40 Fun Facts About Anne-Marie

Before her pop career took off, Anne-Marie became a three-time world champion in which martial art?

Karate earned Anne-Marie a black belt in the Shotokan style, and she credits the sport with teaching her the discipline and focus a singing career needs.

Clean Bandit's 'Rockabye', sung by Anne-Marie, claimed which prized UK chart title in 2016?

Christmas number one came after six weeks already at the top, a chart first, and the song stayed at the summit for nine weeks in all.

Which Jamaican dancehall star raps on 'Rockabye', the Clean Bandit chart-topper sung by Anne-Marie?

Sean Paul scored his third UK number one with the song, while it handed Anne-Marie her very first.

Which singer-songwriter co-wrote Anne-Marie's '2002' and pestered her on Instagram to release it?

Ed Sheeran had championed her for years: his tweet linking to her 2013 demo first drew attention to her, and she later opened for him on tour.

Which American DJ's remix of Anne-Marie's 'Alarm' led the pair to record the 2018 hit 'Friends'?

Marshmello met her in a London studio, where the whole song came together in about three hours around one of his guitar loops.

The chorus of Anne-Marie's '2002' nods to two hits by which pop star?

Britney Spears gets two nods, to 'Oops!... I Did It Again' and her debut single, and Anne-Marie recreates the famous videos in the clip for the song.

Anne-Marie was born in East Tilbury and went to college in Thurrock, both in which English county?

Essex shaped her early years: her mother taught locally, her father was a builder from London's East End, and she joined a stage school at five.

Anne-Marie recruited which country-pop star for 'Unhealthy' by sending a direct message?

Shania Twain said yes, recorded the duet in London, and landed her first UK top-20 single since 2004.

Anne-Marie's single 'Psycho' was pushed back by six days in 2022 after whose death?

Queen Elizabeth II's death moved the release from 9 to 15 September; the single still climbed to number five and spent 25 weeks on the UK chart.

Anne-Marie won at her first attempt as a coach, guiding singer Craig Eddie, on which TV talent show?

The Voice UK brought her in to replace Meghan Trainor for its 2021 series, and she stayed for three series alongside will.i.am, Tom Jones and Olly Murs.

Which girl group joined Anne-Marie on 'Kiss My (Uh-Oh)', her 2021 single about a toxic relationship?

Little Mix scored their nineteenth UK top-ten single with it after a remix featuring Becky Hill, Raye and Stefflon Don lifted the song to number ten.

Which Irish singer wrote and sang the 2021 ballad 'Our Song' with Anne-Marie?

Niall Horan and Anne-Marie wrote three songs together in an October 2020 studio session; this one reached number 13 in the UK and number seven in Ireland.

Which British rapper joined Anne-Marie's 'Psycho' after TikTok commenters kept calling for him?

Aitch was a fan request: Anne-Marie had planned the song as a solo single until comments on her TikTok preview persuaded her to message him.

The chorus of Anne-Marie's 'Psycho', a roll call of women's names, interpolates which older hit?

Mambo No. 5, the Lou Bega hit, is turned on its head: Anne-Marie's list names the women a cheating partner has been seeing behind her back.

Which French DJ has featured Anne-Marie on both 'Don't Leave Me Alone' and 'Baby Don't Hurt Me'?

David Guetta's second team-up with her, which also features rapper Coi Leray, earned Anne-Marie her first Grammy nomination.

Anne-Marie's Grammy-nominated 'Baby Don't Hurt Me' reworks the riff of which 1993 dance hit?

What Is Love by Haddaway supplies the riff, melodies and a few lyrics, and the video pays homage to the film A Night at the Roxbury.

The video for Anne-Marie's 'Kiss My (Uh-Oh)' recreates scenes from which 2011 comedy film?

Bridesmaids was restaged by Hannah Lux Davis, the director behind several of Anne-Marie's videos, including the ones for '2002' and 'Friends'.

Which Anne-Marie album featuring 'Bad Girlfriend' was 2018's biggest debut by a British artist?

Speak Your Mind reached number three in the UK and stayed on the albums chart for 102 weeks; its working title had been Breathing Fire.

Anne-Marie's 2021 album shares its name with which weekly lockdown practice she began while writing it?

Therapy sessions during lockdown shaped the record, which entered the UK albums chart at number two, one place higher than her debut had managed.

Anne-Marie spent two years touring as a vocalist with which drum and bass band before going solo?

Rudimental asked her to replace a departing vocalist in 2014, and a featured spot on their song 'Rumour Mill' gave her the confidence to go solo.

Which music legend's Rocket company signed Anne-Marie to her first recording contract?

Elton John's Rocket gave her studio time after a chance meeting, and she released her first demo, 'Summer Girl', through it in 2013.

Anne-Marie performed as a child in the West End show Whistle Down the Wind with which future pop star?

Jessie J shared the London stage with her long before either had a hit, in a show Anne-Marie joined after years at stage school.

As a child, Anne-Marie auditioned without telling her parents for which West End musical?

Les Misérables offered her a part, the first of two West End shows she appeared in as a child, and the secret audition opened her parents' eyes to her singing.

Anne-Marie and dance partner Graziano Di Prima won the 2021 festive special of which BBC show?

Strictly Come Dancing crowned her on 25 December 2021, in a special whose line-up of six celebrities was entirely new to the show.

Anne-Marie and James Arthur covered 'Rewrite the Stars' for a reimagined soundtrack to which film?

The Greatest Showman: Reimagined, the 2018 re-recording of the film's soundtrack, gave Anne-Marie one of her biggest commercial successes.

Lauv's 2019 single featuring Anne-Marie arrived with the season-three trailer for which Netflix series?

13 Reasons Why used the song on its soundtrack; Lauv made the beat on a laptop in an hour at an airport, and met Anne-Marie after both played Wembley.

Which American rapper and singer features on Anne-Marie's 2020 single 'To Be Young'?

Doja Cat joined the track, which came out in July 2020, a year before Anne-Marie's second album arrived.

At which 2022 ceremony did Anne-Marie stumble on the steps down to the stage, yet carry on singing?

Brit Awards viewers praised her quick recovery, but she later revealed that the fall had torn a tendon.

In 2019 Anne-Marie's '2002' topped which country's year-end chart, a first for a foreign artist?

South Korea made the song a sleeper hit a year after its release, and it finished 2019 as the most-streamed track on the Melon service.

For the cover of Unhealthy, Anne-Marie skipped the pop-star polish and pressed her face against what?

A shower door did the job: after two album covers with make-up and fake nails, she said she simply wanted to be herself.

The 'Our Song' video casts Anne-Marie and her duet partner as fugitive lovers in the mould of which pair?

Bonnie and Clyde were the template for the Michael Holyk-directed clip, in which the getaway car is a Jaguar XK120.

The title of Anne-Marie's top-ten hit 'Ciao Adios' pairs words for goodbye from which two languages?

Italian and Spanish farewells fit the story: the song is about a woman who learns the man she is dating is cheating and walks away without wasting more time.

The Mexico City-shot video for Anne-Marie's 'Alarm' is loosely inspired by which Baz Luhrmann film?

Romeo + Juliet, Luhrmann's 1996 take on Shakespeare, shaped Malia James's video for the single that gave Anne-Marie her first UK top 20 hit of her own.

Which British rapper did Anne-Marie secretly marry in Las Vegas in July 2022?

Slowthai and Anne-Marie kept the wedding quiet until 2024, the year their daughter was born; a son followed in April 2025.

Which Norwegian songwriter sang 'Rockabye' first, before Anne-Marie replaced her at the last minute?

Ina Wroldsen co-wrote the song about her son; Clean Bandit fought their label to keep her vocal, and Grace Chatto said the episode almost made her quit.

The video for Anne-Marie's 'Ciao Adios' shows her dancing with friends in which Moroccan city?

Marrakesh gave the March 2017 video its bright backdrop, and the single went on to become Anne-Marie's first solo top-ten hit in the UK.

Neiked, Anne-Marie and Latto's 'I Just Called' interpolates a 1984 hit by which music legend?

Stevie Wonder heard the track before its release and gave it his approval; the new version is about calling a past partner to get closure.

Anne-Marie and actor Nicholas Galitzine shared a 2024 soundtrack song named after which romantic film?

The Idea of You casts Galitzine as the lead singer of a boy band, and the duet arrived in May 2024, three months after Anne-Marie's first child was born.

Which American singer released the 2017 single 'Remember I Told You' featuring Anne-Marie and Mike Posner?

Nick Jonas began the track on a studio bus on a rainy day in Maine while on tour, and it was almost finished within five hours.

For BBC Children in Need in 2021, Anne-Marie recorded a cover of 'Everywhere', a song by which band?

Fleetwood Mac first released the Christine McVie song on the 1987 album Tango in the Night; the charity duet followed on 19 November 2021.