BILLBOARD.COM/NEWSLETTERS NOVEMBER 16, 2015 | PAGE 1 OF 18 INSIDE Joey & Rory Tragedy Spurs Chart Reaction >page 3 Chicks, Loretta To End Dry Spell In 2016 >page 7 Little Big Town’s Big December Plans >page 8 Makin’ Tracks: Maddie & Tae’s ‘Shut Up And Fish’ >page 12 Stark Report: Ashley Gearing Grows Up >page 13 Country Coda: Kenny Rogers’ ‘Lady’ >page 18 When Chris Stapleton won three Country Music Association Awards and got tongues wagging about his electrifying per- formance with Justin Timberlake, much of Nashville’s music industry was excited — a talented guy was getting his due, and it might reconnect mainstream country with the genre’s roots. Music Health Alliance (MHA) executive director Tatum Hauck Allsep and director of operations Shelia Shipley Biddy had more practical rea- sons for optimism. The atten- tion on Stapleton practically guaranteed their March 1, 2016 benefit would sell out. The event, announced Nov. 16, will fund roughly a quar- ter of the agency’s annual budget, and in turn potentially keep scores of musicians and music-industry professionals from going broke. According to MHA, sev- enty-six percent of workers in Nashville’s music industry — including 80 percent of musicians — operate without health insurance. A large majority of those uninsured are independent contractors with unpredictable revenue streams, and they have never figured out how they can afford difficult premiums. But when a health emergency arises, they really can’t afford the astronomical medical bills. That includes the musician whose heart attack racked up $68,000 in debt for a three-day hospital stay. Or the player whose daughter developed cervical cancer and needs $20,000 up front just to start six weeks of treatment. Or the former label exec whose bouts with cancer left her un- able to afford a new mattress when her previous one went to pot. That’s where MHA steps in. Both Hauck Allsep and Shipley Biddy have survived medical horror stories and have a passion for aiding the creative class in working through the maze of bureaucracy in the health care industry. Shipley Biddy has one particular client whose finances were destroyed by a bout with esophageal cancer. No one else had been able to help, and his family was skep- tical that MHA would assist. But the agency found ways to have $100,000 of expenses written down. “His wife said we gave hope back to his children, because they’d come to believe nobody was coming,” Shipley Biddy says. By mid-December, MHA will have helped some 2,200 music-industry professionals save more than $10 million in health costs and insurance premiums during the past three years, an impressive achievement for a staff of two full-time employees and one part-timer. The agency owes its existence to Vanderbilt Medical Cen- ter. Hauck Allsep, a former artist manager, was working for Music Health Alliance Puts Bandage On Industry Wallets The country music industry’s must-have source for news, charts, analysis and features. • Airplay, album sales, track sales and streaming charts, as well as the all-encompassing Hot Country Songs chart. • Expert commentary and insights by Tom Roland, Phyllis Stark and Jim Asker. Country UPDATE Sign up for FREE delivery every Monday www.billboard.com/newsletters NOW, ONE WEEKLY EDITION, EVERY MONDAY BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE [email protected]Country Update SHIPLEY BIDDY HAUCK ALLSEP
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INSIDE
Joey & Rory Tragedy Spurs Chart Reaction
>page 3
Chicks, Loretta To End Dry Spell In 2016
>page 7
Little Big Town’s Big December Plans
>page 8
Makin’ Tracks: Maddie & Tae’s
‘Shut Up And Fish’ >page 12
Stark Report: Ashley Gearing
Grows Up >page 13
Country Coda: Kenny Rogers’ ‘Lady’
>page 18
When Chris Stapleton won three Country Music Association Awards and got tongues wagging about his electrifying per-formance with Justin Timberlake, much of Nashville’s music industry was excited — a talented guy was getting his due, and it might reconnect mainstream country with the genre’s roots.
Music Health Alliance (MHA) executive director Tatum Hauck Allsep and director of operations Shelia Shipley Biddy had more practical rea-sons for optimism. The atten-tion on Stapleton practically guaranteed their March 1, 2016 benefit would sell out. The event, announced Nov. 16, will fund roughly a quar-ter of the agency’s annual budget, and in turn potentially keep scores of musicians and music-industry professionals from going broke.
According to MH A, sev-enty-six percent of workers in Nashville’s music industry — including 80 percent of musicians — operate without health insurance. A large majority of those uninsured are independent contractors with unpredictable revenue streams, and they have never figured out how they can afford difficult premiums. But when a health emergency arises, they really can’t afford the astronomical medical bills. That includes the musician whose heart attack racked up $68,000 in debt for a three-day hospital
stay. Or the player whose daughter developed cervical cancer and needs $20,000 up front just to start six weeks of treatment. Or the former label exec whose bouts with cancer left her un-able to afford a new mattress when her previous one went to pot.
That’s where MHA steps in. Both Hauck Allsep and Shipley Biddy have survived medical horror stories and have a passion for aiding the creative class in working through the maze of
bureaucracy in the health care industry. Shipley Biddy has one particular client whose finances were destroyed by a bout with esophageal cancer. No one else had been able to help, and his family was skep-tical that MHA would assist. But the agency found ways to have $100,000 of expenses written down.
“His wife said we gave hope back to his children, because
they’d come to believe nobody was coming,” Shipley Biddy says. By mid-December, MHA will have helped some 2,200
music-industry professionals save more than $10 million in health costs and insurance premiums during the past three years, an impressive achievement for a staff of two full-time employees and one part-timer.
The agency owes its existence to Vanderbilt Medical Cen-ter. Hauck Allsep, a former artist manager, was working for
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the hospital as a liaison to the music industry in 2006. The facility is located just three blocks from Music Row, and administrators wanted to attract more business from Nashville’s music community. But Kix Brooks told her their efforts weren’t realistic.
“Nobody’s going to come here,” he said, “unless you can figure out a way to get health insurance to the music industry.”
So Hauck Allsep met with 17 different insurance companies — “I felt like I needed a shower after every one,” she quips — but she was impressed with independent insurance agent RJ Stillwell. They founded Sound Healthcare specifically for the music industry, and for a time, the company provided a group policy for the Country Music Association.
When the Affordable Care Act went into law, it opened up numerous programs that would help music professionals, and Hauck Allsep decided to form a nonprofit to help the music community become aware of them and navigate the red tape. Even before the agency officially launched, then-ailing “Cow-boy” Jack Clement planned a live celebration with such artists as Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell and Kris Kristofferson in January 2013. The event raised $16,000, which became seed money for MHA. In turn, any commissions that MHA receives from securing insurance policies go into the agency’s Jack Pot — named after Clement — providing a pool to assist clients with expenses under $500, such as doctor visits or equipment that’s uncovered by a policy.
Despite a load of politically charged media, the ACA has had positive re-sults for scads of musicians and executives who were previously unable to secure coverage.
“It created access where there was none,” says Hauck Allsep. “The law itself has a lot of garbage in it, but before the Affordable Care Act, if you had taken more than two anti-depressants, which is most of the music industry, it would make you uninsurable. Or if you’d had cancer five years ago, that made you uninsurable, and that puts your whole estate at risk.”
While MHA has made an obvious difference, the work keeps piling up. Re-cent premium hikes have created panic for a lot of rank-and-file music workers, and MHA added 300 new clients in a 10-day period this month. Many can be helped with a phone call or a short meeting. And plenty of others can benefit from MHA’s Get Covered 101 seminars, a 90-minute crash course on health insurance. (The next one takes place at 2 p.m. on Nov. 17 at ASCAP. Reach Shipley Biddy here to attend.)
MHA is actively seeking an artist to serve as a spokesperson for the cause. Meanwhile, Stapleton’s win helps with those ticket sales for the First and the Worst, the March 1 benefit at Nashville’s City Winery in which songwriters play the first and the worst songs they have written. The lineup for the second annual event also features Lee Brice and writers Jessi Alexander (“I Drive Your Truck”), Bobby Braddock (“He Stopped Loving Her Today”) and Sandy Knox (“Does He Love You”). If it sells out, it ensures that MHA can keep slog-ging it out for the 80 percent of musicians who don’t have insurance.
“What we do is sooo not sexy,” says Hauck Allsep. “And we can’t make it sexy. But it’s so needed.”
Trace Adkins dropped in at WKLB Boston as he lays the groundwork for his first release on the Wheelhouse label. From left: Wheelhouse vp promotion Teddi Bonadies, WKLB PD Mike Brophey, Adkins, WKLB assistant PD Ginny Rogers and Wheelhouse director of Northeast promotion Brittany Pellegrino.
Cole Swindell spent time with several WNSH New York staff members when he kicked off his Down Home Tour in New York. From left: WNSH PD John Foxx, Swindell and Warner Music Nashville president/CEO John Esposito.
Clint Black visited with iHeartMedia country music brand team leader Doug Montgomery while promoting his new album On Purpose. From left: Montgomery, Black and promotion veteran Bob Mitchell.
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“When I’m Gone,” (Vanguard/Sugar Hill/Concord), a moving ballad from Joey & Rory, re-enters Billboard’s Country Digital Songs chart (dated Nov. 28) at No. 7 with 27,000 downloads sold in the week ending Nov. 12. It logs a 1,303 percent gain (from 2,000), according to Nielsen Music. On Hot Coun-try Songs, “Gone” opens at No. 22, marking the pair’s strongest showing on the survey, besting its No. 30 peak with 2009’s “Cheater Cheater.”
It’s bittersweet news for the singer-songwriters. In 2014, Joey Feek was diagnosed with cervical cancer, which has since become terminal. Husband and duet partner Rory Feek announced recently that the couple decided to end treatment and that she has entered hospice care.
The song was recorded for the twosome’s 2012 album His and Hers, which peaked at No. 24 on Top Country Albums and has sold 15,000 to date. Penned by Sandy Lawrence, a friend of the duo, the track was written when Lawrence was losing her mother.
Fans of Joey & Rory have started a campaign to send the song to a No. 1 chart ranking, with a social media push that has been growing steadily. Artists including Terri Clark have joined the effort, encour-aging supporters to purchase the song.
No. 1 STAPLE Chris Stapleton’s “Tennessee Whis-key” (Mercury) tops Hot Country Songs for a sec-ond week. The cut re-entered the chart (dated Nov. 21) at the summit after his huge night at the Country Music Association Awards on Nov. 4, when he won male vocalist, new artist and album of the year honors, the latter for Traveller, which also notches a second week at No. 1 on Top Country Albums (97,000 in traditional sales, down 37 percent) and the all-genre Billboard 200 (124,000 equivalent album units, down 30 percent). The Billboard 200 ranks the most popular albums of the week based on multimetric consump-tion, which includes traditional album sales, track-equivalent albums and streaming-equivalent albums.
Traveller is one of only two albums to spend more than one week at No. 1 on
the Billboard 200 in 2015 — and both are country sets: Luke Bryan’s Kill the Lights led the list for the weeks of Aug. 29 and Sept. 5.
MORE ‘COUNTRY MUSIC’: Eric Church’s Mr. Misunderstood (EMI Nashville/Universal Music Group Nashville) steps 3-2 in its second week on Top Country Albums (58,000, down 18 percent), and Tim McGraw’s Damn Country Music (McGraw/Big Machine/Big Machine Label Group) opens at No. 3 (39,000), marking his 19th top 10. Also in the top five is Old Dominion’s debut full-
length, Meat and Candy (RCA Nashville/Sony Music Nashville), which starts at No. 5 (21,000).
‘OVER’-ACHIEVER Chris Young’s “I’m Comin’ Over” (RCA Nashville), co-written by Young, Corey Crowder and Josh Hoge, rises 3-1 in its 25th week on Country Airplay, up 5 percent to 49.1 million audience impressions. On Hot Country Songs, the track pushes 5-4.
“Over,” the lead single and title cut from Young’s fifth studio album, released Nov. 13, is his sixth Coun-try Airplay No. 1 and first since “You” (Feb. 11, 2012), which became his fifth consecutive leader (dating to 2009), following “Tomorrow,” “Voices,” “The Man I Want to Be” and “Gettin’ You Home.”
“I made [“Over”] with Corey and Josh, and we became a core,” Young told Billboard upon learning of his new No. 1. “I think they’re losing their minds right now, and I can’t wait to celebrate with them.” The album, produced by Young and Crowder, grants Young his first producer credit.
A TRUE ICON Also on Country Airplay, Hank Williams Jr.’s “Are You Ready for the Country” (featuring Eric Church), originally recorded by the late Waylon Jennings (No. 7 on Hot Country Songs, 1977), bows at No. 58. “Ready” is Williams’ first entry for the Nash Icon label and marks his sixth decade of denting the Billboard country charts. He first charted with 1964’s “Long Gone Lonesome Blues.”
Fans Pay Tribute To Joey & Rory; Stapleton Still No. 1; Young Rules Country Airplay
l57 RE-ENTRY YOU LOOK LIKE I NEED A DRINK Valory Justin Moore 1.099 +0.403 245 108 -
l58 NEW ARE YOU READY FOR THE COUNTRY? Bocephus/Big Machine Hank Williams Jr. Feat. Eric Church 1.082 +0.426 264 196 -
59 RE-ENTRY SOMEWHERE TONIGHT OttoPilot/Blaster James Otto 1.034 -0.053 252 -34 -
l60 NEW WHEN I’M GONE Black River Craig Morgan 0.995 +0.004 416 4 56
11/23
CHAD PFEIFER I’ve Got Some Things I Need To Drink About Lee Cherry
LUKE BRYAN FEAT. KAREN FAIRCHILD Home Alone Tonight Capitol Nashville
11/30
CHRIS CHITSEY Just Don’t Know It Yet Premier Nashville
JODY MEDFORD You’re A Mean One, Mr. Grinch SMG Nashville
LESLIE COURS MATHER Santa Baby (You’ll Be Mine) LionEyes
12/7
BRECKEN MILES The Anchor Rhyme Partners
CHRIS LANE Fix Big Loud
DAVID FANNING What’s Next Stoney Creek
GOING FOR ADDS
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AIRPLAY MONITORED BYCountry Airplay
MOST ADDED®TITLE Imprint/Label Artist ADDSMR. MISUNDERSTOOD EMI Nashville Eric Church 45NOBODY TO BLAME Mercury Chris Stapleton 43BREAK ON ME Hit Red/Capitol Nashville Keith Urban 35HOME ALONE TONIGHT Capitol Nashville Luke Bryan Feat. Karen Fairchild 21MIND READER Broken Bow Dustin Lynch 17THE DRIVER Capitol Nashville Charles Kelley Feat. Dierks Bentley & Eric Paslay 17ARE YOU READY FOR THE COUNTRY Big Machine/Nash Icon Hank Williams Jr. Feat. Eric Church 17SHUT UP AND FISH Dot Maddie & Tae 16DRUNK ON YOUR LOVE Atlantic/WMN Brett Eldredge 16CONFESSION Republic Nashville Florida Georgia Line 14
MOST INCREASED PLAYSTITLE Imprint/Label Artist GAINGONNA KNOW WE WERE HERE Broken Bow Jason Aldean +696NOBODY TO BLAME Mercury Chris Stapleton +667MR. MISUNDERSTOOD EMI Nashville Eric Church +628HOME ALONE TONIGHT Capitol Nashville Luke Bryan Feat. Karen Fairchild +619DIE A HAPPY MAN Valory Thomas Rhett +532I’M COMIN’ OVER RCA Nashville Chris Young +513BREAK ON ME. Hit Red/Capitol Nashville Keith Urban +396SMOKE BREAK 19/Arista Nashville Carrie Underwood +391STAY A LITTLE LONGER EMI Nashville Brothers Osborne +355GONNA Warner Bros./WMN Blake Shelton +350
MOST INCREASED AUDIENCETITLE Imprint/Label Artist
GAIN(IN MIILIONS)
HOME ALONE TONIGHT Capitol Nashville Luke Bryan Feat. Karen Fairchild +3.625NOBODY TO BLAME Mercury Chris Stapleton +3.504GONNA KNOW WE WERE HERE Broken Bow Jason Aldean +3.195I’M COMIN’ OVER RCA Nashville Chris Young +2.487MR. MISUNDERSTOOD EMI Nashville Eric Church +2.335DIE A HAPPY MAN Valory Thomas Rhett +2.079SMOKE BREAK 19/Arista Nashville Carrie Underwood +2.054BREAK ON ME. Hit Red/Capitol Nashville Keith Urban +1.923GONNA Warner Bros./WMN Blake Shelton +1.856STAY A LITTLE LONGER EMI Nashville Brothers Osborne +1.673
BILLBOARD COUNTRY BOXSCOREGross Artist AttendanceTicket Price(s) Venue/Date(s) Capacity Promoter(s)
$727,070 LUKE BRYAN 18,489LIVE NATION$65.50, $25.50 PNC Music Pavilion, Charlotte/Sept. 24 sellout
$725,391 SHANIA TWAIN 9,468AEG LIVE$136, $46 First Niagara Center, Buffalo/Oct. 3 10,443
$711,698 JASON ALDEAN 18,215LIVE NATION$65.50, $25.50 MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre, Tampa/Oct. 23 sellout
$696,911 JASON ALDEAN 20,316LIVE NATION$65.50, $25.50 Riverbend Music Center, Cincinnati/Aug. 23 sellout
Reported worldwide boxscore figures for Country artists. Boxscore figures should be submitted to Bob Allen by phone (615-891-1976), fax (615-891-2054) or email ([email protected]).
TEXAS REGIONAL RADIO REPORTWEEK ENDING NOVEMBER 15, 2015
Texas Regional Radio Report Top 100 is compiled from weekly online playlist reports from 86 radio stations located in Texas and surrounding states, including reports from specialty shows, internet and satellite radio outlets. Songs are ranked by total plays. For tracking, complete chart methodology and more information, visit www.texasregionalradio.com, or contact Dave Smith at 817-283-7984. Copyright 2015, Texas Regional Radio Report
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1 1 17 LOSER (Almost Country) HH 2 weeks at 1 HH Casey Donahew Band 1862 -33
THE DRIVER Capitol Nashville Charles Kelley Feat. Dierks Bentley & Eric Paslay 0.735 42 17
IT ALL STARTED WITH A BEER Warner Bros./WAR Frankie Ballard 0.639 10 8
TONIGHT Warner Bros./WEA Ryan Kinder 0.557 17 7
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LORETTA, CHICKS RETURN IN 2016Two important female country acts will be active again in 2016 following long layoffs from the road or from the recording studio.
Dixie Chicks are set for a 40-city tour of Europe and North America, their longest run since the Accidents & Accusations Tour in 2006-2007. Meanwhile, Loretta Lynn is readying the release of Full Circle, her first album of new ma-terial since the Jack White-produced Van Lear Rose was released in 2004.
The Chicks’ schedule launches April 16 in Antwerp, Belgium, with 13 con-certs slated through May 4, when the group plays Dublin. Its North Ameri-can itinerary begins June 1 at the Riverbend Music Center in Cincinnati and continues through Sept. 2 at the Usana Amphitheatre in Salt Lake City. The band also plans an Oct. 10 appearance at the historic Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. Other key dates include a June 13 stop at New York’s Madison Square Garden; an Aug. 7 appearance in Austin, the town where the band got its start; and an Aug. 17 gig at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena.
Lynn’s Van Lear Rose re-energized her career, garnering critical acclaim and two Grammy Awards, including best country album. Full Circle, produced by daughter Patsy Lynn Russell and John Carter Cash, features 13 tracks, including duets with Elvis Costello and Willie Nelson. Sony’s Legacy Record-ings will release the album on March 4, the same day that PBS presents Lo-retta Lynn: Still a Mountain Girl, an installment in its American Masters series.
Lynn will also receive Billboard’s first Women in Music Legend Award on Dec. 11.
MOVERS & SHAKERSSilverfish Media launches a midday show, Country With Carsen, beginning Jan. 18. The five-hour daily program is hosted by Carsen, aka Jessica Hum-phreville, a former WKDF Nashville personality who currently works at rock WKRL Syracuse, N.Y. … E.W. Scripps/Tulsa, Okla., hired David Abel as vp/GM for the five-station cluster, including country KVOO, beginning Nov. 23. He previously held the same post for Apex/South Carolina … Alpha Media/Peoria, Ill., named Matt Marchand director of sales in the market, which includes country WXCL. He has an eight-year history with Alpha … Scott Alexander joined WOGG Pittsburgh as PD/morning talent, RadioInfo.com reported. He was most recently on air with adult contemporary WBZZ Pitts-burgh … WKXC Augusta, Ga., hired Jeff Reynolds for afternoon drive, ac-cording to RadioInfo.com. A former WTHI Terre Haute, Ind., personality, Reynolds replaces Bryan Axelson, who recently moved to mornings … Edison Research will present “What Content Makes Country Radio Matter?” during Country Radio Seminar on Feb. 8, 2016 in Nashville. The presentation weighs listeners’ relationship with different elements of radio content.
’ROUND THE ROWHart Street Entertainment hired Chris Kagay as executive vp. She most re-cently owned a CD duplication company, Write Away Media … Kelsea Bal-lerini will be honored with the Rising Star Award on Dec. 11 when Billboard throws its annual Women in Music event in New York. The ceremony will air as a Lifetime special on Dec. 18 … Sam Hunt is one of four artists participat-ing in the fourth annual Grammy Amplifier program, which provides an op-portunity for emerging artists. Interested entrants can apply here through Dec. 16 … New Orleans artist Allen Toussaint died Nov. 9 following a per-formance in Madrid. The producer-songwriter authored Joe Stampley’s “All These Things” and Glen Campbell’s “Southern Nights.”
NASHVILLE & NATIONAL TOM ROLAND
Old Dominion was in the midst of a two-week run at No. 1 on Country Airplay when the band visited WSOC Charlotte, N.C. From left: RCA national director of promotion Josh Easler; group members Geoff Sprung, Brad Tursi and Matthew Ramsey; WSOC operations manager/PD DJ Stout and integrated marketing consultant Krista Stout; and band members Trevor Rosen and Whit Sellers.
Chase Bryant (left) joined WDRM Huntsville, Ala., music director A.J. McCloud during a Veterans Day event at Rocket Harley-Davidson.
Lady Antebellum headlined Cumulus’ Hearts Unsung concert on Nov. 9 in Nashville, raising money for the Children’s Miracle Network. From left are Lady A’s Charles Kelley, America’s Morning Show co-host Blair Garner, Lady A’s Hillary Scott, AMS co-host Chuck Wicks, Lady A’s Dave Haywood and Cumulus vp label relations John Kilgo.
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MUSIC NOTESFresh off two wins at the Country Music Association Awards on Nov. 4, Little Big Town has two major events on its calendar for December. The band joins Blake Shelton, Sam Hunt, Luke Bryan and Florida Georgia Line as this year’s recipients at the annual CMT Artists of the Year, airing live Dec. 2 from the Schermerhorn Symphony Center in Nashville. LBT also takes part in an install-ment of Skyville Live on Dec. 11, paying tribute to Gregg Allman. The live-streamed event will fea-ture blues musician Taj Mahal; an additional act is promised.
Country acts will participate in two events that celebrate music anniversaries during the month of December. Zac Brown has been added to the previously an-nounced Sinatra 100 — An All-Star Grammy Concert, which will be filmed Dec. 2 in Las Vegas and airs Dec. 5 on CBS. Other participants include Carrie Un-derwood, Garth Brooks, Celine Dion and Alicia Keys. Addition-ally, Eric Church, Chris Sta-pleton, Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson perform during a Dec. 5 taping in New York of Imagine: John Lennon 75th Birth-day Concert, which airs Dec. 19 on AMC. That lineup also boasts Steven Tyler, Peter Frampton, The Roots and Sheryl Crow.
Kelsea Ballerini will take part in the lighting of the national Christmas tree on Dec. 3 at the Ellipse near the White House in Washington, D.C. Presented by the National Park Service, the event also features Aloe Blacc, Crosby Stills & Nash and the Joyous String Quartet.
Vince Gill and Lee Ann Womack will participate in I Hope You Dance: The Power and Spirit of Song, a film based on the award-winning song written by Mark D. Sanders and Tia Sillers. Produced by John Scheinfeld (The U.S. vs. John Lennon) and Spencer Proffer, the film debuts Thanksgiving Day on the Hallmark Movies & Mysteries channel. A DVD and a related book will arrive Dec. 1.
LITTLE BIG TOWN
ON THIS DATE IN COUNTRY MUSIC
Nov. 16 • 2010—BigMachinereleasesRascal Flatts’ first
album for the label, Nothing Like This. • 1960—Patsy Cline records “I Fall to Pieces”
during an afternoon session at the Bradley Film & Recording Studio in Nashville.
Nov. 17 • 2000—TheJim Carrey picture How the Grinch Stole Christmas
debuts in theaters. Faith Hill performs “Where Are You, Christmas?” in the movie.
suffers a concussion during an NCAA game in Hattiesburg, Miss., ending his season. The Blazers are defeated by the Southern Missis-sippi Golden Eagles, 25-20.
• 2005—TheJohnny Cash biopic Walk the Line opens, with Joaquin Phoenix in the starring role. Reese Witherspoon portrays June Carter, Shelby Lynne takes the role of Cash’s mother, and Shooter Jennings plays his late father, Waylon Jennings.
Nov. 19 • 2007—Tracy Lawrence holds his second annual Turkey Fry at
the Nashville Rescue Mission. Jason Aldean, Wade Hayes, Darryl Worley, John Rich and 3 Doors Down’s Brad Arnold help Lawrence cook 560 birds.
Nov. 21 • 2011—The Band Perry, Darius Rucker, Kris Kristofferson and
Dierks Bentley play for President Barack Obama at the White House. The bill also features Lauren Alaina, Lyle Lovett and Alison Krauss.
• 1955—InadealengineeredbyCol. Tom Parker, RCA Records buys Elvis Presley’s contract and master tapes from Sam Phillips’ Sun Records for $35,000.
Nov. 22 • 2014—Miranda Lambert’s MuttNation Foundation opens the Re-
demption Ranch dog shelter in Tishomingo, Okla. • 1990—Garth Brooks sings “Two of a Kind, Workin’ on a Full House”
while riding a turkey float in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. The parade also features Patty Loveless singing “On Down the Line” on a train engine float.
Source: RolandNote.com, the Ultimate Country Music Database
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NASHVILLE & NATIONAL TOM ROLAND
GOOD WORKSAfter raising $1.5 million for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in the last 18 months, Bobby Bones & The Raging Idiots are out to raise more with a Million Dollar Show.
The duo, launched through iHeartMedia’s syndicated The Bobby Bones Show, will be joined Dec. 7 by at least five acts — Dierks Bentley, Little Big Town, Cam, Brett Eldredge and Eric Paslay — at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium.
Tickets went on sale Nov. 13.
TWEET OF THE WEEKTexas singer-songwriter Ray Wylie Hubbard (@raywylie) was as surprised as anyone when Eric Church name-checked him alongside Elvis Costello and Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy in the new single “Mr. Misunderstood”:
“very gallant of a guy who sells out stadiums to acknowledge a gnarly old cat who can’t sell out gruene hall”
To follow BCU, go to Twitter.com/bbcountryupdate.
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The Band Perry performed during Live in the Vineyard, a biannual festival celebrating food, wine and music in Napa, Calif. From left are band member Reid Perry, Live in the Vineyard owner Bobbii Hach-Jacobs, singer-songwriter James Bay and TBP’s Kimberly Perry and Neil Perry.
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Hot Country SongsSALES, AIRPLAY & STREAMING DATA COMPILED BYHot Country Songs
The blue-collar anthem climbs 7-5 on Hot Country Songs, as parent album Storyteller
sells another 27,000 copies (264,000 to date). Rumored next single “Heartbeat” is bubbling under Country Airplay (862,000
impressions, up 34 percent).
5CARRIE
UNDERWOODSmoke Break
Blake Shelton scores his 24th Hot Country Songs top 10. The song
is up in all metrics, including by 5 percent to 42.8 million in airplay audience. He made news on Nov. 13 for being a hero in Ardmore, Okla.: He pulled four men
free from a mud hole they were stuck in.
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AGOWKS ON CHART
TITLE Artist PRODUCER (SONGWRITER) IMPRINT / PROMOTION LABEL CERTIFIED
l18 18 20 26 I LOVE THIS LIFE LoCash L.RIMES,P.BRUST,C.LUCAS (D.MYRICK,C.JANSON,C.LUCAS,P.BRUST) REVIVER 18
19 17 16 24 JOHN COUGAR, JOHN DEERE, JOHN 3:16 Keith Urban D.HUFF,K.URBAN (S.MCANALLY,R.COPPERMAN,J.OSBORNE) HIT RED/CAPITOL NASHVILLE 2
l20 19 19 14 DIBS Kelsea Ballerini F.G.WHITEHEAD,J.MASSEY (K.BALLERINI,J.KERR,R.GRIFFIN,J.DUKE) BLACK RIVER 18
l21 NEW 1 WHEN I’M GONE HH Hot Shot Debut HH Joey + Rory NOT LISTED (NOT LISTED) VANGUARD/SUGAR HILL/CMG
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22 20 30 9 BEAUTIFUL DRUG Zac Brown Band Z.BROWN (Z.BROWN,N.MOON) JOHN VARVATOS/REPUBLIC/BMLG/SOUTHERN GROUND 20
l23 32 — 2 MR. MISUNDERSTOOD HH Digital Gainer HH Eric Church J.JOYCE (E.CHURCH,C.BEATHARD) EMI NASHVILLE
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l24 21 21 32 ALREADY CALLIN’ YOU MINE Parmalee NV (M.THOMAS,S.THOMAS,B.KNOX,P.O’DONNELL,W.KIRBY) STONEY CREEK 20
l25 22 22 24 WE WENT Randy Houser D.GEORGE (J.WILSON,M.ROGERS,J.KING) STONEY CREEK 22
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l26 24 23 14 RUN AWAY WITH YOU Big & Rich J.RICH,B.KENNY (J.D.RICH,MICHAEL RAY) B$R/NEW REVOLUTION 21
l41 46 — 2 FIRE AWAY Chris Stapleton D.COBB,C.STAPLETON (C.STAPLETON,D.GREEN) MERCURY 41
42 33 15 4 USED TO LOVE YOU SOBER Kane Brown M.MCVANEY (K.BROWN,M.MCVANEY,J.HOGE) ZONE 4 15
l43 RE-ENTRY 4 HOME ALONE TONIGHT Luke Bryan Featuring Karen Fairchild J.STEVENS,J.STEVENS (J.STEVENS,C.TAYLOR,J.DREYER,T.CECIL) CAPITOL NASHVILLE 33
l44 NEW 1 MIGHT AS WELL GET STONED Chris Stapleton NOT LISTED (NOT LISTED) MERCURY 44
l45 NEW 1 OUTLAW STATE OF MIND Chris Stapleton NOT LISTED (NOT LISTED) MERCURY 45
46 41 43 10 DRINKIN’ TOWN WITH A FOOTBALL PROBLEM Billy Currington D.HUFF (A.HENNINGSEN,B.HENNINGSEN,C.HENNINGSEN,E.MCDAVID ELKINS,V.A.OLIVAREZ) MERCURY 41
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The new set from Hunter Hayes (released Nov. 6) debuts on Top Country
Albums at No. 16 (5,000 sold). Hayes wrote all seven tracks, and there are three versions of each: studio, live and acoustic.
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Top-selling paid download country songs compiled from sales reports collected and provided by Nielsen Music. Charts update weekly on Thurdays at www.Billboard.Biz/charts. Copyright 2015, Prometheus Global Media, LLC and Nielsen Music, Inc. All rights reserved.
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l2 2 15 BREAK UP IN A SMALL TOWN SAM HUNT
l3 14 2 TENNESSEE WHISKEY CHRIS STAPLETON
4 3 14 STRIP IT DOWN LUKE BRYAN
l5 4 25 HOUSE PARTY SAM HUNT
l6 6 46 TAKE YOUR TIME SAM HUNT
l7 5 22 I’M COMIN’ OVER CHRIS YOUNG
l8 9 38 GIRL CRUSH LITTLE BIG TOWN
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l10 8 13 BREAK UP WITH HIM OLD DOMINION
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l12 10 27 CRASH AND BURN THOMAS RHETT
l13 11 8 I GOT THE BOY JANA KRAMER
l14 15 5 SMOKE BREAK CARRIE UNDERWOOD
l15 16 86 PLAY IT AGAIN LUKE BRYAN
16 12 20 BUY ME A BOAT CHRIS JANSON
17 13 13 ANYTHING GOES FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE
18 17 25 KICK THE DUST UP LUKE BRYAN
l19 19 99 BOTTOMS UP BRANTLEY GILBERT
l20 20 10 NOTHIN’ LIKE YOU DAN + SHAY
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2 3 — 2 ERIC CHURCH Mr. MisunderstoodEMI NASHVILLE 024200*/UMGN 2
l3 NEW 1 TIM MCGRAW Damn Country MusicMCGRAW/BIG MACHINE TM0300A/BMLG 3
25 25 23 JOHN COUGAR, JOHN DEERE, JOHN 3:16 KEITH URBAN (Hit Red/Capitol Nashville/UMGN)
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l27 NEW I DRIVE YOUR TRUCK BARRETT BABER (Republic)
28 29 30 BUY ME A BOAT CHRIS JANSON (Warner Bros./WMN)
29 21 18 SAVE IT FOR A RAINY DAY KENNY CHESNEY (Blue Chair/Columbia Nashville/SMN)
30 32 12 I LOVE THIS LIFE LOCASH (Reviver)
31 27 26 ANYTHING GOES FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE (Republic Nashville/BMLG)
32 17 4 USED TO LOVE YOU SOBER KANE BROWN (Zone 4)
33 31 2 CONFESSION FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE (Republic Nashville/BMLG)
34 33 16 WE WENT RANDY HOUSER (Stoney Creek/BBMG)
35 30 26 KICK THE DUST UP LUKE BRYAN (Capitol Nashville/UMGN)
l36 38 2 WHISKEY AND YOU CHRIS STAPLETON (Mercury/UMGN)
l37 NEW IT ALL STARTED WITH A BEER FRANKIE BALLARD (Warner Bros./WMN)
38 35 17 NOTHIN’ LIKE YOU DAN + SHAY (Warner Bros./WMN)
39 7 3 SHOULD’VE RAN AFTER YOU COLE SWINDELL (Warner Bros./WMN)
l40 NEW MIXED DRINKS ABOUT FEELINGS ERIC CHURCH FEAT. SUSAN TEDESCHI (EMI Nashville/UMGN)
41 36 16 DIBS KELSEA BALLERINI (Black River)
l42 47 2 OUTLAW STATE OF MIND CHRIS STAPLETON (Mercury/UMGN)
43 37 3 COUNTRY NATION BRAD PAISLEY (Arista Nashville/SMN)
44 42 11 GONNA KNOW WE WERE HERE JASON ALDEAN (Broken Bow/BBMG)
45 43 26 LET ME SEE YA GIRL COLE SWINDELL (Warner Bros./WMN)
46 41 12 TOP OF THE WORLD TIM MCGRAW (McGraw/Big Machine/BMLG)
47 44 9 THAT DON’T SOUND LIKE YOU LEE BRICE (Curb)
48 46 3 BREAK ON ME. KEITH URBAN (Hit Red/Capitol Nashville/UMGN)
l49 NEW BATHROOM SINK MIRANDA LAMBERT (RCA Nashville/SMN)
l50 NEW RECORD YEAR ERIC CHURCH (EMI Nashville/UMGN)
BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE NOVEMBER 16, 2015 | PAGE 12 OF 18
The signature guitar riff echoes the tone of a 1990s Alan Jackson hit. The shuffle groove is a nod to Shania Twain’s 1999 single “Man! I Feel Like a Woman!” Even the opening yell is akin to the opening “Let’s go, girls” on Twain’s trademark single.
Maddie & Tae’s “Shut Up and Fish,” the third single from the duo’s debut album, Start Here, channels much of its attitude from ’90s country, though its comedic storyline about someone who chooses angling over romance makes it a female take on a song from the 21st cen-tury: Brad Paisley’s “I’m Gonna Miss Her (The Fishin’ Song).”
“We tend to do that little role-reversal thing,” affirms Tae Dye. “That’s kind of our thing.”
So is the biting humor, which was present in their first single, “Girl in a Country Song.” The laughs come easily as “Shut Up” progresses, but they’re much more risky than they might appear at first glance.
“It’s a fine line to say something like ‘shut up’ and be likeable,” says co-writer Pete Sal-lis, who authored “Somebody Wrote Love,” a successful 2006 single for Canadian country artist George Canyon. “Because as an art-ist, you definitely want to be likeable to your audience.”
Maddie & Tae didn’t exactly have an audi-ence when they wrote “Shut Up.” They were 16-year-old hopefuls who were visiting Nash-ville periodically from Oklahoma and Texas during school breaks to write songs with a group of composers rounded up by songwriter-producer Aaron Scherz (“Girl in a Country Song”). The subject matter of those songs had its limitations — drinking, marriage and wild parties were all inappropriate topics — but the girls had an ability to comb their own lives for material. That’s exactly how “Shut Up and Fish” surfaced during a writing session at the Love Shack, a little ol’ place on 18th Avenue in Nashville where Scherz wrote and made basic demos. During this particular session, Dye and Maddie Marlow were fresh off a real-life experience with a couple of male friends they had invited on a fishing trip in Oklahoma.
“They thought it was going to be more of a date kind of thing,” recalls Dye. “No. We were there to fish. Well, they show up, and they don’t know how to do any of it. They can’t bait their hook, they’re scared to touch the worm, they’re in these brand-new clean clothes, and so we didn’t catch anything. Maddie and I were super annoyed, so we did what we do best and we wrote a song about it.”
All they had at the beginning of the writing session with Scherz and Sallis was the fast-paced opening lines of the chorus — “We were fishin’/He was wishin’/We were kissin’ ” — and they were determined to nail down the rest of the chorus first. Sallis started playing the Twain-like shuffle on guitar, but finding the next line was difficult. Eventually, the four took a break to clear their heads. When they came back to it, the solution appeared: “I was gettin’ madder than a hornet in an old Coke can.”
“We didn’t want to say ‘pissed off,’ because everyone says that,” notes Mar-low. “We wanted to make an image that would really describe how we were feeling at that moment, how irritated we were, that no one had said before.”
Once they had built the chorus, they turned to the first verse and put the guy in salmon shorts and a preppy shirt.
“That whole first verse was my favorite part because we really got to paint this picture, and we got to exaggerate it, too,” says Marlow. “Of course, the [real]
guys didn’t exactly have salmon shorts on, but they had something close to it.”From there they built it to the bridge, where they once again exaggerated
the story by tossing the guy into the lake.“Any time you get to a bridge, it’s got to be a moment where something ties
the bow on the present,” says Sallis. “It was just an obvious place to go, throw-ing him in the lake. It just makes everybody smile and laugh.”
Scherz oversaw the work tape at the end of the day with Sallis playing the shuff le guitar and Maddie & Tae singing harmony on top. Later, he produced a more formal demo, where he decided to scrap the original guitar riff. Session player Rob McNelley worked with him to find a new one that provided a template for the final product. Then, it essentially went on the shelf.
“That was in the height of bro-country,” says Scherz. “We were like, ‘I don’t know what’s going to happen with this one.’ It’s a girl song about fishing, so it just sort of went away.”
“Girl in a Country Song” indirectly brought “Shut Up and Fish” back to life. Maddie & Tae went on a radio-promotion tour when their first single was released, and during a stop in the Midwest, the conversation with local broad-casters and Dot GM Chris Stacey turned to fishing. The duo said it had a song about the subject, and Scherz was stunned when the la-dies pulled “Shut Up” out of their back pocket on the spot.
“They hadn’t sung it in probably two years, and then they just busted it right out on key,
perfectly in-sync harmonies,” says Scherz. “It’s crazy.”It became part of the set, and they added it to the album as they were re-
cording at John and Martina McBride’s Blackbird Studios. Producer Dann Huff (Keith Urban, Brantley Gilbert) was inclined to make it more con-temporary, but Maddie & Tae — who were just 5 when the ’90s drew to a close — politely insisted they keep it kind of old-school.
“As a record producer, that’s perfect, because you want to work with people who can say yes and no,” says Huff. “That’s as important as anything, because otherwise I’m going to do what I gravitate toward, and that just takes them one more step away from who they are as artists.”
Huff was happy to accommodate, and he employed some of the same tech-niques he saw producer Robert John “Mutt” Lange use when Huff played on such Twain hits as “Any Man of Mine” and “Man! I Feel Like a Woman!” Derek Wells played a truncated solo, the shuffle beat became much more prominent, and — where Lange would hire three fiddle players for one song, Huff stacked three tracks of Ilya Toshinsky’s mandolin on “Shut Up.”
Marlow’s lead vocal and Dye’s harmonies were comparatively easy.“The thing about Tae is she doesn’t always sing over [the melody] or she
doesn’t always sing under. She kind of moves to where you naturally would sing it,” says Huff. “They don’t want it to sound like they’re struggling or they have to work too hard. They just want it to be friendly and natural.”
Which is how their pointed humor comes across in “Shut Up and Fish.” Dot released it to radio via Play MPE on Oct. 12, and it debuts this week at No. 51 on Country Airplay. It’s the oldest song they recorded for Start Here, and as the Chris Stapleton performance on the Country Music Association Awards has the industry re-examining its sound, “Shut Up” might also be perfectly timed.
“We always lean toward more country,” says Dye, “and that’s one of our country-ist.”
Maddie & Tae Hook ’90s Country With Feisty ‘Shut Up And Fish’
BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE NOVEMBER 16, 2015 | PAGE 13 OF 18
When Ashley Gearing earned her degree in entertainment industry studies from Nashville’s Belmont University in 2013, she could easily have turned right around and begun teaching the same classes she studied. That’s because the singer-songwriter was by then already a veteran of more than a decade in the music business, having signed her first record deal with Lyric Street Re-cords at age 12 and her current deal with Curb Records at 16.
Gearing, now 24 and promoting a new single and EP to country radio, says, “I feel like a new artist with the memories and the knowl-edge of an old artist.” She’s currently on the fourth radio tour of her career, visiting secondary stations to promote single “Train Track,” with plans to hit the major markets in the new year. Since her previous radio tours took place before she was even old enough to drive, Gearing jokes that the difference this time out is “I can have some wine at dinner now.”
However, there’s another, more important difference: “I really know who I am,” she says. “I am confident and able to have fun with it. I don’t feel like I have to act a certain way to please people. I really am just being myself, and I think people are responding to that so much more.”
While she’s running into some of the same programmers she first met as a tween, she’s glad for the opportunity to reintroduce herself. “People still don’t really know who I am,” she says. “They think I’m still 12 years old.”
Gearing’s story began in her hometown of Springfield, Mass., where she performed locally as a child and developed a following. Jimmy Harnen, then a promotion executive at DreamWorks Records (and now president of Repub-lic Nashville), gave her a poignant song he had written following the death of his father, “Can You Hear Me When I Talk to You?”
She recorded it and soon found herself playing it for then-WSIX Nashville PD Mike Moore in his office. Moore immediately walked her down to the stu-dio and had her play it live on the air. By the end of the day, she had invitations to meet with six record labels.
Gearing and her family decided the Disney-owned Lyric Street would be a
good fit, and the label took her on her first radio tour. Her parents alternated going on the road with her, along with a tutor. She remembers that first tour as “an adventure … like summer camp.”
While the song ultimately peaked at No. 36 on the Hot Country Songs chart in 2003, Gearing did set a chart milestone with it: She became the youngest solo artist to enter the country charts, beating a record previously held by Brenda Lee.
After that, Gearing says, her burgeoning career stalled. “There was a lot of confusion because no one really knew what to do with a 12-year-old at the time, and there wasn’t a lot for me to sing about,” she recalls. Her family made the decision to return to their previous life. “It was time to go back to sixth grade,” she says, admitting, “I felt a little bit defeated.”
She periodically returned to Nashville to write, and at age 16 performed at the Bluebird Cafe, where a Curb ex-ecutive heard her and offered a new deal. She accepted with the provision she would remain in Springfield and finish school. The label worked three singles from her between 2008 and 2011, and while all of them peaked in the 50s, Gearing says she got to enjoy a normal life, going to the prom and playing on her school’s varsity volleyball team.
At 18 she finally moved to Nashville and enrolled at Belmont. Once she graduated, she immediately began working on her self-titled six-song EP, re-leased to digital retailers in September. While music had previously “always been a juggling act for me,” for the first time she says she’s now “really able to pursue this 110 percent.”
As an industry veteran before her 25th birthday, Gearing says she has learned the value of perseverance. “There have definitely been ups and downs, but music has always been a part of my life and I always want it to be,” she says. “I don’t know if I’ll ever be Carrie Underwood, but I’m trying to do what I do best and always keep a positive outlook. I definitely want the positivity and the perseverance and the confidence to come through in the new music. [And] I want to keep doing it as long as I can.”
Ashley Gearing Is All Grown Up And Definitely Back On ‘Track’
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BULLETSl Awarded on Country Airplay to titles gaining audience or remaining flat from the previous week. A song will also receive a bullet if its percentage loss in audience does not exceed the percentage of monitored
station downtime for the format. Titles that decline in audience but increase in detections will also receive a bullet if the total audience erosion for the week does not exceed 3%. Bullets are awarded on Country Indicator to titles gaining plays or remaining flat from the previous week.
TIESOn Country Airplay, if two songs are tied in total audience, the song with the larger increase in audience is placed first. On Country Indicator, if two songs are tied in total plays, the song with the larger increase in plays is placed first.
RECURRENTSOn Country Airplay, descending titles below No. 10 in either audience or detections are moved to recurrent after 20 weeks, provided that they are not still
gaining enough audience points to bullet or if they rank below No. 10 and post a third consecutive week of (non-bulleted) audience decline, regardless of total chart weeks. On Country Indicator, descending, non-bulleted titles below No. 10 are moved to recurrent after 20 weeks or if they post a third consecutive week of decline in plays after 10 weeks.
HOT SHOT DEBUTAwarded to the highest-ranking new entry on Country Airplay and Country Indicator, respectively.
MOST ADDEDThe total number of new adds officially reported to Billboard by each reporting station, or by an automatic-add threshold (seven plays for the first time in a chart tracking week, according to Nielsen BDS) for stations that do not report adds.
MOST INCREASED AUDIENCE/PLAYSMost Increased Audience on Country Airplay and Most Increased Plays on Country Indicator list the songs with the greatest week-to-week increases in total audience or plays, respectively.
AIRPOWERAwarded on Country Airplay to titles ranking inside top 20 in plays and audience rankings for the first time, with increases in both plays and audience.
BREAKERAwarded on Country Airplay to titles achieving airplay (at least one detection) at 60% of reporting stations for the first time.
l53 56 2 DRUNK ON YOUR LOVE Atlantic/WMN Brett Eldredge 303 +83 0.314
l54 48 7 BOY & A GIRL THING Curb Mo Pitney 303 +4 0.161
l55 60 2 YOU LOOK LIKE I NEED A DRINK Valory Justin Moore 282 +72 0.149
l56 53 5 WHEN I’M GONE Black River Craig Morgan 281 +25 0.120
57 52 4 POWER OF POSITIVE DRINKIN’ Warner Bros./WAR Chris Janson 273 -2 0.175
l58 54 5 FREAKS LIKE ME Red Bow Joe Nichols 254 +11 0.170
l59 59 11 ME AND JOHNNY CASH Cingle/Star Farm Nashville Rainey Qualley 215 0 0.070
l60 RE-ENTRY BURN A LITTLE COLDER SSM Kayla Adams 211 +23 0.083
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Country Airplay Index21 EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Two Chord Georgia Music,
BMI/EMI April Music, Inc., ASCAP/Didn’t Have To Be Music Publishing, ASCAP/External Combustion Music, ASCAP/Songs Of Southside Independent Music Publishing, LLC, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Atlas Music Publishing, ASCAP/Ogden Avenue Publishing, BMI/Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI (D.Davidson, K.Lovelace, A.Gorley, H.Hayes) 21
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ALREADY CALLIN’ YOU MINE 27861 Music, BMI/Revelry Music, BMI/Gallo And Landers Music LLC, BMI/Sixteen Stars Music, BMI/HoriPro Entertainment Group, Inc., BMI/Rooster Pecked Music, BMI/Steel Wheels Music, BMI/Big Loud Bucks, BMI/Kirbtone Music, BMI (M.Thomas, S.Thomas, B.Knox, P.O’Donnell, W.Kirby) 13
ARE YOU READY FOR THE COUNTRY? Not Listed (Not Listed) 58
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BACKROAD SONG Climbing Windmills, BMI/House Of Sea Gayle Music, ASCAP (G.Smith, F.Rogers) 18
BEAUTIFUL DRUG Day For The Dead Publishing, SESAC/Southern Ground, SESAC/Reach Music Tunes, SESAC (Z.Brown, N.Moon) 22
BETTER IN BOOTS Legends Of Magic Mustang Music, SESAC/W.B.M. Music Corp., SESAC/This Is Magic Mustang Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Music Of Platinum Pen, SESAC/Hatchoo Music, SESAC/Thunder Cookie, SESAC (J.Wilson, D.Pittenger, N.Cooke) 36
BLUE BANDANA Go For The Goldsmith, ASCAP/BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP/Songs Of Big Deal, ASCAP/House Of Sea Gayle Music, ASCAP/Living Will’s Music, BMI/Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI (B.Goldsmith, C.J. Solar, A.S.Wills) 41
BOY & A GIRL THING Mike Curb Music, BMI/She’s My Darlin Music, ASCAP/House Of Sea Gayle Music, ASCAP (M.Pitney, D.Sampson) 50
BREAK ON ME. EMI April Music, Inc., ASCAP/Jon Mark Nite Music, ASCAP/EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Songs By Red Room, BMI (J.M.Nite, R.Copperman) 25
BREAK UP IN A SMALL TOWN Universal Music Corporation, ASCAP/Three Mules Music, ASCAP/External Combustion Music, ASCAP/Who Wants To Buy My Publishing, ASCAP/Songs Of Southside Independent Music Publishing, LLC, ASCAP/Smack Ink, ASCAP/Sam Hunt Publishing, ASCAP (S.Hunt, Z.Crowell, S.McAnally) 17
BREAK UP WITH HIM Sonic Geo Music, ASCAP/Calhoun Enterprises, ASCAP/Music Of RPM, ASCAP/HoriPro Entertainment Group, Inc., ASCAP/ReHits Music, Inc., ASCAP/Smacktown Music, ASCAP/Wrensong Publishing Corp., ASCAP/Songs Of Big Deal, ASCAP/BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP/Sharkules Music, ASCAP/Tiny Handstand, ASCAP/Wooden Ships, ASCAP (M.Ramsey, T. Rosen, B.Tursi, G.Sprung, W.Sellers) 6
BURNING HOUSE Marvelous Oaks Records, ASCAP/One Year Yesterday Publishing, BMI/Way Above Music, BMI/Sony/ATV Songs LLC, BMI (C.Ochs, T.Johnson, J.Bhasker) 9
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COLD BEER CONVERSATION International Dog Music, BMI/Bucked Up Music, BMI/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Thankful For This Music, ASCAP/EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Great Day At This Music, BMI/Beattyville Music, BMI (A.Anderson, B.Hayslip, J.Yeary) 34
CONFESSION Big Red Toe, BMI/Farm Town Songs, BMI/EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Songs By Red Room, BMI/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Who Wants To Buy My Publishing, ASCAP/External Combustion Music, ASCAP (R.Clawson, R.Copperman, M.Jenkins) 40
COUNTRY NATION House Of Sea Gayle Music, ASCAP/Making The Turn Music, ASCAP (B.Paisley, C.DuBois, K.Lovelace) 20
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CRAZY OVER ME Curb Songs, ASCAP/Curb Congregation Songs, SESAC (D.Scott, M.Alderman) 55
CRAZY TOO International Dog Music, BMI/Clarity Tree Music, BMI/Universal Music Corporation, ASCAP/Smack Ink, ASCAP/Songs of Parallel, ASCAP/Vista Loma Music, ASCAP (K.Rochelle, S.McAnally, L.Clark) 56
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DIBS Songs Of Black River, ASCAP/KNB Music, ASCAP/DHM Administration, ASCAP/Nyssa Music, ASCAP/Jason Duke Music, ASCAP (K.Ballerini, J.Kerr, R.Griffin, J.Duke) 15
DIE A HAPPY MAN EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Cricket On The Line, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Eastman Pond Publishing, BMI/Music Of Big Deal, BMI/Nice Life, BMI/Frederic And Reid Music, BMI/BMG Platinum Songs, BMI (Thomas Rhett, S.Douglas, J.Spargur) 11
DRUNK ON YOUR LOVE Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI/Paris Not France Music, BMI/EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Ross Copperman Songs, BMI (B.Eldredge, R.Copperman) 42
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FREAKS LIKE ME New House Of Sea Gayle Music, ASCAP/Vestal Boy Music, ASCAP/Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/Dixey Bar Music, BMI/Big Machine Music, BMI (L.Hutton, M.Criswell, J.Thompson) 53
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GONNA Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Creative Nation Music, BMI/Twangin And Slangin Songs, BMI/Big Loud Shirt Industries, ASCAP (L.Laird, C.Wiseman) 5
GONNA KNOW WE WERE HERE BMG Platinum Songs, BMI/Music Of Big Deal, BMI/Stalefish Music, BMI/BMG Chrysalis Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Songs Of Brett, ASCAP/External Combustion Music, ASCAP (B.Beavers, Brett James) 7
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HEAD OVER BOOTS Golden Vault Music, BMI/The Song Factory, LLC, BMI/Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Creative Nation Music, BMI (J.Pardi, L.Laird) 38
HIGH CLASS WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Five Foot Sixteen Publishing, ASCAP/Songs From The Rose Hotel, ASCAP/Rio Bravo Music, Inc., BMI/Telemitry Productions, BMI (E.Paslay, C.Crowder, J.Frasure) 45
HOLE IN A BOTTLE BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP/Skinny Fat Nashville Music, BMI/BMG Platinum Songs, BMI/Music Of Big Deal, BMI/Stalefish Music, BMI/Songs From The Couch, BMI (C.Smith, B.Beavers, D.Couch) 39
HOME ALONE TONIGHT Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/Universal Music Corporation, ASCAP/Red Vinyl Music, Inc., BMI/Sixteen Stars Music, BMI/HoriPro Entertainment Group, Inc., BMI (J.Stevens, C.Taylor, J.Dreyer, T.Cecil) 29
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I AM INVINCIBLE Brett Boyett Music, BMI/Harmony - HLO Music, BMI/Nashty Music, BMI/EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI (B.Boyett, N.Overstreet) 54
I GOT THE BOY Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Nichols Boys Music, BMI/Made For This Music, BMI/All For This Music, BMI/Sweet Jamie Music, Inc., BMI (T.Nichols, C.Harrington, J.L.Spears) 14
I LIKE THE SOUND OF THAT Year Of The Dog Music, ASCAP/Rio Bravo Music, Inc., BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Shay Mooney Music, ASCAP/MTrain Music, ASCAP (M.Trainor, J.Frasure, S.Mooney) 26
I LOVE THIS LIFE Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/Red Vinyl Music, Inc., BMI/Round Hill Works, BMI (D.Myrick, C.Janson, C.Lucas, P.Brust) 12
I’M COMIN’ OVER EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Goodbye Pants Music, BMI/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Songs From The Rose Hotel, ASCAP/EMI Foray Music, SESAC/Write 2 Be Free Music, SESAC (C.Young, C.Crowder, J.Hoge) 1
I MET A GIRL ReHits Music, Inc., ASCAP/Smacktown Music, ASCAP/Universal Music Corporation, ASCAP/Three Mules Music, ASCAP/Smack Ink, ASCAP (T. Rosen, S.Hunt, S.McAnally) 48
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LET ME SEE YA GIRL Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/243 Music, ASCAP/Sony/ATV Cross Keys Publishing, ASCAP (C.Swindell, M.Carter, J.Stevens) 2
LITTLE BIT OF YOU Orbison Music, LLC, BMI/BMG Platinum Songs, BMI/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Funky Friar Music, ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP (C.Bryant, D.George, A.Gorley) 23
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MIND READER EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Rhettro Music, BMI/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Thankful For This Music, ASCAP (R.Akins, B.Hayslip) 35
MR. MISUNDERSTOOD Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/Longer And Louder Music, BMI/Sony/ATV Acuff Rose Music, BMI/Six Ring Circus Songs, BMI (E.Church, C.Beathard) 30
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NEXT BOYFRIEND Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Lylas Music, BMI/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Thankful For This Music, ASCAP/A Frank Entertainment, ASCAP/Song House Publishing, ASCAP/Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., ASCAP (L.Alaina, E.Weisband, M.McVaney) 52
NIGHT’S ON FIRE Super Big Music, ASCAP/Jett Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Doc And Maggie Music, SOCAN/Thankful For This Music, ASCAP (J.Singleton, D.Ruttan) 43
NOBODY TO BLAME WB Music Corp., ASCAP/House Of Sea Gayle Music, ASCAP/Quackhead Music, BMI/Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI (C.Stapleton, B.Bales, R.Bowman) 31
NOTHIN’ LIKE YOU WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Beats And Banjos, ASCAP/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Shay Mooney Music, ASCAP/Highly Combustible Music, ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/EMI April Music, Inc., ASCAP/Sugar Glider Music, ASCAP (D.Smyers, S.Mooney, A.Gorley, C. DeStefano) 4
POWER OF POSITIVE DRINKIN’ Red Vinyl Music, Inc., BMI/Buckkilla Music, BMI/House Of Sea Gayle Music, ASCAP/Green Vinyl Music, ASCAP (C.Janson, Mark Irwin, C.DuBois) 49
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REAL MEN LOVE JESUS EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Sagequinnjude Music, BMI/Famlove Songs, BMI (B.Warren, B.Warren, L.Miller, A.Sanders) 33
RISER Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI/Nan Jam Music Publishing, BMI/She And I, LLC, BMI/It’s Killer Music, BMI (S.Moakler, T.Meadows) 27
RUN AWAY WITH YOU J Money Music, ASCAP/Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., ASCAP/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI (J.D.Rich, Michael Ray) 16
RUNNING FOR YOU Music Of Stage Three, BMI/Songs Of Cornman, BMI/Roll Through Music, BMI/BMG Platinum Songs, BMI/Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Songs From The Engine Room, BMI/Southside Independent Music Publishing, LLC, BMI/Internal Combustion Music, BMI/Kickin’ Grids Music, BMI (K.Moore, T.Verges, B.Daly) 47
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SHUT UP AND FISH Super Big Music, ASCAP/Big Machine Music, BMI/Song Alert Publishing, SESAC/Tunes of R And T Direct, SESAC (M.Marlow, T.Dye, P.Sallis, A.Scherz) 51
SMOKE BREAK Carrie-Okie Music, BMI/EMI April Music, Inc., ASCAP/HillarodyRathbone Music, ASCAP/BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP (C.Underwood, C. DeStefano, H.Lindsey) 3
SOMEWHERE TONIGHT You Otto Hear This, SESAC/Liz Rose Music, LLC, BMI/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Patrick Davis Music, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Nashvistaville Songs, BMI/Ain’t My Baby Grand Music, BMI/Buffalo Sound, BMI (J.Otto, C.Crowder, P.Davis, J.T.Slater, J.T.Hodges) 59
STAY A LITTLE LONGER WB Music Corp., ASCAP/All The Kings Pens, ASCAP/Universal Music Corporation, ASCAP/Smack Ink, ASCAP (J. Osborne, T.J. Osborne, S.McAnally) 10
STONE COLD SOBER Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Indiana Angel Music, BMI/External Combustion Music, ASCAP/Songs Of Brett, ASCAP/Atlas Music Publishing, ASCAP/Yawyer Three Music, ASCAP (B.Gilbert, Brett James, D.Layus) 32
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THAT DON’T SOUND LIKE YOU Mike Curb Music, BMI/EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Brooks County Boy Music, BMI/External Combustion Music, ASCAP/Out Of The Taperoom Music, ASCAP/Songs Of Southside Independent Music Publishing, LLC, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP (L.Brice, R.Akins, A.Gorley) 28
(THIS AIN’T NO) DRUNK DIAL Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Carolina June Publishing, BMI/Greatshakin Music, BMI/Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Crowder Taylor Publishing, BMI/Nettwerk One Music, BMI/Revelry Music, BMI/Nevada House Music, BMI/Nettwerk One Music Limited Canada, SOCAN/Cale Dodds Publishing, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP (M.Hobby, C.Crowder, N.Mason, C.Dodds) 24
TOP OF THE WORLD Extraordinary Alien Publishing, ASCAP/Universal Music Corporation, ASCAP/EMI April Music, Inc., ASCAP/Jon Mark Nite Music, ASCAP/Songs Of Black River, ASCAP/One Little Indian Creek Music, ASCAP (J.Robbins, J.M.Nite, J.Osborne) 8
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WE WENT Legends Of Magic Mustang Music, SESAC/W.B.M. Music Corp., SESAC/ole Canalco Publishing, ASCAP/Ole Ole, ASCAP/Songs Of Razor And Tie Music, ASCAP/Songs Of Black River, ASCAP (J.Wilson, M.Rogers, J.King) 19
WHEN I’M GONE Wordspring Music, LLC, SESAC/Word Music, LLC, ASCAP/Son Of Austin Songs, ASCAP (J.Ebach, S.D.Jones) 60
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YOU LOOK LIKE I NEED A DRINK Round Hill Works, BMI/Farm Town Songs, BMI/Big Loud Proud Crowd, BMI/Round Hill Songs, ASCAP/Big Loud Proud Songs, ASCAP/HappyGoWrucke, BMI/Creative Pulse Music, BMI/These Are Pulse Songs, BMI (R.Clawson, M.Dragstrem, N.Hemby) 57
YUP Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/Code Six Charles Music, BMI/Sixteen Stars Music, BMI/Rooster Pecked Music, BMI/HoriPro Entertainment Group, Inc., BMI/Round Hill Works, BMI/Kirbtone Music, BMI (S.Minor, P.O’Donnell, W.Kirby) 37
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Hot Country Songs Index21 EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Two Chord Georgia
Music, BMI/EMI April Music, Inc., ASCAP/Didn’t Have To Be Music Publishing, ASCAP/External Combustion Music, ASCAP/Songs Of Southside Independent Music Publishing, LLC, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Atlas Music Publishing, ASCAP/Ogden Avenue Publishing, BMI/Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI (D.Davidson, K.Lovelace, A.Gorley, H.Hayes) 31
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ALREADY CALLIN’ YOU MINE 27861 Music, BMI/Revelry Music, BMI/Gallo And Landers Music LLC, BMI/Sixteen Stars Music, BMI/HoriPro Entertainment Group, Inc., BMI/Rooster Pecked Music, BMI/Steel Wheels Music, BMI/Big Loud Bucks, BMI/Kirbtone Music, BMI (M.Thomas, S.Thomas, B.Knox, P.O’Donnell, W.Kirby) 24
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BACKROAD SONG Climbing Windmills, BMI/House Of Sea Gayle Music, ASCAP (G.Smith, F.Rogers) 29
BEAUTIFUL DRUG Day For The Dead Publishing, SESAC/Southern Ground, SESAC/Reach Music Tunes, SESAC (Z.Brown, N.Moon) 22
BRAND NEW GIRLFRIEND Not Listed (Not Listed) 49
BREAK ON ME. EMI April Music, Inc., ASCAP/Jon Mark Nite Music, ASCAP/EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Songs By Red Room, BMI (J.M.Nite, R.Copperman) 32
BREAK UP IN A SMALL TOWN Universal Music Corporation, ASCAP/Three Mules Music, ASCAP/External Combustion Music, ASCAP/Who Wants To Buy My Publishing, ASCAP/Songs Of Southside Independent Music Publishing, LLC, ASCAP/Smack Ink, ASCAP/Sam Hunt Publishing, ASCAP (S.Hunt, Z.Crowell, S.McAnally) 3
BREAK UP WITH HIM Sonic Geo Music, ASCAP/Calhoun Enterprises, ASCAP/Music Of RPM, ASCAP/HoriPro Entertainment Group, Inc., ASCAP/ReHits Music, Inc., ASCAP/Smacktown Music, ASCAP/Wrensong Publishing Corp., ASCAP/Songs Of Big Deal, ASCAP/BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP/Sharkules Music, ASCAP/Tiny Handstand, ASCAP/Wooden Ships, ASCAP (M.Ramsey, T. Rosen, B.Tursi, G.Sprung, W.Sellers) 8
BURNING HOUSE Marvelous Oaks Records, ASCAP/One Year Yesterday Publishing, BMI/Way Above Music, BMI/Sony/ATV Songs LLC, BMI (C.Ochs, T.Johnson, J.Bhasker) 6
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COLD BEER CONVERSATION International Dog Music, BMI/Bucked Up Music, BMI/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Thankful For This Music, ASCAP/EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Great Day At This Music, BMI/Beattyville Music, BMI (A.Anderson, B.Hayslip, J.Yeary) 47
CONFESSION Big Red Toe, BMI/Farm Town Songs, BMI/EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Songs By Red Room, BMI/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Who Wants To Buy My Publishing, ASCAP/External Combustion Music, ASCAP (R.Clawson, R.Copperman, M.Jenkins) 40
COUNTRY NATION House Of Sea Gayle Music, ASCAP/Making The Turn Music, ASCAP (B.Paisley, C.DuBois, K.Lovelace) 27
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DIBS Songs Of Black River, ASCAP/KNB Music, ASCAP/DHM Administration, ASCAP/Nyssa Music, ASCAP/Jason Duke Music, ASCAP (K.Ballerini, J.Kerr, R.Griffin, J.Duke) 20
DIE A HAPPY MAN EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Cricket On The Line, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Eastman Pond Publishing, BMI/Music Of Big Deal, BMI/Nice Life, BMI/Frederic And Reid Music, BMI/BMG Platinum Songs, BMI (Thomas Rhett, S.Douglas, J.Spargur) 2
DRINKIN’ TOWN WITH A FOOTBALL PROBLEM EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Line In The Sand, BMI/Taste Of Crow Music, BMI/Your Ears Will Never Go Hungry, BMI/Archenland Music, BMI/Gypsy Girl Music, BMI (A.Henningsen, B.Henningsen, C.Henningsen, E.McDavid Elkins, V.A.Olivarez) 46
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FIRE AWAY WB Music Corp., ASCAP/New Sea Gayle Music, ASCAP/Ole Ole, ASCAP/Black In The Saddle Songs, ASCAP (C.Stapleton, D.Green) 41
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GONNA Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Creative Nation Music, BMI/Twangin And Slangin Songs, BMI/Big Loud Shirt Industries, ASCAP (L.Laird, C.Wiseman) 9
GONNA KNOW WE WERE HERE BMG Platinum Songs, BMI/Music Of Big Deal, BMI/Stalefish Music, BMI/BMG Chrysalis Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Songs Of Brett, ASCAP/External Combustion Music, ASCAP (B.Beavers, Brett James) 13
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HEAD OVER BOOTS Golden Vault Music, BMI/The Song Factory, LLC, BMI/Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Creative Nation Music, BMI (J.Pardi, L.Laird) 48
HOME ALONE TONIGHT Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/Universal Music Corporation, ASCAP/Red Vinyl Music, Inc., BMI/Sixteen Stars Music, BMI/HoriPro Entertainment Group, Inc., BMI (J.Stevens, C.Taylor, J.Dreyer, T.Cecil) 43
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I GOT THE BOY Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Nichols Boys Music, BMI/Made For This Music, BMI/All For This Music, BMI/Sweet Jamie Music, Inc., BMI (T.Nichols, C.Harrington, J.L.Spears) 14
I LIKE THE SOUND OF THAT Year Of The Dog Music, ASCAP/Rio Bravo Music, Inc., BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Shay Mooney Music, ASCAP/MTrain Music, ASCAP (M.Trainor, J.Frasure, S.Mooney) 39
I LOVE THIS LIFE Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/Red Vinyl Music, Inc., BMI/Round Hill Works, BMI (D.Myrick, C.Janson, C.Lucas, P.Brust) 18
I’M COMIN’ OVER EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Goodbye Pants Music, BMI/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Songs From The Rose Hotel, ASCAP/EMI Foray Music, SESAC/Write 2 Be Free Music, SESAC (C.Young, C.Crowder, J.Hoge) 4
IN THE GARDEN Not Listed (Not Listed) 34
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JOHN COUGAR, JOHN DEERE, JOHN 3:16 Smack Hits, GMR/Kobalt Music Group Ltd., GMR/EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Songs By Red Room, BMI/Songs Of Black River, ASCAP/One Little Indian Creek Music, ASCAP (S.McAnally, R.Copperman, J.Osborne) 19
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LAST MINUTE LATE NIGHT Patrick Joseph, BMI/Songs Publishing, BMI/Liz Rose Music, LLC, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Smack Ink, ASCAP/UMPG, ASCAP (B.Caver, C.Crowder, M.McGinn) 33
LET ME SEE YA GIRL Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/243 Music, ASCAP/Sony/ATV Cross Keys Publishing, ASCAP (C.Swindell, M.Carter, J.Stevens) 10
LITTLE BIT OF YOU Orbison Music, LLC, BMI/BMG Platinum Songs, BMI/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Funky Friar Music, ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP (C.Bryant, D.George, A.Gorley) 37
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MIGHT AS WELL GET STONED Not Listed (Not Listed) 44
MR. MISUNDERSTOOD Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/Longer And Louder Music, BMI/Sony/ATV Acuff Rose Music, BMI/Six Ring Circus Songs, BMI (E.Church, C.Beathard) 23
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NOBODY TO BLAME WB Music Corp., ASCAP/House Of Sea Gayle Music, ASCAP/Quackhead Music, BMI/Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI (C.Stapleton, B.Bales, R.Bowman) 38
NOTHIN’ LIKE YOU WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Beats And Banjos, ASCAP/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Shay Mooney Music, ASCAP/Highly Combustible Music, ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/EMI April Music, Inc., ASCAP/Sugar Glider Music, ASCAP (D.Smyers, S.Mooney, A.Gorley, C. DeStefano) 11
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OUTLAW STATE OF MIND Not Listed (Not Listed) 45
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PARACHUTE Not Listed (Not Listed) 50
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RISER Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI/Nan Jam Music Publishing, BMI/She And I, LLC, BMI/It’s Killer Music, BMI (S.Moakler, T.Meadows) 28
RUN AWAY WITH YOU J Money Music, ASCAP/Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., ASCAP/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI (J.D.Rich, Michael Ray) 26
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SAVE IT FOR A RAINY DAY Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Endorffin Music, BMI/Sonic Geo Music, ASCAP/Calhoun Enterprises, ASCAP/Music Of RPM, ASCAP/HoriPro Entertainment Group, Inc., ASCAP/Songs Of Big Deal, ASCAP/BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP (A.Dorff, M.Ramsey, B.Tursi) 16
SMOKE BREAK Carrie-Okie Music, BMI/EMI April Music, Inc., ASCAP/HillarodyRathbone Music, ASCAP/BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP (C.Underwood, C. DeStefano, H.Lindsey) 5
STAY A LITTLE LONGER WB Music Corp., ASCAP/All The Kings Pens, ASCAP/Universal Music Corporation, ASCAP/Smack Ink, ASCAP (J. Osborne, T.J. Osborne, S.McAnally) 12
STRIP IT DOWN Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/Peanut Mill Songs, BMI/EMI April Music, Inc., ASCAP/Jon Mark Nite Music, ASCAP/EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Songs By Red Room, BMI (L.Bryan, J.M.Nite, R.Copperman) 7
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TENNESSEE WHISKEY Universal-Songs Of PolyGram International, BMI/EMI Algee, BMI (D.Dillon, Linda Hargrove) 1
THAT DON’T SOUND LIKE YOU Mike Curb Music, BMI/EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Brooks County Boy Music, BMI/External Combustion Music, ASCAP/Out Of The Taperoom Music, ASCAP/Songs Of Southside Independent Music Publishing, LLC, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP (L.Brice, R.Akins, A.Gorley) 30
(THIS AIN’T NO) DRUNK DIAL Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Carolina June Publishing, BMI/Greatshakin Music, BMI/Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Crowder Taylor Publishing, BMI/Nettwerk One Music, BMI/Revelry Music, BMI/Nevada House Music, BMI/Nettwerk One Music Limited Canada, SOCAN/Cale Dodds Publishing, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP (M.Hobby, C.Crowder, N.Mason, C.Dodds) 36
TOP OF THE WORLD Extraordinary Alien Publishing, ASCAP/Universal Music Corporation, ASCAP/EMI April Music, Inc., ASCAP/Jon Mark Nite Music, ASCAP/Songs Of Black River, ASCAP/One Little Indian Creek Music, ASCAP (J.Robbins, J.M.Nite, J.Osborne) 15
TRAVELLER WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Ken Tucky Music, ASCAP (C.Stapleton) 17
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USED TO LOVE YOU SOBER Kane Brown Music, BMI/EMI Foray Music, SESAC/Write 2 Be Free Music, SESAC/A Frank Entertainment, ASCAP/Song House Publishing, ASCAP/Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., ASCAP (K.Brown, M.McVaney, J.Hoge) 42
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WE WENT Legends Of Magic Mustang Music, SESAC/W.B.M. Music Corp., SESAC/ole Canalco Publishing, ASCAP/Ole Ole, ASCAP/Songs Of Razor And Tie Music, ASCAP/Songs Of Black River, ASCAP (J.Wilson, M.Rogers, J.King) 25
WHEN I’M GONE Not Listed (Not Listed) 21
WHISKEY AND YOU WB Music Corp., ASCAP/New Sea Gayle Music, ASCAP/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/New Songs Of Sea Gayle, BMI (C.Stapleton, L.T.Miller) 35
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On Nov. 22, 1980, Kenny Rog-ers rose 2-1 on Hot Country Songs with the Lionel Richie-written and -produced “Lady.” While it was Rogers’ 10th of 21 No. 1s on the tally, it was his first leader on the Billboard Hot 100 (spending a second of six weeks on top). The love song would breed more crossover success for Rogers, who would top both charts again in 1983 with his Dolly Parton duet “Islands in the Stream,” written by the Bee Gees.
“Lady” was R ichie’s f irst pro-duct ion project outside of t he
Commodores, leading to further inroads at country. 1987’s “Deep River Woman” hit No. 10 on Hot Country Songs, while Rogers and Richie covered “Lady” on Richie’s Tuskegee, which ruled Top Country Albums for four weeks in 2012.
Rogers was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2013 and recently released the hol-iday LP Once Again It’s Christmas, which includes features by Alison Krauss and Jennifer Nettles. Now 77, Rogers has announced a retire-ment tour for 2016. —JIM ASKER
35 Years AgoKenny TookLionel’s ‘Lady’ To No. 1In 1980, Rogers reigned with the love song penned and produced by Richie
