About Times Like These (BBC Radio 1 Stay Home Live Lounge)

The BBC is bringing together some of the biggest and most respected artists from the UK and around the world for the most ambitious Live Lounge in its history, in support of the global effort to stay safe and stay home during the coronavirus crisis.

The Stay Home Live Lounge sees some of the music industry’s biggest stars collaborating on a cover of the Foo Fighters’ ‘Times Like These’ to raise money for charities. The accompanying video received its world exclusive premiere during BBC One’s The Big Night In programme on April 23rd 2020.

As a response to the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic, BBC Radio 1 organised the "biggest ever" Live Lounge cover version as part of their Stay at Home project. The track was produced by Fraser T. Smith and was performed by the charity supergroup Live Lounge Allstars. Each member recorded and filmed their contribution to the song from their respective households in order to encourage social distancing.[18] The song was released on 23 April 2020 and the video premiered as part of The Big Night In telethon.

Among various charities worldwide, profits from the single will primarily go to Children in Need and Comic Relief, as well as WHO's COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund. Within 12 hours of the song's initial release, it gained 43,000 digital downloads and entered the top 5 on the UK Singles Chart. The song reached number 1 on its second week, earning 66,000 chart sales (78% of which were downloads). This song also became the first song produced by BBC Radio 1 to top the chart, and the first BBC release to peak at number-one since "Perfect Day" in 1997.