Feels like Home (Norah Jones album)

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Feels like Home is the second studio album by American singer-songwriter Norah Jones, released on February 10, 2004, through Blue Note Records. It serves as the follow-up to Jones' 2002 breakthrough album, Come Away with Me.

Feels like Home
Studio album by Norah Jones
Released	February 10, 2004
Recorded	2003–2004
Studio	Allaire, Shokan, New York Avatar, New York City Sear Sound, New York City Sorcerer Sound, New York City
Genre	Alternative country[1]
Length	46:26
Label	Blue Note
Producer	Arif Mardin Norah Jones
Norah Jones chronology
New York City (2003) Feels like Home (2004) New York City - The Remix Album (2004)
Norah Jones studio album chronology
Come Away with Me (2002) Feels Like Home (2004) Not Too Late (2007)
Singles from Feels Like Home
"Sunrise" Released: January 12, 2004 "What Am I to You?" Released: May 20, 2004 "Creepin' In" Released: June 14, 2004 "Those Sweet Words" Released: February 2005

At the 47th Annual Grammy Awards, the album was nominated for Best Pop Vocal Album. "Sunrise", the album's lead single, won the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. "Creepin' In", featuring Dolly Parton, was also nominated for a Grammy, in the category of Best Country Collaboration with Vocals.

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	74/100[2]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[3]
Entertainment Weekly	B[4]
Los Angeles Times	[5]
PopMatters	[6]
Robert Christgau	[7]
Rolling Stone	[8]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[9]
The New York Times	(mixed)[10]
USA Today	[11]
Yahoo! Music UK	[12]

Feels like Home received generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has an average score of 74 out of 100, which indicates "generally favorable reviews" based on 19 reviews.^[2]

Writing for Yahoo! Music, Ken Micallef gave the album a favorable review and said, "Recalling Come Away With Me only for Jones's sultry voice, the album has its share of pleasant throwaways, but those are balanced by a handful of starkly beautiful and excellently arranged songs."^[13] The A.V. Club's Keith Phipps also gave it a favorable review and stated that the album "should neither shock old fans nor disappoint those hoping to hear [Jones] reach for more."^[14] E! Online gave it a B+ and said, "Instead of making any stupid concessions to her sudden celebrity... the Home girl plays it cool, carrying on with the same smooth vibes that made her a star."^[2] Spin also gave it a B+, calling it "A better record than Come Away--less piano bar, more honkey-tonk."^[2] Mojo gave it four stars out of five and said the album was "similar to the debut.... But there's a more vivid light-and-shade to the textures and a craft and depth to the compositions that represent a welcome distillation of Jones' art."^[2] The Village Voice gave the album a positive review and stated, "If the choice of songs and beat and instrumentation were sometimes restrictive, still the piano and the voice endured."^[15] Blender gave it three-and-a-half stars out of five and said that its mood was "more or less the same, if slight friskier."^[2]

Other reviews are average, mixed or negative: Uncut gave the album three stars out of five and stated that, "Yes, it's an unchallenging and even deeply conservative record. But its class is positively aristocratic."^[16] The Austin Chronicle gave it two stars out of five and said, "Material is everything to a chanteuse, and in contrast to Come Away With Me, the problem here is that Jones wrote/co-wrote almost half of the Home's 13 tracks."^[17] The Guardian only gave it one star out of five and said that the album was "so inoffensive you have trouble remembering whether you put it on."^[18]

Commercial performance

Feels like Home sold 1,022,000 copies in its first week of release in the U.S.^[19] It sold 395,000 copies in its second week^[20] and spent its first six weeks of release atop the Billboard 200.^[21] It was the second best-selling album of 2004 in the U.S., selling 3,842,920 copies.^[22] It stands as the tenth largest first-week sales for a female artist, behind Adele's 25, Taylor Swift’s 1989 (Taylor’s Version) and Midnights, Britney Spears' Oops...! I Did It Again, Taylor Swift's 1989, Reputation, Red, and Speak Now, and Lady Gaga's Born This Way. In the Netherlands, it was the year's best-selling album and the twenty-fourth best-selling album of the 2000s.^{[citation needed]}

Track listing

Writing credits from AllMusic.^[23]

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Sunrise"	Norah Jones, Lee Alexander	3:20
2.	"What Am I to You?"	Jones	3:29
3.	"Those Sweet Words"	Alexander, Richard Julian	3:22
4.	"Carnival Town"	Jones, Alexander	3:12
5.	"In the Morning"	Adam Levy	4:07
6.	"Be Here to Love Me"	Townes Van Zandt	3:28
7.	"Creepin' In" (featuring Dolly Parton)	Alexander	3:03
8.	"Toes"	Jones, Alexander	3:46
9.	"Humble Me"	Kevin Breit	4:36
10.	"Above Ground"	Andrew Borger, Daru Oda	3:43
11.	"The Long Way Home"	Kathleen Brennan, Tom Waits	3:13
12.	"The Prettiest Thing"	Jones, Alexander, Julian	3:51
13.	"Don't Miss You at All"	Music by Duke Ellington, lyrics by Jones	3:06
Total length:			46:26

Deluxe Edition (CD and DVD)^[24]

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
14.	"Sleepless Nights"	Felice and Boudleaux Bryant	4:13
15.	"Moon Song"	Alexander Jones Levy	2:43
16.	"I Turned Your Picture to the Wall"	George Wyle	3:01
Total length:			56:26

DVD Contents

1. "In the Morning" (live)
2. "She" (live)
3. "Long Way Home" (live)
4. "Creepin' In" (live)
5. "Sunrise" (music video)
6. "What Am I to You?" (music video)
7. Interview with Norah

Personnel

Musicians

• Norah Jones – vocals, piano (1, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, 13), Wurlitzer electronic piano (2, 5, 10), pump organ (9)
• Garth Hudson – Hammond organ (2), accordion (6)
• Rob Burger – pump organ (3, 7)
• Kevin Breit – acoustic guitar (1, 3, 6, 7, 11, 12), resonator guitar (5, 8–10), banjolin (1), electric guitar and foot tapping (10), backup vocal (6)
• Jesse Harris – acoustic guitar (3, 4)
• Adam R. Levy – electric guitar (6, 8, 10, 11), acoustic guitar (5), backup vocal (1, 6, 7)
• Tony Scherr – electric guitar (2)
• Lee Alexander – acoustic bass (1–3, 5–12), electric bass (5), lap steel (12)
• Brian Blade – drums (12)
• Andrew Borger – drums (5, 6, 8, 10), slit drum (1), box (3, 11), snare drum (7)
• Levon Helm – drums (2)
• Dolly Parton – vocal (7)
• Daru Oda – backup vocals (1, 2, 5–8, 10–12), flutes (11)
• Jane Scarpantoni – cello (4)
• David Gold – viola (4)
• Arif Mardin – string arrangement (4)

Technical

• Producers: Arif Mardin, Norah Jones
• Recording and mixing engineer: Jay Newland
• Assistant engineers: Matthew Cullen, Dick Kondas, Steve Mazur, Aya Takemura
• Mastering: Gene Paul
• Mastering assistant: Jamie Polaski
• A&R: Eliott Wolf
• A&R Assistant: Danny Markowitz
• Product manager: Zach Hochkeppel
• Creative director: Gordon Jee
• Design production assistant: Burton Yount

Charts

Weekly charts Chart (2004) Peak position Argentine Albums (CAPIF)[25] 3 Australian Albums (ARIA)[26] 2 Australian Jazz & Blues Albums (ARIA)[27] 1 Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[28] 1 Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[29] 1 Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[30] 1 Canadian Albums (Billboard)[31] 1 Czech Albums (ČNS IFPI)[32] 8 Danish Albums (Hitlisten)[33] 1 Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[34] 1 European Albums (Billboard)[35] 1 Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)[36] 2 French Albums (SNEP)[37] 1 German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[38] 1 Greek Albums (IFPI)[39] 1 Hungarian Albums (MAHASZ)[40] 18 Icelandic Albums (Tónlist)[41] 1 Irish Albums (IRMA)[42] 1 Italian Albums (FIMI)[43] 1 Japanese Albums (Oricon)[44] 5 New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[45] 1 Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)[46] 1 Polish Albums (ZPAV)[47] 1 Portuguese Albums (AFP)[48] 1 Scottish Albums (OCC)[49] 1 Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)[50] 3 Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[51] 1 Swedish Jazz Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[52] 1 Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[53] 1 Taiwanese Albums (Five Music)[54] 11 UK Albums (OCC)[55] 1 UK Jazz & Blues Albums (OCC)[56] 1 US Billboard 200[57] 1

Year-end charts Chart (2004) Position Argentine Albums (CAPIF)[58] 12 Australian Albums (ARIA)[59] 10 Australian Jazz & Blues Albums (ARIA)[60] 2 Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[61] 1 Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[62] 2 Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[63] 4 Danish Albums (Hitlisten)[64] 2 Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[65] 1 European Albums (Billboard)[66] 1 Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)[67] 70 French Albums (SNEP)[68] 5 German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[69] 2 Hungarian Albums (MAHASZ)[70] 89 Irish Albums (IRMA)[71] 20 Italian Albums (FIMI)[72] 13 Japanese Albums (Oricon)[73] 55 New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[74] 3 Portuguese Albums (AFP)[75] 7 Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)[76] 45 Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[77] 4 Swedish Albums & Compilations (Sverigetopplistan)[78] 5 Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[79] 2 UK Albums (OCC)[80] 8 US Billboard 200[81] 5 Worldwide Albums (IFPI)[82] 2 Chart (2005) Position Australian Jazz & Blues Albums (ARIA)[83] 4 Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[84] 40 Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[85] 33 French Albums (SNEP)[86] 189 US Billboard 200[87] 126 Chart (2006) Position Australian Jazz & Blues Albums (ARIA)[88] 12 Belgian Midprice Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[89] 2 Belgian Midprice Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[90] 9 Chart (2007) Position Belgian Midprice Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[91] 3 Belgian Midprice Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[92] 9 Chart (2008) Position Belgian Midprice Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[93] 22 Belgian Midprice Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[94] 28 Decade-end charts Chart (2000–2009) Position US Billboard 200[95] 58

Certifications and sales

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Argentina (CAPIF)[96]	Platinum	40,000^
Australia (ARIA)[97]	3× Platinum	210,000^
Austria (IFPI Austria)[98]	3× Platinum	90,000*
Belgium (BEA)[99]	2× Platinum	100,000*
Brazil (Pro-Música Brasil)[100]	Gold	50,000*
Canada (Music Canada)[101]	4× Platinum	400,000^
Denmark (IFPI Danmark)[102]	6× Platinum	120,000‡
Finland (Musiikkituottajat)[103]	Gold	16,604[103]
France (SNEP)[104]	2× Platinum	600,000*
Germany (BVMI)[105]	3× Platinum	600,000^
Greece (IFPI Greece)[39]	Gold	10,000^
Ireland (IRMA)[106]	3× Platinum	45,000^
Italy (FIMI)[107] sales since 2009	Gold	25,000‡
Japan (RIAJ)[108]	Platinum	250,000^
Mexico (AMPROFON)[109]	Gold	50,000^
Netherlands (NVPI)[110]	Platinum	239,000[111]
New Zealand (RMNZ)[112]	3× Platinum	45,000^
Poland (ZPAV)[113]	Diamond	100,000‡
Portugal (AFP)[114]	Gold	20,000^
South Korea	—	21,894[115]
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[116]	Platinum	100,000^
Sweden (GLF)[117]	Platinum	60,000^
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland)[118]	3× Platinum	120,000^
United Kingdom (BPI)[119]	4× Platinum	1,200,000‡
United States (RIAA)[120]	4× Platinum	4,632,000[121]
Summaries
Europe (IFPI)[122]	4× Platinum	4,000,000*
Worldwide	—	12,000,000[123]
* Sales figures based on certification alone. ^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. ‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.