Glee: The Music, Volume 3 Showstoppers | ||||
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Released | 18 May 2010 | |||
Recorded | 2009–2010 | |||
Genre | Pop, rock, show tune, soundtrack | |||
Length | 54:16(Standard edition) 72:55 (Deluxe edition) | |||
Label | Columbia / 20th Century Fox TV | |||
Producer | Dante Di Loreto (exec.), Brad Falchuk (exec.), Adam Anders, Tim Davis, Peer Åström, Dominick Maita, Ryan Murphy, Ryan Petersen | |||
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Glee: The Music, Volume 3 Showstoppers is a soundtrack album by the cast of the American television series Glee . The album contains songs from the second half of the show's first season, except for the episodes "The Power of Madonna" and "Journey to Regionals", songs from which feature on the extended plays Glee: The Music, The Power of Madonna and Glee: The Music, Journey to Regionals respectively. The album was released on May 18, 2010. Two editions are available: a standard edition containing 14 songs, and a deluxe edition, featuring 20 songs. Showstoppers debuted at No. 1 on the US Billboard 200, selling 136,000 copies in the first week. On November 21, 2010, it was announced that the album won Favorite Soundtrack of the Year at the American Music Awards.
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The album debuted at number one on the American, [4] Australian, [5] Canadian, [6] and Irish charts. [7] It sold 136,000 copies in its first and 63,000 in its second week of release in the US, [4] [8] and saw the Glee cast beat the record previously set by The Beatles in 1966, for shortest span between first weeks at number one, just four weeks after they reached number one with the extended play Glee: The Music, The Power of Madonna . [9] In Canada, 14,000 copies were sold in the first week of release, [10] and 9,400 in the second. [11] The album has been certified platinum in Australia and Ireland, and gold in the United States. [12] [13] [14]
Each of the songs included on the album were released as singles, available for digital download. [15] The best-performing were "Gives You Hell", charting at the top position in Ireland, [16] "Total Eclipse of the Heart", which charted at number 9 in the United Kingdom [17] and number 16 in the US, [18] and "Jessie's Girl" at number eight in Australia [19] and number ten in Canada. [18] 134,000 copies of "Total Eclipse of the Heart" were purchased in the US in its first week of release, making it the series' second best sales week ever to that point, with only the début single "Don't Stop Believin' " registering bigger sales in its first week. [20] "Jessie's Girl" has been certified gold in Australia, the first single to have reached this certification since "Don't Stop Believin'". [21] Comparing the singles' chart positions with prior charted versions, Billboard noted that by reaching number 26, the Glee cast version of "Dream On" surpassed the original Aerosmith version, which peaked at number 59 in 1973 (but was re-released in 1976 and reached number 6). [9] The cast's cover of "Physical" saw Olivia Newton-John make her first Hot 100 appearance since her remake of "I Honestly Love You" reached number 99 in 1998. [22]
Unless otherwise indicated, Information is taken from Liner Notes [23]
Unless otherwise indicated, Information is taken from Liner Notes [25]
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Original artist(s) | Length |
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1. | "Hello, Goodbye" (featuring Amber Riley, Cory Monteith and Lea Michele) | John Lennon, Paul McCartney | The Beatles | 3:29 |
2. | "Gives You Hell" (featuring Lea Michele) | Nick Wheeler, Tyson Ritter | The All-American Rejects | 3:26 |
3. | "Hello" (Lea Michele featuring Jonathan Groff) | Lionel Richie | Lionel Richie | 3:32 |
4. | "A House Is Not a Home" (featuring Chris Colfer and Cory Monteith) | Burt Bacharach, Hal David | Dionne Warwick | 2:55 |
5. | "One Less Bell to Answer / A House Is Not a Home" (Matthew Morrison featuring Kristin Chenoweth) | Bacharach, David / Bacharach, David | The 5th Dimension / Dionne Warwick [A] | 4:42 |
6. | "Beautiful" (featuring Amber Riley) | Linda Perry | Christina Aguilera | 3:59 |
7. | "Home" (featuring Kristin Chenoweth) | Charlie Smalls | Stephanie Mills in the musical The Wiz | 3:31 |
8. | "Physical" (Jane Lynch featuring Olivia Newton-John) | Steve Kipner, Terry Shaddick | Olivia Newton-John | 3:18 |
9. | "Total Eclipse Of The Heart" (Mark Salling, Lea Michele and Cory Monteith featuring Jonathan Groff) | Jim Steinman | Bonnie Tyler | 4:24 |
10. | "Lady Is a Tramp" (featuring Mark Salling and Amber Riley) | Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart | Mitzi Green in the musical Babes in Arms | 2:46 |
11. | "One" (featuring Lea Michele and Cory Monteith) | Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton, Larry Mullen Jr. [24] | U2 | 3:56 |
12. | "Rose's Turn" (featuring Chris Colfer) | Jule Styne, Stephen Sondheim | Ethel Merman in the musical Gypsy | 2:00 |
13. | "Dream On" (Matthew Morrison featuring Neil Patrick Harris) | Steven Tyler | Aerosmith | 4:34 |
14. | "The Safety Dance" (featuring Kevin McHale) | Ivan Doroschuk | Men Without Hats | 3:19 |
15. | "I Dreamed a Dream" (Lea Michele featuring Idina Menzel) | Claude-Michel Schönberg, Alain Boublil, Herbert Kretzmer, Jean-Marc Natel | Rose Laurens (French) and Patti LuPone (English) in the musical Les Misérables | 3:08 |
16. | "Loser" (featuring Mark Salling, Cory Monteith, Kent Avenido, Jessalyn Gilsig and Stephen Tobolowsky) | Beck Hansen, Carl Stephenson | Beck | 3:47 |
17. | "Give Up the Funk" (featuring Chris Colfer and Amber Riley) | Jerome Brailey, George Clinton, William “Bootsy” Collins | Parliament | 4:25 |
18. | "Beth" (featuring Mark Salling and Cory Monteith) | Peter Criscuola, Robert Ezrin, Paul Stanley, Stan Penridge | Kiss | 2:37 |
19. | "Poker Face" (Lea Michele featuring Idina Menzel) | Stefani Germanotta, Nadir Khayat | Lady Gaga | 3:39 |
20. | "Bad Romance" (featuring Chris Colfer, Naya Rivera, Jenna Ushkowitz, Dianna Agron and Amber Riley) | Germanotta, Khayat | Lady Gaga | 4:54 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Original artist(s) | Length |
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21. | "Shout It Out Loud" | Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Bob Ezrin | Kiss | 2:49 |
22. | "Tell Me Something Good" | Stevie Wonder | Rufus and Chaka Khan | 3:15 |
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Canada | May 18, 2010 | Standard, Deluxe [49] |
United States | Standard, Deluxe [50] | |
Australia | May 21, 2010 | Deluxe [51] |
Ireland | Deluxe [52] | |
New Zealand | Deluxe [53] | |
United Kingdom | May 24, 2010 | Deluxe [54] |
Japan | May 28, 2010 | Standard [55] |
June 4, 2010 | Deluxe [56] | |
Hong Kong | June 21, 2010 | Deluxe [57] |
Taiwan | June 29, 2010 | Deluxe [58] |
Brazil | August 18, 2010 | Standard, Deluxe [59] |
Italy | October 4, 2011 | Standard [60] |
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