How Far We've Come

How Far We've Come

Infobox Single |
Name = How Far We've Come


Artist = Matchbox Twenty
from Album = Exile on Mainstream
Released = September 4 2007
Format = CD single
Recorded = 2007
Genre = Alternative rock
Length = 3:29
Label = Atlantic
Writer = Rob Thomas, Paul Doucette, Kyle Cook, Brian Yale
Producer = Steve Lillywhite
Last single = "All I Need" (2004)
This single = "How Far We've Come" (2007)
Next single = "These Hard Times" (2008)Extra chronology 2
Artist = Matchbox Twenty Australian singles
Type = singles
Last single = "All I Need" (2004)
This single = "How Far We've Come" (2007)
Next single = "All Your Reasons" (2008)

"How Far We've Come" is the lead single from Matchbox Twenty's retrospective collection, "Exile on Mainstream", which was released on October 2 2007. The music video premiered on VH1's Top 20 Countdown on September 1 2007.Fact|date=September 2007 The CD single comes with two live covers as b-sides; "Remedy" by The Black Crowes and "Modern Love" by David Bowie. [Paul Cashmere, [http://www.undercover.com.au/News-Story.aspx?id=2677 "Matchbox Twenty Do Black Crowes and Bowie"] , undercover.com.au, August 21, 2007.] These 2 songs are also on the Best Buy version of "Exile on Mainstream".

In December 2007, the title track was used in promotions for the 2008 programs on both The Discovery Channel, History Channel and the Sci Fi Channel and also by NASCAR for their 60th Anniversary promotions, complete with videos of notable races.

The song is used prior to New York Mets games at Shea Stadium in 2008 to commemorate the final year for the venue, set to be replaced by Citi Field at the end of the season, the song is also played prior to announcing the starting lineup at San Diego Padres home games, with the scoreboard showing a montage of highlights of that franchises 40-year history. The song was used in a promo for season 2 of "The Riches", a trailer for Role Models and at a rally for Barack Obama in Seattle, Washington.

Track listing

CD Single
# "How Far We've Come"
# "Remedy" (Live)
# "Modern Love"

Chart performance

The single debuted at #93 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, but after being released digitally, it jumped to #12 - making it the second-biggest jump of 2007 behind Beyoncé and Shakira's "Beautiful Liar" (which jumped 91 spots). [Katie Hasty, [http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003639925 "Soulja Boy Remains No. 1 Amid Static Top Four"] ,hi wuts up! Billboard.com, September 13, 2007.] It peaked at #11 on the U.S "Billboard" Hot 100. It also reached #3 on the U.S. Adult Top 40. On the Australian ARIA Singles Chart it debuted at #8, becoming their most successful single in Australia since the band's 1996 breakout hit "Push." It later rose to #7 there, becoming the band's highest charting single there. In Canada it reached the top five, and it peaked at #11 in New Zealand.

Charts

Music video

The music video is a 3 minute and 26 second montage of many historical events around the world, tying in with the lyrics on human affairs and its role in cultural development. The video debuted on VH1's top twenty countdown on September 1, 2007. It contains many events important in the world in the past century, good or bad, in a roughly chronological order. The events are:
* Scenes from the Civil Rights Movement (1950s)
* Astronauts on the moon (1969)
* John F. Kennedy's election campaign (1961)
* Muhammad Ali winning a boxing match (1960s)
* Woodstock Festival (1969)
* Women marching for equal rights (1970s)
* Pelé in a soccer match
* The tearing down of the Berlin Wall (1989)
* Tiananmen Square protests of 1989
* Early personal computers on an assembly line (1970s, 1980s)
* Live Aid (1985)
* New Year's celebrations across the world at the beginning of the 21st century (including Egypt, Paris) (2000)
* Princess Diana in Angola (1997)
* The Oslo Accords (1993)
* Live Earth including Al Gore (2007)
* Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, Democratic candidates for the 2008 United States presidential campaign

The video ends with many of the clips flashing quickly across the screen in reverse order at the end of the song.

The video peaked at number 2 on VH1's VSpot Top 20 Countdown on November 3, 2007.

References

http://top40.entertainmenthit.com/Top_40_Countdown.html

External links

* [http://www.matchboxtwenty.com/ Matchbox Twenty official website]


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