Charlotte Church

Charlotte Church in London (2013)

Charlotte Church (* 21st February 1986 in Llandaff , Cardiff as Charlotte Maria Reed ) is a Welsh singer-songwriter , actress and presenter .

life and career

Church signed her first recording contract at the age of twelve, after which she came to great popularity with the 1998 debut album Voice of an Angel . Other albums followed with Charlotte Church (1999) and Enchantment (2001). She also sang the credits song All Love Can Be for A Beautiful Mind , which won four Oscars in 2001 . In July 2005 her pop album Tissues and Issues was finally released .

From 2006 to 2008 Church had her own show on British television, the Charlotte Church Show .

Church was dating her Welsh compatriot and rugby player Gavin Henson from 2005 to 2010 . She gave birth to a daughter on September 20, 2007 and a son on January 11, 2009.

Discography

Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1998	Voice of an Angel	DE51 (7 weeks) DE	-	CH42 (3 weeks) CH	UK4th × 2 Double platinum (29 weeks)UK	US28 × 2 Double platinum (77 weeks)US
1999	Charlotte Church	DE84 (1 week) DE	-	CH65 (1 week) CH	UK8th platinum (11 weeks)UK	US40 platinum (28 weeks)US
2000	Dream a Dream	-	-	-	UK30th gold (6 weeks)UK	US7th platinum (12 weeks)US
2001	Enchantment	-	-	-	UK24 gold (10 weeks)UK	US15th gold (20 weeks)US
2005	Tissues and Issues	-	-	-	UK5 gold (33 weeks)UK	-
2010	Back to scratch	-	-	-	UK23 (3 weeks) UK	-

Compilations

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
2002	Prelude: The Best of Charlotte Church	-	-	-	UK85 (2 weeks) UK	US76 (10 weeks) US

Christmas in Vienna

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
2001	Christmas In Vienna VII	DE79 (2 weeks) DE	AT48 (5 weeks) AT	CH78 (1 week) CH	-	-	with Tony Bennett , Placido Domingo and Vanessa Lynn Williams
2002	Christmas in Vienna - Best of	-	AT37 (4 weeks) AT	-	-	-	with Placido Domingo, José Carreras , Luciano Pavarotti , Patricia Kaas , Vanessa Lynn Williams, Helmut Lotti and Sarah Brightman
	Number one singles	DE-DE	AT-AT	CH-CH	UK-UK	US-US
	Top 10 singles	DE-DE	AT-AT	CH-CH	UK3UK	US1US
	Singles in the charts	DE3DE	AT2AT	CH3CH	UK7thUK	US5US

Extended plays

• 2012: ONE
• 2013: TWO
• 2013: THREE
• 2014: FOUR

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)	Remarks
		UK
2000	Just Wave Hello Charlotte Church	UK31 (9 weeks) UK
2005	Crazy Chick Tissues and Issues	UK2 (27 weeks) UK
	Call My Name Tissues and Issues	UK10 (10 weeks) UK
	Even God Can't Change the Past Tissues and Issues	UK17 (7 weeks) UK
2006	Moodswings (to Come at Me Like That) Tissues and Issues	UK14 (5 weeks) UK

Guest Posts

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)	Remarks
		UK
2003	The Opera Song (Brave New World)	UK3 (11 weeks) UK	Jurgen Vries feat. CMC
	Number one singles	UK-UK
	Top 10 singles	UK2UK
	Singles in the charts	UK6thUK

More singles

• 2000: Dream a Dream
• 2002: Carrickfergus
• 2010: Back to Scratch
• 2010: Logical World
• 2011: Snow
• 2012: How Not to Be Surprised When You're a Ghost
• 2012: Glitterbombed
• 2013: Lasts, or Eschaton
• 2013: I Can Dream
• 2013: Water Tower
• 2014: Little Movements

Video albums

• 1999: Voice of an Angel: In Concert! (UK:gold, US: gold)
• 2000: Dream a Dream: Charlotte Church in the Holy Land
• 2001: Charlotte Church in Jerusalem
• 2002: Enchantment from Cardiff, Wales

Awards for music sales

Golden record  Australia 1998: for the album Voice of an Angel 1999: for the Charlotte Church album  Ireland 2005: for the album Tissues & Issues

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

Country / Region	gold	platinum	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Australia (ARIA)	2 × gold2	-	70,000	aria.com.au
Ireland (IRMA)	gold1	-	7,500	irishcharts.ie
United States (RIAA)	2 × gold2	4 × platinum4th	4,550,000	riaa.com
United Kingdom (BPI)	4 × gold4th	3 × platinum3	1,225,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	9 × gold9	7 × platinum7th

Filmography (selection)

• 1999: Touched by an Angel ( Touched by an Angel , television series, one episode)
• 1999: Heartbeat (TV series, one episode)
• 2003: I'll Be There

supporting documents

1. ↑ As Charlotte Church splits from fading Gavin Henson, what went wrong? - Daily Mail of May 31, 2010
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Chart sources: DE AT CH UK1 UK2 US

Web links

Commons : Charlotte Church  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Charlotte Church in the Internet Movie Database (English)