Songs in A Minor

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Songs in A Minor
Studio album by Alicia Keys
Released June 5, 2001
(see release history)
Recorded 1998–2001
Backroom Studios
(Glendale, California)
Battery Studios
KrucialKeys Studios
The Hit Factory
Unique Studios
(New York City, New York)
Doppler Studios
Southside Studios
(Atlanta, Georgia)
Genre R&B, soul, jazz
Length 63:04
Label J
Producer Alicia Keys (also exec.), Kerry "Krucial" Brothers, Jermaine Dupri, Brian McKnight, Kandi Burruss, Jimmy Cozier, Arden Altino, Miri Ben-Ari
Alicia Keys chronology
Songs in A Minor
(2001)		 The Diary of Alicia Keys
(2003)
Singles from Songs in A Minor
  1. "Fallin'"
    Released: July 10, 2001
  2. "A Woman's Worth"
    Released: February 12, 2002
  3. "How Come You Don't Call Me"
    Released: June 4, 2002
  4. "Girlfriend"
    Released: December 24, 2002

Songs in A Minor is the debut album of American R&B musician Alicia Keys, released June 5, 2001 on J Records. After graduating from high school, Keys signed with Columbia Records to begin her music career. She recorded an album in 1998 under the label, which they rejected. Her contract subsequently ended with Columbia after a dispute with the label, where Keys later signed with Clive Davis. An accomplished, classically-trained pianist, Keys wrote, arranged and produced the majority of the album. Contrary to its title, the album contains only one song, "Jane Doe", in the key of A minor.

Upon its release, the album received generally positive reviews from most music critics, who noted her ability to catch an old-school jazz sound and mix it with R&B and soul melodies. Keys has earned comparisons with artists such as Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, Billie Holiday, Prince, and Lauryn Hill. The album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, selling over 236,000 copies in its first week. The album sold over 6.2 million copies in the United States and twelve million copies worldwide. It earned Keys five Grammy Awards in 2002, including Best R&B Album. The album was ranked number two on Rolling Stone's Top 10 of 2001 and was later named by the same magazine one of 100 best albums of the 2000s; it was also inducted on Q magazine's 100 Greatest Albums Ever.

Contents

[edit] Recording

After graduating from the Professional Performing Arts School, Keys was accepted to Columbia University. She dropped out after four weeks to pursue her music career.[1] She signed a demo deal with Jermaine Dupri and his So So Def label. She co-wrote and recorded a song entitled "Dah Dee Dah (Sexy Thing)", which appeared on the soundtrack to the 1997 film, Men in Black.[2] Keys began writing, producing and recording the album in 1998.[3] She completed it that same year, but it was rejected by Columbia Records. Keys explained that the producers she worked with would tell her to "just get in the booth and sing", which frustrated her.[4] Her record contract with Columbia ended after a dispute with the label. Keys called Clive Davis, who sensed a "special, unique" artist from her performance and signed her to Arista Records, which later disbanded.[5][6]

Following Davis to his newly formed J Records label, Keys rented an apartment and struggled to create an album. Keys began writing the song "Troubles" and noted, "[t]hat's when the album started comin' together. Finally, I knew how to structure my feelings into something that made sense, something that can translate to people. That was a changing point. My confidence was up, way up."[7] Keys learned how to produce by asking questions to the producers and engineers and wrote, arranged and produced a majority of the album.[4][8] She recorded the songs "Rock wit U" and "Rear View Mirror", which were featured on the soundtracks to the films Shaft (2000) and Dr. Dolittle 2 (2001), respectively.[9][10] One of the final songs Keys recorded was "Fallin'".[7] A total of 32 songs were recorded for the album.[11] Originally titled Soul Stories in A Minor, the title of the album was changed over concerns that it would limit exposure only to black radio stations.[4]

[edit] Music
"Fallin" (2001)
"Fallin'" is a gospel-influenced piano ballad.[7] Often considered her signature song, it describes the "ins and outs" of being in a relationship.[12]
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Keys incorporated classical piano with R&B, soul and jazz into her music.[13][4][14] She described the album as a "fusion of my classical training, meshed with what I grew up listening to […] things I've been exposed to and drawn from and my life experiences".[12] Jane Stevenson of Jam! described the music as "old-school urban sounds and attitude set against a backdrop of classical piano and sweet, warm vocals".[15] USA Today's Steve Jones wrote that Keys "taps into the blues, soul, jazz and even classical music to propel haunting melodies and hard-driving funk".[16] John Mulvey of Yahoo! Music called the album "a gorgeous and ambitious melding of classic soul structures and values to hyper-modern production technique".[17] The album's opening track, "Piano & I", begins with a rendition of Ludwig van Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata combined with a hip hop beat.[18] The introduction is followed by "Girlfriend", which was produced by Jermaine Dupri.[13] Described as having "crisp production",[19] the song samples Ol' Dirty Bastard's "Brooklyn Zoo".[13] Keys' cover of Prince's 1982 ballad "How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore?" (retitled "How Come You Don't Call Me") was inspired by a long-term relationship with a partner.[13][20] "Fallin'", the gospel-driven lead single and often considered her signature song,[21][22] contains a sample of James Brown's "It's a Man's Man's Man's World".[13] The song earned Keys comparisons to Aretha Franklin.[23]

[edit] Marketing and promotion

In advance of Songs in A Minor, "Girlfriend" was released to urban radio in early 2001 to "introduce" Keys.[13] In order to promote her, music executive Clive Davis booked Keys to The Tonight Show. Afterward, he sent the music video of the first single, "Fallin'", to MTV; "half the women had tears down their face" when the video finished playing. He went on to write a letter to Oprah Winfrey, asking her to allow Keys, along with Jill Scott and India.Arie, to perform on her show.[11] Keys appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, where she "wowed" the audience.[24] This led to the album's pre-orders to double that night.[4] From August to October 2001, Keys toured alongside recording artist Maxwell in promotion of the album.[25] "Fallin'" peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs charts, where the song remained atop the charts for six and four weeks, respectively.[26][27] It became the most played song in the United States and was certified gold by the RIAA.[28][29] The album's second single, "A Woman's Worth", peaked at number three on the Billboard Hot 100.[30]

[edit] Reception

[edit] Critical response

 Professional ratings
Source Rating
Allmusic 4/5 stars[31]
Robert Christgau (A-)[32]
Entertainment Weekly (B)[21]
Los Angeles Times 3/4 stars[33]
NME (9/10)[34]
PopMatters (favorable)[13]
Rolling Stone 3/5 stars[35]
Slant Magazine 3.5/5 stars[19]
USA Today 3/4 stars[16]
The Washington Post (favorable)[36]

Upon its release, Songs in A Minor received generally favorable reviews from most music critics, who praised Keys for her vintage sound and musical maturity.[31][33][35][36][15][23] At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, it received an average score of 78 based on 10 reviews.[37] Giving it a 9/10 rating, Sam Faulkner of NME described the balance between contemporary music and retrospective as "an act of pure genius".[34] Steve Jones of USA Today gave the album 3 out of 4 stars and praised Keys' musicianship, stating "Keys already has a musical, artistic and thematic maturity that many more experienced artists never achieve".[16] The Washington Post's Richard Harrington wrote favorably of Keys' musical influences on the album and expressed that she has "vocal maturity and writing instincts beyond her years".[36] Keys' sound was compared to other soul musicians, including Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, Billie Holiday, Laura Nyro, Jill Scott, Prince, and Lauryn Hill.[31][35][36] In his consumer guide column for The Village Voice, Robert Christgau gave Songs in A Minor an A- rating,[32] indicating "the kind of garden-variety good record that is the great luxury of musical micromarketing and overproduction. Anyone open to its aesthetic will enjoy more than half its tracks".[38]

The New Zealand Herald's Russell Baillie stated that Keys "might indicate abundant talent aligned to neatly reverential vintage soul style", but expressed that the songs "don't add up to anything particularly memorable".[23] Keys' vocal performance was lauded;[31][15][34] Sal Cinquemani of Slant Magazine declared that Keys' displayed a "powerful range, proving she can belt along with the best of them".[19] Critics also viewed her lyrics as sub-par to her singing and musical ability.[31][35] Entertainment Weekly's Beth Johnson called the second half of the album slacked with "sad sack teen themes", but called it a promising album.[21] Giving it 3 out of 5 stars, Rolling Stone's Barry Walters perceived her singing as more mature than her songwriting, but commended Keys for her "commanding presence" on the album.[35] Los Angeles Times writer Robert Hilburn gave the album 3 out of 4 stars and wrote that it "makes a convincing case that's she's going far--in both a commercial and creative sense".[33] PopMatters critic Mark Anthony Neal praised Keys' performance on the album and called it "a distinct and oft-times brilliant debut from an artist who clearly has a fine sense of her creative talents".[13] In a retrospective review, Allmusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine perceived the album's music as "rich enough to compensate for some thinness in the writing... which is a testament to Keys' skills as a musician", while calling it "a startling assured, successful debut that deserved its immediate acclaim and is already aging nicely".[31]

[edit] Commercial performance

Songs in A Minor debuted at number one on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart, selling 236,000 copies in its first week.[39] Through word of mouth and promotion, the album sold 450,000 copies in its second week and remained atop the chart for three non-consecutive weeks.[7][40] The album became one of the bestselling albums of 2001.[41] It sold over 6.2 million copies in the United States, where it was certified six times platinum by the RIAA.[42][43] Songs in A Minor sold over 12 million copies worldwide.[44]

[edit] Accolades

Songs in A Minor led Keys to win five awards at the 2002 Grammy Awards: Song of the Year, Best Female R&B Vocal Performance, and Best R&B Song for "Fallin'", Best New Artist, and Best R&B Album; "Fallin'" was also nominated for Record of the Year. Keys became the second female solo artist to win five Grammy Awards in a single night, following Lauryn Hill at the 41st Grammy Awards.[45] The album also won a NAACP Image Award for "Outstanding Album".[46] Keys was also named Best New Artist at the 2002 World Music Awards.[47] "Fallin'" was ranked at number 37 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of the Past 25 Years in 2003[48] and was ranked the 413th greatest song of all time by Blender magazine.[49] The album was ranked number two on the Rolling Stone Top 10 of 2001, number 18 on The Village Voice's 2001 Pazz & Jop list, number 27 on Mojo magazine's Best 40 Albums of 2001 and was inducted to Q magazine's 100 Greatest Albums Ever.[50][51] In 2009, Rolling Stone named it the ninety-fifth greatest album of the past decade, while Fallin reached the sixty-second position on the magazine's "100 Best Songs of the Decade" list.[52][53]

[edit] Track listing

# Title Writer(s) Length
1. "Piano & I"   Alicia Keys 1:52
2. "Girlfriend"   Keys, Jermaine Dupri, Joshua Thompson 3:34
3. "How Come You Don't Call Me"   Prince 3:57
4. "Fallin'"   Keys 3:29
5. "Troubles"   Keys, Kerry Brothers, Jr. 4:28
6. "Rock wit U"   Keys, Taneisha Smith, Brothers 5:36
7. "A Woman's Worth"   Keys, Erika Rose 5:02
8. "Jane Doe"   Keys, Kandi Burruss 3:48
9. "Goodbye"   Keys 4:20
10. "The Life"   Keys, Smith, Brothers 5:25
11. "Mr. Man" (featuring Jimmy Cozier) Keys, Jimmy Cozier 4:09
12. "Never Felt This Way (Interlude)"   Brian McKnight 2:01
13. "Butterflyz"   Keys 4:08
14. "Why Do I Feel So Sad"   Keys, Warryn Campbell 4:25
15. "Caged Bird"   Keys 3:02
16. "Lovin' U" (hidden track) Keys 3:49

[edit] remixed & unplugged in A minor

remixed & unplugged in A minor
Remix album / live album by Alicia Keys
Released October 22, 2002
Length 49:49
Label J

An album of remixes and live songs, remixed & unplugged in A minor (issued in some countries as Songs in A Minor: Remixed & Unplugged), was released on October 22, 2002 by J Records. The album's live portion was recorded on August 10, 2002 at KeyArena in Seattle, Washington.

# Title Writer(s) Length
1. "Girlfriend" (KrucialKeys Sista Girl mix) Keys, Dupri, Thompson 3:27
2. "Gangsta Lovin'" (Eve featuring Alicia Keys) Alisa Yarbrough, Jonah Ellis, Lonnie Simmons 3:59
3. "Fallin'" (Remix edit featuring Busta Rhymes and Rampage) Keys 3:56
4. "A Woman's Worth" (Remix edit) Keys, Rose 3:20
5. "Butterflyz" (Roger's Release mix) Keys 3:54
6. "Troubles" (J-Jay & Chris Lum Bootleg mix) Keys, Brothers 4:24
7. "How Come You Don't Call Me" (Neptunes remix) Prince 4:23
8. "Fallin'" (Ali version) Keys 4:30
9. "Moonlight Sonata/L'Interludio, Ambivalente/Ain't Misbehavin'" (live) Beethoven, Ray Chew, Harry Brooks, Andy Razaf, Thomas Waller 2:22
10. "Goodbye" (live) Keys 2:49
11. "Never Felt This Way" (live) McKnight, Brandon Barnes 1:45
12. "Butterflyz" (live) Keys 0:52
13. "Caged Bird" (live) Keys 2:03
14. "I Got a Little Something for You" (live) Keys 1:45
15. "Someday We'll All Be Free" (live) Donny Hathaway, Edward Howard 6:24

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Musicians

  • Paul L. Green – backing vocals
  • Andricka Hall – backing vocals
  • Isaac Hayes – Rhodes piano
  • Norman Hedman – percussion
  • Rufus Jackson – bass
  • Brian McKnight – instrumentation
  • Cindy Mizelle – backing vocals
  • John Peters – organ
  • Tammy Saunders – backing vocals
  • Tim Shider – bass, bass concept
  • Arty White – guitar

[edit] Production

  • Isaac Hayes – string arrangements, flute arrangements
  • Ricky St. Hillaire – engineer
  • Acar Key – engineer
  • Manny Marroquin – mixing
  • Tony Maserati – mixing
  • Brian McKnight – producer
  • Anthony Nance – drum programming
  • Nowhere – design, logo design
  • Herb Powers, Jr. – mastering
  • Jeff Robinson – executive producer, management
  • Mary Ann Souza – assistant engineer
  • Phil Tan – mixing
  • Dionne Webb – hair
  • Patti Wilson – stylist
  • Kela Wong – make-up
  • Chris Wood – engineer

[edit] Charts

[edit] Chart positions

Chart (2001) Peak
position
Canadian Albums Chart[54] 2
Dutch Albums Chart[55] 1
European Top 100 Albums[56] 5
German Albums Chart[57] 2
Irish Albums Chart[58] 5
Norwegian Albums Chart[55] 12
Polish Albums Chart[59] 9
Swedish Albums Chart[55] 10
Swiss Albums Chart[55] 3
U.S. Billboard 200[54] 1
U.S. Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums[54] 1
U.S. Billboard Top Internet Albums[54] 1
Chart (2002) Peak
position
Argentinian Albums Chart[60] 1
Australian Albums Chart[55] 3
Austrian Albums Chart[55] 4
Belgian Albums Chart (Flanders)[55] 8
Belgian Albums Chart (Wallonia)[55] 10
Danish Albums Chart[55] 4
Finnish Albums Chart[55] 8
French Albums Chart[55] 12
Hungarian Albums Chart[61] 18
Italian Albums Chart[55] 4
Japanese Albums Chart[62] 44
New Zealand Albums Chart[55] 4
UK Albums Chart[63] 6

[edit] Certifications

Territory Provider Certification Sales
Australia ARIA 2× platinum[64] 140,000
Austria IFPI Gold[65] 10,000
Belgium Gold[66] 15,000
Canada CRIA 5× platinum[67] 500,000
Denmark IFPI Platinum[68] 30,000
Europe 3× platinum[69] 3,000,000
France SNEP Platinum[70] 351,000[71]
Germany IFPI Platinum[72] 200,000
Italy FIMI Platinum[73] 100,000
Netherlands NVPI 2× platinum[74] 160,000
New Zealand RIANZ Platinum[75] 15,000
Norway IFPI Gold[76] 15,000
Poland ZPAV Gold[77] 10,000
Sweden IFPI Platinum[78] 40,000
Switzerland 2× platinum[79] 80,000
United Kingdom BPI 3× platinum[80] 900,000
United States RIAA 6× platinum[43] 6,202,000[81]

[edit] Year-end charts

Year Chart Position
2001 Austrian Albums Chart[82] 35
Swiss Albums Chart[83] 19
U.S. Billboard 200[84] 13
U.S. Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums[85] 3
2002 Australian Albums Chart[86] 14
Australian Urban Albums Chart[87] 3
Belgian Albums Chart (Flanders)[88] 38
Belgian Albums Chart (Wallonia)[89] 21
French Albums Chart[90] 45
New Zealand Albums Chart[91] 28
UK Albums Chart[92] 31

[edit] Chart procession and succession

Preceded by
Devil's Night by D12		 U.S. Billboard 200 number-one album
July 14, 2001
July 28, 2001 – August 4, 2001		 Succeeded by
Devil's Night by D12
Celebrity by 'N Sync
Preceded by
Alle Kleuren by K3		 Dutch Albums Chart number-one album
September 15, 2001 – September 22, 2001		 Succeeded by
V by Live

[edit] Release history

Country Date Label
United States June 5, 2001 J
Canada June 26, 2001 Sony
United Kingdom July 23, 2001 J
Germany September 3, 2001
Australia
Japan February 27, 2002 BMG
France October 29, 2002 J

[edit] Notes

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Alicia Keys
Studio albums
Songs in A Minor (2001) · The Diary of Alicia Keys (2003) · As I Am (2007) · The Element of Freedom (2009)
Live albums
Unplugged (2005)
Other albums
Singles
Other singles
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American Tour · European Tour · Asian/Australian Tour · Verizon Ladies First Tour · European Tour · The Diary Tour · As I Am Tour · The Freedom Tour
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