Foo Fighters Take Over Jimmy Kimmel Live for a Four-Night Residency
Foo Fighters performed the title track from their new album, Your Favorite Toy, on Jimmy Kimmel Live during the show's Halloween takeover week. The band held a four-night musical residency on the ABC late-night programme, and the album is their 12th studio album, meaning their 12th full-length collection of new songs.
On the first night, the band played "Window," a single from the record. On the Tuesday, they performed "This Is A Call," a song from their self-titled debut album, released in 1995. The two songs sit at either end of a career that has now run for three decades, and the residency moved between them across the week.
The episodes around the residency also carried guests. The Oct. 27 show featured Dave Grohl, the band's frontman, and actress Connie Britton, while the Oct. 28 episode featured actor Owen Wilson and actress Gabourey Sidibe alongside Foo Fighters. ABC had published a schedule for the week of Oct. 26 that listed Grohl alongside "Your Favorite Toy," and an ABC video from Oct. 26 showed him describing the band's plans to perform all week on the show.
The album's chart position is also in the news. Billboard reported that Your Favorite Toy debuted at No. 1 on its Top Hard Rock Albums chart, the weekly ranking of albums in the hard rock genre. It is the eighth time a Foo Fighters album has reached the top of that chart.
Not every viewer will catch the show on television. Jimmy Kimmel Live airs weeknights at 11:35 p.m. Eastern time, which is 10:35 p.m. Central, on ABC. Episodes are also available to stream on Hulu, the subscription video service.
The band's YouTube channel posted a "Jimmy Kimmel Live Takeover" video that says Your Favorite Toy "is out now." A clip titled "Foo Fighters – Your Favorite Toy," which shows the band performing the title track during the residency, has also been posted to YouTube.
For fans who could not get to a screen on the night, the residency gave a clear picture of the record. Four late-night performances, spread across the week, put the new songs in front of a wide audience at a fixed time of day, with a few older songs placed alongside them.
