New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Sam Hunt releases his brand new single, "Downtown's Dead", today. Dropping hints on his socials all day Tuesday, Hunt's new song, co-written by Hunt with Zach Crowell, Josh Osborne, Shane McAnally and Charlie Handsome, is now available and is making its world premiere today with iHeart country radio.
"Downtown's Dead" is the first new single from the critically-acclaimed, GRAMMY-nominated superstar since last year's record-breaking, 5x Platinum-selling smash, "
Body Like A Back Road". At 34 weeks, Hunt's "Body Like a Back Road" set the record for the most weeks at No. 1 in the six-decade history of Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart and earned Hunt the 2017 Academy of Country
Music Award for Single Record of the Year. Hunt will also receive the ACM Gene Weed
Milestone Award at the ACM Honors ceremony this summer in recognition of this unprecedented achievement.
Additionally, "
Body Like A Back Road" was the No. 1 most-streamed and the No. 1 most-downloaded country song of 2017, received CMT's inaugural Song of the Year Award for 2017, and is nominated for two Billboard
Music Awards: Top Selling Song and Top Country Song. Hunt is also nominated for the Billboard Chart Achievement Award, Top Country Artist, and Top Country Male Artist at this weekend's celebration. Fans can vote for Hunt's Chart Achievement nomination and tune in to the 2018 Billboard
Music Awards live on Sunday, May 20 at 8pm ET on NBC.
Hunt hits the road this month as a special guest on Luke Bryan's What Makes You Country Tour - XL StadiumSized along with country star
Jon Pardi and opening artists
Morgan Wallen (May-Aug) and
Carly Pearce (Sep-Oct). Bryan and Pardi will be making two stops in Canada opening at the Rogers Centre in Toronto on May 31 and the BC Place Stadium in Vancouver on October 13.
For more information on music, tour dates and tickets, please visit www.SamHunt.com.
