Five Finger Death Punch’s ‘Blue on Black’ Cover is back on the Charts

April 29, 2019

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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