Hope for Haiti Now (album)

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Hope for Haiti Now
Hope for Haiti Now cover.jpg
Live album by
Various artists
ReleasedJanuary 23, 2010
Genre Various
Length78:29
Label MTV
Singles from Hope for Haiti Now
  1. "Stranded (Haiti Mon Amour)"
    Released: January 23, 2010
  2. "Hallelujah"
    Released: January 23, 2010
  3. "Lean on Me"
    Released: January 23, 2010
  4. "A Message 2010"
    Released: January 23, 2010

Hope for Haiti Now is a live album by various artists to benefit Hope for Haiti Now's campaign to alleviate the 2010 Haiti earthquake. All benefits from the album sales go to Haiti relief organizations, including the Red Cross and Wyclef Jean's Yele Haiti foundation. Hope for Haiti Now features 19 live performances from the television broadcast Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief as well as the studio version of "Stranded (Haiti Mon Amour)", an original track performed by Jay-Z, Bono, The Edge and Rihanna during the telethon. [1]

Contents

The digital-only album was made available for pre-order through iTunes on January 22, 2010. It set a record as the biggest one-day album pre-order in iTunes history. [2] The album sold 171,000 copies in its first weekend, and, in merely two days, became the first digital-only album to top the Billboard 200 album chart. [3]

The album has since also become available on Amazon and Rhapsody.

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Performer(s)Length
1."Send Me an Angel" Alicia Keys Alicia Keys 3:43
2."A Message 2010" Coldplay 4:04
3."We Shall Overcome" Pete Seeger Bruce Springsteen 2:52
4."A Time to Love / Bridge over Troubled Water"Stevie Wonder4:01
5."I'll Stand by You" Shakira featuring The Roots 3:55
6."Motherless Child"traditional John Legend 4:11
7."Hard Times Come Again No More" Stephen Foster Mary J. Blige featuring The Roots 3:57
8."Breathless" Kevin Griffin Taylor Swift 3:51
9."Lift Me Up" Linda Perry Christina Aguilera 3:45
10."Driven to Tears" Gordon Sumner Sting 3:34
11."Halo" Beyoncé featuring Chris Martin 3:31
12."Lean on Me" Bill Withers 3:36
13."Like a Prayer" Madonna 3:29
14."Hallelujah" Leonard Cohen 4:15
15."Let It Be" Jennifer Hudson featuring The Roots 3:53
16."Many Rivers to Cross" Jimmy Cliff Emeline Michel 3:01
17."Stranded (Haiti Mon Amour)" (live version)4:27
18."Alone and Forsaken" Hank Williams Dave Matthews featuring Neil Young 3:30
19."Rivers of Babylon / Yele" (medley)
  • Brent Dowe
  • Trevor McNaughton
Wyclef Jean 3:55
20."Stranded (Haiti Mon Amour)" (1.0 version)
  • Carter
  • Hewson
  • Evans
  • Rihanna
  • Dean
  • Jay-Z
  • Bono
  • The Edge
  • Rihanna
4:20
Total length:78:29

Chart performance

Hope for Haiti Now debuted on the Billboard 200 at number 1, selling 171,000 copies in only two days as Nielsen SoundScan's sales tracking week at the time ended at the close of business each Sunday, thus becoming the first digital-exclusive set to top the tally in Billboard's history. [3] It also became the second independently distributed album to reach the number one spot on the Billboard 200 chart that year (and 13th overall) following Vampire Weekend's Contra . [4] Hope for Haiti Now sold another 143,000 downloads in its second week of release. [5] The album sold 60,000 copies in its first-two days outside the U.S. [6]

Charts

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