She Got the Best of Me
A soaring power ballad about a former lover who got the best of the narrator.
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. 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. It was added to Combs's debut album This One's for You as a bonus track due to fan demand.
Quick Facts
- Artist
- Luke Combs
- Album
- This One's for You Too
- Released
- 9 July 2018
- Genre
- Country
- Label
- Columbia Nashville
- Writer
- Luke Combs
- Rob Snyder
- Channing Wilson
- Producer
- Scott Moffatt
Lore & Background
Combs wrote the song four years before recording it, at a bar in Nashville, Tennessee called the Tin Roof. It was added to his debut album as a bonus track because fans demanded it. The song reached number one on the Billboard Country Airplay chart dated October 27, 2018, becoming Combs' fourth consecutive number one single. That made him the first solo artist to send his first four singles to number one since the inception of Nielsen SoundScan in January 1990, and the third act overall behind Brooks & Dunn and Florida Georgia Line. The song was certified Diamond on June 13, 2025 by the RIAA. It sold 421,000 copies in the United States as of July 2019. The music video was created by TA Films and 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 his album.
Reader's Guide
She Got the Best of Me is the fourth single from Combs's debut album This One's for You, where it appears as a bonus track added due to fan demand. It reached number one on the Billboard Country Airplay chart dated October 27, 2018, becoming Combs' fourth consecutive number one single. This made him the first solo artist to send his first four singles to number one since the start of Nielsen SoundScan in January 1990, and the third act overall after Brooks & Dunn and Florida Georgia Line. The song was certified Diamond on June 13, 2025 by the RIAA. As of July 2019, it had sold 421,000 copies in the United States. The music video, created by TA Films, references characters from the videos for Hurricane and One Number Away, as well as other songs from Combs's album.
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