Final week, nation musician Jason Aldean launched a music video for “Attempt That In A Small City.” The one initially got here out in Might, however acquired a brand new surge of consideration because it turned a lightning rod for controversy as soon as the video was pulled from Nation Music Tv a couple of days after it premiered on the community, because it was accused of selling racialized violence and vigilante justice.

At a live performance in Cincinnati on Friday evening, Aldean addressed what he known as the “lengthy ass week” he had because of the furor across the video and track. “Cancel tradition is a factor … If individuals don’t like what you say, they struggle and ensure they’ll cancel you, which implies try to break your life, break all the pieces,” he mentioned, as USA Immediately notes. “One factor I noticed this week was a bunch of nation music followers that would see by lots of the bullshit, all proper? I noticed nation music followers rally like I’ve by no means seen earlier than and it was fairly badass to look at, I gotta say.”

Sure nation music followers did rally, alright, and canceled Aldean all the best way to a #2 debut on this week’s Billboard Sizzling 100 chart. Although “Attempt That In A Small City” was formally launched again in Might, it hadn’t charted and didn’t obtain a push to radio till this previous week. Per Billboard, the track bowed with the largest gross sales week for a rustic track in over a decade. It bought 228,000 items, with 11.6 million streams and seven.3 million radio airplay impressions.

Nation music followers don’t have anything on BTS followers, no less than. On the prime of the Sizzling 100 chart this week is Jungkook’s debut solo single “Seven.” The Latto-featuring observe had 21.9 million streams, 6.4 million airplay viewers, and 153,000 gross sales, from a mixture of digital and CD singles.

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The Aldean controversy has attracted a complete lot of commentary. On Twitter, Jason Isbell challenged Aldean to write down a track himself — “Attempt That In A Small City” was written by a workforce of songwriters: Kelley Lovelace, Neil Thrasher, Tully Kennedy, and Kurt Allison.

“Dare Aldean to write down his subsequent single himself. That’s what we strive in my small city,” Isbell wrote. “Okay right here ya go @Jason_Aldean I’m difficult you to write down a track your self. On their lonesome. When you’re a recording artist, make some artwork. I wish to hear it.”

In additional Aldean developments, as Billboard studies, a viral TikTok deep dive factors out that one in every of Aldean’s promotional movies for “Attempt That In A Small City” (which was posted again in Might) included an obscure newspaper article within the background.

The article in query was from the 1956 situation of the out-of-print Mississippi publication The Petal Paper, created by the Southern journalist Percy Dale East, who used satire to criticize Jim Crow period insurance policies. He was ultimately run out of city after receiving three loss of life threats in a single week.