''Eoghan Quigg'' is the only studio album by Northern Irish pop singer

Eoghan Quigg Eoghan Karl Christopher Quigg (; born 12 July 1992) is a footballer and pop singer from Dungiven, Northern Ireland, who finished third in the fifth series of the British television music talent contest ''The X Factor'' in 2008. As a result o ...

, released on 6 April 2009. Quigg, who finished third in the fifth series of the UK television talent show ''

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'', was the first of the finalists from that series to release a studio album. The record predominantly features cover versions of songs that Quigg performed on ''The X Factor'', and one original song, " 28,000 Friends". On its release, the album was described by multiple critics as the worst ever recorded. Its commercial failure led to Quigg being dropped by

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Background

After finishing third in ''The X Factor'' in 2008, Quigg was signed by record label

. Quigg began work on the album in

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in early 2009, and was given a week to record it. The album was recorded at Sphere Studios in Battersea and released on 6 April 2009 in the UK. Quigg described the album's musical direction as drawing inspiration from Busted, and two songs from the album were written by ex-Busted band members, "

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" being written by

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and

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, and " 28,000 Friends" by Bourne.

Critical reception

''Eoghan Quigg'' was savaged by critics. Jon O'Brien of

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described the album as "bad karaoke", with deficient production values failing to hide Quigg's "limited ability" and "bum notes". Nick Levine of Digital Spy called it "amateurish as well as utterly redundant".Eoghan Quigg: 'Eoghan Quigg'
Digital Spy. Retrieved 10-04-2009. One track singled out for criticism by multiple reviewers was the cover of

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's " Never Forget", the vocal performance on which was described by Levine as "positively wince-inducing". Gigwise placed the record at number one in their "The 20 Worst Albums of 2009" in December of that year. The album has been called the worst ever made. A

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reviewer predicted that it would garner a lasting legacy as such, having been "recorded so cheaply and with such little regard for the art of pop that the final product simply does not count as music.""The Eoghan Quigg album: it’s turned out not to be very good"

. 6 April 2009 Peter Robinson, the editor of Popjustice, wrote a review for ''

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'' calling it an "album so bad that it would count as a new low for popular culture were it possible to class as either culture... or popular".

Commercial performance

The album was initially a commercial success in Ireland where it debuted at no 1 on the

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, knocking

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's ''

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'' off the top spot. The album dropped from no 2 in its second week to no 20 in its third week and spent a total of eight weeks on the chart.Eoghan Quigg Chart Statistics on aCharts.us
Retrieved on 06-06-09. In the UK the album peaked at no 14, and exited the Top 100 after three weeks. The album had first-week sales of 16,362. Pointing to the record's lacklustre chart performance in the UK, Gail Walker of the '' Belfast Telegraph'' predicted that the public "may have seen the last of Eoghan Quigg". His album considered a failure, Quigg was dropped by

Track listing

Charts

References

External links

Official Website of Eoghan Quigg
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