Shayne Ward - Breathless Track Listing

1. "No U Hang Up" (Rami Yacoub, Arnthor Birgisson, Savan Kotecha)
2. "Breathless" (Yacoub, Birgisson, Kotecha)
3. "If That's OK with You" (Max Martin, Birgisson, Kotecha)
4. "Damaged" (Yacoub, Birgisson, Kotecha)
5. "Some Tears Never Dry" (Yacoub, Birgisson, Kotecha)
6. "Until You" (Yacoub, Birgisson, Kotecha)
7. "Stand by Your Side" (Remee, John Reid, Joe Belmaati, Mich Hansen)
8. "Melt the Snow" (Yacoub, Birgisson, Kotecha)
9. "Tangled Up" (Evan Rogers, Carl Sturken)
10. "Just Be Good to Me" (James Harris III, Terry Lewis)
11. "U Got Me So" (Yacoub, Birgisson, Kotecha)
12. "You Make Me Wish" (Yacoub, Birgisson, Kotecha)
13. "Tell Him" (Ryan Tedder, Justin Trugman, Kotecha, Ashraf Jannusi)

Released November 26, 2007
Recorded 2007
Genre Pop, R&B
Label Sony BMG
Producer Arnthor, Rami, Ryan Tedder

Two years after winning The X Factor, Manchester-born Shayne Ward follows up his eponymous 2006 debut. While that album was predominantly composed of ballads, this release sees Ward "acting his age" with a collection of infectious, uptempo, RnB-influenced pop. Produced by pop supremos extraordinaire Maratone (Britney, Westlife, Celine Dion) and Ryan Tedder (J-Lo, Natasha Bedingfield, Leona Lewis), it includes the singles 'Breathless' and the no.2 double A-side hit 'No U Hang Up'/'If That's OK With You'.

On 2nd December 2007, the album reached #1 in the Irish album charts, knocking Leona Lewis off the top. It debuted at #2 in the UK Albums Chartselling 96,000 in it's first week, being held back by his X Factor successor Leona Lewis's debut album "Spirit" which sold over 164,000 in it's third week.

Shayne Ward - Breathless Review from bbc.co.uk


These days success is often judged less on sales and more on a TV audience's pantomime reactions to unreal situations. Top of this list is the X Factor franchise with its brutal pit fight format of winner takes all - until the next year's winner comes along, of course. After that, you're on your own.
Shayne Ward is at that exact point. Having sold two million copies of his eponymous debut and scored 13 worldwide number ones, he now has the unenviable task of trying to turn that success into a career, starting with this, the 'difficult second album'.

Breathless is an album that sums up the predicament of the reality pop star. Having taken the fast track to the big time, Shayne has no style of his own and is open to the whims of his production team.
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Eventually however the shortcomings of Breathless show us one crucial fact; the old ways of pop are indeed dead, but if this is the future, it might just turn out to be goodbye pop.