Feels like Home
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Feels Like Home is the second album
by jazz songwriter Norah Jones
, released in 2004
. It sold a million copies in the first week of its U.S. release, the first album to do so since Eminem
's The Eminem Show
(2002) and it was the second best-selling album of 2004, with about 4 million copies sold in U.S., It sold 1,920,000 copies on its first week worldwide.
In the Netherlands
, it was the year's best-selling album and According to EMI
/Blue Note, this album has shipped over 10 million copies worldwide, and the twenty-fourth best-selling album of the 2000s
. Norah won the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance
for ("Sunrise
"), and was nominated for Best Pop Vocal Album (Feels Like Home), and Best Country Collaboration with Vocals for "Creepin' In" with Dolly Parton.
To support the album her record label recorded a commercial to be in televised in the U.S. and worldwide. In the commercial she dubs the three singles from the album.
This album has been released with the Copy Control
protection system in some regions.
Album
An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...
by jazz songwriter Norah Jones
Norah Jones
Norah Jones is an American singer-songwriter and occasional actress.In 2002, she launched her solo music career with the release of the commercially successful and critically acclaimed album Come Away With Me, which was certified a diamond album in 2002, selling over 20 million copies...
, released in 2004
2004 in music
See also:* 2004 in music Record labels established in 2004-January:*January 1**The Vienna New Year's Concert is conducted by Riccardo Muti.**Kurt Nilsen wins World Idol....
. It sold a million copies in the first week of its U.S. release, the first album to do so since Eminem
Eminem
Marshall Bruce Mathers III , better known by his stage name Eminem or his alter ego Slim Shady, is an American rapper, record producer, songwriter and actor. Eminem's popularity brought his group project, D12, to mainstream recognition...
's The Eminem Show
The Eminem Show
The Eminem Show is the fourth studio album by the American rapper Eminem, released in 2002. It was the best-selling album of 2002 in the United States, with sales of 7.6 million copies. At the Grammy Awards of 2003 it was nominated for Album of the Year and became Eminem's third LP in four years to...
(2002) and it was the second best-selling album of 2004, with about 4 million copies sold in U.S., It sold 1,920,000 copies on its first week worldwide.
In the Netherlands
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
, it was the year's best-selling album and According to EMI
EMI
The EMI Group, also known as EMI Music or simply EMI, is a multinational music company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the fourth-largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry and one of the "big four" record companies. EMI Group also has a major...
/Blue Note, this album has shipped over 10 million copies worldwide, and the twenty-fourth best-selling album of the 2000s
2000s in music
For music from a year in the 2000s, go to 00 | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09This article includes an overview of the major events and trends in popular music in the 2000s....
. Norah won the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance
Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance
The Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance is the latest in a series of awards recognizing superior vocal performance by a female in the pop category, the first of which was presented in 1959. The award goes to the artist...
for ("Sunrise
Sunrise
Sunrise is the instant at which the upper edge of the Sun appears above the horizon in the east. Sunrise should not be confused with dawn, which is the point at which the sky begins to lighten, some time before the sun itself appears, ending twilight...
"), and was nominated for Best Pop Vocal Album (Feels Like Home), and Best Country Collaboration with Vocals for "Creepin' In" with Dolly Parton.
To support the album her record label recorded a commercial to be in televised in the U.S. and worldwide. In the commercial she dubs the three singles from the album.
This album has been released with the Copy Control
Copy Control
Copy Control was the generic name of a copy prevention system, used from 2001 until 2006 on several digital audio disc releases by EMI Group and Sony BMG Music Entertainment in several regions...
protection system in some regions.
Track listing
Deluxe Edition (CD and DVD)
- "Sleepless Nights" (Deluxe Edition bonus track)
- "Moon Song" (Deluxe Edition bonus track)
- "I Turned Your Picture To The Wall" (Deluxe Edition bonus track)
- "In the Morning" (live) (DVD)
- "She" (live) (DVD)
- "Long Way Home" (live) (DVD)
- "Creepin' In" (live) (DVD)
- "Sunrise" (music video) (DVD)
- "What Am I to You?" (music video) (DVD)
- Interview with Norah (DVD)
Personnel
- Norah Jones - vocals, piano (1,3,4,6,8,12,13), Wurlitzer electric piano (2,5,10), pump organ (9)
- Lee Alexander - bass (1-3, 6-12), acoustic bass (5), electric bass (5), lap steel (12)
- Brian BladeBrian BladeBrian Blade in Shreveport, Louisiana is an American jazz drummer, composer, session musician, and singer-songwriter.-Early years:...
- drums (12) - Andrew Borger - drums (5,6,8,10), slit drum (1), box (3,11), snare drum (7)
- Levon HelmLevon HelmMark Lavon "Levon" Helm , is an American rock multi-instrumentalist and actor who achieved fame as the drummer and frequent lead and backing vocalist for The Band....
- drums (2) - Kevin BreitKevin BreitKevin Breit is a guitar player from McKerrow, Ontario. His group, The Sisters Euclid, has been a fixture at the Orbit Room in Toronto for the past 13 years. Breit has worked as a session musician with a variety of musicians including The Miller Stain Limit, Norah Jones, Michael Kaeshammer, Celine...
- acoustic guitar (1,3,6,7,11,12), resonator guitar (5,8-10), electric guitar (10), banjolin (1), foot tapping (10), backup vocal (6) - Rob Burger - pump organ (3,7)
- David Gold - viola (4)
- Garth HudsonGarth HudsonEric Garth Hudson is a Canadian multi-instrumentalist. As the organist, keyboardist and saxophonist for Canadian-American rock group The Band, he was a principal architect of the group's unique sound...
- Hammond organ (2), accordion (6) - Adam R. Levy - electric guitar (6,8,10,11), acoustic guitar (5), backup vocal (1,6,7)
- Daru Oda - backup vocals (1,2,5-8,10-12), flutes (11)
- Dolly PartonDolly PartonDolly Rebecca Parton is an American singer-songwriter, author, multi-instrumentalist, actress and philanthropist, best known for her work in country music. Dolly Parton has appeared in movies like 9 to 5, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Steel Magnolias and Straight Talk...
- vocal (7) - Jane Scarpantoni- cello (4)
- Tony Scherr- electric guitar (2)
- Arif Mardin - string arrangment (4)
- Jesse Harris - acoustic guitar (3,4)
Production
- Producers: Norah Jones, Arif Mardin
- Engineer: Jay Newland
- Assistant engineers: Matthew Cullen, Dick Kondas, Steve Mazur, Aya Takemura
- Mixing: Jay Newland
- Mastering: Gene Paul
- A&R: Eliott Wolf
- Assistant: Jamie Polaski
- String arrangements: Arif Mardin
- Product manager: Zach Hochkeppel
- Creative director: Gordon Jee
- Design production assistant: Burton Yount
Charts
The album debuted on Billboard 200 on #1 and sold 1,000,000 copies in its first week in the United, and was 71 weeks in the U.S. chart, but left in position #191 in the chart in 2005.Album
| Chart (2004) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Polish Albums Chart Polish Music Charts The Polish Music Charts are two official album charts and seven singles charts in Poland, provided by ZPAV, the Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry . The first, the Top 100, is a monthly chart based on data received from the album companies... |
1 |
| U.S. Billboard 200 Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists... |
1 |
| Top Canadian Albums | 1 |
| Top Internet Albums | 17 |
Singles
| Single | Chart (2004) | Peak position |
|---|---|---|
| "Sunrise" | U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary | 26 |
| U.S. Billboard Adult Top 40 | 18 | |
| Canadian Singles Chart | 4 | |
Certifications
| Chart | Certification | Sales | Weeks |
|---|---|---|---|
| Australia ARIA Australian Recording Industry Association The Australian Recording Industry Association is a trade group representing the Australian recording industry which was established in 1983 by six major record companies, EMI, Festival, CBS, RCA, WEA and Universal replacing the Association of Australian Record Manufacturers which was formed in 1956... |
3x Platinum | 210,000+ | |
| Austria IFPI IFPI The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry is the organisation that represents the interests of the recording industry worldwide. It is a not-for-profit members' organisation registered in Switzerland... |
3x platinum | 100,000+ | |
| Belgium IFPI IFPI The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry is the organisation that represents the interests of the recording industry worldwide. It is a not-for-profit members' organisation registered in Switzerland... |
2x platinum | 60,000+ | 109 |
| Brazil ABPD Associação Brasileira dos Produtores de Discos The Associação Brasileira dos Produtores de Discos is an official representative body of the record labels in the Brazilian phonographic market.- About :... |
Gold | 50,000+ | |
| Canada CRIA Canadian Recording Industry Association Music Canada is a Toronto-based, non-profit trade organization that was founded 9 April 1963 to represent the interests of companies that record, artists, manufacture, production, promotion and distribution of music in Canada... |
4x Platinum | 400,000+ | |
| Denmark IFPI IFPI The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry is the organisation that represents the interests of the recording industry worldwide. It is a not-for-profit members' organisation registered in Switzerland... |
Gold | 15,000+ | |
| Europe IFPI IFPI The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry is the organisation that represents the interests of the recording industry worldwide. It is a not-for-profit members' organisation registered in Switzerland... |
4x Platinum | 4,000,000+ | |
| Finland | Gold | 16,000+ | |
| France IFPI IFPI The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry is the organisation that represents the interests of the recording industry worldwide. It is a not-for-profit members' organisation registered in Switzerland... |
Diamond | 782.300+ | |
| Germany IFPI IFPI The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry is the organisation that represents the interests of the recording industry worldwide. It is a not-for-profit members' organisation registered in Switzerland... |
3x Platinum | 600,000+ | 64 |
| Japan RIAJ | Platinum | 250,000 | |
| Mexico AMPROFON AMPROFON Asociación Mexicana de Productores de Fonogramas y Videogramas is a non-profit organization integrated by multinational and national record companies in Mexico. Established on April 3, 1963, it groups phonographic companies that represent more than 70 percent of the market in Mexico... |
Gold | 50,000+ | |
| New Zealand RIANZ | 3x Platinum | 40,000+ | 39 |
| Netherlands NVPI/MegaCharts MegaCharts MegaCharts is responsible for the composition and exploitation of a broad collection of official charts in the Netherlands, of which the Mega Top 50 and the Mega Album Top 100 are the most known ones. Mega Charts also provides information to the Stichting Nederlandse Top 40, of which the Dutch Top... |
Platinum | 70,000+ | |
| Sweden | Platinum | 40,000+ | |
| United Kingdom BPI British Phonographic Industry The British Phonographic Industry is the British record industry's trade association.-Structure:Its membership comprises hundreds of music companies including all four "major" record companies , associate members such as manufacturers and distributors, and hundreds of independent music companies... |
3x platinum | 900,000 | |
| U.S. RIAA Recording Industry Association of America The Recording Industry Association of America is a trade organization that represents the recording industry distributors in the United States... |
4x Platinum | 4,000,000+ | 71 |
External links
- Feels Like Home at DiscogsDiscogsDiscogs, short for discographies, is a website and database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases. The Discogs servers, currently hosted under the domain name discogs.com, are owned by Zink Media, Inc., and are...
- Feels Like Home at MetacriticMetacriticMetacritic.com is a website that collates reviews of music albums, games, movies, TV shows and DVDs. For each product, a numerical score from each review is obtained and the total is averaged. An excerpt of each review is provided along with a hyperlink to the source. Three colour codes of Green,...
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- Album Review at The New YorkerThe New YorkerThe New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast...