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McCurdy Tour Benefits St. Jude New artist radio tours are fairly predictable affairs, unless your new artist happens to be a wildly popular television actress. For Capitol/Nashville and iCarly actress Jennette McCurdy, the introduction to Country radio has become a much bigger deal, as the photo above attests. A mall tour in partnership with local stations and benefiting St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital has put a new spin on an old industry strategy. “The idea came from trying to maximize the value this artist has in a way that radio sees it, while also going directly to the consumer,” Capitol SVP/Marketing Cindy Mabe explains. “She has such a great base – her Facebook and Twitter
Scream For: Jennette McCurdy fans in Birmingham are mildly affected by the presence of the iCarly star/country artist during a mall performance stop on her radio tour. Proceeds from the events are going to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Story below.
Wolf Down: Can S.F. Support Country? Losing any Country station is a disappointment in this business, but losing one in a top five market is borderline devastating and inevitably triggers some industry-wide soul searching. The demise of Entercom’s KBWF (The Wolf)/San Francisco last Friday (CAT 4/15) is especially frustrating because it’s the third FM Country outlet in 10 years to fold its tent in that city. Launched live during CRS opening ceremonies in 2007 amid great fanfare, the Wolf restored country music to San Francisco after the two years of hibernation which followed Bonneville KZBR’s (The Bear) departure in 2005. In 2001, CBS Radio ended the eight year run of Infinity’s KYCY (Young Country). Going back even further, Chancellor’s KSAN, which had been in the format since 1980, first swapped its 94.9 frequency with sister station KYLD’s 107.7 and soon after changed hands to Susquahanna, which then shuttered the format in July of 1997. Alpha Broadcasting’s KUPL/Portland PD Scott Mahalick, who launched the Wolf, called the flip to Sports “a tragic shame.” Mahalick left for Portland in August of 2009 and says the station was on a roll. “It was healthy to the tune of a 3.8 share 25-54, it was 8th in mornings, with the No. 1 Anglo morning show in San Francisco. Cume was well over a half million and pushing 600,000. It was absolutely on fire and we were growing month after month.” So what happened? Mahalick believes the throttle was pulled back on critical dynamics, specifically, embracing the city’s multicultural makeup and aggressively working the outlying counties in the metro. A morning show change in 2010 brought in a simulcast of Fitz from sister KKWF/Seattle. “Fitz is a superstar in our business, a mega-talent,” Mahalick says. (continued on page 7)
Scott Mahalick
Cindy Mabe
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including her single “Generation Love,” which Mabe describes as “what Jennette wants to say about her generation and how they give back.” Afterward, McCurdy signs purchased CD singles and 8x10 photographs, with proceeds going to St. Jude. “Her goal from the beginning was to raise $100,000,” Mabe says. “And she’ll probably exceed that. She signs until the mall closes. It’s a win for everyone, though some of the smaller malls have been somewhat set back by the turnout. But we’ve had people come up and say they were a St. Jude kid. We sometimes get stuck doing the same thing over and over again with new artists, so this has been kind of cool. It’s a pretty moving experience for us all.” Hodges agrees. “It all stems from the song itself. ‘Generation Love’ is an adult song, not a kid or teen song, and we’re getting great feedback. The tour itself has been a great success, a nice way to launch a career, and Jennette’s going to be able to write a six-figure check to St. Jude in a couple weeks. That’s not your typical new artist radio tour by any stretch.”
numbers are insane, but getting to those people and letting them know she’s doing music is my biggest problem.”
SVP/Promotion Steve Hodges says the fledgling artist didn’t need a hard sell. “When Jennette heard the idea, she said she definitely wanted to do it and definitely wanted to make it about St. Jude,” he says. “She went to the hospital in January and came back with renewed hope, love and passion for that charity.”
McCurdy has long been drawn to the cause of children’s hospitals. “She’s been doing visits probably since she was seven,” Mabe says. “And she’s so popular, obviously, when she goes in and makes those stops. She definitely feels there’s no use in having fame if she isn’t doing something meaningful with it.” While the concept may have quickly clicked, execution was another story. “It’s been a lot of work, to be honest,” Mabe says. “If I had to do it again, I might go to one mall chain, but we wanted to target markets that got it. So we’ve had to put the entire marketing staff on the road. It’s been an all-hands-on-deck project.” Hodges explains, “It’s a full concert production and requires everything from advancing the mall to getting insurance. Cindy’s team has done a great job on the logistics. Jennette has posted info on her Facebook, but our partners in Country radio have been the only way to hear about these events locally. To their credit, they’ve had to have a bit of blind faith in doing this with a new artist. We’ve had to convince them to let us bring her in, find a mall in a hot Zip code and prove to them what she can deliver. “And they’ve stepped up in a big way. They show up with their station vehicles, emcee the shows and bring her up onstage, just like a regular concert. And there are literally thousands of people showing up. Moms bringing their kids, kids bringing their moms, adults and teens coming out on their own. Everyone who buys a CD and photo is guaranteed an autograph, and some of them have to stand in line for hours. It can’t be easy for Jennette to sign thousands of autographs, but she does it with a smile.” The shows integrate the St. Jude message with an introductory video about the hospital and its patients. Accompanied by two musicians, McCurdy then performs a four-to-seven-song set,
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Ladies Love Country Boys: This vintage Arista/Nashville pic shows current Capitol Pres./CEO Mike Dungan ([email protected]) surrounded by (clockwise from left) Anne Weaver Price ([email protected]), Rhonda Adkins, Denise Nichols ([email protected]), Cheri Cranford ([email protected]) and Vannessa Davis ([email protected]). Got a vintage snap? Send them to [email protected].
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Dorman, Robinson To Nine North As reported late this afternoon via Twitter and Facebook, Black River Entertainment’s Jim Dorman and WFRE/
Frederick, MD’s Will Robinson are joining Nine North as Directors/Promotion. Dorman will take West and Southwest responsibilities, with Robinson covering the Northeast/Midwest. Both report to President Larry Pareigis and VP/Promotion & Marketing Tom Moran. They replace Dave Collins, who has joined the Skyville team, and Stan Marczewski, who will be taking an as-yet-unannounced new job. Reach Dorman at [email protected] and Robinson at [email protected]. The search is on for a Northeast rep at BRE, so drop resumes to VP/Promotion Rick Baumgartner at [email protected].
Chart Chat Congrats to Darius Rucker, Steve Hodges, Shane Allen and the whole Capitol promotion family on topping this week’s chart with Rucker’s “This.” The song is Rucker’s second No. 1 from his current album Charleston, SC 1966, joining “Come Back Song.”
Course Work: Butler Did It! Congrats to industry vet Allen Butler, who scored his first hole-in-one Saturday (4/16) with a six-iron on the 167-yard hole No. 6 at Franklin, TN’s Old Natchez Country Club.
Artist News Brad Paisley is among the celebrity guests featured on actor William Shatner’s space-inspired covers compilation Searching For Major Tom, due later this year. Paisley will back Shatner on Steve Miller’s “Space Cowboy.” Track listing here. Powerful storms and the threat of tornados forced the cancellation of Sugarland’s Incredible Machine tour date in
My Tunes: Music ThaT shaPed My Life
WMAD/Madison OM Mike Ferris discusses his most influential songs, albums or concerts:1. George Harrison, Olympia Stadium, Detroit, Dec. 1974: My very first concert!2. Bob Seger/Night Moves: A coming-of-age classic. Bob is the Working Class Hero of Michigan! 3. Bruce Springsteen, Rosemont Horizon, Chicago, March 1988: The Tunnel of Love Tour. My wife and I were
married two months later!4. Glen Campbell/Wichita Lineman: The lyrics, vocals and production paint a melancholy image that reflect a painfully profound period of life in my 20s. 5. Little Big Town/Boondocks: I grew up in the city, and this song perfectly captures my image of life in the “sticks.” Something that is simply very appealing to me.• A highly regarded song or album you’ve never heard: Wanted! The Outlaws by Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Jessi Colter and Tompall Glaser. It’s on my CD bucket list.• An “important” piece of music you just don’t get: Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew. There are some mainstream jazz artists and works that I absolutely love. This one escapes me. I’ve never been able to listen to the entire album because it’s too confusing.• An album you played or listened to incessantly: The American version of the Beatles’ Rubber Soul that opens with “I’ve Just Seen a Face.” They always had a flair of country in their best works.• One obscure or non-country song everyone should listen to right now: Katie Melua’s Nine Million Bicycles. You could compare her to Norah Jones. She’s jazzy, sensitive and has an incredible voice!
Reach Ferris at [email protected].
Mike Ferris
Tuscaloosa, AL Friday (4/15). Video here. Members of Johnny Cash’s family and Arkansas State University have partnered to host the annual Johnny Cash Music Festival Aug. 4 to fund the restoration of the late Country Music Hall of Famer’s childhood home in Dyess, AR. Rosanne Cash, John Carter Cash, George Jones, Kris Kristofferson and Rodney Crowell are among the performers donating their time for the inaugural event. More info here.
Jim Dorman
Will Robinson
Darius Rucker
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Off The recOrd: MargareT duranTe
Stroudavarious’ Margaret Durante gives an industry spin on the artist interview:What was your favorite radio station growing up? I had two favorites —Top 40 WIHT/Washington, DC and Country WMZQ/Washington, DC. My friends and I went to the WMZQ Fest every summer, and they played the first song I was ever obsessed with – “How Do I Live Without You” by Trisha Yearwood and LeAnn Rimes. I think they played both versions. Which label staffer is the worst driver? I
guess Bill Macky, but he’s not a bad driver. He just gets thrown off by the GPS. We named our GPS Deborah during a trip through Texas. We’d be driving along and a road name unique to that city would come on, the voice changed and Deborah would sound all creepy.Who holds the record for taking the longest radio tour route? Eric Beggs wouldn’t even fly from Nashville to Atlanta because he refused to have to go back through Atlanta security. So, we drove from Nashville to Atlanta, had dinner with WUBL, then we drove to Charleston, SC the next day for a WIWF show. From Charleston we drove to Augusta, GA, had a meeting there and then drove back to Atlanta to catch my flight to DC. Eric drove back to Nashville. It was a lot of driving. I got really good at sleeping in a car. What’s the best app to find eats on the road? I have a Chick-fil-A app. It finds your current location and gets you to the nearest one. It’s so funny that the app even exists. But to my joyful surprise, I found it while we were looking for a Chick-fil-A. It’s the lesser of the evils when it comes to fast food. What gross truck stop food tempts you? I’m a huge hotdog fan. People always tell me, “Do you know what’s in a hotdog?” I don’t care. It’s delicious with lots of mustard. What’s the craziest event you’ve ever played? To be clear, it wasn’t a WFRE/Frederick, MD event, but we were in town to perform at an event where a rodeo ring separated the stage and the audience. In between our sets, parents were hoisting their children onto giant sheep, who would try to buck them off. It was a child’s version of a rodeo. My guitar player and I didn’t know if we could regain our composure between sets because we were laughing so hard watching these children hanging on for their lives. The sheep were fierce. The kids were just holding onto their wool and getting thrown around while their parents yelled, “Woo-hoo!” What question do you never want to answer again? Why don’t you try out for American Idol?
The Band Perry will headline a VH1 Save The Music fundraiser concert June 2 at Nashville’s Hard Rock Café. Proceeds will benefit public school music education programs. Details here. Craig Morgan will headline the inaugural NRA Country Jam April 29 in Pittsburgh. Sarah Darling and Due West are also on the bill. A portion of the proceeds will benefit the Folds Of Honor Foundation. Laura Bell Bundy, Jerrod Niemann, the Civil Wars and Old Crow Medicine Show are among the lineup of performers slated for the Recording Academy Nashville Chapter’s 13th Annual Grammy Block Party May 10 at Owen Bradley Park. The event is free to Recording Academy members and those signing up for membership.
Apprentice – Raising The Steaks During Sunday’s (4/17) Celebrity Apprentice teams Backbone and A.S.A.P. were challenged to orchestrate an Omaha Steaks cooking demonstration for company executives. Project manager Gary Busey experienced miscommunication with team Backbone members including John Rich, who was tasked with creating the team’s three-course Father’s Day menu. Aside from the red meat challenge, Rich had a beef with Busey for calling him “boy” off-camera. In the boardroom, Busey claimed he called Rich “kuh-boy,” as in “cowboy.” Busey was fired. Watch the episode here.
The Week’s Top Stories Full coverage can be viewed in the archives at www.countryaircheck.com.• Entercom flipped KBWF (The Wolf)/San Francisco to “Sportsradio 95.7,” ending a 49-month run as Country. Wolf PD Mike Krinik and his entire airstaff are exiting. (CAT 4/15)• CBS Radio/Seattle’s SVP/Market Manager Lisa Decker left the four-station cluster, which includes Country KMPS, after 16 years Friday (4/15). (CAT 4/12)• Big Machine Label Group publicity head Natalie Kilgore left to create a public relations division for the George P. Johnson Entertainment Marketing Group. (CAT 4/13)
Margaret Durante
John Rich
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That said, Deaton doesn’t believe Country will be back. “Who hasn’t done it? When they put the Wolf on in 2007, I saw that as the last ditch effort to make Country work in San Francisco.” Albright & O’Malley’s Jaye Albright believes while there’s room for a Country station, “You need to cover the nine counties in the Bay Area. There are two or three signals that
could do a great job. But the truth is they’re doing so well with what they’re doing. It would be too big of a financial risk.” The lack of a Country station in market No. 4 may be bad for the format’s ego, but it’s a great opportunity for stations that surround San Francisco. “This will be great for KRTY,” Albright says. “Their TSE should really go up. You’ve got [Citadel’s] KATM in Modesto and Maverick’s KFGY (Froggy) in Santa Rosa doing real well.” Deaton won’t let the absence of KBWF change KRTY’s approach. “We are what we are,” he says. “We are limited to what our signal is. There’s streaming, there’s apps, but we won’t change anything we do, no more so than the last time someone went off.” With or without KBWF, both album sales and concert touring remain an important component of the country landscape in the region. Capitol Nashville CEO Mike Dungan says in spite of the Wolf’s early success, “The volume of record sales didn’t really increase when the station came on. It’s almost like the fans there are going to find the music through KRTY or the other suburban stations out there.” On the touring side, Rascal Flatts, Keith Urban, Taylor Swift and Tim McGraw are among the artists making stops this year. Live Nation/Nashville President Brian O’Connell says KBWF’s exit is “a loss, but
its a great country market and always has been. We’re not going to do fewer shows. It’s an automatic route. We’re just going to try harder to get the word out. It’s KRTY’s ball now, and they’re going to have to run with it.” Country Aircheck attempted to reach Entercom VP/Country Mike Moore for this story, but he was unavailable. CAC
• Former longtime WSIX/Nashville personality and Country Radio Hall of Famer Gerry House was inducted into the NAB Broadcasting Hall of Fame (4/12) at the NAB Show Radio Luncheon in Las Vegas. (CAT 4/13)• CBS Radio’s KILT-FM/Houston afternoon host Rowdy Yates left after 16 years at the station and is relocating to Tulsa. (CAT 4/13)• Greg McCarn was named GM of Black River Entertainment, overseeing marketing, promotion, public relations, sales and digital media. (CAT 4/14)• Former KIQK/Rapid City, SD afternoon host Robbie Owens joined Entercom’s WGGY (Froggy 101)/Wilkes Barre for the same airshift. (CAT 4/15)• Clear Channel Top 40 KSLZ and Gen-X WSGX/St. Louis PD Jeff McHugh was named OM for the six-station cluster, which includes Country KSD (The Bull). (CAT 4/15)• Advertising and PR executive Hope Romero was named Market Manager for Clear Channel/Farmington, NM’s five-station cluster, which includes Country KTRA. (CAT 4/12)
Wolf Down (continued from page 1)“But they jolted the system. They replaced a show that was popular. Not a hello, not a ramp up period. Then it seemed like – my observation, I wasn’t there – it became a bad pop station trying to hide the fact that it was a Country station.” The Wolf started losing its early momentum, falling into the low twos by fall of 2009 and eventually dipping into the low ones. In the March PPMs released Monday (4/18), KBWF registered its third consecutive 1.1. In spite of Entercom’s flip to Sports, Mahalick and others familiar with the market believe Country can work. Nate Deaton, GM of Empire’s KRTY/San Jose, has been an observer of the San Francisco market through its many Country iterations. “Country will work there,” he says. “I don’t think that everyone has done it the easy way. KRTY is 45 miles from San Francisco, in the heart of Silicon Valley and as mainstream as it gets. I’m not sure why we have to do anything eclectic.”
Nate Deaton
Jaye Albright
Mike Dungan
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Airborne indicates songs that have reached a i rplay on 60% of the Countr y Aircheck/Mediabase repor t ing panel . 4=Top 5 point gainers.
2 1 DARIUS RUCKER/This (Capitol) 16911 894 5587 283 38.342 2.239 131 0
5 2 KENNY CHESNEY/Live A Little (BNA) 4 16513 1692 5441 555 37.576 2.732 131 0
4 3 MIRANDA LAMBERT/Heart Like Mine (Columbia) 15686 477 5181 171 35.508 1.1 131 0
7 4 SARA EVANS/A Little Bit Stronger (RCA) 4 15205 1568 5083 501 34.257 2.736 131 0
1 5 ZAC BROWN BAND/Colder... (Southern Ground/Atlantic/BPG) 15091 -1821 5097 -524 34.416 -4.075 130 0
6 6 JERROD NIEMANN/What Do You Want (Sea Gayle/Arista) 14884 250 5030 53 33.635 0.699 131 0
8 7 RASCAL FLATTS/I Won't Let Go (Big Machine) 12519 789 4203 207 28.251 1.466 131 0
9 8 KEITH URBAN/Without You (Capitol) 11187 462 3636 143 25.712 1.596 129 0
14 9 BRAD PAISLEY f/ALABAMA/Old Alabama (Arista) 4 10623 1579 3432 508 23.822 2.59 131 2
10 10 BAND PERRY/You Lie (Republic Nashville) 10505 445 3459 190 23.709 1.051 127 0
12 11 RONNIE DUNN/Bleed Red (Arista) 10045 327 3388 124 22.142 0.251 131 0
15 12 TAYLOR SWIFT/Mean (Big Machine) 4 9930 1561 3154 506 22.423 3.175 128 1
13 13 CRAIG CAMPBELL/Family Man (BPG) 9444 97 3298 51 21.439 -0.011 124 0
16 14 EASTON CORBIN/I Can't Love You Back (Mercury) 8827 680 3007 197 19.698 1.536 127 0
17 15 CHRIS YOUNG/Tomorrow (RCA) 8213 534 2851 168 17.734 2.026 131 0
11 16 SUGARLAND/Little Miss (Mercury) 7690 -2212 2572 -772 17.37 -4.929 128 0
19 17 JUSTIN MOORE/If Heaven Wasn't So Far Away (Valory) 7245 347 2571 125 16.173 1.063 126 0
18 18 JOSH KELLEY/Georgia Clay (MCA) 6847 -745 2240 -192 14.593 -1.665 126 0
20 19 TOBY KEITH/Somewhere Else (Show Dog-Universal) 6704 406 2294 106 14.977 0.96 126 1
22 20 LUKE BRYAN/Country Girl Shake It For Me (Capitol) 5767 1279 1868 452 12.857 2.937 120 20
21 21 ASHTON SHEPHERD/Look It Up (MCA) 5587 115 1949 20 11.306 0.317 125 3
23 22 BRETT ELDREDGE/Raymond (Atlantic/WAR) 4450 218 1508 77 9.514 0.447 117 1
24 23 JOSH TURNER/I Wouldn't Be A Man (MCA) 4320 244 1573 82 9.33 0.523 106 3
27 24 MARTINA MCBRIDE/Teenage Daughters (Republic Nashville) 4244 539 1263 193 8.558 0.987 103 11
25 25 ERIC CHURCH/Homeboy (EMI Nashville) 4027 141 1422 83 8.77 0.709 103 3
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BLAKE SHELTON/Honey Bee (Warner Bros./WMN) 4 4025 2130 1284 690 8.584 4.178 114 38
26 27 STEEL MAGNOLIA/Last Night Again (Big Machine) 3806 76 1335 41 7.476 -0.112 111 1
28 28 LEE BRICE/Beautiful Every Time (Curb) 3392 92 1293 19 6.329 0.399 109 0
30 29 JOSH THOMPSON/Won't Be Lonely Long (Columbia) 3373 220 1280 62 6.691 0.788 102 7
DIERKS BENTLEY/Am I The Only One (Capitol) 3318 1203 1128 416 7.02 2.655 91 22
29 31 UNCLE KRACKER f/KID ROCK/Good... (Top Dog/Atlantic/BPG) 3135 -39 1059 -18 6.466 -0.186 87 0
31 32 STEVE HOLY/Love Don't Run (Curb) 2628 173 1065 62 5.132 0.231 90 2
ELI YOUNG BAND/Crazy Girl (Republic Nashville) 2428 187 805 47 4.616 0.42 80 5
35 34 TRACE ADKINS/Just Fishin' (Show Dog-Universal) 2414 519 820 226 4.968 1.415 67 12
40 35 JASON ALDEAN/Dirt Road Anthem (Broken Bow) 2250 1131 673 342 4.608 2.15 73 35
33 36 LOCASH COWBOYS/Keep In Mind (Stroudavarious) 2114 -59 775 -20 4.108 -0.127 73 0
38 37 RANDY MONTANA/1,000 Faces (Mercury) 1442 140 571 43 2.162 0.09 71 2
37 38 TIM MCGRAW & GWYNETH PALTROW/Me And... (Curb/RCA) 1277 -580 445 -226 2.599 -0.956 67 0
39 39 FRANKIE BALLARD/A Buncha Girls (Warner Bros./WMN) 1239 7 458 9 2.479 0.001 54 5
41 40 DAVID NAIL/Let It Rain (MCA) 1161 83 473 33 1.467 0.03 71 6
50 41 JAKE OWEN/Barefoot Blue Jean Night (RCA) 1082 329 307 72 2.088 0.53 50 28
43 42 JANEDEAR GIRLS/Shotgun Girl (Warner Bros./WMN) 1034 73 365 35 1.712 0.027 45 2
44 43 BRADLEY GASKIN/Mr. Bartender (Columbia) 943 -17 327 -2 1.382 -0.055 38 5
45 44 CARRIE UNDERWOOD/Songs Like This (19/Arista) 898 -42 211 -11 2.341 0.037 12 1
47 45 DIRT DRIFTERS/Something Better (Warner Bros./WMN) 819 3 346 -1 1.143 0.041 42 2
48 46 WALKER HAYES/Why Wait For Summer (Capitol) 780 -31 277 -9 1.26 0.003 42 0
49 47 LITTLE BIG TOWN/Reason Why (Capitol) 777 7 309 10 1.157 0.013 46 5
48 EDENS EDGE/Amen (Big Machine) 756 138 273 42 1.033 0.277 49 9
49 GLORIANA/Wanna Take You Home (Emblem/WMN) 741 99 252 18 1.146 0.182 35 1
50 BRANTLEY GILBERT/Country Must Be Country Wide (Valory) 710 263 163 56 1.387 0.293 13 5
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Country Aircheck Top Spin GainersBLAKE SHELTON/Honey Bee (Warner Bros./WMN) 690KENNY CHESNEY/Live A Little (BNA) 555BRAD PAISLEY f/ALABAMA/Old Alabama (Arista) 508TAYLOR SWIFT/Mean (Big Machine) 506SARA EVANS/A Little Bit Stronger (RCA) 501LUKE BRYAN/Country Girl Shake It For Me (Capitol) 452DIERKS BENTLEY/Am I The Only One (Capitol) 416JASON ALDEAN/Dirt Road Anthem (Broken Bow) 342DARIUS RUCKER/This (Capitol) 283TRACE ADKINS/Just Fishin' (Show Dog-Universal) 226
Country Aircheck Top Point GainersBLAKE SHELTON/Honey Bee (Warner Bros./WMN) 2130 4KENNY CHESNEY/Live A Little (BNA) 1692 4BRAD PAISLEY f/ALABAMA/Old Alabama (Arista) 1579 4SARA EVANS/A Little Bit Stronger (RCA) 1568 4TAYLOR SWIFT/Mean (Big Machine) 1561 4LUKE BRYAN/Country Girl Shake It For Me (Capitol) 1279DIERKS BENTLEY/Am I The Only One (Capitol) 1203JASON ALDEAN/Dirt Road Anthem (Broken Bow) 1131DARIUS RUCKER/This (Capitol) 894RASCAL FLATTS/I Won't Let Go (Big Machine) 789
Activator Top Point GainersBLAKE SHELTON/Honey Bee (Warner Bros./WMN) 2013 4BRAD PAISLEY f/ALABAMA/Old Alabama (Arista) 1587 4DIERKS BENTLEY/Am I The Only One (Capitol) 1416 4KENNY CHESNEY/Live A Little (BNA) 1402 4JASON ALDEAN/Dirt Road Anthem (Broken Bow) 1374 4RASCAL FLATTS/I Won't Let Go (Big Machine) 1121LUKE BRYAN/Country Girl Shake It For Me (Capitol) 1102SARA EVANS/A Little Bit Stronger (RCA) 1062TRACE ADKINS/Just Fishin' (Show Dog-Universal) 1020MARTINA MCBRIDE/Teenage Daughters (Republic Nashville) 1001
Activator Top Spin GainersBLAKE SHELTON/Honey Bee (Warner Bros./WMN) 366BRAD PAISLEY f/ALABAMA/Old Alabama (Arista) 276DIERKS BENTLEY/Am I The Only One (Capitol) 258JASON ALDEAN/Dirt Road Anthem (Broken Bow) 243KENNY CHESNEY/Live A Little (BNA) 233LUKE BRYAN/Country Girl Shake It For Me (Capitol) 208SARA EVANS/A Little Bit Stronger (RCA) 202RASCAL FLATTS/I Won't Let Go (Big Machine) 180MARTINA MCBRIDE/Teenage Daughters (Republic Nashville) 177TRACE ADKINS/Just Fishin' (Show Dog-Universal) 171
Country Aircheck Add LeadersBLAKE SHELTON/Honey Bee (Warner Bros./WMN) 38JASON ALDEAN/Dirt Road Anthem (Broken Bow) 35JAKE OWEN/Barefoot Blue Jean Night (RCA) 28DIERKS BENTLEY/Am I The Only One (Capitol) 22LUKE BRYAN/Country Girl Shake It For Me (Capitol) 20TRACE ADKINS/Just Fishin' (Show Dog-Universal) 12JAMES WESLEY/Didn't I (Broken Bow) 11MARTINA MCBRIDE/Teenage Daughters (Republic Nashville) 11STEALING ANGELS/Paper Heart (Skyville) 11RODNEY ATKINS/Take A Back Road (Curb) 10
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CMT PUREEMMYLOU HARRIS/Goodnight Old World (Nonesuch)GREG HANNA/Making Love Real (Pheromone)MUMFORD & SONS/The Cave (Glassnote)
GACTIM MCGRAW & GWYNETH PALTROW/Me And Tennessee (Curb/RCA)
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APRIL 25ASH BOWERS/I Still Believe In That (Stoney Creek) BILLY CURRINGTON/Love Done Gone (Mercury)BRANTLEY GILBERT/Country Must Be Country Wide (Valory)BROTHER TROUBLE/Summer’s Little Angel (Blaster/BPG)JENNETTE MCCURDY/Generation Love (Capitol)KID ROCK f/SHERYL CROW/Collide (Atlantic/Top Dog/BPG)RANDY HOUSER/In God’s Time (Show Dog-Universal) RODNEY ATKINS/Take A Back Road (Curb)
MAY 2MARK COOKE/I Love It (CVR/Quarterback)SUNNY SWEENEY/Staying’s Worse Than Leaving (Republic Nashville)MAY 9GLEN TEMPLETON/I Could Be The One (Capstone)THOMPSON SqUARE/I Got You (Stoney Creek)
Country Aircheck ActivityGRETCHEN WILSON/I’d Love To Be Your Last (Redneck) 707 points, 256 spins No adds
KIP MOORE/Mary Was The Marrying Kind (MCA) 649 points, 229 spins 6 ADDS: KBEQ, KFDI, KNTY, WGGY, WKLB, WTGE
COLT FORD/Country Thang (Average Joes) 649 points, 201 spins No adds
AARON LEWIS/Country Boy (Stroudavarious) 638 points, 216 spins No adds
KATIE ARMIGER/Best Song Ever (Cold River) 620 points, 202 spins No adds
HEIDI NEWFIELD/Stay Up Late (Curb) 553 points, 242 spins 6 ADDS: KCYE, KKWF, WCTK*, WQDR, WSLC, WUSH
JACOB LYDA/I’m Doing Alright (DMG/Nine North) 400 points, 215 spins No adds
JAMES WESLEY/Didn’t I (Broken Bow) 383 points, 155 spins 11 ADDS including: KHKI*, KILT*, KMDL, KNTY, KRST*, KUAD, KWOF, WCOL, WKXC, WUSH
REBA/When Love Gets A Hold Of You (Starstruck/Valory) 369 points, 154 spins 7 ADDS: KUAD, WFUS, WGNA, WITL, WTQR, WUSH, WYRK
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HARTERS/If I Run (BPG) 351 points, 160 spins No adds
ASHLEY GEARING/Five More Minutes (Curb) 325 points, 147 spins No addsAircheck Activity includes the top 15 songs that rank 45-50 on this week’s chart or are those that are not charted and have a minimum of 300 airplay points and have shown growth in two of the past three weeks. (* indicates auto adds)
Country Aircheck Top Recurrents Points
THOMPSON SqUARE/Are You Gonna Kiss... (Stoney Creek) 14053JASON ALDEAN & KELLY CLARKSON/Don't You (Broken Bow) 11040BILLY CURRINGTON/Let Me Down Easy (Mercury) 8562TIM MCGRAW/Felt Good On My Lips (Curb) 6525BLAKE SHELTON/Who Are You When... (Warner Bros./WMN) 5712KENNY CHESNEY/Somewhere With You (BNA) 5470LUKE BRYAN/Someone Else Calling You Baby (Capitol) 5340CHRIS YOUNG/Voices (RCA) 5100JASON ALDEAN/My Kinda Party (Broken Bow) 5046ZAC BROWN BAND f/A. JACKSON/As... (So. Grnd/Atlantic/BPG) 4898
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2 1 MIRANDA LAMBERT/Heart Like Mine (Columbia) 15578 730 2686 138
4 2 DARIUS RUCKER/This (Capitol) 15192 786 2619 131
5 3 KENNY CHESNEY/Live A Little (BNA) 4 15000 1402 2588 233
1 4 ZAC BROWN BAND/Colder Weather (So. Grnd/Atlantic/BPG) 14415 -1682 2472 -316
7 5 SARA EVANS/A Little Bit Stronger (RCA) 14217 1062 2470 202
6 6 JERROD NIEMANN/What Do You Want (Sea Gayle/Arista) 13321 -78 2299 -19
8 7 RASCAL FLATTS/I Won't Let Go (Big Machine) 12976 1121 2230 180
10 8 KEITH URBAN/Without You (Capitol) 11364 739 1994 145
9 9 RONNIE DUNN/Bleed Red (Arista) 10944 307 1908 68
12 10 BAND PERRY/You Lie (Republic Nashville) 10269 780 1811 149
15 11 BRAD PAISLEY F/ALABAMA/Old Alabama (Arista) 4 10256 1587 1787 276
13 12 CRAIG CAMPBELL/Family Man (BPG) 9665 278 1630 58
14 13 EASTON CORBIN/I Can't Love You Back (Mercury) 9344 546 1600 90
16 14 CHRIS YOUNG/Tomorrow (RCA) 8844 663 1547 127
17 15 TOBY KEITH/Somewhere Else (Show Dog-Universal) 8476 500 1464 84
18 16 JUSTIN MOORE/If Heaven Wasn't So Far Away (Valory) 8389 658 1463 129
11 17 SUGARLAND/Little Miss (Mercury) 8283 -1505 1413 -279
19 18 TAYLOR SWIFT/Mean (Big Machine) 8052 952 1416 169
20 19 ASHTON SHEPHERD/Look It Up (MCA) 6932 226 1189 43
21 20 JOSH KELLEY/Georgia Clay (MCA) 5709 -798 965 -142
22 21 JOSH TURNER/I Wouldn't Be A Man (MCA) 5472 680 944 112
23 22 LUKE BRYAN/Country Girl Shake It For Me (Capitol) 5410 1102 974 208
28 23 DIERKS BENTLEY/Am I The Only One (Capitol) 4 4817 1416 858 258
27 24 MARTINA MCBRIDE/Teenage Daughters (Republic Nashville) 4782 1001 831 177
24 25 ERIC CHURCH/Homeboy (EMI Nashville) 4727 423 819 82
30 26 TRACE ADKINS/Just Fishin' (Show Dog-Universal) 4320 1020 762 171
26 27 JOSH THOMPSON/Won't Be Lonely Long (Columbia) 4055 219 680 32
25 28 BRETT ELDREDGE/Raymond (Atlantic/WAR) 4037 36 673 16
29 29 STEEL MAGNOLIA/Last Night Again (Big Machine) 3855 461 659 82
35 30 BLAKE SHELTON/Honey Bee (Warner Bros./WMN) 4 3693 2013 677 366
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31 LEE BRICE/Beautiful Every Time (Curb) 2927 225 533 47
33 32 ELI YOUNG BAND/Crazy Girl (Republic Nashville) 2753 312 496 61
38 33 JASON ALDEAN/Dirt Road Anthem (Broken Bow) 4 2709 1374 508 243
32 34 STEVE HOLY/Love Don't Run (Curb) 2702 -19 481 1
31 35 LOCASH COWBOYS/Keep In Mind (Stroudavarious) 2397 -325 397 -49
36 36 UNCLE KRACKER F/KID ROCK/Good To Be Me (Top Dog/Atlantic/BPG) 1759 152 284 21
39 37 BRADLEY GASKIN/Mr. Bartender (Columbia) 1436 106 243 20
34 38 TIM MCGRAW & GWYNETH PALTROW/Me And Tennessee (Curb/RCA) 1169 -526 204 -96
41 39 FRANKIE BALLARD/A Buncha Girls (Warner Bros./WMN) 1128 44 179 15
40 40 WALKER HAYES/Why Wait For Summer (Capitol) 1108 -18 203 2
42 41 DAVID NAIL/Let It Rain (MCA) 983 72 175 16
46 42 JAKE OWEN/Barefoot Blue Jean Night (RCA) 910 169 165 32
43 43 CARRIE UNDERWOOD/Songs Like This (19/Arista) 884 44 149 7
49 44 LITTLE BIG TOWN/Reason Why (Capitol) 859 180 162 34
48 45 JANEDEAR GIRLS/Shotgun Girl (Warner Bros./WMN) 766 79 149 19
53 46 REBA/When Love Gets A Hold of You (Starstruck/Valory) 680 194 127 35
47 47 SARAH DARLING/Something To Do With Your ... (Black River) 666 -27 111 -4
51 48 AARON LEWIS/Country Boy (Stroudavarious) 586 45 95 6
50 49 STEVE AZAR/Hard Road (Ride ) 582 -15 99 -4
55 50 DIRT DRIFTERS/Something Better (Warner Bros./WMN) 546 82 99 12
52 51 D.J. MILLER/Whatever It Takes (Evergreen) 508 1 91 4
56 52 COLT FORD/Country Thang (Average Joes ) 460 -3 78 2
58 53 EDENS EDGE/Amen (Big Machine) 444 70 73 10
54 JAMES WESLEY/Didn't I (Broken Bow) 429 249 66 39
57 55 JOSH ABBOTT BAND/Oh, Tonight (PDT) 419 -28 77 -6
56 KATIE ARMIGER/Best Song Ever (Cold River) 381 -18 77 -3
59 57 GLORIANA/Wanna Take You Home (Emblem/WMN) 369 39 58 5
58 ZAC BROWN BAND f/JIMMY BUFFETT/Knee Deep (Sou. Grnd/Atlantic/BPG) 326 326 61 61
60 59 DAVID BRADLEY/Hard Time Movin' On (Gecko) 320 26 57 7
60 HEIDI NEWFIELD/Stay Up Late (Curb) 289 76 36 11
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