Alicia Keys As I Am 2007
On 19 November 2007 was published the fourth disc of the Alicia Keys, As I Am. Of this album the singer declares it is something incredible and that is truly something new and that she hopes that it be appreciated by the public”. The album have a slightly various cut from the precedence, more POP being involved and also outside of the hip-hop and R&B world. In particular, there are collaborations with John Mayer, Linda Perry and Stargate.
The first assay of new the album is to the concert of New York of the Live Earth, held in occasion of the uneasiness it acclimatizes them and intentional from the prize Nobel for the peace Al Gore: in this occasion the singer introduces The Thing About Love, that it will become the eighth trace of new the album. “As I Am” toes make one's debut to number 1 of the American billboard, with sales in the first week of approximately 742,000 copies in America and 876,000 copies all over the world and becomes thus the greatest debut than album for the artist, the greatest debut than always of R'n'B album and also one of the greatest debuts than an American feminine artist. First the single one is Not One, that the last time marks the return of the singer in classifies Billboard Hot 100 after more than three years (had been with Karma). The single one succeeds to arrive, in fact, till the first position, where it remains for 10 weeks. it is enormous happening, probably largest for the artist, as it catches up the first position also in Europe and various other States. To the Grammy Awards of 2008, kept 10 the February 2008, One it does not obtain two prizes: “Best R'n'B song and “Best performance R'n'B vowel”, thus carrying the artist to the quota 11 prizes in 7 years of career. The extracted single second is Like You'll Never See Me Again, that it catches up the summit of classifies R'n'B and the twelfth position in classifies POP the third single one, Teenage Love Affair, published the 21 opens them 2008, assures to the succeeding singer a new one, catching up the 6esta position in classifies RnB. It is currently in continuous rise. The song comes declared 23th most beautiful song of 2007 from the review Rolling Stone. Alicia has confirmed that the fourth and last single one extracted from the album will be Superwoman.
In 19 weeks from the publication, As I Am has sold approximately 5.7 millions copies all over the world, of which 3,3 million only in the United States.
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