"Chasing Cars" is the second single from Snow Patrol's fourth album, Eyes Open. It was recorded in 2005 and released on 6 June 2006 in the US and 24 July 2006 in the UK as the album's second single. The song gained significant popularity in the US after being featured in the second season finale of the popular medical drama Grey's Anatomy. It 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 the UK's 14th best-selling single of the year and that year had the distinction of being the last song performed live on the BBC's Top of the Pops. In 2007, on the strength of downloads, it was the UK's 34th best-selling single of 2007. The song peaked at number 6 in 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, the song 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 26 August 2013, the song has spent 111 weeks on the official UK Top 75, 154 on the Top 100 and sold over 1,000,000 copies in the UK by October 2013. It also sold 3,131,000 copies in the US by November 2011, making it one of the top 10 best-selling songs by a British artist in the digital era. In a 2009 Channel 4 poll it was voted the number one "song of the noughties".