Jagged Little Pill

Jagged Little Pill is the third studio album and the first to be released internationally by Canadian singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette. The album saw Morissette changing her style and genre. Morissette's sound in the album was rock, but her previous songs were dance pop. The title is a metaphor for lessons of life that are hard to accept. The album was Morissette's breakthrough album, and contained six hits, "You Oughta Know", "Ironic", "You Learn", "Hand in My Pocket", "Head over Feet", and "All I Really Want". The album spent twelve weeks at number one on the U.S. Billboard 200 albums chart. By 2009, the album had sold 33 million units worldwide.^[2] It was ranked by the Billboard 200 as the number one selling album of the 1990s.^[3]

Jagged Little Pill
Studio album by Alanis Morissette
Released	June 13, 1995
Recorded	1994–1995 at Westlake Recording Studios and Signet Sound, Hollywood
Genre	Alternative rock, post-grunge[1]
Length	49:11
Label	Maverick, Reprise
Producer	Glen Ballard
Alanis Morissette chronology
Now Is the Time (1992) Jagged Little Pill Space Cakes (1995)
Singles from Jagged Little Pill
"You Oughta Know" Released: July 6, 1995 "Hand in My Pocket" Released: October 31, 1995 "Ironic" Released: February 27, 1996 "You Learn" Released: July 9, 1996 "Head over Feet" Released: September 16, 1996 "All I Really Want" Released: December 1995

During the three consecutive years in the late 1990s of Grammy Awards, Morissette received five wins out of nine nominations from the album. In 1996, she won the Album of the Year & Best Rock Album.^[4] Her 1997 nominations such as "Ironic" for Record of the Year & Best Music Video in Short Form did not win her an award.^[5] But in 1998, she won again for Best Music Video in Long Form from her release of Jagged Little Pill, Live.^[6] In October 2002, Rolling Stone ranked it number 31 on its Women In Rock - The 50 Essential Albums list, and in 2003 the magazine ranked it number 327 on its list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.^[7] The album also holds a title in The Definitive 200 Albums list, in which it is placed at number 26.

Chart precession and succession

Preceded by Cracked Rear View by Hootie & the Blowfish Waiting to Exhale (soundtrack) by Various artists All Eyez on Me by 2Pac Anthology 2 by The Beatles Beats, Rhymes and Life by A Tribe Called Quest	Billboard 200 number-one album October 7–20, 1995 February 24 – March 1, 1996 March 16 – April 5, 1996 April 13 – May 3, 1996 August 24 – September 13, 1996	Succeeded by Daydream by Mariah Carey All Eyez on Me by 2Pac Anthology 2 by The Beatles Evil Empire by Rage Against the Machine No Code by Pearl Jam
Preceded by Greatest Hits by Take That 18 til I Die by Bryan Adams Recurring Dream by Crowded House	UK number one album May 4, 1996 – May 17, 1996 June 29, 1996 – July 5, 1996 July 20, 1996 – September 13, 1996	Succeeded by 1977 by Ash Recurring Dream by Crowded House Coming Up by Suede
Preceded by (What's the Story) Morning Glory? by Oasis	Australian ARIA Albums Chart number-one album March 10–23, 1996 March 31 – May 11, 1996 May 19–25, 1996 June 9–15, 1996	Succeeded by Falling into You by Celine Dion
Preceded by Thriller by Michael Jackson	Billboard Top Album of Decade 1990's	Succeeded by No Strings Attached by 'N Sync

Singles

Year	Title	Chart positions
		CAN Singles	U.S. Hot 100	U.S. Hot 100 Airplay	U.S. Modern Rock	U.S. Mainstream Rock	U.S. Adult Top 40	U.S. Top 40 Mainstream	UK Singles	AUS Singles
1995	"You Oughta Know"	20	6	13	1	3		7	22	4
	"Hand in My Pocket"	1		15	1	8	25	4	26	13
1996	"Ironic"	1	4	2	1	18	5	1	11	3
	"You Learn"	1	6	1	7	40	3	1	24	20
	"Head over Feet"	1		3	25		1	1	7	12
1997	"All I Really Want"	2		65	14				59	40

Related pages

• List of best-selling albums worldwide