Smoke (A Thousand Horses song)

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"Smoke"
File:SmokeThousandHorses.jpg
Single by A Thousand Horses
from the album Southernality
Released January 19, 2015 (2015-01-19)
Format Digital download
Genre Country
Length 3:41
Label Republic Nashville
Writer(s)
Producer(s) Dave Cobb
A Thousand Horses singles chronology
"Smoke"
(2015)		 "(This Ain't No) Drunk Dial"
(2015)

"Smoke" is a song by American country music group A Thousand Horses. It is their debut release and the first from their album Southernality.

Content

The song is a ballad in which the narrator compares his lover to the substance dependence of tobacco, referring to her as a "habit that I can't let go".[2]

Reception

Critical

Giving it a "B+", Jim Casey of Country Weekly praised the song's Southern rock and blues influences, adding that "The forlorn lyrics are despairing, but frontman Michael Hobby's gritty vocals…drive the song into an endorphin-releasing euphoria."[2]

Commercial

The song debuted at number 48 on the Country Airplay chart dated for the week ending January 24, 2015.[3] It debuted at number 48 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart dated for the week ending January 24, 2015. It debuted at number 9 on the Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart dated for the week ending February 14, 2015, and then entered the Billboard Hot 100 at No. 90 on chart dated March 14, 2015. "Smoke" reached Number One on the Country Airplay chart dated June 13, 2015, making A Thousand Horses the first country group to send a debut single to number one since the Zac Brown Band's "Chicken Fried" in December 2008.[4] As of July 2015, the song had sold 474,000 downloads in the US.[5]

The song debuted at number 42 on the Billboard Canada Country chart for the week of March 14, 2015. It also debuted at number 92 on the Canadian Hot 100 chart for the week of April 18, 2015.

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.[7]

Chart performance

Chart (2015) Peak
position
Canada (Canadian Hot 100)[8] 53
Canada Country (Billboard)[9] 1
US Billboard Hot 100[10] 47
US Country Airplay (Billboard)[11] 1
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[12] 5

Year-end charts

Chart (2015) Position
US Country Airplay (Billboard)[13] 23
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[14] 20
Preceded by Billboard Canada Country number-one single
June 6, 2015
June 20, 2015		 Succeeded by
"Don't It" by Billy Currington
"Sangria" by Blake Shelton
Preceded by
"Don't It"
by Billy Currington
 Billboard Country Airplay
number-one single
June 13, 2015		 Succeeded by
"Sippin' on Fire"
by Florida Georgia Line

Certifications

Region Certification Sales/shipments
United States (RIAA)[15] Gold 474,000[5]

*sales figures based on certification alone
^shipments figures based on certification alone
xunspecified figures based on certification alone

References

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  8. ↑ "A Thousand Horses – Chart history" Canadian Hot 100 for A Thousand Horses.
  9. ↑ "A Thousand Horses – Chart history" Billboard Canada Country for A Thousand Horses.
  10. ↑ "A Thousand Horses – Chart history" Billboard Hot 100 for A Thousand Horses. Retrieved March 26, 2015.
  11. ↑ "A Thousand Horses – Chart history" Billboard Country Airplay for A Thousand Horses.
  12. ↑ "A Thousand Horses – Chart history" Billboard Hot Country Songs for A Thousand Horses.
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