Save The Rate: Here are select Nielsen Audio Continuous Diary Measurement (CDM) ratings for March 2026 (three-month rolling average, 1/8-4/1/26) compared with January and February. Ranks (in parentheses) are among subscribers. Unless otherwise noted, all figures are Persons 12+, Monday-Sunday, 6am-midnight.

I Hope You Vance: Business management vet Joan Vance has launched independent bookkeeping and financial advisory firm Vance & Co Advisory. Services include monthly reconciliation, financial reporting, systems and process documentation and strategic advisory support. “So many creatives find themselves in a position where they aren’t quite ready yet for business management and don’t think about the financial side until tax time,” she says. She previously spent time at Wiles + Taylor; reach her here.

Vegas, Baby: Dan + Shay host the ACM's two-hour, non-exclusive radio special, Countdown to the ACM Awards, available to air May 11-17. Jason Aldean, Luke Bryan, Riley Green, Cody Johnson, Ella Langley, Zach Top, Shania Twain and Lainey Wilson are among the artists featured. A "brown bag" version is also available. Get it here.

In related news, ACM New Female Artist winner Avery Anna has been added to the performance lineup for ACM Lifting Lives Country on the Green: Riley Green & Friends at Topgolf Las Vegas May 15. Proceeds benefit ACM Lifting Lives. Tickets here.

Amazon Music will exclusively broadcast the official red carpet livestream for the ACM Awards, with Country Heat Weekly's Kelly Sutton and Amber Anderson interviewing arriving artists. The broadcast begins at 3:30pm PT May 17; watch here.

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

• Stories from both sides of the search for kidney donors are in Country Aircheck Weekly.
• WXTU/Philadelphia PD/midday host Mark "Razz" Radziewicz is retiring. (5/5)
• Max Media/Norfolk OM Jay West departed, and WGH's Jerry Hoyt added APD duties. (5/5)
• Cumulus/Reno OM and KBUL PD/morning host Bob Richards is leaving. (5/4)
• Bill Macky joined Quartz Hill Music Group as SVP/Promotion & Marketing. (5/4)

Bits & Pieces: Carrie Underwood has launched wellness brand HiNote. The line's first product is HiNote Everyday Energy Daily Nutrition Drink Mix, available in three flavors here. Underwood's fitness app, fit52, launched in 2020, has now been re-branded HiNote Life – Powered by fit52.

Shania Twain has a new hybrid tea rose named for her, developed in partnership with German rose breeder Rosen-Tantau and U.S. grower April & Ashley. Twain says, "A portion of proceeds from each plant sold will support the Shania Twain Foundation's efforts to improve the lives of children and families in need." Find the bloom here.

For Cinco de Mayo, KSON/San Diego morning hosts John Flint and Tammy Lee enlisted a local mariachi band to wake up six-year-old listener McKenna. Watch here.

In other Carrie Underwood news, KTFX/Muskogee, OK is hosting the "Hometown Station Takes Hometown Fans to See Hometown Girl" promotion ahead of the Muskogee-born singer's June 12 show in Thackerville, OK. OM /morning host Ron Stevens says, "We are going to be giving away some very exclusive tickets, packing up a Party Bus and [heading] to support our hometown superstar" in her first show in the state in more than three years.

Chronicle: The Gary Group co-founder Richard "Dick" Gary died April 22 at his home in Taylorsville, UT at the age of 89. After getting his start in New York radio, he and wife Elsa founded advertising and marketing agency The Gary Group in Los Angeles. Gary served on the CMA Board from 1986-2009. In 2024, he published "Just Another Dick: The Presumptuous Memoir Of A Truly Unimportant Person." A celebration of life is set for May 15 at 12:30pm at Park City Library Community Space in Park City, UT. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations in his name to Primary Children's Hospital in Salt Lake City. Full obituary here.

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

1. LUKE COMBS/Sleepless In A Hotel Room (Columbia) 4741 points
2. TUCKER WETMORE/Brunette (Back Blocks/Mercury) 3887 points
3. CODY JOHNSON/The Fall (CoJo/Warner/WRN) 3876 points
4. RILEY GREEN/Change My Mind (Nash. Harbor) 3384 points
5. ELLA LANGLEY/Be Her (Sawgod/Col. NY/Triple Tigers) 3243 points

Country Aircheck Top Point Gainers: Here are the top point gainers for May 3-5, compared with the same days last week, according to Mediabase.  

1. ELLA LANGLEY & MORGAN WALLEN/I Can't Love You Anymore (Sawgod/Col. NY/Triple Tigers/Big Loud) +1541 points
2. CODY JOHNSON/The Fall (CoJo/Warner/WRN) +961 points
3. JORDAN DAVIS/Turn This Truck Around (MCA) +854 points
4. JOSH ROSS/Hate How You Look (Core/Mercury) +831 points
5. MORGAN WALLEN/Don't We (Big Loud) +799 points

Tomorrow's Birthdays (5/7): Russell Dickerson, Jo Smith, Kelly Daniel, Sam McGuire, Shawn Williams, Erik Johnson, Hank Adam Locklin, the late Nelson Larkin, the late John Jarrard.

Live Laugh Liquor: Stoney Creek's Atlus opens for Russell Dickerson in Orlando. Pictured (back, l-r) are WIRK/West Palm Beach's Nick Rivers, WKRO/Daytona Beach's DJ Tremble and WWKA's Michael “Slater” Wheaton, Melissa Quinones and Sarah Sweat; (front, l-r) WWKA's Chloe Nelson, the label's Diane Monk, WKML/Fayetteville, NC's Sarah Weaver, Jordan Tremble, Atlus, guest Stephanie and the label's Lexi Willson.