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With his simple yet poignant way of capturing universal feelings, Cole Taylor has quickly become an in-demand country songwriter. Nine months after moving from Cuthbert, Georgia, to Music City, Taylor signed a publishing deal with Universal Music Publishing Nashville in November 2013.
Since then, he has been a Sirius XM “Highway Find” wth his song “Cold Beer,” released and had three songs reach #1 on the country music charts; “Sippin’ On Fire” by Florida Georgia Line “Home Alone Tonight” by Luke Bryan featuring Karen Fairchild of Little Big Town and “You Me and Whiskey by Justin Moore and Priscilla Blocl as well as top 20 songs, “Stay Downtown” by Cole Swindell / “Country’d Look Good On You” by Frank Ray & Dylan Scott’s “Nothing To Do Town.”
Cole has been present on country radio as a songwriter since 2015 with at least one song that he has written being in the top 40 at country radio each year. Cole has also had other songs recorded by Jason Aldean, Cole Swindell, Kenny Chesney, Jon Pardi, Jake Owen, Justin Moore, Chase Rice & More.
Stats:
70 + major label co written songs
6 top 20 country radio singles
3 #1 hits
| Song | Performing Artist | Stream |
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| 7500 OBO | Tim McGraw | 
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| A Feelin’ Like That | Gary Allen |
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| A Little More Country Than That | Easton Corbin |
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| A Little Too Late | Toby Keith |
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| All I Want to Do | Sugarland |
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| Already Gone | Sugarland |
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| Alright | Darius Rucker |
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| Amarillo Sky | Jason Aldean |
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| American Honey | Lady A |
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| American Kids | Kenny Chesney |
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| American Made | The Oak Ridge Boys |
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| Anything Cold | Greylan James |
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| Anything Goes | Florida Georgia Line |
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| Anyway | Martina McBride |
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| Anywhere With You | Jake Owen |
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| Are You Gonna Kiss Me Or Not | Thompson Square |
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| As Good as I Once Was | Toby Keith |
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| Bama Breeze | Jimmy Buffet |
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| Beach Boys | LoCash & The Beach Boys |
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| Beautiful Mess | Diamond Rio |
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| Beer for My Horses | Toby Keith ft. Willie Nelson |
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| Beer Never Broke My Heart | Luke Combs |
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| Beer With Jesus | Thomas Rhett |
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| Before You Kill Us All | Randy Travis |
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| Better Together | Luke Combs |
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| Big Green Tractor | Jason Aldean |
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| Blame It On You | Jason Aldean |
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| Blow | Ed Sheeran, Chris Stapleton, Bruno Mars |
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| Blue Clear Sky | George Strait |
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| Boy | Faith Hill |
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| Brand New Girlfriend | Steve Holy |
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| Bring On The Rain | Jo Dee Messina |
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| Broken Windshield View | Chris Lane |
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| Burnin’ It Down | Jason Aldean |
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| Burning Man | Dierks Bentley |
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| Carried Away | George Strait |
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| Carrying Your Love With Me | George Strait |
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| Chasing After You | Ryan Hurd & Maren Morris |
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| Chillin’ It | Cole Swindell |
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| City On Our Knees | Toby Mac |
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| Cleaning This Gun | Rodney Atkins |
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| Close Your Eyes | Parmalee |
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| Cold As You | Luke Combs |
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| Cool Again | Kane Brown ft. Nelly |
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| Cowboys Like Us | George Strait |
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| Crash My Party | Luke Bryan |
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| Crawling Back to You | Daughtry |
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| Crazy Town | Jason Aldean |
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| Cry | Faith Hill |
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| Damn Your Eyes | Etta James |
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| Didn’t I | James Wesley |
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| Dirt | Florida Georgia Line |
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| Don’t Let Me Be Lonely | The Band Perry |
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| Don’t Rock the Jukebox | Alan Jackson |
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| Don’t You Wanna Stay | Jason Aldean & Kelly Clarkson |
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| Dreamer | Ozzy Osbourne |
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| Drink On It | Blake Shelton |
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| Drink to That All Night | Jerrod Niemann |
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| Drunk Me | Mitchell Tenpenny |
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| Drunk On A Plane | Dierks Bentley |
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| Drunk On You | Luke Bryan |
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| Dust On The Bottle | David Lee Murphy |
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| Every Mile a Memory | Dirks Bentley |
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| Every Time I Hear That Song | Blake Shelton |
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| Everything’s Gonna Be Alright | Kenny Chesney & David Lee Murphy |
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| Everywhere But On | Matt Steel |
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| Fall | Clay Walker |
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| Family Man | Craig Campbell |
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| Famous Friends | Chris Young & Kane Brown |
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| Fancy Like | Walker Hayes |
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| Feel That Fire | Dirks Bentley |
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| Felt Good On My Lips | Tim McGraw |
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| Five More Minutes | Scotty McCreery |
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| Forgive | Rebecca Lynn Howard |
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| Friends in Low Places | Garth Brooks | |
| From A Table Away | Sunny Sweeney |
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| Georgia Rain | Trisha Yearwood |
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| Get Drunk and Be Somebody | Toby Keith |
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| Get Your Shine On | Florida Georgia Line |
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| God’s Country | Blake Shelton |
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| Good One Comin' On | Blackberry Smoke |
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| Good Ride Cowboy | Garth Brooks | |
| Goodnight Kiss | Randy Houser |
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| Hard to Love | Lee Brice |
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| Heartache On The Dance Floor | Jon Pardi |
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| Heaven | Kane Brown |
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| Here and Now | Kenny Chesney |
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| Here In The Real World | Alan Jackson |
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| Hey Whiskey | Smithfield |
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| Hey World | Lee Brice |
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| Highway Don’t Care | Tim McGraw & Taylor Swift |
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| His Kind Of Money | Eric Church |
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| Hold On | Toby Mac |
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| Homemade | Jake Owen |
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| Homesick | Kane Brown |
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| I Called Mama | Tim McGraw |
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| I Do (Cherish You) | 98 Degrees |
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| I Don’t Dance | Lee Brice |
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| I Drive Your Truck | Lee Brice |
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| I Got You | Thompson Square |
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| I Hate Everything | George Strait |
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| I Hope | Gabby Barrett |
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| I Hope You’re Happy Now | Carly Pearce & Lee Brice |
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| I Love This Bar | Toby Keith |
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| I Love This Life | LoCash |
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| I Love You | Martina McBride |
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| I Saw God Today | George Strait |
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| I’m Gonna Miss Her | Brad Paisley |
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| I’m Just Talkin’ About Tonight | Toby Keith |
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| If Heaven Wasn’t So Far Away | Justin Moore |
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| If I Didn’t Have You | Thompson Square |
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| If I Don’t Make it Back | Tracy Lawrence |
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| If You’re Reading This | Tim McGraw |
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| International Harvester | Craig Morgan |
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| It Don’t Hurt Like It Used to | Billy Currington |
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| It Happens | Sugarland |
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| It’s Getting Better All The Time | Brooks & Dunn |
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| Jealous Bone | Patty Loveless |
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| Knowing You | Kenny Chesney |
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| Last Shot | Kip Moore |
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| Lettin’ The Night Roll | Justin Moore |
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| Lights Come On | Jason Aldean |
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| Like A Cowboy | Randy Houser |
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| Like A Cowboy | Parker McCollum |
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| Like I Love Country Music | Kane Brown |
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| Like I Loved You | Brett Young |
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| Lipstick | Runaway June |
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| Little Bit of Everything | Keith Urban |
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| Little Rock | Reba |
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| Live A Little | Kenny Chesney |
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| Live A Little Love A Lot | Kenny Chesney |
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| Living In Fast Forward | Kenny Chesney |
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| Long Trip Alone | Dirks Bentley |
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| Lost In This Moment | Big & Rich |
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| Love Remains the Same | Gavin Rossdale |
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| Love You Back | Rhett Akins |
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| Lover Lover | Jerrod Niemann |
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| Lovin’ You Is Fun | Easton Corbin |
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| Made In America | Toby Keith |
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| Made to Love | Toby Mac |
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| Mama’s Song | Carrie Underwood |
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| Memory I Don’t Mess With With | Lee Brice |
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| Mercy | Ayron Jones |
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| More Than A Memory | Garth Brooks | |
| Morning Ride | Lee Greenwood |
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| My Kinda Party | Jason Aldean |
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| Never Wanted Nothing More | Kenny Chesney |
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| New Fool at an Old Game | Reba |
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| Night Shift | Jon Pardi |
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| Nobody to Blame | Chris Stapleton |
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| Nothin’ On But The Radio | Gary Allen |
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| Old Glory | Jerrod Niemann |
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| On Paper | Trent Harmon |
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| One Night At a Time | George Strait |
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| One Of Those Nights | Tim McGraw |
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| One Right Thing | Marshmello & Kane Brown |
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| Outlaw State of Mind | Chris Stapleton |
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| Outskirts of Heaven | Craig Campbell |
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| Over | Blake Shelton |
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| Party Crowd | David Lee Murphy |
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| Party Mode | Dustin Lynch |
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| Peter Pan | Kelsey Ballerini |
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| Playing The Part | Jamey Johnson |
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| Prayed For You | Matt Stell |
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| Let Your Boys Be Country | Jason Aldean |
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| Praying for Daylight | Rascal Flatts |
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| Pretty Girl | Amanda Jordan |
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| Pretty Heart | Parker McCollum |
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| Rear View Town | Jason Aldean |
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| Red High Heels | Kellie Pickler |
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| Red Solo Cup | Toby Keith |
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| River’s Still Running | High Valley |
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| Round Here | Florida Georgia Line |
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| Round Here | Florida Georgia Line |
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| Run | George Strait |
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| Seeing Red | Dustin lynch |
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| She Never Cried In Front Of Me | Toby Keith |
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| She Thinks She Needs Me | Andy Griggs |
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| She’s Country | Jason Aldean |
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| Shinin’ On Me | Jerrod Niemann |
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| Shining on Me | Jerrod Niemann |
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| Slow Dance in Headlights | MaRynn Taylor |
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| Smile | Lonestar |
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| Sober Saturday Night | Chris Young |
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| Some of It | Eric Church |
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| Somebody Like That | Tenille Art |
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| Something Like That | Tim McGraw |
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| Sorry | Buckcherry |
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| Southern Girl | Tim McGraw |
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| Stacy | Gretchen Wilson |
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| Stealing Home | Willie Nelson |
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| Suds In The Bucket | Sara Evans |
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| Sun Daze | Florida Georgia Line |
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| Sunburnt Lips | Luke Bryan |
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| Sunny and 75 | Joe Nichols |
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| Sure Be Cool If You Did | Blake Shelton |
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| Sweet Southern Comfort | Buddy Jewell |
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| Take A Little Ride | Jason Aldean |
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| Ten Rounds of Jose Cuervo | Tracy Byrd |
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| The Church On Cumberland Road | Shenandoah |
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| The Climb | Miley Cyrus |
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| The Fool | Lee Ann Womack |
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| The Good Ones | Gabby Barrett |
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| The Last Cowboy | Jamey Johnson |
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| The Lucky One | Faith Hill |
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| The Only Way I Know | Jason Aldean |
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| The Way You Love Me | Faith Hill |
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| There a Girl | Trent Harmon |
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| This Could Still Be Us | Keith Urban |
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| This Is It | Scotty McCreery |
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| Thought About You | Tim McGraw |
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| Til It’s Gone | Kenny Chesney |
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| Tomorrow | Chris Young |
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| Truck Yeah | Tim McGraw |
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| Undo It | Carrie Underwood |
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| Untouchable | Taylor Swift |
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| Waitin’ on a Woman | Brad Paisley |
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| Want To | Sugarland |
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| Watching You | Rodney Atkins |
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| Way Out Here | Josh Tompson |
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| We Back | Jason Aldean |
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| We Didn’t Have Much | Justin Moore |
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| What About Now | Lonestar |
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| What Do You Want | Jerrod Niemann |
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| What Ifs | Kane Brown |
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| Whatcha Think About Country Now | Morgan Wallen |
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| When the Lights Go Out | Jason Aldean |
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| Where Ever You Are | Jack Ingram |
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| Where I Come From | Montgomery Gentry |
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| Where I Come From Coming Out | Dylan Marlowe |
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| Where It’s At | Dustin Lynch |
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| Whiskey Girl | Toby Keith |
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| Whiskey On My Breath | Love and Theft |
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| Who Are You When I'm Not Looking | Blake Shelton |
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| Who I Am With You | Chris Young |
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| Why | Jason Aldean |
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| Why We Drink | Justin Moore |
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| Wink | Neal McCoy |
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| Worlds Apart | Vince Gill |
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| Worship You | Kane Brown |
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| Wrong Baby Wrong | Martina McBride |
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| You Don’t Know Her Like I Do | Brantley Gilbert |
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| You Look Like I Need A Drink | Justin Moore |
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| You Make It Easy | Jason Aldean |
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| You Time | Scotty McCreery |
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| You’re In My Head | Brian McComas |
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| Yup | Easton Corbin |
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| Ramble | Cody Jinks |
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| Never Go Home Again | Cody Johnson |
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| Wrong End of the Rainbow | Chris Hennessee , Jamey Johnson |
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| Ramble | Chris Hennessee , Alison Krauss |
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| Sippin’ On Fire | Florida Georgia Line |
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| You, Me And Whiskey | Justin Moore |
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| Home Alone Tonight | Luke Bryan, Karen Fairchild |
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| Monday Morning Church | Alan Jackson |
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| You Don’t Know Jack | Luke Byran |
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| Last Call | Lee Ann Womack |
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| Like I Could | Rhonda Vincent |
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| His & Hers | Joey + Rory |
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| Good Lovin | Jess Moskaluke |
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| Poet's Prayer | Sunny Sweeney |
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| The Bars Getting Lower | Reba McEntire |
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| Not Enough Tequila | Terri Clark |
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| Weddings, Funerals, & Empty Hotel Bars | Terri Clark |
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| Every Storm (Runs Out Of Rain) | Gary Allan |
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| Learning How to Bend | Gary Allan |
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| Love Let It Do What It Do | Robert Randolph & the Family Band featuring Darius Rucker |
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| The Blade | Ronnie Dunn |
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| I Would've Love You | Jake Hoot, Kelly Clarkson |
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| Till You Get There | Ty Herndon |
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| She’ll Leave You With A Smile | George Strait |
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| So You Don’t Have To Love Me Anymore | Alan Jackson |
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| Love You | Jack Ingram |
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| Kiss You Tonight | David Nail |
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| Like We Do | Harry Connick, Jr. |
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| Damn Strait | Scotty McCreery |
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| Missing Missouri | Sara Evans |
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| Why Can't I Leave Her Alone | George Strait |
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| Just Got Started Loving' You | James Otto |
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| In Color | Jamey Johnson |
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| You Don’t Know Her Like I Do | Josh Gracin |
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| Where My Girls At | Chris Janson |
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| Where I Come From | Montgomery Gentry |
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| We Owned The Night | Lady A |
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| Tonight Looks Good On You | Jason Aldean |
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| Small Town Throwdown | Brantley Gilbert |
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| Shotgun Rider | Neal McCoy |
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| Running Out Of Moonlight | Randy Houser |
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| Rain Is A Good Question | Luke Bryan |
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| Put A Girl In It | Brooks & Dunne |
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| Play It Again | Luke Bryan |
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| Kiss My Country Ass | Blake Shelton |
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| Kick The Dust Up | Luke Bryan |
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| Just A Kiss | Lady A |
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| I Don't Want This Night To End | Luke Bryan |
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| Huntin’, Fishin’, and Lovin’ Everyday | Luke Bryan |
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| Honky Tonk Badonkadonk | Trace Adkins |
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| Gimme Me That Girl | Joe Nichols |
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| Doin' My Thing | Luke Bryan |
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| Dirt Road Diary | Luke Bryan |
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| Country Girl (Shake It For Me) | Luke Bryan |
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| Boys 'Round Here | Blake Shelton |
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| Barefoot And Crazy | Jack Ingram |
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| Back To God | Randy Houser |
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| All About Tonight | Blake Shelton |
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| 21 | Hunter Hayes |
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| All Over Me | Josh Turner |
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| That's My Kind Of Night | Luke Bryan |
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| Start A Band | Brad Paisley w/Keith Urban |
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| That's How Country Boys Roll | Billy Currington |
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| The One That Got Away | Jake Owen |
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| Single White Female | Chely Wright |
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| I Am My Mother | Rebecca Lynn Howard |
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| You Won't Ever Be Lonely | Andy Griggs |
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| If Heaven | Andy Griggs |
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| She's More | Andy Griggs |
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| I'll Go Crazy | Andy Griggs |
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| Tonight I Want To Be Your Man | Andy Griggs |
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