Back to Bedlam

Back to Bedlam
Studio album by James Blunt
Publication (s)	2004
Label (s)	Custard Records
Format (s)	CD
Genre (s)	Folk rock
Title (number)	10
running time	39 min 22 s
occupation	-
production	Tom Rothrock Jimmy Hogarth Linda Perry
Studio (s)	-
chronology - Back to Bedlam All the Lost Souls

Back to Bedlam is the debut album by British musician James Blunt and was released in 2004 by Custard Records . The album was released in Germany in late summer 2005.

Emergence

Tom Rothrock produced and mixed the album, he and Jimmy Hogarth produced the song Wisemen , and Linda Perry the final track No Bravery . Blunt was involved in all of his songs as a songwriter.

Track list

1. High - 4:03 - James Blunt; R. Ross
2. You're Beautiful - 3:33 - James Blunt; S. Skarbek; A. Ghost
3. Wisemen - 3:42 - James Blunt; Jimmy Hogarth; S. Skarbek
4. Goodbye My Lover - 4:18 - James Blunt; S. Skarbek
5. Tears and Rain - 4:04 - James Blunt; Chambers
6. Out of My Mind - 3:33 - James Blunt
7. So Long, Jimmy - 4:24 - James Blunt; Jimmy Hogarth
8. Billy - 3:37 - James Blunt; A. Ghost; S. Skarbek
9. Cry - 4:06 - James Blunt; S. Skarbek
10. No Bravery - 4:00 - James Blunt; S. Skarbek

success

In Great Britain, sales of the album were initially quite sluggish, but it reached first place in the album charts in July 2005 and has now been named the best-selling British album of the year with 2,868,000 copies sold in 2005. The New Musical Express named it the "worst album of the year" anyway.

In the wake of the success of the single You're Beautiful , Back to Bedlam also took first place in many countries around the world. In Germany, Austria and Switzerland it was number 1 and with first place also reached the top ten of the US Billboard charts.

Singles

The songs High , Wisemen , You're Beautiful and Goodbye My Lover were released as singles in that order .

Blunt's singles were initially released with a B-side each, with High and Wisemen later released with other B-sides. Of You're Beautiful , there are different versions (for example, a version with the text "fucking high" and the censored version with "flying high").

From high two videos exist: In a Blunt is to see how he is first buried in the desert and later in a drunken state pursues a girl while playing in the second version in a kind of clinic guitar and noticeably in other scenes freed by a Forest is running. “High” was the anthem for T-Com's advertising campaign for the 2006 World Cup in Germany. In Europe, the song was also seen in a Vodafone commercial and in the US it was used for Hilton Hotels . Among other things, it was also used for the series Grey's Anatomy .

All music and making-of videos have been re-released on the Back to Bedlam: The Bedlam Sessions bonus DVD .

Sales figures and awards

Country / Region	Award	Sales
Awards for music sales (country / region, Award, Sales)
Argentina (CAPIF)	2 × platinum	80,000
Australia (ARIA)	9 × platinum	630,000
Belgium (BEA)	3 × platinum	150,000
Denmark (IFPI)	6 × platinum	240,000
Germany (BVMI)	9 × gold	900,000
Europe (IFPI)	6 × platinum	(6,000,000)
Finland (IFPI)	gold	13,158
France (SNEP)	diamond	750,000
Greece (IFPI)	2 × platinum	80,000
Ireland (IRMA)	14 × platinum	210,000
Italy (FIMI)	gold	50,000
Japan (RIAJ)	2 × platinum	400,000
Canada (MC)	6 × platinum	600,000
Mexico (AMPROFON)	gold	50,000
New Zealand (RMNZ)	7 × platinum	105,000
Netherlands (NVPI)	platinum	70,000
Austria (IFPI)	2 × platinum	60,000
Portugal (AFP)	2 × platinum	80,000
Sweden (IFPI)	2 × platinum	120,000
Switzerland (IFPI)	5 × platinum	200,000
Spain (Promusicae)	platinum	100,000
United States (RIAA)	3 × platinum	3,000,000
United Kingdom (BPI)	11 × platinum	3,300,000
All in all	4 × gold 88 × platinum 1 × diamond	11,048,000

Main article: James Blunt / Music Sales Awards

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://express.lineone.net/news_detail.html?sku=484
2. ↑ http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music/news/article352191.ece ( Memento of May 8, 2006 in the Internet Archive )

Web links

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