Luck Of The Drew: Connoisseur WCCQ & WXLC/Chicago PD/MD/morning host Drew Walker has added mornings at four additional company stations. He's heard from 6-10am local times at KTJJ/Farmington, MO; KWIQ/Moses Lake, WA; and KXXK/Aberdeen, WA, and from 9-10am at KYSM/Mankato, MN. In a Facebook post, Walker says, "When I made the leap to start something new 2+ years ago, one of the things we talked about was someday taking my show national. It was a huge career goal of mine ... Getting to do this for a living has always been pretty special to me. Getting to do it nationally? This one means a lot." Reach him here

Tour Support: Brooks & Dunn have added second Sydney and Melbourne dates (CAT 10/6). The duo will now play Sydney’s Afterpay Arena March 24-25 and Melbourne’s Rod Laver Arena March 27-28, with Ashley McBryde and Mack Geiger joining as support. The duo will also headline CMC Rocks QLD. Tickets here.

Fall, Y'all: To commemorate Country Aircheck's 20th anniversary, this year's Power 31 executives were asked what they were doing two decades ago. WUSN/Chicago's Marci Braun was on a radio version of the Blonde Ambition Tour, Big Loud's Jordan Pettit almost got an artist's hand chomped by an alligator, Blue Highway's Ashley Sidoti was screening audition tapes for Tootsie's and BBRMG's Scotty O'Brien was asking his boss how to pronounce "Aldean." Read those stories and more in the Fall print special here.

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

• Nominations are being accepted for the Country Radio Hall of Fame through Oct. 30 here. 
• WFRE/Frederick, MD afternoon host AJ Randall departed. (10/8)
• Halie Hampton Mosley joined Breit Group as COO. (10/7)
• Michelle Kirk was promoted to CMA Foundation Exec. Dir. (10/6)
• Meredith Andrade joined WQYK/Tampa for afternoons. (10/5)
• Billy Brown returned to WKWS/Charleston, WV for mornings. (10/5)

Country Aircheck Top 5: Here are the Top 5 songs for Oct. 8, according to Mediabase.

1. JOHN MORGAN/Kid Myself (Night Train/Broken Bow) 4797 points
2. MORGAN WALLEN/Been By Now (Big Loud) 4287 points
3. ELLA LANGLEY/Loving Life Again (Sawgod/Col. NY/Triple Tigers) 3972 points
4. LAUREN ALAINA f/CHASE MATTHEW/All My Exes (Big Loud) 3518 points
5. LUKE BRYAN/Country And She Knows It (MCA) 3292 points

Country Aircheck Top Point Gainers: Here are the top point gainers for Oct. 4-8, compared with the same days last week, according to Mediabase.  

1. JOHN MORGAN/Kid Myself (Night Train/Broken Bow) +3473 points
2. DAN + SHAY/Say So (Warner/WRN) +1945 points
3. ZACH JOHN KING/Get To Drinkin' (SMN) +1906 points
4. KOE WETZEL f/ELLA LANGLEY/Jaded (Col. NY/Records Nashville) +1702 points
5. KENNY CHESNEY/Remember Me That Way (Hey Now) +1420 points

Saturday's Birthdays (10/10): Tanya Tucker, Tony Arata, Austin Clark, Tim Krekel, Tom Baldrica, Don Browning, Patrick Clark, Denise Roberts, Sheree Latham, Mike Bendavid, the late John Prine.

Sunday's Birthdays (10/11): Paulette Carlson, Gene Watson, Jennifer Reed, Cliff O’Sullivan, Erin Kinsey, the late Dottie West.

Monday's Birthdays (10/12): Martie Maguire (The Chicks), Shane McAnally, Lisa Andrick-Owen, Mark Evans, Eddie Long, Justin Niebank, Erin Beller, Lisa Matassa, Samantha Stephens, Queeva.

Hall Stars: The Radio Hall of Fame inducted its Class of 2026 (Rickey Smiley, Dennis Green, Helen Little, Bob Pittman, Fred Winston, Charlie Van Dyke and Shotgun Tom Kelly, l-r) last night (10/8) in Chicago. 

To The Maxx: East Music Row's Belles (c) with promo vet Ray Mariner and  WXCY/Wilmington, DE's Charlie Maxx.

Watt's Up: Music City Power Company's Six One Five Collective visits WWKA/Orlando. Pictured (l-r) are the band's Michael Logan and Nicole Witt, the station's Steve Stewart and Melissa Quinones, the band's Aaron Goodvin and Sarah Darling and the label's Kerry Wolfe.

Watermelon Sugar Moonshine: Broken Bow's Lainey Wilson (c) talks John Mayer, Harry Styles, CMA Awards and more with  Country Heat Weekly's Kelly Sutton (l) and Amber Anderson.

Signage: Randy Rogers Band partners with Big Loud Texas for release of upcoming collaboration album Songbook. Pictured (front, l-r) are the label's Jon Randall, Rogers and the label's Miranda Lambert and Brendon Anthony; (back, l-r) RRB's Brady Black, Red Light's Nick Rhodes, RRB's Les Lawless, Geoffrey Hill, Johnny Chops and Todd Stewart and Red Light's Enzo Divencenzo.