Aled Jones

Aled Jones at Waterstone’s in 2006

Aled Jones MBE (born December 29, 1970 in Bangor ) is a Welsh pop and classical music singer and radio host .

biography

Aled Jones had his first successes in the pop business as a 15-year-old. With his debut album All Through the Night he rose to number 2 in the UK charts and with a re-recording of the song Walking in the Air , which was previously released on the soundtrack of the cartoon The Snowman , he reached the top 5 in the single charts . In the same year he was also represented on the single Pictures in the Dark by Mike Oldfield . In the following two years he had a few more successful albums, then the broken voice interrupted his career. Jones studied at the Royal Academy of Music in the following years and appeared in the musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat in 1995 . After that he was also a presenter for classic programs at Classic FM and the BBC .

In the early 2000s, he began again with album releases, which were regularly placed in the charts.

In June 2013 he was awarded the MBE by Queen Elizabeth II for his services .

His daughter Emilia Jones (* 2002) works as an actress.

Discography

Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)	Remarks
		UK
1985	All through the night	UK2 platinum (44 weeks)UK	Sales: + 300,000
	Aled Jones and the BBC Welsh Chorus	UK11 gold (10 weeks)UK	Sales: + 100,000
	Voices from the Holy Land	UK- platinum UK	Sales: + 300,000
1986	Where E'er You Walk	UK36 (6 weeks) UK
	Pie of Jesus	UK25th silver (16 weeks)UK	Sales: + 60,000
	An Album of Hymns	UK18th gold (11 weeks)UK	Sales: + 100,000
1987	Aled (Music from the TV Series)	UK52 silver (6 weeks)UK	Sales: + 60,000
2002	Aled	UK27 gold (13 weeks)UK	Sales: + 100,000
2003	Higher	UK21st gold (13 weeks)UK	Sales: + 100,000
2004	The Christmas Album	UK28 gold (5 weeks)UK	Sales: + 100,000
2005	New Horizons	UK21st silver (6 weeks)UK	Sales: + 60,000
2007	Reason to believe	UK15 (5 weeks) UK
2010	Aled's Christmas Gift	UK69 (3 weeks) UK
2011	Forever	UK46 (2 weeks) UK
2014	The Heart of It All	-
2016	One Voice	UK3 silver (13 weeks)UK	Sales: + 60,000
	One Voice at Christmas	UK22nd silver (5 weeks)UK	Sales: + 60,000
2017	One Voice: Believe	UK17 (6 weeks) UK
2018	In harmony	UK8th gold (9 weeks)UK	with Russell Watson ; Sales: + 100,000
2019	Back in Harmony	UK7 (10 weeks) UK	with Russell Watson

Compilations

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)	Remarks
		UK
1987	The best of	UK59 silver (5 weeks)UK	Sales: + 60,000
2006	You Raise Me Up - The Best of	UK63 silver (4 weeks)UK	Sales: + 60,000

More compilations

• 2009: Aled Jones - The Ultimate Collection

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)	Remarks
		UK
1985	Memory	UK42 (4 weeks) UK
	Walking in the air	UK5 silver (16 weeks)UK	Sales: + 200,000
1986	A winter story	UK51 (4 weeks) UK
1987	Walking in the Air (1987)	UK92 (1 week) UK
2009	Silver Bells / Me and My Teddy Bear	UK27 (3 weeks) UK	with Sir Terry Wogan

Guest Posts

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)				Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK
1985	Pictures in the Dark	DE4 (15 weeks) DE	AT3 (12 weeks) AT	CH5 (11 weeks) CH	UK50 (7 weeks) UK	Mike Oldfield feat. Aled Jones, Anita Hegerland & Barry Palmer

swell

1. ^ Order of the Companions of Honor
2. ↑ Rebecca Hardy: My girl's a child star! Aled Jones, the boy soprano who enchanted the nation, says he's the worried parent now. In: dailymail.co.uk. October 21, 2011, accessed January 29, 2020 . 
3. ↑ The Turn Of The Screw, Almeida Theater. In: standard.co.uk. January 25, 2013, accessed January 29, 2020 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b c d} Chart sources: DE AT CH UK
5. ↑ ^{a b c d} Awards: UK

Web links

Commons : Aled Jones  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website (English)
• Aled Jones in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Aled Jones at Allmusic (English)