page_title: Leon Jackson
section_title: 2008–2009: Right Now
hierarchical_section_title: Leon Jackson / Life and career / 2008–2009: Right Now
caption_attribution_description: English: Leon Jackson tour
context_page_description: Leon Jackson is a Scottish singer. He won the fourth series of British talent show The X Factor in 2007. Following his win, Jackson was the main star of his on-web series entitled Leon's Life, which ran from 2007 until 2008. Jackson's début album, Right Now finished the year as the 75th best-selling album in the UK, and included the singles, "Don't Call This Love", "Creative" and "Stargazing".
  Jackson's debut single, "When You Believe", a cover of a song sung by Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey and composed and written by Stephen Schwartz, sold over 400,000 copies, and was the 92nd best-selling single of the 2000s in the UK, and was the third best-selling of 2007. Jackson had the best selling single from a British Male Artist in 2007 beating the likes of Mika, Take That and Mark Ronson in the best-selling male category, and being beaten by Leona Lewis's "Bleeding Love" and Rihanna's "Umbrella" to the number one and number two positions, respectively.
context_section_description: Jackson's debut single, a cover of the Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey duet "When You Believe" went on sale as a download from midnight on Sunday, 16 December 2007 and as a CD on Wednesday, 19 December 2007. The debut single is set to be the fastest-selling single of 2007, with sales predicted to reach 300,000 by Sunday. At Woolworths the single at its peak was selling 40 copies per minute. Bookmakers reportedly stopped taking bets on who would get the 2007 Christmas number-one single, as "Leon [was] practically guaranteed top spot". "When You Believe" indeed reached number one in the UK on 23 December 2007.  This made Jackson the first Scottish artist to achieve a Christmas number one.
  Jackson appeared as a celebrity guest on the first live episode of series five of The X Factor on 11 October 2008, to perform the first single, "Don't Call This Love", from his upcoming album Right Now. The song was released the next day, and peaked at No. 3 on the UK singles chart and No. 8 in Ireland.
  Right Now was released on 20 October 2008. It debuted at No. 4 on the UK Top 40 Albums chart the week of 26 October 2008. It remained in the Top 40 for three weeks total, before slipping out of the Top 40 but remaining in the Top 75 for an additional six weeks. The album debuted on the Ireland Top 75 Albums chart at No. 7 for the week of 23 October 2008, staying on that chart for a total of five weeks. The second single from the album, "Creative", was released as a download-only purchase in late 2008. It peaked at No. 94 on 29 November 2008 on the UK Singles chart. The third and final single, "Stargazing", was released to radio stations in January 2009. It was also made available for purchase as a download-only single. The help promote Right Now, Jackson performed on various UK TV Shows such GMTV, This Morning and The X Factor. Jackson's first single When You Believe which reached No. 1 in the UK was performed by Jackson in December 2007 to help promote the single. He performed it on GMTV, The X Factor and This Morning.
  In July 2008, Bublé again invited Jackson to join him on stage at the Glasgow SECC for a duet of "Lost". In December 2008, Jackson performed at the 2008 Hogmanay Event in Edinburgh. However, in 2007 Jackson pulled out of the event due to tonsillitis where he would have been playing with Scottish singer Amy MacDonald.
  The album sold 130,000 copies and Jackson was dropped from the Sony BMG label. Jackson proceeded to work with writers who have worked with Paolo Nutini and James Morrison. Jackson said that he was focusing on preparing for an upcoming concert tour of the UK, which would take place in May and June 2009.
  Scottish singer and songwriter Sandi Thom had lined up Jackson as a Supporting Guest Act in Glasgow as part of her Homecoming Scotland 2009 Tour. As of April 2009 half of the concert dates had been cancelled by the management. The reason why the dates were cancelled is unknown, but Leon said he was "gutted" at the cancellations and that it was not his doing. All but two of the joint tour days from England and Wales remained (with support act Same Difference playing a solo tour gig in Portsmouth), while seven of the nine tour dates in Scotland remained.
caption: Jackson performing live during the Right Now UK Tour (2009)
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