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INSIDEMakin’ Tracks:

The Band Perry’s

‘Gentle on My Mind’

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Stark Report: Promo Reps’ Next Frontier

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Questions Answered: AmpliFLY’s

Stephen Linn >page 6

Colt Ford

Trucks In New Product

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Luke Bryan Dominates

Radiofeedback >page 10

Blake Shelton and Lady Antebellum bow in the top two slots, respectively, on Billboard’s Top Country Albums and the Billboard 200 as Shelton’s Bringing Back the Sunshine (Warner Bros./Warner Music Nashville) starts with 101,000 sold, according to Nielsen SoundScan, and the threesome’s 747 (Capitol Nashville/Universal Music Group Nashville) lands with 74,000. This is Shelton’s fourth Top Country Albums leader; all have begun at the summit. 747 is Lady Ante bellum’s fifth studio effort (its previous four opened at No. 1) and, when counting the act’s entire catalog, its eighth overall top 10 launch.

The new set is Shelton’s second Bill-board 200 leader, preceded by Red River Blue, which bowed with 116,000 (July 30, 2011). His best sales week was with Based on a True Story …, which ar-rived with 199,000 (April 13, 2013). Lady Antebellum starts with less than half the opening-week sales of its last album, Golden; it bowed with 167,000 (May 25, 2013). The trio scored its best sales week when Need You Now arrived with 481,000 almost five years ago (Feb. 13, 2010 chart).

Carrie Underwood arrives atop the sales/airplay/streaming

hybrid Hot Christian Songs chart with “Something in the Water” (19/Arista Nashville), her first No. 1 on the survey. The Christian conversion theme (a new song that will be included on her Greatest Hits: Decade # 1, due Dec. 9) also flies 48-2 on the similarly multi-

metric Hot Country Songs list. It bows atop Country Streaming and Chris-tian Streaming with 1.4 million U.S. streams, according to Nielsen BDS, and the Country Digital and Christian Digi-tal scorecards with 125,000 downloads sold. Sony’s Provident Label Group is working the track at Christian radio. (Christian charts are viewable on Bill-board.com/biz.) Underwood’s previous best rank on Hot Christian Songs was No. 4 with “Jesus, Take the Wheel” in 2006 (seven years before the chart ad-opted a hybrid methodology).

Jason Aldean claims his second top 10 bow in as many weeks on Hot Country Songs, as “Just Gettin’ Started” (Broken Bow) begins at No. 10. He logged his highest debut on the Oct. 11 chart with “Tonight Looks Good on You” (No. 8), and His “Burnin’ It Down” holds for an 11th week atop the survey. All three tracks are from his album Old Boots, New Dirt, which is set for a lofty debut on the charts dated Oct. 25.

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Dolly Parton is an entertainment legend who has sold over 100 milllion albums. She’s an award-winning singer, songwriter, author and philanthropist whose career spans over five decades.Dolly continues to break new ground having just come off a sold out worldwide tour and releasing her 42nd studio album “Blue Smoke.”

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“It’s knowin’ that your door is always open/And your path is free to walk.”Those opening lines, an easy-going banjo riff and a descending chord pro-

gression turned Glen Campbell’s “Gentle On My Mind” into one of the best-known titles of the 1960s.

Despite its status as a classic, “Gentle” has a rather odd chart history. It peaked at No. 30 on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs when it was released in 1967 and only reached No. 39 on the Billboard Hot 100 after a rerelease in 1968. “Gentle” instead found its biggest support on the Easy Listening chart, where it climbed to No. 8, boosted perhaps by its literary verbiage — “I dip my cup of soup back from a gurlin’, cracklin’ caldron in some trainyard” — in a post-folk era.

Composer John Hartford subsequently nabbed a Grammy for best country & western song, and Campbell’s recording won the Academy of Country & Western Music’s single record of the year, but the world got to know “Gentle” best as the theme song for Campbell’s CBS TV series.

“The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour was my first real introduction into music,” says producer Dann Huff (Keith Urban, Brantley Gilbert), who — like Campbell — first made his mark as a Los Angeles session guitarist. “He was my first hero, because he played guitar, so I watched that show religiously.”

“Gentle” appears repeatedly during Glen Camp-bell: I’ll Be Me, a documentary about his battle with Alzheimer’s disease that opens Oct. 24 in New York and Nashville. As the opening song in his farewell concert tour, the familiar chords play at numerous points in the film as he walks onstage in Nashville, Los Angeles, New York and Napa, Calif., where he gave his final concert on Nov. 30, 2012. The movie also finds him rehearsing with The Band Perry for a 2012 Grammy tribute that includes “Gentle,” and the group’s version of the song plays over the end credits.

“At the studio in L.A., when it came time for him to sing ‘Rhinestone Cowboy,’ he sat his guitar down, he took off the jacket that he had on, and he put on his rhinestone jacket to rehearse the song,” says TBP’s Kimberly Perry. “I thought that was such a cool moment, because he’s the quintessential entertainer.”

Campbell’s peak years came and went before The Band Perry had even arrived — Kimberly, the oldest of the trio, was born in 1983 — but the siblings came to appreciate Campbell through their parents. They were particularly infatuated with the lyrical craftsmanship in “Gentle On My Mind.”

“Here in The Band Perry, we have very poetic hearts,” observes Kimberly. “ ‘If I Die Young’ was a very poetic-written lyric. In fact, it was a piece of prose before it was actually a song. So I think that was really what attracted us initially to ‘Gentle On My Mind,’ especially in the first verse where it says, ‘I keep my sleep-ing bag rolled up and stashed behind your couch.’ It’s a masculine perspective.”

“When a girl sings from a guy’s perspective,” says TBP mandolin player Neil Perry, “I think that’s a really cool kind of spin on a song.”

The original perspective came courtesy of Hartford, a folk/bluegrass singer/songwriter who died in 2001. He likely wrote “Gentle” in early 1966. Hartford had been collecting some of the images in his mind, and they came tumbling out after he and Jim Glaser, of Tompall & The Glaser Brothers, took their wives to see Doctor Zhivago, an epic tale from World War I-era Russia that de-buted in theaters on Dec. 31, 1965.

“When I came home I was really turned on,” Hartford told author Dorothy Horstman in Sing Your Heart Out, Country Boy. “I sat down and wrote it, and that’s how it came out. It has a lot of other scenes in it in addition to that movie, but the movie had a long traveling sensation that I liked.”

It was an appropriate song to close I’ll Be Me, since the documentary follows Campbell’s travels on his final tour. Big Machine Label Group (BMLG) president/CEO Scott Borchetta suggested TBP might want to be on the soundtrack, and “Gentle” was the band’s immediate pick.

“We’ve gotten to explore a lot of sounds,” says Kimberly, noting the pumped-up energies of “Better Dig Two” and “DONE.” “It was a very poignant moment for us to say, ‘We love the foundations of country music. That’s where our heartbeat is.’ ”

The iconic stature of “Gentle” made it tricky. It would likely sound new to many younger country fans, but the genre’s older consumers would know it intimately. TBP needed to respect the original but also bring something new to the table.

“You don’t want to lose the identity of the song,” bass player Reid Perry says. “People are used to hearing a certain sound.”

“Gentle” was the first song they tackled on day two of sessions for their third album at John and Martina McBride’s Blackbird Studios. Banjo player Ilya Toshinsky, acoustic guitarist Jerry McPherson and drummer Aaron Sterling joined

the tracking band, as did keyboard player Charlie Judge, who created an ethe-real, synth-based pad for the opening verse, which Kimberly sang in elongated fashion without a real time signature.

“There was no click track or anything,” says Huff. “She just sang the whole first verse almost like she was reading the lyrics from her diary. At the end of that first verse, that little banjo came in, and off we go to the races.”

With each successive verse, they gradually added new sounds, with Neil and Reid layering counter-melodies at the close during overdubs to define the TBP take.

“There’s not really a chorus,” Reid observes. “It’s four verses, so we had to get creative with background vocals and banjo licks and stuff like that to keep it interesting through the entire length of the song.”

The performance was interesting enough that BMLG thought it single-wor-thy, although the tempo-less, rubato first verse posed a problem. So Huff spent two days cutting and pasting alternate instrumental takes with Pro Tools from verse two to the beginning of the track to build a new foundation for the open-ing stanza. Kimberly headed to NightBird Studios in West Hollywood to re-sing that first verse. Huff listened in remotely from Nashville, trusting engineer Juliette Amoroso to capture Kimberly’s vocals properly.

BMLG’s Republic Nashville released the revised version to radio via Play MPE on Sept. 29. It debuted on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart dated Oct. 11 at No. 54. The Band Perry will sing it during an Oct. 19 Alzheimer’s benefit in Nashville that includes a screening of the film, which captures Campbell’s end-of-life health issues in a powerful way. And they’re knowin’ that the door is always open to future performances.

“We may or may not be playing this on the CMA awards,” says Kimberly. “We may or may not be revising that initial first verse.”

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What’s the next career stop after a long and successful run in country record pro-motion? Increasingly, the answer to that question seems to be artist management.

When Allen Mitchell took a job at Erv Woolsey Management in late July, he became the latest in a growing string of country label execs to make a similar move. Mitchell’s 12-year promotion career included stints at Mercury, Univer-sal South and Bigger Picture. He now helps manage newcomers Tyler Reeve, Marissa Rhodes, The Davisson Brothers Band and Stone Senate.

Angela Lange joined Q Prime South as vp country promotion in February 2013. The 17-year re-cord vet was previously vp pro-motion at EMI Nashville. The move to management reunited her with Eric Church, an EMI artist managed by Q Prime that she has worked with since the beginning of his career. She now also works with fellow EMI act Brothers Osborne.

Buffy Cooper joined Morris Higham Management in January 2012 in the newly created position of vp radio promotion and marketing, arriving from the director of national promotion job at Sony’s Columbia/BNA. She now works with three acts signed to her former employer — Kenny Chesney, Jake Owen and Leah Turner — as well as indie artists Martina McBride and Old Dominion.

Karen McGuire has been working at Triple 8 Management since October 2010 as director of radio promotions after a stint at Universal South and 16 years at Curb Records. She currently represents an eclectic mix of established acts and newcomers, including Eli Young Band, Joe Nichols, Chase Rice, Sam Hunt, The Cadillac Three, Jack Ingram, Kevin Fowler and Josh Abbott Band.

Longtime Dreamworks and Show Dog-Universal regional Suzanne Dur-ham now works directly for the latter label’s proprietor, Toby Keith, and his manager, T.K. Kimbrell, at TKO Artist Management, in the capacity of Keith’s liaison to radio. She has held that position since January 2011.

Interestingly, no two of these management roles are exactly alike. While Lange and McGuire’s jobs focus mostly on country radio, Cooper’s position involves a marketing element. Durham handles some social media responsi-bilities, and Mitchell’s job is straight-up artist management.

What they have in common is that the skill sets they learned on the promo-tion side, particularly in the area of relationship-building, are helping them suc-ceed in their current roles. Except for Mitchell, all say their jobs are designed

to enhance the promotion efforts of the label staffs they work with.

But initially def ining those roles is not always easy. Cooper admits that while she and Colum-bia Records vp promotion Nor-bert Nix have a great relationship now, in the early days of her job, “I was walking on eggshells there for a while. He and I, we butted

heads hard sometimes.”Now, she says, “I always tell Norbert and [his team] they’re the front line,

and I want to support the front line,” she says of her role. “I also try not to get in the way of their relationships” with radio.

Lange agrees, saying that with the EMI promotion staff, “Early on I tried to be clear that we’re on the same team, that I’m here to help you, not to work against you … We have the same goal, really. We’re trying to get our artist played on the radio and exposed.”

Adds Lange, “It’s really been more of a mind-set of ‘I’m not here to do your job or push you out of the way. I’m here to help you as a partner.’ ”

McGuire says she’s known inside her office as “the connector,” as her job en-tails linking the management team, the artists, their labels and country radio. “It’s a partnership all the way around. The labels we have [acts signed to] are great teams, and I’ve know most of the people at the top for 25-30 years. So we’re friends first, but we’re here to do a job. I’m here to help them any way possible.”

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think the difference is you only have six people running for that office. You’ve got 6,000 trying to get that track sold or to get you to come to a show. So the pool is a whole lot more crowded.

Do most artists understand they need devel-opment? A common thread of new artists is, “I’ve got my music, I’ve gotta put it out. Every-body wants it. I’m ready to go.” No, you’re prob-ably not. But for the most part, they now realize they need it. They realize there are all these ele-

ments to how the industry works. You’ve got the digital, the website, stream-ing services, the road. You’ve got, “Do I want a record deal? Do I not want a record deal? What is Sirius XM doing? How do I do that? Do I need to do the other radio, too?” There’s so many pieces, and they realize they need help.

If you go to a label, they will want to know what your social numbers are, and that’s a job in itself. It’s asking an enormous amount of an art-ist to have all that going in. Just to use that example, you are asking them to not just gain fans and followers, but to grow engagement. If you have a mil-lion likes and nobody is engaging, then it’s worthless to you. Then you have to develop content. Then you gotta figure out what content worked. Go do more of that. Oh, by the way, I have a co-write in the morning, and I’ve gotta go do this demo, and I’ve gotta do this gig because I gotta pay my rent. Then I gotta go see if I’m getting a publishing deal, because maybe then I don’t have to work a second job. I need to figure out if somebody will book some of these shows and who’s going to tell the paper we are coming. There’s all of that, and you’re spread too thin. And it’s not their skill set. What we try to do is put together that team for them, because a manager isn’t necessarily all of those things either.

Where are you with the company? It started in February, and we’ve worked with, I think, seven acts, so far. It’s grown faster than I anticipated because I guess the need that I thought wasn’t being filled really isn’t. There are other folks helping develop people as well, but there’s definitely a need and so far, it looks like we are doing a pretty good job — at least a good enough job to have people keep coming and being referred.

I guess when you have your first person that breaks through, then you’ll really be getting the phone calls. All that takes time. This isn’t about trying to race up the chart or a race to sell a million. It’s really about building the foundation and building a career that can last. —Tom Roland

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Q U E ST I O N S

AnsweredStephen Linn

Owner, AmpliFLY Entertainment@StephenLinn

When Stephen Linn moved from Arizona to Nashville as a reporter for WSMV-TV in 1989, he started an odyssey that led unexpectedly to building an independent music-industry firm. He first segued into political consultant work, which led to multimedia marketing; digital marketing, music strategy and promotion for CMT; and a one-year stint at BBR Management, where he helped establish Parmalee. Linn ultimately decided to pool all the pieces from that background into AmpliFLY, a company that specializes in building business plans and marketing strategies for new acts.

What exactly is AmpliFLY Entertainment? Artist development, management and music marketing. The one thing I kept coming around to as I talked to label heads or agents or artists is that no one is really doing artist development anymore. Labels used to do it, but they don’t spend the money anymore. Some management groups do a really good job of it. But as a whole, it doesn’t get done. What we’re trying to do, it’s not about radio [or] getting on Taylor Swift’s tour. It’s about developing a sustainable career. The reality is, of everyone who’s going to play music in America this weekend — millions of peo-ple at a festival, at a club, wherever — 10 of them will be radio stars, and chances are it won’t be you. So my stock line is, “When you’re on-stage, you’re an artist. When you’re not, you’re running for governor.” It’s all that “running for governor” stuff that can build a sustainable career. If we do our jobs right, in 12-18 months, we’re out of work.

Which is harder to get attention for — an artist or a politician? It’s kind of the same. People either care about you or they don’t. I

COLT FORD’S NEW ADVENTUREColt Ford enlisted Eagle Rock Entertain-ment to shoot his first concert DVD, Crank It Up! Colt Ford Live at Wild Adventures, on Aug. 2. Set for a Nov. 11 release, the 20-track set features his version of “Dirt Road An-them,” the Jason Aldean hit he co-wrote, plus a live take on “Drivin’ Around Song,” which Ford originally cut as an Aldean col-lab. Ford’s most recent album, Thanks for Lis-tening, debuted at No. 3 on Country Albums.

Montgomery Gentry partnered with Garth Brooks’ new GhostTunes digital retail platform to offer a “Check Your Headlights” bundle with all the proceeds headed to breast cancer research. The $19.99 package includes the duo’s current single, “Headlights,” and a “Check Your Headlights” T-shirt.

Country Music Association Awards nominees Brandy Clark and Jaren John-ston will play the CMA Theater at the Country Music Hall of Fame on the eve of the CMA Awards, Nov. 4, as the organization presents an installment of its Songwriters Series. Clark is nominated as a songwriter this year for co-writing Kacey Musgraves’ “Follow Your Arrow.” Johnston, of The Cadillac Three, is nominated as a co-producer of Dierks Bentley’s album Riser and single “Drunk on a Plane.” As a writer, he had recent hits with “Meanwhile Back at Mama’s” and “Sunshine & Whiskey.” Other writers will be announced for the Songwriter Series at a later date.

Florida Georgia Line headlines New York’s prestigious Madison Square Gar-den for the first time on Feb. 25 as the duo rolls out its Anything Goes Tour. The schedule, which marks the first time the act has topped the bill at arena-level buildings, launches Jan. 15 in Toledo, Ohio, with Thomas Rhett and Frankie Ballard on the bill.

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LAST WEEK

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TITLE Artist PRODUCER (SONGWRITER) IMPRINT / PROMOTION LABEL CERTIFIED

PEAK POSITION

l1 1 1 12 BURNIN’ IT DOWN ★★No. 1 (11 weeks)★★ Jason Aldean M.KNOX (C.G.TOMPKINS,R.CLAWSON,B.KELLEY,T.HUBBARD) BROKEN BOW 1 1

l2 48 — 2 SOMETHING IN THE WATER Carrie Underwood M.BRIGHT (C.UNDERWOOD,C. DESTEFANO,BRETT JAMES) 19/ARISTA NASHVILLE 2

3 2 2 14 DIRT Florida Georgia Line J.MOI (C.G.TOMPKINS,R.CLAWSON) REPUBLIC NASHVILLE 0 1

l4 6 8 8 NEON LIGHT ★★Streaming Gainer★★ Blake Shelton S.HENDRICKS (A.DORFF,J.KEAR,MARK IRWIN) WARNER BROS./WMN

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l5 4 4 16 LEAVE THE NIGHT ON ★★Airplay Gainer★★ Sam Hunt Z.CROWELL,S.MCANALLY (S.HUNT,S.MCANALLY,J.OSBORNE) MCA NASHVILLE 0 4

l6 5 5 17 ROLLER COASTER Luke Bryan J.STEVENS (C.SWINDELL,M.CARTER) CAPITOL NASHVILLE 5

7 3 3 16 AMERICAN KIDS Kenny Chesney B.CANNON,K.CHESNEY (R.CLAWSON,S.MCANALLY,L.LAIRD) BLUE CHAIR/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE 1 2

l8 9 10 44 READY SET ROLL Chase Rice C. DESTEFANO (C. DESTEFANO,R.AKINS,C.RICE) DACK JANIELS/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE 8

l9 11 11 20 SOMETHIN’ BAD Miranda Lambert Duet With Carrie Underwood F.LIDDELL,C.AINLAY,G.WORF (C. DESTEFANO,BRETT JAMES,PRISCILLA RENEA) 19/ARISTA NASHVILLE/RCA NASHVILLE 0 1

l10 NEW 1 JUST GETTIN’ STARTED ★★Hot Shot Debut★★ Jason Aldean M.KNOX (C. DESTEFANO,R.AKINS,A.GORLEY) BROKEN BOW

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11 12 9 20 BARTENDER Lady Antebellum N.CHAPMAN,LADY ANTEBELLUM (C.KELLEY,D.HAYWOOD,H.SCOTT,R.CLAWSON) CAPITOL NASHVILLE 1 4

l12 14 15 12 GIRL IN A COUNTRY SONG Maddie & Tae D.HUFF,A.SCHERZ (A.SCHERZ,M.MARLOW,T.DYE) DOT 12

13 13 14 23 SUNSHINE & WHISKEY Frankie Ballard M.ALTMAN (L.LAIRD,J.JOHNSTON) WARNER BROS./WAR 13

l14 15 19 13 SOMEWHERE IN MY CAR Keith Urban D.HUFF,K.URBAN (J.T.HARDING,K.URBAN) HIT RED/CAPITOL NASHVILLE 14

l15 NEW 1 BUMPIN’ THE NIGHT Florida Georgia Line J.MOI (B.ALLMAND,C.G.TOMPKINS,R.CLAWSON) REPUBLIC NASHVILLE 15

16 10 6 26 WHERE IT’S AT (YEP, YEP) Dustin Lynch M.J.CONES (C.R.BARLOWE,Z.CROWELL,M.JENKINS) BROKEN BOW 0 4

l17 16 17 22 SMALL TOWN THROWDOWN Brantley Gilbert Featuring Justin Moore & Thomas Rhett D.HUFF (B.GILBERT,B.HAYSLIP,R.AKINS,D.DAVIDSON) VALORY 13

l18 18 18 18 DAY DRINKING Little Big Town J.JOYCE (K.FAIRCHILD,J.WESTBROOK,P.SWEET,T.VERGES,B.DEAN) CAPITOL NASHVILLE 17

19 17 13 24 DRUNK ON A PLANE Dierks Bentley R. COPPERMAN (C.G.TOMPKINS,J.KEAR,D.BENTLEY) CAPITOL NASHVILLE 1 3

l20 21 21 30 LOOK AT YOU Big & Rich B.KENNY,J.RICH (J.RICH,S.LAWSON) B$R/NEW REVOLUTION 20

l21 23 22 24 CLOSE YOUR EYES Parmalee NV (A.CRAIG,T.TOMLINSON,S.MINOR) STONEY CREEK 21

l22 25 25 3 SHOTGUN RIDER Tim McGraw B.GALLIMORE,T.MCGRAW (H.LINDSEY,M.GREEN,T.VERGES) MCGRAW/BIG MACHINE 22

l23 22 24 19 FEELIN’ IT Scotty McCreery F.ROGERS (F.ROGERS,M.WEST) 19/INTERSCOPE/MERCURY 22

24 20 16 26 MEANWHILE BACK AT MAMA’S Tim McGraw Featuring Faith Hill T.MCGRAW,B.GALLIMORE (J.JOHNSTON,T.DOUGLAS,J.STEELE) MCGRAW/BIG MACHINE 0 7

l25 24 27 7 PERFECT STORM Brad Paisley L.WOOTEN,B.PAISLEY (B.PAISLEY,L.T.MILLER) ARISTA NASHVILLE 24

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l26 31 33 6 DRINKING CLASS ★★Digital Gainer★★ Lee Brice M.MCCLURE,K.JACOBS,L.BRICE (J.KEAR,D.FRASIER,E.M.HILL) CURB

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27 8 — 2 TONIGHT LOOKS GOOD ON YOU Jason Aldean M.KNOX (D.DAVIDSON,R.AKINS,A.GORLEY) BROKEN BOW 8

l28 30 30 6 MEAN TO ME Brett Eldredge L.LAIRD (B.ELDREDGE,S.CARUSOE) ATLANTIC/WMN 25

29 19 — 2 ANYTHING GOES Florida Georgia Line J.MOI (F.MCTEIGUE,C.G.TOMPKINS,C.WISEMAN) REPUBLIC NASHVILLE 19

30 28 28 15 PAYBACK Rascal Flatts H.BENSON (A.ESHUIS,N.MASON,R.HURD) BIG MACHINE 26

l31 39 39 6 HOMEGROWN HONEY Darius Rucker F.ROGERS (D.RUCKER,C.KELLEY,N.CHAPMAN) CAPITOL NASHVILLE 25

l32 32 31 8 TAKE IT ON BACK Chase Bryant D.GEORGE,C.BRYANT (C.BRYANT,T.L.JAMES,D.ALTMAN) RED BOW 31

l33 33 32 22 KISS YOU TONIGHT David Nail F.LIDDELL,C.AINLAY,G.WORF (D.COOK,J.KNOWLES,T.SUMMAR) MCA NASHVILLE 32

l34 34 34 14 GOD MADE GIRLS RaeLynn J.MOI (RAELYNN,N.GALYON,L.MCKENNA,L.ROSE) VALORY 30

l35 36 37 14 TATTOO Hunter Hayes D.HUFF,H.HAYES (H.HAYES,T.VERGES,B.DEAN) ATLANTIC/WMN 31

36 27 23 5 SWEET LITTLE SOMETHIN’ Jason Aldean M.KNOX (D.L.MURPHY,B.HAYSLIP,M.GREEN) BROKEN BOW 17

l37 43 45 6 MAKE ME WANNA Thomas Rhett J.JOYCE (THOMAS RHETT,B.BUTLER,L.MCCOY) VALORY 37

l38 38 36 22 SHOW YOU OFF Dan + Shay D.SMYERS,S.HENDRICKS,D.ORTON (D.SMYERS,S.MOONEY,D.ORTON) WARNER BROS./WAR 29

39 26 20 3 SUN DAZE Florida Georgia Line J.MOI (C.R.BARLOWE,J.FRASURE,S.BUXTON,T.HUBBARD,B.KELLEY) REPUBLIC NASHVILLE 20

l40 41 40 5 PEOPLE LOVING PEOPLE Garth Brooks M.A.MILLER (L.T.MILLER,C.WALLIN,BUSBEE) PEARL/RCA NASHVILLE 25

l41 50 — 3 TALLADEGA Eric Church J.JOYCE (E.CHURCH,L.LAIRD) EMI NASHVILLE 41

l42 40 41 19 RUM Brothers Osborne B. HILL,BROTHERS OSBORNE (J. OSBORNE,T.J. OSBORNE,B.DEAN) EMI NASHVILLE 34

43 29 12 3 GONNA KNOW WE WERE HERE Jason Aldean M.KNOX (B.BEAVERS,BRETT JAMES) BROKEN BOW 12

l44 45 42 17 LIKE A COWBOY Randy Houser D.GEORGE (R.HOUSER,B.LONG) STONEY CREEK 36

45 42 35 14 HOME SWEET HOME Justin Moore Featuring Vince Neil J.S.STOVER (V.NEIL,N.SIXX,T.LEE) VALORY 28

46 37 26 4 TWO NIGHT TOWN Jason Aldean M.KNOX (T.NICHOLS,BRETT JAMES) BROKEN BOW 18

l47 46 43 8 WHAT WE AIN’T GOT Jake Owen J.MOI (T.J.GOFF,T.MEADOWS) RCA NASHVILLE 33

l48 NEW 1 TIL IT’S GONE Kenny Chesney B.CANNON,K.CHESNEY (R.CLAWSON,D.L.MURPHY,J.YEARY) BLUE CHAIR/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE 48

49 49 44 8 BREAK UP IN A SMALL TOWN Sam Hunt Z.CROWELL,S.MCANALLY (S.HUNT,Z.CROWELL,S.MCANALLY) MCA NASHVILLE 30

l50 RE-ENTRY 3 LONELY EYES Chris Young J.STROUD (J.BULFORD,J.MATTHEWS,L.VELTZ) RCA NASHVILLE 47

For week ending October 5, 2014. Figures are rounded. Compiled from a national sample of retail store and rack sales reports collected and provided by Nielsen SoundScan.

For inquiries about any Nielsen SoundScan 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 BDS, sales data as compiled by Nielsen SoundScan and streaming activity data from online music sources tracked by Nielsen BDS. Descending titles below No. 25 are moved to recurrent after 20 weeks.

COUNTRY MARKET WATCHA Weekly National Music Sales Report

Hot Country SongsBILLBOARD COUNTRY UPDATE OCTOBER 9, 2014 | PAGE 8 OF 10

ALBUMSDIGITAL

ALBUMS*DIGITAL TRACKS

This Week 666,000 203,000 2,345,000

Last Week 599,000 202,000 2,263,000

Change 11.2% 0.5% 3.6%

This Week Last Year 551,000 149,000 2,121,000

Change 20.9% 36.2% 10.6%

*Digital album sales are also counted within album sales.

Weekly Unit SalesYear-Over-Year Album Sales2013 2014 CHANGE

Albums 28,587,000 22,535,000 -21.2%

Digital Tracks 130,256,000 108,135,000 -17.0%

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Overall Unit Sales

2013 2014 CHANGE

Physical 19,811,000 14,987,000 9.0%

Digital 8,776,000 7,547,000 -14.0%

Sales by Album Format

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l1 NEW SOMETHING IN THE WATER CARRIE UNDERWOOD (19/Arista Nashville/SMN)

l2 NEW JUST GETTIN’ STARTED JASON ALDEAN (Broken Bow/BBMG)

l3 NEW BUMPIN’ THE NIGHT FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE (Republic Nashville/BMLG)

4 2 11 BURNIN’ IT DOWN JASON ALDEAN (Broken Bow/BBMG)

5 3 13 DIRT FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE (Republic Nashville/BMLG)

l6 12 16 AMERICAN KIDS KENNY CHESNEY (Blue Chair/Columbia Nashville/SMN)

7 6 16 LEAVE THE NIGHT ON SAM HUNT (MCA Nashville/UMGN)

8 5 7 NEON LIGHT BLAKE SHELTON (Warner Bros./WMN)

9 1 2 TONIGHT LOOKS GOOD ON YOU JASON ALDEAN (Broken Bow/BBMG)

10 4 2 ANYTHING GOES FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE (Republic Nashville/BMLG)

11 13 12 GIRL IN A COUNTRY SONG MADDIE & TAE (Dot/BMLG)

12 15 44 READY SET ROLL CHASE RICE (Dack Janiels)

13 14 15 ROLLER COASTER LUKE BRYAN (Capitol Nashville/UMGN)

14 11 20 BARTENDER LADY ANTEBELLUM (Capitol Nashville/UMGN)

15 10 5 SWEET LITTLE SOMETHIN’ JASON ALDEAN (Broken Bow/BBMG)

16 16 19 SUNSHINE & WHISKEY FRANKIE BALLARD (Warner Bros./WMN)

17 19 20 SOMETHIN’ BAD MIRANDA LAMBERT DUET WITH CARRIE UNDERWOOD (RCA Nashville/SMN)

18 7 3 GONNA KNOW WE WERE HERE JASON ALDEAN (Broken Bow/BBMG)

19 8 3 SUN DAZE FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE (Republic Nashville/BMLG)

20 17 4 TWO NIGHT TOWN JASON ALDEAN (Broken Bow/BBMG)

21 22 11 SOMEWHERE IN MY CAR KEITH URBAN (Hit Red/Capitol Nashville)

22 21 35 HOPE YOU GET LONELY TONIGHT COLE SWINDELL (Warner Bros./WMN)

l23 28 5 PERFECT STORM BRAD PAISLEY (Arista Nashville/SMN)

24 23 23 DRUNK ON A PLANE DIERKS BENTLEY (Capitol Nashville/UMGN)

25 20 25 WHERE IT’S AT (YEP, YEP) DUSTIN LYNCH (Broken Bow/BBMG)

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l26 29 3 SHOTGUN RIDER TIM MCGRAW (McGraw/Big Machine/BMLG)

27 26 18 DAY DRINKING LITTLE BIG TOWN (Capitol Nashville/UMGN)

28 25 32 I DON’T DANCE LEE BRICE (Curb)

29 24 45 THIS IS HOW WE ROLL FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE FEAT. LUKE BRYAN (Republic Nashville/BMLG)

l30 35 4 DRINKING CLASS LEE BRICE (Curb)

31 30 45 PLAY IT AGAIN LUKE BRYAN (Capitol Nashville/UMGN)

32 32 21 SMALL TOWN THROWDOWN BRANTLEY GILBERT FEAT. JUSTIN MOORE & THOMAS RHETT (Valory/BMLG)

33 33 8 BREAK UP IN A SMALL TOWN SAM HUNT (MCA Nashville/UMGN)

34 27 24 MEANWHILE BACK AT MAMA’S TIM MCGRAW FEAT. FAITH HILL (McGraw/Big Machine/BMLG)

l35 38 12 FEELIN’ IT SCOTTY MCCREERY (19/Interscope/Mercury/UMGN)

l36 36 5 MEAN TO ME BRETT ELDREDGE (Atlantic/WMN)

37 37 13 LOOK AT YOU BIG & RICH (B$R)

l38 42 9 GOD MADE GIRLS RAELYNN (Valory/BMLG)

l39 NEW I NEED MY GIRL BLAKE SHELTON (Warner Bros./WMN)

l40 NEW MAKE ME WANNA THOMAS RHETT (Valory/BMLG)

41 39 121 CRUISE FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE (Republic Nashville/BMLG)

42 45 5 CLOSE YOUR EYES PARMALEE (Stoney Creek/BBMG)

43 44 13 HOME SWEET HOME JUSTIN MOORE FEAT. VINCE NEIL (Valory/BMLG)

44 40 11 LATER ON THE SWON BROTHERS (Arista Nashville/SMN)

45 41 42 BOTTOMS UP BRANTLEY GILBERT (Valory/BMLG)

l46 RE-ENTRY TALLADEGA ERIC CHURCH (EMI Nashville/UMGN)

47 46 6 WHAT WE AIN’T GOT JAKE OWEN (RCA Nashville/SMN)

48 48 91 WAGON WHEEL DARIUS RUCKER (Capitol Nashville/UMGN)

49 43 18 COLD ONE ERIC CHURCH (EMI Nashville/UMGN)

50 49 8 EX TO SEE SAM HUNT (MCA Nashville/UMGN)

Top-selling paid download country songs compiled from sales reports collected and provided by Nielsen SoundScan. Charts update weekly on Thurdays at www.Billboard.Biz/charts. Copyright 2014, Prometheus Global Media, LLC and Nielsen SoundScan, Inc. All rights reserved.

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l2 NEW 1 LADY ANTEBELLUM 747CAPITOL NASHVILLE /UMGN 2

3 1 — 2 KENNY CHESNEY The Big RevivalBLUE CHAIR/COLUMBIA NASHVILLE 306274/SMN 1

4 3 2 3 GEORGE STRAIT The Cowboy Rides Away: Live From AT&T StadiumMCA NASHVILLE 021477/UMGN 2

5 2 1 3 TIM MCGRAW Sundown Heaven TownMCGRAW/BIG MACHINE TM0200A/BMLG 1

l6 4 4 61 LUKE BRYAN Crash My PartyCAPITOL NASHVILLE 018733/UMGN 2 1

l7 10 10 4 ALABAMA Angels Among Us: Hymns & Gospel FavoritesCRACKER BARREL/TAG/GAITHER 483414 EX/CAPITOL CMG 6

8 5 3 4 LEE BRICE I Dont DanceCURB 79392* 1

l9 7 6 20 BRANTLEY GILBERT Just As I AmVALORY BG0200A/BMLG 0 1

10 6 7 96 FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE Here’s To The Good TimesREPUBLIC NASHVILLE 017773/BMLG 2 1

11 9 12 80 BLAKE SHELTON Based On A True Story ...WARNER BROS. 530386/WMN 1 1

l12 11 9 18 MIRANDA LAMBERT PlatinumRCA NASHVILLE 379278/SMN 0 1

l13 15 11 7 CHASE RICE Ignite The NightDACK JANIELS 22573 1

14 13 5 4 DUSTIN LYNCH Where It’s AtBROKEN BOW 7337/BBMG 2

15 14 8 6 BRAD PAISLEY Moonshine In The TrunkARISTA NASHVILLE 305528/SMN 1

16 16 13 34 ERIC CHURCH The OutsidersEMI NASHVILLE 019402*/UMGN 0 1

l17 19 15 33 COLE SWINDELL Cole SwindellWARNER BROS. 541372/WMN 2

l18 20 16 18 VARIOUS ARTISTS NOW That’s What I Call Country: Volume 7UNIVERSAL/SONY MUSIC 020859/UME 3

19 8 — 2 BIG & RICH GravityB$R 001/KOBALT 8

l20 23 18 18 BIG SMO Kuntry Livin’BIG SMO/ELEKTRA NASHVILLE 543999/WMN 6

21 17 19 32 DIERKS BENTLEY RiserCAPITOL NASHVILLE 019404/UMGN 1

22 22 17 8 SAM HUNT X2C (EP)MCA NASHVILLE DIGITAL EX/UMGN 5

23 21 14 7 VARIOUS ARTISTS Nashville Outlaws: A Tribute To Motley CrueMOTLEY/ELEVEN SEVEN/BIG MACHINE /BMLG 2

l24 NEW 1 MARTY STUART AND HIS FABULOUS SUPERLATIVES Saturday Night / Sunday MorningSUPERLATONE 57239*/THIRTY TIGERS 24

25 27 21 21 RASCAL FLATTS RewindBIG MACHINE RF0300A/BMLG 1

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l2 3 13 DIRT FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE

3 2 15 LEAVE THE NIGHT ON SAM HUNT

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5 4 32 THIS IS HOW WE ROLL FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE FEAT. LUKE BRYAN

6 5 15 AMERICAN KIDS KENNY CHESNEY

7 6 28 PLAY IT AGAIN LUKE BRYAN

8 7 79 CRUISE FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE

l9 8 11 ROLLER COASTER LUKE BRYAN

l10 10 18 SOMETHIN’ BAD MIRANDA LAMBERT DUET WITH CARRIE UNDERWOOD

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l11 14 18 BARTENDER LADY ANTEBELLUM

12 11 41 BOTTOMS UP BRANTLEY GILBERT

13 9 19 DRUNK ON A PLANE DIERKS BENTLEY

14 12 25 I DON’T DANCE LEE BRICE

l15 19 4 NEON LIGHT BLAKE SHELTON

l16 13 11 GIRL IN A COUNTRY SONG MADDIE & TAE

17 15 2 SOMEWHERE IN MY CAR KEITH URBAN

18 16 10 READY SET ROLL CHASE RICE

19 17 60 THAT’S MY KIND OF NIGHT LUKE BRYAN

20 18 18 WHERE IT’S AT (YEP, YEP) DUSTIN LYNCH

Country Streaming Songs -The week’s top Country streamed radio songs, on-demand songs and videos on leading online music services. Charts update weekly on Thurdays at www.Billboard.Biz/charts. Copyright 2014, Prometheus Global Media, LLC and Nielsen SoundScan, Inc. All rights reserved.

BUILDING AIRPLAY GAINERSTITLE Label Artist GAIN

NEON LIGHT Warner Bros./WMN Blake Shelton +281

TIL IT’S GONE Blue Chair/Columbia Nashville Kenny Chesney +249

LEAVE THE NIGHT ON MCA Nashville Sam Hunt +233

SHOTGUN RIDER Big Machine Tim McGraw +201

BURNIN’ IT DOWN Broken Bow Jason Aldean +177

GIRL IN A COUNTRY SONG Dot Maddie & Tae +161

TALLADEGA EMI Nashville Eric Church +110

DIRT Republic Nashville Florida Georgia Line +106

PERFECT STORM Arista Nashville Brad Paisley +100

MEAN TO ME Atlantic/WMN Brett Eldredge +99

Building Gainers reflects titles with the top increases in plays from Monday through 5pm ET Wednesday, as compared to the same period in the previous week, according to Nielsen BDS.

TOP COUNTRY ALBUMSCOUNTRY DIGITAL SONGS

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The week’s most popular country albums, ranked by sales data as compiled by Nielsen SoundScan. Albums are defined as current if they are less than 18 months old or older than 18 months but still residing in the Billboard 200’s top 100. Charts update weekly on Thurdays at www.Billboard.Biz/charts. Copyright 2014, Prometheus Global Media, LLC and Nielsen SoundScan, Inc. All rights reserved.

COUNTRY STREAMING SONGS

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1 1 ROLLER COASTER Capitol Nashville Luke Bryan 50.8% 77.8% 4.16 12.9% 6.1% 3.3%

2 2 KISS YOU TONIGHT MCA Nashville David Nail 42.1% 74.3% 4.08 20.1% 3.3% 2.3%

3 3 HOPE YOU GET LONELY TONIGHT Warner Bros/WMN Cole Swindell 44.7% 73.8% 4.05 16.4% 5.6% 4.2%

4 4 AMERICAN KIDS Blue Chair/Columbia Nashville Kenny Chesney 45.0% 72.3% 4.00 15.0% 7.6% 5.1%

5 6 DAY DRINKING Capitol Nashville Little Big Town 45.5% 70.5% 3.95 14.4% 9.2% 5.9%

6 7 LIKE A COWBOY Stoney Creek Randy Houser 38.1% 70.3% 3.93 19.2% 6.1% 4.4%

7 5 SOMEWHERE IN MY CAR Hit Red/Capitol Nashville Keith Urban 37.9% 70.1% 3.93 19.4% 6.1% 4.4%

8 8 LOOK AT YOU B$R/New Revolution Big & Rich 40.2% 70.0% 3.94 17.7% 8.1% 4.2%

9 9 FEELIN’ IT 19/Interscope/Mercury Scotty McCreery 35.3% 67.5% 3.86 20.1% 7.5% 4.9%

10 10 LATER ON Arista Nashville The Swon Brothers 36.2% 67.3% 3.89 22.1% 6.7% 3.9%

11 12 SUNSHINE & WHISKEY Warner Bros / WAR Frankie Ballard 39.1% 67.2% 3.86 16.6% 11.7% 4.4%

12 13 SOMETHIN’ BAD 19/Arista Nashville/RCA Nashville Miranda Lambert w Carrie Underwood 44.5% 66.9% 3.77 10.7% 10.5% 11.9%

13 11 DIRT Republic Nashville Florida Georgia Line 39.1% 66.7% 3.78 16.0% 6.9% 10.4%

14 17 WHAT WE AIN’T GOT RCA Nashville Jake Owen 31.5% 66.5% 3.83 22.3% 7.1% 4.1%

15 14 DUST Republic Nashville Eli Young Band 35.6% 65.6% 3.83 21.6% 7.6% 5.3%

16 15 HOME SWEET HOME Valory Justin Moore f Vince Neil 35.6% 65.6% 3.78 17.9% 10.0% 6.5%

17 16 GIRL IN A COUNTRY SONG Dot Maddie & Tae 34.3% 65.0% 3.70 16.2% 8.7% 10.1%

18 19 SHOTGUN RIDER Big Machine Tim McGraw 26.6% 63.3% 3.74 25.6% 6.5% 4.5%

19 18 NEON LIGHT Warner Bros/WMN Blake Shelton 35.4% 62.7% 3.74 19.8% 11.0% 6.5%

20 20 SMALL TOWN THROWDOWN Valory Brantley Gilbert f Justin Moore & Thomas Rhett 43.4% 62.5% 3.75 16.6% 11.2% 9.8%

21 21 LEAVE THE NIGHT ON MCA Nashville Sam Hunt 34.0% 61.6% 3.69 19.3% 11.0% 8.0%

22 22 LOVE Elektra Nashville / WAR Jana Kramer 28.0% 61.4% 3.70 24.8% 8.0% 5.7%

23 23 READY SET ROLL Dack Janiels/Columbia Nashville Chase Rice 35.4% 61.1% 3.67 19.2% 9.5% 10.2%

24 25 WE’LL COME BACK AROUND Black River Craig Morgan 24.5% 59.6% 3.69 29.1% 7.6% 3.7%

25 24 MEAN TO ME Atlantic/WMN Brett Eldredge 25.5% 59.4% 3.64 26.0% 7.9% 6.7%

26 26 BURNIN’ IT DOWN Broken Bow Jason Aldean 38.1% 58.4% 3.62 18.8% 11.4% 11.4%

27 27 MAKE ME WANNA Valory Thomas Rhett 26.3% 56.6% 3.55 23.1% 12.9% 7.4%

28 28 TONIGHT TONIGHT Black River John King 19.0% 56.3% 3.54 28.2% 10.0% 5.6%

29 29 TAKE IT ON BACK Red Bow Chase Bryant 20.8% 55.8% 3.61 33.0% 7.1% 4.1%

30 32 RUM EMI Nashville Brothers Osborne 25.2% 54.5% 3.48 22.1% 14.7% 8.6%

31 30 HOMEGROWN HONEY Capitol Nashville Darius Rucker 20.3% 54.4% 3.50 25.7% 15.4% 4.4%

32 31 GOD MADE GIRLS Valory RaeLynn 26.1% 54.4% 3.53 25.9% 12.4% 7.3%

33 34 PAYBACK Big Machine Rascal Flatts 26.7% 53.4% 3.51 25.3% 13.1% 8.2%

34 33 PEOPLE LOVING PEOPLE Pearl/RCA Nashville Garth Brooks 24.3% 53.0% 3.47 25.7% 11.8% 9.5%

35 35 TATTOO Atlantic/WMN Hunter Hayes 24.2% 50.5% 3.43 27.3% 12.6% 9.6%

Radiofeedback is solicited weekly via email to Country Radio listeners and fans in Radio Station Loyal Listener data bases and from Social Media Data Bases. Listeners score 40 songs online via a link to the Radiofeedback study. Song clips are :20 seconds in length and are scored on a 1 to 5 differential with “1” meaning I “Don’t Like This Song At All” and “5” meaning “I Like this Song A Lot” they also answer a follow up question asking if they hear the song “Too Much”, Not Enough” or “Just About Right” on the radio. Radiofeedback’s Top 30 contributing markets are; Atlanta, Austin, Birmingham, Boston, Buffalo, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Indianapolis, Jacksonville FL, Knoxville, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Nashville, New York City, Omaha, Orlando, Oklahoma City, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Portland, San Antonio, San Diego, Seattle, St. Louis and Washington DC. For more information, contact John Hart (hart@bullsi.com).

Luke Bryan spends another week at No. 1 positive and favorite among active P1 listeners with “Roller Coaster.” Younger 18-34s mirror the No. 1 positive and favorite scores, as do core 25-44s and adults 35-54. Females strap in at No. 1 positive and favorite overall and in all female demos. Males overall are at No. 2 positive and No. 1 favorite.

Little Big Town is new to the top five with “Day Drinking” at No. 5, up from No. 8. It also registers as the No. 2 favorite/passion song. Younger adults 18-34 hoist it to No. 3 and No. 6 favorite, and core 25-44s consider it No. 6 positive and favorite. Females 12-plus rank this song No. 8 and No. 3 favorite, and males 12-plus are at No. 5 and No. 2 favorite.

Tim McGraw has the No. 18 song overall with active P1s 12-plus, who trigger a No. 25 passion grade for “Shotgun Rider.” Younger 18-34s mark it at No. 16, core 25-44s push it to No. 14, and adults 35-54 place it even higher at No. 12. Males 12-plus are the strength at No. 10. Younger 18-34s put it at No. 1, as do core males 25-44. Younger females 18-34 are at No. 19.

Justin Moore stays well in front of the radio spin chart as listeners position “Home Sweet Home” at No. 16 positive and No. 15 favorite. Core 25-44s make the Vince Neil collaboration No. 17 and No. 10 favorite, while younger 18-34s research at No. 15. Core males respond at No. 5 and No. 1 favorite, and core females are No. 19 and No. 11 favorite.

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RADIOFEEDBACK THIS WEEK

Luke Bryan’s ‘Roller Coaster’ Still Riding High

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