Without a No. 1 hit of his own (yet), Jesse McCartney gives Leona Lewis international chart-topper
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You probably know by now that British singing sensation Leona Lewis, one of the hitmakers helmed by Pound Ridge resident Clive Davis, scored an international No. 1 with her song, “Bleeding Love.”
But did you know that Ardsley native Jesse McCartney cowrote the track with OneRepublic lead singer Ryan Tedder and, after opting not to include it on McCartney’s own album, gave it to her?
MTV recently scored an interview with McCartney, who elaborated on the creative process behind the single that “some people didn’t hear (as a hit) at first”:
I recorded it and decided it probably wasn’t right for my album. So we just kind of swept it under the rug, and somehow Clive Davis heard it—I think Ryan played it for Clive—and he fell in love with it and called and said, ‘I really want this song for Leona.’ And we did not expect it was going to be the biggest song in Europe of ‘07.
Using the ever-popular third-person point of view, he insisted that he was not upset that he did not include his version of the song on his own album:
A hit for Leona Lewis may not necessarily mean a hit for Jesse McCartney.
Don’t feel too bad for McCartney, though. Despite the fact that he has yet to chart a No. 1 single as a singer, his latest track—the Justin Timberlakesque “Leavin’”—is soaring up the charts and could soon give him his first chart-topper on lead vocals. As of this post’s publication, it was the seventh-most downloaded song on iTunes. LoHud power!
Check out MTV’s full video interview with McCartney after the break.
(Image details: Jesse McCartney at Z100’s Zootopia 2008, courtesy of picapp.com.)
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