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Afterglow (Sarah McLachlan album)

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Afterglow is a 2003 album by Sarah McLachlan.

It was her first album of new material in six years, after the success of Surfacing and the Lilith Fair festival. Following those successes, McLachlan took a few years furlough to start a family with her husband and drummer, Ashwin Sood. Their daughter, India Ann Sushill Sood, was born in 2002.

She also did a lot of work with the Sarah McLachlan Music Outreach program, funding music lessons for disadvantaged children.

Unlike past albums where she went to an isolated cottage to write the songs, she wrote the songs for Afterglow in her family home mainly before the birth of her child. She wrote the songs entirely on piano, which is also a departure from her previous albums which she wrote on guitar. Longtime collaborator Pierre Marchand produced the album. McLachlan wrote eight of the 10 songs herself and co-wrote the other two with Marchand.

The song "Answer" was featured in the 2007 movie The Brave One, starring Jodie Foster. It has also been used in television commercials for the ASPCA, with McLachlan herself appearing in person.

Chart success and award nominations

Afterglow was released on November 4, 2003 and was a success in North America, reaching number two on the Billboard 200 and number one on the Canadian charts. It also has reached #33 in the UK (McLachlan's biggest success there thus far) and the top 50 in Australia in 2004. The first single, "Fallen", reached the top ten on the Adult Top 40 Billboard charts and a remix reached top ten in the United States dance charts. A second single, "Stupid" was released in March of 2004.

McLachlan was nominated in five Juno Award categories in Canada, including Album of the Year and Pop Album of the Year for Afterglow, and Songwriter of the Year for the songs on the album. The awards were announced on April 4, 2004. The album was also nominated for a Grammy Award in the Best Pop Vocal Album field in 2005.

Although not as massive a success overall as Surfacing, Afterglow managed to sell over 2,500,000 units in the U.S. and went two times platinum. Worldwide, the album has sold more than 5 million copies, mainly in United States, Canada and United Kingdom.

Track listing

All songs written by Sarah McLachlan, except where noted

  1. "Fallen" – 3:47
  2. "World on Fire" – 4:22 (McLachlan; Pierre Marchand)
  3. "Stupid" – 3:24
  4. "Drifting" – 3:23
  5. "Train Wreck" – 4:36
  6. "Push" – 3:56
  7. "Answer" – 3:58
  8. "Time" – 4:07
  9. "Perfect Girl" – 4:43 (McLachlan; Marchand)
  10. "Dirty Little Secret" – 3:56

Personnel

  • Sarah McLachlan: Vocals, Electric Guitar, Piano, Rhodes Piano, Keyboards
  • Pierre Marchand: Guitar, Bass, Piano, Keyboards, Synthesizer Bass
  • Bill Dillon: Guitar, Guitorgan, Church Organ
  • Michael Chaves: Guitar
  • Michel Pepin: Guitar
  • Sean Ashby: Guitar
  • Yves Desrosiers: Guitar
  • Mark Jowett: Guitar
  • Ethan Johns: Guitar
  • Tony Levin: Bass
  • Daryl Johnson: Bass
  • Jim Creeggan: Acoustic Bass
  • David Kershaw: Hammond Organ
  • Jorane: Cello, Background Vocals, Vocal Treatments
  • Ashwin Sood: Drums, Percussion, Loops, Keyboard Bass
  • Jerry Marotta: Percussion

Album Charts

Chart Peak
position 		Certification Sales/shipments
Australian Albums Chart[1] 22 Gold 35,000[2]
Austrian Albums Chart[3] 72
Belgian Flanders Albums Chart[4] 18
Belgian Wallonia Albums Chart[5] 23
Canadian Albums Chart[6] 1 5x platinum 500,000[7]
Danish Albums Chart[8] 33
Dutch Albums Chart[9] 23
French Albums Chart[10] 65
German Albums Chart[11] 56
New Zealand Albums Chart[12] 30
Norwegian Albums Chart[13] 14
Swedish Albums Chart[14] 20
Swiss Albums Chart[15] 19
UK Albums Chart[16] 33 Gold 100,000[17]
U.S. Billboard 200[18] 2 2x platinum 2,500,000+[19]

References

  1. ^ Australian Albums Chart
  2. ^ ARIA
  3. ^ Austrian Albums Chart
  4. ^ Belgian Flandres Albums Chart
  5. ^ Belgian Wallonia Albums Chart
  6. ^ Canadian Albums Chart
  7. ^ CRIA
  8. ^ Danish Albums Chart
  9. ^ Dutch Albums Chart
  10. ^ French Albums Chart
  11. ^ German Albums Chart
  12. ^ New Zealand Albums Chart
  13. ^ Norwegian Albums Chart
  14. ^ Swedish Albums Chart
  15. ^ Swiss Albums Chart
  16. ^ UK Albums Chart
  17. ^ BPI
  18. ^ U.S. Albums Chart
  19. ^ [1]
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