Don't Forget to Remember Me
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- For the Bee Gees song, see Don't Forget to Remember.
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| Single by Carrie Underwood from the album Some Hearts |
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| Released | March 2006 (U.S.) | ||||
| Format | Digital download | ||||
| Genre | Country, pop | ||||
| Length | 4:00 | ||||
| Label | Arista Records | ||||
| Writer(s) | Morgan Hayes, Kelley Lovelace, Ashley Gorley | ||||
| Producer | Mark Bright | ||||
| Certification | — | ||||
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"Don't Forget to Remember Me" is the fourth single from Carrie Underwood's seventuple-platinum debut album Some Hearts, and is the only country single released by Underwood to not reach number 1 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs only making it to number 2. Underwood performed this single live on American Idol during the fifth season's finale on May 24, 2006. At her concert in Duluth, GA at the Arena at Gwinnett Center on April 24th, 2008 she went into tears in the middle of the second chorus. She apologized and carried on with the song.
[edit] Song description
In this country music track, Underwood tells a story of good-bye when she is ready to leave home after graduating High School. When she's ready to leave the house to move on with her life, her mother tells her not to forget her. Underwood has to accept the fact that now she is living all by herself as she relates in her lyrics.
[edit] Music video
In the music video, which was premiered on CMT on March 12, 2006 Underwood is shown walking off a bus and immediately signing autographs, as the song moves on Underwood, in her new house, has flashbacks of when she is loading up her Chevy with equipment and hugging her mother as she sings in the song "...We were loading up that Chevy both tryin' not to cry..." Underwood also sings while approaching a public telephone to call her mother and at the end of the music video she takes the stage and sings to an empty large auditorium.
Underwood's mother appears in the video as herself.
[edit] Chart performance
The song debuted on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 after two weeks of being in the Hot Country Songs top thirty, at number ninety-eight. By the time of Underwood's performance on the season finale of American Idol, "Don't Forget to Remember Me" was just outside the U.S. top fifty. The song proved to be another hit as it reached #1 on the Radio And Records Country Chart and has peaked at #2 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs Chart.
| Chart (2006) | Peak position |
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| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 49 |
| U.S. Billboard Country Singles | 2 |
| U.S. Radio & Records Country | 1 |
| Canada BDS Airplay | 27 |
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