Conservative fans did their best to push Jason Aldean’s controversial “Try That in a Small Town” to Number One on the charts, but they just missed, as Jung Kook and Latto’s “Seven” prevailed.
within a few days, drawing a predictably furious outcry from the right wing — and vows to drive the song up the charts.
Just last week alone, Aldean’s song earned about 228,000 digital song sales and 11.6 million streams. For reference, the song has 238,000 digital sales all-time, meaning that about 95 percent of the sales came last week, after the controversy started. Fifty-five percent of its nearly 21 million all-time streams came last week, as well.
Aldean faced stiff competition from BTS’s Jung Kook, whose solo track “Seven” featuring Latto ultimately topped the chart this week for its debut. The latter track had 138,000 digital song sales and nearly 24 million streams. Fellow country star Morgan Wallen’s “Last Night,” one of the year’s biggest tracks, came in at Number Three.
Regardless of where “Small Town” landed on the chart, the track has become yet another dog whistle for conservatives, who have bemoaned the critiques as examples of so-called cancel culture. Right-wing entrepreneur and longshot presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy
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