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Love & War (Daniel Merriweather album)

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Allmusic[1]
BBC Music(favorable)[2]
Digital Spy[3]
The Guardian[4]
HipHopSite.Com[5]
The Times[6]
Yahoo! Music UK[7]

Love & War is the second studio album by the Australian R&B singer-songwriter Daniel Merriweather. It was released on 1st June 2009, on Marlin Records/Universal (AUS), Allido/Columbia/RCA (UK). The success of singles "Change" and "Red", both of which cracked the UK top ten was enough to propel the album to number two on the UK Albums Chart. The album was released on February 23, 2010 in the United States under J Records and Allido Records.

Singles

  • "Change" was released in February 2009. It featured rapper Wale and reached number eight on the UK Singles Chart, marking his second top ten single placing.
  • "Red" was released in May 2009. "Red" entered the UK singles chart at number five, making it his second UK top ten single and first entry into the top five as a lead performer.
  • "Impossible" was released on 17th August 2009, and peaked at a low #67 on the UK Singles Chart.
  • "Water and a Flame" was the fourth single released on 2nd November 2009, but failed to chart in the UK Singles Chart[8].

Response

Love & War has generally received positive reviews. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received a score of 66, based on five reviews

Track listing

  1. "For Your Money" — 4:53
  2. "Impossible" — 4:07
  3. "Change" (feat. Wale) — 3:21
  4. "Chainsaw" — 4:05
  5. "Cigarettes" — 3:24 (co-written by singer Jordan Galland)
  6. "Red" — 3:53
  7. "Could You" — 3:36
  8. "Not Giving Up" — 3:14
  9. "Getting Out" — 3:17
  10. "Water and a Flame" (feat. Adele) — 3:40
  11. "Live by Night" — 2:53 (co written by Jordan Galland)
  12. "Giving Everything Away for Free" — 3:30
  13. "The Children" (Digital/US/Japan Bonus Track) — 3:29
  14. "You Don't Know What Love Is"originally by The White Stripes (US Digital/Japan Bonus Track) — 4:13
  15. "I Think I'm In Love" (US Digital Bonus Track)
  16. "Cigarettes" (US iTunes Pre-order Bonus Track)

Charts and sales

The album debuted at #2 on the UK Albums Chart selling 43,000 copies in its first week and is the third highest first week sales for a debut album in 2009 so far.[9] The album was certified Platinum in the United Kingdom after selling 300,000 copies[10].

Chart (2009) Peak
position 		Certification Sales
Australian ARIA Albums Chart 32
Australian ARIA Urban Albums Chart 6
German Albums Chart 32
Irish Albums Chart 15
UK Albums Chart 2 Platinum[11]. 300,000

References

  1. ^ "Allmusic review".
  2. ^ "BBC Music review".
  3. ^ "Digital Spy review".
  4. ^ Davis, Johnny (April 19, 2009). "The Guardian review". London.
  5. ^ "HipHopSite.Com review".
  6. ^ Cairns, Dan (May 31, 2009). "The Times review". London.
  7. ^ "Yahoo! Music UK review".
  8. ^ http://www.radio1.gr/music/forthcoming_uk_singles.htm
  9. ^ http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/michael-jackson-maintains-u-k-chart-dominance-1003990605.story
  10. ^ BPI Gold
  11. ^ BPI Gold certification
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