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01) Need You Now
02) Our Kind of Love
03) American Honey
04) Hello World
05) Perfect Day
06) Love This Pain
07) When You Got a Good Thing
08) Stars Tonight
09) If I Knew Then
10) Something 'Bout a Woman
11) Ready to Love Again
01) Need You Now
02) Our Kind of Love
03) American Honey
04) Hello World
05) Perfect Day
06) Love This Pain
07) When You Got a Good Thing
08) Stars Tonight
09) If I Knew Then
10) Something 'Bout a Woman
11) Ready to Love Again
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Need You Now is the second studio album by the American country music group Lady Antebellum. The album was released on January 26, 2010, via Capitol Nashville. It is the follow-up album to their 2008 self-titled RIAA Platinum certified debut album. It debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 with 481,000 copies sold in its first week. It has been certified 3x platinum by the RIAA. On February 13, the album won the Grammy Award for Best Country Album and was nominated for Album of the Year, whereas the single "Need You Now" won four awards, including Song of the Year and Record of the Year.
Need You Now debuted at #1 on the U.S. Billboard 200 with first week sales of 481,000. It is the third best-selling album of 2010, behind I Dreamed a Dream by Susan Boyle and Recovery by rapper Eminem. Due to the band winning 5 Grammys, Need You Now debuted at No. 24 on the German Albums Chart in February 2011, 9 months after the release of the album. As of the chart dated July 2, 2011, the album has sold 3,544,833 copies in the US. The album also spent 31 Non-consecutive weeks at #1 on the "Country Album" Chart in 2010-2011.
The song "Perfect Day" has been used in one of The CW's commercials to promote new TV series Hart of Dixie.
Upon its release, Need You Now received generally mixed reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 63, based on 9 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews".
Giving it four stars out of five, Jessica Phillips wrote in Country Weekly magazine that the group "certainly need have no fear of a sophomore slump" due to the success of "Need You Now". She also said that the album showed the trio's "ability to craft memorable country pop hooks," but added that "not every song works on this record." Crystal Bell, writing for Billboard was also positive in her review citing Kelley's vocal slyness and the delicate arrangement of the track, "Ready to Love Again", also noting "the trio's musical growth."
Allmusic reviewer Thom Jurek wrote that on this album "they stick very close to the formula of their debut: a slew of mid- and uptempo love songs, a sad ballad, and a couple of rocked-up good-time tunes — all self-written with some help from some of Nashville's most respected writers." He also went on to say that the album was "flawless in its songwriting, production, and performances." Mikael Wood of Entertainment Weekly said, "they're most successful when they keep to the moody minor key stuff" and gave the album a B+. Jonathan Keefe of Slant Magazine was less positive.
Allegations that the song stole from The Alan Parsons Project's song 'Eye in the Sky' have been widespread online, and representatives for Parsons commented.
User Album Review
"Ignore the Bon Jovi comparisons – these US chart-toppers are the new Fleetwood Mac."
In the US, Nashville country-rock trio Lady Antebellum have become monstrously big with indecent haste. This second album shifted well over a million in its first month and is still flying. It’s up there with Grammy-magnets like Beyoncé and Gaga. To introduce them to the British public, Need You Now has the award-winning I Run to You, from 2008’s eponymous debut, tagged onto the end. Although their press release suicidally compares them to Bon Jovi and Kelly Clarkson, they are – and this is evident from chord one – the new Fleetwood Mac.
Which means they are, at least stateside, all things to all white people. They retain just enough country-twang elements to satisfy purists, but ladle on slick pop hooks and reasonably gutsy guitar chugs and solos to woo the rock fraternity. If the girl-boy vocals give them their Mac attack, stabs of winking humour ensures this is the next album bought by people who miss Shania Twain.
Charles Kelley, Dave Haywood and Hillary Scott form a curious three-headed beast – in their videos you’re never quite sure who’s in the band and who’s a model. They’re a bit scary. They are the ultimate corporate behemoth, here to shift cars and steal our children.
But here’s the thing: they’re not awful. Need You Now, in particular, is a huge hoary pop seduction, with a chorus it’d take a heart of stone to resist. Immediately, it announces itself as power-anthem paradise, evoking such guilty-pleasure godhead as Alone by Heart or I Drove All Night by Roy Orbison/Cyndi Lauper. You’ll briefly, secretly love it with a passion for about three weeks before TV talent-show kids start devaluing it. That is one belting chorus. “It’s a quarter after one, I’m a little drunk but I need you now...” Springsteen should cover it. American Honey is more acoustic and nostalgic, craftily doubling its sales by putting “American” in the title. Lookin’ for a Good Time begins with a Tom Petty riff which is so cheesy it’s radioactive, while I Run to You has “punch the air triumphantly” stamped on its chest.
Genius. Evil genius, obviously, but fiendishly effective.
(Chris Roberts, BBC)
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Need You Now is the second studio album by the American country music group Lady Antebellum. The album was released on January 26, 2010, via Capitol Nashville. It is the follow-up album to their 2008 self-titled RIAA Platinum certified debut album. It debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 with 481,000 copies sold in its first week. It has been certified 3x platinum by the RIAA. On February 13, the album won the Grammy Award for Best Country Album and was nominated for Album of the Year, whereas the single "Need You Now" won four awards, including Song of the Year and Record of the Year.
Need You Now debuted at #1 on the U.S. Billboard 200 with first week sales of 481,000. It is the third best-selling album of 2010, behind I Dreamed a Dream by Susan Boyle and Recovery by rapper Eminem. Due to the band winning 5 Grammys, Need You Now debuted at No. 24 on the German Albums Chart in February 2011, 9 months after the release of the album. As of the chart dated July 2, 2011, the album has sold 3,544,833 copies in the US. The album also spent 31 Non-consecutive weeks at #1 on the "Country Album" Chart in 2010-2011.
The song "Perfect Day" has been used in one of The CW's commercials to promote new TV series Hart of Dixie.
Upon its release, Need You Now received generally mixed reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 63, based on 9 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews".
Giving it four stars out of five, Jessica Phillips wrote in Country Weekly magazine that the group "certainly need have no fear of a sophomore slump" due to the success of "Need You Now". She also said that the album showed the trio's "ability to craft memorable country pop hooks," but added that "not every song works on this record." Crystal Bell, writing for Billboard was also positive in her review citing Kelley's vocal slyness and the delicate arrangement of the track, "Ready to Love Again", also noting "the trio's musical growth."
Allmusic reviewer Thom Jurek wrote that on this album "they stick very close to the formula of their debut: a slew of mid- and uptempo love songs, a sad ballad, and a couple of rocked-up good-time tunes — all self-written with some help from some of Nashville's most respected writers." He also went on to say that the album was "flawless in its songwriting, production, and performances." Mikael Wood of Entertainment Weekly said, "they're most successful when they keep to the moody minor key stuff" and gave the album a B+. Jonathan Keefe of Slant Magazine was less positive.
Allegations that the song stole from The Alan Parsons Project's song 'Eye in the Sky' have been widespread online, and representatives for Parsons commented.
User Album Review
"Ignore the Bon Jovi comparisons – these US chart-toppers are the new Fleetwood Mac."
In the US, Nashville country-rock trio Lady Antebellum have become monstrously big with indecent haste. This second album shifted well over a million in its first month and is still flying. It’s up there with Grammy-magnets like Beyoncé and Gaga. To introduce them to the British public, Need You Now has the award-winning I Run to You, from 2008’s eponymous debut, tagged onto the end. Although their press release suicidally compares them to Bon Jovi and Kelly Clarkson, they are – and this is evident from chord one – the new Fleetwood Mac.
Which means they are, at least stateside, all things to all white people. They retain just enough country-twang elements to satisfy purists, but ladle on slick pop hooks and reasonably gutsy guitar chugs and solos to woo the rock fraternity. If the girl-boy vocals give them their Mac attack, stabs of winking humour ensures this is the next album bought by people who miss Shania Twain.
Charles Kelley, Dave Haywood and Hillary Scott form a curious three-headed beast – in their videos you’re never quite sure who’s in the band and who’s a model. They’re a bit scary. They are the ultimate corporate behemoth, here to shift cars and steal our children.
But here’s the thing: they’re not awful. Need You Now, in particular, is a huge hoary pop seduction, with a chorus it’d take a heart of stone to resist. Immediately, it announces itself as power-anthem paradise, evoking such guilty-pleasure godhead as Alone by Heart or I Drove All Night by Roy Orbison/Cyndi Lauper. You’ll briefly, secretly love it with a passion for about three weeks before TV talent-show kids start devaluing it. That is one belting chorus. “It’s a quarter after one, I’m a little drunk but I need you now...” Springsteen should cover it. American Honey is more acoustic and nostalgic, craftily doubling its sales by putting “American” in the title. Lookin’ for a Good Time begins with a Tom Petty riff which is so cheesy it’s radioactive, while I Run to You has “punch the air triumphantly” stamped on its chest.
Genius. Evil genius, obviously, but fiendishly effective.
(Chris Roberts, BBC)
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