<P> Calum Scott (born 12 October 1988 in Kingston Upon Hull) is a British singer and songwriter . He won a local talent competition in his home city in Yorkshire then he came to worldwide attention when he appeared as a contestant on the television programme Britain's Got Talent in 2015 . He subsequently released his version of Robyn's hit "Dancing on My Own" as a single, which reached number two on the UK Singles Chart and became the best selling song of that summer in the UK . In 2018 he collaborated with Leona Lewis on the single "You Are the Reason". </P> <P> On 15 August 2013, Scott won the talent competition Mail's Star Search, organized by Hull Daily Mail . He then joined a Maroon 5 tribute band, the Maroon 4, and toured around the United Kingdom . In 2014 he formed the electronic duo, The Experiment with John McIntyre . The debut single, "Girl (You're Beautiful)", was released on 14 June . The duo performed the song on Good Morning Britain and BBC Look North, but after, broke up . </P> <P> On 11 April 2015, Scott's audition for the ninth series of Britain's Got Talent was broadcast on ITV . Just before his audition, his sister Jade also auditioned, but was stopped early on both of her songs by Simon Cowell . Jade received three "No" votes from Amanda, David, and Simon (Aleisha's vote was unannounced as it was not needed). Despite obvious nerves at seeing his sister get rejected, Calum performed a cover of Robyn's "Dancing on My Own", which he had heard Kings of Leon performing on BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge in 2013 . Following a standing ovation from the judging panel, Simon Cowell pressed the Golden Buzzer giving Scott an automatic place in the live shows . Explaining his decision to send Scott straight to the semi-finals, Cowell said: "I've never ever in all the years I've done this show heard a guy with the talent you've got . Seriously . And the version was sensational, and that shows to me that you're more than a singer, you're an artist and that's why you got that (the buzzer)." After this audition, Scott received support from stars such as Little Mix and Ashton Kutcher . </P> <P> Following his appearance on the show's first episode, his Twitter followers jumped from 400 to over 25,000 . As of 23 April 2018, the audition has been viewed exactly 157,597,549 times on YouTube . In the semi-final on 29 May, Scott performed "We Don't Have to Take Our Clothes Off" by Jermaine Stewart . Cowell commented "You really sound like a recording artist", whilst David Walliams suggested that he could have "success around the world". He won the semi final with 25.6% of the vote, sending him straight through to the final . In the final on 31 May, Scott performed "Diamonds" by Rihanna and finished sixth out of 12 contestants with 8.2% of the vote . After Britain's Got Talent, Scott embarked on a series of shows around the United Kingdom, including Viking FM Future Star Awards, Flamingo Land Resort Fair, Westwood Cross Shopping Centre's tenth anniversary, Gibraltar Summer Nights, Hull Daily Mail's Star and Dartford Festival . </P>

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