Bruce Hornsby's "Indigo Park" Returns Him to Adult Alternative Airplay Chart After 20 Years
Bruce Hornsby makes a triumphant return to Billboard's Adult Alternative Airplay chart with "Indigo Park," the title track from his new album, marking nearly four decades on the charts.
Bruce Hornsby is celebrating almost 40 years on Billboard's charts, thanks to "Indigo Park," the title-track lead single from his new album.
The set by the singer-songwriter from Williamsburg, Va., sold 2,000 copies in the United States in its first week (April 3-9), according to Luminate.
The song returns Hornsby to Billboard's Adult Alternative Airplay chart, debuting on the April 18-dated ranking at No. 36. His last appearance on the list was with "Gonna Be Some Changes Made," which spent three weeks at No. 1 in summer 2004. He previously charted with "Great Divide" (No. 6, 1998).
Stations spinning "Indigo Park" include WFUV New York, KCSN Los Angeles and WXRV Boston, according to Mediabase.
Hornsby's chart history dates back to June 21, 1986, when his debut album, The Way It Is, with his former band the Range, entered the Billboard 200 at No. 178. That same week, "Every Little Kiss" reached Mainstream Rock Airplay. The album's title song topped the Billboard Hot 100 that December, while follow-up single "Mandolin Rain" rose to No. 4 in 1987. "Every Little Kiss" then climbed to No. 14.
Hornsby and the Range hit the Billboard 200’s top five again with 1988’s Scenes From the Southside, whose “The Valley Road” likewise hit the Hot 100’s top five. Hornsby has since explored Americana/folk, bluegrass, classical, country and jazz charts.
"It just wouldn’t let me go," Hornsby recently told Billboard of Indigo Park's title song. "I kept giving it the Heisman, giving it the stiff-arm, but to no avail. After about four or five months into trying to not deal with this and having it come roaring into my head at 3, 4 in the morning, I finally succumbed to the insistence of this idea and decided, ‘OK, I’ll take a deep dive and write this song.’
"I was getting chills while I was writing it and recording it, and that’s telling you something because you can’t force chills," he mused. "It either happens or it doesn’t, but when it does happen you need to listen to that. You need to follow the chills."
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