Jason Aldean’s song “Try That in a Small Town” and the accompanying music video rocketed to the top of the iTunes charts in less than 24 hours as outlets began reporting that the video had been pulled from country music channel CMT.
Louder with Crowder reported that the song had reached the top spot on the iTunes all-genre charts, beating out the massively popular Korean pop stars from the group BTS as well as fellow country artist Luke Combs.
Jason Aldean’s “Try That In A Small Town” has reached #1 on US iTunes. pic.twitter.com/PXZa31xpp4
— Billboard Charts (@billboardnewsb) July 19, 2023
In addition, Aldean’s visuals made their way to the top of the music video chart, passing artist Taylor Swift, who is also a vocal left-wing activist.
The video, which was pulled by CMT on Monday, July 17, 2023, showed familiar clips of Antifa and BLM rioting. News coverage of looting, violent protests, and spitting on police were all featured in the video.
Billboard reported that Aldean’s video was released on a Friday and was in CMT’s rotation through Sunday, but the outlet noted that CMT declined to comment on why it stopped playing the video by Monday. The Billboard report dropped Tuesday, and by 11 p.m. that night the music service had reported the song had reached number one on the charts.
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