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Chasing Cars
Lead vocals: Man
Taal: Engels
Chasing Cars is een voor een Grammy Award genomineerd nummer van de alternatieve-rockgroep Snow Patrol. Het nummer werd in 2005 opgenomen onder leiding van producent Jacknife Lee en is als derde single uitgebracht van het vierde studioalbum Eyes Open. De single kwam in het Verenigd Koninkrijk op 24 juli 2006 en 11 augustus 2006 in Nederland uit.
Chasing Cars is Snow Patrols grootste single tot op heden. Het verkreeg grote populariteit nadat het verscheen in een aflevering van de Amerikaanse televisieserie Grey's Anatomy.
"Chasing Cars" is a song by Northern Irish–Scottish alternative rock band Snow Patrol, released on 6 June 2006 in the United States and 24 July in the United Kingdom as the second single of their fourth album, Eyes Open (2006). The song gained significant popularity in the US after being featured in the second season finale of the medical drama Grey's Anatomy, which aired on 15 May 2006.
"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. The song is Snow Patrol's biggest-selling single to date, ending 2006 as that year's 14th best-selling single in the UK. It was the last song performed live on the BBC's Top of the Pops that year. 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.
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. 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. 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 2009, UK music licensing body PPL announced that "Chasing Cars" was the most widely played song of the decade in the UK. Ten years later, it was revealed as the most-played song of the 21st century on UK radio.