Additionally, the band played the song live in their appearance at Live Earth on 7 July 2007, this song was performed during the London leg of the Live Earth concert at Wembley Stadium and at Oxegen later on that night in Ireland. The band also performed the song when they were the musical guest on 17 March 2007 episode of Saturday Night Live, hosted by Julia Louis-Dreyfus. The song was also performed as the last live performance on long-running music programme Top of the Pops. Snow Patrol played 'Chasing Cars' on an appearance on Late Night with Conan O'Brien. You'll never catch it and you just wouldn't know what to do with it if you did.' Promotion and release When I read these lyrics back, I was like, 'Oh, that's weird.' All the other love songs I've written have a dark edge.' The phrase 'Chasing Cars' came from Lightbody's father, in reference to a girl Lightbody was infatuated with, 'You're like a dog chasing a car.

In an interview with Rolling Stone, he said 'It's the purest love song that I've ever written. The song has Lightbody singing a plain melody over sparse guitars, which has an ever-building crescendo. Lead singer Gary Lightbody reportedly wrote the song when he became sober after a binge of white wine, in the garden of song producer Jacknife Lee's Kent cottage. Ten years later, it was revealed as the most-played song of the 21st century on UK radio. In 2009, UK music licensing body PPL announced that 'Chasing Cars' was the most widely played song of the decade in the UK. It has also sold 3,900,000 copies in the US by January 2015, making it one of the top best-selling rock songs in the digital era. As of 2019, the song has spent 111 weeks in the official UK top 75, 166 in the top 100 and had sold over one million copies in the UK by October 2013. Īt the 49th Annual Grammy Awards in 2007, 'Chasing Cars' was nominated for Best Rock Song, and at the 2007 Brit Awards it was nominated for Best British Single. Released in the post-Britpop period, the song peaked at number 6 on the UK Singles Chart, and number 5 on the US Billboard Hot 100. It was the last song performed live on the BBC's Top of the Pops that year. The song is Snow Patrol's biggest-selling single to date, ending 2006 as that year's 14th best-selling single in the UK.

'Chasing Cars' was one of the songs that revealed the impact of legal downloads on single sales in the UK, selling consistently for years after its release. The song gained significant popularity in the US after being featured in the second season finale of the medical drama Grey's Anatomy, which aired on. It was released on 6 June 2006, in the United States and 24 July 2006, in the United Kingdom. It was released as the second single from their fourth studio album, Eyes Open (2006). ' Chasing Cars' is a song by Northern Irish-Scottish alternative rock band Snow Patrol.

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