2012Released
3:52

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Interesting facts and trivia about Night Train. By Songfacts®.

This mid-tempo ballad is the title track of American Country music artist Jason Aldean 's fifth studio album. He explained the meaning of the song to The Boot: "A lot of times when I'm standing backstage, and I'm looking around, I see all this chaos going on backstage now," said Aldean. "It wasn't that long ago that it was me and my boys - 12 of us on a bus, pulling a trailer. Now you go back there and there's eight or nine buses, there's nine semis. We start filing out of the venue, and that's what it looks like, it looks like a train - a freight train - going down the interstate."

Aldean told Billboard magazine how the album title reflects where he is in his life and career. "To me, Night Train was a perfect example of just how far things have come the last few years," he said, "going from a bus pulling a trailer to now like a freight train with bus and tractor trailers. The title, more than the song, sums up where we're at right now."

The first week sales of 409,000 for Night Train was the best first-week showing for a country album since Taylor Swift's Speak Now debuted with approximately 1,047,000 units in October 2010.

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Song Analysis

Key, BPM (tempo) and time signature of Night Train.
FKey
MajorMode
4/4Time Signature
158BPM

Album

The album Night Train is released on.

Released By

The record label that has released Night Train.
Broken Bow Records
© 2012 This Is Hit, Inc. d/b/a Broken Bow Records
℗ 2012 This Is Hit, Inc. d/b/a Broken Bow Records

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