In less than 24 hours, the 1988 hit rose to the top of the charts John Shearer/Getty Tracy Chapman’s appearance at the 66th annual Grammy Awards helped take “Fast Car” to the top of the charts.

This essay originally appeared in NPR Music's weekly newsletter. Subscribe to the newsletter here. As a small-town kid in the 1980s, I fell in love with music via MTV and the ritual of ...

By Lindsay Zoladz This summer, a lot of people who were born after 1988 are discovering who Tracy Chapman is thanks to Luke Combs’s hit cover of her classic “Fast Car,” which currently sits ...

Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car” raced up the iTunes charts after she sang her hit from 1988 on Sunday’s Grammy Awards with country music star Luke Combs, who recorded the song last year.