Eyes Open

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Eyes Open
Eyes Open cover
Studio album by Snow Patrol
Released May 1, 2006
Recorded October - December 2005
Genre Alternative rock
Length 45:00
Label Interscope Records
Producer(s) Jacknife Lee
Professional reviews
Snow Patrol chronology
Live and Acoustic at Park Ave.
(2005)		 Eyes Open
(2006)		 TBA

Eyes Open is Snow Patrol's fourth album. It was released May 1, 2006 internationally, and May 9, 2006 in the United States. The first UK single, "You're All I Have", was released on April 24, 2006; The first U.S. single was "Hands Open." The "Special Edition" of the album features a bonus DVD featuring the video for "You're All I Have," the making of the video, and behind-the-scenes footage of the band. Copies of the album leaked onto the Internet in mid-April on various torrent and P2P sites. It was the best selling album in the UK in 2006, selling 1.6 million copies.

Contents

The title suggests an amalgamation of several lines, and a theme across the album, including lines in the songs "Hands Open", "Chasing Cars", "Shut Your Eyes" and "Open Your Eyes".

The album's third track, "Chasing Cars", was featured on the dramatic second season finale of the ABC prime time hit drama Grey's Anatomy on May 15, 2006. A Grey's Anatomy-themed video of the song can be seen at the ABC website. The album sold 36,191 units in its debut week throughout the U.S., substantially improving from their first week sales of Final Straw. U.S. sales have totaled over 900,000 as of February 2007.[1]

The album hit #1 in its 11th week on the New Zealand chart and reached 2x Platinum there for shipping over 30,000 units.[2] In the UK the album sold over 1,500,000 copies being certified 5x Platinum by the BPI. It has also reached #1 in the ARIA Albums Chart, and was certified 3x Platinum on January 8, 2007 (210,000+ units shipped). On November 26, 2006, it became the UK's best-selling album of the year, selling 1.6 million copies.

  1. "You're All I Have" – 4:33
  2. "Hands Open" – 3:17
  3. "Chasing Cars" – 4:27
  4. "Shut Your Eyes" – 3:17
  5. "It's Beginning to Get to Me" – 4:35
  6. "You Could Be Happy" – 3:02
  7. "Make This Go on Forever" – 5:47
  8. "Set the Fire to the Third Bar" (featuring Martha Wainwright) – 3:23
  9. "Headlights on Dark Roads" – 3:30
  10. "Open Your Eyes" – 5:41
  11. "The Finish Line" – 3:28
  12. Untitled (UK and Japan bonus track) – 3:55
  13. "In My Arms" (UK and Japan bonus track) – 4:36
  14. "Warmer Climate" (UK and Japan bonus track) – 4:08
  15. "Spitting Games (live)" (Japan bonus track)
  16. "Hands Open (live)" (Japan bonus track)
  17. "You're All I Have (live)" (Japan bonus track)

The untitled track is a recording of background noise and one of Jacknife Lee's young children talking.

  • Lyrics by Gary Lightbody, music by Lightbody/Connoly/Simpson/Quinn/Wilson, published by Big Life Music Ltd.
  • Produced by Jacknife Lee for Big Life Management.
  • Mixed by Cenzo Townshend except "Shut Your Eyes", "You Could Be Happy" & "The Finish Line" mixed by Jacknife Lee for Big Life Management.
  • Assistant mix engineer: Owen Skinner except "Shut Your Eyes", "You Could Be Happy" & "The Finish Line."
  • All songs engineered by Tom McFall, except "The Finish Line" engineered by Jacknife Lee for Big Life Management.
  • Additional engineering by Sam Bell on all tracks except "The Finish Line."
  • Assisted by Stefano Soffia. "You're All I Have", "Hands Open", "Chasing Cars" & "Make This Go On Forever" assisted by Stefano Soffia & Simon Wakeling.
  • Snow Patrol is Gary Lightbody, Nathan Connolly, Tom Simpson, Jonny Quinn, Paul Wilson.
  • Additional keyboards and programming by Jacknife Lee.
  • Strings on "Chasing Cars", "You Could Be Happy", "Make This Go On Forever" & "Open Your Eyes" by Janice Graham, Paul Willey, Warren Zielinski, Mia Cooper, Ursula Gough, Richard Milone, Rebecca Hirsch, Charles Stewart, Maya Magub, Steve Morris, Karin Leishman, Pauline Lowbury, Richard George, Beatrix Lovejoy, Timothy Grant, Maxine Moore, William Hawkes, Matthew Souter, Caroline Dale, Caroline Dearnley, Adrian Bradbury, Zoe Martelew, Leon Bosch, Ben Russell. Strings conracted by Hilary Skewes for Buick Production Ltd. Arranged by James Banbury. Led by Janice Graham. Recorded by Steve Pryce.
  • Strings on "You Could Be Happy" by Everton Nelson, Janice Graham, Louisa Fuller, Lucy Williams, Anya Ullman and James Banbury. Recorded by Pete Hoffman. Assisted by Ferg Peterkin. Arranged by James Banbury. Music box made by Dr Eliza Chuckley. Assisted by Friendly Seems.
  • Choir on "Hands Open", "Shut Your Eyes", "Make This Go On Forever" & "Open Your Eyes": Richard Reader, Fay Russell, Sarah Wilson, Hrafnhildur Halldorsdottir, Stacey Sievwright, David McGinty, Paul Archer, Iain Archer, Ciarin Gribbin, Jenny Reeve, Eugene Kelley, Claire Scott and Charlie Clarke. Recorded by Tom McFall at The Arches, Glasgow.
  • Vocals on "Set The Fire To The Third Bar" by Martha Wainwright. Martha Wainwright appears courtesy of Drowned In Sound, Maple, Rounder, Shock, V2.
  • Backing vocals on "You're All I Have" by Iain Archer, Paul Archer and Jacknife Lee.
  • Recorded at Grouse Lodge Studios, Ireland; The Garage, Kent; The Garden, London; Angel Studios, London.
  • Mixed at Olympic Studios, London and The Garage, Kent.
  • Mastered by John Davies at Alchemy Soho, London.
  • Compiled by Nigel Walton at The Edit Suite.
  • Art direction by Mat Maitland with Richard Andrews at Big Active.
  • Images by Mat Maitland.
  • Photography by Dan Tobin Smith.
  • Management: Jazz Summers, Tim Parry and Tara Richardson at Big Life Management.

Chart Provider(s) Peak
position		 Sales Certification
Australia album chart ARIA 1 210,000 3x Platinum
Austria Album Chart IFPI Austria 3 15,000 Gold
Belgium Album Chart IFPI 9
Dutch Album Chart MegaCharts BV/NVPI 26
Europe IFPI 2 2,000,000 2x Platinum
France Album Chart IFPI 67
Germany Album chart Media Control 1 100,000 Gold
Ireland Album Chart IRMA 1
New Zealand album Chart RIANZ 1 45,000 3x Platinum
Swedish Album Chart GLF 16
Swiss Album Chart Media Control Europe 15 15,000 Gold
UK Official album chart BPI/The Official UK Charts 1 1,800,000 6x Platinum
U.S. Billboard 200 Billboard 27 943,301[citation needed] Platinum
U.S. Billboard Comprehensive Albums Billboard 27
United World Chart Media Traffic 6 3,864,000 Platinum
United World Chart +7.5% Media Traffic doesn't cover 6 4,153,800 2x Platinum

United World Chart[1]
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
Position
6
9
17
25
24
31
39
34
28
29
25
21
15
Sales
148,000
129,000
82,000
66,000
59,000
52,000
49,000
44,000
44,000
54,000
60,000
68,000
72,000
Total
148,000
277,000
359,000
425,000
484,000
536,000
585,000
629,000
673,000
727,000
787,000
855,000
927,000
Week 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
Position
13
16
14
15
20
21
25
18
20
20
26
22
26
Sales
82,000
90,000
82,000
81,000
74,000
77,000
76,000
79,000
74,000
73,000
77,000
81,000
83,000
Total
1,009,000
1,099,000
1,181,000
1,262,000
1,336,000
1,413,000
1,489,000
1,568,000
1,642,000
1,715,000
1,792,000
1,873,000
1,956,000
Week 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39
Position
31
27
26
23
16
12
13
13
13
21
21
19
15
Sales
104,000
112,000
139,000
191,000
282,000
132,000
88,000
68,000
68,000
64,000
63,000
68.000
95.000
Total
2,060,000
2,172,000
2,311,000
2,502,000
2,784,000
2,916,000
3,004,000
3,072,000
3,140,000
3,204,000
3,267,000
3,335,000
3,430,000
Week 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52
Position
11
16
28
31
Sales
81,000
72,000
58,000
59,000
Total
3,511,000
3,583,000
3,641,000
3,700,000

UK Album Chart
Week 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Position
1
2
4
3
4
9
10
12
12
11
6
6
2
3
2
3
1
2
1
4
4
5
7
5
5
9
13
20
12
12
UK Album Chart
Week 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60
Position
16
14
7
7
3
3
4
6
  • Total UK sales: 1,751,000

  1. ^ United World Chart albums.
Snow Patrol
Gary Lightbody | Paul Wilson | Jonny Quinn | Nathan Connolly | Tom Simpson
Mark McClelland
Discography
Studio albums: Songs for Polarbears | When It's All Over We Still Have to Clear Up | Final Straw | Eyes Open
Extended plays: | Starfighter Pilot | Live and Acoustic at Park Ave.
Singles: "Little Hide" | "One Hundred Things You Should Have Done in Bed" | "Velocity Girl/Absolute Gravity" | "Starfighter Pilot/Remixes" | "Ask Me How I Am" | "One Night Is Not Enough" | "Spitting Games" | "Run" | "Chocolate" | "How to Be Dead" | "You're All I Have" | "Hands Open" | "Chasing Cars" | "Set the Fire to the Third Bar" | "Open Your Eyes"
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