Background
The concept for the album began in 2014, when David previewed a teaser track titled "Cold" on his official SoundCloud page. Premiering it on his TS5 radio show the week before, he wanted to preview some of the new music he has been working on in anticipation of his long-awaited sixth studio album, which was to be officially titled or have a release date announced. A further teaser track titled "Seduction" was uploaded to the same SoundCloud page in September 2014. On 5 September 2015, David featured onRelease and promotion
The album was announced on 19 August 2016, which also saw the release of promotional single " No Holding Back", which was collaborated with Dutch DJ and record producer Hardwell. On the week of the album's release, it was confirmed that his " Fill Me In" / " Where Are Ü Now" performance was added on the album, entitled "16", and was released on 27 September 2016, as the second promotional release. It was also confirmed that, along with Jack Ü, the additional mixers and producers for song included Tre Jean-Marie, Richard Adlam, Hal Ritson and Wez Clarke. " All We Needed" is the '' Children in Need 2016'' single.Chart performance
''Following My Intuition'' debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart on sales of 24,500, giving David his first number-one album since his debut, '' Born to Do It'', in 2000.Track listing
Notes * The Australian edition does not include "When the Bassline Drops" as the album was issued by Sony Music while the single was released under license to Warner Music Australia in that country. * signifies a co-producer * signifies an additional producer * signifies an original producer/artistPersonnel
Credits adapted from album’s liner notes. *Richard Adlam – keyboards, programming, and backing producer (track 4) *Michele Balduzzi – drum programming (track 4) * Tom Barnes – producer (tracks 7, 14), vocal arrangement (track 14), drums (tracks 7, 14), percussion (track 14) *Dean Barratt – mixing (track 3) * Big Narstie – vocals (track 2) *Chris Bishop – vocal engineer (track 7) *James Boyle – drums, keyboards, piano, SFX, strings, and synth (track 3) *Tom Burbree Ely – Protools editing (track 13) *Wez Clarke – mixing and additional programming (tracks 1-3, 4-7, 11, 12, 14, 16) *Chris Connors – producer, engineer, keyboards, programming, and synthesizer (tracks 10, 17); mixing, string arrangements, and organ (track 10); drum programming and guitar (track 17) * Craig David – vocals (all tracks) *Guy Davie – mastering (track 9) * Adam Englefield – producer, bass, drums, keyboards, percussion, and programming (track 8) *Lauren Faith – vocals (track 9) *Chrystal Hall – backing vocals (track 10) * Hardwell – producer and mixing (track 15) *Stuart Hawkes – mastering (tracks 1-7, 10-18) *Ambrose Henri – additional production, programming, synthesizer, keyboards, and drum programming (track 17) * Hitimpulse – additional production, bass, drums, keyboards, percussion, and programming (track 8) *Lewis Hopkin – mastering (track 8) * Andrew Horowitz – piano (track 10) * Tre Jean-Marie – producer (tracks 5, 12, 16), vocal producer (tracks 3, 4), instrumentation (tracks 5, 12, 16), engineer (tracks 5, 12, 16, 18), mixing (track 18) * Kaytranada – producer and mixing (tracks 9, 18) * Pete Kelleher – producer (tracks 7, 14), vocal arrangement (track 14), keyboards (track 7), programming (track 14) *Sam Klempner – engineer (track 7), vocal engineer (track 14) * Ben Kohn – producer (tracks 7, 14), vocal arrangement (track 14), guitar (tracks 7, 14) * Colin Lester – executive producer *Longlivtheplug – additional programming (track 16) * Jacob Manson – producer, engineer, mixing, bass, drums, keyboards, percussion, and programming (track 8) *Anthony Marshall – producer, engineer, backing vocals, bass, drums, keyboards, and programming (track 13) *James Mullany – backing vocals (track 10) *MYKL – producer (track 11) *Marco Pasquariello – engineer and mixing (track 13) *Daniel Pearce – additional vocals (track 4) *Mark Ralph – producer, engineer, and mixing (track 8) *Hal Ritson – keyboards, programming, and backing producer (track 4) *Alan Sampson – producer (track 11) * Sigala – producer and engineer (track 1) *Matthew Sin – assistant engineer (track 10) * Dave Tozer – producer, engineer, mixing, keyboards, programming, and synthesizer (tracks 10, 17); string arrangements and organ (track 10); drum programming and guitar (track 17) *White N3rd – producer (tracks 2, 6), engineer (tracks 2, 3, 6) *Scott Wild – drums and keyboards (tracks 2, 6) *Andre Williams – producer, drums, keyboards, SFX, and synth (track 3) *Carla Marie Williams – vocal arrangement (track 14)Charts
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Tour
The Following My Intuition tour was an arena tour across the UK. It was David's first tour in 15 years.Set list
# " Ain't Giving Up" # " What's Your Flava?" # " Fill Me In" # "Louder Than Words" # "Change My Love" # " Walking Away" # " Don't Love You No More (I'm Sorry)" # "Warm It Up" # " Rise & Fall" # " Nothing Like This" # "Couldn't Be Mine" # " Love Yourself" ( Justin Bieber cover) /"Freestyle Rap section" # " 7 Days" TS5 DJ set including: # " Re-Rewind (The Crowd Say Bo Selecta)" # "Covers Melody" including: # " Where's Your Love" # " No Scrubs" ( TLC cover)/" Angels" ( The xx cover) # " Walking Away" (Live Remix) # " Who's That Girl? ( Eurythmics cover) # " Jump Around" ( House of Pain cover) # " One Dance" ( Drake cover)/" Rendezvous" # "References
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