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Post by zjames on Apr 1, 2015 19:01:59 GMT -5
I'll change the station when this comes on or I'll just tune it out and not really pay attention to it. It's got nothing engaging or interesting about it. The lyrics are boring and Jason sounds pretty lifeless. Jason's 0/3 for me in the Old Boots, New Dirt era.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2015 14:48:06 GMT -5
I'm starting to come around to this one, when at first it was my least favorite from the album (which amazingly includes "Burnin' it Down").
This one is acceptable musically, but it doesn't really suit Jason vocally, especially in the verses.
I expected it to have somewhat of a bigger impact on iTunes. That led me to take a look at his past singles. I honestly think that Jason isn't doing himself any favors by opting to release songs that are very plain, unoriginal and more geared toward the new pop-country crowd while at the same time alienating his loyal original fans.
For what it's worth, "Just Gettin' Started" was Jason's lowest charting single on the Hot 100 since "Relentless" back in 2008. And yes, even "1994" peaked higher.
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Post by onebuffalo on Apr 13, 2015 14:53:23 GMT -5
I'm starting to come around to this one, when at first it was my least favorite from the album (which amazingly includes "Burnin' it Down"). This one is acceptable musically, but it doesn't really suit Jason vocally, especially in the verses. I expected it to have somewhat of a bigger impact on iTunes. That led me to take a look at his past singles. I honestly think that Jason isn't doing himself any favors by opting to release songs that are very plain, unoriginal and more geared toward the new pop-country crowd while at the same time alienating his loyal original fans. For what it's worth, "Just Gettin' Started" was Jason's lowest charting single on the Hot 100 since "Relentless" back in 2008. And yes, even "1994" peaked higher.
Barely. 1994 was a #52 peaking song on the Hot 100 while Just Gettin' Started peaked at #54. Relentless, you are correct, did not chart there.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2015 15:04:04 GMT -5
Barely. 1994 was a #52 peaking song on the Hot 100 while Just Gettin' Started peaked at #54. Relentless, you are correct, did not chart there. Barely doesn't count? I would expect the song that received a lot more airplay and that coincided with a new album release to be far ahead of "1994".
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Post by onebuffalo on Apr 13, 2015 15:09:41 GMT -5
Barely. 1994 was a #52 peaking song on the Hot 100 while Just Gettin' Started peaked at #54. Relentless, you are correct, did not chart there. Barely doesn't count? I would expect the song that received a lot more airplay and that coincided with a new album release to be far ahead of "1994". It certainly isn't much of an improvement-only two spots higher. However, Jason Aldean has racked up two platinum singles since 1994 (only gold so far): Night Train (#1 country and #26 Hot 100) and Burnin' It Down (#1 country and #12 Hot 100). Getting the support from country radio really drove the sales of the latter titles.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2015 15:23:39 GMT -5
Barely doesn't count? I would expect the song that received a lot more airplay and that coincided with a new album release to be far ahead of "1994". It certainly isn't much of an improvement-only two spots higher. However, Jason Aldean has racked up two platinum singles since 1994 (only gold so far): Night Train (#1 country and #26 Hot 100) and Burnin' It Down (#1 country and #12 Hot 100). Getting the support from country radio really drove the sales of the latter titles. Absolutely. There's no doubt about that. Here's a teaser for you (or anyone else). Obviously "Burnin' it Down" was very well-received. It's hard to tell just from the peaks who was receiving it so well, however. "Night Train" was impressive in that it was the fourth single right after a dud and it still was massively successful. My question: if "Burnin' it Down" was not a debut, would it have peaked higher or lower than "Night Train" on the Hot 100? (For reference, it was at #23 and #26 the weeks it peaked at #1 on the Country Airplay chart). I just think releasing such a plain song like "Just Gettin' Started" was odd when there are plenty of classic Jason gems on the album. This tune is an improvement, even if it is more in the style of "Burnin' it Down".
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Post by trebor on Apr 13, 2015 16:13:32 GMT -5
^^ Don't forget that "Just Gettin' Started" did get exactly 0 Hot 100 points from streaming. "Burnin' It Down"'s Hot 100 points came from impressive streaming figures and digital sales plus massive out of the box airplay. Also, when "1994" was charting there was no streaming factored in; Hot 100 points came from airplay and digital sales, only.
Country digital song sales are considerably down and most country titles struggle in the Hot 100 and barely make the Top 50.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2015 22:04:43 GMT -5
^^ Don't forget that "Just Gettin' Started" did get exactly 0 Hot 100 points from streaming. "Burnin' It Down"'s Hot 100 points came from impressive streaming figures and digital sales plus massive out of the box airplay. Also, when "1994" was charting there was no streaming factored in; Hot 100 points came from airplay and digital sales, only. Country digital song sales are considerably down and most country titles struggle in the Hot 100 and barely make the Top 50. I know Jason pulled his album from Spotify, but wouldn't "Just Gettin' Started" have still received streaming points from YouTube? Regardless, though, you have a point - its absence from Spotify would obviously have kept it lower on the Hot 100, probably by a decent handful of positions at the very least.
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Post by trebor on Apr 14, 2015 6:02:16 GMT -5
^^ Don't forget that "Just Gettin' Started" did get exactly 0 Hot 100 points from streaming. "Burnin' It Down"'s Hot 100 points came from impressive streaming figures and digital sales plus massive out of the box airplay. Also, when "1994" was charting there was no streaming factored in; Hot 100 points came from airplay and digital sales, only. Country digital song sales are considerably down and most country titles struggle in the Hot 100 and barely make the Top 50. I know Jason pulled his album from Spotify, but wouldn't "Just Gettin' Started" have still received streaming points from YouTube? Regardless, though, you have a point - its absence from Spotify would obviously have kept it lower on the Hot 100, probably by a decent handful of positions at the very least. Nope, I don't think so that streaming helped the song to gain a couple of notches. Worldwide Clicks as of just a couple of minutes ago = 6,566,556 + divided by 20 weeks + divided by streaming factor (1,500) + factored down to 1:1 Hot 100 points (1,000) = average weekly 0.21** Hot 100 Chart Points which is statistically irrelevant. To consider ** - that the tally cannot be attributed to 100% to America alone - Hot 100 streaming points are not weighed as 33% (the other being sales and downloads) - Videos that are part of a play list and/or start via the shuffle function are only counted as 1/2 play - Jason's track never even managed to get into the Country Streaming Songs Top 25 (which suggests some extremely poor streaming figures) - Last week's (04/05/15) streaming total associated to Jason Aldeans': "Old Boots, New Dirt" is <356K which is ridiculously low and most probably still mainly driven by "Burnin' It Down" Hope this all makes sense
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Post by trebor on Apr 21, 2015 8:41:28 GMT -5
Nice BBR ad in Country Aircheck 04/20/15
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Post by myeverything on Apr 21, 2015 15:54:35 GMT -5
Love it!
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2015 10:02:44 GMT -5
This isn't moving up all that fast for a Jason Aldean single. I'm sure it'll eventually go to #1, but as with "Just Gettin' Started" I don't see this one making much of an impact or getting a lot of recurrent airplay half a year from now, and it certainly won't be able to get the eye-roll-worthy Broken Bow treatment of blocking even bigger hits from #1 on the Billboard airplay chart. Jason's really falling into a rut of mediocre, forgettable music lately. I've never been a big Aldean fan, but I could at least respect that "Burnin' It Down" had a unique sound and was really popular among listeners. However, I can't even say that much for the most recent two singles. I haven't heard the full Jason Aldean album, but for those who have, are all the tracks as mundane as Jason's past two singles? Are there any other potentially big hits on the CD?
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Post by Kentucky25 on May 8, 2015 11:58:31 GMT -5
This isn't moving up all that fast for a Jason Aldean single. I'm sure it'll eventually go to #1, but as with "Just Gettin' Started" I don't see this one making much of an impact or getting a lot of recurrent airplay half a year from now, and it certainly won't be able to get the eye-roll-worthy Broken Bow treatment of blocking even bigger hits from #1 on the Billboard airplay chart. Jason's really falling into a rut of mediocre, forgettable music lately. I've never been a big Aldean fan, but I could at least respect that "Burnin' It Down" had a unique sound and was really popular among listeners. However, I can't even say that much for the most recent two singles. I haven't heard the full Jason Aldean album, but for those who have, are all the tracks as mundane as Jason's past two singles? Are there any other potentially big hits on the CD? "Two Night Town" "Don't Change Gone" "Miss That Girl" "Gonna Know We Were Here" "Too Fast" Really much better songs than what's been released.
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Post by dm2081 on May 8, 2015 12:09:13 GMT -5
This isn't moving up all that fast for a Jason Aldean single. I'm sure it'll eventually go to #1, but as with "Just Gettin' Started" I don't see this one making much of an impact or getting a lot of recurrent airplay half a year from now, and it certainly won't be able to get the eye-roll-worthy Broken Bow treatment of blocking even bigger hits from #1 on the Billboard airplay chart. Jason's really falling into a rut of mediocre, forgettable music lately. I've never been a big Aldean fan, but I could at least respect that "Burnin' It Down" had a unique sound and was really popular among listeners. However, I can't even say that much for the most recent two singles. I haven't heard the full Jason Aldean album, but for those who have, are all the tracks as mundane as Jason's past two singles? Are there any other potentially big hits on the CD? "Sweet Little Somethin'" would have been a huge hit had they released it second, following BID. It was already getting unsolicited airplay from a few stations. I think it could still be big, but these two most recent singles might make it sound like more of the same old. But that one is an uptempo rocker, more in line with "My Kinda Party" and "She's Country". I'm baffled that anyone though releasing "Just Gettin' Started" over it was a good idea. The rest of the strong tracks are all the ballads IMO. It certainly would be a good time to change it up a bit, and release either "Tryin' To Love Me", "Two Night Town", or "Too Fast" ("Miss That Girl" could work as well). "Gonna Know We Were Here" sounds like a hit as well, and could be a good offering for the Fall. It's basically very similar to "Tattoos On This Town", an upbeat rocker about reminiscing on memories. "Old Boots, New Dirt" could work as well, it could be a surprise hit IMO, much like "When She Says Baby". I too have noticed that this song doesn't seem to have as much steam as a typical Aldean single, and Blake's song left this one in the dust. I agree though, I still see it getting a week at #1 simply because it's Aldean and it is still selling well, just now great like Jason is capable of selling.
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Post by Kentucky25 on May 8, 2015 17:08:00 GMT -5
This isn't moving up all that fast for a Jason Aldean single. I'm sure it'll eventually go to #1, but as with "Just Gettin' Started" I don't see this one making much of an impact or getting a lot of recurrent airplay half a year from now, and it certainly won't be able to get the eye-roll-worthy Broken Bow treatment of blocking even bigger hits from #1 on the Billboard airplay chart. Jason's really falling into a rut of mediocre, forgettable music lately. I've never been a big Aldean fan, but I could at least respect that "Burnin' It Down" had a unique sound and was really popular among listeners. However, I can't even say that much for the most recent two singles. I haven't heard the full Jason Aldean album, but for those who have, are all the tracks as mundane as Jason's past two singles? Are there any other potentially big hits on the CD? "Sweet Little Somethin'" would have been a huge hit had they released it second, following BID. It was already getting unsolicited airplay from a few stations. I think it could still be big, but these two most recent singles might make it sound like more of the same old. But that one is an uptempo rocker, more in line with "My Kinda Party" and "She's Country". I'm baffled that anyone though releasing "Just Gettin' Started" over it was a good idea. The rest of the strong tracks are all the ballads IMO. It certainly would be a good time to change it up a bit, and release either "Tryin' To Love Me", "Two Night Town", or "Too Fast" ("Miss That Girl" could work as well). "Gonna Know We Were Here" sounds like a hit as well, and could be a good offering for the Fall. It's basically very similar to "Tattoos On This Town", an upbeat rocker about reminiscing on memories. "Old Boots, New Dirt" could work as well, it could be a surprise hit IMO, much like "When She Says Baby". I too have noticed that this song doesn't seem to have as much steam as a typical Aldean single, and Blake's song left this one in the dust. I agree though, I still see it getting a week at #1 simply because it's Aldean and it is still selling well, just now great like Jason is capable of selling. Forgot "Old Boots, New Dirt" and "Tryin' To Love Me", both of which I'm a big fan of.
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Post by someguy on May 9, 2015 1:37:00 GMT -5
The album hasn't held up all that well for me, but I so agree on "Two Night Town". That's one of the best things he's ever done, and I really hope that it gets to be a single at some point.
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Post by myeverything on May 9, 2015 20:32:57 GMT -5
Coming from a big Aldean fan... honestly, first time I heard the album I thought it wasn't as good as all the others he's put out. With that being said, it certainly has grown on me... a lot. Like to the point where I love every song on it and don't skip anything.
I saw his live show last night and he indeed sang Sweet Little Somethin' (which I still think will be next single) and Two Night Town that I remember for sure... on top of Just Gettin Started, Burnin It Down, and Tonight Looks Good On You, naturally. Still feel like he might have sang another one too!
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2015 20:48:51 GMT -5
Coming from a big Aldean fan... honestly, first time I heard the album I thought it wasn't as good as all the others he's put out. With that being said, it certainly has grown on me... a lot. Like to the point where I love every song on it and don't skip anything. I saw his live show last night and he indeed sang Sweet Little Somethin' (which I still think will be next single) and Two Night Town that I remember for sure... on top of Just Gettin Started, Burnin It Down, and Tonight Looks Good On You, naturally. Still feel like he might have sang another one too! I do think he will end up releasing "Two Night Town" and "Sweet Little Somethin'" as singles. Which is a shame because he's got some CLASSIC Jason material on the album in "Too Fast" and "Gonna Know We Were Here" which should have been released instead of one of the past three crapfests. I've grown fonder of this one but it's just so *bleh* knowing that this is the same guy who brought us "Amarillo Sky". Hoping by the time his next CD rolls around he is over the honeymoon stages of his new wife and he gets off the slowjam lovefest kick.
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Post by Marv on May 12, 2015 18:25:44 GMT -5
This is easily his best single since the sublime 'Night Train', and I expect it to reach #1 rather easily, probably in early August.
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Post by sabre14 on May 12, 2015 18:40:13 GMT -5
This is easily his best single since the sublime 'Night Train' That's not saying much. I kid of course.
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Post by samsager3 on May 14, 2015 13:47:11 GMT -5
As far as popularity goes, I see Gonna know we were here being the best option its sounds really smooth production wise and he seems in his comfort zone on it. Plus it's already equipped with the one liners he seems to like such not scared to ride this train,make a few marks leave a few stains and let's give them something they ain't never seen a little rated R redneck dream. It seems perfect for a summer release and could have popularity close with the same people that liked tatoos on this town.
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Post by TheWolverine on May 15, 2015 1:05:50 GMT -5
How many singles do you think he would go on this album? Going to see him tomorrow night...he does a pretty good cover of "Time Marches On"!
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Post by dm2081 on May 15, 2015 8:49:25 GMT -5
How many singles do you think he would go on this album? Going to see him tomorrow night...he does a pretty good cover of "Time Marches On"! 4 is all but guaranteed, and 5 doesn't seem like too big of a stretch given how quickly his singles climb the charts. Album sales would need to still be sufficient in order to get a 5th single release though.
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Post by .indulgecountry on May 15, 2015 17:48:15 GMT -5
I feel like 5 singles is pretty much assured for a Jason Aldean album era at this point.
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2015 1:34:30 GMT -5
Perhaps this isn't meant to be a bro-country song. Especially looking at the comments the lyric video for this has received on YouTube, it seems that most listeners perceive this as a "sexy" song, like "Gonna Wanna Tonight" or "My Eyes." That said, this seems to me like what a flirtatious Dr. Seuss book would sound like, particularly the last few lines. (You look good at the party...Good at the bar...You look good at the house...Good in the car...Good anywhere we are.) The lyrics are obviously trite and cheesy, but I won't be able to listen to this song without chuckling at the last little bit. Now, if only I could find a way to make the lame, cheesy lyrics of "Biscuits" or "Country" tolerable.
Looking at the charts right now, it would seem obvious Luke Bryan's new single will go up way ahead of this since Luke could easily debut only a few spots below this position-wise, but then I think Universal will prevent Luke from peaking too far ahead of this since they will probably try to push "Love You Like That" and "Girl Crush" to #1 first, which means this may be the song in line for #1 right after "Kick the Dust Up." Broken Bow's cutthroat promotion strategy has caused all the other labels to go pretty tough on BBR artists when it comes to the airplay charts, so I can see Capitol pushing for Luke's new one to block Jason this time around. Luke will have way more momentum with an up-tempo lead single, while this Jason Aldean record is likely to climb through the top 20 more steadily and therefore this is more likely to have trouble getting to #1. We'll see how things look a few weeks from now, though. Maybe Luke will lose some of his momentum getting held behind Canaan Smith and LBT and will only be able to spend one to two weeks at the top.
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2015 23:37:50 GMT -5
Now, if only I could find a way to make the lame, cheesy lyrics of "Biscuits" or "Country" tolerable. How are the lyrics in either of these two songs lame and cheesy? "Biscuits" portrays the "mind your own business" theme with very unique lyrics, lyrics that I don't find cheesy at all. I can't think of any other country songs that have lines like in the Musgraves song. That, to me, suggests songwriting that is both strong and unique. And I think Mo Pitney's "Country" is a very heart-warming song. I especially like the line about following a dog down into the river and running into a 'baptizing' because of it. Little details like that are what's missing from most country songs today. Maybe some of the lyrics in Mo's "Country" are a little bit cheesy but at least it's not the 1300th song about having sex in the truckbed. Now that's lame and cheesy. But, to each their own, I guess. I also don't find anything cheesy about this Jason Aldean song. That's not to say it's some sort of profound masterpiece, but I think the lines that you mentioned (toward the end of the song) go really well with the melody and the overall cadence. I really like the chorus on this one as well, and for the first time in the Old Boots, New Dirt era, I don't change the station when one of the singles comes on. I turn this one up instead.
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Post by Kentucky25 on May 22, 2015 12:32:20 GMT -5
Video debuts tomorrow at 9 on CMT, from that image it looks like Aldean will be doing some acting in the video, instead of just playing while others act.
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Post by sabre14 on May 26, 2015 17:05:55 GMT -5
^ Surprised nobody bothered to imbed the video, lol: :)
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2015 17:07:12 GMT -5
^Sorry couldn't access it Youtube is banned for my schools wifi. Nice video though.
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Post by LBTrocks on May 27, 2015 2:07:47 GMT -5
I thought the video was really good. It fit the feel of the song very well. And honestly, I'm really surprised to see so much dislike for this song. I personally think it's excellent and of high quality, especially if you compare it to the plethora of bro-country songs out there. As usual though, it's all subjective. I guess I just wasn't expecting so many people to find this so bad. As for the album, I own the whole thing but need to listen to it again. I know I liked what I heard enough to buy it when I previewed the songs. Night Train is still probably my favorite album from Jason. There's a lot of great material on it. I'm also still very fond of his debut album.
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