44. Run—Leona Lewis
“Even if you cannot hear my voice
I’ll be right beside you, dear.”
Leona Lewis released her cover of Run in 2008, and it became the fastest-selling download ever in the UK (at the time). The original version of the track was first written and recorded by the Northern Irish alternative rock band Snow Patrol in 2003.
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The idea for the song first came to frontman Gary Lightbody after he fell down a flight of stairs while drunk one night. “I split my head open, and my eye was closed, and I lost a few teeth,” he later told reporters at Q Magazine.