Evanescence’s mega-hit “Bring Me To Life” surpassed 1 billion views on YouTube this past February, and then in the fall the song garnered another distinction when it reached No. 1 on the U.S. iTunes chart some 19 years after its initial release.
The band commented on the achievement writing: “19 years and still going strong! Bring Me To Life is #1 on iTunes. Thank you for the love!”
The band’s 2003 album, “Fallen,” reached another milestone late last month when the album was was certified diamond by the Recording Industry Association Of America (RIAA) for sales and streams of ten million units in the United States. The album has sold more than 17 million copies around the world, and in addition to “Bring Me To Life,” yielded three more singles with “Going Under”, “My Immortal” and “Everybody’s Fool”. Evanescence also won Grammys in 2004 for “Best New Artist” and “Best Hard Rock Performance”.
Singer Amy Lee commented to Rock Sound on plans for the album’s 20th anniversary next year.
“I do have an idea (of what we’re doing),” she said. “It’s gonna take a little bit of work. But I think it probably won’t be what everybody expects. I think everybody just is, ‘Oh, why don’t you do a show that’s, like, [playing] the album front to back?’ We’ve been playing so many shows, I would rather do something that, to me… I don’t know. I don’t wanna give it away, in case it doesn’t work out. Maybe I’ll do nothing. Expect nothing, and then if I do something, you’ll be really, really grateful. [Laughs]”
She also talked about the renewed popularity of “Bring Me To Life.”
“It is satisfying,” she said. “And it’s cool now, because I remember a lot of the feeling in the beginning. It was so much about, like, ‘What’s next?’ And, ‘Are we gonna be able to make it?’ And, ‘Are we gonna be able to survive?’ And, ‘Are people gonna listen to our next song?’ And, ‘What about the next record?’ And just getting to the next place always.”
“There is an element to a song like ‘Bring Me To Life’ that didn’t exist before, which is this nostalgia,” she explained. “The song has grown live. It’s something that we’ve added to. But part of how it’s grown is with its history and with what it means to everybody in the room. It’s not something new; it’s just something that you already have known for so long that has a place in your heart. It’s just able to be more than it would have been then. So I, in a lot of ways, love it more than I did.”
