Posted October 5, 200618 yr Snow Patrol move into US top five Source: Music Week Snow Patrol have become the first British guitar band in 13 years to break into the top five of the Billboard Hot 100 after climbing a place to five this week with Chasing Cars. The Polydor act, whose releases come out through Interscope in the States, have finally cracked the top five having been stuck at number six on the chart for the previous three weeks. The last UK bands to chart so high on the chart all managed to do so in 1993 – Duran Duran (Ordinary World) and UB40 ((I Can’t Help) Falling In Love), the latter spending seven weeks at number one. Since then the only UK acts to break into the top five have been solo artists such as Elton John and Mark Morrison, duos including Everything But The Girl and vocal pop acts All Saints and Spice Girls. Snow Patrol are only the fourth UK act in total to make the Hot 100 top five this century, although they are the third so far this year following James Blunt who spent a week at number one with You’re Beautiful and Natasha Bedingfield whose Unwritten peaked at five. Dido was the first UK artist to hit the Hot 100 top five since the millennium, peaking at three with Thank You in 2001. Chasing Cars’ US success has been notably helped by exposure for the track in the closing scene of the second season finale of ABC’s hit medical drama Grey’s Anatomy. The programme was seen in May in the States by 23.8m viewers. The band completed a US tour on September 30 and are due to return to the market later this year. Their album Eyes Open holds this week at its peak position of 29 on the Billboard 200.
October 6, 200618 yr ya it sbrilliant to see them starting to do well in america as we know how hard it is and look at all those other big names such as robbie williams and oasis who have failed there so well done to th eguys
