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. Featuring an alternative country sound, it serves as the follow-up to her 2002 breakthrough album, Come Away with Me. Jones co-wrote five of its songs and worked with Arif Mardin, as the main producer.

The album was received with generally positive reviews from critics, who compared it to her debut. It was also a commercial success, selling over a million copies in its first week and topping the Billboard 200 for six consecutive weeks, becoming the second-best selling album of 2004. It has sold over 12 million copies worldwide.

At the 47th Annual Grammy Awards in 2005, the album received three nominations, Best Pop Vocal Album, while "Sunrise", the album's lead single, won for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance and "Creepin' In" Dolly Parton, was nominated for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals.

Critical reception

Template:Album ratings 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.<ref name=meta/>

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."<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 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."<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 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."<ref name=meta/> Spin also gave it a B+, calling it "A better record than Come Away--less piano bar, more honkey-tonk."<ref name=meta/> 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."<ref name=meta/> 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."<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 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."<ref name=meta/>

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."<ref>Template:Cite journalTemplate:Dead link</ref> 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 HomeTemplate:'s 13 tracks."<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 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."<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Commercial performance

Feels like Home sold 1,022,000 copies in its first week of release in the U.S.<ref name="billboard11-3-2010">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> It sold 395,000 copies in its second week<ref name="billboard2-25-2004">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and spent its first six weeks of release atop the Billboard 200.<ref name="billboard1-7-2010">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> It was the second best-selling album of 2004 in the U.S., selling 3,842,920 copies.<ref name="tbtimes1-7-2005">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 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.Template:Citation needed

Track listing

Writing credits from AllMusic.<ref name="Collar">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Deluxe Edition (CD and DVD)<ref>Template:Cite AV media notes</ref>

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

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• 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)
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• 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

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Chart (2004)	Peak position
Argentine Albums (CAPIF)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	3
Australian Jazz & Blues Albums (ARIA)<ref>Template:Cite journalTemplate:Cbignore</ref>	1
Czech Albums (ČNS IFPI)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}Template:Dead link</ref>	8
European Albums (Billboard)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	1
Greek Albums (IFPI)<ref name="GRE"/>	1
Icelandic Albums (Tónlist)<ref name="ice">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	1
Japanese Albums (Oricon)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	5
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	3
Swedish Jazz Albums (Sverigetopplistan)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	1
Taiwanese Albums (Five Music)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	11

Year-end charts

Chart (2004)	Position
Argentine Albums (CAPIF)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	12
Australian Albums (ARIA)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	10
Australian Jazz & Blues Albums (ARIA)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	2
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	1
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	2
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	4
Danish Albums (Hitlisten)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	2
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	1
European Albums (Billboard)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	1
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)<ref>The first list is the list of best-selling domestic albums of 2004 in Finland and the second is that of the best-selling foreign albums: {{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }} {{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	70
French Albums (SNEP)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	5
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	2
Hungarian Albums (MAHASZ)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	89
Irish Albums (IRMA)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	20
Italian Albums (FIMI)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	13
Japanese Albums (Oricon)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	55
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	3
Portuguese Albums (AFP)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	7
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	45
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	4
Swedish Albums & Compilations (Sverigetopplistan)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	5
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	2
UK Albums (OCC)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	8
US Billboard 200<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	5
Worldwide Albums (IFPI)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	2

Chart (2005)	Position
Australian Jazz & Blues Albums (ARIA)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	4
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	40
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	33
French Albums (SNEP)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	189
US Billboard 200<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	126

Chart (2006)	Position
Australian Jazz & Blues Albums (ARIA)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	12
Belgian Midprice Albums (Ultratop Flanders)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	2
Belgian Midprice Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	9

Chart (2007)	Position
Belgian Midprice Albums (Ultratop Flanders)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	3
Belgian Midprice Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	9

Chart (2008)	Position
Belgian Midprice Albums (Ultratop Flanders)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	22
Belgian Midprice Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	28

Decade-end charts

Chart (2000–2009)	Position
US Billboard 200<ref name="BB200 decade end">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	58

External links

• Feels Like Home at Discogs
• Album Review at IGN
• Album Review at The New Yorker