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1 Country Update BILLBOARD.COM/NEWSLETTERS NOVEMBER 30, 2015 PAGE 1 OF 21 INSIDE BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE Tom.Roand@biboard.com Chris Young Works A Threemium Chart Mode >page 4 WIL St. Louis Changes PDs >page 10 Paying The New Faces Show Are >page 11 Makin Tracks: Justin Moore s You Look Like I Need a Drink >page 15 Stark Report: Country Reacts To New York Times Dis >page 16 Country Coda: Doy Parton s Here You Come Again >page 21 From John Cougar To Warren Buffett: When Rea Peope Become Country Lyrics During the opening quarter-hour at the Country Music Association (CMA) Awards on Nov. 4, miions of viewers saw one of the genre s trends in action: John Meencamp and Keith Urban performed Pink Houses, then eased into Urban s soo take on John Cougar, John Deere, John 3:16. The atter song contains Meencamp s origina stage name in the tite and goes on to thread a itany of other ceebrity names such as Don McLean, Mariyn Monroe, John Wayne and Kris Kristofferson as it portrays the cutura infuences of a generation. Meanwhie, Meencamp s Pink Houses is referenced aongside Eton John s Tiny Dancer and Bruce Springsteen s Born in the U.S.A. in the Kenny Chesney hit American Kids, which was a finaist for both singe and song of the year at the same CMA show. Those songs are just a few among a raft of 2015 tites that name-check other ceebrities or songs. Two current singes, Eric Pasay s High Cass and Rasca Fatts I Like the Sound of That, pay homage to Justin Timberake. Michae Ray PASLAY KELLY JANSON tips a hat to Dae Earnhardt Jr. in Kiss You in the Morning. Canaan Smith cites both Tom Petty and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band in the yrics of Love You Like That. And Forida Georgia Line references Aabama in Anything Goes and severa other artists Mere Haggard, Bob Marey and The Roing Stones in Sun Daze. It s just a trend, but it was working, says Chris Janson, whose Buy Me a Boat cevery rhymes kick the bucket with Warren Buffett. I fe victim to it, and I m OK with it. There s no way to gauge if those cutura references are happening more now than in the past, but it certainy fees ike they are. We use every itte trick we can, says BMI country songwriter of the year Rodney Cawson, who co-wrote American Kids. We run out of em, and we end up overusing some. Whie it might seem that the voume of cutura references is arger these days, the actua use of ceebrity names is hardy a new occurrence. Traditiona pop songwriter Coe Porter reguary empoyed the names of high-society foks in Broadway JANSON: ERIC BROWN NOW, ONE LY EDITION, EVERY MONDAY Country UPDATE Sign up for FREE deivery every Monday The country music industry s must-have source for news, charts, anaysis and features. Airpay, abum saes, track saes and streaming charts, as we as the a-encompassing Hot Country Songs chart. Expert commentary and insights by Tom Roand, Phyis Stark and Jim Asker.

2 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE NOVEMBER 30, 2015 PAGE 2 OF 21 songs during the 1930s, and a wave of Word War II songs made specific references to enemy eaders Adof Hiter and Benito Mussoini. Artists are a particuary obvious point of reference. Duing the 80s and 90s, Haggard and/or George Jones were embedded in the yrics of The Judds Have Mercy, Aan Jackson s Don t Rock the Jukebox, the Beamy Brothers Kids of the Baby Boom and Doug Stone s Warning Labes. Evis Presey s made a mark on Luke Bryan s A My Friends Say, Patty Loveess I Try to Think About Evis and Sugarand s Stuck Like Gue. Conway Twitty gets props in two Bake Sheton hits, Hibiy Bone and Honey Bee. And George Strait, thanks in JONES part to a name that rhymes easiy, has wound up in a passe of songs, incuding Garth Brooks Ain t Goin Down (Ti the Sun Comes Up), Greg Bates Did It for the Gir, Rasca Fatts Rewind, Brad Paisey s Crushin It and Eric Church s Love Your Love the Most. As often as it seems to happen, referencing artists and songs is not something most songwriters set out to do, in part because it can imit a song s potentia in getting cut. As a writer, you re concerned with Wi the artist ike the [referenced] artist? Is that going to ki the song? says John Cougar author Ross Copperman. So we try not to. John Cougar was such a rare exception. It was just right. It had to be. Part of the issue is a song s ongevity. If it cas up a current artist or track, there s aways the potentia that in the next three years or so, the reference coud be dated. Thus, the artists tend to have a nostagic connotation when they become a yric. Country in its nature is a itte retrospective, says ASCAP country songwriter of the year Ashey Gorey, whose That s My Kind of Night baances Twitty against hip-hop artist T-Pain in the same sentence. Memories usuay go with some kind of a meody, so we might go ahead and say what that is, whether it s a Springsteen song or a George Strait song. The way a ceebrity reference ages is we-exempified in Jones 30-yearod hit Who s Gonna Fi Their Shoes, which strung together numerous artists who were quite famiiar to even the casua country istener in the 1980s. Contemporary fans wi sti understand the mentions of Johnny Cash, Hank Wiiams or Wiie Neson. But many younger fans woud ikey be cueess about the identities of Charie Rich, Lefty Frizze or Marty Robbins. On the other hand, particuar tites or phrases can become so antiquated that when they get dredged back up, they work on two eves, as did ines from a Car Perkins song and I Am the Warus in Pasay s Song About a Gir. Younger isteners might hear those ines as quirks, whie others who are up on their music history see them as sy commentary. I don t even know how many peope know when I say Bue Suede Shoes coo-coo-ca-choos know it s from Evis and The Beates, observes Pasay. That s one of the benefits of the name-check. As peope foow their favorite artists, the references might introduce a few fans to the artist s infuences. More than one Brantey GILBERT Gibert fan probaby became aware of Wayon Jennings from the chorus of Country Must Be Country Wide. Others are becoming famiiar with Evis Costeo, Ray Wyie Hubbard and Wico s Jeff Tweedy thanks to a verse of Eric Church s new Mr. Misunderstood. Throwing out Hank [Wiiams Jr.] and George Strait, after a whie, everyone s doing it, says Chares Keey, who was part of the songwriting team that inserted Matthew McConaughey into Lady Antebeum s Freestye. You have to come up with some new names to say. Arista recording artist Cam (center) dropped in on the KKGO Los Angees morning show on Nov. 23. Fanking her are KKGO morning-show producer David Bugenske (eft) and KKGO personaity Graham Bunn. Big Loud artist Chris Lane performed his debut singe, Fix, for the staff at KKIX Fayettevie, Ark., during his radio promotion tour. From eft: Big Loud nationa director of promotion Stacy Bythe, KKIX director of programming and operations Dave Ashcraft, Lane and Big Loud Midwest region director of promotions Roger Fregoso. Ashey Campbe performed Remembering as she made her Grand Oe Opry debut on Nov. 21. From eft: Opry Entertainment Group president Steve Buchanan, Campbe and Opry member Vince Gi. Michae Ray participated when StubHub donated $39,000 worth of instruments to Hunters Lane High Schoo in Nashvie on Nov. 23. From eft: student Norissa Spagner, Ray, Warner Music Nashvie president/ CEO John Esposito and student Jesse Strong. CAMPBELL: CHRIS HOLLO

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4 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE NOVEMBER 30, 2015 PAGE 4 OF 21 ON THE CHARTS JIM ASKER jim.asker@biboard.com Young s Over Not Getting Od; AMAs Boost Underwood, Hunt Chris Young s I m Comin Over (RCA Nashvie) tops Biboard s Country Airpay chart (dated Dec. 12) for a third week (50.5 miion audience impressions, down 3 percent, according to Niesen Music). Co-written by Young, the singe is his second three-week eader, foowing 2010 s The Man I Want to Be and just the fourth such No. 1 in It foows Kenny Chesney s Save It for a Rainy Day (Bue Chair/Coumbia Nashvie), which dominated for three weeks in October; Zac Brown Band s Homegrown (ROAR/Southern Ground/Atantic), which rued for three weeks in Apri; and Tim McGraw s Shotgun Rider (McGraw/Big Machine), which wrapped its three-week command on the Jan. 10 chart. Over is the aunch singe from Young s abum of the same name, which became his first No. 1 on the Dec. 12 YOUNG Top Country Abums chart. ALBUM ACTION Chris Stapeton s debut LP, Traveer (Mercury/Universa Music Group Nashvie [UMGN]), returns to the summit on Top Country Abums (2-1), up by 16 percent to 49,000 sod. It debuted at No. 2 on the May 23 ist with 27,000 copies and few 25-1 on the Nov. 21-dated chart after the Nov. 4 Country Music Association Awards, seing 153,000 (up 6,412 percent). The same week, it re-entered the Biboard 200 at No. 1 (177,000 equivaent abum units). The set s new radio singe, Nobody to Bame, jumps on Country Airpay (10 miion, up 9 percent). Carrie Underwood s Storyteer (19/Arista Nashvie/ Sony Music Nashvie) strides 4-2 on Top Country Abums with 28,000 sod (up 69 percent), bostered by her win at the American Music Awards (Nov. 22) for favorite femae country artist and her performance of new singe Heartbeat. The track re-enters Hot Country Songs at No. 35 (see page 12 for detais). Sam Hunt, who won the new artist of the year award at the AMAs, steps 8-5 on Top Country Abums with Montevao (MCA Nashvie/UMGN). It s up 53 percent to 17,000 and has sod 879,000 to date. Break Up in a Sma Town, the abum s fourth singe, ifts 3-2 on Hot Country Songs. It aso tops Country Streaming Songs for a second frame (3.9 miion U.S. streams, up 4 percent). Town foows the Hot Country Songs No. 1s Leave the Night On, Take Your Time and House Party. NEW CLASSICS Country Digita Songs is popuated with three finaists on NBC s The Voice. Emiy Ann Roberts version of the The Judds 1984 smash Why Not Me starts at No. 6 (21,000 downoads sod), good for a No. 33 aunch on Hot Country Songs. Zach Seabaugh s version of Thompson Square s Are You Gonna Kiss Me or Not (No. 1 on Hot Country Songs in 2011) opens at No. 19 (9,000) on Country Digita Songs and No. 46 on Hot Country Songs, and Barrett Baber s version of Deta Dawn, Tanya Tucker s first Hot Country Songs hit (No. 6, 1972), enters the saes tay at No. 20 (9,000) and Hot Country Songs at No. 47. It s the song s first appearance on the atter chart since Tucker s origina. RHETT RULES Thomas Rhett reigns over Hot Country Songs for a second consecutive week, and third week overa,with Die a Happy Man, his first eader on the ist. It crowns Country Digita Songs for a sixth week (54,000, down 4 percent), hods at No. 2 on Country Streaming Songs (3.6 miion, essentiay even from the prior week) and pushes 10-9 on Country Airpay (33.6 miion, up 5 percent). HIGH LIFE LoCash achieves its first Country Airpay top 10 as I Love This Life (Reviver) rises (29.6 miion audience, up 10 percent) in its 40th week. Its the sixth appearance on the survey for the duo originay known as LoCash Cowboys. In these troubed times, the guys wrote a song of happiness and hope that resonates with our audience, says Reviver vp promotion Gator Michaes. This song reacted from the first spin and continues to research incrediby we with minima burn. Radio has been fantastic in its wiingness to trust the fans. Country UPDATE Get your message front and center with top country radio programmers and other key music infuencers THE COUNTRY MUSIC INDUSTRY S MUST-HAVE SOURCE FOR NEWS ANALYSIS AND CHART INFO. NOW, ONE LY EDITION, EVERY MONDAY. TO ADVERTISE, CONTACT: Lee Ann Photogo, , aphotogo@gmai.com

5 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE NOVEMBER 30, 2015 PAGE 5 OF 21 Country Airpay WKS ON CHART TITLE Imprint/Labe Artist AUDIENCE (IN MILLIONS) PLAYS AIRPLAY MONITORED BY +/ +/ RANK I M COMIN OVER RCA Nashvie HH No. 1 (3 weeks) HH Chris Young GONNA Warner Bros./WMN Bake Sheton NOTHIN LIKE YOU Warner Bros./WAR Dan + Shay GONNA KNOW WE WERE HERE Broken Bow Jason Adean SMOKE BREAK 19/Arista Nashvie Carrie Underwood TOP OF THE WORLD McGraw/Big Machine Tim McGraw BURNING HOUSE Arista Nashvie Cam STAY A LITTLE LONGER EMI Nashvie Brothers Osborne DIE A HAPPY MAN Vaory Thomas Rhett I LOVE LIFE Reviver LoCash RUN AWAY WITH YOU B$R/New Revoution Big & Rich I GOT THE BOY Eektra Nashvie/WAR Jana Kramer ALREADY CALLIN YOU MINE Stoney Creek Parmaee BREAK UP IN A SMALL TOWN MCA Nashvie Sam Hunt DIBS Back River Kesea Baerini BACKROAD SONG Wheehouse Granger Smith COUNTRY NATION Arista Nashvie Brad Paisey WE WENT Stoney Creek Randy Houser HOME ALONE TONIGHT Capito Nashvie HH Airpower/Most Increased Audience/Most Added HH Luke Bryan Feat. Karen Fairchid BEAUTIFUL DRUG John Varvatos/Repubic/BMLG/Southern Ground HH Airpower HH Zac Brown Band BREAK ON ME. Hit Red/Capito Nashvie Keith Urban MR. MISUNDERSTOOD EMI Nashvie Eric Church LITTLE BIT OF YOU Red Bow Chase Bryant ( AIN T NO) DRUNK DIAL Repubic Nashvie A Thousand Horses I LIKE THE SOUND OF THAT Big Machine Rasca Fatts RISER Capito Nashvie Dierks Bentey NOBODY TO BLAME Mercury Chris Stapeton THAT DON T SOUND LIKE YOU Curb Lee Brice REAL MEN LOVE JESUS Atantic/WEA Michae Ray CONFESSION Repubic Nashvie HH Breaker HH Forida Georgia Line BILLBOARD COUNTRY AIRPLAY PANEL 150 STATIONS 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 Denver Des Moines, Iowa Detroit WGNA KBQI KRST WCTO WKHX WUBL WKXC KASE KUZZ WPOC WYNK WDXB WZZK KAWO KQFC WKLB WYRK WCKN WEZL WKKT WSOC WUSY WEBG WUSN WUBE WGAR KATC WCOS WCOL KRYS KPLX KSCS KWOF KYGO KHKI KJJY 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 WPAW WTQR WESC 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 KTEX WGKX 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. Phiadephia Phoenix Pittsburgh Portand, Maine Portand, Ore. Providence, R.I. Raeigh, N.C. Richmond, Va. Riverside, Caif. Roanoke, Va. Rochester, N.Y. WKIS WMIL KEEY KMNB WKSJ WKMK KTOM WKDF WSIX WSM-FM WJVC WRNS WNOE WNSH WGH WUSH KJKE KTST KXKT WWKA WXTU KMLE KNIX WDSY WOGI WPGB WPOR WTHT KUPL KWJJ WCTK WNCB WQDR WKHK KFRG WSLC WBEE Sacramento, Caif. St. Louis Sat Lake City San Antonio, Texas San Diego San Jose, Caif. Santa Rosa, Caif. Sarasota, Fa. Seatte Shreveport, La. Spokane, Wash. Springfied, Mass. Springfied, Mo. 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. KBEB KNCI KNTY KSD WIL KEGA KSOP KUBL KAJA KCYY KSON KRTY KSJO KFGY WCTQ KKWF KMPS KXKS KXLY WRNX KTTS KATM WBBS WFUS WQYK KIIM KTGX KVOO KWEN KJUG WMZQ WIRK KFDI KZSN WGGY WXCY WGTY

6 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE NOVEMBER 30, 2015 PAGE 6 OF 21 Country Airpay WKS ON CHART TITLE Imprint/Labe Artist AUDIENCE (IN MILLIONS) PLAYS AIRPLAY MONITORED BY +/ +/ RANK STONE COLD SOBER Vaory Brantey Gibert MIND READER Broken Bow Dustin Lynch COLD BEER CONVERSATION MCA Nashvie George Strait DRUNK ON YOUR LOVE Atantic/WMN Brett Edredge BETTER IN BOOTS Coumbia Nashvie Tyer Farr YUP Mercury Easton Corbin HEAD OVER BOOTS Capito Nashvie Jon Pardi HOLE IN A BOTTLE Mercury Canaan Smith NIGHT S ON FIRE MCA Nashvie David Nai SHUT UP AND FISH Dot Maddie & Tae NEW HEARTBEAT 19/Arista Nashvie HH Hot Shot Debut HH Carrie Underwood PAIN KILLER Capito Nashvie Litte Big Town IT ALL STARTED WITH A BEER Warner Bros./WAR Frankie Baard I MET A GIRL Warner Bros./WMN Wiiam Michae Morgan RUNNING FOR YOU MCA Nashvie Kip Moore HIGH CLASS EMI Nashvie Eric Pasay SOUTHERN BELLE 19/Interscope/Mercury Scotty McCreery CRAZY OVER ME Curb Dyan Scott SNAPBACK RCA Nashvie Od Dominion YOU LOOK LIKE I NEED A DRINK Vaory Justin Moore BOY & A GIRL THING Curb Mo Pitney POWER OF POSITIVE DRINKIN Warner Bros./WAR Chris Janson FREAKS LIKE ME Red Bow Joe Nichos NEXT BOYFRIEND 19/Interscope/Mercury Lauren Aaina I AM INVINCIBLE Repubic Nashvie Cassadee Pope WHEN I M GONE Back River Craig Morgan REMEMBERING Dot Ashey Campbe BY THE WAY Stoney Creek Lindsay E NEW BEAUTIFUL STRANGER Show Dog Nashvie Toby Keith WHISKEY ON MY BREATH Hate And Purchase Love And Theft GOING FOR ADDS 40 12/7 BRECKEN MILES The Anchor Rhyme Partners CHRIS LANE Fix Big Loud DRAKE WHITE Livin The Dream Dot 12/14 CROSBY LANE Crucified Mansion ANN ALLISTER MADDIE & TAE Shut Up And Fish Co-written by the duo, the track tes of a trip with a guy who wants to catch more than fish and gets himsef tossed overboard. Fish eaps on Country Airpay, up 54 percent to 3.1 miion in audience. DAVID FANNING What s Next Stoney Creek 12/21 No Going for Adds for this Week

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8 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE NOVEMBER 30, 2015 PAGE 8 OF 21 Country Airpay AIRPLAY MONITORED BY MOST ADDED TITLE Imprint/Labe Artist ADDS HOME ALONE TONIGHT Capito Nashvie Luke Bryan Feat. Karen Fairchid 41 MR. MISUNDERSTOOD EMI Nashvie Eric Church 28 DRUNK ON YOUR LOVE Atantic/WMN Brett Edredge 12 CONFESSION Repubic Nashvie Forida Georgia Line 12 IT ALL STARTED WITH A BEER Warner Bros./WAR Frankie Baard 11 HEARTBEAT 19/Arista Nashvie Carrie Underwood 10 NOBODY TO BLAME Mercury Chris Stapeton 9 YOU LOOK LIKE I NEED A DRINK Vaory Justin Moore 9 BREAK ON ME Hit Red/Capito Nashvie Keith Urban 8 REAL MEN LOVE JESUS Atantic/WEA Michae Ray 8 MOST INCREASED AUDIENCE TITLE Imprint/Labe Artist GAIN (IN MIILIONS) HOME ALONE TONIGHT Capito Nashvie Luke Bryan Feat. Karen Fairchid RUN AWAY WITH YOU B$R/New Revoution Big & Rich I LOVE LIFE Reviver LoCash TOP OF THE WORLD McGraw/Big Machine Tim McGraw BURNING HOUSE Arista Nashvie Cam MR. MISUNDERSTOOD EMI Nashvie Eric Church HEARTBEAT 19/Arista Nashvie Carrie Underwood BREAK UP IN A SMALL TOWN MCA Nashvie Sam Hunt STAY A LITTLE LONGER EMI Nashvie Brothers Osborne I GOT THE BOY Eektra Nashvie/WAR Jana Kramer TITLE Imprint/Labe NEW AND ACTIVE Artist RECURRENTS TOTAL AUDIENCE TOTAL STATIONS KIDS WITH CARS Baster Daas Smith TONIGHT Warner Bros./WEA Ryan Kinder FAINT OF HEART Not Listed Sister C LIVIN THE DREAM Dot Drake White TIME FOR THAT Backtop/Thirty Tigers Cint Back CHRISTMAS IN BLUE CHAIR BAY Bue Chair/Coumbia Nashvie Kenny Chesney TITLE Imprint/Labe Artist TOTAL AUD. (IN MILLIONS) 1 LET ME SEE YA GIRL Warner Bros./WMN Coe Swinde BREAK UP WITH HIM RCA Nashvie Od Dominion SAVE IT FOR A RAINY DAY Bue Chair/Coumbia Nashvie Kenny Chesney LOSE MY MIND Atantic/WMN Brett Edredge STRIP IT DOWN Capito Nashvie Luke Bryan ANYTHING GOES Repubic Nashvie Forida Georgia Line JOHN COUGAR, JOHN DEERE, JOHN 3:16 Hit Red/Capito Nashvie Keith Urban BUY ME A BOAT Warner Bros./WAR Chris Janson CRASH AND BURN Vaory Thomas Rhett HOMEGROWN John Varvatos/Repubic/BMLG/Southern Ground Zac Brown Band ADDS MOST INCREASED PLAYS TITLE Imprint/Labe Artist GAIN HOME ALONE TONIGHT Capito Nashvie Luke Bryan Feat. Karen Fairchid +788 MR. MISUNDERSTOOD EMI Nashvie Eric Church +512 RUN AWAY WITH YOU B$R/New Revoution Big & Rich +473 I LOVE LIFE Reviver LoCash +451 BREAK UP IN A SMALL TOWN MCA Nashvie Sam Hunt +380 BURNING HOUSE Arista Nashvie Cam +370 DIE A HAPPY MAN Vaory Thomas Rhett +361 TOP OF THE WORLD McGraw/Big Machine Tim McGraw +302 BREAK ON ME. Hit Red/Capito Nashvie Keith Urban +300 STAY A LITTLE LONGER EMI Nashvie Brothers Osborne +292 BILLBOARD COUNTRY BOXSCORE Gross Artist Attendance Ticket Price(s) Venue/Date(s) Capacity Promoter(s) $2,285,538 ZAC BROWN BAND 30,515 ANDREW HEWITT CO., $117/$34.50 Hoywood Bow, Los Angees/Oct ,576 BILL SILVA PRESENTS $659,428 SHANIA TWAIN 6,908 $136/$46 Moda Center, Portand/Sept. 13 8,256 $653,955 FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE 18,285 $59.75/$25 Seep Train Amphitheatre, Chua Vista, Caif./Oct. 3 19,603 $647,820 JASON ALDEAN 18,191 $65.50/$25.50 Jiffy Lube Live, Bristow, Va./Sept ,095 $644,023 SHANIA TWAIN 7,442 $136/$46 PPL Center, Aentown, Pa./Oct. 2 8,326 AEG LIVE LIVE NATION LIVE NATION AEG LIVE 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 NOVEMBER 22, 2015 WKS ON CHART TITLE (Labe) ARTIST TW SPINS PHONE CALLS (BGM) HH 1 week at 1 HH TJ Broscoff YOU DREAM I LL DRIVE (Independent) Josh Grider MY BOOTS (Independent) Bri Bagwe DON T IT FEEL GOOD (Tone Tree) Jon Wofe GIRLS I DATE (Independent) Mike Ryan BEER TIME (Independent) Mario Fores IF YOU HAD TO CHOOSE (Independent) Roger Creager & Cody Johnson WHISKEY & WHITLEY (Independent) Josh Ward RED FIRE NIGHT (Residence) Green River Ordinance LOSER (Amost Country) Casey Donahew Band SPINS +/ WKS ON CHART TITLE (Labe) ARTIST TW SPINS TONIGHT WE RIDE (Smith) Micky & The Motorcars SHE IS (BE) Zane Wiiams I DON T (Winding Road) Saints Eeven RINGLING ROAD (Independent) Wiiam Cark Green NOTHING S GOT NOTHIN (Independent) Cameran Neson UNDONE (Independent) Statesboro Revue GETAWAY TRUCK (Independent) Aaron Watson SHE MADE YOUR BED (Independent) Breean Ange LADY BUG (Independent) Randy Rogers & Wade Bowen AMNESIA (PDT) Josh Abbott Band 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 2015, Texas Regiona Radio Report

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10 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE NOVEMBER 30, 2015 PAGE 10 OF 21 NASHVILLE & NATIONAL TOM ROLAND Josh Turner took part when WDSY Pittsburgh raised $10,000 for Operation Troop Aid with the sixth annua Y108 Sodier Saute Show. From eft: CBS Radio/Pittsburgh operations manager Mark Anderson, Turner and MCA Nashvie vp promotion Katie Dean. CHRISTMAS IN THE COUNTRY When Santa Caus appeared in the annua Macy s Thanksgiving Day Parade, his trip down Broadway in Manhattan unofficiay kicked off the Christmas season, which is surprisingy ean in country this year. No bockbuster hoiday projects have been announced in the genre, but there are a few singes in reease, a smattering of yuetide tours in the works and the usua round of appearances on TV specias. The specia with the biggest country contingent is ABC s CMA Country Christmas, hosted by Jennifer Nettes. Two of the artists in the Dec. 3 ineup have reeased seasona singes: Mickey Guyton covers Do You Want to Buid a Snowman? on Capito, and LeAnn Rimes enists Gavin DeGraw for her Wiiam Michae Morgan visited Sirius XM s Nashvie office Nov. 24 for a guest appearance on The Highway s countdown. From eft are recording artist Jimmy Wayne, Sirius XM host Storme Warren and Morgan. version of Kenny Loggins Ceebrate Me Home on Kobat. CMA Country Christmas aso features appearances by Brett Edredge, Darius Rucker, Dan + Shay, Kesea Baerini and Jewe. The Band Perry takes part in NBC s annua program Christmas in Rockefeer Center, airing Dec. 2 with appearances by James Tayor, Andy Grammer and Pentatonix. Rasca Fatts wi sing My Wish and I Like the Sound of That during CBS adoption-themed A Home for the Hoidays on Dec. 17. Hosted by LL Coo J, that production aso incudes performances by Christina Aguiera, Jason Deruo and Ed Sheeran. The Band Perry and Rasca Fatts both have entries in Nash Icon Christmas, a seven-track package under the Big Machine Labe Group s newest imprint. The coection incudes materia by Ei Young Band, Justin Moore and Martina McBride, pus former BMLG acts Stee Magnoia and Edens Edge. The compiation is a subset of a nine-track 2011 reease that was bunded in a Coonia Cande gift set. Two hoiday abums arriving in Dustin Lynch (right) joined CMT host Cody Aan on the CMT Hot Country Countdown on Nov incude Merry & Bright by The Eas, a femae trio that made its Grand Oe Opry debut on Nov. 27; and Wecome to Our Christmas Party by Band of Merrymakers. The atter abum, by pop producer Sam Hoander and Better Than Ezra s Kevin Griffin, incudes guest appearances by a passe of artists, incuding Lady Antebeum s Chares Keey. Cint Back wi aunch a Christmas tour on Dec. 1. Others with hoiday tours on the docket incude Kenny Rogers and the Oak Ridge Boys. MOVERS & SHAKERS WIL St. Louis has parted company with PD Greg Mozingo and is activey searching for a repacement. Assistant PD/music director Danny Montana takes on the programming roe on an interim basis Lindsay Carr wi join Cumuus/ Nashvie on Jan. 4, 2016, as integrated and event saes manager for the custer, which incudes country stations WKDF and WSM-FM. She was previousy an account executive for Merin Media/Chicago CBS Radio appointed Jeff Shutz as senior vp business deveopment, based in Los Angees. He previousy hed a simiar post for CBS Interactive Queen B/ Pattevie, Wis., promoted Herb Cody to vp from market manager for the four-station custer, which CARR incudes country WGLR The Ashevie Radio Group aunched a new country station, the Outaw, at FM, The Ashevie Citizen-Times reported. The frequency previousy served as a transator channe for sports WISE Bo J. Spates takes over afternoon drive at WLLR Davenport-Rock Isand-Moine, according to The Moine Dispatch/Rock Isand Argus. He had been working swing shifts for the station WWBR Big Rapids, Mich., morning taent Bi Beckwith is retiring after 40 years on-air in the market, RadioInfo.com reported Steve Kramer has eft the morning show at KMLE Phoenix, Inside Radio.com reported, ending a two-year stint. ROUND THE ROW Nashvie Songwriters Ha of Fame member Bob DiPiero ( Southern Voice, Bue Cear Sky ) signed a pubishing dea with Kobat Music Dani Frank has joined the PMK-BNC/New York entertainment department as an account executive foowing three years with Shore Fire Media. The Josh Abbott Band was among her PR cients at Shore Fire Songwriter Ted Harris ( The Hand That Rocks the Crade, The Happiness of Having You ) died Nov. 22 at home in Lewisburg, Tenn. Harris was a 1990 inductee in the Nashvie Songwriters Ha of Fame.

11 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE NOVEMBER 30, 2015 PAGE 11 OF 21 NASHVILLE & NATIONAL TOM ROLAND MUSIC NOTES Brothers Osborne, Cam, Kesea Baerini, Od Dominion and Chris Janson have been seected to pay the New Faces Show at the cose of the Country Radio Seminar on Feb. 10, Traditionay hed on a Friday night, the upcoming performance at the Omni BROTHERS OSBORNE Nashvie wi take pace on a Wednesday. Dinner tickets are sod out, though arrangements are being made for overfow viewing of the concert. Garth Brooks is returning to Las Vegas, though not for a stripped-down residency ike the one he payed at the Wynn Las Vegas from In 2016, he wi bring a fuscae show to the new Las Vegas Arena Juy 2-4. The venue, which wi open in Apri, is ocated in the heart of the city s Sunset Strip. Brooks is the third country act to announce dates at the arena, according to The Las Vegas Sun, joining George Strait, who pays the first of severa shows at the ha on Apri 22; and Dixie Chicks, who are sated for Juy 16. The Country Music Ha of Fame and Museum expects to wecome its 1 miionth guest of 2015 on Dec. 4, marking the first time the museum has reached the seven-figure mark in attendance during a caendar year. To ceebrate the occasion, Brenda Lee wi be on hand to present a prize package to one visitor that incudes a $750 shopping spree and two tickets to a 2016 show at the Ha of Fame, as we as to the 50th annua Country Music Association Awards and the CMA Music Festiva. Buddy Mier has a unique abum on the way: Cayamo Sessions at Sea, a coection of 11 coaborations recorded over severa years on a cruise ship. The track ist incudes a remake of Buck Owens Love s Gonna Live Here recorded with Kacey Musgraves, a version of Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn s After the Fire Is Gone with Lee Ann Womack, a take on The Byrds Hickory Wind with Lucinda Wiiams and a rendition of Johnny Cash s Sunday Morning Coming Down with Kris Kristofferson, the song s author. New West wi reease the abum on Jan. 29, GOOD WORKS Charie Danies has hosted Christmas 4 Kids for much of its existence, but he passed the baton in 2015 to feow Southern rockers The Marsha Tucker Band, who heped the organization raise more than $100,000 to fi hoiday needs for Tennessee chidren. Restess Heart, Shenandoah and Craig Wayne Boyd shared the bi Nov. 23 at Nashvie s Ryman Auditorium, but the evening incuded a fair share of surprises. Ricky Skaggs made an unannounced appearance, and the Oak Ridge Boys Wiiam Lee Goden joined Restess Heart s set for a very appropriate version of Thank God for Kids. The entire evening wrapped with a mass version of MTB s Can t You See. Prior participants during Christmas 4 Kids 25-pus years incude Montgomery Gentry, Joe Nichos, Tayor Swift, Sara Evans and Trace Adkins. TWEET OF THE Whie Jake Owen (@jakeowen) was singing Rea Life on a hockey foat in New York, he had to forgo a rea-ife ritua: Heo NYC... Looking forward to being a part of the Macy s Day Parade. Not ooking forward to missing grandmas cooking back home though. To foow BCU, go to Twitter.com/bbcountryupdate. ON DATE IN COUNTRY MUSIC Nov Martina McBride joins the Grand Oe Opry during the taping of a CBS-TV specia, Grand Oe Opry 70th Anniversary Ceebration, at the Opry House. Dec Capito reeases Litte Big Town s Gir Crush to radio. Dec. 2 MCBRIDE 2011 Vince Gi is grand marsha of the Nashvie Christmas Parade. Dec The Oak Ridge Boys sing the nationa anthem at Pittsburgh s Heinz Fied, and the NFL s Steeers sink the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Dierks Bentey s Come a Litte Coser moves into the No. 1 position on the Biboard country singes chart. Dec Frankie Baard records Heuva Life, Young & Crazy and Sunshine & Whiskey at the House of Bues Studio in Nashvie The Judds perform the fina show of their Farewe Tour at the Murphy Center in Murfreesboro, Tenn. Naomi Judd retires due to a potentiay fata strain of hepatitis, eaving Wynonna to pursue a soo career. Dec Carrie Underwood fis the roe of Maria Von Trapp as NBC airs a three-hour ive production of The Sound of Music Lost Highway reeases the soundtrack to O Brother, Where Art Thou? It incudes performances by such acts as Emmyou Harris, Aison Krauss, Dan Tyminski, The Whites, Giian Wech, John Hartford, Raph Staney, The Cox Famiy and Norman Bake. Dec Sara Evans performs Sient Night, O Come A Ye Faithfu and Go Te It on the Mountain during the ighting of the nationa Christmas tree at the White House, with president George W. Bush presiding Wiie Neson is recognized at the Kennedy Center Honors in Washington, D.C. Source: RoandNote.com, the Utimate Country Music Database Kesea Baerini (eft) and a surprise guest, pop singer Tori Key, grab a sefie backstage at The Troubadour in Los Angees, where they performed Key s Shoud ve Been Us during Baerini s Nov. 23 concert. BALLERINI: JOHN SHEARER/GETTYIMAGES

12 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE NOVEMBER 30, 2015 PAGE 12 OF 21 Hot Country Songs SALES, AIRPLAY & STREAMING DATA COMPILED BY TWO S AGO WKS ON CHART TITLE Artist PRODUCER (SONGWRITER) IMPRINT / PROMOTION LABEL CERTIFIED DIE A HAPPY MAN HH No. 1 (3 weeks) HH Thomas Rhett D.HUFF,J.FRASURE (THOMAS RHETT,S.DOUGLAS,JOE LONDON) VALORY BREAK UP IN A SMALL TOWN HH Streaming Gainer HH Sam Hunt Z.CROWELL,S.MCANALLY (S.HUNT,Z.CROWELL,S.MCANALLY) MCA NASHVILLE I M COMIN OVER Chris Young C.CROWDER,C.YOUNG (C.YOUNG,C.CROWDER,J.HOGE) RCA NASHVILLE BURNING HOUSE Cam J.BHASKER,T.JOHNSON (C.OCHS,T.JOHNSON,J.BHASKER) ARISTA NASHVILLE NOTHIN LIKE YOU Dan + Shay C. DESTEFANO (D.SMYERS,S.MOONEY,A.GORLEY,C. DESTEFANO) WARNER BROS./WAR SMOKE BREAK Carrie Underwood J.JOYCE (C.UNDERWOOD,C. DESTEFANO,H.LINDSEY) GONNA S.HENDRICKS (L.LAIRD,C.WISEMAN) 19/ARISTA NASHVILLE Bake Sheton WARNER BROS./WMN STRIP IT DOWN Luke Bryan J.STEVENS,J.STEVENS (L.BRYAN,J.M.NITE,R.COPPERMAN) CAPITOL NASHVILLE GONNA KNOW WE WERE HERE Jason Adean M.KNOX (B.BEAVERS,BRETT JAMES) BROKEN BOW STAY A LITTLE LONGER Brothers Osborne J.JOYCE (J. OSBORNE,T.J. OSBORNE,S.MCANALLY) EMI NASHVILLE TENNESSEE WHISKEY Chris Stapeton D.COBB,C.STAPLETON (D.DILLON,LINDA HARGROVE) MERCURY I GOT THE BOY Jana Kramer S.HENDRICKS (T.NICHOLS,C.HARRINGTON,J.L.SPEARS) ELEKTRA NASHVILLE/WAR TOP OF THE WORLD Tim McGraw B.GALLIMORE,T.MCGRAW (J.ROBBINS,J.M.NITE,J.OSBORNE) MCGRAW/BIG MACHINE I LOVE LIFE LoCash L.RIMES,P.BRUST,C.LUCAS (D.MYRICK,C.JANSON,C.LUCAS,P.BRUST) REVIVER DIBS Kesea Baerini F.G.WHITEHEAD,J.MASSEY (K.BALLERINI,J.KERR,R.GRIFFIN,J.DUKE) BLACK RIVER HOME ALONE TONIGHT HH Digita & Airpay Gainer HH Luke Bryan Featuring Karen Fairchid J.STEVENS,J.STEVENS (J.STEVENS,C.TAYLOR,J.DREYER,T.CECIL) CAPITOL NASHVILLE RUN AWAY WITH YOU Big & Rich J.RICH,B.KENNY (J.D.RICH,MICHAEL RAY) B$R/NEW REVOLUTION SAVE IT FOR A RAINY DAY Kenny Chesney B.CANNON,K.CHESNEY (A.DORFF,M.RAMSEY,B.TURSI) BLUE CHAIR/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE ALREADY CALLIN YOU MINE Parmaee NV (M.THOMAS,S.THOMAS,B.KNOX,P.O DONNELL,W.KIRBY) STONEY CREEK BEAUTIFUL DRUG Zac Brown Band Z.BROWN (Z.BROWN,N.MOON) JOHN VARVATOS/REPUBLIC/BMLG/SOUTHERN GROUND JOHN COUGAR, JOHN DEERE, JOHN 3:16 Keith Urban D.HUFF,K.URBAN (S.MCANALLY,R.COPPERMAN,J.OSBORNE) HIT RED/CAPITOL NASHVILLE WE WENT Randy Houser D.GEORGE (J.WILSON,M.ROGERS,J.KING) STONEY CREEK COUNTRY NATION Brad Paisey L.WOOTEN,B.PAISLEY (B.PAISLEY,C.DUBOIS,K.LOVELACE) ARISTA NASHVILLE BACKROAD SONG Granger Smith F.ROGERS,G.SMITH (G.SMITH,F.ROGERS) WHEELHOUSE MR. MISUNDERSTOOD Eric Church J.JOYCE (E.CHURCH,C.BEATHARD) EMI NASHVILLE PEAK POSITION UDERWOOD: RANDEE ST. NICHOLAS; ELDREDGE: JOSEPH LLANES Foowing her win for favorite femae country artist at the American Music Awards on Nov. 22, Carrie Underwood s new singe re-enters Hot Country Songs at No. 35 and Country Digita Songs at No. 32 (7,000, up 646 percent). It aso bows on Country Airpay at No CARRIE UNDERWOOD Heartbeat 36 BRETT ELDREDGE Drunk On Your Love The second singe from Iinois marches on Hot Country Songs and on Country Airpay (4.5 miion, up 27 percent). Lead track Lose My Mind became his highest-charting Hot Country Songs hit (No. 2) and fourth Country Airpay No. 1.

13 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE NOVEMBER 30, 2015 PAGE 13 OF 21 Hot Country Songs SALES, AIRPLAY & STREAMING DATA COMPILED BY TWO S WKS ON TITLE Artist AGO CHART PRODUCER (SONGWRITER) IMPRINT / PROMOTION LABEL CERTIFIED BREAK ON ME. Keith Urban N.CHAPMAN,K.URBAN (J.M.NITE,R.COPPERMAN) HIT RED/CAPITOL NASHVILLE THAT DON T SOUND LIKE YOU Lee Brice J.STONE,L.BRICE (L.BRICE,R.AKINS,A.GORLEY) CURB NOBODY TO BLAME Chris Stapeton D.COBB,C.STAPLETON (C.STAPLETON,B.BALES,R.BOWMAN) MERCURY I LIKE THE SOUND OF THAT Rasca Fatts J.DEMARCUS,RASCAL FLATTS (M.TRAINOR,J.FRASURE,S.MOONEY) BIG MACHINE LITTLE BIT OF YOU Chase Bryant D.GEORGE,C.BRYANT (C.BRYANT,D.GEORGE,A.GORLEY) RED BOW ( AIN T NO) DRUNK DIAL A Thousand Horses D.COBB (M.HOBBY,C.CROWDER,N.MASON,C.DODDS) REPUBLIC NASHVILLE CONFESSION Forida Georgia Line J.MOI (R.CLAWSON,R.COPPERMAN,M.JENKINS) REPUBLIC NASHVILLE 33 NEW 1 WHY NOT ME HH Hot Shot Debut HH Emiy Ann Roberts NOT LISTED (NOT LISTED) REPUBLIC TRAVELLER Chris Stapeton D.COBB,C.STAPLETON (C.STAPLETON) MERCURY 35 RE-ENTRY 5 HEARTBEAT Carrie Underwood Z.CROWELL (C.UNDERWOOD,Z.CROWELL,A.GORLEY) 19/ARISTA NASHVILLE DRUNK ON YOUR LOVE Brett Edredge R. COPPERMAN,B.ELDREDGE (B.ELDREDGE,R.COPPERMAN) ATLANTIC/WMN HEAD OVER BOOTS Jon Pardi B.BUTLER,J.PARDI (J.PARDI,L.LAIRD) CAPITOL NASHVILLE NIGHT S ON FIRE David Nai C.AINLAY,F.LIDDELL,G.WORF (J.SINGLETON,D.RUTTAN) MCA NASHVILLE BETTER IN BOOTS Tyer Farr J.KING,J.CATINO (J.WILSON,D.PITTENGER,N.COOKE) COLUMBIA NASHVILLE COLD BEER CONVERSATION George Strait C.AINLAY,G.STRAIT (A.ANDERSON,B.HAYSLIP,J.YEARY) MCA NASHVILLE WHEN I M GONE Joey + Rory G.PACZOSA (S.E.LAWRENCE) VANGUARD/SUGAR HILL/CMG STONE COLD SOBER Brantey Gibert D.HUFF (B.GILBERT,BRETT JAMES,D.LAYUS) VALORY CRAZY OVER ME Dyan Scott M.ALDERMAN,J.E.NORMAN (D.SCOTT,M.ALDERMAN) CURB REAL MEN LOVE JESUS Michae Ray S.HENDRICKS (B.WARREN,B.WARREN,L.MILLER,A.SANDERS) ATLANTIC/WEA MIND READER Dustin Lynch M.J.CONES (R.AKINS,B.HAYSLIP) BROKEN BOW 46 NEW 1 ARE YOU GONNA KISS ME OR NOT Zach Seabaugh NOT LISTED (NOT LISTED) REPUBLIC 47 NEW 1 DELTA DAWN Barrett Baber NOT LISTED (NOT LISTED) REPUBLIC USED TO LOVE YOU SOBER Kane Brown M.MCVANEY (K.BROWN,M.MCVANEY,J.HOGE) ZONE 4 SNAPBACK S.MCANALLY (M.RAMSEY,T. ROSEN,B.TURSI) YUP C.CHAMBERLAIN (S.MINOR,P.O DONNELL,W.KIRBY) Od Dominion RCA NASHVILLE Easton Corbin MERCURY PEAK POSITION 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 DIGITAL TRACKS SALES miion 24.9 miion miion miion For week ending November 26, 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 648, ,000 1,595,000 Last Week 610, ,000 1,595,000 Change 6.2% -9.4% 0.0% This Week Last Year 685, ,000 1,876,000 Change -5.4% 7.4% -15.0% *Digita abum saes are aso counted within abum saes. YEAR-TO-DATE Overa Unit Saes CHANGE Abums 27,538,000 24,887, % Digita Tracks 121,612, ,082, % Saes by Abum Format CHANGE Physica 18,409,000 15,771, % Digita 9,129,000 9,115, % For inquiries about any Niesen Music data, pease contact Josh Bennett at or josh.bennett@niesen.com

14 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE NOVEMBER 30, 2015 PAGE 14 OF 21 2 S AGO S ON CHT TOP COUNTRY ALBUMS SALES, AIRPLAY & STREAMING DATA COMPILED BY ARTIST Tite IMPRINT & NUMBER / DISTRIBUTING LABEL CHRIS STAPLETON MERCURY */UMGN Traveer 1 CARRIE UNDERWOOD Storyteer /ARISTA NASHVILLE */SMN The week s most popuar country abums, ranked by saes data as compied by Niesen Music. Abums are defined as current if they are ess than 18 months od or oder than 18 months but sti residing in the Biboard 200 s top 100. Charts update weeky on Thurdays at Copyright 2015, Prometheus Goba Media, LLC and Niesen Music, Inc. A rights reserved. CERT. PEAK POSITION ERIC CHURCH Mr. Misunderstood EMI NASHVILLE */UMGN 2 CHRIS YOUNG I m Comin Over RCA NASHVILLE /SMN SAM HUNT Montevao MCA NASHVILLE /UMGN 0 1 BLAKE SHELTON Reoaded: 20 #1 Hits WARNER BROS /WMN LUKE BRYAN Ki The Lights CAPITOL NASHVILLE /UMGN THOMAS RHETT Tanged Up VALORY RT0200A/BMLG TIM MCGRAW MCGRAW/BIG MACHINE TM0300A/BMLG Damn Country Music 3 ZAC BROWN BAND ROAR/SOUTHERN GROUND/ATLANTIC /AG Greatest Hits So Far... 3 DON HENLEY Cass County PAST MASTERS HOLDINGS */CAPITOL VARIOUS ARTISTS NOW That s What I Ca Country Christmas UNIVERSAL/SONY MUSIC /UME LITTLE BIG TOWN Pain Kier CAPITOL NASHVILLE */UMGN 3 GEORGE STRAIT Cod Beer Conversation MCA NASHVILLE WMEX/UMGN ZAC BROWN BAND JEKYLL + HYDE JOHN VARVATOS/SOUTHERN GROUND/BMLG /REPUBLIC 0 1 OLD DOMINION Meat And Candy RCA NASHVILLE /SMN ELVIS PRESLEY Evis: Utimate Christmas RCA WMEX/SONY COMMERCIAL MUSIC GROUP CHRIS JANSON Buy Me A Boat WARNER BROS /WMN FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE REPUBLIC NASHVILLE /BMLG Anything Goes 0 1 JASON ALDEAN BROKEN BOW 7105/BBMG Od Boots, New Dirt 1 1 MADDIE & TAE Start Here DOT/REPUBLIC /BMLG KENNY ROGERS Once Again It s Christmas WARNER BROS /WMN LEANN RIMES Today Is Christmas PRODIGY 001/KOBALT ALABAMA Southern Draw TGA /BMG CARRIE UNDERWOOD Greatest Hits: Decade # /ARISTA NASHVILLE /SMN 0 1 WKS ON CHART TITLE ARTIST (IMPRINT/LABEL) DIE A HAPPY MAN THOMAS RHETT (Vaory/BMLG) BREAK UP IN A SMALL TOWN SAM HUNT (MCA Nashvie/UMGN) TENNESSEE WHISKEY CHRIS STAPLETON (Mercury/UMGN) BURNING HOUSE CAM (Arista Nashvie/SMN) I M COMIN OVER CHRIS YOUNG (RCA Nashvie/SMN) WHY NOT ME 6 NEW EMILY ANN ROBERTS (Repubic) STRIP IT DOWN LUKE BRYAN (Capito Nashvie/UMGN) HOME ALONE TONIGHT LUKE BRYAN FEAT. KAREN FAIRCHILD (Capito Nashvie/UMGN) GIRL CRUSH LITTLE BIG TOWN (Capito Nashvie/UMGN) SMOKE BREAK CARRIE UNDERWOOD (19/Arista Nashvie/SMN) BEAUTIFUL DRUG ZAC BROWN BAND (John Varvatos/Southern Ground/BMLG/Repubic) STAY A LITTLE LONGER BROTHERS OSBORNE (EMI Nashvie/UMGN) I GOT THE BOY JANA KRAMER (Eektra Nashvie/WMN) BREAK UP WITH HIM OLD DOMINION (RCA Nashvie/SMN) HOUSE PARTY SAM HUNT (MCA Nashvie/UMGN) MR. MISUNDERSTOOD ERIC CHURCH (EMI Nashvie/UMGN) 17 I LOVE LIFE LOCASH (Reviver) GONNA BLAKE SHELTON (Warner Bros./WMN) ARE YOU GONNA KISS ME OR NOT 19 NEW ZACH SEABAUGH (Repubic) DELTA DAWN 20 NEW BARRETT BABER (Repubic) TAKE YOUR TIME SAM HUNT (MCA Nashvie/UMGN) NOTHIN LIKE YOU DAN + SHAY (Warner Bros./WMN) BUY ME A BOAT CHRIS JANSON (Warner Bros./WMN) NOBODY TO BLAME CHRIS STAPLETON (Mercury/UMGN) DIBS KELSEA BALLERINI (Back River) COUNTRY DIGITAL SONGS Top-seing paid downoad country songs compied from saes reports coected and provided by Niesen Music. Charts update weeky on Thurdays at Copyright 2015, Prometheus Goba Media, LLC and Niesen Music, Inc. A rights reserved. WKS ON CHART COUNTRY STREAMING SONGS TITLE ARTIST (IMPRINT/LABEL) CRASH AND BURN THOMAS RHETT (Vaory/BMLG) SALES, AIRPLAY & STREAMING DATA COMPILED BY WE WENT RANDY HOUSER (Stoney Creek/BBMG) KICK THE DUST UP LUKE BRYAN (Capito Nashvie/UMGN) RISER DIERKS BENTLEY (Capito Nashvie/UMGN) RE-ENTRY 32 HEARTBEAT RE-ENTRY JOHN COUGAR, JOHN DEERE, JOHN 3:16 KEITH URBAN (Hit Red/Capito Nashvie/UMGN) COUNTRY NATION BRAD PAISLEY (Arista Nashvie/SMN) CARRIE UNDERWOOD (19/Arista Nashvie/SMN) LIKE A WRECKING BALL ERIC CHURCH (EMI Nashvie/UMGN) BREAK ON ME. KEITH URBAN (Hit Red/Capito Nashvie/UMGN) BACKROAD SONG GRANGER SMITH (Wheehouse/BBMG) TRAVELLER CHRIS STAPLETON (Mercury/UMGN) GONNA KNOW WE WERE HERE JASON ALDEAN (Broken Bow/BBMG) THAT DON T SOUND LIKE YOU LEE BRICE (Curb) CONFESSION FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE (Repubic Nashvie/BMLG) ANYTHING GOES FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE (Repubic Nashvie/BMLG) TOP OF THE WORLD TIM MCGRAW (McGraw/Big Machine/BMLG) PICTURE KID ROCK FEAT. SHERYL CROW (Lava/AG) RE-ENTRY 46 RE-ENTRY 47 RE-ENTRY 48 RE-ENTRY LET ME SEE YA GIRL COLE SWINDELL (Warner Bros./WMN) WHEN I M GONE JOEY + RORY (Vanguard/Sugar Hi/Concord) HEAD OVER BOOTS JON PARDI (Capito Nashvie/UMGN) ROCKIN AROUND THE CHRISTMAS TREE BRENDA LEE (Decca/MCA Nashvie/UMe) WHERE ARE YOU CHRISTMAS? FAITH HILL (Interscope/UMe) CHICKEN FRIED ZAC BROWN BAND (Home Grown/Bigger Picture/Atantic/AG) SAVE IT FOR A RAINY DAY KENNY CHESNEY (Bue Chair/Coumbia Nashvie/SMN) CRAZY OVER ME DYLAN SCOTT (Curb) STREAMING DATA COMPILED BY TRAE PATTON/NBC 6 EMILY ANN ROBERTS Why Not Me The contestant on NBC s The Voice arrives with her cover of The Judds 1984 Hot Country Songs No. 1 cassic Why Not Me (21,000 sod). It debuts at No. 6 on Country Digita Songs and No. 33 on Hot Country Songs. WKS ON CHART TITLE ARTIST BREAK UP IN A SMALL TOWN SAM HUNT DIE A HAPPY MAN THOMAS RHETT STRIP IT DOWN LUKE BRYAN HOUSE PARTY SAM HUNT I M COMIN OVER CHRIS YOUNG TENNESSEE WHISKEY CHRIS STAPLETON TAKE YOUR TIME SAM HUNT BURNING HOUSE CAM ROCKIN AROUND THE CHRISTMAS TREE 9 11 BRENDA LEE BREAK UP WITH HIM OLD DOMINION WKS ON CHART TITLE ARTIST RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER GENE AUTRY CRASH AND BURN THOMAS RHETT GIRL CRUSH LITTLE BIG TOWN PLAY IT AGAIN LUKE BRYAN BOTTOMS UP BRANTLEY GILBERT I GOT THE BOY JANA KRAMER IS HOW WE ROLL FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE FEAT. LUKE BRYAN CRUISE FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE NOTHIN LIKE YOU DAN + SHAY KICK THE DUST UP LUKE BRYAN Country Streaming Songs -The week s top Country streamed radio songs, on-demand songs and videos on eading onine music services. Charts update weeky on Thurdays at Copyright 2015, Prometheus Goba Media, LLC and Niesen Music, Inc. A rights reserved.

15 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE NOVEMBER 30, 2015 PAGE 15 OF 21 MAKIN TRACKS TOM ROLAND Justin Moore Serves Up Another Possibe Airpay Hit With Drink JASON MEYERS When Justin Moore s new singe, You Look Like I Need a Drink, jumped onto the Country Airpay ist dated Nov. 21, it ended a 38-week chart vacation. Since his 2008 introduction on the then-new Vaory abe, Moore had been a fairy constant presence at country radio with a haf-dozen top 10 singes. Some of those tites incuding Lettin the Night Ro, Point at You and the Brantey Gibert/Thomas Rhett coaboration Sma Town Throwdown continue to receive recurrent airpay, making it easy for an outsider to think he never went away. We kind of fet ike we finay got to a MOORE pace in our career where if we re gone for three, four, five months from the radio, that it s not going to absoutey ki us, says Moore. So we took some time to isten to some music and make certain that the next step we take is the right step. Moore had aready been off the charts for more than two months when You Look Like I Need a Drink, the song that woud become that next step, appeared in an Apri 25 emai from ongtime producer Jeremy Stover (Jack Ingram, Daniee Peck). Moore was waiting in a hote room at the time before heading out to perform a set at the Stagecoach Country Music Festiva in Indio, Caif. When I saw the tite, I was going, Man, I ve got to hear this song, and I had a competey different thought of what it woud probaby be, says Moore. Then after I heard it, I thought it was just a great hook and it s unique, and one of those songs that as a songwriter you go, I cannot beieve nobody s written this before. More specificay, I can t beieve I haven t written this. In fact, one of the tite s three writers, BMI country songwriter of the year Rodney Cawson ( Bartender, Burnin It Down ), co-wrote Lettin the Night Ro with Moore. You Look Like I Need a Drink wasn t Cawson s idea originay. It beonged to Nataie Hemby ( Pontoon, Automatic ), who brought it up during a writing appointment at Big Loud Shirt Music, just down the ha from Cawson s room in the office of Matt Dragstrem ( Sippin on Fire ). On its own, the tite was funny, and Cawson assumed they woud foow a humorous path as they dove in that day. But Hemby was insistent that the storyine strike a more serious tone. Any time somebody has a good idea and a good way to write something that s a itte bit different than stuff I ve been normay writing, I m a for it, says Cawson. They paired the tite with an instrumenta track that Dragstrem had worked up prior to the session and honed in on a pot that finds the singer fieding a phone ca from a girfriend he has been seeing for about a year. She needs to tak right away, setting up a cassic breakup scene. But where many songs cast an ex as a viain, You Look Like I Need a Drink finds the guy who s about to get dumped expressing empathy for the woman, who s trying in vain to soften the bow. You re just dancin around what you came here to do, but you re scared to, he sings in the chorus. You Look Like I Need a Drink was finished in a rush, and Cawson sang the vocas for the demo that same day. Dragstrem went back and dressed it up a bit, but sti kept it sparse enough for the words to dominate the production. The way our demo sounds is amost ike an oder Don Heney soo song, says Cawson. It seemed ike the song woud work for Bake Sheton, and they sent it to him. But it never drew any interest from Sheton s camp. Subsequenty, Big Loud Shirt creative director Matt Turner payed it for Stover, figuring it woud work for Moore. I knew Justin woud sing the crap out of it, says Cawson. He s one of the best singers in country music. He doesn t need Pro Toos and Auto-Tune or any of that. He s a reay good singer. Stover incuded You Look Like I Need a Drink among severa tites he sent to Moore, who obviousy was interested when he opened the emai in Caifornia. Within probaby an hour of sending it to him, recas Stover, he responded, Love this, make sure we have this ocked down. Hopefuy we re on our way to another No. 1 country record. It needed a bit of a revision, though. The quasi-heney take was repaced with a bit of a Roing Stones Exie on Main Street vibe. This song is set up to be a drum/eectric guitar song, says Stover. And you know, sometimes the simpe approach is the way to go. But simpe isn t aways easy. They recorded one version of it and had Moore do a fina voca session at Stover s Red Room Recording. As a vocaist, he is so, so good, says Stover. Working with him is so easy, because I never have to worry about, Can Justin sing this? Is this song too rangey? those type of things. He brings it home every time. But that version got mixed reviews when they took it back to the abe. Big Machine Labe Group president/ceo Scott Borchetta thought they might be abe to outdo the instrumenta bed and suggested they take another crack at it. And he suggested that drummer Victor Indrizzo and guitarist J.T. Corenfos be a part of the ensembe. Stover used Moore s voca in that second session, then mixed and matched parts from both the first and second instrumenta passes. Somewhat ironicay, the end version sounds a bit ike a Sheton song Moore hears a simiarity to both Honey Bee and A About Tonight and whie it s about the end of a reationship, it was written oosey enough that it can take on wider meaning for isteners. It actuay says absoutey nothing about a romantic reationship, notes Moore. It coud be a boss waking in and you go, Oh, no, or a coach coming in about to rip on a payer. A romantic reationship is inferred. You Look Like I Need a Drink beat out one other potentia singe Moore had on deck, and he payed it ive for the first time on Oct. 23 in Fayettevie, Ark., earning a reception that ed him to beieve it was the right choice. By the second chorus, everybody s singing the chorus, which is just crazy because I think it had been out on itunes for maybe a day or two, says Moore. That speaks voumes of the songwriters abiity to do what they did. Vaory reeased it to radio via Pay MPE on Oct. 30, and it s at No. 50 in its fourth week on Country Airpay as Moore ends his sef-imposed chart escape. I coud be wrong, he says, but it fees ike a big record.

16 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE NOVEMBER 30, 2015 PAGE 16 OF 21 THE STARK REPORT PHYLLIS STARK Is Country Radio The Pace Where Difference Goes To Die? In a recent New York Times story about Chris Stapeton s stunning post- Country Music Association Awards saes success, author Jon Caramanica notes that the singer s new singe, Nobody to Bame, is being promoted to country radio before somewhat snidey referring to the format as the pace where difference goes to die. Is country radio getting a bum rap here, or is the Times dig which suggests the format suffers from a homogenized sound actuay a fair one? That s a question that eaves the music industry divided. Severa of Nashvie s top songwriters agree with the newspaper s characterization. Where difference goes to die is a good ine that contains a good bit of truth, says songwriter Mark D. Sanders. Hopefuy country radio, which is aways changing, abeit sowy, wi find its way back to songs in which women are more [than] shake your moneymaker sexua objects. The bow-job country we ve inherited from hip-hop is an emotioness wasteand. The day Bi Anderson and I wrote the song Too Country [cut by Brad Paisey], Bi remarked that back when he came aong, the kiss of death was to sound ike someone ese, says songwriter Chuck Cannon. He said it seemed to him that sounding ike everyone ese was now the objective. He had a vaid point. It ain t ony the mik that got homogenized, continues Cannon. In the country format, you have to be way more than a casua istener to hear the differences in the artists. Artist-songwriter Benton Bount says, Artists may not be expressing it enough, but there is indeed a fear that if they don t make a record [that is sonicay simiar to] what s currenty being payed on the radio, no one wi touch them. They are scared to be different. For me, this whoe [Stapeton] thing is just hope that I don t have to shave my beard, wear skinny jeans tucked into my boots and ony sing about girs who ike pumpkin spice attes, adds Bount. There is a pace for a types of country. I m just personay happy to see the kind with Southern rock sou in a rough exterior getting a chance to compete with the kind that seems to require a fat-bi ba cap. Shore Fire Media director of content Brian Mansfied, who is based in Nashvie, says it s easy to make the assumption that country music is homogenized. The differences in country music are ess obvious from a distance than they are up cose, he says. The songs historicay move more sowy on the charts, they don t burn as quicky, and the core acts take onger to get estabished. Demographicay, the differences aren t as striking as they are at pop radio. It s amost excusivey white, amost excusivey North American and amost excusivey mae... If you re not a person who spends a ot of time istening to the acts on country radio, you re not ikey to immediatey hear the differences. Consutant Geoff Mayfied, a one-time Biboard senior chart anayst, cas the Times characterization an unfortunate oversimpification, but notes that historicay, there has aways been a uniformity to country radio that is even more narrow than most other popuar formats. This is the same format that caused that whoe tomato headache a few months back, he notes, referring to when radio consutant Keith Hi caed femae artists the tomatoes in the saad of country music, and certainy the indictment then was a ack of variety... but how many times have you heard compaints about how it s hard to get a new record started on country radio? That same tendency to keep those payists tight hods hands with a narrower sound at country radio than country abes provide. Rezonant Music Pubishing CEO Tim Wipperman aso thinks there s some vaidity to the Times comment, but notes that with radio s recent embrace of Kesea Baerini and a strong start for Stapeton s new singe, there does seem to be a wecome shift. The [Times ] comment hits at the dichotomy of country music and country radio, says Marco Promotions VP Rick Key. Whie country or countryeaning artists ike Sturgi Simpson and Stapeton and [Jason] Isbe have had banner years, outseing many chart-topping radio artists, programmers have not embraced them. Largey these artists are more criticay auded than the artists that make up much of country payists. Lots of music fans consider country radio to be a foreign thing that has nothing to say to them. So they go onine or to their peers to find the music that they ike. Isbe had the best take on the state of country on Twitter when he said, Hate to break it to y a, but Nashvie didn t ruin country music. Lotta good burgers in this town; nobody forcing you to eat McDonad s. Others say the format has aways featured a disparate group of artists and sounds. Country music and radio has historicay had its sonic ebbs and fows, says Cint Higham, president of Morris Higham Management, which reps Kenny Chesney and other stars. Go to Appe Music Radio and pug in country hits 1968, and you wi find Gen Campbe next to Jack Greene. And then go every year from 68 forward and you wi hear music just as diverse. Some good, some terribe, but it s aways had bookends of very diverse sounds and artists I am happy, as I think most are, to see something unexpected or out of the norm ike Chris Stapeton win and be accepted by the masses, especiay when it s this great. WEGX Forence, S.C., music director Randy Mudfap Wicox thinks the genre speciaizes in righting the ship when the music gets stae. The country format, more than any other, grows and changes to meet the needs of its isteners, he says. When the music gets too AC, you get STAPLETON a wave of artists that counters that. When it gets too bro, you have artists waiting in the wings to baance that out. The format is good at sef-correction; perhaps a itte sow about it in the eyes of those of us on the inside, but for consumers and fans the shifts seem to be at just the right pace as evidenced by the heath and stamina of the genre. Noting that the format is highy successfu and [the] most istened-to, veteran radio programmer Cay Hunnicutt, now president of Big Loud Records, asks, Why drag country radio or the format down? A styes can coexist. For every Luke [Bryan] there s a Stapeton; for every Carrie [Underwood] there s an Aison Krauss Great music wi find its way no matter what, incuding getting by the haters. Not surprisingy, some country radio staffers take issue with the Times quote. I don t think it s where difference goes to die. It s currenty where difference goes to fight and win, in Stapeton s case, says WCYQ (Q100) Knoxvie, Tenn., morning host Krisha Brook. It s ceary becoming time for the bros to subet their high rises. Cumuus/Montgomery, Aa., operations manager Wes McShay, who programs the custer s country WLWI, says, Stapeton has sod 250,000 units in the past two weeks. That s hardy death. Luke and Forida Georgia Line se pretty damn we, too. We re the ony birth-to-death istenership format. There s penty of room for differences. But WCTK Providence, R.I., PD Bob Waker has a different take. We are not in the music business. We are in the business of connecting our audience with our cients, he says. You want art? Go to the museum. Then on the way home, drive past the movie theater showing the biggest, mass-appea hit movies. Which one is going to [achieve] a wider reach for our cients? Key agrees. There was a time when radio programmers were arbiters of taste, but that was a pretty ong time ago. Now there are more ways to find the music you ike than ever before, he says. Country radio is not about music It s about commerce. Once we a accept that, these arguments are moot.

17 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE NOVEMBER 30, 2015 PAGE 17 OF 21 Country Indicator WKS ON CHART TITLE Imprint/Labe Artist PLAYS AUDIENCE (IN MILLIONS) +/ GONNA Warner Bros./WMN HH No. 1 (2 weeks) HH Bake Sheton GONNA KNOW WE WERE HERE Broken Bow Jason Adean NOTHIN LIKE YOU Warner Bros./WAR Dan + Shay BURNING HOUSE Arista Nashvie Cam I M COMIN OVER RCA Nashvie Chris Young TOP OF THE WORLD McGraw/Big Machine Tim McGraw STAY A LITTLE LONGER EMI Nashvie Brothers Osborne DIE A HAPPY MAN Vaory Thomas Rhett SMOKE BREAK 19/Arista Nashvie Carrie Underwood I LOVE LIFE Reviver LoCash DIBS Back River Kesea Baerini I GOT THE BOY Eektra Nashvie/WAR Jana Kramer COUNTRY NATION Arista Nashvie Brad Paisey WE WENT Stoney Creek Randy Houser ALREADY CALLIN YOU MINE Stoney Creek Parmaee BREAK UP IN A SMALL TOWN MCA Nashvie Sam Hunt BREAK ON ME Hit Red/Capito Nashvie Keith Urban BACKROAD SONG Wheehouse Granger Smith ( AIN T NO) DRUNK DIAL Repubic Nashvie A Thousand Horses RISER Capito Nashvie Dierks Bentey BEAUTIFUL DRUG Varvatos/Southern Ground/BMLG/Repubic Zac Brown Band HOME ALONE TONIGHT Capito Nashvie HH Most Increased Pays HH Luke Bryan Feat. Karen Fairchid I LIKE THE SOUND OF THAT Big Machine Rasca Fatts THAT DON T SOUND LIKE YOU Curb Lee Brice MR. MISUNDERSTOOD EMI Nashvie Eric Church LITTLE BIT OF YOU Red Bow Chase Bryant COLD BEER CONVERSATION MCA Nashvie George Strait NOBODY TO BLAME Mercury Chris Stapeton STONE COLD SOBER Vaory Brantey Gibert REAL MEN LOVE JESUS 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

18 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE NOVEMBER 30, 2015 PAGE 18 OF 21 Country Indicator WKS ON CHART TITLE Imprint/Labe Artist PLAYS AUDIENCE (IN MILLIONS) +/ YUP Mercury Easton Corbin HEAD OVER BOOTS Capito Nashvie Jon Pardi PAIN KILLER Capito Litte Big Town BETTER IN BOOTS Coumbia Nashvie Tyer Farr SHINE A LITTLE LOVE Bue Light Brian Coins CONFESSION Repubic Nashvie Forida Georgia Line NIGHT S ON FIRE MCA Nashvie David Nai SHUT UP AND FISH Dot Maddie & Tae MIND READER Broken Bow Dustin Lynch DRUNK ON YOUR LOVE Atantic/WMN Brett Edredge HIGH CLASS EMI Nashvie Eric Pasay HOLE IN A BOTTLE Mercury Nashvie Canaan Smith GETAWAY TRUCK BIG Labe/Thirty Tigers Aaron Watson THE DRIVER Capito Nashvie Chares Keey Feat. Dierks Bentey & Eric Pasay BEAUTIFUL STRANGER Show Dog Nashvie Toby Keith SOUTHERN BELLE 19/Interscope/Mercury Scotty McCreery RUNNING FOR YOU MCA Nashvie Kip Moore BOY & A GIRL THING Curb Mo Pitney YOU LOOK LIKE I NEED A DRINK Vaory Justin Moore CRAZY ENOUGH Wiing Nashvie Bobby Wis I AM INVINCIBLE Repubic Nashvie Cassadee Pope WHEN I M GONE Back River Craig Morgan NEW HEARTBEAT 19/Arista Nashvie HH Hot Shot Debut/Most Added HH Carrie Underwood POWER OF POSITIVE DRINKIN Warner Bros./WAR Chris Janson IT ALL STARTED WITH A BEER Warner Bros./WAR Frankie Baard FREAKS LIKE ME Red Bow Joe Nichos NEXT BOYFRIEND 19/Interscope/Mercury Lauren Aaina BURN A LITTLE COLDER SSM Kaya Adams ME AND JOHNNY CASH Cinge/Star Farm Nashvie Rainey Quaey I MET A GIRL Warner Bros./WMN Wiiam Michae Morgan RANKINGS Country Airpay is ranked by tota audience impressions for the week ending Sunday based on monitored airpay of 150 stations by Niesen BDS. Audience totas on the chart are derived, in part, using certain Arbitron Inc. copyrighted Persons 12+ audience estimates (under icense 2015, 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

19 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE NOVEMBER 30, 2015 PAGE 19 OF 21 Country Airpay Index TITLE Pubishing-Licensing Org. (Songwriter) Chart Position A ALREADY CALLIN YOU MINE Music, BMI/Revery Music, BMI/Gao And Landers Music LLC, BMI/ Sixteen Stars Music, BMI/HoriPro Entertainment Group, Inc., BMI/Rooster Pecked Music, BMI/Stee Whees Music, BMI/Big Loud Bucks, BMI/Kirbtone Music, BMI (M.Thomas, S.Thomas, B.Knox, P.O Donne, W.Kirby) 13 BACKROAD SONG Cimbing Windmis, BMI/ House Of Sea Gaye Music, ASCAP (G.Smith, F.Rogers) 16 B BEAUTIFUL DRUG Day For The Dead Pubishing, SESAC/Southern Ground, SESAC/Reach Music Tunes, SESAC (Z.Brown, N.Moon) 20 BEAUTIFUL STRANGER Tokeco Tunes, BMI/ Bobby s Lyrics, Land And Livestock, BMI/Do Write Music, LLC, BMI (T.Keith, B.Pinson) 59 BETTER IN BOOTS Legends Of Magic Mustang Music, SESAC/W.B.M. Music Corp., SESAC/This Is Magic Mustang Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Music Of Patinum Pen, SESAC/Hatchoo Music, SESAC/Thunder Cookie, SESAC (J.Wison, D.Pittenger, N.Cooke) 35 BOY & A GIRL THING Mike Curb Music, BMI/ She s My Darin Music, ASCAP/House Of Sea Gaye Music, ASCAP (M.Pitney, D.Sampson) 51 BREAK ON ME. EMI Apri Music, Inc., ASCAP/Jon Mark Nite Music, ASCAP/EMI Backwood Music Inc., BMI/ Songs By Red Room, BMI (J.M.Nite, R.Copperman) 21 BREAK UP IN A SMALL TOWN Universa Music Corporation, ASCAP/Three Mues Music, ASCAP/ Externa Combustion Music, ASCAP/Who Wants To Buy My Pubishing, ASCAP/Songs Of Southside Independent Music Pubishing, LLC, ASCAP/Smack Ink, ASCAP/Sam Hunt Pubishing, ASCAP/I Love Pizza Music, ASCAP (S.Hunt, Z.Crowe, S.McAnay) 14 BURNING HOUSE Marveous Oaks Records, ASCAP/ One Year Yesterday Pubishing, BMI/Way Above Music, BMI/Sony/ATV Songs LLC, BMI (C.Ochs, T.Johnson, J.Bhasker) 7 BY THE WAY Magic Mustang Music Inc., BMI/Warner- Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/Lindsay E Music, BMI/ Country Paper, BMI/Creative Nation Music, BMI/Songs Of Universa, Inc., BMI (L.E, B.D.George, L.Laird) 58 C COLD BEER CONVERSATION Internationa Dog Music, BMI/Bucked Up Music, BMI/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Thankfu For This Music, ASCAP/EMI Backwood Music Inc., BMI/Great Day At This Music, BMI/Beattyvie Music, BMI (A.Anderson, B.Haysip, J.Yeary) 33 CONFESSION Big Red Toe, BMI/Farm Town Songs, BMI/EMI Backwood Music Inc., BMI/Songs By Red Room, BMI/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Who Wants To Buy My Pubishing, ASCAP/Externa Combustion Music, ASCAP (R. Cawson, R.Copperman, M.Jenkins) 30 COUNTRY NATION House Of Sea Gaye Music, ASCAP/Making The Turn Music, ASCAP (B.Paisey, C.DuBois, K.Loveace) 17 CRAZY OVER ME Curb Songs, ASCAP/Curb Congregation Songs, SESAC (D.Scott, M.Aderman) 48 D DIBS Songs Of Back River, ASCAP/KNB Music, ASCAP/DHM Administration, ASCAP/Nyssa Music, ASCAP/Jason Duke Music, ASCAP (K.Baerini, J.Kerr, R.Griffin, J.Duke) 15 DIE A HAPPY MAN EMI Backwood Music Inc., BMI/Cricket On The Line, BMI/Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/Eastman Pond Pubishing, BMI/Music Of Big Dea, BMI/Nice Life, BMI/Frederic And Reid Music, BMI/BMG Patinum Songs, BMI (Thomas Rhett, S.Dougas, Joe London) 9 DRUNK ON YOUR LOVE Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI/Paris Not France Music, BMI/EMI Backwood Music Inc., BMI/Ross Copperman Songs, BMI (B.Edredge, R.Copperman) 34 F FREAKS LIKE ME New House Of Sea Gaye Music, ASCAP/Vesta Boy Music, ASCAP/Sony/ATV Tree Pubishing, BMI/Dixey Bar Music, BMI/Big Machine Music, BMI (L.Hutton, M.Criswe, J.Thompson) 53 G GONNA Songs Of Universa, Inc., BMI/Creative Nation Music, BMI/Twangin And Sangin Songs, BMI/Big Loud Shirt Industries, ASCAP (L.Laird, C.Wiseman) 2 GONNA KNOW WE WERE HERE BMG Patinum Songs, BMI/Music Of Big Dea, BMI/Staefish Music, BMI/BMG Chrysais Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Songs Of Brett, ASCAP/Externa Combustion Music, ASCAP (B.Beavers, Brett James) 4 H HEAD OVER BOOTS Goden Vaut Music, BMI/ The Song Factory, LLC, BMI/Songs Of Universa, Inc., BMI/ Creative Nation Music, BMI (J.Pardi, L.Laird) 37 HEARTBEAT Carrie-Okie Music, BMI/Externa Combustion Music, ASCAP/Songs Of Southside Independent Music Pubishing, LLC, ASCAP/Who Wants To Buy My Pubishing, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/ Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/Sadie s Favorite Songs, ASCAP (C.Underwood, Z.Crowe, A.Gorey) 41 HIGH CLASS WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Five Foot Sixteen Pubishing, ASCAP/Songs From The Rose Hote, ASCAP/Rio Bravo Music, Inc., BMI/Teemitry Productions, BMI (E.Pasay, C.Crowder, J.Frasure) 46 HOLE IN A BOTTLE BMG God Songs, ASCAP/ Skinny Fat Nashvie Music, BMI/BMG Patinum Songs, BMI/ Music Of Big Dea, BMI/Staefish Music, BMI/Songs From The Couch, BMI (C.Smith, B.Beavers, D.Couch) 38 HOME ALONE TONIGHT Sony/ATV Tree Pubishing, BMI/Universa Music Corporation, ASCAP/Red Viny Music, Inc., BMI/Sixteen Stars Music, BMI/HoriPro Entertainment Group, Inc., BMI (J.Stevens, C.Tayor, J.Dreyer, T.Ceci) 19 I I AM INVINCIBLE Brett Boyett Music, BMI/Harmony - HLO Music, BMI/Nashty Music, BMI/EMI Backwood Music Inc., BMI (B.Boyett, N.Overstreet) 55 I GOT THE BOY Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/Nichos Boys Music, BMI/Made For This Music, BMI/A For This Music, BMI/Sweet Jamie Music, Inc., BMI (T. Nichos, C.Harrington, J.L.Spears) 12 I LIKE THE SOUND OF THAT Year Of The Dog Music, ASCAP/Rio Bravo Music, Inc., BMI/Warner- Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/Shay Mooney Music, ASCAP/MTrain Music, ASCAP (M.Trainor, J.Frasure, S.Mooney) 25 I LOVE LIFE Sony/ATV Tree Pubishing, BMI/ Red Viny Music, Inc., BMI/Round Hi Works, BMI (D.Myrick, C.Janson, C.Lucas, P.Brust) 10 I M COMIN OVER EMI Backwood Music Inc., BMI/ Goodbye Pants Music, BMI/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Songs From The Rose Hote, ASCAP/EMI Foray Music, SESAC/Write 2 Be Free Music, SESAC (C.Young, C.Crowder, J.Hoge) 1 I MET A GIRL ReHits Music, Inc., ASCAP/Smacktown Music, ASCAP/Universa Music Corporation, ASCAP/Three Mues Music, ASCAP/Smack Ink, ASCAP (T. Rosen, S.Hunt, S.McAnay) 44 IT ALL STARTED WITH A BEER Sony/ATV Harmony, ASCAP/Texa Rae Music, ASCAP/Nettwerk One Music, BMI/B Music, BMI/Nevada House Music, BMI/Oe Red Cape Songs, ASCAP/Rea Big Red Tunes, ASCAP (J.Johnston, N.Mason, J.S.Stover) 43 L LITTLE BIT OF YOU Orbison Music, LLC, BMI/BMG Patinum Songs, BMI/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Funky Friar Music, ASCAP/Sadie s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP (C.Bryant, D.George, A.Gorey) 23 MIND READER EMI Backwood Music Inc., BMI/ Rhettro Music, BMI/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Thankfu For This Music, ASCAP (R.Akins, B.Haysip) 32 M MR. MISUNDERSTOOD Sony/ATV Tree Pubishing, BMI/Longer And Louder Music, BMI/Sony/ATV Acuff Rose Music, BMI/Six Ring Circus Songs, BMI (E.Church, C.Beathard) 22 N NEXT BOYFRIEND Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/Lyas Music, BMI/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/ Thankfu For This Music, ASCAP/A Frank Entertainment, ASCAP/Song House Pubishing, ASCAP/Kobat Music Pubishing America, Inc., ASCAP (L.Aaina, E.Weisband, M.McVaney) 54 NIGHT S ON FIRE Super Big Music, ASCAP/Jett Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Doc And Maggie Music, SOCAN/Thankfu For This Music, ASCAP (J.Singeton, D.Ruttan) 39 NOBODY TO BLAME WB Music Corp., ASCAP/ House Of Sea Gaye Music, ASCAP/Quackhead Music, BMI/Sony/ATV Tree Pubishing, BMI (C.Stapeton, B.Baes, R.Bowman) 27 NOTHIN LIKE YOU WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Beats And Banjos, ASCAP/Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/Shay Mooney Music, ASCAP/Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/Sadie s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/EMI Apri Music, Inc., ASCAP/Sugar Gider Music, ASCAP (D.Smyers, S.Mooney, A.Gorey, C. DeStefano) 3 P PAIN KILLER Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/Litte Big Town, BMI/Southside Independent Music Pubishing, LLC, BMI/Interna Combustion Music, BMI/ Kickin Grids Music, BMI/HiarodyRathbone Music, ASCAP/ BMG God Songs, ASCAP/Sef Made Entertainment, BMI (K. Fairchid, J.Westbrook, B.Day, H.Lindsey) 42 POWER OF POSITIVE DRINKIN Red Viny Music, Inc., BMI/Buckkia Music, BMI/House Of Sea Gaye Music, ASCAP/Green Viny Music, ASCAP (C.Janson, Mark Irwin, C.DuBois) 52 R REAL MEN LOVE JESUS EMI Backwood Music Inc., BMI/Sagequinnjude Music, BMI/Famove Songs, BMI (B. Warren, B.Warren, L.Mier, A.Sanders) 29 REMEMBERING WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Chateau Banjo Music, ASCAP/Nettes and Bones Music, ASCAP (A. Campbe, K.Wech) 57 RISER Songs Of Kobat Music Pubishing America, Inc., BMI/Nan Jam Music Pubishing, BMI/She And I, LLC, BMI/It s Kier Music, BMI (S.Moaker, T.Meadows) 26 RUN AWAY WITH YOU J Money Music, ASCAP/ Kobat Music Pubishing America, Inc., ASCAP/Warner- Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI (J.D.Rich, Michae Ray) 11 RUNNING FOR YOU Music Of Stage Three, BMI/ Songs Of Cornman, BMI/Ro Through Music, BMI/BMG Patinum Songs, BMI/Songs Of Universa, Inc., BMI/Songs From The Engine Room, BMI/Southside Independent Music Pubishing, LLC, BMI/Interna Combustion Music, BMI/Kickin Grids Music, BMI (K.Moore, T.Verges, B.Day) 45 S SHUT UP AND FISH Super Big Music, ASCAP/Big Machine Music, BMI/Song Aert Pubishing, SESAC/Tunes of R And T Direct, SESAC (M.Marow, T.Dye, P.Sais, A.Scherz) 40 SMOKE BREAK Carrie-Okie Music, BMI/EMI Apri Music, Inc., ASCAP/HiarodyRathbone Music, ASCAP/BMG God Songs, ASCAP (C.Underwood, C. DeStefano, H.Lindsey) 5 SNAPBACK Carrot Seed Songs, ASCAP/Kobat Music Pubishing America, Inc., ASCAP/ReHits Music, Inc., ASCAP/ Smackvie Msuic, ASCAP/Unfair Entertainment, ASCAP/ Songs Of Big Dea, ASCAP/BMG God Songs, ASCAP/ Wooden Ships, ASCAP (M.Ramsey, T. Rosen, B.Tursi) 49 SOUTHERN BELLE BMG Patinum Songs, BMI/ Gravity Gone Songs, BMI/Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/Litte Beuga Music, BMI (J.Saenz, S.McConne) 47 STAY A LITTLE LONGER WB Music Corp., ASCAP/A The Kings Pens, ASCAP/Universa Music Corporation, ASCAP/Smack Ink, ASCAP (J. Osborne, T.J. Osborne, S.McAnay) 8 STONE COLD SOBER Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/Indiana Ange Music, BMI/Externa Combustion Music, ASCAP/Songs Of Brett, ASCAP/Atas Music Pubishing, ASCAP/Yawyer Three Music, ASCAP (B. Gibert, Brett James, D.Layus) 31 T THAT DON T SOUND LIKE YOU Mike Curb Music, BMI/EMI Backwood Music Inc., BMI/Brooks County Boy Music, BMI/Externa Combustion Music, ASCAP/ Out Of The Taperoom Music, ASCAP/Songs Of Southside Independent Music Pubishing, LLC, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP (L.Brice, R.Akins, A.Gorey) 28 ( AIN T NO) DRUNK DIAL Warner- Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/Caroina June Pubishing, BMI/Greatshakin Music, BMI/Universa Music Corporation, ASCAP/Crowder Tayor Pubishing, ASCAP/Nettwerk One Music, BMI/Revery Music, BMI/Nevada House Music, BMI/ Nettwerk One Music Limited Canada, SOCAN/Cae Dodds Pubishing, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP (M.Hobby, C.Crowder, N.Mason, C.Dodds) 24 TOP OF THE WORLD Extraordinary Aien Pubishing, ASCAP/Universa Music Corporation, ASCAP/EMI Apri Music, Inc., ASCAP/Jon Mark Nite Music, ASCAP/Songs Of Back River, ASCAP/One Litte Indian Creek Music, ASCAP (J.Robbins, J.M.Nite, J.Osborne) 6 W WE WENT Legends Of Magic Mustang Music, SESAC/ W.B.M. Music Corp., SESAC/oe Canaco Pubishing, ASCAP/ Oe Oe, ASCAP/Songs Of Razor And Tie Music, ASCAP/ Songs Of Back River, ASCAP (J.Wison, M.Rogers, J.King) 18 WHEN I M GONE Wordspring Music, LLC, SESAC/ Word Music, LLC, ASCAP/Son Of Austin Songs, ASCAP (J. Ebach, S.D.Jones) 56 WHISKEY ON MY BREATH Rockapop Music, ASCAP/Hate And Purchase Music, LCC, ASCAP/Sony/ATV Tree Pubishing, BMI/Charcharose Music, BMI/Boothee Music, BMI/Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/Music That Is Russeed, ASCAP/Brown Hand Pubishing, ASCAP (S.B.Lies, A.Craig, M.McGuinn, T.Tominson, R.Dickerson, T.Reeve) 60 Y YOU LOOK LIKE I NEED A DRINK Round Hi Works, BMI/Farm Town Songs, BMI/Big Loud Proud Crowd, BMI/Round Hi Songs, ASCAP/Big Loud Proud Songs, ASCAP/HappyGoWrucke, BMI/Creative Puse Music, BMI/These Are Puse Songs, BMI (R.Cawson, M.Dragstrem, N.Hemby) 50 YUP Sony/ATV Tree Pubishing, BMI/Code Six Chares Music, BMI/Sixteen Stars Music, BMI/Rooster Pecked Music, BMI/HoriPro Entertainment Group, Inc., BMI/Round Hi Works, BMI/Kirbtone Music, BMI (S.Minor, P.O Donne, W.Kirby) 36

20 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE NOVEMBER 30, 2015 PAGE 20 OF 21 Hot Country Songs Index TITLE Pubishing-Licensing Org. (Songwriter) Chart Position A ALREADY CALLIN YOU MINE Music, BMI/Revery Music, BMI/Gao And Landers Music LLC, BMI/Sixteen Stars Music, BMI/HoriPro Entertainment Group, Inc., BMI/Rooster Pecked Music, BMI/Stee Whees Music, BMI/Big Loud Bucks, BMI/Kirbtone Music, BMI (M.Thomas, S.Thomas, B.Knox, P.O Donne, W.Kirby) 19 ARE YOU GONNA KISS ME OR NOT Not Listed (Not Listed) 46 BACKROAD SONG Cimbing Windmis, BMI/House Of Sea Gaye Music, ASCAP (G.Smith, F.Rogers) 24 B BEAUTIFUL DRUG Day For The Dead Pubishing, SESAC/Southern Ground, SESAC/Reach Music Tunes, SESAC (Z.Brown, N.Moon) 20 BETTER IN BOOTS Legends Of Magic Mustang Music, SESAC/W.B.M. Music Corp., SESAC/ This Is Magic Mustang Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Music Of Patinum Pen, SESAC/ Hatchoo Music, SESAC/Thunder Cookie, SESAC (J. Wison, D.Pittenger, N.Cooke) 39 BREAK ON ME. EMI Apri Music, Inc., ASCAP/ Jon Mark Nite Music, ASCAP/EMI Backwood Music Inc., BMI/Songs By Red Room, BMI (J.M.Nite, R.Copperman) 26 BREAK UP IN A SMALL TOWN Universa Music Corporation, ASCAP/Three Mues Music, ASCAP/Externa Combustion Music, ASCAP/ Who Wants To Buy My Pubishing, ASCAP/Songs Of Southside Independent Music Pubishing, LLC, ASCAP/Smack Ink, ASCAP/Sam Hunt Pubishing, ASCAP/I Love Pizza Music, ASCAP (S.Hunt, Z.Crowe, S.McAnay) 2 BURNING HOUSE Marveous Oaks Records, ASCAP/One Year Yesterday Pubishing, BMI/Way Above Music, BMI/Sony/ATV Songs LLC, BMI (C. Ochs, T.Johnson, J.Bhasker) 4 COLD BEER CONVERSATION Internationa Dog Music, BMI/Bucked Up Music, BMI/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Thankfu For This Music, ASCAP/EMI Backwood Music Inc., BMI/ Great Day At This Music, BMI/Beattyvie Music, BMI (A.Anderson, B.Haysip, J.Yeary) 40 C CONFESSION Big Red Toe, BMI/Farm Town Songs, BMI/EMI Backwood Music Inc., BMI/Songs By Red Room, BMI/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Who Wants To Buy My Pubishing, ASCAP/Externa Combustion Music, ASCAP (R.Cawson, R.Copperman, M.Jenkins) 32 COUNTRY NATION House Of Sea Gaye Music, ASCAP/Making The Turn Music, ASCAP (B. Paisey, C.DuBois, K.Loveace) 23 CRAZY OVER ME Curb Songs, ASCAP/Curb Congregation Songs, SESAC (D.Scott, M.Aderman) 43 DELTA DAWN Not Listed (Not Listed) 47 D DIBS Songs Of Back River, ASCAP/KNB Music, ASCAP/DHM Administration, ASCAP/Nyssa Music, ASCAP/Jason Duke Music, ASCAP (K.Baerini, J.Kerr, R.Griffin, J.Duke) 15 DIE A HAPPY MAN EMI Backwood Music Inc., BMI/Cricket On The Line, BMI/Warner- Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/Eastman Pond Pubishing, BMI/Music Of Big Dea, BMI/Nice Life, BMI/Frederic And Reid Music, BMI/BMG Patinum Songs, BMI (Thomas Rhett, S.Dougas, Joe London) 1 DRUNK ON YOUR LOVE Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI/Paris Not France Music, BMI/ EMI Backwood Music Inc., BMI/Ross Copperman Songs, BMI (B.Edredge, R.Copperman) 36 GONNA Songs Of Universa, Inc., BMI/Creative Nation Music, BMI/Twangin And Sangin Songs, BMI/Big Loud Shirt Industries, ASCAP (L.Laird, C.Wiseman) 7 G GONNA KNOW WE WERE HERE BMG Patinum Songs, BMI/Music Of Big Dea, BMI/ Staefish Music, BMI/BMG Chrysais Music, ASCAP/ WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Songs Of Brett, ASCAP/ Externa Combustion Music, ASCAP (B.Beavers, Brett James) 9 H HEAD OVER BOOTS Goden Vaut Music, BMI/The Song Factory, LLC, BMI/Songs Of Universa, Inc., BMI/Creative Nation Music, BMI (J. Pardi, L.Laird) 37 HEARTBEAT Carrie-Okie Music, BMI/Externa Combustion Music, ASCAP/Songs Of Southside Independent Music Pubishing, LLC, ASCAP/Who Wants To Buy My Pubishing, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/ Sadie s Favorite Songs, ASCAP (C.Underwood, Z.Crowe, A.Gorey) 35 HOME ALONE TONIGHT Sony/ATV Tree Pubishing, BMI/Universa Music Corporation, ASCAP/Red Viny Music, Inc., BMI/Sixteen Stars Music, BMI/HoriPro Entertainment Group, Inc., BMI (J.Stevens, C.Tayor, J.Dreyer, T.Ceci) 16 I I GOT THE BOY Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/Nichos Boys Music, BMI/ Made For This Music, BMI/A For This Music, BMI/ Sweet Jamie Music, Inc., BMI (T.Nichos, C.Harrington, J.L.Spears) 12 I LIKE THE SOUND OF THAT Year Of The Dog Music, ASCAP/Rio Bravo Music, Inc., BMI/ Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/Shay Mooney Music, ASCAP/MTrain Music, ASCAP (M. Trainor, J.Frasure, S.Mooney) 29 I LOVE LIFE Sony/ATV Tree Pubishing, BMI/Red Viny Music, Inc., BMI/Round Hi Works, BMI (D.Myrick, C.Janson, C.Lucas, P.Brust) 14 I M COMIN OVER EMI Backwood Music Inc., BMI/Goodbye Pants Music, BMI/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Songs From The Rose Hote, ASCAP/ EMI Foray Music, SESAC/Write 2 Be Free Music, SESAC (C.Young, C.Crowder, J.Hoge) 3 JOHN COUGAR, JOHN DEERE, JOHN 3:16 Smack Hits, GMR/Kobat Music Group Ltd., GMR/EMI Backwood Music Inc., BMI/ Songs By Red Room, BMI/Songs Of Back River, ASCAP/One Litte Indian Creek Music, ASCAP (S. McAnay, R.Copperman, J.Osborne) 21 J L LITTLE BIT OF YOU Orbison Music, LLC, BMI/BMG Patinum Songs, BMI/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Funky Friar Music, ASCAP/Sadie s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP (C.Bryant, D.George, A.Gorey) 30 M MIND READER EMI Backwood Music Inc., BMI/Rhettro Music, BMI/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/ Thankfu For This Music, ASCAP (R.Akins, B.Haysip) 45 MR. MISUNDERSTOOD Sony/ATV Tree Pubishing, BMI/Longer And Louder Music, BMI/ Sony/ATV Acuff Rose Music, BMI/Six Ring Circus Songs, BMI (E.Church, C.Beathard) 25 N NIGHT S ON FIRE Super Big Music, ASCAP/ Jett Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Doc And Maggie Music, SOCAN/Thankfu For This Music, ASCAP (J.Singeton, D.Ruttan) 38 NOBODY TO BLAME WB Music Corp., ASCAP/House Of Sea Gaye Music, ASCAP/ Quackhead Music, BMI/Sony/ATV Tree Pubishing, BMI (C.Stapeton, B.Baes, R.Bowman) 28 NOTHIN LIKE YOU WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Beats And Banjos, ASCAP/Warner- Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/Shay Mooney Music, ASCAP/Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/ Sadie s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/EMI Apri Music, Inc., ASCAP/Sugar Gider Music, ASCAP (D.Smyers, S.Mooney, A.Gorey, C. DeStefano) 5 R REAL MEN LOVE JESUS EMI Backwood Music Inc., BMI/Sagequinnjude Music, BMI/ Famove Songs, BMI (B.Warren, B.Warren, L.Mier, A.Sanders) 44 RUN AWAY WITH YOU J Money Music, ASCAP/Kobat Music Pubishing America, Inc., ASCAP/Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI (J.D.Rich, Michae Ray) 17 S SAVE IT FOR A RAINY DAY Songs Of Universa, Inc., BMI/Endorffin Music, BMI/Sonic Geo Music, ASCAP/Cahoun Enterprises, ASCAP/ Music Of RPM, ASCAP/HoriPro Entertainment Group, Inc., ASCAP/Songs Of Big Dea, ASCAP/BMG God Songs, ASCAP (A.Dorff, M.Ramsey, B.Tursi) 18 SMOKE BREAK Carrie-Okie Music, BMI/EMI Apri Music, Inc., ASCAP/HiarodyRathbone Music, ASCAP/BMG God Songs, ASCAP (C.Underwood, C. DeStefano, H.Lindsey) 6 SNAPBACK Carrot Seed Songs, ASCAP/Kobat Music Pubishing America, Inc., ASCAP/ReHits Music, Inc., ASCAP/Smackvie Msuic, ASCAP/ Unfair Entertainment, ASCAP/Songs Of Big Dea, ASCAP/BMG God Songs, ASCAP/Wooden Ships, ASCAP (M.Ramsey, T. Rosen, B.Tursi) 49 STAY A LITTLE LONGER WB Music Corp., ASCAP/A The Kings Pens, ASCAP/Universa Music Corporation, ASCAP/Smack Ink, ASCAP (J. Osborne, T.J. Osborne, S.McAnay) 10 STONE COLD SOBER Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/Indiana Ange Music, BMI/ Externa Combustion Music, ASCAP/Songs Of Brett, ASCAP/Atas Music Pubishing, ASCAP/ Yawyer Three Music, ASCAP (B.Gibert, Brett James, D.Layus) 42 STRIP IT DOWN Sony/ATV Tree Pubishing, BMI/Peanut Mi Songs, BMI/EMI Apri Music, Inc., ASCAP/Jon Mark Nite Music, ASCAP/EMI Backwood Music Inc., BMI/Songs By Red Room, BMI (L.Bryan, J.M.Nite, R.Copperman) 8 T TENNESSEE WHISKEY Universa-Songs Of PoyGram Internationa, BMI/EMI Agee, BMI (D. Dion, Linda Hargrove) 11 THAT DON T SOUND LIKE YOU Mike Curb Music, BMI/EMI Backwood Music Inc., BMI/Brooks County Boy Music, BMI/Externa Combustion Music, ASCAP/Out Of The Taperoom Music, ASCAP/Songs Of Southside Independent Music Pubishing, LLC, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP (L.Brice, R.Akins, A.Gorey) 27 ( AIN T NO) DRUNK DIAL Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/Caroina June Pubishing, BMI/Greatshakin Music, BMI/ Universa Music Corporation, ASCAP/Crowder Tayor Pubishing, ASCAP/Nettwerk One Music, BMI/Revery Music, BMI/Nevada House Music, BMI/ Nettwerk One Music Limited Canada, SOCAN/Cae Dodds Pubishing, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP (M.Hobby, C.Crowder, N.Mason, C.Dodds) 31 TOP OF THE WORLD Extraordinary Aien Pubishing, ASCAP/Universa Music Corporation, ASCAP/EMI Apri Music, Inc., ASCAP/Jon Mark Nite Music, ASCAP/Songs Of Back River, ASCAP/One Litte Indian Creek Music, ASCAP (J.Robbins, J.M.Nite, J.Osborne) 13 TRAVELLER WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Ken Tucky Music, ASCAP (C.Stapeton) 34 U USED TO LOVE YOU SOBER Kane Brown Music, BMI/EMI Foray Music, SESAC/Write 2 Be Free Music, SESAC/A Frank Entertainment, ASCAP/Song House Pubishing, ASCAP/Kobat Music Pubishing America, Inc., ASCAP (K.Brown, M.McVaney, J.Hoge) 48 W WE WENT Legends Of Magic Mustang Music, SESAC/W.B.M. Music Corp., SESAC/oe Canaco Pubishing, ASCAP/Oe Oe, ASCAP/Songs Of Razor And Tie Music, ASCAP/Songs Of Back River, ASCAP (J.Wison, M.Rogers, J.King) 22 WHEN I M GONE Ocotio Red Music, ASCAP (S.E.Lawrence) 41 WHY NOT ME Not Listed (Not Listed) 33 Y YUP Sony/ATV Tree Pubishing, BMI/Code Six Chares Music, BMI/Sixteen Stars Music, BMI/ Rooster Pecked Music, BMI/HoriPro Entertainment Group, Inc., BMI/Round Hi Works, BMI/Kirbtone Music, BMI (S.Minor, P.O Donne, W.Kirby) 50

21 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE NOVEMBER 30, 2015 PAGE 21 OF 21 CODA 38 Years Ago Doy Watzed Right To No. 1 Parton s Here You Come Again topped Hot Country Songs and became her first top 40 Biboard Hot 100 hit On Dec. 3, 1977, then 31-yearod Doy Parton began her ongest reign five weeks atop Hot Country Songs as Here You Come Again, the tite track from her 19th abum, rose 3-1. The sixth of Parton s 24 No. 1s aso earned her the 1979 Grammy Award for best femae country voca. Again was penned by pop tunesmiths Barry Mann and Cynthia Wei. Given the song s mainstream DNA, it became Parton s first top 40 hit (of eight) on the Biboard Hot 100, where it rose to No. 3. Parton has remained a beoved figure in country and pop cuture. She has starred in feature fims, starting with 1980 s 9 to 5 and earning a Goden Gobe Award nomination for best actress; boasts her own theme park, Doywood, in Pigeon Forge, Tenn.; and was inducted into the Country Ha of Fame in A new movie about the icon, Doy Parton s Coat of Many Coors, airs Dec. 10 on NBC. Now 69, Parton is reportedy prepping a new abum and possibe word tour. JIM ASKER REWINDING THE COUNTRY CHARTS Parton in 1977 in Los Angees. CHRIS WALTER/WIREIMAGE