It won the 2011 Grammy award for Record of the Year and Song of the Year. "Need You Now" has received critical acclaim from music critics and is considered one of the best country songs of the 2000s. Hillary Scott commented on the song, saying that "All three of us know what it's like to get to that point where you feel lonely enough that you make a late-night phone call that you very well could regret the next day." Charles Kelley told The Boot that the band's record executives initially had concerns regarding using the lyrics "I'm a little drunk", but he convinced the executives to leave the content in the song. The lyrics describe placing a call to someone in the middle of the night due to being lonely and longing for companionship. "Weird Al" Yankovic included the chorus in " Polka Face", the polka medley from his 2011 album Alpocalypse. "Need You Now" has also been covered by several artists, including Adele with Darius Rucker, Boyce Avenue and Glee Cast.
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The song was used in television series such as Hellcats and The Glades. It has since sold over 6 million copies in the US. By April 17, 2011, the song became the ninth most downloaded song in history, moving five million copies, and surpassed Taylor Swift's " Love Story" as the most downloaded country song in history.
The trio re-recorded the song again in Simlish to accompany the release of the Sims 3 expansion pack Ambitions.
The song gained prominence internationally, in Europe and South America. The song was initially released only to the country radio format in the United States and Canada on August 24, 2009, but was remixed and re-released to all other formats domestically and internationally at the beginning of 2010. In the video the song has an extended piano intro, and features all members of the group acting out scenes related to the storyline. Ī music video was shot for the song, directed by Dave McClister.
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It's the band's only song to crack the Billboard Decade End, doing so at number 68. The single has been certified 11× platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). 2, the best position for a country song by a band on that chart since Lonestar's " Amazed" topped the tally at the beginning of the decade. For the chart week of November 30, 2010, the song became the group's highest-charting single on the Billboard Hot 100, reaching No. The song won Single of the Year and Song of the Year at the 2010 Academy of Country Music Awards, as well as Group Video of the Year at the 2010 CMT Music Awards. Thereafter, "Need You Now" crossed over onto various pop and adult contemporary music charts, becoming a top five hit in Canada, Ireland, and New Zealand, as well as a top ten hit in the Netherlands and Norway. 1 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart in late 2009. It won four Grammy Awards in 2011, including for Song of the Year and Record of the Year, the only country song to win both honors since " Not Ready to Make Nice" by the Dixie Chicks won in 2006. The song also served as their debut single in the UK and Europe, where it was released May 3, 2010. It serves as the lead-off single and title track to their second studio album of the same name, and was first released in the US on August 11, 2009, and it features lead vocals from both Scott and Kelley. The band co-wrote the song with Josh Kear, and produced it with Paul Worley. " Need You Now" is a song recorded by American country music trio Lady A (known at the time as "Lady Antebellum").
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