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• REAL NAME: Jason Aldine Williams
• BIRTHDAY: February 28, 1977
• BIGGEST POP SINGLE: "Dirt Road Anthem" (2011)
• BIGGEST LP: My Kinda Party (2010)
• GRAMMY AWARDS: 0
  
  
  
  
  

• Jason Aldean was born Jason Aldine Williams on February 28, 1977, in Georgia. By his teen years, Aldean was heavily focused on music - performing at talent shows and fairs. With help and encouragement from his family, Aldean also began writing his own material. Aldean changed his name to something he felt was more unique than 'Jason Williams.' Aldean signed with Broken Bow Records in Nashville and released his first single "Hicktown" in 2005.

• July 26: Aldean released his debut LP Jason Aldean. The set included the singles "Hicktown," "Why," and "Amarillo Sky" and hit the Top 10 on the Billboard Country Album chart.

• May 27: Aldean topped the Billboard Country Songs chart for 1 week with "Why."

• March 6: Jason Aldean was certified platinum.

• May 29: Aldean released Relentless. The LP contained the singles "Johnny Cash," "Laughed Until We Cried," and "Relentless."

• June 16: Aldean topped the Billboard Country Albums chart for 1 week with Relentless.

• October 1: Relentless was certified gold.

# 100 Singles Artist of the Year

• April 7: Aldean released Wide Open. The set included the hits "She's Country," "Big Green Tractor," "The Truth," and "Crazy Town" and hit the Top 10 on the Billboard Country Albums chart.
• April 25: The DVD Wide Open Live & More was released.

• May 16: Aldean topped the Billboard Country Songs chart for 1 week with "She's Country."

• June 24: Wide Open was certified gold.

• September 5: Aldean topped the Billboard Country Songs chart for 4 weeks with "Big Green Tractor."
• September 12: Aldean hit the ARC Weekly Top 40 with "Big Green Tractor."

• October 26: Aldean released the live digital EP Live Sessions (available for download at iTunes).

• November 18: Aldean was nominated for an American Music Award for Favorite Country Male Artist.
• November 30: Wide Open was certified platinum.

• November 2: Aldean released My Kinda Party. The LP included the hits "My Kinda Party," "Don't You Wanna Stay," "Dirt Road Anthem," "Tattoos On This Town," and "Fly Over States."
• November 21: Aldean was nominated for 2 American Music Awards including Favorite Country Male Artist and Favorite Country Album (Wide Open).

• December 7: My Kinda Party was certified gold.
• December 18: Aldean topped the Billboard Internet Albums chart for 3 weeks with My Kinda Party.

# 67 Singles Artist of the Year

• January 14: My Kinda Party was certified platinum.

• February 19: Aldean topped the Billboard Country Albums chart for 12 weeks with My Kinda Party.
• February 19: Aldean topped the Billboard Country Digital Songs chart with Kelly Clarkson for 3 weeks with "Don't You Wanna Stay."

• March 12: Aldean topped the Billboard Country Songs chart with Kelly Clarkson for 3 weeks with "Don't You Wanna Stay."

• June 18: Aldean topped the Billboard Country Digital Songs chart for 10 weeks with "Dirt Road Anthem."

• July 2: Aldean hit the ARC Weekly Top 40 with "Dirt Road Anthem."
• July 30: Aldean topped the Billboard Country Songs chart for 1 week with "Dirt Road Anthem."

• September 7: My Kinda Party was certified 2x platinum.

• November 20: Aldean was nominated for 2 American Music Awards for Favorite Country Male Artist and Favorite Country Album (My Kinda Party).

• February 12: Aldean was nominated for 3 Grammy Awards including Best Country Solo Performance ("Dirt Road Anthem"), Best Country Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group ("Don't You Wanna Stay" with Kelly Clarkson), and Best Country Album (My Kinda Party).

• March 5: Aldean could be heard on the Lionel Richie LP Tuskegee on the re-recorded duet of "Say You, Say Me."

• May 26: Aldean topped the Billboard Country Songs chart for 1 week with "Fly Over States."

• August 4: Aldean hit the ARC Weekly Top 40 with "Take A Little Ride."
• August 4: Aldean topped the Billboard Country Digital Songs chart for 2 weeks with "Take A Little Ride."

• September 26: Relentless was certified platinum.

• October 6: Aldean topped the Billboard Country Songs chart for 2 week with "Take A Little Ride."
• October 16: Aldean released Night Train. The LP included the hits "Take A Little Ride" and "The Only Way I Know."
• October 20: Aldean topped the Billboard Country Airplay chart for 1 week with "Take A Little Ride."

• November 3: Aldean topped the Billboard 200 LP chart for 1 week, Country Albums chart for 1 week, and Digital Albums chart for 1 week with Night Train.
• November 18: Aldean was nominated for an American Music Award for Favorite Country Male Artist.

• December 4: Night Train was certified platinum.
• December 31: Aldean topped the Billboard 2012 Year-End Chart-Toppers chart as the Top Country Artist - Male.

• July 29: My Kinda Party was certified 3x platinum.

• January 26: Aldean was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Country Album (Night Train).

• August 9: Aldean hit the ARC Weekly Top 40 with "Burnin' It Down."
  ARC chart run: 39 - 38 - off
  Year-End Chart Position: # 134
  RIAA Certification: 2x Platinum
  available for download at iTunes and Amazon.mp3
• August 9: Aldean topped the Billboard Digital Songs chart and Country Songs chart with "Burnin' It Down."

• October 7: Aldean released Old Boots New Dirt.
• October 17: Night Train was certified 2x platinum.
• October 25: Aldean topped the Billboard 200 LP chart, Digital Albums chart, and Country Albums chart with Old Boots New Dirt. The LP sold ovver 280,000 copies its first week of release in the US.

• November 1: Aldean topped the Billboard Country Airplay chart with "Burnin' It Down."
• November 21: Old Boots New Dirt was certified gold.
• November 23: Aldean was nominated for an American Music Award for Favorite Country Male Artist.

• December 8: Old Boots New Dirt was certified platinum.

• March 21: Aldean topped the Billboard Country Airplay chart with "Just Gettin' Started."
• March 31: Aldean could be heard on the Ludacris LP Ludaversal on the track "Burning Bridges."

• August 1: Aldean topped the Billboard Country Airplay chart with "Tonight Looks Good On You."

• November 22: Aldean was nominated for 2 American Music Awards for Favorite Country Male Artist and Favorite Country Album (Old Boots New Dirt).

• July 23: Aldean topped the Billboard Country Airplay chart with "Lights Come On."

• September 9: Aldean released They Don't Know.

• October 1: Aldean topped the Billboard 200 LP chart, Digital Albums chart, Album Sales chart, and Country Albums chart with They Don't Know.

• December 3: Aldean topped the Billboard Country Airplay chart with "A Little More Summertime."
• December 31: Aldean topped the Billboard 2016 Year-End Chart Toppers chart as the Top Country Airplay Artist.

• January 31: My Kinda Party was certified 4x platinum and Wide Open was certified 2x platinum.

• April 29: Aldean topped the Billboard Country Airplay chart with "Any Ol' Barstool."

• October 1: Aldean was performing in Las Vegas at the outdoor 'Route 91 Harvest Country Music Festival' when a gunman fired on the crowd killing over 50 people from the Mandalay Bay hotel.

• November 19: Aldean was nominated for an American Music Award for Favorite Country Album (They Don't Know).

# 87 Singles Artist of the Year

• April 13: Aldean released Rearview Town.
• April 13: Aldean topped the Billboard 200 LP chart, Albums Sales chart, and Country Albums chart with Rearview Town.

• May 5: Aldean topped the Billboard Country Airplay chart with "You Make It Easy."

• August 8: Rearview Town was certified gold.
• August 25: Aldean topped the Billboard Country Airplay chart with help from Miranda Lambert with "Drowns The Whiskey."

• February 2: Aldean topped the Billboard Country Airplay chart with "Girl Like You."
• February 22: Aldean could be heard on the Florida Georgia Line LP Can't Say I Ain't Country on the track "Can't Hide Red."

• August 31: Aldean topped the Billboard Country Airplay chart with "Rearview Town."

• November 22: Aldean released 9.

• December 7: Aldean topped the Billboard Albums Sales chart and Country Albums chart with 9.

• October 24: Aldean topped the Billboard Country Airplay chart with "Got What I Got."

• December 9: Rearview Town was certified platinum.

• July 24: Aldean topped the Billboard Country Airplay chart with "Blame It On You"

• October 30: Aldean topped the Billboard Country Airplay chart with Carrie Underwood with "If I Didn't Love You."

• November 12: Aldean released Macon.
• November 21: Aldean was nominated for a American Music Award for Favorite Country Male Artist.

• April 3: Aldean was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Country Duo/Group Performance ("If I Didn't Love You" with Carrie Underwood).
• April 22: Aldean released Georgia.

• March 28: Aldean topped the Billboard Country Airplay chart with "Trouble With A Heartbreak."

• September 1: 9 was certified gold.

• July 29: Aldean topped the Billboard Digital Songs chart and Country Songs chart with "Try That In A Small Town."

• August 5: Aldean topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart with "Try That In A Small Town."

• September 2: Aldean hit the ARC Weekly Top 40 with "Try That In A Small Town."
  from the LP Highway Desperado
  ARC chart run: 39 - 37 - 37 - 37 - 40 - off
  Year-End Chart Position: # 124

• November 3: Aldean released Highway Desperado.

• December 31: Aldean topped the Billboard 2023 Year-End Chart Toppers with the Top Country Digital Song Sales ("Try That In A Small Town").

iTunes Amazon.mp3	Jason Aldean Released: July 26, 2005 US: Platinum Billboard Top 200 LPs peak: # 37 Tracks: "Hicktown" - "Amarillo Sky" - "Why" - "Even If I Wanted To" - "Lonesome USA" - "Asphalt Cowboy" - "I'm Just A Man" - "You're The Love I Wanna Be In" - "Good To Go" - "I Believe In Ghosts" - "She Loved Me"
iTunes Amazon.mp3	Relentless Released: May 29, 2007 US: Platinum Billboard Top 200 LPs peak: # 4 Billboard # 1: Country Albums Entertainment Weekly: C Tracks: "Johnny Cash" - "Laughed Until We Cried" - "Do You Wish It Was Me" - "I Use What I Got" - "Who's Kissing You Tonight" - "Relentless" - "My Memory Ain't What It Used To Be" - "No" - "Back In This Cigarette" - "Grown Woman" (with Miranda Lambert) - "I Break Everything I Touch" - "Not Every Man Lives"
iTunes Amazon.mp3	Wide Open Released: April 7. 2009 US: 2x Platinum Billboard Top 200 LPs peak: # 4 Tracks: "Wide Open" - "This I Gotta See" - "Fast" - "Crazy Town" - "Don't Give Up On Me" - "She's Country" - "On My Highway" - "Keep The Girl" - "Big Green Tractor" - "The Truth" - "Love Was Easy" - "The Best Of Me"
iTunes	Live Sessions (digital EP) Released: October 26, 2009 Live Tracks: "Hicktown" - "Amarillo Sky" - "Johnny Cash" - "Why" - "She's Country" - "Big Green Tractor" - "Asphalt Cowboy" - "Crazy Town"
	My Kinda Party Released: November 2, 2010 US: 4x Platinum Billboard Top 200 LPs peak: # 2 Billboard # 1: Country Albums, Internet Albums Grammy Nominee: Best Country Album Tracks: "Tattoos On This Town" - "Dirt Road Anthem" - "Church Pew Or Bar Stool" - "My Kinda Party" - "Just Passing Through" - "Fly Over States" - "Don't You Wanna Stay" (with Kelly Clarkson) - "See You When I See You" - "It Ain't Easy" - "Texas Was You" - "Country Boy's World" - "I Ain't Ready To Quit" - "Heartache That Don't Stop Hurting" - "Days Like These" - "If She Could See Me Now"
iTunes Amazon.mp3	Night Train Released: October 16, 2012 US: 2x Platinum Billboard Top 200 LPs peak: # 1 (for 1 week) Billboard # 1: Country Albums, Digital Albums Grammy Nominee: Best Country Album Entertainment Weekly: A- Tracks: "This Nothin' Town" - "When She Says Baby" - "Feel That Again" - "Wheels Rollin'" - "Talk" - "The Only Way I Know" (with Luke Bryan & Eric Church) - "Take A Little Ride" - "I Don't Do Lonely Well" - "Night Train" - "1994" - "Staring At The Sun" - "Drink One For Me" - "Black Tears" - "Walking Away" - "Water Tower"
iTunes Amazon.mp3	Old Boots New Dirt Released: October 7, 2014 US: Platinum Billboard Top 200 LPs peak: # 1 Billboard # 1: Country Albums, Digital Albums Tracks: "Just Gettin' Started" - "Show You Off" - "Burnin' It Down" - "Tryin' To Love Me" - "Sweet Little Somethin'" - "Laid Back" - "Tonight Looks Good On You" - "Too Fast" - "If My Truck Could Talk" - "Old Boots, New Dirt" - "I Took It With Me" - "Don't Change Gone" - "Miss That Girl" - "Gonna Know We Were Here" - "Two Night Town"
iTunes Amazon.mp3	They Don't Know Released: September 9, 2016 Billboard Top 200 LPs peak: # 1 Billboard # 1: Country Albums, Digital Albums, Album Sales Tracks: "Lights Come On" - "A Little More Summertime" - "This Place Dont' Go There" - "Comin' In Hot" - "First Time Again" (with Kelsea Ballerini) - "Bad" - "They Don't Know" - "Only We Won't Forget" - "Whiskey'd Up" - "In Case You Don't Remember" - "All Out Of Beer" - "Any Ol' Barstool" - "The Way A Night Should Feel" - "Reason To Love L.A." - "When The Lights Go Out"
iTunes Amazon.mp3 vinyl	Rearview Town Released: April 13, 2018 US: Platinum Billboard Top 200 LPs peak: # 1 Billboard # 1: Country Albums, Album Sales Tracks: "Dirt To Dust" - "Set It Off" - "Girl Like You" - "You Make It Easy" - "Gettin' Warmed Up" - "Blacktop Gone" - "Drowns The Whiskey" (featuring Miranda Lambert) - "Rearview Town" - "Love Me Or Don't" - "Like You Were Mine" - "Better At Being Who I Am" - "I'll Wait For You" - "Ride All Night" - "Up In Smoke" - "High Noon Neon"
iTunes Amazon.mp3	9 Released: November 22, 2019 US: Gold Billboard Top 200 LPs peak: # 2 Billboard # 1: Country Albums, Album Sales Tracks: "Tattoos And Tequila" - "Blame It On You" - "Champagne Town" - "Some Things You Don't Forget" - "Got What I Got" - "Keeping It Small Town" - "Camouflage Hat" - "Came Here To Drink" - "We Back" - "Dirt We Were Raised On" - "I Don't Drink Anymore" - "Cowboy Killer" - "One For The Road" - "Talk About Georgia" - "The Same Way" - "She Likes It"
iTunes Amazon.mp3	Macon Released: November 12, 2021 Billboard Top 200 LPs peak: # 8 Tracks: "After You" - "Over You Again" - "That's What Tequila Does" - "Small Town Small" - "If I Didn't Love You" (with Carrie Underwood) - "Story For Another Glass" - "Heaven" - "This Bar Don't Work Anymore" - "The Sad Songs" - "Watching You Love Me" - "Amarillo Sky" (live) - "Johnny Cash" (live) - "She's Country" (live) - "Big Green Tractor" (live) - "My Kinda Party" (live)
iTunes Amazon.mp3	Georgia Released: April 22, 2022 Billboard Top 200 LPs peak: # 8 Tracks: "Whiskey Me Away" - "Trouble With A Heartbreak" - "The State I'm In" - "Midnight And Missin' You" - "Ain't Enough Cowboy" - "God Made Airplanes" - "My Weakness" - "Holy Water" - "Rock And Roll Cowboy" - "Your Mama" - "Take A Little Ride" (live) - "Burnin' It Down" (live) - "Any Ol' Barstool" (live) - "Rearview Town" (live) - "Blame It On You" (live)
	Highway Desperado Released: November 3, 2023 Tracks: "Tough Crowd" - "Let Your Boys Be Country" - "Knew You'd Come Around" - "Hungover In A Hotel" - "Try That In A Small Town' - "Whose Rearview" - "I'm Over You" - "Rather Watch You" - "Breakup Breakdown" - "Get Away From You" - "Changing Bars" - "From This Beer On" - "Highway Desperado"