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1989 is the fifteenth studio album by American singer-songwriter Ryan Adams, released digitally through his own PAX AM record label on September 21, 2015. The album is a track-by-track cover of Taylor Swift's 1989.[1] It debuted at No. 7 on the US Billboard 200 chart, one position ahead of Swift's 1989, which was in its 48th week on the chart.[2]

Background

Adams first became interested in Taylor Swift's album while coping with the collapse of his marriage to Mandy Moore.[3] On what attracted him about Swift's album, Adams stated "There’s just a joy to 1989,"[3] describing the album as "its own alternate universe."[3] Adams initially described the album as being in the style of The Smiths.[4] When recording the album, Adams said he found a sound somewhere between Bruce Springsteen's Darkness on the Edge of Town and The Smiths' Meat Is Murder.[5]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic72/100[6]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[7]
The A.V. ClubA-[8]
Entertainment WeeklyA-[9]
Los Angeles TimesPositive[10]
Sputnikmusic3.9/5[11]
American Songwriter[12]
The Telegraph[13]
The Boston GlobePositive[14]
Pitchfork4/10[15]

Adams' interpretation of 1989 has received mostly positive feedback from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a "weighted average" rating out of 100 from selected independent ratings and reviews from mainstream critics, the album received a metascore of 72 out of 100, based on 21 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews."[6]

Entertainment Weekly's Leah Greenblatt praised the album, commenting "If turning the biggest, shiniest pop record of the past year into a survey course in classic rock economy sounds like a novelty, it is. But it’s also the best kind--one that brings two divergent artists together in smart, unexpected ways, and somehow manages to reveal the best of both of them."[9] Jim Beviglia of American Songwriter also complimented the album, stating "It is 1989 reimagined, with often startling results."[12] On a similar note, the A.V. Club's Annie Zaleski said of the album in her review: "What his version of 1989 does best is illustrate the strength of the source material. With the radio-ready gloss stripped away, these songs compare to the best moments in Swift’s back catalog."[8] Jon Caramanica of The New York Times, however, called the album, "a love letter from an indie idol to a pop queen," and considered Adams "not built for the songs."[16] In a similarly negative review, Mark Richardson of Pitchfork Media declared, "Adams has transformed (1989) into... a run-of-the-mill Ryan Adams album." [15]

Track listing

Source: Amazon.com[17]

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Welcome to New York"Taylor Swift, Ryan Tedder3:18
2."Blank Space"Swift, Max Martin, Shellback,3:21
3."Style"Swift, Martin, Shellback, Ali Payami2:44
4."Out of the Woods"Swift, Jack Antonoff6:07
5."All You Had to Do Was Stay"Swift, Martin3:30
6."Shake It Off"Swift, Martin, Shellback4:06
7."I Wish You Would"Swift, Antonoff3:44
8."Bad Blood"Swift, Martin, Shellback3:55
9."Wildest Dreams"Swift, Martin, Shellback5:21
10."How You Get the Girl"Swift, Martin, Shellback3:50
11."This Love"Swift4:45
12."I Know Places"Swift, Tedder5:14
13."Clean"Swift, Imogen Heap4:23
Total length:54:18

Charts

1989 debuted at No. 7 on the US Billboard 200 chart with 56,000 equivalent album units. Taylor Swift's 1989, in its 48th week on the chart, was in the No. 8 position.[2]

Chart (2015) Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[18] 9
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[19] 28
Canadian Albums (Billboard)[20] 9
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[21] 36
Irish Albums (IRMA)[22] 15
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[23] 18
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[24] 38
UK Albums (OCC)[25] 19
US Billboard 200[26] 7

Release history

Source: Amazon.com[27]

Date Region Format(s) Label
September 21, 2015 United States
PAX AM
November 6, 2015 United States
PAX AM

References

  1. ^ "Ryan Adams Says Taylor Swift '1989' Cover Album Will Be Finished This Week". Retrieved 2015-09-21.
  2. ^ a b Caulfield, Keith (September 27, 2015). "Both Taylor Swift and Ryan Adams' '1989' Albums Are in Top 10 of Billboard 200 Chart". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved September 28, 2015.
  3. ^ a b c O'Donnell, Kevin. "Ryan Adams opens up about his Taylor Swift 1989 cover album". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 23 September 2015.
  4. ^ "The Complete History (So Far) of Ryan Adams' Taylor Swift Cover Project". Retrieved 2015-09-21.
  5. ^ "The Story Behind Ryan Adams's '1989′ Homage to Taylor Swift". WSJ Blogs - Speakeasy. 2015-09-21. Retrieved 2015-09-23.
  6. ^ a b "Reviews for 1989 by Ryan Adams". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 2015-10-01. {{cite web}}: templatestyles stripmarker in |work= at position 1 (help)
  7. ^ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "1989 - Ryan Adams". AllMusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 2015-09-25. {{cite web}}: templatestyles stripmarker in |work= at position 1 (help)
  8. ^ a b Annie Zaleski. "Ryan Adams transforms Taylor Swift's 1989 into a melancholy masterpiece". The A.V. Club. The Onion. Retrieved 2015-09-21. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  9. ^ a b Greenblatt, Leah (2015-09-21). "1989 by Ryan Adams: EW Review". Entertainment Weekly. Time Inc. Retrieved 2015-09-22.
  10. ^ Wood, Mikael (2015-09-21). "Ryan Adams turns to Taylor Swift for help on his version of '1989'". Los Angeles Times. Timothy Ryan. Retrieved 2015-09-22.
  11. ^ K., Rudy (2015-09-22). "Review: Ryan Adams - 1989 - Sputnikmusic". Sputnikmusic. Retrieved 2015-09-23.
  12. ^ a b Beviglia, Jim (2015-09-21). "Ryan Adams: 1989". American Songwriter. ForASong Media, LLC. Retrieved 2015-09-23.
  13. ^ McCormick, Neil (2015-09-22). "Ryan Adams, 1989, review: 'beautifully evokes the ghosts in Taylor Swift's pop machine'". The Telegraph. Telegraph Media Group. Retrieved 2015-09-23.
  14. ^ Reed, James (2015-09-22). "Ryan Adams turns Taylor Swift's '1989' into mellow gold". The Boston Globe. John W. Henry. Retrieved 2015-09-23.
  15. ^ a b Richardson, Mark (2015-09-25). "Ryan Adams, 1989". Retrieved 2015-09-25.
  16. ^ Caramanica, Jon (2015-09-22). "Teaming Up, Together (Drake and Future) or Apart (Ryan Adams and Taylor Swift)". The New York Times. Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr. Retrieved 2015-09-23.
  17. ^ "Ryan Adams: 1989: MP3 Downloads". Amazon.com. ASIN B015GU358W. Retrieved 2015-09-24.
  18. ^ "Australiancharts.com – Ryan Adams – 1989". Hung Medien. Retrieved September 26, 2015.
  19. ^ "Ultratop.be – Ryan Adams – 1989" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved September 25, 2015.
  20. ^ "Ryan Adams Chart History (Canadian Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved September 29, 2015.
  21. ^ "Dutchcharts.nl – Ryan Adams – 1989" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved September 25, 2015.
  22. ^ "GFK Chart-Track Albums: Week 39, 2015". Chart-Track. IRMA. Retrieved September 25, 2015.
  23. ^ "Charts.nz – Ryan Adams – 1989". Hung Medien. Retrieved September 25, 2015.
  24. ^ "Swedishcharts.com – Ryan Adams – 1989". Hung Medien. Retrieved September 27, 2015.
  25. ^ "Official Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved September 26, 2015.
  26. ^ "Ryan Adams Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved September 28, 2015.
  27. ^ "Ryan Adams: 1989: Music". Amazon.com. ASIN B015I145OC. Retrieved 2015-09-23.
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