Shutting Down Our Town

"Shutting Down Our Town"
Single by Jimmy Barnes
from the album My Criminal Record
Released26 April 2019 (2019-04-26)
Length4:44
LabelBloodLines
Songwriter(s)Troy Cassar-Daley
Jimmy Barnes singles chronology
"My Criminal Record"
(2019)
"Shutting Down Our Town"
(2019)
"I Won't Let You Down"
(2019)

"Shutting Down Our Town" is a song by Australian rock musician, Jimmy Barnes. It was released on 26 April 2019 as the second single from Barnes' studio album My Criminal Record.

In the week after its release, the song was the second most added song on radio, behind "Me!" by Taylor Swift.[1]

At the APRA Music Awards of 2020, "Shutting Down Our Town" won the Most Performed Rock Work of the Year.[2][3][4]

  1. ^ "MOST ADDED TO RADIO". The Music Network. April 2019. Retrieved 18 June 2019.
  2. ^ "Tones and I Leads Nominations for 2020 Virtual APRA Awards". Noise11. 7 April 2020. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
  3. ^ "2020 Awards". APRA. 7 April 2020. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
  4. ^ Cooper, Nathanael (25 May 2020). "Tones and I, Hilltop Hoods dominate 2020 APRA Music Awards". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 26 May 2020.