"Don't Forget to Remember Me" is the fourth single from Carrie Underwood

Carrie Underwood

Carrie Marie Underwood is an American country singer-songwriter and actress who rose to fame as the winner of the fourth season of American Idol, in 2005...

's debut album Some Hearts. Written by Morgane Hayes, Kelley Lovelace and Ashley Gorley

Ashley Gorley

Ashley Gorley is an American songwriter and producer. Gorley graduated from Belmont University in 1999, and in 2001 signed with Combustion Music...

, it is also her second release to country radio. The song peaked at #2 on the Billboard

Billboard (magazine)

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country charts in early 2006, and #49 on the Billboard Hot 100

Billboard Hot 100

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. It has sold 403,000 copies.

Song description

Underwood tells a story of good-bye when she is ready to leave home after graduating high school. When she is ready to leave the house to move on with her life, her mother tells her not to forget her. Underwood has to accept the fact that now she is living all by herself as she relates in her lyrics.

Music video

In the music video

Music video

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, which was premiered on CMT

CMT

- Medicine :* California mastitis test* Certified Massage Therapist* Cervical motion tenderness, a sign of pelvic inflammatory disease* Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease* Chemically modified tetracyclines* Circus Movement Tachycardia...

 on March 12, 2006 Underwood is shown walking off a bus and immediately signing autographs, as the song moves on Underwood, in her new house, has flashbacks of when she is loading up her Chevy with equipment and hugging her mother as she sings in the song "We were loading up that Chevy both tryin' not to cry." Underwood also sings while approaching a public telephone to call her mother and at the end of the music video she takes the stage and sings to an empty large auditorium.

Underwood's mother appears in the video as herself.

Chart performance

The song debuted at #54 on the Billboard

Billboard (magazine)

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Hot Country Songs

Hot Country Songs

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chart. It entered the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 at #98 after two weeks of being in the Top 30 on the country charts.
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Chart (2006)	Peak position

2007 ASCAP Country Music Awards

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