Emeli Sandé – Let's Say For Instance

[MikeCheck12]

This seems to slowly be catching on....

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^^ Thankfully, too! I've been hearing it left and right on local Top 40 stations and it sounds incredible over the radio. I really hope she breaks through in a massive way this year.

[dbhmr]

Just gave this album a few spins...I generally like it. Gets a little too mellow for me at the end and I find myself not focusing on it, but I LOVE Heaven, Maybe, My Kind of Love, and Next to Me.

[Active Aggressive]

Just listened to the Kendrick Lamar remix of Next To Me. Talk about breathing life into a song! I have renewed interest in this girl now and this is after her album burned out for me REALLY quickly. Where I Sleep and Breaking The Law are still the two best things she has ever put her voice to. I even put Where I Sleep on my former friends' wedding playlist. :(

[areyoureadytojump]

3/16 BB200:

Emeli Sande’s Our Version Of Events drops from #64 to #84 in its 16th week on the chart.

A song from the album, “Next To Me,” is climbing the Hot 100.

The album logs its 10th week at #1 on The Official U.K. Chart. It’s the first album to log 10 weeks at #1 in the U.K. since Adele’s 21 had 23 weeks on top in 2011-2012. Our Version Of Events has been listed in the U.K. top 10 for 55 consecutive weeks.

Among all U.K. debut albums, that’s second only to the Beatles’ Please Please Me, which logged 62 weeks in the top 10 in 1963-1964.

[BadRomance]

I finally gave the album a couple of listens. It's so mellow but yet so beautiful.

[MikeCheck12]

She's swinging back thru ATL on July 3rd. I'm seeing her again - she was awesome!

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"Next to Me" is being covered on Glee next week.

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Snippet of her cover of "Crazy In Love" available here:

[DaveZ35]

This is such a wonderful album. I can't get enough of "Clown". That song is perfection.

[Live Your Life]

From HITS:

Emeli Sandé is one busy performer.

The red-hot British diva and Brit Award winner releases her first-ever iTunes Session today, recorded at the historic Capitol Studios in Hollywood.

Sandé, who just completed a sold-out U.K./European tour, is slated to perform on a series of U.S. TV shows in the coming weeks, including Kelly & Michael (4/26), Dancing with the Stars (5/7), The Tonight Show (5/8), Access Hollywood Live (5/13) and Tavis Smiley (air date TBA).

Her current single, "Next To Me," has sold over 500k copies, with more than 250 stations across all formats now spinning the track. It was heard in last week's episode of Glee and will be included on Now 46, scheduled for release on May 7. The video has nearly 30 million views and is in the Top 5 at VH1. The new lyric video, featuring a Kendrick Lamar remix, is now airing on Vevo.

Sandé's debut album, Our Version of Events, is now in its 62nd straight week in the Top 10 of the U.K. album chart, which ties it with the Beatles' Please Please Me for the debut album with the most consecutive weeks in the Top 10. It was the best-selling album of 2012 in the U.K., where it is also the top-seller of 2013 to date.

Her U.S. headline tour gets underway July 2 at the House of Blues in Lake Buena Vista, FL. Sandé has also been confirmed for the Lollapalooza, Outside Lands, Essence and Made in America festivals and for such high-profile radio events as San Diego station Channel 933's 2013 Summer Kick Off Concert and L.A. station KIIS FM's 15th annual Wango Tango.

Sandé and the Bryan Ferry Orchestra contribute a big band arrangement of Beyoncé's "Crazy In Love" to the soundtrack of Baz Luhrmann's upcoming film, The Great Gatsby. The album, which was produced by Luhrmann and executive produced by Jay Z, is out May 7 and the film opens May 10. She also recently collaborated with Underworld's Rick Smith on a song for director Danny Boyle's latest film, Trance.

Finally, NARM will present Sandé with the Breakthrough Artist of the Year Award at Music Biz 2013's Awards Dinner Party, which will be take place in L.A. May 9. The Scottish singer received the Critics' Choice award at the 2012 Brits and two awards at the 2013 Brits, including British Album of the Year and British Female Solo Artist.

Her label support is amazing. This is how you push an artist.

[Sir Benji]

She's almost as big as Adele in the UK so the label support isn't surprising. I hope a re-release for the U.S. is coming soon

[Nicolexo]

Loving her iTunes Session! Everyone already knows her voice is terrefic but it just shines even more here. Such a great listen. :)

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Apr 23, 2013 15:05:33 GMT -5 Sir Benji said:

She's almost as big as Adele in the UK so the label support isn't surprising. I hope a re-release for the U.S. is coming soon

I agree. She has a lot of potential to actually shift albums, so I'm not surprised they're investing so much in her in the US now.

[Caviar]

I'm glad her label is supporting her in the US. I haven't actually bought the US version of the album (due to the exclusion of "Read About It Pt. III) but I'm still holding out for a re-release.

[George]

Watched "Trance" last night and I really love the song she did for the soundtrack:

[Live Your Life]

Our Version Of Events leaps ahead of The Beatles' Please Please Me to spend the most consecutive weeks in Top 10 of any debut album.

Emeli Sandé’s chart success shows no signs of slowing, as the Scottish singer/songwriter today makes Official Chart history.

The Official Charts Company can confirm that Emeli Sandé has smashed The Beatles’ chart record of spending the most consecutive weeks in the UK’s Official Albums Chart Top 10 of any debut album.

Our Version Of Events, the debut release from the 2012 BRITs Critics Choice winner which was released in February of last year and went on to become the biggest selling album of 2012, has not dropped out of the Top 10 since its release - that’s a staggering 63 weeks! In doing so, Sandé overtakes British music icons The Beatles who held the record for almost 50 years previously with Please Please Me. The debut album from the Fab Four spent 62 weeks inside the Top 10 between its release in 1963 and 1964.

Our Version Of Events has to date sold 1.82 million copies in the UK, spending 10 weeks at Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart, and breaking the 100,000 sales in a week tally on three separate occasions. With 429,000 sales racked up already since the new year, the album is leading the way as 2013’s biggest seller also. The album has also enjoyed platinum status in Germany, France, Belgium and Ireland.

Emeli is no stranger to the upper echelons of the Official Singles Chart either, appearing on two Number 1 singles (Read All About It with Professor Green, and Beneath Your Beautiful with Labrinth), and having a total of 9 Top 10 singles under her belt.

"I’m completely lost for words and this is something I could only have dreamed of," Emeli tells OfficialCharts.com. "The Beatles are the greatest band of all time and their legacy lives on and continues to inspire all of us that make music. I’m so happy that so many people have connected with the stories and the songs on the record, this really is our version of events now. I’d like to say thankyou to everyone that has bought, played or shared my music in the last year, without your support this would never have been possible."

Official Charts Company Managing Director, Martin Talbot, comments:

“It has been an incredible past 15 months for Emeli Sandé – and to break a record which was set almost 50 years ago by The Beatles is arguably the greatest achievement of all. Across her 63 Top 10 weeks, she has been Top 5 for almost 75% of the time - a remarkable record, by one of the most remarkable new British acts to emerge for many years.”

[Live Your Life]

She performed "Next to Me" on VH1's Big Morning Buzz a few days ago:

www.vh1.com/video/misc/901981/emeli-sande-performs-next-to-me.jhtml

[HolidayGuy]

She'll be performing on Dancing with the Stars next week. And her album shot back up to the top 100 this week, as "Next to Me" hit the top 40 on the Hot 100.

Ms. Sande is making a name for herself here. :)

[Kurt]

Apr 26, 2013 16:00:06 GMT -5 George said:

Watched "Trance" last night and I really love the song she did for the soundtrack:

I'd forgotten about this - wish you could buy the radio edit instead of the longer, album-only version!

[BadRomance]

I love the new song with Rudimental - "Free". She have a versatile voice!

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May 3, 2013 16:29:20 GMT -5 HolidayGuy said:

She'll be performing on Dancing with the Stars next week.

Indeed!

On Tuesday, May 7, one couple will be eliminated on Dancing With The Stars: The Results Show (9:00-10:01 p.m., ET). The show will feature music by singer Jason DeRulo, who will perform his current single, "The Other Side," as well as Emeli Sandé, who will perform her hit, "Next to Me," and her new single, "Heaven." The show will also feature a spectacular opening number choreographed by Jason Gilkison and featuring the pro and troupe dancers. In addition, "Macy's Stars of Dance" returns for its final installment of the season, featuring Derek Hough and Jaimie Goodwin. Paying homage to a Fred Astaire classic -- but with a modern twist -- this mind-bending routine will take place in a rotating room in yet another first for Dancing With The Stars and live television.

[Kurt]

Ooh, glad they made that choice. I hope they don't push it for a while, though, what with "Next To Me" still moving up (it is, right?) and "Beneath Your Beautiful" getting some airplay as well.

[Deleted]

Two of her songs are being performed on American Idol tomorrow night.

[Deleted]

The version of Kendrick Lamar's "Bitch, Don't Kill My Vibe" that's being released internationally features Emeli.

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Performing before Carole King, President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, and Vice-President Joe Biden.

[HolidayGuy]

"Next to Me" is up to No. 25 on the Hot 100, and she's featured on Labrinth's "Beneath Your Beautiful," which enters at No. 88.

Any rumblings about the next U.S. single?

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Jun 1, 2013 18:36:07 GMT -5 HolidayGuy said:

Any rumblings about the next U.S. single?

"Heaven," supposedly.

[HolidayGuy]

^Thanks. Hmmm, her debut (non-USA) solo single. I'd like to see "My Kind of Love" get pushed, eventually.

[MikeCheck12]

I love both "Heaven" and "My Kind of Love". I'd be happy with either being released...