Hunt finds "Downtown's Dead"
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Hunt finds "Downtown's Dead"

Wednesday, May 16, 2018 – Sam Hunt dropped a new song this morning, "Downtown's Dead."

The song presumably will be on Hunt's second disc, although there was no information about that. The new single is the follow up to his megahit "Beauty on a Back Road," which came out in 2017 and has sold 1.9 million units.

Hunt wrote the new song along with Zach Crowell, Josh Osborne, Shane McAnally and Charlie Handsome. Crowell and Handsome produced the track.


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