Don't You Wanna Stay (with Kelly Clarkson)

This Paul Jenkins, Jason Sellers and Andy Gibson penned song is a duet with pop singer Kelly Clarkson. Aldean explained to The Boot why he decided to hook up with the Season 1 American Idol champ: "Michael Knox, my producer, and I had been throwing the idea around for a couple years, but it was something that I didn't want to force. If it made sense and the right song came along, that would be cool. If you go out looking for that perfect song for a duet, you'll never find it. Jason Sellers pitched that song to us, and I loved it. The more I listened to it, the more I thought if there was ever a song that we could pull off as a duet, this was it. It just so happened that Kelly Clarkson was available, which doesn't happen all the time."

Aldean told The Boot that recording the song with Clarkson was the easy part of their collaboration: "When you think about a song and recording a duet, you have in mind how it will sound. Kelly came in and we started cutting vocals on her and the first note she sang I was like, 'Oh my, this is going to be good.' She's an amazing singer, and she was really cool to work with. I couldn't believe how easy it was to get her to do it. We just played her the song and she loved it. Dealing with the record label and getting through that red tape was the worst part of making it happen."

The song was Jason Aldean's fifth Country Songs chart-topper and the first for Kelly Clarkson, whose previously best had been a #2 placing for Reba McEntire's 2007 remake of "Because Of You" with the maiden American Idol champ.
The song's elevation to #1 meant Clarkson became the third Idol alumni to top the country chart following Carrie Underwood and Josh Gracin.
This was the first duet between pop and country artists to reach #1 on Country Songs since Bon Jovi and Sugarland's Jennifer Nettles reached the summit with "Who Says You Can't Go Home" in May 2006.