Grey's Anatomy is credited with bringing popularity to the song. The song became an "unofficial theme" for the other members of the Grey's Anatomy production after the episode aired, leading to the decision that the song would be used in the main promotion for the third season in the show. After its usage in the episode, the song became a minor Hot 100 hit. Alexandra then incorporated the song into the second season episode "Superstition". The song was first featured on ABC's Grey's Anatomy, after Alexandra Patsavas, the music supervisor for the show, saw the band perform in Los Angeles. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please reorganize this content to explain the subject's impact on popular culture, providing citations to reliable, secondary sources, rather than simply listing appearances. This article appears to contain trivial, minor, or unrelated references to popular culture. The song has sold over 4.7 million copies in the US as of January 2015. The song was the 25th most downloaded song of all time on iTunes as of February 2010. 56 on Rhapsody's list of the Top 100 Tracks of the Decade. 58 on Billboard's Hot 100 Songs of the Decade and No. 47 on Billboard's Top 100 Digital Tracks of the Decade. 24 on Billboard's Best Adult Pop Songs of the Decade, and No. The song only stayed at the top spot for a week but sales still proved strong after it fell from number 1. On March 29, "How to Save a Life" peaked at number 1 in Ireland, becoming their first and only number one single in the country to date. It eventually peaked at number four on the UK Singles Chart on April 8 and became Britain's eleventh biggest-selling song of 2007. Instead of its planned release date which was to be March 26, 2007, the single was physically released in the United Kingdom on February 28 and gradually rose up the chart, reaching number five on February 25, staying there for four weeks.
It debuted at number twenty nine on the UK Singles Chart on January 21, 2007, via downloads alone. "How to Save a Life" was a top five hit in Australia, Canada, Ireland, Italy, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom.ĭue to an early leak by BBC Radio 1 in the United Kingdom, where it was the band's debut single, the song was released in the territory five weeks earlier than planned.
The song is the band's first to achieve significant popularity outside of the United States. the cost of his lifestyle and his choices, and kind of relating them to my own life and my own stories seeing all the relationships I've threatened for one reason or another. His story was just amazing – all the relationships that he had put at risk because of the decisions he made, and eventually losing the relationships. I was paired up with one boy in particular. A friend of mine was actually the president for that particular school, so he asked Joe and I to come up for one of their weekend retreats. Well there's a group home here in Denver called Shelterwood, and it takes in teens who've had a tough time their parents don't want to send them to jail, but they can't keep track of them themselves. What's the story behind that?" Slade answered: The response has been overwhelming.ĭuring an interview in Sauce, Bob Wilson asked Slade, "'How to Save a Life' was apparently inspired by an experience you had as a mentor to a boy who had a drug problem. They played it at his funeral, and some of his friends got Save a life tattooed on their arms. I got a lot of e-mails about it (.) One boy died in a car accident, and I guess it had been the last song he downloaded from his computer. This arose from the response that Slade got from the song: They created a website where fans were welcome to submit music videos they had made for the song. While this was the original intent of the song, the band has opened the song to interpretation. In the chorus, the singer laments that he himself was unable to save a friend because he did not know how. The verses of the song describe an attempt by an adult to confront a troubled teen. He lost his best friend and could not deal with it. The boy was losing friends and going through depression. As Slade says in an interview, the boy's friends and family approached him by saying, "Quit taking drugs and cutting yourself or I won't talk to you again," but all he needed was some support.
Slade claims that the song is about all of the people that tried to reach out to the boy but were unsuccessful.
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And no one could write a manual on how to save him.
Here I was, a protected suburbanite, and he was just 17 and had all these problems. One of the youngsters I was paired up with was a musician. According to lead singer Isaac Slade, the song was composed and influenced by his experience while working as a mentor at a camp for troubled teenagers:
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