Marcus Collins
Marcus Collins (born May 5, 1988 ) is a British singer and was runner-up in the eighth season of The X Factor in 2011 . As a contestant on the show, he was mentored by Take That front man Gary Barlow , who continued to work with him on his debut album.
His debut album Marcus Collins reached the Top 10 of the charts in the UK .
Career
Eton Road
Before he applied to The X Factor , he was part of the four-piece boy band Eton Road , which had gained notoriety through the third season of the X Factor . Collins was not a founding member, but replaced Anthony Hannah, who was seen in the original cast of the band during the casting show. Hannah left the band due to exhaustion.
The X Factor (2011)
In 2011, Collins applied as a solo artist on the eighth season of the music talent show The X Factor. After he had prevailed against over two hundred thousand competitors and had made it to the finals, he finished second behind the four-piece girl band Little Mix , which was the first group to win the show.
| show | Title selection | theme | Result | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Auditions | "Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours" | Free choice | Made it to the boot camp | |||
| Bootcamp round 1 | "Born This Way" | Bootcamp Challenge | Progress in round 2 | |||
| Bootcamp round 2 | "Kiss from a Rose" | Free choice | Got further in Judges' Houses | |||
| Judges' Houses | "One Big Family" | Free choice | Progress in Live Show 1 | |||
| "Rolling in the Deep" | ||||||
| Live show 1 | "Moves like Jagger" | Britain vs America | Made it to the next round | |||
| Live show 2 | "Russian Roulette" | Love song | Made it to the next round | |||
| Live show 3 | "Are You Gonna Go My Way" | skirt | Made it to the next round | |||
| Live show 4 | "Superstition / Need You Tonight" | Halloween | Made it to the next round | |||
| Live show 5 | "Reet Petite" | Floor fillers | Made it to the next round | |||
| Live show 6 | "Another One Bites the Dust" | Lady Gaga vs. Queen | Made it to the next round | |||
| Live show 7 | "(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher" | Movies | Made it to the next round | |||
| Quarter finals | "I'm Your Man" | Guilty Pleasures | Made it to the next round | |||
| "Lately" | Heroes | |||||
| Semifinals | "My girl" | Motown | Made it to the final | |||
| "Can You Feel It" | Songs to get you to the final | |||||
| final | "Hey Ya!" | Free choice | Made it to the next round | |||
| "She's Always a Woman" (with Gary Barlow ) | Mentor duet | |||||
| "(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher" | Favorite performance | Runner-up | ||||
| " Last Christmas " | Christmas | |||||
| "Cannonball" | Winning single | |||||
2012: Debut album and Hairspray
In January 2012, Collins signed a recording deal with RCA Records and announced his debut album for March of this year. On January 21, 2012, it was announced that his debut single would be a cover version of The White Stripes' song Seven Nation Army . This was published on March 4th. It is a direct copy of the cover version of the song that Ben l'Oncle Soul had recently recorded in Europe and which has been a hit in Europe. The single reached number nine on the British music charts , while the album Marcus Collins , which was released on March 12, even landed in seventh place. "Mercy" was released as the second single in June. This was quite unsuccessful and only reached the 194th position in the British charts due to poor marketing.
On October 16, 2012 it was announced that Collins would appear as Seaweed Stubbs in the UK tour of the musical Hairspray from February to September 2013. He then took part in a charity parachute jump with other celebrities like Beth Tweddle and Jazmine Franks, which helped them break a world record.
After 2013
He has also appeared in the musical Kinky Boots at The Adelphi Theater London alongside Matt Henry and Killian Donnelly. In September 2013, Collins announced that he had left RCA and signed a new record deal: "It was all mutually agreed. To be honest, it just didn't feel like we were going in the same direction. I loved working with them but it just got to a point where we both could go either way. " About his upcoming album, he said he would be spending “most of October” in the recording studio and saying “We've got about seven or eight songs that we're going to put down. We've got some new tracks and we've got some acoustic ones that are a little bit different. [Acoustic songs are] something that I've done before, but the record label I was with previously had different ideas and that's kind of why we separated. " To date (as of April 2020) no new albums or singles have been released, but Collins has repeatedly participated in musical productions.
Discography
Albums
| album | Details | Chart placement | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK | IRISHMAN | SCO | ||
| Marcus Collins |
|
7th | 24 | 8th |
Singles
| year | title | Chart placement | album | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK | HUN | IRISHMAN | SCO | |||
| 2012 | "Seven Nation Army" | 9 | 13 | 49 | 9 | Marcus Collins |
| "Mercy" | 194 | - | - | - | ||
As a guest musician
| year | single | Chart placement | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK | IRL | SCO |
||
| 2011 | "Wishing on a Star" (as part of the 2011 X Factor finalists) feat. JLS and One Direction | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Marcus Collins interview by Pete Lewis, 'Blues & Soul' May 2012
- ↑ Marcus Collins - The X Factor 2011 Auditions - Liverpool . YouTube. Retrieved May 14, 2012.
- ↑ X Factor Uk 2011 - Bootcamp 1 - Marcus Collins, Goldie Cheung (LEGENDADO PT). YouTube (2011-09-25). Retrieved May 14, 2012.
- ↑ Marcus Collins' Judges' Houses audition - The X Factor 2011 Judges' Houses - itv.com/xfactor . YouTube. Retrieved May 14, 2012.
- ^ The X Factor 2011 (The Xtra Factor) Judges Houses - Marcus Collins . YouTube. Retrieved May 14, 2012.
- ↑ 2012-03-24 Top 40 Official UK Albums Archive .
- ↑ Music Video: Marcus Collins - Mercy - TheNext2Shine.com ( Memento from April 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Tina Miles: Crosby X Factor star Marcus Collins joins the cast of Hairspray . In: Liverpool Echo , Trinity Mirror, October 16, 2012. Retrieved December 2, 2013.
- ^ Daniel Sperling: Marcus Collins, 'Hollyoaks' stars break skydiving world record . In: Digital Spy , Hearst Magazines UK, September 23, 2013. Retrieved December 2, 2013.
- ^ A b Lewis Corner: Marcus Collins leaves Sony, signs new record deal . In: Digital Spy , Hearst Magazines UK , September 27, 2013.
- ↑ X Factor's Marcus Collins Bites back At Cher Lloyd and reveals that 'Mercy, Mercy' will be his second single! ( Memento from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Collins, Marcus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British pop singer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 5, 1988 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Liverpool , England , UK |