This Woman is the ninth studio album by American singer LeAnn Rimes, released on January 25, 2005. While promoting This Woman, she stated that it was her return to her "roots", country music. The album has a theme of falling in love and marriage. It was a success on the country charts. Rimes co-wrote three tracks on the album: "You Take Me Home", "I Got It Bad" and "When This Woman Loves a Man".
Singles from the album include, in order of release, "Nothin' 'bout Love Makes Sense", "Probably Wouldn't Be This Way", "Something's Gotta Give" and "Some People". Respectively, these reached #5, #3, #2, and #36 on the country singles charts.
A bonus thirteenth track, "Afraid to Fall", was released exclusively to US Target stores. Rimes helped pen this track as well.[1]
Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic gave the album four out of five stars stating that there were "no knockouts" on the album but that it was Rimes' "strongest album yet",[2] while Entertainment Weekly gave the album a B− minus rating calling Rimes' vocals "creepy" but said it was "better news" that Rimes was " done making dance-pop records" while praising the songs "With You", "I Got It Bad", and "Something's Gotta Give" as "serious roll-the-windows-down country-radio fun" and stating that the Target exclusive bonus track "Afraid to Fall" is "dreamy" and that Rimes "quits acting like she's an adult and just is one...and the difference is joyfully clear."[3]
This Woman debuted at #3 on the Billboard 200 with over 101,000 copies sold in its 1st week,[4] it fell to #25 with 40,000 copies sold in its 2nd week and #40 in its 3rd week with 37,000 copies sold.[5] The album spent 3 weeks in top 50 and a total of 47 weeks in Billboard 200. It has received gold status and sold over 618,000 copies in United States as of June 2006 by Nielsen SoundScan.[6]
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