{"id":68002,"date":"2019-08-29T10:30:06","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T14:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/?p=68002"},"modified":"2019-08-29T04:31:47","modified_gmt":"2019-08-29T08:31:47","slug":"jason-aldean-almost-left-the-music-biz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2019\/08\/jason-aldean-almost-left-the-music-biz\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Aldean Almost Left The Music Biz"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WEUUvntknTI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Jason Aldean claims the top spot on both the Mediabase\/Country Aircheck and Billboard Country Airplay charts this week with &#8220;Rearview Town,&#8221; the title track of his latest album.<\/p>\n<p>This brings Jason&#8217;s career total of Number One hits to 23.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B1o-ZVRgHNr\/embed\/captioned\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display:inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height:0;\"  class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe>\n<p>Despite his incredible success over the last decade-plus, Jason feels like it was practically yesterday that he was struggling to make it as an artist in Nashville.<\/p>\n<p>At one point, he thought about giving it all up and taking a regular job so he could provide for his family at the time.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;There was a point where I was gonna move back to Georgia and go to work with my cousin and just try and reassess some things and figure it out, and I think for me what sort of still motivates me is that. I mean, like I&#8217;ve been poor. It&#8217;s not fun. (laughs) Like, it&#8217;s not fun at all, and it wasn&#8217;t that long ago in the grand scheme of things, so . . . &#8220;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Jason continues on his headlining Ride All Night Tour, which will wrap up in Texas on Oct. 11th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jason Aldean claims the top spot on both the Mediabase\/Country Aircheck and Billboard Country Airplay charts this week with &#8220;Rearview Town,&#8221; the title track of his latest album.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":68014,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"No","footnotes":""},"categories":[464],"tags":[688,689],"class_list":["post-68002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-jason-aldean","tag-rearview-town"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-24 01:52:10","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/cknx.ca\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2019\/08\/jason-aldean-almost-left-the-music-biz\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}