Leon Jackson Version
| "When You Believe" | ||||
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| Single by Leon Jackson | ||||
| from the album Right Now | ||||
| B-side | "Home" (Live from X Factor) "Fly Me to the Moon" (Live from X Factor) |
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| Released | December 16, 2007 | |||
| Format | CD single, digital download | |||
| Recorded | 2007 | |||
| Genre | Pop | |||
| Length | 4:16 | |||
| Label | Syco | |||
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"When You Believe" was recorded by The X Factor winner Leon Jackson in December 2007. The single was available to download from midnight after the result of the show on December 15, 2007, and a CD was rush-released mid-week, on December 19, 2007. This is unusual as most new singles are released on a Monday to gain maximum sales for the UK Singles Chart the following Sunday. Exceptions included the previous two X Factor winners who's were singles released in this fashion, in order for them to compete to be the Christmas number-one single, which they all became. A video for the single was made by each of the final four of the series; Jackson, Rhydian Roberts, Same Difference and Niki Evans. However, only the winner's version of the song and video was released.
The song ended 2007 as the year's fourth biggest-selling single in the UK and remained number one into 2008. However, this version of the song only managed to stay in the top 40 for seven weeks, despite being the staying atop the chart for three weeks. It also soon disappeared from the top 100, and was gone by late February.
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