned to sing with Lady A, and the group fought back tears during an acoustic segment in the show as it reminisced about its eary days at 3rd & Lindsey, a cub ocated just bocks from the arena. Sept. 11 marks 10 years since the band s first singe, Love Don t Live Here, was reeased to radio. Top Headines from Cick on headines beow for more detais.com Facebook Offers Music Labes And Pubishers Hundreds Of Miions In New Licensing Agreement, Report Says ON DATE IN COUNTRY MUSIC Sept A terrorist attack eves both towers at the Word Trade Center in New York. Garth Brooks, Biy Giman, Rosanne Cash and Mary Chapin Carpenter happen to be in Manhattan during the chaos, but are unhurt. Sept Jana Kramer is a contestant as ABC teecasts the season premiere of Dancing With the Stars. Juianne Hough returns as a judge. Other competitors incude Vania Ice, Maureen McCormick, Oympic swimmer Ryan Lochte KRAMER and former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who does a cha-cha to God Bessed Texas Ronnie Misap and Kenny Rogers cimb to No. 1 on the Biboard country singes chart with Make No Mistake, She s Mine, written by pop star Kim Carnes. Sept Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash appear at the Americana Music Awards in Nashvie. It marks the ast time the coupe pubicy performs together. Sept MCA reeases Sam Hunt s Break Up in a Sma Town to radio Atantic announces it has signed Hunter Hayes to a recording dea. Sept MCA reeases George Strait s Pure Country soundtrack. Sept Keith Urban has his first day on camera as pre-taped portions of Fox s American Ido are shot at Lincon Center in New York. Mariah Carey, Nicki Minaj and Randy Jackson join Urban at the judges tabe. Sept Tayor Swift wecomes two surprise guests during her show at Nashvie s Bridgestone Arena: Tim McGraw, who joins her on Just to See You Smie, and Kenny Chesney, who does Big Star. The audience incudes Martina McBride Reba McEntire makes her first appearance at the Grand Oe Opry, singing the Patsy Cine cassic Sweet Dreams and Roger Mier s Invitation to the Bues. Source: RoandNote.com, the Utimate Country Music Database Judge Rues We Sha Overcome Verse Not Under Vaid Copyright Big Machine Records And John Varvatos Records Announce Joint-Labe Venture Huu And Spotify To Launch New Streaming Bunde Stream Ripping Carries On Despite YouTube-MP3 s Demise: Chart RaeLynn joined four other acts for the WKIS Miami Tequia Bay Music Festiva hed at Miami Marine Stadium Park on Sept. 3. From eft: CBS Radio/Miami vp programming Rob Morris, RaeLynn and WKIS music director Tim Conon.

12 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE SEPTEMBER 11, 2017 PAGE 12 OF 20 TWO S AGO WKS ON CHART TITLE PRODUCER (SONGWRITER) Hot Country Songs Artist IMPRINT / PROMOTION LABEL BODY LIKE A BACK ROAD HH No. 1 (31 weeks) HH Sam Hunt Z.CROWELL (S.HUNT,Z.CROWELL,J.OSBORNE,S.MCANALLY) MCA NASHVILLE WHAT IFS Kane Brown Featuring Lauren Aaina D.HUFF (K.BROWN,M.MCGINN,J.M.SCHMIDT) ZONE 4/RCA NASHVILLE SMALL TOWN BOY Dustin Lynch Z.CROWELL (R.AKINS,B.HAYSLIP,K.FISHMAN) BROKEN BOW WHEN IT RAINS IT POURS HH Streaming Gainer HH Luke Combs S.MOFFATT (L.COMBS,R.FULCHER,J.WALKER) RIVER HOUSE/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE HEARTACHE ON THE DANCE FLOOR Jon Pardi B.BUTLER,J.PARDI (J.PARDI,B.BUTLER,B.LONG) CAPITOL NASHVILLE NO SUCH THING AS A BROKEN HEART Od Dominion S.MCANALLY (M.RAMSEY,T. ROSEN,B.TURSI,J.FRASURE) RCA NASHVILLE UNFORGETTABLE Thomas Rhett D.HUFF,J.FRASURE,THOMAS RHETT (THOMAS RHETT,J.FRASURE,A.GORLEY,S.MCANALLY) VALORY ALL THE PRETTY GIRLS HH Airpay Gainer HH Kenny Chesney B.CANNON,K.CHESNEY (N.GALYON,T.L.JAMES,J.OSBORNE) BLUE CHAIR/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE DRINKIN PROBLEM Midand S.MCANALLY,D.HUFF,J.OSBORNE (J.CARSON,C.DUDDY,M.WYSTRACH,S.MCANALLY,J.OSBORNE) BIG MACHINE THEY DON T KNOW Jason Adean M.KNOX (J.BOYER,J.MIRENDA,K.ALLISON) MACON/BROKEN BOW EVERY LITTLE THING Cary Pearce BUSBEE (C.PEARCE,BUSBEE,E.SHACKELTON) BIG MACHINE CRAVING YOU Thomas Rhett Featuring Maren Morris J.BUNETTA,D.HUFF,JOE LONDON,THOMAS RHETT (D.M.BARNES,J.BUNETTA) VALORY MORE GIRLS LIKE YOU Kip Moore K.MOORE,D.GARCIA (K.MOORE,S.L.OLSEN,J.MILLER,D.A.GARCIA) MCA NASHVILLE IT AIN T MY FAULT Brothers Osborne J.JOYCE (J. OSBORNE,T.J. OSBORNE,L.T.MILLER) EMI NASHVILLE LIGHT IT UP Luke Bryan J.STEVENS,J.STEVENS (L.BRYAN,B.TURSI) CAPITOL NASHVILLE GREATEST LOVE STORY LANCO J.JOYCE (B.LANCASTER) ARISTA NASHVILLE I COULD USE A LOVE SONG Maren Morris BUSBEE,M.MORRIS (M.MORRIS,J.ROBBINS,L.VELTZ) COLUMBIA NASHVILLE FIX A DRINK Chris Janson B.ANDERSON,C.DUBOIS (C.JANSON,C.DUBOIS,A.GORLEY) WARNER BROS./WAR ROUND HERE BUZZ Eric Church J.JOYCE (E.CHURCH,J.HYDE,L.DICK) EMI NASHVILLE LOSING SLEEP Chris Young C.CROWDER,C.YOUNG (C.YOUNG,J.HOGE,C. DESTEFANO) RCA NASHVILLE SMOOTH Forida Georgia Line J.MOI (T.HUBBARD,B.KELLEY,N.GALYON,J.M.SCHMIDT) BMLG ASK ME HOW I KNOW Garth Brooks M.A.MILLER (M.ROSSELL) PEARL RING ON EVERY FINGER LOCASH L.RIMES (THOMAS RHETT,J.KEAR,J.FRASURE) REVIVER YOU BROKE UP WITH ME Waker Hayes S.MCANALLY (W.HAYES,K.SACKLEY,T.ARCHER) MONUMENT/ARISTA NASHVILLE 25 NEW 1 LIFE CHANGES HH Hot Shot Debut HH Thomas Rhett D.HUFF,J.FRASURE,THOMAS RHETT (THOMAS RHETT,R.AKINS,J.FRASURE,A.GORLEY) VALORY COUNTRY AIRPLAY RANK SALES, AIRPLAY & STREAMING DATA COMPILED BY PEAK POSITION RC RC RC GETTY IMAGES 20 CHRIS YOUNG Losing Seep Co-written by Young, who wi become the newest member of the Grand Oe Opry on Oct. 17, the song is the tite-track ead singe from his sixth studio abum, due Oct. 20. It hits the Hot Country Songs top 20 (24-20), boosted by a 23 percent hike to 11.2 miion impressions on Country Airpay (25-22). 21 FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE Smooth The fourth singe from the duo s Dig Your Roots abum sprints on Hot Country Songs, up 32 percent to 5,000 sod, 22 percent to 11.4 miion in airpay audience and 11 percent to 2.6 miion U.S. streams.

13 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE SEPTEMBER 11, 2017 PAGE 13 OF 20 TWO S AGO Hot Country Songs WKS ON CHART TITLE PRODUCER (SONGWRITER) Artist IMPRINT / PROMOTION LABEL YOURS Russe Dickerson C.BROWN (P.WELLING,C.BROWN,R.DICKERSON) TRIPLE TIGERS LIKE I LOVED YOU Brett Young D.HUFF (B.YOUNG,J.LEE) BMLG TIME FOR EVERYTHING Brad Paisey L.WOOTEN,B.PAISLEY (B.PAISLEY,S.AHNQUIST,B.ANDERSON,C.DUBOIS,M.RYAN) ARISTA NASHVILLE ALL ON ME Devin Dawson J.JOYCE (D.DAWSON,J.DURRETT,A.SMITH) ATLANTIC/WEA A GIRL LIKE YOU Easton Corbin A.GORLEY,W.KIRBY (A.GORLEY,J.FRASURE,R.AKINS) MERCURY OUTTA STYLE Aaron Watson M.ALTMAN,A.WATSON (A.WATSON) BIG LABEL LEGENDS Kesea Baerini F.G.WHITEHEAD,J.MASSEY (K.BALLERINI,F.G.WHITEHEAD,H.LINDSEY) BLACK RIVER BROKEN HALOS Chris Stapeton D.COBB,C.STAPLETON (C.STAPLETON,M.HENDERSON) MERCURY CALIFORNIA Big & Rich B.KENNY,J.D.RICH (J.D.RICH,R.CLAWSON,V.MCGEHEE) B$R/THIRTY TIGERS/NEW REVOLUTION WRITTEN IN THE SAND Od Dominion S.MCANALLY (M.RAMSEY,T. ROSEN,B.TURSI,S.MCANALLY) RCA NASHVILLE SINGLES YOU UP Jordan Davis P.DIGIOVANNI (J.DAVIS,S.D.JONES,J.EBACH) MCA NASHVILLE FIVE MORE MINUTES Scotty McCreery F.ROGERS (S.MCCREERY,R.ROGERS,M.CRISWELL) TRIPLE TIGERS JUST A PHASE Adam Craig D.GEORGE (A.CRAIG,L.RIMES,J.BEAVERS) STONEY CREEK GOOD COMPANY Jake Owen L.BRANCEWELL,J.OWEN (M.ALDERMAN,T.CECIL,J.MULLINS) RCA NASHVILLE 40 NEW 1 I LL NAME THE DOGS Bake Sheton S.HENDRICKS (M.DRAGSTREM,B.HAYSLIP,J.THOMPSON) WARNER BROS./WMN GRAVE Thomas Rhett D.HUFF,J.FRASURE,THOMAS RHETT (C. DESTEFANO,H.LINDSEY,J.MILLER) VALORY SHE S WITH ME High Vaey S.MOSLEY,M.O CONNOR (B.REMPEL,S.MOSLEY,B.STENNIS) ATLANTIC/WEA 43 NEW 1 HAPPENS LIKE THAT Granger Smith G.SMITH,F.ROGERS,D.WELLS (G.SMITH,J.M.SCHMIDT,A.ALBERT,T.HUBBARD,J.WILSON) WHEELHOUSE SIXTEEN Thomas Rhett D.HUFF,J.FRASURE,THOMAS RHETT (THOMAS RHETT,S.M.DOUGLAS,JOE LONDON) VALORY THE LONG WAY Brett Edredge R. COPPERMAN,B.ELDREDGE (B.ELDREDGE,M.ROGERS) ATLANTIC/WMN ONES THAT LIKE ME Brantey Gibert D.HUFF (B.GILBERT,B.CHAFFIN,B.PINSON) VALORY BOY Lee Brice L.BRICE,J.STONE,K.JACOBS,D.FRIZSELL (J.M.NITE,N.GALYON) LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME ALONE Dustin Lynch R. COPPERMAN (D.CHRISTENSEN,C.GELBUDA) BROKEN BOW ROOTS D.COBB (Z.BROWN,N.MOON,B.SIMONETTI,C.BOWLES) WHEN SOMEONE STOPS LOVING YOU J.JOYCE (H.LINDSEY,C.MCGILL,L.MCKENNA) CURB Zac Brown Band SOUTHERN GROUND/ELEKTRA/WAR Litte Big Town CAPITOL NASHVILLE COUNTRY AIRPLAY RANK SALES, AIRPLAY & STREAMING DATA COMPILED BY PEAK POSITION RC 38 RC The week s most popuar country songs, ranked by radio airpay audience impressions as measured by Niesen Music, saes data as compied by Niesen Music and streaming activity data from onine music sources tracked by Niesen Music. Descending tites beow No. 25 are moved to recurrent after 20 weeks. Year-Over-Year Abum Saes ALBUM SALES DIGITAL TRACKS SALES miion 13.6 miion miion 63.7 miion 48.5 miion For week ending Sept. 7, Figures are rounded. Compied from a nationa sampe of retai store and rack saes reports coected and provided by Niesen Music. COUNTRY MARKET WATCH A Weeky Nationa Music Saes Report Weeky Unit Saes ALBUMS DIGITAL ALBUMS* DIGITAL TRACKS This Week 301,000 90,000 1,066,000 Last Week 316, ,000 1,088,000 Change -4.7% -19.6% -2.0% This Week Last Year 416, ,000 1,427,000 Change -27.6% -32.3% -25.3% *Digita abum saes are aso counted within abum saes. YEAR-TO-DATE Overa Unit Saes CHANGE Abums 16,413,000 13,561, % Digita Tracks 63,715,000 48,498, % Saes by Abum Format CHANGE Physica 10,717,000 9,058, % Digita 5,696,000 4,503, % For inquiries about any Niesen Music data, pease contact Josh Bennett at or josh.bennett@niesen.com

14 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE SEPTEMBER 11, 2017 PAGE 14 OF 20 SALES, DATA COMPILED BY STREAMING & SALES DATA COMPILED BY 2 S AGO S ON CHT TOP COUNTRY ALBUMS ARTIST TITLE IMPRINT & NUMBER / DISTRIBUTING LABEL LUKE COMBS RIVER HOUSE/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE */SMN ONE S FOR YOU Top Country Abums ranks the most popuar country abums of the week, as compied by Niesen Music, based on muti-metric consumption (bending traditiona abum saes, track equivaent abums, and streaming equivaent abums). Copyright 2017, Prometheus Goba Media, LLC and Niesen Music, Inc. A rights reserved. AMERICANA/ FOLK ALBUMS CERT. PEAK POS. OLD DOMINION HAPPY ENDINGS RCA NASHVILLE */SMN 1 CHRIS STAPLETON MERCURY */UMGN TRAVELLER 2 1 KANE BROWN ZONE 4/RCA NASHVILLE */SMN KANE BROWN 1 SAM HUNT MCA NASHVILLE /UMGN MONTEVALLO 3 1 FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE BMLG 0300* DIG YOUR ROOTS 1 1 BRETT YOUNG BMLG BY0100A* BRETT YOUNG JON PARDI CALIFORNIA SUNRISE CAPITOL NASHVILLE */UMGN 0 1 CHRIS STAPLETON FROM A ROOM: VOLUME 1 MERCURY */UMGN 0 1 KEITH URBAN RIPCORD HIT RED/CAPITOL NASHVILLE */UMGN ( AMS & WSEX) 1 1 THOMAS RHETT VALORY RT0200A/BMLG TANGLED UP 1 2 BRETT ELDREDGE ATLANTIC /WMN BRETT ELDREDGE 1 ZAC BROWN BAND GREATEST HITS SO FAR ROAR/SOUTHERN GROUND/ATLANTIC /AG 3 TAYLOR SWIFT BIG MACHINE A*/BMLG (18.98) RED 4 1 ERIC CHURCH EMI NASHVILLE */UMGN MR. MISUNDERSTOOD 0 2 BROTHERS OSBORNE EMI NASHVILLE */UMGN PAWN SHOP JASON ALDEAN THEY DON T KNOW MACON/BROKEN BOW 2227/BBMG 1 LUKE BRYAN CAPITOL NASHVILLE /UMGN KILL THE LIGHTS 2 1 BLAKE SHELTON WARNER BROS /WMN RELOADED: 20 #1 HITS 2 COLE SWINDELL YOU SHOULD BE HERE WARNER BROS /WMN 0 2 FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE HERE S TO THE GOOD TIMES REPUBLIC NASHVILLE /BMLG MAREN MORRIS HERO COLUMBIA NASHVILLE */SMN 0 1 TAYLOR SWIFT FEARLESS BIG MACHINE 0200*/BMLG (18.98) 7 1 LUKE BRYAN CRASH MY PARTY CAPITOL NASHVILLE /UMGN 2 1 LADY ANTEBELLUM HEART BREAK CAPITOL NASHVILLE */UMGN 1 SALES DATA COMPILED BY COUNTRY STREAMING SONGS WKS ON CHART TITLE ARTIST BODY LIKE A BACK ROAD SAM HUNT WHAT IFS KANE BROWN FEAT. LAUREN ALAINA WHEN IT RAINS IT POURS LUKE COMBS SMALL TOWN BOY DUSTIN LYNCH HURRICANE LUKE COMBS IN CASE YOU DIDN T KNOW BRETT YOUNG UNFORGETTABLE THOMAS RHETT TENNESSEE WHISKEY CHRIS STAPLETON HEARTACHE ON THE DANCE FLOOR JON PARDI BLUE AIN T YOUR COLOR KEITH URBAN DIE A HAPPY MAN THOMAS RHETT H.O.L.Y. FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE NO SUCH THING AS A BROKEN HEART OLD DOMINION DRINKIN PROBLEM MIDLAND LIGHT IT UP LUKE BRYAN DIRT ON MY BOOTS JON PARDI THE FIGHTER KEITH URBAN FEAT. CARRIE UNDERWOOD CRAVING YOU THOMAS RHETT FEAT. MAREN MORRIS MY GIRL DYLAN SCOTT 20 NEW ALL THE PRETTY GIRLS KENNY CHESNEY EVERY LITTLE THING CARLY PEARCE MAY WE ALL FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE FEAT. TIM MCGRAW 23 NEW GREATEST LOVE STORY LANCO BREAK UP IN A SMALL TOWN SAM HUNT HOUSE PARTY SAM HUNT COUNTRY DIGITAL SONG SALES The week s top-streamed and top-seing paid downoad country songs, respectivey, from saes reports coected and provided by Niesen Music. Charts update weeky on Tuesdays at charts. Copyright 2017, Prometheus Goba Media, LLC and Niesen Music, Inc. A rights reserved. WKS ON CHART TITLE ARTIST BODY LIKE A BACK ROAD SAM HUNT WHAT IFS KANE BROWN FEAT. LAUREN ALAINA WHEN IT RAINS IT POURS LUKE COMBS SMALL TOWN BOY DUSTIN LYNCH 5 NEW LIFE CHANGES THOMAS RHETT UNFORGETTABLE THOMAS RHETT GREATEST LOVE STORY LANCO HEARTACHE ON THE DANCE FLOOR JON PARDI DRINKIN PROBLEM MIDLAND IN CASE YOU DIDN T KNOW BRETT YOUNG EVERY LITTLE THING CARLY PEARCE IT AIN T MY FAULT BROTHERS OSBORNE LIGHT IT UP LUKE BRYAN NO SUCH THING AS A BROKEN HEART OLD DOMINION CRAVING YOU THOMAS RHETT FEAT. MAREN MORRIS TENNESSEE WHISKEY CHRIS STAPLETON YOU BROKE UP WITH ME WALKER HAYES HURRICANE LUKE COMBS ALL THE PRETTY GIRLS KENNY CHESNEY THE FIGHTER KEITH URBAN FEAT. CARRIE UNDERWOOD TIN MAN 21 RE-ENTRY MIRANDA LAMBERT FIX A DRINK CHRIS JANSON LIKE I LOVED YOU BRETT YOUNG MORE GIRLS LIKE YOU KIP MOORE YOU LOOK GOOD LADY ANTEBELLUM 2 S AGO S ON CHT ARTIST IMPRINT & NUMBER / DISTRIBUTING LABEL TITLE Americana/Fok Abums ranks the most popuar Americana/fok abums of the week, as compied by Niesen Music, based on muti-metric consumption (bending traditiona abum saes, track equivaent abums, and streaming equivaent abums). Copyright 2017, Prometheus Goba Media, LLC and Niesen Music, Inc. A rights reserved. CERT. PEAK POS. CHRIS STAPLETON TRAVELLER MERCURY NASHVILLE */UMGN 2 1 CHRIS STAPLETON FROM A ROOM: VOLUME 1 MERCURY NASHVILLE */UMGN 0 1 THE LUMINEERS DUALTONE 1738* CLEOPATRA 0 1 HOZIER RUBYWORKS */COLUMBIA HOZIER 1 1 ED SHEERAN ELEKTRA */AG JOHN MAYER COLUMBIA * THE SEARCH FOR EVERYTHING 1 7 NEW JOHN MARK MCMILLAN 1 LIONHAWK 8945*/CAPITOL CMG MERCURY & LIGHTNING 7 8 NEW JOAN OSBORNE SONGS OF BOB DYLAN 1 8 WOMANLY HIPS 001*/THIRTY TIGERS 9 NEW PENNY & SPARROW WENDIGO 1 9 PENNY & SPARROW 74438* (74445) 10 SIMON & GARFUNKEL SIMON AND GARFUNKEL S GREATEST HITS RE-ENTRY 32 4 COLUMBIA 31350/LEGACY 21 MIRANDA LAMBERT Tin Man After Lambert anded five nominations the most of any act for the 51st Annua CMA Awards (to be hed Nov. 8), incuding singe and song of the year for Tin Man, the baad re-enters Country Digita Song Saes at No. 21, up 14 percent to 6,000 sod. On Country Airpay, it buets at its No. 31 high (6.6 miion, up 10 percent). GETTY IMAGES

15 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE SEPTEMBER 11, 2017 PAGE 15 OF 20 MAKIN TRACKS TOM ROLAND Indie Artist Tenie Arts Creates Three-Minute Mystery With Cod Feet Fifty years ago, Bobbie Gentry rode atop the Biboard Hot 100 with Ode to Biie Joe, a story-song so steeped in mystery that director Max Baer Jr. made a movie that tried to expain why Biie Joe McAister jumped off the Taahatchie Bridge. Mystery is simiary embedded in Cod Feet, a new song from independent artist Tenie Arts that has movie stamped a over it. The piece finds a young woman torn by a difficut decision as her June 18 wedding date quicky approaches. The overarching pot bears a resembance to the Juia Roberts romantic comedy Runaway Bride. But there s aso a nervous, ate-night appointment at a nearby creek that fees a bit ike the dramatic Tom Hanks-Meg Ryan meeting at the Empire State Buiding in Seepess in Seatte. And the bride-to-be faces a horrific crossroads that hints at the torturous decision at the heart of the Mery Streep vehice Sophie s Choice. Arts thinks of Cod Feet as the sonic equivaent to Nichos Sparks movies, where it s ike this big, ong story where you just get invested in the characters. Arts and her Dreamcatcher Management team upoaded the song to PayMPE on Juy 24, ooking to buid her own story within the music and broadcast businesses, even as Cod Feet gets pay on Spotify, in a YouTube video and on the syndicated Sunday-morning radio show Rise Up With John Ritter. ARTS My mom and I were in our pajamas, says Arts, recaing the first time she heard Cod Feet on the radio. We went out to the car, we re sitting there at 7:30 a.m., my mom s crying, I m reay excited and recording it it s just crazy. John Ritter co-wrote Cod Feet around the end of 2013 after a conversation with his daughter, who was one of severa peope in her circe of friends who were panning weddings. Ritter refected on that chat when he met up with songwriter-producer Adam Wheeer at Nobe Vision in Nashvie for a writing appointment, but it wasn t a rosy tak about happy endings. I said, Man, you know, sometimes peope can get cod feet, recas Ritter. And that s where the whoe idea started. That idea became the foundation for a tae that unfoded throughout the session, which was shrouded in mystery to Ritter and Wheeer, who knew ony that they were headed somehow toward that Cod Feet tite. I used to ove writing story-songs, says Wheeer. We just started at the beginning and made up a story about having cod feet. It s one of the rare times that we just went front to back with no preconceived anding point. Much is tod with minima words in the opening verse. A wedding is so imminent that the bridesmaids dresses have been reserved, and the bride s parents think of the groom as Mr. Perfect. And yet, by the end of the chorus, the wife-to-be goes waking aone after midnight, down a sma-town street/ With cod feet. It s there that the mystery begins. The second verse introduces a etter from an od fame, who wonders if she s having second thoughts about the marriage and invites her to meet secrety down by the creek, where the waters further cement the song s tite. It makes you think, a of the sudden, Where did that come from? A note? Now what s she going to do? says Ritter. Rather than answering those questions, the song moves to a bridge with the singer simpy humming a meody. It s the aura equivaent of a movie fading to back, eaving the istener to imagine the next part of the story. Just what happens down at the creek bank? As a guy, I m thinking, Man, if she went down there, they must ve made out, says Wheeer. Girs may be thinking they were down there taking this out, and that s a possibiity. Then one of Tenie s fans says, Or did she go down there and get stood up? I never considered that possibiity at a. The story picks up after the bridge with an image that cinches the cinematic quaity of Cod Feet : Rain on the sidewak/doubt in her mind. It s amost ike a scene change, says Arts. The ast verse has her in that Sophie s Choice moment, deciding whose heart she s wiing to break, a phrase that Wheeer inserted into the story. That s the ine that reay gets me, says Arts. How do you decide to totay destroy someone when you ove both peope? It s a gut-wrenching moment, though in the end, the woman is ikey to benefit from her decision, no matter which man she chooses. At east she s marrying somebody she oves, or that oves her, says Ritter. Wheeer cut a demo at the home studio of singer-songwriter Pau Sikes, and the song got repeated positive comments as they shopped it around, though no one actuay bit on it. Wheeer never bothered showing it to Arts, since she was recording her own songs. But when Dreamcatcher tod him the company was ooking for a song that woud hep her stand out, he thought of Cod Feet. I coudn t beieve that this song wasn t out in the word, and that they were going to et me record it, she says. Sikes demo guitar was so perfect that they kept that performance and an underying keyboard pad when they hed a tracking session in December 2016 at Curb Recording Studio. The musicians incuding bassist David LaBruyere, drummer Evan Hutchings, pianist David Dorn and stee guitarist Scotty Sanders payed sparingy, with guitarist Derek Wes adding atmospheric sounds and Adam Shoenfed using an Ebow handhed guitar effect to create an ominous ceo-ike tone in the bridge. Arts was so emotionay chaenged by Cod Feet that she had difficuty getting through some of the takes, and that vunerabiity eads to an appropriatey fragie performance. Tenie did an amazing job, says Wheeer. We can write pretty words a day ong, but if you don t have somebody with the abiity to transate it ike she did, it doesn t go too far. Arts hopes the song eads to a recording dea, but reminiscent of the woman in Cod Feet she doesn t want to commit to the wrong partner. That probaby be our next step, she says, but I m a about finding peope who beieve in it 100 percent. In the meantime, as much of the word is sti discovering Arts, her eary fans are aready viewing the Cod Feet mystery through a cinematic ens. Peope are ike, When are we going to get to hear the seque? Arts says with a augh. It s that big a story. Peope are invested in it, and they want to know more.

16 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE SEPTEMBER 11, 2017 PAGE 16 OF 20 WKS ON CHART TITLE Imprint/Labe Artist PLAYS AUDIENCE (IN MILLIONS) +/ SMALL TOWN BOY Broken Bow HH No. 1 (2 weeks) HH Dustin Lynch HEARTACHE ON THE DANCE FLOOR Capito Nashvie Jon Pardi ALL THE PRETTY GIRLS Bue Chair/Coumbia Nashvie Kenny Chesney THEY DON T KNOW Macon/Broken Bow Jason Adean MORE GIRLS LIKE YOU MCA Nashvie Kip Moore WHAT IFS Zone 4/RCA Nashvie Kane Brown Feat. Lauren Aaina NO SUCH THING AS A BROKEN HEART RCA Nashvie Od Dominion IT AIN T MY FAULT EMI Nashvie Brothers Osborne EVERY LITTLE THING Big Machine Cary Pearce WHEN IT RAINS IT POURS River House/Coumbia Nashvie Luke Combs FIX A DRINK Warner Bros./WAR Chris Janson UNFORGETTABLE Vaory Thomas Rhett I COULD USE A LOVE SONG Coumbia Nashvie Maren Morris ROUND HERE BUZZ EMI Nashvie Eric Church TIME FOR EVERYTHING Arista Nashvie Brad Paisey ASK ME HOW I KNOW Pear Garth Brooks OUTTA STYLE BIG Labe Aaron Watson GREATEST LOVE STORY Arista Nashvie LANCO A GIRL LIKE YOU Mercury Easton Corbin RING ON EVERY FINGER Reviver LOCASH LIGHT IT UP Capito Nashvie HH Most Increased Pays HH Luke Bryan SMOOTH BMLG Forida Georgia Line LOSING SLEEP RCA Nashvie Chris Young CALIFORNIA B$R/New Revoution Big & Rich LIKE I LOVED YOU BMLG Brett Young TIN MAN Vanner/RCA Nashvie Miranda Lambert Country Indicator LEGENDS Back River Kesea Baerini YOURS Tripe Tigers Russe Dickerson WILD AS YOU CoJo Cody Johnson ROOTS Southern Ground/Eektra/WAR Zac Brown Band BILLBOARD COUNTRY INDICATOR PANEL 106 STATIONS Abiene, Texas Aexandria, La. Amario, Texas Ashevie, N.C. Atantic City, N.J. Beaumont, Texas Beckey, W. Va. Bioxi, Miss. Boomington, I. Buefied, W. Va. Burington, Vt. Cape Girardeau, Mo. Chareston, W. Va Coege Station, Texas Coumbia, Mo. Coumbus, Ga. Cookevie, Tenn. Dothan, Aa. Duuth, Minn. Eau Caire, Wis. Eizabeth City, N.C. Erie, Pa. Eugene, Ore. Evansvie, Ind. Fargo, N.D. KEAN KRRV KGNC WKSF WPUR KYKR WJLS WZKX WIBL WHKX WOKO KEZS WKWS WQBE KAGG KCLR WKCN WSTH WGSQ WTVY KKCB WAXX WRSF WTWF KKNU WKDQ KBVB WSTH Fayettevie, N.C. Fagstaff, Ariz. Fint, Mich. Forence, Aa. Forence, S.C. Ft. Coins, Coo. Ft. Smith, Ark. Frederick, Md. Fredericksburg, Va. Green Bay, Wis. Hagerstown, Md. Hot Springs, Ark. Huntington, Ky. Huntington, W. Va. Idaho Fas, Idaho Jackson, Miss. Janesvie, Wis. Jonesboro, Ark. Jopin, Mo. Kaamazoo, Mich. Kaispe, Mont. Kingmah, Ariz. Lafayette, Ind. Laredo, Texas Lansing, Mich. Laure, Miss. WKML KAFF WFBE WXFL WEGX KUAD KTCS WFRE WFLS WNCY WAYZ KQUS WDGG WTCR KTHK WMSI WUSJ WJVL KDXY KIXQ WNWN KDBR KFLG WKOA KRRG WITL WBBN Lebanon, N.H. Lincon, Neb Longview, Texas Lubbock, Texas Lufkin, Texas Mason City, Iowa Medford, Ore. Meridian, Miss. Montgomery, Aa. Morgantown, W. Va. Muskegon, Mich. New London, Conn. Odessa, Texas Pam Springs, Caif. Pensacoa, Fa. Peoria, I. Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Rapid City, S.D. Rockford, I. Rocky Mount, N.C. Saginaw, Mich. St. Coud, Minn. Saina, Kan. Saisbury, Md. San Angeo, Texas San Luis Obispo, Caif. WXXK KFGE KYKX KLLL KYKS KIAI KRWQ WOKK WLWI WKKW WMUS WCTY KHKX KPLM WXBM WXCL WRWD KOUT WXXQ WDWG WCEN KZPK KYEZ WKTT KGKL KKJG Santa Barbara, Caif. KRAZ Santa Maria, Caif. KSNI Sheboygan, Wis. WBFM Savannah, Ga. WJCL WUBB Shreveport, La. KXKS Sioux Cty, Iowa KSUX South Bend, Ind. WBYT Springfied, I. WFMB Springfied, Mo. KTTS Terre Haute, Ind. WTHI Topeka, Kan. WIBW Traverse City, Mich. WTCM Tupeo, Miss. WWZD Utica, N.Y. WFRG Victor Vaey, CA. KATJ Waco, Texas WACO Wausau, Wis. WDEZ Wheeing, W. Va. WOVK Wiiamsport, Pa. WILQ Yakima, Wash. KXDD Youngstown, Ohio WQXK WWGY Westwood One HOT COUNTRY MAINSTREAM COUNTRY Music Choice TODAY S COUNTRY Sirius XM THE HIGHWAY

17 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE SEPTEMBER 11, 2017 PAGE 17 OF 20 WKS ON CHART TITLE Imprint/Labe Artist PLAYS AUDIENCE (IN MILLIONS) +/ THE ONES THAT LIKE ME Vaory Brantey Gibert WHEN SOMEONE STOPS LOVING YOU Capito Nashvie Litte Big Town BROKEN HALOS Mercury Chris Stapeton HAPPENS LIKE THAT Wheehouse Granger Smith DOIN FINE 19/Interscope/Mercury Lauren Aaina YOU BROKE UP WITH ME Monument/Arista Nashvie Waker Hayes BOY Curb Lee Brice NEW I LL NAME THE DOGS Warner Bros./WMN HH Hot Shot Debut/Most Added HH Bake Sheton ROAD TRIPPIN Warner Bros./WAR Dan + Shay SINGLES YOU UP MCA Nashvie Jordan Davis ALL ABOUT YOU MCA Nashvie Josh Turner DIRTY SOUTH Rebe Engine/Star Farm Lucas Hoge ALL ON ME Atantic/WEA Devin Dawson FOR THE FIRST TIME Capito Nashvie Darius Rucker JUST A PHASE Stoney Creek Adam Craig THE LONG WAY Atantic/WMN Brett Edredge FIVE MORE MINUTES Tripe Tigers Scotty McCreery TOO BAD Deep Frey d Kyie Frey Feat. Randy Rogers NEW STAY DOWNTOWN Warner Bros./WMN Coe Swinde WHAT THE HELL DID I SAY Capito Nashvie Dierks Bentey SHE S WITH ME Atantic/WEA High Vaey GET TO YOU Atantic/WEA Michae Ray NEW SPEAKERS, BLEACHERS AND PREACHERS EMI Nashvie Brandon Lay NEW KINDA DON T CARE Vaory Justin Moore WHERE WE D BE 3AM Vibe/Nine North Linde LaChance WHAT GUY WOULDN T Show Dog Nashvie Wateroo Reviva MESS ME UP EMI Nashvie Gary Aan GOOD TIMES & SUMMER DAYS BigBig Eric Chesser NEW 19 Amerimonte Shane Owens Country Indicator 60 NEW WRITTEN IN THE SAND RCA Nashvie Od Dominion RANKINGS Country Airpay is ranked by tota audience impressions for the week ending Sunday based on monitored airpay of 144 stations by Niesen BDS. Audience totas on the chart are derived, in part, using certain Arbitron Inc. copyrighted Persons 12+ audience estimates (under icense 2017, Arbitron Inc.) Country Indicator is tabuated using reported payists and Niesen BDS-monitored airpay at 106 stations, ranked by tota pays. BULLETS Awarded on Country Airpay to tites gaining audience or remaining fat from the previous week. A song wi aso receive a buet if its percentage oss in audience does not exceed the percentage of monitored station downtime for the format. Tites that decine in audience but increase in detections wi aso receive a buet if the tota audience erosion for the week does not exceed 3%. Buets are awarded on Country Indicator to tites gaining pays or remaining fat from the previous week. TIES On Country Airpay, if two songs are tied in tota audience, the song with the arger increase in audience is paced first. On Country Indicator, if two songs are tied in tota pays, the song with the arger increase in pays is paced first. RECURRENTS On Country Airpay, descending tites beow No. 10 in either audience or detections are moved to recurrent after 20 weeks, provided that they are not sti CHARTS LEGEND gaining enough audience points to buet or if they rank beow No. 10 and post a third consecutive week of (non-bueted) audience decine, regardess of tota chart weeks. On Country Indicator, descending, non-bueted tites beow No. 10 are moved to recurrent after 20 weeks or if they post a third consecutive week of decine in pays after 10 weeks. HOT SHOT DEBUT Awarded to the highest-ranking new entry on Country Airpay and Country Indicator, respectivey. MOST ADDED The tota number of new adds officiay reported to Biboard by each reporting station, or by an automatic-add threshod (seven pays for the first time in a chart tracking week, according to Niesen BDS) for stations that do not report adds. MOST INCREASED AUDIENCE/ PLAYS Most Increased Audience on Country Airpay and Most Increased Pays on Country Indicator ist the songs with the greatest week-to-week increases in tota audience or pays, respectivey. AIRPOWER Awarded on Country Airpay to tites ranking inside top 20 in pays and audience rankings for the first time, with increases in both pays and audience. BREAKER Awarded on Country Airpay to tites achieving airpay (at east one detection) at 60% of reporting stations for the first time Prometheus Goba Media, LLC

18 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE SEPTEMBER 11, 2017 PAGE 18 OF 20 Country Airpay Index TITLE Pubishing-Licensing Org. (Songwriter) Chart Position A ALL ABOUT YOU Round Hi Songs Big Loud Songs, ASCAP/Big Loud Shirt Industries, ASCAP/Red Toe Rocker, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Music Of The Corn, ASCAP (C.Wiseman, J.Weaver) 55 ALL ON ME Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/JJ Music Inc., BMI/Neon Cross Music, BMI/Magic Mustang Music Inc., BMI/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Two Sixteen Pubishing, ASCAP (D.Dawson, J.Durrett, A.Smith) 28 ALL THE PRETTY GIRLS Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/A Gir Named Charie, BMI/ BMG Patinum Songs, BMI/SWMBMGBMI, BMI/Once In A Bue Tune Music, BMI/Anderson Fork In The Road Music, ASCAP/Smackvie Music, ASCAP/Kobat Songs Pubishing America, Inc., ASCAP (N.Gayon, T.L.James, J.Osborne) 3 ASK ME HOW I KNOW Roy Rivers Pubishing, BMI (M.Rosse) 14 BACK TO US Not Listed (C.R.Barowe, D.H.Hodges, J.Thompson) 58 B BOY EMI Apri Music, Inc., ASCAP/Jon Mark Nite Music, ASCAP/Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/A Gir Named Charie, BMI (J.M.Nite, N.Gayon) 33 BROKEN HALOS WB Music Corp., ASCAP/House Of Sea Gaye Music, ASCAP/Spirit Cataog Hodings, S.a.r../ Spirit Two Nashvie, ASCAP/Straight Six Music, BMI (C. Stapeton, M.Henderson) 37 C CALIFORNIA J Money Music, ASCAP/Big Loud Proud Crowd, BMI/Magic Mustang Music Inc., BMI/Victown Music, BMI (J.D.Rich, R.Cawson, V.McGehee) 29 D DO I MAKE YOU WANNA Externa Combustion Music, ASCAP/Songs Of Southside Independent Music Pubishing, LLC, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Atas Music Pubishing, ASCAP/Who Wants To Buy My Pubishing, ASCAP (A.Gorey, Z.Crowe, M.Jenkins, J.Fowers) 7 DOIN FINE Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/Lyas Music, BMI/Better Boat Music, BMI/BMG Patinum Songs, BMI/Jam Writers Group, BMI/Heo I Love You Music, BMI (Lauren Aaina, E.Shacketon, busbee) 49 E EVERY LITTLE THING BMG God Songs, ASCAP/ For The Kids Patinum, BMI/7189 Music Pubishing, BMI/Better Boat Music, BMI/Songs Of Endurance, BMI/ Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI (C.Pearce, busbee, E.Shacketon) 9 FIVE MORE MINUTES Dagum Music, BMI/ Spirit Cataog Hodings, S.a.r../Spirit Two Nashvie, ASCAP/House Of Sea Gaye Music, ASCAP/Sony/ATV Tree Pubishing, BMI/Dixey Bar Music, BMI (S.McCreery, R.Rogers, M.Criswe) 38 F FIX A DRINK oe Red Viny Music, BMI/Buckkia Music, BMI/New House Of Sea Gaye Music, ASCAP/ Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/Sadie s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP (C.Janson, C.DuBois, A.Gorey) 12 FOR THE FIRST TIME Sony/ATV Accent, ASCAP/ GrowingMusic, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Funky Friar Music, ASCAP/Scramber Music, ASCAP/Abbotts Creek Music Two, ASCAP (D.Rucker, D.George, Scooter Carusoe) 48 GET TO YOU Year Of The Dog Music, ASCAP/oe Green Viny Music, ASCAP (A.Stokasa, P.Dovgayuk) 42 G A GIRL LIKE YOU Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/Sadie s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Rio Bravo Music, Inc., BMI/Teemitry Productions, BMI/Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/EMI Backwood Music Inc., BMI (A.Gorey, J.Frasure, R.Akins) 24 GREATEST LOVE STORY Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/Concession 114 Music, BMI/Neon Cross Music, BMI (B.Lancaster) 18 H HAPPENS LIKE THAT Cimbing Windmis Music, BMI/Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/We-Vove Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Freshy Music, ASCAP/Downtown DLJ Songs, ASCAP/Big Loud Mountain, BMI/Round Hi Works, BMI/T Hubb Pubishing, BMI/ Legends Of Magic Mustang Music, SESAC/W.B.M. Music Corp., SESAC (G.Smith, J.M.Schmidt, A.Abert, T.Hubbard, J.Wison) 35 HEARTACHE ON THE DANCE FLOOR Goden Vaut Music, BMI/Rancho Fiesta Music, BMI/ Bi Buter Music, BMI/Bongsongs, SESAC/Wordspring Music, LLC, SESAC/W.B.M. Music Corp., SESAC/Songs Of Song Factroy, BMI/Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI (J.Pardi, B.Buter, B.Long) 4 HOOKED WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Songs From The Rose Hote, ASCAP/EMI Backwood Music Inc., BMI/Koaa T Tunes, BMI/SongsbyME, BMI (L.Rimes, S.Ennis, M.Evans) 54 I I COULD USE A LOVE SONG Internationa Dog Music, BMI/Round Hi Songs Jimmy Robbins, ASCAP/Jammy Rabbins Music, ASCAP/Extraordinary Aien Pubishing, ASCAP/Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/Oh Denise Pubishing, BMI/Big Music Machine, BMI (M.Morris, J.Robbins, L.Vetz) 15 I LL NAME THE DOGS Round Hi Songs BLS JV, ASCAP/Big Loud Proud Songs, ASCAP/Matt Drag Music, ASCAP/Pinetucky Road Pubishing, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Thankfu For This Music, ASCAP/Big Music Machine, BMI/Two Laine Coections, BMI (M.Dragstrem, B.Haysip, J.Thompson) 23 I SHOULD GO TO CHURCH SOMETIME Sixteen Stars Music, BMI/HoriPro Entertainment Group, Inc., BMI/Harding Road Music, BMI/Songs Of Kobat Music Pubishing America, Inc., BMI/Watsky Music, ASCAP/Dixie Stars Music, ASCAP/HoriPro Entertainment Group, Inc., ASCAP/Dead Ahead Music, ASCAP (B. Addington, M.Hardy, S.Turner) 57 IT AIN T MY FAULT WB Music Corp., ASCAP/ Trampy McCauey, ASCAP/A The Kings Pens, ASCAP/ Songstein Pubishing, ASCAP/Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/The Country And Western Music, BMI (J. Osborne, T.J. Osborne, L.T.Mier) 13 L TIME FOR EVERYTHING New House Of Sea Gaye Music, ASCAP/Songs For Margo, ASCAP (B. Paisey, S.Ahnquist, B.Anderson, C.DuBois, M.Ryan) 20 LEGENDS Songs Of Back River, ASCAP/KNB Music, ASCAP/Write Me Like You Mean It, ASCAP/BMG God Songs, ASCAP/Rezonant Music Pubishing LLC, ASCAP (K. Baerini, F.G.Whitehead, H.Lindsey) 32 LIGHT IT UP Sony/ATV Tree Pubishing, BMI/Peanut Mi Songs, BMI/Big Dea Notes, ASCAP/Wooden Ships, ASCAP (L.Bryan, B.Tursi) 16 LIKE I LOVED YOU Super Big Music, ASCAP/ Caivie Pubishing, ASCAP/Big Machine Music, BMI/ oe Purpe Cape Music, BMI/Honey Lee Music, BMI (B. Young, J.Lee) 30 THE LONG WAY Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI/Paris Not France Music, BMI/oe Canaco Pubishing, ASCAP (B. Edredge, M.Rogers) 40 LOSING SLEEP EMI Backwood Music Inc., BMI/ Goodbye Pants Music, BMI/EMI Foray Music, SESAC/ Write 2 Be Free Music, SESAC/CDS Words And Music, ASACP/EMI Apri Music, Inc., ASCAP (C.Young, J.Hoge, C. DeStefano) 22 LOVE IN A BAR Universa Music Corp., ASCAP/Lake Aegan Pub Cub, ASCAP/Sony/ATV Tree Pubishing, BMI (R.Hurd, J.Hyde) 56 M MESS ME UP EMI Backwood Music Inc., BMI/Songs By Red Room, BMI/Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/ Sadie s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/ Universa Music Corp., ASCAP/Smack Hits, GMR/Kobat Songs Pubishing American, Inc., GMR (R.Copperman, A.Gorey, S.McAnay) 50 MORE GIRLS LIKE YOU WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Point Break Pubishing, ASCAP/Music Of The Corn, ASCAP/Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/Jack 10 Pubishing, BMI/Songs Of Cornman, BMI/ Universa Music - Brentwood Benson Pubishing, ASCAP/D Sou Music, ASCAP/Capito CMG Genesis, ASCAP (K.Moore, S.L.Osen, J.Mier, D.A.Garcia) 8 N NEVER GETS OLD Creative Puse Music, BMI/ These Are Puse Songs, BMI/Highway 76 Songs, BMI/EMI Backwood Music Inc., BMI/Great Day At This Music, BMI/ Watch This Gir Pubishing, BMI (S.Moaker, C.Harrington) 60 NO SUCH THING AS A BROKEN HEART Smackvie Music, ASCAP/Smack Songs LLC, ASCAP/ Carrot Seed Songs, ASCAP/Kobat Songs Pubishing America, Inc., ASCAP/ReHits Music, Inc., ASCAP/ Smacktown Music, ASCAP/Smack Bue, LLC, SESAC/Unfair Entertainment, ASCAP/Big Dea Notes, ASCAP/Wooden Ships, ASCAP/Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/ Teemitry Productions, BMI/Songs Of Roc Nation Music, BMI (M.Ramsey, T. Rosen, B.Tursi, J.Frasure) 2 ONES THAT LIKE ME Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/Indiana Ange Music, BMI/ Parae Music Pubishing, LLC, ASCAP/Kobat Songs Pubishing America, Inc., ASCAP/Bobby s Lyrics, Land And Livestock, BMI/Do Write Music, LLC, BMI (B.Gibert, B.Chaffin, B.Pinson) 36 OUTTA STYLE Tunes From HTK, BMI (A.Watson) 26 RING ON EVERY FINGER Big Yeow Dog Music, ASCAP/Major Bob Music, Inc., ASCAP/EMI Backwood Music Inc., BMI/Cricket On The Line, BMI (Thomas Rhett, J.Kear, J.Frasure) 19 O R ROAD TRIPPIN WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Beats And Banjos, ASCAP/Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/Shay Mooney Music, ASCAP/EMI Apri Music, Inc., ASCAP/Twintipskier Music, ASCAP (D.Smyers, S.Mooney, M.Johnson) 47 ROOTS Day For The Dead Pubishing, SESAC/Reach Music Tunes, SESAC/Siva Moon Pubishing, SESAC/W.B.M. Music Corp., SESAC/Simonetti Music Pubishing, SESAC/ Kobat Group Music Pubishing, SESAC/Poppsootamus Music, SESAC (Z.Brown, N.Moon, B.Simonetti, C.Bowes) 43 ROUND HERE BUZZ Sony/ATV Tree Pubishing, BMI/Longer And Louder Music, BMI/Litte Louder Songs, BMI/Mammaw s Fried Okra Music, BMI/Emieon Songs, BMI (E.Church, J.Hyde, L.Dick) 17 S SHE S WITH ME Spruce Road Pubishing, GMR/ Capito CMG Zenith, GMR/Sony/ATV Tunes, GMR/ Centricity Tunes, GMR/CentricSongs, SESAC/The Stennis Mightier Music, BMI/Young Guns Pubishing, LLC, BMI/ Dead Aim Music, BMI/Songs Of Kobat Music Pubishing America, Inc., BMI/Capito CMG Ampifier, SESAC (B. Rempe, S.Mosey, B.Stennis) 34 SINGLES YOU UP Oe 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) 39 SMALL TOWN BOY EMI Backwood Music Inc., BMI/Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Thankfu For This Music, ASCAP/Pay It Again Entertainment, BMI/Round Hi Works, BMI (R. Akins, B.Haysip, K.Fishman) 1 SMOOTH Big Loud Mountain, BMI/T Hubb Pubishing, BMI/Pranch Ringe Music, BMI/Round Hi Works, BMI/ Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/A Gir Named Charie, BMI/Freshy Music, ASCAP/We-Vove Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP (T.Hubbard, B.Keey, N.Gayon, J.M.Schmidt) 21 STAY DOWNTOWN Universa Music Corp., ASCAP/No Bridge Pubishing, ASCAP/Round Hi Songs Big Loud Songs, ASCAP/Big Loud Proud Songs, ASCAP (C. Tayor, M.Dragstrem) 44 SUNDAY MORNING Songs Of Universa, Inc., BMI/Songs By JMT, BMI/EMI Backwood Music Inc., BMI/ Rezoant Music, BMI/Anderson Fork In The Road Music, ASCAP/Kobat Songs Pubishing America, Inc., ASCAP/ Smackvie Music, ASCAP/Smack Songs LLC, ASCAP (M. Thomas, R.Copperman, J.Osborne) 45 SWAY Songs Of Universa, Inc., BMI/One Voice Goba Pubishing, BMI/Cana Music Pubishing BV, BUMA/ Warner/Chappe Music Scandinavia AB, STIM/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Thankfu For This Music, ASCAP (D.Bradbery, J.Fransson, E.Weisband) 53 T THEY DON T KNOW Peertunes, Ltd., SESAC/ Jaron Boyer Music, SESAC/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Music Of The Corn, ASCAP/This Is Magic Mustang Music, ASCAP (J.Boyer, J.Mirenda, K.Aison) 5 THREE CHORDS & THE TRUTH Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI/Dack Janie s Pubishing, BMI/EMI Backwood Music Inc., BMI/Rezoant Music, BMI/EMI Apri Music, Inc., ASCAP (C.Rice, R.Copperman, J.M.Nite) 51 TIL TOMORROW Extremey Corrosive Music, BMI/ Music Of Atas Hodings, BMI/On Cor Music, BMI/PAJ Music, BMI/Write Write Write Music, SESAC/Batter s Box, SESAC/Od Guns And Young Buetts, SESAC (J.Waker, J.McGuire, B.Carper, T.Matthews) 41 TIN MAN Sony/ATV Tree Pubishing, BMI/Pink Dog Pubishing, BMI/Beat Up Ford Pubishing, BMI/BMG Patinum Songs, BMI/SWMBMGBMI, BMI/Lonesome Viny Music, BMI/Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI (M.Lambert, J.Ingram, J.R.Stewart) 31 U UNFORGETTABLE EMI Backwood Music Inc., BMI/ Cricket On The Line, BMI/Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/Songs Of Roc Nation Music, BMI/Teemitry Rhythm House Music, BMI/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/ Sadie s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/Smack Hits, GMR/Smack Songs LLC, GMR/ Kobat Songs Pubishing American, Inc., GMR (Thomas Rhett, J.Frasure, A.Gorey, S.McAnay) 11 W WAITING ON YOU Magic Mustang Music Inc., BMI/Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/Lindsay E Music, BMI/Oe Red Cape Songs, ASCAP/Red Like The Sunset Music, ASCAP/BMG God Songs, ASCAP/Lanercost Pubishing, ASCAP (L.E, A.Hambrick, A.DeRoberts) 46 WAKE ME UP One Litte Indian Creek Music, ASCAP/Songs Of Back River, ASCAP/Extraordinary Aien Pubishing, ASCAP/Universa Music Corp., ASCAP/ Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/Sadie s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP (J.Osborne, J.Robbins, A.Gorey) 59 WHAT IFS Songs Of Universa, Inc., BMI/Kane Brown Music, BMI/Smackworks Music, SESAC/Smack Bue, LLC, SESAC/Kobat Group Music Pubishing, SESAC/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Freshy Music, ASCAP/We-Vove Music, ASCAP (K.Brown, M.McGinn, J.M.Schmidt) 6 WHEN IT RAINS IT POURS Big Machine Music, BMI/Straight Dimes Pubishing, BMI/Works Of RHA Music, BMI/Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/Atas Music Pubishing, ASCAP/Extremey Combustibe Music, BMI/PAJ Music, BMI (L.Combs, R.Fucher, J.Waker) 10 WHEN SOMEONE STOPS LOVING YOU HiarodyRathbone Music, ASCAP/BMG God Songs, ASCAP/Songs Of Universa, Inc., BMI/Pum Ney, BMI/ Maps And Records Music, BMI/Creative Puse Music, BMI/These Are Puse Songs, BMI (H.Lindsey, C.McGi, L.McKenna) 52 Y YOU BROKE UP WITH ME Songs Of Smack, BMI/Spark In Your Pocket, BMI/Songs Of Kobat Music Pubishing America, Inc., BMI/Razor And Tie, APRA/BMG Patinum Songs, BMI (W.Hayes, K.Sackey, T.Archer) 27 YOURS Hibiy Science And Research Pubishing, SESAC/Traieriy Music, SESAC/So Essentia Tunes, SESAC/Not Just Another Song Pubishing, SESAC/BMG Patinum Songs, BMI/Kaiey s Dream, BMI (P.Weing, C.Brown, R.Dickerson) 25

19 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE SEPTEMBER 11, 2017 PAGE 19 OF 20 Hot Country Songs Index TITLE Pubishing-Licensing Org. (Songwriter) Chart Position A ALL ON ME Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/JJ Music Inc., BMI/Neon Cross Music, BMI/Magic Mustang Music Inc., BMI/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Two Sixteen Pubishing, ASCAP (D.Dawson, J.Durrett, A.Smith) 29 ALL THE PRETTY GIRLS Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/A Gir Named Charie, BMI/ BMG Patinum Songs, BMI/SWMBMGBMI, BMI/Once In A Bue Tune Music, BMI/Anderson Fork In The Road Music, ASCAP/Smackvie Music, ASCAP/Kobat Songs Pubishing America, Inc., ASCAP (N.Gayon, T.L.James, J.Osborne) 8 ASK ME HOW I KNOW Roy Rivers Pubishing, BMI (M.Rosse) 22 B BODY LIKE A BACK ROAD Universa Music Corp., ASCAP/Sam Hunt Pubishing, ASCAP/Highy Combustibe Music, ASCAP/I Love Pizza Music, ASCAP/ Songs Of Southside Independent Music Pubishing, LLC, ASCAP/Who Wants To Buy My Pubishing, ASCAP/Atas Music Pubishing, ASCAP/Anderson Fork In The Road Music, ASCAP/Smackvie Music, ASCAP/Kobat Songs Pubishing America, Inc., ASCAP/Smack Hits, GMR/ Kobat Songs Pubishing American, Inc., GMR (S.Hunt, Z.Crowe, J.Osborne, S.McAnay) 1 BOY EMI Apri Music, Inc., ASCAP/Jon Mark Nite Music, ASCAP/Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/A Gir Named Charie, BMI (J.M.Nite, N.Gayon) 47 BROKEN HALOS WB Music Corp., ASCAP/House Of Sea Gaye Music, ASCAP/Spirit Cataog Hodings, S.a.r../ Spirit Two Nashvie, ASCAP/Straight Six Music, BMI (C. Stapeton, M.Henderson) 33 C CALIFORNIA J Money Music, ASCAP/Big Loud Proud Crowd, BMI/Magic Mustang Music Inc., BMI/Victown Music, BMI (J.D.Rich, R.Cawson, V.McGehee) 34 CRAVING YOU BMG God Songs, ASCAP/ Lawnwrangers, ASCAP/Dragon Bunny Music, BMI (D.M.Barnes, J.Bunetta) 12 D DRINKIN PROBLEM WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Jess Carson Pubishing Designee, ASCAP/Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/Vaqueros Gaacticos Pubishing, BMI/Tropica Cowboy Pubishing, ASCAP/Smack Hits, GMR/Kobat Songs Pubishing American, Inc., GMR/ Songs Of Back River, ASCAP/One Litte Indian Creek Music, ASCAP (J.Carson, C.Duddy, M.Wystrach, S.McAnay, J.Osborne) 9 E EVERY LITTLE THING BMG God Songs, ASCAP/ For The Kids Patinum, BMI/7189 Music Pubishing, BMI/Better Boat Music, BMI/Songs Of Endurance, BMI/ Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI (C.Pearce, busbee, E.Shacketon) 11 FIVE MORE MINUTES Dagum Music, BMI/ Spirit Cataog Hodings, S.a.r../Spirit Two Nashvie, ASCAP/House Of Sea Gaye Music, ASCAP/Sony/ATV Tree Pubishing, BMI/Dixey Bar Music, BMI (S.McCreery, R.Rogers, M.Criswe) 37 F FIX A DRINK oe Red Viny Music, BMI/Buckkia Music, BMI/New House Of Sea Gaye Music, ASCAP/ Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/Sadie s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP (C.Janson, C.DuBois, A.Gorey) 18 G A GIRL LIKE YOU Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/Sadie s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Rio Bravo Music, Inc., BMI/Teemitry Productions, BMI/Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/EMI Backwood Music Inc., BMI (A.Gorey, J.Frasure, R.Akins) 30 GOOD COMPANY Curb Congregation Songs, SESAC/Sixteen Stars Music, BMI/HoriPro Entertainment Group, Inc., BMI/Big Dea Beats, BMI (M.Aderman, T.Ceci, J.Muins) 39 GRAVE EMI Apri Music, Inc., ASCAP/CDS Words And Music, ASACP/BMG God Songs, ASCAP/Rezonant Music Pubishing LLC, ASCAP/Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/Songs Of The Corn, BMI/Jack 10 Pubishing, BMI (C. DeStefano, H.Lindsey, J.Mier) 41 GREATEST LOVE STORY Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/Concession 114 Music, BMI/Neon Cross Music, BMI (B.Lancaster) 16 H HAPPENS LIKE THAT Cimbing Windmis Music, BMI/Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/We-Vove Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Freshy Music, ASCAP/Downtown DLJ Songs, ASCAP/Big Loud Mountain, BMI/Round Hi Works, BMI/T Hubb Pubishing, BMI/ Legends Of Magic Mustang Music, SESAC/W.B.M. Music Corp., SESAC (G.Smith, J.M.Schmidt, A.Abert, T.Hubbard, J.Wison) 43 HEARTACHE ON THE DANCE FLOOR Goden Vaut Music, BMI/Rancho Fiesta Music, BMI/ Bi Buter Music, BMI/Bongsongs, SESAC/Wordspring Music, LLC, SESAC/W.B.M. Music Corp., SESAC/Songs Of Song Factroy, BMI/Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI (J.Pardi, B.Buter, B.Long) 5 I I COULD USE A LOVE SONG Internationa Dog Music, BMI/Round Hi Songs Jimmy Robbins, ASCAP/Jammy Rabbins Music, ASCAP/Extraordinary Aien Pubishing, ASCAP/Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/Oh Denise Pubishing, BMI/Big Music Machine, BMI (M.Morris, J.Robbins, L.Vetz) 17 I LL NAME THE DOGS Round Hi Songs BLS JV, ASCAP/Big Loud Proud Songs, ASCAP/Matt Drag Music, ASCAP/Pinetucky Road Pubishing, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Thankfu For This Music, ASCAP/Big Music Machine, BMI/Two Laine Coections, BMI (M.Dragstrem, B.Haysip, J.Thompson) 40 IT AIN T MY FAULT WB Music Corp., ASCAP/ Trampy McCauey, ASCAP/A The Kings Pens, ASCAP/ Songstein Pubishing, ASCAP/Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/The Country And Western Music, BMI (J. Osborne, T.J. Osborne, L.T.Mier) 14 J JUST A PHASE Sony/ATV Tree Pubishing, BMI/ EMI Music Pubishing Austraia Pty Ltd., APRA/EMI Apri Music, Inc., ASCAP/Dontcamebrett Music, BMI (A.Craig, L.Rimes, J.Beavers) 38 L TIME FOR EVERYTHING New House Of Sea Gaye Music, ASCAP/Songs For Margo, ASCAP (B. Paisey, S.Ahnquist, B.Anderson, C.DuBois, M.Ryan) 28 LEGENDS Songs Of Back River, ASCAP/KNB Music, ASCAP/Write Me Like You Mean It, ASCAP/BMG God Songs, ASCAP/Rezonant Music Pubishing LLC, ASCAP (K. Baerini, F.G.Whitehead, H.Lindsey) 32 LIFE CHANGES EMI Backwood Music Inc., BMI/ Cricket On The Line, BMI/Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/Ritten by Rhettro, BMI/Teemitry Rhythm House Music, BMI/Songs Of Roc Nation Music, BMI/ WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Sadie s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/ Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP (Thomas Rhett, R.Akins, J.Frasure, A.Gorey) 25 LIGHT IT UP Sony/ATV Tree Pubishing, BMI/Peanut Mi Songs, BMI/Big Dea Notes, ASCAP/Wooden Ships, ASCAP (L.Bryan, B.Tursi) 15 LIKE I LOVED YOU Super Big Music, ASCAP/ Caivie Pubishing, ASCAP/Big Machine Music, BMI/ oe Purpe Cape Music, BMI/Honey Lee Music, BMI (B. Young, J.Lee) 27 THE LONG WAY Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI/Paris Not France Music, BMI/oe Canaco Pubishing, ASCAP (B. Edredge, M.Rogers) 45 LOSING SLEEP EMI Backwood Music Inc., BMI/ Goodbye Pants Music, BMI/EMI Foray Music, SESAC/ Write 2 Be Free Music, SESAC/CDS Words And Music, ASACP/EMI Apri Music, Inc., ASCAP (C.Young, J.Hoge, C. DeStefano) 20 LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME ALONE Scramber Music, ASCAP/Nationa Dog Music, SESAC/Songs Of Downtown, SESAC (D.Christensen, C.Gebuda) 48 M MORE GIRLS LIKE YOU WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Point Break Pubishing, ASCAP/Music Of The Corn, ASCAP/Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/Jack 10 Pubishing, BMI/Songs Of Cornman, BMI/ Universa Music - Brentwood Benson Pubishing, ASCAP/D Sou Music, ASCAP/Capito CMG Genesis, ASCAP (K.Moore, S.L.Osen, J.Mier, D.A.Garcia) 13 N NO SUCH THING AS A BROKEN HEART Smackvie Music, ASCAP/Smack Songs LLC, ASCAP/ Carrot Seed Songs, ASCAP/Kobat Songs Pubishing America, Inc., ASCAP/ReHits Music, Inc., ASCAP/ Smacktown Music, ASCAP/Smack Bue, LLC, SESAC/Unfair Entertainment, ASCAP/Big Dea Notes, ASCAP/Wooden Ships, ASCAP/Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/ Teemitry Productions, BMI/Songs Of Roc Nation Music, BMI (M.Ramsey, T. Rosen, B.Tursi, J.Frasure) 6 ONES THAT LIKE ME Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/Indiana Ange Music, BMI/ Parae Music Pubishing, LLC, ASCAP/Kobat Songs Pubishing America, Inc., ASCAP/Bobby s Lyrics, Land And Livestock, BMI/Do Write Music, LLC, BMI (B.Gibert, B.Chaffin, B.Pinson) 46 OUTTA STYLE Tunes From HTK, BMI (A.Watson) 31 RING ON EVERY FINGER Big Yeow Dog Music, ASCAP/Major Bob Music, Inc., ASCAP/EMI Backwood Music Inc., BMI/Cricket On The Line, BMI (Thomas Rhett, J.Kear, J.Frasure) 23 O R ROOTS Day For The Dead Pubishing, SESAC/Reach Music Tunes, SESAC/Siva Moon Pubishing, SESAC/W.B.M. Music Corp., SESAC/Simonetti Music Pubishing, SESAC/ Kobat Group Music Pubishing, SESAC/Poppsootamus Music, SESAC (Z.Brown, N.Moon, B.Simonetti, C.Bowes) 49 ROUND HERE BUZZ Sony/ATV Tree Pubishing, BMI/Longer And Louder Music, BMI/Litte Louder Songs, BMI/Mammaw s Fried Okra Music, BMI/Emieon Songs, BMI (E.Church, J.Hyde, L.Dick) 19 S SHE S WITH ME Spruce Road Pubishing, GMR/ Capito CMG Zenith, GMR/Sony/ATV Tunes, GMR/ Centricity Tunes, GMR/CentricSongs, SESAC/The Stennis Mightier Music, BMI/Young Guns Pubishing, LLC, BMI/ Dead Aim Music, BMI/Songs Of Kobat Music Pubishing America, Inc., BMI/Capito CMG Ampifier, SESAC (B. Rempe, S.Mosey, B.Stennis) 42 SINGLES YOU UP Oe 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) 36 SIXTEEN EMI Backwood Music Inc., BMI/Cricket On The Line, BMI/Sony/ATV Baad, BMI/Eastman Pond Pubishing, BMI/Big Dea Beats, BMI/Brodsky Spensive Pubishing, BMI/Nice Life, BMI (Thomas Rhett, S.M.Dougas, Joe London) 44 SMALL TOWN BOY EMI Backwood Music Inc., BMI/Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Thankfu For This Music, ASCAP/Pay It Again Entertainment, BMI/Round Hi Works, BMI (R. Akins, B.Haysip, K.Fishman) 3 SMOOTH Big Loud Mountain, BMI/T Hubb Pubishing, BMI/Pranch Ringe Music, BMI/Round Hi Works, BMI/ Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/A Gir Named Charie, BMI/Freshy Music, ASCAP/We-Vove Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP (T.Hubbard, B.Keey, N.Gayon, J.M.Schmidt) 21 T THEY DON T KNOW Peertunes, Ltd., SESAC/ Jaron Boyer Music, SESAC/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Music Of The Corn, ASCAP/This Is Magic Mustang Music, ASCAP (J.Boyer, J.Mirenda, K.Aison) 10 U UNFORGETTABLE EMI Backwood Music Inc., BMI/ Cricket On The Line, BMI/Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/Songs Of Roc Nation Music, BMI/Teemitry Rhythm House Music, BMI/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/ Sadie s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/Smack Hits, GMR/Smack Songs LLC, GMR/ Kobat Songs Pubishing American, Inc., GMR (Thomas Rhett, J.Frasure, A.Gorey, S.McAnay) 7 W WHAT IFS Songs Of Universa, Inc., BMI/Kane Brown Music, BMI/Smackworks Music, SESAC/Smack Bue, LLC, SESAC/Kobat Group Music Pubishing, SESAC/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Freshy Music, ASCAP/We-Vove Music, ASCAP (K.Brown, M.McGinn, J.M.Schmidt) 2 WHEN IT RAINS IT POURS Big Machine Music, BMI/Straight Dimes Pubishing, BMI/Works Of RHA Music, BMI/Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/Atas Music Pubishing, ASCAP/Extremey Combustibe Music, BMI/PAJ Music, BMI (L.Combs, R.Fucher, J.Waker) 4 WHEN SOMEONE STOPS LOVING YOU HiarodyRathbone Music, ASCAP/BMG God Songs, ASCAP/Songs Of Universa, Inc., BMI/Pum Ney, BMI/ Maps And Records Music, BMI/Creative Puse Music, BMI/These Are Puse Songs, BMI (H.Lindsey, C.McGi, L.McKenna) 50 WRITTEN IN THE SAND ReHits Music, Inc., ASCAP/MeGusta Music, ASCAP/Smacktown Music, ASCAP/Unfair Entertainment, ASCAP/Big Dea Notes, ASCAP/Wooden Ships, ASCAP/Smackvie Music, ASCAP/Smack Songs LLC, ASCAP/Carrot Seed Songs, ASCAP/Kobat Songs Pubishing America, Inc., ASCAP/ Smack Hits, GMR/Smack Songs LLC, GMR/Kobat Songs Pubishing American, Inc., GMR (M.Ramsey, T. Rosen, B.Tursi, S.McAnay) 35 Y YOU BROKE UP WITH ME Songs Of Smack, BMI/Spark In Your Pocket, BMI/Songs Of Kobat Music Pubishing America, Inc., BMI/Razor And Tie, APRA/BMG Patinum Songs, BMI (W.Hayes, K.Sackey, T.Archer) 24 YOURS Hibiy Science And Research Pubishing, SESAC/Traieriy Music, SESAC/So Essentia Tunes, SESAC/Not Just Another Song Pubishing, SESAC/BMG Patinum Songs, BMI/Kaiey s Dream, BMI (P.Weing, C.Brown, R.Dickerson) 26

20 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE CODA 54 Years Ago Ode To Abiene Rued Hot Country Songs In 1963, George Hamiton IV scored his one chart-topper SEPTEMBER 11, 2017 PAGE 20 OF 20 O n S e p t. 14, 19 63, G e o r g e A Rose and a Baby Ruth, which Hamiton IV s Abiene ( Women reached No. 6 on the Top 100, the there don t treat you mean, he predecessor to the Hot 100. He was muses) topped Biboard s Hot inducted into the Grand Oe Opry Country Songs chart for the first of in 1960 and performed Abiene in four weeks. The tae of the Kansas the 1963 movie Hootenanny Hoot. (not Texas) town, written by Bob Hamiton, who died in 2014 at Gibson and John Loudermik, age 77, was considered an eary and produced by Chet Atkins, aso a mbassador of cou nt r y music, crossed over to a No. 15 peak on the h av ing per for med t hroughout Biboard Hot 100. E u r o p e. I n 2016, a n a - s t a r The song became the concert featuring Rodney C rowe, W inston-saem, N.C., native s Rosanne Cash and Emmyou soe Hot C ou nt r y Songs No. 1 Harris, among others, paid tribute among nine top 10s. In 1956, at to Loudermik, who passed away age 19, H amiton broke through that September. An abum from the with a nother L oudermik song, event is due Sept. 15. JIM ASKER Hamiton, circa MICHAEL OCHS ARCHIVES/GETTY IMAGES R EW I N D I N G THE C O U N T RY C H A RT S