Alone in IZ World explained

Alone in IZ World
Type:	compilation
Artist:	Israel Kamakawiwo'ole
Cover:	Alone in Iz World.jpg
Released:	September 18, 2001
Recorded:	1995–1997
Genre:	Hawaiian, folk
Length:	52:25
Language:	English and Hawaiian
Label:	Mountain Apple Company
Producer:	Jon de Mello
Prev Title:	Iz in Concert: The Man and His Music
Prev Year:	1996
Next Title:	Wonderful World
Next Year:	2007

Alone in IZ World is an album by the Hawaiian musician Israel Kamakawiwo'ole released in 2001, 4 years after his death in 1997. The album has charted on several of Billboard’s album charts. These are:^[1]

• Top Independent Albums (47 weeks on the chart between 2001 and 2003, peaking at #6)
• Top World Albums chart, peaking at number 1 (104 weeks on the chart between 2001 and 2003, peaking at #1)
• The Billboard 200 (5 weeks on the chart between 2001 and 2002 peaking at #135)
• Top Internet Albums (3 weeks on the chart in 2002)

The album has continued to be a top seller, charting in the top 5 of the year-end Top World Catalog Albums chart for the years 2006 (#2), 2007 (#3), and 2008 (#5).

Track listing

Some versions of the album have a bonus fourteenth track, called "Iz Talks About Oxygen".

Notes and References

1. http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/esearch/searchResult.jsp?exp=y&Ntt=Alone+in+Iz+World&Ntk=Keyword&an=bbcom&nor=10&Ntx=mode+matchallpartial&N=36