
Fast Car
Lead vocals: Vrouw
Taal: Engels
Fast Car is een nummer van de Amerikaanse zangeres Tracy Chapman uit 1988. Het is de eerste single van haar titelloze debuutalbum. Het nummer gaat over een arme, hardwerkende vrouw die de armoede probeert te ontvluchten.
In de lente van 1988 wordt het nummer een enorme hit. In thuisland de Verenigde Staten bereikte de plaat de 6e positie van de Billboard Hot 100. In Nederland werd de plaat veel gedraaid op Radio 3 en werd een enorme hit. De plaat bereikte de nummer-1 positie in de Nederlandse Top 40. In de Nationale Hitparade Top 100 werd de 2e positie bereikt. In België bereikte de single de nummer-1 positie bereikt van zowel de Vlaamse Ultratop 50 als de Vlaamse Radio 2 Top 30.
"Fast Car" is the debut single by American singer-songwriter Tracy Chapman, released on April 6, 1988, by Elektra Records, as the lead single from her 1988 self-titled debut studio album. Chapman's appearance at the Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute concert in June 1988 helped the song become a top-ten hit in the United States, reaching number six on the Billboard Hot 100, and led the album to top the Billboard 200. The single also reached number five on the UK Singles Chart.
"Fast Car" received three nominations at the 31st Annual Grammy Awards in 1989: Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, the last of which it won. It also received an MTV Video Music Award nomination for Best Female Video.
Since the release of Chapman's original, the song has had success in two electronic dance versions by Swedish DJ Tobtok and British DJ Jonas Blue, as well as a country cover by American singer Luke Combs. Combs's version was a number-one single on the Billboard Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay charts in 2023, and won Chapman the Country Music Association Award for Song of the Year, making her the first black person to win the award.