The Pursuit is the fifth studio album by Jamie Cullum

Jamie Cullum

Jamie Cullum is an English pop and jazz-pop singer-songwriter. Though he is primarily a vocalist/pianist he also accompanies himself on other instruments including guitar and drums. Since April 2010, he has been presenting a weekly jazz show on BBC Radio 2, broadcast on Tuesdays from 19:00.- Early...

. It was released on 9 November 2009 in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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, and released in the United States and Canada

Canada

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 on 2 March 2010. It was produced by Greg Wells

Greg Wells

Greg Wells is a multiple Grammy nominated musician, record producer and songwriter based in Los Angeles. Wells has produced and written hits with Adele, Weezer, Pink, Theophilus London, Deftones, Katy Perry, Rufus Wainwright, The All American Rejects, OneRepublic, Mika, Aerosmith, Burt Bacharach,...

 and Martin Terefe, and mixed by Gregg Wells, Thomas Juth and Ryan Hewitt. The album's title is taken from the novel The Pursuit of Love

The Pursuit of Love

The Pursuit of Love is a novel by Nancy Mitford, first published in 1945. It is the first in a trilogy about an upper-class family in the period between the wars...

by Nancy Mitford

Nancy Mitford

Nancy Freeman-Mitford, CBE , styled The Hon. Nancy Mitford before her marriage and The Hon. Mrs Peter Rodd thereafter, was an English novelist and biographer, one of the Bright Young People on the London social scene in the inter-war years...

. The album was recorded at a Los Angeles

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 studio using songs that Cullum originally recorded at his Shepherd's Bush

Shepherd's Bush

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 recording studio, Terrified Studios. The song "Mixtape" features Sophie Dahl

Sophie Dahl

Sophie Dahl , born Sophie Holloway, is an English author and former model. She was born in London, the daughter of actor Julian Holloway and writer Tessa Dahl. Her maternal grandparents were author Roald Dahl and actress Patricia Neal. Her paternal grandparents were actor Stanley Holloway and...

 on backing vocals.

The first single from the album, "I'm All Over It

I'm All Over It

"I'm All Over It" is the first single from The Pursuit, the fifth studio album by Jamie Cullum. It was released on November 2, 2009 and entered the UK top 75 at #55, up from #92 the week before....

", was released on 2 November 2009.

Music Week

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critic Andy Morris states in his review of the album, "The Cole Porter cover at the start won't surprise you, but the house track at the end just might. Cullum's fifth album does justice to his musical influences: from the Portishead-tinged 'If I Ruled The World' to the wonky groove of 'We Run Things', it's bold, experimental and the best thing Cullum's done."

Both the track listing and the cover-art for the album were released on 27 August 2009.

Track listing

Track #	Song	Songwriter(s)	Length	Notes
1	"Just One of Those Things"	Cole Porter Cole Porter Cole Albert Porter was an American composer and songwriter. Born to a wealthy family in Indiana, he defied the wishes of his domineering grandfather and took up music as a profession. Classically trained, he was drawn towards musical theatre...	4:35
2	"I'm All Over It I'm All Over It "I'm All Over It" is the first single from The Pursuit, the fifth studio album by Jamie Cullum. It was released on November 2, 2009 and entered the UK top 75 at #55, up from #92 the week before.... "	Cullum, Ricky Ross	3:40
3	"Wheels"	Cullum	3:43
4	"If I Ruled the World If I Ruled the World "If I Ruled the World" is a popular song, composed by Leslie Bricusse and Cyril Ornadel, which was originally from the 1963 West End musical Pickwick... "	Leslie Bricusse and Cyril Ornadel	4:36
5	"You and Me Are Gone"	Cullum, Geoff Gascoyne, Sebastian de Krom	5:05
6	"Don't Stop the Music Don't Stop the Music (Rihanna song) "Don't Stop the Music" is a dance-pop song performed by Barbadian R&B singer Rihanna from her third studio album, Good Girl Gone Bad. It was the third single from the album in most of Europe, the second single in Germany and Spain and the fourth single in the rest of the world... "	Tor Erik Hermansen, Mikkel Stroleer Eriksen, Frankie Storm & Michael Jackson Michael Jackson Michael Joseph Jackson was an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. Referred to as the King of Pop, or by his initials MJ, Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records...	4:49	Cover of Rihanna Rihanna Robyn Rihanna Fenty , better known as simply Rihanna, is a Barbadian recording artist. Born in Saint Michael, Barbados, Rihanna moved to the United States at the age of 16 to pursue a recording career under the guidance of record producer Evan Rogers...  song
7	"Love Ain't Gonna Let You Down"	Cullum	3:57
8	"Mixtape"	Cullum, Ben Cullum	4:58
9	"I Think, I Love"	Cullum	4:16
10	"We Run Things"	Cullum	3:31
11	"Not While I'm Around"	Stephen Sondheim Stephen Sondheim Stephen Joshua Sondheim is an American composer and lyricist for stage and film. He is the winner of an Academy Award, multiple Tony Awards including the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, multiple Grammy Awards, a Pulitzer Prize and the Laurence Olivier Award...	3:32	From the musical Sweeney Todd Sweeney Todd Sweeney Todd is a fictional character who first appeared as then antagonist of the Victorian penny dreadful The String of Pearls and he was later introduced as an antihero in the broadway musical Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and its film adaptation...
12	"Music Is Through"	Cullum, Ben Cullum	7:07
13	"I Love This"	Cullum, Ben Cullum	4:45	U.S./Canada edition bonus track
14	"Gran Torino"	Music: Clint Eastwood Clint Eastwood Clinton "Clint" Eastwood, Jr. is an American film actor, director, producer, composer and politician. Eastwood first came to prominence as a supporting cast member in the TV series Rawhide... , Cullum, Kyle Eastwood Kyle Eastwood Kyle Eastwood is an American jazz musician. He studied film at the University of Southern California for two years before embarking on a music career. After becoming a session player in the early '90s and leading his own quartet, he released his first solo album, From There to Here, in 1998... , Michael Stevens Lyrics: Cullum	4:32	U.S./Canada and UK edition bonus track
15	"The Move On Song"	Cullum	3:47	U.S./Canada edition bonus track
16	"Grace is Gone"	Cullum	3:06	UK edition bonus track

Charts

The album entered the UK Album Charts on 15 November 2009 at number 16.

Chart (2009)	Peak position	Certification	Sales/ shipments
Austrian Albums Chart Hitradio Ö3 Hitradio Ö3 is one of the national radio stations of Austria's state-run broadcaster ORF.The station focuses on contemporary music. Until 1995 its schedules included many specialist music shows, but following a reorganization of ORF's channels shortly before the introduction in Austria of private...	35
Dutch Albums Chart MegaCharts MegaCharts is responsible for the composition and exploitation of a broad collection of official charts in the Netherlands, of which the Mega Top 50 and the Mega Album Top 100 are the most known ones. Mega Charts also provides information to the Stichting Nederlandse Top 40, of which the Dutch Top...	11
German Albums Chart	11	Gold	100,000+
Portuguese Albums Chart Portugal Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...	7
US Billboard 200	42
US Rock Albums	7
UK Albums Chart UK Albums Chart The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart...	16

Release history

Country	Date	Format	Label
United Kingdom	10 November 2009	CD Compact Disc The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,... , Digital download Music download A music download is the transferral of music from an Internet-facing computer or website to a user's local computer. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyright material without permission or payment...	Decca Records Decca Records Decca Records began as a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis. Its U.S. label was established in late 1934; however, owing to World War II, the link with the British company was broken for several decades....
United States	2 March 2010		Verve Forecast
Canada			Universal Music