That applies to both sound-play the disco-kissed “Called Out In the Dark” or multi-movement rock symphony “The Lightning Strike”-and Lightbody’s continual soul-searching. But even through a few lineup shifts and some agonizing bouts of writer’s block, the band’s most stirring works have always been their most exploratory. The hit song, which was released by the Northern Irish band in 2006 from their album Eyes Open, received a BMI Million-Air Award to honor its combined radio plays. A main driving force behind the song’s success was its inclusion at the end of the. Snow Patrol’s smash hit Chasing Cars has been recognized after getting 4 million US radio plays.
Their tear-stained anthems, like the Grammy-nominated “Chasing Cars,” came to define major turning points on TV shows like Grey’s Anatomy and One Tree Hill. Chasing Cars Snow Patrol Track 3 on Eyes Open This slow-building ballad is Snow Patrol’s biggest-selling single. After inviting Nathan Connolly to join on lead guitar and recruiting producer Jacknife Lee for their 2003 major-label debut Final Straw, the band upped the epic quotient, swathing Lightbody’s lullaby croon in atmosphere-building effects (“How to Be Dead”) and swelling string crescendos (“Run”).
The local indie scene informed the group’s early forays into dissonant rock and the earnest pop, two styles that cohered on Snow Patrol’s scrappy first album, 1998’s Songs for Polar Bears. While the UK band seemed to follow in Coldplay’s gentle footsteps, they began honing their craft in 1994, when Northern Ireland mates Gary Lightbody and Mark McClelland began writing songs together at Scotland’s University of Dundee. The month prior, it was featured on the season finale of the popular television show Grey’s Anatomy. Chasing Cars was first released on the bands fourth album Eyes Open in. It came out as the second single from Snow Patrol’s Eyes Open album, which was released that very year. Yes it is The Snow Patrol track is officially the most played song of the 21st Century. Snow Patrol’s grandiose rock ballads give melody and mood to love’s simple joys and tragic endings-the perfect soundtrack to both poignant onscreen moments and listeners’ own romantic scenes. Release Date of Chasing Cars Interscope Records released this song on 6 June 2006.