"All on My Mind" is a 2017 single by

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, lead single of his 2017 album ''

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''. It was his first release since his 2015 album '' Delilah''. The single reached number one on the U.S. ''Billboard'' Adult Alternative Songs and made it to number 34 on the U.S. Adult Top 40 chart. The song was first written by Ed Sheeran and

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's Johnny McDaid, the songwriting duo behind top-hit "

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". Erik Eger, McDaid's manager, presented the demo version of the song to Gregg Nadel,

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president. Nadel, who's in charge of Sheeran's U.S. marketing, then pitched it to Anderson East, who adapted it with his longtime collaborator Aaron Raitiere. Several revisions went back and forth, and hearing the final result, Ed Sheeran "loved it," and "could not have been happier with how it turned out." The song was nominated at the

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in the

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category, but lost to

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's " The Joke."

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magazine reviewed the song, saying it "sounds like pure East. Marching along with stabs of strings and swells of electric piano, 'All on My Mind' is a showcase for East’s rugged, raspy vocals as he ponders his obsession with a rule-breaking woman."

Chart performance

References

2017 singles Anderson East songs 2017 songs Songs written by Johnny McDaid Songs written by Ed Sheeran {{2010s-pop-song-stub