Call It What It Is

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Call It What It Is
Call It What IT Is Album Cover.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedApril 8, 2016 (2016-04-08)
StudioThe Village, Los Angeles, California
Genre
Length40:50
Label Stax
Producer
Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals chronology
Childhood Home
(2014)
Call It What It Is
(2016)
No Mercy in This Land
(2018)

Call It What It Is is the thirteenth studio album by American artist Ben Harper (with The Innocent Criminals) released on April 8, 2016.

Contents

Track listing

Call It What It Is track listing
No.TitleLength
1."When Sex Was Dirty"3:50
2."Deeper and Deeper"4:02
3."Call It What It Is"3:47
4."How Dark Is Gone"3:38
5."Shine"3:55
6."All That Has Grown"3:25
7."Pink Balloon"2:22
8."Finding Our Way"4:15
9."Bones"3:21
10."Dance Like Fire"3:09
11."Goodbye to You"5:06
Total length:40:50

Charts

Weekly charts

Weekly chart performance for Call It What It Is
Chart (2016)Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA) [1] 11
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) [2] 58
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [3] 27
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [4] 17
Canadian Albums (Billboard) [5] 17
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [6] 71
French Albums (SNEP) [7] 5
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [8] 97
Italian Albums (FIMI) [9] 6
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ) [10] 16
Portuguese Albums (AFP) [11] 40
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [12] 11
US Billboard 200 [13] 19
US Top Rock Albums (Billboard) [14] 4

Year-end charts

Year-end chart performance for Call It What It Is
Chart (2016)Position
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [15] 131
French Albums (SNEP) [16] 142

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