Chasing Pavements

"Chasing Pavements" is the second single from soul singer Adele. Adele performed the song on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross on 7 December 2007.[1] It was released digitally in Ireland on 13 January 2008 and entered the Irish singles chart at number 26 through download sales alone. Having received a physical release, the single then leaped nineteen places to number seven, where it peaked. On 20 January, the single entered at number two in the UK singles chart on downloads alone. Chasing Pavements was the 27th best selling single of 2008 in the UK, with over 280,000 sales. Oktober 2010 the single reentered the british top 10. On 3 December 2008, "Chasing Pavements" was nominated for Grammy Awards for Record of the Year and Song of the Year. It has won the Grammy for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.[2] It was featured in three episodes of Hollyoaks. The first was in a concluding scene of Hannah Ashworth's anorexia. The second was in a beginning scene of Charlie Dean's custody battle. The third was in a scene showing Dominic Reilly reflecting on Tina McQueen talking to him, which was aired on the 15 October. The song was also featured in Wild Child, starring Emma Roberts and the late Natasha Richardson. Adele performed "Chasing Pavements" along with "Cold Shoulder" on Saturday Night Live on October 18, 2008. The B-side to the single, "That's It. I Quit. I'm Movin' On.", is an acoustic cover of a Sam Cooke song. It remains Adele's biggest hit single in the USA to date, and the only one to reach the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100.