JASON DERULO won a CMT Music Award this year for “Want to Want Me” with LUKE BRYAN, and that clearly got him thinking.

 

Someone asked him yesterday about a rumor that he’s getting really into country, and maybe even doing a country ALBUM.

 

He wouldn’t confirm the album part, but he DID agree that he has “an obsession” with country, and says he’d working on a country “project.”

 

We know he’s working with Hank Williams Jr. and Florida Georgia Line on the new “Monday Night Football”theme, but this sounds like something else.

 

He just says it’s a “bigger project,” and it’s with another country act.  But he wouldn’t say who.

 

He DID say,  “I do love country music . . . I got the bug, man.”