Luke Combs Performs Heartbroken New Unreleased Song, ‘Wish Upon a Whiskey’, in Australia

Luke Combs has debuted another enchanting new ballad during his Australia and New Zealand tour, ‘Wish Upon a Whiskey’, with the piano-driven track expected to feature on the North Carolina singer-songwriter's forthcoming studio album.

‘Wish Upon a Whiskey’ finds the ‘Beer Never Broke My Heart’ hitmaker stepping into the shoes of a heartbroken ex, who tries everything he can to get over his old flame, but to no avail, before deciding to try pinning his hopes on a bottle of Jack Daniels. It pivots around a clever turn of phrase, with Luke Combs outlining how he “gave up on a shooting star” and instead chose to “wish upon a whiskey”.

Over the course of the powerful, heart-rending ‘Wish Upon a Whiskey’ hook, the ‘Hurricane’ chart-topper wraps his trademark, captivating rasp around the despairing lyrics, ““I gave up on a shooting star / It’d have to fall down way to far to fix this kind of feeling that I’m feelin’ / I tried the back pew of that church / Read every chapter, every verse / But all my prayers they always hit the ceiling / So I do the only thing that don’t make me feel empty / Pull that bottle out and wish upon a whiskey”.

Luke Combs has been treating his international crowds to a slew of new unreleased tracks of late, with the ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ crooner explaining that he's been making a point of “playing a new one in each city overseas” as he delivers his hugely popular 2025 Australia and New Zealand run of shows.

So far, we've heard ‘Ain't No Cowboy’, which Luke Combs performed in Auckland, New Zealand, before Combs serenaded his Brisbane, Australia attendees with the philosophical ‘Pushin’ Up Daisies’. The latter tells the striking, uplifting tale of a man who narrowly escapes death after a car accident, and subsequently decides to change his approach to life, “Oh, I don’t miss my wild and crazy / Out here picking wildflowers for my baby / Instead of pushin’ up daisies”. It feels like a spiritual sibling of sorts to ‘Where the Wild Things Are’, which centred on a narrator who loses his fast-living brother to a motorcycle accident.

With Luke Combs having shared another unreleased track, ‘More Less Than Perfect’, in the lead-up to embarking on his January and February leg Down Under, it certainly feels as though the country titan is gearing up to announce a brand new album.

Combs has two more tour-stops left in Melbourne across February 7th and 8th, and we're looking forward to hearing which unreleased track he decides to debut this weekend.

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