On April 24, 2007, the band released the first single "First Time" to radio stations for airplay. Initially, the song played as an hourly feature on Star 98.7 in Los Angeles for that day. Then the song was later released to all radio stations.
During the recording sessions for Who We Are, the band recorded several B-sides, such as "Keep the Change", "If This Is Goodbye", "Signs of Life", and "I Want You to Know". Most of these have appeared on various special edition, collector's edition, or international releases as bonus tracks. "If This Is Goodbye" received a proper release on the soundtrack to the motion picture Bratz. Another B-side, "High Away from You", was rumored to be included on the soundtrack to The Simpsons Movie, but these rumors were later identified to be untrue.
"Broken", the album's third single, appeared on the episode "Lay Your Hands on Me" of Grey's Anatomy, "In Birth and Death" of Criminal Minds and in "For Tonight You're Only Here to Know" of One Tree Hill. "Broken" also appeared on the Thanksgiving episode of General Hospital, in the 2009 Apple Movie Trailer "The Time Traveler's Wife", during a montage of Thanksgiving celebrations in Port Charles and during the final goodbye of loversNikolas Cassadine and Emily Quartermaine. This song has peaked at #83 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The official radio version of the song is available on iTunes.[1]
Following its release, Who We Are debuted on the Billboard 200 at number 14, selling approximately 49,000 copies in its first week.[2] As of December 13, 2008, the album has sold 526,724 copies in the US.[3] Who We Are has been certified Gold by the RIAA on October 22, 2008.[4] It has sold over three million copies worldwide to date.
The album has so far featured two top 40 hits with "First Time" and "Whatever It Takes." This is the band's first album to contain two top 40 hits and their first to have all three singles chart on the Billboard Hot 100.
Lifehouse held a contest to make a video for the song "Make Me Over".[5] The band gave 60 USC School of Cinematic Arts graduate students a chance to shoot the video. The music video has been made and it premiered at a gala event on December 5, 2008 at the Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hills, CA.[6]
There is a re-release of the album available in stores that contains two discs. The first disc contains all of the songs on the track listing of Who We Are. The second disc contains live versions of First Time, Hanging by a Moment, You and Me, From Where You Are, and Whatever It Takes. [7]
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