"Chasing Pavements" is the second single from soul singer Adele. Adele performed the song on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross on December 7, 2007. It was released digitally in Ireland on January 13, 2008 and entered the Irish singles chart at number 26 through download sales alone. Having received a physical release, the single then leaped nineteen places to number seven, where it peaked. On 20 January, the single entered at number two in the UK singles chart on downloads alone.

It was also featured in two episodes of Hollyoaks—the first in a concluding scene of Hannah Ashworth's anorexia, the second in a beginning scene of Charlie Dean's custody battle.

The B-side to the single, "That's It. I Quit. I'm Movin' On.", is an acoustic cover of a Sam Cooke song.

Music video

The video which has earned a 2008 MTV Video Awards nomination for Best Choreography centres around a car crash occurring in Hyde Park. It was directed by Mathew Cullen of production company Motion Theory. EastEnders

It features two views of this: one the real-world view in which the occupants of the car are lying motionless on the pavement following the accident, and the other (during the choruses) in which the camera shows them from above.

In the second view, the couple 'come to life' and move as if standing up. The couple appear to reenact their relationship, from first meeting and the initial joy, then the despair caused by the woman having another lover, then forgiveness and rekindling the passion again before the accident. The music video finally ends with both being shown on stretchers, being wheeled away in different directions by ambulance crews tending to them.

Adele is not one of the car crash victims; instead she is an onlooker.