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Come Away with Me is the debut album by American recording artist Norah Jones, released on February 26, 2002, by Blue Note Records. Recording sessions took place at Sorcerer Sound Studio in New York City and Allaire Studios in Shokan, New York.<ref name="Adler">Template:Cite web</ref>
Come Away with Me peaked at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart and received Grammy Awards for Album of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album.<ref name="AwardsAllmusic"/> It was later certified Diamond by the RIAA on February 15, 2005, for shipments of over ten million copies in the United States,<ref name="RIAA"/><ref name="Lipshutz">Template:Cite magazine</ref> and has sold over 27 million copies worldwide as of 2016, making it one of the best-selling albums of all time,<ref name="McCormick">Template:Cite news</ref> the highest-selling debut album from a female artist of all time, and the highest-selling debut album by a solo artist in the 21st century.
Composition
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Come Away with Me is an acoustic pop and blues pop<ref name="z349"/> album that features Jones supported by Kevin Breit, Bill Frisell, Adam Levy, Adam Rogers, and Tony Scherr on guitar; Sam Yahel on organ; Jenny Scheinman on violin; Rob Burger on accordion; and Brian Blade, Dan Rieser, and Kenny Wollesen on drums —all jazz musicians with a leaning to Americana. Jones wrote the title song. Guitarist Jesse Harris wrote "Don't Know Why". The album includes Jones' versions of "The Nearness of You" by Hoagy Carmichael and "Cold, Cold Heart" by Hank Williams,<ref name="Adler" /> the former deliberately chosen to be the closing track to the album by producer Arif Mardin.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Come Away with Me incorporates blues, jazz,<ref name=":0">Template:Cite magazine</ref> folk, soul, and country.<ref name="Adler" /> Bobby Dodd of All About Jazz writes that although the album features jazz standards, jazz purists and academics "may deny [Jones] jazz credibility for her folk infusion".<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Come Away with Me debuted at number 139 on the US Billboard 200 upon its release in February 2002 selling 10,000 copies in its first week.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="post">Template:Cite web</ref> Despite being released at a time when music piracy was high and album sales were declining,<ref name="variety9-1-2003">Template:Cite web</ref> the album was certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in August that same year.<ref name=RIAA/> The album eventually climbed to the top of the Billboard 200 in January 2003, almost a year after it was released selling 108,000 copies that week.<ref name="Billboard 2003">Template:Cite magazine</ref> By the time of the Grammy Awards the following month, Come Away with Me had already sold 3 million copies in the country.<ref name="bb2007">Template:Cite magazine</ref> Jones' success at the award show resulted in the album moving another 600,000 copies the week immediately following the awards.<ref name="bb2007"/> CDs of the album was sold at Starbucks stores and at a retail price of $9.99, lower than most albums at the time.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In total, the album appeared on the Billboard 200 for 165 weeks<ref name="billboard200chart">Template:Cite magazine</ref> and sold 11.1 million copies in the US as of March 2016.<ref name="billboard2014">Template:Cite magazine</ref> The album was certified Diamond by the RIAA in February 2005 for selling over ten million copies in the US.<ref name=RIAA/> It was also the eleventh best-selling album of the Nielsen SoundScan era as of 2016.<ref name="billboard2014" />
As of October 2016, the album had sold more than 27 million copies worldwide.<ref name="McCormick"/> Polyphonic HMI's "Hit Song Science" software claimed to have predicted the album's success months before its release, contradicting skeptical executives.<ref>Studio 360 commentary Template:Webarchive. October 1, 2004. Accessed on: March 19, 2009.</ref> In Germany, the album debuted at No. 37. It remained on the German Albums Chart for 141 weeks and reached No. 2 in its 37th week on that chart, where it stayed for four weeks. Come Away with Me sold 750,000 copies, reaching 5× gold,<ref name="GermanyCert"/> becoming her most successful album in Germany and one of the longest charting albums on the German Albums Chart.<ref name="GermanChart"/>
Critical reception
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Come Away with Me received acclaim 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 82 out of 100, which indicates "universal acclaim" based on 9 reviews.<ref name=MC />
The album received 3.5 out of 4 stars from both the Chicago Sun-Times and the Los Angeles Times reviews.<ref name=CST/><ref name=LATimes/> AllMusic's David R. Adler wrote that "while the mood of this record stagnates after a few songs, it does give a strong indication of Jones' alluring talents."<ref name=allmusic/> Robert Christgau of The Village Voice cited it as "the most unjazz album [Blue Note] has ever released" and criticized that "Jones's voice dominates the record."<ref name="Christgau">Template:Cite web</ref>
The A.V. Club gave it a favorable review and called the album "A showcase for Jones' remarkable voice, the disc captures a singer whose rare instinct for interpretation always serves the song, rather than working against it."<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> E! Online gave it an A and stated: "Gorgeous and intimate, the 14 songs on her debut disc ache with romantic maturity and a smart, slow-jam sexiness that belies the fact that, at 22, Jones is hardly older than Britney Spears."<ref name=MC/>
Kludge included it on their list of best albums of 2002.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Mark Beaumont, writing for NME in 2016, included it on his list of eight of the all-time best-selling albums in the UK that have no redeeming features whatsoever, dubbing it "soporific, simplistic jazz wallpaper muzak".<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
20th anniversary edition
In April 2022, a remastered expanded edition of Come Away with Me was released, with demos from the promo-only First Sessions EP, and including 22 previously unreleased demos, outtakes, and alternative versions.<ref name=":1">Template:Cite web</ref>
Track listing
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Personnel
- Norah Jones – vocals, piano (except tracks 2, 4, 8), Wurlitzer electric piano (track 4)
- Sam Yahel – Hammond B-3 organ (6, 7, 11)
- Rob Burger – pump organ (8), accordion (10)
- Jesse Harris – acoustic guitar (1, 5, 6, 9, 11–13), electric guitar (1)
- Adam Levy – electric guitar (3, 5, 6, 9, 11, 12), acoustic guitar (8, 10)
- Kevin Breit – acoustic guitar (2, 4), National guitar (2), electric guitar (4, 13)
- Adam Rogers – guitar (7)
- Tony Scherr – slide guitar and acoustic guitar (8)
- Bill Frisell – electric guitar (13)
- Jenny Scheinman – violin (9, 11)
- Lee Alexander – bass (exc. 14)
- Brian Blade – drums (2, 4, 6, 8–10, 12), percussion (2, 9)
- Dan Rieser – drums (1, 5, 7, 11)
- Kenny Wollesen – drums (13)
Technical personnel
- Producers: Arif Mardin, Norah Jones and Jay Newland (2, 4, 13, 2.4/17, original tracks of 1, 7), Craig Street (orig. tracks of 2, 4, 13, 2.1, 2.3/15)
- Engineers: Jay Newland, S. Husky Höskulds (orig. tracks of 2, 4, 13, 2.1, 2.3/15)
- Assistant engineers: Dick Kondas, Mark Birkey (1, 7), Brandon Mason (orig. tracks of 2, 4, 13)
- Mixing: Jay Newland, Arif Mardin (exc. 2, 4, 13)
- Mixing assistant: Todd Parker (2, 4, 13)
- Mastering: Ted Jensen
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Awards and honors
Grammy Awards
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Italian Music Awards
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Rolling Stone ranked Come Away with Me at number 54 on its list of the 100 Best Albums of the Decade.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Rhapsody ranked the album at 16 on its list of 100 Best Albums of the Decade,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> while Spinner listed the album at the 42nd Best Album of the 2000s.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
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