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{{Infobox album
| name = Eoghan Quigg
| type = studio
| artist = [[Eoghan Quigg]]
| cover = EoghanQuiggAlbumCover.jpg
| alt =
| released = 3 April 2009
| recorded = Early 2009
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = [[Pop music|Pop]]
| length = 42:26
| label = [[RCA Records|RCA]], [[Sony Music|Sony]]
| producer = Nigel Wright
| prev_title =
| prev_year =
| next_title =
| next_year =
| misc = {{Singles
| name = Eoghan Quigg
| type = studio
| single1 = [[28,000 Friends]]
| single1date = April 2009 <small>(Airplay only)</small>
}}
}}

'''''Eoghan Quigg''''' is the only [[studio album]] by Northern Irish [[pop music|pop]] singer [[Eoghan Quigg]], released on 6 April 2009, and his only release by his label [[RCA Records]]. Quigg, who finished third in the [[The X Factor (British series 5)|fifth series]] of the [[UK]] television talent show ''[[The X Factor (British TV series)|The X Factor]]'', was the first of [[List of The X Factor finalists (UK series 5)|the finalists]] from that series to release a studio album. The record predominantly features cover versions of songs that Quigg performed on ''The X Factor'', and one original song, "[[28,000 Friends]]".

On its release, the album was described by multiple critics as the [[List of music considered the worst#Albums|worst ever recorded]].<ref name="walker"/> Its commercial failure led to Quigg being dropped by [[RCA Records]].<ref name="coleman"/>

==Background==
After finishing third in ''The X Factor'' in 2008, Quigg was signed by record label [[RCA Records]]. Quigg began work on the album in [[London]] in early 2009, and was given a week to record it.<ref name="Mirror">{{cite web|url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Eoghan%3a+Just+don't+make+the+same+mistakes+as+me%3b+EXCLUSIVE.-a0236893953|title=Eoghan: Just don't make the same mistakes as me; EXCLUSIVE|publisher=Archived at The Free Library|website=The Mirror|last=McElroy|first=Naomi|date=12 September 2010|accessdate=7 June 2013}}</ref> The album was recorded at Sphere Studios in [[Battersea]] and released on 6 April 2009 in the UK.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/music/features/One+To+Watch+Eoghan+Quigg-7537.html|title=One To Watch: Eoghan Quigg|publisher=femalefirst.co.uk|date=19 March 2009|accessdate=6 August 2013}}</ref> Quigg described the album's musical direction as drawing inspiration from [[Busted (band)|Busted]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.unrealitytv.co.uk/x-factor/unreality-tv-interviews-eoghan-quigg/|title=Unreality TV interviews Eoghan Quigg|publisher=Unreality TV|last=McGarry|first=Gerard|date=6 April 2009|accessdate=7 June 2013|url-status=unfit |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140520220658/https://www.unrealitytv.co.uk/x-factor/unreality-tv-interviews-eoghan-quigg/|archivedate=20 May 2014}}</ref> and two songs from the album were written by ex-Busted band members, "[[Year 3000]]" being written by [[James Bourne]] and [[Charlie Simpson]], and "[[28,000 Friends]]" by Bourne.

==Critical reception==
{{Album ratings
|rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
|rev1score = {{Rating|1|5}}<ref name="allmusic">[http://www.allmusic.com/album/eoghan-quigg-mw0000833157 ''Eoghan Quigg'']. [[AllMusic]]. Retrieved 4 April 2016.</ref>
|rev2 = ''[[Daily Record (Scotland)|Daily Record]]''
|rev2score = {{Rating|2|5}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/ALBUMS%3b+singles+and+albums.-a0197533036|title=ALBUMS; singles and albums|publisher=[[TheFreeDictionary.com#TheFreeLibrary.com|The Free Library]]|website=[[Daily Record (Scotland)|Daily Record]]|last=Fulton|first=Rick|date=14 April 2009|accessdate=31 May 2013}}</ref>
|rev3 = [[Digital Spy]]
|rev3score = {{Rating|1|5}}<ref name="digitalspy1"/>
|rev4 = ''[[Daily Express|Express]]''
|rev4score = {{Rating|2|5}}<ref>{{cite news|author=Spellman, Robert|date=3 April 2009|url=http://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/music/93091/Eoghan-Quigg-s-debut-reviewed|title=Eoghan Quigg's debut reviewed|work=[[Daily Express|Express]]|accessdate=31 May 2013}}</ref>
|rev6 = Music-News
|rev6score = {{Rating|1|5}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Eoghan Quigg |url=http://www.music-news.com/review/UK/4416/Read |publisher=Music-News.com |accessdate=29 October 2018 |date=16 April 2009}}</ref>
|rev7 = [[Orange S.A.|Orange]]
|rev7score = {{Rating|1|5}}<ref name="Orange">{{cite web|url=http://web.orange.co.uk/article/eoghan-quigg-eoghan-quigg-album |title=Eoghan Quigg - Eoghan Quigg |website=[[Wayback Machine]] |publisher=[[Orange (telecommunications)|Orange]] |last=Kraines |first=Talia |date=16 June 2009 |accessdate=15 July 2009 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090715182212/http://web.orange.co.uk/article/eoghan-quigg-eoghan-quigg-album |archivedate=July 15, 2009 }}</ref>
|rev8 = ''[[Q (magazine)|Q]]''
|rev8score = {{Rating|1|5}}<ref>{{cite journal|last=Cullen|first=Jason|date=May 2009|title=New Albums: Eoghan Quigg – Eoghan Quigg|journal=[[Q (magazine)|Q]]|publisher=[[Bauer Media Group]]|quote=[A]nother vacuous, completely unnecessary record from a pop 'star' whose name we'll be struggling to remember by the end of the year.}}</ref>
|rev9 = ''[[Northern & Shell|Star]]''
|rev9score = {{Rating|2|5}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.star-magazine.co.uk/posts/view/10196/Eoghan-Quigg-Eoghan-Quigg/|title=Eoghan Quigg - Eoghan Quigg|date=7 April 2009|website=[[Northern & Shell|Star]]|accessdate=16 May 2014|url-status=unfit|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140517121701/http://www.star-magazine.co.uk/posts/view/10196/Eoghan-Quigg-Eoghan-Quigg/|archivedate=17 May 2014}}</ref>
}}

''Eoghan Quigg'' was widely panned by [[Music criticism|music critics]].<ref name="Music Week"/><ref>{{cite news|author=McCreary, Matthew|date= 21 April 2009|url= https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/will-eoghan-quigg-survive-his-public-flogging-1671759.html|title= Will Eoghan Quigg survive his public flogging?|work= [[The Independent]]|accessdate= 31 May 2013}}</ref> Simon Darnell of ''[[OneMK|MK News]]'' wrote: "If I told you this album was dreadful, not only would I be doing a huge disservice to the word dreadful, in fact I'd almost be praising the quality of the music... this set of songs is so mind-numbingly, spirit-crushingly dismal."<ref>{{cite news|last=Darnell|first=Simon|date=15 April 2009|title=Eoghan Quigg: ''Eoghan Quigg''|work=[[OneMK|MK News]]|page=30}}</ref> Jon O'Brien of [[AllMusic]] described the album as "bad karaoke", with deficient production values failing to hide Quigg's "limited ability" and "bum notes".<ref name="allmusic"/> Nick Levine of [[Digital Spy]] called it "amateurish as well as utterly redundant".<ref name="digitalspy1">[http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/a151813/eoghan-quigg-eoghan-quigg.html Eoghan Quigg: 'Eoghan Quigg']. [[Digital Spy]]. Retrieved 10-04-2009.</ref> One track singled out for criticism by multiple reviewers was the cover of [[Take That]]'s "[[Never Forget (Take That song)|Never Forget]]",<ref name="allmusic"/><ref name="digitalspy1"/><ref name="Orange"/> the vocal performance on which was described by Levine as "positively wince-inducing".<ref name="digitalspy1"/> [[Gigwise]] placed the record at number one in their "The 20 Worst Albums of 2009" in December of that year.<ref>{{cite news|date=16 December 2009 |url=http://www.gigwise.com/photos/53909/20/the-20-worst-albums-of-2009 |title=The 20 Worst Albums of 2009 |work=Gigwise |accessdate=9 July 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130709224759/http://www.gigwise.com/photos/53909/20/the-20-worst-albums-of-2009 |archivedate=July 9, 2013 }}</ref>

The album has been called the worst ever made.<ref name="walker">{{cite journal|last=Walker|first=Gail|date=21 April 2009|title=Don't you worry Eoghan, it hasn't all gone pop just yet|journal=[[Belfast Telegraph]]|publisher=[[Independent News & Media]]|quote=His [Quigg] eponymous debut album, released a couple of weeks ago, has been met with universal hoots of derision. Indeed, with the album charting at a disappointing 14 in the UK (No 1 in Ireland though), it is confidently predicted that we may have seen the last of Eoghan Quigg...it is widely described as the worst album ever.}}</ref> A [[Popjustice]] reviewer predicted that it would garner a lasting legacy as such, having been "recorded so cheaply and with such little regard for the art of pop that the final product simply does not count as music."<ref name="PJ">[http://www.popjustice.com/briefing/the-eoghan-quigg-album-its-turned-out-not-to-be-very-good/48908/ "The Eoghan Quigg album: it's turned out not to be very good"] [[Popjustice]]. 6 April 2009</ref> [[Peter Robinson (journalist)|Peter Robinson]] of ''[[The Guardian]]'' called it "the worst album in the history of recorded sound" and an "album so bad that it would count as a new low for popular culture were it possible to class as either culture... or popular".<ref name="Guardian">{{cite news|author=Robinson, Peter|date= 18 April 2009|url= https://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/apr/18/eoghan-quigg-x-factor-pop|title= Factored out|work= [[The Guardian]]|accessdate= 10 August 2009}}</ref>

==Commercial performance==
The album was initially a commercial success in Ireland where it debuted at no 1 on the [[Irish Albums Chart]], knocking [[Lady Gaga]]'s ''[[The Fame]]'' off the top spot. The album dropped from no 2 in its second week to no 20 in its third week and spent a total of eight weeks on the chart,<ref>[http://acharts.us/album/42960 Eoghan Quigg Chart Statistics on aCharts.us] Retrieved on 06-06-09.</ref> but failed to sell enough for a Gold certification, rendering the album a failure. In the UK the album peaked at no 14,<ref name="charts">{{cite web|url=http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/_/eoghan%20quigg/|title=Official Charts: Eoghan Quigg|publisher=[[Official Charts Company]]|accessdate=7 June 2013}}</ref> and exited the Top 100 after three weeks. The album had first-week sales of 16,362.<ref name="Music Week">{{cite journal |title=Charts Analysis: Doves defeated by a whisker |journal=Music Week |date=18 April 2009 |page=24 |quote=The subject of some savage critical maulings, Eoghan Quigg's self-titled debut album arrives at number 14 on sales of 16,362 copies.}}</ref>

Pointing to the record's lacklustre chart performance in the UK, Gail Walker of the ''[[Belfast Telegraph]]'' predicted that the public "may have seen the last of Eoghan Quigg".<ref name="walker"/> His album was considered a failure, and Quigg was dropped by [[RCA Records]].<ref name="coleman">{{cite web|url=http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/news/eoghan-quiggs-early-fame-led-bosses-to-make-a-quick-kill-28535692.html|title=Eoghan Quigg's early fame 'led bosses to make a quick kill'|last=Coleman|first=Maureen|date=May 13, 2010|website=[[Belfast Telegraph]]|publisher=[[Independent News & Media]]|access-date=August 18, 2015}}</ref>

==Track listing==
{{Track listing
| extra_column = Original artist
| title1 = [[28,000 Friends]]
| writer1 = [[James Bourne]]
| length1 = 2:59
| extra1 = Original song
| title2 = [[High School Musical (soundtrack)|We're All in This Together]]
| writer2 = [[Matthew Gerrard]] / Robbie Nevil
| length2 = 3:52
| extra2 = ''[[High School Musical]]'' cast
| title3 = [[All About You/You've Got a Friend|All About You]]
| writer3 = [[Tom Fletcher]]
| length3 = 3:05
| extra3 = [[McFly]]
| title4 = [[Learn to Fly (a1 song)|Learn to Fly]]
| writer4 = Christian Ingebrigtsen / Chris Porter
| length4 = 4:08
| extra4 = [[A1 (group)|A1]]
| title5 = [[Does Your Mother Know]]
| writer5 = [[Benny Andersson]] / [[Björn Ulvaeus]]
| length5 = 3:04
| extra5 = [[ABBA]]
| title6 = [[Home (Michael Bublé song)|Home]]
| writer6 = [[Michael Bublé]] / [[Alan Chang]]
| length6 = 3:40
| extra6 = Michael Bublé
| title7 = [[When You Look Me in the Eyes]]
| writer7 = Raymond Boyd / [[Kevin Jonas]] / [[Joe Jonas]] / [[Nicholas Jonas]]
| length7 = 3:53
| extra7 = [[Jonas Brothers]]
| title8 = [[Year 3000]]
| writer8 = Bourne / [[Charlie Simpson]] / [[Steve Robson]] / [[Matt Willis]]
| length8 = 3:24
| extra8 = [[Busted (band)|Busted]]
| title9 = [[She's the One (World Party song)|She's the One]]
| writer9 = [[Karl Wallinger]]
| length9 = 4:16
| extra9 = [[World Party]]
| title10 = [[Ben (song)|Ben]]
| writer10 = [[Don Black (lyricist)|Don Black]] / [[Walter Scharf]]
| length10 = 2:32
| extra10 = [[Michael Jackson]]
| title11 = [[Never Forget (Take That song)|Never Forget]]
| writer11 = [[Gary Barlow]]
| length11 = 4:11
| extra11 = [[Take That]]
| title12 = [[Imagine (John Lennon song)|Imagine]]" (iTunes Bonus Track)
| writer12 = [[John Lennon]]
| length12 = 3:22
| extra12 = John Lennon
}}

==Charts==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!align="left"|Chart (2009)
!align="left"|Peak <br />position
!align="left"|Sales
!align="left"|Certification
|-
|align="left"|[[UK Albums Chart]]
| style="text-align:center;"|14<ref name="charts"/>
| style="text-align:center;"|25,000+
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|align="left"|[[Irish Albums Chart]]
| style="text-align:center;"|1<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.irma.ie/aucharts.asp#albums |title=Top 100 Individual Artist Albums |publisher=[[Irish Recorded Music Association]] |date=9 April 2009 |accessdate=9 April 2009 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110408130016/http://irma.ie/aucharts.asp |archivedate=8 April 2011 }}</ref>
| style="text-align:center;"|6,000
| style="text-align:center;"|
|}

==References==
{{Reflist|30em}}

==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20090325055746/http://www.eoghanquiggmusic.com/ Official Website of Eoghan Quigg]

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