James Morrison

Between 2006 and 2009, You Give Me Something, You Make It Real and the Nelly Furtado duet called Broken Strings were all top ten hits for which musician who shares his name with the lead singer of The Doors?

James Morrison? Yeah!

giving you a grand total of eight

wow never

And, uh, we had the same musical director and, uh, he invited us to be part of the Samaritans charity records songs to save a life was the album.

And, um, There was the O-Tones, myself, James Morrison, Katie Tunstall and loads of other wonderful artists.

And I ended up meeting the boys there and just thoroughly enjoyed meeting them.

And then through the years, of course, stayed in contact.

So let's keep moving up this chart.

Wonderful World by James Morrison at 49.

Nicole Scherzinger and P. Diddy's Come To Me

at 13.

And what was the song?

It was Won't Let You Go, James Morrison.

Nice, sweet tune.

But, yeah, it was a nice tune.

I do like safe music.

Is it James Morrison?

His name is not James.

What? What kind of a huge man is he?

But we also must keep an eye on two songs that entered the chart on downloads alone this week and have now made the top 10.

Wonderful World by James Morrison was at 20 last week.

He'll be hoping to match the top five success of his last track, You Give Me Something.

Similarly, The Ordinary Boys got to number three with their re-release of Boys Will Be Boys, which came out following Preston's stint on Big Brother.

They are joined by another reality show star at number 9.

The former lead of Gene Simmons from Kiss's attempt at making a band in a comprehensive school, Rock School, discovered Lil' Chris with Checking It Out.

At number eight, meanwhile, is that second song which entered the charts on downloads last week, James Morrison with Wonderful World.

A not quite so wonderful world for James Morrison, not able to match the peak of his last track, but still getting a second top ten in a row.

it took me a little while i guess to have the patience as i got older as when i was younger i was more interested in faster beat and you know i love the living so more of the you know the faster stuff but these days i'll listen to more of it but as i'm getting older i'm enjoying sort of delving into that but more of a

Some of the people you've shared the bill with, like you've got Oz Music Aristocracy and plus an international one in there too, because you've got Jimmy Barnes, James Morrison, John Stevens, Grinspoon.

You've mentioned the Black Sorrows and Ross Wilson.

There's the Baby Animals, Sarah McLeod, Phil Emanuel and Daryl Braithwaite.

And yeah, it's a nice, nice sort of mingling.

It's sort of like a festival on a ship.

um yeah yeah so yeah it's a good way to hear other music you don't have to drive um yeah it's pretty mind-blowing james morrison yeah shared the bill with him i think we opened for him years ago i was in someone else's uh actually pulled together and yeah playing some guitar and yeah some pretty fun experiences along the way there with some great players

Okay, so on the ship you were riding through the night.

But they won't have an easy ride to get to the top spot.

They'll have to take on tracks from James Morrison.

And I know

that

31.

When the night fills my song by Bedouin Soundclash.

Hey! bridge by fergie at number 30 that leaves us with new entries still to come from beat freaks hot chip and james morrison the first of those coming very soon

first

I'll start us off at number 10.

We've got James Morrison with Undiscovered.

Undiscovered by myself as well.

Myself as well.

Yes.

Yes.

Yeah, I couldn't sing a song by James Morrison.

No.

We'll end the chart as the 26th biggest selling song of the year.

In between You Give Me Something by James Morrison and Smack That by Akon.

Also 170,000 copies.

And I've spoken a lot in this podcast about how generally I hate emo music.

America also claiming top of the download charts.

where David Hasselhoff is at number three, a strong showing, unsurprising, seeing as it was an internet campaign that got him as far as he did.

But is there anything that has what it takes to knock Razorlight off the top spot next week when we'll get new singles from James Morrison, The Ordinary Boys, that's their first new single post Celebrity Big Brother, so interesting to see where that will end up, and The Beat Freaks, their rather charming cover of Rick James' Super Freak.

All of those songs to come next week when I hope you'll join us for more 2000s pop music joy.