Jamie Lawson

Jamie Lawson (2015)

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

The Pull of the Moon   IE 70 02/03/2011 (3 weeks) Wasn't expecting that   IE 11 04/07/2011 (13 weeks) Jamie Lawson   DE 19th 02/26/2016 (6 weeks)   AT 44 03/04/2016 (2 weeks)   UK 1  gold October 29, 2015 (19 weeks)   US 87 07/11/2015 (1 week)   IE 5 23/10/2015 (5 weeks) Happy accidents   UK 23 October 12, 2017 (1 week)

Singles

Wasn't expecting that   DE 42 January 15, 2016 (15 weeks)   AT 37 02/05/2016 (13 weeks)   UK 6th  platinum 08/10/2015 (22 weeks)   IE 3 02/03/2011 (20 weeks)

Jamie Lawson (* 1975 in Plymouth ) is an English singer-songwriter .

biography

Jamie Lawson grew up in the city of his birth, Plymouth, and began playing guitar when he was eight. During school he played in cover bands and at 17 he went to Ireland as a pub musician . It took eleven years for his debut album Last Night Stars to be released in 2003. Another seven years passed before album number two was released with The Pull of the Moon . For a song on it, Wasn't Expecting That , he also put a video online, which was discovered and played in 2011 by Today FM . The song then entered the Irish charts and reached number 3. The album also made it into the charts, but an album that was immediately followed up and named after the single hit was even more successful. It reached number 11 in Ireland. But Lawson neither succeeded in transferring the success to his home country Great Britain, nor was he able to build on the success in Ireland.

A second attempt was only made in 2015. After his great success that year Ed Sheeran had founded his own label called Gingerbread Records and signed Jamie Lawson as the first artist. Wasn't Expecting That was tested on the Australian market back in April and, like four years earlier, it reached third place in Ireland. It was also awarded double platinum . The song was released in the UK in early October and climbed to number 6. The album Jamie Lawson followed a little later . It debuted at number 1 on the UK charts and reached the top 5 in Australia and Ireland. It also made it to the US album charts , but it only lasted a week. At the beginning of 2016 Wasn't Expecting That was published in other European countries and hit the charts in Germany, among others.

Discography

Albums

• 2003: Last Night Stars
• 2010: The Pull of the Moon
• 2011: Wasn't Expecting That
• 2015: Jamie Lawson
• 2017: Happy Accidents
• 2019: The Years in Between

EPs

• 2002: The Small Wish
• 2002: The Kitchen Songs
• 2008: Real Thing
• 2013: Between Each Breath

Songs

• 2003: Heal a Bone
• 2003: It's Over
• 2010: The Last Time
• 2010: But Love Me / Oh, What a Foolish Me
• 2011/2015: Wasn't Expecting That
• 2011: Lucy Rocks
• 2015: Ahead of Myself
• 2015: Cold in Ohio
• 2016: Don't Let Me Let You Go
• 2016: Someone for Everyone
• 2017: Can't See Straight
• 2017: A Little Mercy
• 2017: Footprints in the Snow
• 2018: Testify
• 2019: The Answer
• 2019: Where Have All the Good Vibrations Gone? (Live Acoustic Mix) (feat. Turin Brakes )
• 2019: Use Somebody
• 2020: She Sings for Me

Awards for music sales

Golden record  Denmark 2018: for the single Wasn't Expecting That

2 × platinum record  Australia 2015: for the single Wasn't Expecting That

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 × platinum2	140,000	aria.com.au
Denmark (IFPI)	gold1	-	30,000	ifpi.dk
United Kingdom (BPI)	gold1	platinum1	700,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	2 × gold2	3 × platinum3

swell

1. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: Ireland - Great Britain - Germany - Australia - USA
2. ↑ ^{a b} Music Sales Awards: UK
3. ^ ARIA Charts - Accreditations - 2015 Singles , Australian Recording Industry Association, December 31, 2015

Web links

Commons : Jamie Lawson  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official Homepage (English)
• Jamie Lawson at Allmusic (English)