Denver-based piano rock band The Fray performed a cover of "Heartless" for their Live Lounge performance on February 16, 2009. Following the premiere of their rendition on BBC Radio 1, it began to receive an unprecedented amount of radio airplay. The track was later included on their Live from SoHo album released onto iTunes on April 7, 2009. In absence of a single release, the band’s version of "Heartless" managed to enter the Billboard Hot 100 at number seventy-nine on May 21 based solely on downloads. The song has since became a staple at The Fray’s live shows and sold over 125,000 downloads in the United States alone. Due to overwhelming public demand, it was released as a digital single in the UK on September 14, 2009. The song was also included in the deluxe edition of their sophomore self-titled album, which was released on November 10, 2009. A music video of The Fray’s version of "Heartless" was released on September. The video showed a classroom full of elementary-level students with the video centering around one boy. He keeps glancing at a girl, as drawings appear on a piece of notebook paper in front of him. The band members as well as Kanye West are seen as simple drawn figures performing on the paper. The video implies that the girl was the ‘heartless’ one who hurt the boy.

Other Information

• Title : Heartless
• Artist : The Fray
• Album : Live from SoHo, The Fray
• Released : September 14, 2009
• Formats : Digital download, CD single
• Recorded : August 2009
• Genre : Piano rock
• Length : 4:14
• Label : Epic Records

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