"Chart Watch: All About That Transatlantic #1". Archived from the original on September 3, 2014. "The Top 30 Digital Singles – August 27, 2014". ^ "The Top 30 Digital Singles - J| RoughStock"."Jason Aldean's 'Old Boots, New Dirt': Track-by-Track Review". ^ "Single Review: Jason Aldean, "Burnin' It Down" "."Jason Aldean & Sam Hunt Chart New Path With R&B-Influenced Country". ^ "Billboard Music Awards 2015: See the Full Winners List".The music video was directed by Wes Edwards and premiered in August 2014. In Canada, the song sold 15,000 downloads in its debut week. As of April 2015, the song has sold 1,589,000 copies in the US. It reached its millionth sales mark in October 2014. On September 29, 2014, the song was certified Platinum by the RIAA just nine weeks after release, becoming the fastest single of 2014 to do that. In its second week, the song moved from number 42 to 1 on the Hot Country Songs chart. Commercial performance ĭuring its first week in release, the song sold 184,000 downloads in the United States and debuted at number 42 on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart. Giving it a B grade, Tammy Ragusa of Country Weekly was more favorable, writing that "Jason proves he can also change things up, which he does dramatically through edgy, urban-and-pop-influenced arrangements and production" and that "the song's sexy lyrics push the boundaries of what might be construed as traditional themes in country music." In a review of Old Boots, New Dirt for Billboard, Chuck Dauphin praised "Burnin' It Down" as "the most musically adventurous track that Aldean has ever recorded". And there’s a line between a classy, passionate love song and a classless, passionless sex filled song." Ward also said that “Burnin’ it Down” crosses the line to the latter categories on all accounts." There’s a line between a sexy song and a sex filled song. Leeann Ward of Country Universe gave the song a D grade, writing that "There’s a line between a passionate love song and a passionless song. He also felt that it was a different song style for him due to it being more sexual in nature and featuring a drum loop. Īldean told Country Music Television (CMT) that he considered the song "baby making music". Florida Georgia Line, two of the song's co-writers, originally planned on recording it until Aldean expressed interest in the song. The song is a midtempo ballad about a sexual encounter with a lover, inspired by R&B music. The song won the "Top Country Song" category at the 2015 Billboard Music Awards, but polarized critics. It was released in July 2014 as the first single from Aldean's 2014 album Old Boots, New Dirt. No mistaking that it’s from a new record." Burnin' It Down" is a song written by Rodney Clawson, Chris Tompkins and Florida Georgia Line members Tyler Hubbard and Brian Kelley and recorded by American country music artist Jason Aldean. Known as one of country’s more rock-oriented artists, Aldean says he decided to “shake it up” with “Burnin’ It Down.” “Let’s put out something that when people hear it, there’s no mistaking what song it is, and who sings it. “We could have come out with one of the rock-oriented things we’ve always done: ‘Hicktown,’ ‘Johnny Cash,’ ‘She’s Country,’ ‘My Kinda Party,’ ‘Take a Little Ride.’ Those were the five singles that we’ve come out with It’s a big tempo thing.” “I think a lot of people were surprised and that was sort of the idea,” Aldean tells Rolling Stone Country of the track, which is currently Number One on Billboard‘s Hot Country Songs Chart. The stoic singer found it with the sultry jam “Burnin’ It Down,” which he performed last night on Jimmy Kimmel Live. When Jason Aldean was selecting the first single for his upcoming album, Old Boots, New Dirt, out October 7th, he wanted something that stood apart from the singles that launched his past albums.
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