BILLBOARD.COM/NEWSLETTERS SEPTEMBER 18, 2017 PAGE 1 OF 22. Midland Injects A Merle/Dwight Honky-Tonk Surprise Strait Into Country

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1 Country Update BILLBOARD.COM/NEWSLETTERS SEPTEMBER 18, 2017 PAGE 1 OF 22 INSIDE BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE Tom.Roand@biboard.com Thomas Rhett Tops Biboard 200 >page 4 CMT.com Begins Overhau >page 9 Wiie, Luke, Jake & Hurricane Reief >page 10 Makin Tracks: Od Dominion Banks On Sand >page 16 Stark Report: Sony s Goodman Prioritizes Streaming >page 17 Country Coda: Don Wiiams First No. 1 >page 22 Midand Injects A Mere/Dwight Honky-Tonk Surprise Strait Into Country At the end of the first verse in Midand s new singe, Make a Litte, the music steps just a hair out of ine. There s a surprise chord, and the song cooy veers out of pace before faing back in ine. It s a nice itte bit of MIDLAND symboism for an unexpected, but whoy wecome, deveopment. The band takes just enough meodic sidesteps and infuses just enough odd rhymes and bent phrases to keep fans happiy unsetted whie istening to its debut abum, On the Rocks, set for reease by Big Machine on Sept. 22. The surprise sounds are a point of pride for Midand, a trio from Dripping Springs, Texas, that s appying a itte Mere swagger to a genre that was to many ears getting too big-city for its sma-town britches. We re just fans of songwriting, says guitarist Jess Carson of those sonic surprises. The peope that we ve written with are simiar-minded, and I d ike to think that we ve deveoped as songwriters. But it s aso party what we isten to songs ike Wichita Lineman, which are mainstream country songs that everybody knows. If you break that song down, it s compex. It uses chords that you woudn t think are predominanty country. In the big picture, there s no doubt that Midand is a country band. Lead singer Mark Wystrach s phrasing mimics Southern-sounding Diamond Rio vocaist Marty Roe; the act wieds an eectric sound that resembes John Jorgenson s brash Desert Rose Band g u i t a r s ; Carson, Wystrach and bass payer Cameron Duddy weave tight, Eages-esque harmonies; and they showed up at the CMT Music Awards in rhinestone suits that owed a heavy debt to Gram Parsons and The Fying Burrito Brothers. If Midand s emergence with a nostagic sound is a surprise to music fans who wrote off the genre in the bro-country era (first singe Drinkin Probem rode its od-schoo sound to

2 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE SEPTEMBER 18, 2017 PAGE 2 OF 22 No. 3 on Country Airpay and No. 4 on Hot Country Songs, which measures airpay, streaming and saes) it s aso a mid shock to the trio, which was warned repeatedy when it started working in Nashvie not to count on mainstream success. Nevertheess, it made minimum compromises in finding its way from Texas roadhouses to terrestria payists. The idea was, Let s not change who we are, says Duddy. No one that we have worked with in Nashvie has tried to do that. That s the understanding. Like, Let Midand do Midand, and we see what happens. We just happened to be in the right pace at the right time as far as the penduum swinging back toward traditiona country music. It s kind of just that Macom Gadwe tipping-point situation, you know? It s a matter of preparation and hard work meeting opportunity. Best-seing author Gadwe is the man who invented the 10,000-hour principe in the book Outiers: The Story of Success. Whether they reached the 10,000 mark or not, the guys in Midand certainy invested the hours in their craft. Each of them ived in Los Angees for a time during the ast decade, woodshedding into the morning hours with different bands to prep for whatever gigs they might piece together at cubs where the audiences might or, more ikey, might not care. They woud just show up and kindy isten to your band, or you woud show up and there woud be zero peope there, and the bartender woud take a smoke break when you re paying, so you re paying for fucking nobody, says Duddy. It was a part of the process of getting up your chops. Part of Midand s process was eaving L.A. The members a moved to other states and reduced music to a part-time venture whie they worked other jobs that actuay paid the bis. But when Duddy got married in Jackson Hoe, Wyo., in August 2013 oddy enough, the same month that New York Magazine coined the bro-country term his bandmates arrived a week eary to attend, and they fe into making music for the pure ove of it. The sound was irresistibe, and they decided to pursue it further. They cut some sides at Sonic Ranch in E Paso, Texas (the studio where Frankie Baard recorded his E Rio abum); committed to the band; and reocated to Dripping Springs, the site of Wiie Neson s first Fourth of Juy Picnic. They performed reguary at Poodie s Roadhouse, a cub founded by Neson s former stage manager, Randa Poodie Locke, who died in Our band got a residency and reay got our shit together at Poodie s, says Duddy. The bar is sti there, and it s ow ceiings, shitty sound quaity, bar fies and bar rats, but those are our peope, man. Those were our first fans, and that s how we grew our sound. The band took its name from a Dwight Yoakam abum cut, Fair to Midand, appropriate since Yoakam aong with such acts as Randy Travis, Ricky Van Sheton and The Desert Rose Band was part of the New Traditionaist movement in the 1980s. It came aong in the aftermath of the Urban Cowboy-ed crossover period that provoked The New York Times to write country s epitaph in Country music was pretty pop-driven and pop-dominated at the time, recas Wystrach. Dwight came through with something that was od and new at the same time, and it was reay honky-tonk-born and -driven. It was reay simiar to what we re chasing. The difference is that we re a voca group, and you ve got to throw in a ot of The Band and the Eages and Aabama, and mix it in with that same honky-tonk sound. Songwriters Shane McAnay and Josh Osborne co-produced the first incarnation, aowing McAnay to work on a project with George Strait overtones. I swear if I heard Midand on the radio, I woud be so mad if I wasn t a part of it, says McAnay. Producer Dann Huff (Keith Urban, Brantey Gibert) was brought in ater to hep find the right mainstream fourishes, essentiay paying up the Eages components without eiminating the raw Fying Burrito eements. The band received a surprise standing ovation from programmers during a showcase at Country Radio Seminar, the first arge pubic evidence of the wave that was about to hit. It was a signa to Music Row that there are indeed some media gatekeepers with a desire to provide a itte more traditiona country baance in the genre s current progressive mix. Those sorts of champions have existed in Nashvie s music community for ages. Midand may be making them happy, but the band doesn t pan to cater to them, either. If peope are hoping for it and rooting for us, that s great, says Wystrach. It s not going to affect or change what we re doing. That part is not a surprise. Midand was different from the start, and the band pans to keep that Mere swagger. Brad Paisey met with two major programmers when he performed in Charotte, N.C., on Sept. 8. From eft: iheartmedia executive vp programming Northeast Meg Stevens, WSOC Charotte operations manager/pd D.J. Stout and Paisey. The Grand Oe Opry recognized Country Cares for St. Jude Kids during its Sept. 13 show on WSM-AM Nashvie in the midst of Chidhood Cancer Awareness Month. At the Opry House, from eft: Luke Bryan, St. Jude patient Kae and Nashvie actor Care Bowen. High Vaey performed Sept. 7 on the WGNA Abany, N.Y., Bud Light Party Cruise. From eft: High Vaey s Curtis Rempe, WGNA PD Matty Jeff, Warner Music Nashvie manager of Midwest and Northeast radio and streaming Shari Roth, and High Vaey s Brad Rempe. Frankie Baard met with oca radio personne when he performed Sept. 8 at the York Fair in Pennsyvania. From eft: WGTY York PD Scott Donato, Baard and Warner Music Nashvie W.A.R. Northeast/Midwest manager of regiona radio and streaming Anna Cage. LUKE BRYAN: CHRIS HOLLO

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4 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE SEPTEMBER 18, 2017 PAGE 4 OF 22 ON THE CHARTS JIM ASKER jim.asker@biboard.com Big Changes : Thomas Rhett Is The First Country Artist To Top The Biboard 200 In 2017 Marking a first for 2017, a country act rues the a-genre Biboard 200 as Thomas Rhett s third fu-ength abum, Life Changes (Vaory), roars in atop the chart dated Sept. 30. It earns 123,000 equivaent abum units in the week ending Sept. 14, according to Niesen Music. The singer-songwriter scores his first No. 1 on the Biboard 200 as we as on Top Country Abums. With 94,000 sod, he aso records his best saes week. Rhett is the first country artist to rue the former chart since Jason Adean a year ago, when his They Don t Know arrived atop the survey dated Oct. 1, 2016 (138,000). That set was the ony No. 1 on the chart by a country act in It bows my mind to have a No. 1 abum, Rhett tes Biboard. I fee ike we started working on this project the moment we put out [prior abum] Tanged Up in 2015, so it s the end of a coupe of years of hard work and growth. It s an autobiographica abum in a ot of ways, which makes it reay persona. So for it to be received the way that it has is extra gratifying. And to be the first country artist this year to have a No. 1 on the a-genre chart is reay humbing. Rhett had a hand in writing 10 of the 14 songs on Life Changes, which meds styes from contemporary pop to traditiona country. I m infuenced by a wide variety of genres, and it s refected in my songwriting, he says. RHETT When we went in the studio, we just aowed each song to be whatever it was when we created it, without feeing the need to try and change it and make it fit into a certain box. Life Changes foows It Goes Like This, Rhett s first fu-ength, which debuted and peaked on Top Country Abums at No. 2 on Nov. 16, 2013 (36,000 sod), and second LP Tanged Up, which arrived at No. 3 on Oct. 17, 2015 (76,000 units; 62,000 sod), and peaked at No. 2. Rhett made his first of his four Top Country Abums appearances with his 2012 sef-tited EP (No. 24). Unforgettabe, Life Changes sophomore singe, hits Hot Country Songs top five (7-4) and becomes his 10th Country Airpay top 10 (24.2 miion in audience, up 8 percent). Lead singe Craving You, featuring Maren Morris, topped the atter chart and reached No. 3 on Hot Country Songs. OTHER NOTABLE ARRIVALS Top Country Abums aso wecomes three more top 10 debuts. They are ed by Dustin Lynch s third studio set, Current Mood (Broken Bow/Broken Bow Music Group), which bows at No. 2 (36,000 units; 27,000 sod). The abum foows 2014 s Where It s At, which debuted and peaked at No. 2 (31,000 sod), and his 2012 sef-tited first abum and one No. 1 (23,000). Lynch s new set arrives on the strength of second singe (foowing the Country Airpay No. 1 Seein Red ) Sma Town Boy, which rues Country Airpay for a third week (44.1 miion, down 5 percent). Kip Moore s Sowheart (MCA Nashvie/Universa Music Group Nashvie) starts at No. 3 (29,000). It s his third top 10, foowing Wid Ones (No. 2, 2015) and Up A Night (No. 3, 2012). Meanwhie, Toby Keith s The Bus Songs (Show Dog/Thirty Tigers) ros in at No. 6 (12,000), marking his 23rd top 10, a tota that incudes 10 No. 1s. BLAKE UNLEASHED As Sam Hunt s Body Like a Back Road (MCA Nashvie) crowns Hot Country Songs for a record-extending 32nd week, Bake Sheton banks his 29th top 10 as his I Name the Dogs (Warner Bros./ Warner Music Nashvie) zooms Foowing its first fu week of tracking, it aunches at No. 2 on Country Digita Song Saes (27,000 sod) and No. 20 on Country Streaming Songs (3 miion U.S. streams), and aso ifts on Country Airpay (10 miion, up 5 percent). FOUND FLIES IN Kane Brown earns his highest debut on Hot Country Songs as Found You (Zone 4/RCA Nashvie) enters at No. 13. It arrives at No. 1 on Country Digita Song Saes (33,000), where it s his first eader. It aso boasts 2.2 miion U.S. streams for the week. Found is one of four new tracks on the deuxe version of Brown s seftited debut abum, due Oct. 6. RHETT: KEVIN WINTER/GETTY IMAGES FOR IHEARTMEDIA

5 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE SEPTEMBER 18, 2017 PAGE 5 OF 22 WKS ON CHART TITLE Imprint/Labe Artist AUDIENCE (IN MILLIONS) PLAYS +/ +/ RANK SMALL TOWN BOY Broken Bow HH No. 1 (3 weeks) HH Dustin Lynch ALL THE PRETTY GIRLS Bue Chair/Coumbia Nashvie Kenny Chesney HEARTACHE ON THE DANCE FLOOR Capito Nashvie Jon Pardi THEY DON T KNOW Macon/Broken Bow Jason Adean WHAT IFS Zone 4/RCA Nashvie HH Most Increased Audience HH Kane Brown Feat. Lauren Aaina NO SUCH THING AS A BROKEN HEART RCA Nashvie Od Dominion MORE GIRLS LIKE YOU MCA Nashvie Kip Moore WHEN IT RAINS IT POURS River House/Coumbia Nashvie Luke Combs Country Airpay UNFORGETTABLE Vaory Thomas Rhett EVERY LITTLE THING Big Machine Cary Pearce FIX A DRINK Warner Bros./WAR Chris Janson IT AIN T MY FAULT EMI Nashvie Brothers Osborne I COULD USE A LOVE SONG Coumbia Nashvie Maren Morris ASK ME HOW I KNOW Pear Garth Brooks LIGHT IT UP Capito Nashvie Luke Bryan RING ON EVERY FINGER Reviver LOCASH GREATEST LOVE STORY Arista Nashvie LANCO ROUND HERE BUZZ EMI Nashvie Eric Church TIME FOR EVERYTHING Arista Nashvie Brad Paisey SMOOTH BMLG HH Airpower HH Forida Georgia Line LOSING SLEEP RCA Nashvie Chris Young I LL NAME THE DOGS Warner Bros./WMN HH Most Added HH Bake Sheton A GIRL LIKE YOU Mercury Easton Corbin OUTTA STYLE BIG Labe Aaron Watson YOURS Tripe Tigers Russe Dickerson ALL ON ME Atantic/WEA Devin Dawson YOU BROKE UP WITH ME Monument/Arista Nashvie Waker Hayes LIKE I LOVED YOU BMLG HH Most Increased Pays/Most Added HH Brett Young CALIFORNIA B$R/Thirty Tigers/New Revoution Big & Rich TIN MAN Vanner/RCA Nashvie Miranda Lambert AIRPLAY MONITORED BY BILLBOARD COUNTRY AIRPLAY PANEL 144 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 Dayton, Ohio Denver Des Moines, Iowa WGNA KBQI KRST WCTO WKHX WUBL WKXC KASE KUZZ WPOC WYNK WDXB WZZK KAWO KIZN WBWL WKLB WYRK WCKN WEZL WKKT WSOC WUSY WEBG WUSN WUBE WGAR KATC WCOS WCOL KRYS KPLX KSCS WHKO KWOF KYGO KHKI Detroit 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 WDRQ WYCD 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 KTEX Memphis 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. Reno, Nevada Roanoke, Va. WGKX WLFP WKIS WMIL KEEY KMNB WKSJ WKMK KTOM WKDF WSIX 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 KBUL 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

6 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE SEPTEMBER 18, 2017 PAGE 6 OF 22 WKS ON CHART TITLE Imprint/Labe Artist AUDIENCE (IN MILLIONS) +/ +/ RANK LEGENDS Back River Kesea Baerini BOY Curb Lee Brice SHE S WITH ME Atantic/WEA High Vaey FIVE MORE MINUTES Tripe Tigers Scotty McCreery HAPPENS LIKE THAT Wheehouse Granger Smith BROKEN HALOS Mercury Chris Stapeton ONES THAT LIKE ME Vaory Brantey Gibert SINGLES YOU UP MCA Nashvie HH Breaker HH Jordan Davis GET TO YOU Atantic/WEA Michae Ray THE LONG WAY Atantic/WMN Brett Edredge ROOTS Southern Ground/Eektra/WAR Zac Brown Band STAY DOWNTOWN Warner Bros./WMN Coe Swinde SUNDAY MORNING Stoney Creek Parmaee ROAD TRIPPIN Warner Bros./WAR HH Breaker HH Dan + Shay FOR THE FIRST TIME Capito Nashvie Darius Rucker DOIN FINE 19/Interscope/Mercury Lauren Aaina WAITING ON YOU Stoney Creek Lindsay E THREE CHORDS & THE TRUTH Dack Janies/Broken Bow Chase Rice WHEN SOMEONE STOPS LOVING YOU Capito Nashvie HH Breaker HH Litte Big Town MESS ME UP EMI Nashvie Gary Aan ALL ABOUT YOU MCA Nashvie Josh Turner HOOKED Curb Dyan Scott NEW DRINK A LITTLE BEER Vaory HH Hot Shot Debut HH Thomas Rhett Feat. Rhett Akins SWAY Big Machine Daniee Bradbery BACK TO US Big Machine Rasca Fatts LOVE IN A BAR RCA Nashvie Ryan Hurd Country Airpay WAKE ME UP Mercury Biy Currington NEW WRITTEN IN THE SAND RCA Nashvie Od Dominion NEW SIXTEEN Vaory Thomas Rhett I SHOULD GO TO CHURCH SOMETIME Coumbia Nashvie Tyer Farr PLAYS AIRPLAY MONITORED BY GOING FOR ADDS 9/25 10/2 ERIC HEATHERLY One O You Powboy KID ROCK Tennessee Mountain Top Top Dog/BMG/Red Bow FRAZER HARRISON/GETTY IMAGES 49 LITTLE BIG TOWN When Someone Stops Loving You The group s Jimi Westbrook sings the third singe from Litte Big Town s abum The Breaker. In its fifth week on Country Airpay, the song rises 52-49, increasing 12 percent to 1.4 miion audience impressions. GAL FRIDAY Scrapyard Rundies JUSTIN KEMP BAND Sti Breathin Jerry Duncan MIDLAND Make A Litte Big Machine RUNAWAY JUNE Wid West Wheehouse WILLIAM MICHAEL MORGAN Viny Warner Bros./WMN 10/9 CHARLES PARKER Bring Back The Sun Mach 3/Jerry Duncan JACKSON MICHELSON Roin Curb

7 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE SEPTEMBER 18, 2017 PAGE 7 OF 22 Country Airpay AIRPLAY MONITORED BY MOST ADDED TITLE Imprint/Labe Artist ADDS I LL NAME THE DOGS Warner Bros./WMN Bake Sheton 43 FIVE MORE MINUTES Tripe Tigers Scotty McCreery 16 LIKE I LOVED YOU BMLG Brett Young 14 SMOOTH BMLG Forida Georgia Line 12 NAMASTE Songs In The Key Of B Bobby Bones And The Raging Idiots 11 YOU BROKE UP WITH ME Monument/Arista Nashvie Waker Hayes 10 BROKEN HALOS Mercury Chris Stapeton 8 THREE CHORDS & THE TRUTH Dack Janies/Broken Bow Chase Rice 8 STAY DOWNTOWN Warner Bros./WMN Coe Swinde 8 DOIN FINE 19/Interscope/Mercury Lauren Aaina 7 MOST INCREASED AUDIENCE TITLE Imprint/Labe Artist GAIN (IN MIILIONS) WHAT IFS Zone 4/RCA Nashvie Kane Brown Featuring Lauren Aaina WHEN IT RAINS IT POURS River House/Coumbia Nashvie Luke Combs ALL THE PRETTY GIRLS Bue Chair/Coumbia Nashvie Kenny Chesney HEARTACHE ON THE DANCE FLOOR Capito Nashvie Jon Pardi UNFORGETTABLE Vaory Thomas Rhett GREATEST LOVE STORY Arista Nashvie LANCO LIGHT IT UP Capito Nashvie Luke Bryan DRINK A LITTLE BEER Vaory Thomas Rhett Featuring Rhett Akins ASK ME HOW I KNOW Pear Garth Brooks MORE GIRLS LIKE YOU MCA Nashvie Kip Moore TITLE Imprint/Labe NEW AND ACTIVE Artist RECURRENTS TOTAL AUDIENCE TOTAL STATIONS NAMASTE Songs In The Key Of B Bobby Bones And The Raging Idiots LIFE CHANGES Vaory Thomas Rhett MARRY ME Vaory Thomas Rhett MAKE A LITTLE Big Machine Midand WILD WEST Wheehouse Runaway June MS. MARIANNE Coumbia Nashvie Levon TITLE Imprint/Labe Artist TOTAL AUD. (IN MILLIONS) 1 BODY LIKE A BACK ROAD MCA Nashvie Sam Hunt DO I MAKE YOU WANNA Mercury Biy Currington CRAVING YOU Vaory Thomas Rhett Featuring Maren Morris MY GIRL Curb Dyan Scott IN CASE YOU DIDN T KNOW BMLG Brett Young HURRICANE River House/Coumbia Nashvie Luke Combs SOMEBODY ELSE WILL Vaory Justin Moore DRINKIN PROBLEM Big Machine Midand HOMETOWN GIRL MCA Nashvie Josh Turner DIRT ON MY BOOTS Capito Nashvie Jon Pardi ADDS MOST INCREASED PLAYS TITLE Imprint/Labe Artist GAIN HEARTACHE ON THE DANCE FLOOR Capito Nashvie Jon Pardi +489 ALL THE PRETTY GIRLS Bue Chair/Coumbia Nashvie Kenny Chesney +487 WHAT IFS Zone 4/RCA Nashvie Kane Brown Featuring Lauren Aaina +469 I LL NAME THE DOGS Warner Bros./WMN Bake Sheton +463 WHEN IT RAINS IT POURS River House/Coumbia Nashvie Luke Combs +411 UNFORGETTABLE Vaory Thomas Rhett +312 LIGHT IT UP Capito Nashvie Luke Bryan +275 SMOOTH BMLG Forida Georgia Line +239 THEY DON T KNOW Macon/Broken Bow Jason Adean +217 LIKE I LOVED YOU BMLG Brett Young +209 BILLBOARD COUNTRY BOXSCORE Gross Artist Attendance Ticket Price(s) Venue/Date(s) Capacity Promoter(s) $910,043 FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE 22,528 $75, $30.75 Gen Heen Amphitheater, Devore, Caif./Sept. 8 24,201 $738,815 FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE 11,509 $75, $30.75 Honda Center, Anaheim/Sept. 7 seout $720,499 FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE 18,638 $65.75, $25 Mattress Firm Amphitheatre, Chua Vista, Caif./Sept. 9 seout $688,325 FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE 14,481 $80.25, $30.25 Ak-Chin Paviion, Phoenix/Sept ,814 $509,865 BRAD PAISLEY 16,983 $69, $20 Jiffy Lube Live, Bristow, Va./Sept. 9 21,000 LIVE NATION LIVE NATION LIVE NATION LIVE NATION LIVE NATION Reported wordwide boxscore figures for Country artists. Boxscore figures shoud be submitted to Bob Aen by phone ( ), fax ( ) or emai (bob.aen@biboard.com). TEXAS REGIONAL RADIO REPORT ENDING SEPTEMBER 17, 2017 WKS ON CHART TITLE (Labe) ARTIST TW SPINS RESTLESS (Independent) HH 1 week at 1 HH Jake Ward COUNTRY SONG (Independent) Casey Donahew Band BIG TIME LONESOME (Independent) Jake Worthington NO WORDS (Independent) Cody Jinks MOVIN ON (KF Music) Kevin Fower TEXAS WOMEN, TENNESSEE WHISKEY (Independent) Josh Abbott Band DRINKIN DAYS (Greenhorse) Pat Green CONFORMITY (Independent) Nataie Rose MEET ME TONIGHT (Independent) Randy Rogers Band RIVER FLOATIN (Independent) Jason Cassidy SPINS +/ WKS ON CHART TITLE (Labe) ARTIST TW SPINS ARMADILLO (Independent) Junior Gordon HOW I WANNA BE (Repubic) Sundance Head RADIO (No Big Dea) Reckess Key MINE AGAIN (I D BE A FOOL) (Lightning Rod) Daton Domino HAPPENS LIKE THAT (Independent) Granger Smith NEW ORLEANS (Independent) Shane Smith & The Saints SIPPIN ON SHINE (Independent) Jerrett Zoch and The OSR Band LITTLE BIT OF RUST (Independent) Wi Hoge SHE LL PUT THE HURT ON YOU (Independent) Jesse Raub Jr RAINY DAY MONEY (Texas Evoution) Mark McKinney SPINS +/ Texas Regiona Radio Report Top 100 is compied from weeky onine payist reports from 86 radio stations ocated in Texas and surrounding states, incuding reports from speciaty shows, internet and sateite radio outets. Songs are ranked by tota pays. For tracking, compete chart methodoogy and more information, visit or contact Dave Smith at Copyright 2017, Texas Regiona Radio Report

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9 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE SEPTEMBER 18, 2017 PAGE 9 OF 22 NASHVILLE & NATIONAL TOM ROLAND STUART, HARRIS: RICK DIAMOND/GETTY IMAGES Scotty McCreery performed for WMZQ Washington, D.C., cients on Sept. 13. From eft: Tripe Tigers senior vp nationa promotion Kevin Herring, McCreery, iheartmedia/washington, D.C.-Batimore regiona senior vp programming Jeff Kapugi and Tripe Tigers regiona promotion/northeast Diane Lockner. CMT BEGINS WEB OVERHAUL CMT gave notice to roughy six members of its editoria and production teams in the faout from an upper-management restructuring that wi ikey change the fundamenta roe of its onine site. CMT.com editor Cavin Gibert eft his position on Sept. 15, and another reporter was tod that their position woud be phased out by the end of the year. The company woud not comment directy on the moves, though it appears CMT is reaigning its approach to digita news to mirror other Viacom properties, incuding TV Land and Spike TV (which wi rebrand as the Paramount Network in January). The CMT.com site wi continue to exist, but the focus wi shift to socia patforms, such as Facebook and Twitter, which use smaer news bites and photos rather than onger stories. The move is part of a bigger-picture overhau that saw about 20 empoyees cut from CMT, TV Land and Spike, according to The Hoywood Reporter. CMT executive vp deveopment Jayson Dinsmore eft the company, with Paramount/TV Land president of production and deveopment Keith Cox taking over his roe. The existing Spike TV and TV Land sites are designed to cater to mobie patforms and are primariy devoted to promotion of their broadcast content. CMT.com originated in 1997 as Country.com, with the network intent on owning the country news business onine. In the ensuing two decades, the industry has become increasingy crowded, and some competing sites incuding Townsquare Media s Taste of Country and Cox Media s Rare Country have aggressivey created Marty Stuart and Emmyou Harris met up on the red carpet at the Americana Music Association Honors & Awards on Sept. 13 at Nashvie s Ryman Auditorium, where Stuart and his Fabuous Superatives won group/duo of the year. voumes of content with smaer stories and photo/video posts. Great American Country which, ike CMT, originated as a country video channe simiary shifted its focus away from country-music news in recent years. Trave and country ifestye stories now dominate the GAC home page. MOVERS & SHAKERS WSM-AM Nashvie aunched an Americana station, Route 650, avaiabe onine here and through the station s mobie app. The station was announced Sept. 13, the same day the Americana Honors & Awards were presented at Nashvie s Ryman Auditorium Dae Desmond is joining Cherry Creek/St. George, Utah, as operations manager. The custer incudes country signas KCIN and KIYK. He spent the ast year as the Idaho-based Sandhi Media vp country programming Cox Media/Atanta hired Mike Watkins as oca saes manager for its radio custer, incuding country WGNC Athens, Ga. He spent the ast 20 years as a consutant for the group Adams Radio/Saisbury- Ocean City, Md., added John Ludwig as a senior account manager for the custer, incuding country WKHI. He spent the previous 13 years as a saes consutant for Entercom/Portand, Ore., incuding country KWJJ WMPW- AM Danvie, Va., reverted to cassic country on Sept. 15, InsideRadio.com reported. The station had fipped from country to adut contemporary in September 2016 iheartmedia/wichita, Kan., hired Jim Dorman as operations manager, according to Takers.com. Brian Jennings previousy hed the post, which incudes oversight of country KZSN. ROUND THE ROW Warner Music Nashvie promoted Shane Tareton to the newy created position of senior vp artist deveopment. Functions under his purview incude brand sponsorship, marketing, digita interactive and creative services. The move was announced days after WMN chief marketing officer Peter Strickand resigned. Tareton had recenty been promoted to senior vp creative services Debbie Rande joined Huskins-Harris Business Management as office manager. The most recent spot Rande had hed in her two-decade career was as Webster & Associates director of operations. Huskins-Harris cients incude Chris Young and Kane Brown. Reach Rande here OneCountry. com hired Lisa Konicki as content editor. She was most recenty NashCountryDaiy.com editor-inchief. Reach her here Music Heath Aiance made KONICKI severa changes to its structure. Bonita Aen joined the staff as director of cient services and advocacy. She spent the ast four years as the owner of radio promotion/voiceover firm Fireside Drive Promotions. Aison Kein aso joined MHA as director of advocacy, insurance and marketing after freeancing as a digita marketer. Additionay, Kimbery Dunn was promoted to director of group heath from director of deveopment, founder/executive director Tatum Hauck Asep added a CEO tite, Sheia Shipey Biddy rose to COO from director of operations, and Tayor Cay was upped to director of advocacy and insurance from manager. Reach Aen here and Kein here Nashviebased crowd-funding patform Bandtwango hired Nicoe Hogund as director of cient reations and Ayssa Smeyka as manager of music marketing. Hogund is a business consutant through her company Honesty Abe. Smeyka is a recent graduate of Penn State with a degree in advertising. Reach Hogund here and Smeyka here The Academy of Country Music has an opening for a manager in strategic partnerships, aong with severa intern positions. Go here for detais Former Batimore Cots running back Aex Hawkins died Sept. 12, The Greenvie (S.C.) News reported. His 1989 autobiography My Story (And I m Sticking to It) inspired a Lee Roy Parne/Tony Haseden song, earning Hawkins songwriting credit on the Coin Raye country hit That s My Story. Dustin Lynch (right) performed I d Be Jeaous Too in a Sept. 14 appearance on ABC s Jimmy Kimme Live! LYNCH: RANDY HOLMES ABC

10 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE SEPTEMBER 18, 2017 PAGE 10 OF 22 NASHVILLE & NATIONAL TOM ROLAND MUSIC NOTES Whie Hurricane Maria begins to ook ike a future threat to the Southeast, country continues to mobiize on behaf of hurricane victims in both Texas and Forida. Wiie Neson wi join Pau Simon, James Tayor and Bonnie Raitt in a Sept. 22 Hurricane Harvey benefit in Austin, whie Luke Bryan is donating proceeds from a concert in Houston the same night. Jake Owen worked with Forida Gov. Rick Scott to create a Bring Back the Sunshine fundraising campaign foowing Hurricane Irma, and John Berry gathered severa artists incuding Casey James, Coin Raye, Bryan White and Heidi Newfied on a benefit record, A Come Together. Two Nashvie shows have aso been turned into fundraisers: a Sept. 19 Warner Music Pickin on the Patio event with Hunter Hayes, Frankie Baard and Ryan Kinder; and an Oct. 4 Aaron Watson show at the Ryman Auditorium. McENTIRE Reba McEntire steps up to host CMA Country Christmas for the first time when the annua ABC specia is taped Nov. 14 in Nashvie for a Nov. 27 teecast. The show heps promote her hoiday abum, My Kind of Christmas, due Oct. 13 with guest appearances by Darius Rucker, Key Carkson, Trisha Yearwood, Vince Gi, Amy Grant and Lauren Daige. Other just-announced yuetide product incudes the Evis Presey package Christmas With Evis and the Roya Phiharmonic Orchestra (Oct. 6, RCA/ Legacy), Aabama s American Christmas (Oct. 6, BMG) and Basam Range s buegrass effort It s Christmas Time (Oct. 27, Mountain Home Music). Singer-songwriter John Prine drew aughs when he took the artist of the year trophy during the Americana Music Honors & Awards I been waitin for this award awhie, he deadpanned. The ceremony, hed Sept. 13 at the Ryman Auditorium, had penty of overap with country. Former country hitmaker Marty Stuart ed his Fabuous Superatives to group/duo of the year, whie Rodney Crowe swiped song of the year for It Ain t Over Yet. Sturgi Simpson s A Saior s Guide to Earth, which went to No. 1 on Top Country Abums, earned abum of the year. The Body Like a Back Road juggernaut continues. Even as Sam Hunt s hit enjoys a record 32nd week at No. 1 on Hot Country Songs, the tite has been tapped for the first-ever song of the year trophy during the CMT Artists of the Year event on Oct. 18 at Nashvie s Schermerhorn Symphony Center. Hunt shares that honor with co-writers Zach Crowe, Shane McAnay and Josh Osborne. Top Headines from Cick on headines beow for more detais.com Roing Stone Magazine Founder Jann S. Wenner Seing His Stake ON DATE IN COUNTRY MUSIC Sept Vaory reeases Thomas Rhett s Die a Happy Man to radio Mere Haggard & The Strangers record Sing Me Back Home at the Capito Recording Studios in Hoywood. Sept Wiie Neson sponsors Farm Aid III at the University of Nebraska s Memoria Stadium in Lincon. Participants incude: Kris Kristofferson, Vince Gi, John Denver, Emmyou Harris, Dick Cark, Gary Morris, David Lynn Jones, Exie, Steve Eare and Lynn Anderson. Sept Montgomery Gentry receives keys to the city of Louisvie, Ky., as Eddie Montgomery and Troy Gentry are named honorary citizens During an appearance on the PAYCHECK Grand Oe Opry, Johnny Paycheck receives an invitation from Opry GM Bob Whittaker to join the cast. Sept Carrie Underwood, Ashey Gorey and Chris DeStefano write a future hit, Good Gir, in Los Angees Paying homage to its best-known industry, Nashvie eects to ca its Minor League Baseba team the Nashvie Sounds. Among the cub s owners: Conway Twitty, Jerry Reed and The Oak Ridge Boys Richard Sterban. Sept Liberty Records reeases Garth Brooks abum The Chase. Sept Tracy Byrd and his famiy evacuate their Beaumont, Texas, home with Hurricane Rita bearing down on the Guf Coast. An oak tree fas on their house, the garage doors are bown away, and the chimney is destroyed when the storm hits the next day. Sept Kesea Baerini s Peter Pan begins a two-week stay at No. 1 on the Biboard country singes chart Brad Paisey shoots his Letter to Me video at John Marsha High Schoo in Gen Dae, W. Va. Source: RoandNote.com, the Utimate Country Music Database Sacker Radio Acquired By LiveXLive For $50 Miion Johnny Cash s Record Labe Sends Cease-And-Desist Letter To White Nationaist Radio Station Stormfront The Cadiac Three Refect On Their Legacy And Working With Lori McKenna The History Of The Music Industry s First-Ever Digita Singe For Sae, 20 Years After Its Reease Jon Pardi visited Cumuus Nash campus on Sept. 13 for an appearance on the syndicated Ty, Key and Chuck show. From eft: Ty Benti, Pardi, Key Ford and Chuck Wicks.

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12 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE SEPTEMBER 18, 2017 PAGE 12 OF 22 TWO S AGO WKS ON CHART TITLE PRODUCER (SONGWRITER) Hot Country Songs Artist IMPRINT / PROMOTION LABEL BODY LIKE A BACK ROAD HH No. 1 (32 weeks) HH Sam Hunt Z.CROWELL (S.HUNT,Z.CROWELL,J.OSBORNE,S.MCANALLY) MCA NASHVILLE WHAT IFS Kane Brown Featuring Lauren Aaina D.HUFF (K.BROWN,M.MCGINN,J.M.SCHMIDT) ZONE 4/RCA NASHVILLE SMALL TOWN BOY Dustin Lynch Z.CROWELL (R.AKINS,B.HAYSLIP,K.FISHMAN) BROKEN BOW UNFORGETTABLE Thomas Rhett D.HUFF,J.FRASURE,THOMAS RHETT (THOMAS RHETT,J.FRASURE,A.GORLEY,S.MCANALLY) VALORY WHEN IT RAINS IT POURS Luke Combs S.MOFFATT (L.COMBS,R.FULCHER,J.WALKER) RIVER HOUSE/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE HEARTACHE ON THE DANCE FLOOR Jon Pardi B.BUTLER,J.PARDI (J.PARDI,B.BUTLER,B.LONG) CAPITOL NASHVILLE ALL THE PRETTY GIRLS Kenny Chesney B.CANNON,K.CHESNEY (N.GALYON,T.L.JAMES,J.OSBORNE) BLUE CHAIR/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE NO SUCH THING AS A BROKEN HEART Od Dominion S.MCANALLY (M.RAMSEY,T. ROSEN,B.TURSI,J.FRASURE) RCA NASHVILLE CRAVING YOU Thomas Rhett Featuring Maren Morris J.BUNETTA,D.HUFF,JOE LONDON,THOMAS RHETT (D.M.BARNES,J.BUNETTA) VALORY I LL NAME THE DOGS Bake Sheton S.HENDRICKS (M.DRAGSTREM,B.HAYSLIP,J.THOMPSON) WARNER BROS./WMN THEY DON T KNOW Jason Adean M.KNOX (J.BOYER,J.MIRENDA,K.ALLISON) MACON/BROKEN BOW EVERY LITTLE THING Cary Pearce BUSBEE (C.PEARCE,BUSBEE,E.SHACKELTON) BIG MACHINE 13 NEW 1 FOUND YOU Kane Brown D.HUFF (K.BROWN,B.BERRYHILL,J.MULLINS,T.PHILLIPS) ZONE 4/RCA NASHVILLE GREATEST LOVE STORY LANCO J.JOYCE (B.LANCASTER) ARISTA NASHVILLE MORE GIRLS LIKE YOU Kip Moore K.MOORE,D.GARCIA (K.MOORE,S.L.OLSEN,J.MILLER,D.A.GARCIA) MCA NASHVILLE LIGHT IT UP Luke Bryan J.STEVENS,J.STEVENS (L.BRYAN,B.TURSI) CAPITOL NASHVILLE IT AIN T MY FAULT Brothers Osborne J.JOYCE (J. OSBORNE,T.J. OSBORNE,L.T.MILLER) EMI NASHVILLE I COULD USE A LOVE SONG Maren Morris BUSBEE,M.MORRIS (M.MORRIS,J.ROBBINS,L.VELTZ) COLUMBIA NASHVILLE FIX A DRINK Chris Janson B.ANDERSON,C.DUBOIS (C.JANSON,C.DUBOIS,A.GORLEY) WARNER BROS./WAR ROUND HERE BUZZ Eric Church J.JOYCE (E.CHURCH,J.HYDE,L.DICK) EMI NASHVILLE LOSING SLEEP Chris Young C.CROWDER,C.YOUNG (C.YOUNG,J.HOGE,C. DESTEFANO) RCA NASHVILLE SMOOTH Forida Georgia Line J.MOI (T.HUBBARD,B.KELLEY,N.GALYON,J.M.SCHMIDT) BMLG 23 NEW 1 MARRY ME Thomas Rhett D.HUFF,J.FRASURE,THOMAS RHETT (THOMAS RHETT,J.FRASURE,A.GORLEY,S.MCANALLY) VALORY ASK ME HOW I KNOW Garth Brooks M.A.MILLER (M.ROSSELL) PEARL RING ON EVERY FINGER LOCASH L.RIMES (THOMAS RHETT,J.KEAR,J.FRASURE) REVIVER COUNTRY AIRPLAY RANK SALES, AIRPLAY & STREAMING DATA COMPILED BY PEAK POSITION RC RC MORRIS: ETHAN MILLER/GETTY IMAGES; BROOKS: GARY MILLER/FILMMAGIC 18 MAREN MORRIS I Coud Use a Love Song The baad buets at No. 18 on Hot Country Songs as its ifts on Country Airpay (19.3 miion impressions, up 5 percent) and re-enters Country Streaming Songs at No. 24 (3.5 miion U.S. streams, up 3 percent). Morris performed a different song Rich on NBC s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Faon on Sept GARTH BROOKS Ask Me How I Know The superstar s second singe from Gunsinger is No. 24 in its 17th week on Hot Country Songs. On Country Airpay, it buets at its No. 14 peak (19.2 miion, up 6 percent), Brooks highest position on the ist since his 2007 No. 1 More Than a Memory.

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14 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE SEPTEMBER 18, 2017 PAGE 14 OF 22 TWO S AGO Hot Country Songs WKS ON CHART TITLE PRODUCER (SONGWRITER) Artist IMPRINT / PROMOTION LABEL LIKE I LOVED YOU Brett Young D.HUFF (B.YOUNG,J.LEE) BMLG YOURS Russe Dickerson C.BROWN (P.WELLING,C.BROWN,R.DICKERSON) TRIPLE TIGERS YOU BROKE UP WITH ME Waker Hayes S.MCANALLY (W.HAYES,K.SACKLEY,T.ARCHER) MONUMENT/ARISTA NASHVILLE LIFE CHANGES Thomas Rhett D.HUFF,J.FRASURE,THOMAS RHETT (THOMAS RHETT,R.AKINS,J.FRASURE,A.GORLEY) VALORY 30 RE-ENTRY 22 TIN MAN Miranda Lambert F.LIDDELL,G.WORF,E.MASSE (M.LAMBERT,J.INGRAM,J.R.STEWART) VANNER/RCA NASHVILLE TIME FOR EVERYTHING Brad Paisey L.WOOTEN,B.PAISLEY (B.PAISLEY,S.AHNQUIST,B.ANDERSON,C.DUBOIS,M.RYAN) ARISTA NASHVILLE ALL ON ME Devin Dawson J.JOYCE (D.DAWSON,J.DURRETT,A.SMITH) ATLANTIC/WEA SIXTEEN Thomas Rhett D.HUFF,J.FRASURE,THOMAS RHETT (THOMAS RHETT,S.M.DOUGLAS,JOE LONDON) VALORY A GIRL LIKE YOU Easton Corbin A.GORLEY,W.KIRBY (A.GORLEY,J.FRASURE,R.AKINS) MERCURY GRAVE Thomas Rhett D.HUFF,J.FRASURE,THOMAS RHETT (C. DESTEFANO,H.LINDSEY,J.MILLER) VALORY 36 NEW 1 TENNESSEE MOUNTAIN TOP Kid Rock KID ROCK,J.NIEBANK (R.J.RITCHIE,T.MONTANA,C.GRAVITT) TOP DOG/BMG/RED BOW OUTTA STYLE Aaron Watson M.ALTMAN,A.WATSON (A.WATSON) BIG LABEL 38 NEW 1 LEAVE RIGHT NOW Thomas Rhett J.BUNETTA,THOMAS RHETT (THOMAS RHETT,J.BUNETTA,E.DREWETT,J.H.RYAN) VALORY LEGENDS Kesea Baerini F.G.WHITEHEAD,J.MASSEY (K.BALLERINI,F.G.WHITEHEAD,H.LINDSEY) BLACK RIVER BROKEN HALOS Chris Stapeton D.COBB,C.STAPLETON (C.STAPLETON,M.HENDERSON) MERCURY 41 NEW 1 SWEETHEART Thomas Rhett J.BUNETTA,D.HUFF,JOE LONDON,THOMAS RHETT (THOMAS RHETT,R.AKINS,S.M.DOUGLAS,J.SPARGUR) VALORY 42 NEW 1 DRINK A LITTLE BEER Thomas Rhett Featuring Rhett Akins D.HUFF,J.FRASURE,THOMAS RHETT (R.AKINS,J.FRASURE,B.HAYSLIP) VALORY CALIFORNIA Big & Rich B.KENNY,J.D.RICH (J.D.RICH,R.CLAWSON,V.MCGEHEE) B$R/THIRTY TIGERS/NEW REVOLUTION FIVE MORE MINUTES F.ROGERS (S.MCCREERY,R.ROGERS,M.CRISWELL) SINGLES YOU UP P.DIGIOVANNI (J.DAVIS,S.D.JONES,J.EBACH) Scotty McCreery TRIPLE TIGERS Jordan Davis MCA NASHVILLE WRITTEN IN THE SAND Od Dominion S.MCANALLY (M.RAMSEY,T. ROSEN,B.TURSI,S.MCANALLY) RCA NASHVILLE BOY Lee Brice L.BRICE,J.STONE,K.JACOBS,D.FRIZSELL (J.M.NITE,N.GALYON) CURB LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME ALONE Dustin Lynch R. COPPERMAN (D.CHRISTENSEN,C.GELBUDA) BROKEN BOW 49 NEW 1 WHEN YOU LOOK LIKE THAT Thomas Rhett D.HUFF,J.FRASURE,THOMAS RHETT (J.L.ALEXANDER,M.DRAGSTREM,D.L.MURPHY) VALORY HAPPENS LIKE THAT Granger Smith G.SMITH,F.ROGERS,D.WELLS (G.SMITH,J.M.SCHMIDT,A.ALBERT,T.HUBBARD,J.WILSON) WHEELHOUSE COUNTRY AIRPLAY RANK SALES, AIRPLAY & STREAMING DATA COMPILED BY 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 14.0 miion miion 65.1 miion 49.6 miion For week ending Sept. 14, 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 435, ,000 1,124,000 Last Week 302,000 90,000 1,066,000 Change 44.0% 106.7% 5.4% This Week Last Year 517, ,000 1,427,000 Change -15.9% -6.1% -21.2% *Digita abum saes are aso counted within abum saes. YEAR-TO-DATE Overa Unit Saes CHANGE Abums 16,931,000 13,998, % Digita Tracks 65,119,000 49,622, % Saes by Abum Format CHANGE Physica 11,036,000 9,308, % Digita 5,895,000 4,689, % For inquiries about any Niesen Music data, pease contact Josh Bennett at or josh.bennett@niesen.com

15 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE SEPTEMBER 18, 2017 PAGE 15 OF 22 SALES, DATA COMPILED BY STREAMING & SALES DATA COMPILED BY 2 S AGO S ON CHT TOP COUNTRY ALBUMS ARTIST TITLE IMPRINT & NUMBER / DISTRIBUTING LABEL 1 NEW THOMAS RHETT 1 VALORY TR0300A/BMLG LIFE CHANGES 1 2 NEW DUSTIN LYNCH CURRENT MOOD 1 2 BROKEN BOW 7934/BBMG 3 NEW KIP MOORE SLOWHEART 1 3 MCA NASHVILLE */UMGN KANE BROWN KANE BROWN ZONE 4/RCA NASHVILLE */SMN LUKE COMBS RIVER HOUSE/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE */SMN ONE S FOR YOU 1 6 NEW TOBY KEITH 1 SHOW DOG NASHVILLE 001/THIRTY TIGERS THE BUS SONGS 6 CHRIS STAPLETON MERCURY */UMGN TRAVELLER Top Country Abums ranks the most popuar country abums of the week, as compied by Niesen Music, based on muti-metric consumption (bending traditiona abum saes, track equivaent abums, and streaming equivaent abums). Copyright 2017, Prometheus Goba Media, LLC and Niesen Music, Inc. A rights reserved. AMERICANA/ FOLK ALBUMS CERT. PEAK POS. OLD DOMINION HAPPY ENDINGS RCA NASHVILLE */SMN 1 BRETT YOUNG BRETT YOUNG BMLG BY0100A* 0 2 SAM HUNT MONTEVALLO MCA NASHVILLE /UMGN 3 1 JON PARDI CALIFORNIA SUNRISE CAPITOL NASHVILLE */UMGN 0 1 FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE BMLG 0300* DIG YOUR ROOTS 1 1 THOMAS RHETT VALORY RT0200A/BMLG TANGLED UP NEW DON WILLIAMS 1 MCA NASHVILLE 5944/UME 20 GREATEST HITS 14 CHRIS STAPLETON MERCURY */UMGN FROM A ROOM: VOLUME KEITH URBAN HIT RED/CAPITOL NASHVILLE */UMGN ( AMS & WSEX) RIPCORD NEW THE TEXAS TENORS 1 THE TEXAS TENORS 8045 RISE MONTGOMERY GENTRY PLAYLIST: THE VERY BEST OF MONTGOMERY GENTRY RE-ENTRY 19 COLUMBIA NASHVILLE 91983/LEGACY (7.98) 18 ZAC BROWN BAND GREATEST HITS SO FAR ROAR/SOUTHERN GROUND/ATLANTIC /AG 3 BROTHERS OSBORNE PAWN SHOP EMI NASHVILLE */UMGN MAREN MORRIS HERO COLUMBIA NASHVILLE */SMN JASON ALDEAN THEY DON T KNOW MACON/BROKEN BOW 2227/BBMG 1 BLAKE SHELTON RELOADED: 20 #1 HITS WARNER BROS /WMN 2 TAYLOR SWIFT RED BIG MACHINE A*/BMLG (18.98) 4 1 LUKE BRYAN KILL THE LIGHTS CAPITOL NASHVILLE /UMGN 2 1 SALES DATA COMPILED BY COUNTRY STREAMING SONGS WKS ON CHART TITLE ARTIST BODY LIKE A BACK ROAD SAM HUNT WHAT IFS KANE BROWN FEAT. LAUREN ALAINA WHEN IT RAINS IT POURS LUKE COMBS UNFORGETTABLE THOMAS RHETT SMALL TOWN BOY DUSTIN LYNCH HURRICANE LUKE COMBS HEARTACHE ON THE DANCE FLOOR JON PARDI TENNESSEE WHISKEY CHRIS STAPLETON BLUE AIN T YOUR COLOR KEITH URBAN DIE A HAPPY MAN THOMAS RHETT CRAVING YOU THOMAS RHETT FEAT. MAREN MORRIS H.O.L.Y. FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE DRINKIN PROBLEM MIDLAND IN CASE YOU DIDN T KNOW BRETT YOUNG NO SUCH THING AS A BROKEN HEART OLD DOMINION DIRT ON MY BOOTS JON PARDI LIGHT IT UP LUKE BRYAN GREATEST LOVE STORY LANCO 19 NEW LIFE CHANGES THOMAS RHETT 20 NEW I LL NAME THE DOGS BLAKE SHELTON MY GIRL DYLAN SCOTT MAY WE ALL FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE FEAT. TIM MCGRAW THE FIGHTER KEITH URBAN FEAT. CARRIE UNDERWOOD 24 RE-ENTRY I COULD USE A LOVE SONG MAREN MORRIS EVERY LITTLE THING CARLY PEARCE COUNTRY DIGITAL SONG SALES The week s top-streamed and top-seing paid downoad country songs, respectivey, from saes reports coected and provided by Niesen Music. Charts update weeky on Tuesdays at charts. Copyright 2017, Prometheus Goba Media, LLC and Niesen Music, Inc. A rights reserved. WKS ON CHART TITLE ARTIST 1 NEW FOUND YOU KANE BROWN 2 NEW I LL NAME THE DOGS BLAKE SHELTON WHAT IFS KANE BROWN FEAT. LAUREN ALAINA BODY LIKE A BACK ROAD SAM HUNT SMALL TOWN BOY DUSTIN LYNCH WHEN IT RAINS IT POURS LUKE COMBS 7 NEW MARRY ME THOMAS RHETT 8 NEW TENNESSEE MOUNTAIN TOP KID ROCK GREATEST LOVE STORY LANCO UNFORGETTABLE THOMAS RHETT HEARTACHE ON THE DANCE FLOOR JON PARDI EVERY LITTLE THING CARLY PEARCE IN CASE YOU DIDN T KNOW BRETT YOUNG DRINKIN PROBLEM MIDLAND LIGHT IT UP LUKE BRYAN IT AIN T MY FAULT BROTHERS OSBORNE TENNESSEE WHISKEY CHRIS STAPLETON YOU BROKE UP WITH ME WALKER HAYES NO SUCH THING AS A BROKEN HEART OLD DOMINION 20 NEW I BELIEVE IN YOU DON WILLIAMS ALL THE PRETTY GIRLS KENNY CHESNEY 22 NEW SOMETHING TO BE PROUD OF MONTGOMERY GENTRY HURRICANE LUKE COMBS TIN MAN MIRANDA LAMBERT LIKE I LOVED YOU BRETT YOUNG 2 S AGO S ON CHT ARTIST TITLE IMPRINT & NUMBER / DISTRIBUTING LABEL 1 NEW JACK JOHNSON 1 BRUSHFIRE */REPUBLIC ALL THE LIGHT ABOVE IT TOO 1 2 NEW GREGG ALLMAN SOUTHERN BLOOD 1 2 BLACKBIRD PRODUCTION PARTNERS/ROUNDER */CONCORD 3 NEW NEIL YOUNG HITCHHIKER 1 3 REPRISE */WARNER BROS Americana/Fok Abums ranks the most popuar Americana/fok abums of the week, as compied by Niesen Music, based on muti-metric consumption (bending traditiona abum saes, track equivaent abums, and streaming equivaent abums). Copyright 2017, Prometheus Goba Media, LLC and Niesen Music, Inc. A rights reserved. CERT. PEAK POS. CHRIS STAPLETON TRAVELLER MERCURY NASHVILLE */UMGN 2 1 CHRIS STAPLETON FROM A ROOM: VOLUME 1 MERCURY NASHVILLE */UMGN 0 1 THE LUMINEERS CLEOPATRA DUALTONE 1738* 0 1 HOZIER HOZIER RUBYWORKS */COLUMBIA 1 1 ED SHEERAN ELEKTRA */AG NEW THE EMPTY POCKETS 1 MT POCKETS VOICES 9 JOHN MAYER COLUMBIA * THE SEARCH FOR EVERYTHING 1 18 MONTGOMERY GENTRY Payist: The Very Best of Montgomery Gentry After the death of Troy Gentry in a New Jersey heicopter crash on Sept. 8, Payist: The Very Best of Montgomery Gentry re-enters Top Country Abums for the first time since 2012 at a new No. 18 peak (5,000 equivaent abum units). DANIEL KNIGHTON/WIREIMAGE

16 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE SEPTEMBER 18, 2017 PAGE 16 OF 22 MAKIN TRACKS TOM ROLAND So Let It Be Written: Od Dominion Banks On Sand For New Singe The tide has ceary turned in favor of Od Dominion. For years, the band worked and toured with the idea that its time was imited its unofficia mantra was, It s never going to work anyway but with three No. 1 singes and another that peaked at No. 2 on Country Airpay, the quintet has ceary estabished a soid foundation. That s a major accompishment for a group. For every Lady Antebeum, Diamond Rio or Sawyer Brown that has asted a decade (or two or three), there are penty more that musicians formed with a short-term vision and caed it quits before they found their sea egs. The foundation of a reationship is appropriatey at the heart of Written in the Sand, the newest Od Dominion singe that RCA Nashvie reeased to radio on Sept. 5 via PayMPE. Lead singer Matthew Ramsey had conceived the song s hook Are we written in the stars/ Or are we written in the sand as a metaphoric way to ook at ongevity. He ogged it in his phone and pued it out during a co-writing session in the first few weeks of 2017 at Nashvie s Smack- Songs, a pubishing company owned by the band s producer, songwriter Shane McAnay ( Body Like a Back Road, Unforgettabe ). I remember bringing that idea up and Shane doing that thing where he gets a excited, says Ramsey. It s a good thing. You want to be in the room when Shane gets excited. They d actuay considered, and passed on, OLD DOMINION severa other ideas before Written in the Sand was mentioned, but once it was on the tabe, the song deveoped rather quicky around a three-chord guitar pattern. I just started paying that progression, and it seemed to fit the vibe of the tite, recas guitarist Brad Tursi. They roed into the chorus first, piecing together rea-word images that underscored the ong-term/short-term question impied in the stars/sand metaphor. Are we just a backseat, which opens the stanza, suggests a torrid, quick passion. Are we names on a tattoo/or just a number on a hand cinched the comparisons even more. That was kind of a fun chaenge there of finding mutipe creative ways of saying that: Are we temporary? Or are we forever? says band member Trevor Rosen. That s what we ve been in Nashvie a these years trying to find: a coo, cever way of saying the same thing. The uncertainty gnaws at the man in the song as he tries to sort out the onagain/off-again commitment of his girfriend. It s iustrated most uniquey with a cephone reference: I see those bubbes pop up ike you re texting/ Then they just disappear. The poor guy is waiting, and waiting, on a response that may never arrive. That was from another song that Trevor and Brad and I had started writing years ago and never reay materiaized, says Ramsey. We aways oved that ine, and it fit into the story so we, so we threw that in there. Perhaps even more teing is a bathroom image in the second verse. The woman eaves her makeup next to the guy s toothbrush for convenience, but she never bothers to make it more permanent by moving it onto the shef in the medicine cabinet. That s a very image-provoking ine, says Ramsey. There s no persona experience there with that, but whenever I sing that ine, I see the whoe situation and just the frustration that coud bring, that you re-here-but-you re-not-here kind of feeing. It s a rough spot to be in. Written in the Sand never veers from the origina three-chord progression That one didn t need anything ese, reasons Ramsey and they put the song to bed after making one ast adjustment. At the very end, I wished we had said, just batanty, Te me what this is or what it s not, notes McAnay. Someone [suggested], What it is or what it isn t that rhymes for part of the chorus so we stuck that in at the end of the second chorus. A few days ater, Ramsey started texting the other band members about recording the song for Happy Endings, an abum that was aready underway. They worked up a John Mayer-ike bues attitude for it during rehearsas that didn t quite je, but they didn t give up. During a recording session at Zac Brown s Southern Ground, Whit Seers started experimenting with the drum texture, and he atched on to an amost mechanica cymba pattern that propeed the chorus forward. His itte cymba spashes and the rhythm of it reay shapes the song, says Rosen. It aso gave Ramsey a pattern for his voca: The singer and drummer interact in a way that hints at their ong-term musica reationship that dates back to their high schoo days in Virginia. My first instrument was drums, and Whit and I payed in the drum ine back in high schoo, says Ramsey. He and I definitey have that background. The band, incuding bass payer Geoff Sprung, pared back on any extraneous sound, creating a ot of space in Written in the Sand and indirecty emphasizing how much is unspoken in the yric. The verse is so sparse, says Rosen. The voca is pretty naked, so when the chorus hits and the bass drops and that itte groove happens, I think that s what heped the chorus. When it headed back out on tour, the band recorded some faint countermeodies on the bus. And supporting guitarist Kris Donegan came in to do some overdubbing, creating a spacey-sounding guitar tone that appears in the intro and remains throughout most of the song. Ryan Gore, the engineer, pued up an EQ on that particuar guitar just trying to get it to sound better, says Tursi. He was sort of sweeping the frequency to where it sounds ike it does now, amost ike a wah-wah peda or something. It sounds ike bubbes, actuay, says McAnay, tying the tone into the texting-bubbe yric. Od Dominion didn t wait for RCA s permission to cut Written in the Sand. We recorded it without the abe even hearing it, reveas Ramsey. They were kind of worried about it. Sand became an instant-gratification track, an eary downoad for fans who pre-ordered Happy Endings, and the response was strong enough that SiriusXM started paying it on The Highway before the abum s ead singe, No Such Thing As a Broken Heart, peaked on terrestria radio. Sand ended up becoming the second singe from the abum instead of Not Everything s About You, which was originay panned to be the next reease. The new song surfaces at No. 58 on Country Airpay for the week of Sept. 30, and it s aready at No. 46 after 10 weeks on Hot Country Songs, which measures airpay, saes and streaming. The production might be simpe, but it s simutaneousy unusua and soid, and it has Od Dominion optimistic that the tide wi remain turned in its favor. The magic of Shane s production and Ryan Gore s engineering, everything is separated, and you can pick out the swiry Brad guitar and the acoustic guitar, says Rosen. It s so sparse, but I think that s part of the charm of it. I think this song is going to reay move the neede for them, predicts McAnay. They re obviousy a hit-making band, but I truy beieve the choice in making this the next singe was a bod one.

17 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE SEPTEMBER 18, 2017 PAGE 17 OF 22 THE STARK REPORT PHYLLIS STARK SMN Chief Randy Goodman Says Of Streaming: Adopt Or Die Streaming is a major priority for Sony Music Nashvie chairman/ceo Randy Goodman as he strives to rebuid the prominence and the egacy of the abe group he took over a itte more than two years ago. This is the new word order. We either adopt or we die, he said of streaming during a Sept. 7 speech to Nashvie business eaders that found him repeatedy circing back to that topic. Goodman s appearance during the Nashvie Business Breakfast at Lipscomb University was we timed, as he was ceebrating GOODMAN SMN having three of the top four abums on Biboard s Top Country Abums chart for the first time in the company s history (Luke Combs, Kane Brown and Od Dominion). During his speech and a Q&A that foowed, Goodman candidy refected on his 32 years in the industry and the strides he and his team have made since taking the hem at SMN in Juy Here are some key excerpts from his remarks: On country traiing the rest of the industry in streaming Historicay, country music aways ags behind in terms of technoogy adoption, but it aways catches up, because you kind of know what to do with a cassette, you know what to do with an 8-track, you know what to do with a CD. Now, a of a sudden, our core demographic which we ca the soccer moms, for ack of a better term is sitting there going, Shoud I be on Spotify? Shoud I be on Appe streaming? Shoud I be on Amazon Prime? Shoud I be on Pandora? And how do I get on it, and shoud I do pay [tier], or shoud I do free? We re iving in a word now where it s intuitive for the younger demographic to do that For our demographic, it s not as intuitive, and it s one of the things that we re reay having to strugge with and dea with as an industry, because the most important thing for us over the next severa years is to get our streaming to scae, at east to a 10 percent business. Unti we do, that technoogy disruption and that squeeze on our revenue [wi] continue to be a primary source of strugge. On deveoping streaming strategies We tak constanty about how we re going to ead into streaming. It s something that we reay drive back to our teams on a daiy basis. We tak about what are some of the programs, what are some of the strategies we can empoy that reay aow us to ean into streaming. The fact that we re at [reigious institution] Lipscomb notwithstanding, in our word, hope is not a strategy we have to be more strategic than hopefu. We can t just be waiting around. On radio s importance As we ook at our core strengths, we are sti an industry that is driven by terrestria radio. We re taking about streaming, so it sounds counterintuitive to tak about something as od and arcane as terrestria radio, but the radio stations you turn to on your FM dia, that s sti what drives everything. It drives ticket saes, it drives consumption of abums, it aso drives streaming. So that s a very important part of where our manpower is. On Amazon s Echo and Aexa That s a new technoogy Amazon is using that we reay beieve, as that scaes, coud have a big impact on us in terms of saes. One of the [ways] Amazon is unique is that so much of our core demographic aready sits in the Amazon Prime category and with that artificia inteigence, you re abe to say, Order me whatever, and it s going to come. They ve recenty moved into their own streaming service, so you can actuay tak to Aexa and say, Pay me a Jimmy Buffett payist. We re very encouraged by that because that s just another way I think we re going to be abe to penetrate that market and make it even easier, so that there s not as many decisions that need to be made for our core demographic. On his core company vaues One of the things we wanted to undergird ourseves with was a set of vaues that we coud go back to on a daiy basis and use as a ens for what we re doing. [Those vaues are] passion, creativity, dependabiity, growth and respect. These are the things we charge ourseves with on a daiy basis. On artist deveopment One of the things we charge our A&R staff with when we ook at a new artist is, Are they compeing? Because if they re not unique, if they don t have their own ane, we don t need to get into that business. On the competitive A&R environment We re having to be very aggressive with the deas we re making to make sure we get the acts we want. On Nashvie attracting estabished artists from a genres As artists tend to get a itte bit oder and maybe move into more of a sobriety part of their career and start to have kids, they decide that Nashvie is a better pace to ive than Los Angees and New York. And, quite honesty, Nashvie is reay one of the ony paces where you can come and there s sti studios that do organic music, where there s rea payers and not just peope doing tracks on a computer. On how the Nashvie business community can hep country be more successfu If you re on a free tier with one of the streaming services, pease get off that and get on premium. That woud hep us as we ean into streaming don t use YouTube, and te your kids not to use YouTube. It [pays].002 cents a stream, and it s just not a good service. On country artists stepping up to hep hurricane reief efforts It s one of the exciting things to be a part of this business, as you hep deveop these new artists and get invoved with egacy artists, just to see the good work that they do. And having [worked] in New York, and having been in Nashvie, I wi te you it s something that is very unique to our industry, very unique to our community, that immediatey there s a ca to action. GOODMAN: JOHN SHEARER

18 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE SEPTEMBER 18, 2017 PAGE 18 OF 22 Country Indicator WKS ON CHART TITLE Imprint/Labe Artist PLAYS AUDIENCE (IN MILLIONS) +/ HEARTACHE ON THE DANCE FLOOR Capito Nashvie HH No. 1 (1 week) HH Jon Pardi ALL THE PRETTY GIRLS Bue Chair/Coumbia Nashvie Kenny Chesney SMALL TOWN BOY Broken Bow Dustin Lynch THEY DON T KNOW Macon/Broken Bow Jason Adean WHAT IFS Zone 4/RCA Nashvie Kane Brown Feat. Lauren Aaina MORE GIRLS LIKE YOU MCA Nashvie Kip Moore IT AIN T MY FAULT EMI Nashvie Brothers Osborne EVERY LITTLE THING Big Machine Cary Pearce WHEN IT RAINS IT POURS River House/Coumbia Nashvie Luke Combs UNFORGETTABLE Vaory Thomas Rhett FIX A DRINK Warner Bros./WAR Chris Janson I COULD USE A LOVE SONG Coumbia Nashvie Maren Morris ROUND HERE BUZZ EMI Nashvie Eric Church ASK ME HOW I KNOW Pear Garth Brooks TIME FOR EVERYTHING Arista Nashvie Brad Paisey OUTTA STYLE BIG Labe Aaron Watson LIGHT IT UP Capito Nashvie Luke Bryan GREATEST LOVE STORY Arista Nashvie LANCO A GIRL LIKE YOU Mercury Easton Corbin RING ON EVERY FINGER Reviver LOCASH SMOOTH BMLG Forida Georgia Line LOSING SLEEP RCA Nashvie Chris Young CALIFORNIA B$R/New Revoution Big & Rich LIKE I LOVED YOU BMLG Brett Young TIN MAN Vanner/RCA Nashvie Miranda Lambert LEGENDS Back River Kesea Baerini YOURS Tripe Tigers Russe Dickerson I LL NAME THE DOGS Warner Bros./WMN HH Most Increased Pays HH Bake Sheton THE ONES THAT LIKE ME Vaory Brantey Gibert BROKEN HALOS Mercury Chris Stapeton 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

19 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE SEPTEMBER 18, 2017 PAGE 19 OF 22 Country Indicator WKS ON CHART TITLE Imprint/Labe Artist PLAYS AUDIENCE (IN MILLIONS) +/ WHEN SOMEONE STOPS LOVING YOU Capito Nashvie Litte Big Town ROOTS Southern Ground/Eektra/WAR Zac Brown Band WILD AS YOU CoJo Cody Johnson HAPPENS LIKE THAT Wheehouse Granger Smith YOU BROKE UP WITH ME Monument/Arista Nashvie Waker Hayes ALL ON ME Atantic/WEA Devin Dawson DOIN FINE 19/Interscope/Mercury Lauren Aaina BOY Curb Lee Brice SINGLES YOU UP MCA Nashvie Jordan Davis ROAD TRIPPIN Warner Bros./WAR Dan + Shay ALL ABOUT YOU MCA Nashvie Josh Turner FOR THE FIRST TIME Capito Nashvie Darius Rucker DIRTY SOUTH Rebe Engine/Star Farm Lucas Hoge THE LONG WAY Atantic/WMN Brett Edredge FIVE MORE MINUTES Tripe Tigers Scotty McCreery STAY DOWNTOWN Warner Bros./WMN Coe Swinde KINDA DON T CARE Vaory Justin Moore TOO BAD Deep Frey d Kyie Frey Feat. Randy Rogers SHE S WITH ME Atantic/WEA High Vaey GET TO YOU Atantic/WEA Michae Ray WRITTEN IN THE SAND RCA Nashvie Od Dominion JUST A PHASE Stoney Creek Adam Craig SPEAKERS, BLEACHERS AND PREACHERS EMI Nashvie Brandon Lay WHAT GUY WOULDN T Show Dog Nashvie Wateroo Reviva WHERE WE D BE 3AM Vibe/Nine North Linde LaChance GOOD TIMES & SUMMER DAYS BigBig Eric Chesser Amerimonte Shane Owens NEW WAITING ON YOU Stoney Creek HH Hot Shot Debut/Most Added HH Lindsay E NEW BACK TO US Big Machine Rasca Fatts NEW SWAY Big Machine Daniee Bradbery RANKINGS Country Airpay is ranked by tota audience impressions for the week ending Sunday based on monitored airpay of 144 stations by Niesen BDS. Audience totas on the chart are derived, in part, using certain Arbitron Inc. copyrighted Persons 12+ audience estimates (under icense 2017, Arbitron Inc.) Country Indicator is tabuated using reported payists and Niesen BDS-monitored airpay at 106 stations, ranked by tota pays. BULLETS Awarded on Country Airpay to tites gaining audience or remaining fat from the previous week. A song wi aso receive a buet if its percentage oss in audience does not exceed the percentage of monitored station downtime for the format. Tites that decine in audience but increase in detections wi aso receive a buet if the tota audience erosion for the week does not exceed 3%. Buets are awarded on Country Indicator to tites gaining pays or remaining fat from the previous week. TIES On Country Airpay, if two songs are tied in tota audience, the song with the arger increase in audience is paced first. On Country Indicator, if two songs are tied in tota pays, the song with the arger increase in pays is paced first. RECURRENTS On Country Airpay, descending tites beow No. 10 in either audience or detections are moved to recurrent after 20 weeks, provided that they are not sti CHARTS LEGEND gaining enough audience points to buet or if they rank beow No. 10 and post a third consecutive week of (non-bueted) audience decine, regardess of tota chart weeks. On Country Indicator, descending, non-bueted tites beow No. 10 are moved to recurrent after 20 weeks or if they post a third consecutive week of decine in pays after 10 weeks. HOT SHOT DEBUT Awarded to the highest-ranking new entry on Country Airpay and Country Indicator, respectivey. MOST ADDED The tota number of new adds officiay reported to Biboard by each reporting station, or by an automatic-add threshod (seven pays for the first time in a chart tracking week, according to Niesen BDS) for stations that do not report adds. MOST INCREASED AUDIENCE/ PLAYS Most Increased Audience on Country Airpay and Most Increased Pays on Country Indicator ist the songs with the greatest week-to-week increases in tota audience or pays, respectivey. AIRPOWER Awarded on Country Airpay to tites ranking inside top 20 in pays and audience rankings for the first time, with increases in both pays and audience. BREAKER Awarded on Country Airpay to tites achieving airpay (at east one detection) at 60% of reporting stations for the first time Prometheus Goba Media, LLC

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

21 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE SEPTEMBER 18, 2017 PAGE 21 OF 22 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) 32 ALL THE PRETTY GIRLS Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/A Gir Named Charie, BMI/ BMG Patinum Songs, BMI/SWMBMGBMI, BMI/Once In A Bue Tune Music, BMI/Anderson Fork In The Road Music, ASCAP/Smackvie Music, ASCAP/Kobat Songs Pubishing America, Inc., ASCAP (N.Gayon, T.L.James, J.Osborne) 7 ASK ME HOW I KNOW Roy Rivers Pubishing, BMI (M.Rosse) 24 B BODY LIKE A BACK ROAD Universa Music Corp., ASCAP/Sam Hunt Pubishing, ASCAP/Highy Combustibe Music, ASCAP/I Love Pizza Music, ASCAP/ Songs Of Southside Independent Music Pubishing, LLC, ASCAP/Who Wants To Buy My Pubishing, ASCAP/Atas Music Pubishing, ASCAP/Anderson Fork In The Road Music, ASCAP/Smackvie Music, ASCAP/Kobat Songs Pubishing America, Inc., ASCAP/Smack Hits, GMR/ Kobat Songs Pubishing American, Inc., GMR (S.Hunt, Z.Crowe, J.Osborne, S.McAnay) 1 BOY EMI Apri Music, Inc., ASCAP/Jon Mark Nite Music, ASCAP/Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/A Gir Named Charie, BMI (J.M.Nite, N.Gayon) 47 BROKEN HALOS WB Music Corp., ASCAP/House Of Sea Gaye Music, ASCAP/Spirit Cataog Hodings, S.a.r../ Spirit Two Nashvie, ASCAP/Straight Six Music, BMI (C. Stapeton, M.Henderson) 40 C CALIFORNIA J Money Music, ASCAP/Big Loud Proud Crowd, BMI/Magic Mustang Music Inc., BMI/Victown Music, BMI (J.D.Rich, R.Cawson, V.McGehee) 43 CRAVING YOU BMG God Songs, ASCAP/ Lawnwrangers, ASCAP/Dragon Bunny Music, BMI (D.M.Barnes, J.Bunetta) 9 D DRINK A LITTLE BEER Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/Ritten by Rhettro, BMI/Songs Of Roc Nation Music, BMI/Teemitry Rhythm House Music, BMI/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Pinetucky Road Pubishing, ASCAP/Thankfu For This Music, ASCAP (R.Akins, J.Frasure, B.Haysip) 42 E EVERY LITTLE THING BMG God Songs, ASCAP/ For The Kids Patinum, BMI/7189 Music Pubishing, BMI/Better Boat Music, BMI/Songs Of Endurance, BMI/ Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI (C.Pearce, busbee, E.Shacketon) 12 FIVE MORE MINUTES Dagum Music, BMI/ Spirit Cataog Hodings, S.a.r../Spirit Two Nashvie, ASCAP/House Of Sea Gaye Music, ASCAP/Sony/ATV Tree Pubishing, BMI/Dixey Bar Music, BMI (S.McCreery, R.Rogers, M.Criswe) 44 F FIX A DRINK oe Red Viny Music, BMI/Buckkia Music, BMI/New House Of Sea Gaye Music, ASCAP/ Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/Sadie s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP (C.Janson, C.DuBois, A.Gorey) 19 FOUND YOU Songs Of Universa, Inc., BMI/Kane Brown Music, BMI/Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/Don t Be A Gypsy, BMI/Big Dea Beats, BMI (K.Brown, B.Berryhi, J.Muins, T.Phiips) 13 G A GIRL LIKE YOU Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/Sadie s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Rio Bravo Music, Inc., BMI/Teemitry Productions, BMI/Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/EMI Backwood Music Inc., BMI (A.Gorey, J.Frasure, R.Akins) 34 GRAVE EMI Apri Music, Inc., ASCAP/CDS Words And Music, ASACP/BMG God Songs, ASCAP/Rezonant Music Pubishing LLC, ASCAP/Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/Songs Of The Corn, BMI/Jack 10 Pubishing, BMI (C. DeStefano, H.Lindsey, J.Mier) 35 GREATEST LOVE STORY Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/Concession 114 Music, BMI/Neon Cross Music, BMI (B.Lancaster) 14 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) 50 HEARTACHE ON THE DANCE FLOOR Goden Vaut Music, BMI/Rancho Fiesta Music, BMI/ Bi Buter Music, BMI/Bongsongs, SESAC/Wordspring Music, LLC, SESAC/W.B.M. Music Corp., SESAC/Songs Of Song Factroy, BMI/Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI (J.Pardi, B.Buter, B.Long) 6 I I COULD USE A LOVE SONG Internationa Dog Music, BMI/Round Hi Songs Jimmy Robbins, ASCAP/Jammy Rabbins Music, ASCAP/Extraordinary Aien Pubishing, ASCAP/Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/Oh Denise Pubishing, BMI/Big Music Machine, BMI (M.Morris, J.Robbins, L.Vetz) 18 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) 10 IT AIN T MY FAULT WB Music Corp., ASCAP/ Trampy McCauey, ASCAP/A The Kings Pens, ASCAP/ Songstein Pubishing, ASCAP/Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/The Country And Western Music, BMI (J. Osborne, T.J. Osborne, L.T.Mier) 17 L TIME FOR EVERYTHING New House Of Sea Gaye Music, ASCAP/Songs For Margo, ASCAP (B. Paisey, S.Ahnquist, B.Anderson, C.DuBois, M.Ryan) 31 LEAVE RIGHT NOW EMI Backwood Music Inc., BMI/Cricket On The Line, BMI/Dragon Bunny Music, BMI/ Big Dea Beats, BMI/Warner/Chappe Music Pubishing Ltd., PRS/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/BMG Patinum Songs, BMI/Bob Erotik Music, BMI/The Famiy Songbook, BMI/ Music Of Big Dea, BMI (Thomas Rhett, J.Bunetta, E.Drewett, J.H.Ryan) 38 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) 39 LIFE CHANGES EMI Backwood Music Inc., BMI/ Cricket On The Line, BMI/Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/Ritten by Rhettro, BMI/Teemitry Rhythm House Music, BMI/Songs Of Roc Nation Music, BMI/ WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Sadie s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/ Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP (Thomas Rhett, R.Akins, J.Frasure, A.Gorey) 29 LIGHT IT UP Sony/ATV Tree Pubishing, BMI/Peanut Mi Songs, BMI/Big Dea Notes, ASCAP/Wooden Ships, ASCAP (L.Bryan, B.Tursi) 16 LIKE I LOVED YOU Super Big Music, ASCAP/ Caivie Pubishing, ASCAP/Big Machine Music, BMI/ oe Purpe Cape Music, BMI/Honey Lee Music, BMI (B. Young, J.Lee) 26 LOSING SLEEP EMI Backwood Music Inc., BMI/ Goodbye Pants Music, BMI/EMI Foray Music, SESAC/ Write 2 Be Free Music, SESAC/CDS Words And Music, ASACP/EMI Apri Music, Inc., ASCAP (C.Young, J.Hoge, C. DeStefano) 21 LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME ALONE Scramber Music, ASCAP/Nationa Dog Music, SESAC/Songs Of Downtown, SESAC (D.Christensen, C.Gebuda) 48 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 Songs Pubishing American, Inc., GMR (Thomas Rhett, J.Frasure, A.Gorey, S.McAnay) 23 MORE GIRLS LIKE YOU WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Point Break Pubishing, ASCAP/Music Of The Corn, ASCAP/Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/Jack 10 Pubishing, BMI/Songs Of Cornman, BMI/ Universa Music - Brentwood Benson Pubishing, ASCAP/D Sou Music, ASCAP/Capito CMG Genesis, ASCAP (K.Moore, S.L.Osen, J.Mier, D.A.Garcia) 15 N NO SUCH THING AS A BROKEN HEART Smackvie Music, ASCAP/Smack Songs LLC, ASCAP/ Carrot Seed Songs, ASCAP/Kobat Songs Pubishing America, Inc., ASCAP/ReHits Music, Inc., ASCAP/ Smacktown Music, ASCAP/Smack Bue, LLC, SESAC/Unfair Entertainment, ASCAP/Big Dea Notes, ASCAP/Wooden Ships, ASCAP/Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/ Teemitry Productions, BMI/Songs Of Roc Nation Music, BMI (M.Ramsey, T. Rosen, B.Tursi, J.Frasure) 8 OUTTA STYLE Tunes From HTK, BMI (A.Watson) 37 RING ON EVERY FINGER Big Yeow Dog Music, ASCAP/Major Bob Music, Inc., ASCAP/EMI Backwood Music Inc., BMI/Cricket On The Line, BMI (Thomas Rhett, J.Kear, J.Frasure) 25 O R ROUND HERE BUZZ Sony/ATV Tree Pubishing, BMI/Longer And Louder Music, BMI/Litte Louder Songs, BMI/Mammaw s Fried Okra Music, BMI/Emieon Songs, BMI (E.Church, J.Hyde, L.Dick) 20 S 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) 45 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) 33 SMALL TOWN BOY EMI Backwood Music Inc., BMI/Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Thankfu For This Music, ASCAP/Pay It Again Entertainment, BMI/Round Hi Works, BMI (R. Akins, B.Haysip, K.Fishman) 3 SMOOTH Big Loud Mountain, BMI/T Hubb Pubishing, BMI/Pranch Ringe Music, BMI/Round Hi Works, BMI/ Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/A Gir Named Charie, BMI/Freshy Music, ASCAP/We-Vove Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP (T.Hubbard, B.Keey, N.Gayon, J.M.Schmidt) 22 SWEETHEART EMI Backwood Music Inc., BMI/ Cricket On The Line, BMI/Sony/ATV Baad, BMI/Eastman Pond Pubishing, BMI/Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/Ritten by Rhettro, BMI/Big Dea Beats, BMI/ Brodsky Spensive Pubishing, BMI/Nice Life, BMI (Thomas Rhett, R.Akins, S.M.Dougas, J.Spargur) 41 TENNESSEE MOUNTAIN TOP RJR Music Pubishing, BMI/Songs Of Kobat Music Pubishing America, Inc., BMI/Spirit Of Nashvie One, BMI/Tunes of R And T Direct, SESAC/Ink Pen Mama Music, SESAC (R.J.Ritchie, T.Montana, C.Gravitt) 36 T THEY DON T KNOW Peertunes, Ltd., SESAC/ Jaron Boyer Music, SESAC/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Music Of The Corn, ASCAP/This Is Magic Mustang Music, ASCAP (J.Boyer, J.Mirenda, K.Aison) 11 TIN MAN Sony/ATV Tree Pubishing, BMI/Pink Dog Pubishing, BMI/Beat Up Ford Pubishing, BMI/BMG Patinum Songs, BMI/SWMBMGBMI, BMI/Lonesome Viny Music, BMI/Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI (M.Lambert, J.Ingram, J.R.Stewart) 30 U UNFORGETTABLE EMI Backwood Music Inc., BMI/ Cricket On The Line, BMI/Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/Songs Of Roc Nation Music, BMI/Teemitry Rhythm House Music, BMI/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/ Sadie s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/Smack Hits, GMR/Smack Songs LLC, GMR/ Kobat Songs Pubishing American, Inc., GMR (Thomas Rhett, J.Frasure, A.Gorey, S.McAnay) 4 W WHAT IFS Songs Of Universa, Inc., BMI/Kane Brown Music, BMI/Smackworks Music, SESAC/Smack Bue, LLC, SESAC/Kobat Group Music Pubishing, SESAC/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Freshy Music, ASCAP/We-Vove Music, ASCAP (K.Brown, M.McGinn, J.M.Schmidt) 2 WHEN IT RAINS IT POURS Big Machine Music, BMI/Straight Dimes Pubishing, BMI/Works Of RHA Music, BMI/Warner-Tamerane Pubishing Corp., BMI/Atas Music Pubishing, ASCAP/Extremey Combustibe Music, BMI/PAJ Music, BMI (L.Combs, R.Fucher, J.Waker) 5 WHEN YOU LOOK LIKE THAT WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Damn Country Music, ASCAP/Thankfu For This Music, ASCAP/Round Hi Songs BLS JV, ASCAP/ Big Loud Proud Songs, ASCAP/Matt Drag Music, ASCAP/ Od Desperados, LLC, ASCAP/N2D Pubishing Company, Inc., ASCAP/Caro Vincent And Associates, LLC., ASCAP (J.L.Aexander, M.Dragstrem, D.L.Murphy) 49 WRITTEN IN THE SAND ReHits Music, Inc., ASCAP/MeGusta Music, ASCAP/Smacktown Music, ASCAP/Unfair Entertainment, ASCAP/Big Dea Notes, ASCAP/Wooden Ships, ASCAP/Smackvie Music, ASCAP/Smack Songs LLC, ASCAP/Carrot Seed Songs, ASCAP/Kobat Songs Pubishing America, Inc., ASCAP/ Smack Hits, GMR/Smack Songs LLC, GMR/Kobat Songs Pubishing American, Inc., GMR (M.Ramsey, T. Rosen, B.Tursi, S.McAnay) 46 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) 28 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) 27

22 BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE CODA 43 Years Ago Don Wiiams Fet The Love At No. 1 The ate egend notched his first of 17 eaders on the Hot Country Songs chart SEPTEMBER 18, 2017 PAGE 22 OF 22 On Sept. 21, 1974, Don Wiiams who died Sept. 8 at the age of 78 achieved his first Hot Country Songs No. 1, as I Woudn t Want to Live If You Didn t Love Me, his sixth chart entry, ascended 2-1. Live, written by A Turney and produced by Aen Reynods, was from Wiiams third LP, apty t ited Voume Three. The abum aso yieded the No. 4 hit The Ties That Bind. Live ikewise became the first No. 1 for Reynods, who went on to produce many artists, incuding Garth Brooks. Wiiams was born in F oydada, Texas, on May 27, Between , he roed up 57 Hot Cou nt r y Songs appearances, incuding 17 eaders among 45 top 10s. With his broad, 6-foot-pus frame; smooth baritone voice; and down-to-earth presence, Wiiams affectionatey became known as country s Gente Giant. W i ia ms was inducted into the Country Music Ha of Fame in In 2016, when Biboard compied a isting of the greatest atime country artists, he was ranked at No. 26. Cick here for Biboard s excusive ranking of Wiiams 20 biggest Hot Country Songs hits. JIM ASKER GETTY IMAGES R EW I N D I N G THE C O U N T RY C H A RT S