Chasing Cars
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| Single by Snow Patrol | ||||||||||||||
| from the album Eyes Open | ||||||||||||||
| Released | 6 June 2006 | |||||||||||||
| Format | CD single, 7", 12" | |||||||||||||
| Recorded | 2005 | |||||||||||||
| Genre | Alternative rock | |||||||||||||
| Length | 4:08 (radio edit) 4:27 (album version) |
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| Label | Interscope | |||||||||||||
| Writer(s) | Gary Lightbody, Nathan Connolly, Tom Simpson, Paul Wilson, Jonny Quinn | |||||||||||||
| Producer(s) | Jacknife Lee | |||||||||||||
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"Chasing Cars" is a song by Northern Irish/Scottish alternative rock band Snow Patrol. It was released as the second single from their fourth studio album, Eyes Open (2006). It was recorded in 2005 and released on 6 June 2006 in the United States and 24 July 2006 in the United Kingdom. The song gained significant popularity in the US after being featured in the second season finale of the popular medical drama Grey's Anatomy.
"Chasing Cars" became notable as 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 is Snow Patrol's biggest-selling single to date, ending 2006 as that year's 14th best-selling single in the UK and that year had the distinction of being the last song performed live on the BBC's Top of the Pops. Also, on the strength of downloads, it was the UK's 34th best-selling single of 2007. The song peaked at number 6 on the UK Singles Chart, and number 5 on the US Billboard Hot 100.
At 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. In 2009, the PPL announced "Chasing Cars" was the most widely played song of the decade in the UK. As of 2015, the song has spent 111 weeks in the official UK Top 75, 166 in the Top 100 and had sold over 1 million copies in the UK by October 2013. 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. In a 2009 Channel 4 UK poll, "Chasing Cars" was voted the number one "song of the noughties".
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