{"id":17846,"date":"2022-01-24T19:00:41","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T00:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/?p=17846"},"modified":"2022-01-24T10:26:32","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T15:26:32","slug":"sam-hunt-almost-didnt-release-one-of-his-biggest-hits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2022\/01\/sam-hunt-almost-didnt-release-one-of-his-biggest-hits\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Hunt Almost Didn&#8217;t Release One Of His Biggest Hits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Hunt revealed in a recent interview that he almost didn&#8217;t release &#8220;Body Like a Back Road&#8221; as a single.<\/p>\n<p>He has a group of trusted people who give him advice and &#8220;quite a few&#8221; gave it a thumbs down, but he released it anyway because he had to.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;That was at a time when I was going on a tour. [I] hadn&#8217;t worked on any new music, but we needed to put out something new if we were going to tour, and that was honestly one of the only songs I had written. I was like, &#8216;Well, I got this song, we could just put this out . . . it&#8217;s about the only option.&#8217; It was really more out of necessity instead of, &#8216;Oh, this is one. I want to put this song out.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The song spent 34 weeks at Number One on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, and that confused him even more.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It really messed my head up. Now I&#8217;m like, &#8216;Okay, I don&#8217;t know anything.'&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Fx-EfjsRcBk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sam Hunt revealed in a recent interview that he almost didn&#8217;t release &#8220;Body Like a Back Road&#8221; as a single.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":17380,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3337],"tags":[4368,3572],"class_list":["post-17846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-body-like-a-back-road","tag-sam-hunt"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-14 16:45:01","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/chok.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2022\/01\/sam-hunt-almost-didnt-release-one-of-his-biggest-hits\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}