Five Finger Death Punch’s cover of the Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band’s “Blue on Black,” is hot on the charts. The original song had a six-week No. 1 on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Songs airplay chart in 1998, and has since soared back onto the Hot Rock Songs tally, dated April 27th, at a new high of No. 2 after the arrival of its new rendition adding Shepherd, Brantley Gilbert and Queen’s Brian May.
According to Nielsen Music, the track surged by 125% to 3.7 million U.S. streams and 3,609% to 33,000 sold in the tracking week, according to Nielsen Music.
The song’s new version benefits the first responder-assisting Gary Sinise Foundation.
The track’s No. 2 re-entry gives Five Finger Death Punch its best rank on Hot Rock Songs, exceeding the No. 7 peak of another cover: the band’s take on Bad Company’s “Bad Company” in 2010.
Listen to the track here.
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