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1 Country Update BILLBOARD.COM/NEWSLETTERS FEBRUARY 20, 2018 PAGE 1 OF 25 INSIDE BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE Tom.Roand@biboard.com Kesea Baerini Spins At No. 1 >page 4 ACM Adds Pardi For A Cause >page 13 Toby Keith Rides Siver Trai >page 15 Osbornes, Trace Ad Up >page 15 Makin Tracks: Aaron Watson Revs Horses >page 20 Country Coda: Wade Hayes Did It Better >page 25 What In The Word? Bent Phrasing On The Rebound In Country Just when you thought it was dying, the pun is doing its best to have the ast word in country music. Chris Young hit No. 1 on the Country Airpay chart dated Feb. 10 with a sighty twisted hook: We re winning when we re osing seep. Darius Rucker continues to make headway in the top 20 with the pointed question When was the ast time you did something for the first time? And W a k e r Hayes Yo u Broke Up With Me gets penty of mieage from a cheeky accusation: You made your bed and you didn t want me in it. It s the kind of word pay that country music was buit on. Such tites as George Strait s Nobody in His Right Mind Woud ve Left Her, Jerry Reed s She Got the Godmine (I Got the Shaft) and Garth Brooks Friends in Low Paces used obvious turns of phrases or garing puns to make their point. That kind of vocabuary has become ess common in YOUNG MIDLAND RUCKER recent years, though the newer songs may indicate that the... ahem punduum is swinging back toward cever anguage. Lines that twist around themseves or are amost a pun, those are the cornerstones, the hamarks of country music, says songwriter Josh Osborne ( Leave the Night On, Merry G o R o u n d ). Country music was buit on You say it best when you say nothing at a. But country has undergone radica changes in recent years. It has been most noticeabe in evoving musica textures programmed drums and the EDM infuence, for exampe. But as the format widens, both od-schoo proponents and hip-hop mind-sets are beginning to bring word pay back into vogue. Jon Pardi s traditiona sound was a perfect vehice for the twist in Head Over Boots, whie Midand a trio that takes its name from a punny Dwight Yoakam tite, Fair to Midand was a Grammy Award finaist in January with a YOUNG: DAVID MCCLISTER

2 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE FEBRUARY 20, 2018 PAGE 2 OF 25 far-from-subte punchine: Peope say I got a drinkin probem/but I got no probem drinkin at a. Meanwhie, the rapid-fire verbiage of hip-hop encourages the quirky ateration of famiiar phrases, a tactic Hayes empoys in arge doses on his Monument debut, Boom. I ove cever yrics, says Hayes. I actuay had pubishers that woud encourage me at times to keep it simper, not pack in so much information, but I m a fan of songs and movies and books that the second time you read them, you find more stuff that you missed, so I ike to pay attention to that detai. That s one of the reasons I got into country music, because of the craft of that yric and how much you coud put into three minutes. The voume of that kind of writing has dropped in part because of cutura shifts. Puns were a big piece of the humor in the 1960s variety series The Jimmy Dean Show and the much-maigned 70s TV tite Hee Haw, both of which now air as reruns on cabe s RFD-TV. But the one-iners that produced aughter in that era woud now ikey eicit groans and be dismissed as a dad joke. We re in the cuture of coo right now, says Osborne. If you re working that hard for a joke, it doesn t seem coo to peope. Stand-up comedy refects that now. I think there s ess set up, set up, set up, punchine. It s more conversationa, it s just different. That conversationa eement seems key in what works today. Rucker s When was the ast time you said something for the first time is the kind of sentence that coud conceivaby ro off of someone s tongue in a happy accident. I thought it was genius, says Rucker, who received that hook from cowriter Scooter Carusoe ( Wanna Be That Song, Better As a Memory ). But I thought it was something I woud do or something I woud say. You woudn t even know [that phrase] was a coo, punny thing unti it came out see what I did there? In fact, the biggest country song of 2017, Sam Hunt s Body Like a Back Road, cruised a fine dotted ine as it handed word pay with speed-imit references and comparisons of the femae anatomy to a street. Osborne and his feow writers removed a series of other metaphors, beieving they were too far over the top. We make cheese jokes a the time, ike, Man, I don t know, dude. That s white cheddar right there, says songwriter Michae Hardy ( Up Down ). That s when you know it s too much. Up Down, the current Morgan Waen/Forida Georgia Line tite, may be the epitome of subtety. Its hook ine We ive it up, down here is so obscure that one of the song s writers, C.J. Soar, received a phone ca from his father neary two years after the song was written: I just got it! An appreciation sti exists, of course, for those od-schoo tites. Don Schitz, who crafted When You Say Nothing at A and the Randy Travis cassic On the Other Hand ( there s a goden band ), entered the Country Music Ha of Fame in fa Aan Jackson, whose tites incude She s Got the Rhythm (I Got the Bues), was recenty announced as a 2018 Songwriters Ha of Fame inductee. Vern Gosdin entered the Nashvie Songwriters Ha of Fame behind Right in the Wrong Direction and If You re Gonna Do Me Wrong (Do It Right). And Bob DiPiero was named a BMI Icon for a career that has featured Pam Tiis Ceopatra, Queen of Denia, Restess Heart s That Rock Won t Ro and the Brooks & Dunn hook You can take the gir out of the honky-tonk, but you can t take the honky-tonk out of the gir. It s kind of an intuitive thing of how far is too far and how not enough is not enough, says DiPiero. I m aways trying to find that tightrope and wak that ine. The ine has ceary moved. The Beamy Brothers If I Said You Have a Beautifu Body Woud You Hod It Against Me, Ronnie McDowe s You re Gonna Ruin My Bad Reputation, Faron Young s I Miss You Aready (And You re Not Even Gone) or Gary Stewart s She s Actin Singe (I m Drinkin Doubes) woud now be abeed dad jokes in some quarters (even though they once made a ot of... uh... cents). But not by everyone. A ot of the songwriting that we reay admired from the 70s, 80s and 90s had a wit and a itte bit of humor, notes Midand vocaist Mark Wystrach. That s the kind of music that we reay ove. It s aden with sou, and it s aso a way to make a beautifu song about a dark pace or a dark thing. Midand is not aone in its reverence for doube entendres and crooked ines. Luke Combs abum cut Nothing picks me up ike a beer can and Kacey Musgraves Mind your own biscuits and ife wi be gravy show that country s current generation is doing its best to be cever, but not contrived. There s a very fine ine, says DiPiero, between stupid and a quarter of a miion doars. Big Loud artist Jiian Jacqueine performed her current singe, Reasons, when she made her Grand Oe Opry debut Feb. 13. From eft are Opry GM Say Wiiams, Jacqueine and Opry member Lorrie Morgan. Sara Evans headined when the CMT Next Women of Country Tour aunched Feb. 12 at B.B. King s Bues Cub in New York. From eft are Biboard vp charts & data deveopment Sivio Pietrouongo, Evans, Coective Artist Management s Craig Dunn and The Orchard senior vp product deveopment Aan Becker. MCA Nashvie artist Jordan Davis gave an acoustic performance in February for staff at the Country Music Association, incuding three members of the CMA s awards & industry reations department. From eft are department assistant Angea Strader, Davis, department senior director Brandi Simms and department manager Brenden Oiver. Atantic/Warner Music Nashvie artist Ashey McBryde (center) visited KXLY Spokane, Wash., as she worked her debut singe, A Litte Dive Bar In Dahonega. She s shown goofing around with KXLY assistant PD/music director Tim Cotter and W.A.R. West Coast manager of regiona radio and streaming Raffaea Braun. JACQUELINE: CHRIS HOLLO; DAVIS: HUNTER BERRY

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4 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE FEBRUARY 20, 2018 PAGE 4 OF 25 ON THE CHARTS JIM ASKER jim.asker@biboard.com Kesea Baerini Coects Fourth Country Airpay No. 1 With Legends Kesea Baerini s Legends (Back River) ascends 2-1 in its 37th week on Biboard s Country Airpay chart (dated Feb. 24). The song caims Most Increased Audience honors, eaping by 14 percent to 38.6 miion audience impressions in the week ending Feb. 18, according to Niesen Music. The coronation marks the singer-songwriter s fourth No. 1. The 24-year-od Baerini co-wrote Legends with Hiary Lindsey and Forest Gen Whitehead. The baad is the ead singe from Baerini s second fu-ength, Unapoogeticay, which debuted at its No. 3 high on the Top Country Abums chart dated Nov. 25, Was Legends Baerini s natura pick as the abum s maiden singe? Yes and no, she tes Biboard. I ove that the meaning of the yrics can change depending on the perspective you isten to it with, and I reay fet ike it covered the heartbreak, ife and ove story that sums up Unapoogeticay as an abum. It was definitey not the easiest radio pick, just being a midtempo story-driven song, but that makes seeing it go to No. 1 even sweeter. Baerini scored her first Country Airpay No. 1 on the Juy 4, 2015, chart with her debut singe, Love Me Like You Mean It. The song made her the first woman to top the tay with a aunch format singe since Carrie Underwood, whose Jesus, Take the Whee ed the BALLERINI ist dated Jan. 21, The success that Love Me had was surrea for our whoe team, says Baerini. I think it got the shot it did because of the women before me: Shania [Twain], Carrie, Faith [Hi], Reba [McEntire]. I hope to keep bazing the trai behind them, but definitey don t consider mysef the soo ceiing-breaker. I reay beieve that good music and hard work wi find its way, and we re seeing that right now with Cary Pearce, Maren Morris, Waker Hayes and Brett Young. After Love Me (which reached the Country Airpay summit in its 38th week), Baerini reigned with Dibs (March 5, 2016) and Peter Pan (Sept. 24, 2016). The atter two songs took 34 and 26 weeks, respectivey, to hit No. 1. Yeah Boy, the fourth singe from her first fu-ength, The First Time, peaked at No. 3 (May 13, 2017). Since Baerini initiay topped Country Airpay, her four eaders rank first among women. Lauren Aaina, Morris and Underwood foow with two each in that span. On Hot Country Songs, which bends streaming, airpay and saes data, Legends ifts into the top 10 (11-10). Baerini earns her fifth top 10 on the chart, where Peter Pan few to No. 1 for two weeks. MEANT TO REIGN Bebe Rexha and Forida Georgia Line s crossover hit Meant to Be (Warner Bros./Big Machine Labe Group) tops Hot Country Songs for a 12th week. On the a-genre Biboard Hot 100, it rises to a new peak (9-7). Part of the driver for Meant is its mutiformat support at both pop and country radio, where it s being duay promoted. On Country Airpay, it jumps 20-16, up 12 percent to 13.8 miion impressions, and it buets at No. 13 on both Pop Songs and Adut Pop Songs. NEW COUNTRY AIRPLAY TOP 10s Luke Bryan banks his 25th top 10, and 24th in succession (counting singes promoted to country radio and excuding hoiday fare), as Most Peope Are Good (Capito Nashvie) cimbs 12-8 (24.1 miion, up 8 percent) on the chart. Starting with 2008 s No. 10-peaking Country Man, Bryan s second Country Airpay top 10, a of his officia singes have reached the top tier, and his ast 10 prior to Peope have hit No. 1, which is the ongest current streak among a artists. He boasts the third-ongest active top 10 streak, after Keith Urban (38) and Carrie Underwood (26). Brett Edredge banks his seventh top 10 as The Long Way (Atantic/Warner Music Nashvie) rises 11-9 (23.6 miion, up ess than 1 percent). Meanwhie, Jordan Davis notches his first top 10 as his debut hit, Singes You Up (MCA Nashvie), strides (22.2 miion, up 6 percent). BALLERINI: MIKE COPPOLA/GETTY IMAGES FOR DIRECTV

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8 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE FEBRUARY 20, 2018 PAGE 8 OF 25 THIS LAST WKS ON CHART TITLE Imprint/Labe Artist AUDIENCE (IN MILLIONS) THIS +/ THIS +/ RANK LEGENDS Back River HH No. 1 (1 week)/most Increased Audience HH Kesea Baerini WRITTEN IN THE SAND RCA Nashvie Od Dominion FIVE MORE MINUTES Tripe Tigers Scotty McCreery MARRY ME Vaory Thomas Rhett BROKEN HALOS Mercury Chris Stapeton YOURS Tripe Tigers Russe Dickerson ALL ON ME Atantic/WEA Devin Dawson MOST PEOPLE ARE GOOD Capito Nashvie Luke Bryan THE LONG WAY Atantic/WMN Brett Edredge SINGLES YOU UP MCA Nashvie Jordan Davis SHE S WITH ME Atantic/WEA High Vaey FEMALE Hit Red/Capito Nashvie Keith Urban FOR THE FIRST TIME Capito Nashvie Darius Rucker YOU MAKE IT EASY Macon/Broken Bow HH Airpower HH Jason Adean HAPPENS LIKE THAT Wheehouse Granger Smith MEANT TO BE Warner Bros./BMLG HH Airpower HH Bebe Rexha & Forida Georgia Line BOY Curb Lee Brice EVERYTHING S GONNA BE ALRIGHT Bue Chair/Reviver HH Airpower HH David Lee Murphy & Kenny Chesney I LIVED IT Warner Bros./WMN Bake Sheton HEAVEN Zone 4/RCA Nashvie HH Airpower HH Kane Brown ONES THAT LIKE ME Vaory Brantey Gibert WOMAN, AMEN Capito Nashvie Dierks Bentey UP DOWN BMLG/Big Loud Morgan Waen Featuring Forida Georgia Line GET TO YOU Atantic/WEA Michae Ray THE REST OF OUR LIFE McGraw/Arista Nashvie Tim McGraw & Faith Hi CRIMINAL Stoney Creek Lindsay E TAKE BACK HOME GIRL Big Loud Chris Lane Featuring Tori Key ONE NUMBER AWAY River House/Coumbia Nashvie Luke Combs Country Airpay SHE AIN T IN IT Capito Nashvie Jon Pardi KISS SOMEBODY Warner Bros./WEA HH Breaker/ Most Added HH Morgan Evans PLAYS AIRPLAY MONITORED BY BILLBOARD COUNTRY AIRPLAY PANEL 148 STATIONS Akron, OH Abany, N.Y. Abuquerque, N.M. Aentown, Pa. Atanta Augusta, Ga. Austin, Texas Bakersfied, Caif. Batimore Baton Rouge, La. Birmingham, Aa. Boise, Idaho Boston Buffao, N.Y. Chareston, S.C. Charotte, N.C. Chattanooga, Tenn. Chicago Cincinnati Ceveand Coorado Springs, Coo. Coumbia, S.C. Coumbus, Ohio Corpus Christi, Texas Daas Dayton, Ohio Denver Des Moines, Iowa Detroit WQMX WGNA KBQI KRST WCTO WKHX WUBL WKXC KASE KUZZ WPOC WYNK WDXB WZZK KAWO KIZN WBWL WKLB WYRK WEZL WKKT WSOC WUSY WEBG WUSN WUBE WGAR KATC WCOS WCOL KRYS KPLX KSCS WHKO KYGO KHKI WDRQ WYCD E Paso, Texas Ft. Myers, Fa. Ft. Wayne, Ind. Fresno, Caif. Gainesvie, Fa. Grand Rapids, Mich. Greensboro, N.C. Greenvie, S.C. Harrisburg, Pa. Hartford, Conn. Houston Huntsvie, Aa. Indianapois Jacksonvie, Fa. Johnson City, Tenn. Kansas City Knoxvie, Tenn. Lafayette, La. Lakeand, Fa. Las Vegas Lexington, Ky. Litte Rock, Ark. Los Angees Louisvie, Ky. Madison, Wis. McAen, Texas Memphis KHEY WCKT WWGR WQHK KSKS WOGK WBCT WTQR WSSL WRBT WWYZ KILT KKBQ WDRM WFMS WLHK WGNE WQIK WXBQ KBEQ WDAF KFKF WCYQ WIVK KMDL WPCV KCYE KWNR WBUL KSSN KKGO WAMZ WQNU WWQM WMAD KTEX WGKX WLFP Miami Miwaukee Minneapois Mobie, Aa. Monmouth/Ocean, N.J. Monterey, Caif.. Nashvie Nassau, N.Y. New Bern, N.C. New Oreans New York Norfok, Va. Okahoma City, Oka. Omaha, Neb. Orando, Fa. Oxnard-Ventura, CA Phiadephia Phoenix Pittsburgh Portand, Maine Portand, Ore. Providence, R.I. Raeigh, N.C. Reno, Nevada Richmond, Va. Riverside, Caif. Roanoke, Va. WKIS WMIL KEEY KMNB WKSJ WKMK KTOM WKDF WSIX WJVC WRNS WNOE WNSH WGH WUSH KJKE KTST KXKT WWKA KHAY WXTU KMLE KNIX WDSY WOGI WPGB WPOR WTHT KUPL KWJJ WCTK WNCB WQDR KBUL KOLC WKHK KFRG WSLC Rochester, N.Y. Sacramento, Caif. St. Louis Sat Lake City San Antonio, Texas San Diego San Jose, Caif. Sarasota, Fa. Seatte Spokane, Wash. Springfied, Mass. Stockton, Caif. Syracuse, N.Y. Tampa, Fa. Tucson, Ariz. Tusa, Oka. Visaia, Caif. Washington, D.C. West Pam Beach, Fa. Wichita, Kan. Wikes Barre, Pa. Wimington, De. York, Pa. WBEE KBEB KNCI KNTY KSD WIL KSOP KUBL KAJA KCYY KSON KRTY WCTQ KKWF KMPS KXLY WRNX KATM WBBS WFUS WQYK KIIM KVOO KWEN KJUG WMZQ WIRK KFDI KZSN WGGY WXCY WGTY

9 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE FEBRUARY 20, 2018 PAGE 9 OF 25 THIS LAST WKS ON CHART TITLE Imprint/Labe Artist AUDIENCE (IN MILLIONS) THIS +/ THIS +/ RANK THREE CHORDS & THE TRUTH Dack Janies/Broken Bow Chase Rice HEART BREAK Capito Nashvie Lady Antebeum HOOKED Curb Dyan Scott KINDA DON T CARE Vaory Justin Moore DRUNK GIRL Warner Bros./WAR HH Breaker HH Chris Janson A LITTLE DIVE BAR IN DAHLONEGA Atantic/WAR Ashey McBryde DOIN FINE 19/Interscope/Mercury Lauren Aaina TEQUILA Warner Bros./WAR Dan + Shay I GOT THIS Curb Jerrod Niemann WILD WEST Wheehouse Runaway June SHOOT ME STRAIGHT EMI Nashvie Brothers Osborne HIDE THE WINE Big Machine Cary Pearce STILL THE SAME Big Machine Sugarand DIANE Arista Nashvie Cam LAST SHOT MCA Nashvie Kip Moore DON T GET BETTER THAN THAT Reviver LOCASH HELL IF I KNOW Red Bow Chase Bryant MERCY BMLG Brett Young BORN TO LOVE YOU Arista Nashvie LANCO NEW RICH Coumbia Nashvie HH Hot Shot Debut HH Maren Morris GUNS & ROSES Cod River Drew Badridge AMERICAN ROCK N ROLL Top Dog/BMG/Broken Bow Kid Rock NEW BEST SHOT Stoney Creek Jimmie Aen NEW SOMETHING BOUT YOU Southern Ground/Eektra/WAR Sir Rosevet COUNTRY SONG Amost Country/Thirty Tigers Casey Donahew CHILLS Universa Music Canada James Barker Band NEW REASONS Big Loud Jiian Jacqueine NEW HANGIN ON RCA Nashvie Chris Young Country Airpay 59 RE-ENTRY SIXTEEN Vaory Thomas Rhett HEY MAMA Reviver Michae Tyer PLAYS AIRPLAY MONITORED BY GOING FOR ADDS JASON KEMPIN/GETTY IMAGES FOR CRS 53 JIMMIE ALLEN Best Shot The singer-songwriter, who is originay from Deaware, makes his Biboard chart debut. The baad rockets by 837 percent to 510,000 audience impressions and arrives on Country Airpay at No /26 BRAD PUCKETT Carry Your Memory With Me SMG Nashvie CAIOMHE (QUEE-VA) Live Like A Song Spin Doctors COLE SWINDELL Break Up In The End Warner Bros./WMN CURTIS BRALY Hate Me Go Time DENNY STRICKLAND Caifornia Dreamin Red Star KEEPER OF THE PLAINS Keep On Roin BarFrog 3/5 DAVE MCELROY Nowhere With You Free Fow/Grassroots/ Grapevine JAMES DUPRE Hurt Good Grassroots MACY MARTIN Take It Now GTR Nashvie/Kent Wes RUSSELL DICKERSON Bue Tacoma Tripe Tigers SOUTHERN HALO Anything Is Possibe Southern Hao

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11 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE FEBRUARY 20, 2018 PAGE 11 OF 25 Country Airpay AIRPLAY MONITORED BY MOST ADDED TITLE Imprint/Labe Artist ADDS KISS SOMEBODY Warner Bros./WEA Morgan Evans 33 YOU MAKE IT EASY Macon/Broken Bow Jason Adean 21 I LIVED IT Warner Bros./WMN Bake Sheton 17 RICH Coumbia Nashvie Maren Morris 14 ONE NUMBER AWAY River House/Coumbia Nashvie Luke Combs 11 MERCY BMLG Brett Young 11 BEST SHOT Stoney Creek Jimmie Aen 10 MEANT TO BE Warner Bros/BMLG Bebe Rexha & Forida Georgia Line 7 HEAVEN Zone 4/RCA Nashvie Kane Brown 5 WOMAN, AMEN Capito Nashvie Dierks Bentey 5 MOST INCREASED AUDIENCE TITLE Imprint/Labe Artist GAIN (IN MIILIONS) LEGENDS Back River Kesea Baerini YOU MAKE IT EASY Macon/Broken Bow Jason Adean FIVE MORE MINUTES Tripe Tigers Scotty McCreery KISS SOMEBODY Warner Bros./WEA Morgan Evans BROKEN HALOS Mercury Chris Stapeton I LIVED IT Warner Bros./WMN Bake Sheton MOST PEOPLE ARE GOOD Capito Nashvie Luke Bryan MEANT TO BE Warner Bros./BMLG Bebe Rexha & Forida Georgia Line MARRY ME Vaory Thomas Rhett SINGLES YOU UP MCA Nashvie Jordan Davis TITLE Imprint/Labe NEW AND ACTIVE Artist RECURRENTS TOTAL AUDIENCE TOTAL STATIONS YOU GOT EM ALL Big Machine Trent Harmon RUN WILD HORSES BIG Labe Aaron Watson WORTH IT BMLG Daniee Bradbery NEVER HAD A FIRST TIME Not Listed Travis Marvin I M HOME Not Listed Bo Garza BARE FEET True To The Song Caroine Jones THIS TITLE Imprint/Labe Artist TOTAL AUD. (IN MILLIONS) 1 LIKE I LOVED YOU BMLG Brett Young LOSING SLEEP RCA Nashvie Chris Young GREATEST LOVE STORY Arista Nashvie LANCO YOU BROKE UP WITH ME Monument/Arista Nashvie Waker Hayes A GIRL LIKE YOU Mercury Easton Corbin SMALL TOWN BOY Broken Bow Dustin Lynch WHAT IFS Zone 4/RCA Nashvie Kane Brown Feat. Lauren Aaina UNFORGETTABLE Vaory Thomas Rhett BODY LIKE A BACK ROAD MCA Nashvie Sam Hunt MAKE A LITTLE Big Machine Midand ADDS MOST INCREASED PLAYS TITLE Imprint/Labe Artist GAIN LEGENDS Back River Kesea Baerini +878 YOU MAKE IT EASY Macon/Broken Bow Jason Adean +723 BROKEN HALOS Mercury Chris Stapeton +644 KISS SOMEBODY Warner Bros./WEA Morgan Evans +639 FIVE MORE MINUTES Tripe Tigers Scotty McCreery +632 I LIVED IT Warner Bros./WMN Bake Sheton +527 MOST PEOPLE ARE GOOD Capito Nashvie Luke Bryan +415 MARRY ME Vaory Thomas Rhett +353 MEANT TO BE Warner Bros./BMLG Bebe Rexha & Forida Georgia Line +346 SINGLES YOU UP MCA Nashvie Jordan Davis +317 BILLBOARD COUNTRY BOXSCORE Gross Artist Attendance Ticket Price(s) Venue/Date(s) Capacity Promoter(s) $338,194 LITTLE BIG TOWN 6,099 $57.50, $24.50 Frank Erwin Center, Austin, Texas/Feb. 9 7,460 $131,640 LUKE COMBS 5,036 $30, $25 DetaPex, Grand Rapids, Mich./Feb. 9 seout $101,280 LUKE COMBS 3,671 $35, $25 SeaGate Convention Centre, Toedo, Ohio/Feb. 1 seout $100,540 LUKE COMBS 3,684 $30, $25 1st Summit Arena, Johnstown, Pa./Feb. 10 seout AEG PRESENTS FPC LIVE, NS2 FPC LIVE, NS2 FPC LIVE, NS2 $72,971 DWIGHT YOAKAM 1,297 NEDERLANDER $75, $40 City Nationa Grove, Anaheim, Caif./Nov. 30 seout CONCERTS 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 FEBRUARY 18, 2018 THIS LAST WKS ON CHART TITLE (Labe) ARTIST TW SPINS NOT TOO FAR TO REACH (Independent) HH 1 Week at 1 HH Jake Ward HANK (Independent) Whiskey Myers BORN TO DIE (Independent) Curtis Grimes AIRPORT KISS (Independent) Jon Wofe DEVIL S DONE WITH ME (Independent) TJ Broscoff GOOD PEOPLE (Independent) Josh Grider HELL OF A HIGHWAY (Independent) Jake Worthington STILL THINK ABOUT YOU (Independent) Wiiam Cark Green WHAT THE HEAVEN (Kye Park Music) Kye Park BE THE REVIVAL (Red Dirt Legend) Brandon Jenkins SPINS +/ THIS LAST WKS ON CHART TITLE (Labe) ARTIST TW SPINS MISTAKES (Independent) Jesse Raub Jr WHAT I DO (Independent) Mark Powe REAL (Independent) Jamie Richards EVERY TIME YOU RUN (Independent) Frank Ray YOU DON T HAVE TO BE LONELY (Independent) Josh Ward LOOK WHO S HURTING NOW (Independent) Cay Hois IF I SAY I LOVE YOU (CONSIDER ME DRUNK) (BGM) Johnny Bush w/ Reckess Key THE HOUSEFIRE (Independent) Turnpike Troubadours SO LONG 6TH STREET (Bowen Sounds) Wade Bowen HELL OF A YEAR (Independent) Parker McCoum 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 2018, Texas Regiona Radio Report

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13 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE FEBRUARY 20, 2018 PAGE 13 OF 25 NASHVILLE & NATIONAL TOM ROLAND Waker Hayes met up with WUSY Chattanooga staff when he opened for Kesea Baerini at the Tivoi Theatre. From eft: WUSY personaity Greg StyckMan Owens, Entercom/Chattanooga (Tenn.) senior vp programming Justin Coe, Hayes, WUSY personaity Keey Bradshaw and Entercom/Chattanooga (Tenn.) promotions director Tyer Stanse. ACM, CAROLINA GET FESTIVE Kesea Baerini, Montgomery Gentry, Od Dominion and Jon Pardi are among the eary participants as the Academy of Country Music unveied part of the taent ineup for its annua ACM Party for a Cause benefit concerts Apri in Las Vegas. Spread across severa ocations ahead of the Apri 15 ACM Awards, the new additions to the performers ist aso incude Chris Lane, Michae Ray, Kip Moore and Kane Brown, expanding on a previousy announced songwriter event that teams Thomas Rhett and Lee Brice with composers Ashey Gorey ( Marry Me ), Lori McKenna ( Humbe and Kind ) and Shane McAnay ( Femae ). The ACM news comes as other festivas soidify pans for the spring and summer. Other festiva headines incude: The Caroina Country Music Fest added Devin Dawson, Morgan Waen and Russe Dickerson among a handfu of acts for its June 7-10 run in Myrte Beach, S.C. Previousy announced taent incudes Luke Bryan, Toby Keith and Zac Brown Band. The Tortuga Music Festiva unveied detais about its Conservation Viage, which counts turte and shark conservation, cora reef degradation and overfishing among the issues it hopes to educate attendees about. Draws at the Apri 6-8 event in Fort Lauderdae, Fa., incude Keith Urban, Forida Georgia Line and Dwight Yoakam. Merefest producers unveied Steep Canyon Rangers, The Jerry Dougas Band, Jim Lauderdae and Buddy Mier as add-ons for its existing ineup Apri in Wikesboro, N.C. Previousy announced attractions incude Kris Kristofferson, Jamey Johnson and Rodney Crowe. MOVERS & SHAKERS Luke Bryan, Keith Urban and Dustin Lynch are among at east a dozen acts set to perform May 5 during the fifth annua iheartcountry Festiva at the Frank Erwin Center in Austin. iheartmedia personaity Bobby Bones wi host, with the chain s country stations airing it ive KSCS Daas-Fort Worth hired A Farb as assistant PD/afternoon drive host. He was previousy executive producer/air personaity at KKBQ/KTHT Houston Cox Media/ Tusa (Oka.) promoted Nate Reed to radio operations manager for the market, incuding country KWEN. He was most recenty hot adut contemporary KRAV director of branding and programming Marty Young wi join the KVOO Tusa, Oka., morning team on March 5, foowing a stint at WQCR Raeigh, N.C. Cherry Creek Media sod four Coorado stations to 25-7 Media/Lamar, Co., The Puebo Chieftain reported. Two of them are country outets: KLMR- FM Lamar and KTHN La Junta Edison Research vp Megan Lazovick was named one of Cynopsis Media s top women in digita for 2018 KNUC Seatte hired a new morning team Tim Leary, Caire Bevery and Karen Red Daiss InsideRadio.com reported. The trio hed the same shift at WUBB Savannah, Ga., the past three years Lindsay Lazar joined iheartmedia/chicago as genera saes manager for three stations, incuding country WEBG, according to InsideRadio.com. She arrives from the saes manager post at crosstown Entercom/Chicago WMIL Miwaukee promoted Quinn to assistant PD/ music director, Takers.com reported. She continues to hod down an air shift WKDO Evansvie, Ind., brand manager/morning host Dave Fieds Warner Music Nashvie artist exited the market to host morning Cae Dodds (right) aided WCOL drive at adut contemporary WMSX Coumbus, Ohio, PD Dan Zuko in Buffao, N.Y., according to Takers. performing as three coupes got com, eaving WKDO in the market married at a oca Waffe House on for a new brand manager WIOV Vaentine s Day. Lancaster, Pa., morning host Jerry Murphy died Feb. 14. He hed the position for neary 20 years. ROUND THE ROW Emiee Warner joined Warner Music Nashvie as senior director of artist deveopment, foowing a run as Cracker Barre associate marketing manager of music Iconic Entertainment hired Aicia Jones as artist manager to hande day-to-day management of Kesea Baerini. She spent the previous decade in a simiar roe with Montgomery Gentry Jerry Duncan Promotions/Duncan Music Group upped Lisa Smoot to vp from director of promotions. Reach her here Een Truey opened a marketing firm, Een Truey Consuting, with SESAC PRO onboard as her first cient. She was most recenty SESAC senior vp corporate reations. Reach her here Big Yeow Dog Music hired two empoyees for its fim/tv sync department. Fim/TV sync creative manager Sophie Hopkins arrives from Los Angeesbased Heavy Hitters Music Group, where she was music coordinator. Fim/ TV sync creative coordinator Heather Kein is a recent Midde Tennessee State University grad who interned at the pubishing company Heather Trotter joined 117 Management as pubicity manager after interning for the firm Knitting Factory Presents signed a dea to excusivey book True, a music venue inside the new Cambria Hote at 118 Eighth Ave. S. in Nashvie. KFP senior taent buyer Dave Poe is the responsibe executive Fidder Nathan Adridge wi join buegrass band Russe Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out in March Former country artist Danny Gokey signed a recording dea with Capito Christian Music Group David Frizze s Nashvie America abe signed a distribution dea with Sony s The Orchard and added Kentucky-bred Sarah Patrick to the roster Wiiam Shatner agreed to a recording dea with Heartand Nashvie Songwriter Liz Hengber ( It s Your Ca, For My Broken Heart ) signed a pubishing dea with Given Music The T.J. Marte Cam chatted on Vaentine s Day with Taste of Country Nights host Sam Aex as she promoted her current singe, Diane. Foundation Young Professionas Advisory Counci wi hod its third annua Downtown Derby Bed Race on May 5 to raise money for cancer. Go here for more info.

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15 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE FEBRUARY 20, 2018 PAGE 15 OF 25 NASHVILLE & NATIONAL TOM ROLAND MUSIC NOTES Hi, ho, siver anniversary! Toby Keith is ceebrating 25 years since the reease of his first singe, Shoud ve Been a Cowboy, on Feb. 12, He has thus dubbed his 2018 concert schedue the Shoud ve Been a Cowboy Tour XXV. The current ist of dates begins with an Apri 6 show in Sat Lake City and ends Aug. 2 in Davenport, Iowa. It puts Keith in Myrte Beach, S.C., on June 8, three days after the 25th anniversary of Cowboy becoming his first No. 1 singe. Kenny Rogers aso has a miestone concert on the books this summer: An Aug. 25 date with Linda Davis at the Livewire Festiva in Backpoo, Engand, is being haied as the ast U.K. performance of Rogers career. Brothers Osborne and Trace Adkins have both signed on as participants in corporate marketing efforts. The Osbornes are being featured in Frye Footwear s Hometown Pride advertising campaign, with images shot by Gregory Harris. Viny copies of the duo s new abum, Port Saint KEITH Joe, wi be sod in some Frye ocations beginning Apri 20. Adkins meanwhie began appearing Feb. 13 as the voice for Farmer Boys in commercias with the sogan Farm food ain t fast food. The Farmer Boys farm-to-tabe chain boasts 91 restaurants in Caifornia and Nevada. Even after the Winter Oympics concude in Pyeongchang, South Korea, Americans may find themseves curious about their nation s reationship to that part of the word. One way to expore the connection is through a Bear Famiy box set, Batteground Korea: Songs and Sounds of America s Forgotten War, due March 23. The four-disc, 121-track mutigenre set incudes country tites by the ikes of Ernest Tubb, The Louvin Brothers, The Osborne Brothers, Tex Ritter and Jean Shepard. Gene Autry wrote one of the set s songs, Od Sodiers Never Die (No. 9, 1951), in response to a Gen. Dougas MacArthur speech and recorded it the day after MacArthur addressed Congress. BMG pans to pubish Hotter Than a Pepper Sprout: A Hibiy Poet s Journey From Appaachia to Yae to Writing Hits for Evis, Johnny Cash & More on Apri 3. The book is the autobiography of songwriter Biy Edd Wheeer and takes its tite from his most enduring composition, the Johnny Cash/June Carter duet Jackson. ON THIS DATE IN COUNTRY MUSIC Feb Josh Turner s Why Don t We Just Dance steps to No. 1 to start a fourweek run atop the Biboard country singes chart Randy Travis performs Forever and Ever, Amen as the musica guest on a Tom Hanks-hosted episode of Saturday Night Live on NBC. TURNER Feb Future Forida Georgia Line member Brian Keey attends his first concert, a Backstreet Boys performance at the House of Bues in Orando, Fa. Feb Garth Brooks is announced as a 2011 inductee in the Songwriters Ha of Fame aong with Leon Russe, Aen Toussaint and John Bettis. Feb Jon Pardi moves from Caifornia to Nashvie. Feb Capito reeases the Litte Big Town abum The Breaker Gen Campbe records Rhinestone Cowboy in the first of four sessions for the song at Sound Labs in Hoywood. Feb Keith Urban performs John Cougar, John Deere, John 3:16 for the first time pubicy at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashvie during a Universa Music Group showcase on the opening day of the Country Radio Seminar Arista reeases Brad Paisey s Beat This Summer to radio. Feb Wiie Neson rides in the Krewe of Bacchus Mardi Gras parade in New Oreans Terrorists bomb New York s Word Trade Center, whie just a few bocks away, Steve Wariner has a photo shoot for the cover of his abum Drive. Source: RoandNote.com, the Utimate Country Music Database Top Headines from Cick on headines beow for more detais.com Spotify Cose To Creating Its First Physica Products Universa Music Group Saw 10 Percent Revenue Growth In 2017 Digita Agency WMA Opens Nashvie Office Judge Rues News Pubishers Vioated Copyright By Embedding Tweets Venue Firms Vie To Run L.A. s Greek Theatre, Despite Miions In Needed Upgrades Pop singer-songwriter Kesha joined a trio of country artists on Feb. 13 at A for the Ha, a benefit in New York for the Country Music Ha of Fame and Museum. From eft: Museum CEO Kye Young, Emmyou Harris, Kesha and Vince Gi.

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17 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE FEBRUARY 20, 2018 PAGE 17 OF 25 Hot Country Songs SALES, AIRPLAY & STREAMING DATA COMPILED BY LANGSTON: MAT HAYWARD/GETTY IMAGES; STAPLETON: CHRISTOPHER POLK/GETTY IMAGES FOR NARAS 7 TWO S AGO THIS LAST WKS ON CHART TITLE PRODUCER (SONGWRITER) Artist IMPRINT / PROMOTION LABEL MEANT TO BE HH No. 1 (12 weeks)/digita & Airpay Gainer HH Bebe Rexha & Forida Georgia Line WILSHIRE (B.REXHA,T.HUBBARD,J.MILLER,D.A.GARCIA) WARNER BROS./BMLG MARRY ME Thomas Rhett D.HUFF,J.FRASURE,THOMAS RHETT (THOMAS RHETT,J.FRASURE,A.GORLEY,S.MCANALLY) VALORY YOU MAKE IT EASY HH Streaming Gainer HH Jason Adean M.KNOX (T.HUBBARD,B.KELLEY,M.WALLEN,J.M.SCHMIDT) MACON/BROKEN BOW FIVE MORE MINUTES Scotty McCreery F.ROGERS (S.MCCREERY,F.ROGERS,M.CRISWELL) TRIPLE TIGERS WRITTEN IN THE SAND Od Dominion S.MCANALLY (M.RAMSEY,T. ROSEN,B.TURSI,S.MCANALLY) RCA NASHVILLE HEAVEN Kane Brown D.HUFF (S.CARTER,M.MCGINN,L.RIMES) ZONE 4/RCA NASHVILLE BROKEN HALOS Chris Stapeton D.COBB,C.STAPLETON (C.STAPLETON,M.HENDERSON) MERCURY YOURS Russe Dickerson CHRIS STAPLETON Haos C.BROWN (P.WELLING,C.BROWN,R.DICKERSON) Hoding at its No. 7 high on Hot Country Songs in its 44th week, Haos hops 8-5 on Country Airpay (31.5 miion impressions, up 11 percent), marking Stapeton s first top five hit. His first and ony other Country Airpay top 10, Nobody to Bame, peaked at No. 10 in JON LANGSTON When It Comes to Loving You TRIPLE TIGERS YOU BROKE UP WITH ME Waker Hayes S.MCANALLY (W.HAYES,K.SACKLEY,T.ARCHER) MONUMENT/ARISTA NASHVILLE LEGENDS Kesea Baerini F.G.WHITEHEAD,J.MASSEY (K.BALLERINI,F.G.WHITEHEAD,H.LINDSEY) BLACK RIVER ALL ON ME Devin Dawson J.JOYCE (D.DAWSON,J.DURRETT,A.SMITH) ATLANTIC/WEA MOST PEOPLE ARE GOOD Luke Bryan J.STEVENS,J.STEVENS (D.FRASIER,E.M.HILL,J.KEAR) CAPITOL NASHVILLE SINGLES YOU UP Jordan Davis P.DIGIOVANNI (J.DAVIS,S.D.JONES,J.EBACH) MCA NASHVILLE THE LONG WAY Brett Edredge R. COPPERMAN,B.ELDREDGE (B.ELDREDGE,M.ROGERS) ATLANTIC/WMN FEMALE Keith Urban K.URBAN,R. COPPERMAN,D.HUFF (R.COPPERMAN,N.GALYON,S.MCANALLY) HIT RED/CAPITOL NASHVILLE BOY Lee Brice L.BRICE,J.STONE,K.JACOBS,D.FRIZSELL (J.M.NITE,N.GALYON) CURB SHE S WITH ME High Vaey S.MOSLEY,M.O CONNOR (B.REMPEL,S.MOSLEY,B.M.STENNIS) ATLANTIC/WEA I LL NAME THE DOGS Bake Sheton S.HENDRICKS (M.DRAGSTREM,B.HAYSLIP,J.THOMPSON) WARNER BROS./WMN UP DOWN Morgan Waen Featuring Forida Georgia Line J.MOI (B.CLAWSON,M.HARDY,C.J. SOLAR) BMLG/BIG LOUD HAPPENS LIKE THAT Granger Smith G.SMITH,F.ROGERS,D.WELLS (G.SMITH,J.M.SCHMIDT,A.ALBERT,T.HUBBARD,J.WILSON) WHEELHOUSE ONE NUMBER AWAY Luke Combs S.MITCHELL,JACKIE BOYZ (L.COMBS,S.A.BATTEY,S.MITCHELL,R.WILLIFORD) RIVER HOUSE/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE FOR THE FIRST TIME Darius Rucker R. COPPERMAN (D.RUCKER,D.GEORGE,SCOOTER CARUSOE) CAPITOL NASHVILLE ONES THAT LIKE ME Brantey Gibert D.HUFF (B.GILBERT,B.CHAFFIN,B.PINSON) VALORY MAKE A LITTLE Midand D.HUFF,S.MCANALLY,J.OSBORNE (J.CARSON,C.DUDDY,M.WYSTRACH,S.MCANALLY,J.OSBORNE) BIG MACHINE WOMAN, AMEN Dierks Bentey R. COPPERMAN (R.COPPERMAN,J.KEAR,D.BENTLEY) CAPITOL NASHVILLE COUNTRY AIRPLAY RANK PEAK POSITION RC RC RC Langston makes his second Hot Country Songs appearance, foowing the No. 44-peaking Right Gir Wrong Time in May His new singe arrives at No. 29, the chart s highest debut, on the strength of 21,000 downoads sod as it starts at No. 3 on Country Digita Song Saes.

18 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE FEBRUARY 20, 2018 PAGE 18 OF 25 Hot Country Songs SALES, AIRPLAY & STREAMING DATA COMPILED BY THIS LAST TWO S WKS ON TITLE Artist AGO CHART PRODUCER (SONGWRITER) IMPRINT / PROMOTION LABEL TAKE BACK HOME GIRL Chris Lane Featuring Tori Key J.MOI (D.A.GARCIA,H.LINDSEY,J.MILLER) BIG LOUD EVERYTHING S GONNA BE ALRIGHT David Lee Murphy & Kenny Chesney K.CHESNEY,B.CANNON (D.L.MURPHY,C.STEVENS,J.YEARY) BLUE CHAIR/REVIVER THE REST OF OUR LIFE Tim McGraw & Faith Hi B.GALLIMORE,T.MCGRAW,F.HILL (E.C.SHEERAN,A.WADGE,J.MCDAID,S.MCCUTCHEON) MCGRAW/ARISTA NASHVILLE 29 NEW 1 WHEN IT COMES TO LOVING YOU HH Hot Shot Debut HH Jon Langston NOT LISTED (NOT LISTED) JON LANGSTON TEQUILA Dan + Shay D.SMYERS,S.HENDRICKS (D.SMYERS,J.REYNOLDS,N.GALYON) WARNER BROS./WAR I LIVED IT Bake Sheton S.HENDRICKS (A.GORLEY,B.HAYSLIP,R.AKINS,R.COPPERMAN) WARNER BROS./WMN GET TO YOU Michae Ray S.HENDRICKS (A.STOKLASA,P.DOVGALYUK) ATLANTIC/WEA SHE AIN T IN IT Jon Pardi B.BUTLER,J.PARDI (C.DANIELS,W.VARBLE) CAPITOL NASHVILLE HOOKED Dyan Scott M.ALDERMAN,C.GIBBS,J.E.NORMAN (L.RIMES,S.ENNIS,M.EVANS) CURB PARALLEL LINE Keith Urban BENNY BLANCO,E.SHEERAN,J.MCDAID,K.URBAN (E.C.SHEERAN,B.J.LEVIN,J.MCDAID,J.MICHAELS,A.WADGE) HIT RED/CAPITOL NASHVILLE HEART BREAK Lady Antebeum BUSBEE (D.HAYWOOD,C.KELLEY,H.SCOTT,J.FRASURE,N.GALYON) CAPITOL NASHVILLE DRUNK GIRL Chris Janson S.HENDRICKS (C.JANSON,SCOOTER CARUSOE,T.DOUGLAS) WARNER BROS./WAR CRIMINAL Lindsay E K.BUSH (L.ELL,C.STEVENS,F.WILHELM) STONEY CREEK I D BE JEALOUS TOO Dustin Lynch R. COPPERMAN (D.LYNCH,R.COPPERMAN,J.M.NITE) BROKEN BOW 40 NEW 1 KISS SOMEBODY Morgan Evans C. DESTEFANO (M.EVANS,C. DESTEFANO,J.OSBORNE) WARNER BROS./WEA THREE CHORDS & THE TRUTH Chase Rice R. COPPERMAN (C.RICE,R.COPPERMAN,J.M.NITE) DACK JANIELS/BROKEN BOW BORN TO LOVE YOU LANCO J.JOYCE (B.LANCASTER,R.COPPERMAN,A.GORLEY,J.OSBORNE) ARISTA NASHVILLE WHAT S MINE IS YOURS Kane Brown D.HUFF (K.BROWN,S.ELLIS,J.HOGE) ZONE 4/RCA NASHVILLE KINDA DON T CARE Justin Moore S.BORCHETTA,J.S.STOVER (R.AKINS,R.COPPERMAN,B.HAYSLIP) VALORY MILLIONAIRE D.COBB,C.STAPLETON (K.WELCH) Chris Stapeton MERCURY DOIN FINE Lauren Aaina BUSBEE (LAUREN ALAINA,E.SHACKELTON,BUSBEE) 19/INTERSCOPE/MERCURY MERCY Brett Young D.HUFF (B.YOUNG,S.MCCONNELL) BMLG SHOOT ME STRAIGHT Brothers Osborne J.JOYCE (J. OSBORNE,T.J. OSBORNE,L.T.MILLER) EMI NASHVILLE STAY DOWNTOWN Coe Swinde M.CARTER (C.TAYLOR,M.DRAGSTREM) WARNER BROS./WMN 50 NEW 1 STUPID Levi Hummon NOT LISTED (NOT LISTED) ICONIC ENTERTAINMENT 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. COUNTRY AIRPLAY RANK PEAK POSITION RC Year-Over-Year Abum Saes ALBUM SALES DIGITAL TRACKS SALES miion 2.0 miion miion 9.6 miion 6.7 miion For week ending Feb. 15, 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 302,000 80, ,000 Last Week 298,000 85, ,000 Change 1.3% -5.9% 5.2% This Week Last Year 441, ,000 1,503,000 Change -31.5% -43.7% -37.0% *Digita abum saes are aso counted within abum saes. YEAR-TO-DATE Overa Unit Saes CHANGE Abums 2,438,000 1,974, % Digita Tracks 9,550,000 6,725, % Saes by Abum Format CHANGE Physica 1,633,000 1,396, % Digita 805, , % For inquiries about any Niesen Music data, pease contact Josh Bennett at or josh.bennett@niesen.com

19 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE FEBRUARY 20, 2018 PAGE 19 OF 25 SALES, DATA COMPILED BY STREAMING & SALES DATA COMPILED BY THIS LAST 2 S AGO S ON CHT TOP COUNTRY ALBUMS ARTIST IMPRINT & NUMBER / DISTRIBUTING LABEL DUSTIN LYNCH BROKEN BOW 7934/BBMG CURRENT MOOD 2 25 TIM MCGRAW RE-ENTRY 53 CURB BIGGEST HITS 8 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 2018, Prometheus Goba Media, LLC and Niesen Music, Inc. A rights reserved. AMERICANA/ FOLK ALBUMS TITLE CERT. PEAK POS. CHRIS STAPLETON FROM A ROOM: VOLUME 2 MERCURY */UMGN KANE BROWN KANE BROWN ZONE 4/RCA NASHVILLE */SMN CHRIS STAPLETON TRAVELLER MERCURY */UMGN 2 1 CHRIS STAPLETON MERCURY */UMGN FROM A ROOM: VOLUME THOMAS RHETT VALORY TR0300A/BMLG LIFE CHANGES 1 LUKE BRYAN WHAT MAKES YOU COUNTRY CAPITOL NASHVILLE /UMGN LUKE COMBS THIS ONE S FOR YOU RIVER HOUSE/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE */SMN 0 1 BRETT YOUNG BMLG BY0100A* BRETT YOUNG NEW SISTER HAZEL 1 CROAKIN POETS 115 WATER (EP) 9 JON PARDI CAPITOL NASHVILLE */UMGN CALIFORNIA SUNRISE 0 1 SAM HUNT MCA NASHVILLE /UMGN MONTEVALLO LANCO HALLELUJAH NIGHTS ARISTA NASHVILLE */SMN 1 FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE BMLG 0300* DIG YOUR ROOTS 1 1 OLD DOMINION RCA NASHVILLE */SMN HAPPY ENDINGS 1 KEITH URBAN HIT RED/CAPITOL NASHVILLE */UMGN ( AMS & WSEX) RIPCORD 1 1 KID ROCK TOP DOG/BMG 93318/BBMG SWEET SOUTHERN SUGAR 4 TIM MCGRAW & FAITH HILL MCGRAW/ARISTA NASHVILLE */SMN THE REST OF OUR LIFE 1 ALAN JACKSON PRECIOUS MEMORIES COLLECTION ARC/EMI NASHVILLE /UMGN BLAKE SHELTON TEXOMA SHORE WARNER BROS /WMN THOMAS RHETT TANGLED UP VALORY RT0200A/BMLG 1 2 ZAC BROWN BAND GREATEST HITS SO FAR ROAR/SOUTHERN GROUND/ATLANTIC /AG WALKER HAYES BOOM. MONUMENT /SMN 6 ERIC CHURCH MR. MISUNDERSTOOD EMI NASHVILLE */UMGN 1 2 SALES DATA COMPILED BY COUNTRY STREAMING SONGS THIS LAST WKS ON CHART TITLE ARTIST MEANT TO BE BEBE REXHA & FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE MARRY ME THOMAS RHETT HEAVEN KANE BROWN YOU MAKE IT EASY JASON ALDEAN WHAT IFS KANE BROWN FEAT. LAUREN ALAINA TENNESSEE WHISKEY CHRIS STAPLETON BODY LIKE A BACK ROAD SAM HUNT FIVE MORE MINUTES SCOTTY MCCREERY GREATEST LOVE STORY LANCO YOU BROKE UP WITH ME WALKER HAYES IN CASE YOU DIDN T KNOW BRETT YOUNG WRITTEN IN THE SAND OLD DOMINION YOURS RUSSELL DICKERSON WHEN IT RAINS IT POURS LUKE COMBS SMALL TOWN BOY DUSTIN LYNCH HURRICANE LUKE COMBS LIKE I LOVED YOU BRETT YOUNG BLUE AIN T YOUR COLOR KEITH URBAN LOSING SLEEP CHRIS YOUNG H.O.L.Y. FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE BROKEN HALOS CHRIS STAPLETON ALL ON ME DEVIN DAWSON DIE A HAPPY MAN THOMAS RHETT 24 NEW SINGLES YOU UP JORDAN DAVIS UNFORGETTABLE THOMAS RHETT 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 2018, Prometheus Goba Media, LLC and Niesen Music, Inc. A rights reserved. THIS LAST WKS ON CHART TITLE ARTIST MEANT TO BE BEBE REXHA & FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE YOU MAKE IT EASY JASON ALDEAN 3 NEW WHEN IT COMES TO LOVING YOU JON LANGSTON MARRY ME THOMAS RHETT HEAVEN KANE BROWN BROKEN HALOS CHRIS STAPLETON MOST PEOPLE ARE GOOD LUKE BRYAN FIVE MORE MINUTES SCOTTY MCCREERY YOU BROKE UP WITH ME WALKER HAYES WRITTEN IN THE SAND OLD DOMINION TENNESSEE WHISKEY CHRIS STAPLETON BOY LEE BRICE EVERYTHING S GONNA BE ALRIGHT DAVID LEE MURPHY & KENNY CHESNEY WHAT IFS KANE BROWN FEAT. LAUREN ALAINA YOURS RUSSELL DICKERSON ALL ON ME DEVIN DAWSON ONE NUMBER AWAY LUKE COMBS GREATEST LOVE STORY LANCO UP DOWN MORGAN WALLEN FEAT. FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE 20 NEW I LET HER LIE DARYLE SINGLETARY SINGLES YOU UP JORDAN DAVIS THE LONG WAY 22 RE-ENTRY BRETT ELDREDGE BODY LIKE A BACK ROAD SAM HUNT FEMALE KEITH URBAN THE REST OF OUR LIFE TIM MCGRAW & FAITH HILL THIS LAST 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 2018, Prometheus Goba Media, LLC and Niesen Music, Inc. A rights reserved. CERT. PEAK POS. CHRIS STAPLETON FROM A ROOM: VOLUME 2 MERCURY NASHVILLE */UMGN 1 CHRIS STAPLETON TRAVELLER MERCURY NASHVILLE */UMGN 2 1 CHRIS STAPLETON MERCURY NASHVILLE */UMGN FROM A ROOM: VOLUME NEW BRIAN FALLON 1 ISLAND * SLEEPWALKERS 4 5 NEW SISTER HAZEL WATER (EP) 1 5 CROAKIN POETS 115 ED SHEERAN ELEKTRA */AG 2 1 THE LUMINEERS CLEOPATRA DUALTONE 1738* 0 1 HOZIER HOZIER RUBYWORKS */COLUMBIA 2 1 SIMON & GARFUNKEL SIMON AND GARFUNKEL S GREATEST HITS COLUMBIA 31350/LEGACY 10 NEW WADE BOWEN SOLID GROUND 1 10 BOWEN SOUNDS 001/THIRTY TIGERS 20 DARYLE SINGLETARY I Let Her Lie The baad, which hit No. 2 on Hot Country Songs in 1995, is one of three top 10s by the singer, who died Feb. 12 at age 46. It debuts on Country Digita Song Saes at No. 20, seing 6,000 downoads (up 9,071 percent). MINDY SMALL/FILMMAGIC

20 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE FEBRUARY 20, 2018 PAGE 20 OF 25 MAKIN TRACKS TOM ROLAND Aaron Watson s Run Wid Horses Saddes Up For A Spirited Ride When Aaron Watson s Outta Stye peaked at No. 10 on the Country Airpay chart dated Dec. 30, 2017, its 50-week cimb set a record for the sowest trip to the upper tier. The pace was embematic of Watson s ongtime persistence as an artist: He might have been a newcomer to mainstream country radio ast year, but he d buit a soid touring base on his Texas foundation after reeasing his debut abum in In the history of country music, I don t think there s ever been an artist who has been so excited about having a top 10 singe, says Watson. We ceebrated more over my top 10 singe that took me 20 years to get than any artist ceebrated a No. 1 hit this year, I guarantee it. I mean, we re taking Bue Be Ice Cream it got crazy at the Watson house. Run Wid Horses, his foow-up singe, owes its existence to another form of crazy at the Watson house. It s a thiny veied ceebration of sex for a coupe that has, ike Watson s career, stayed committed over the ong hau. It s not about sex, he insists. It s about making ove. Run Wid Horses dates to the ate spring or eary summer of 2015, barey two months after Watson s The Underdog debuted at No. 1 on the Top Country Abums chart dated March 7, Recognizing that his career had hit a new peak, he was inspired to capitaize and went on a focused songwriting tear. During that stretch, he took his wife of neary 15 years, Kimbery, to their favorite restaurant the Perini Ranch Steakhouse in Buffao Gap, Texas (a visit to that eatery simiary inspired Outta Stye ) and the persona time heped them rekinde some WATSON of the passion that typicay takes a backseat to their three chidren, ages There s not a ot of time for the more intimate side of the reationship, he says. We ve got baseba, we ve got baet, we ve got church it s ike every night there s something. Every once in a whie, I have to go, Time out. I ca my mom and my dad, ike, Hey, can you watch the kids? I need to take Kimbery out on a hot date. The night after their ceebration, he recounted it in a soo songwriting session, turning the Perini ranchand setting into a metaphor for the romance they d experienced: Somewhere on a nowhere road, I hear you whisper this/ Sow that Mustang down, come on and stea my kiss. He kept the musica undercurrent simpe: just two aternating chords and a Motown-inspired guitar riff. They say that country music is three chords and the truth, but Run Wid Horses is just two chords and sexy, says Watson with a augh. My wife ros her eyes when she hears me say that. A week or so ater, on May 26, 2015, Watson payed the historic Troubadour in Los Angees, and he spent some time hanging out in the city with his band. The women were iving up to Brian Wison s I wish they a coud be Caifornia girs portrait of Hoywood, yet Watson fet a their packaging fe short of the standards his wife had set back home. I m ooking at a these girs, and you know every one of them took four hours to get ready, he says. I remember thinking, Those girs don t have anything on my gir. Kimbery wakes up in the morning, and she ooks amazing to me. That inspired the song s Sunset Strip-centered second verse. Finay, he added a bridge that momentariy changed the chord progression and sowed the phrasing to a anguid pace before kicking back into its soaring chorus one ast time. The first verse is how it was when we first met: that passion, young overs out on a dirt road, not a care in the word, says Watson. The second verse is a the distractions that I have around me, but nothing compares to her. And then that bridge, it s ike, Let s make time for each other. It s definitey a ove-making song. When he began working on his foow-up abum, Vaquero, Watson payed Horses in June 2016 for producer Marsha Atman (Frankie Baard, Eric Pasay), who immediatey identified with its hooky chorus and raw emotion. He wanted this to fee sexy and a itte bit reckess and a itte bit dangerous, says Atman. Those were a the eements that we focused on in this song. Atman mixed veteran studio musicians fidder Gen Duncan, stee guitarist Russ Pah, guitarist Pat McGrath and keyboard payer Tony Harre with a trio of newer studio cats: guitarist Rob McNeey, drummer Jerry Roe and bass payer Tony Lucido. On day one, they tracked They Don t Make Em Like They Used To, then turned their attention to Run Wid Horses, cutting it at 93 beats per minute. But it fet a itte too pop, and the crew adjourned, knowing that it hadn t reay hooked the song. Watson chewed on it repeatedy at his Nashvie hote room that night, istening for a time to The Roing Stones and connecting dots between Run Wid Horses and A the Pretty Horses, which features a soundtrack produced by Marty Stuart. The opening scene of that movie has these wid horses running, and there s these fashes of ight, and it s just a beautifu scene, says Watson. It s ike you see a horse sadded, but it s nothing compared to when they re just free together. At the next day s session, they pued the tempo back one bpm, and Watson asked McNeey to channe Keith Richards. With those changes, Horses took on a grittier, more driving tone with a engthy guitar soo that stretched the track to more than five minutes. The groove on that song is deep, and when Rob started on that soo, it just fet ike magic, says Atman. Why stop him? So we waved him on. Aaron and I ooked at each other, and we were ike, Keep going! Let s just keep going! Duncan s fidde created a sundown atmosphere, and Atman ater stacked harmonies underneath to create a richer fee. Right out of the gate, Horses was a strong contender for us, says CDA Entertainment president Gino Genaro, who manages Watson. We thought it was a reay specia song, and even when we payed it for different peope before the record was out, it was one that peope reay, reay gravitated toward. A simpe edit pared the intro from 30 seconds to 10 and snipped McNeey s vamp, bringing the radio version in at 3:12. Big Labe sent it to broadcasters via PayMPE on Jan. 10 with a Feb. 19 add date.despite its adut subject matter, Horses is famiy friendy: Watson s daughter interprets it as a song about kissing. I tried to write this song with some kind of code anguage so if a mom is taking her kids to schoo and Run Wid Horses comes on the radio, she doesn t have to expain certain yrics to her second grader, says Watson. They think it s a song about horses running, but the mom, she totay knows what the song is about. It has Kimbery Watson s approva, but she s not the ony femae who appreciates its sighty disguised message. A year ong, I ve had high schoo girs, coege girs, moms, grandmas, te me that my next singe needs to be Run Wid Horses, says Watson. And everybody knows that women are aways right. Right? JOSEPH LLANES

21 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE FEBRUARY 20, 2018 PAGE 21 OF 25 THIS LAST Country Indicator WKS ON CHART TITLE Imprint/Labe Artist PLAYS AUDIENCE (IN MILLIONS) THIS +/ THIS LEGENDS Back River HH No. 1 (2 weeks) HH Kesea Baerini FIVE MORE MINUTES Tripe Tigers Scotty McCreery MARRY ME Vaory Thomas Rhett BROKEN HALOS Mercury Chris Stapeton WRITTEN IN THE SAND RCA Nashvie Od Dominion ALL ON ME Atantic/WEA Devin Dawson THE LONG WAY Atantic/WMN Brett Edredge MOST PEOPLE ARE GOOD Capito Nashvie Luke Bryan FEMALE Capito Nashvie Keith Urban A GIRL LIKE YOU Mercury Easton Corbin SINGLES YOU UP MCA Nashvie Jordan Davis FOR THE FIRST TIME Capito Nashvie Darius Rucker SHE S WITH ME Atantic/WEA High Vaey MAKE A LITTLE Big Machine Midand HAPPENS LIKE THAT Wheehouse Granger Smith YOU BROKE UP WITH ME Monument/Arista Nashvie Waker Hayes EVERYTHING S GONNA BE ALRIGHT Bue Chair/Reviver David Lee Murphy & Kenny Chesney BOY Curb Lee Brice THE ONES THAT LIKE ME Vaory Brantey Gibert YOU MAKE IT EASY Macon/Broken Bow HH Most Increased Pays HH Jason Adean WOMAN, AMEN Capito Nashvie Dierks Bentey SHE AIN T IN IT Capito Nashvie Jon Pardi I LIVED IT Warner Bros./WMN Bake Sheton THE REST OF OUR LIFE McGraw/Arista Nashvie Tim McGraw & Faith Hi MEANT TO BE Warner Bros/BMLG Bebe Rexha & Forida Georgia Line UP DOWN Big Loud/BMLG Morgan Waen Feat. Forida Georgia Line HEAVEN Zone 4/RCA Nashvie Kane Brown HEART BREAK Capito Nashvie Lady Antebeum TAKE BACK HOME GIRL Big Loud Chris Lane Feat. Tori Key GET TO YOU Atantic/WEA Michae Ray 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

22 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE FEBRUARY 20, 2018 PAGE 22 OF 25 THIS LAST Country Indicator WKS ON CHART TITLE Imprint/Labe Artist PLAYS AUDIENCE (IN MILLIONS) THIS +/ THIS ONE NUMBER AWAY River House/Coumbia Nashvie Luke Combs DOIN FINE 19/Interscope/Mercury Lauren Aaina CRIMINAL Stoney Creek Lindsay E KINDA DON T CARE Vaory Justin Moore DRUNK GIRL Warner Bros./WAR Chris Janson TEQUILA Warner Bros./WAR Dan + Shay SELFISH Rebe Engine Stephanie Quaye HIDE THE WINE Big Machine Cary Pearce SHOOT ME STRAIGHT EMI Nashvie Brothers Osborne THREE CHORDS & THE TRUTH Dack Janies/Broken Bow Chase Rice HOOKED Curb Dyan Scott SPEAKERS, BLEACHERS AND PREACHERS EMI Nashvie Brandon Lay AIRPLANE Sea Gaye CJ Soar STILL THE SAME Big Machine Sugarand A LITTLE DIVE BAR IN DAHLONEGA Atantic/WAR Ashey McBryde KISS SOMEBODY Warner Bros./WEA Morgan Evans LAST SHOT MCA Nashvie Kip Moore I D BE JEALOUS TOO Broken Bow Dustin Lynch NEW RUN WILD HORSES BIG Labe HH Hot Shot Debut/Most Added HH Aaron Watson DIANE Arista Nashvie Cam SUPERMAN (FOR A DAY) Dream Wakin Smith & Wesey BOOTS OFF MV2 Terry McBride I GOT THIS Curb Jerrod Niemann WILD WEST Wheehouse Runaway June AMERICAN BEAUTY Bison Creek James Robert Webb FIREWATER Keith Waker Keith Waker YES BigBig Eric Chesser NEW RICH Coumbia Nashvie Maren Morris DON T GET BETTER THAN THAT Reviver LOCASH SWAY BMLG Daniee Bradbery RANKINGS Country Airpay is ranked by tota audience impressions for the week ending Sunday based on monitored airpay of 148 stations by Niesen BDS. Audience totas on the chart are derived, in part, using certain Arbitron Inc. copyrighted Persons 12+ audience estimates (under icense 2018, 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

23 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE FEBRUARY 20, 2018 PAGE 23 OF 25 Country Airpay 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) 7 AMERICAN ROCK N ROLL RJR Music Pubishing, BMI/Songs Of Kobat Music Pubishing America, Inc., BMI/Sony/ATV Tree Pubishing, BMI/Prince Of Minnesota Pubishing, BMI/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/ Cooper Cavaier, ASCAP (R.J.Ritchie, J.Hyde, N.A.Medey, A.Eshuis) 52 B BEST SHOT Red Lining Music, SESAC/Ampified Hour Songs, SESAC/Caste Bound Music, Inc., SESAC/Rio Bravo Music, Inc., BMI/Bonde Leading Bind, BMI (J.Aen, J.London, J.P.Wiiams) 53 BORN TO LOVE YOU Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/Concession 114 Music, BMI/ Neon Cross Music, BMI/EMI Backwood Music Inc., BMI/Pain Jane Songs, BMI/Rezoant Music, BMI/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/ Sadie s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/Anderson Fork In The Road Music, ASCAP/Kobat Songs Music Pubishing LLC, ASCAP/Smack Songs LLC, ASCAP (B.Lancaster, R.Copperman, A.Gorey, J.Osborne) 49 BOY EMI Apri Music, Inc., ASCAP/Nite Writer Music, ASCAP/Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/A Gir Named Charie, BMI (J.M.Nite, N.Gayon) 17 BROKEN HALOS WB Music Corp., ASCAP/House Of Sea Gaye Music, ASCAP/Spirit Cataoge Hodings, S.A.R.L./Spirit Two Nashvie, ASCAP/Straight Six Music, BMI (C.Stapeton, M.Henderson) 5 C CHILLS WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Meant We, ASCAP/oe Pubishing, SOCAN (D.Woods, T.Wood, G.Sate, J.Barker) 56 COUNTRY SONG Amost Country Pubishig, ASCAP (C.Donahew, A.Copeand, J.Newsome) 55 CRIMINAL Magic Mustang Music Inc., BMI/BMG Patinum Songs, BMI/Lindsay E Music, BMI/Moody Producer Music, BMI/Capito CMG Paragon, BMI/Foat Music, BMI/Meaux Mercy, BMI (L.E, C.Stevens, F.Wihem) 26 DIANE Sony/ATV Baad, BMI/One Year Yesterday Pubishing, BMI/Creative Puse Music, BMI/These Are Puse Songs, BMI/Songs Of Universa, Inc., BMI/Way Above Music, BMI/Sony/ATV Songs LLC, BMI (C.Ochs, T.Johnson, J.Bhasker) 44 D 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) 37 DON T GET BETTER THAN THAT Mars Marey Music, BMI/EMI Backwood Music Inc., BMI/Koaa T Tunes, BMI/Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/ Yeah Baby Songs Goba, BMI/Better Boat Music, BMI (P. Brust, C.Lucas, L.Rimes, P.Barton) 46 DRUNK GIRL oe Red Viny Music, BMI/Buckkia Music, BMI/Scramber Music, ASCAP/Abbotts Creek Music Two, ASCAP/Sony/ATV Tree Pubishing, BMI/ Tomdougasmusic, BMI (C.Janson, Scooter Carusoe, T.Dougas) 35 E EVERYTHING S GONNA BE ALRIGHT Od Desperados, LLC, ASCAP/N2D Pubishing Company, Inc., ASCAP/Meaux Mercy, BMI/Moody Producer Music, BMI/ EMI Backwood Music Inc., BMI/Thankfu For This Music, ASCAP/Great Day At This Music, BMI/Beattyvie Music, BMI (D.L.Murphy, C.Stevens, J.Yeary) 18 F FEMALE EMI Backwood Music Inc., BMI/Rezoant Music, BMI/Pain Jane Songs, BMI/Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/A Gir Named Charie, BMI/Smack Hits, GMR/Smack Songs LLC, GMR/Kobat Music Group Ltd., GMR (R.Copperman, N.Gayon, S.McAnay) 12 FIVE MORE MINUTES Dagum Music, BMI/ Spirit Cataoge Hodings, S.A.R.L./Spirit Two Nashvie, ASCAP/House Of Sea Gaye Music, ASCAP/Sony/ATV Tree Pubishing, BMI/Dixey Bar Music, BMI (S.McCreery, F.Rogers, M.Criswe) 3 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) 13 GET TO YOU Year Of The Dog Music, ASCAP/oe Green Viny Music, ASCAP (A.Stokasa, P.Dovgayuk) 24 G GUNS & ROSES Goes Something Like THIS Music, BMI/Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/Capito CMG Paragon, BMI (D.Badridge, T.Nichos, C.Stevens) 51 H HANGIN ON EMI Backwood Music Inc., BMI/ Goodbye Pants Music, BMI/Songs From The Rose Hote, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/EMI Foray Music, SESAC/Write 2 Be Free Music, SESAC (C.Young, C.Crowder, J.Hoge) 58 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) 15 HEART BREAK WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Haywoodja Cut That Song, ASCAP/The Best I Coud Do Pubishing, ASCAP/W.B.M. Music Corp., SESAC/EKT Pubishing, SESCA/Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/Songs Of Roc Nation Music, BMI/Teemitry Rhythm House Music, BMI/A Gir Named Charie, BMI (D.Haywood, C.Keey, H.Scott, J.Frasure, N.Gayon) 32 HEAVEN BMG Patinum Songs, BMI/You Want How Much Of What Pubishing, PRS/Smackworks Music, SESAC/Kobat Group Music Pubishing, SESAC/Smack Bue, LLC, SESAC/EMI Backwood Music Inc., BMI/Sony/ ATV Songs LLC, BMI/Koaa T Tunes, BMI (S.Carter, M.McGinn, L.Rimes) 20 HELL IF I KNOW EMI Apri Music, Inc., ASCAP/ EMI Music Pubishing Austraia Pty Ltd., APRA/Songs Of Universa, Inc., BMI/Morendorffin Music, BMI (J.M.Nite, L.Rimes, A.Dorff) 47 HEY MAMA Peertunes, Ltd., SESAC/MTNoize, SESAC/ Jaron Boyer Music, SESAC/Peermusic III, Ltd., BMI (M.Tyer, J.Boyer, A.Argye) 60 HIDE THE WINE WB Music Corp., ASCAP/ Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/Sadie s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/Universa Music Works, GMR/We Are Creative Nation, GMR/Jake & Mack Music, GMR/Songs Of Universa, Inc., BMI/BMG God Songs, ASCAP (A.Gorey, L.Laird, H.Lindsey) 42 HOOKED WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Songs From The Rose Hote, ASCAP/EMI Backwood Music Inc., BMI/ Koaa T Tunes, BMI/SongsbyME, BMI/Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI (L.Rimes, S.Ennis, M.Evans) 33 I I GOT THIS Sony/ATV Tree Pubishing, BMI/Litte Louder Songs, BMI/Emieon Songs, BMI/Round Hi Works, BMI/Big Loud Proud Crowd, BMI/Round Hi Compositions, BMI/Anderson Fork In The Road Music, ASCAP/Smackvie Music, ASCAP/Smack Songs LLC, ASCAP/Kobat Songs Music Pubishing LLC, ASCAP (L.Dick, R.Cawson, J.Osborne) 39 I LIVED IT Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/Sadie s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Thankfu For This Music, ASCAP/Pinetucky Road Pubishing, ASCAP/Ritten by Rhettro, BMI/Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/EMI Backwood Music Inc., BMI/ Pain Jane Songs, BMI/Rezoant Music, BMI (A.Gorey, B.Haysip, R.Akins, R.Copperman) 19 KINDA DON T CARE Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/EMI Backwood Music Inc., BMI/ Songs By Red Room, BMI/Thankfu For This Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP (R.Akins, R.Copperman, B.Haysip) 34 K KISS SOMEBODY Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/Morgan Evans Pubishing Designee, BMI/EMI Apri Music, Inc., ASCAP/CDS Words And Music, ASACP/ Anderson Fork In The Road Music, ASCAP/Smackvie Music, ASCAP/Smack Songs LLC, ASCAP/Kobat Songs Music Pubishing LLC, ASCAP (M.Evans, C. DeStefano, J.Osborne) 30 L LAST SHOT WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Point Break Pubishing, ASCAP/Music Of The Corn, ASCAP/Songs From The Couch, BMI/Od Desperados, LLC, ASCAP/N2D Pubishing Company, Inc., ASCAP/Caro Vincent And Associates, LLC., ASCAP (K.Moore, D.Couch, D.L.Murphy) 45 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) 1 A LITTLE DIVE BAR IN DAHLONEGA Songs Of Song Factroy, BMI/Veranda Music, SESAC/Litte Facor Music, BMI (A.McBryde, N.Hayford, J.Rice) 36 THE LONG WAY Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI/Paris Not France Music, BMI/oe Canaco Pubishing, ASCAP (B. Edredge, M.Rogers) 9 M MARRY ME EMI Backwood Music Inc., BMI/Cricket On The Line, BMI/Rio Bravo Music, Inc., BMI/Teemitry Productions, BMI/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/Sadie s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/ Smack Hits, GMR/Smack Songs LLC, GMR/Kobat Music Group Ltd., GMR (Thomas Rhett, J.Frasure, A.Gorey, S.McAnay) 4 MEANT TO BE BMG Patinum Songs, BMI/Big Loud Mountain, BMI/Kiss Me If You Can Music, BMI/T Hubb Pubishing, BMI/Round Hi Works, BMI/Warner- Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/Songs Of The Corn, BMI/Jack 10 Pubishing, BMI (B.Rexha, T.Hubbard, J.Mier, D.A.Garcia) 16 MERCY Super Big Music, ASCAP/Caivie Pubishing, ASCAP/Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/Litte Beuga Music, BMI (B.Young, S.McConne) 48 MOST PEOPLE ARE GOOD SB 21 Music Pubishing, BMI/Purdy Beard Music, BMI/Songs Of Amyase Music, BMI/Five His Music, BMI/Do Write Music, LLC/Year Of The Dog Music, ASCAP/Champagne Whiskey Pubishing, ASCAP/Downtown DLJ Songs, ASCAP (D.Frasier, E.M.Hi, J.Kear) 8 O ONE NUMBER AWAY Works For RHA Music, BMI/ Ma B. Pubishing, ASCAP/Razor & Tie Music Pubishing, LLC, ASCAP/The Bicyce Music Company, ASCAP/Tunes of R And T Direct, SESAC/Sef Shrevident Music, SESAC/ Rowdy Rob Music, BMI/Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI (L.Combs, S.A.Battey, S.Mitche, R.Wiiford) 28 ONES THAT LIKE ME Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/Indiana Ange Music, BMI/ Parae Music Pubishing, LLC, ASCAP/Kobat Songs Music Pubishing LLC, ASCAP/Bobby s Lyrics, Land And Livestock, BMI (B.Gibert, B.Chaffin, B.Pinson) 21 R REASONS Archer And Arrow Pubishing, ASCAP/ Razor And Tie Music Pubishing, BMI/Tofer The Musica, BMI/Round Hi Works, BMI/Big Loud Proud Crowd, BMI/ Bux Tone Music, BMI (J.Jacqueine, T.Brown, S.Buxton) 57 THE REST OF OUR LIFE Sony/ATV Songs LLC, BMI/Sony/ATV Music Pubishing UK Ltd, PRS/Cookie Jar, BMI/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Spirit B-Unique Poar Patro Songs, BMI/Universa PoyGram Int. Pubishing Inc., ASCAP/Rokstone Music Ltd, PRS (E.C.Sheeran, A.Wadge, J.McDaid, S.McCutcheon) 25 RICH Internationa Dog Music, BMI/Nettwerk One B Music, BMI/Unimited, BMI/Revery Music, BMI/Jay Gatsby Music, BMI/Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/Oh Denise Pubishing, BMI/Big Music Machine, BMI (M.Morris, J.J.Dion, L.Vetz) 50 S SHE AIN T IN IT Writers Of Sea Gaye Music, BMI/ Spirit Cataoge Hodings, S.A.R.L./Spirit Of Nashvie One, BMI/BMG Patinum Songs, BMI/Mater Pie Music, BMI (C. Danies, W.Varbe) 29 SHE S WITH ME Spruce Road Pubishing, GMR/ Capito CMG Zenith, GMR/Sony/ATV Story Music Pubishing, 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.M.Stennis) 11 SHOOT ME STRAIGHT Trampy McCauey, ASCAP/A The Kings Pens, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/The Country And Western Music, BMI/Warner- Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI (J. Osborne, T.J. Osborne, L.T.Mier) 41 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) 10 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) 59 SOMETHING BOUT YOU 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/Oe Red Cape Songs, ASCAP/VB Rising Pubishing, ASCAP/Jose A. Veazquez Music, ASCAP/Gide Fores Pubishing Designee, ASCAP (Z.Brown, N.Moon, B.Simonetti, T.V.Mosey, J.A.Veazquez, G.Fores) 54 STILL THE SAME Jennifer Nettes Pubishing, ASCAP/Magic Music Pubishing, ASCAP/More And More Magic Pubishing, BMI/BMG Patinum Songs, BMI (J. Nettes, K.Bush) 43 TAKE BACK HOME GIRL Universa Music - Brentwood Benson Pubishing, ASCAP/D Sou Music, ASCAP/BMG God Songs, ASCAP/BIRB Music, ASCAP/ Rezonant Music Pubishing LLC, ASCAP/Songs Of The Corn, BMI/Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/ Jack 10 Pubishing, BMI/Capito CMG Genesis, ASCAP (D.A.Garcia, H.Lindsey, J.Mier) 27 T TEQUILA WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Beats And Banjos, ASCAP/Buckeye26, ASCAP/Jreynmusic, ASCAP/Warner- Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/A Gir Named Charie, BMI (D.Smyers, J.Reynods, N.Gayon) 38 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) 31 U UP DOWN Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/ Murphy The Wof Music, BMI/Five Mies West Songs, BMI/Mandy s Favorite Songs, BMI/Watsky Music, LLC, BMI/Harding Road Music, BMI/New House Of Sea Gaye Music, ASCAP (B.Cawson, M.Hardy, C.J. Soar) 23 W WILD WEST Magic Mustang Music Inc., BMI/Warner- Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/Litte Duchess Music, BMI/Songwriters of Patinum Pen Pubishing, BMI/This Is Magic Mustang Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/ Mike Curb Music, BMI/Rain Town Music, BMI (J.Wayne, J.Lantz, B.Montana) 40 WOMAN, AMEN EMI Backwood Music Inc., BMI/ Pain Jane Songs, BMI/Rezoant Music, BMI/Year Of The Dog Music, ASCAP/Champagne Whiskey Pubishing, ASCAP/Downtown DLJ Songs, ASCAP/DudeTunes, ASCAP/Kobat Songs Music Pubishing LLC, ASCAP (R. Copperman, J.Kear, D.Bentey) 22 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 Music Pubishing LLC, ASCAP/Smack Hits, GMR/Smack Songs LLC, GMR/Kobat Music Group Ltd., GMR (M.Ramsey, T. Rosen, B.Tursi, S.McAnay) 2 Y YOU MAKE IT EASY Big Loud Mountain, BMI/ Round Hi Works, BMI/T Hubb Pubishing, BMI/Pranch Ringe Music, BMI/We-Vove Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Freshy Music, ASCAP (T.Hubbard, B.Keey, M.Waen, J.M.Schmidt) 14 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) 6

24 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE FEBRUARY 20, 2018 PAGE 24 OF 25 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) 11 B BORN TO LOVE YOU Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/Concession 114 Music, BMI/ Neon Cross Music, BMI/EMI Backwood Music Inc., BMI/Pain Jane Songs, BMI/Rezoant Music, BMI/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/ Sadie s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/Anderson Fork In The Road Music, ASCAP/Kobat Songs Music Pubishing LLC, ASCAP/Smack Songs LLC, ASCAP (B.Lancaster, R.Copperman, A.Gorey, J.Osborne) 42 BOY EMI Apri Music, Inc., ASCAP/Nite Writer Music, ASCAP/Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/A Gir Named Charie, BMI (J.M.Nite, N.Gayon) 16 BROKEN HALOS WB Music Corp., ASCAP/House Of Sea Gaye Music, ASCAP/Spirit Cataoge Hodings, S.A.R.L./Spirit Two Nashvie, ASCAP/Straight Six Music, BMI (C.Stapeton, M.Henderson) 7 C CRIMINAL Magic Mustang Music Inc., BMI/BMG Patinum Songs, BMI/Lindsay E Music, BMI/Moody Producer Music, BMI/Capito CMG Paragon, BMI/Foat Music, BMI/Meaux Mercy, BMI (L.E, C.Stevens, F.Wihem) 38 D 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) 46 DRUNK GIRL oe Red Viny Music, BMI/Buckkia Music, BMI/Scramber Music, ASCAP/Abbotts Creek Music Two, ASCAP/Sony/ATV Tree Pubishing, BMI/ Tomdougasmusic, BMI (C.Janson, Scooter Carusoe, T.Dougas) 37 E EVERYTHING S GONNA BE ALRIGHT Od Desperados, LLC, ASCAP/N2D Pubishing Company, Inc., ASCAP/Meaux Mercy, BMI/Moody Producer Music, BMI/ EMI Backwood Music Inc., BMI/Thankfu For This Music, ASCAP/Great Day At This Music, BMI/Beattyvie Music, BMI (D.L.Murphy, C.Stevens, J.Yeary) 27 F FEMALE EMI Backwood Music Inc., BMI/Rezoant Music, BMI/Pain Jane Songs, BMI/Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/A Gir Named Charie, BMI/Smack Hits, GMR/Smack Songs LLC, GMR/Kobat Music Group Ltd., GMR (R.Copperman, N.Gayon, S.McAnay) 15 FIVE MORE MINUTES Dagum Music, BMI/ Spirit Cataoge Hodings, S.A.R.L./Spirit Two Nashvie, ASCAP/House Of Sea Gaye Music, ASCAP/Sony/ATV Tree Pubishing, BMI/Dixey Bar Music, BMI (S.McCreery, F.Rogers, M.Criswe) 4 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) 22 GET TO YOU Year Of The Dog Music, ASCAP/oe Green Viny Music, ASCAP (A.Stokasa, P.Dovgayuk) 32 G 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) 20 HEART BREAK WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Haywoodja Cut That Song, ASCAP/The Best I Coud Do Pubishing, ASCAP/W.B.M. Music Corp., SESAC/EKT Pubishing, SESCA/Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/Songs Of Roc Nation Music, BMI/Teemitry Rhythm House Music, BMI/A Gir Named Charie, BMI (D.Haywood, C.Keey, H.Scott, J.Frasure, N.Gayon) 36 HEAVEN BMG Patinum Songs, BMI/You Want How Much Of What Pubishing, PRS/Smackworks Music, SESAC/Kobat Group Music Pubishing, SESAC/Smack Bue, LLC, SESAC/EMI Backwood Music Inc., BMI/Sony/ ATV Songs LLC, BMI/Koaa T Tunes, BMI (S.Carter, M.McGinn, L.Rimes) 6 HOOKED WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Songs From The Rose Hote, ASCAP/EMI Backwood Music Inc., BMI/ Koaa T Tunes, BMI/SongsbyME, BMI/Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI (L.Rimes, S.Ennis, M.Evans) 34 I I D BE JEALOUS TOO Magic Mustang Music Inc., BMI/Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/ EMI Backwood Music Inc., BMI/Pane Jane Songs, BMI/ Rezoant Music, BMI/EMI Apri Music, Inc., ASCAP (D.Lynch, R.Copperman, J.M.Nite) 39 I LIVED IT Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/Sadie s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Thankfu For This Music, ASCAP/Pinetucky Road Pubishing, ASCAP/Ritten by Rhettro, BMI/Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/EMI Backwood Music Inc., BMI/ Pain Jane Songs, BMI/Rezoant Music, BMI (A.Gorey, B.Haysip, R.Akins, R.Copperman) 31 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) 18 KINDA DON T CARE Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/EMI Backwood Music Inc., BMI/ Songs By Red Room, BMI/Thankfu For This Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP (R.Akins, R.Copperman, B.Haysip) 44 K KISS SOMEBODY Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/Morgan Evans Pubishing Designee, BMI/EMI Apri Music, Inc., ASCAP/CDS Words And Music, ASACP/ Anderson Fork In The Road Music, ASCAP/Smackvie Music, ASCAP/Smack Songs LLC, ASCAP/Kobat Songs Music Pubishing LLC, ASCAP (M.Evans, C. DeStefano, J.Osborne) 40 L 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) 10 THE LONG WAY Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI/Paris Not France Music, BMI/oe Canaco Pubishing, ASCAP (B. Edredge, M.Rogers) 14 M MAKE A LITTLE WB Music Corp., ASCAP/TipTop Music, ASCAP/Tropica Cowboy Pubishing, ASCAP/ Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/Kitt Cass Pubishing Corporation, BMI/Smack Hits, GMR/Smack Songs LLC, GMR/Kobat Music Group Ltd., GMR/Anderson Fork In The Road Music, ASCAP/Smackvie Music, ASCAP/Smack Songs LLC, ASCAP (J.Carson, C.Duddy, M.Wystrach, S.McAnay, J.Osborne) 24 MARRY ME EMI Backwood Music Inc., BMI/Cricket On The Line, BMI/Rio Bravo Music, Inc., BMI/Teemitry Productions, BMI/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/Sadie s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/ Smack Hits, GMR/Smack Songs LLC, GMR/Kobat Music Group Ltd., GMR (Thomas Rhett, J.Frasure, A.Gorey, S.McAnay) 2 MEANT TO BE BMG Patinum Songs, BMI/Big Loud Mountain, BMI/Kiss Me If You Can Music, BMI/T Hubb Pubishing, BMI/Round Hi Works, BMI/Warner- Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/Songs Of The Corn, BMI/Jack 10 Pubishing, BMI (B.Rexha, T.Hubbard, J.Mier, D.A.Garcia) 1 MERCY Super Big Music, ASCAP/Caivie Pubishing, ASCAP/Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/Litte Beuga Music, BMI (B.Young, S.McConne) 47 MILLIONAIRE Universa Tunes, SESAC/Spur 66 Music, SESAC (K.Wech) 45 MOST PEOPLE ARE GOOD SB 21 Music Pubishing, BMI/Purdy Beard Music, BMI/Songs Of Amyase Music, BMI/Five His Music, BMI/Do Write Music, LLC/Year Of The Dog Music, ASCAP/Champagne Whiskey Pubishing, ASCAP/Downtown DLJ Songs, ASCAP (D.Frasier, E.M.Hi, J.Kear) 12 O ONE NUMBER AWAY Works For RHA Music, BMI/ Ma B. Pubishing, ASCAP/Razor & Tie Music Pubishing, LLC, ASCAP/The Bicyce Music Company, ASCAP/Tunes of R And T Direct, SESAC/Sef Shrevident Music, SESAC/ Rowdy Rob Music, BMI/Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI (L.Combs, S.A.Battey, S.Mitche, R.Wiiford) 21 ONES THAT LIKE ME Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/Indiana Ange Music, BMI/ Parae Music Pubishing, LLC, ASCAP/Kobat Songs Music Pubishing LLC, ASCAP/Bobby s Lyrics, Land And Livestock, BMI (B.Gibert, B.Chaffin, B.Pinson) 23 P PARALLEL LINE Ed Sheeran Limited, GMR/Sony/ ATV Story Music Pubishing, GMR/Pease Don t Forget To Pay Me Music, GMR/Universa Music Works, GMR/Spirit B-Unique Poar Patro, PRS/Kobat Music Pubishing, PRS/Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/Thanks For The Songs Richard, BMI/BDi Music Limited, PRS (E.C.Sheeran, B.J.Levin, J.McDaid, J.Michaes, A.Wadge) 35 R THE REST OF OUR LIFE Sony/ATV Songs LLC, BMI/Sony/ATV Music Pubishing UK Ltd, PRS/Cookie Jar, BMI/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Spirit B-Unique Poar Patro Songs, BMI/Universa PoyGram Int. Pubishing Inc., ASCAP/Rokstone Music Ltd, PRS (E.C.Sheeran, A.Wadge, J.McDaid, S.McCutcheon) 28 S SHE AIN T IN IT Writers Of Sea Gaye Music, BMI/ Spirit Cataoge Hodings, S.A.R.L./Spirit Of Nashvie One, BMI/BMG Patinum Songs, BMI/Mater Pie Music, BMI (C. Danies, W.Varbe) 33 SHE S WITH ME Spruce Road Pubishing, GMR/ Capito CMG Zenith, GMR/Sony/ATV Story Music Pubishing, 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.M.Stennis) 17 SHOOT ME STRAIGHT Trampy McCauey, ASCAP/A The Kings Pens, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/The Country And Western Music, BMI/Warner- Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI (J. Osborne, T.J. Osborne, L.T.Mier) 48 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) 13 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) 49 STUPID Not Listed (Not Listed) 50 TAKE BACK HOME GIRL Universa Music - Brentwood Benson Pubishing, ASCAP/D Sou Music, ASCAP/BMG God Songs, ASCAP/BIRB Music, ASCAP/ Rezonant Music Pubishing LLC, ASCAP/Songs Of The Corn, BMI/Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/ Jack 10 Pubishing, BMI/Capito CMG Genesis, ASCAP (D.A.Garcia, H.Lindsey, J.Mier) 26 T TEQUILA WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Beats And Banjos, ASCAP/Buckeye26, ASCAP/Jreynmusic, ASCAP/Warner- Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/A Gir Named Charie, BMI (D.Smyers, J.Reynods, N.Gayon) 30 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) 41 U UP DOWN Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/ Murphy The Wof Music, BMI/Five Mies West Songs, BMI/Mandy s Favorite Songs, BMI/Watsky Music, LLC, BMI/Harding Road Music, BMI/New House Of Sea Gaye Music, ASCAP (B.Cawson, M.Hardy, C.J. Soar) 19 W WHAT S MINE IS YOURS Songs Of Universa, Inc., BMI/Kane Brown Music, BMI/Universa Music Corp., ASCAP/Happy Rock Pubishing, ASCAP/EMI Foray Music, SESAC/Write 2 Be Free Music, SESAC (K.Brown, S.Eis, J.Hoge) 43 WHEN IT COMES TO LOVING YOU Not Listed (Not Listed) 29 WOMAN, AMEN EMI Backwood Music Inc., BMI/ Pain Jane Songs, BMI/Rezoant Music, BMI/Year Of The Dog Music, ASCAP/Champagne Whiskey Pubishing, ASCAP/Downtown DLJ Songs, ASCAP/DudeTunes, ASCAP/Kobat Songs Music Pubishing LLC, ASCAP (R. Copperman, J.Kear, D.Bentey) 25 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 Music Pubishing LLC, ASCAP/Smack Hits, GMR/Smack Songs LLC, GMR/Kobat Music Group Ltd., GMR (M.Ramsey, T. Rosen, B.Tursi, S.McAnay) 5 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) 9 YOU MAKE IT EASY Big Loud Mountain, BMI/ Round Hi Works, BMI/T Hubb Pubishing, BMI/Pranch Ringe Music, BMI/We-Vove Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Freshy Music, ASCAP (T.Hubbard, B.Keey, M.Waen, J.M.Schmidt) 3 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) 8

25 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE CODA 23 Years Ago Wade Hayes Debut Hit Better Was Best The Okahoma native scored a Hot Country Songs No. 1 FEBRUARY 20, 2018 PAGE 25 OF 25 On Feb. 25, 1995, Wade Hayes debut singe, Od Enough to Know Better, ascended to the top of Hot Country Songs for its first of two weeks at No. 1. The fidde-driven Better, cowritten by Hayes and Chuck Rains, was from the LP of the same name that reached No. 19 on Top Country Abums. Born Tony Wade Hayes in Bethe Acres, Oka., he has roed up 14 Hot Country Songs appearances through Better stands as his one No. 1 among six top 10s. I n 20 03, H ay e s a n d M a r k M c C u r g, a memb er of A a n J ackson s touring band, formed the duo McHayes, charting one Hot Country Songs singe, It Doesn t Mean I Love You, which reached No. 41 that Juy. After McHayes disbanded, Hayes, we-known for his guitar skis, joined the touring band for Randy Owen of Aabama. Hayes batted stage-four coon cancer after being diagnosed in 2011 and has been in remission since He shared his story in his 2012 singe Is It Aready Time. Now 48, Hayes continues to perform and write, often paying benefit shows to support the fight against cancer. JIM ASKER Hayes at the Okahoma Twister Reief Concert in 2013 in Norman, Oka. RICK DIAMOND/GETTY IMAGES FOR SHOCK INK R EW I N D I N G THE C O U N T RY C H A RT S