Illuminations (Josh Groban album)
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Commercial reception

The album debuted at #4 on the Billboard 200
Billboard 200
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, selling 190,000 copies in its first week and was certified Platinum by the RIAA for shipping over a million copies. The album has since sold over 800,000 copies in the US. In Canada, the album debuted at #4 on the Canadian Albums Chart
Canadian Albums Chart
The Canadian Albums Chart is the official album sales chart in Canada. It is compiled every Wednesday by U.S.-based music sales tracking company Nielsen Soundscan, and published every Thursday by Jam! Canoe and Billboard, along with its sister charts the Canadian Singles Chart and the Canadian BDS...

 and was certified Platinum for shipping over 80,000 copies.

Track listing

The following is the track listing for the regular album:
  1. "The Wandering Kind (Prelude)" (Groban) - 2:28
  2. "Bells of New York City" (Groban & Dan Wilson
    Dan Wilson (musician)
    Daniel Dodd "Dan" Wilson is a multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, Grammy-winning songwriter and producer...

    ) - 3:50
  3. "Galileo (Someone Like You)" (Declan O'Rourke
    Declan O'Rourke
    Declan O'Rourke is a 33 year old platinum record singer/songwriter from Dublin, Ireland.-Career:At the age of 13, when living in Australia with his family, O'Rourke was given his first guitar by a priest in Kyabram who recognised his potential and love for music, hence the title of his debut album...

     & Seamus Cotter) - 3:22
  4. "L'Ora Dell’Addio" (Groban, Walter Afanasieff
    Walter Afanasieff
    Walter Afanasieff is a multiple Grammy-award-winning record producer and songwriter. He is best known for his long association with Mariah Carey, for whom he was producer and co-writer for several years, beginning in 1990...

     & Marco Marinangeli
    Marco Marinangeli
    Marco Marinangeli is a Grammy-nominated Italian composer, songwriter and producer. He is the president of Magelic Productions, Inc., in Hollywood...

    ) - 3:38
  5. "Hidden Away
    Hidden Away
    "Hidden Away" is singer-songwriter Josh Groban's first single for his fifth studio album Illuminations.-Background:Josh and Dan Wilson both wrote the single. Josh also states it took three years to make his new album Illuminations. The song was also available for download on Josh's website. The...

    " (Groban & Wilson) - 3:56
  6. "Au Jardin des Sans-Pourquoi" (The Garden Without "Whys") (Groban, Rufus Wainwright
    Rufus Wainwright
    Rufus McGarrigle Wainwright is an American-Canadian singer-songwriter. He has recorded six albums of original music, EPs, and tracks on compilations and film soundtracks.-Early years:...

     & Kate McGarrigle
    Kate McGarrigle
    Kate McGarrigle, CM was a Canadian folk music singer-songwriter, who wrote and performed as a duo with her sister Anna McGarrigle....

    ) - 3:32
  7. "Higher Window
    Higher Window
    "Higher Window" is singer-songwriter Josh Groban's third single for his fifth studio album Illuminations.-Background:Josh released three singles for his new album. The first single was "Hidden Away," the second single was his first Portuguese song "Voce Existe Em Mim," and the third single, "Higher...

    " (Groban, Wilson & Thomas Salter) - 4:37
  8. "If I Walk Away" (Groban & Wilson) - 3:52
  9. "Love Only Knows" (Groban & Wilson) - 4:44
  10. "Você Existe em Mim" (Groban, Lester Mendes & Carlinhos Brown
    Carlinhos Brown
    Carlinhos Brown is a Brazilian musician from Salvador, Bahia. He was born in Candeal Pequeno, a small neighbourhood in the Brotas area of Salvador de Bahia...

    ) - 5:07
  11. "War at Home" (Groban & Wilson) - 4:45
  12. "London Hymn" (Groban & Marius de Vries
    Marius de Vries
    Marius Van Wyk de Vries is an English music producer and composer. He has been behind some of the key albums and soundtracks of recent times, gathering five Grammy nominations, two BAFTAs, and an Ivor Novello award along the way.-Music Producer:...

    ) - 1:57
  13. "Straight to You" (Nick Cave
    Nick Cave
    Nicholas Edward "Nick" Cave is an Australian musician, songwriter, author, screenwriter, and occasional film actor.He is best known for his work as a frontman of the critically acclaimed rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, established in 1984, a group known for its eclectic influences and...

    ) - 4:10

Bonus track listing

  1. "They Won't Go When I Go" (Exclusive Fan Edition) (also included in Japanese Edition)
  2. "Le Cose Che Sei Per Me" (Exclusive Fan Edition) (also included in Japanese Edition)
  3. "Feels Like Home" (iTunes Deluxe Edition)
  4. "Hidden Away [Radio Mix]" (Bonus Video) (iTunes Deluxe Edition)

Peak positions

Chart (2010) Peak
position
Australian Albums Chart
ARIA Charts
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21
Canadian Albums Chart
Canadian Albums Chart
The Canadian Albums Chart is the official album sales chart in Canada. It is compiled every Wednesday by U.S.-based music sales tracking company Nielsen Soundscan, and published every Thursday by Jam! Canoe and Billboard, along with its sister charts the Canadian Singles Chart and the Canadian BDS...

4
European Top 100 Albums
European Top 100 Albums
The European Top 100 Albums chart is the European adaptation of the Billboard 200 albums chart. It was created in March 1984.The European Top 100 Albums, commonly referred to as Eurochart Top 100 Albums shows the sales of an act in 19 European countries based on IFPI data.The European Top 100...

33
Netherlands
Netherlands
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10
Mexican Albums Chart
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...

99
Sweden
Sweden
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31
UK Albums Chart
UK Albums Chart
The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart...

30
US 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...

4
US Top Digital Albums 9
US Top Tastemakers Albums 13


Certifications and sales

Country Industry Certification Sales
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...

Platinum 83,100
United States 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...

Platinum 1,000,000
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