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The TRACtion Texas weekly newsletter is published on Tues. evenings by CDX Nashville LLC — Connecting the music industry with Texas Red Dirt radio. For more information call 615-292-0123 or email President Joe Kelly- joe@cdxnashville.com

Randall King takes the #1 spot!

Vol 5. #15 April 15th, 2020

Dear Readers;RANDALL KING peaks at #1 with "She Gone." THE PANHANDLERS' "No Handle" are this week's Most Added! RECKLESS KELLY is the Greatest Spin Gainer with "I Only See You With My Eyes Closed"! MORGAN ASHLEY's "Wild Card" is this week's top Surging & Emerging track to keep an eye on! Great work everyone!

The following stations are frozen for this week. KSDR-FM (Watertown, SD) KYKX-FM (Tyler, TX) The following station has been frozen for 2 weeks. KFYN-FM (Paris, TX)

The following song has been moved to RECURRENT status. CREED FISHER / A Few Good Ol' Cowboys DALE PHILIPS / One Hit Wonder FLATLAND CAVALRY / Sober Heart Of Mine HARRY LUGE / Music And Wine POWELL BROTHERS, THE / Whatever Is Left RAGLAND / Love, Liquor, And A Place To Die SCOTTY ALEXANDER / Go Away WILLIAM CLARK GREEN / She Loves Horses

For those who don’t use CDX to distribute their new music but wish to be monitored by TRACtion TX, you can now go to our upload center, fill out the necessary information and send your MP3s for fingerprinting here: https://www.cdxcd.com/fingerprinting-upload-center/.

RANDALL KING"She Gone"

Warner Music Nashville/WEA

Stay tuned,Joe Kelly

CDX Presidentjoe@cdxnashville.com

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Artist / Song Title / Label

Spins +- Stations Adds Wks On Chart

2 1 RANDALL KING/She Gone/Warner Music Nashville/WEA 684 0 42 0 14

4 2 CASEY DONAHEW/Drove Me To The Whiskey/Almost Country Records 669 9 42 1 18

5 3 CURTIS GRIMES/River Road Dream/Curtis Grimes Music 661 24 42 1 11

3 4 FLATLAND CAVALRY/Come Back Down/Flatland Cavalry Music 620 -53 38 0 25

6 5 STONEY LARUE/Message In A Bottle/One Chord Song 609 -26 38 0 25

1 6 JOSH WARD/One More Shot of Whiskey/Josh Ward Music 578 -111 43 0 19

9 7 MIKE RYAN/Dear Country Music,/Mike Ryan Music 566 6 43 1 28

10 8 DARRIN MORRIS BAND/Dancing in the Rain/DMB Music 547 21 37 1 20

7 9 KYLE PARK/Every Day Kind of Love/Kyle Park Music 545 -74 40 0 32

11 10 TURNPIKE TROUBADOURS/Unrung/Thirty Tigers 496 15 35 0 22

13 11 CHAD COOKE BAND/Four Minutes/King Hall Music 454 24 32 0 9

14 12 RECKLESS KELLY/I Only See You With My Eyes Closed/No Big Deal/Thirty Tigers 453 55 29 2 9

12 13 ROBERT RAY/I Found You/Big R.I.G. Country, LLC 444 -6 27 0 22

15 14 MARK POWELL/Breaking Things/Mark Powell Music 419 24 33 1 13

18 15 DREW FISH BAND/Every Damn Time/Smith Music Group 397 36 28 1 12

16 16 RANDY ROGERS BAND/You, Me, and a Bottle/Tommy Jackson/Thirty Tigers 380 7 30 2 6

17 17 MICKY & THE MOTORCARS/Road To You/Thirty Tigers 364 -6 29 0 29

20 18 JODY BOOTH/Gotta Go Back To Work/SOT 363 22 29 0 13

19 19 WHISKEY MYERS/Bury My Bones/Wiggy Thump/Thirty Tigers 363 5 28 0 8

22 20 RANDY ROGERS AND WADE BOWEN/Rodeo Clown/Lil' Buddy Toons 338 52 26 3 4

21 21 ELEVEN HUNDRED SPRINGS/This Morning It Was Too Late/State Fair Records 328 8 19 1 13

23 22 PANHANDLERS, THE/No Handle/The Next Waltz 288 5 22 4 13

24 23 CORY MORROW/Always And Forever/CM Music 284 3 22 1 7

27 24 TRISTON MAREZ/Far From Good/Triston Marez Music 280 45 21 3 11

25 25 WILL CARTER/You Feel Like Home/Way Back Records 245 1 20 0 13

29 26 JON WOLFE/Feels Like Country Music/Fool Hearted Productions 232 23 19 2 4

26 27 DONICE MORACE/Through The Jukebox/Donice Morace Music 229 -10 16 0 10

28 28 HAYDEN HADDOCK/Red Dirt Texas/Hayden Haddock Music 228 -1 19 0 10

30 29 JON STORK/Radio Cowboy/Jon Stork Music 202 -6 21 2 4

34 30 CROSS RAGS AND YOUNG/Family Name/Cross Rags and Young 199 23 21 4 5

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Number 1 = Most Added = Spin Gainer =

Rank Surging & Emerging Stations On Adds1 MORGAN ASHLEY / Wild Card / Morgan Ashley Music 8 12 BRANDON ALAN / Love You The Same / Brandon Alan Music 7 33 SUNDANCE HEAD / Not Give A Damn / Sundance Head Music 6 24 BRANDI BEHLEN / Just A Little Crazy / Brandi Behlen Music 6 15 SUSAN HICKMAN / Rewind / Susan Hickman Music 5 26 CODY HIBBARD / Just For The Record / Cody Hibbard Music 6 27 DAVID JOEL & MICKEY GILLEY / If I Had It My Way / Bou Boy'z Entertainment 4 48 MARCY GRACE / Like I Do / Marcy Grace Music 6 19 CREED FISHER / I'm Growing Older But I'm Not Growing Up / Creed Fisher Music 3 3

10 JAKE FLINT / What's You Name / Jake Flint Music 3 3

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Chart

32 31 MARK WINSTON KIRK/Cowboy & The Gypsy/Mark Winston Kirk Music 195 -8 16 1 11

31 32 MARIO FLORES/I Only Miss Her When It Rains/Schimflo 192 -14 15 0 17

37 33 JOSH GRIDER/Country's Comin' Back/G-Ride Music 181 38 17 2 3

33 34 AUSTIN ENGLISH/Heartache in a Small Town/Austin English Music 165 -25 12 0 12

35 35 CASEY BAKER/We Don't Care Enough To Fight Anymore/Casey Baker Music 163 4 13 1 9

36 36 SAM RIGGS/Until My Heart Stops Beating/Major Bob Music 158 5 11 0 17

41 37 STETSON WALKER/Down to One Key/Stetson Walker Music 152 22 13 1 13

40 38 PROPHETS AND OUTLAWS/Love Like A Love Song/Prophets and Outlaws Music 145 12 10 0 5

38 39 EVAN FELKER/Whiskey In Your Water/The Next Waltz 126 -11 10 0 22

49 40 STEVE HELMS BAND/Imperfection/Steve Helms Band Music 125 36 9 2 2

-- 41 GRANT GILBERT/Held On To/Grant Gilbert Music 113 31 10 2 1

45 42 CARSON JEFFREY/Ranch Girl Dream/Carson Jeffrey Music 107 9 10 1 2

43 43 TEAGUE BROTHERS BAND/Rainbow Bridge/Teague Brothers Music 101 -11 8 0 8

46 44 READ SOUTHALL BAND/Stickin' N Movin'/Read Southall Band Music 98 1 5 0 3

-- 45 JUNIOR GORDON/Baby Hold On/Junior Gordon Music 96 18 10 0 1

47 46 JAMES COOK/Wake The Dead/James Cook Music 92 -1 8 0 8

44 47 KENDALL SHAFFER/Honky Tonkin' (Whoever Said It Was Easy)/Kendall Shaffer Music 91 -12 8 0 3

-- 48 KIN FAUX/Locked up in Lubbock/Kin Faux Music 90 22 12 4 1

50 49 KATY MCKENZIE/Advice I Didn't Take/Katy McKenzie Music 90 3 9 0 9

-- 50 ISAAC JACOB BAND/I Don't Love You Anymore/Isaac Jacob Band Music 87 8 6 0 5

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. Go to https://www.cdxcd.com/fingerprinting-upload-center/ for fingerprinting.

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Monitored Stations KAXA-FM Kerrville, TXKBSO-FM Corpus Christi, TXKBST-FM Big Spring, TXKDLO-FM Watertown, SDKEOK-FM Tahlequah, OKKERP-FM Dodge City, KSKFLP-FM Floydada, TXKFTX-FM Corpus Christi, TXKFWR-FM Ft. Worth, TXKFYN-FM Paris, TXKGFY-FM Stillwater, OKKHLB-FM Mason, TXKHYI-FM Howe, TXKIKK-FM (HD2) Houston, TXKKAJ-FM Ardmore, OK

KKCN-FM San Angelo, TXKMOM-FM Aberdeen, SDKNES-FM Fairfield, TXKOKE-FM Austin, TXKOLI-FM Wichita Falls, TXKORA-FM Bryan, TXKOXE-FM Brownwood, TXKPAK-FM Alva, OKKPUR-FM Canyon, TXKQSC-AM Colorado Springs, COKQZQ-FM Kiowa, KSKRBL-FM Levelland,TXKRMX-FM Waco, TXKRRG-FM Laredo, TXKRUN-AM Ballinger, TX

KRVF-FM Kerens, TXKRVN-FM Lexington, NEKSAM-FM Huntsville, TXKSDR-FM Watertown, SDKSEL-FM Portales, NMKTTU-FM HD4 (K226CH-FX) Lubbock, TXKTTX-FM Brenham, TXKTXM-FM Hallettsville, TXKUSH-AM Cushing, OKKUSQ-FM Worthington, MNKVMK-FM College Station, TXKVST-FM Montgomery, TXKWOX-FM Woodward, OKKXKZ-FM Ruston, LAKXOX-FM Sweetwater,TX

KYKC-FM Ada, OKKYKM-FM Yoakum, TXKYKX-FM Longview,TXKYYK-FM Palestine, TXcoyotecountryradio.commadeintexasradio.comtexasboundradio.comtexashomegrownradio.comTexasRedHotRadio.comtroubadourcountryradio.comTBJS Radio Poteau, OKUvaldeRadio.net

Underlined = Frozen this Week Double Underlined = Frozen 2(+) WeeksBold = Newly AddedStrikethrough = Removed

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Countdown of the Top Texas Red DirtSongs Packin’ the Dance�oors

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Mon - Fri 8am • 106.1fm • Conroe, TXDancetimeinTexas.com with DJ Mike

DANCE TIME IN TEXAS

Dance Time In Texas with DJ Mike (04/10/20)

THIS WEEK'S FEATURED ARTIST • JUNIOR GORDON

It use to be that when you said your hometown was Alvin, Texas, everyone thought of a famous baseball player by the name of Nolan Ryan, Now, there is another.

Junior Gordon may have started in Alvin but has become a fan favorite across Texas Oklahoma, and Louisiana. After opening for Cody Johnson, Lee Brice, Tracy Lawrence and Eli Young, The band now find themselves headlining the bigger dance halls in Texas. After remaking TG Shepards classic, I Loved Em Every one, They focused on their latest CD "Made in America" which found success with hits like "Watered Down" and "Barbed Wire and Roses".

Now with their next release off that CD, this is "Baby Hold On"

TOP TEXAS RED DIRT SONGS1. ONE MORE SHOT OF WHISKEY • JOSH WARD2. SHE GONE • RANDALL KING3. MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE • STONEY LaRUE4. COMEBACK DOWN • FLATLAND CAVALRY5. RIVER ROAD DREAM • CURTIS GRIMES6. SHE LOVES HORSES • WILLIAM CLARK GREEN7. EVERY DAY KIND OF LOVE • KYLE PARK8. DEAR COUNTRY MUSIC • MIKE RYAN9. DANCING IN THE RAIN • DARRIN MORRIS10. DROVE ME TO WHISKEY • CASEY DONAHEW

REWIND • SONGS STILL PACKIN' THE FLOORGETAWAY TRUCK • AARON WATSONLET IT RAIN • JAMES LANNBACKROAD SONG • GRANGER SMITHFOOL HEARTED MEMORY • GEORGE STRAIT

NEW SONGS OF THE WEEKRADIO COWBOY • JON STORKRODEO CLOWN • RANDY ROGERS & WADE BOWENTIME CLOCK • THE STATELINE BANDFEELS LIKE COUNTRY MUSIC • JON WOLFE

DJ MikeFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/djmikebilanskyEmail: mikebilansky@gmail.comPhone: (936) 588-2717

CHART RESEARCHSong rankings based on the Texas Country Music Chart and Traction TX Chart.The officially recognized charts of the Texas Country Music Association.

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Most Added AddsPANHANDLERS, THE / No HandleThe Next Waltz 4CROSS RAGS AND YOUNG/Family NameCross Rags and Young 4KIN FAUX/Locked up in LubbockKin Faux Music 4DAVID JOEL & MICKEY GILLEY/If I Had It My WayBou Boy'z Entertainment 4RANDY ROGERS AND WADE BOWEN/Rodeo ClownLil' Buddy Toons 3TRISTON MAREZ/Far From GoodTriston Marez Music 3BRANDON ALAN/Love You The SameBrandon Alan Music 3JAKE FLINT/What's You NameJake Flint Music 3CREED FISHER/I'm Growing Older But I'm Not Growing UpCreed Fisher Music 3RANDY ROGERS BAND/You, Me, and a BottleTommy Jackson/Thirty Tigers 2

Greatest Spin Gainers IncreaseRECKLESS KELLY/I Only See You With My Eyes ClosedNo Big Deal/Thirty Tigers 55

RANDY ROGERS AND WADE BOWEN/Rodeo ClownLil' Buddy Toons 52TRISTON MAREZ/Far From GoodTriston Marez Music 45JOSH GRIDER/Country's Comin' BackG-Ride Music 38STEVE HELMS BAND/ImperfectionSteve Helms Band Music 36DREW FISH BAND/Every Damn TimeSmith Music Group 36GRANT GILBERT/Held On ToGrant Gilbert Music 31WILL BANNISTER/Easy To LoveWill Bannister Music 29

CREED FISHER/I'm Growing Older But I'm Not Growing Up Creed Fisher Music 28

CHAD COOKE BAND/Four MinutesKing Hall Music 24

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