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The TRACtion Texas weekly newsletter is published on Tues. evenings by CDX, Inc. — Connecting the music industry with Texas Red Dirt radio. For more information call 615-292-0123 or email VP/GM Joe Kelly- joe@cdxcd.com

Cody Johnson Stays At Number 1!

Vol 3. #45 Nov 14th, 2018

Dear Readers;The chart positions and total spin counts for the songs on the this week’s chart are complete and correct. However, due to the previous chart week’s monitoring disruption, week-to-week spin comparisons are inflated this week as spin counts have returned to normal. We have omitted the inflated spin differential data from this week’s chart and look forward to the chart returning to normal next week.

CODY JOHNSON holds onto the #1 position this week with "On My Way To You!" JOSH WARD's "Ain't It Baby" wins double honors this week, becoming the Most Added and Highest Debut at position #21! Great work everybody!

The following songs have been moved to RECURRENT status. CODY JINKS / Must Be The Whiskey JORDAN ROBERT KIRK / Pine Box TURNPIKE TROUBADOURS / A Tornado Warning

The following station has been frozen for this week. texashomegrownradio.com (Stephenville, TX)

The following station has been frozen for 2 weeks. KNUE-FM (Tyler, TX)

TRACtion TX would like to thank SAM MORROW and ZANE WILLIAMS for allowing CDX to distribute their latest singles to Red Dirt radio and the industry. We really appreciate your support! SAM MORROW / Paid By The Mile ZANE WILLIAMS / Good Man To Have Around

For those who don’t use CDX to distribute their new music but wish to be monitored by TRACtion TX, please send your MP3s along with the artist name, song title, record label and add date to https://spaces.hightail.com/uplink/tractiontx.

Cody JohnsonOn My Way To You

CoJo Music LLC

CONTENTS—

Charts

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Monitored Panel ListPAGE 5

Chart BreakoutsPAGE 5

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Stay tuned,Joe Kelly

CDX VP/GM joe@cdxcd.com

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Artist / Song Title / Label

Spins +- Stations Adds Wks On Chart

1 1 CODY JOHNSON/On My Way To You/Cojo Music LLC 837 -- 41 1 112 2 MIKE RYAN/Damn Good Goodbye/Mike Ryan Music 551 -- 33 0 153 3 RANDALL KING/Mirror Mirror/Randall King Music 548 -- 31 0 125 4 FLATLAND CAVALRY/Honeywine/Flatland Cavalry Music 504 -- 32 1 108 5 BRI BAGWELL/If You Were A Cowboy/Bri Bagwell Music 483 -- 26 0 99 6 PARKER MCCOLLUM/Misunderstood/Vision Entertainment 475 -- 27 2 166 7 PAT GREEN/Friday's Comin'/Greenhorse Music 458 -- 28 1 1510 8 KYLE PARK/Rio/Kyle Park Music 395 -- 29 1 84 9 WADE BOWEN/Death, Dyin' and Deviled Eggs/Wade Bowen Music 389 -- 31 0 1612 10 JESSE RAUB JR. (FEAT. CODY JOHNSON)/Sittin' Here/Jesse Raub Jr. Music 385 -- 27 0 1415 11 CAMERAN NELSON/Life Is/Miles Power Records 337 -- 23 0 1516 12 JAMIE RICHARDS/She Remains/Jamie Richards Music 320 -- 20 2 513 13 STONEY LARUE/You Oughta Know Me/Stoney LaRue Music 312 -- 25 1 2017 14 ADAM HOOD (FT. BRENT COBB)/She Don't Love Me/Southern Songs 309 -- 24 2 1114 15 MARK POWELL/Keep It Country/Mark Powell Music 293 -- 21 1 2220 16 NATALIE ROSE/My South/Natalie Rose Music 283 -- 21 2 1319 17 ELI YOUNG BAND/Love Ain't/Valory Music Co. (BMLG) 280 -- 27 1 1918 18 GRANGER SMITH/You're In It/Wheelhouse (BBRMG) 270 -- 26 0 1821 19 SARAH HOBBS/I Got Me/Sarah Hobbs Music 267 -- 19 3 1522 20 JON WOLFE/Hang Your Hat on That/Jon Wolfe Music 264 -- 25 5 7-- 21 JOSH WARD/Ain't It Baby/Josh Ward Music 237 -- 19 19 125 22 DREW FISH/Better Place/Drew Fish Band Music 234 -- 21 3 523 23 FRANK RAY/Tequila Mockingbird/White Knuckles Productions 201 -- 18 0 1224 24 JASON ALLEN/Smooth Talkin' Lady/Texas 222 190 -- 17 1 1127 25 JOSH GRIDER/Pictures Do/Josh Grider Music 162 -- 10 1 326 26 DONICE MORACE/WD-40 & Duct Tape/Donice Morace Music 147 -- 13 2 1429 27 JON YOUNG/Oh The Things I have Seen/Jon Young Music 132 -- 8 0 1230 28 MARTY HEDDIN/Fine By Me/Dreamlined Entertainment Group (in2une) 131 -- 12 0 628 29 MATT & THE HERDSMEN/Hello Heartache/Matt & The Herdsmen Productions 130 -- 9 0 15-- 30 ROBERT RAY/Run Away With You/Big R.I.G. Country, LLC 126 -- 5 3 1

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Number 1 = Most Added = Spin Gainer =

Bubbling Under PositionJUDSON COLE BAND/Battles/Judson Cole Band 51DANI MCDONNELL/Hony Tonker/Dani McDonnell Music 52BUFFALO RUCKUS, THE/Carolina Calls/Buffalo Ruckus Music 53PROPHETS AND OUTLAWS/Sweet Soft Southern Smile/Prophets and Outlaws Music 54BLACK LILLIES, THE/Ten Years/Attack Monkey/Thirty Tigers 55JASON EADY/I Lost My Mind In Carolina/Old Guitar Records 56STETSON WALKER/Say Hello To Goodbye/Stetson Walker Music 57COREY HUNT BAND/I'm Doing Fine/Uwharrie Music Group 58COMANCHE MOON/Oilfield Blues/Comanche Moon Music 59MATT CALDWELL/Lights Out/Matt Caldwell Music 60

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37 31 DUSTIN SONNIER/Drinkin' Alone/Songs Of Sadness To Salve The Soul 123 -- 11 3 735 32 MASON LIVELY/Heavy Toll/Mason Lively Music 115 -- 10 1 331 33 JAKE BUSH/If These Walls Could Talk/Jake Bush Music 113 -- 9 1 1033 34 SHOTGUN RIDER/I'm Not Alright/Torrez Music Group 104 -- 9 1 432 35 JOHN BAUMANN/Lonely In Bars/John Baumann Music 103 -- 7 0 634 36 KENNA DANIELLE/I-35 Reasons/Kenna Danielle Music 100 -- 10 0 1340 37 CALAMITY JANES/Light It Up/Calamity Janes Music 96 -- 7 1 1236 38 SUNDANCE HEAD/Leave Her Wild/In2une 94 -- 10 2 341 39 SHEA ABSHIER & THE NIGHTHOWLERS/As You Weep/Shea Abshier & the Nighthowlers Music 92 -- 9 0 248 40 SAINTS ELEVEN/My Heart/Saints Eleven Music 86 -- 8 2 4-- 41 ISAAC JACOB BAND (FT. MIKE HARMEIER)/The Price We Gotta Pay/Union 28 Records 82 -- 5 2 538 42 POWELL BROTHERS, THE/Somewhere Down The Road/Powell Brothers Entertainment 80 -- 9 0 843 43 ZACH COFFEY/Wildfire/Zach Coffey Music 75 -- 8 0 1744 44 DRAKE HAYES BAND/Blood Red Moon/Drake Hayes Music 75 -- 5 0 2-- 45 DAVID ADAM BYRNES/Beer Bucket List/David Adam Byrnes Music 74 -- 7 7 142 46 CODY BRYAN BAND/Texas Highway/Cody Bryan Band Music 70 -- 7 0 1846 47 KALEB MCINTIRE BAND/Love Song/Kaleb McIntire Band Music 65 -- 6 0 947 48 DREW MORELAND/God And Cash/Drew Moreland Music 64 -- 5 0 339 49 CODY WAYNE/Good Ole Country Song/Cody Wayne Music 63 -- 8 1 1445 50 KEVIN GALLOWAY/Miles And Miles/Nine Mile Records 59 -- 3 0 8

“Monitored Radio Airplay”

Chart Recurrent Methodology

When does a song move to recurrent on the chart? It is one of the more challenging issues we encountered in creating the CDX TRACtion Texas chart system. Rather than relying on subjective editorial decisions, we’ve chosen to automate this process using the weekly chart data as a marker.

We strive to avoid having singles past their prime create a logjam on the chart, because that stifles upward momentum for up-and-coming singles. But we also try to ensure that singles “on the bubble” are not removed prematurely. As long-time chart watchers know, singles often take a while to establish a solid base among early believers at radio before they truly find their legs. Due to any number of reasons, the path to peak chart position rarely includes straight-line, week-over-week spin and/or chart position growth.

On a monitored airplay chart like CDX TRACtion Texas, the reality is that new singles bounce around a bit spin-wise and position-wise, particularly in the lower half of the chart. Even small spin increases and decreases can be magnified as fairly significant up-or-down chart position moves.

With this in mind, the CDX TRACtion Texas recurrent policy grades each chart position on a curve, using an algorithm that considers the chart position and spin history for that song. Newly serviced singles are allowed 20 weeks to chart before being removed from chart consideration. Once a status change is actively being considered by the algorithm, the cumulative amount of spin loss from the single’s previous peak spin count is the trigger. The allowable spin loss varies as a percentage, depending on the chart position.

In addition to making sure that only singles with significant downward movement become recurrent, this methodology also benefits slow-developing singles in several ways. For instance, the allowable spin loss (as a percentage) is very generous at the lower reaches of the chart to accommodate the lower spin counts. Additionally, if a single is at risk of being moved to recurrent status with two consecutive weeks of minor spin loss, it can still return to positive spin growth the following week, which will reset the clock.

TRACtion only recognizes detections on songs that have been “fingerprinted.” We do our best to obtain and fingerprint all new releases; songs serviced through CDX are encoded automatically. Send a song MP3 file with title, artist, label, and add date to

https://spaces.hightail.com/uplink/tractiontx for fingerprinting.

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Monitored Stations KABW-FM Abilene, TXKBSO-FM Corpus Christi, TXKBST-FM Big Spring, TXKECO-FM Elk City, OKKERP-FM Dodge City, KSKFLP-FM Floydada, TXKFTX-FM Corpus Christi, TXKFWR-FM Ft. Worth, TXKFYN-FM Paris, TXKHKX-FM Odessa, TXKHLB-FM Mason, TXKHYI-FM Howe, TXKIKK-FM (HD2) Houston, TXKKAJ-FM Ardmore, OK

KKCN-FM San Angelo, TXKKGQ-FM Wichita, KSKMRK-FM Odessa, TXKNUE-FM Tyler, TXKOKE-FM Austin, TXKOLI-FM Wichita Falls, TXKORA-FM Bryan, TXKOXE-FM Brownwood, TXKOYN-FM Paris, TXKPAK-FM Alva, OKKPUR-FM Canyon, TXKQSC-AM Colorado Springs, COKRBL-FM Levelland,TXKRRG-FM Laredo, TX

KRUN-AM Ballinger, TXKRVF-FM Kerens, TXKRVN-FM Lexington, NEKSAM-FM Huntsville, TXKSCH-FM Sulphur Springs, TXKSCN-FM Pittsburg, TXKSNY-FM Snyder, TXKTCS-FM Ft. Smith, ARKTFW-FM Ft. Worth, TXKTTX-FM Brenham, TXKTXM-FM Hallettsville, TXKUSH-AM Cushing, OKKUSQ-FM Worthington, MNKVST-FM Montgomery, TX

KWOX-FM Woodward, OKKXKZ-FM Ruston, LAKYKM-FM Yoakum, TXKYKS-FM Lufkin, TXKYKX-FM Longview,TXKYYK-FM Palestine, TXcoyotecountryradio.commadeintexasradio.comtexashomegrownradio.com

Underlined = Frozen this Week Double Underlined = Frozen 2 WeeksBold = Newly AddedStrikethrough = Removed

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Most Added AddsJOSH WARD/Ain't It BabyJosh Ward Music 19DAVID ADAM BYRNES/Beer Bucket ListDavid Adam Byrnes Music 7JON WOLFE/Hang Your Hat on ThatJon Wolfe Music 5DERYL DODD (FT. WADE BOWEN)/SundownLittle Red Truck Music 5SARAH HOBBS/I Got MeSarah Hobbs Music 3DREW FISH/Better PlaceDrew Fish Band Music 3ROBERT RAY/Run Away With YouBig R.I.G. Country, LLC 3DUSTIN SONNIER/Drinkin' AloneSongs Of Sadness To Salve The Soul 3PARKER MCCOLLUM/MisunderstoodVision Entertainment 2JAMIE RICHARDS/She RemainsJamie Richards Music 2 Steve Kelly of KKAJ/Ardmore and Drew Fish.

Steve Kelly of KKAJ/Ardmore and Casey Donahew.David Adam Byrnes visits KSNY in Snyder, TX. (L-R) David Adam Byrnes and Kayla K from KSNY.