My Heart Would Take You Back

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"My Heart Would Take You Back"
My Heart Would Take You Back.jpg
Single by Shayne Ward
from the album Closer
Released12 April 2015
Recorded2014
Genre Pop
Length3:29
Label MPG
Songwriter(s)
Shayne Ward singles chronology
"Must Be a Reason Why"
(2011)
"My Heart Would Take You Back"
(2015)
"The Way You Were"
(2015)

"My Heart Would Take You Back" is a song by British singer Shayne Ward. The song was released in the United Kingdom as a digital download on 12 April 2015. It was released as the lead single from his fourth studio album Closer (2015). The song was written by Mike Stock, Johan Kalel, Laura Walton and Shayne Ward.

Shayne Ward English singer

Shayne Thomas Ward is an English singer and actor. He is best known for his role as Aidan Connor in Coronation Street from 2015 to 2018. He rose to fame as the winner of the second series of The X Factor. His debut single, "That's My Goal", was released in the United Kingdom on 21 December 2005 and reached number one on the UK Singles Chart and was that year's Christmas number one. It sold 313,000 copies on its first day of sales, making it the third-fastest-selling single of all time in the UK, behind Elton John's "Candle in the Wind 1997" and Will Young's "Evergreen", which sold 685,000 and 400,000 copies in their first days of sale, respectively.

United Kingdom Country in Europe

The United Kingdom (UK), officially the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, is a sovereign country located off the north-western coast of the European mainland. The United Kingdom includes the island of Great Britain, the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland, and many smaller islands. Northern Ireland is the only part of the United Kingdom that shares a land border with another sovereign state, the Republic of Ireland. Apart from this land border, the United Kingdom is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, with the North Sea to the east, the English Channel to the south and the Celtic Sea to the south-west, giving it the 12th-longest coastline in the world. The Irish Sea lies between Great Britain and Ireland. With an area of 242,500 square kilometres (93,600 sq mi), the United Kingdom is the 78th-largest sovereign state in the world. It is also the 22nd-most populous country, with an estimated 66.0 million inhabitants in 2017.

<i>Closer</i> (Shayne Ward album) 2015 studio album by Shayne Ward

Closer is the fourth studio album by English pop singer Shayne Ward. It was released on 12 April 2015, as Ward's first independent release, funded through PledgeMusic. The album marks the debut release from MPG, a joint venture between Ward and music producer Mike Stock. The album features writing credits by Ward, Stock, Laura Walton and Johan Kalel, with production provided exclusively by Stock and Jimmy Junior. Recording took place between 2014 and 2015 in Stock's West Sussex studio.

Contents

Background

The song premiered on BBC Radio 2 on the Ken Bruce show on 24 February 2015 to a positive reception. Shayne Ward said of the song: "I sat down with Mike and said, 'I love The Stylistics, Temptations, The Chi-Lites and I would love to write something along the lines of that. I thought it would end up as an album track but from the moment we sent it to management, they jumped at it and said, 'We have to go with this as the lead track.'" [1]

BBC Radio 2 British national radio station

BBC Radio 2 is one of the BBC's two flagship national radio stations and the most popular station in the United Kingdom with over 15 million weekly listeners. Much of its daytime playlist-based programming is adult contemporary or AOR, although the station also broadcasts other specialist musical genres. Radio 2 broadcasts throughout the UK on FM between 88.1 and 90.2 MHz from studios in Wogan House, adjacent to Broadcasting House in central London. Programmes are relayed on digital radio via DAB, Sky, Cable TV, IPTV, Freeview, Freesat and the Internet.

Ken Bruce British DJ

Kenneth Robertson Bruce is a Scottish broadcaster who hosts The Ken Bruce Show on BBC Radio 2.

The Stylistics Music group founded in Philadelphia

The Stylistics are an American, Philadelphia soul group that achieved its greatest chart success in the 1970s. They formed in 1968, consisting of singers Russell Thompkins Jr., Herb Murrell, Airrion Love, James Smith, and James Dunn. All of their US hits were ballads characterized by the falsetto of Russell Thompkins Jr. and the production of Thom Bell. During the early 1970s, the group had twelve consecutive R&B top ten hits, including "Stop, Look, Listen", "You Are Everything", "Betcha by Golly, Wow", "I'm Stone in Love with You", "Break Up to Make Up", and "You Make Me Feel Brand New".

Music video

A music video to accompany the release of "My Heart Would Take You Back" was first released onto YouTube on 26 March 2015 at a total length of three minutes and thirty-six seconds. [2]

Track listing

Digital download
No.TitleLength
1."My Heart Would Take You Back"3:29

Chart performance

Weekly charts

Chart (2015)Peak
position
UK Singles (Official Charts Company) [3] 166
UK Independent Singles (Official Charts Company) [4] 8

Release history

RegionDateFormatLabel
United Kingdom12 April 2015 [5] Digital download MPG

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References

  1. Shayne Ward: 'No bitterness towards Simon Cowell or Syco' - Celebrity News News - Reveal
  2. Shayne Ward - My Heart Would Take You Back - YouTube
  3. "CHART: CLUK Update 25.04.2015 (wk16)". Zobbel.de.
  4. "CHART: CLUK Update 25.04.2015 (wk16)". Zobbel.de.
  5. iTunes - Music - My Heart Would Take You Back - Single by Shayne Ward