Aiden Grimshaw

Quality 0.50 · 1 view · Updated 2 months ago

British singer

title: "Aiden Grimshaw" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["1991-births", "english-male-singers", "english-pop-singers", "english-male-songwriters", "living-people", "musicians-from-blackpool", "rca-records-artists", "the-x-factor-(british-tv-series)-contestants", "21st-century-english-singers", "21st-century-british-male-singers"] description: "British singer" topic_path: "arts" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aiden_Grimshaw" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary British singer ::

::data[format=table title="Infobox musical artist"]

FieldValue
nameAiden Grimshaw
imageAiden Grimshaw X Factor Live Tour.jpg
birth_nameAiden Samuel Grimshaw
birth_placeBlackpool, Lancashire, England
birth_date
genrePop/Indie
occupationMusician, songwriter, actor
instrumentVocals
years_active2010–present
labelRCA, Sony, Syco (2010–12)
associated_actsThe X Factor finalists 2010
::

| name = Aiden Grimshaw | image = Aiden Grimshaw X Factor Live Tour.jpg | caption = | birth_name = Aiden Samuel Grimshaw | birth_place = Blackpool, Lancashire, England | birth_date = | genre = Pop/Indie | occupation = Musician, songwriter, actor | instrument = Vocals | years_active = 2010–present | label = RCA, Sony, Syco (2010–12) | associated_acts = The X Factor finalists 2010

Aiden Samuel Grimshaw (born 4 December 1991) is an English singer, songwriter and actor who was formerly known by the stage name Butterjack. He successfully made it to the live shows in the seventh series of The X Factor in 2010 and was the eighth contestant eliminated finishing in ninth place. After his elimination, Grimshaw was signed by RCA Records.

On 3 June 2012, he released his debut single "Is This Love", which debuted at number 35 on the UK Singles Chart. His debut album Misty Eye was released on 20 August 2012 and reached number 19 on the UK Albums Chart.

Biography

Early life

Grimshaw was born in Blackpool, Lancashire, England and studied at the Michael Hall Theatre School in North Shore, Blackpool. He played Tom Holmes in an episode of CBBC show Half Moon Investigations.

2010: ''The X Factor''

He auditioned with "Gold Digger", prompting Simon Cowell to say, "Now that's what I call a pop star!". He then auditioned with "This Year's Love" during Bootcamp, and "Cannonball" at Judge's Houses. Dannii Minogue selected Grimshaw as one of her three contestants to continue in the competition for the live shows. For the first live show he sang "Mad World", which the judges praised. In the second live show he sang "Jealous Guy". In the third live show, his performance of "Diamonds Are Forever" was praised by the judges. In live show 4 he sang a slower rendition of Michael Jackson's "Thriller". Grimshaw sang "Nothing Compares 2 U" in week 5, and in week 6, Grimshaw sang "Rocket Man". Grimshaw ended up in the final showdown that week, along with Katie Waissel. Cowell and Cheryl Cole voted to save Waissel, Minogue and Louis Walsh voted to save Grimshaw and the result went to deadlock. Grimshaw received the fewest public votes and he was eliminated. His exit is considered one of the most shocking in the history of the show and weekly results show he had been far from the bottom two in all previous weeks, always in the top 6.

Also during Grimshaw's tenure on The X Factor, he and his fellow series seventh contestants released a cover of David Bowie's "Heroes" in aid of Help for Heroes. The song, said to have been recorded in the week beginning 18 October 2010, was released as a charity single in aid of Help for Heroes, a charity which supports injured servicemen and women. The music video for the charity single was filmed on 2 November at Three Mills Studios. All sixteen contestants performed the song on 20 November's results show. The single entered both the Irish Singles Chart on 25 November 2010 and the UK Singles Chart on 28 November 2010 at number 1.

Despite previous years only including the top 8, the X Factor Live Tour 2011 was extended to add Aiden to the set.

2011–13: ''Misty Eye'' and ''Aiden''

In April 2012, "Is This Love", his debut single premiered on the Request Show on BBC Radio 1 by Matt Edmondson, who was at the time covering for Jameela Jamil. The track marked Grimshaw's first material since his participation in the 2010 series of The X Factor, where he lost out to act Katie Waissel in the sixth week of the live finals. Speaking of his time on the ITV1 series, Grimshaw stated: "I didn't really know what I wanted from it. I love music, and I knew I could sing, but I didn't think I was X Factor material. I'd been given this opportunity and I didn't want to waste it. But I had no idea what sort of music was really me. Everyone else had their own ideas, but all I knew was what I didn't want." Since his time on the show, Grimshaw has relocated from Blackpool to London, and has spent two years writing and recording demos with various writers and producers. The album has been recorded with songwriter/producer Jarrad Rogers, who has previously worked with the likes of Lana Del Rey and Tinchy Stryder.

On 3 June 2012, he released "Is This Love", which debuted at number 35 on the UK Singles Chart. His debut album Misty Eye was released on 20 August, debuting and peaking at number 19 on the UK Album Chart.

In early 2013, Grimshaw stated he was currently in the studio recording the follow-up to Misty Eye. On 10 August 2013, he tweeted "I think its nearly time for Round two!!! Music coming soon!! Contenders are you ready, #TheWayWeAre". Two days later he released a free download track entitled "The Way We Are". On 28 October, his Twitter account was wiped and a new one created, dropping his surname and revealing new artwork for his forthcoming EP. He also premiered a new song called "Satisfy Me". On 7 November, another track called "The Cleaner" appeared online. On 18 November, the track "Fire & Ice" was unveiled. "Better Man" was unveiled on 24 November 2013. The Aiden extended play featuring all four tracks was released for free download on 26 November 2013.

2015–16: Return to Music and Second EP

After a year long absence from Music following the Aiden EP, Grimshaw uploaded an image to his Twitter page with the caption 'New Music', On 30 July 2015, he unveiled a new track called Virtually Married under his original name of Aiden Grimshaw. The track was written by Grimshaw, Dan Dare, Paul Harris & MEMEB, the latter was also producer of the track, Virtually Married was met with positive reviews from fans and many of them believe that this is Grimshaws 'come back' track. Several weeks later, Grimshaw posted another image to his Twitter with the caption "#GivingItUp", prompting speculation that it would be his next single. On 1 September, he uploaded the new song entitled Giving It Up, which he again collaborated with producer MEMEB on. Later that month, he unveiled the third song from his 4-song EP, called Animal, It was also announced that he was writing and collaborating with former One Direction singer Zayn Malik on his upcoming solo album.

2017–present: Butterjack and new record deal

On 14 November 2018, he announced that he has been releasing music under the alias 'Butterjack’ for the last year.

On 5 April 2023, it was announced via social media that he had signed a new deal with Dutch label Revanche Records.

TV appearances

As well as appearing on music channels to promote his debut album, Grimshaw has also featured on several game shows including Unzipped, alongside Fearne Cotton, Greg James and Russell Kane. On 29 October 2012 he appeared on Never Mind the Buzzcocks.

Discography

Studio albums

::data[format=table] | Album Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | UK | IRE | Misty Eye | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | | 19 | 45 | | | | ::

Extended plays

::data[format=table]

TitleAlbum detailsAiden
::

Singles

::data[format=table] | Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Album | UK | IRE | SCO Peak positions for singles in Scotland: | "Is This Love" | "Curtain Call" | "Pretender" | "Better Off" | "I Couldn't Love You Anymore" | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | 2012 | 35 | 87 | 39 | Misty Eye | | | | | | | | | 49 | — | — | | | | | | | | | | | 2023 | — | — | — | Non-album singles}} | | | | | | | | | — | — | — | | | | | | | | | | | 2024 | — | — | — | | | | | | | | | | "—" denotes release that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | | | | | | | | | | | | ::

As featured artist

::data[format=table] | Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Album | UK Peak positions for the featured singles in the UK: | IRE Peak chart positions for the featured singles in Ireland: | SCO | "Heroes" (as part of The X Factor finalists) | "A Better Man" (Glenn Morrison featuring Aiden Grimshaw) | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | 2010 | 1 | 1 | 1 | Non-album singles}} | | | | | | 2019 | — | — | — | | | | | | | "—" denotes release that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | | | | | | | | | ::

Filmography

Television

::data[format=table]

YearTitleRoleNotes
2009Half Moon InvestigationsTom Holmes
2010The X FactorContestant
2012UnzippedGuest
2012Never Mind the BuzzcocksGuest
::

References

References

  1. (3 October 2010). "Our Aiden really has the X Factor". [[Blackpool Gazette]].
  2. "CBBC – Half Moon Investigations, The Curse of the Emerald Phoenix".
  3. {{IMDb name. 3270322. Aiden Grimshaw
  4. M. Gosho Oakes. (19 September 2010). "Aiden Grimshaw Wows X Factor Judges With Kanye West's "Gold Digger"". Soul Culture.
  5. Paul Millar. (5 October 2010). "Recap – 'The X Factor': Judges' Houses". [[Digital Spy]].
  6. (5 September 2012). "The X Factor: Shock Exits". Yahoo.
  7. (13 December 2010). "In Full: 'X Factor' weekly voting results". Digital Spy.
  8. (15 October 2010). "X Factor: finalists cover David Bowie for charity". [[BBC Online]].
  9. Nissim, Mayer. (3 November 2010). "Katie 'could be asked to leave X Factor'". [[Hachette Filipacchi UK]].
  10. (24 November 2010). "The making of 'Heroes'". [[itv.com]].
  11. (3 November 2010). "Katie 'could be asked to leave X Factor' – X Factor News – Reality TV – Digital Spy". Digitalspy.co.uk.
  12. "Top 50 singles, week ending 25 November 2010". GFK.
  13. (28 November 2010). "Top 40 Official UK Singles archive – 4th December 2010". [[Official Charts Company]].
  14. "X Factor's Aiden Grimshaw Reveals Debut Single".
  15. Lewis Corner. (7 November 2013). "Aiden Grimshaw premieres new song 'The Cleaner' – listen". Digital Spy.
  16. (29 October 2013). "WONDERLAND PREMIERE: AIDEN – 'SATISFY ME'".
  17. (7 November 2013). "Aiden Grimshaw premieres new song 'The Cleaner' – listen".
  18. (7 November 2013). "Aiden Grimshaw unveils new song 'Fire & Ice' – listen".
  19. (24 November 2013). "Better Man by AIDEN". [[SoundCloud]].
  20. Aiden Grimshaw. (26 November 2013). "'Aiden' EP Free Download -".
  21. "Aiden Grimshaw".
  22. Aiden Grimshaw. (30 July 2015). "#NEWMUSIC RT PLS 😘 x".
  23. Aiden Grimshaw. (26 August 2015). "Who's ready? #GivingItUp".
  24. Aiden Grimshaw. (1 September 2015). "NEW MUSIC ALERT".
  25. Aiden Grimshaw. (24 September 2015). "NEW MUSIC. RT SHARE X Listen to Aiden Grimshaw – Animal by Aiden Grimshaw #np on #SoundCloud …".
  26. Merriman, Rebecca. (24 September 2015). "Zayn Malik working with fellow X Factor star Aiden Grimshaw on solo album".
  27. Mosk, Mitch. (2019-01-15). "Premiere: Butterjack's "Hot Sauce" Is a Love Song with a Bite".
  28. "Revanche Records is on Facebook".
  29. "The Official Charts Company – Aiden Grimshaw". The Official Charts Company.
  30. "Pretender - Single by Aiden Grimshaw".
  31. "Little Baby / A Better Man (feat. Aiden Grimshaw) - Single by Aiden Grimshaw".

::callout[type=info title="Wikipedia Source"] This article was imported from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the article history page. ::

1991-birthsenglish-male-singersenglish-pop-singersenglish-male-songwritersliving-peoplemusicians-from-blackpoolrca-records-artiststhe-x-factor-(british-tv-series)-contestants21st-century-english-singers21st-century-british-male-singers