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Concrete and Gold by Foo Fighters
Concrete and Gold is an album by Foo Fighters, released in 2017. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 22 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “The Sky Is A Neighborhood”, on 12 lists with a best position of #9.
Concrete and Gold, Foo Fighters' ninth album, came out on Roswell and RCA in 2017, and the big twist was the man at the desk: Greg Kurstin, a pop producer who had never made a heavy rock record. Dave Grohl brought him a dozen or so song ideas late in 2016, after six months off healing from an injury picked up on the Sonic Highways tour, and they cut it at EastWest Studios in Hollywood, where the neighbors dropped in: Paul McCartney, Justin Timberlake and Boyz II Men's Shawn Stockman.
It's a record of opposites, pile-driving rock slammed up against pop polish, with Grohl chewing over where America is headed after the heated 2016 election and into the Trump years, caught between hope and desperation. Keyboardist Rami Jaffee joins as a full member, making the Foos a six-piece. It opened at number one on the Billboard 200, and "Run" and "The Sky Is a Neighborhood" both topped the Mainstream Rock chart.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Concrete and Gold on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Sky Is A Neighborhood | 12 | #9 | – | 2017–2019 | |
| 2 | Run | 10 | #7 | – | 2017 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.