Fires (Ronan Keating album)

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Fires
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Studio album by
Ronan Keating
Released3 September 2012 (2012-09-03)
Genre Pop
Length43:18(Standard)
51:34 (Deluxe)
Label Polydor
Producer Gregg Alexander, Electric, Odd Jensen, Stephen Lipson, Cass Lowe, Paul Meehan, Rick Nowels, Brian Rawling, Dean Reid
Ronan Keating chronology
When Ronan Met Burt
(2011)		Fires
(2012)		 Time of My Life
(2016)
Singles from Fires
  1. "Fires"
    Released: 17 August 2012
  2. "Wasted Light"
    Released: 3 December 2012

Fires is the ninth studio album by Irish singer Ronan Keating. The album was released on 3 September 2012, with a special deluxe, signed edition to be available from the Universal Music official store. [1] It is his fifth album to contain original material and his first in six years following Bring You Home .

Contents

Promotion

Keating performing in Klaksvik, Faroe Islands, in 2012 Ron keat at summarfestivalurin 2012 9.jpg
Keating performing in Klaksvík, Faroe Islands, in 2012

To promote the record, Keating embarked on a short promotional tour, which began on 3 August 2012, with the Summarfestivalur in The Faroe Islands. [2] Other dates included the Þjóðhátíð festival in Iceland on 5 August, and the Festas do Mar in Portugal on 17 August [3] as well as appearances in Germany and Australia. [4] Keating also undertook two weeks of radio promotion around radio stations in the last week of August. A arena tour of the UK and Ireland commenced in January 2013.

Singles

Critical reception

On 22 August 2012 the album was voted album of the week by BBC Radio 2. [6]

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
BBC Music positive [7]
Daily Express Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [8]

Fires received positive reviews from BBC Music, critic Mike Driver declared that "a few bloopers aside, this is probably Keating’s best album since his eponymous debut." [9]

The Daily Express gave the album a rating of 4 out of 5 and commented that "it's on songs such as Love You And Leave You that you get a whiff of a truly original artist." However, it also said that Keating had "put together something that, while slick and seamless, doesn’t really say anything new and mostly sounds a little sub-something else, largely Scissor Sisters." [8]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Fires" Edvard Førre Erfjord, Henrik Barman Michelsen, Shelly Poole Electric3:51
2."I've Got You"Ronan Keating, Paddy Dalton, Mathias WolloElectric3:53
3."Love You and Leave You"Odd Jensen, Cass LoweElectric, Cass Lowe, Odd Jensen3:15
4."Nineteen Again" Gregg Alexander, Rick Nowels Gregg Alexander, Rick Nowels, Dean Reid3:21
5."Wasted Light"Erfjord, Michelsen, Gary Go Electric4:03
6."Lullaby" (featuring KizMusic)Jamie Hartman, Lee DeWyze, Andy Stochansky, KizMusic Brian Rawling, Paul Meehan3:57
7."Easy Now My Dear"Keating, Dalton, WolloElectric3:46
8."NYC Girl"Orion Simprini, Linda Horwatt, Sherif Fanous, Chris Sokolewitz, Jon WeberBrian Rawling, Paul Meehan3:48
9."Oxygen"Erfjord, Michelsen, LoweElectric, Cass Lowe3:19
10."Close Your Eyes"Nicole Dash Jones, Matt Schwartz, Daniel Spencer Stephen Lipson 3:59
11."Get Back to What Is Real"Alexander, NowelsGregg Alexander, Rick Nowels, Dean Reid3:20
12."The One You Love"Don Mescall, Vanbrugh HillBrian Rawling, Paul Meehan4:42
Deluxe Edition additional tracks [1]
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
13."It's Alright"Dalton, WolloStephen Lipson2:51
14."Will You Ever Be Mine?"Alexander, Nowels 3:32
15."Lullaby"Jamie Hartman, Lee DeWyze, Andy StochanskyBrian Rawling, Paul Meehan3:54

Chart performance

Chart (2012)Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA) [10] 12
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) [11] 51
Belgian Albums Chart (Flanders) [12] 138
Croatian International Albums (HDU) [13] 12
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [14] 20
Irish Albums (IRMA) [15] 12
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [16] 35
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ) [17] 18
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista) [18] 8
Scottish Albums (OCC) [19] 3
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [20] 26
UK Albums (OCC) [21] 5

References

  1. 1 2 "Ronan Keating Fires Box Set at Universal Music". Store.universal-music.co.uk. Retrieved 1 September 2012.
  2. ↑ "Twitter / ronanofficial: Largest ticket pre-sale in". Twitter.com. Retrieved 1 September 2012.
  3. ↑ "Twitter / ronanofficial: Holy cow batman. What a gig". Twitter.com. Retrieved 1 September 2012.
  4. ↑ "August 2012". Ronankeatingnews.com. Retrieved 1 September 2012.
  5. ↑ "Ronan Keating: Voice of the voiceless". gulfnews. 12 December 2011. Retrieved 10 February 2012.
  6. ↑ "Radio 2 – Playlist". BBC. Retrieved 1 September 2012.
  7. ↑ "Music – Review of Ronan Keating – Fires". BBC. Retrieved 1 September 2012.
  8. 1 2 "Ronan Keating: Fires". Daily Express. London. Retrieved 1 September 2012.
  9. ↑ [ dead link ]
  10. ↑ "Australiancharts.com – Ronan Keating – Fires". Hung Medien.
  11. ↑ "Austriancharts.at – Ronan Keating – Fires" (in German). Hung Medien.
  12. ↑ "Ultratop Belgian Charts". ultratop.be. Retrieved 7 June 2014.
  13. ↑ "Top Stranih [Top Foreign]" (in Croatian). Top Foreign Albums. Hrvatska diskografska udruga.
  14. ↑ "Offiziellecharts.de – Ronan Keating – Fires" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts.
  15. ↑ "GFK Chart-Track Albums: Week 37, 2012". Chart-Track. IRMA.
  16. ↑ "Dutchcharts.nl – Ronan Keating – Fires" (in Dutch). Hung Medien.
  17. ↑ "Charts.nz – Ronan Keating – Fires". Hung Medien.
  18. ↑ "Norwegiancharts.com – Ronan Keating – Fires". Hung Medien.
  19. ↑ "Official Scottish Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company.
  20. ↑ "Swisscharts.com – Ronan Keating – Fires". Hung Medien.
  21. ↑ "Official Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company.
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