May 21, 2024 News@CountryAircheck.com

Rouge-ey Tuesday: Here are select Nielsen Audio Continuous Diary Measurement (CDM) ratings for April 2024 (three-month rolling average, 2/1-4/24) compared with February and March. Ranks (in parentheses) are among subscribers. Unless otherwise noted, all figures are Persons 12+, Monday-Sunday, 6am-midnight.

Baton Rouge (Market 78)	WYNK iHeartMedia 5.6 (3) - 6.2 (3) - 6.9 (3) Largest share since Fall 2011. WTGE Guaranty Does not subscribe.
Louisville (58)	WAMZ iHeartMedia 5.5 (4) - 5.6 (4) - 6.2 (3) WQNU SummitMedia 3.1 (11t) - 2.9 (12) - 2.8 (11)
New Orleans (50)	WNOE iHeartMedia 5.3 (5) - 4.3 (5) - 4.3 (5)
Oklahoma City (49)	KTST iHeartMedia 4.5 (5t) - 5.0 (4) - 4.5 (5) KJKE Tyler 4.4 (7) - 4.2 (6) - 4.4 (6) KXXY iHeartMedia Classic Country 3.1 (8) - 2.9 (9) - 3.6 (7t) KWFF Champlin Classic Country Does not subscribe.

Ain't Life Grand ... Rapids: iHeartMedia Top 40 WSNX/Grand Rapids APD/midday and local morning host Mike Aguilar is moving to mornings on sister WBCT, joining incumbent co-host Aly Mac. He succeeds Matt "Gilly" Gilcheck, who exited last month amidst company restructuring (CAT 3/18). Aguilar has been with WSNX since 2006 and will continue to handle middays on that station.

Lemme See: Opry Entertainment Group Mgr./Artist & Label Strategy Anna Lemme has been promoted to Mgr./Marketing for the Grand Ole Opry. She has been with the company for five years. Her former position is now open, and posted here. Reach Lemme here.

Group Dynamics: Former Boom Music Group A&R Manager Emma Kiefer has been named Dir./A&R at artist management and publishing firm Group Projects in Nashville. She previously held jobs with Dave Cobb and Twelve6. Reach her here.

Back On The (Block) Chain Gang: The 67th Annual Grammy Awards will take place Feb. 2, 2025, at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles on CBS and Paramount+. This year’s nominees will be announced Nov. 8; other key dates here.

Bach Star: Dolly Parton's Threads: My Songs in Symphony will premiere March 20 in Nashville before touring to orchestras worldwide. The experience will feature orchestrations of Parton's songs and the stories behind them told by Dolly on screen and accompanied by guest vocalists and musicians.

Festive All: Events including Warner Music Nashville's Heatwave House, Ryman and BMI Block Party, Fitness At Fest and Carly's Closet have been added to the CMA Fest lineup.

William Beckmann, Tyler Braden, The Castellows, Dasha, Braxton Keith, Chase Matthew, Drew Parker, Matt Schuster and a TBA artist will perform during WMN's Heatwave House June 6 at Barstool Nashville.
The block party takes place June 6-8 at the Ryman's outdoor stage on the PNC Plaza; daily lineups here.
Fitness At Fest returns to the Good Molecules Reverb Stage on Bridgestone Arena Plaza June 7-9; register here.
Fans can shop Carly Pearce's closet June 9 from 2-4pm CT on the second level of the Music City Center, with proceeds benefitting CMA Foundation.

Point Of Review: Radio reviews the 59th ACM Awards, Bob Pickett reviews 40 years at Austin's KASE & KVET and Brian Kelley reviews his Tennessee Truth. It's all in Monday's (5/20) Country Aircheck Weekly.

Bits & Pieces: New Wavo KVST/Conroe, TX midday host, Guiness World Record holder and National Radio Hall of Fame nominee Mary McCoy discusses her 73 years on the air (and counting) with Culture Map Houston here.

The first annual Cody Johnson Championship Event charity team roping tournament will be held Oct. 15-19 at Cadence Bank Center Arena in Belton, TX. The event will feature a George Strait-style bracket with 12.5 and 10.5 businessmen's roping, a golf tournament and a charity gala emceed by Johnson. More details here.

Bri Bagwell's year-and-a-half-old Only Vans podcast has been picked up for distribution by The Bluegrass Situation, becoming the first podcast under its recently launched BGS Good Country brand, which highlights music from across the roots spectrum. Listen here.

Audacy KILT/Houston Morning Bullpen member Erik Scott Smith's "10 Minute Tune," which has reached more than 88 million views on Scott's social media, has been repurposed on sister WUSN/Chicago every Tuesday at 4:20pm. Hear examples here.

Stories Of The Week: Search for news and people in the archives at countryaircheck.com.

New openings were added to the Country Aircheck Job Board.
Galaxy Label Group added a promo team led by VP Kerry Wolfe.
WJSE/Atlantic City, NJ flipped to Country as WKOE "Coast Country 106.3."
Chronicle: Elias Gonzales.

ICYMI: Keith Urban performed "Messed Up As Me" during night one of The Voice finale (5/20).

The Reba McEntire-hosted 59th Academy of Country Music Awards and its Official ACM Awards Red Carpet Show are now available for streaming on Prime Video, following their live run on May 16. Watch on demand here.

In related news, Amazon Music has exclusively released three live recordings taken from last week's ACM Awards; performances by Kane Brown, Thomas Rhett and the pairing of Nate Smith and Avril Lavigne.

Chronicle: Veteran producer/songwriter Robert "Bud" Logan passed away May 13. He was 83. Logan was a member of Jim Reeves' band before moving into producing, with credits including John Conlee's string of hits in the late '70s and early '80s. Obituary here; services are not scheduled at this time.

Country Aircheck Today Top 5: Here are the Top 5 songs for May 20, according to Mediabase 24/7.

BAILEY ZIMMERMAN/Where It Ends (Elektra/Warner/WEA) 5095 points
TYLER HUBBARD/Back Then Right Now (EMI Nashville) 3936 points
JELLY ROLL/Halfway To Hell (BMG/Stoney Creek) 3899 points
KENNY CHESNEY/Take Her Home (Warner/WEA) 3711 points
JORDAN DAVIS/Tucson Too Late (MCA) 3344 points

Country Aircheck Top Point Gainers: Here are the top point gainers for May 19-20 compared with the same days last week, according to Mediabase 24/7.

LUKE COMBS/Ain't No Love In Oklahoma (7Ridges/Atlantic/Columbia) +1767 points
POST MALONE f/MORGAN WALLEN/I Had Some Help (Mercury/Republic/Big Loud) +1548 points
BAILEY ZIMMERMAN/Where It Ends (Elektra/Warner/WEA) +1403 points
MORGAN WALLEN f/ERNEST/Cowgirls (Big Loud) +793 points
JASON ALDEAN/Let Your Boys Be Country (Macon Music/Broken Bow) +642 points

Tomorrow's Birthdays (5/22): Elvie Shane, Dana Williams (Diamond Rio), Van Fletcher.

Tube Check Tonight (5/21): Lainey Wilson, Jelly Roll and Thomas Rhett, The Voice (NBC).

Back Then Right No.1: EMI Nashville's Tyler Hubbard celebrates No. 1 "Back Then Right Now in Tempe, AZ. Pictured (l-r) are KNIX/Phoenix's Lois Lewis, Hubbard, the label's Briarman Whitfield and KUPL/Portland, OR's Tim Richards.

Shaschmoozey: Empire/Magnolia's Shaboozey plays Nashville's Basement East. Pictured (l-r) are Magnolia's JC Coffey, Cumulus' Greg Frey, Shaboozey, Magnolia's Heather Propper and Empire's Heather Vassar.

Slow Dance In A Par Lot: MCA's Jordan Davis, Records Nashville's Matt Stell, Audacy's Tim Roberts and Records Nashville's George Birge (l-r) at the ACM Lifting Lives fundraiser at Topgolf.

Gonna Love U-tah: Stoney Creek's Parmalee visit KSOP/Salt Lake City. Pictured (l-r) are the station's Dave Gunderson, the group's Josh McSwain and Barry Knox, the station's Deb Turpin and the group's Matt Thomas and Scott Thomas.

Let's Go, "Cowgirls:" Big Loud's Ernest with KKBQ's Lauren "Lo" Sessions, KILT's Monica "Mo" Lunsford and the label's Kelley Bradshaw (l-r) at the Houston stop of Brooks & Dunn's Reboot 2024 Tour.

Signage: Singer/songwriter Chris August signs with Warner Chappell Music and Cornman Music. Pictured (front, l-r) are Cornman's Brett James, August and Cornman's Chris Owen; (back, l-r) WCM's Ben Vaughn and Cornman's Nate Lowery.