Get Your Nine On: Here are select Nielsen Audio Continuous Diary Measurement (CDM) ratings for October 2024 (three-month rolling average, 7/18-10/9) compared with August and September. Ranks (in parentheses) are among subscribers. Unless otherwise noted, all figures are Persons 12+, Monday-Sunday, 6am-midnight.

Leading Frenzy: ABC's slate of programming surrounding the Nov. 20 58th Annual CMA Awards includes the 30-minute On The Red Carpet: Countdown To The CMA Awards hosted by Tamara Scott (airing Nov. 16 & 17); Jimmy Kimmel Live! with performances from Dwight Yoakam (11/18), Nate Smith (11/19) and Blake Shelton (11/20); Vegas Lights & Country Nights: Countdown To The CMA Awards – A Special Edition Of 20/20 (11/19); Good Morning America, with Lara Spencer broadcasting from Nashville (11/20 & 11/21); GMA3: What You Need To Know with a Brett Young performance (11/20); and On The Red Carpet Live At The CMA Awards (11/20), with hosts WABC-TV/New York’s Joelle Gargiulo, artist Will Moseley and fashion expert Roshumba Williams. The latter show will also stream on Hulu and OnTheRedCarpet.com.

Festive All: Jason Aldean, Bailey Zimmerman and Def Leppard will headline Country Thunder Saskatchewan in Craven July 10-13. The lineup also includes Nate Smith, Tyler Hubbard, Kip Moore, Sara Evans and Mackenzie Carpenter. Tickets here.

Paint Me A Birming-ham: Jamey Johnson, Meghan Patrick and Halfway to Hazard will perform during Tracy Lawrence's 19th annual Mission:Possible Benefit Concert Nov. 26 at Luke Combs' Category 10; tickets here. 

Signage: Singer/songwriter Adrien Nunez signed with Warner Music Nashville and Warner Records. His major-label debut, “Apology Song," is available today (11/15).

Bits & Pieces: Steel City KBEQ/Kansas City PD Todd Nixon's Sticks Media is acquiring Classic Hits WLGR/Glens Falls, NY, from Loud Media. The sale is expected to close in the first quarter of 2025. Sticks also owns KTNK-AM & K279CY/Lompoc, CA (CAT 7/27/23).

Joe Nichols, wife Heather Nichols and friend/business executive Andy Wirth have established nonprofit The Impossible Foundation aimed at combatting the accelerating rate of suicide within the military special operations community. Watch their launch video here.

Tim McGraw earned a spot in People's annual "Sexiest Man Alive" issue, beating out Denzel Washington, Kevin Bacon and Ted Danson in the category of "Sexiest Long-Married Star." 

During a Nov. 13 benefit concert in San Marcos, TX, the Randy Rogers Band presented checks for $37,500 each to the Kent Finlay Legacy Endowed Scholarship in Texas Music History and the Tommy Foote Memorial Scholarship Fund. 

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

• Recapping the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame induction in Country Aircheck Weekly. 
• iHeartMedia/Oklahoma SVP/Programming JJ Ryan added Arkansas, Kansas and Missouri to his oversight. (11/13)
• Nielsen detailed updates to PPM methodology. (11/12)
• iHeartMedia/Salisbury, MD Market Pres. Katie Ewell added those duties for Wilmington, DE. (11/12)
• Forever Media is selling WOGH/Pittsburgh to Educational Media Foundation. (11/11)
• Chronicle: Robert E. Lewis, Dean Canter, Peter Stephen "Zeke" Dawson.

ICYMI: The Luke Bryan-hosted and Peyton Manning-produced It’s All Country docuseries featuring SXM's Cody Alan and Macie Banks (pictured), as well as Kane Brown, Luke Combs and more, premiered today (11/15) on Hulu. 

Brooks & Dunn performed "Ain't Nothing 'Bout You" on NBC's Today (11/13). 

Scotty Hasting, Sara Evans, Craig Morgan and more joined Musicians On Call and Wrangler in showing appreciation to hospitalized veterans; highlights here.

Crib Note: Maddie & Tae's Taylor Kerr and songwriter/musician husband Josh Kerr welcomed their second child, son Chapel Shields Kerr, Oct 29. Josh shared on Instagram, "He’s making big moves in the NICU and we can’t wait to have him home with us soon." Chapel joins two-year-old big sister Leighton Grace (CAT 1/20/22).

Country Aircheck Today Top 5: Here are the Top 5 songs for Nov. 14, according to Mediabase 24/7.

1. TIM MCGRAW/One Bad Habit (Big Machine) 3667 points
2. JELLY ROLL/I Am Not Okay (BMG/Republic/Stoney Creek) 3395 points
3. MORGAN WALLEN/Lies Lies Lies (Big Loud) 3204 points
4. GEORGE BIRGE/Cowboy Songs (Records Nashville) 2712 points
5. PARMALEE/Gonna Love You (Stoney Creek) 2676 points

Country Aircheck Top Point Gainers: Here are the top point gainers for Nov. 10-14 compared with the same days last week, according to Mediabase 24/7.  

1. TIM MCGRAW/One Bad Habit (Big Machine) +5984 points
2. DYLAN MARLOWE & DYLAN SCOTT/Boys Back Home (Columbia/Curb) +1260 points
3. GEORGE BIRGE/Cowboy Songs (Records Nashville) +1150 points
4. JELLY ROLL/Liar (BMG/Republic/Stoney Creek) +1106 points
5. MORGAN WALLEN/Love Somebody (Big Loud) +914 points

Tomorrow's Birthdays (11/16): Mason Ramsey, Keith Burns (Trick Pony), John Dennis, Clint Higham, Chris Parr, Tony Thomas, Lexi Willson, the late Rick Blackburn.

Sunday's Birthdays (11/17): Aaron Lines, Rick Alter, Scott Douglas, Bruce Hinton, Butch Waugh, the late Eddie Reeves, the late Doc Gonzales.

Monday's Birthdays (11/18): TJ Osborne (Brothers Osborne), Jessi Alexander, Anthony “Keebler” Capra, Kia Becht, Matt Bradley.

Jam Session: Riser House's Dillon Carmichael (r) with KILT/Houston, TX's Nick Russo (c) and the label's Roger Fregoso at the station's Ten Man Jam.