page_title: Joe McElderry
section_title: 2012: Here's What I Believe and musical roles
hierarchical_section_title: Joe McElderry / Career / 2012: Here's What I Believe and musical roles
caption_attribution_description: English: Joe McElderry at the Paralympic Flame Festival, Edinburgh
context_page_description: Joseph McElderry is an English singer and songwriter. He won the sixth series of the ITV show The X Factor in 2009. His first single "The Climb" reached number one on both the UK Singles Chart and the Irish Singles Charts. He was also crowned the winner of the second series of Popstar to Operastar in 2011 and the first series of The Jump in 2014. In 2015, McElderry played the lead role of Joseph in the touring production of the Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour.
  To date he has released five top 20 albums – two of them reaching the UK top three, a record for a solo X Factor winner. He was the first X Factor contestant to release a fourth album. As of 2014, McElderry has sold over 2 million records worldwide.
context_section_description: In the Classic Tour Programme, McElderry spoke about what he would like to do for his next album, "I'd really like to spend some time and do some song writing and do some more original songs, like on my first album... I feel like these past 2 years have gone so quick that I want to just step out of the craziness for a minute and write a nice song. Maybe write about what I've experienced." He has also shared his interest in collaborating with a rapper, saying "I always think that when you put a rapper with a singer that shouldn't go, it is the most genius thing as it is so different." On 26 January 2012, he tweeted he was making mood boards, song list ideas and references for the album. He spoke about the direction of the album in the Sunday Sun, saying: "This album is going to be a new direction, not classical or pop. It is going to be new and just me. People will get what they are expecting, but in a good way – it will be a nice surprise." McElderry started recording the album in February 2012.
  McElderry made an appearance on BBC TV series The Magicians in January 2012 and Newsround in February 2012, answering questions about what he was like at the age of 10. During the recording of his fourth studio album, he performed at The Royal Albert Hall in support of The Hunger Project, singing "Don't Stop Believin'", "Nessun Dorma" and a duet with Dionne Warwick, "One World, One Song". He was also scheduled to make a guest appearance in the Coronation Street musical, Street of Dreams, singing the finale number "Ghost – Take My Hand" in the show's Newcastle dates, originally set for 29 May and 30 May. After the first two shows, the later dates, including the ones on which McElderry was set to perform, were postponed and eventually cancelled. On 3 June 2012, he performed at the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant, he sang for guests on board a Dunkirk ship, The Viscount. He performed at the Paralympic Flame Festivals at Belfast, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Aylesbury.
  The album, Here's What I Believe, includes collaborations with Beth Nielsen Chapman, Marcella Detroit and Ludovico Einaudi. It was originally to be released on 17 September but was pushed forward a week to 10 September. It reached number 8 in the charts, making it his third album to reach the top 10.
  He made a cameo appearance in a musical version of Dirty Dancing at the Sunderland Empire on Tuesday 25 September. He played Tommy in The Who's Tommy at the Prince Edward Theatre for a one-off appearance on 12 November He also appeared in Thriller – Live alongside Stooshe and Macy Gray. In November 2012, he became a columnist for Gay Times (GT), writing about his music and other recent projects. He wrote columns for 4 issues of the magazine.
  After the release of Here's What I Believe, one of the bonus tracks, "Rescue Us" was re-recorded. This version was not released officially but received some airplay in the last third of 2012 on various radio stations notably BBC Radio 2, where it was B-Listed for four weeks.
caption: McElderry at the Paralympic Flame Festival, Edinburgh, on 26 August 2012
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