About Memorized (From "This Is Us")

This Is Us is an epic family saga that spans many decades, and, thanks to a couple of season 4 flash-forwards, you can add the 2040s to the era-hopping mix. The season premiere gave viewers disorienting introductions to all sorts of new characters whose ties to the Pearsons were illuminated later in the episode. One of the bigger jolts involved the lineage of a confident, struggling-yet-driven blind musician who eventually achieved great professional success, performing the song “Memorized” to an adoring crowd at L.A.’s Greek Theatre. (“Memorized” — which was written by This Is Us composer Siddhartha Khosla and Dawes frontman Taylor Goldsmith — resonated with viewers after the episode ended, rising to the No. 1 spot on the iTunes soundtrack chart and into the Top 20 of the all-genre U.S. song sales chart.)