James Newman (musician)
James Richard Newman is an English singer-songwriter based in London. At the 2014 Brit Awards, Newman won the Brit Award for British Single of the Year as a co-writer of "Waiting All Night", a song by English drum and bass band Rudimental. Newman was chosen to represent the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 with the song, "My Last Breath" before its cancellation.
Career
As a child, Newman became interested in music, and he wrote and produced songs with his younger brother John. In his 20s, he established himself as a songwriter in London, and in 2013 he co-wrote Rudimental and Ella Eyre's hit "Waiting All Night". The song topped the UK Singles Chart. Newman won the "Brit Award for British Single of the Year" during the 2014 Brit Awards for co-writing "Waiting All Night" with Jonny Harris.Later James co-wrote with his brother John Newman and with Calvin Harris the latter's song "Blame" featuring vocals by John. The song, a huge international hit, has topped the UK singles chart, in addition to peaking in Scotland, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Finland and Mexico. It reached number 19 on Billboard Hot 100 and topped the US Billboard Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart.
Newman was also a co-composer of a number of songs including "Let 'Em Talk" on Kesha's 2017 album Rainbow and "Coping" for Toni Braxton on her 2018 album Sex & Cigarettes.
Newman was a featured vocalist on several songs including the 2018 hit "Therapy" by Dutch DJ Armin van Buuren. The song charted in the Netherlands, Belgium and on the US Dance/Mix Show Airplay chart. The same year he was featured on the song "Lights Go Down", a song by the Norwegian music producer and DJ Matoma in his album One in a Million. In 2019, he was featured on the Armin van Buuren song "High on Your Love".
On 27 February 2020, the BBC announced that Newman would represent the UK in the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. He was to participate with the song "My Last Breath" which Newman co-wrote with Adam Argyle, Ed Drewett and Iain James. As one of the five major countries in the competition, the UK directly qualified for the final on Saturday 16 May 2020. The co-writer of "My Last Breath", Iain James, had previously worked on Azerbaijan's winning song for Eurovision Song Contest 2011 titled "Running Scared" sung by Ell & Nikki. However, the event was later cancelled due to the Coronavirus outbreak. It is currently unknown if Newman will represent the UK at the 2021 contest.
On 17 July 2020, Newman released his debut EP called, The Things We Do. Which includes the singles "My Last Breath", "Enough" and "Better Man".
Personal life
James Newman was born in Settle in the Yorkshire Dales. When Newman was six years old, his father left the family, leaving the mother Jackie, to take care of James and his younger brother John all by herself, working as a receptionist.John later became a well-known singer, songwriter, musician and record producer best known for the track "Love Me Again" a 2013 number one hit on the UK Singles Chart, as well as for co-writing and singing on Rudimental's 2012 singles "Feel the Love", another number one hit and "Not Giving In" and for being featured in the Calvin Harris single "Blame" which also topped the UK charts.
Discography
Extended plays
Singles
As lead artist
As featured artist
- Did not appear in the official Belgian Ultratop 50 charts, but rather in the bubbling under Ultratip charts.
Songwriting credits
indicates a featured artist contribution.
| Year | Artist | Album | Song | Co-written with |
| 2013 | Rudimental | Home | "Waiting All Night" | Amir Izadkhah, Piers Aggett, Kesi Dryden, Johnny Harris |
| 2014 | Calvin Harris | Motion | "Blame" | Adam Wiles, John Newman |
| 2014 | Gorgon City | Sirens | "Try Me Out" | Kye Gibbon, Matthew Robson-Scott, Jonny Coffer, Anne-Marie Nicholson |
| 2014 | Union J | You Got It All - The Album | "Get It Right" | George Shelley, Timothy Powell, Mary Leay |
| 2015 | Arno Cost | "Coming Home" | Vadim Constantin, Katherine Syren-Russell, Johnny Harris | |
| 2015 | Jess Glynne | I Cry When I Laugh | "It Ain't Right" | Jessica Glynne, Finlay Dow-Smith |
| 2015 | Jess Glynne | I Cry When I Laugh | "No Rights, No Wrongs" | Jessica Glynne, Janee Bennett, Andrew Knox Brown, Jonny Coffer, Finlay Dow-Smith |
| 2015 | Little Mix | Get Weird | "Love Me Like You" | Camille Purcell, Steve McCutcheon, Iain Farquarson |
| 2015 | Rudimental | We the Generation | "Lay It All on Me" | Amir Izadkhah, Piers Aggett, Kesi Dryden, Leon Rolle, Johnny Harris, Adam Eaglefield, Jacob Manson, Edward Sheeran, Gavin Slater, Lasse Peterson, Maxwell McElligott, James Luke Wood |
| 2015 | Rudimental | We the Generation | "Too Cool" | Amir Izadkhah, Piers Aggett, Kesi Dryden, Leon Rolle, Ella McMahon, Johnny Harris |
| 2015 | Rudimental | We the Generation | "All That Love" | Amir Izadkhah, Piers Aggett, Kesi Dryden, Leon Rolle, Johnny Harris, Wayne Hector, Julie Frost, Nicholas Gale |
| 2015 | Foxes | All I Need | "Amazing" | Louisa Rose Allen, Martin Brammer, Jonny Lattimer |
| 2016 | Diztortion | "I'll Be There" | Raoul Chen, Eyelar Mirzazadeh | |
| 2016 | Netsky | III | "High Alert" | Boris Daenan, Johnny Harris, Daniel Watts |
| 2016 | Matoma | Hakuna Matoma / One in a Million | "False Alarm" | Thomas Lagergren, Rebecca Hill, Kara DioGuardi, Daniel Heløy Davidsen, Peter Wallevik, Mich Hansen |
| 2016 | Havana Brown | "Like Lightning" | Angelique Meunier, Kesha Sebert, Stuart Crichton, Dawin Polanco | |
| 2016 | Kaiser Chiefs | Stay Together | "Why Do You Do It to Me?" | Charles Wilson, Andrew White, Simon Rix, Nicholas Baines, Vijay Mistry, Brian Higgins, Toby Scott, Nicholas Coler |
| 2016 | Olly Murs | 24 Hrs | "Read My Mind" | Oliver Murs, Steve Robson, Edward Drewett |
| 2017 | Digital Farm Animals | rowspan="2" | "Digital Love" | Nicholas Gale, Daniel Heløy Davidsen, Peter Wallevik, Mich Hansen, Daniel Stein, Willem van Hanegem, Ward van der Harst |
| 2017 | Brendan Murray | "Dying to Try" | Jörgen Elofsson | - |
| 2017 | Kesha | Rainbow | "Let Em Talk" | Kesha Sebert, Stuart Crichton |
| 2017 | Daya | "New" | Grace Tandon, Brett McLaughlin, Mikkel Eriksen, Tor Hermansen, Nolan Lambroza | |
| 2017 | Jessie Ware | Glasshouse | "First Time" | Jessica Ware, Finlay Dow-Smith |
| 2017 | Guy Sebastian | Conscious | "Keep Me Coming Back" | Guy Sebastian, Emma Walker, Lionel Towers |
| 2017 | Alexandru | "Sellotape" | Jack Walton, Fiona Bevan, Maegan Cottone | |
| 2018 | Don Diablo | Future | "Head Up" | Don Schipper, Richard Boardman, Pablo Bowman |
| 2018 | John Newman | "Fire in Me" | John Newman, Philip Plested, David "Dehiro" Mørup | |
| 2018 | Toni Braxton | Sex & Cigarettes | "Coping" | Toni Braxton, David Gibson, Stuart Crichton |
| 2018 | The Shires | Accidentally on Purpose | "Stay the Night" | Edward Sheeran, Johnny McDaid, John Newman |
| 2018 | Armin van Buuren | Balance | "Therapy" | Armin van Buuren, Benno de Goeij, Michael Busbee |
| 2018 | Dan Caplen | "Trouble" | Daniel Caplen, Sophie Cooke, Frederik Eichen | |
| 2018 | Jess Glynne | Always in Between | "All I Am" | Jessica Glynne, Janee Bennett, Sophie Cooke, Bastian Langebaek, Sandy Rivera, Jay "Sinister" Sealee |
| 2018 | Matoma | One in a Million | "Lights Go Down" | Thomas Lagergren, Matthew Simons, Tushar Apte, Hanni Ibrahim, Patrick Patrikios |
| 2018 | Sigala | Brighter Days | "All for Love" | Bruce Fielder, Steven Garrigan, Moon Willis |
| 2018 | Jess Glynne | Always in Between | "1, 2, 3" | Jessica Glynne, Janee Bennett, Jordan Thomas, Jonathan Mensah |
| 2018 | Olly Murs | You Know I Know | "Footsteps" | Oliver Murs, Thomas Barnes, Peter Kelleher, Benjamin Kohn |
| 2018 | Zayn | Icarus Falls | "Talk to Me" | Zayn Malik, Alexander Oriet, David Phelan, Fredrick Wexler |
| 2019 | Lost Kings | Paper Crowns EP | "Don't Kill My High" | Nicholas Schanholz, Robert Abisi, John Ryan II, Ruth-Anne Cunningham, Ian Franzino, Andrew Haas, Sabrina Bernstein, Ilsey Juber, Alexander Izquerdio, Marcus Lomax, Cameron Thomaz, Michael Foster, Charles Anderson |
| 2019 | Backstreet Boys | DNA | "Chateau" | Cole Citrenbaum, Stephen Wrabel, Stuart Crichton, Michael Pollack |
| 2019 | Backstreet Boys | DNA | "OK" | Stuart Crichton, Jason Dean, Joseph Kirland |
| 2019 | Stephen Puth | "Half Gone" | Stephen Puth, Ian Franzino, Andrew Haas | |
| 2019 | Louis Tomlinson | Walls | "Don't Let It Break Your Heart" | Louis Tomlinson, Stuart Crichton, Cole Citrenbaum, Wrabel |
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