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Released | November 18, 2008 | |||
Recorded | June – August 2008 | |||
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Length | 52:40 55:43 (Wal-Mart Bonus Track) | |||
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Producer | Rob Cavallo | |||
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David Cook is the first major-label studio album, second overall from seventh season American Idol winner David Cook, released on November 18, 2008, in the United States by RCA Records. It was certified platinum [1] and has sold over one million copies in the United States. [2] It has produced two top twenty singles, "Light On" and "Come Back To Me". The single "The Time of My Life" has also been certified platinum by the RIAA. [3] [4] "Light On" was certified platinum in January 2010. [4]
The first single, "Light On", was released to U.S. radio on September 30, 2008. The song sold 109,000 digital downloads in its first week of availability, leading to a number seventeen debut on the Billboard Hot 100 and number eight on the Hot Digital Songs chart. "Light On" was certified platinum in January 2010. [4]
"Come Back to Me" and "Bar-ba-sol" were released as a dual A-side single in March 2009 as the second and third singles, respectively. [5] The video for "Come Back to Me" premiered on American Idol on April 1.
On May 20, 2009, Cook performed the song "Permanent" on the finale of American Idol Season 8 . This version was released as a digital single, independent of the album promotion, with the proceeds from the song and the video of his performance going to charity. The single version of the song is longer than the version on his album.
"The Time of My Life" (his first feature single as the winner of American Idol [6] ) is also featured as a bonus track on the album.
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Source | Rating |
Metacritic | 61/100 [7] |
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Entertainment Weekly | B [10] |
Newsday | B+ [11] |
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The album's reception has been generally mixed to positive. Entertainment Weekly gave the album a positive review saying, "They give David Cook's clutch of bombastic verse-chorus- verse rockers an impressive melodic sheen, one well suited to Cook's husky, expressive vocals. If anything, the series of booming midtempo anthems (most notable among them "Bar-ba-sol" and "Mr. Sensitive") could use a little sandpapering around the edges." [10] AllMusic concurred writing, "He not only is a star thanks to AmIdol, but he's always been ready to do big, happy, crowd-pleasing grunge-pop, as his self-released 2006 debut, Analog Heart, proved. David Cook is remarkably similar to that now-suppressed effort, heavy on crawling, melodic midtempo rockers and power ballads, only given more gloss in its production and writing." [8]
Billboard said of the album, "Much like his predecessors' quick-turnaround debuts, Cook's is fairly generic, but its rock edge is dirtied up with crunching guitars and the artist's tuneful growl. There are a host of big, anthemic choruses that highlight the power of Cook's voice, namely the soaring "Declaration" and Chris Cornell/Brian Howes-penned "Light On." Elsewhere, Cook exercises his right to rawk with the swaggering, gritty "Bar-ba-sol" and bares his soul alongside a delicate piano and string arrangement on "Permanent." There are some lyrical missteps ("Life on the Moon," which marvels at the titular concept), but as the lone rocker winner of "Idol" to date, Cook stands apart from cookie-cutter pop." [14]
Rolling Stone gave the album an average review commenting on its lack of "out-of-the-box songwriting". Meanwhile, Ken Barnes of USA Today was also subdued in his review, particularly criticizing the production team and the song choices made on the album. Of it, he wrote, "they did him a disservice ... [Cook] has a more supple, versatile voice than Daughtry, and he demonstrated vastly more musical originality than most Idol finalists, but you'd never know it from this collection of formulaic, tune-averse tracks." [12]
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Declaration" | 3:13 | |
2. | "Heroes" |
| 3:27 |
3. | "Light On" | 3:49 | |
4. | "Come Back to Me" |
| 4:07 |
5. | "Life on the Moon" |
| 3:38 |
6. | "Bar-ba-sol" |
| 4:27 |
7. | "Mr. Sensitive" |
| 3:37 |
8. | "Lie" |
| 3:49 |
9. | "I Did It for You" |
| 3:49 |
10. | "Avalanche" |
| 4:32 |
11. | "Permanent" |
| 2:56 |
12. | "A Daily AntheM" "Kiss on the Neck" (hidden track after 7:36 of silence, beginning at 12:00; full track is 15:24. Included on all hard copies of the CD) | Cook
| 4:23 3:17 |
13. | "The Time of My Life" (Bonus Track) | Regie Hamm | 3:36 |
14. | "My Last Request" (iTunes pre-order Bonus track) |
| 3:30 |
15. | "Breathe Tonight" (Japanese edition and Walmart Bonus track) |
| 3:03 |
Adapted credits from the album's liner notes and AllMusic. [15] [16]
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Region | Date | Label |
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United States | November 18, 2008 | |
Brazil | March 11, 2009 | Sony Music Entertainment |
United Kingdom | April 5, 2009 |
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Japan | July 7, 2009 | Sony Music Japan |
The album debuted at the number-three spot on the Billboard 200 chart with sales of 280,000 copies in the United States. [17] In the beginning of February 2009, it was announced that the album had been certified platinum by RIAA [1] for shipment of 1,000,000 copies. The album also broke digital sales records for a debut artist, selling 59,000 electronic copies. [18] The album has sold over 1,500,000 copies worldwide. [19]
Chart (2008–2009) | Peak Position [20] |
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Finnish Albums Chart [21] | 15 |
U.S. Billboard 200 | 3 |
U.S. Billboard Top Rock Albums | 2 |
Canadian Albums Chart | 11 |
Japanese Albums Chart [22] | 130 |
Year End Charts (2009) [23] | Year End Rank |
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U.S. Billboard 200 | 13 |
U.S. Billboard Top Rock Albums | 4 |
U.S. Billboard Top Internet Albums | 9 |
Country | Total sales | Digital sales | Certification |
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United States | 1,500,000 [24] | 158,000 [25] | Platinum |
Canada | 50,000 | Gold [26] |
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