Some Hearts

Infobox Album |
Name = Some Hearts
Type = studio
Artist = Carrie Underwood


Released = Start date|2005|11|15
Recorded = 2005
Genre = Country pop
Length = 53:48
Label = Arista, Arista Nashville, 19
Producer = Dann Huff, Mark Bright
Reviews = *About.com Rating|4.5|5 [http://okc.about.com/od/artsandentertainment/gr/underwoodreview.htm link]
*Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:rmf2zfg5eh6k link]
*Entertainment Weekly (C) [http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,1134249,00.html link]
*Slant Magazine Rating|2.5|5 [http://www.slantmagazine.com/music/music_review.asp?ID=696 link]
*"Stylus Magazine" (B) [http://www.stylusmagazine.com/reviews/carrie-underwood/some-hearts.htm link]
*"The Village Voice" (positive) [http://www.villagevoice.com/music/0648,baron,75146,22.html link]
Last album =
This album = "Some Hearts"
(2005)
Next album = "Carnival Ride"
(2007)Singles
Name = Some Hearts
Type = Studio
single 1 = Inside Your Heaven
single 1 date = June 11, 2005
single 2 = Jesus, Take the Wheel
single 2 date = October 03, 2005
single 3 = Some Hearts
single 3 date = October 29, 2005
single 4 = Don't Forget to Remember Me
single 4 date = March 13, 2006
single 5 = Before He Cheats
single 5 date = August 19, 2006
single 6 = Wasted
single 6 date = February 6, 2007

"Some Hearts" is the debut album from fourth-season "American Idol" winner Carrie Underwood, released in the United States on November 15, 2005. It has been certified seven times platinum in the U.S. (RIAA) and three times platinum in Canada (CRIA). On December 4, 2006, "Some Hearts" was named the number-one selling album of the year in all genres at the Billboard Music Awards. It is also the best selling debut album by a solo female country music artist in history.

History

"Some Hearts" debuted at number two on the U.S. "Billboard" 200 behind Madonna's "Confessions On A Dance Floor", selling more than 315,000 copies; it was the fourth best first-week sales for any "American Idol" contestant (behind Ruben Studdard's "Soulful", her own "Carnival Ride", and Clay Aiken's "Measure of a Man", which sold over 400,000 copies, 527,000 copies and 600,000 copies, respectively, in their first weeks). The album debuted at number two on the United World Chart.

In the week of December 25, 2006, the album's fifty-eighth week on the chart, the album rose back up to number four on the "Billboard" 200 chart after selling close to 300,000 copies.

As of July 3, 2008, the album is no longer present nor eligible to appear on the U.S. "Billboard" 200. It had a run of 136 weeks, the second-longest for any album released in 2005, behind Nickelback's All the Right Reasons. The following week, it dropped out of the Top Country Albums Chart, having had a 137 week run. It is currently active on the Pop Catalog Chart. It has sold 6,535,000 copies in the U.S. to date.

"Some Hearts" was the highest selling country album in the U.S. in both 2006 and 2007.The album now certified 7x Platinum and is the best-selling debut album for a female country artist.

RIAA certifications

* December 9, 2005 - platinum
* January 6, 2006 - two times platinum
* April 28, 2006 - three times platinum
* November 6, 2006 - four times platinum
* January 10, 2007 - five times platinum
* May 10, 2007 - six times platinum
* February 6, 2008 - seven times platinum

Chart performance

"American Idol"

The album has sold over 6 million worldwide,Fact|date=December 2007 which makes it the second best selling album by an "American Idol" contestant, second to Kelly Clarkson's "Breakaway" which sold over 12 million worldwide. "Some Hearts" was the first album to be certified seven times platinum in 2007, and it is the highest certified album by an "American Idol" contestant. "Some Hearts" was the third best selling album of 2006, and the best selling album of the "Billboard" magazine year (November 14, 2005 – November 12, 2006).

ingles

Carrie Underwood's "American Idol" single "Inside Your Heaven", which debuted at number one on the "Billboard" Hot 100 five months before the release of "Some Hearts", is included on the album as a bonus track.The first single from the album, "Jesus, Take the Wheel", was number one on the U.S. "Billboard" Hot Country Songs chart for six consecutive weeks and reached number twenty on the "Billboard" Hot 100. "Some Hearts", a cover of the Marshall Crenshaw song, was released to pop and adult contemporary radio only and eventually reached number twelve on the Adult Contemporary chart. "Don't Forget to Remember Me" was the third single from the album, and also proved successful, reaching number one on the "Radio & Records" Country Chart, number two on the "Billboard" Hot Country Songs chart, and number forty-nine on the Hot 100. "Before He Cheats" was released as the next single, and climbed the charts faster than any of Underwood's other singles, making it into the top twenty of the Hot Country Songs chart before the release of a music video. "Before He Cheats" subsequently peaked at number one on the Hot Country Songs chart for five consecutive weeks, and at number eight on the Hot 100; it proved to be a huge crossover hit, making appearances in the top twenty of every chart on which it appeared, and it is the biggest hit overall from the album. "Wasted" also proved another successful hit for Underwood by peaking at number one for three consecutive weeks on the Hot Country Songs chart, and going to number thirty-seven on the Hot 100.

Track listing

#"Wasted" (Troy Verges, Marv Green, Hillary Lindsey) – 4:34
#"Don't Forget to Remember Me" (Morgane Hayes, Kelley Lovelace, Ashley Gorley) – 4:00
#"Some Hearts" (Diane Warren) – 3:48
#"Jesus, Take the Wheel" (Brett James, Lindsey, Gordie Sampson) – 3:46
#"The Night Before (Life Goes On)" (Wendell Mobley, Neil Thrasher, Jimmy Olander) – 3:54
#"Lessons Learned" (Warren) – 4:09
#"Before He Cheats" (Chris Tompkins, Josh Kear) – 3:19
#"Starts with Goodbye" (Angelo, Lindsey) – 4:06
#"I Just Can't Live a Lie" (Steve Robson, Wayne Hector) – 3:59
#"We're Young and Beautiful" (Rivers Rutherford, Steve McEwan) – 3:53
#"That's Where It Is" (Melissa Peirce, Robson, Greg Becker) – 3:35
#"Whenever You Remember" (Warren) – 3:47
#"I Ain't in Checotah Anymore" (Carrie Underwood, Trey Bruce, Angelo) – 3:21
#"Inside Your Heaven" (Andreas Carlsson, Pelle Nyhlén, Savan Kotecha) – 3:45 (North American bonus track)

Personnel

As listed in liner notes. [cite album-notes |title=Some Hearts |bandname=Carrie Underwood |year=2005 |format=CD |publisher=Arista Records/19 Recordings |publisherid=71197]

*Tom Bukovac – electric guitar
*Lisa Cochran – background vocals
*Perry Coleman – background vocals
*J.T. Corenflos – electric guitar
*Eric Darken – percussion
*Paul Franklin – steel guitar
*Morgane Hayes – background vocals
*Wes Hightower – background vocals
*Mark Hill – bass guitar
*Dann Huff – electric guitar
*Mike Johnson – steel guitar
*Charlie Judge – keyboards
*Hillary Lindsey – background vocals
*Chris McHugh – drums
*Steve Nathan – keyboards
*Matt Rollings – piano
*Jimmie Lee Sloas – bass guitar
*Adam Steffey – mandolin
*Bryan Sutton – acoustic guitar
*Neil Thrasher – background vocals
*Jim Van Cleve – fiddle
*Biff Watson – acoustic guitar
*Lonnie Wilson – drums
*Jonathan Yudkin – fiddle, dobro, mandolin, banjo, violin, viola, cello, arco bass, octofone

;String section on "Lessons Learned" and "Starts with Goodbye":
*Roberto Cani, Susan Chatman, Mario deLeon, Joel Derouin, Endre Granat, Julian Hallmark, Michael Markman, Sid Page, Alyssa Park, Michele Richards, Teresa Stanisla, Josefina Vergara – violins
*Denyse Buffum, Andrew Duckles, Matt Funes, Shanti Randall – violas
*Larry Corbett, Suzie Katayama, Steve Richards, Daniel Smith – cellos

All strings on "Jesus, Take the Wheel" performed and arranged by Jonathan Yudkin.

ingles

* ^A "Inside Your Heaven" wasn't released to country radio, but charted on U.S. Hot Country Songs from unsolicited airplay. The song peaked at #46 on the UK Singles Chart.
* ^B "Don't Forget to Remember Me" spent one week at Number One on the "Radio & Records" country singles chart.
* ^C "Before He Cheats" charted for twenty weeks on the U.S. Hot Country Songs chart before being confirmed as a single. The song was certified platinum twice in the United States and platinum in Canada.

ee also

*List of best-selling albums in the United States

External links

* [http://billboard.com/bbcom/retrieve_chart_history.do?model.chartFormatGroupName=Albums&model.vnuArtistId=657654&model.vnuAlbumId=746447 "Billboard" albums chart info]

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