Beat Again

"Beat Again"
Single by JLS
from the album JLS
B-side"Umbrella"
Released12 July 2009
Recorded2009
Genre
Length3:19
LabelEpic
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Steve Mac
JLS singles chronology
"Beat Again"
(2009)
"Everybody in Love"
(2009)

"Beat Again" is the debut single by English boy band JLS. It was released on 12 July 2009 as the lead single from their self-titled debut studio album JLS (2009).[2] The song was written by Wayne Hector and Steve Mac and produced by Mac. The song's B-side is a cover of "Umbrella" by Rihanna, which JLS covered during the semi-finals of the fifth series of The X Factor in December 2008.

The song debuted at number one on the UK Singles Chart. It also peaked at number three in the Republic of Ireland. It has sold over 574,000 copies in the United Kingdom as of August 2018, making it the band's best-selling song.[3]

  1. ^ Released on Monday, 9 November 2009 (9 November 2009). "Music - Album Review - JLS: 'JLS'". Digital Spy. Retrieved 24 December 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ "Beat Again – DOWNLOAD NOW". Epic Records. 12 July 2009. Archived from the original on 9 August 2009. Retrieved 12 July 2009.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference OCC 2018 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).