Fireflies (Faith Hill album)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Fireflies
Studio album by Faith Hill
Released	August 2, 2005
Recorded	March – November 2004
Genre	Country
Length	54:36
Label	Warner Bros.
Producer	Faith Hill, Byron Gallimore, Dann Huff
Professional reviews
Allmusic link Blender link Entertainment Weekly (C+) link The New York Times (mixed) link Slant Magazine link Stylus Magazine (C) link
Faith Hill chronology
Cry (2002) Fireflies (2005) The Hits (2007)

Fireflies is the sixth album by country artist Faith Hill. The album was released on August 2, 2005 which would make it nearly three years after the release of her fifth album, Cry. In its first week, the album sold 329,000 copies, making it the #1 album on both the Billboard 200 and Top Country Albums chart. "Fireflies" is her third #1 album, and it has been certified 2× Multi-Platinum by the RIAA for US shipments of two million copies. Hill produced the album with Byron Gallimore (who also produced for her husband, Tim McGraw) and Dann Huff.

Contents 1 Content 2 Track listing 3 Personnel 3.1 String section on "Paris" 3.2 Production 4 Singles 5 Release history 6 Charts 7 References

[edit] Content

Singles from the album include, in order of release: "Mississippi Girl", "Like We Never Loved at All", "The Lucky One", "Sunshine and Summertime" and "Stealing Kisses". Of these, "Mississippi Girl" was a Number One on the US Billboard country charts. The other singles peaked at #5, #5, #7, and #36 on that chart, respectively. Of the singles, "Mississippi Girl", "Like We Never Loved at All" and "Sunshine and Summertime" were co-written by John Rich of Big & Rich, while The Warren Brothers (Brad and Brett) co-wrote "The Lucky One", a song on which Brett also sings backing vocals. Other backing vocalists on this album include Hill's husband, Tim McGraw (on "Like We Never Loved at All"), Bekka Bramlett, Rhonda Vincent, and Kelly Willis.

[edit] Track listing

North American Release

1. "Sunshine and Summertime" (John Rich, Kylie Sackley, Rodney Clawson) – 3:26
2. "Mississippi Girl" (Rich, Adam Shoenfeld) – 3:52
3. "Dearly Beloved" (Fred Wilhelm, Georgia Middleman) – 2:22
4. "I Ain't Gonna Take It Anymore" (Bobby Terry, Kevin Brandt) – 4:00
5. "Stealing Kisses" (Lori McKenna) – 4:23
6. "Fireflies" (McKenna) – 4:28
7. "Like We Never Loved at All" (Rich, Scot Sax, Vicky McGehee) – 4:22
8. "I Want You" (Bobby Tomberlin, Rivers Rutherford) – 4:06
9. "The Lucky One" (Brad Warren, Brett Warren, Jay Joyce) - 3:37
10. "If You Ask" (McKenna) – 4:15
11. "We've Got Nothing But Love to Prove" (Darrell Scott) – 4:35
12. "You Stay with Me" (Andrea Stolpe, John Kennedy) – 4:23
13. "Wish for You" (Craig Wiseman, Darrell Brown) – 3:28
14. "Paris" (Blair Daly, Gordie Sampson, Troy Verges) – 5:20

International releases omitted "We've Got Nothing but Love to Prove".^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Personnel

As listed in liner notes.^[1]

[edit] String section on "Paris"

• Bruce Dukov, Charlie Bisharat, Darius Campo, Roberto Cani, Susaan Chatman, Mario DeLeon, Armen Garabedian, Berj Garabedian, Endre Grant, Songa Lee-Kitto, Michael Markman, Robert Matsuda, Sara Parkins, Robert Peterson, Michele Richards, Anatoly Rosinsky, Josefina Vergara, John Wittenberg – violins
• Evan Wilson, Bob Becker, Denyse Buffum, Roland Kato – violas
• Suzie Katayama, Larry Corbett, Steve Erdody, Paula Hochalter, Steve Richards, Dan Smith – cellos

String coordinatory:Carl Gorodetzky.

[edit] Production

• Tracks 1, 3-6, 9, 10, 12 produced by Byron Gallimore and Faith Hill
• Tracks 7, 8, 13, 14 produced by Dann Huff and Faith Hill
• Tracks 2, 11 produced by Byron Gallimore, Dann Huff and Faith Hill

[edit] Singles

• Mississippi Girl - May 28, 2005
• Like We Never Loved At All - October 2005
• The Lucky One - Jan 2006
• Sunshine And Summertime - April 2006
• Stealing Kisses - July 2006

[edit] Release history

Country	Date
United States	August 2, 2005
Italy	August 26, 2005

[edit] Charts

Album – Billboard (North America)

Year	Chart	Position
2005	Top Country Albums	1
	The Billboard 200	1
	ARIA Country Albums	4

As of May 2009, the album has sold 2,250,000 copies in the US. To date, it has sold more than 3 million copies worldwide. On January 13 2006, it was certified 2x Platinum by the RIAA.

[edit] References

Preceded by Now 19 by Various artists	Billboard 200 number-one album August 14, 2005 - August 20, 2005	Succeeded by Chapter V by Staind
Preceded by Feels Like Today by Rascal Flatts	Top Country Albums number-one album August 20 - September 2, 2005	Succeeded by Time Well Wasted by Brad Paisley

v • d • e Faith Hill Studio albums Take Me as I Am  · It Matters to Me  · Faith  · Breathe  · Cry  · Fireflies Compilations Love Will Always Win  · There You'll Be: The Best of Faith Hill  · The Hits Christmas albums Joy to the World Tours Soul2Soul · Soul2Soul II/Soul2Soul 2007 Filmography When the Lights Go Down  · The Stepford Wives Related articles Discography · Tim McGraw · Warner Bros. Records · Star, Mississippi