Song · James Blunt
“High” by James Blunt
From the album Back to Bedlam (2004)
“High” by James Blunt appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 2005. It was first released in 2004 on the album Back to Bedlam. Its best result is #486 on the Virgin Radio Top 500 Songs of All-Time (December 2005). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #7,533 alternative song of all time.
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"High" was James Blunt's debut single, a song he wrote with Ricky Ross for his first album, Back to Bedlam, and when it came out in October 2004 it barely made a ripple, stalling somewhere outside the UK top 75. Tom Rothrock produced and mixed it. Blunt sings and plays guitar, keyboard and marimba, with John Nau's Wurlitzer electric piano, Sasha Krivtsov's bass and Charlie Paxon's drums around him, and the whole thing has a wide-eyed, wistful lift to it.
Then "You're Beautiful" took off, and "High" got a second shot late in 2005. This time it stuck: top 20 around the world, number 16 in Britain and number three in Italy. The reissue even carried Blunt's live cover of U2's "In a Little While", caught at BBC Radio 1's Unleashed festival in Cornwall.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 486 | Virgin Radio | Virgin Radio Top 500 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) | 500 |
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