Don't Forget to Remember Me

This article is about the Carrie Underwood song. For the Bee Gees song, see Don't Forget to Remember.

"Don't Forget to Remember Me"
Single by Carrie Underwood
from the album Some Hearts
Released	March 13, 2006 (U.S.)
Format	Digital download
Genre	Country
Length	4:00
Label	Arista
Writer(s)	Morgane Hayes, Kelley Lovelace, Ashley Gorley[1]
Producer	Mark Bright
Carrie Underwood singles chronology
"Some Hearts" (2005) "Don't Forget to Remember Me" 2006 "Before He Cheats" 2006
Some Hearts track listing "Wasted" (1) "Don't Forget to Remember Me" (2) "Some Hearts" (3) Music video "Don't Forget To Remember Me" at CMT.com

"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 #2 on the Billboard country charts in early 2006, and #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 #54 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. It entered the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 at #98 after two weeks of being in the Top 30 on the country charts.

Chart (2006)	Peak position
US Billboard Hot 100[3]	49
US Country Songs (Billboard)[4]	2

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

References

1. ^ (2005) Album notes for Some Hearts by Carrie Underwood [CD booklet]. Arista Records/19 Recordings (71197).
2. ^ http://www.billboard.com/column/chartbeat/ask-billboard-idol-izing-carrie-underwood-1005430162.story#/column/chartbeat/ask-billboard-idol-izing-carrie-underwood-1005430162.story?page=1
3. ^ "Carrie Underwood Album & Song Chart History" Billboard Hot 100 for Carrie Underwood. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved February 10, 2011.
4. ^ "Carrie Underwood Album & Song Chart History" Billboard Country Songs for Carrie Underwood. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved February 10, 2011.