Jack Savoretti's Singing To Strangers storms to the top of the UK Charts

Jack Savoretti returns with his stunning new album, ‘Singing to Strangers’, and his first UK Number 1, out now on BMG Records. Jack’s sixth LP is his first to top the charts, shifting just over 32,000 sales in the first week, his highest opening sales yet. Produced by Cam Blackwood (George Ezra), the BBC Radio 2 album of the week follows Jack’s last two gold discs ‘Written in Scars’ (2014) and ‘Sleep No More’ (2016) which both peaked inside the Top 10.

Celebrating the news of his UK Number 1 Jack told the Official Charts Company, “This is my sixth album, and the thing I am proud of the most is having surrounded myself with people that have helped me make the album I’ve always wanted to make. The success of this album belongs to every single person that has worked on it.”

Recorded in Rome at Ennio Morricone’s studio this long, hot summer, the 12 track album features Jack’s acclaimed live band: guitarists Pedro Vito and Sam Lewis; bassist Sam Davies, drummer Jesper Lind and musical director Nikolai Torp on keys.

Two co-writes on the album are amongst the highlights. ‘Touchy Situation’ was co-written with Bob Dylan. Yes you read that right, Bob Dylan! A contact of Jack’s American manager had some old Dylan lyrics and he was fine with Jack writing music to them. It may have been because he’d heard Jack’s cover of the Dylan rarity ‘Nobody ‘Cept You’ on ‘Written In Scars’ – a song Jack found in Jackson Browne’s studio.

The other collaboration was the Kylie Minogue cowrite ‘Music’s Too Sad Without You’ which appears as a live version recorded in Venice on

‘Singing To Strangers’.

Live

• 1/05, Melkweg Amsterdam