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SMASH's 'That's Life' Cracks iTunes Top 100

By: Apr. 22, 2013
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The once highly-touted musical drama series SMASH may have been unceremoniously moved to Saturday nights by its network in the wake of low ratings in its sophomore season, but some of the songs still linger in the memory on Monday mornings, it seems. Case in point: Megan Hilty and Katharine McPhee's cover of the tune Made famous by Frank Sinatra, "That's Life", has cracked the iTunes Top 100.

Hilty and McPhee knocked the jazzy barn-burner out of the park on Saturday's stupendous "Opening Night" episode, featuring the long-awaited Broadway opening of BOMBSHELL, the Marilyn Monroe-based musical-within-the-series.

NBC's oft-shuffled-about musical drama series has had sporadic success with iTunes singles in the past, but considering the series itself has suffered its lowest viewership to date with the last few Saturday episodes, it would seem unlikely that the singles would have much hope, yet there is "That's Life" on iTunes alongside Adele's "Skyfall" and Anna Kendricks's "Cups".

"That's life," indeed!

Of course, other SMASH tunes have Made the iTunes charts in the past - "Broadway, Here I Come!", "Heart Shaped Wreckage", "I Heard Your Voice In A Dream" and McPhee's "Some Boys" cover all have scored on the iTunes chart so far this season, while BOMBSHELL's "Don't Forget Me" and the pilot's "Beautiful" (originally by Christina Aguilera) cover both were big iTunes hits for McPhee in Season One.

Check out the iTunes charts here.

You can purchase "That's Life" from SMASH on iTunes here.

Listen to "That's Life" from SMASH performed by Hilty & McPhee below.


Photo Credit: EW







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