Jason Aldean’s divisive, headline-making ‚Try That in a Small Town‘ had a strong entry at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 after two months in release.
The BTS Army drove Jung Kook’s first solo single, “Seven,” to No. 1 on the latest Billboard Hot 100 chart, a milestone previously reached by fellow member Jimin’s “Like Crazy” three months ago. With 21.9 million streams registered, 6.4 million airplay impressions audience and 153,000 singles sold, the track (which features rapper Latto as a guest artist) came out of the box as a certifiable monster.
Country star Jason Aldean doesn’t have a similar Army bolstering him, but does sound like he might be forming a militia in “Try That in a Small Town.” The deeply polarizing song was able to ride a wave of headlines to a No. 2 entry, after it’d spent the last two months not even cracking the lower ranks of the chart, prior to the controversy erupting.
On the Billboard 200 album chart, meanwhile, there was no competition for the second week of Taylor Swift’s “Speak Now (Taylor’s Version),” which, even as a re-recording (mostly) of a 13-year-old release, looks to be a blockbuster with legs. It’s the first of her three Big Machine-era remakes thus far to top the album chart for two weeks, not just one.
Music news has been dominated in the last week by Aldean’s divisive song, which had been out since May without drawing much media attention until an even more provocative — and, many thought, disturbing — music video created a firestorm.
