James Arthur
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OverviewAI-generated
James Arthur is a male singer from the United Kingdom who began his professional career in 2011. His musical style is associated with pop, British, indie, and acoustic genres, as well as the X Factor. He has an official website and maintains a social media presence with 2,185,063 followers. On Last.fm, his music has been played 49,031,172 times by 1,818,122 listeners.
A separate author named James Arthur has published 79 works, including *Varieties of Virtue Ethics*, *Teaching Character and Virtue in Schools*, *Routledge Companion to Education*, and *Ethics and the Good Soldier*. This author is referenced by 619 other encyclopedia articles.
Synthesized by Vinony from 19 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Key facts
- Occupations
- Singer songwriter
- Instruments
- Vocals guitar
- Years active
- 2011–present
- Labels
- Columbia Records UK Columbia Records Germany
- Website
- jamesarthurofficial .com
- Born
- James Andrew Arthur , ( 1988-03-02 ) 2 March 1988 (age 38) , Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire , England
- Genres
- Pop
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- James
- Family name
- Arthur
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Middlesbrough
- Occupation
- composer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- pop music
- Genre
- pop music
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Syco Music
- Discography
- James Arthur discography
- Official website
- www.jamesarthurofficial.com
- Image
- James Arthur at WHSmith in Middlesbrough.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1988-03-02
- Commons category
- James Arthur (singer)
- topic's main category
- Category:James Arthur
- birth name
- James Andrew Arthur
- start of work period
- 2011-00-00
- social media followers
- 2185063
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Encyclopedic overview
James Andrew Arthur (born 2 March 1988) is an English singer and songwriter. He rose to fame after winning the ninth series of The X Factor in 2012. His debut single, a cover of Shontelle's "Impossible", was released by Syco Music after the final, and debuted at number 1 on the UK Singles Chart. Since then, it has gone on to sell over 2.5 million copies worldwide, making it the most successful winner's single in the show's history.
The follow-up single, "You're Nobody 'til Somebody Loves You", reached number 2 on the UK Singles Chart. He released his first album James Arthur in November 2013. The album debuted and peaked at number 2 on the UK Albums Chart. After this, he was involved in a series of controversies that led iTunes to offer refunds for the album.
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