Don't Forget to Remember Me
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{{Infobox song
| name = Don't Forget to Remember Me
| cover = Don't_Forget_to_Remember_Me_Carrie_Underwood.jpg
| border = yes
| type = single
| artist = Carrie Underwood
| album = Some Hearts
| released = March 13, 2006 (U.S.)
| recorded =
| studio =
- Electrokitty Recording (Seattle, WA){{cite AV media notes |title=Some Hearts |others=Carrie Underwood |year=2005 |type=CD |publisher=Arista Records/19 Recordings |id=71197}}
- Starstruck Studios (Nashville, TN){{cite AV media notes |title=Some Hearts |others=Carrie Underwood |year=2005 |type=CD |publisher=Arista Records/19 Recordings |id=71197}}
- The Plant Recording Studios (Sausalito, CA){{cite AV media notes |title=Some Hearts |others=Carrie Underwood |year=2005 |type=CD |publisher=Arista Records/19 Recordings |id=71197}}
| venue =
| genre = Country
| length = 4:00 (album version)
3:14 (radio edit)
| label = Arista Nashville
| writer = {{hlist|Morgane Hayes|Kelley Lovelace|Ashley Gorley}}{{cite AV media notes |title=Some Hearts |others=Carrie Underwood |year=2005 |type=CD booklet |publisher=Arista Records/19 Recordings |id=71197}}
| producer = Mark Bright
| prev_title = Some Hearts
| prev_year = 2005
| next_title = Before He Cheats
| next_year = 2006
| misc = {{External music video|{{YouTube|lmAi_qJoPbU|"Carrie Underwood - Don't Forget To Remember Me"}}}}
}}
"Don't Forget to Remember Me" is a song written by Morgane Hayes (now known as Morgane Stapleton), Kelley Lovelace and Ashley Gorley, and recorded by American country music artist Carrie Underwood. It was released in March 2006 as the fourth single from Underwood's debut album, Some Hearts. 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.{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/465548/ask-billboard-idol-izing-carrie-underwood-lauren-alaina|title = Ask Billboard: 'Idol'-izing Carrie Underwood, Lauren Alaina|magazine = Billboard|date = 23 October 2011}}
Content
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 16, 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.
Personnel
Credits are adapted from the liner notes of Some Hearts.{{cite AV media notes |title=Some Hearts |others=Carrie Underwood |year=2005 |type=CD |publisher=Arista Records/19 Recordings |id=71197}}
- Jim Van Cleve – fiddle
- J. T. Corenflos – electric guitar
- Eric Darken – percussion
- Morgane Hayes – background vocals
- Mike Johnson – steel guitar
- Steve Nathan – keyboards
- Jimmie Lee Sloas – bass guitar
- Adam Steffey – mandolin
- Biff Watson – acoustic guitar
- Lonnie Wilson – drums
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. It reached number two on Hot Country Songs and spent one week at that position.
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!Chart (2006) !Peak |
| {{singlechart|Billboardcanadacountry|4|artist=Carrie Underwood|accessdate=December 5, 2017}} |
| {{singlechart|Billboardhot100|49|artist=Carrie Underwood|accessdate=February 10, 2011}} |
| {{singlechart|Billboardcountrysongs|2|artist=Carrie Underwood|accessdate=February 10, 2011}} |
=Year-end charts=
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| scope="col"|Chart (2006)
!scope="col"|Position |
|---|
| US Country Songs (Billboard){{Cite magazine | url=http://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/2006/hot-country-songs| title=Best of 2006: Country Songs | magazine=Billboard | publisher=Prometheus Global Media | year=2006| accessdate=July 10, 2012}}
| align="center" | 13 |
Commercial performance
Awards
=2007 ASCAP Country Music Awards=
{{Awards table}}
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| align="center"|2007 ||align="center"| "Don't Forget to Remember Me" ||align="center"| Most Performed Song of the Year || {{won}}
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Certifications
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{{certification Table Entry|type=single|region=United States|artist=Carrie Underwood|title=Don%27t Forget to Remember Me|award=Gold|certyear=2013|certmonth=8|relyear=2005|access-date=January 10, 2014}}
{{Certification Table Bottom|noshipments=true|streaming=true | nosales=true}}
References
{{Reflist}}
{{Carrie Underwood singles}}
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Category:Carrie Underwood songs
Category:Music videos directed by Roman White
Category:Songs written by Ashley Gorley
Category:Arista Nashville singles
Category:Song recordings produced by Mark Bright (record producer)