January 29, 2018, Issue 586
What’s In Your Gold Wallet?
Luke Bryan, Jason Aldean, Kenny Chesney, Zac Brown Band, Blake Shelton, Tim McGraw and Florida Georgia Line lead this edition of the Power Gold Top 100, placing 46 songs on the list. Bryan posts 11 hits in the Top 100, followed by Aldean with eight, ZBB and Chesney with six, and the others all with five each. These seven are the only artists to have five or more songs on the list. There are only 11 songs that weren’t in the Top 100 we printed last April. That’s the lowest influx of titles in any two-year comparison since 2010, when 10 new tracks hit the top 100. The number of new titles appearing on past PG lists were: 2017, 14; 2016, 36; 2015, 31; 2014, 39; 2013, 22; 2012, 33; 2011, 13; and 2010, 10. The full Top 100 Power Gold, culled from Mediabase 24/7 and the Country Aircheck/Mediabase reporting panel for the week of January 14-20, 2018, is on page 12; here’s the Top 10, with April 2017-Jan. 2018 ranks. 3-1. 4-2. 2-3. 1-4. 25-5. 6-6. 21-7. 5-8. 26-9. 11-10.
Darius Rucker/Wagon Wheel Zac Brown Band/Chicken Fried Florida Georgia Line/Cruise Jake Owen/Barefoot Blue Jean Night Jason Aldean/My Kinda Party Blake Shelton/Honey Bee Jason Aldean/Dirt Road Anthem Miranda Lambert/Mama’s Broken Heart Jason Aldean/When She Says Baby Carrie Underwood/Blown Away
Eleven songs are on this Top 100 that weren’t on the list last April. The highest return was (continued on page 8)
Eye Of The Triple: Triple Tigers’ Russell Dickerson celebrates his first No. 1 with his label team. Pictured (l-r) are his manager John Dennis, the label’s Nobert Nix and Kevin Herring, Dennis Entertainment’s Charly Salvatore and Grace Schoper, the label’s Kristen Adkins, Laura Hostelley and Julianna Vaughn, and a very excited Dickerson.
Audio And Visual?
Building and maintaining station and personality brands on social media continues to be a hot topic and, as Facebook and other platforms evolve, video seems to be a consensus pick as an effective use of any marketer’s time. So how do people who are known for their voices start showing their faces? Country Aircheck reached out to a few on the front lines for an update on best practices.
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