It was also the most-played song of 2005, earning him an Ivor Novello Award. Not that James is too bothered though, after it racked up 1.4 million sales and streams - 829,000 of those as pure sales - and it shifted over three million copies in the U.S. You're Beautiful spent five weeks at Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart during the summer of 2005, but has also been named as one of the worst songs ever recorded, which is about as swings and roundabouts as it gets. And then the stalker kills himself.' Lovely! Blunt has claimed You’re Beautiful is about a number of things over the years – seeing an ex-girlfriend with a new paramour on the tube, where their eyes meet and “(we) lived a lifetime in that moment”, which is a slightly more romantic inspiration than 'It’s about a guy (me) who’s high and stalking someone else’s girlfriend on the subway. You’re Beautiful (2005)Ĭo-written by Blunt with Sacha Skarbek and Amanda Ghost, You’re Beautiful was the second single released off Back To Bedlam and was the definition of a slow-burner at that point. Here, we look at his biggest successes in the UK Official Singles Chart.

To celebrate his career so far, he’s put together a Best of album entitled The Stars Beneath My Feet (2004 – 2021), which is a 24-track round-up which features four new songs. His 17-year career has also seen him win BRIT Awards, Ivor Novellos, as well as receiving five Grammy Award nominations. Since he broke into the pop landscape in 2004, the man born James Hillier Blount has clocked up a reported 23 million album sales worldwide, including 3.4 million for his debut album Back To Bedlam in the UK alone (the best-selling album of 2005). The easy, fast & fun way to learn how to sing: 30DaySinger.Ex-military officer, Twitter legend, pub landlord and million-selling pop star – James Blunt has, you could say, been everything. The Q indivi+ Remix, featuring Japanese performer Keri, was issued on 28 March 2012. In 2012, a new version of the single was issued in Japan. It remains Blunt's biggest hit single in the United States to date, and his only one to reach the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100. The song has sold 625,000 copies in the United Kingdom as stated by the Official Charts Company, and by October 2012 over three million in the United States. In 2006, the song won an Ivor Novello Award for airplay. When released as the debut single from Back to Bedlam in Canada and the United States, it reached number one on both charts and received widespread airplay. In the United Kingdom and Australia, the song reached number one and number two respectively. It was released as the second single from the album in 2005. It was written by Blunt, Sacha Skarbek and Amanda Ghost for Blunt's debut album, Back to Bedlam (2004). 'You're Beautiful' is a song by English singer-songwriter James Blunt.

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