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Track List
01) Harlem's Nocturne
02) Karma
03) Heartburn
04) If I Was Your Woman / Walk on By
05) You Don't Know My Name
06) If I Ain't Got You
07) Diary (feat. Tony! Toni! Toné!)
08) Dragon Days
09) Wake Up
10) So Simple (feat. Lellow)
11) When You Really Love Someone
12) Feeling U, Feeling Me (interlude)
13) Slow Down
14) Samsonite Man
15) Nobody Not Really
Cd 2
01) If I Ain't Got You (remix) (feat. Usher)
02) If I Ain't Got You (Spanish version) (feat. Arturo
03) If I Ain't Got You (Kanye West remix)
04) You Don't Know My Name/Will You Ever Know It (Regg
01) Harlem's Nocturne
02) Karma
03) Heartburn
04) If I Was Your Woman / Walk on By
05) You Don't Know My Name
06) If I Ain't Got You
07) Diary (feat. Tony! Toni! Toné!)
08) Dragon Days
09) Wake Up
10) So Simple (feat. Lellow)
11) When You Really Love Someone
12) Feeling U, Feeling Me (interlude)
13) Slow Down
14) Samsonite Man
15) Nobody Not Really
Cd 2
01) If I Ain't Got You (remix) (feat. Usher)
02) If I Ain't Got You (Spanish version) (feat. Arturo
03) If I Ain't Got You (Kanye West remix)
04) You Don't Know My Name/Will You Ever Know It (Regg
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First Released
2003
R&B
Smooth
Urban/R&B
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Album
8,000,000 copies
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The Diary of Alicia Keys is the second studio album by American recording artist Alicia Keys. It was released in the United States on December 2, 2003 by J Records. Recording sessions for the album took place during 2002 to 2003 at various recording studios, and production was handled primarily by Keys with contributions from Kerry Brothers, Jr., Timbaland, Dwayne Wiggins, Dre & Vidal, Easy Mo Bee, and Kanye West.
The album debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart, selling 618,000 copies in its first week. It became Keys' second consecutive number-one debut in the United States and spawned three top-ten singles. Upon its release, The Diary of Alicia Keys received generally positive reviews from most music critics and earned Keys three Grammy Awards at the 47th Grammy Awards. With domestic sales of four million copies and worldwide sales of eight million copies, The Diary of Alicia Keys is the thirty-first best-selling album of the 2000s decade.
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This was an eagerly-awaited follow-up. Released two years after the 20-million plus sales of her debut, Songs in A Minor, The Diary of”¦ underlined 22-year-old singer and pianist Alicia Keys’ increasing maturity and her significance to 21st century American music.
Keys states in her accompanying notes that the 15 pieces of music here are like diary entries. They could so easily have been full of gauche heart-on-sleeve angst, but fortunately everything is kept in good measure with the listener being drawn into her world of contemporary takes on classic soul.
Lead single You Don’t Know My Name is built around a sample from the 1970s New York group Main Ingredient’s Let Me Prove My Love to You. The meshing of modern street funk with its gorgeous, string-laden predecessors is hardly the freshest concept, but the subtlety ”“ and Keys’ stunning voice ”“ carries it through.
With contributions from artists such as Kanye West, Timbaland and John Legend, at times this album is like an academic exercise in spotting her reference points. Titles such as Harlem's Nocturne and her cover of Gladys Knight’s If I Was Your Woman (which merges into Isaac Hayes’ version of Walk On By) make her nods to history explicit; it's like some RnB relief teacher coming in and taking the class.
But it is so much more than just that ”“ the album is all about mood and groove. Diary, which features Tony! Toni! Toné!, is faultlessly languid late-night soul with a superb “your secrets are safe with me” hook.
There can be a level of suspicion about Grammy-gathering albums often subsequently reduced to their statistics ”“ US No.1; 618,000 US sales in its first week alone ”“ as this often says little, and commemorates only the commercial accomplishment. However, it is easy to hear why The Diary of Alicia Keys was so popular ”“ well-written, well-played and, although it boasts a cast list commensurate with all urban albums of the 21st century, it is unmistakably the vision of one person. An MTV Unplugged performance, a book of poetry and an acting career was just around the corner.
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The Diary of Alicia Keys is the second studio album by American recording artist Alicia Keys. It was released in the United States on December 2, 2003 by J Records. Recording sessions for the album took place during 2002 to 2003 at various recording studios, and production was handled primarily by Keys with contributions from Kerry Brothers, Jr., Timbaland, Dwayne Wiggins, Dre & Vidal, Easy Mo Bee, and Kanye West.
The album debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart, selling 618,000 copies in its first week. It became Keys' second consecutive number-one debut in the United States and spawned three top-ten singles. Upon its release, The Diary of Alicia Keys received generally positive reviews from most music critics and earned Keys three Grammy Awards at the 47th Grammy Awards. With domestic sales of four million copies and worldwide sales of eight million copies, The Diary of Alicia Keys is the thirty-first best-selling album of the 2000s decade.
User Album Review
This was an eagerly-awaited follow-up. Released two years after the 20-million plus sales of her debut, Songs in A Minor, The Diary of”¦ underlined 22-year-old singer and pianist Alicia Keys’ increasing maturity and her significance to 21st century American music.
Keys states in her accompanying notes that the 15 pieces of music here are like diary entries. They could so easily have been full of gauche heart-on-sleeve angst, but fortunately everything is kept in good measure with the listener being drawn into her world of contemporary takes on classic soul.
Lead single You Don’t Know My Name is built around a sample from the 1970s New York group Main Ingredient’s Let Me Prove My Love to You. The meshing of modern street funk with its gorgeous, string-laden predecessors is hardly the freshest concept, but the subtlety ”“ and Keys’ stunning voice ”“ carries it through.
With contributions from artists such as Kanye West, Timbaland and John Legend, at times this album is like an academic exercise in spotting her reference points. Titles such as Harlem's Nocturne and her cover of Gladys Knight’s If I Was Your Woman (which merges into Isaac Hayes’ version of Walk On By) make her nods to history explicit; it's like some RnB relief teacher coming in and taking the class.
But it is so much more than just that ”“ the album is all about mood and groove. Diary, which features Tony! Toni! Toné!, is faultlessly languid late-night soul with a superb “your secrets are safe with me” hook.
There can be a level of suspicion about Grammy-gathering albums often subsequently reduced to their statistics ”“ US No.1; 618,000 US sales in its first week alone ”“ as this often says little, and commemorates only the commercial accomplishment. However, it is easy to hear why The Diary of Alicia Keys was so popular ”“ well-written, well-played and, although it boasts a cast list commensurate with all urban albums of the 21st century, it is unmistakably the vision of one person. An MTV Unplugged performance, a book of poetry and an acting career was just around the corner.
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