Afterglow (Sarah McLachlan album)

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Afterglow
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Studio album by
Sarah McLachlan
Released4 November 2003 (2003-11-04)
RecordedAugust 2002 – 2003
Genre Pop
Length40:11
Label
Producer Pierre Marchand
Sarah McLachlan chronology
Remixed
(2001)		Afterglow
(2003)		 Afterglow Live
(2004)
Singles from Afterglow
  1. "Fallen"
    Released: 22 September 2003
  2. "Stupid"
    Released: 31 May 2004
  3. "World on Fire"
    Released: 14 June 2004

Afterglow is the fifth studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Sarah McLachlan. Released on 4 November 2003, on Nettwerk in Canada and 4 November 2003, on Arista Records in the United States, it was her first album of new material in six years, and since the success of Surfacing and the Lilith Fair festival. Longtime collaborator Pierre Marchand produced the album. McLachlan wrote eight of the 10 songs herself and co-wrote the other two with Marchand.

Contents

The song "Answer" was featured in the 2007 movie The Brave One . It has also been used in television commercials for the ASPCA, with McLachlan appearing in person.

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 55/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Blender Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [3]
E! Online B− [4]
Entertainment Weekly B− [5]
Mojo Star full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Q Magazine Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [6]
Slant Magazine Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [7]
Stylus Magazine (F) [8]

Afterglow was met with "mixed or average" reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 55 based on 11 reviews. [1]

Commercial performance and award nominations

Afterglow was released on 4 November 2003, and was a success in North America, reaching number two on the Billboard 200, topping the Canadian Albums Chart and selling 361,000 copies in its first week of release. [9] It reached #33 in the UK (McLachlan's biggest success there thus far) and the top 50 in Australia in 2004. The first single, "Fallen", reached the top ten on the Adult Top 40 Billboard charts and a remix reached top ten in the United States dance charts. A second single, "Stupid" was released in March 2004.

McLachlan was nominated in five Juno Award categories in Canada, including Album of the Year and Pop Album of the Year for Afterglow, and Songwriter of the Year for the songs on the album. The awards were announced on 4 April 2004. The album was also nominated for a Grammy Award in the Best Pop Vocal Album field in 2005.

Afterglow has sold over 2.3 million copies in the US (as of November 2004) and went two times platinum. [10] Worldwide, the album has sold more than four million copies (as of October 2006). [11]

Track listing

Afterglow
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Fallen" Sarah McLachlan 3:47
2."World on Fire"McLachlan, Pierre Marchand 4:22
3."Stupid"McLachlan3:24
4."Drifting"McLachlan3:23
5."Train Wreck"McLachlan4:36
6."Push"McLachlan3:56
7."Answer"McLachlan3:58
8."Time"McLachlan4:07
9."Perfect Girl"McLachlan, Marchand4:43
10."Dirty Little Secret"McLachlan3:55
Total length:40:11

Personnel

Charts

Certifications and sales

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA) [35] Gold35,000^
Canada (Music Canada) [36] 5× Platinum500,000^
United Kingdom (BPI) [37] Gold100,000^
United States (RIAA) [38] 2× Platinum2,300,000 [10]
Summaries
Worldwide—4,000,000 [11]

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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