✦His album "Intensive Care" sold 5.4 million copies to be at No. 10 on the 2005's global charts.
✦Rounding out the Top 10 of a poll on Britain's Favorite Lyric conducted by music channel VH1 by April 2006 with his "Angels".
✦Ranked 7th in Cosmopolitan Magazine's "Eligible Eleven" poll in August 2007.
✦Ranked 9th in an Internet poll in December 2006 on Men Most Women Fantasize About While Making Love to Their Partners.
✦Was admitted to a rehabilitation center in Tucson, Arizona, US on Feb 13, 2007 to undergo treatment for prescription drug addiction and left the center on March 7 the same year.