Make that two weeks in a row in the top spot on the country song charts for Luke Combs and his monster hit “Hurricane.” Last week the country newcomer took his debut song to the number-one spot, and now has held on for a second week! This is all in leading up to Luke’s debut album, This One’s For You, which arrives Friday June 2nd. Luke admits that where he is now is all due to the song “Hurricane”…and bad math skills, “So, I went and recorded a six song E.P. that’s now the first half of this album, and I had made some E.P.s before when I was living in North Carolina, so…my accounting skills are very elementary, so I added two and two together and thought ‘OK, this is what it’ll cost to do a six song E.P.’. I was sorely mistaken. I didn’t master my first two E.P.s, so it was about two hundred bucks a song, and I had just moved to Nashville, so at the time that was a lot for me to come up with, you know, paying my own rent and stuff like that. So, I went back and listened to the scratch vocals, and the tracking sessions that we did, and I called my producer Scott (Moffatt), and said ‘look, man, I can’t afford to master all these songs’ I said ‘I can do one song’. I listened to ‘Hurricane’ and it was like…so, that’s the only time I ever sang that song in the studio, was the take that’s on the radio. That was like a one pass vocal, and I picked it because I knew if I put it out at least it would sell a couple hundred copies, and then I could use the rest of that money to finance the rest of the E.P.. When I put it up, it sold fifteen thousand copies in the first week, so i used that money to master the rest of the E.P., which led to me getting a booking deal, and then my independent deal, and now being over here at Columbia. So, it was a kind of divine intervention thing…a whole lotta luck, and a little bit of hard work, I guess.” Congrats again to Luke Combs and his number-one song “Hurricane” from his upcoming album, This One’s For You, which comes out next Friday June 2nd.

  Luke Combs shares the story of how his multi-week number-one song “Hurricane” is the key to all his current success. (1:23)
“So, I went and recorded a six song E.P. that’s now the first half of this album, and I had made some E.P.s before when I was living in North Carolina, so…my accounting skills are very elementary, so I added two and two together and thought ‘OK, this is what it’ll cost to do a six song E.P.’. I was sorely mistaken. I didn’t master my first two E.P.s, so it was about two hundred bucks a song, and I had just moved to Nashville, so at the time that was a lot for me to come up with, you know, paying my own rent and stuff like that. So, I went back and listened to the scratch vocals, and the tracking sessions that we did, and I called my producer Scott (Moffatt), and said ‘look, man, I can’t afford to master all these songs’ I said ‘I can do one song’. I listened to ‘Hurricane’ and it was like…so, that’s the only time I ever sang that song in the studio, was the take that’s on the radio. That was like a one pass vocal, and I picked it because I knew if I put it out at least it would sell a couple hundred copies, and then I could use the rest of that money to finance the rest of the E.P.. When I put it up, it sold fifteen thousand copies in the first week, so i used that money to master the rest of the E.P., which led to me getting a booking deal, and then my independent deal, and now being over here at Columbia. So, it was a kind of divine intervention thing…a whole lotta luck, and a little bit of hard work, I guess.”