In pop record terms, what have Snow Patrol being doing to cars, Adele to pavements and Shed Seven to rainbows?
"By the middle of October 2008, Adele's attempt to break in America appeared to have failed. But then she was booked as the musical guest on 18 October 2008 episode of NBC's ""Saturday Night Live."" The episode, which included an expected appearance by then US vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, earned the program its best ratings in 14 years with 17 million viewers. Adele performed ""Chasing Pavements"" and ""Cold Shoulder,"" and the following day, ""19"" topped the iTunes charts and ranked at number five at Amazon.com while ""Chasing Pavements"" rose into the top 25. The album reached number 11 on the"
"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 49th Annual Grammy Awards in 2007, ""Chasing Cars"" was nominated for Best"
"Chasing Cars ""Chasing Cars"" is a song by Northern Irish 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 in the 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"", which aired on 15 May 2006. ""Chasing Cars"" became notable as one of the songs that revealed the impact of legal downloads on single"
"songs have won the Academy Award for Best Original Song: ""Skyfall"" by Adele and ""Writing's on the Wall"" by Sam Smith. The briefest of ""James Bond themes"", this composition started off the ""Opening Titles"" music of ""From Russia with Love"". It was heard in the ""On Her Majesty's Secret Service"" film trailer. WLS (AM) used the theme in the mid-1960s for their secret agent radio serial ""The Wild Adventures of Peter Fugitive"" that appeared on ""The Art Roberts Show"". ""007 Theme"", not to be confused with the ""James Bond Theme"", is an adventure theme composed by John Barry in 1963"
"Snow Patrol song ""Run"". The album again went to number one in the UK Albums Chart. The album has sold over 9 million copies worldwide and has a 9× platinum certification in the UK where it is the fourth best-selling album of the 2000s decade. Lewis's second single, ""Bleeding Love"", produced by Ryan Tedder and written by Tedder and Jesse McCartney, was released in October 2007 in the UK, where it sold 218,805 copies in its first week, giving it the biggest first-week sales of 2007 to date. It entered the UK Singles Chart at number one, where it stayed"
"Charts Top 40 for 12 weeks in 2007, and was the song used for the theatrical trailer of ""My Sister's Keeper"". In 2009, McDaid was the first person to sign to Snow Patrol's publishing company, Polar Patrol Publishing. McDaid went on to play guitar and piano and sing backing vocals in the alternative rock band Snow Patrol. While on the road with Snow Patrol, McDaid was developing his unique style of writing and working with artists in a variety of genres, scoring a hit with Example’s “Say Nothing” which went to number 2 in the UK singles chart in 2012."
"Snow Patrol, Coldplay as well as Chris Martin. In 2012, Cardle published the song ""Amazing"", co-written by himself, Martin Harrington and three other individuals. The chorus of the song was blatantly plagiarized by Ed Sheeran in the chorus of his song, ""Photograph"", written in 2013. The lawsuit, ended in 2017, by Harrington and one of the other writers, Thomas Leonard, led to a $20,000,000 (£16,000,000) victory. Matt Cardle Matthew ""Matt"" Sheridan Cardle (born 15 April 1983) is an English singer, songwriter and musician. Cardle was born in Southampton, England and grew up in Halstead, Essex, England. Cardle has been involved"
"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."" 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"
"and 50 million singles worldwide. Adele is the only artist or band in the last decade in the US to earn an RIAA diamond certification for a one disc album in less than two years. In October 2012, Adele confirmed that she had been writing, composing and recording the theme song for ""Skyfall,"" the twenty-third James Bond film. The song ""Skyfall,"" written and composed in collaboration with producer Paul Epworth, was recorded at Abbey Road Studios, and features orchestrations by J. A. C. Redford. Adele stated recording ""Skyfall"" was ""one of the proudest moments of my life."" On 14 October,"
"know Snow Patrol's Johnny McDaid produced the ballad 'Photograph', its stolid plod through clichés about how lovin' 'can hurt' and 'heal' should tell you"". Meanwhile, Dave Hanratty of ""Drowned in Sound"" remarked: ""... the cloying 'Photograph' ... is co-written and produced by a member of Snow Patrol should surprise nobody, given that it follows their heartstring-tugging script so resolutely. At least it moves."" ""The Herald"" Alan Morrison felt that ""Photograph"" was ""identikit Snow Patrol"". ""Photograph"" and the rest of the album's tracks entered the UK Singles Chart due to high streaming rates. The single debuted at number 44 on the"
"2006 in the UK, totalling 190,000 legal downloads, and is the UK's 26th most downloaded song of all time. ""Chasing Cars"" also went to number one on the Adult Contemporary chart for two non-consecutive weeks. As of February 2015, the song has sold 3,900,000 copies in the US. Credits adapted from ""Chasing Cars"" liner notes. !scope=""col"" colspan=""3""| Streaming Chasing Cars ""Chasing Cars"" is a song by Northern Irish 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"
"A notable effect of the new chart rules is to demonstrate the enduring appeal of many downloads, especially if a physical copy is no longer (or never has been) available. Despite a seven-week gap in its chart run in late 2006 while ineligible under the old rules, Snow Patrol's ""Chasing Cars"" clocked 108 weeks on the chart, a record bettered by only one single in chart history (""My Way"" by Frank Sinatra with 124 weeks). Numerous other hits are on for more than 40 weeks. Jeff Buckley's 1994 cover of Leonard Cohen's ""Hallelujah"" charted at number 2 on 21 December"
"Snow Patrol appeared in the commercials but didn't appear on the soundtrack.The song ""Adelita"" by Francisco Tárrega was played on guitar by Peter Sarsgaard when he was talking to Zach Braff in his room, and played on the video of Sam ice skating in the alligator costume. Also, ""Three Times A Lady"" by Lionel Richie is sung during the funeral scene. Neither song appears on the soundtrack. Zach Braff received a Grammy Award in 2005 for Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media. The Broadcast Film Critics Association nominated it for Best Soundtrack. The"
"for the song ""Set the Fire to the Third Bar"", supported the band on a select few dates. On 29 August, the band appeared as musical guests on ""The Tonight Show"". The band performed ""Chasing Cars"", which was #6 on the singles chart in the United States then. In October, Snow Patrol embarked on a second European Tour. The tour saw them visit countries like Norway, Denmark, Switzerland, Austria, Germany and France. Artists like The Cinematics, Declan O'Rourke, Asyl and Joseph D'Anvers supported the band throughout the tour on different dates. Midway through the tour, Paul Wilson injured his left"
"sales. It was Adele's first ""Billboard"" Hot 100 entry, and has sold over 1,200,000 digital copies as of October 2011. The B-side to the single is an acoustic cover of the Sam Cooke song ""That's It, I Quit, I'm Movin' On"". ""Chasing Pavements"" won the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, and was nominated for the Grammy Award for Record of the Year and Grammy Award for Song of the Year. The accompanying music video was directed by Mathew Cullen of production company Motion Theory. It was uploaded to Adele's official YouTube account on 24 October 2009. The"
"agreed to, because it was for charity. Cole rehearsed with the band one night before the show and sang Martha Wainwright's vocal parts on ""Set the Fire to the Third Bar"". Additionally, the band played ""Chasing Cars"" backed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. In December 2009, the band will play at the fourth edition of Versus Cancer, an annual one-off concert to raise funds for the treatment of cancer. Snow Patrol will again collaborate with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra on 12 December, with proceeds going towards local cancer charities. Lightbody expressed his happiness on being involved: ""Versus Cancer is a"
"200 and two singles in the top five of the ""Billboard"" Hot 100, as well as the first woman in the history of the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 to have three simultaneous top 10 singles as a lead artist with ""Rolling in the Deep"", ""Someone Like You"", and ""Set Fire to the Rain"", all of which also topped the chart. ""21"" is the longest-running number one album by a female solo artist in the history of the UK and US Album Charts. In 2012, Adele released ""Skyfall"", which she co-wrote and recorded for the James Bond film of the same name."
"wanted to remain nameless, told him that the band had written songs that were standards in today's world, and that Snow Patrol songs had become a part of the public consciousness. He compared their work to that of artists like Frank Sinatra and The Beatles. Lightbody realises this and cites performances of their songs on reality TV shows as an example. Lightbody has held the view that Snow Patrol may have had an easier time succeeding in the music industry than a band forming at the present time and attempting to become successful, given the changed state of the music"
"top 10 hits ""You're All I Have"" and ""Chasing Cars"", the latter of which came to worldwide attention when it was featured during the season 2 finale of the American medical drama ""Grey's Anatomy"". It went on to sell over 5 million copies worldwide and has spent a total of 166 weeks on the UK Singles Chart, more than any other song in history. ""Eyes Open"" was the best-selling album of 2006 in the UK, selling 1.5 million copies and 6 million worldwide. It was also the 15th best-selling album of the 2000s. Snow Patrol's primary aim for a fourth"
"held off from reaching number 1 by Adele's ""25"". In 2016, the album peaked at number 2 before returning to number 1 on the week of January 2, 2017. In 2017, it peaked at number 4 in early December. Despite competition from Snow Patrol's album ""Fallen Empires"", ""Christmas"" peaked at No. 1 on the UK Albums Chart. It sold 1,292,000 copies in the UK in 2011, making it the second best-selling album of 2011. It is the first seasonal album to chart within the top 10 three years in a row, as it charted at number one in 2011, at"
"Children in Need Rocks the Royal Albert Hall. Snow Patrol have featured many guest vocalists for live performances of the song. Singers such as Lisa Hannigan, Miriam Kaufmann and actress Maria Doyle Kennedy have joined them during performances in the Republic of Ireland. In the United Kingdom they have been joined by artists such as Cheryl, and for their Royal Albert Hall show Andrea Corr and unusually by a male vocalist, comedian James Corden. Shauna Tohill, from the band Silhouette, has also joined Snow Patrol for a live performance. Yahoo! Music's Dan Gennoe made comparisons of Snow Patrol with Coldplay"
"of songs like this. Rather than a break-up record this is a make-up record. That is a massive generalisation but it is a more positive record than the last"". He has said that ""the song is about a damaging but fulfilling relationship, something that terrifies you, but you can't quite bring yourself to look away"". Yahoo! Music's Ben Gilbert welcomed the single warmly, giving it 7 stars out of 10. He said that the song was Snow Patrol's return to the UK rock scene ""with the sort of form that would see an ex-con arrested on sight."" Though he criticised"
"was the """"Chasing Cars"" moment of the album, if there was one"". The single's release saw it being generally panned. CityLife's Sarah Walters reviewed the single negatively and gave it 2 stars out of 5. She wrote that the re-working did not add much and did the song more bad than good. She also said that Snow Patrol did not need to change their ""winning formula"". The Daily Record's Rick Fulton too gave the single 2 stars out of 5. He felt that the band had leaned towards writing ballads after the success of ""Chasing Cars."" In his words: ""Ever"
"streets, taken by the band's photographer Cedric, which are interspersed with scenes of the band performing the song on their instruments, filmed in the Millennium Mills. In a 'making of' video, Lightbody is heard saying that it ""may be their best video yet"". Live track featuring Miriam Kaufmann recorded at Mencap's Little Noise Sessions at the Union Chapel, London on 25 November 2007. ""Take Back the City"" received generally mixed reviews. Daily Music Guide's James Brindle reviewed the single negatively and gave it 2 stars out of 5. He wrote that (the song) feels like Snow Patrol has run out"
"7, 2006. By February 2006, the album hit number one the iTunes Store list of most-downloaded folk albums in eight countries, with the single ""World Spins Madly On"" also topping the list of most-downloaded folk songs in the United States. Snow Patrol's Gary Lightbody nominated the album for the Shortlist Music Prize, awarded to the year's best album released in the United States selling fewer than 500,000 copies, though it failed to reach the ten-album shortlist. The band played 180 shows in 2006 and toured Europe for the first time, playing at Oxegen, T in the Park, and the Hurricane"
"Live and Acoustic at Park Ave. Live and Acoustic at Park Ave. is a five song EP by the alternative rock band Snow Patrol, released in late 2005. All songs are performed live and acoustic and are taken from a single performance at the Park Ave. store, then located in Winter Park. Lead singer Gary Lightbody notes after the first song that the band had never played some of the songs acoustically before because ""they don't work acoustically"" and they may very well turn out to be a ""bloody shambles"". The physical EP was limited edition and was sold only"
"in United States independent music stores. The EP, though, was made available as a digital download on iTunes from 20 December 2005. It can also be purchased through Park Ave.'s website. Live and Acoustic at Park Ave. Live and Acoustic at Park Ave. is a five song EP by the alternative rock band Snow Patrol, released in late 2005. All songs are performed live and acoustic and are taken from a single performance at the Park Ave. store, then located in Winter Park. Lead singer Gary Lightbody notes after the first song that the band had never played some of"
"Award for Best Original Song. In December 2012, Adele was named ""Billboard"" Artist of the Year, and ""21"" was named Album of the Year, making her the first artist to receive both accolades two years in a row. Adele was also named top female artist. The Associated Press named Adele Entertainer of the Year for 2012. The 2013 Grammy Awards saw Adele's live version of ""Set Fire to the Rain"" win the Grammy Award for Best Pop Solo Performance, bringing her total wins to nine. On 3 April 2012, Adele confirmed that her third album would likely be at least"
"It was the last episode to feature Sara Ramirez as a guest star, as she began receiving star billing in the season three premiere. Morgan, Ramirez, Thompson, Smith, Utterback, Devine, and O'Donnell reprised their roles as Duquette, Torres, Travis, Hahn, Harper, Adele, and Dandridge, respectively, while Hirsh and Hines made their first and only appearances as Claire and Natalie, respectively. The soundtrack of the episode consisted of Pete Droge's ""Under the Waves"", Dressy Bessy's ""Side 2"", Amos Lee's ""Colors"", Masha Qrella's ""Destination Vertical"", Kate Havnevik's ""Grace"", and Snow Patrol's ""Chasing Cars"". The American profile of Northern Irish band Snow Patrol"
"Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa and Switzerland. ""Set Fire to the Rain"" was released on 21 November 2011 as ""21""s third official single in the United States, peaking at number one on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100. The song was Adele's third consecutive number-one single from ""21""; the last female singer who achieved this was Katy Perry in 2010 when ""Firework"" hit number one. Adele is the first female British artist in history to have three consecutive US number ones. With ""Rolling in the Deep"", ""Someone like You"" and ""Set Fire to the Rain"" Adele logged a total of"
"residence to cover the session. Just before heading to Australia in November 2008 to do a short promo tour, Snow Patrol visited Berlin (where a part of the album was recorded) to play an exclusive one-off show. The band also played a Live Lounge performance at BBC's Maida Vale Studios during the studio's 75-year celebrations on BBC presenter Fearne Cotton's show. The band's set included cover versions of most famous songs that were recorded in the studio over the years: ""Teenage Kicks"", ""New Sensation"", ""Ray of Light"" and ""You Really Got Me"". Three of those were recorded and later broadcast"
"""Skyfall"" rose to number 2 on the UK Singles Chart with sales of 92,000 copies bringing its overall sales to 176,000, and ""Skyfall"" entered the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 at number 8, selling 261,000 copies in the US in its first three days. This tied ""Skyfall"" with Duran Duran's ""A View to a Kill"" as the highest-charting James Bond theme song on the UK Singles Chart; a record surpassed in 2015 by Sam Smith's ""Writing's on the Wall"". ""Skyfall"" has sold more than two million copies worldwide and earned Adele the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song and the Academy"
"Elbow. Recorded on Jo Whiley's ""Live Lounge on Tour"". Critical reception towards the single was generally positive. Yahoo! Music's Jairne Gill reviewed the single positively, giving it seven stars out of ten. In spite of this, he criticized Snow Patrol for ""established the kind of ruthless commercial formula more commonly associated with corporations like Microsoft or Starbucks."" He also said that ""the first single back is always a semi-rocky, fidgety beast - as if to reassure people they are still an indie band at heart, you know - and is swiftly followed by a big, sweltering, lovelorn ballad designed to"