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Still, there are few true clunkers here (the less said about the maudlin stripper song 'Black Tears' the better). First, 's Robert Silva surmised that 'But too often the songs are weighed down by arena-rock white noise and watery lyricism.

The album got four three-star reviews from, American Songwriter, Roughstock and Taste of Country publications. Night Train is a country-pop album, meaning it inherently carries an aura of corniness.' Granted, he’s not crossing over very far. The most glowing review for the album came from Donna Block with Got Country Online, who gave Night Train five-stars, and stated 'all the tracks blend seamlessly from one to another on his fifth album.' The next best rating for the album was a 4.5-star allocation, which was by Rob Burkhardt with Music Is My Oxygen Weekly, and said that ' Night Train is a well-crafted, elegantly produced record that takes risks, flirting with musical boundaries and occasionally tackling tough topics, but in a way that preserves the integrity both of the artist and the genre.' The album garnered two 4-star reviews the first from Pegasus News' Audrey Swanson, who affirmed that ' Night Train, with equal parts passion, fun, vulnerability, and wildness, proves that Aldean is now more than eligible to be dubbed the 'badass' of contemporary country music.' The second from Reporter Online' Krista Bellardo, who noted that the album is 'Armed with great balance, catchy lyrics and strong melodies, you are likely to keep these songs in your head for days.' Lastly, Andrew Eckhous of The Michigan Daily rated the album a 3.5-star effort, and wrote that ' Night Train successfully bridges the divide between pop-country and radio rock.With Night Train, Aldean is making a serious effort to be a crossover star. The mixed reviews for the release are from, AllMusic, American Songwriter, Roughstock, Taste of Country, Ultimate Guitar and The Washington Times. The positive or favorable review and ratings for the album came in from the Entertainment Weekly, Got Country Online, The Michigan Daily, Music Is My Oxygen Weekly, Newsday, Pegasus News, Reporter Online, ukCOUNTRYmusic.NET, USA Today. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 68, based on 6 reviews, which indicates 'generally favorable reviews'. Night Train has received generally positive reviews from most music critics.

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As of January 2015, the album has sold 1,750,000 copies in the US. It was the 10th best-selling album of 2012 in the US, having sold 1,024,000 copies for the year. Night Train was certified platinum, signifying one million copies shipped, in December 2012, Aldean's fifth straight album to do so.

It was also the fourth biggest opening sales for an album in 2012, after Swift's Red with 1,208,000 copies, Mumford and Sons' Babel with 600,000 copies sold, and One Direction's Take Me Home with 540,000 copies sold in the first week. The album was also the highest first sales week of a country album since 2010 behind Taylor Swift's Speak Now. The album debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200, and the Top Country Albums chart, selling 409,303 copies in its first week of release. 'Black Tears' had previously been recorded by Florida Georgia Line on their debut EP, Anything Like Me. 'Wheels Rollin'' was written specifically for Aldean.

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