# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-newman-q55614888
# Generated: 2026-08-15T03:16:13.157Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-newman-q55614888"
name: "James Newman"
slug: "james-newman-q55614888"
description: "James Richard Newman is an English retired singer and songwriter. During the 2014 Brit Awards, he won the Brit Award for British Single of the Year as a co-writer of \"Waiting All Night\", a song by English band Rudimental. Newman was selected to represent the United Kingdom at the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 with the song, \"My Last Breath\" before its cancellation. He instead represented the country in the Eurovision Song Contest 2021 with the song \"Embers”, which came in last place with nul points."
tagline: "British singer-songwriter"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1985-10-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           67.75
  momentum:             13.94129979035639
  historical:           22.34551733333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     95
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 1350
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/jamesnewman"
    handle:    "jamesnewman"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/jamesnewman/"
    handle:    "jamesnewman"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.jamesnewmanmusic.co.uk"
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/jamesnewmanuk"
    handle:    "jamesnewmanuk"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10073843/"
    handle:    "nm10073843"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/4iaTgZRy5aVnImDyRJn61n"
    handle:    "James Newman"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdLI0QDn1pchlIGiCRQ6WYg"
    handle:    "@jamesnewman8319"
    followers: 1350
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ceyms Nyumen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "James Newman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "James Newman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ג'יימס ניומן"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ջեյմս Նյումեն"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "James Newman (cantante)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Newman_(S%C3%A4nger)"
    title: "James Newman (Sänger)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Newman_(zanger)"
    title: "James Newman (zanger)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Newman"
    title: "James Newman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Newman_(musiker)"
    title: "James Newman (musiker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Newman_(piosenkarz)"
    title: "James Newman (piosenkarz)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Newman_(cantor)"
    title: "James Newman (cantor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ньюмен, Джеймс (певец)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Newman_(singer)"
    title: "James Newman (singer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Џејмс Њуман"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/4403f2ce-6661-4f91-81ec-560b114259c7"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55614888"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2555392"
    title: "James Newman"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump