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It won weekly support from 22 monitored stations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Lay Me Down&#8221; aims to follow in the successful footsteps of previous &#8220;In the Lonely Hour&#8221; singles &#8220;Stay with Me&#8221; and &#8220;I&#8217;m Not the Only One.&#8221;  Both songs peaked within the Top 5; &#8220;Stay with Me&#8221; hit #1.<\/p>\n<p>Andy Grammer&#8217;s buzzworthy &#8220;Honey, I&#8217;m Good,&#8221; which debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 last week, ranks as Hot AC&#8217;s second-most added song this week.  It picked up support from 15 stations.<\/p>\n<p>Pitbull&#8217;s &#8220;Time of Our Lives (featuring Ne-Yo)&#8221; and Walk the Moon&#8217;s &#8220;Shut Up and Dance&#8221; follow with 13 adds each.  Ellie Goulding&#8217;s &#8220;Love Me Like You Do,&#8221; which landed at 12 new stations, registers as the week&#8217;s fifth-most added song.<\/p>\n<p>Other popular Hot AC options:  Echosmith&#8217;s &#8220;Bright&#8221; (6th-most added, 10 adds), Rihanna, Kanye West &#038; Paul McCartney&#8217;s &#8220;FourFiveSeconds&#8221; (6th-most added, 10 adds), One Direction&#8217;s &#8220;Night Changes&#8221; (8th-most added, 8 adds), Fall Out Boy&#8217;s &#8220;Centuries&#8221; (9th-most added, 7 adds), Imagine Dragons&#8217; &#8220;I Bet My Life&#8221; (10th-most added, 6 adds), Life of Dillon&#8217;s &#8220;Overload&#8221; (10th-most added, 6 adds), Lilly Wood &#038; Robin Schulz&#8217; &#8220;Prayer in C&#8221; (10th-most added, 6 adds), Mark Ronson&#8217;s &#8220;Uptown Funk (featuring Bruno Mars)&#8221; (10th-most added, 6 adds), Mat Kearney&#8217;s &#8220;Billion&#8221; ((10th-most added, 6 adds), Nickelback&#8217;s &#8220;She Keeps Me Up&#8221; (10th-most added, 6 adds), Train&#8217;s &#8220;Bulletproof Picasso&#8221; (10th-most added, 6 adds) and Young Rising Sons&#8217; &#8220;High&#8221; (10th-most added, 6 adds).<\/p>\n<p>Major market adds:<\/p>\n<p>95.5 PLJ (New York) \u2013 Time of our Lives (Pitbull ft. 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