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. '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 gained significant popularity in the US after being featured in the second season finale of the popular medical drama Grey's Anatomy, which aired on.

It was recorded in 2005 and 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). Snow Patrol are so completely generic that Chasing Cars will always exist as a song without context, rather than as the work of identifiable humans.'Chasing Cars' is a song by Scottish-Northern Irish alternative rock band Snow Patrol.

This is the real key to Chasing Cars’ success. Be anonymousīe honest, can you picture any members of Snow Patrol? Any of them. In 2016, Chasing Cars topped a list of “most requested indie funeral songs”, prompting the disquieting mental image of looking at a corpse while listening to a song where someone asks you to lie down with them “and just forget the world”. It suits rock, pop and easy-listening stations, while the lyrics are so oblique that listeners can project their own meaning on them, for any situation. Keep it basicĬhasing Cars is simple: it is based around a two-note guitar riff, while the verses consist of three lines, each containing just three or four syllables. Then it was used in the season-two finale of Grey’s Anatomy, exposing it to a further 22.5 million US viewers and for ever entwining it in popular culture with the fates of lovelorn and preposterously attractive medical professionals. Just before its release, Chasing Cars was used in the season-three finale of One Tree Hill. But now we can prove definitively: slow and steady wins the race. It was the 14th best-selling song of the year, which sounds OK until you learn that I Wish I Was a Punk Rocker (With Flowers in My Hair) by Sandi Thom was the fifth. On its release in 2006, it enjoyed a slow climb to No 6, during which time it was outsold by Paris Hilton’s Stars Are Blind (which got to No 5). Fun fact: Chasing Cars was never a No 1 record in the UK.

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