Wallflower (Diana Krall album) explained

Wallflower
Type:studio
Artist:Diana Krall
Cover:Diana Krall - Wallflower.png
Recorded:mid-2014.
Studio:
Genre:Jazz
Length:45:14
Label:Verve
Producer:David Foster
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Wallflower is the twelfth studio album by Canadian singer Diana Krall, released on February 3, 2015, by Verve Records. The album was produced by David Foster.[1] The album's supporting tour, Wallflower World Tour, began in Boston on February 25, 2015.

Recording

The album consists of cover songs of various pop and rock songs, the only previously unreleased track being "If I Take You Home Tonight" by Paul McCartney. He wrote the song for his album Kisses on the Bottom, in which he collaborated with Krall. Although the song did not make the cut for that album, Krall asked McCartney if she could record the song, and he gave his consent.[2]

Critical reception

Wallflower received mixed reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 58, based on 10 reviews.

Neil McCormick of The Daily Telegraph stated, "It is a lovely Valentine record, if you favour melancholic songs about missed chances. The set feels overfamiliar, though, drawing heavily on classic Seventies ballads by the Carpenters, Eagles, Elton John and 10CC. A moodily evocative reading of a gorgeous new Paul McCartney song, "I'll Take You Home Tonight", suggests this album might have been more interesting if Krall had dared to take the middle-of-the-road less travelled".

Jim Farber of the New York Daily News wrote, "Wallflower breaks another pattern for Krall. It eschews her frequent focus on American standards. But the sexiness and spring she brought to the best of those covers rarely comes into play here".[3]

Commercial performance

Wallflower debuted at number two on the Canadian Albums Chart, selling 13,000 copies in its first week.[4] By January 2016, the album had sold 66,000 copies in Canada.[5]

In the United States, it entered the Billboard 200 at number 10 with first-week sales of 44,000 copies, becoming Krall's sixth top-10 album on the chart.[6] The album debuted at number 19 on the UK Albums Chart with 3,511 copies sold in its first week.[7]

Personnel

Credits adapted from the liner notes of the deluxe edition of Wallflower.[8]

Musicians

Technical

Artwork

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (2015)Peak
position
Australian Jazz & Blues Albums (ARIA)[9] 1
Croatian Albums (HDU)[10] 7
Greek Albums (IFPI)[11] 6
Japanese Albums (Oricon)[12] 19
South Korean Albums (Gaon)[13] 48
Swedish Jazz Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[14] 1
US Traditional Jazz Albums (Billboard)[15] 1

Year-end charts

Chart (2015)Position
Australian Jazz & Blues Albums (ARIA)[16] 1
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[17] 63
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[18] 103
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[19] 76
Canadian Albums (Billboard)[20] 26
French Albums (SNEP)[21] 53
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[22] 74
Hungarian Albums (MAHASZ)[23] 48
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[24] 44
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)[25] 45
US Top Jazz Albums (Billboard)[26] 2
Chart (2016)Position
Australian Jazz & Blues Albums (ARIA)[27] 9
US Top Jazz Albums (Billboard)[28] 18

Notes and References

  1. Web site: First Listen: Diana Krall, 'Wallflower'. January 25, 2015. NPR.
  2. Web site: Diana Krall: Liner Notes From A 'Wallflower'. January 31, 2015. NPR.
  3. Web site: Farber . Jim . Diana Krall releases 'Wallflower': REVIEW . . June 13, 2018 . January 27, 2015.
  4. Web site: Cross . Alan . Alan Cross . Weekly Music Sales Report and Analysis: 13 February 2013 . A Journal of Musical Things . February 13, 2015 . February 28, 2015.
  5. Web site: Nielsen & Billboard's 2015 Canadian Music Industry Sales Report . FYIMusicNews . January 8, 2016 . January 11, 2016.
  6. Caulfield . Keith . Taylor Swift's '1989' Spends 11th Week at No. 1 on Billboard 200 Chart . . February 11, 2013 . February 28, 2015.
  7. Web site: Jones . Alan . Official Charts Analysis: Ellie Goulding knocks Uptown Funk! from singles top spot with sales of 172,368 . . February 9, 2015 . May 13, 2020 . subscription.
  8. Wallflower . deluxe edition liner notes . . . 2015 . B0021882-02.
  9. ARIA Jazz & Blues Albums – Week Commencing 16th February 2015 . https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20150218130200/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/23790/20150219-0002/Issue1303.pdf . dead . 2015-02-18 . . 1303 . 23 . February 16, 2015 . January 29, 2021 . National Library of Australia.
  10. Web site: Top Kombiniranih – Tjedan 8. 2015. . Top Combined – Week 8, 2015 . hr . . February 28, 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150402195604/http://www.hdu-toplista.com/index.php?what=arhiva&w=details&id=1459 . April 2, 2015.
  11. Web site: Official IFPI Charts – Top-75 Albums Sales Chart (Week: 7/2015) . . February 28, 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150223123039/http://www.ifpi.gr/charts_en.html . live . February 23, 2015.
  12. Web site: https://www.oricon.co.jp/prof/101427/products/1106277/1/ . ja:ウォールフラワー(限定盤) ダイアナ・クラール . Wallflower (Limited Edition) Diana Krall . ja . . February 12, 2015.
  13. Web site: 2012년 39주차 Album Chart . ko . . March 12, 2016.
  14. Web site: Veckolista Jazz – Vecka 7, 12 februari 2015 . sv . . May 30, 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160617135327/http://www.sverigetopplistan.se/netdata/ghl002.mbr/lista?liid=97&dfom=20150007 . June 17, 2016.
  15. Diana Krall Chart History (Traditional Jazz Albums) . . January 29, 2021.
  16. Web site: ARIA Charts – End Of Year Charts – Top 50 Jazz & Blues Albums 2015 . Australian Recording Industry Association . March 12, 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200415004720/http://www.aria.com.au/aria-charts-end-of-year-charts-jazz-blues-albums-2015.htm . April 15, 2020.
  17. Web site: Jahreshitparade Alben 2015 . austriancharts.at . de . January 5, 2016.
  18. Web site: Jaaroverzichten 2015 – Albums . nl . Ultratop . December 24, 2015.
  19. Web site: Rapports Annuels 2015 – Albums . fr . Ultratop . December 24, 2015.
  20. Top Canadian Albums – Year-End 2015 . Billboard . December 24, 2015.
  21. Web site: Le Top de l'année : Top Albums Fusionnés – 2015 . June 10, 2013 . fr . . January 14, 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160114045723/http://www.snepmusique.com/tops-annuel/top-albums-fusionnes/?ye=2015 . January 14, 2016.
  22. Web site: Top 100 Album-Jahrescharts – 2015 . de . Offizielle Deutsche Charts . January 9, 2016.
  23. Web site: Összesített album- és válogatáslemez-lista – eladási darabszám alapján – 2015 . hu . MAHASZ . May 13, 2020.
  24. Web site: Top Selling Albums of 2015 . . December 10, 2016.
  25. Web site: Top 100 Albums Annual 2015 . El Portal de Música . es . May 13, 2020.
  26. Jazz Albums – Year-End 2015 . Billboard . December 24, 2015.
  27. Web site: ARIA Charts – End Of Year Charts – Top 50 Jazz & Blues Albums 2016 . Australian Recording Industry Association . May 13, 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200415003523/http://www.aria.com.au/pages/aria-charts-end-of-year-charts-jazz-blues-albums-2016.htm . April 15, 2020.
  28. Jazz Albums – Year-End 2016 . Billboard . December 10, 2016.
  29. Web site: ARIA Charts – End Of Year Charts – Top 50 Jazz & Blues Albums 2017 . Australian Recording Industry Association . May 13, 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200415003318/http://www.aria.com.au/aria-charts-end-of-year-charts-jazz-blues-albums-2017.htm . April 15, 2020.
  30. Web site: Annual Charts – 2018 ARIA Jazz & Blues Albums Chart . Australian Recording Industry Association . May 13, 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200408123723/https://www.ariacharts.com.au/annual-charts/2018/jazz-blues-albums-chart . April 8, 2020.
  31. Web site: Annual Charts – 2019 ARIA Jazz & Blues Albums Chart . Australian Recording Industry Association . May 13, 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200405153150/https://www.ariacharts.com.au/annual-charts/2019/jazz-blues-albums-chart . April 5, 2020.

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