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October 12, 2020, Issue 726

Examining Race In The Industry Country music’s relative racial homogeny is evident not just onstage and among the audience, but in industry and radio ranks, as well. As events continue to remind Americans how much work remains in living up to the principle of “created equal,” Country Aircheck spoke to WXFL/Florence, AL OM/PD Fletcher Brown, Warner Music Nashville Dir./ National Radio & Streaming James Marsh, BMG Dir./Creative Rakiyah Marshall and Big Loud VP/Marketing Candice Watkins about their experience, how conversations have changed this year and what they hope to see in and from country music moving forward. CA: What has your experience been building a career and interacting with other professionals in a business that is overwhelmingly white? FB: I started in Country radio in 1997, but I’ve been working full-time on the air since about 2000. I will be flat honest with you; I have had an overwhelmingly positive experience in those 20 years. I’ve never experienced anything – from an industry standpoint, anyway – negative. Because radio is about talking to and being the voice of the community, occasionally you’ll get that caller who says something when emotions are high – after 9/11 comes to mind – that you’re like, “I can’t put that on the air.” Or you feel the need to put it on the air and then address it directly. That’s only happened once or twice in 20 years. Professionally, my experience has been overwhelmingly positive. CW: It’s funny when people ask me this, because I don’t feel like I have limitations per se, or maybe I chose not to see limitations.

Fletcher Brown

James Marsh

Rakiyah Marshall

(continued on page 7) Candice Watkins

Pickup Artist: BMLGR’s Riley Green continues “Truck Trivia.” Pictured (top, l-r) are the label’s Andi Brooks and Andrew Thoen, WYCT/Pensacola’s Brent Lane and the label’s Stella Prado; (second row, l-r) the label’s Liz Santana, Green and WMIL/Milwaukee’s Quinn and Kerry Wolfe; (third row, l-r) WWKA/Orlando’s Ashley Stegbauer and (an extreme closeup of) Steve Stewart, KWNR/Las Vegas’ MoJoe Roberts and WMAD/Madison, WI’s Chelsey Steinhauer; (bottom, l-r) WRBT/ Harrisburg’s Newman, WSIX/Nashville’s Ryan McKiddy, KVOO/Tulsa’s Dena Feltcher and the label’s Matthew Hargis.

Anxiety Part 2: Staff-Care Tips Country Aircheck’s recent conversation with Onsite Owner/CEO Miles Adcox addressed the importance of regular mental health self-assessment in Part One (here) and now turns to his tips for those in supervisory roles as they seek to support employees who continue to work in new and challenging environments. Team Care: For managers and HR, it’s important to create space and conversation

Miles Adcox

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around emotional health and get active in providing emotional health resources. “What we’re learning is that mental wellness and health has been branded all wrong from the get go,” admits Adcox. “If there’s anything this pandemic is teaching us, it’s that taking a look at who you are and who you’re becoming, working on becoming the best version of yourself … that’s counseling, and that’s not what’s wrong with you. That’s actually what’s right with you.” He advocates companies being more proactive and informed. Warning signs to look for in yourself and your team include a significant change in the way someone is showing up at work. “If people are more emotional than normal, if people are not showing up as much, if people are a bit dissociated or detached in meetings or distracted in meetings, these are traditional signs that you should be checking on their wellbeing,” notes Adcox. One of the practices he uses with his team at Onsite is taking the time to check in personally before diving into work in every meeting. It may be uncomfortable in the beginning, because as Adcox points out, “It goes directly against traditional management theory, which is keep emotions out of the workplace.” That theory, he says, is outdated and “work should be a nurturing, safe place to bring out the best in us.” Create Humanity: A framework Adcox teaches/consults within the industry is something he calls the “creative’s or artist’s dilemma.” Highly public professions create abnormal life circumstances, and abnormal life circumstances create high levels of distress. Unaddressed stress creates loneliness, anxiety, disconnection, addictions, anxiety, depression, etc., all of which kill creativity. “It’s ironic that creativity is what brought a lot of people to this industry that, in some ways, is designed to kill it.” The only reason it’s a dilemma is because we don’t educate people or talk about it on the front end. If we do, what is one of our greatest obstacles as music industry

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professionals turns into our greatest opportunity, because as Adcox says, “We can use it to our advantage once we know it and understand it.” To answer the question of how we come out of this pandemic better than we came into it as an industry, Adcox concludes “Wake up the humanness of the industry, so we can better take care of our own. The reason I work in this industry is I believe art distributed to culture through the lens of music has a broad global reach and can effectively change people’s hearts and minds as much or more than mental health education does.” Connect with Adcox on social media @milesadcox and reach him via email here; learn more about Onsite here. —Caitlin DeForest

Chart Chat

Congratulations to Tim McGraw, Kris Lamb, Erik Powell and the Big Machine promotion team on landing at No. 1 with “I Called Mama.” The song is the first single from McGraw’s 16th studio album, Here On Earth, and the first since his return to BMLG. Songwriters are Marv Green, Lance Miller and Jimmy Yeary. Tim McGraw And kudos to Shane Allen and the Columbia crew on notching 68 adds for Luke Combs’ “Better Together,” landing atop this week’s board.

News & Notes

Iowa City Broadcasting Classic Country KDMA/Montevideo, MN and W&B WLVK/Elizabethtown, KY have added AdLarge Prep Country prep service. Out-Write Music Publishing owner Brandyn Steen has been

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WI TH A day in the self-isolated life of RCA’s Niko Moon: Instead of touring, I’ve been spending my time at home. Fortunately, my recording studio is at my home, so I’ve been working on new music every day. And my main writing partner is my wife, so I’m very lucky when it comes to that. I wake up, meditate, read for a few hours, exercise, eat lunch, write/record new music, dinner, take cooking classes online, Netflix, then it’s time for bed. Depending on what day it is, I’ll do lives with my fans — my favorite part of the day! It’s my wife, dog and me. We are pretty much connected at the hip, even before the quarantine, so not much has changed. We are really good at giving each other space though, and our dog is loving all of the extra attention! I’m learning how to cook. Before, I could only make a bowl of cereal. Now … I’ve stepped up to spaghetti.

I had never gone live before, but since quarantine started, I go live numerous times throughout the week. I absolutely love it! I feel much more connected to my fans now than I did before, and I can’t wait to tour again and see them in person! I’m currently rewatching The Office for the fifth time. It’s my favorite show … and at this point … it’s bordering on an obsession. If you’ve never seen it, I would highly recommend. For some reason I’ve gotten back into cereal. I haven’t really eaten cereal since I was a kid, but I have a bowl every day now. My go-to is Fruity Pebbles. I try to keep a glass-half-full look at life and find the good in every day. I’ve been able to write/record new songs that I can’t wait to release and — most importantly — spend more time with my family.

named Texas Country Music Association (TCMA) Nashville Ambassador and TCMA Texas Country Music Weekly Top 25 Spotify Playlist Exec. Dir. Premiere Networks Pres. Julie Talbott was presented with the Kentucky Broadcasters Association’s Ralph Gabbard Distinguished Kentuckian Award today (10/12). Jacobs Media and the RAB looked at radio listeners’ attitudes entering the holiday season during Radio’s 2020 Holiday Road Map. See findings here. Beasley is rolling out a special Beasley Best Community Of Caring initiative, Your Vote-Your Voice, designed to encourage eligible votes to cast their ballot in November. Phil Vassar won Best Actor at the Long Island International Film Expo for his work in the short film I Only Miss You When I’m Breathing.

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Lunar Rover

The Week’s Top Stories

Full coverage at countryaircheck.com. • Hear from syndication experts and Records/Nashville Pres. Ash Bowers as they discuss the evolution of the business in last week’s (10/5) Country Aircheck Weekly. • Milko Villarreal, Jr. was named Midwest/Wausau, WI VP/ MM. (CAT 10/9) • Townsquare/Killeen, TX’s Shannon “Trey The Chok-Lit Jock” Brazier was elevated to Dir./Content. (CAT 10/8) • In2une’s Nathan Cruise exited. (CAT 10/7) • Marty Brooks joined rebranded WIL/St. Louis as MD/ afternoon personality. He succeeds Josh “JT” Holleman, who resurfaced at WYCD/Detroit as morning co-host. (CAT 10/6) • Brian Cleary joined WCKN/Charleston, SC for middays; PD Hunter Meyer moved to afternoons. (CAT 10/5) • Chronicle: Ray Pennington.

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Examining Race In The Industry

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I’ve had a great experience in Nashville, great people and artists to work with – I have a dream job right now. But I have to balance that by saying it’s not been a cakewalk, either. Being one of only a few Black women in the country music space, if there’s a situation – a comment, an inappropriate joke, someone’s disrespectful or maybe outright racist – my experience is that the community around me has remained silent. No one has ever come to my office after the fact to acknowledge something. It’s just been silence. But that’s specifically about the issue of race, not my overall Nashville experience. Can you give some context to that? How often have you been in that situation and experienced that silence? CW: This is a very subtle thing, but after work one day we all went to [a nearby] restaurant, and there was a guy at the valet wearing a Confederate flag visor. It just kind of slaps you in the face. I’m not saying that the guy did or said anything, but I have to be aware. You can be in a meeting, and someone will make a joke or say something inappropriate. I shared the story in one of the first Zoom panels on race about getting a call from a coworker warning me about coming to a video shoot saying, “We’re in the middle of nowhere. It’s a little shady. There are pamphlets down in this venue, and it’s very suspect. Maybe you should not come to this.” You never know when you actually will encounter it in a subtle way or in a specific, tangible way. James, how has your experience been in country? JM: Being one of the first Black promotion guys in rock 21 years ago, and then for the last six years in country, the industry side of country has actually been very good ... very welcoming. When I went to Rock stations the first time, I got the typical, “You don’t

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sound Black.” You see them processing in their head, “Oh, shit. Did I say anything? Did I make an inappropriate joke?” That was 20 years ago, and a lot of people have matured, plus outlets like yours publish photos, so it wasn’t a shock in country like it was back in the day. Taking it to the streets, and specifically the country shows I go to, that’s a bit more suspect. No matter how many times an artist says, “This is our [label rep], our National Director,” white people at these shows are shocked a guy who looks like me has a role in the careers of Blake Shelton, Dan + Shay or Chris Janson. You can see people are like, “Whoa, I thought he was security,” which is a running joke with a lot of our artists. But it doesn’t bother me, because my artists, bosses and team are what I give a shit about. As long as they know the process, who I am, what I do and respect me for that, I’m cool. But it’s weird. [Warner Music Nashville Chairman/CEO John Esposito] and I had a meeting today, because [Warner Music Group] hired a diversity and inclusion guy – Maurice Stinnett. He’s challenging all of us to find blind spots we need to work on and put on his radar. In Espo’s defense, we have the jobs we do because we’re good at what we do. And all of a sudden, we’re spotlighted because of what we look like. Espo didn’t hire me to check a box; he hired me because of what I did at Big Machine. So, in the industry, I’m good. When you’re in public, it’s a struggle. Like when you see the Confederate flag at shows, which happened right before [the shutdown]. You think about it and you block it, which is kind of what Black people have been doing for a long time – deflect and go. Honestly, I took more heat in the rock world. Rakiyah, can you share your experience on the creative/publishing side of the business? RM: Speaking to what everyone else has said, my three years in Nashville have been amazing. All of the artists and writers I work with have treated me with kindness and never made me feel

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different. That said, when you go to shows, the initial shock of, “What are you doing here?” continues. In group settings where you’re the only Black person, you get, “Do you like country music? How’d you get here?” It’s the assumption that we don’t know what we’re talking about or doing. Why would we do it if we didn’t love it? It has not affected my career, and I’m the type of person who doesn’t let those things affect me. I’m going to put my head down, do what I do best and work hard so when people see me it’s not, “Oh, there’s the only Black person.” Instead, they go, “There’s that girl working really hard.” The conversations we’re having now [about race] have made it feel more present. We’re talking about it more often, and people may be more aware of the things they say. But everyone’s been very kind. Correct me if I’m wrong, but it doesn’t sound like issues of race ever had you questioning your career path in country. But, did a mentor or friend help you through not seeing a lot of representation in the country world? RM: Being the strong Black woman my mother raised me to be, I would never let anyone make me shift my career due to my skin color, but I do think the people you meet along the way are very important, whether they’re mentors or just people you can speak with. For me, it’s my boyfriend, Seth England, who works with Candice. He was the first person that said I should move here – not because I’m Black, but because he saw how much I love country music. Then there’s Nate Lowery and Brett James at Cornman Music who were like, “You love music, we can teach you the rest.” Coming from a New York pop label to do publishing in Nashville makes no sense, but they trusted me to try it. Not because I was Black. They said, “We think you’re good at what you do.” That led me to BMG, where Kos Weaver said the same thing. Those are people who opened the door for me and everyone else after me. CW: I have family and close friends who don’t work in Nashville that I might turn to if I need some advice. Industry-wise, Chris Stacey and Chad Schultz hired me early on in my Nashville career – a great experience for me – and then Keith Urban and Gary Borman hired me for one of my first big jobs and race never even came up. I experienced nothing but support and value from them. From there, I got to work really closely with Universal’s Cindy

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Mabe, Mike Dungan, Joanna Carter and Lori Christian, who I’ve kept in touch with over the last decade. I’ve known Seth England for several years now, and we’d always talk shop. Those are people I would credit with having a strong influence on my positive experience in Nashville. FB: The closest thing I ever had to a mentor professionally was [late consultant] Rusty Walker, who lived right down the road and started his career at this company. He never made me feel like I had something more to prove. He never made me feel like this was a conversation we needed to have. It did come up, but only casually in conversation. Rusty was my door into CRS and the greater Country radio community. I’ve also forged really strong friendships with people like owner/operator Ken Forte in Dickson, Tennessee and Tosh Jackson from Sacramento. Those two men were on the top of my list to find and spend some time with over those four or five days [during CRS] in Nashville. There is a kinship, but it’s not, “I’m overwhelmed by all the white people here. Let me go find Ken.” It’s more like, “There are very, very few of us. And while nobody is actively pushing us out of the room, we are very keenly aware of how few of us there are.” JM: It’s funny you mention Tosh, because he and I had this running joke at CRS or other meetings when I first started. He’d say, “Alright, my name has been James Marsh about five times today.” And I’d answer, “Shit, I’ve been called Tosh about 12.” We made it a joke, because we knew people meant well. We didn’t take it as, “Oh my gosh, there’s somebody saying racist, dumb shit.” We just took it like, “Oh, they couldn’t tell the difference.” Where’s the line between being seen solely as a highly competent executive and being recognized as someone who is Black, which comes with specific challenges – in country music and America in general? Is there a balance to be struck? JM: When I first started, I went to [Warner SVP/Artist Development] Shane Tarleton, because he’s a guru of navigating the waters, and I knew this was something special. Not in an ego way, but in having this opportunity and wanting my daughter or anyone’s child with a different skin pigment to be able to walk through any door for a job. I told Shane, “I don’t care if you send

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WITH A day in the self-isolated life of Entercom WUSN/Chicago Digital Content/Morning Show Producer Erin Creedon: I recently transitioned from on-air morning show contributor to the show producer and was given more behind-thescenes responsibilities. That meant I could sleep in until 6:30am and work from home instead of being up at 3am and commuting to the studio downtown. The first thing I do is turn on WUSN to make sure all the written content matches the day’s topics and segments that are live on the website and social media. Throughout the day, I scroll socials and various news outlets for topic ideas for the next day’s show, and I will write three to five blog posts per day that are pushed to our social platforms. I’m also in charge of making sure any breaking news is uploaded in a timely manner, as well as writing localized and relatable promos and liners. I’ll cut a few spots for endorsements, brainstorm promotional ideas, and then break for dinner and a workout before show prepping for the next day and researching my on-air country news segment, Erin’s Deep Dish On Country. I still live at home with my parents – or, my roommates, as I like to call them – and they are both retired, so we spend all day together. They are good at respecting my space and understanding when I’m working and unable to chat. We like to binge watch TV together, which has helped keep us from driving one another crazy. I have an official office setup in my

room, but I don’t like to sit so close to my bed all the time. I work outside on my patio when the weather is nice or at the dining room table next to a large bay window that brings in natural light. I prefer to take my Zoom meetings outside, because I enjoy a change of scenery and don’t have to worry about disturbing my parents roommates. Live streams on Facebook have been especially useful with our audience, and our morning show goes live almost every day for a check-in and to ask listeners about one of the topics we are discussing on-air. As a station, we’ve changed our social media to be more active and engaging, and have used more polls and questions where our listeners can chime in with their opinions. On a personal level, social media has been the key to staying in touch with friends and family. DM’ing someone a meme that made you think of them is how we show love during this time. I can’t wait to go to a concert and hear live music, but I also want to hug my grandma. We’ve been very cautious around her and have worn our masks when visiting. I’m currently binge-watching Parenthood – for the third time – because I think it’s one of the most underrated TV shows. I’ve also been reading more Colleen Hoover books. Musically, I’m into Lauren Alaina’s new EP, Hardy’s new album, and music from Avenue Beat and Priscilla Block. Aside from the extra time with my parents and dog, my silver lining has been the additional

me to a pig judging contest, I’ll be out there in full to show people that you can look like me and be in this position.” Showing my age here, but I like to refer to Ed Bradley from 60 Minutes. A lot of us didn’t know we could be television anchors until we saw the coolest Black man under the sun on Sunday, with his earring, his salt and pepper, and his badass suit. I remind people of that, because I wanted to set that sort of standard, even in my pop and rock days. I remember Tony Bracy, who worked at Capitol for a very long time and now works for Scooter Braun. He came in right after me, and we were really the only two Black guys. I made it a joke to break the tension, but I would tell him, “I’m your freaking Rosa Parks. Don’t f- this up.” I sat in the back of the bus. I took those kicks. You try to put yourself out there, shake those hands and kiss those babies. My mentor is Dale Hansen, longtime sports anchor in Dallas – a white man who took me under his wing at 18 when I was still in college, brought me on Cowboys road trips and introduced me to people who had those redneck tendencies. He would tell people, “I can take James to a Klan meeting and, by the time we leave, at least two of them are going to be his friend.” Because, I didn’t let anything like that intimidate me. I looked everybody in the eye; I shook hands. I gave a great firm handshake, and Dale gave me

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the confidence that I can walk into any room and handle it. Mike Easterlin gave me my first job at Island Def Jam. He told Lyor Cohen I had the personality to do promotion and was Black. Lyor was like, “Whoa. This is the future. Why do I have 16 promotion people if I’ve got a guy who can walk into any station – Hip Hop, Rock or AC? This is the prototype!” Lyor and Julie Greenwald gave me the opportunity. Then my wife, of course. Look for Part Two of this Q&A in Country Aircheck Weekly Oct. 26. The Oct. 19 issue will be devoted to coverage of the St. Jude Country Cares Seminar. –Chuck Aly

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New Country Aircheck/Mediabase Reporter Weights These are the new weights for Country Aircheck/Mediabase Country Reporters for both the Published panel and the Activator panel, based on audience figures from Nielsen. Weights for stations in PPM markets use a three-month average of September-October-November 2019 AQH Persons. The Fall 2019 AQH Persons figure is used for diary markets. Fall 2019 audience estimate are used to avoid the large winter and spring 2020 audience fluctuations created by the pandemic. The weights are calculated using this formula: Market rank is multiplied Call Letters/Market

by 10 and then added to the station’s AQH Persons. A station’s weight is determined by dividing that adjusted AQH by the leading Country station’s adjusted AQH. For this period, that station is WNSH/New York with an adjusted AQH of 23,910. For Activator weights, that station is WQXK/Youngstown, OH with an adjusted AQH of 7,830. Station Weight = (Market rank X 10) divided by 23,910 (7,830 for Activator stations.) These new weights are effective with this week’s Country Aircheck/Mediabase Country chart.

Weight

WQMX/Akron 3.1 WGNA/Albany, NY 2.5 KBQI/Albuquerque 2.0 KRST/Albuquerque 1.6 WCTO/Allentown 3.4 WNCY/Appleton, WI 3.3 WUBL/Atlanta 4.7 WKHX/Atlanta 3.4 WKXC/Augusta, GA 2.0 KASE/Austin 2.6 KUZZ/Bakersfield 3.3 WPOC/Baltimore 4.2 WYNK/Baton Rouge 2.2 WTGE/Baton Rouge 1.6 WZZK/Birmingham 3.1 WDXB/Birmingham 2.5 KAWO/Boise, ID 1.0 KIZN/Boise, ID 1.0 WKLB/Boston 7.3 WBWL/Boston 3.2 WYRK/Buffalo 4.7 WCKN/Charleston, SC 1.9 WEZL/Charleston, SC 1.9 WSOC/Charlotte 3.7 WKKT/Charlotte 3.6 WUSY/Chattanooga 2.9 WUSN/Chicago 4.8 WUBE/Cincinnati 3.6 WGAR/Cleveland 5.2 KCCY/Colorado Springs 2.0 KATC/Colorado Springs 1.5 WCOS/Columbia, SC 1.8

WCOL/Columbus, OH 4.8 KRYS/Corpus Christi, TX 1.8 KSCS/Dallas 8.2 KPLX/Dallas 7.5 WHKO/Dayton 5.5 WKRO/Daytona Beach, FL 1.0 KYGO/Denver 4.6 KWBL/Denver 2.2 KHKI/Des Moines 2.3 WYCD/Detroit 4.9 WDRQ/Detroit 3.0 KHEY/El Paso 2.3 KKIX/Fayetteville, AR 2.3 WKML/Fayetteville, NC 1.8 KSKS/Fresno 2.8 KHGE/Fresno 1.6 KUAD/Ft. Collins, CO 1.1 WWGR/Ft. Myers 2.4 WCKT/Ft. Myers 1.7 WAVW/Ft. Pierce, FL 1.7 WQHK/Ft. Wayne, IN 2.3 WOGK/Gainesville 2.5 WBCT/Grand Rapids 4.0 WTQR/Greensboro 2.2 WPAW/Greensboro 2.2 WRNS/Greenville, NC 3.0 WSSL/Greenville, SC 2.8 WRBT/Harrisburg 1.5 WWYZ/Hartford 3.9 KILT/Houston 7.6 KKBQ/Houston 7.6 WDRM/Huntsville 2.5

PCCO/iHM Custom 8.0 WFMS/Indianapolis 3.2 WLHK/Indianapolis 3.1 WUSJ/Jackson, MS 1.1 WQIK/Jacksonville 2.5 WGNE/Jacksonville 1.6 WXBQ/Johnson City 3.6 KBEQ/Kansas City 2.4 WDAF/Kansas City 1.8 WIVK/Knoxville 4.1 KMDL/Lafayette, LA 2.5 WPCV/Lakeland 3.6 WITL/Lansing 2.1 KCYE/Las Vegas 1.5 KWNR/Las Vegas 1.5 WBUL/Lexington, KY 2.4 KSSN/Little Rock 2.7 KKGO/Los Angeles 8.2 WAMZ/Louisville 2.3 WQNU/Louisville 1.9 WWQM/Madison, WI 1.3 WMAD/Madison, WI 1.2 KTEX/McAllen 5.7 WGKX/Memphis 1.7 WLFP/Memphis 1.5 WKIS/Miami 3.6 WMIL/Milwaukee 3.7 KEEY/Minneapolis 4.2 KMNB/Minneapolis 3.0 WKSJ/Mobile 2.6 WKMK/Monmouth-Ocean 1.5 MCCN/Music Choice 7.0

WSIX/Nashville 2.1 WKDF/Nashville 1.9 WJVC/Nassau-Suffolk 1.0 WNOE/New Orleans 3.3 WNSH/New York 10.0 WUSH/Norfolk 2.0 WGH/Norfolk 1.7 KTST/Oklahoma City 3.3 KJKE/Oklahoma City 2.6 KXKT/Omaha 3.0 WWKA/Orlando 4.5 KPLM/Palm Springs, CA 1.1 WYCT/Pensacola, FL 2.7 WXTU/Philadelphia 7.7 KNIX/Phoenix 4.5 KMLE/Phoenix 3.7 WDSY/Pittsburgh 2.9 WPGB/Pittsburgh 1.6 WTHT/Portland, ME 2.0 WPOR/Portland, ME 1.8 KWJJ/Portland, OR 2.5 KUPL/Portland, OR 2.3 WOKQ/Portsmouth, NH 2.9 WCTK/Providence 5.7 WQDR/Raleigh 3.1 WNCB/Raleigh 1.6 WKHK/Richmond 3.5 KFRG/Riverside 2.9 WSLC/Roanoke, VA 2.1 WBEE/Rochester 4.4 KNCI/Sacramento 3.8 KSOP/Salt Lake City 2.3

WQBE/Charleston, WV

7.1

WMSI/Jackson, MS

3.5

WLLR/Quad Cities, IA-IL

9.6

4.3

KIXQ/Joplin, MO

5.3

KBUL/Reno, NV

5.5

KFGE/Lincoln, NE

4.8

WCEN/Saginaw, MI

WWWW/Ann Arbor, MI

Weight WKCN/Columbus, GA KKCB/Duluth, MN 4.2 Superior, WI 3.6 KKNU/Eugene, OR

KZKX/Lincoln, NE

4.6

WKSF/Asheville, NC

8.3

WKDQ/Evansville, IN

5.4

KLLL/Lubbock, TX

4.5

WPUR/Atlantic City, NJ

4.9

WQCB/Bangor, ME

5.8

KVOX/Fargo, ND Moorhead, MN 4.0

KYKR/Beaumont, TX

6.0

ACTIVATOR STATIONS Call Letters/Market KGNC/Amarillo, TX

WZKX/Biloxi 6.6 WOKO/Burlington, VT

7.0

KHAK/Cedar Rapids, IA

5.0

WIXY/Champaign, IL

2.7

4.3 7.1

KAFF/Flagstaff-Prescott, AZ 1.9 WEGX/Florence, SC 5.2 WFRE/Frederick, MD 6.6 WFLS/Fredericksburg, VA 6.9 WAYZ/HagerstownChambersburg-Waynesboro 6.4

KRWQ/Medford-Ashland, OR 2.7 WLWI/Montgomery, AL

4.0

WBAM/Montgomery, AL

3.3

WCTY/New London, CT

4.6

KUBL/Salt Lake City 2.3 KCYY/San Antonio 4.1 KAJA/San Antonio 3.2 KSON/San Diego 3.1 KRTY/San Jose 2.7 WCTQ/Sarasota 1.0 KKWF/Seattle 4.7 KNUC/Seattle 3.4 KXLY/Spokane 1.4 KDRK/Spokane 1.2 WRNX/Springfield, MA 1.7 KTTS/Springfield, MO 2.3 WIL/St. Louis 4.1 KSD/St. Louis 3.5 KATM/Stockton, CA 4.0 WBBS/Syracuse 2.4 WFUS/Tampa 5.3 WQYK/Tampa 3.7 KIIM/Tucson 3.4 KWEN/Tulsa 2.3 KVOO/Tulsa 1.2 KJUG/Visalia-Tulare 1.9 WMZQ/Washington, DC 3.8 WIRK/West Palm 2.6 W1HC/Westwood One Hot Country 7.0 W1MC/Westwood One Mainstream Country 8.0 KFDI/Wichita 2.4 KZSN/Wichita 1.9 WGGY/Wilkes-Barre 2.5 WXCY/Wilmington, DE 1.7 WGTY/York, PA 2.8 WTCM/Traverse CityPetoskey, MI

7.1

4.7

WWZD/Tupelo, MS

2.5

WWFG/Salisbury, MD

5.0

KNUE/Tyler, TX

5.8

KGKL/San Angelo, TX

4.1

WFRG/Utica - Rome, NY

7.6

KKJG/San Luis Obispo, CA 5.2

KATJ/Victor Valley

4.4

KSNI/Santa Maria, CA

5.5

WJCL/Savannah, GA

3.0

WACO/Waco, TX

8.2

KXKS/Shreveport, LA

4.4

WDEZ/Wausau-Stevens Point, WI 6.8

KSUX/Sioux City, IA

5.3

WOVK/Wheeling, WV

4.7

KHKX/Odessa - Midland, TX 3.9

WBYT/South Bend, IN

5.1

KXDD/Yakima, WA

4.6

WXCL/Peoria, IL

WTHI/Terre Haute, IN

6.8

WQXK/Youngstown, OH 10.0

WIBW/Topeka, KS

4.4

The Highway Sirius/XM 10.0

4.3

WRWD/Poughkeepsie 3.8

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AVAILABLE JOBS MIDWEST Summit KFDI/Wichita OM Justin Case is searching for a morning co-host. See the complete posting here; send résumés and airchecks to Case here. Federated WQHK/Ft. Wayne, IN OM Jimmy Knight is searching for a morning co-host to join incumbent Josh Michaels. Send résumés and airchecks to Knight here. Griffin KVOO/Tulsa OM Steve Hunter is seeking a morning show host or team. See the complete job description here; send résumés and airchecks to Hunter here. MacDonald WKCQ/Saginaw, MI OM/PD Jason Addams is looking to add a full-time on-air personality for nights. Send résumés and airchecks to him here. Alpha KZKX/Lincoln, NE PD Rob Kelley is searching for a morning co-host. Complete job description and application here; reach Kelley here.

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October 12, 2020 LW

Artist/Title (Label)

TIM MCGRAW

Total Points +/- Points Total Plays +/- Plays Audience +/- Aud Stations ADDS

✔

I Called Mama (Big Machine)

27764

6872

8941

2296

47.974 9.978

159

LEE BRICE/One Of Them Girls (Curb)

26749

-2311

8520

-842

49.71 -2.636

159

JASON ALDEAN/Got What I Got (Macon Music/Broken Bow)

25595

136

8231

-12

46.302 0.722

159

JAMESON RODGERS/Some Girls (River House/Columbia) ✔

22868

1346

7375

413

41.179 3.581

159

MATT STELL/Everywhere But On (Records/Arista)

19786

647

6361

217

35.824 1.631

159

RUSSELL DICKERSON/Love You Like I Used To (Triple Tigers) ✔

19616

2704

6058

718

35.152 4.773

158

MORGAN WALLEN/More Than My Hometown (Big Loud) ✔

18377

1485

5838

493

34.677 2.312

159

BLAKE SHELTON f/G. STEFANI/Happy Anywhere (Warner/WMN)

18342

810

5998

298

32.687 1.696

159

HARDY f/L. ALAINA & D. DAWSON/One Beer (Big Loud)

18041

927

5927

345

29.383 1.509

159

PARKER MCCOLLUM/Pretty Heart (MCA)

15831

470

4934

107

27.845 0.973

157

JON PARDI/Ain't Always The Cowboy (Capitol)

14283

447

4600

24.414 0.311

158

CHRIS LANE/Big, Big Plans (Big Loud)

14044

998

4457

253

23.429 1.873

154

KENNY CHESNEY/Happy Does (Blue Chair/Warner/WEA)

13302

1328

4242

469

23.427 3.606

157

DAN + SHAY/I Should Probably Go To Bed (Warner/WAR)

13033

913

4214

209

2.337

156

LADY A/Champagne Night (BMLGR)

11168

568

3546

184

18.832 1.863

158

KIP MOORE/She's Mine (MCA)

10863

610

3664

156

KELSEA BALLERINI/Hole In The Bottle (Black River)

9894

1176

3266

255 17.444 0.8 -441 14.468 1.948

155

KANE BROWN/Cool Again (RCA)

9744

-9420

3084

-2963

17.375 -15.389

158

DARIUS RUCKER/Beers And Sunshine (Capitol)

8377

419

2708

163

12.702 1.427

157

CHRIS STAPLETON/Starting Over (Mercury)

8234

707

2654

199

14.154 1.915

149

DUSTIN LYNCH/Momma's House (Broken Bow)

8186

394

2574

12.481 1.038

154

RASCAL FLATTS/How They Remember You (Big Machine)

8127

375

2473

118

12.281 0.249

155

NIKO MOON/Good Time (RCA)

7829

449

2514

160

10.362 0.487

140

ERIC CHURCH/Stick That In Your Country Song (EMI Nashville)

7576

376

2524

128

10.821 0.491

156

FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE/Long Live (BMLGR)

6539

807

2026

280

10.325 1.804

142

21.79

Chart Page 1

October 12, 2020 LW

Artist/Title (Label)

TENILLE ARTS/Somebody Like That (19th & Grand)

6053

928

1981

316

7.515

1.088

148

JORDAN DAVIS/Almost Maybes (MCA)

5690

994

1883

308

7.339

1.218

139

DYLAN SCOTT/Nobody (Curb)

5409

700

1803

217

6.9

0.772

140

BROTHERS OSBORNE/All Night (EMI Nashville)

5241

485

1687

150

6.624

0.909

142

MORGAN WALLEN/7 Summers (Big Loud)

5014

376

1508

134

8.097

0.016

106

TAYLOR SWIFT/Betty (Republic/MCA)

4123

310

1322

5.496

1.653

123

MAREN MORRIS/To Hell & Back (Columbia)

4115

180

1337

5.393

0.059

127

PARMALEE f/B. BROWN/Just The Way (Stoney Creek)

3811

292

1294

4.927

0.842

110

BRETT ELDREDGE/Gabrielle (Warner/WMN)

3677

1144

4.702

0.48

113

BRETT YOUNG/Lady (BMLG)

3638

261

1153

6.004

0.3

112

GABBY BARRETT/The Good Ones (Warner/WAR)

3623

239

1199

4.704

0.389

113

KEITH URBAN w/PINK/One Too Many (RCA/Capitol)

3110

1079

897

250

5.17

2.164

BRANTLEY GILBERT/Hard Days (Valory)

3092

1021

2.816

0.061

114

RUNAWAY JUNE/We Were Rich (Wheelhouse)

3018

174

1006

3.573

0.028

106

LITTLE BIG TOWN/Wine, Beer, Whiskey (Capitol)

2953

207

934

2.951

0.319

101

JAKE OWEN/Made For You (Big Loud)

2625

177

809

2.991

0.229

J. ALLEN & N. CYRUS/This Is Us (Records/Columbia/Stoney Creek)

2487

890

1.723

0.039

104

COLE SWINDELL/Single Saturday Night (Warner/WMN)

2414

734

3.769

0.259

MIRANDA LAMBERT/Settling Down (RCA)

2321

368

714

125

2.991

0.697

ROBERT COUNTS/What Do I Know (Arista)

2248

689

2.446

-0.08

ZAC BROWN BAND/The Man Who... (Home Grown/19th & Grand)

2104

-36

753

-19

2.068

0.012

LUKE COMBS/Better Together (River House/Columbia) ✔ DEBUT

1910

1347

564

396

3.896

3.106

CARLY PEARCE/Next Girl (Big Machine)

1807

308

570

101

1.933

0.214

CAROLINE JONES/All Of The Boys (Mailboat)

1783

-15

673

-11

0.891 -0.086

RYAN HURD/Every Other Memory (RCA)

1591

450

1.516

Debut 48 49

Re-Enter 50

Total Points +/- Points Total Plays +/- Plays Audience +/- Aud Stations ADDS

-0.08

Chart Page 2

October 12, 2020 Country Aircheck Add Leaders

Activator Top Point Gainers

Adds

LUKE COMBS/Better Together (River House/Columbia)

MORGAN WALLEN/More Than My Hometown (Big Loud)

1229 ✔

SAM HUNT/Breaking Up Was Easy In The 90's (MCA)

LUKE COMBS/Better Together (River House/Columbia)

1163 ✔

RILEY GREEN/If It Wasn't For Trucks (BMLGR)

TIM MCGRAW/I Called Mama (Big Machine)

1092 ✔

SCOTTY MCCREERY/You Time (Triple Tigers)

RUSSELL DICKERSON/Love You Like I Used To (Triple Tigers)

901 ✔

ELVIE SHANE/My Boy (Wheelhouse)

JAMESON RODGERS/Some Girls (River House/Columbia)

841 ✔

PRISCILLA BLOCK/Just About Over You (InDent/Mercury)

JORDAN DAVIS/Almost Maybes (MCA)

820

MORGAN WALLEN/7 Summers (Big Loud)

CHRIS STAPLETON/Starting Over (Mercury)

776

PARMALEE f/B. BROWN/Just The Way (Stoney Creek)

BROTHERS OSBORNE/All Night (EMI Nashville)

622

FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE/Long Live (BMLGR)

ELVIE SHANE/My Boy (Wheelhouse)

608

KEITH URBAN w/ PINK/One Too Many (RCA/Capitol)

DARIUS RUCKER/Beers And Sunshine (Capitol)

599

Activator Top Spin Gainers

Country Aircheck Top Point Gainers TIM MCGRAW/I Called Mama (Big Machine)

6872

RUSSELL DICKERSON/Love You Like I Used To (Triple Tigers)

2704

MORGAN WALLEN/More Than My Hometown (Big Loud)

1485

LUKE COMBS/Better Together (River House/Columbia)

1347

JAMESON RODGERS/Some Girls (River House/Columbia)

1346

✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔

TIM MCGRAW/I Called Mama (Big Machine)

277

MORGAN WALLEN/More Than My Hometown (Big Loud)

238

RUSSELL DICKERSON/Love You Like I Used To (Triple Tigers)

214

JAMESON RODGERS/Some Girls (River House/Columbia)

200

LUKE COMBS/Better Together (River House/Columbia)

197 160

KENNY CHESNEY/Happy Does (Blue Chair/Warner/WEA)

1328

JORDAN DAVIS/Almost Maybes (MCA)

KELSEA BALLERINI/Hole In The Bottle (Black River)

1176

CHRIS STAPLETON/Starting Over (Mercury)

138

KEITH URBAN w/PINK/One Too Many (RCA/Capitol)

1079

ELVIE SHANE/My Boy (Wheelhouse)

136

998

DARIUS RUCKER/Beers And Sunshine (Capitol)

135

994

BROTHERS OSBORNE/All Night (EMI Nashville)

127

CHRIS LANE/Big, Big Plans (Big Loud) JORDAN DAVIS/Almost Maybes (MCA)

Country Aircheck Top Spin Gainers TIM MCGRAW/I Called Mama (Big Machine)

Country Aircheck Top Recurrents 2296

Points

LUKE COMBS/Lovin' On You (River House/Columbia)

23587

RUSSELL DICKERSON/Love You Like I Used To (Triple Tigers)

718

LUKE BRYAN/One Margarita (Capitol)

12211

MORGAN WALLEN/More Than My Hometown (Big Loud)

493

MADDIE & TAE/Die From A Broken Heart (Mercury)

11620

KENNY CHESNEY/Happy Does (Blue Chair/Warner/WEA)

469

GABBY BARRETT/I Hope (Warner/WAR)

11321

KELSEA BALLERINI/Hole In The Bottle (Black River)

441

SAM HUNT/Hard To Forget (MCA)

10816

JAMESON RODGERS/Some Girls (River House/Columbia)

413

MORGAN WALLEN/Chasin' You (Big Loud)

10809

LUKE COMBS/Better Together (River House/Columbia)

396

CHRIS JANSON/Done (Warner/WAR)

9845

HARDY f/L. ALAINA & D. DAWSON/One Beer (Big Loud)

345

B. SHELTON w/G. STEFANI/Nobody But You (Warner/WMN)

9370

TENILLE ARTS/Somebody Like That (19th & Grand)

316

MAREN MORRIS/The Bones (Columbia)

7710

308

L. COMBS f/E. CHURCH/Does To Me (River House/Columbia)

7207

JORDAN DAVIS/Almost Maybes (MCA)

Chart Page 3

October 12, 2020

COUNTRY AIRCHECK ACTIVITY ROBERT COUNTS/What Do I Know (Arista) Remains at 45* 2,248 points, 689 spins 2 adds: WPAW, WWQM ZAC BROWN BAND/The Man Who... (Home Grown Music/19th & Grand) Remains at 46 2,104 points, 753 spins; no adds LUKE COMBS/Better Together (River House/Columbia) Debuts at 47* 1,910 points, 564 spins 68 adds including: KAWO, KBEQ, KCYE, KDRK, KEEY, *KFDI, KHGE, KILT, KJKE, KKGO CARLY PEARCE/Next Girl (Big Machine) Debuts at 48* 1,807 points, 570 spins 7 adds: KBQI, KJKE, KMNB, KSSN, WAVW, WOKQ, WPAW CAROLINE JONES/All Of The Boys (Mailboat) Remains at 49 1,783 points, 673 spins 1 add: WDSY RYAN HURD/Every Other Memory (RCA) Re-Enters at 50* 1,591 points, 450 spins 1 add: WBCT OLD DOMINION/Never Be Sorry (RCA) 1,581 points, 480 spins 4 adds: *KHKI, KNUC, WPAW, WWKA ELVIE SHANE/My Boy (Wheelhouse) 1,430 points, 488 spins 21 adds including: *KATC, *KATM, *KHKI, *KIIM, *KIZN, KJKE, KPLM, *KPLX, *KRST, *KUBL

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A D D DAT E S October 19

ASHLEY MCBRYDE/Martha Divine (Warner/WAR) JUSTIN MOORE/We Didn’t Have Much (Valory) LUKE BRYAN/Down To One (Capitol)

October 26

MEGHAN PATRICK/My First Car (Riser House) MICHAEL RAY/Whiskey And Rain (Warner/WEA) KANE BROWN/Worship You (RCA) DAVE MCELROY/Let It Flow (Free Flow)

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CHECK OUT 10/16 Trace Adkins Ain’t That Kind Of Cowboy (Verge) Adkins went into the studio with producer Bart Butler for the follow-up to 2017’s Something’s Going On, cutting six tracks including “Mind on Fishin’,” first single “Better Off” and the Jeffrey Steele, Danny Myrick, Kip Raines and Bart Allmand-penned “Just The Way We Do It.” Parker McCollum Hollywood Gold (MCA) Produced by singer/songwriter/musician Jon Randall Stewart, McCollum co-wrote five of the six songs including previously-released track “Young Man’s Blues” as well as current Top 15 single “Pretty Heart.” Tanya Tucker Live From The Troubadour (Fantasy) The live project features 15 songs including her first single “Delta Dawn,” No. 1s “Strong Enough To Bend,” “What’s Your Mama›s Name, Child,” “Blood Red And Goin’ Down“ and “Would You Lay With Me (In A Field of Stone),” a medley of Bruce Springsteen’s “I’m on Fire” and Johnny Cash’s “Ring of Fire” and six songs from While I’m Livin’. Runaway June When I Think About Christmas (Wheelhouse) This five-track EP includes three Christmas classics (“Sleigh Ride,” “O Holy Night” and “Let It Snow”) in addition to two originals (“Christmas On The Radio” and “When I Think About Chstimas”).

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October 12, 2020 LW

Artist/Title (Label)

Points

JASON ALDEAN

+/- Points

Plays

11454

-111

TIM MCGRAW/I Called Mama (Big Machine) ✔

10861

1092

2287

277

LEE BRICE/One Of Them Girls (Curb)

10514

-665

2218

-182

JAMESON RODGERS/Some Girls (River House/Columbia) ✔

10264

841

2161

200

BLAKE SHELTON f/G. STEFANI/Happy Anywhere (Warner/WMN)

9917

491

1942

MORGAN WALLEN/More Than My Hometown (Big Loud) ✔

8975

1229

1763

238

HARDY f/L. ALAINA & D. DAWSON/One Beer (Big Loud)

8426

364

1766

MATT STELL/Everywhere But On (Records/Arista)

7835

1649

12 9

RUSSELL DICKERSON/Love You Like I Used To (Triple Tigers) ✔

7606

901

1596

214

11 10

JON PARDI/Ain't Always The Cowboy (Capitol)

7234

260

1433

13 11

PARKER MCCOLLUM/Pretty Heart (MCA)

6911

247

1408

15 12

KENNY CHESNEY/Happy Does (Blue Chair/Warner/WEA)

6703

549

1301

102

14 13

DAN + SHAY/I Should Probably Go To Bed (Warner/WAR)

6340

186

1291

17 14

LADY A/Champagne Night (BMLGR)

5714

532

1188

111

19 15

CHRIS STAPLETON/Starting Over (Mercury)

5656

776

1101

138

Got What I Got (Macon Music/Broken Bow) 2

Week at No. 1

2419

+/- Plays Stations ADDS

-26

16 16

KIP MOORE/She's Mine (MCA)

5319

-12

1124

18 17

ERIC CHURCH/Stick That In Your Country Song (EMI Nashville)

4907

-212

943

-1

22 18

DARIUS RUCKER/Beers And Sunshine (Capitol)

4795

599

897

135

21 19

CHRIS LANE/Big, Big Plans (Big Loud)

4782

543

1010

124

10 20

KANE BROWN/Cool Again (RCA)

4512

-2905

901

-614

23 21

KELSEA BALLERINI/Hole In The Bottle (Black River)

4118

474

892

123

24 22

FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE/Long Live (BMLGR)

3684

409

690

25 23

RASCAL FLATTS/How They Remember You (Big Machine)

3290

326

651

27 24

JORDAN DAVIS/Almost Maybes (MCA)

2909

820

546

160

26 25

DUSTIN LYNCH/Momma's House (Broken Bow)

2826

405

656

29 26

BROTHERS OSBORNE/All Night (EMI Nashville)

2664

622

513

127

28 27

MORGAN WALLEN/7 Summers (Big Loud)

2327

236

445

31 28

NIKO MOON/Good Time (RCA)

2169

452

460

102

35 29

TENILLE ARTS/Somebody Like That (19th & Grand)

1878

548

403

108

30 30

KEITH URBAN w/PINK/One Too Many (RCA/Capitol)

1860

305

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October 12, 2020 LW

Artist/Title (Label)

Points +/- Points

Plays

+/- Plays

44 31

LUKE COMBS/Better Together (River House/Columbia) ✔

1797

1163

301

197

Stations Adds

34 32

TAYLOR SWIFT/Betty (Republic/MCA)

1588

189

316

32 33

BRETT ELDREDGE/Gabrielle (Warner/WMN)

1584

-5

299

-8

33 34

LITTLE BIG TOWN/Wine, Beer, Whiskey (Capitol)

1514

252

39 35

DYLAN SCOTT/Nobody (Curb)

1500

383

325

36 36

BRETT YOUNG/Lady (BMLGR)

1475

136

261

38 37

MIRANDA LAMBERT/Settling Down (RCA)

1404

130

243

37 38

MAREN MORRIS/To Hell & Back (Columbia)

1375

267

40 39

BRANTLEY GILBERT/Hard Days (Valory)

1108

216

41 40

GABBY BARRETT/The Good Ones (Warner/WAR)

1005

147

228

42 41

RUNAWAY JUNE/We Were Rich (Wheelhouse)

844

106

177

52 42

LARRY FLEET/Where I Find God (Big Loud)

758

219

58 43

PRISCILLA BLOCK/Just About Over You (InDent/Mercury)

734

278

122

ELVIE SHANE/My Boy (Wheelhouse)

696

608

149

136

COLE SWINDELL/Single Saturday Night (Warner/WMN)

684

Debut 44 45 45 46 46

OLD DOMINION/My Heart Is A Bar (RCA)

660

43 47

ZAC BROWN BAND/The Man Who... (Home Grown/19th & Grand)

622

-32

126

-11

47 48

CHRIS JANSON/Waitin' On 5 (Warner/WAR)

609

49 49

RANDALL KING/Hey Cowgirl (Warner/WEA)

589

114

53 50

PARMALEE f/B. BROWN/Just The Way (Stoney Creek)

582

138

48 51

JAKE OWEN/Made For You (Big Loud)

582

126

50 52

KYLIE FREY/Spur Of The Moment (Deep Frey'd)

580

112

55 53

JIMMIE ALLEN & NOAH CYRUS/This Is Us (Records/Columbia/Stoney Creek)

547

103

51 54

CARLY PEARCE/Next Girl (Big Machine)

502

-37

54 55

RYAN HURD/Every Other Memory (RCA)

495

-1

57 56

CAROLINE JONES/All Of The Boys (Mailboat)

457

-25

114

-8

56 57

CODY JOHNSON & REBA MCENTIRE/Dear Rodeo (CoJo/Warner/WMN)

442

-34

-3

ERIC CHESSER/Date Night (Big Big Records)

423

DALLAS REMINGTON/Uncommon Man (Road Warrior)

415

LAUREN ALAINA f/L. GRAHAM/What Do You Think Of (Mercury)

400

Re-Enter 58 Debut 59 Re-Enter 60

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