"She Got the Best of Me" is a song by American country music singer Luke Combs. He wrote the song with Rob Snyder and Channing Wilson. It is the fourth single from his debut album This One's for You, to which it was added as a bonus track.
Content
The song is a "soaring
power ballad" in which the narrator says that a former lover "got the best of [him]" because he is unable to stop thinking of her. Combs said that he wrote the song four years prior to its recording, at a bar in Nashville, Tennessee called the Tin Roof.[1] It was added to Combs's debut album This One's for You as a bonus track due to fan demand.[2]
"She Got the Best of Me" is composed in the key of
"She Got the Best of Me" reached number one on the
Nielsen SoundScan in January 1990, and the third act to do so overall, behind Brooks & Dunn and Florida Georgia Line.[4] The song was certified Platinum on January 17, 2019 by the RIAA.[5] It has sold 421,000 copies in the United States as of July 2019.[6]
Music video
The music video was created by TA Films. The song contains references to previous videos of Combs's, including characters from the videos to "Hurricane" and "One Number Away", and visual references to other songs from Combs's album.[2][7]
Charts
Weekly charts
2018–2019 weekly chart performance for "She Got the Best of Me"