Peak
47
Weeks
20
Score
1,182
Chart Year
2015
Scores & Rankings
Chart Performance
Peak Position47
Peak DateMay 30, 2015
Weeks at Peak1
Weeks Charted20
Weeks in Top 400
Weeks in Top 100
Weeks at #20
Weeks at #10
Scoring
Summary Calc54
Weekly Calc1,128
Total Score1,182
Rankings
Year Ranking#128
Decade Ranking#1,386
Billboard Year#144
Top 5000#11,781
Details
- Album
- Southernality
- Label
- Republic Nashville
- Genre
- Country
- Composer(s)
- Michael Hobby;Ross Copperman;Jon Nite
- Entered Chart
- Mar 14, 2015
- Peak Date
- May 30, 2015
- Released
- January 19, 2015
- Recorded
- 2015
- Catalog #
- Republic Nashville Digital
Music Video
The music video was directed by Peter Zavadil.[6] In the video, the band performs the song live about an erotic dancer they are watching on stage. Joseph Hudak of Rolling Stone compared the video to that of "Girls, Girls, Girls" by Mötley Crüe
Notes
A Thousand Horses was founded in 2010 in Nashville by longtime friends, vocalist Michael Hobby and lead guitarist Bill Satcher (both natives of Newberry, South Carolina), along with rhythm guitarist Zach Brown and bassist Graham DeLoach. This ballad is their debut release. The song finds Hobby comparing his desire for his lover to the addictiveness of tobacco. They recorded the track along with the rest of their debut album, Southernality, at Zac Brown's studio in Nashville during September 2014. This was one of the last songs written for the Southernality album. "I wrote it two days before we went in and cut," Hobby recalled to The Boot. "I got the demo that night, and I was really excited about it, so I sent it to all the guys. The next day they were like, 'We need to put this song on the record,' because it felt like a special song." "You never have any expectations of a song, how well it will do," he added. "But, we just all liked it. We wanted to play it; we wanted to cut it." This was the first debut single by a group to top the Billboard Country Airplay chart in the 2010s. (The last act to do so was Zac Brown Band with their debut single "Chicken Fried" in 2008).
She comes rolling right off the tip of my tongue so easy She'll be the first damn thing I want when I start drinking I'm breathing her in, breathing her out, once I pick her up I can't put her down She's smoke I pull her in nice and slow She's a habit and I can't let go Blowing rings around my heart The one she stole Watching her sway and go It's killing me and I know Can't stop her once you start She's smoke She'll go floating around like a downtown ballroom gypsy She goes great with ice cold beer or a shot of whiskey Put one in my hand, her on my lips Man, that's as good as it gets She's smoke I pull her in nice and slow She's a habit and I can't let go Blowing rings around my heart The one she stole Watching her sway and go It's killing me and I know Can't stop her once you start She's smoke When the night burns out And we all go home Smell of sweet perfume All over your clothes Like smoke, ooh, ooh Like smoke ooh, ooh She's smoke I pull her in nice and slow She's a habit and I can't let go Blowing rings around my heart The one she stole Watching her sway and go It's killing me and I know Can't stop her once you start She's smoke She's smoke When the night burns out And we all go home Smell of sweet perfume All over your clothes She's smoke, ooh, ooh She's smoke, ooh, ooh
Chart History (20 weeks)
| Week | Chart Date | Position | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mar 14, 2015 | 90 | 36 |
| 2 | Mar 21, 2015 | 83 | 43 |
| 3 | Mar 28, 2015 | 83 | 43 |
| 4 | Apr 4, 2015 | 77 | 49 |
| 5 | Apr 11, 2015 | 72 | 54 |
| 6 | Apr 18, 2015 | 75 | 51 |
| 7 | Apr 25, 2015 | 69 | 57 |
| 8 | May 2, 2015 | 66 | 60 |
| 9 | May 9, 2015 | 58 | 68 |
| 10 | May 16, 2015 | 55 | 71 |
| 11 | May 23, 2015 | 49 | 77 |
| 12 | May 30, 2015 | 47 | 79 |
| 13 | Jun 6, 2015 | 53 | 73 |
| 14 | Jun 13, 2015 | 48 | 78 |
| 15 | Jun 20, 2015 | 59 | 67 |
| 16 | Jun 27, 2015 | 63 | 63 |
| 17 | Jul 4, 2015 | 75 | 51 |
| 18 | Jul 11, 2015 | 84 | 42 |
| 19 | Jul 18, 2015 | 92 | 34 |
| 20 | Jul 25, 2015 | 94 | 32 |