Snow Patrol’s ‘Chasing Cars’ Named Most-Played Song on British Radio This Century By Gil Kaufman. Ten years later, it was revealed as the most-played song of the 21st century on UK radio. Chasing Cars Snow Patrol 06.03.06 5 12 Wks 10.14.06 45. 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. Chasing Cars Lyrics Verse 1 We'll do it all Everything On our own We don't need Anything Or anyone Chorus If I lay here If I just lay here Would you lie with me and just forget the world. 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.
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