Following its appearance on the popular television show, Jules's cover of the song rose to #11 on the iTunes Store. It was used in the trailer for the 2010 film The Crazies and the Cavaliers Drum and Bugle Corps' 2010 Production "Mad World".Īdam Lambert sang a cover of "Mad World" that was heavily influenced by Jules's version at two different points in his American Idol competition, as well as during the American Idols Live! 2009 tour. The cover also featured as background music in various television programs such as drama General Hospital, as well as individual episodes of Without a Trace, The O.C., Smallville, Jericho, and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. This timing allowed it to become the Christmas Number One single in the UK for that year. Jules recorded a cover of the song "Mad World" by Tears For Fears for the 2001 film Donnie Darko and released it as a single in December 2003. Since then, Jules's version has been used on many American TV shows such as CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Jericho, The O.C., Smallville and House, as well as in a commercial for Lloyd's Bank in 2016 featuring a horse galloping through different stages in peoples lives.
It became the UK Christmas Number One single of 2003.
(born March 19, 1969), known as Gary Jules, is an American singer-songwriter, known solely for his cover version of the Tears for Fears song "Mad World", which he recorded with his friend Michael Andrews for the film Donnie Darko.
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