The Essential James Arthur – Fan Poll Facts and Stats

Over 750 fans voted in the fan poll in March and April to choose their favourite James Arthur song. These were announced on this website early May 2024.

Here are all the facts and stats about the poll and the songs that made the list …

761 voters cast 6,541 votes (9 votes per person)

Top 30 Ranking and Votes

Rank-ing	score	Song	Album	year	votes	vote percentage	uk chart	spotify streams	spotify ranking	on BSL WORLD tour setlist?
1	30	Train Wreck	Back From The Edge	2016	295	39%	16	807.9m	4	Y
2	29	Recovery	James Arthur	2013	215	28%	19	42.8m	18	N
3	28	From the Jump	Bitter Sweet Love	2024	185	24%	–	2.36m	26	Y
4	27	Quite Miss Home	You	2019	175	23%	77	116.5m	13	Y (Medley)
5	26	Impossible	James Arthur	2012	164	22%	1	839m	2	Y
6	25	Can I be him?	Back From The Edge	2017	159	21%	69	790m	5	Y
7	24	Bitter Sweet Love	Bitter Sweet Love	2024	152	20%	–	8.8m	23	Y
8	23	Free Falling	Bitter Sweet Love	2023	140	18%	–	8.8m	23	Sometimes
9	23	Empty Space	You	2018	140	18%	22	61.5m	15	Y
10	21	Say You Won’t Let Go	Back From The Edge	2016	139	18%	1	2.81bn	1	Y
11	20	Naked	You	2017	137	18%	11	734.5m	6	Y
12	19	Certain Things	James Arthur	2013	135	18%	–	139.7m	11	Y (Medley)
13	18	A Thousand Years	N/A	2023	133	17%	–	127.3m	12	Y
14	17	Just Us	Bitter Sweet Love	2023	13 1	17%	81	21.2m	20	Once
15	16	Blindside	Bitter Sweet Love	2023	125	16%	–	17.2m	22	Y
16	15	Car’s Outside	You	2019	122	16%	78	699m	7	Y
17	14	New Generation	Bitter Sweet Love	2024	120	16%	–	1m	30	Y
18	13	Emily	It’ll All Make Sense In The End	2021	116	15%	82	46.7m	16	Y (medley)
19	12	Falling Like The Stars	You	2019	112	15%	25	517.6m	8	Y
20	11	Is it Alright?	Bitter Sweet Love	2024	108	14%	–	1.8m	27	N
21	10	Last of the Whiskey	It’ll All Make Sense In The End	2021	106	14%	–	6m	25	N
22	9	Ruthless	Bitter Sweet Love	2023	105	14%	–	1.6m	28	N
23	8	Sermon	Back From The Edge	2016	97	13%	–	30.6m	19	Y
24	7	A Year Ago	Bitter Sweet Love	2023	96	13%	91	106.6m	14	N
25	7	Back From The Edge	Back From The Edge	2016	96	13%	–	46.1m	17	N
26	5	Safe Inside	Back From The Edge	2017	92	12%	31	149.2m	10	Y (Medley)
27	4	Rewrite The Stars	N/A	2018	90	12%	7	823.8m	3	Y
28	3	Lasting Lover	N/A	2020	83	11%	10	294.2m	9	Y
29	2	Comeback Kid	Bitter Sweet Love	2024	82	11%	–	1.5m	29	Y
30	1	Maybe	You	2019	78	10%	–	19.2m	21	N

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Facts and Stats

Most popular albums

1. Bitter Sweet Love (10 songs / Score = 155 points)
2. You (6 songs = 98 points)
3. Back from the Edge (6 songs = 96 points)
4. James Arthur (3 songs = 94 points)
5. It’ll All Make Sense In the End (2 songs = 26 points)

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DID YOU KNOW?

• “Train Wreck” is a clear winner. Nearly 40% voters chose this among their favourites. “Recovery” and “From the jump” were in a clear 2nd and 3rd place.

• “Say you won’t let go”, the most popular song in terms of streams and sales, was only 10 on the list.

• The Top 5 songs are from 4 different albums.

• While there is a clear gap between each of the Top 7 songs, Only 1 vote separates songs 8-10, 5 votes separate songs 8-12 and 10 votes separate songs 8-14!

• Bitter Sweet Love has the most songs in this top 30 countdown. It’ll All Make Sense In The End has the fewest with only 2, although songs from IAMSITE feature in positions 31 and 35-37!

• All the songs that featured on the Bitter Sweet Tour setlist have appeared on this fan poll!

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What do you make of that? Will Bitter Sweet Love have enduring appeal? Which songs from that album will still be fan favourites when James Arthur releases new music? What else have you noticed? Let me know your thoughts in the comments below.

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Whatever else, this poll demonstrates that his fans agree James Arthur is at the peak of his powers, one of the most compelling singer-songwriters today, both in the studio and live.

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