No word yet when the new record will be ready for release. The song is expected to be part of The Rolling Stones' next studio album, which will be the band's first collection of new original tunes since 2005's A Bigger Bang. In addition, "Living in a Ghost Town" vaulted from #44 to #34 on Billboard's Rock Airplay chart, while debuting at #21 on the Adult Alternative Songs tally. streams and 1.6 million audience impressions. The song also catapulted from #30 to #3 on the Hot Rock Songs chart, which is based on streaming, sales and airplay, after notching 1.8 million U.S. The Stones' first-ever appearance at the top of that list comes after the tune sold 16,000 downloads during the latest tracking period, April 24-30, Nielsen Music/MRC Data reports. "Living in a Ghost Town" has reached #1 on the Rock Digital Song Sales chart after bowing at #3 the previous week.
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Polydor RecordsLast week, The Rolling Stones' new single, the reggae-flavored, COVID-19-themed " Living in a Ghost Town," debuted on multiple Billboard charts, and now the track has moved further up those respective tallies after its first full week of release. “The next day, it felt like it wrote itself, really.”Ĭopyright © 2020, ABC Audio. “They actually sent me an idea that they had, and the title was 'Six Feet Apart.' We were kind of on the same wavelength, without even talking to each other ,” Luke continues. In fact, they’d already come up with the preliminary idea for a song about being stuck indoors, quarantined and unsure of what their future might bring. “I think I just asked them out of the blue, ‘Hey, do we write a song about this thing? Or is that too cheesy?’” he recalls.įortunately, Brent and Rob were both wondering the same thing. In the days leading up to the writing session, as Luke considered different songwriting topics, he realized there was a major elephant in the room.
The singer wrote the song during an April 14 co-writing session with Brent Cobb and Rob Snyder, which was conducted over video chat. However, Luke wasn’t sure the song would go over as well as it did: In fact, as he reveals to the Tennesseean, he thought it might be a little bit too on-the-nose to release a song about the COVID-19 pandemic. So much so, in fact, that the singer speedily released a studio version of the song just a couple weeks after he first shared it. ABC/Mark Levine Luke Combs’ just-released, pandemic-inspired “ Six Feet Apart” has struck a major chord with fans since he first debuted it during a livestream show.