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Jon Pardi has one of the top country songs this week with “Your Heart or Mine.”

He says he has specific criteria when it comes to picking songs.

“If it makes me happy, it’s gonna make the listener happy. That’s how I feel. I have to sing the happiness and that’s what really gravitates when you hear a Jon Pardi thing. Just me as an artist. I like being happy. I don’t want you to come to my concert and ball your eyes out. Even though that’s an awesome thing as an artist to do, that’s not like, what I signed up for.”

Jon will be inducted into the Grand Ole Opry on October 24th.