“Sunrise, sunburn, sunset, repeat.” Yes, it’s the hook of Luke Bryan’s current single, but it’s

also a way of life for many of country’s acts during the key summer touring months. Fairs, festivals, stadiums and amphitheaters require ar t ists and musicians to play outdoors during a season of p otent ia l brutality. Temperatures in Texas and Southern California, for example, hit triple digits the week of July 16, while intense heat sent hundreds of fans to the emergency t e n t d u r i n g J u n e ’ s C M A M u s i c Fe s t i v a l in Nashville.

“I sweat my ass off,” says Jon Pardi, recalling his 6:20 p.m. start time on June 16 at Cincinnati’s Great American Ballpark, where temps reached the 90s and humidity topped 85 percent. “I sweat, but I don’t care. If you’re not sweating right now, you’re weird, ’cause it’s hot.”

Few things will remove the glamor from an artist’s career more. A typical show might produce beads of perspiration across the forehead or armpit stains on the once-clean T-shirt during the early minutes of an outdoor summer show. But let a set go on for 45 or 90 minutes, and the results won’t be a whole lot

different than a trip to the sauna.“I’m going to look like I just took a shower,” says Brett

Eldredge of those concerts. “There’s just no escaping it.”Country artists are almost required to embrace those

conditions. Summer has become a sig n i f ica nt t heme in t he genre in the last decade, thanks to such beachy and/or seasonal t it les as Zac Brown Band’s “Toes,” Jake Owen’s “Beachin’,” Jason Aldean’s “A Little M o r e S u m m e r t i m e ” and Little Big Town’s “Summer Fever.” The gen re is i nc reasi n g ly sy nony mous w it h t he h o t t e s t t i m e o f t h e

year, with all of the positive and negative consequences that association brings.

“Heat is good for the throat,” notes Little Big Town’s Karen Fairchild. “That moisture and the humidity is good, but not so great on the hair and the body.”

Artists sometimes have to learn that the hard way. Florida Georgia Line lead vocalist Tyler Hubbard required medical attention the first time the duo played the Stagecoach Country Music Festival in Indio, Calif., on April 28, 2013.

BILLBOARD.COM/NEWSLETTERS JULY 23, 2018 | PAGE 1 OF 18

INSIDE

FGL, Bebe Tie Sam Hunt Mark

>page 4

Stapleton, Aldean: Community Service

>page 8

Dustin, Cam, Deana Do The ACM Honors

>page 9

Elvis On The Comeback Trail

>page 9

Makin’ Tracks: David Lee Murphy’s

‘Sorry’ >page 13

Country Coda: A ‘Good Thing’ Happened To Luke Bryan

>page 18

‘No Excuses’: Artists Take The Heat During Summer Tour Season

BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE Tom.Roland@billboard.com

Country Update

DANIELSDANIELS PARDIPARDI JOHNSON

JO

HN

SO

N: J T

RE

VIN

O

“I was hydrated, just with the wrong fluid,” he says. “We were having a good time early in the afternoon, and it was probably 100 degrees. I just got a little worked up onstage, and by the time I got off, I was just super lightheaded and had to sit down. I knew I was on the verge of passing out.”

It’s particularly brutal in the Southern regions of the United States, where threatening temperatures can combine with high humidity and stagnant air to create a cauldron of discomfort. At times, it can feel as if you inhale air in chunks rather than molecules. Those conditions create additional problems for entertainers, who may try harder to work up a lethargic, heat-stricken crowd even as the weather is causing them problems.

“When I get really hot, it gets hard for me to control my breathing, especially when you’re holding notes,” says Warner Music Nashville artist Cody Johnson, who has sweated so much since January that he has gone through three straw hats.

Johnson, who grew up amid swampy Southeast Texas summers, has several techniques to combat dehydration. One seems counterintuitive: Instead of resting the entire day, he does two hours of hard-core cross-fit training in the morning with the understanding that it helps the body adjust to extreme temperatures. He also finds a sports medicine clinic every two or three weeks when he’s on the road to get an intravenous booster with supplements of B6 and B12 vitamins.

“Because I move so much, it’s necessary,” he says. “Dehydration really kills my vocal cords. I’ve learned over the years to pay attention to it, to make sure we have hydration powder if we don’t have access to an IV, just to keep your body supplemented for what you’re putting out.”

Water-soaked towels provide an additional onstage supplement, notes Hubbard. And Pardi tends to dress in sleeveless shirts during the summer for a little extra aeration.

But Charlie Daniels may have the best system to beat the heat, courtesy of road manager Jimmy Burton.

“He went and got a stand-alone air conditioner,” says Daniels. “You put water in it, and it sort of cools the room. But instead of putting water in it, we put ice in it, and we surround it with fans so it blows the cold air around, and the fans are [pointed] in my direction. It still gets hot, I still sweat and everything, but it makes it very bearable.”

Artists are also able to reduce exposure to the heat, assuming they choose to take advantage of amenities. Most venues are air-conditioned, and the generators on buses keep their vehicles at ideal temperatures.

“It’s a refrigerator on wheels,” deadpans David Lee Murphy.That helps them keep their cool, but so does a little reality check. The artists

are, after all, getting paid to be there. The consumers shell out big bucks to be in the seats and — particularly on a multi-artist bill — could be miserable for four to eight hours.

“It sucks,” says Pardi of the summer heat. “But I always try to remember one simple thing: There’s fans out there, and all they want to do is have a good time, so they’re sweating it out with you. No excuses.”

Maddie & Tae dropped in at the Academy of Country Music during a working trip to Los Angeles. From left: ACM CEO Pete Fisher, Maddie Marlow and Tae Dye.

Lee Brice (right) raised more than $3,000 for Folds of Honor during a SESAC-sponsored benefit on July 16 at the Hutton Hotel in Nashville. He’s shown with songwriter Rob Hatch (“I Don’t Dance,” “Goodnight Kiss”) and his wife, SESAC vp creative services Shannan Hatch.

Morgan Wallen and Kalie Shorr entertained Nashville music executives on July 17 during a BMI Rooftop on the Row concert, sponsored by George Dickel. From left: BMI Nashville executive director of strategic partnerships Mason Hunter, Shorr, George Dickel distillery ambassador Brian Downing and BMI associate director of writer/publisher relations MaryAnn Keen. M

AD

DIE

& T

AE

: B

RA

ND

ON

CA

MP

BE

LL

; W

AL

LE

N, S

HO

RE

: N

AT

HA

N Z

UC

KE

R

BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE JULY 23, 2018 | PAGE 2 OF 18

http://www.countryaircheck.com/mp3s/NewRecording70.m4a

Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line’s “Meant to Be” (Warner Bros./Big Machine Label Group) logs a record-tying 34th week atop Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart (dated July 28). This encompasses its entire run on the ranking, dating to its debut at the summit on Dec. 16, 2017.

With its latest frame ruling the list, which blends streaming, airplay and sales data, the song ties Sam Hunt’s “Body Like a Back Road,” which led for 34 weeks in 2017, for the most time at No. 1 on the chart, which began as an all-encompassing genre songs survey in 1958.

Florida Georgia Line’s Tyler Hubbard wrote “Meant to Be” with Rexha, Josh Miller and David Garcia. Hubbard tells Billboard that “Meant” felt unique almost immediately after the writing session for the track. “It’s safe to say that we all felt like we had something special when we left the studio that night,” he says. “But it was more than just special. There’s no doubt that this song is anointed by the best writer there is, the Lord. With every unexpected surprise in the story of ‘Meant to Be,’ God was showing himself to be stronger than any tradition or genre. I’m so thankful to be a part of this song and humbled more with each week that it remains at the top of the Billboard chart.”

Says Rexha, “ ‘Meant to Be’ was truly unexpected, and I’m starting to find out that the best things in life are. I’d never think a New York City girl like me who grew up writing pop music would stumble into the country world. I have my Florida Georgia Line collaborators and brothers to thank for that. They’ve truly opened my world and taught me to believe.”

“Meant” crowns Country Streaming Songs for a 30th week (15.2 million U.S. streams, according to Nielsen Music) and ranks at No. 6 on Country Digital Song Sales (12,000 sold), which it led for 22 frames. The song also topped the Country Airplay chart dated April 28. Because it was promoted to country and pop radio, it led Adult Pop Songs for two weeks and the all-genre Radio Songs chart for five frames.

Meanwhile, FGL (which is rounded out by Brian Kelley) extends its record for

the most total weeks at No. 1 on Hot Country Songs as the duo’s 90 cumulative frames on top outpace runner-up George Strait’s 84. FGL boasts six leaders on the list, with two others having logged reigns of double-digit weeks: Debut smash “Cruise” ruled for 24 weeks in 2012 and 2013, and “H.O.L.Y.” dominated

for 18 weeks in 2016.“We are absolutely blown away and extremely

humbled to even be on the same chart as George Strait and some of our other heroes and country legends, so it’s wild to see our songs total 90 weeks at No. 1,” marvels Kelley. “It’s really hard to wrap our brains around that, but it’s also super inspiring to get back in the studio and create more music for our fans.”

In addition, FGL’s latest promoted single, “Simple,” hits a new high on Hot Country Songs, rising 5-4.

‘CHANGES’ IN THE TOP 10 Thomas Rhett banks his 11th top 10 on Hot Country Songs as “Life Changes” (Valory), the title track from his 2017 album, rises 12-10. It increases by 10 percent to 27.2 million audience impressions in the week ending July 22 and lifts 10-8 on Country Airplay.

Plus, Chris Lane’s “Take Back Home Girl” (featuring Tori Kelly) (Big Loud) pushes 12-10 on Country Airplay, up 6 percent to 25.6 million impressions. Lane lands his third

Country Airplay top 10, while Kelly collects her first in her first visit to the chart.

CHESNEY GETS TO RULE AGAIN Kenny Chesney’s “Get Along” (Blue Chair/Warner Bros./WEA) paces Country Airplay for a second week (45.4 million, down 2 percent). His 30th No. 1, the most of all artists, is his 20th multiweek leader.

“Get Along” previews his album Songs for the Saints, due July 27. An additional song from the set, “Better Boat” (featuring Mindy Smith) was released July 13. It debuts at No. 22 on Country Digital Song Sales with 5,000 sold in the week ending July 19. The song marks Chesney’s 30th appearance on the chart and the first on any Billboard country ranking for Americana/folk singer-songwriter Smith.

Bebe Rexha & Florida Georgia Line’s ‘Meant To Be’ Ties For Longest Reign

Atop Hot Country Songs Chart

ON THE CHARTS JIM ASKER jim.asker@billboard.com

REXHA (center), and FLORIDA GEORGIA LINEREXHA (center), and FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE

BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE JULY 23, 2018 | PAGE 4 OF 18

RE

XH

A, F

GL

: G

ET

TY

IM

AG

ES

The country music industry’s must-have source for news, charts, analysis and features• EXCLUSIVE CHARTS including Hot Country

Songs, Country Airplay, Top Country Albums, Country Streaming Songs and more!

• Weekly content including Makin’ Tracks, On The Charts, a roundup of executive moves and timely analysis of the latest country news and trends

• Expert insight and commentary by Tom Roland and Jim Asker

S I G N U P F O R F R E E D E L I V E R Y E V E R Y M O N DAY B I L LBOARD .COM/NEWSLETTERS

THIS WEEK

LAST WEEK

WKS ON

CHART TITLE Imprint/Label ArtistAUDIENCE (IN MILLIONS) PLAYS

THIS WEEK +/– THIS WEEK +/– RANK

1 1 16 GET ALONG Blue Chair/Warner Bros./WEA HH No. 1 (2 weeks) HH Kenny Chesney 45.365 -0.864 8347 -99 1

l2 3 21 I WAS JACK (YOU WERE DIANE) Big Loud Jake Owen 42.364 +4.311 7936 643 2

3 2 28 TEQUILA Warner Bros./WAR Dan + Shay 39.354 -3.253 7082 -693 3

l4 6 24 MERCY BMLG HH Most Increased Audience HH Brett Young 33.639 +4.876 6542 737 4

5 4 31 ONE NUMBER AWAY River House/Columbia Nashville Luke Combs 31.652 -1.689 5379 -109 7

l6 7 18 COMING HOME Capitol Nashville Keith Urban Featuring Julia Michaels 28.983 +1.927 5949 359 5

l7 9 11 DROWNS THE WHISKEY Macon/Broken Bow Jason Aldean Featuring Miranda Lambert 28.034 +2.631 5160 474 9

l8 10 15 LIFE CHANGES Valory Thomas Rhett 27.216 +2.391 4863 283 11

9 8 37 KISS SOMEBODY Warner Bros./WEA Morgan Evans 26.586 -0.042 5412 -3 6

l10 12 41 TAKE BACK HOME GIRL Big Loud Chris Lane Featuring Tori Kelly 25.615 +1.409 5264 162 8

l11 11 8 SIMPLE BMLG Florida Georgia Line 25.535 +1.070 4636 227 12

l12 13 15 CRY PRETTY Capitol Nashville Carrie Underwood 23.674 -0.499 4923 39 10

l13 15 9 SUNRISE, SUNBURN, SUNSET Capitol Nashville Luke Bryan 23.234 +2.783 4193 484 14

l14 14 47 HOOKED Curb Dylan Scott 23.143 +1.872 4468 211 13

l15 17 18 HOTEL KEY RCA Nashville Old Dominion 20.394 +2.452 4024 508 16

l16 16 43 HEART BREAK Capitol Nashville Lady Antebellum 19.178 +0.311 4040 42 15

l17 19 42 KINDA DON’T CARE Valory Justin Moore 13.223 -0.078 3263 7 17

l18 22 5 ALL DAY LONG Pearl HH Airpower HH Garth Brooks 13.129 +1.571 2821 460 20

l19 20 22 BREAK UP IN THE END Warner Bros./WMN Cole Swindell 12.945 -0.128 2950 56 18

l20 21 32 DRUNK GIRL Warner Bros./WAR Chris Janson 12.074 -0.366 2936 136 19

l21 25 21 BLUE TACOMA Triple Tigers Russell Dickerson 11.025 +1.757 2288 270 23

l22 24 14 BABE Big Machine Sugarland Featuring Taylor Swift 10.518 +0.337 2397 139 22

23 23 2 DESPERATE MAN EMI Nashville HH Most Added HH Eric Church 9.488 -1.539 1737 77 28

l24 26 32 HIDE THE WINE Big Machine Carly Pearce 8.873 +0.665 2412 63 21

l25 29 25 BORN TO LOVE YOU Arista Nashville LANCO 8.645 +1.242 2197 145 24

l26 28 21 HANGIN’ ON RCA Nashville Chris Young 8.450 +1.028 1603 158 32

l27 27 23 RICH Columbia Nashville Maren Morris 8.400 +0.361 2087 101 25

l28 33 17 DRUNK ME Riser House/Columbia Nashville Mitchell Tenpenny 7.264 +1.259 1737 295 27

l29 31 7 LOSE IT Zone 4/RCA Nashville Kane Brown 7.182 +0.875 1644 181 30

l30 30 27 SHOOT ME STRAIGHT EMI Nashville Brothers Osborne 6.470 +0.023 2009 -2 26

Country Airplay AIRPLAY MONITORED BY

BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE JULY 23, 2018 | PAGE 5 OF 18

BILLBOARD COUNTRY AIRPLAY PANEL — 150 STATIONSAkron, OH WQMXAlbany, N.Y. WGNAAlbuquerque, N.M. KBQI KRSTAllentown, Pa. WCTOAtlanta WKHX WUBLAugusta, Ga. WKXCAustin, Texas KASEBakersfield, Calif. KUZZBaltimore WPOCBaton Rouge, La. WYNKBirmingham, Ala. WDXB WZZKBoise, Idaho KAWO KIZNBoston WBWL WKLBBuffalo, N.Y. WYRKCharleston, S.C. WEZLCharlotte, N.C. WKKT WSOCChattanooga, Tenn. WUSYChicago WEBG WUSNCincinnati WUBECleveland WGARColorado Springs, Colo. KATC KCCYColumbia, S.C. WCOSColumbus, Ohio WCOLCorpus Christi, Texas KRYSDallas KPLX KSCSDayton, Ohio WHKODenver KYGODes Moines, Iowa KHKI

Detroit WDRQ WYCDEl Paso, Texas KHEYFt. Myers, Fla. WCKT WWGRFt. Wayne, Ind. WQHKFresno, Calif. KSKSGainesville, Fla. WOGKGrand Rapids, Mich. WBCTGreensboro, N.C. WTQRGreenville, S.C. WSSLHarrisburg, Pa. WRBTHartford, Conn. WWYZHouston KILT KKBQHuntsville, Ala. WDRMIndianapolis WFMS WLHKJacksonville, Fla. WGNE WQIKJohnson City, Tenn. WXBQKansas City KBEQ WDAF KFKFKnoxville, Tenn. WCYQ WIVKLafayette, La. KMDLLakeland, Fla. WPCVLas Vegas KCYE KWNRLexington, Ky. WBULLittle Rock, Ark. KSSNLos Angeles KKGOLouisville, Ky. WAMZ WQNUMadison, Wis. WWQM WMADMcAllen, Texas KTEX

Memphis WGKX WLFPMiami WKISMilwaukee, WI. WKTI WMILMinneapolis KEEY KMNBMobile, Ala. WKSJMonmouth/Ocean, N.J. WKMKMonterey, Calif.. KTOMNashville WKDF WSIXNassau, N.Y. WJVCNew Bern, N.C. WRNSNew Orleans WNOENew York WNSHNorfolk, Va. WGH WUSHOklahoma City, Okla. KJKE KTSTOmaha, Neb. KXKTOrlando, Fla. WWKAOxnard-Ventura, CA KHAYPhiladelphia WXTUPhoenix KMLE KNIXPittsburgh WDSY WOGI WPGBPortland, Maine WPOR WTHTPortland, Ore. KUPL KWJJProvidence, R.I. WCTKRaleigh, N.C. WNCB WQDRReno, Nevada KBUL

KOLCRichmond, Va. WKHKRiverside, Calif. KFRGRoanoke, Va. WSLCRochester, N.Y. WBEESacramento, Calif. KBEB KNCI KNTYSt. Louis KSD WILSalt Lake City KSOP KUBLSan Antonio, Texas KAJA KCYYSan Diego KSONSan Jose, Calif. KRTYSarasota, Fla. WCTQSeattle KKWF KMPSSpokane, Wash. KXLYSpringfield, Mass. WRNXStockton, Calif. KATMSyracuse, N.Y. WBBSTampa, Fla. WFUS WQYKTucson, Ariz. KIIMTulsa, Okla. KVOO KWENVisalia, Calif. KJUGWashington, D.C. WMZQWest Palm Beach, Fla. WIRKWichita, Kan. KFDI KZSNWilkes Barre, Pa. WGGYWilmington, Del. WXCYYork, Pa. WGTY

THIS WEEK

LAST WEEK

WKS ON

CHART TITLE Imprint/Label ArtistAUDIENCE (IN MILLIONS) PLAYS

THIS WEEK +/– THIS WEEK +/– RANK

l31 32 30 LAST SHOT MCA Nashville Kip Moore 6.440 +0.315 1646 82 29

l32 34 23 BEST SHOT Stoney Creek Jimmie Allen 5.937 +0.810 1612 123 31

l33 35 21 I HATE LOVE SONGS Black River Kelsea Ballerini 4.925 +0.059 1479 15 33

l34 39 3 SHE GOT THE BEST OF ME River House/Columbia Nashville Luke Combs 4.446 +1.844 981 406 36

l35 36 15 BURN OUT Big Machine Midland 4.185 +0.078 1071 28 34

l36 37 11 DAVID ASHLEY PARKER FROM POWDER SPRINGS Mercury Travis Denning 3.685 +0.445 985 71 35

l37 50 3 BURNING MAN Capitol Nashville Dierks Bentley Featuring Brothers Osborne 2.733 +1.117 662 215 41

l38 40 9 TAKE IT FROM ME MCA Nashville HH Breaker HH Jordan Davis 2.487 +0.376 737 84 40

l39 42 16 THE DIFFERENCE Valory Tyler Rich 2.379 +0.435 888 83 38

l40 41 7 STRAIGHT TO HELL Capitol Nashville Darius Rucker Feat. Jason Aldean, Luke Bryan & Charles Kelley 2.333 +0.336 445 59 48

l41 43 14 MILLIONAIRE Mercury Chris Stapleton 2.097 +0.232 919 139 37

l42 46 7 SUMMER FEVER Capitol Nashville Little Big Town 2.074 +0.245 557 -8 45

l43 45 15 SEE YOU TRY Wheelhouse Craig Campbell 1.870 +0.017 875 21 39

l44 48 12 GOOD GIRL Broken Bow Dustin Lynch 1.750 -0.028 556 30 46

l45 44 9 YOU’RE IN IT Wheelhouse HH Breaker HH Granger Smith 1.726 -0.130 634 37 43

46 47 8 THIS IS IT Triple Tigers Scotty McCreery 1.610 -0.171 657 78 42

l47 55 2 THERE WAS THIS GIRL BMLG Riley Green 1.567 +0.667 307 116 56

l48 57 3 LOVE SOMEONE Atlantic/WMN Brett Eldredge 1.543 +0.652 391 80 51

l49 53 6 LOVE AIN’T Valory Eli Young Band 1.537 +0.213 338 51 53

l50 52 15 CAUGHT UP IN THE COUNTRY Curb HH Breaker HH Rodney Atkins Feat. The Fisk Jubilee Singers 1.507 +0.040 616 6 44

l51 51 23 CHILLS Universal Music Canada James Barker Band 1.479 -0.038 531 35 47

l52 54 12 ASKING FOR A FRIEND Atlantic/WEA Devin Dawson 1.082 +0.062 397 -19 50

l53 56 5 DROP EVERYTHING Arista Nashville Carlton Anderson 0.904 +0.010 445 -7 49

l54 58 5 FRIENDS DON’T Mercury Maddie & Tae 0.860 +0.042 377 -7 52

l55 60 2 SLOW ROLL Broken Bow Everette 0.780 +0.174 322 19 54

l56 NEW ONE THAT GOT AWAY Atlantic/WEA HH Hot Shot Debut HH Michael Ray 0.738 +0.139 300 74 58

l57 RE-ENTRY LOVE BY THE MOON Columbia Nashville Tyler Farr 0.736 +0.241 180 16 -

l58 NEW WHAT WHISKEY DOES Stoney Creek Randy Houser 0.661 +0.295 155 101 -

59 59 2 MAKE HIM WAIT Black River Abby Anderson 0.661 -0.061 312 -3 55

l60 NEW HOW DOES IT SOUND Dylan Schneider/Placer Dylan Schneider 0.618 +0.073 223 15 60

Country Airplay AIRPLAY MONITORED BY

7/30

BLAKE SHELTON Turnin’ Me On Warner Bros./WMN

DAVID LEE MURPHY I Won’t Be Sorry Blue Chair/Reviver

MORGAN WALLEN Whiskey Glasses Big Loud

RACHEL WAMMACK Damage RCA Nashville

8/6

DAN + SHAY Speechless Warner Bros./WAR

RE MATTEI Feels Like It’s Gonna Rain BarFrog

RILEY GREEN There Was This Girl BMLG

SARAH ROSS Nervous Breakdown Average Joes/Star Farm

8/13

CHASE RICE Eyes On You Dack Janiels/Broken Bow

FLO Sincerely, Not Really Nine North

KATLYN LOWE Rise Up HK And J

TIM WILLIAMS Magnolia City WeWax

GOING FOR ADDS

The duo — Kentucky natives Brent Rupard and Anthony Olympia — rises 60-55

on Country Airplay with its debut single, up 29 percent to 780,000 audience

impressions. Fun fact: The act’s name is based on George Clooney ’s character in the

film O Brother, Where Art Thou?

55EVERETTE

Slow Row

GE

TT

Y I

MA

GE

S

BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE JULY 23, 2018 | PAGE 6 OF 18

MOST ADDED®TITLE Imprint/Label Artist ADDSDESPERATE MAN EMI Nashville Eric Church 40SHE GOT THE BEST OF ME River House/Columbia Nashville Luke Combs 28MILLIONAIRE Mercury Chris Stapleton 18THIS IS IT Triple Tigers Scotty McCreery 16BURNING MAN Capitol Nashville Dierks Bentley Feat. Brothers Osborne 14WHAT WHISKEY DOES Stoney Creek Randy Houser 10SUNRISE, SUNBURN, SUNSET Capitol Nashville Luke Bryan 8DRUNK ME Riser House/Columbia Nashville Mitchell Tenpenny 8LOSE IT Zone 4/RCA Nashville Kane Brown 8THERE WAS THIS GIRL BMLG Riley Green 7

MOST INCREASED PLAYSTITLE Imprint/Label Artist GAINMERCY BMLG Brett Young +737I WAS JACK (YOU WERE DIANE) Big Loud Jake Owen +643HOTEL KEY RCA Nashville Old Dominion +508SUNRISE, SUNBURN, SUNSET Capitol Nashville Luke Bryan +484DROWNS THE WHISKEY Macon/Broken Bow Jason Aldean Feat. Miranda Lambert +474ALL DAY LONG Pearl Garth Brooks +460SHE GOT THE BEST OF ME River House/Columbia Nashville Luke Combs +406COMING HOME Capitol Nashville Keith Urban Featuring Julia Michaels +359DRUNK ME Riser House/Columbia Nashville Mitchell Tenpenny +295LIFE CHANGES Valory Thomas Rhett +283

MOST INCREASED AUDIENCETITLE Imprint/Label Artist

GAIN(IN MIILIONS)

MERCY BMLG Brett Young +4.876I WAS JACK (YOU WERE DIANE) Big Loud Jake Owen +4.311SUNRISE, SUNBURN, SUNSET Capitol Nashville Luke Bryan +2.783DROWNS THE WHISKEY Macon/Broken Bow Jason Aldean Feat. Miranda Lambert +2.631HOTEL KEY RCA Nashville Old Dominion +2.452LIFE CHANGES Valory Thomas Rhett +2.391COMING HOME Capitol Nashville Keith Urban Featuring Julia Michaels +1.927HOOKED Curb Dylan Scott +1.872SHE GOT THE BEST OF ME River House/Columbia Nashville Luke Combs +1.844BLUE TACOMA Triple Tigers Russell Dickerson +1.757

AIRPLAY MONITORED BY

BILLBOARD COUNTRY BOXSCOREGross Artist AttendanceTicket Price(s) Venue/Date(s) Capacity Promoter(s)

$4,981,733 KENNY CHESNEY 57582 MESSINA TOURING GROUP$254, $31 Arrowhead Stadium, Kansas City/July 14 57582

$842,978 TIM McGRAW & FAITH HILL 11146 MESSINA TOURING GROUP$139.50, $29.50 KeyArena, Seattle/July 13 11146

$781,752 TIM McGRAW & FAITH HILL 9413 MESSINA TOURING GROUP$133, $29 Matthew Knight Arena, Eugene, Ore./July 14 9413

$732,183 KENNY CHESNEY 10172 MESSINA TOURING GROUP$109, $60 Walmart Arkansas Music Pavilion, Rogers, Ark./July 12 10172

$387,300 TIM McGRAW & FAITH HILL 6512 MESSINA TOURING GROUP$119.50, $18 Ralph Engelstad Arena, Grand Forks, N.D./July 10 6512

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 (bob.allen@billboard.com).

TEXAS REGIONAL RADIO REPORTWEEK ENDING JULY 22, 2018

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 2018, Texas Regional Radio Report

THIS WEEK

LAST WEEK

WKS ON CHART TITLE (Label) ARTIST

TW SPINS

SPINS +/–

l1 2 20 AIN’T NOBODY HOTTER (Independent) HH 1 Week at 1 HH Kyle Park 2022 189

l2 4 17 ANY NIGHT IN TEXAS (Independent) Jon Wolfe 1622 67

l3 5 22 UNBROKEN HORSES (Independent) Jerrod Medulla 1600 55

l4 7 27 TEXAS RAIN (Independent) Case Hardin 1501 25

l5 8 19 I’M NOT DRINKIN’ (Independent) Jamie Richards 1436 23

6 1 14 THE DRIVE (Independent) Frank Ray 1359 -513

l7 12 7 BEACH PLEASE (Independent) Kevin Fowler 1311 122

l8 13 7 HIT YOU WHERE IT HURTS (Independent) William Clark Green 1298 154

9 6 22 FLOOD (Independent) Drew Fish Band 1247 -282

l10 11 14 FALLING TOO FAST (Independent) Jason Cassidy f/ Heather Little 1246 33

THIS WEEK

LAST WEEK

WKS ON CHART TITLE (Label) ARTIST

TW SPINS

SPINS +/–

11 9 27 RUN WILD HORSES (BIG Label ) Aaron Watson 1226 -61

12 10 18 ALL ABOUT LOVINÍ (Independent) Josh Ward 1208 -45

13 3 20 TUGGIN’ ON MY HEARTSTRINGS (Independent) Randall King 1202 -427

l14 20 6 MUST BE THE WHISKEY (Rounder Rec) Cody Jinks 1134 194

l15 15 24 CAN I BUY YOU A COUNTRY SONG (Independent) Steve Helms Band 1116 37

l16 16 18 HIP TO BE COUNTRY (Independent) Glen Templeton 1108 55

17 14 20 CORNERS (Independent) Dalton Domino f/ Jack Ingram 1107 -36

l18 21 8 ODE TO CODY JINKS (Little Red Truck) Deryl Dodd w/ Courtney Patton 1099 183

l19 24 6 PUT MY MONEY ON THAT (Independent) Curtis Grimes 1084 223

l20 17 13 I DON’T DESERVE YOU (Independent) Jason Boland & The Stragglers f/ Sunny Sweeney 1060 19

RECURRENTSTHIS

WEEK TITLE Imprint/Label ArtistTOTAL AUD.

(IN MILLIONS)1 HEAVEN Zone 4/RCA Nashville Kane Brown 29.593

2 MEANT TO BE Warner Bros./BMLG Bebe Rexha & Florida Georgia Line 20.548

3 EVERYTHING’S GONNA BE ALRIGHT Blue Chair/Reviver David Lee Murphy & Kenny Chesney 19.649

4 YOU MAKE IT EASY Macon/Broken Bow Jason Aldean 19.043

5 SMALL TOWN BOY Broken Bow Dustin Lynch 18.329

6 SINGLES YOU UP MCA Nashville Jordan Davis 17.068

7 MOST PEOPLE ARE GOOD Capitol Nashville Luke Bryan 16.869

8 WOMAN, AMEN Capitol Nashville Dierks Bentley 16.365

9 UP DOWN BMLG/Big Loud Morgan Wallen Feat. Florida Georgia Line 15.156

10 BODY LIKE A BACK ROAD MCA Nashville Sam Hunt 12.781

Country AirplayNEW AND ACTIVE

TITLE Imprint/Label ArtistTOTAL

AUDIENCETOTAL

STATIONS ADDSTURNIN’ ME ON Warner Bros./WMN Blake Shelton 0.603 20 7

NIGHT SHIFT Capitol Nashville Jon Pardi 0.517 8 7

RUMOR Curb Lee Brice 0.493 13 7

FLOATIN’ Sturgeon General Uncle Kracker 0.413 8 3

RADIOLAND Atlantic/WAR Ashley McBryde 0.328 9 5

SIXTEEN Valory Thomas Rhett 0.312 1 0

BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE JULY 23, 2018 | PAGE 7 OF 18

COUNTRY STARS TO THE RESCUEFrom Tacoma, Wash., to Jacksonville, Fla., country artists are doing their own forms of community service, aiding veterans, kids and victims of natural disasters at a handful of benefits.

Chris Stapleton, Jason Aldean, Randy Rogers and Jason Isbell are all part of the outreach on the schedule over the next few months. The new developments include:

• Aldean plotted his third Concert for the Kids on Sept. 6 in his hometown of Macon, Ga., with Lauren Alaina opening. Proceeds from the show aid the Beverly Knight Olson Children’s Hospital. The two previous benefits already brought in $1.2 million for the cause.

• The Randy Rogers Band will host its 10th annual Golf Jam on Sept. 24 at the River Crossing Club in Spring Branch, Texas, in conjunction with Shiner Beers and KAJA San Antonio. The golf/concert package supports the Health Alliance for Austin Musicians.

• Isbell and his band, The 400 Unit, join John Berry, keyboard player Gordon Mote and SiriusXM personality Storme Warren as the latest additions to the Alabama & Friends tornado-relief concert on Sept. 26 in Jacksonville. The lineup already included Jamey Johnson, Shenandoah and The Charlie Daniels Band.

• Stapleton is one of the guests at Joe Walsh’s VetsAid, a concert slated for Nov. 11 — Veterans Day — at the Tacoma Dome. Sharing the stage are Don Henley, James Taylor and Haim.

MOVERS & SHAKERSBeasley Broadcast Group is purchasing WXTU Philadelphia from Entercom for $38 million. Shelly Easton will remain Entercom/Philadelphia vp programming … WKZZ Albany, Ga., adopted Envision’s 24/7 Hank FM format … Zac Brown Band launched a limited-run takeover of SiriusXM’s Y2Kountry channel on July 23. It is airing previously recorded live concerts and studio recordings by the band and Brown’s side project, Sir Rosevelt, through July 29. The week culminates with live broadcasts July 28-29 of ZBB’s shows at Citi Field in New York … Denise Plante joined KWBL Denver as midday personality, InsideRadio.com reported. She previously held the same daypart at adult contemporary KOSI Denver … North Mississippi Radio Group has agreed to purchase WEBL Memphis from Memphis First Ventures for $900,000, according to InsideRadio.com. WEBL GM Tom Freeman and his wife, Allison Freeman, founded the new ownership entity … KRJK Bakersfield, Calif., music director Toni Marie has resigned from her position for an undisclosed opportunity, Talkers.com reported … KBBL Santa Rosa, Calif., hired Carey Edwards as PD/morning host, according to Talkers.com. He most recently held an air shift with adult contemporary KOAI Phoenix.

’ROUND THE ROWReba McEntire signed a publishing deal with Given Music … Singer-s o n g w r i t e r N o a h S c h n a c k y joined the CAA Nashville roster for concert booking … The new Billy Blue blueg rass label added duo Appalachian Road as its first act. The pair consists of former Mountain Heart banjo player Barry Abernathy and a Lonesome River Band alum, mu lt i- i n s t r u ment a l i s t Darre l l Webb … Indie artist Re Mattei signed a label-services agreement with BarFrog Music … Former RCA and PolyGram radio promotion exec John B. Ryland formed DJ Blue Promotion in Dallas to represent indie artist Jackie Guy. Reach him here … Bev Moser’s B! Noticed PR added new duo Crawford & Power a nd McM i n nv i l le, Ten n.-based venue Cumberland Caverns Live as clients … Country/Americana artist Tim Williams tabbed PLA Media for PR … Provident Music Group vp sales Jimmy Wheeler was elected president of the Leadership Music board of directors. The 29-seat panel includes five new members: Marghie Evans, Do Write Music; Erick Long, Academy of Country Music; Diane Pearson, City National Bank; Dave Pomeroy, American Federation of Musicians Local 257; and John Strohm, Rounder Records. Go here for the full list of board members … Songwriter Jeffrey Steele (“Raise ’Em Up,” “My Town”) hosts a nine-week online Songwriting Boot Camp beginning Aug. 27. Enroll here through Aug. 13 … The 61st annual Grammy Awards have been set for Feb. 10, 2019. Entries are being accepted through Aug. 22, with first-round voting beginning Oct. 17 and final balloting ending Jan. 9, 2019.

NASHVILLE & NATIONAL TOM ROLAND

Big D & Bubba co-host Sean “Bubba” Powell (right) became a member of the Williamson County Fire/Rescue Squad in Tennessee on July 17. Joining him in the new class of first responders is Arrick Guzman.

BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE JULY 23, 2018 | PAGE 8 OF 18

Reba McEntire signed a publishing agreement with Given Music. From left are Given creative director Jenny Hall, McEntire, Given vp/GM Michael Hollandsworth and Given founding partner Cindy Owen.

Columbia Nashville recording artist Tenille Townes visited WPOC Baltimore on July 17, performing at the station’s studio. From left: WPOC music director Jeff St. Pierre, Townes, iHeartMedia/Baltimore senior vp programming Mike Preston and Columbia Nashville director of Northeast regional promotion Cliff Blake.

MUSIC NOTESDeana Carter, Dustin Lynch, Cam and Morgan Evans are among a bundle of performers slated for the Academy of Country Music’s 12th annual ACM Honors on Aug. 22 at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium. Hosted by Lauren Alaina and Jon Pardi, the event also boasts Old Crow Medicine Show, Ashley McBryde, newcomer Kassi Ashton and songwriters Dallas Davidson (“Kick the Dust Up,” “Tonight Looks Good on You”) and Ben Hayslip (“I Lived It,” “Kinda Don’t Care”). Initial presenters include Jordan Davis, Lindsay Ell, singer-songwriter Lori McKenna and SiriusXM personality Storme Warren.

Willie Nelson has found numerous ways to package traditional pop music in country arrangements, most notably with his 40-year-old landmark Stardust. His latest approach is My Way, a studio album that reimagines 11 songs associated with the late Frank Sinatra. Legacy will issue the collection Sept. 14. Other newly announced releases include Tim Atwood’s Livin’ the Dream, July 27 (self-released); J.D. Shelburne’s Two Lane Town, July 28 (self-released); Dennis Duff’s Songs From Lyon County, Sept. 7 (Gracey Holler Music); Malcolm Holcombe’s Come Hell or High Water, Sept. 14 (Singular Recordings); and Mandy Barnett’s Strange Conversation, Sept. 21 (Thirty Tigers). Fifty years ago, Elvis Presley shot an NBC program that would come to be known as his comeback special. Elvis put the King in black leather and had him performing a mix of big-show numbers and informal pieces for a small Burbank, Calif., audience. It was a major step in what led him to abandon movies and return to the concert trail. Next month, Fathom Events will show Elvis on movie screens on Aug. 16 and Aug. 20, teaming the special with a making-of piece with commentary from numerous participants, including Elvis producer Steve Binder. Go here to find local showings.

Two acts have launched new residencies at Nashville clubs. Halfway to Hazard plays Analog at the Hutton Hotel with special guests on the first Tuesday of every month. The first show, July 10, featured Chris Young, Radio Romance, American Young’s Jon Stone, former Trick Pony bassist Ira Dean and Colt Prather. Big Machine act Delta Rae also plans a 16-week run for every Wednesday at Basement East Sept. 5-Dec. 19.

CAM

ON THIS DATE IN COUNTRY MUSIC

July 24 • 2003 — Shania Twain leads Chicago

Cubs fans in “ Take Me Out to t he B a l l g a m e” d u r i n g t h e s e v e n t h -inning stretch at Wrigley Field and throws out the ceremonial first pitch. The Philadelphia Phillies cream the Cubs, 14-6.

July 25 • 2017 — Midland’s Cameron Duddy earns an MTV Video Music Award

nomination for best direction of Bruno Mars’ “24K Magic” video. • 2006 — RCA releases Jake Owen’s debut album, Startin’ With Me.

July 26 • 2005 — Dierks Bentley’s concert at the House of Blues in Los Angeles

is interrupted by Marty Stuart, who extends an invitation for Bentley to become a member of the Grand Ole Opry. Bentley’s response: “Hell, yeah!”

• 1968 — Jeannie C. Riley records “Harper Valley P.T.A.”

July 27 • 2008 — Jimmy Carter comes onstage to play harmonica behind

Willie Nelson on “Georgia on My Mind” during a concert at Chastain Park Amphitheatre in Atlanta. Nelson shares top billing with B.B. King, collaborating on “Night Life” and “The Thrill Is Gone.”

July 28 • 1998 — Monument releases the Dixie Chicks’ single “Wide

Open Spaces.” • 1993 — The “Delta Dawn” singer makes an appearance on the Delta

TV show: A Tanya Tucker concert is central to the episode’s plot on the ABC series, which features Delta Burke and Bill Engvall.

July 29 • 2014 — Lee Brice collects a gold single from the R IA A for “I

Don’t Dance.”

July 30 • 2013 — Little Big Town members Jimi Westbrook, Karen Fairchild

and Phillip Sweet write “Day Drinking” in Nashville with Troy Verges and Barry Dean.

• 2011 — Jason Aldean’s “Dirt Road Anthem” hits No. 1 on the Billboard country singles chart.

Source: RolandNote.com, the Ultimate Country Music Database

TWAIN

NASHVILLE & NATIONAL TOM ROLAND

Click on headlines below for more details

Billboard’s 2018 Money Makers: 50 Highest-Paid Musicians

Taylor Swift, Jennifer Hudson, James Corden, Ian McKellen To Star In ‘Cats’ Movie Adaptation

Going To Concerts Can Help You Live Longer, A New Study Shows

Zac Brown Takes A Pay-It-Forward Approach To Concert Ticketing

In A Fragile Festival Market, Artist-Run Events Are Gaining Steam

Top Headlines from .com

BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE JULY 23, 2018 | PAGE 9 OF 18

HU

NT

: JE

FF

GE

NT

NE

R/G

ET

TY

IM

AG

ES

TW

AIN

: G

IAM

PA

OLO

SG

UR

A

Sam Hunt played a multigenre Bud Light Getaway Festival on July 14 at Riverfront Park in North Charleston, S.C. From left: Hunt, Dashboard Confessional’s Chris Carrabba, Lil Jon and singer-songwriter Harry Hudson.

Hot Country SongsSALES, AIRPLAY & STREAMING DATA COMPILED BYHot Country Songs

The ballad holds at its No. 6 high in its 19th week on Hot Country Songs. It jumps by 17 percent to 33.6 million impressions,

lifting 6-4 on Country Airplay, and gains by 8 percent to 14,000 sold.

6BRETT

YOUNGMercy

Swindell ’s co-penned track from his thirdfull-length, All of It (due Aug. 17), arrives

at No. 45 on Hot Country Songs. It entersCountry Digital Song Sales at No. 10

(8,000 sold), his ninth top 10.

45COLE

SWINDELLLove You Too Late

GE

TT

Y I

MA

GE

S

BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE JULY 23, 2018 | PAGE 10 OF 18

THIS WEEK

LAST WEEK

TWO WEEKS

AGOWKS ON CHART

TITLE Artist PRODUCER (SONGWRITER) IMPRINT / PROMOTION LABEL

COUNTRY AIRPLAY

RANKPEAK

POSITION

1 1 1 34 MEANT TO BE HH No. 1 (34 Weeks) HH Bebe Rexha & Florida Georgia Line WILSHIRE (B.REXHA,T.HUBBARD,J.MILLER,D.A.GARCIA) WARNER BROS./BMLG

RC 1

2 2 2 27 TEQUILA Dan + Shay D.SMYERS,S.HENDRICKS (D.SMYERS,J.REYNOLDS,N.GALYON) WARNER BROS./WAR 3 2

l3 3 4 16 GET ALONG Kenny Chesney B.CANNON,K.CHESNEY (R.COPPERMAN,S.MCANALLY,J.OSBORNE) BLUE CHAIR/WARNER BROS./WEA 1 3

l4 5 5 8 SIMPLE Florida Georgia Line J.MOI (T.HUBBARD,B.KELLEY,M.HARDY,M.HOLMAN) BMLG 11 4

5 4 3 41 HEAVEN Kane Brown D.HUFF (S.CARTER,M.MCGINN,L.RIMES) ZONE 4/RCA NASHVILLE RC 2

l6 6 7 27 MERCY HH Airplay Gainer HH Brett Young D.HUFF (B.YOUNG,S.MCCONNELL) BMLG

4 6

l7 8 9 21 I WAS JACK (YOU WERE DIANE) Jake Owen J.MOI (T.CECIL,J.MELLENCAMP,D.RAY,J.STEVENS,C.WISEMAN) BIG LOUD 2 7

l8 9 10 12 DROWNS THE WHISKEY Jason Aldean Featuring Miranda Lambert M.KNOX (J.THOMPSON,J.MIDDLETON,B.KINNEY) MACON/BROKEN BOW 7 8

9 7 8 29 ONE NUMBER AWAY Luke Combs S.MITCHELL,JACKIE BOYZ (L.COMBS,S.A.BATTEY,S.MITCHELL,R.WILLIFORD) RIVER HOUSE/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE 5 3

l10 12 12 19 LIFE CHANGES Thomas Rhett D.HUFF,J.FRASURE,THOMAS RHETT (THOMAS RHETT,R.AKINS,J.FRASURE,A.GORLEY) VALORY 8 10

11 11 11 25 YOU MAKE IT EASY Jason Aldean M.KNOX (T.HUBBARD,B.KELLEY,M.WALLEN,J.M.SCHMIDT) MACON/BROKEN BOW RC 2

l12 13 14 42 TAKE BACK HOME GIRL Chris Lane Featuring Tori Kelly J.MOI (D.A.GARCIA,H.LINDSEY,J.MILLER) BIG LOUD 10 12

l13 15 15 18 COMING HOME Keith Urban Featuring Julia Michaels J.R.ROTEM,K.URBAN (K.URBAN,J.R.ROTEM,J.MICHAELS,M.HAGGARD,N.GALYON) CAPITOL NASHVILLE 6 13

l14 16 16 9 SUNRISE, SUNBURN, SUNSET Luke Bryan J.STEVENS,J.STEVENS (Z.CROWELL,R.HURD,C.MCGILL) CAPITOL NASHVILLE 13 14

l15 17 18 13 HOTEL KEY Old Dominion S.MCANALLY (M.RAMSEY,T. ROSEN,J.OSBORNE) RCA NASHVILLE 15 15

l16 45 — 2 DESPERATE MAN HH Digital & Streaming Gainer HH Eric Church J.JOYCE (E.CHURCH,R.W.HUBBARD) EMI NASHVILLE

23 16

17 14 13 23 KISS SOMEBODY Morgan Evans C. DESTEFANO (M.EVANS,C. DESTEFANO,J.OSBORNE) WARNER BROS./WEA 9 13

l18 18 17 15 CRY PRETTY Carrie Underwood D.GARCIA,C.UNDERWOOD (C.UNDERWOOD,H.LINDSEY,L.MCKENNA,L.ROSE) CAPITOL NASHVILLE 12 5

l19 21 21 38 HOOKED Dylan Scott M.ALDERMAN,C.GIBBS,J.E.NORMAN (L.RIMES,S.ENNIS,M.EVANS) CURB 14 19

l20 22 22 21 BREAK UP IN THE END Cole Swindell M.R.CARTER (J.M.NITE,C.MCGILL,J.J.DILLON) WARNER BROS./WMN 19 13

l21 23 26 7 LOSE IT Kane Brown D.HUFF (K.BROWN,C.MCGILL,W.WEATHERLY) ZONE 4/RCA NASHVILLE 29 13

l22 25 27 11 BEAUTIFUL CRAZY Luke Combs S.MOFFATT (L.COMBS,W.B.DURRETTE,R.WILLIFORD) RIVER HOUSE/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE - 6

l23 24 25 14 BABE Sugarland Featuring Taylor Swift K.BUSH,J.NETTLES,J.RAYMOND (T.SWIFT,P.T.MONAHAN) BIG MACHINE 22 8

l24 26 29 32 HEART BREAK Lady Antebellum BUSBEE (D.HAYWOOD,C.KELLEY,H.SCOTT,J.FRASURE,N.GALYON) CAPITOL NASHVILLE 16 22

25 27 28 28 DRUNK GIRL Chris Janson S.HENDRICKS (C.JANSON,SCOOTER CARUSOE,T.DOUGLAS) WARNER BROS./WAR 20 25

For week ending July 19, 2018. Figures are rounded. Compiled from a national sample of retail store and rack sales reports collected and provided by Nielsen Music.

For inquiries about any Nielsen Music data, please contact Josh Bennett at 615-807-1338 or josh.bennett@nielsen.com

The week’s most popular country songs, ranked by radio airplay audience impressions as measured by Nielsen Music, sales data as compiled by Nielsen Music and streaming activity data from online music sources tracked by Nielsen Music. Descending titles below No. 25 are moved to recurrent after 20 weeks.

COUNTRY MARKET WATCHA Weekly National Music Sales Report

Hot Country Songs

ALBUMSDIGITAL

ALBUMS*DIGITAL TRACKS

This Week 264,000 78,000 933,000

Last Week 239,000 70,000 939,000

Change 10.5% 11.4% -0.6%

This Week Last Year 335,000 101,000 1,253,000

Change -21.2% -22.8% -25.5%

*Digital album sales are also counted within album sales.

Weekly Unit SalesYear-Over-Year Album Sales2017 2018 CHANGE

Albums 11,249,000 8,860,000 -21.2%

Digital Tracks 40,093,000 29,258,000 -27.0%

YEAR-TO-DATE

Overall Unit Sales

2017 2018 CHANGE

Physical 7,559,000 6,301,000 -16.6%

Digital 3,690,000 2,569,000 -30.4%

Sales by Album Format

SALES, AIRPLAY & STREAMING DATA COMPILED BY

BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE JULY 23, 2018 | PAGE 11 OF 18

ALBUM SALES

’18

’17

DIGITAL TRACKS SALES

’18

’17

11.2 million

8.9 million

000.0 million

’15

’14

29.3 million

40.1 million

THIS WEEK

LAST WEEK

TWO WEEKS

AGOWKS ON CHART

TITLE Artist PRODUCER (SONGWRITER) IMPRINT / PROMOTION LABEL

COUNTRY AIRPLAY

RANKPEAK

POSITION

26 20 19 10 DOWNTOWN’S DEAD Sam Hunt Z.CROWELL,CHARLIE HANDSOME (S.HUNT,Z.CROWELL,J.OSBORNE,S.MCANALLY,CHARLIE HANDSOME) MCA NASHVILLE RC 14

l27 29 32 26 BORN TO LOVE YOU LANCO J.JOYCE (B.LANCASTER,R.COPPERMAN,A.GORLEY,J.OSBORNE) ARISTA NASHVILLE 25 27

l28 28 30 26 KINDA DON’T CARE Justin Moore S.BORCHETTA,J.S.STOVER (R.AKINS,R.COPPERMAN,B.HAYSLIP) VALORY 17 28

l29 32 39 8 BLUE TACOMA Russell Dickerson C.BROWN (R.DICKERSON,C.BROWN,P.WELLING) TRIPLE TIGERS 21 29

l30 33 35 18 I HATE LOVE SONGS Kelsea Ballerini F.G.WHITEHEAD,J.MASSEY (K.BALLERINI,T. ROSEN,S.MCANALLY) BLACK RIVER 33 28

31 31 31 9 SPEECHLESS Dan + Shay D.SMYERS,S.HENDRICKS (D.SMYERS,S.MOONEY,J.REYNOLDS,L.VELTZ) WARNER BROS./WAR - 25

l32 38 48 5 SHE GOT THE BEST OF ME Luke Combs S.MOFFATT (L.COMBS,R.SNYDER,C.WILSON) RIVER HOUSE/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE 34 32

l33 35 38 10 BEST SHOT Jimmie Allen A.BOWERS (J.ALLEN,J.LONDON,J.P.WILLIAMS) STONEY CREEK 32 33

l34 36 36 21 HIDE THE WINE Carly Pearce BUSBEE (A.GORLEY,L.LAIRD,H.LINDSEY) BIG MACHINE 24 34

l35 34 34 17 RICH Maren Morris BUSBEE,M.MORRIS (M.MORRIS,J.J.DILLON,L.VELTZ) COLUMBIA NASHVILLE 27 32

l36 40 42 21 HANGIN’ ON Chris Young C.YOUNG,C.CROWDER (C.YOUNG,C.CROWDER,J.HOGE) RCA NASHVILLE 26 35

l37 37 37 25 SHOOT ME STRAIGHT Brothers Osborne J.JOYCE (J. OSBORNE,T.J. OSBORNE,L.T.MILLER) EMI NASHVILLE 30 29

l38 41 43 4 ALL DAY LONG Garth Brooks G.BROOKS (M.ROSSELL,B.KENNEDY,T.G.BROOKS) PEARL 18 38

39 19 — 2 TALK YOU OUT OF IT Florida Georgia Line J.MOI (M.HARDY,H.PHELPS,J.ROGERS,A.VANDERHEYM) BMLG - 19

40 39 40 7 MUST’VE NEVER MET YOU Luke Combs S.MOFFATT (L.COMBS,J.SINGLETON,R.WILLIFORD) RIVER HOUSE/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE - 14

l41 44 44 5 BURN OUT Midland D.HUFF,S.MCANALLY,J.OSBORNE (J.CARSON,C.DUDDY,M.WYSTRACH,S.MCANALLY,J.OSBORNE) BIG MACHINE 35 41

l42 42 45 6 LAST SHOT Kip Moore K.MOORE (K.MOORE,D.COUCH,D.L.MURPHY) MCA NASHVILLE 31 42

l43 47 — 4 BURNING MAN Dierks Bentley Featuring Brothers Osborne R. COPPERMAN,J.R.STEWART (L.DICK,B.PINSON) CAPITOL NASHVILLE 37 43

l44 43 46 26 MILLIONAIRE Chris Stapleton D.COBB,C.STAPLETON (K.WELCH) MERCURY 41 26

l45 NEW 1 LOVE YOU TOO LATE HH Hot Shot Debut HH Cole Swindell M.R.CARTER (C.SWINDELL,MICHAEL RAY,B.KINNEY) WARNER BROS./WMN

- 45

l46 46 49 7 HOUSTON, WE GOT A PROBLEM Luke Combs S.MOFFATT (L.COMBS,R.MONTANA,J.SINGLETON) RIVER HOUSE/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE - 22

l47 RE-ENTRY 2 CAUGHT UP IN THE COUNTRY Rodney Atkins Featuring The Fisk Jubilee Singers R.ATKINS,T.HEWITT,B.BOLLINGER (C.HARRINGTON,J.M.SCHMIDT,M.WALKER) CURB 50 45

l48 48 — 2 DAVID ASHLEY PARKER FROM POWDER SPRINGS Travis Denning J.S.STOVER (T.DENNING,J.R.STEWART,J.L.ALEXANDER) MERCURY 36 48

l49 50 — 2 TAKE IT FROM ME Jordan Davis P.DIGIOVANNI (J.DAVIS,J.DAVIS,J.GANTT) MCA NASHVILLE 38 49

50 49 50 5 SUMMER FEVER Little Big Town S.MCANALLY,J.FRASURE (K.FAIRCHILD,C.R.BARLOWE,J.FRASURE,ROMANS) CAPITOL NASHVILLE 42 32

The week’s top-streamed and top-selling paid download country songs, respectively, from sales reports collected and provided by Nielsen Music. Charts update weekly on Tuesdays at www.Billboard.Biz/charts. Copyright 2018, Prometheus Global Media, LLC and Nielsen Music, Inc. All rights reserved.

TOP COUNTRY ALBUMS COUNTRY DIGITAL SONG SALES

Top Country Albums ranks the most popular country albums of the week, as compiled by Nielsen Music, based on multi-metric consumption (blending traditional album sales, track equivalent albums, and streaming equivalent albums). Copyright 2018, Prometheus Global Media, LLC and Nielsen Music, Inc. All rights reserved.

Americana/Folk Albums ranks the most popular Americana/folk albums of the week, as compiled by Nielsen Music, based on multi-metric consumption (blending traditional album sales, track equivalent albums, and streaming equivalent albums). Copyright 2018, Prometheus Global Media, LLC and Nielsen Music, Inc. All rights reserved.

AMERICANA/ FOLK ALBUMS

SALES, DATA COMPILED BY

THIS

W

EEK

LAST

W

EEK

2 W

EEKS

A

GO

WEE

KS

ON

CH

T

ARTIST TITLEIMPRINT & NUMBER / DISTRIBUTING LABEL

CERT

.

PEA

K

POS.

l1 1 1 59 LUKE COMBS THIS ONE’S FOR YOURIVER HOUSE/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE 538883*/SMN 0

l2 3 3 14 JASON ALDEAN REARVIEW TOWNMACON/BROKEN BOW/BMG 538375642*/BBMG (538375730)

3 2 2 4 DAN + SHAY DAN + SHAYWARNER BROS. 570796/WMN

4 4 4 85 KANE BROWN KANE BROWNZONE 4/RCA NASHVILLE 530947*/SMN 1

l5 6 5 168 CHRIS STAPLETON TRAVELLERMERCURY 019405*/UMGN 3 3

6 5 6 45 THOMAS RHETT LIFE CHANGESVALORY TR0300A/BMLG 0

7 7 7 75 BRETT YOUNG BRETT YOUNGBMLG BY0100A* 0

l8 NEW 1 CHRIS LANE LAPS AROUND THE SUNBIG LOUD DIGITAL EX

9 8 9 156 ZAC BROWN BAND GREATEST HITS SO FAR...ROAR/SOUTHERN GROUND/ATLANTIC 546369/AG

10 10 10 32 LUKE BRYAN WHAT MAKES YOU COUNTRYCAPITOL NASHVILLE 027589*/UMGN

11 11 11 179 SAM HUNT MONTEVALLOMCA NASHVILLE 021502/UMGN 3 3

12 12 12 99 FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE DIG YOUR ROOTSBMLG 0300* 1

l13 14 17 47 OLD DOMINION HAPPY ENDINGSRCA NASHVILLE 542939*/SMN

l14 18 15 6 DIERKS BENTLEY THE MOUNTAINCAPITOL NASHVILLE 028286*/UMGN

15 15 14 109 JON PARDI CALIFORNIA SUNRISECAPITOL NASHVILLE 024744*/UMGN 0

16 13 16 147 THOMAS RHETT TANGLED UPVALORY RT0200A/BMLG 1

l17 16 18 143 BLAKE SHELTON RELOADED: 20 #1 HITSWARNER BROS. 551788/WMN

18 9 13 12 KEITH URBAN GRAFFITI UHIT RED/CAPITOL NASHVILLE 028285/UMGN

19 17 19 177 FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE HERE’S TO THE GOOD TIMESREPUBLIC NASHVILLE 017773/BMLG 2 2

l20 21 21 63 CHRIS STAPLETON FROM A ROOM: VOLUME 1MERCURY 026379*/UMGN 1

21 20 47 33 ALAN JACKSON THE ESSENTIAL ALAN JACKSONARISTA NASHVILLE 96767/LEGACY (13.98)

22 19 20 12 MORGAN WALLEN IF I KNOW MEBIG LOUD DIGITAL EX

l23 26 30 16 KACEY MUSGRAVES GOLDEN HOURMCA NASHVILLE 027921*/UMGN

24 22 22 185 LUKE BRYAN CRASH MY PARTYCAPITOL NASHVILLE 018733/UMGN 4 4

l25 23 23 135 TIM MCGRAW NUMBER ONE HITSCURB 79205 (13.98) 1

COUNTRY STREAMING SONGS

STREAMING & SALES DATA COMPILED BY

THIS

W

EEK

LAST

W

EEK

WKS

ON

CH

ART

TITLEARTIST

l1 1 7 SIMPLEFLORIDA GEORGIA LINE

l2 NEW DESPERATE MANERIC CHURCH

l3 5 19 MERCYBRETT YOUNG

4 3 26 TEQUILADAN + SHAY

l5 6 10 DROWNS THE WHISKEYJASON ALDEAN FEAT. MIRANDA LAMBERT

6 4 34 MEANT TO BEBEBE REXHA & FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE

l7 7 15 GET ALONGKENNY CHESNEY

l8 10 9 LIFE CHANGESTHOMAS RHETT

9 8 31 UP DOWNMORGAN WALLEN FEAT. FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE

l10 NEW LOVE YOU TOO LATECOLE SWINDELL

l11 12 11 BEAUTIFUL CRAZYLUKE COMBS

l12 11 6 SUNRISE, SUNBURN, SUNSETLUKE BRYAN

13 9 35 HEAVENKANE BROWN

l14 13 25 YOU MAKE IT EASYJASON ALDEAN

15 15 24 EVERYTHING’S GONNA BE ALRIGHTDAVID LEE MURPHY & KENNY CHESNEY

l16 16 10 BABESUGARLAND FEAT. TAYLOR SWIFT

l17 RE-ENTRY TAKE BACK HOME GIRLCHRIS LANE FEAT. TORI KELLY

l18 22 5 LOSE ITKANE BROWN

l19 20 3 HOTEL KEYOLD DOMINION

20 17 132 TENNESSEE WHISKEYCHRIS STAPLETON

21 18 26 ONE NUMBER AWAYLUKE COMBS

l22 NEW BETTER BOATKENNY CHESNEY FEAT. MINDY SMITH

23 21 10 COMING HOMEKEITH URBAN FEAT. JULIA MICHAELS

l24 RE-ENTRY BREAK UP IN THE ENDCOLE SWINDELL

l25 25 10 I WAS JACK (YOU WERE DIANE)JAKE OWEN

SALES DATA COMPILED BY

The first single from Church ’s same-titled album, due Oct. 5, debuts at No. 2 on Country

Digital Song Sales (20,000 sold). He earns his 13th top 10 on the tally and his second-

best start after “The Outsiders,” which entered at No. 1 in November 2013, marking

one of his three leaders.

2ERIC

CHURCHDesperate

Man

THIS

W

EEK

LAST

W

EEK

2 W

EEKS

A

GO

WEE

KS

ON

CH

T

ARTIST TITLEIMPRINT & NUMBER / DISTRIBUTING LABEL

CERT

.

PEA

K

POS.

l1 1 1 114 CHRIS STAPLETON TRAVELLERMERCURY NASHVILLE 019405*/UMGN 3 1

2 2 2 63 CHRIS STAPLETON FROM A ROOM: VOLUME 1MERCURY NASHVILLE 026379*/UMGN 1 1

l3 4 5 16 KACEY MUSGRAVES GOLDEN HOURMCA NASHVILLE 027921*/UMGN 1

l4 5 7 119 THE LUMINEERS CLEOPATRADUALTONE 1738* 1 1

5 3 3 77 SIMON & GARFUNKEL SIMON AND GARFUNKEL’S GREATEST HITSCOLUMBIA 31350/LEGACY 3

l6 6 9 160 HOZIER HOZIERRUBYWORKS 309996*/COLUMBIA 2 1

l7 7 4 33 CHRIS STAPLETON FROM A ROOM: VOLUME 2MERCURY NASHVILLE 027408*/UMGN 0 1

l8 NEW 1 THE JAYHAWKS SIDE ROADS AND ABANDONED MOTELLEGACY 584140* 8

l9 11 16 170 THE LUMINEERS THE LUMINEERSDUALTONE 1608* 3 1

l10 15 12 11 LEON BRIDGES GOOD THINGLISASAWYER63 583994*/COLUMBIA 1

GE

TT

Y I

MA

GE

S

BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE JULY 23, 2018 | PAGE 12 OF 18

THIS

W

EEK

LAST

W

EEK

WKS

ON

CH

ART

TITLEARTIST

1 1 34 MEANT TO BEBEBE REXHA & FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE

l2 3 37 HEAVENKANE BROWN

3 2 21 TEQUILADAN + SHAY

l4 4 7 SIMPLEFLORIDA GEORGIA LINE

l5 7 67 TENNESSEE WHISKEYCHRIS STAPLETON

l6 6 17 MERCYBRETT YOUNG

7 5 25 YOU MAKE IT EASYJASON ALDEAN

l8 8 76 BODY LIKE A BACK ROADSAM HUNT

l9 9 63 WHAT IFSKANE BROWN FEAT. LAUREN ALAINA

l10 11 8 GET ALONGKENNY CHESNEY

11 10 16 UP DOWNMORGAN WALLEN FEAT. FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE

l12 13 19 ONE NUMBER AWAYLUKE COMBS

l13 12 11 BEAUTIFUL CRAZYLUKE COMBS

l14 14 92 IN CASE YOU DIDN’T KNOWBRETT YOUNG

15 15 31 MARRY METHOMAS RHETT

l16 16 53 WHEN IT RAINS IT POURSLUKE COMBS

l17 17 68 DIE A HAPPY MANTHOMAS RHETT

l18 18 92 HURRICANELUKE COMBS

l19 19 6 LOSE ITKANE BROWN

l20 20 65 SMALL TOWN BOYDUSTIN LYNCH

l21 21 4 DROWNS THE WHISKEYJASON ALDEAN FEAT. MIRANDA LAMBERT

l22 24 70 BLUE AIN’T YOUR COLORKEITH URBAN

l23 22 65 H.O.L.Y.FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE

l24 25 3 LIFE CHANGESTHOMAS RHETT

25 23 2 I WAS JACK (YOU WERE DIANE)JAKE OWEN

When independent Koch Records folded in 2005, the move left David Lee Murphy without a label and signaled a lengthy new period in his career.

In the ensuing 13 years, he shifted his priorities from artist to songwriter, still touring small venues on the strength of his signature hits, “Dust on the Bottle” and “Party Crowd,” but making his biggest impact by writing songs for other acts, including Jason Aldean’s “Big Green Tractor,” Kenny Chesney’s “Living in Fast Forward” and Thompson Square’s “Are You Gonna Kiss Me or Not.”

Murphy had established a fairly no-pressure routine, so when Chesney started pushing him to make another album, he needed some convincing. But when he decided to go for it, he was committed 100 percent.

“There’s no reason to sit around and not do things in your life when you have time to do it,” says Murphy. “There’s so much to see out there, there’s so much to do, and you need to live and just experience as much as you can.”

On the heels of “Everything’s Gonna Be Alright,” a Chesney collaboration that took Murphy to No. 1 on the Country Airplay chart dated June 23, Murphy embraces that go-for-it attitude with his second Reviver single, “I Won’t Be Sorry.” An anthemic title rooted in classic country/rock, it’s loaded with phrases that celebrate living life to the max: “Gonna go out in a blaze of glory,” “running on empty” and “pushin’ my luck with no regrets,” to name just three.

“They’re mottos to put on the tombstone,” suggests Murphy. “I want to live as hard as I can live and do everything I can possibly do and enjoy every bit of it.”

“I Won’t Be Sorry” was essential to Murphy rejuvenating his recording career. He pitched it to Chesney along with several other songs, and Chesney considered cutting it for a bit before he instead pushed Murphy to make what would become No Zip Code.

“This was probably the song that tipped it over the edge,” says Murphy. “When he heard this, he said, ‘Man, you need to make an album ... You’ve had people cutting your songs, and I’ve been cutting your songs, and you need to just do one yourself.’ ”

Murphy hadn’t planned on that outcome in 2014 when he headed to the Velvet Elvis, the home studio of songwriter Paul Jenkins (“Don’t You Wanna Stay,” “Sunny and 75”), for a writing session on the porch. But his approach to “I Won’t Be Sorry” pretty much stamped it as his own.

“When you’re writing with David Lee, he has such a style to what he does that you kind of are writing a David Lee Murphy-style song that day,” says co-writer Jason Sellers (“I Won’t Let Go,” “Who I Am With You”). “Even if he’s not the one coming up with the words or the melody, just the way he sings, it ends up sounding like that.”

The song started from hard-strummed guitar chords, a relentless rhythmic groove that echoes Tom Petty, The Eagles and John Mellencamp. That led to talk about the urgency of the moment, and the story took shape from there.

“We kicked around the message we wanted before we found a title,” recalls Jenkins. “Living wide open and living for the moment was kind of a feeling we were trying to capture, and I think that led us to that title.”

They knocked out the chorus first, acknowledging the scars and the risks that accompany life at full throttle. Then came the first couple verses, each of them underscoring immediacy from a slightly different viewpoint.

“The first verse is I’m not going to be doing this,” says Murphy, “and the

second verse is I am going to be doing this.”“I Won’t Be Sorry” emerged as an extremely focused song, but it didn’t all

happen in that single sitting. They revisited it through several appointments — possibly a total of four times, says Murphy — to make sure that every word counted.

“That’s typically how we write songs together,” notes Jenkins. “Especially if you’ve got a title you like and everybody’s really onboard with the theme of it, you know, you’ll look back a time or two just to make sure you can’t beat any of it.”

They cut the demo at the Velvet Elvis with Murphy singing lead and Sellers adding background vocals. Several artists showed interest, including Chesney, though Murphy was so convincing that his version would have been tough to beat.

“His personality is through and through on that song,” says Jenkins. “As a person, as a human, he’s that guy.”

Mu r phy c ut “ S or r y” w it h pro ducers Chesney and Buddy Cannon (Willie Nelson, Joe Nichols) on Jan. 5, 2015, at Nashville’s Blackbird Studios, intent on capturing the spirit of the demo. Acoustic guitarist Danny Rader a nd dr u mmer Chad Cromwell contributed much to the master recording’s drive, while Kenny Greenberg and Rob McNelley added classic-rock electric guitar. They still felt the demo was better, and when

Chesney went on tour, the track went untouched for months. They came back to it once the schedule loosened up in the fall.

“We toyed around with using the demo instead of the track we had cut, and we worked on that a little bit,” says Cannon. “But then we changed our mind and went back to the original cut that Kenny and David and I did, which is the final version with a couple of changes.”

That included reworking the bass parts and adding guitarist Tom Bukovac into the mix.

“Kenny and David and I have all been friends for a long time, and it’s fun to get in there when you don’t have any record label telling you what they think you ought to do,” adds Cannon. “Get in there with three brains and three hearts and go for it. I think it shows up in the way the music feels.”

The recording was complete when Reviver signed Murphy to the roster, and after the success of “Everything’s Gonna Be Alright,” the sound and the storyline made “I Won’t Be Sorry” a logical follow-up.

“It’s very current and very David Lee,” says Reviver president/CEO David Ross.

Cannon shaved off more than a minute of the closing guitar solo for the single version, released to country radio via PlayMPE on July 10 with a July 30 add date.

“That subject matter really resonates with a lot of people,” says Sellers. “Whether we really live our life that way or not, I think everybody wants to live their life that way. I think everybody wants to function in a capacity where you’re going to savor every moment.”

Living in the present moment absolutely resonates with Murphy, which is why “I Won’t Be Sorry” carries so much conviction.

“I think most guys that get out there and ride around and play music have that sentiment,” he says. “I’m doing this, and don’t feel sorry for me because I’m going to go out doing my thing.”

David Lee Murphy ‘Won’t Be Sorry’With Latest Single Choice

MAKIN’ TRACKS TOM ROLAND tom.roland@billboard.com

MURPHY

BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE JULY 23, 2018 | PAGE 13 OF 18

THIS WEEK

LAST WEEK

WKS ON

CHART TITLE Imprint/Label ArtistPLAYS

AUDIENCE (IN MILLIONS)

THIS WEEK +/– THIS WEEK

l1 4 22 MERCY BMLG HH No. 1 (1 week) HH Brett Young 4808 +353 7.183

l2 3 18 COMING HOME Capitol Nashville Keith Urban Feat. Julia Michaels 4682 +100 7.009

3 1 16 GET ALONG Blue Chair/Warner Bros./WEA Kenny Chesney 4576 -547 7.488

4 2 21 I WAS JACK (YOU WERE DIANE) Big Loud Jake Owen 4413 -358 7.295

l5 5 26 KISS SOMEBODY Warner Bros./WEA Morgan Evans 4274 +60 6.621

l6 8 11 DROWNS THE WHISKEY Macon/Broken Bow Jason Aldean Feat. Miranda Lambert 4110 +300 6.341

7 6 15 CRY PRETTY Capitol Nashville Carrie Underwood 4097 -45 6.394

l8 10 15 LIFE CHANGES Valory Thomas Rhett 3776 +194 5.784

l9 9 40 TAKE BACK HOME GIRL Big Loud Chris Lane Feat. Tori Kelly 3715 +34 5.065

l10 12 8 SIMPLE BMLG Florida Georgia Line 3553 +320 5.334

l11 13 9 SUNRISE, SUNBURN, SUNSET Capitol Nashville Luke Bryan 3371 +238 4.996

12 11 44 HEART BREAK Capitol Nashville Lady Antebellum 3237 -30 4.642

l13 14 16 HOTEL KEY RCA Nashville Old Dominion 3165 +227 4.496

l14 15 39 HOOKED Curb Dylan Scott 2932 +88 4.455

l15 18 32 DRUNK GIRL Warner Bros./WAR Chris Janson 2517 +235 3.607

l16 20 5 ALL DAY LONG Pearl Garth Brooks 2429 +298 3.552

l17 19 22 BREAK UP IN THE END Warner Bros./WMN Cole Swindell 2228 +37 3.298

l18 21 14 BABE Big Machine/UMG Nashville Sugarland Feat. Taylor Swift 2075 +135 2.807

l19 22 28 SHOOT ME STRAIGHT EMI Nashville Brothers Osborne 1981 +44 2.556

l20 23 33 HIDE THE WINE Big Machine Carly Pearce 1751 +126 2.280

l21 24 20 I HATE LOVE SONGS Black River Kelsea Ballerini 1597 +10 1.993

22 17 10 DOWNTOWN’S DEAD MCA Nashville Sam Hunt 1497 -846 2.215

l23 26 23 RICH Columbia Nashville Maren Morris 1472 +197 1.838

l24 29 6 LOSE IT Zone 4/RCA Nashville Kane Brown 1446 +307 2.047

l25 25 23 RUN WILD HORSES BIG Label Aaron Watson 1435 +76 1.599

l26 27 22 BORN TO LOVE YOU Arista Nashville LANCO 1371 +107 1.745

l27 28 27 LAST SHOT MCA Nashville Kip Moore 1346 +124 1.432

l28 36 2 DESPERATE MAN EMI Nashville HH Most Increased Plays/Most Added HH Eric Church 1270 +601 1.777

l29 30 22 HANGIN’ ON RCA Nashville Chris Young 1187 +153 1.493

l30 35 13 BLUE TACOMA Triple Tigers Russell Dickerson 1046 +268 1.415

Country IndicatorBILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE JULY 23, 2018 | PAGE 14 OF 18

BILLBOARD COUNTRY INDICATOR PANEL — 109 STATIONS

Abilene, Texas KEANAlexandria, La. KRRVAmarillo, Texas KGNCAsheville, N.C. WKSFAtlantic City, N.J. WPURBeaumont, Texas KYKRBeckley, W. Va. WJLSBiloxi, Miss. WZKXBloomington, Ill. WIBLBluefield, W. Va. WHKXBurlington, Vt. WOKOCape Girardeau, Mo. KEZSCharleston, W. Va WKWS WQBECollege Station, Texas KAGGColorado Springs. KCCYColumbia, Mo. KCLRColumbus, Ga. WKCN WSTH Cookeville, Tenn. WGSQDothan, Ala. WTVYDuluth, Minn. KKCBEau Claire, Wis. WAXXElizabeth City, N.C. WRSFErie, Pa. WTWFEugene, Ore. KKNUEvansville, Ind. WKDQ

Fargo, N.D. KBVB WSTH Fayetteville, N.C. WKMLFlagstaff, Ariz. KAFFFlint, Mich. WFBEFlorence, Ala. WXFLFlorence, S.C. WEGXFt. Collins, Colo. KUADFt. Smith, Ark. KTCSFrederick, Md. WFREFredericksburg, Va. WFLSGreen Bay, Wis. WNCYHagerstown, Md. WAYZHot Springs, Ark. KQUSHuntington, Ky. WDGGHuntington, W. Va. WTCRIdaho Falls, Idaho KTHKJackson, Miss. WMSI WUSJJanesville, Wis. WJVL Jonesboro, Ark. KDXYJoplin, Mo. KIXQKalamazoo, Mich. WNWNKalispell, Mont. KDBRKingmah, Ariz. KFLGLafayette, Ind. WKOALaredo, Texas KRRGLansing, Mich. WITL

Laurel, Miss. WBBNLebanon, N.H. WXXKLincoln, Neb KFGELongview, Texas KYKXLubbock, Texas KLLLLufkin, Texas KYKSMarshalltown, Iowa KXIAMason City, Iowa KIAIMedford, Ore. KRWQMeridian, Miss. WOKKMilwaukee, WI. WKTIMontgomery, Ala. WLWIMorgantown, W. Va. WKKWMuskegon, Mich. WMUSNew London, Conn. WCTYOdessa, Texas KHKXPalm Springs, Calif. KPLMPensacola, Fla. WXBMPeoria, Ill. WXCL Poughkeepsie, N.Y. WRWDRapid City, S.D. KOUTRockford, Ill. WXXQRocky Mount, N.C. WDWGSaginaw, Mich. WCENSt. Cloud, Minn. KZPKSalina, Kan. KYEZSalisbury, Md. WKTTSan Angelo, Texas KGKL

San Luis Obispo, Calif. KKJGSanta Barbara, Calif. KRAZSanta Maria, Calif. KSNISheboygan, Wis. WBFMSavannah, Ga. WJCL WUBBShreveport, La. KXKSSioux Cty, Iowa KSUXSouth Bend, Ind. WBYTSpringfield, Ill. WFMBSpringfield, Mo. KTTSTerre Haute, Ind. WTHITopeka, Kan. WIBWTraverse City, Mich. WTCMTupelo, Miss. WWZDUtica, N.Y. WFRGVictor Valley, CA. KATJWaco, Texas WACOWausau, Wis. WDEZWheeling, W. Va. WOVKWilliamsport, Pa. WILQYakima, Wash. KXDDYoungstown, Ohio WQXK WWGYWestwood One HOT COUNTRY MAINSTREAM COUNTRYMusic Choice TODAY’S COUNTRYSirius XM THE HIGHWAY

THIS WEEK

LAST WEEK

WKS ON

CHART TITLE Imprint/Label ArtistPLAYS

AUDIENCE (IN MILLIONS)

THIS WEEK +/– THIS WEEK

l31 31 18 POWER OF GARTH Forge Lucas Hoge 1021 +37 1.178

l32 33 13 MILLIONAIRE Mercury Chris Stapleton 999 +116 1.212

l33 32 7 SUMMER FEVER Capitol Nashville Little Big Town 965 +19 1.207

34 34 13 BURN OUT Big Machine Midland 873 -4 0.910

l35 37 14 DRUNK ME Riser House/Columbia Nashville Mitchell Tenpenny 778 +148 0.849

l36 44 3 SHE GOT THE BEST OF ME River House/Columbia Nashville Luke Combs 700 +272 1.013

l37 40 3 BURNING MAN Capitol Nashville Dierks Bentley Feat. Brothers Osborne 700 +170 1.188

l38 39 9 TAKE IT FROM ME MCA Nashville Jordan Davis 629 +71 0.603

l39 41 17 BEST SHOT Stoney Creek Jimmie Allen 599 +75 0.726

l40 38 17 DAVID ASHLEY PARKER FROM POWDER SPRINGS Mercury Travis Denning 595 +11 0.673

l41 48 4 STRAIGHT TO HELL Capitol Nashville Darius Rucker Feat. Jason Aldean, Luke Bryan and Charles Kelley 434 +96 0.520

42 42 11 GOOD GIRL Broken Bow Dustin Lynch 424 -22 0.547

l43 45 11 SEE YOU TRY Red Bow Craig Campbell 419 0 0.556

l44 46 10 GOOD GUYS WIN Sony Music Nashville Ben Gallaher 398 +32 0.398

l45 49 5 THE DIFFERENCE Valory Tyler Rich 348 +16 0.366

l46 50 7 FRIENDS DON’T Mercury Maddie & Tae 346 +28 0.277

47 47 12 CAUGHT UP IN THE COUNTRY Curb Rodney Atkins Feat. The Fisk Jubilee Singers 335 -12 0.340

l48 52 7 HOOK LINE & SINKER Dreamwalkin’ Smith & Wesley 318 +16 0.316

l49 51 12 HURT GOOD Purfectt Pitch/Grassroots James Dupre 310 +1 0.286

l50 53 6 YOU CAME ALONG Warehouse Risa Binder 262 +9 0.274

l51 60 2 MAKE HIM WAIT Black River Abby Anderson 239 +54 0.158

l52 54 5 NOWHERE WITH YOU Free Flow/Grassroots/Grapevine Dave McElroy 231 +8 0.243

l53 59 2 THAT GOT THE GIRL Almost Country/Thirty Tigers Casey Donahew 216 +27 0.266

l54 58 2 YADA YADA YADA EMI Nashville Brandon Lay 216 +22 0.165

l55 RE-ENTRY COASTIN’ SSM Nashville Alexandra Demetree 207 +25 0.281

l56 56 2 ANYONE ELSE Show Dog Nashville Krystal Keith & Lance Carpenter 205 +9 0.170

l57 NEW THIS IS IT Triple Tigers HH Hot Shot Debut HH Scotty McCreery 202 +53 0.147

58 55 4 ASKING FOR A FRIEND Atlantic/WEA Devin Dawson 198 -24 0.191

59 57 5 BUTTERFLIES MCA Nashville Kacey Musgraves 193 -2 0.138

l60 NEW YOU’RE IN IT Wheelhouse Granger Smith 192 +26 0.223

Country Indicator

CHARTS LEGENDRANKINGSCountry Airplay is ranked by total audience impressions for the week ending Sunday based on monitored airplay of 150 stations by Nielsen BDS. Audience totals on the chart are derived, in part, using certain Arbitron Inc. copyrighted Persons 12+ audience estimates (under license © 2018, Arbitron Inc.) Country Indicator is tabulated using reported playlists and Nielsen BDS-monitored airplay at 109 stations, ranked by total plays.

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.

© 2018 Prometheus Global Media, LLC

BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE JULY 23, 2018 | PAGE 15 OF 18

Country Airplay IndexA

ALL DAY LONG Rezemblance Music, BMI/Songs Of Reehits, BMI/Roy Rivers Publishing, BMI/Cowboy Hat Trick, ASCAP/Major Bob Music, Inc., ASCAP/No Fences Music, ASCAP (M.Rossell, B.Kennedy, T.G.Brooks) 18

ASKING FOR A FRIEND Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/JJ Music Inc., BMI/Neon Cross Music, BMI/Goes Something Like THIS Music, BMI/Make It Matter Music, BMI/BMG Platinum Songs, BMI/Big Deal Beats, BMI (D.Dawson, C.Harrington, B.Beavers) 52

B

BABE Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/EMI April Music, Inc., ASCAP/Taylor Swift Music, BMI/Monoman Music, ASCAP (T.Swift, P.T.Monahan) 22

BEST SHOT Red Lining Music, SESAC/Amplified Hour Songs, SESAC/Castle Bound Music, Inc., SESAC/Rio Bravo Music, Inc., BMI/Blonde Leading Blind, BMI (J.Allen, J.London, J.P.Williams) 32

BLUE TACOMA BMG Platinum Songs, BMI/Provident Music Group, ASCAP/Hillbilly Science And Research Publishing, SESAC/Trailerlily Music, SESAC/Stephen Harris, BMI/Tyler Barksdale, BMI (R.Dickerson, C.Brown, P.Welling) 21

BORN TO LOVE YOU Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Concession 114 Music, BMI/Neon Cross Music, BMI/EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Plain Jane Songs, BMI/Rezolant Music, BMI/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/Anderson Fork In The Road Music, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, ASCAP/Smack Songs LLC, ASCAP (B.Lancaster, R.Copperman, A.Gorley, J.Osborne) 25

BREAK UP IN THE END EMI April Music, Inc., ASCAP/Nite Writer Music, ASCAP/Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Plum Nelly, BMI/Big Music Machine, BMI/Big Ass Pile Of Dimes Music, BMI (J.M.Nite, C.McGill, J.J.Dillon) 19

BURNING MAN Emileon Songs, BMI/Little Louder Songs, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI/New Writers Of Sea Gayle Music, BMI/Not A Track Guy Music, BMI (L.Dick, B.Pinson) 37

BURN OUT WB Music Corp., ASCAP/TipTop Music, ASCAP/Tropical Cowboy Publishing, ASCAP/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Kitt Cass Publishing Corporation, BMI/Smack Hits, GMR/Smack Songs LLC, GMR/Kobalt Music Group Ltd., GMR/Songs Of Black River, ASCAP/One Little Indian Creek Music, ASCAP (J.Carson, C.Duddy, M.Wystrach, S.McAnally, J.Osborne) 35

C

CAUGHT UP IN THE COUNTRY WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Freshy Music, ASCAP/We-Volve Music, ASCAP/Goes Something Like THIS Music, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Make It Matter Music, BMI/Sixteen Stars Music, BMI (C.Harrington, J.M.Schmidt, M.Walker) 50

CHILLS WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Meant Well, ASCAP/ole Publishing, SOCAN (D.Woods, T.Wood, G.Slate, J.Barker) 51

COMING HOME Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Mary Rose Music, BMI/Sony/ATV Songs LLC, BMI/Jonathan Rotem Music, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Thanks For The Songs Richard, BMI/Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/A Girl Named Charlie, BMI (K.Urban, J.R.Rotem, J.Michaels, M.Haggard, N.Galyon) 6

CRY PRETTY Carrie-Okie Music, BMI/BIRB Music, ASCAP/BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP/Maps And Records Music, BMI/Creative Pulse Music, BMI/These Are Pulse Songs, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Songs Of Crazy Girl Music, BMI (C.Underwood, H.Lindsey, L.McKenna, L.Rose) 12

D

DAVID ASHLEY PARKER FROM POWDER SPRINGS I’m About To Go RED On Ya Music, BMI/Travis Denning Music, BMI/ole, BMI/BMG Platinum Songs, BMI/SWMBMGBMI, BMI/Lonesome Vinyl Music, BMI/Thankful For This Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Damn Country Music, ASCAP (T.Denning, J.R.Stewart, J.L.Alexander) 36

DESPERATE MAN Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/Longer And Louder Music, BMI/Snake Farm Publishing, SESAC/BMG Silver Songs, SESAC (E.Church, R.W.Hubbard) 23

TITLE Publishing-Licensing Org. (Songwriter) Chart Position

THE DIFFERENCE Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Ritten by Rhettro, BMI/Mr. Buck Lucky, BMI/Bump Into Genius Music, BMI/Neon Cross Music, BMI/Magic Mustang Music Inc., BMI (R.Akins, B.Burgess, D.Dawson, J.Durrett) 39

DROP EVERYTHING Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Ritten by Rhettro, BMI/Matt Drag Music, ASCAP/Round Hill Songs BLS JV, ASCAP/Big Loud Proud Songs, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP (R.Akins, M.Dragstrem, A.Gorley) 53

DROWNS THE WHISKEY Big Music Machine, BMI/Two Laine Collections, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Better Boat Music, BMI/Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/Songs Of Red Bandana, BMI/Tom Tom Leis Music, BMI (J.Thompson, J.Middleton, B.Kinney) 7

DRUNK GIRL ole Red Vinyl Music, BMI/Buckkilla Music, BMI/Scrambler Music, ASCAP/Abbotts Creek Music Two, ASCAP/Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/Tomdouglasmusic, BMI (C.Janson, Scooter Carusoe, T.Douglas) 20

DRUNK ME Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Freshy Music, ASCAP/We-Volve Music, ASCAP/Legends Of Magic Mustang Music, SESAC/BMG Silver Songs, SESAC (M.Tenpenny, J.M.Schmidt, J.Wilson) 28

F

FRIENDS DON’T Super Big Music, ASCAP/Seven Red Brids Publishing, ASCAP/Jehovah Nissi, BMI/Big Machine Music, BMI/EMI April Music, Inc., ASCAP/Memory Days, SESAC/Wordspring Music, LLC, SESAC/W.B.M. Music Corp., SESAC (M.Marlow, T.Dye, J.M.Nite, J.Ebach) 54

G

GET ALONG EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Plain Jane Songs, BMI/Rezolant Music, BMI/Smack Hits, GMR/Smack Songs LLC, GMR/Kobalt Music Group Ltd., GMR/Anderson Fork In The Road Music, ASCAP/Smackville Music, ASCAP/Smack Songs LLC, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, ASCAP (R.Copperman, S.McAnally, J.Osborne) 1

GOOD GIRL Magic Mustang Music Inc., BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Wordspring Music, LLC, SESAC/W.B.M. Music Corp., SESAC/Memory Days, SESAC/Buzz Light Beer Music, ASCAP/Downtown DLJ Songs, ASCAP (D.Lynch, J.Ebach, A.Albert) 44

H

HANGIN’ ON EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Goodbye Pants Music, BMI/Songs From The Rose Hotel, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/EMI Foray Music, SESAC/Write 2 Be Free Music, SESAC (C.Young, C.Crowder, J.Hoge) 26

HEART BREAK WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Haywoodja Cut That Song, ASCAP/The Best I Could Do Publishing, ASCAP/W.B.M. Music Corp., SESAC/EKT Publishing, SESCA/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Songs Of Roc Nation Music, BMI/Telemitry Rhythm House Music, BMI/A Girl Named Charlie, BMI (D.Haywood, C.Kelley, H.Scott, J.Frasure, N.Galyon) 16

HIDE THE WINE WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/We Are Creative Nation, GMR/Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP/Sony/ATV Story Music Publishing, GMR (A.Gorley, L.Laird, H.Lindsey) 24

HOOKED WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Songs From The Rose Hotel, ASCAP/EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Koala T Tunes, BMI/SongsbyME, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI (L.Rimes, S.Ennis, M.Evans) 14

HOTEL KEY Smackville Music, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, ASCAP/Carrot Seed Songs, ASCAP/ReHits Music, Inc., ASCAP/MeGusta Music, ASCAP/Unfair Entertainment, ASCAP/Anderson Fork In The Road Music, ASCAP/Smack Songs LLC, ASCAP (M.Ramsey, T. Rosen, J.Osborne) 15

HOW DOES IT SOUND Two Black Dogs, ASCAP/Sony/ATV Cross Keys Publishing, ASCAP/Songs For Buddy.ASCAP/Songs From The Rose Hotel, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP (D.Schneider, J.Johnston, C.Crowder) 60

I

I HATE LOVE SONGS Songs Of Black River, ASCAP/KNB Music, ASCAP/ReHits Music, Inc., ASCAP/Smacktown Music, ASCAP/Smack Blue, LLC, SESAC/Smack Hits, GMR/Smack Songs LLC, GMR/Kobalt Music Group Ltd., GMR (K.Ballerini, T. Rosen, S.McAnally) 33

I WAS JACK (YOU WERE DIANE) Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI/Songs Of XO, BMI/We In Good Company, BMI/EMI Full Keel Music, ASCAP/David Ray Music, ASCAP/Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/Sawyer Cash Music, BMI/Round Hill Songs BLS JV, ASCAP/Big Loud Proud Songs, ASCAP/Red Toe Rocker, ASCAP/Sony/ATV Accent, ASCAP (T.Cecil, J.Mellencamp, D.Ray, J.Stevens, C.Wiseman) 2

K

KINDA DON’T CARE EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Rezolant Music, BMI/Get A Load Of This Music, ASCAP (R.Akins, R.Copperman, B.Hayslip) 17

KISS SOMEBODY Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Morgan Evans Publishing Designee, BMI/EMI April Music, Inc., ASCAP/CDS Words And Music, ASACP/Anderson Fork In The Road Music, ASCAP/Smackville Music, ASCAP/Smack Songs LLC, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, ASCAP (M.Evans, C. DeStefano, J.Osborne) 9

L

LAST SHOT WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Point Break Publishing, ASCAP/Music Of The Corn, ASCAP/Songs From The Couch, BMI/Old Desperados, LLC, ASCAP/N2D Publishing Company, Inc., ASCAP/Carol Vincent And Associates, LLC., ASCAP (K.Moore, D.Couch, D.L.Murphy) 31

LIFE CHANGES EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Cricket On The Line, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Ritten by Rhettro, BMI/Telemitry Rhythm House Music, BMI/Songs Of Roc Nation Music, BMI/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP (Thomas Rhett, R.Akins, J.Frasure, A.Gorley) 8

LOSE IT Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Kane Brown Music, BMI/Plum Nelly, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Mandy’s Favorite Songs, BMI/Track House ENT, BMI (K.Brown, C.McGill, W.Weatherly) 29

LOVE AIN’T EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Plain Jane Songs, BMI/Rezolant Music, BMI/Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Smack Hits, GMR/Smack Songs LLC, GMR/Kobalt Music Group Ltd., GMR (R.Copperman, A.Gorley, S.McAnally) 49

LOVE BY THE MOON Big Deal Beats, BMI/Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI/Stay Creative Music, BMI/Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/Moody Producer Music, BMI/Capitol CMG Paragon, BMI/Meaux Mercy, BMI (R.E.Lipsey, J.McNair, C.Stevens) 57

LOVE SOMEONE Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI/Paris Not France Music, BMI/EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Rezolant Music, BMI/Plain Jane Songs, BMI/Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/Heather Feather Songs, BMI (B.Eldredge, R.Copperman, H.Morgan) 48

M

MAKE HIM WAIT Tunes Of Black River, BMI/Purple Keystone Music, BMI/Songs Of Black River, ASCAP/Whistlepig Winners, ASCAP/Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/Tomdouglasmusic, BMI (A.Anderson, J.Kerr, T.Douglas) 59

MERCY Super Big Music, ASCAP/Caliville Publishing, ASCAP/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Little Beluga Music, BMI (B.Young, S.McConnell) 4

MILLIONAIRE Universal Tunes, SESAC/Spur 66 Music, SESAC (K.Welch) 41

O

ONE NUMBER AWAY Big Machine Music, BMI/50 Egg Music, BMI/Straight Dimes Publishing, BMI/Mall B. Publishing, ASCAP/Tunes of R And T Direct, SESAC/Self Shrevident Music, SESAC/Works Of RHA Music, BMI/Rowdy Rob Music, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI (L.Combs, S.A.Battey, S.Mitchell, R.Williford) 5

ONE THAT GOT AWAY Downtown DMP Songs, BMI/Telemitry Productions, BMI/ReHits Music, Inc., ASCAP/Smacktown Music, ASCAP/Carrot Seed Songs, ASCAP/Smack Songs LLC, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, ASCAP/Anderson Fork In The Road Music, ASCAP/Smackville Music, ASCAP (J.Frasure, T. Rosen, M.Ramsey, J.Osborne) 56

R

RICH International Dog Music, BMI/Nettwerk One B Music, BMI/Unlimited, BMI/Revelry Music, BMI/Jay Gatsby Music, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Oh Denise Publishing, BMI/Big Music Machine, BMI (M.Morris, J.J.Dillon, L.Veltz) 27

S

SEE YOU TRY Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI/Stay Creative Music, BMI/Big Loud Mountain, BMI/Round Hill Works, BMI/T Hubb Publishing, BMI/Sixteen Stars Music, BMI/HoriPro Entertainment Group, Inc., BMI/Bill Butler Music, BMI/Freshy Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/We-Volve Music, ASCAP (J.McNair, T.Hubbard, B.Butler, J.M.Schmidt) 43

SHE GOT THE BEST OF ME Big Music Machine, BMI/50 Egg Music, BMI/Straight Dimes Publishing, BMI/Little Extra Songs, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, ASCAP/No Cats Round Here Music, ASCAP/Heart Scarred Songs, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Super LCS Publishing, BMI (L.Combs, R.Snyder, C.Wilson) 34

SHOOT ME STRAIGHT Trampy McCauley, ASCAP/All The Kings Pens, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/The Country And Western Music, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI (J. Osborne, T.J. Osborne, L.T.Miller) 30

SIMPLE Hubb Publishing, BMI/Big Loud Mountain, BMI/Pranch Ringle Music, BMI/Round Hill Works, BMI/Relative Music Group, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI/BMG Bumblebee, BMI/Rygo Music, BMI/Art In The Fodder Music, BMI/Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI (T.Hubbard, B.Kelley, M.Hardy, M.Holman) 11

SLOW ROLL New House Of Sea Gayle Music, ASCAP/Lookie There, ASCAP (C.DuBois, C.Lagerberg, B.Rupard) 55

STRAIGHT TO HELL Universal Songs Of PolyGram International, Inc., BMI (K.Kinney) 40

SUMMER FEVER Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Self Made Entertainment, BMI/W.B.M. Music Corp., SESAC/Bennett’s Dad’s Songs, SESAC/Roc Nation US Music, SESAC/Songs Of Rhythm Black, SESAC/Songs Of Roc Nation Music, BMI/Telemitry Rhythm House Music, BMI/Sam Roman Music, LLP, PRS (K.Fairchild, C.R.Barlowe, J.Frasure, ROMANS) 42

SUNRISE, SUNBURN, SUNSET Highly Combustible Music, ASCAP/Songs Of Southside Independent Music Publishing, LLC, ASCAP/Atlas Music Publishing, ASCAP/Who Wants To Buy My Publishing, ASCAP/I Love Pizza Music, ASCAP/Universal Music Corp., ASCAP/Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Plum Nelly, BMI (Z.Crowell, R.Hurd, C.McGill) 13

T

TAKE BACK HOME GIRL Universal Music - Brentwood Benson Publishing, ASCAP/D Soul Music, ASCAP/BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP/BIRB Music, ASCAP/Rezonant Music Publishing LLC, ASCAP/Songs Of The Corn, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Jack 10 Publishing, BMI/Capitol CMG Genesis, ASCAP (D.A.Garcia, H.Lindsey, J.Miller) 10

TAKE IT FROM ME Ole Red Cape Songs, ASCAP/Jordan Davis Music, ASCAP/ReHits Music, Inc., ASCAP/MeGusta Music, ASCAP/Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/Songs Of Red Bandana, BMI (J.Davis, J.Davis, J.Gantt) 38

TEQUILA WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Beats And Banjos, ASCAP/Buckeye26, ASCAP/Jreynmusic, ASCAP/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/A Girl Named Charlie, BMI (D.Smyers, J.Reynolds, N.Galyon) 3

THERE WAS THIS GIRL Riley Green Publishing Designee, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Peermusic III, Ltd., BMI/Tawnes Van Hwke Publishing, BMI (R.Green, Eric Dylan) 47

THIS IS IT Dagum Music, BMI/Austintatious Tunes, BMI/Spirit Two Nashville, ASCAP/Fluid Tunes, ASCAP/Smackville Music, ASCAP/Smack Songs LLC, ASCAP/Ice House Tunes, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, ASCAP (S.McCreery, F.Rogers, A.Eshuis) 46

W

WHAT WHISKEY DOES EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Little Britches Music, BMI/Gattis Music, BMI/Rezonate Music, ASCAP/BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP/BIRB Music, ASCAP (R.Houser, K.Gattis, H.Lindsey) 58

Y

YOU’RE IN IT Spirit Two Nashville, ASCAP/Fluid Tunes, ASCAP/Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Block Of Marble Music, BMI/SNG Music, LLP, BMI/Rizer Point Publishing, BMI (F.Rogers, J.Adams, M.Nesler) 45

BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE JULY 23, 2018 | PAGE 16 OF 18

Hot Country Songs IndexA

ALL DAY LONG Rezemblance Music, BMI/Songs Of Reehits, BMI/Roy Rivers Publishing, BMI/Cowboy Hat Trick, ASCAP/Major Bob Music, Inc., ASCAP/No Fences Music, ASCAP (M.Rossell, B.Kennedy, T.G.Brooks) 38

B

BABE Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/EMI April Music, Inc., ASCAP/Taylor Swift Music, BMI/Monoman Music, ASCAP (T.Swift, P.T.Monahan) 23

BEAUTIFUL CRAZY Big Machine Music, BMI/Egg Music, BMI/Straight Dimes Publishing, BMI/Works Of RHA Music, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Rowdy Rob Music, BMI (L.Combs, W.B.Durrette, R.Williford) 22

BEST SHOT Red Lining Music, SESAC/Amplified Hour Songs, SESAC/Castle Bound Music, Inc., SESAC/Rio Bravo Music, Inc., BMI/Blonde Leading Blind, BMI (J.Allen, J.London, J.P.Williams) 33

BLUE TACOMA BMG Platinum Songs, BMI/Provident Music Group, ASCAP/Hillbilly Science And Research Publishing, SESAC/Trailerlily Music, SESAC/Stephen Harris, BMI/Tyler Barksdale, BMI (R.Dickerson, C.Brown, P.Welling) 29

BORN TO LOVE YOU Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Concession 114 Music, BMI/Neon Cross Music, BMI/EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Plain Jane Songs, BMI/Rezolant Music, BMI/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/Anderson Fork In The Road Music, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, ASCAP/Smack Songs LLC, ASCAP (B.Lancaster, R.Copperman, A.Gorley, J.Osborne) 27

BREAK UP IN THE END EMI April Music, Inc., ASCAP/Nite Writer Music, ASCAP/Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Plum Nelly, BMI/Big Music Machine, BMI/Big Ass Pile Of Dimes Music, BMI (J.M.Nite, C.McGill, J.J.Dillon) 20

BURNING MAN Emileon Songs, BMI/Little Louder Songs, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI/New Writers Of Sea Gayle Music, BMI/Not A Track Guy Music, BMI (L.Dick, B.Pinson) 43

BURN OUT WB Music Corp., ASCAP/TipTop Music, ASCAP/Tropical Cowboy Publishing, ASCAP/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Kitt Cass Publishing Corporation, BMI/Smack Hits, GMR/Smack Songs LLC, GMR/Kobalt Music Group Ltd., GMR/Songs Of Black River, ASCAP/One Little Indian Creek Music, ASCAP (J.Carson, C.Duddy, M.Wystrach, S.McAnally, J.Osborne) 41

C

CAUGHT UP IN THE COUNTRY WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Freshy Music, ASCAP/We-Volve Music, ASCAP/Goes Something Like THIS Music, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Make It Matter Music, BMI/Sixteen Stars Music, BMI (C.Harrington, J.M.Schmidt, M.Walker) 47

COMING HOME Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Mary Rose Music, BMI/Sony/ATV Songs LLC, BMI/Jonathan Rotem Music, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Thanks For The Songs Richard, BMI/Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/A Girl Named Charlie, BMI (K.Urban, J.R.Rotem, J.Michaels, M.Haggard, N.Galyon) 13

CRY PRETTY Carrie-Okie Music, BMI/BIRB Music, ASCAP/BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP/Maps And Records Music, BMI/Creative Pulse Music, BMI/These Are Pulse Songs, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Songs Of Crazy Girl Music, BMI (C.Underwood, H.Lindsey, L.McKenna, L.Rose) 18

TITLE Publishing-Licensing Org. (Songwriter) Chart Position

D

DAVID ASHLEY PARKER FROM POWDER SPRINGS I’m About To Go RED On Ya Music, BMI/Travis Denning Music, BMI/ole, BMI/BMG Platinum Songs, BMI/SWMBMGBMI, BMI/Lonesome Vinyl Music, BMI/Thankful For This Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Damn Country Music, ASCAP (T.Denning, J.R.Stewart, J.L.Alexander) 48

DESPERATE MAN Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/Longer And Louder Music, BMI/Snake Farm Publishing, SESAC/BMG Silver Songs, SESAC (E.Church, R.W.Hubbard) 16

DOWNTOWN’S DEAD Universal Music Corp., ASCAP/Sam Hunt Publishing, ASCAP/Highly Combustible Music, ASCAP/I Love Pizza Music, ASCAP/Songs Of Southside Independent Music Publishing, LLC, ASCAP/Who Wants To Buy My Publishing, ASCAP/Atlas Music Publishing, ASCAP/Anderson Fork In The Road Music, ASCAP/Smackville Music, ASCAP/Smack Songs LLC, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, ASCAP/Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Smack Hits, GMR/Smack Songs LLC, GMR/Kobalt Music Group Ltd., GMR (S.Hunt, Z.Crowell, J.Osborne, S.McAnally, Charlie Handsome) 26

DROWNS THE WHISKEY Big Music Machine, BMI/Two Laine Collections, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Better Boat Music, BMI/Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/Songs Of Red Bandana, BMI/Tom Tom Leis Music, BMI (J.Thompson, J.Middleton, B.Kinney) 8

DRUNK GIRL ole Red Vinyl Music, BMI/Buckkilla Music, BMI/Scrambler Music, ASCAP/Abbotts Creek Music Two, ASCAP/Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/Tomdouglasmusic, BMI (C.Janson, Scooter Carusoe, T.Douglas) 25

G

GET ALONG EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Plain Jane Songs, BMI/Rezolant Music, BMI/Smack Hits, GMR/Smack Songs LLC, GMR/Kobalt Music Group Ltd., GMR/Anderson Fork In The Road Music, ASCAP/Smackville Music, ASCAP/Smack Songs LLC, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, ASCAP (R.Copperman, S.McAnally, J.Osborne) 3

H

HANGIN’ ON EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Goodbye Pants Music, BMI/Songs From The Rose Hotel, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/EMI Foray Music, SESAC/Write 2 Be Free Music, SESAC (C.Young, C.Crowder, J.Hoge) 36

HEART BREAK WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Haywoodja Cut That Song, ASCAP/The Best I Could Do Publishing, ASCAP/W.B.M. Music Corp., SESAC/EKT Publishing, SESCA/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Songs Of Roc Nation Music, BMI/Telemitry Rhythm House Music, BMI/A Girl Named Charlie, BMI (D.Haywood, C.Kelley, H.Scott, J.Frasure, N.Galyon) 24

HEAVEN BMG Platinum Songs, BMI/You Want How Much Of What Publishing, PRS/Smackworks Music, SESAC/Kobalt Group Music Publishing, SESAC/Smack Blue, LLC, SESAC/EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Sony/ATV Songs LLC, BMI/Koala T Tunes, BMI (S.Carter, M.McGinn, L.Rimes) 5

HIDE THE WINE WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/We Are Creative Nation, GMR/Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP/Sony/ATV Story Music Publishing, GMR (A.Gorley, L.Laird, H.Lindsey) 34

HOOKED WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Songs From The Rose Hotel, ASCAP/EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Koala T Tunes, BMI/SongsbyME, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI (L.Rimes, S.Ennis, M.Evans) 19

HOTEL KEY Smackville Music, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, ASCAP/Carrot Seed Songs, ASCAP/ReHits Music, Inc., ASCAP/MeGusta Music, ASCAP/Unfair Entertainment, ASCAP/Anderson Fork In The Road Music, ASCAP/Smack Songs LLC, ASCAP (M.Ramsey, T. Rosen, J.Osborne) 15

HOUSTON, WE GOT A PROBLEM Big Music Machine, BMI/50 Egg Music, BMI/Straight Dimes Publishing, BMI/Sullivan S Guns, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Super Big Music, ASCAP/Jett Music, ASCAP (L.Combs, R.Montana, J.Singleton) 46

I

I HATE LOVE SONGS Songs Of Black River, ASCAP/KNB Music, ASCAP/ReHits Music, Inc., ASCAP/Smacktown Music, ASCAP/Smack Blue, LLC, SESAC/Smack Hits, GMR/Smack Songs LLC, GMR/Kobalt Music Group Ltd., GMR (K.Ballerini, T. Rosen, S.McAnally) 30

I WAS JACK (YOU WERE DIANE) Sony/ATV Countryside, BMI/Songs Of XO, BMI/We In Good Company, BMI/EMI Full Keel Music, ASCAP/David Ray Music, ASCAP/Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/Sawyer Cash Music, BMI/Round Hill Songs BLS JV, ASCAP/Big Loud Proud Songs, ASCAP/Red Toe Rocker, ASCAP/Sony/ATV Accent, ASCAP (T.Cecil, J.Mellencamp, D.Ray, J.Stevens, C.Wiseman) 7

K

KINDA DON’T CARE EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Rezolant Music, BMI/Get A Load Of This Music, ASCAP (R.Akins, R.Copperman, B.Hayslip) 28

KISS SOMEBODY Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Morgan Evans Publishing Designee, BMI/EMI April Music, Inc., ASCAP/CDS Words And Music, ASACP/Anderson Fork In The Road Music, ASCAP/Smackville Music, ASCAP/Smack Songs LLC, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, ASCAP (M.Evans, C. DeStefano, J.Osborne) 17

L

LAST SHOT WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Point Break Publishing, ASCAP/Music Of The Corn, ASCAP/Songs From The Couch, BMI/Old Desperados, LLC, ASCAP/N2D Publishing Company, Inc., ASCAP/Carol Vincent And Associates, LLC., ASCAP (K.Moore, D.Couch, D.L.Murphy) 42

LIFE CHANGES EMI Blackwood Music Inc., BMI/Cricket On The Line, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Ritten by Rhettro, BMI/Telemitry Rhythm House Music, BMI/Songs Of Roc Nation Music, BMI/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Sadie’s Favorite Songs, ASCAP/Combustion Engine Music, ASCAP (Thomas Rhett, R.Akins, J.Frasure, A.Gorley) 10

LOSE IT Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Kane Brown Music, BMI/Plum Nelly, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Mandy’s Favorite Songs, BMI/Track House ENT, BMI (K.Brown, C.McGill, W.Weatherly) 21

LOVE YOU TOO LATE Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/Colden Rainey Music, BMI/Sony/ATV Cross Keys Publishing, ASCAP/243 Music, ASCAP/Peermusic III, Ltd., BMI/Whiskey Tub Music, BMI (C.Swindell, Michael Ray, B.Kinney) 45

M

MEANT TO BE BMG Platinum Songs, BMI/Big Loud Mountain, BMI/Kiss Me If You Can Music, BMI/T Hubb Publishing, BMI/Round Hill Works, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Songs Of The Corn, BMI/Jack 10 Publishing, BMI/Universal Music - Brentwood Benson Publishing, ASCAP/D Soul Music, ASCAP/Capitol CMG Genesis, ASCAP (B.Rexha, T.Hubbard, J.Miller, D.A.Garcia) 1

MERCY Super Big Music, ASCAP/Caliville Publishing, ASCAP/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Little Beluga Music, BMI (B.Young, S.McConnell) 6

MILLIONAIRE Universal Tunes, SESAC/Spur 66 Music, SESAC (K.Welch) 44

MUST’VE NEVER MET YOU Big Music Machine, BMI/50 Egg Music, BMI/Straight Dimes Publishing, BMI/Super Big Music, ASCAP/Jett Music, ASCAP/Works Of RHA Music, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI (L.Combs, J.Singleton, R.Williford) 40

O

ONE NUMBER AWAY Big Machine Music, BMI/50 Egg Music, BMI/Straight Dimes Publishing, BMI/Mall B. Publishing, ASCAP/Tunes of R And T Direct, SESAC/Self Shrevident Music, SESAC/Works Of RHA Music, BMI/Rowdy Rob Music, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI (L.Combs, S.A.Battey, S.Mitchell, R.Williford) 9

R

RICH International Dog Music, BMI/Nettwerk One B Music, BMI/Unlimited, BMI/Revelry Music, BMI/Jay Gatsby Music, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Oh Denise Publishing, BMI/Big Music Machine, BMI (M.Morris, J.J.Dillon, L.Veltz) 35

S

SHE GOT THE BEST OF ME Big Music Machine, BMI/50 Egg Music, BMI/Straight Dimes Publishing, BMI/Little Extra Songs, ASCAP/Kobalt Songs Music Publishing LLC, ASCAP/No Cats Round Here Music, ASCAP/Heart Scarred Songs, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Super LCS Publishing, BMI (L.Combs, R.Snyder, C.Wilson) 32

SHOOT ME STRAIGHT Trampy McCauley, ASCAP/All The Kings Pens, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/The Country And Western Music, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI (J. Osborne, T.J. Osborne, L.T.Miller) 37

SIMPLE Hubb Publishing, BMI/Big Loud Mountain, BMI/Pranch Ringle Music, BMI/Round Hill Works, BMI/Relative Music Group, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI/BMG Bumblebee, BMI/Rygo Music, BMI/Art In The Fodder Music, BMI/Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI (T.Hubbard, B.Kelley, M.Hardy, M.Holman) 4

SPEECHLESS Beats And Banjos, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Shay Mooney Music, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Buckeye26, ASCAP/Jreynmusic, ASCAP/Big Music Machine, BMI/Never Veltz So Good Publishing, BMI (D.Smyers, S.Mooney, J.Reynolds, L.Veltz) 31

SUMMER FEVER Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Self Made Entertainment, BMI/W.B.M. Music Corp., SESAC/Bennett’s Dad’s Songs, SESAC/Roc Nation US Music, SESAC/Songs Of Rhythm Black, SESAC/Songs Of Roc Nation Music, BMI/Telemitry Rhythm House Music, BMI/Sam Roman Music, LLP, PRS (K.Fairchild, C.R.Barlowe, J.Frasure, ROMANS) 50

SUNRISE, SUNBURN, SUNSET Highly Combustible Music, ASCAP/Songs Of Southside Independent Music Publishing, LLC, ASCAP/Atlas Music Publishing, ASCAP/Who Wants To Buy My Publishing, ASCAP/I Love Pizza Music, ASCAP/Universal Music Corp., ASCAP/Songs Of Universal, Inc., BMI/Plum Nelly, BMI (Z.Crowell, R.Hurd, C.McGill) 14

T

TAKE BACK HOME GIRL Universal Music - Brentwood Benson Publishing, ASCAP/D Soul Music, ASCAP/BMG Gold Songs, ASCAP/BIRB Music, ASCAP/Rezonant Music Publishing LLC, ASCAP/Songs Of The Corn, BMI/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/Jack 10 Publishing, BMI/Capitol CMG Genesis, ASCAP (D.A.Garcia, H.Lindsey, J.Miller) 12

TAKE IT FROM ME Ole Red Cape Songs, ASCAP/Jordan Davis Music, ASCAP/ReHits Music, Inc., ASCAP/MeGusta Music, ASCAP/Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, BMI/Songs Of Red Bandana, BMI (J.Davis, J.Davis, J.Gantt) 49

TALK YOU OUT OF IT Relative Music Group, BMI/Songs Of Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., BMI/Who Wants To Buy My Publishing, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Highly Combustible Music, ASCAP/One77 Songs, ASCAP/Castle Bound Music, Inc., SESAC (M.Hardy, H.Phelps, J.Rogers, A.Vanderheym) 39

TEQUILA WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Beats And Banjos, ASCAP/Buckeye26, ASCAP/Jreynmusic, ASCAP/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., BMI/A Girl Named Charlie, BMI (D.Smyers, J.Reynolds, N.Galyon) 2

Y

YOU MAKE IT EASY Big Loud Mountain, BMI/Round Hill Works, BMI/T Hubb Publishing, BMI/Pranch Ringle Music, BMI/We-Volve Music, ASCAP/WB Music Corp., ASCAP/Freshy Music, ASCAP (T.Hubbard, B.Kelley, M.Wallen, J.M.Schmidt) 11

BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE JULY 23, 2018 | PAGE 17 OF 18

On July 24, 2010, Luke Bryan’s “Rain Is a Good Thing” — which he

co-wrote with Dallas Davidson — rose 2-1 on Hot Country Songs

for its first of two weeks atop the survey. “Rain” gave Bryan his first taste of No. 1 success as an artist, although he had already reached the summit as a writer when he co-authored Billy Currington’s “Good Directions,” which led Hot Country Songs for three weeks in 2007.

“R ain” was the second single from Bryan’s second album, Doin’ My Thing. Follow-up “Someone Else Calling You Baby” became

his second No. 1 in February 2011.The Leesburg, Ga., native, 42,

has 11 Hot Country Songs No. 1s among 25 top 10s. His debut hit,

“All My Friends Say,” reached No. 5 in 2007. Starting with “Country Man” in 2008, he has rattled off 24 straight top 10 proper singles, second only to Carrie Underwood’s 27 for the longest active streak. His current single, “Sunrise, Sunburn, Sunset,” ranks at No. 14 on the July 28-dated chart. Meanwhile, in May, Bryan wrapped his first season as a judge on ABC’s American Idol. —JIM ASKER

8 Years AgoLuke Bryan Landed His First No. 1 SongIn 2010, his scored his inaugural Hot Country Songs leader with

“Rain Is a Good Thing”

Bryan backstage during the ACM Honors in

2010 in Nashville.

CODA

R EW I N A D I N GT H E

C O U N T RY C H A R T S

ST

EP

HE

N L

OV

EK

IN/G

ET

TY

IM

AG

ES

FO

R A

CM

BILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE JULY 23, 2018 | PAGE 18 OF 18