This Is the Life (Amy Macdonald album)

Infobox Album |
Name = This Is the Life
Type = Album
Artist = Amy Macdonald


Released = flagicon|UK July 30, 2007
flagicon|Europe May 9, 2008
flagicon|US August 19, 2008 | Recorded =
Genre = Indie rock
Country rock
Soft Rock
Folk rock
Length = 44:15
Label = Vertigo Records
Producer =
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:aifoxz8gldte/ link]
*BBC (favourable) [http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/release/bnw6/ review]
*Insiders' Guides (8/10) [http://www.insidersguides.net/musicguides/artists/AmyMacdonald/ThisIsTheLife.php link]
*TimesOnline Rating|3|5 [http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/cd_reviews/article2133350.ece review]
Last album = N/A
This album = This is the Life
(2007)
Next album =
Misc = Singles
Name = This Is the Life
Type = studio
single 1 = Poison Prince
single 1 date = 7 May 2007
single 2 = Mr. Rock and Roll
single 2 date = 16 July 2007
single 3 = L.A.
single 3 date = 15 October 2007
single 4 = This Is the Life
single 4 date = 10 December 2007
single 5 = Run
single 5 date = 3 March 2008
single 6 = Poison Prince "(Re-Release)"
single 6 date = 19 May 2008

"This Is the Life" is the debut album by Scottish singer-songwriter Amy Macdonald, released on July 30, 2007. It was highly successful, knocking Radiohead off the number one slot in the UK albums chart on January 13, 2008, [cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7186208.stm|title=MacDonald tops the UK album chart|date=2008-1-13|publisher=bbc.co.uk|language=English|accessdate=2008-06-04] and as of 14 March 2008, over 600,000 copies have been sold in the UK, certifying it 2x Platinum. [cite web|url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/you/article-1019197/Why-Scottish-singer-Amy-Macdonalds-reluctant-Wag.html|title=Why Amy Macdonald's a reluctant Wag|date=2008-05-16|publisher=dailymail.co.uk|language=English|accessdate=2008-06-04]
The album has already spent more than 23 weeks in the German Top 20 Albums Chart and has been certified Gold for over 100,000 copies sold! [ [http://www.musikindustrie.de/gold_platin_datenbank.html] ]
The album has been released in the U.S. on August 19, 2008. [cite web|url=http://www.amazon.com/This-Life-Amy-Macdonald/dp/B0017OLUUC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1212117979&sr=1-1|title=This Is The Life|publisher=amazon.com|language=English|accessdate=2008-06-04] It has now sold over 1,200,000 copies worldwide. [Macdonald's myspace blog and IFPI]

Track listing

All tracks written by Amy Macdonald except where shown.

# "Mr. Rock and Roll" – 3:35
# "This Is the Life" – 3:05
# "Poison Prince" – 3:28
# "Youth of Today" – 4:00
# "Run" – 3:50
# "Let's Start a Band" – 4:05
# "Barrowland Ballroom" – 3:58
# "L.A." – 4:06 (Amy Macdonald and Pete Wilkinson)
# "A Wish for Something More" – 3:46
# "Footballer's Wife" – 5:06

International Bonus Tracks

# "The Road to Home" – 2:20
# "Caledonia" (hidden track) – 2:00 (Dougie MacLean)

Additional Bonus Tracks (on French and Japanese releases)

# "Mr. Brightside" (Live From King Tuts) - 4:14
# "Mr. Rock & Roll" (Live From King Tuts) - 3:28
# "Rock Bottom" - 3:45

ingles

The first single from the album was Poison Prince, a limited online release, while the debut first full single was the successful Mr. Rock and Roll which debuted at position #12. Following singles L.A. and This Is the Life have all charted reasonably well in the UK, although This Is the Life is considered her most successful song, where it peaked #1 on the Belgium Top 50 and Dutch Top 40, it's also reached #6 on the Norway Top 20 Singles, #3 on the Swiss Top 100 and #8 on the Denmark Top 40. It peaked #28 in the UK spending 17 weeks in the UK's Top 75 Singles. After fifth single Run, the sixth release from the album was a re-release of Poison Prince on May 19th 2008. [cite web|url=http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/features/Footballers-wife-Not-me-says.4066272.jp|title=Footballer's wife? Not me says Amy Macdonald|date=09 May 2008|publisher=edinburghnews.scotsman.com|language=English|accessdate=2008-06-03]

Singles Chronology

; United Kingdom
* "Poison Prince"
* "Mr. Rock and Roll"
* "L.A."
* "This Is the Life"
* "Run"
* "Poison Prince" (re-release); Europe
* "Mr. Rock and Roll"
* "This Is the Life"; Poland
* "Poison Prince"
* "This Is the Life"; Canada and USA
* "Mr. Rock and Roll"

Cover Versions

Caledonia is a Cover of a 1979 Song by Dougie MacLean

Chart performance

References

External links

* [http://www.amymacdonald.co.uk/ Amy Macdonald's official website]
* [http://artists.letssingit.com/amy-macdonald-lyrics-this-is-the-life-jlt6v8b This Is the Life Lyrics]