Chasing Cars
"Chasing Cars" | ||||
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Single by Snow Patrol | ||||
from the album Eyes Open | ||||
B-side |
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Released | 6 June 2006 | |||
Genre | Alternative rock[1] | |||
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Songwriter(s) | ||||
Producer(s) | Jacknife Lee | |||
Snow Patrol singles chronology | ||||
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Music video | ||||
"Chasing Cars" on YouTube | ||||
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"Chasing Cars" is a song by Northern Irish-Scottish
"Chasing Cars" was one of the songs that revealed the impact of
At the
Background
Lead singer
Promotion and release
Snow Patrol played "Chasing Cars" on an appearance on Late Night with Conan O'Brien. The song was also performed as the last live performance on long-running music programme Top of the Pops. 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. 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.
"Chasing Cars" was heard on the TV show
Music video
Two music videos were made: one for the UK and one for the US.
In the UK music video, directed by Arni & Kinski,[17] Gary Lightbody lies on the open ground as cameras film him from different angles. It starts raining, splashing his face and hands. Lightbody enters a pool of water next to him and, at the end of the video, he gets out of the water, rises to his feet and looks up at the camera as it zooms out overhead.
In the US version, directed by
Reception
Critical reception
The song received critical acclaim.
The song was nominated for a
Commercial performance
"Chasing Cars" was released as an overlapping single in early June, and the video was re-edited to include clips from the show, Grey's Anatomy. The video failed to catch on, regardless, so a third version was filmed for the edited single version of the song. On 13 September 2006, the song soared in the digital music charts to become the most-downloaded song in the US iTunes Store, just one day after the DVD release of the second season of Grey's Anatomy.[citation needed]
The song was released as a download-only single on 17 July 2006, and entered the
A physical release of the song did not occur at all in Australia,[20] where the song spent 10 weeks over summer 2006/2007 at number one on the Digital Track Chart.[20] Under ARIA chart rules at the time, songs that had a digital-only release were ineligible to chart.[20] When the rules finally changed in October 2007 to include digital-only singles (partly due to declining physical sales),[21] "Chasing Cars" had dwindled in popularity and peaked at number 53.[22] Its sales prior to the week it began charting on the official singles chart were not counted;[20] regardless, it spent a further 63 weeks in the lower half of the chart[23] and was later certified triple platinum (for over 210,000 downloads).[24]
"Chasing Cars" was voted number one in a 2006
Accolades
Publication | Country | Accolade | Rank |
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The Rock FM
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New Zealand | The Rock 1000[28] | 554 |
Track listings
- UK CD single[29]
- "Chasing Cars" – 4:27
- "It Doesn't Matter Where, Just Drive" – 3:37
- UK 7-inch single[30]
- "Chasing Cars" – 4:27
- "Play Me Like Your Own Hand" – 4:15
- European CD single[31]
- "Chasing Cars" – 4:27
- "Play Me Like Your Own Hand" – 4:15
- "It Doesn't Matter Where, Just Drive" – 3:37
- Dutch CD single[32]
- "Chasing Cars" – 4:27
- "You're All I Have" (live from BNN) – 4:29
- "How to Be Dead" (live from BNN) – 3:24
- "Chasing Cars" (live from BNN) – 4:20
Personnel
Personnel are adapted from Eyes Open liner notes.[33]
Snow Patrol
- Gary Lightbody – vocals, guitar
- Gary Lightbody, Nathan Connolly, Tom Simpson, Paul Wilson, Jonny Quinn – songwriter
- Nathan Connolly – lead guitar, backing vocals
- Tom Simpson – keyboards
- Paul Wilson – bass guitar
- Jonny Quinn – drums
Additional personnel
- Jacknife Lee – production
Charts
Weekly charts
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Year-end charts
Decade-end charts
All-time charts
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Certifications
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Australia (ARIA)[95] | 9× Platinum | 630,000‡ |
Belgium (BEA)[96] | Gold | 25,000* |
Brazil (Pro-Música Brasil)[97] | 2× Platinum | 120,000‡ |
Denmark (IFPI Danmark)[98] | Platinum | 90,000‡ |
Germany (BVMI)[99] | 2× Platinum | 600,000‡ |
Italy (FIMI)[100] | Platinum | 50,000‡ |
New Zealand (RMNZ)[101] | Platinum | 10,000* |
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[102] | 2× Platinum | 120,000‡ |
United Kingdom (BPI)[103] | 5× Platinum | 3,000,000‡ |
United States (RIAA)[104] | 5× Platinum | 3,900,000[12] |
Streaming | ||
Denmark (IFPI Danmark)[105] | Gold | 900,000† |
* Sales figures based on certification alone. |
Notable covers
- In September 2014, Ed Sheeran delivered a rendition of the song on MTV.[106]
- In July 2023, Irish pop singer and member of the girl group Girls Aloud, Nadine Coyle, released a dance cover of the song titled “If I Lay Here (Chasing Cars)”.[107][108]
- Nate Smith covered this song on the digital deluxe edition of his self-titled debut album in 2023.
In popular culture
- The song was featured in the 2016 documentary Holy Hell about the 1980s West Hollywood cult Buddhafield and its allegedly manipulative and abusive leader. The song plays on toward the end of the documentary as ex-members of the cult are seen dancing in a field and while crying.[109]
- The song is referenced by Ed Sheeran in his song "All of the Stars".[110]
See also
- List of million-selling singles in the United Kingdom
- List of songs which have spent the most weeks on the UK Singles Chart
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External links
- "Chasing Cars" UK music video on YouTube
- "Chasing Cars" US music video on YouTube
- Music video for "Chasing Cars (Grey's Anatomy Version)" on YouTube
- Acoustic performance of "Chasing Cars" for Sky Arts Songbook series.
- IMDB https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1564367/soundtrack