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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, including a blue vinyl limited edition for territories with a D2C offering.It features the original album across three sides with a selection of nonalbum 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 musicmaking, 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.”
