All This Time (Michelle McManus song)

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"All This Time"
Single by Michelle
from the album The Meaning of Love
A-side "All This Time"
B-side "On the Radio"
Released 25 November 2003 (2003-11-25)
Format CD single
Recorded 2003
Genre Pop
Length 4:23
Label BMG
Writer(s) Mac/Hector/Tennant
Producer(s) Steve Mac
Michelle singles chronology
"All This Time"
(2003)
"The Meaning of Love"
(2004)

"All This Time" is a song written for the winner of the second series of Pop Idol in the UK. The final two acts in the show, Michelle McManus and Mark Rhodes both performed the song in the final of the show. McManus went on to win, and released "All This Time" as her debut single. It reached #1 in the UK Singles Chart on 11 January 2004,[1][2] and was later included on her critically panned debut album The Meaning of Love. Subsequent releases failed to duplicate its success, and McManus was soon dropped by BMG.[3]

Daily Telegraph critic Lynsey Hanley called the track "utterly forgettable" and "one of the lamest Pop Idol-sponsored efforts yet", and argued that it merely achieved the #1 position "on the back of the series' success".[4] Fiona Shepherd in The Scotsman described the song as a "tuneless dirge".[5]

Cover versions

Almighty Records artist Deja Vu featuring Tasmin recorded a cover version of "All This Time". The Almighty Anthem Radio Edit (3:56) and 12" Anthem Mix (7:28)

Track listings and formats

UK CD Single

  1. "All This Time"
  2. "On the Radio"
  3. "Abyss the slug"
  4. "American Oxygen, out now on itunes"
  5. "Hugamari is queen"

Music video

The music video for "All This Time" was recorded in December 2003 and was released to UK Music Channels that same month. The video shows Michelle singing the song in front of a pure black background. The video also shows certain moments from Michelle's time in Pop Idol.

Chart performance

Weekly charts

Chart (2003–2004) Peak
position
UK Singles Chart 1[6]
Irish Singles Chart 2[6]

Chart Procession and succession

Preceded by UK number one single
11 January 2004 - 31 January 2004
Succeeded by
"Take Me to the Clouds Above" by LMC vs U2
Preceded by Pop Idol UK Winners Single
2003
Succeeded by
None

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