If Everyone Cared
| "If Everyone Cared" | |
|---|---|
| Song | |
| B-side | "Too Bad"/"Someday" |
"If Everyone Cared" is a grammy nominated song, the sixth single released from Nickelback's All the Right Reasons, and the single released in Australia and the U.S. respectively ("Animals" was only released in Australia and the U.S., and "Rockstar" only in the UK and U.S.). It was released first in the UK, in 27 November, 2006 then in the U.S. in 28 November, 2006. The song entered inside the Top 40 on the ARIA Singles Chart on January 7, 2007. The song was then released in most other parts of the world in the beginning of 2007. It debuted at #50 on the Billboard Hot 100 in late January 2007, and climbed to #17. This makes All the Right Reasons the first Nickelback album to feature more than three top 20 singles in the United States. The song reached #1 on the Billboard Hot Adult Top 40 Tracks Chart.
It was announced that 100% of all digital sales for the song will be donated to the charities of Amnesty International, and the International Children's Awareness Canada.[1] This ties into the theme of the song and video of caring about something to work towards the improvement of human civilization.
"If Everyone Cared" has sold 1,110,819 downloads in the U.S. as of January 12, 2008.
The song was number 9 on VH1's Top 40 Videos of 2007.
Song meaning
The song discusses how people can change the world if everyone cared. In the video, it shows some people who changed the world by caring.
Music video
The band worked on the video for it with director, Dori Oskowitz. It begins with Nickelback in the studio playing the song. Scenes of this are intercut with images and videos of past social justice and human rights events, essentially when an individual "cared" and ended up changing the world. The people shown are Betty Williams, who led a march of 35,000 women to the gravesites of three Northern Irish children after witnessing their deaths, Bob Geldof starting up Live Aid, Peter Benenson igniting what would become known as Amnesty International, and Nelson Mandela leading South Africa to its first democratic election, (which would end the racist apartheid regime that had divided the country for 46 years). The video ends with a quote from Margaret Mead that reads "Never doubt that a small group of committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
Facts about the Song
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- When the song was in the Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart it was incorrectly labelled as "Someone That You're With" by Billboard.com, which happens to be the next track on the album.
- The song was used in several of the promos of NBC's hit drama Heroes during its hiatus in early 2007.
- A remix was created on April 17, 2007 using news sound bites and interviews from the Virginia Tech Massacre the day before. The remix was available for download and streaming at the Myspace website of a local Blacksburg, Virginia radio station WBRW-FM 105.3 The Bear, but is no longer present.[2].
- A Happy Hardcore remix of the song, entitled "I'm Alive", was made for the freeware dance game Mungyodance 2, by Renard. It is credited under one of his aliases versus the band (Emoticon vs Nickelback).
Charts
| Chart | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Billboard Hot 100 | 17 |
| Billboard Pop 100 | 12 |
| Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks | 37 |
| Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks | 17 |
| ARC Weekly Top 40 | 7 |
| Canadian BDS Airplay Chart | 1 |
| Canadian Singles Chart | 2 |
| Austrian Top 75 | 12 |
| Swiss Singles Chart | 19 |
| German Top 100 | 21 |
| Polish Singles Chart | 26 |
| Australian ARIA Singles Chart | 32 |
| United World Chart | 17 |
References
External links
- If Everyone Cared music video, published by Roadrunner Records