The Black Keys - "On the Game"

[narp]

According to the new Happens radio site, this is the next radio single from Ohio Players and it ships to Alternative radio on April 5, 2024. It has not been released yet.

Also interesting to note that according to the album's Wiki page, this has a Noel Gallagher writing credit.

[Juan Carlos]

FYI, the ship date is basically the release date, so this means that it's going to be out this Friday alongside the album and it will probably be the focus track on streaming services too.

[Orbit]

I'm excited for this one. Looks like they recently debuted it live at SXSW:

www.setlist.fm/setlist/the-black-keys/2024/stubbs-bar-b-q-austin-tx-3baad430.html

[Orbit]

Official Music Video:

[Daryl the Beryl]

Top 50 on AAA:

333 50 THE BLACK KEYS On The Game 106 8 98 0.169

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Top 40 on AAA:

84 39 THE BLACK KEYS On The Game 167 50 117 0.231

[Daryl the Beryl]

Top 30 on AAA:

50 28 THE BLACK KEYS On The Game 224 106 118 0.308

[Daryl the Beryl]

Top 50 on Alternative:

69 50 THE BLACK KEYS On The Game 110 37 73 0.069

[Daryl the Beryl]

Top 20 on AAA:

28 20 THE BLACK KEYS On The Game 344 224 120 0.443

[Daryl the Beryl]

Top 40 on Alternative:

48 37 THE BLACK KEYS On The Game 284 110 174 0.163

Looks like it'll outperform "It Ain't Over" at least.

[Devin]

Apr 28, 2024 6:54:15 GMT -5 Daryl the Beryl said:

Looks like it'll outperform "It Ain't Over" at least.

That's too bad, "It Ain't Over" was the superior song.

[Daryl the Beryl]

On another note, the band did a pretty funny promo for their latest album covering the reviews off it, both the bad and the good.

As for this song, it's good but still far from the best stuff I've heard from them. The last charter I loved from them was "Shine a Little Light". ("Crawling Kingsnake"'s good too, but it doesn't have as much replay value for me) Wonder if their general popularity is on the decline with the album becoming their lowest charting album on the Billboard 200 (debuting at #26, breaking a top 10 streak they started since Brothers) since Magic Potion. Still interested in whatever Auerbach is intending to produce for other artists under his Easy Eye Sound imprint, but he's not doing that much for me with his duo right now, unfortunately, as the singles they've released since are generally not as interesting as during their early 2010s popularity prime. (still need to hear their pre-Brothers material, but it's probably better than these recent songs)

[Daryl the Beryl]

Top 30 on Alternative:

42 30 THE BLACK KEYS On The Game 421 243 178 0.291

[Orbit]

To be honest, at first I didn't really like this song. But now it has grown on me and I am loving it, "The joy, the pain..."