“Sophomore slump” are probably James Blunt’s least favorite words right now. The phrase inevitably arises when an any artist is faced with the task of following up a gargantuan debut release — in Blunt’s case, the 14 million-selling 2004 album ‘Back to Bedlam’ — with an album of new material.

While fickle critics may scoff at the slow-out -of-the-gate sales of ‘All the Lost Souls’ — the British singer-songwriter’s second album (which sold a respectable, yet humble 92,000 copies in its first week to land at No. 7) — the man himself isn’t sweating the figures.

“People talk about the pressure of a second album, and that’s what I was sort of bombarded with, but I think I’ve really freed myself of that,” he told PopEater when he visited our studio back in June. “What happened with the first album was really unexpected to me, and I’m definitely not going to chase that. I got to do it for the love of it.”

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