Natalie Merchant (album)

2014 studio album by Natalie Merchant From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Natalie Merchant (album)

Natalie Merchant is the sixth studio album by American singer-songwriter Natalie Merchant, released on May 6, 2014 by Nonesuch Records. Her first studio album consisting of all original material since Motherland (2001), it revisits a characteristic theme of Merchant's, of "characters, and women in particular, struggling in a culture where odds are stacked against them".[2]

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Natalie Merchant
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ReleasedMay 6, 2014 (2014-05-06)
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Length47:25
LabelNonesuch
ProducerNatalie Merchant
Natalie Merchant chronology
Leave Your Sleep
(2010)
Natalie Merchant
(2014)
Paradise Is There: The New Tigerlily Recordings
(2015)
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Critical reception

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Metacritic73/100[3]
Review scores
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AllMusic[4]
Drowned in Sound6/10[5]
Exclaim!7/10[6]
PopMatters7/10[7]
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Upon release, the album received mostly positive reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized score out of 100 based on reviews from critics, the album received a score of 73, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[3]

Commercial reception

In the United States, the album debuted at No. 20 on the Billboard 200 albums chart on its first week of release,[8] selling around 12,000 copies in the United States in its first week. It also debuted at No. 2 on Billboard's Folk Albums,[9] and No. 5 on the Rock Albums chart.[10] As of October 2015, the album has sold 44,000 copies in the US.[11]

Track listing

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Natalie Merchant track listing
No.TitleLength
1."Ladybird"6:37
2."Maggie Said"4:27
3."Texas"5:02
4."Go Down Moses"5:01
5."Seven Deadly Sins"4:51
6."Giving Up Everything"4:20
7."Black Sheep"4:08
8."It's A-Coming"3:50
9."Lulu (introduction)"1:03
10."Lulu"4:15
11."The End"5:11
Total length:47:25
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All tracks are written by Natalie Merchant

Personnel

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Credits adapted from CD liner notes.[1]

Charts

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Chart performance for Natalie Merchant
Chart (2014) Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[12] 87
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[13]29
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[14]153
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[15]17
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[16]72
UK Albums (OCC)[17]34
US Billboard 200[18]20
US Folk Albums (Billboard)[19]2
US Top Rock Albums (Billboard)[20]5
US Top Tastemaker Albums (Billboard)[21]8
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