Album Development: Jason Aldean's "Old Boots, New Dirt", Nick Jonas Album Covers Drop

Jason Aldean's "Old Boots, New Dirt" Cover, and Track-List Revealed

After the release of "Burnin' It Down" as the first single from his forthcoming 6th studio album, Jason Aldean released "Sweet Little Somethin" on September 2nd as the album's first promotional single. Alongside the release of the track, Jason Aldean announced the name of his new album, the track-list as well as the album's cover.

The album is expected to be released on October 7th, 2014, and is likely to debut atop the Billboard 200 with sales similar to that of his 2012 album, Night Train (which debuted with 409,000 copies in its first week of availability). It has almost no competition during its first week of release, though it could face some holdover competition from Blake Shelton's Bringing Back the Sunshine and Lady Antebellum's 747 (which both drop a week before). Additionally, Florida Georgia Line's Anything Goes drops the next week.

See the track-list below, and click here to pre-order.

Standard Edition

1. "Just Getting' Started"

2. "Show You Off"

3. "Burnin' It Down"

4. "Tryin' to Love Me"

5. "Sweet Little Somethin"

6. "Laid Back"

7. "Tonight Looks Good On You"

8. "Too Fast"

9. "If My Truck Could Talk"

10. "Old Boots, New Dirt"

11. "I Took It With Me"

12. "Don't Change Gone"

13. "Miss That Girl"

14. "Gonna Know We Were Here"

15. "Two Night Town"

Deluxe Edition

16. "Fast Lanes" - Target Exclusive

17. "Too Much You For Me" - Target Exclusive

18. "Ain't No Easy Way" - Target Exclusive

Nick Jonas Reveals Album Cover For Self Titled Set

Nick Jonas is finally back with a brand new set of singles, and of course a brand new album. Due for a November 2014 release, the new album will include lead single "Chains" (which dropped in late July) and the forthcoming second single, "Jealous" (due out September 8th). There will be a standard edition as well as a deluxe edition, with a Target Exclusive edition also being rumored. 

Other than the singles, the album will contain the Mike Posner penned "Numb", "Push", "Nothing Will Be Better" and the Demi Lovato featuring "Avalanche". Angel Haze is also expected to be one of the many other collaborators. More news as it comes.

Social Songs 100 Forecast: The Script Leads

 

It's that time of week again! The mid week numbers are finally through, and there's some interesting chemistry going on. Here's my mid week analysis of tracks duking it out on the Social Songs 100. It's going to be one wild week, so remember to keep it here for more news, and don't forget to vote for your favorites of the week by clicking here! See the biggest climbers and highest entries through the mid week point just below.


First led by The Madden Brothers' "We Are Done", this week's Social Songs 100 opened with a faulting start. Last week's top 5 all plummeted downward, most of them landing below #20. Then, things started to get a bit more interesting. Though it had barely missed the top 10 on the Social Songs 100 in the previous frame, Usher's "She Came to Give It To You" quickly dethroned "We Are Done" to reign on the Social Songs 100. Approximately 20 hours later, The Script's "Superheroes" moved 2-1 thanks to a large drive in votes from the Twitter community. On Wednesday things were about even, with Mandy Rain's "Riot" (which ranked at #3 last week) and Sia's "Chandelier" (which held #3 last week) posting the biggest drop offs and R3HAB's collaboration with Nervo and Ayah Marar ("Ready For the Weekend") soaring to #11 just hours after being added. It wasn't until approximately 3 P.M. PST on Thursday afternoon that things got a major turn around.

The Script's "Superheroes" (which was about to drop to #2) posted a huge increase in overall points, bolstered by a massive Twitter frenzy that erupted at around 11 P.M. in Britain (where a majority of the votes came from). The frenzy spurred over 30 retweets and over 40 favorites. That translated into a positive score of 100 (105 up votes and 5 negative votes), the highest for a song to date in the 13 week history of the Social Songs 100. At this point, any given song would need 101 positive votes (and no negatives) to dethrone The Script's song. That is nearly impossible. The current runner up (Maroon 5's "Maps") has a positive score of 0 (19 up votes and 19 down votes), with only 4 songs having scores of 0 or higher this week.

Nick Jonas' "Chains" (which was a mid week debut) is off to an incredibly slow start, currently ranking at #50. It opened at #13 and dropped out of the top 10 as soon as its third vote was cast.

It's also worth noting that lots of European acts tallied large position strides following the outburst of "Superheroes" (a song by a European band). At press time, 7 songs are sung (or partly sung) by a European artist.

Here's the current top 10 and percent index (Red denotes a drop and green denotes increase).

1. "Superheroes" by The Script 1.000
2. "Maps" by Maroon 5 0.000
3. "Boom Clap" by Charli XCX 0.000
4. "I'm Not the Only One" by Sam Smith 0.000
5. "Sing" by Ed Sheeran -0.010
6. "Chandelier" by Sia 0.010 (Positive, so should be #2 but only 7 votes have been cast)
7. "Flashlight" by DJ Fresh and Ellie Goulding -0.010
8. "No Mediocre (feat. Iggy Azalea)" by T.I. -0.010
9. "Strange Enough" by VÉRITÉ -0.010
10. "Black Widow (feat. Rita Ora)" by Iggy Azalea -0.030

Songs Debuting On the Social Songs 100 Next Week
- "Anaconda" by Nicki Minaj
- "Fireball (feat. John Ryan)" by Pitbull
- "Chasing the Sun" by Hillary Duff
- "Bang Bang (feat. Nicki Minaj and Ariana Grande)" by Jessie J
- "Wait On Me" by Rixton
- "Ordinary Human" by OneRepublic
- "It Was Always You" by Maroon 5
and select others!

Come back on Friday for the highlights, on Sunday night for the full chart and early Monday morning to vote in week 14. More posts released randomly throughout.

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