James Blunt promises to change his name to ‘anything’ the public wants if his debut album returns to number one

James Blunt has promised fans that helium volition alteration his sanction to ‘anything’ the nationalist wants if his medium returns to fig 1 – 20 years aft it was archetypal released.

In 2004, James Blunt released Back To Bedlam, a hugely palmy medium which contained songs including You’re Beautiful, High, Wisemen, and Goodbye My Lover.

In solemnisation of Back To Bedlam’s 20th anniversary, the vocalist is re-releasing the medium and going connected tour – he’s besides made a beauteous large committedness to fans if the medium gets to fig one.

On Radio X’s The Chris Moyles Show, the vocalist claimed: ‘I person signed up to changing my sanction to immoderate the nationalist privation – they tin alteration my name.

‘It’s a genuine thing. I curse connected my beingness and the beingness of my 1 instrumentality – Brian from Glasgow – I volition alteration my sanction should it deed fig one.’

The vocalist confirmed: ‘Yeah. I curse connected Brian’s beingness and my life. To immoderate the nationalist privation – and of people the nationalist are going to kind, they’re not going to spell for thing that rhymes with Blunt are they?’

The vocalist past joked: ‘But you know, arsenic agelong arsenic it’s not, you know, Blunty McBluntface.’

James explained to Chris that this was a mode to effort and promote fans to acquisition the caller album, pursuing the immense occurrence erstwhile Back To Bedlam was released 20 years ago.

He revealed that High was the archetypal chart-topping azygous from the album, followed by the occurrence of Wiseman and You’re Beautiful.

‘High was the archetypal single,’ James said. ‘So we enactment retired High, and that got a spot of vigor visibility, each implicit Radio X astatine that signifier – this is my earthy home!’

He added: ‘And past we enactment Wisemen out, and the medium got into the apical 20 and past came the killer, You’re Beautiful, successful 2005 astatine that stage, and the remainder is simply a terrible, unspeakable history!’

Back To Bedlam spent 10 weeks successful the number-one medium slot successful the UK charts.

The album’s occurrence besides stuck astir for ages with 40 weeks successful the apical 10 albums, 47 successful the apical 20, and 130 successful the apical 100.

At the time, Back to Bedlam was the biggest-selling medium of each clip by a British antheral solo artist, selling 11 cardinal copies worldwide and much than 3 cardinal copies successful the UK.

Since the archetypal occurrence of his medium successful 2004, the vocalist has released respective much albums.

His 2nd album, All the Lost Souls was released successful 2007 and reached fig 1 successful 12 countries.

He besides released: Some Kind of Trouble (2010), Moon Landing (2013), The Afterlove (2017), Once Upon a Mind (2019) and Who We Used to Be (2023) – each with varying levels of success.

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