Julianne Hough (album)
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Julianne Hough is the self-titled debut album of American country
singer, and professional dancer, Julianne Hough
. The album was released on May 20, 2008 on Mercury Nashville Records.
After its release, the album debuted at #3 on the Billboard 200
, selling about 67,000 copies during its first week.
The album was produced by David Malloy.
Hough's debut album also debuted at #1 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart May 28, 2008. The album has sold 490,000 copies in the United States.
The lead single off the album, "That Song in My Head", was released the week of March 3, 2008, and peaked at #18 on that chart. "My Hallelujah Song" was released as the second single on September 22, peaking at #44 and the music video was ranked #48 on GAC's Top 50 Videos of the Year list. "Hide Your Matches" was going to be released in February 2009 as the third single, but was cancelled.
Singles – Billboard
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singer, and professional dancer, Julianne Hough
Julianne Hough
Julianne Alexandra Hough is an American professional ballroom dancer, country music singer and actress. She is most widely known for being a two-time champion of ABC's Dancing with the Stars. She earned a Creative Arts Primetime Emmy nomination in 2007 for choreography...
. The album was released on May 20, 2008 on Mercury Nashville Records.
After its release, the album debuted at #3 on the 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...
, selling about 67,000 copies during its first week.
The album was produced by David Malloy.
Hough's debut album also debuted at #1 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart May 28, 2008. The album has sold 490,000 copies in the United States.
The lead single off the album, "That Song in My Head", was released the week of March 3, 2008, and peaked at #18 on that chart. "My Hallelujah Song" was released as the second single on September 22, peaking at #44 and the music video was ranked #48 on GAC's Top 50 Videos of the Year list. "Hide Your Matches" was going to be released in February 2009 as the third single, but was cancelled.
Track listing
- "That Song in My HeadThat Song in My Head"That Song in My Head" is the major label debut single of American country music singer and professional dancer Julianne Hough. The song was released March 3, 2008 on Mercury Nashville Records as her official debut single, and the first single from her self-titled debut album...
" (Jim CollinsJim Collins (singer)Jim Collins is an American country music singer-songwriter. Between 1985 and 1998, Collins released three studio albums. He also charted seven singles on Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart...
, Tony Martin, Wendell Mobley) – 3:13 - "You, You, You" (Rick Ferrell, Jennifer Hicks) – 3:45
- "Hide Your Matches" (Hillary LindseyHillary LindseyHillary Lindsey is a country music singer-songwriter. As a songwriter, she has written songs with or for Faith Hill, Martina McBride, Sara Evans, Carrie Underwood, Kellie Pickler, Bon Jovi, Taylor Swift, and Tim McGraw. One of her compositions, Underwood's Number One hit "Jesus, Take the Wheel",...
, Scooter Carusoe) – 3:40 - "My Hallelujah Song" (Craig WisemanCraig WisemanCraig Michael Wiseman is an American country music songwriter. Active since the late 1980s as a songwriter, he has had his songs recorded by Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, Kenny Chesney, LeAnn Rimes, and several other acts....
, Steve McEwan) – 3:30 - "Jimmy Ray McGee" (David Frasier, Josh KearJosh KearJoshua Peter "Josh" Kear is an American songwriter. His credits include Carrie Underwood's number-one "Before He Cheats," for which Kear won the Grammy Award for Best Country Song in 2007 and Lady Antebellum's number-one "Need You Now," for which Kear won an Academy of Country Music Award for Best...
) – 3:31 - "Dreaming Under the Same Moon" (Tim Johnson, Marabeth Poole, David Malloy) – 3:58
- duet with Derek HoughDerek HoughDerek Hough is an American dancer, choreographer, musician and actor. A world champion in Latin American Dance, Hough has appeared since September 2007 on the hit U.S...
- duet with Derek Hough
- "About Life" (MarcelMarcel (singer)Marcel Francois Chagnon is an American country music singer and songwriter known by the singular name Marcel. Signed to Mercury Nashville Records in 2003, he released his debut album You, Me, and the Windshield that year and charted on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts with the single "Country...
, Trevor Rosen, Jessica AndrewsJessica AndrewsJessica Danielle Andrews is an American country music singer. At age 15 in mid-1999, she made her debut on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts with the single "I Will Be There for You", from her debut album Heart Shaped World, released in 1999 on DreamWorks Records Nashville.Andrews...
) – 3:17 - "Hello" (Marty Dodson, Tom ShapiroTom ShapiroTom Shapiro is an American songwriter and occasional record producer, known primarily for his work in country music. To date, he holds four Country Songwriter of the Year awards from Broadcast Music Incorporated, as well as the Songwriter of the Decade award from the Nashville Songwriters...
, Rebecca Lynn HowardRebecca Lynn HowardRebecca Lynn Howard is an American country music artist. She has charted seven singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, and has released three studio albums...
) – 3:10 - "Help Me, Help You" (Danny Green, Catt Gravitt) – 4:01
- "Love Yourself" (Mark Irwin, Malloy, Kear) – 3:02
- "I'd Just Be with You" (John Kennedy, Andrea Stople) – 3:31
Chart positions
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| Year | Chart | Peak position |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 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... |
3 |
| 2008 | U.S. Top Country Albums | 1 |
Singles – Billboard
Billboard (magazine)
Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...
| Year | Single | Chart Positions | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Country Hot Country Songs Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales... |
US Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday... |
US Pop Pop 100 The Pop 100 was a songs chart that debuted in February 2005 and was released weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States until its discontinuation in 2009... |
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| 2008 | "That Song in My Head" | 18 | 88 | 84 |
| "My Hallelujah Song" | 44 | — | — | |
Musical
- Spady Brannan — bassBass (instrument)Bass describes musical instruments that produce tones in the low-pitched range. They belong to different families of instruments and can cover a wide range of musical roles...
- Mike Brignardello — bass
- Bob Britt — electric guitar
- Mickey Jack Cones — background vocalsBacking vocalistA backing vocalist or backing singer is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists...
- Eric Darken — percussionPercussion instrumentA percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...
- Glen Duncan — percussion
- Paul FranklinPaul Franklin (musician)Paul Franklin is an American multi-instrumentalist, known mainly for his work as a steel guitarist. He began his career in the 1970s as a member of Barbara Mandrell's road band; in addition he toured with Mel Tillis and Jerry Reed. He has since become a prolific session musician in Nashville,...
— steel guitar - Tatiana Hanchero — background vocals
- Julianne Hough — lead vocals
- Mike Johnson — steel guitarSteel guitarSteel guitar is a type of guitar or the method of playing the instrument. Developed in Hawaii in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a steel guitar is usually positioned horizontally; strings are plucked with one hand, while the other hand changes the pitch of one or more strings with the use...
- Troy Lancaster — electric guitar
- B. James Lowry — acoustic guitar
- Jerry McPherson — electric guitarElectric guitarAn electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...
- Jimmy Nichols — keyboardsKeyboard instrumentA keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
, Hammond B-3Hammond organThe Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond in 1934 and manufactured by the Hammond Organ Company. While the Hammond organ was originally sold to churches as a lower-cost alternative to the wind-driven pipe organ, in the 1960s and 1970s it became a standard keyboard...
, pianoPianoThe piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...
, background vocals - Karyn RochelleKaryn RochelleKaryn Rochelle is an American country music songwriter. Her credits include several hit singles by country music artists, including "I Wonder", "Red High Heels", and "Don't You Know You're Beautiful" for Kellie Pickler, as well as "Georgia Rain" and "This Is Me You're Talking To" for Trisha Yearwood...
— background vocals - Jimmie Lee Sloas — bass
- Ilya Toshinsky — acoustic guitarAcoustic guitarAn acoustic guitar is a guitar that uses only an acoustic sound board. The air in this cavity resonates with the vibrational modes of the string and at low frequencies, which depend on the size of the box, the chamber acts like a Helmholtz resonator, increasing or decreasing the volume of the sound...
- Lonnie Wilson — drumsDrum kitA drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
- Jonathan Yudkin — fiddleFiddleThe term fiddle may refer to any bowed string musical instrument, most often the violin. It is also a colloquial term for the instrument used by players in all genres, including classical music...
& stringsString sectionThe string section is the largest body of the standard orchestra and consists of bowed string instruments of the violin family.It normally comprises five sections: the first violins, the second violins, the violas, the cellos, and the double basses...
Technical
- Adam Ayan — mastering
- Jake Bailey — makeup
- Ondrea Barbe — photography
- Tonya Ginnetti — production assistant
- Campbell McAuley — hair
- Karen Naff — art direction, design
- Chari Pirtle — production assistant
- Julie Weiss — wardrobe stylist