James Morrison: 'The market got saturated with girls, so the boys started doing well'

James Hanley

James Morrison says he does not feel any extra pressure to compete with the deluge of male singer-songwriters to have come through since he last released an album.

Morrison’s fourth studio album, Higher Than Here, entered the charts at No.7 last week. It was his first release since 2011 chart-topper The Awakening, a four-year period that has seen solo acts such as Sam Smith, George Ezra, James Bay, Hozier, Jake Bugg, Tom Odell and Jamie Lawson enter the public’s consciousness.

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