ALLENTOWN, Pa. — The top-selling digital country male artist of all time will return to Allentown's PPL Center, it was announced Thursday.
Jason Aldean, who performed a sold-out show at PPL Center in 2016 and drew Allentown Fair’s biggest crowd in the past 20 years, will perform at the arena at 7 p.m. Jan. 30, it was announced.
Tickets, the prices of which have not been announced, will go on sale at 10 a.m. Sept. 19 on the PPL Center website and at the box office at 701 Hamilton St., Allentown.PPL Center
Tickets, the prices of which have not been announced, will go on sale at 10 a.m. Sept. 19 on the PPL Center website and at the box office at 701 Hamilton St., Allentown.
Aldean is the reigning Academy of Country Music Artist of the Decade. The show will be part of a nine-date extension to his current Full Throttle Tour.
The PPL Center show will be the second-last of the tour's U.S. leg, which will end the next night in Atlantic City, New Jersey. It then will head to Australia.
The new dates come as Aldean today, Sept. 12, released a new single, "How Far Does a Goodbye Go" — the first new single off his upcoming new album.
Long string of success
Aldean from 2007-21 had eight straight albums hit No. 1 on the Country chart and sold a collective 12 million copies.
The Recording Industry Association of America says Aldean has sold more music digitally than any other male country artist. He has nearly 20 billion song streams.
In all, Aldean since his 2005 self-titled debut has released 12 albums, with all of them reaching Top 10 on the Country chart.
His most recent disc, 2023's "Highway Desperado," was his lowest-charting, peaking at No. 6.
All but his debut album and his most recent disc also have crossed over to the Top 10 on Billboard's overall Albums chart, with four hitting No. 1.
He also has produced more than 20 gold and platinum singles, 14 of which have hit No. 1.
His biggest seller was his 2010 album "My Kinda Party," which went quadruple-platinum. His 2009 disc "Wide Open" and his 2012 disc "Night Train" both sold double-platinum.
Forty Top 10 singles
Aldean has had 40 Top 10 Country singles — 25 of which have reached No. 1 and 30 of which sold gold or platinum.
His first No. 1 was 2005's "Why," with his biggest hits being 2018's six-times-platinum "You Make It Easy," 2011's four-times platinum "Dirt Road Anthem"; the triple-platinum "She's Country" from 2008 and "Big Green Tractor" from 2009; “Don’t You Wanna Stay” (with Kelly Clarkson), which sold double platinum in 2010; and the title track from “My Kinda Party.”
His most recent platinum hit was "If I Didn't Love You" (with Carrie Underwood) in 2021, and his most recent No. 1 hit was 2023's "Try That in a Small Town."
The latter song was the subject of widespread controversy following the release of its music video, with critics accusing it was a veiled endorsement of lynching. Aldean denied that.
But the controversy helped make the song Aldean's first No. 1 hit on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100.
His most recent single, last year's "Whiskey Drink," peaked at No. 2 on the country chart.
Setting records in the L.V.
Aldean in 2012 shattered Allentown Fair’s record for box office gate receipts, pulling in $858,391 by selling out 14,549 tickets. That also was the most people at a fair concert since it capped capacity after Boyz II Men drew 14,604 in 1995.
“My Kinda Party” won 2011’s Album of the Year from the Country Music Association and the Country Music Awards, and “Don’t Wanna Stay” won the Academy of Country Music’s Single of the Year and Vocal Event of the Year, and the American Country Awards’ Single of the Year.
Aldean, 48, also won the Academy of Country Music’s Top New Male Vocalist in 2005 and Male Vocalist of the Year in 2013 and 2018. He’s been nominated for five Grammy Awards.
He also opened a show with Miranda Lambert and Dierks Bentley at Allentown Fair in 2006.
