Corinne Bailey Rae (album)

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Corinne Bailey Rae
Studio album by Corinne Bailey Rae
Released 24 February 2006 (2006-02-24)
(see release history)
Recorded 2005–2006
John Ellis's Place, Olympic Studios, Taxlight, The Idle Studio
(London, England)
Genre R&B, pop, neo soul
Length 45:53
Label EMI
Producer Corinne Bailey Rae, Rod Bowkett, Paul Herman, Justin Broad, Steve Bush, Steve Chrisanthou, Andrew Hale, Jimmy Hogarth, Tommy D., Steve Brown, RWK.
Corinne Bailey Rae chronology
Corinne Bailey Rae
(2006)		 The Sea
(2010)
Singles from Corinne Bailey Rae
  1. "Like a Star"
    Released: 7 November 2005
  2. "Put Your Records On"
    Released: 20 February 2006
  3. "Trouble Sleeping"
    Released: 24 April 2006
  4. "I'd Like To"
    Released: 12 February 2007
  5. "Breathless"
    Released: 30 November 2007 (US only)

Corinne Bailey Rae is the eponymous debut album of English singer–songwriter Corinne Bailey Rae, released 24 February 2006 on EMI. It was released in February 2006 in Ireland and the United Kingdom, and in continental Europe on 3 March 2006. The album debuted at number 1 on both the UK Albums Chart and the R&B Albums Chart, selling 739,000 copies in its first year. It became one of the best-selling albums in the UK, while it also sold 1.9 million copies in the United States, and over 4 million copies worldwide.[1] Corinne Bailey Rae is the forty-ninth best-selling album of the 2000s decade.[2][3]

Contents

[edit] Release and promotion

"Like a Star" was the lead single off the album. It was released in a limited-edition format in 2005, peaking inside the UK Singles Chart at number thirty-four. The second single, "Put Your Records On", went straight to number two in February 2006 and also hit number one on the UK R&B Singles chart. The follow-up single, "Trouble Sleeping", was released in May 2006, peaking at number forty in the UK. Then a re-release of the first single "Like a Star" was issued, which originally peaked at #34 and as a re-release at #32. The fourth and final single in the UK was "I'd Like To", released in the UK on 12 February 2007. Also on this date, the album was re-released with a bonus disc including some of the B-sides and remixes used on previous singles, as well as three new tracks, one of which, a cover of Björk's 1993 song "Venus as a Boy", only previously appeared on a covermount for Q magazine. Several songs from the album appear in the 2006 film Venus starring Peter O'Toole. In the US, yet another single, with the song "Breathless", was released as the fifth single.

The album was the UK's thirteenth best-selling album in 2006, with sales of over 739,000 copies.[4] Rae's Live in London & New York official website announced that the album has sold over three million copies worldwide.[2] The album was featured in an episode of Scrubs being sold by the Janitor at Coffeebucks.

[edit] Reception

[edit] Commercial performance

Corinne Bailey Rae debuted at number fifteen on the U.S. Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. The album peaked at #3 on the U.S. R&B charts and at number #4 on the Billboard 200. The album was certified Platinum by the RIAA. As of January, 2010 the album has sold over 1,900,000 million copies in the U.S. and over 4 million worldwide, making it her current bestseller.[1][5]

[edit] Critical response

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 3.5/5 stars[6]
Blender 3.5/5 stars[7]
Entertainment Weekly (B)[8]
Los Angeles Times 3/4 stars[9]
PopMatters (5/10)[10]
Q 4/5 stars[11]
Rolling Stone 3/5 stars[12]
Slant Magazine 3/5 stars[13]
The Times (mixed)[14]
USA Today 3.5/4 stars[15]

Corinne Bailey Rae received generally positive reviews from most music critics.[11] At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 69, based on 13 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews".[11] While some critics perceived filler as a weakness of the album, Bailey Rae earned musical comparisons to female recording artists such as Billie Holiday, Norah Jones, Erykah Badu, Minnie Riperton, and Macy Gray.[7][10][12][14][16] David Jeffries of Allmusic gave it 3½ out of 5 stars and called it "pleasingly homegrown, warm, and poignant in parts".[6] Los Angeles Times writer Natalie Nichols gave the album 3 out of 4 stars and compared Bailey Rae's music to that of Sade and Stevie Wonder.[9]

Corinne Bailey Rae received three nominations in the Grammy Awards, and she was nominated for all of the big four: Song of the Year, Record of the Year for "Put Your Records On", Grammy Award for Album of the Year, and Best New Artist. The following year, received one she nominated the award for Song of the Year for "Like a Star" and she won the award for Album of the Year for "River: The Joni Letters" album by Herbie Hancock along with Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Tina Turner, Norah Jones, Corinne Bailey Rae and Luciana Souza at the 2008 Grammy Awards.

Bailey Rae won a MOBO Awards for Best UK Female, and Best UK Newcomer At the MOJO Awards, the won "Best New Act". The Bailey Rae nominated two 2007 Image Awards for Outstanding Album, Outstanding Female Artist and won Outstanding New Artist. Bailey Rae received a nomination for Best UK & Ireland Act at the MTV Europe Music Awards 2006. In 2008, ASCAP Awards won Song of the Year for the song "Put Your Records On". Bailey Rae in total she received 10 awards for work and 21 nominated for work.

[edit] Track listing

No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. "Like a Star"   Corinne Bailey Rae 4:03
2. "Enchantment"   Rae, Rod Bowkett 3:57
3. "Put Your Records On"   Rae, John Beck, Steve Chrisanthou 3:35
4. "Till It Happens to You"   Rae, Pamela Sheyne, Paul Herman 4:38
5. "Trouble Sleeping"   Rae, Beck, Chrisanthou 3:28
6. "Call Me When You Get This"   Rae, Steve Bush 5:04
7. "Choux Pastry Heart"   Rae, Teitur Lassen 3:57
8. "Breathless"   Rae, Marc Nelkin 4:15
9. "I'd Like To"   Rae, Tommy Danvers, Herman 4:08
10. "Butterfly"   Rae, Bowkett 3:53
11. "Seasons Change"   Rae, Steve Brown 4:55
  • Bonus tracks

[edit] Alternative covers

The album's original and special edition releases in the United States and Japan were issued with alternative covers.

  • U.S. and Japan

  • Special edition

  • Japanese special edition

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Musicians

  • Jess Bailey – Hammond organ, Wurlitzer piano
  • Justin Broad – drum programming, engineer
  • Kenny Higgins – bass
  • Steve Bush – bass, electric guitar
  • Andy Platts – guitar, Fender Rhodes
  • Pete Lewinson – drums
  • Kenji Jammer – electric guitar, acoustic guitar
  • Colin Waterman – drums
  • Paul McKendrick – backing vocals
  • Livingston Brown – bass
  • Tommy D. – keys, drum programming
  • Steve Brown – piano, synths, backing vocals
  • Mikey Lawerson – drums, percussion
  • John Ellis – backing vocals

[edit] Production

  • Steve Chrisanthou – producer, arranger, recorder
  • Paul Herman – producer, mixer
  • Andrew Hale – producer
  • Steve Bush – producer
  • Tommy D. – producer, engineer, mixer
  • Steve Brown – producer
  • RKW – producer
  • Justin Broad – producer, engineer
  • Jimmy Hogarth – additional production
  • David Ayers – engineer
  • Ian Duncan – engineer
  • Jeremy Wheatley – mixer
  • Mike Pela – mixer
  • Gavyn Wright – director of The London Session Orchestra
  • Wil Malone – strings (arranger and conductor)
  • Andy Hylton – music video director for "Trouble Sleeping"

[edit] Chart history

[edit] Chart positions

Chart (2006) Peak
position
Australian Albums Chart[17] 54
Austrian Albums Chart[18] 7
Belgian Albums Chart (Flanders)[18] 27
Danish Albums Chart[18] 18
Dutch Albums Chart[18] 8
European Top 100 Albums[19] 5
French Albums Chart[18] 26
German Albums Chart[18] 18
Hungarian Albums Chart[20] 32
Irish Albums Chart[18] 2
Italian Albums Chart[21] 13
Japanese Albums Chart[22] 29
New Zealand Albums Chart[18] 6
Chart (2006) Peak
position
Polish Albums Chart[18] 35
Portuguese Albums Chart[18] 18
Spanish Albums Chart[18] 11
Swedish Albums Chart[18] 44
Swiss Albums Chart[18] 8
UK Albums Chart[18] 1
UK R&B Albums Chart 1
Chart (2007) Peak
position
Canadian Albums Chart[23] 8
U.S. Billboard 200[23] 4
U.S. Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums[23] 3
U.S. Billboard Top Internet Albums[23] 4
UK Albums Chart 69 (*)
  • (* Special Edition)

[edit] Certifications

Territory Certifier Certification Sales
Brazil ABPD Gold[24] 30,000
Canada CRIA Platinum[25] 100,000
Europe IFPI Platinum[26] 1,000,000
France SNEP Gold[27] 75,000
Germany IFPI Gold[28] 100,000
Ireland IRMA 2× platinum[29] 30,000
Netherlands NVPI Gold[30] 30,000
New Zealand RIANZ Gold[31] 7,500
Spain PROMUSICAE Gold[32] 40,000
Switzerland IFPI Gold[33] 15,000
United Kingdom BPI 2× platinum[34] 600,000
United States RIAA Platinum[35] 1,900,000[36]

[edit] Chart procession and succession

Preceded by
In Between Dreams by Jack Johnson
On an Island by David Gilmour		 UK Albums Chart number-one album
11 March 2006
25 March 2006		 Succeeded by
On an Island by David Gilmour
Journey South by Journey South

[edit] Accolades

Year Award Category Nominated work Result
2006 MOBO Award Best Song "Put Your Records On" Nominated
2007 BRIT Award Best British Single "Put Your Records On" Nominated
Grammy Award Record of the Year "Put Your Records On" Nominated
Song of the Year "Put Your Records On" Nominated
NAACP Image Award Outstanding Album Corinne Bailey Rae Nominated
2008 Grammy Award Song of the Year "Like a Star" Nominated

[edit] Release history

Region Date Label
Ireland 24 February 2006 EMI
United Kingdom 27 February 2006
Europe 3 March 2006
Mexico 6 March 2006[37]
Australia 18 March 2006
United States 20 June 2006 Capitol
Japan 12 July 2006 EMI

[edit] References

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