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}} "Chasing Cars" is a song by British alternative rock band Snow Patrol. It was released as the second single from their fourth studio album, ''Eyes Open'' (2006). It was recorded in 2005 and released on 6 June 2006 in the United States and 24 July 2006 on United Kingdom. The song gained significant popularity in the US after being featured in the second season finale of the popular medical drama ''Grey's Anatomy.''〔Philipp, Sven (24 June 2006), "Chasing Cars". ''Billboard''. 118 (25):61〕 "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 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''. Also, on the strength of downloads, it was the UK's 34th best-selling single of 2007. The song peaked at number 6 on the UK Singles Chart, and number 5 on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100.〔 At the 2007 Grammy Awards, "Chasing Cars" was nominated for Best Rock Song, and at the 2007 Brit Awards it was nominated for Best British Single. In 2009, the PPL announced "Chasing Cars" was the most widely played song of the decade in the UK.〔 As of 2015, the song has spent 111 weeks in the official UK Top 75, 166 in the Top 100〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Chart Stats - Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars )〕 and had sold over 1 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 a 2009 Channel 4 UK poll, "Chasing Cars" was voted the number one "song of the noughties". ==Background== It has been reported that lead singer Gary Lightbody wrote the song, sober after a binge of white wine, in the garden of producer Jacknife Lee's Kent cottage. The song has Lightbody singing a plain melody over sparse guitars, which has an ever-building crescendo. In an interview with ''Rolling Stone'', he said "It's the purest love song that I've ever written. There's no knife-in-the-back twist. When I read these lyrics back, I was like, 'Oh, that's weird.' All the other love songs I've written have a dark edge." The phrase "Chasing Cars" came from Lightbody's father, in reference to a girl Lightbody was infatuated with, "You're like a dog chasing a car. You'll never catch it and you just wouldn't know what to do with it if you did."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chasing Cars」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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