Don't Forget to Remember Me
"Don't Forget to Remember Me" is the fourth single from Carrie Underwood's debut album Some Hearts. Written by Morgane Hayes, Kelley Lovelace and Ashley Gorley, 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.[2]
Song description
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 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.
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.
Awards
2007 ASCAP Country Music Awards
| Year |
Nominated work |
Award |
Result |
| 2007 |
"Don't Forget to Remember Me" |
Most Performed Song of the Year |
Won |
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