You know the Jake Owen song, "The One That Got Away?"  Well, some other stars can say that about songs they passed on which became hits for somebody else, including Jake! In a recent interview, Jason Aldean was asked if he ever passed on a song that became a hit for someone else.  "Yep, yes I have. Actually when we were looking for songs for this "Night Train" album, my producer and I were flying out to Las Vegas and he was playing me some songs that he had found. I was really in the mindset of trying to find like up tempos and these big, rockin' sort of songs. So he's playing me these songs and I heard this one song that I dug but it wasn't really what I was looking for at the time and just kind of tossed it aside like, 'eh, it's okay,' but it's a song that goes ... Girl, you make my speakers go boom boom, dancin' on ... You know? So I passed on it, my brother got it and had a big ol' hit off of it. So ... but yeah, that happens quite a bit. "   The "brother" he is referring to, is, of course, Luke Bryan, who sang the smash hit.

At the SiriusXM Town Hall event, Jason noted he's not the only one who turned up his nose at a tune.  “But again, it happened with a song that we had. ‘Big Green Tractor’ was pitched to Jake Owen, he passed on it, we got it and four-week number one with it.  I think certain songs like that fall into the right hands for a reason. That song was a big song for Luke and may not have even ever been a single for us so it landed where it was supposed to.” Read all about it here.