Don't Forget to Remember Me explained

Don't Forget to Remember Me
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Type:single
Artist:Carrie Underwood
Album:Some Hearts
Released:March 13, 2006 (U.S.)
Genre:Country
Length:4:00
Label:Arista Nashville
Producer:Mark Bright
Prev Title:Some Hearts
Prev Year:2005
Next Title:Before He Cheats
Next Year:2006

"Don't Forget to Remember Me" is a song written by Morgane Hayes (now known as Morgane Stapleton), Kelley Lovelace and Ashley Gorley, and recorded by American country music artist Carrie Underwood. It was released in March 2006 as the fourth single from Underwood's debut album, Some Hearts. It is also her second release to country radio. The song peaked at number two on the Billboard country charts in early 2006, and number 49 on the Billboard Hot 100. It has sold 403,000 copies.[1]

Content

Underwood tells a story of good-bye when she is ready to leave home after graduating high school. When she is 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.

Music video

In the music video, which was premiered on CMT on March 16, 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.

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the liner notes of Some Hearts.[2]

Chart performance

The song debuted at number 54 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. It entered the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 at number 98 after two weeks of being in the Top 30 on the country charts. It reached number two on Hot Country Songs and spent one week at that position.

Year-end charts

Commercial performance

As of August 13, 2013, the single has sold 403,000 copies and was certified gold by the RIAA.[4]

Awards

2007 ASCAP Country Music Awards

|-| align="center"|2007 ||align="center"| "Don't Forget to Remember Me" ||align="center"| Most Performed Song of the Year ||

Notes and References

  1. Ask Billboard: 'Idol'-izing Carrie Underwood, Lauren Alaina. Billboard. 23 October 2011.
  2. Some Hearts . Carrie Underwood . 2005 . CD . Arista Records/19 Recordings . 71197.
  3. Best of 2006: Country Songs . . . 2006. July 10, 2012.
  4. Web site: Gold & Platinum. Recording Industry Association of America.