News on your favorite shows, specials & more!

Bob Dylan Scores First-Ever Number 1 Song on a Billboard Chart

By: Apr. 10, 2020
Get Access To Every Broadway Story

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click.




Existing user? Just click login.




Bob Dylan Scores First-Ever Number 1 Song on a Billboard Chart  Image

For the first time in his storied career, Bob Dylan has a No. 1 song on a Billboard chart under his name.

"Murder Most Foul," the iconic singer-songwriter's nearly 17-minute chronicle of the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, debuts at No. 1 on the Rock Digital Song Sales survey dated April 11.

"Murder Most Foul" becomes Dylan's first entry on the sales-, streaming- and airplay-based Hot Rock Songs chart, bowing at No. 5. In addition to its sales, the song starts with 1.8 million U.S. streams.

An "unreleased song we recorded a while back," as Dylan wrote in a release announcing the tune, it's his first music released since his 2017 covers album Triplicate and his first original material since 2012's Tempest.

Listen to the song below!

Photo Credit: Christopher Polk/Getty Images for VH1



Comments

To post a comment, you must register and login.



Watch Next on Stage



Videos