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The album received two [[Grammy Award]]s for the song "[[No One (Alicia Keys song)|No One]]" at the [[50th Grammy Awards|2008 Grammy Awards]] for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance and [[Best R&B Song]]. A year later it received two more Grammy nominations for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals with "Lesson Learned" along with [[John Mayer]] and Best Female R&B Vocal Performance with "[[Superwoman (Alicia Keys song)|Superwoman]]" for the [[51st Grammy Awards|2009 Grammy Awards]].
The album received two [[Grammy Award]]s for the song "[[No One (Alicia Keys song)|No One]]" at the [[50th Grammy Awards|2008 Grammy Awards]] for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance and [[Best R&B Song]]. A year later it received two more Grammy nominations for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals with "Lesson Learned" along with [[John Mayer]] and Best Female R&B Vocal Performance with "[[Superwoman (Alicia Keys song)|Superwoman]]" for the [[51st Grammy Awards|2009 Grammy Awards]].


The album won two 2008 NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Album and the single "[[Like You'll Never See Me Again]]" won for Outstanding Song and Outstanding Music Video.
The album won three 2008 NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Album and the single "[[Like You'll Never See Me Again]]" won for Outstanding Song and Outstanding Music Video.


==''The Super Edition''==
==''The Super Edition''==

Revision as of 04:55, 19 December 2008

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As I Am is the third studio album by American R&B/soul singer Alicia Keys, released on November 13, 2007 (see 2007 in music). The album became Keys' fourth consecutive number-one album on the Billboard 200, selling 742,000 copies in its first week; this amount is the largest ever first-week sales for any female artist since Norah Jones' Feels like Home sold one million copies in its opening week in 2004.[1] This made Keys' third consecutive multi-platinum studio album in the U.S. The album spawned four singles; two of them became number-one hits on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, while the others entered the top three and the top fifteen respectively. The album was ranked the best album and also the best R&B album of 2008 by Billboard[2][3]. The album went on to be the best selling album of 2008 in America, while it's lead single, No One, became the most listened song in America of 2008[4].

Background

Keys had been working on the album since late 2005, but focused on it to a greater extent in 2006. She first mentioned the album's name to E! News reporter Giuliana Rancic on June 26, 2007 at the BET Awards red carpet pre-show. During the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards she confirmed that her album was finished. Earlier Keys had said to MTV: "It's coming together incredibly. I am in love with this album. It's very fresh and new."[5]

Promotion and release

The album was heavily promoted, and special advertising was arranged in collaboration with MTV before and during the week of release. The entire album was streamed on MTV's website, beginning on November 6, 2007, a week before the album's North American release date. Additionally, Keys was MTV's Artist of the Week for the week beginning November 12, 2007.[6] MTV commissioned Evan Silver to direct series of nine humorous ads of Keys being harassed by someone in a bunny costume.[7] In the final spot, the bunny is revealed to be John Mayer.[8]

A limited number of vinyl records were pressed on double red vinyl at Nashville's historic United Record Pressing. They contain the fourteen standard tracks divided into two vinyls with seven tracks each.

Reception

Critical response to the album was generally positive; the album scored a 66/100 on Metacritic.[9] Giving the album three out of five stars, Rolling Stone magazine found the album's prevailing mood "reflectively soulful and the prevailing tempo mid."[10] Entertainment Weekly gave the album a positive review (B), comparing Alicia to Prince, and later named it the thirty-third greatest album of the past 25 years, in it's 2008 list of the "100 greatest albums of the past 25 years"[11]. Blender gave the album four out of five stars, saying that "Only 27, she has learned classic soul: “Teenage Love Affair” has the gleam of Motown, and “Where Do We Go From Here,” built on an obscure Memphis-soul sample, turns into a vintage cry from the heart" and then adding "Her first two albums showed how well she could renovate an old structure. As I Am advances by showing an experimental side"[12]. The New York Times said that "As I Am radiates not just confidence but also experience," and added, "On the whole it's her strongest effort yet."[13] People magazine said that while not "veering too much from the Keys playbook," Keys "continues to scale artistic heights on As I Am" and gave the album three and a half stars.[14] The album was number thirty-six on Rolling Stone's list of the Top 50 Albums of 2007.[15] Fox News' unrated review declared that "Keys still hasn't produced a classic -but, oh, she's so tantalizingly close. Once again,[Keys] comes up with some brilliant music. But what's more important is that even the songs that fail to live up to that standard are, for the most part, pretty memorable on their own, resulting in a near-great, cohesive record." The song "Teenage Love Affair" was number twenty-three on Rolling Stone's list of the 100 Best Songs of 2007.[16] In People Magazine's Best (And Worst!) of 2007 issue, they noted the top ten albums of the year, and As I Am was ranked number one. The album though received poor reviews from The Washington Post, The Guardian, Now, and The Chicago Tribune. It was also ranked the fourth best-selling album of 2007 in the United States with sales of 2,543,224 units.[17] As I Am has been certified triple platinum by the RIAA as of January 3, 2008.[18] As of February 7, 2008, As I Am stayed in the top three of the Billboard 200 for eleven consecutive weeks, and peaked at number one for four non-consecutive weeks.

Awards & Nominations

The album received two Grammy Awards for the song "No One" at the 2008 Grammy Awards for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance and Best R&B Song. A year later it received two more Grammy nominations for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals with "Lesson Learned" along with John Mayer and Best Female R&B Vocal Performance with "Superwoman" for the 2009 Grammy Awards.

The album won three 2008 NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Album and the single "Like You'll Never See Me Again" won for Outstanding Song and Outstanding Music Video.

The Super Edition

The album is set to be re-released on November 10, 2008 in the UK and on November 14 (as an import release) and November 25 (as a mainstream release) in the U.S., titled As I Am: The Super Edition with "Another Way to Die" as the lead single. The album will consist of three additional tracks and a second disc of five performances at the Coronet in London.[19] [20]

Track listing

  1. "As I Am (Intro)" (Alicia Keys) – 1:52
  2. "Go Ahead" (Keys, Mark Batson, Kerry Brothers, Jr., Marsha Ambrosius) – 4:35
  3. "Superwoman" (Keys, Linda Perry, Steve Mostyn) – 4:34
  4. "No One" (Keys, Brothers, George D. Harry) – 4:13
  5. "Like You'll Never See Me Again" (Keys, Brothers) – 5:15
  6. "Lesson Learned" (featuring John Mayer) (Alicia Keys, John Mayer) – 4:13
  7. "Wreckless Love" (Keys, Jack Splash, Matthew Kahane, Harold Lilly) – 3:52
  8. "The Thing About Love" (Keys, Perry) – 3:49
  9. "Teenage Love Affair" (Keys, Splash, Kahane, Lilly, Josephine Bridges, Carl Hampton, Tom Nixon) – 3:10
    • Contains a portion of The Temprees' "(Girl) I Love You" (Josephine Bridges, Carl Hampton, Tom Nixon).
  10. "I Need You" (Keys, Batson, Lilly, Paul L. Green) – 5:09
  11. "Where Do We Go from Here" (Keys, Brothers, Mary Frierson, Johnnie Frierson) – 4:10
    • Contains a portion of Wendy Rene's "After Laughter (Comes Tears)" (Mary Frierson, Johnnie Frierson).
  12. "Prelude to a Kiss" (Keys) – 2:07
  13. "Tell You Something (Nana's Reprise)" (Keys, Novel Stevenson, Ron Haney, Brothers, Green, Mostyn) – 4:28
  14. "Sure Looks Good to Me" (Keys, Perry) – 4:31

iTunes edition

  2. "Waiting for Your Love" – 3:53
  3. "Hurt So Bad" (pre-order bonus) – 2:56

UK edition

  2. "Waiting for Your Love" – 3:53

Bonus DVD

  1. "Karma" (Live at the Hollywood Bowl)
  2. "Heartburn" (Live at the Hollywood Bowl)
  3. "Wake Up" (Live at the Hollywood Bowl)
  4. Behind-the-Scenes: As I Am Photo Shoot
  5. Behind-the-Scenes: "No One" Video Shoot

As I Am: The Super Edition

  • Standard 14 tracks as above
  2. "Another Way to Die (featuring Jack White)" - 4:24
  3. "Doncha Know (Sky is Blue)" - 4:24
  4. "Savior" - 3:22
Bonus disc - Live from The Coronet Theatre (London)
  1. "You Don't Know My Name"
  2. "Superwoman"
  3. "No One"
  4. "Teenage Love Affair"
  5. "If I Ain't Got You"

Awards and accolades

Year Awards Award
2008 50th Grammy Awards Best R&B Female Vocal Performance for "No One"
Best R&B Song for "No One"
American Music Awards Favorite Pop/Rock Album
Favorite Soul/R&B Album
NAACP Image Awards Outstanding Song for "Like You'll Never See Me Again"
Outstanding Album
Swiss Music Awards Best Urban Album International
World Music Awards Best Selling R&B Artist
Entertainment Weekly Best 100 albums of the past 25 years (#33)
Billboard 2008 year-end awards Hot R&B/Hip hop songs "Like You'll Never See Me Again" ranked #1
Hot R&B/Hip hop songs - "No One" ranked #8
Hot R&B/Hip hop songs - "Teenage Love Affair" ranked #20
Hot R&B/Hip hop albums - As I Am ranked #1
Billboard 200 - As I Am ranked #1
Hot 100 - "No One" ranked #3
Top digital songs - "No One" ranked #15
Hot adult contemporary songs - "No One" ranked #17
Hot digital albums - As I Am ranked #6
Hot ringmasters - "No One" ranked #9
Top Artists - "Alicia Keys" ranked #4

Personnel

The following musicians and technicians worked on As I Am:[21]

Musicians

Production

Charts

Year-end charts

Year Chart Rank
2008 U.S. Billboard 200[35] 1
U.S. Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums[36] 1

Certifications

Release history

Region Date Label
Germany November 9, 2007 J
Australia November 10, 2007 J
France November 12, 2007 J
United States November 13, 2007 J
Canada Sony BMG
United Kingdom November 19, 2007 RCA
Japan November 21, 2007 BMG
The Super Edition
United Kingdom November 10, 2008 RCA
United States November 25, 2008 J

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Preceded by Swiss Albums Chart number-one album
November 25, 2007 – December 12, 2007 		Succeeded by
Preceded by U.S. Billboard 200 number-one album (first run)
December 1, 2007 		Succeeded by
Preceded by U.S. Billboard 200 number-one album (second run)
January 26, 2008 – February 2, 2008 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
Juno by various artists
 U.S. Billboard 200 number-one album (third run)
February 16, 2008 		Succeeded by
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