You Found Me
| "You Found Me" | ||||
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| Single by The Fray | ||||
| from the album The Fray | ||||
| B-side | "The Great Beyond" | |||
| Released | November 21, 2008 (U.S.) November 23, 2008 (Australia) November 24, 2008 (Europe) |
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| Format | Digital download, CD single | |||
| Recorded | 2008; Seoul, South Korea | |||
| Genre | piano rock, alternative rock | |||
| Length | 4:04 | |||
| Label | Epic | |||
| Writer(s) | Isaac Slade and Joe King | |||
| Producer(s) | Aaron Johnson and Mike Flynn | |||
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"You Found Me" is the first single by Denver-based piano rock band The Fray from their eponymous, second studio album. Live performances of the song from concerts in Europe surfaced on YouTube in late 2007, when the song was titled "Amistad". The band began streaming the song on their website on November 21, 2008. The single was digitally released in the U.S., Canadian, UK, Australian and French iTunes Stores and had a physical release later on.
The song became the group's third single to sell 2 million downloads in the United States, after "How to Save a Life" and "Over My Head (Cable Car)".
It has sold 3.6 million copies in the US as of February 2015, making it one of the most downloaded rock songs. The single was certified double platinum by the RIAA and the ARIA in 2009.
The song was nominated for a Choice Music: Rock Track award at the 2009 Teen Choice Awards.
The song was ranked No. 13 on the Hot 100 Songs of 2009 list and No. 36 on Billboard's Best Adult Pop Songs of the Decade list. It was also ranked No. 42 on Billboard's Top 100 Digital Tracks of the Decade list and No. 61 on the ARIA's list of the Top 100 Tracks of the Decade.
In an interview, lead singer and pianist Isaac Slade expressed his meaning behind the lyrics of the song:
"'You Found Me' is such a great song you should really listen to it. I love it as if it were my own child. The heart ache, the let down that comes with life. Sometimes you’re let down, sometimes you’re the one who lets someone else down. It gets hard to know who you can trust, who you can count on. This song came out of a tough time, and I’m still right in the thick of it. There’s some difficult circumstances my family and friends have been going through over the past year or so and it can be overwhelming. It wears on me. It demands so much of my faith to keep believing, keep hoping in the unseen. Sometimes the tunnel has a light at the end, but usually they just look black as night. This song is about that feeling, and the hope that I still have, buried deep in my chest.”
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