{"id":806792,"date":"2020-04-25T08:32:37","date_gmt":"2020-04-25T14:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=989997"},"modified":"2020-04-25T08:32:37","modified_gmt":"2020-04-25T14:32:37","slug":"see-chvrches-perform-elite-hit-forever-on-fallon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/see-chvrches-perform-elite-hit-forever-on-fallon\/","title":{"rendered":"See Chvrches Perform \u2018Elite\u2019 Hit \u2018Forever\u2019 on \u2018Fallon\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/c.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/chvrches\/\" id=\"auto-tag_chvrches\" data-tag=\"chvrches\">Chvrches<\/a> delivered a socially distanced performance of their song \u201cForever\u201d \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/chvrches-netflix-sync-revenue-984861\/\">recently featured in the Netflix hit <em>Elite<\/em><\/a> \u2014 on Friday\u2019s episode of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/the-tonight-show\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-tonight-show\" data-tag=\"the-tonight-show\">The Tonight Show<\/a><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Although the Chvrches members were in separate homes, Lauren Mayberry and company came together virtually for a colorful, cohesive rendition that provided the surprise hit with a makeshift music video.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Initially released in May 2018 on the band\u2019s third album <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/review-chvrches-super-size-their-epic-synth-pop-on-third-lp-love-is-dead-628511\/\"><em>Love Is Dead<\/em><\/a>, \u201cForever\u201d has seen a staggering resurgence in popularity in recent weeks thanks to the song\u2019s much-coveted placement in the Netflix Spanish-language series Elite.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/chvrches-netflix-sync-revenue-984861\/\"><em>Rolling Stone<\/em> recently reported<\/a>, since \u201cForever\u201d popped up on <em>Elite<\/em>\u2019s Season 3-opening episode, the song has seen a 900% increase in month-to-month Spotify streams, and the placement has led to dozens of new appearances on prominent streaming playlists and a 1,000% increase in user-generated content (UGC) YouTube videos.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Elite music supervisor Lynn Fainchtein told <em>Rolling Stone<\/em> of the selection process for the key scene, \u201cIt was very competitive initially; I send around 30 songs per episode to the producers and directors. I get music from tons of labels and publishers. \u2018Forever\u2019 is a song that worked well because it helped to tell the story of certain characters without being obvious.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/chvrches-elite-forever-fallon-989997\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chvrches delivered a socially distanced performance of their song \u201cForever\u201d \u2014 recently featured in the Netflix hit Elite \u2014 on Friday\u2019s episode of The Tonight Show. Although the Chvrches members were in separate homes, Lauren Mayberry and company came together virtually for a colorful, cohesive rendition that provided the surprise hit with a makeshift music [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-806792","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-13 00:25:04","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}