It’s also the first time in 23 years that two country songs are in the Top 3 of the Billboard Hot 100 when combined with Morgan Wallen’s hit “Last Night” sitting at #1. That’s higher than Tracy Chapman’s original version ever got, which peaked at #6 in 1988. It sits at #3 on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100. “Fast Car” has since become Luke’s biggest crossover hit, and one of the biggest songs in all of music right now. The song accrued around 65 million Spotify streams in the first few weeks after the release. The song was also sent to Top 40/Hot AC radio in mid April as a single, but this was only after streams of the song exploded after the release of Gettin’ Old. The song is averaging 1.2 million streams a day on Spotify alone, and it only took 83 days to reach 100 million streams after being released on Luke’s album Gettin’ Old issued on March 24th. It was listeners who decided that “Fast Car” was something remarkable, and started streaming it in such demonstrative numbers that it shot up the charts. It had already reached #12 on country radio under it’s own volition. “Fast Car” was officially released to country radio during the last week in May after it started showing such incredible traction. But “Fast Car” wasn’t presented to them as an option in the poll. In an unprecedented move, Luke Combs allowed his fans to choose “Love You Anyway” as his next radio single as opposed to his label. Officially, Luke’s current radio single is “Love You Anyway” that sits at #11 at the moment.
Initially, “Fast Car” wasn’t even originally released to country radio as a single at all and was never intended to be one.
It will be at #1 on country radio shortly, and will likely remain there for many weeks. The numbers are nothing short of incredible.Īs a radio single, “Fast Car” is the fastest-rising single of Luke’s already top flight career, taking only 7 weeks to climb to #4 on MediaBase-the fastest-rising country single since Taylor Swift’s “Love Story” 15 years ago. Before anything else is discussed, you have to appreciate just what a monster track the Luke Combs version of Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car” has become.
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