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A CRUCIAL SONG FROM HIS 1994 DEBUT ALBUM GRACE BECOMES JEFF BUCKLEY\u2019S FIRST U.S. NUMBER ONE<\/h3>\n
Thanks to American Idol, America\u2019s top-rated network television show, the music of Columbia recording artist Jeff Buckley has achieved a sudden and unprecedented level of popularity across the USA.<\/b>
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\n[From the official Jeff Buckley myspace, http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/jeffbuckley.]
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\nThis week, Jeff\u2019s 1994 recording “Hallelujah” hit the 1 spot on iTunes\u2019 singles chart. It\u2019s the first U.S. Number One on any chart for the revered singer\/songwriter, who died May 29, 1997 at age 30.<\/p>\n
Jeff released Grace, his first full-length Columbia album, in August 1994. One of its most popular tracks was (and still is) his beautiful and deeply spiritual rendition of Leonard Cohen\u2019s “Hallelujah,” first recorded by its composer on Cohen\u2019s 1984 Columbia album Various Positions. Many critics and listeners consider Jeff Buckley\u2019s Grace version to be the definitive recorded interpretation of the song. “Hallelujah” was included on Rolling Stone\u2019s 2004 list of “The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time” and hailed by Q Magazine in 2007 as “the most perfect song ever.”<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, March 4, Jason Castro, a 20-year-old aspiring singer from Rockwall, Texas, performed “Hallelujah” on American Idol\u2014now in its seventh season on the Fox network and still the Number One-rated television show in the nation. Although “Hallelujah” has been performed by artists ranging from k.d. lang to Bon Jovi, American Idol judges Randy Jackson and Simon Cowell both stated that Jeff Buckley\u2019s version was their personal favorite.<\/p>\n
Jason Castro\u2019s rendition of the song\u2014combined with the judges\u2019 favorable comments \u2014 propelled droves of viewers to the iTunes Store to download the original version from Grace, which promptly shot to No. 4 on iTunes singles chart and then over the following weekend continued to climb, finally reaching the coveted Number One position. To date, Legacy Recordings has sold over 565,773 digital downloads of Jeff Buckley\u2019s “Hallelujah.”<\/p>\n
“It\u2019s a thrill to see Jeff\u2019s work being embraced in his own country at this level,” says Mary Guibert, the artist\u2019s mother and the chief executor of his estate. “Even though it has been more than a decade since his departure, it was very moving to hear the American Idol judges speak so highly of Jeff. A mother can\u2019t help but love that!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
[covering the covers] JEFF BUCKLEY\u2019S “HALLELUJAH” BECOMES AMERICA\u2019S NUMBER ONE DIGITAL SONG JASON CASTRO\u2019S AMERICAN IDOL PERFORMANCE OF “HALLELUJAH” PROPELS JEFF BUCKLEY\u2019S 1994 RECORDING TO THE TOP OF THE ITUNES SINGLES CHART A CRUCIAL SONG FROM HIS 1994 DEBUT ALBUM GRACE BECOMES JEFF BUCKLEY\u2019S FIRST U.S. NUMBER ONE Thanks to American Idol, America\u2019s top-rated network television show, the music of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[184],"class_list":["post-460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-hallelujah-cover-number-one"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13198,"url":"https:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/2016\/01\/21\/glenn-freys-obituary-from-a-legitimate-eagles-anti-fan\/","url_meta":{"origin":460,"position":0},"title":"Glenn Frey’s Obituary, From A Legitimate Eagles Anti-fan","author":"Reviewer Rob","date":"January 21, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"R.I.P. 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