How to Save a Life
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| Studio album by The Fray | ||||
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October 27, 2006 |
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2005 |
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| Label (s) | Epic Records | |||
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CD |
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12 |
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45:49 |
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Studio (s) |
Echo Park Studios |
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How to Save a Life is the first studio album by the American alternative rock band The Fray .
Emergence
After the band had independently released two EPs ( Movement and Reason ), they were looking for a record company to bring a full album out on the market. They gave the single cable car to the KTCL radio station in Denver , Colorado . The song got considerable airtime and landed in the station's top 30 most played songs, even though the band did not yet have a record deal. Originally they had submitted seven other songs, but all of them were rejected by the broadcaster. After KTCL started playing the song, other larger stations added the song to their playlist. Thus, The Fray also gained a certain national recognition. The local weekly Westword named The Fray Best New Band in 2004 .
Eventually the record company Epic Records became aware of the band. On December 17, 2004, the company - which would later become part of Sony BMG - signed the band. The first single was Cable Car , but the record company decided to rename the song Over my Head (Cable Car) .
Four singles from the album have been released. The single She Is was released exclusively in Australia.
Tracklist
| # | title | production | length |
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| 1 | She is | Isaac Slade, Joe King | 3:56 |
| 2 | Over my Head (Cable Car) | Slade, King | 3:58 |
| 3 | How to Save a Life | Slade, King | 4:21 |
| 4th | All at once | Slade, King, Aaron Johnson | 3:47 |
| 5 | Fall Away | Slade, King, Dan Battenhouse | 4:23 |
| 6th | Heaven Forbid | Slade, King | 3:59 |
| 7th | Look after you | Slade, King | 4:26 |
| 8th | Hundred | Slade, Monica Conway | 4:13 |
| 9 | Vienna | Slade, King, Battenhouse | 3:51 |
| 10 | Dead Wrong | Slade, King, Mike Flynn | 3:05 |
| 11 | Little House | Slade, King | 2:30 |
| 12 | Trust Me | Slade, King | 3:22 |
Single releases
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| 2005 | Over my Head (Cable Car) | 83 | - | 96 | 19th | 8th | Grammy nomination |
| 2006 | How to Save a Life | 45 | 55 | 28 | 4th | 3 | Grammy nomination |
| 2007 | Look after you | - | - | - | - | 59 | |
| 2007 | All at once | - | - | - | - | - | |
Over my Head (Cable Car)
The band's debut single, 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 only available for download, but there are also a few CDs of the song that the band distributed to fans during a performance. The EP also features the singles Heaven Forbid and Hundred . In the UK, Over my Head (Cable Car) was released as the second single, after How to Save a Life .
How to Save a Life
How to Save a Life is The Fray's most commercially successful song. It was published on the American national holiday , July 4th, reached number 3 on the American Billboard Hot 100 and achieved top chart positions in Europe and Canada . The single was released exclusively as a download and went twice platinum . The Fray received a Grammy nomination for this song too, but got nothing. Due to a 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 also contains the single She Is , which was released exclusively in Australia, in an acoustic version.
The song was used in several television series, for example Scrubs - The Beginners (5th season), Cold Case - No Victim Is Ever Forgotten or Grey's Anatomy (2nd season).
After the music coordinator of " Grey's Anatomy " attended a concert by The Fray, she was so enthusiastic about the performance of How to Save a Life that she decided to include the song in a final sequence of an episode. After the episode aired, the song became a Top 100 Hit and the producers decided to use the song to promote the third season. Just a week after the advertising began, the single jumped from 51st to 29th and ended up at number 3.
After Grey's Anatomy, the series " Scrubs " used the song - also in a final sequence - in the episode "My Lunch with Cox".
Further series:
- One Tree Hill
- Family guy
- Ghost Whisperer - Voices from Beyond
- The Hills
- 8th & Ocean
- Big Brother (UK)
- A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila
- Echo Beach
- Casualty
- The Vampire Diaries
Chart positions
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| 2005 | How to Save a Life | 56 | - | 57 | 4th | 14th |
reception
criticism
Overall, the reactions of the critics were largely positive. Some publications gave the album poor reviews, but the work is considered above average by most reviewers. The music magazines Rolling Stone , Blender and Allmusic gave the album 3 out of 5 stars.
Grammy nominations
Two songs from the album received Grammy nominations for the 2007 awards . Over my Head (Cable Car) received a nomination in the category Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals ; How to Save a Life was nominated in the category Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal . Both prizes, however, went to other artists ( Dani California from Red Hot Chili Peppers and My Humps from Black Eyed Peas ).
Sales figures
After its release on the US market, the album climbed into the top 15 of the album charts and sold more than 2 million copies. How to Save a Life became the best-selling digital album in January 2007 , shortly after becoming the best-selling album on iTunes music portal in 2006 . 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 purchased worldwide.
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Fray Live the High "Life" (English)
- ↑ Chart sources of the singles: DE ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , AT , CH , UK , US
- ↑ Chart sources of the album: DE ( Memento of the original from December 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , AT , CH , UK , US
- ↑ The Fray - How to Save a Life on RollingStone.com (English)
- ↑ Review on Allmusic.com (English)
- ↑ The Fray: 'How To Save A Life' Now The Biggest Selling Digital Album Of All Time! ( Memento of October 8, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
Web links
- How to Save a Life on The Fray ' s website (February 19, 2010 memento in the Internet Archive )
- How to Save a Life at Allmusic (English)