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2006
Back to Bedlam
2005James Blunt
Back to Bedlam is 1 year older than you
It's from 2005, before you were born.
- Artist
- James Blunt
- Genre
- Pop / soft rock
- Released
- 2005
- Note
- one of the decade's best-sellers
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As of 2026, it's 21 years old.
Back to Bedlam became one of the best-selling albums of the 2000s almost entirely on the back of one inescapable ballad — James Blunt's 'You're Beautiful,' a falsetto-laden ode that was so omnipresent in 2005 that people went from loving it to begging the radio for mercy. Blunt himself has built a famously self-deprecating second career joking about exactly that.
Gentle, earnest, and unavoidable, the album rode that single to enormous global sales.
Tender, ubiquitous, and slightly exhausting by year's end, Back to Bedlam is the album whose signature ballad was so inescapable it became a cultural endurance test.
