If Everyone Cared

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“If Everyone Cared”
Single by Nickelback from the album All the Right Reasons
B-side	"Too Bad"/"Someday"
Released	November 28, 2006 December 2006 Early 2007 January 7, 2007
Format	CD single, Airplay, Digital download
Recorded	2005 in Abbotsford, BC, Canada
Genre	Alternative rock, power ballad
Length	3:38
Label	Roadrunner
Writer(s)	Chad Kroeger, Nickelback
Nickelback singles chronology
"Rockstar" (2006/2007) "If Everyone Cared" (2007) "Side of a Bullet" (2007)

"If Everyone Cared" is the sixth single released from Nickelback's All the Right Reasons, and the single released in Australia and the U.S. respectively ("Animals" was only released in Australia and the U.S., and "Rockstar" only in the UK and U.S.). It was released first in the UK, in 27 November 2006 then in the U.S. in 28 November 2006. The song entered inside the Top 40 on the ARIA Singles Chart on January 7, 2007. The song was then released in most other parts of the world in the beginning of 2007. It debuted at #50 on the Billboard Hot 100 in late January 2007, and has climbed to #17. This makes All the Right Reasons the first Nickelback album to feature more than three top 20 singles in the United States. The song has reached #1 on the Billboard Hot Adult Top 40 Tracks Chart.

It was announced that 100% of all digital sales for the song will be donated to the charities of Amnesty International, and the International Children's Awareness Canada.^[1] This ties into the theme of the song and video of caring about something to work towards the improvement of human civilization.

"If Everyone Cared" has sold 1,110,819 downloads in the U.S. as of January 12, 2008.

The song was number 9 on VH1's Top 40 Videos Of 2007.

[edit] Song meaning

The song discusses a very strong relationship between two people, who are always honest, supporting, and caring of each other. The chorus then describes the need for love and how the world would be better off "if everyone cared" for each other as the couple do. The song is also closely ascribed with school shootings such as Columbine shooting and the Virginia Tech massacre.

[edit] Music video

The band worked on the video for it with director, Dori Oskowitz. It begins with Nickelback in the studio playing the song. Scenes of this are intercut with images and videos of past social justice and human rights events, essentially when an individual "cared" and ended up changing the world. The people shown are Betty Williams, who led a march of 35,000 women to the gravesites of three Northern Irish children after witnessing their deaths, Bob Geldof starting up Live Aid, Peter Benenson igniting what would become known as Amnesty International, and Nelson Mandela leading South Africa to its first democratic election, (which would end the racist apartheid regime that had divided the country for 46 years). The video ends with a quote from Margaret Mead that reads "Never doubt that a small group of committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."

[edit] Facts about the Song

• When the song was in the Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart it was incorrectly labelled as "Someone That You're With" by Billboard.com, which happens to be the next track on the album.

• The song has been used in several of the promos of NBC's hit drama Heroes during its hiatus in early 2007.

• A remix was created on April 17, 2007 using news sound bites and interviews from the Virginia Tech Massacre the day before. The remix was available for download and streaming at the Myspace website of a local Blacksburg, Virginia radio station WBRW-FM 105.3 The Bear, but is no longer present.^[2].

• A Happy Hardcore remix of the song, entitled "I'm Alive", was made for the freeware dance game Mungyodance 2, by Renard. It is credited under one of his aliases versus the band (Emoticon vs Nickelback).

[edit] Charts

[edit] References

1. ^ IGN: Nickelback Do A Good Deed
2. ^ 105.3 The Bear on MySpace

[edit] External links

• If Everyone Cared music video, published by Roadrunner Records