Hurricane (Nick Fradiani album)

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Hurricane
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Studio album by
ReleasedAugust 5, 2016 (2016-08-05)
Recorded2015-16
Genre Pop
Length39:34
Label
Producer
Nick Fradiani chronology
Hurricane
(2016)
Where We Left Off
(2017)
Singles from Hurricane
  1. "Get You Home"
    Released: March 11, 2016
  2. "All on You"
    Released: August 8, 2016

Hurricane is the debut studio album by American Idol season 14 winner Nick Fradiani. It was released on August 5, 2016, through Big Machine Records.

<i>American Idol</i> American singing competition

American Idol is an American singing competition television series created by Simon Fuller, produced by Fremantle USA and 19 Entertainment, and distributed by Fremantle North America. It initially aired on Fox from June 11, 2002, to April 7, 2016, for 15 seasons. Since March 11, 2018, a revival of the series has aired on ABC.

<i>American Idol</i> (season 14) season of television series

The fourteenth season of American Idol, also known as American Idol XIV, premiered on the Fox television network on January 7, 2015. Ryan Seacrest continues his role as host, while Jennifer Lopez, Keith Urban and Harry Connick Jr. returned for their respective fourth, third and second times as judges. Randy Jackson stepped down as mentor, being replaced by Scott Borchetta. Long-time sponsor Coca-Cola ended its relationship with the show. This was the fourth season to have an all-male finale and the third season where the final two contestants had never been in the bottom group prior to the finale.

Nick Fradiani American singer

Nicholas James Fradiani IV is an American singer from Guilford, Connecticut. He rose to regional attention as the lead singer of pop/rock band Beach Avenue when they won the Battle of the Bands at Mohegan Sun in 2011. They gained national recognition in 2014 when they competed on the ninth season of the reality talent show America's Got Talent, although they only made it to "Judgment Week".

Contents

Background

Following Fradiani's Idol win, his label offered a non-target PledgeMusic campaign for pre-orders and merchandise sales. [1] During the six weeks before the start of the American Idols LIVE! tour, Fradiani played a number of radio-sponsored concerts, and worked on new songs with writers including Paul Doucette. In September, following the end of the tour, work on the new album intensified. [2] On May 5, 2016, Fradiani revealed the album's release date and title Hurricane, named after a track co-written with Jason Mraz and with Fradiani's Beach Avenue guitarist, Nick Abraham. [3] Starting in late May 2016, Fradiani released snippets of the recorded versions of various songs from the album, sometimes accompanied by "behind the songs" videos.

PledgeMusic was an online direct-to-fan music platform, launched in August 2009, that was started to facilitate musicians reaching out to their fanbase to pre-sell, market, and distribute music projects including recordings, music videos, and concerts. Broadly speaking it bore some similarities to such platforms as ArtistShare, Kickstarter, Indiegogo, Patreon, RocketHub and Sellaband.

Paul John Doucette is an American musician best known for being the drummer, rhythm guitarist, and backing vocalist of the band Matchbox Twenty. Doucette is also known as a film composer and as the frontman of his own band The Break and Repair Method.

Jason Mraz American singer-songwriter

Jason Thomas Mraz is an American singer-songwriter who first came to prominence in the San Diego coffee shop scene in 2000. In 2002 he released his debut studio album, Waiting for My Rocket to Come, which contained the hit single "The Remedy ". With the release of his second album, Mr. A-Z, in 2005, Mraz achieved major commercial success. The album peaked at number 5 on the Billboard 200 and sold over 100,000 copies in the US. In 2008 Mraz released his third studio album, We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things. It debuted at number 3 on the Billboard 200 and was an international commercial success primarily due to the hit "I'm Yours". The song peaked at number 6 on the Billboard Hot 100, giving him his first top ten single, and spent a then-record 76 weeks on the Hot 100. His fourth album, Love Is a Four Letter Word, peaked at number 2 on the Billboard 200, his highest-charting album to date.

Singles

The album's lead single "Get You Home" was released on March 11, 2016. [4] A video was shot on March 29 in Chicago, [5] at Virgin Hotels Chicago, with model Michelle Hicks as the female lead. [6] It was directed by Erik White and used real hotel guests as extras. [7] Released on May 19, 2016, the video shows Fradiani having a "cat and mouse game" encounter, starting at the hotel's bar with a beautiful woman who appears to have no scruples, leading to a steamy night at the hotel and a surprise resolution. [8]

A second single, "All On You," was released on August 5, 2016. On December 15, Billboard provided the exclusive premiere of a stark, black-and-white performance video for the song, shot at New Haven's historic Lyric Hall by Ryan Zipp. [9] A video for the album's third single, "Love Is Blind," was released on January 23, 2017, and features Fradiani surprising a real-life bride and groom for their first dance as a married couple. [10]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)ProducersLength
1."Every Day"
Westerlund3:30
2."Nothing to Lose"
Westerlund3:22
3."In the Long Run"
Bettis2:53
4."Forget2ForgetU"
Jordan Schmidt Record Producer, Engineer, Songwriter

Jordan Schmidt is a multi-platinum songwriter, music producer, engineer, and mixing engineer. He has co-written, produced, engineered or mixed songs for Florida Georgia Line, Jason Aldean, Blake Shelton, Granger Smith, Kane Brown, Chris Lane, One Ok Rock, Old Dominion, Hunter Hayes, Mitchell Tenpenny, Chris Lane, Nick Fradiani, The Swon Brothers, Motion City Soundtrack, All Time Low, Patent Pending, Forever in Your Mind, and many others. He resides in Nashville, Tennessee.

Mitchell Tenpenny American country music singer and songwriter

Mitchell Tenpenny is an American country music singer and songwriter from Nashville, Tennessee. He has released one studio album and two extended plays through Riser House Records and charted in 2018 with the single "Drunk Me", released on Columbia Records Nashville.

Schmidt2:41
5."Get You Home"
  • Fradiani
  • Sipe
  • Matt Dike
  • Jaden Michaels
  • Ross Mike
  • Matt Parad
  • Luther Rabb
  • Jim Walters
  • Ryan Williamson
  • Marvin Young
Jaden Michaels Singer, songwriter

Jaden Michaels is an American singer, songwriter, and musician. In her career as a songwriter, she has collaborated with some of pop music's biggest stars, including Jennifer Lopez, Demi Lovato, Carly Rae Jepsen, Jessica Mauboy, Robin Thicke, Jordin Sparks, Lea Michele, Naya Rivera, and Cher Lloyd. Both in 2012 and 2013, Michaels co-wrote one of the songs performed on the season finale of American Idol, with the latter becoming season 12 champion Candice Glover's debut single "I Am Beautiful." Her songwriting work on Carly Rae Jepsen's album Kiss received the 2013 Juno Award for "Album of the Year." She was professionally represented by Pulse Recording. She is the older sister of American singer and songwriter Julia Michaels.

Rykeyz3:11
6."Howl at the Moon"
Kadish2:39
7."Nobody"
  • Fradiani
  • Schmidt
  • Calynn Green
  • Zach Lockwood
Schmidt3:46
8."Love Is Blind"
  • Schmidt
  • Hodges
3:09
9."All on You"
Schmidt3:06
10."Hurricane"
  • Fradiani
  • Nick Abraham
  • Jason Mraz
  • Michael Natter
  • Nancy Natter
Schmidt3:17
11."If I Didn't Know You"
Fradiani4:29
12."Beautiful Life"
Julian Raymond3:28

Chart positions

The album debuted at 121 on the Billboard 200 with sales of 5,000 copies, making it lowest debut from an American Idol winner's first album. [11] It also ranked as #1 on Billboard's Heatseekers chart. [12]

ChartPeak
position
U.S. Billboard 200 [11] 121

Release history

CountryDateLabelFormats
United StatesAugust 5, 2016

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