TanyaB все записи автора Doug Ward, Vancouver Sun
Published: Thursday, May 17, 2007

Not long ago, Michael Buble was an unknown local lounge singer crooning at downtown Vancouver nightclubs.

Today, Buble is king of the world, mainstream music-wise.

His new album, Call Me Irresponsible, this week became the No. 1- selling album in the world at the top of the Billboard 200.

The record, which was released on May 1, has topped the charts in Canada for two consecutive weeks and has reached No. 1 in seven markets around the world, including the United States, Australia, South Africa, Europe, Singapore, Holland and Germany.

Buble and his band have toured around the world over the past two months and today he appears on the Oprah Winfrey Show.

The album's momentum has largely come from the huge radio airplay given its first single, Everything. The single was released on March 19 and a week later was No. 1 in Canada and remains at the top of the chart.

Buble launched his career as a teenage winner of the PNE youth talent show. He crooned his way through clubs, cruise ships and weddings before landing a major-label record deal with the help of fellow Canadians David Foster and Paul Anka, who went on to produce his self-titled album.

The album full of American pop standards and covers sold three million records. Suddenly, he became a fixture on middle-brow TV, a guest on Larry King Live and Live With Regis & Kelly.

© The Vancouver Sun 2007