How to Save a Life
Occupation
- Isaac Slade (vocals, piano )
- Joe King ( guitar, vocals)
- David Welsh ( guitar)
- Ben Wysocki (drums)
Production
- Aaron Johnson
- Mike Flynn
How to Save a Life is the first studio album by American alternative rock band The Fray.
- 5.1 criticism
- 5.2 Grammy nominations
- 5.3 sales
Formation
After the band released two EPs independently ( Movement and Reason), they were looking for a record company to bring an entire album to the market. The single cable car they gave to the radio station KTCL from Denver, Colorado. The song got a significant airtime and landed in the top 30 of the most played songs of the station, although the band did not have a recording contract in hand. Originally they had filed seven more songs, but they were all rejected by the transmitter. After KTCL had started to play the song, even more, larger stations recorded the song on their playlist. Thus, The Fray also won nationally a certain notoriety. The local weekly newspaper Westword called The Fray best new band of 2004.
Finally, the record label Epic Records took notice of the band. Which should be part of Sony BMG later - - On 17 December 2004, the company took the band under contract. The first single was Cable Car, but the record company decided the song in Over my Head (Cable Car ) rename.
Four singles from the album were released. The single She Is published exclusively in Australia.
Tracklist
Single releases
Over my Head (Cable Car )
Debut single of the band, reached the Top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts. The song helped the album into the Top 20 of the album charts, the Billboard 200 after it was previously represented in the newcomer charts.
The single is to buy only from a download, but there are also a few CDs of the song that has distributed to fans during a performance the band. On the EP are also the singles Heaven Forbid and Hundred. In Britain Over my Head (Cable Car ) appeared as the second single, according to How to Save a Life.
How to Save a Life
How to Save a Life is the most commercially successful song by The Fray. It was published in the American national holiday, the 4th of July, reached among other things # 3 in the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and reached peak chart positions in Europe and Canada. The single was released exclusively as a download and platinum status twice. The Fray received a Grammy nomination for this song, but ended up with nothing. Due to the premature release of the song in the UK by the radio station BBC Radio 1, the single was released five weeks before the scheduled number one, Over my Head (Cable Car ). The CD is also the single She Is, which was released exclusively in Australia, in an acoustic version.
The song has appeared on several television series including Scrubs - ( Season 5 ) Cold Case - No victim is ever forgotten or Grey's Anatomy ( Season 2 ) is used.
After Grey's Anatomy used the series " Scrubs - " the song - also in a final sequence - in episode " My Lunch with Cox "
Other series:
- One Tree Hill
- Family Guy
- Ghost Whisperer - Ghost Whisperer
- The Hills
- 8th & Ocean
- Big Brother ( UK )
- Echo Beach
- Casualty
- The Vampire Diaries
Chart positions
Reception
Criticism
The reactions of the critics were considered as a whole largely positive. Some publications gave the album bad reviews, but the work of most reviewers is considered above average. The music magazine Rolling Stone, Blender and Allmusic gave the album 3 stars out of 5.
Grammy nominations
Two songs from the album received Grammy nominations for the award in 2007 Over my Head (Cable Car ) received a nomination for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals category.; How to Save a Life was also nominated in the Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal category. However, both awards went to other artists ( Dani California by the Red Hot Chili Peppers or My Humps by the Black Eyed Peas).
Sales
Following the publication on the U.S. market, the album climbed into the Top 15 on the album charts, there were more than 2 million copies sold. How to Save a Life was the most digitally -selling album shortly after it has become the most selling album of music portal iTunes 2006 in January 2007. The Singles How to Save a Life and Over my Head (Cable Car ) both went over a million times over the virtual counter. To date, more than 3.2 million copies have been sold around the world.