His second song in the billions club.
Despite being the third-highest-selling country artist of all time, having a plethora of certified diamond hits such as “Beautiful Crazy,” “Hurricane” and “When It Rains It Pours” and for all intents and purposes being the biggest straight-down-the-middle country artist of the past decade, ironically, Luke Combs‘ biggest hit of his career thus far has been none other than his cover of Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car,” which found its home on his 2023 album, Gettin’ Old.
As we know by now, the cover was a bit of a cultural phenomenon upon its release in the spring of 2023, doubling up at #1 on both Billboard’s Hot Country and Country Airplay charts. Additionally, it would also reach #1 on their US Adult Pop Airplay chart and, more incredibly, #2 on the all-genre Hot 100 — Combs’ highest-charting song to date.After all the success on both streaming and radio, it led to two CMA Awards for Single and Song of the Year in 2023, a Single of the Year win at the 2024 CMA Awards and a nomination for Best Solo Country Performance at the 66th Grammys, where he’d make his iconic performance alongside Chapman during the show.
In the years following, it’s remained one of Combs’ most successful songs to date, getting certified 8x platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) last October, with 8 million units sold.
Yesterday, the North Carolina native scored another major accomplishment with the cover, as it became his third song to cross over one billion streams on Spotify. In turn, it is now the 18th country song in history to join Spotify’s billions club, joining the likes of his hits, “When It Rains It Pours” and “Beautiful Crazy,” Morgan Wallen’s “Last Night” and “Whiskey Glasses,” Chris Stapleton’s cover of “Tennessee Whiskey,” Zach Bryan’s “Something in the Orange” and more.
Unsurprisingly, Combs is now the second country artist in history to score three one-billion-stream songs, second only behind Wallen, who recently scored his fourth with “Wasted On You” back in June. Additionally, he joins the likes of Wallen, Bryan and Taylor Swift as the only country artists to own two or more tracks in the billions club.
Diving into the numbers, “Fast Car” is his second-highest-streamed song from a daily stream perspective, only behind “When It Rains It Pours”. Since its release in March of 2023, it’s averaged a staggering 581,115 streams daily.
As for Combs’ next billion-stream track, “Hurricane,” which appears on his debut album, This One’s For You, will more than likely reach it in the coming months, currently sitting at 954 million streams as of today.
A full list of country songs with a billion streams on Spotify is as follows:
- “Something in the Orange” – Zach Bryan
- “Last Night” – Morgan Wallen
- “Tennessee Whiskey” – Chris Stapleton
- “Beautiful Crazy” – Luke Combs
- “When It Rains It Pours” – Luke Combs
- “I Remember Everything” – Zach Bryan feat. Kacey Musgraves
- “Love Story” – Taylor Swift
- “I Had Some Help” – Post Malone feat. Morgan Wallen
- “Whiskey Glasses” – Morgan Wallen
- “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” – Shaboozey
- “Meant To Be” – Bebe Rexha & Florida Georgia Line
- “10,000 Hours” – Dan + Shay & Justin Bieber
- “You Belong With Me (Taylor’s Version)” – Taylor Swift
- “Body Like a Backroad” – Sam Hunt
- “Wagon Wheel” – Darius Rucker
- “Wasted On You” — Morgan Wallen
- “Life is a Highway” — Rascal Flatts
- “Fast Car” — Luke Combs
“Fast Car”
