Collide (Howie Day song)

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"Collide"
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Single by Howie Day
from the album Stop All the World Now
ReleasedJune 1, 2004 (2004-06-01)
Genre
Length4:09
LabelEpic
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Youth
Howie Day singles chronology
"Perfect Time of Day"
(2004) 		"Collide"
(2004) 		"She Says"
(2005)

"Collide" is a song by American singer Howie Day. The song was written by Day and Better Than Ezra frontman Kevin Griffin, and the London Session Orchestra provided backing instrumentation on the initial album version of the song. "Collide" was released in the United States on June 1, 2004, as the second single from Day's second full-length album, Stop All the World Now (2003), and reached number 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 a year after its release, in June 2005.

Background and content[]

Howie Day collaborated with Griffin while writing this song. The song's lyrics are rooted in a relationship, with notes of the occasional adversity the two people involved may face.

Commercial performance[]

The popularity of "Collide" built slowly on U.S. radio, at first gaining the greatest success on Billboard's Adult Top 40 chart. Chart performance benefitted significantly from a reissue of Stop All the World Now in a special edition that included four bonus tracks, one being an acoustic version of the song that reached number 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

Music video[]

The music video was filmed in Toronto, Canada. The video features Day singing on the subway while recalling happy memories with his partner, interspersed with clips of Day playing guitar beneath a bridge.

Track listing[]

US and Australian promo CD[2][3]

  1. "Collide" (Chris Lord-Alge radio edit) – 4:07
  2. "Collide" (original album version) – 4:09

Charts and certifications[]

Release history[]

Region Date Format(s) Label(s) Ref.
United States June 1, 2004 (2004-06-01) Triple A radio Epic [12]
June 28, 2004 (2004-06-28) Hot adult contemporary radio [13]
January 24, 2005 (2005-01-24) Contemporary hit radio [14]
February 22, 2005 (2005-02-22) Adult contemporary radio [15]

Cover versions[]

In 2011, reggae singer Singing Melody covered the song on his album titled They Call Me Mr. Melody on the VP Records label. Singing Melody's cover of the song became number one on 4 international reggae charts.[16] The album also reached number six on the Billboard Reggae Chart.[17]

Daniel Evans, a finalist on The X Factor (UK), produced a country/pop cover on his YouTube channel in 2013 and was subsequently released on iTunes as track 3 of his self-produced Reflections EP.

In 2015, Sarah Charley, US communications manager for the Large Hadron Collider experiments at CERN with graduate students Jesse Heilman of the University of California, Riverside, and Tom Perry and Laser Seymour Kaplan of the University of Wisconsin, Madison created a parody video sung from the perspective of a proton in the Large Hadron Collider.[18]

In popular culture[]

"Collide" has since been used in promotion of various television series, including: What About Brian, Friday Night Lights, General Hospital, as well as the 2005 film adaptation of Pride & Prejudice, and the 2005 film The Perfect Man.

This song has also been featured during episodes of Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County, Ghost Whisperer, Scrubs, ER, Bones, Third Watch, Cold Case, One Tree Hill, Grey's Anatomy, Summerland and Joan of Arcadia. On General Hospital this was the song to which popular pairing Patrick and Robin, known as "Scrubs", first made on Memorial Day in 2006.

It was used as the theme song to the short-lived 2005 teen drama Palmetto Pointe.

The song was featured in Season 7 of So You Think You Can Dance, featuring Kent Boyd and Lauren Froderman.

The song was also used recently in the 2016 Christian drama film Miracles From Heaven.[19]

In 2015, after the US communications officer and three graduate students at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) shared a parody video of "Collide", Day made a new version of the song in a video during a visit to CERN.[20] The lyrics were changed to the perspective of a proton in the Large Hadron Collider.[21]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b Friedman, Uri (September 12, 2005). "Howie Day to headline Oct. concert in Irvine". The Daily Pensylvanian. Retrieved June 14, 2021.
  2. ^ Collide (US promo CD liner notes). Howie Day. Epic Records. 2004. ESK 56204.CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  3. ^ Collide (Australian promo CD liner notes). Howie Day. Epic Records. 2004. SAMP2707.CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  4. ^ "Howie Day Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard.
  5. ^ "Howie Day Chart History (Adult Alternative Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved May 1, 2019.
  6. ^ "Howie Day Chart History (Adult Contemporary)". Billboard.
  7. ^ "Howie Day Chart History (Adult Pop Songs)". Billboard.
  8. ^ "Howie Day Chart History (Pop Songs)". Billboard.
  9. ^ "Howie Day Chart History (Canadian Digital Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved May 1, 2019.
  10. ^ "Billboard Top 100 – 2005". Billboardtop100of.com. Retrieved May 1, 2019.
  11. ^ "American single certifications – Howie Day – Collide". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved May 1, 2019.
  12. ^ "Going for Adds" (PDF). Radio & Records. No. 1557. May 28, 2004. p. 24. Retrieved June 16, 2021.
  13. ^ "Going for Adds" (PDF). Radio & Records. No. 1561. June 25, 2004. p. 26. Retrieved June 16, 2021.
  14. ^ "Going for Adds" (PDF). Radio & Records. No. 1590. January 21, 2005. p. 23. Retrieved June 16, 2021.
  15. ^ "Going for Adds" (PDF). Radio & Records. No. 1594. February 18, 2005. p. 23. Retrieved June 16, 2021.
  16. ^ "Singing Melody - They Call Me Mr. Melody". islandfuse.com. March 28, 2012. Retrieved May 31, 2012.
  17. ^ "SINGINGMELODY #6 ON BILLBOARD REGGAE CHARTS". singingmelodymusic.com. March 18, 2012. Retrieved May 31, 2012.
  18. ^ "Howie Day records love song to physics". Symmetry Magazine. Retrieved November 26, 2018.
  19. ^ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4257926/soundtrack
  20. ^ "Musician Howie Day records love song to physics | CERN". home.cern. Retrieved November 26, 2018.
  21. ^ Mandelbaum, Ryan F. "Guy Who Wrote That 'You and I Collide' Song Sings Parody About the Large Hadron Collider". Gizmodo. Retrieved November 26, 2018.
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