Katie Melua edit
During a recent FA nomination it was suggested that a peer review was required to check spelling and grammar errors and also to improve some of the prose. Hera1187 06:45, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
- Some other faulty prose (mouse-over the underlined words to see my suggestions):
After completing her GCSE's in Surrey, Melua attended the BRIT School for the Performing Arts in the London Borough of Croydon, undertaking a BTEC with an A-level in music at which point, she began song writing.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/3243501.stm New Music: Katie Melua] [[BBC News]] [[10 November]] [[2003]]</ref> It was whilst at the school that Melua was spotted by producer Mike Batt.
As a result of being spotted at a young age, Melua didn't attend University though she has often stated her desire to do so, citing English literature, history and physics as her courses of choice should she ever get the chance to go.<ref>[http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/article/melua%20takes%20time%20out%20to%20study_1013428 MELUA TAKES TIME OUT TO STUDY]contactmusic.com</ref><ref>[http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i280/jacek_d/sundayexp2.jpg The Sunday Express]</ref>
Initially it was difficult for Melua and Batt to get air play for the albums lead single, "The Closest Thing to Crazy", but this changed when BBC Radio 2 producer Paul Walters heard the single and put it to be played on the popular Terry Wogan breakfast show.<ref>[http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,1841267,00.html Talk the talk] ''[[The Guardian]]''</ref> Wogan played "The Closest Thing to Crazy" frequently in Novmber and December 2003 in an attempt to make it that year's Christmas number one. The attempt was not successful and the single only reached #10, however Wogans support did raise Melua's profile and when the album was released it became an immediate hit reaching number-one on the UK album chart in January 2004 and the top twenty of the Australian album charts in June 2004. "Call off the Search" reached the top five in Ireland, top twenty in Norway, top thirty in a composite European chart and top fifty in Australia. In the UK, the album sold 1.2 million copies making it four times platinum, and spent six weeks at the top of the charts. It sold 3 million copies worldwide. Subsequent singles did not reach the success of the first. The second single and title track went Top 20, and the third single, "Crawling Up A Hill", only got to #41.<ref>[http://www.purevolume.com/katiemelua Melua Profile] purevolume</ref>