At the 49th Annual Grammy Awards in 2007 , " Chasing Cars " was nominated for Best Rock Song , and at the 2007 Brit Awards it was nominated for Best British Single . As of 2019 , the song has spent 111 weeks in the official UK top 75 , 166 in the top 100 and had sold over one million copies in the UK by October 2013 . It has also sold 3,900,000 copies in the US by January 2015 , making it one of the top best-selling rock songs in the digital era . In 2009 , UK music licensing body PPL announced that " Chasing Cars " was the most widely played song of the decade in the UK . Ten years later , it was revealed as the most-played song of the 21st century on UK radio
49th Annual Grammy Awards
49th Annual Grammy Awards
Chasing Cars