Breathless (Shayne Ward song)
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"Breathless" is a song by the second United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 X Factor winner Shayne Ward
Shayne Ward
Shayne Thomas Ward is an English pop singer who rose to fame as the winner of second series of The X Factor. He has sold over 3 million records worldwide and has had number one albums and singles in 9 countries.During The X Factor competition, Ward was mentored by manager Louis Walsh...

. It was released as his fifth single and 2nd and final single for his second album
Breathless (Shayne Ward album)
Breathless is the second solo studio album by British pop singer and winner of The X Factor, Shayne Ward. Record label Syco Music released it in the United Kingdom on 26 November 2007. The album is mostly written by Rami Yacoub, Arnthor Birgisson and Savan Kotecha. The album was commercially...

 on November 19, 2007. On Valentine's day
Valentine's Day
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 2008 the song was announced as number 2 on the UK's greatest love songs of all time. The single was also used in episode 7 of a Korean
Korean language
Korean is the official language of the country Korea, in both South and North. It is also one of the two official languages in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in People's Republic of China. There are about 78 million Korean speakers worldwide. In the 15th century, a national writing...

 drama called You're Beautiful
You're Beautiful (TV series)
He's Beautiful is a South Korean drama about a fictional boy band A.N.Jell and the relationship between its members when a female, posing as her twin brother, joins the group...

.

Chart performance

Promotion for this single was very limited; which would explain the relatively moderate chart position of the song when compared
to his previous singles. The only live performances shown to the public were when Ward performed this song during the results show in the fourth series
The X Factor (UK series 4)
The fourth UK series of The X Factor was broadcast on ITV in autumn 2007. The first show aired on 18 August 2007 and the series was won by Leon Jackson on 15 December 2007, with Rhydian Roberts the runner-up and Dannii Minogue emerging as the winning mentor...

 of The X Factor on 10 November 2007, BBC Switch: Sound on 17 November 2007, and on the The Paul O'Grady Show
The Paul O'Grady Show
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on 19 November 2007.

The single entered the UK Singles Chart
UK Singles Chart
The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...

on 25 November 2007 at number 6. He was number 4 on the HMV Official Single Charts. The single has so far sold 102,000 copies in the UK.
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