Michael Buble Trivia

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  • Set the record in 2005 at The Sydney Opera House for the most tickets sold in one day ever.
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  • His self-penned single, "Home" has the distinction of being the most-heard song on Canadian radio in 2005, reaching an audience estimated to exceed 382 million people.
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  • Everything, the first hit single from the 2007 album Call Me Irresponsible, boasts the fastest trip to Number 1 in three years on Billboards Adult Contemporary chart.
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  • Jobs as a showman included talent shows, conventions, cruise ships, hotel lounges, smoky bars, clubs, corporate gigs, and theatre.
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  • In September 2003, sang at "Blue Note" Jazz Club, in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, New York City.
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  • [19 January 2007] His album It's Time broke the all time record for highest number of weeks at number 1 by any artist. It's Time spent 76 weeks in the number 1 spot on Billboard's Top Traditional Jazz Albums Charts. According to the Nielsan Soundscan charts, which tracks weekly industry sales in America, both the Traditional Jazz Album and the Current Jazz Album charts lists It's Time at an amazing total of 101 weeks on the charts with sales exceeding 2.2 million to date.
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  • Dean Regan's touring musical "Forever Swing" was a major factor in launching his early career. His starring role in "Forever Swing" gained huge praise by both fans and critics throughout Canada and the United States.
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  • 2006 Grammy Award-nominations: Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album for "It's Time", Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist for the song "Can't Buy Me Love".
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  • Is of Italian descent. He has dual Italian-Canadian citizenship. His grandfather Demetrio "Mitch" Santaga comes from the village of Preganziol, Italy.
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  • His debut self-titled CD released in 2003 hit the best-selling charts in more than 15 countries and went triple Platinum in Canada.
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  • [26 September 2006] Is on Tony Bennett's new album "Duets: An American Classic". The album entered the Billboard Top 200 charts at No. 3 and debuted at #1 on the Canadian charts. Michael & Tony's duet is "Just In Time". Michael also performs the song "Steppin' Out With My Baby". Target Stores are selling this limited CD/dvd edition in the USA. Michael is also featured on Tony Bennett's upcoming television special scheduled to air on NBC on November 21, 2006.
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  • His father Lewis is a salmon fisherman and his mother, Amber, raised him and his two younger sisters.
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  • A long-time devoted hockey fan of the Vancouver Canucks. Watches Canucks games on his laptop when he is not in British Columbia; never misses any of the games.
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  • Is an international singing sensation. He has gone multi-platinum in over 15 countries. In 2005, he traveled the world over a dozen times, performing sold-out shows throughout the U.S., Europe (including a sold-out performance at the prestigious London's Royal Albert Hall), Asia, and Australia. His self-titled debut went multi-platinum, and his multi-platinum CD, "It's Time" (which included the No. 1 Buble-penned smash single "Home") sold over 5.5 million CDs worldwide. As of October 2006, "It's Time" went 6 times Platinum in Canada, 4 times Platinum in Australia and Italy, double Platinum in Singapore and USA. Platinum in the UK, Austria, Germany, Holland, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Ireland, Switzerland, Taiwan and South Africa. Gold status in Belgium, France, Philippines, Sweden and Thailand. As of 2007, "It's Time" remained on the Billboard Traditional Jazz Albums Charts for a staggering two years and in the No. 1 slot for over 80 weeks, holding the all time record for highest number of weeks at No. 1 by any artist. The internationally acclaimed hit original song "Home" reached No. 1 on charts in more than 10 countries, including Japan, Canada and Italy. "It's Time" was nominated for 2 Grammy Awards and was the Bestselling Traditional Jazz Album of 2005.
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  • Received two Genie Award nominations in 2000 for songs he wrote for the film Here's to Life! (2000) starring Eric McCormack.
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  • In 1996, he landed a role as Elvis in the Vancouver run of a Rock and Roll musical revue called Red Rock Diner, where he became friends with Debbie Timuss, a stage actress, dancer and singer who taught him the choreography. Two years later they became an item and moved to Toronto as part of the cast of another musical revue, this time a big band musical revue called Forever Swing. The hit single "Home" from the album It's Time was written for Debbie Timuss, whom Bublé has had a near decade long off-again-on-again relationship. Having gotten back together from one of their breakups and away in Italy on tour, he penned "Home" for Timuss, describing his pain from being away from her. She is the song's background vocalist and is featured in the song's music video. He referred the album It's Time as "Debbie's Record", and a few of the tracks on It's Time was recorded while he sang to her as she sat outside the studio. They became formally engaged pre-Christmastime 2004 and called off the engagement November 2005.
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  • By December 2004, his self-titled debut album sold over three million worldwide including seven times platinum in Australia, three times platinum in Canada, twice platinum in the United Kingdom, South Africa, Italy, New Zealand and the Philippines, and gold status in Indonesia, Malaysia, Spain, Taiwan and Hong Kong.
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  • During preparation for his daughter's wedding, Brian Mulroney was hesitant to listen to Buble's CD, given by Mulroney's speech writer Michael McSweeney after a corporate gig, because the wedding had a long list of entertainment. However, it was Brian's wife Mila who told him to listen to the CD and include Buble in the entertainment list, after which Buble was invited to sing in front of wedding guest David Foster, who later produced Buble's self-titled album.
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  • When Michael's 2006 Valentine's Day EP - "With Love, Michael Buble"- was released only for a week, the album reached Gold status selling 500,000 copies. The album also became the biggest selling CD Hallmark has ever released, selling in excess of 3 million copies.
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  • His grandfather was a plumber who, whenever he fixed something at a nightclub or something like that, did it for free if the owners allowed Bublé to sing there.
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  • 2007 Grammy Award-nomination: Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album for "Caught in the Act".
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  • Living in Vancover with his partner, Emily Blunt.
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  • Older brother of Crystal Buble.
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  • [2005] His self-penned single "Home" reached #1 at Pop and AC radio in Canada and #1 at AC radio in the United States.
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  • First met Emily Blunt backstage with a group of people after one of his U.S. concerts in 2004.
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  • Won Best New Artist at the Canadian Juno Awards (April, 2004)
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  • At 18, Bublé entered a talent contest in a local bar even though the rules stipulated contestants had to be 19. After he won, the organizer, a local publicist and entrepreneur named Beverly Delich, disqualified him but was so impressed by his talent that she later called him at his parents' home and suggested he enter the British Columbia Youth Talent Search. He won, and Delich then helped him record an independent CD.
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  • By 2004, he had sold-out engagements throughout Europe, Australia, and Asia, including 3-night sold out shows at the Sydney Opera House's Concert Hall in April and sold-out an unprecedented 9 shows across Australia; in November 2004, he completed 16 sell-outs in the U.K. alone, most notably two SROs at London's prestigious Royal Albert Hall.
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  • Last name is pronounced "Boo-blay".
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  • [27 March 2007] His self-penned single "Everything", from album Call Me Irresponsible, made the highest debut in the history of the BDS AC (adult contemporary) charts. In its first week at Canadian radio, "Everything" debuted at #3 on the BDS Mainstream AC Audience chart. Also in only one week, it was aired over 300 times on 43 Radio Stations, reaching an estimated audience in Canada of over 5.2 million listeners.
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  • [2005] The U.S. Billboard ranks "It's Time" as the Best Selling Jazz recording of 2005 and chose him as the #1 Jazz Artist.
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  • Won 4 Juno Awards (2006) for Best Singer, Best Album "It's Time", Best Artist,and Best Pop Album of the Year "It's Time".
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  • Won 3 Canadian Smooth Jazz Awards (2006) for Male Vocalist of the Year, Album of the Year "It's Time", and Best Original Composition "Home".
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  • The original song "Lost" (from album Call Me Irresponsible) is the sequel to his hit single "Home" (from album It's Time). While in Australia, Bublé co-wrote "Lost" during the process of ending his eight year relationship to Debbie Timuss, whom he had previously written "Home" for while still together. "Lost" was written as a tribute to his former relationship to Timuss. Before "Lost" was released, Bublé played the song to Timuss. However, his current girlfriend Emily Blunt is the inspiration to the original single "Everything" (from album Call Me Irresponsible).
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  • Worked with his salmon fisherman father for six years. On fishing days, which normally began from 4:30am to 11pm with physically demanding work, he would listen on the boat to music tapes of classic standards made for him not by his father, an ardent Bruce Springsteen fan, but by his Italian-born grandfather.
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