What is the nationality of the artist who had a song that was ahead of "Lightning" when it debuted on the UK Singles Chart?
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Lightning (song) "Lightning" is a song by British-Irish boy band The Wanted, taken as the third single from their second studio album, "Battleground". It was released on 16 October 2011. The song was written by Steve Mac, Wayne Hector and Ed Drewett, the same team responsible for the band's number-one single, "Glad You Came". The song debuted at number two on the UK Singles Chart, behind Rihanna's "We Found Love". The single was originally intended for release in the United States, following the success of "Glad You Came", and a promotional remix single was issued, however, its release was cancelled.
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We Found Love "We Found Love" is a song recorded by Barbadian singer Rihanna from her sixth studio album, "Talk That Talk" (2011). It was written and produced by, and features Scottish DJ Calvin Harris; the song was also featured on his third album "18 Months" (2012). "We Found Love" premiered on September 22, 2011, on the Capital FM radio station in the United Kingdom, and was made available to download on the same day as the lead single from "Talk That Talk". "We Found Love" is an uptempo electro house song, with elements of techno and Europop. The song's lyrics speak of a couple who "found love in a hopeless place".
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Loving You (Matt Cardle and Melanie C song) "Loving You" is a single by English recording artists Matt Cardle and Melanie C. It was written by Cardle, Jez Ashurst, Will Talbot, Jamie Scott, and Melanie C, and it was produced by Cardle, Scott, and Toby Smith. It features Cardle on drums and acoustic guitar. The single was released on 18 August 2013 in the United Kingdom as a digital download as the lead single from his third studio album "Porcelain" (2013). It has also been released in many countries worldwide, making it the first of his singles to be released outside the United Kingdom and Ireland. Despite only BBC Radio 2 playlisiting the song, which meant a lack of airplay on radio overall, it performed well in the charts.
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I Will Never Let You Down "I Will Never Let You Down" is a song by British singer Rita Ora, released on 31 March 2014, through Roc Nation and Columbia Records. The song debuted at number one on the UK Singles Chart, making it Ora's fourth overall UK number-one single (and third as a solo artist) within three years.
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Pendulum (FKA Twigs song) "Pendulum" is a song by English singer FKA Twigs from her debut studio album, "LP1" (2014). The song was released digitally on 30 July 2014 as the album's second single. It was also released on 12-inch vinyl the day before, serving as the B-side to "Two Weeks". "Pendulum" premiered on Zane Lowe's BBC Radio 1 show on 29 July 2014. Upon its premiere, Twigs referred to the track as "one of my favourite songs on my record."
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Lights (Ellie Goulding album) Lights is the debut studio album by English singer Ellie Goulding, released on 26 February 2010 by Polydor Records. Goulding collaborated with several producers on the album, including Starsmith, Fraser T Smith, Frankmusik, Richard "Biff" Stannard, Ash Howes, Liam Howe, Fred Falke and Mumford & Sons' Ben Lovett. The album received generally positive reviews from music critics, who complimented Goulding's electronic edge, while less favourable reviews felt the sound was generic. "Lights" debuted atop the UK Albums Chart with first-week sales of 36,854 copies. In North America, the album charted at number 21 in the United States and number 66 in Canada. It spawned four singles: "Under the Sheets", "Starry Eyed", "Guns and Horses" and "The Writer".
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Katongo Katongo Temba, commonly known as Katongo, is a Zambian born British singer, songwriter and model. Her genre of music is Afropop.
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Chiara (Italian singer) Chiara Galiazzo ] (born 12 August 1986), better known as simply Chiara, is an Italian singer. She rose to fame in 2012, after winning the sixth season of the Italian talent show "X Factor". Her debut single, titled "Due respiri" and co-written by Eros Ramazzotti, was released on 8 December 2012 and debuted atop the Italian Singles Chart. Chiara released her first studio album, "Un posto nel mondo", which debuted at number 2 on the Italian Albums Chart, and spawned the singles "Il futuro che sarà", "Mille passi" and "Vieni con me". In November of the same year, Galiazzo featured on Mika's single "Stardust", which became a number-one hit in Italy.
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List of UK Singles Chart Christmas number twos Every year in the UK Singles Chart, there is a highly publicised race for the top slot on the chart immediately prior to Christmas, an honour known as the Christmas Number One. The UK public take a particular interest in chart performance and sales of singles are especially high in the two weeks before Christmas. The race for first position at Christmas has become a British institution and people will speculate, comment and bet upon the outcome.
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Red Rain (song) "Red Rain" is the first track on English rock musician Peter Gabriel's 1986 solo album "So". In the USA, it was the second single from the album and reached number three on "Billboard" magazine's Mainstream Rock chart in 1986, where it stayed for three weeks between July and August. In the rest of the world it was not released until 1987 and received less airplay and sales, peaking at 46 in the UK singles chart after entering the chart in July of that year. A live version also charted in the US and the UK in 1994.
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Two Weeks (FKA Twigs song) "Two Weeks" is a song by English singer FKA Twigs from her debut studio album, "LP1" (2014). The song was released digitally on 24 June 2014 as the album's lead single. It was also released on 12" vinyl on 29 July 2014, featuring the song "Pendulum" as a B-side.
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Heaven (Emeli Sandé song) "Heaven" is the debut single from Scottish recording artist Emeli Sandé. It was released by Virgin Records after she signed a record deal with the label after the success of single "Never Be Your Woman" which Sandé was featured as a guest artist. It was also the first release from Sandé's debut album, "Our Version of Events", on 14 August 2011. The single was added to BBC Radio 1's playlist in June 2011. The song was also crowned record of the week by the station’s daytime DJ, Fearne Cotton. The single is written by Sandé, Naughty Boy, Craze and Hoax, with producer Mike Spencer.
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Everything I Wanted (Dannii Minogue song) "Everything I Wanted" is a pop–dance song written by Dannii Minogue, Mark Taylor and Steve Torch for Minogue's third studio album "Girl" (1997). The song was produced by Metro and received a positive reception from music critics. It was released as the second single in the fourth quarter of 1997. In Australia, the song only managed to peak at number 44. It was a bigger hit in the United Kingdom, reaching number fifteen and going on to sell 70,000 copies, as well as achieving success on the Upfront Club dance chart, where it reached the top position, becoming Minogue's second single to do so.
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Shannon (South Korean singer) Shannon Areum Williams Lees (Hangul: 샤넌 아름 윌리엄스 리즈 ; born 26 May 1998), referred to monomously as Shannon or Shannon Williams, is a British-Korean singer and actress based in South Korea. She officially debuted as a solo artist in December 2014 with her digital single, "Daybreak Rain".
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Leona Lewis discography British singer Leona Lewis has released five studio albums, sixteen singles, one video album, and sixteen music videos. Following winning the third series of British television talent show, "The X Factor" in 2006, Lewis released "A Moment Like This" in the United Kingdom and Ireland, which became the fastest selling single ever by a female artist in the UK. Her follow-up single, "Bleeding Love" reached number one in 34 countries, and was the biggest-selling single of 2008 worldwide. Lewis's first studio album, "Spirit" was released to follow the single; it became the fastest-selling debut album of all time in the UK and Ireland, and the first debut album by a British solo artist to debut at number one on the "Billboard" 200. As of April 2012, "Spirit" is the 20th biggest-selling album of all time in the UK. The next single, "Better in Time", was also successful worldwide, reaching the top ten in many countries. Subsequent singles "Forgive Me" and "Run" were released across Europe and Australia; "Forgive Me" went on to moderate success, while "Run" became Lewis's third number one in the UK, and also reached the top spot in Austria and Ireland. "I Will Be" was released as the final single in North America.
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Time After Time (Angel song) "Time After Time" is a song by British singer-songwriter and producer Angel. It was first released in the United Kingdom on 29 November 2012 as the third single from his debut studio album "About Time" (2013). The song has peaked to number 41 on the UK Singles Chart and number 4 on the UK R&B Chart.
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Somebody Sent Me an Angel Somebody Sent Me An Angel is the debut album of the Australian singer and songwriter Jane Comerford. It was first released in 1997 in Germany and re-released on 2 May 2006 after Jane Comerford and the band Texas Lightning represented Germany at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2006.
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Touch My Fire "Touch My Fire" is the fifth single by UK R&B star Javine. The single was the UK's entry for the Eurovision Song Contest for 2005 and her first for Island Records. It was the first new material from Javine since her debut album, "Surrender", was released in 2004.
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Taylor Swift discography American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift's career began with a record deal with Big Machine Records in 2005 and the release of her eponymous debut album the following year. In the United States, "Taylor Swift" peaked at number five on the "Billboard" 200 and stayed the longest on the chart during the 2000s. All of its singles—"Tim McGraw", "Teardrops on My Guitar", "Our Song", "Picture to Burn", and "Should've Said No"—charted within the top forty in the United States and were certified platinum by the RIAA. Swift followed with the release of the EPs "" and "Beautiful Eyes", which peaked at number twenty and number nine on the "Billboard" 200, respectively.
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Daley (musician) Gareth Daley (born 29 September 1989), better known professionally as Daley (pronounced "day-lee"), is a British recording artist and songwriter. Daley first became prominent after co-writing and featuring on the Gorillaz 2010 single "Doncamatic", having been spotted by the band's creator Damon Albarn early in his career as an underground artist on the London music scene. The song exposed him to a wider international audience. In 2011, his mixtape "Those Who Wait" was independently released and achieved 150,000 downloads over its first twelve months. Its success saw him promptly signed to Universal Music.
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List of UK top 10 singles in 2005 The UK Singles Chart is one of many music charts compiled by the Official Charts Company that calculates the best-selling singles of the week in the United Kingdom. Before 2004, the chart was only based on the sales of physical singles. This list shows singles that peaked in the Top 10 of the UK Singles Chart during 2005, as well as songs which peaked in 2004 and 2006 but were in the top 10 in 2005. The entry date is when the song appeared in the top 10 for the first time (week ending, as published by the Official Charts Company, which is six days after the chart is announced).
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Blue (Da Ba Dee) "Blue (Da Ba Dee)" is a song by the Italian music group Eiffel 65. It was released on 15 January 1999 as the lead single from their debut album "Europop". The song is the group's most popular single, reaching number one in many countries such as Ireland, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, France, Sweden, Switzerland, New Zealand, Finland, Norway, Australia, and Germany, as well as reaching number six on the "Billboard" Hot 100 in the United States. In the United Kingdom, the song originally entered the top 40 purely on import sales. It was only the third single to do this.