Leon Jackson discography | |
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Jackson performing live during his 2009 Right Now Tour of the UK and Ireland | |
Studio albums | 1 |
Singles | 4 |
Music videos | 3 |
Scottish singer and songwriter, Leon Jackson, has released one studio album and four singles since 2007. His debut single, "When You Believe" was released in December 2007, and sold 490,000 copies in the United Kingdom alone, and was certified a Gold status by the BPI. [1] [2] His second single, "Don't Call This Love" was released a week prior to the release of his debut album, Right Now (2008) which was later certified Gold by the BPI in the UK for sales of over 130,000 copies. [3] His debut album, Right Now, was released in October 2008 and debuted at number two in his native Scotland, number four in the United Kingdom and number seven in the Republic of Ireland. On the World Albums Top 100 compiled by Billboard , it reached number twenty-five. [4] The album was later certified Gold by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) for sales in excess of 150,000 copies, whilst in the Republic of Ireland it was certified Platinum by the Irish Recorded Music Association. [5]
Following the success of the single "Don't Call this Love", Jackson went onto release the single "Creative", performing the single live on the official BBC Children in Need 2008 show performing the song as an "exclusive" as this was the first time Jackson had performed the track. The song went on to debut at number 94 on the UK Singles Chart. [6] [7] The fourth and final single to be released from Right Now was "Stargazing", released in February 2009.
Jackson's second studio album has yet to be released, with Jackson indicating previously that new music "was coming". In his hiatus from recording his own music, he has engaged in various songwriting activities, receiving songwriting credit for writing tracks for a number of artists, most notably writing alongside British recording artist Vince Kidd on the song "Sick Love", released in 2012. [8]
Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Sales | Certifications | ||||
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SCO [9] | UK [10] | UK Down [10] | UK Phys [10] | IRE [11] | ||||
Right Now |
| 2 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 7 |
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Year | Title | Peak chart positions | Certifications | Album | |||||||||||||||||
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SCO [9] | IRE [11] | UK [10] | UK Down [10] | UK Phys [10] | EUR [14] [15] | ||||||||||||||||
2007 | "When You Believe" | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | Right Now | |||||||||||||
2008 | "Don't Call This Love" | 1 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 10 | ||||||||||||||
"Creative" | — | — | 94 | 88 | — | — | |||||||||||||||
2009 | "Stargazing" | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||||||||||
"—" denotes a single that did not chart or was not released. |
Year | Title |
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2007 | "When You Believe" |
2008 | "Don't Call This Love" |
"Creative" |
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