Amazon Prime Video’s new Fallout series sports a strong start on Billboard’s Top TV Songs chart, powered by Tunefind (a Songtradr company), scoring five of the 10 songs on the April 2024 survey, paced by The Ink Spots’ “I Don’t Want to Set the World on Fire” at No. 1.
Rankings for the Top TV Songs chart are based on song and show data provided by Tunefind and ranked using a formula blending that data with sales and streaming information tracked by Luminate during the corresponding period of April 2024.
“I Don’t Want to Set the World on Fire” was recorded by The Ink Spots in 1941 (it reached No. 4 on Billboard‘s Best Selling Retail Records chart that year) and is familiar to fans of the Fallout video game series on which the TV show is based, as it is also part of the soundtrack of the games Fallout 3, Fallout 4 and Fallout 76.
The song, featured in episode two of the series (all of which premiered April 10), snagged 4.6 million official on-demand U.S. streams and 1,000 downloads in April 2024, according to Luminate.
Fallout takes No. 2 on Top TV Songs, too: Johnny Cash’s “So Doggone Lonesome” is in the runner-up spot after being heard in the series premiere and third episode. Cash’s 1955 single racked up 1.9 million streams and 1,000 downloads in April 2024.
Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass’ “Ladyfingers” (No. 4; 2.6 million streams), The Platters’ “Only You (And You Alone)” (No. 6; 2.1 million streams, 1,000 downloads) and Nat “King” Cole’s “Orange Colored Sky” (No. 7; 1.7 million streams, 1,000 downloads) also help coronate Fallout’s arrival on Top TV Songs.
The top non-Fallout title, meanwhile, is Tom Jones’ “It’s Not Unusual,” which bows at No. 3. Jones’ first song to reach a Billboard chart (it peaked at No. 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 in May 1965), the track appears in the series premiere of Dead Boy Detectives, the newly premiered Netflix series that debuted its full first season on April 25.
“It’s Not Unusual” earned 2.9 million streams in April 2024. It’s joined on the ranking by The Church’s “Under the Milky Way,” which bows at No. 10 after a synch in Dead Boy Detectives’ seventh episode (1.2 million streams). “Under the Milky Way” was also a Hot 100 hit, reaching No. 24 in June 1988.
See the full top 10, also featuring music from Ripley and Baby Reindeer, below.
Rank, Song, Artist, Show (Network)
- “I Don’t Want to Set the World on Fire,” The Ink Spots, Fallout (Amazon Prime Video)
- “So Doggone Lonesome,” Johnny Cash, Fallout (Amazon Prime Video)
- “It’s Not Unusual,” Tom Jones, Dead Boy Detectives (Netflix)
- “Ladyfingers,” Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, Fallout (Amazon Prime Video)
- “In Dreams,” Roy Orbison, Ripley (Netflix)
- “Only You (And You Alone),” The Platters, Fallout (Amazon Prime Video)
- “Orange Colored Sky,” Nat “King” Cole, Fallout (Amazon Prime Video)
- “How to Fight Loneliness,” Wilco, Baby Reindeer (Netflix)
- “Il Cielo In Una Stanza,” Mina, Ripley (Netflix)
- “Under the Milky Way,” The Church, Dead Boy Detectives (Netflix)
