Prisoner (Ryan Adams album) explained

Prisoner
Type:studio
Artist:Ryan Adams
Cover:Ryanadamsprisoner.jpg
Released:February 17, 2017
Recorded:2016
Length:42:52
Label:PAX AM/Blue Note
Producer:Ryan Adams
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Prisoner is the sixteenth studio album by American singer-songwriter Ryan Adams. It was released on February 17, 2017. The album is Adams' first album of original material since his 2014 album, Ryan Adams, and was preceded by the singles "Do You Still Love Me?", "To Be Without You", and "Doomsday".[1]

Critical reception

Prisoner 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 79 based on 30 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[2]

Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic rated the album four out of five stars, calling it "charming", and said that "it's not a record that wallows in hurt, it's an album that functions as balm for bad times." Writing for Slant Magazine, Jeremy Winograd rated the album four of five stars and said that Prisoner is "one of Adams's most sonically artful albums to date."

Accolades

Publicationdata-sort-type="number"RankList
BillboardN/A27 Best Albums of 2017 So Far[3]
Consequence of Sound125 Best Albums of 2017 So Far[4]
NMEN/A20 Best Albums of 2017 So Far[5]
Paste1320 Best Albums of 2017 So Far[6]
Uproxx1050 Best Albums of 2017 So Far[7]

Commercial performance

Prisoner debuted at number eight on the US Billboard 200 with 45,000 album-equivalent units, 42,000 of which were pure album sales.[8]

Personnel

Credits adapted from AllMusic.[9]

Technical

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (2017)Peak
position
Italian Albums (FIMI)[10] 49
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[11] 4
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)[12] 33
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[13] 3

Year-end charts

Chart (2017)Position
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[14] 143
US Top Rock Albums (Billboard)[15] 72

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Ryan Adams Announces New Album 'Prisoner' « Radio.com . 2016-12-27 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161223043944/http://radio.com/2016/12/07/ryan-adams-prisoner-album-2017/ . 2016-12-23 . dead .
  2. Web site: Reviews for Prisoner by Ryan Adams. Metacritic. CBS Interactive. October 27, 2017.
  3. 27 Best Albums of 2017 So Far. Billboard Staff. March 31, 2017. Billboard. July 2, 2017.
  4. Web site: 25 Best Albums of 2017 So Far. CoS Staff. June 12, 2017. Consequence of Sound. June 12, 2017.
  5. Web site: 20 Best Albums of 2017 So Far. Thomas Smith. April 13, 2017. NME. June 10, 2017.
  6. Web site: 20 Best Albums of 2017 So Far. Paste Staff. May 3, 2017. Paste. June 8, 2017.
  7. Web site: 50 Best Albums of 2017 So Far. Uproxx Staff. June 5, 2017. Uproxx. June 10, 2017.
  8. Future Earns Fourth No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 Chart. Billboard. Caulfield. Keith. February 26, 2017. March 8, 2017.
  9. Web site: Prisoner – Ryan Adams – Credits – AllMusic. AllMusic. All Media Network. February 18, 2017.
  10. Web site: Album – Classifica settimanale WK 8 (dal 2017-02-17 al 2017-02-23). Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana. it. February 25, 2017.
  11. Web site: NZ Top 40 Albums Chart. Recorded Music NZ. February 27, 2017. February 24, 2017.
  12. Web site: TOP 100 ALBUMES — SEMANA 8: del 17.02.2017 al 23.02.2017. Productores de Música de España. es. March 2, 2017.
  13. Web site: Sverigetopplistan – Sveriges Officiella Topplista. Sverigetopplistan. February 25, 2017. Click on "Veckans albumlista".
  14. Web site: Jaaroverzichten 2017. Ultratop. June 30, 2020.
  15. Top Rock Albums – Year-End 2017. Billboard. November 9, 2020.
  16. Web site: Ryan Adams: Prisoner: Music. B01N4B5DE1. February 18, 2017.

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