Jamie Cullum - Twentysomething (20th Anniversary Edition) [2LP]

UMR/Decca

£36.63

Format: 2 x LP
Catalogue No.: 5523494
Barcode: 0602455234940
Release Date: 20 Oct 2023
Genre: Jazz

To mark the 20th anniversary of Jamie Cullum’s most successful album, Decca and Universal Music Recordings are making his 2003 album ‘Twentysomething’ available on vinyl for the very first time.

It features the original album across three sides with a selection of non-album tracks, and session recordings on the fourth side.

Originally released in the UK on 20 October 2003, ‘Twentysomething’ was Jamie’s first release on the UCJ imprint in the UK and on Verve in the US. It peaked at No. 3 on the UK Album Chart, spending almost a year on the Top 75, and reached No. 83 on the US Billboard 200. On the specialist charts, it made No. 1 on the UK Official Jazz & Blues Album Chart, and No. 3 on Billboard’s Top Jazz Albums chart. The album has since sold more than 1.2 million copies in the UK (3 x BPI ‘Platinum’ Award), and 325,000 units in the US.

The album was also successful across Europe (IFPI Platinum Sales Award for 1 million sales in 2004), and in Australia and New Zealand.

‘Twentysomething’ includes two of Jamie’s three most streamed tracks, ‘What A Difference A Day Makes’ (#1 with 14.7M streams in 2022*) and ‘These Are The Days’ (#3 with 8.8M streams in 2022*). The ’20th Anniversary Edition’ will include Jamie’s version of ‘Everlasting Love’ as a bonus track (#2 with 9.6M streams in 2022*), a UK No. 20 single in November 2004, originally recorded for the soundtrack of Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason.

On release, respected Jazz critic John Fordham (writing in The Guardian) said, “Cullum’s virtues are a remarkable relaxation (which makes music-making, even in a sophisticated studio recording, sound like fun to him), a youthful bounce that makes his work engagingly airy and light, and a hipness of timing that marks him out from many of his competitors.”

Tracklists
2LP Set
LP1 - Side A
What A Difference A Day Made
These Are The Days
Singin' In The Rain
Twentysomething
But For Now

LP1 - Side B
Old Devil Moon
I Could Have Danced All Night
Blame It On My Youth
I Get A Kick Out Of You
All At Sea

LP2 - Side C
Wind Cries Mary
Lover, You Should Have Come Over
It's About Time
Next Year, Baby

LP2 - Side D
Everlasting Love (Single Version)
I Get The Sweetest Feeling (Single Version)
Frontin' (Live at the BBC, 2004)
Can't We Be Friends
High And Dry (US Version)