February 10, 2020, Issue 691
Power Gold: Concentration Game
This edition of Country Aircheck’s Power Gold is led by eight artists who combine for 46 of the Top 100 most-heard Gold hits. Luke Bryan and Florida Georgia Line lead the parade with seven songs apiece, followed by Jason Aldean and Zac Brown Band with six each. Rounding out the top PG hit-makers are Kenny Chesney, Thomas Rhett, Blake Shelton and Carrie Underwood, all with five hits in the Top 100. One artist – Dierks Bentley – places four songs in this elite group, meaning that nine acts are responsible for 50% of the current Power Gold. More thoughts on that later. Twenty-three songs from 20 artists are new Luke Bryan to the Top 100 since we ran the list last year (CAW 1/14/19). Interestingly, four songs in that group are more than five years old and are actually making a return appearance to the PG 100. They are Tim McGraw’s “Live Like You Were Dying” (2004), Bentley’s “Free And Easy (Down The Road I Go)” (2007), Bryan’s “I See You” (2015) and FGL’s “Sippin’ On Fire” (2015). This Top 100 Power Gold – along with the airplay information in the previous paragraph – is culled from Mediabase 24/7 and music airplay information from the Country Aircheck/Mediabase reporting panel for the week of January 26-Feb. 1, 2020. Here’s the Top 10: 1. Dustin Lynch/Small Town Boy 2. Darius Rucker/Wagon Wheel 3. Luke Combs/When It Rains It Pours 4. Sam Hunt/Body Like A Back Road 5. Florida Georgia Line/Cruise 6. Kane Brown f/Lauren Alaina/What Ifs 7. Zac Brown Band/Chicken Fried Florida Georgia Line 8. Blake Shelton/A Guy With A Girl 9. Billy Currington/Do I Make You Wanna 10. Blake Shelton/Honey Bee (continued on page 7)
Staff Hearted: WNCY/Appleton, WI’s Shotgun Shannon, Luke Reid, Charli McKenzie, Hannah, Dan Stone and PJ (l-r) show off the station’s 23rd annual Y100 Country Cares for St. Jude Kids Radiothon total.
CMA Sets Trend For Industry
Know your audience. That’s the goal of CMA’s new research tool TrendWatch, launched last week (CAT 2/4). The monthly snapshot of consumer behavior relative to country music is based on independent research of 12,000 music listeners. February’s first installment focused on a growth in country listening, which is a good thing to know for a number of reasons. “The goal is to educate the industry on the country music consumer of today and monitor shifts as our audience expands,” says CMA Sr. Dir./Consumer Insights & Research Karen Stump. “We focused on defining key Karen Stump engagement metrics that would translate to the
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