Eric Church’s “Springsteen” has taken over the top spot on both the Mediabase/Country Aircheck and Billboard country charts. The song is Eric’s second number-one single, following “Drink in My Hand” – marking back-to-back chart-toppers. Eric says every time he performs “Springsteen,” he remembers his first concert at an amphitheater when he was 16. “I can remember spreading that blanket down, and I can still see the faces of the people that were there with me; I still remember what the weather was like; I can still remember what the air smelled like, what the sky looked like,” he recalls. “And I think the great thing about that song – you always try to write music and record music that sparks a memory, and there’s a line in the song – ‘Funny how a melody sounds like a memory.’ That’s exactly what ‘Springsteen’ is for me, and I hope that that’s what it’s for for everybody out there.” 

Both “Springsteen” and “Drink in My Hand” is from his nearly platinum-selling album, Chief. 

AUDIO: Eric Church says his new number-one single, “Springsteen,” takes him back to when he was 16-years-old at his first amphitheater experience. 

Eric Church (Springsteen inspiration) OC: …everybody out there. :38

“Springsteen’ is one of those songs that every night that I sing it, I can remember being 16 years old at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in Charlotte, North Carolina – my first amphitheater experience up there on the lawn. And I can remember spreading that blanket down, and I can still see the faces of the people that were there with me; I still remember what the weather was like; I can still remember what the air smelled like, what the sky looked like. And I think the great thing about that song – you always try to write music and record music that sparks a memory, and there’s a line in the song – ‘Funny how a melody sounds like a memory.’ That’s exactly what ‘Springsteen’ is for me, and I hope that that’s what it’s for for everybody out there.”