Jason Aldean’s ‘Try That in a Small Town’ blasts up the charts after music video controversy

Jason Aldean loves America and is fed up with how things are going. He made an anti-riot song and music video that was sorta banned from CMT. Now that the song is ticking off some people, it’s actually skyrocketed up the charts to a solid #2 position for Billboard’s Hot 100.Jason Aldean also had fans chanting USA! USA! USA! at a concert when he addressed the issue.Jason Aldean’s “Try That in a Small Town” is experiencing exponential growth following controversy over its music video.”Try That in a Small Town,” which was released in May, debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 this week just behind BTS’s Jung Kook solo single “Seven,” featuring Latto. The track experienced the biggest sales week for a country song in over 10 years.According to Luminate, the song hit 11.7 million on-demand audio and video streams between July 14 and 20, marking a 1,000% increase from the previous week. Prior to the music video release on July 14, the track accounted for 987,000 streams in the U.S.Digital song sales increased from 1,000 to 228,000, in those same weeks, respectively.