March 13, 201610 yr Nice idea for a thread! Interesting to see how much the chart has changed in 10 years. To think that this chart is almost all physical sales whereas today's chart is made up of mostly streaming. I admire the greater variety of previous charts, but I do like the on-air-on-sale thing we've got going on now. Also interesting to see what's happened to the artists in the chart after 10 years. Eg. Pussycat Dolls disbanding, Girls Aloud getting tossed aside for Cheryl's solo career, Sugababes having another line up change. Madonna becoming a Radio 2 artist. Kanye West and Arctic Monkeys still going from strength to strength though.
March 13, 201610 yr 'Gold Digger' is an absolute classic, still sounding as good today as it did 10 years back.
March 13, 201610 yr Strange chart run for Kanye there, it's more like something from today would have with the re-entries.
March 13, 201610 yr Didn't Ministry of Sound have another version of this knocking about at the same time? They did! uZS_K31mWyY Edited March 13, 201610 yr by Vülker
March 13, 201610 yr #37 He was a soldier, than a singer and in 2007 he travelled back in time to 1973. He was wise, beautiful, high and now goodbye…
March 13, 201610 yr 37 40 12 James Blunt Goodbye My Lover Back To Bedlam | 2005 Chart Run: 11-9-9-13-18-19-23-27-21-26-40-37-39-53-59-45-53-53-78-76-84-95 Release date: 19-12-2005 Format: CDS Label: Atlantic/Custard Chart sales (as of this week): 80k+ Chart sales (as of 2006): 110k+ Chart sales (as of 2016): 230k+ Video here: wVyggTKDcOE Biography A former British Army officer, singer/songwriter James Blunt was a thoughtful performer with a knack for crafting melodic contemporary soft rock tunes. Born in Tidworth, Wiltshire, England in 1974 to a family with a long military history, Blunt entered the Army after graduating from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. Ultimately achieving the rank of captain, Blunt served with the NATO peacekeeping force in Kosovo and finished out his time in the military as a member of the Life Guard Regiment in the British Household Cavalry. Having long been interested in music, Blunt wasted no time in pursuing a pop career after leaving the Army. A subsequent performance at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, brought Blunt to the attention of 4 Non Blondes singer/producer Linda Perry, who signed Blunt to her Custard Records label. Released in 2005, Blunt's debut album, Back to Bedlam, and its hit single, You're Beautiful, were hugely successful — the single hit number one in over a dozen countries, and sold over ten million copies worldwide. Blunt toured for much of 2005 and 2006, then released the two-disc "odds and sods" live/documentary album Chasing Time: The Bedlam Sessions in 2006. He had been writing songs while on the road, and brought Back to Bedlam producer Tom Rothrock in again to record. (The songs featured writing collaborations with Mark Batson, Jimmy Hogarth. Steve McEwan, and Max Martin, while the recordings featured Blunt's live backing band.) His sophomore effort, All the Lost Souls — featuring the leadoff single "1973" — finally dropped in September 2007. Disillusioned by success and what he felt as a perceived loss of artistic credibility, Blunt took a break from music before coming back in 2010 with his third full-length effort Some Kind of Trouble, a more optimistic, spontaneous album influenced by '70s U.S. pop/rock, which sold well despite not being critically well-received. In 2012 he returned to the studio with Tom Rothrock to track his fourth album Moon Landing. Featuring "Miss America," Blunt's tribute to the late Whitney Houston, and the country-folk-influenced single Bonfire Heart, the record was scheduled for release in October 2013. - iTunes Chart history - Top 100 (Year peak title): 2005 44 Wisemen -1- 2005 01 You're Beautiful -2- 2005 16 High -3- 2005 09 Goodbye My Lover -4- 2006 23 Wisemen {2006 re-issue} 2007 04 1973 -1- 2007 57 Same Mistake -2- 2008 20 Carry You Home -3- 2010 26 Stay The Night -1- 2013 04 Bonfire Heart -1- 2014 42 Heart To Heart -2- 2014 90 Postcards -3- 2014 78 When I Find Love Again -4-
March 13, 201610 yr :hi: 2001 1- UPTOWN GIRL- Westlife (292,319) :heart: 2- IT WASN’’T ME- Shaggy Ft Rik Rok Ducent (214,000) 3- WHOLE AGAIN- Atomic Kitten (91,000) 5- TEENAGE DIRTBAG- Wheatus (43,000) :heart: :heart: 6- I’M LIKE A BIRD- Nelly Furtado (41,000) :heart: :heart: 8- MS JACKSON- Outkast (35,000) This is alright, leagues ahead of "Roses" & "Hey Ya" -- James Blunt *.* icon.
March 13, 201610 yr Gold digger still sounds like a classic :) really prefer the pre-super-KW-ego-days :)
March 13, 201610 yr does anyone know what kept this off #1?? http://www.officialcharts.com/charts/singl.../20050925/7501/
March 13, 201610 yr Goodbye My Lover - I kinda have a soft spot for this now but only because I haven't heard this in years. It got boring for me at the time though after a few weeks.
March 13, 201610 yr oh James Blount! his voice is just too nasal, can barely listen, although the song is probably her best, much better than You're Beautiful anyway
March 13, 201610 yr Wow, excellent longevity for 'Gold Digger'. I love 'Goodbye My Lover' so much :cry: Can't decide between this and 'High' as my favorite James Blunt song <3
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