One much-predicted consequence - that You're Beautiful was destined to become a first-dance favorite at weddings - gained credence when Blunt was asked to play it at John's wedding in December. The most-played track on British radio last year, it has become almost as ubiquitous in America, where the album came out last October.īlunt, who plays the Verizon Wireless Theater tonight, is managed by the same folks who handle Elton John, who has called You're Beautiful a modern-day Your Song. "It seems much more relevant if you just put it out and see if anyone likes it, see if they tell their friends," he adds.īack to Bedlam eventually spent nine weeks atop the British charts, thanks in great part to the delicate, inescapable single You're Beautiful. "So many record companies start talking about the importance of first-week sales, and as I understand the music industry, first-week sales is all about how much you hype up an album, and then the album seems to disappear.
The album's slow start "genuinely was the plan," Blunt says. By the end of 2005, however, Blunt's debut had sold 2.4 million copies in England. British singer-songwriter James Blunt's Back to Bedlam, released in October 2004, sold all of 482 copies in its first week.
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