"Back to Black Back to Black is the second and final studio album by English singer and songwriter Amy Winehouse. It was released on 27 October 2006 by Island Records. The album spawned five singles: ""Rehab"", ""You Know I'm No Good"", ""Back to Black"", ""Tears Dry on Their Own"" and ""Love Is a Losing Game"". ""Back to Black"" was acclaimed by music critics, who praised Winehouse's songwriting and emotive singing style as well as Salaam Remi and Mark Ronson's production. At the 50th Annual Grammy Awards ceremony, ""Back to Black"" won Best Pop Vocal Album and was also nominated for"
"charts worldwide. On 24 July 2011, with fewer than seven hours sales after the announcement of her death counting towards the respective week's chart figures, the original album re-entered the UK Albums Chart at number 49 with 2,446 copies sold, while the deluxe edition sold 843 copies to re-enter the chart at number 163. The following week, it soared back to number one, marking the fourth time the album had reached the top of the chart. ""Back to Black"" held the top spot for two additional weeks, selling 63,071 copies in the second week and 43,726 copies in the third"
"been released in physical format which also became its peak position in that country.; The song has spent 34 non-consecutive weeks on the UK Singles Chart to date. It has re-entered with ""Rehab"" together on the chart. The song featured on BBC Radio 1's ""The B List"" Playlist during the week commencing 2 May. With sales of 96,000, ""Back to Black"" finished as the UK's 85th biggest-selling single of 2007. On 31 July 2011, following her death, the song re-entered the UK Singles Chart at 8, also giving the song a new peak position and second top ten hit in"
"UK. As of September 2014, ""Back to Black"" has sold 340.000 copies in the UK and is Winehouse's third best-selling single in that country. In America, due to strong digital sales of the single over the years, ""Back to Black"" was certified platinum for over 1,000,000 sales/downloads by the RIAA in January 2015. The music video was directed by Phil Griffin and features a funeral procession in which Winehouse mourns over a grave that reads ""R.I.P. the Heart of Amy Winehouse"". The shot of the headstone was edited out after the singer's death in 2011. The video was primarily shot"
"previously unreleased songs. ""Back to Black"" was released in the UK on 30 October 2006. It went to number one on the UK Albums Chart for two weeks in January 2007, dropping then climbing back for several weeks in February. In the US, it entered at number seven on the Billboard 200. It was the best-selling album in the UK of 2007, selling 1.85million copies over the course of the year. The album spawned a number of hit singles. The first single released from the album was the Ronson-produced ""Rehab."" The song reached the top ten in the UK and"
"Back in Black Back in Black is the seventh studio album by Australian rock band AC/DC. It was released on 25 July 1980 by Albert Productions and Atlantic Records. In the late 1970s, AC/DC began achieving significant popularity outside their native Australia, with high-energy live performances and a series of successful albums. After the commercial breakthrough of their 1979 ""Highway to Hell"" album, the band were planning to record a follow-up, but in February 1980 lead vocalist Bon Scott died from alcohol poisoning after a drinking binge. Instead of disbanding, they decided to continue on and enlisted vocalist Brian Johnson,"
"On the week of 26 July 2011, ""Frank"", ""Back to Black"" and the ""Back to Black"" EP re-entered the ""Billboard"" 200 at number 57, number 9 and number 152 respectively, with the album climbing to number 4 the following week. ""Back to Black"" also topped the ""Billboard"" Digital Albums chart on the same week and was the second best-seller on iTunes. ""Rehab"" re-entered and topped the ""Billboard"" Hot Digital Songs chart as well, selling up to 38,000 more digital downloads. , ""Back to Black"" was the best-selling album in the UK in the twenty-first century. Winehouse's last recording was a"
"the arrangement of this is sleepy and practically smothers the angst out of the song. Also, Beyoncé lives such a perfect life that she can't convey the same bitter pain in her voice that Amy could."" Back to Black (song) ""Back to Black"" is a song by English singer and songwriter Amy Winehouse. It was released by Island Records on 30 April 2007 as the third single from Winehouse's second and final studio album of the same name. The song was written by Winehouse and Mark Ronson, and produced by Ronson. ""Back to Black"" was inspired by Winehouse's relationship with"
"Cilla Black Priscilla Maria Veronica White OBE (27 May 1943 – 1 August 2015), better known as Cilla Black, was an English singer, television presenter, actress, and author. Championed by her friends in the Beatles, Black began her career as a singer in 1963, and her singles ""Anyone Who Had a Heart"" and ""You're My World"" both reached number one in the UK in 1964. She had 11 Top Ten hits on the British charts between then and 1971, and an additional eight hits that made the top 40. In May 2010, new research published by BBC Radio 2 showed"
"Back to Black (song) ""Back to Black"" is a song by English singer and songwriter Amy Winehouse. It was released by Island Records on 30 April 2007 as the third single from Winehouse's second and final studio album of the same name. The song was written by Winehouse and Mark Ronson, and produced by Ronson. ""Back to Black"" was inspired by Winehouse's relationship with Blake Fielder-Civil, who had left her for an ex-girlfriend. ""Back to Black"" received universal acclaim by music critics, who generally praised its throwback sound to girl groups from the 1960s. It was included on several compiled"
"""21"" became the UK's best-selling album of the 21st century and its fourth best-selling album of all time in 2011, certified platinum 16 times. During the same year, ""Back To Black"" by Amy Winehouse became the UK's second best selling album of the 21st century and its 13th best-selling album of all time following her death in 2011, certified platinum 11 times. In 2013, despite the trend of declining album sales persisting, the British music industry saw a 9% growth in revenue which could be traced to ""individual revenues by musicians, singers, composers, songwriters and lyricists"", adding £3.8bn to the"
"High Enough"" with Dionne Bromfield on her debut album. Producer Mark Ronson has teamed up with Zalon for his debut album, which is yet to be named and released though the track Attention will be on it. Zalon is expected to join Winehouse's Lioness record label. Zalon Zalon Thompson (born 1 December 1983) is a British pop singer, songwriter and record producer. He is widely known for his backing vocals with Amy Winehouse on her Grammy Award winning ""Back to Black"" album and tour. Born at Park Royal Hospital in London, Zalon Thompson, son of reggae singer Dr Alimantado and"
"artist to top the chart with separate regular and deluxe editions of the same album. The two versions of the album charted separately at the time and were both in the top 10 for the week ending 29 December 2007. As of 14 June 2009, the album was the 18th highest-selling album of all time in the UK, with all versions combined. ""Back to Black"" was the biggest-selling album of 2007 in the UK, having sold 1.85 million copies. The BPI certified the album 13-times Platinum on 30 March 2018, and by October 2018, it had sold 3.93 million copies,"
"""Back to Black"". Sales for 2008, in which ""Only by the Night"" was the third biggest selling album of the year, were 1,181,640 and a similar level of 1,078,555 for 2009, when it became the fifth biggest selling album of the year. It sold a further 340,000 units in 2010 and was placed at number 31 on the year-end chart. As of March 27, 2011, ""Only by the Night"" has spent 131 consecutive weeks inside the Top 75. As of October 2016, it has sold 2,916,779 copies in the UK. In the U.S., the album debuted at number five on"
"care unit of Cork University Hospital on 26 January 2016, at the age of 53. Vearncombe left a widow, Swedish opera singer Camilla Griehsel, and three children. His remains were cremated on 4 February 2016. Black (singer) Colin Vearncombe (26 May 1962 – 26 January 2016), known by his stage name Black, was an English singer-songwriter. He emerged from the punk rock music scene and achieved mainstream pop success in the late 1980s, most notably with the international hit single ""Wonderful Life"" in 1987. William Ruhlmann of AllMusic described Vearncombe as a ""smoky-voiced singer/songwriter, whose sophisticated jazz-pop songs and dramatic"
"5,000 copies. In continental Europe, ""Back to Black"" returned to the number-one spot in Austria, Croatia, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland and Switzerland, while reaching number one for the first time in Italy. After the release of ""Back to Black"", record companies sought out female artists with a similar sound and fearless and experimental female musicians in general. Adele and Duffy were the second wave of artists with a sound similar to Winehouse's. A third wave of female musicians that has emerged since the album was released are led by V V Brown, Florence and the Machine, La Roux and Little"
"in October 2002 on the UK Albums Chart, the album entered the top 10 for the first time in January 2016, following Bowie's death. On 5 February, after his final album ""Blackstar"" had spent three weeks at the top, ""Best of Bowie"" reached a new peak of number 1, marking Bowie's eleventh UK number-one album and making him the first artist to replace themselves at number 1 with a different album since Michael Jackson did it after his own death in 2009. It also became the first album to reach number 1 in the UK due to streaming. All tracks"
"while reaching number one in Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain and Switzerland. The album was certified eight-times Platinum by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) in late 2011, denoting sales of eight million copies across Europe. As of November 2010, it was the fifth most downloaded album of all time in Germany. By April 2013, the album had sold over 12 million copies worldwide. Following Winehouse's death on 23 July 2011, sales of ""Back to Black"" drastically increased across the world. The album rose to number one on several iTunes"
"for 34 weeks. The album spent nearly 170 weeks on the chart as of 2017, by re entering at #167 in February 2011 and for several weeks every time a new studio album was released. Following the death of Chester Bennington in July 2017, the album re-entered at #27 on the Billboard 200, along with three of their other studio albums, re-surfacing into the top 10 at #8 the following week. In the UK, it peaked at #4 in 2001 and re-climbed to its peak position in July 2017, the same week it re-entered the top 10 in the US."
"number three on the UK Albums Chart. However, none of the four singles released from the album managed to reach the top fifty of the UK Singles Chart. Her second album, ""Back to Black"", was released in October 2006, reaching number one on the UK Albums Chart and number seven on the ""Billboard"" 200 in the United States. The album was certified 11-times platinum by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) and was the best-selling album of 2007 in the UK. The first single from the album, ""Rehab"", peaked at number seven in the UK and at number nine on the"
"after Black's death in August 2015, becoming her first number one album. It also reached No. 1 in New Zealand on 21 August 2015 and stayed there for 5 consecutive weeks, making it the first album to achieve this since Sole Mio's eponymous album in March 2014. The 2013 release is a two disc set—one CD and one DVD: the CD album includes all 19 of Black's UK Top 40 singles alongside fan favourites and recently commissioned dance remixes of Cilla classics; the bonus region-free PAL DVD contains the 1966 TV special ""Cilla at the Savoy"". The compilation was repackaged"
"Amy Winehouse: Back to Black Amy Winehouse: Back to Black is a 2018 documentary film about English singer Amy Winehouse and the making of her second studio album, ""Back to Black"" (2006). It contains new interviews, as well as archive footage. Directed by Jeremy Marre, the film was first broadcast on BBC Four on 14 September 2018 (on what would have been Winehouse's 35th birthday) as part of the ""Classic Albums"" documentary series. It was released on DVD, Blu-ray and digitally on 2 November 2018 by Eagle Vision. The film is accompanied by ""An Intimate Evening in London"", featuring footage"
"Black"". Winehouse died of alcohol poisoning on 23 July 2011, at the age of 27. Her album ""Back to Black"" posthumously became, for a time, the UK's best-selling album of the 21st century. Amy Winehouse was born in Chase Farm Hospital, in north London, to Jewish parents. Her father, Mitchell ""Mitch"" Winehouse, was a window panel installer and then a taxi driver; and her mother, Janis Winehouse (née Seaton), was a pharmacist. Winehouse's ancestors were Russian Jewish and Polish Jewish immigrants to London. Amy had an older brother, Alex (born 1979), and the family lived in London's Southgate area, where"
"""An Intimate Evening in London"", footage of a show Winehouse gave at Riverside Studios, London in 2008. Notes Credits adapted from the liner notes of ""Back to Black"". Musicians Technical Artwork ! scope=""row""| Worldwide Back to Black Back to Black is the second and final studio album by English singer and songwriter Amy Winehouse. It was released on 27 October 2006 by Island Records. The album spawned five singles: ""Rehab"", ""You Know I'm No Good"", ""Back to Black"", ""Tears Dry on Their Own"" and ""Love Is a Losing Game"". ""Back to Black"" was acclaimed by music critics, who praised Winehouse's"
"magazine called the track ""instantly memorable."" Prior to this, Winehouse had not seen any success in the U.S., as her debut album ""Frank"" was not released there until November 2007. On the ""Billboard"" Hot 100, ""You Know I'm No Good"" debuted at number 91 spot ahead of ""Rehab"", which also debuted on the chart the same week. The single peaked on the UK Singles Chart at number 18 for the week ending 14 January 2007, in an excellent week for Winehouse that saw ""Back to Black"" achieve a new UK peak of number one, previous single ""Rehab"" return to the"
"after a long struggle with cancer. His No. 1 from 1971, ""My Sweet Lord"" was re-issued and shot straight to the top of the charts. Though it only remained there a week, it entered the record books, being the first time in UK chart history a posthumous release has taken over from another posthumous release by another artist. Returning to number one after April in 2001, the Stereophonics returned to the top with their third album, ""Just Enough Education to Perform"". Spawning two No. 5 singles, the album remained at the top for 3 weeks in this return, one more"
"of Truth"" (1998–2001), and ""Surprise Surprise"" (1984–2001). In 2013, Black celebrated 50 years in show business. British television network ITV honoured this milestone with a one-off entertainment special which aired on 16 October 2013. The show, called ""The One & Only Cilla Black"", featured Black herself and was hosted by Paul O'Grady. Black died on 1 August 2015 after a fall in her villa in Estepona. The day after her funeral, the compilation album ""The Very Best of Cilla Black"" went to number one on the UK Albums Chart and the New Zealand Albums Chart; it was her first number"
"and Amy Winehouse's ""Valerie"" climbed back into the top twenty, over thirty weeks after its original release. Ronson and Winehouse also saw an increase in sales of their albums, with ""Version"" and ""Back to Black"" both re-entering the top five. Three months after its initial release, the deluxe edition of Amy Winehouse's Grammy Award-winning second album ""Back to Black"" climbed to number one on 2 March, holding off Goldfrapp's fourth studio album ""Seventh Tree"" which entered the chart at number two. Duffy held on to the singles top spot for a third week, managing to keep H ""Two"" O, Nickelback"
"To Black' that she moves forward, capturing the singer at her vocal best"". Andy Peart of ""Vive Le Rock"" hailed the album as ""brilliant."" Holly Combe of ""The F-Word"" noted the ""relevance of the lyrics and themes in today’s political climate,"" while, saying the record ""makes a fine companion to anything you might have heard on 2 Tone back in the 1980s,"" Helen G of ""The F-Word"" was similarly very favourable towards the record, also noting the album's relevance in the contemporary political climate, said: ""Back to Black"" was made ""Single of the Week"" in ""Metro"" on 24 July 2011,"
"Pauline Black Belinda Magnus (23 October 1953), better known as Pauline Black, is an English singer, actress and author. In a music career spanning nearly 40 years, Black came to prominence in the late 1970s as the lead singer of the 2 Tone ska revival band the Selecter, which released four singles that entered the Top 40 charts in the United Kingdom during the 1970s and the 1980s, including ""On My Radio"", ""Three Minute Hero"", ""Missing Words"" and ""The Whisper"". ""Rolling Stone"" said of Black ""Hands down, Pauline Black possessed the best voice that ever graced a 2-Tone release. Blessed"
"only took a week before Robbie Williams hit the top of the charts again when ""Escapology"" returned to the top of the charts after its 6-week stay over the Christmas season of 2002. It contained the hits, ""Feel"", ""Come Undone"", ""Something Beautiful"" and ""Sexed Up"". Taking over after a week for a 2-week run was Eva Cassidy with her 3rd UK No. 1 album, ""American Tune"". She became the second female solo artist to have 3 consecutive UK No. 1 albums, after Madonna achieved this in 2000, however it could be said that Eva holds this record solo, because one"
"Zalon Zalon Thompson (born 1 December 1983) is a British pop singer, songwriter and record producer. He is widely known for his backing vocals with Amy Winehouse on her Grammy Award winning ""Back to Black"" album and tour. Born at Park Royal Hospital in London, Zalon Thompson, son of reggae singer Dr Alimantado and brother of fellow backing vocalist Heshima. Zalon attended Furness Primary School and then went to Hampstead School in Cricklewood to advance his education. Zalon Thompson went to Hammersmith and West London College and studied Popular Music which covered all bases of the music industry and learned"
"The Very Best of Cilla Black The Very Best of Cilla Black is an original, career-spanning compilation album by English singer Cilla Black, released in October 2013 by Parlophone / Warner Music Group UK to mark her golden anniversary in show business. The album reached No. 37 in 2013 on the UK Albums Chart, which was Black's first Top 40 hit in thirty years. In September 2014, after the transmission of ITV biopic ""Cilla"" starring Sheridan Smith the album re-entered the UK Albums Chart and peaked at No. 26. The album was to make its ultimate peak at No. 1"