![]() ![]() Putting the list into further perspective, Susan Boyle's recent (albeit record-breaking) debut is already at number 56.įor better and for worse, Blunt gets to have the smuggest grin on his face. ![]() Williams is also the artist with the most albums – five – in the noughties' top 100. Eminem also topped the Americans' 10 year sales list, edging out the Beatles. The former Take That singer sold 12.18m albums between 1 January 2000 and 26 September 2009 (when data was last tabulated), followed by Westlife at 10.14m, Coldplay at 9.12m and Eminem at 8.01m. Counting across releases, and including back-catalogue sales, according to Music Week the trophy belongs to Robbie Williams. While James Blunt has every reason to celebrate, he was not in fact the decade's most successful act. In Britain, however, the Fabs only came in at number six with the rest of the UK's top 10 filled by Leona Lewis, David Gray, Coldplay, Scissor Sisters, Take That, and one more Dido record. In the United States, Americans had the decency to make the Beatles' compilation disc, 1, top of their 10-year chart. Blunt's 2004 debut, seen by some as an easy-listening masterpiece, by others as a banal and soppy travesty, beat out Dido's No Angel and Amy Winehouse's Back To Black to be named the noughties' most successful release by the Official Charts Company. Since then, Blunt has supported MSF by holding meet-and-greet auctions at many of his concerts.The markets will crash, the seas will rise, and the Four Horsemen will surely approacheth, because it's official – James Blunt's Back to Bedlam was the UK's bestselling album of the decade. While posted to Kosovo, Blunt was introduced to the work of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF or "Doctors Without Borders"). ![]() Worldwide, Blunt has sold over 18 million albums, and his debut album, Back to Bedlam, is the best-selling album of the 2000s in the UK.īlunt was an officer in the Life Guards, a cavalry regiment of the British Army, and served under NATO in Kosovo during the conflict there in 1999. Blunt's third studio album, Some Kind of Trouble, was released in November 2010. The following year, he released his second album All the Lost Souls (2007). ![]() After recording on the independent American label Custard Records, Blunt won two Brit Awards, two MTV Video Music Awards, two Ivor Novello Awards, and by 2006 was nominated for five Grammy Awards. His repertoire can be best described as a mix of acoustic-tinged pop, rock and folk. Real Name James Hillier Blount Profile James Hillier Blount (born 22 February 1974), better known by his stage name James Blunt, is an English singer-songwriter and former army officer, whose debut album, Back to Bedlam and single releases, including "You're Beautiful" and "Goodbye My Lover", brought him to fame in 2005. ![]()
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