April 16, 2009

Stop Sign: Congrats to Rascal Flatts, Lyric Street and their entire team on 351,025
first-week sales of Unstoppable, their fourth consecutive all-genre No. 1 debut.
That's a SoundScan record for a country artist. Honorable mention to Jason Aldean
and the BBR crew for the 108,960 debut-week number for Aldean's Wide Open, which is his highest career sales week.


Three Men And A Radio: BNA's Kenny Chesney will chat live on ESPN Radio and ESPN-2's
Mike & Mike in the Morning tomorrow (4/16) at 9:42am ET as a pre-kick-off to the Sun
City Carnival Tour opening Friday (4/17) in Uncasville, CT.

These Go To 11: While on Oprah yesterday (4/14), Mercury's Sugarland discussed top
career highlights including their performance at recent presidential inauguration festivities. "Nice pipes, girl," President Obama told Jennifer Nettles at the event. "Nice pipes." Recap the entire episode, also featuring Kenny Chesney, Carrie Underwood and Darius Rucker.

I'm Sorry, So Sorry: Actor Jamie Foxx apologized on last night's Tonight Show With Jay Leno for recent lewd Miley Cyrus jokes he made on his Sirius XM radio show. "I so apologize and this is sincere," Foxx told Leno. "Because I am a comedian, and you guys know that whatever I say, I don't mean any of it. And sometimes, as comedians, we go a little too far ... Miley, I apologize. I will call you."


McGraw Blind-Sided: Curb's Tim McGraw will star opposite Sandra Bullock in the film
based on the Michael Lewis book, The Blind Side. McGraw will play "Sean Touhy,"
husband of Bullock's character, "Leigh Anne," in the true story about a wealthy
white family who takes in a homeless African-American teenager. Shooting begins at the end of the month in Atlanta.

Idol Here We Come: Carolwood's Love And Theft will be in the audience for tonight's
(4/15) American Idol elimination episode.


Country Aircheck Today Top 5: Here are the Top 5 songs for April 14:


RODNEY ATKINS/It's America (Curb) 2180 points
RASCAL FLATTS/Here Comes Goodbye (Lyric Street) 2133 points
JASON ALDEAN/She's Country (BBR) 2003 points
CARRIE UNDERWOOD/I Told You So (19/Arista) 1884 points
JAKE OWEN/Don't Think I Can't Love You (RCA) 1831 points


All daily airplay data is from Mediabase 24/7.

Country Aircheck Today Top 5 Downloads: Here are Play MPE's Top 5 for April 14:


TAYLOR SWIFT/You Belong With Me (Big Machine)
MIRANDA LAMBERT/Dead Flowers (Columbia)
STEVE AZAR/Moo La Moo (Ride/BPP)
ZONA JONES/Bluer Than Blue (Rocky Comfort)
TANYA TUCKER/Love's Gonna Live Here (Saguaro Road)


Tube Check Tomorrow (4/16): Rascal Flatts, Late Show With David Letterman (CBS),
Hannity (FOX News); Billy Ray Cyrus, Bonnie Hunt Show (syndicated).