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James Blunt
Solo artist Tidworth United Kingdom
James Blunt is an artist from Tidworth. James Blunt has 13 chart appearances on 9 radio countdowns from 5 stations on RockLists, spanning 2005–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “You're Beautiful”, which appears on 5 lists with a best position of #73. The station that charted James Blunt most often is Virgin Radio (United Kingdom), with 6 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2010.
James Blunt, born James Blount in Tidworth in 1974, took the long way into pop. Before the songs there was the British Army: as a captain in the aftermath of the Kosovo War, he was caught up in the British refusal to take on Russian troops at Pristina Airport. Then he hung up the uniform, picked up the guitar and piano, and in 2004 put out his debut, Back to Bedlam.
That album is soft rock at its most unguarded, built on acoustic guitar and a fragile, wide-open vocal that holds nothing back. "You're Beautiful" went to number one in thirteen countries, the UK and US among them, and "Goodbye My Lover" kept the tear ducts busy. Back to Bedlam topped the UK albums chart and reached number two in the US. By December 2009 it had moved more than 12 million units around the globe, and it ended up the best-selling UK album of the whole decade.
He won Best British Male at the 2006 Brit Awards and drew a Grammy nomination for Best New Artist. All the Lost Souls followed in 2007 and went to number one in twelve countries, and he has kept up a steady clip of albums since, from Some Kind of Trouble to Who We Used to Be, with more than 23 million albums sold worldwide.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by James Blunt on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You're Beautiful | 5 | #73 | – | – | |
| 2 | Stay the Night | 2 | #14 | – | 2010 | |
| 3 | You're Beatiful | 1 | #10 | – | – | |
| 4 | Goodbye My Lover | 2 | #292 | – | – | |
| 5 | Wisemen | 1 | #325 | – | – | |
| 6 | High | 1 | #486 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Year-end chart timeline
Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.
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