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UNIVERSAL RECORDS SOUTH BECOMES ONLY LABEL TO HAVE TWO DEBUT ARTISTS BREAK THE TOP 10 IN 2009

Nashville, TN – July 6, 2009 –Universal Records South recording artist, Randy Houser, has broken into the Top 10 with his hit single “Boots On,” making him the first new male country artist to reach the Top 10 in 2009. In addition to Houser’s “Boots On,” Universal Records South also seized the Top 10 earlier this year with Eli Young Band’s single “Always The Love Songs” – making them the only label to have two debut artists break the Top 10 at radio this year.

“Boots On” is the first Top 10 single by a new male country artist since Chuck Wicks’ single “Stealing Cinderella” in February of 2008 – nearly a year-and-a half later.

In conjunction with a Top 10 single for “Boots On”, Houser also has a Top 10 video for the song on the iTunes Country Chart and Clear Channel’s On-Demand, making it one of the fastest climbing singles and video by a debut country artist in 2009. The innovative video for the song incorporates an original home video that was posted to YouTube of four-year-old Drake Dixon rocking out to “Boots On”. This original clip was edited together with Houser’s video footage, creating the first country video of its kind. The video has received a huge response not only from fans, but also from other artists. Keith Urban recently told People magazine his favorite current country video was “Boots On” saying, “It’s simple, it’s cute, it’s funny. I love it.”

The video has surpassed a million combined streams and has received attention from CBS’s “The Early Show”, CNN’s “Morning Edition”, and Perez Hilton. It is also making its way up the video countdown charts on both CMT (debuting and maintaining Top 20 status since its second week of release) and GAC.

Eli Young Band’s follow up single, “Radio Waves”, has been one of the most added singles its first two weeks of release.

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