Natalie Merchant (album) explained

Natalie Merchant
Type:studio
Artist:Natalie Merchant
Cover:Natalie Merchant (album).jpg
Studio:[1]
Length:47:25
Label:Nonesuch
Producer:Natalie Merchant
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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]

Critical reception

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".

Commercial reception

In the United States, the album debuted at No. 20 on the Billboard 200 albums chart on its first week of release,[3] selling around 12,000 copies in the United States in its first week. It also debuted at No. 2 on Billboards Folk Albums,[4] and No. 5 on the Rock Albums chart.[5] As of October 2015, the album has sold 44,000 copies in the US.[6]

Personnel

Credits adapted from CD liner notes.

Musicians
Technical & design

Notes and References

  1. Natalie Merchant . Natalie Merchant . 2014 . CD liner notes . . 541042-2 . USA. Retrieved 17 December 2022 from Discogs.
  2. Web site: Hermes . Will . 7 May 2014 . Album Review: Natalie Merchant . 15 October 2022 . NPR.
  3. Billboard 200 . May 24, 2014 . Billboard .
  4. Folk Albums . May 24, 2014 . Billboard .
  5. Rock Albums . May 24, 2014 . Billboard .
  6. https://web.archive.org/web/20151029235059/http://hitsdailydouble.com/new_album_releases . October 29, 2015 . Upcoming Releases . Hits Daily Double . HITS Digital Ventures .
  7. The ARIA Report: Week Commencing 19 May 2014. https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20140620051154/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/23790/20140620-1509/ARIA1264.pdf. dead. 2014-06-20. The ARIA Report. ARIA. 1264. 6. May 6, 2021.