Overnight (album)

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Overnight
Parachute - Overnight.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedAugust 13, 2013
Genre
Label Mercury
Producer Oren Yoel
Parachute chronology
The Way It Was
(2011)
Overnight
(2013)
Wide Awake
(2016)
Singles from Overnight
  1. "Can't Help"
    Released: June 4, 2013

Overnight is the third studio album by American pop band Parachute. It was released on August 13, 2013 by Mercury Records. [1] In this album, the band was pushed further into the pop music industry by creating a new, more upbeat sound that was not heard as much in their previous albums. Parachute immediately began touring upon the release of this album. They started the tour off by headlining with Matt Hires, followed by a tour with Walk off the Earth and Gavin DeGraw.

Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid-1950s. The terms "popular music" and "pop music" are often used interchangeably, although the former describes all music that is popular and includes many diverse styles. "Pop" and "rock" were roughly synonymous terms until the late 1960s, when they became increasingly differentiated from each other.

Parachute is an American pop-rock band from Charlottesville, Virginia. Formed in 2006, they released their major-label debut album, Losing Sleep, in 2009, followed by their second album, The Way It Was, in 2011 and their third album, Overnight, in 2013. Vanguard Records released the band's fourth album, Wide Awake, on March 11, 2016.

Mercury Records record label

Mercury Records is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group. In the US, it operates through Island Records; in the UK, it is distributed by Virgin EMI Records.

Contents

Reception

The album debuted at No. 15 on the Billboard 200, [2] No. 7 on the Digital Albums chart, [3] selling around 15,257 copies in total on its first week of release. [4] The album has sold 40,000 copies in the United States as of February 2016. [5]

The Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States. It is published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists. Often, a recording act will be remembered by its "number ones", those of their albums that outperformed all others during at least one week. The chart grew from a weekly top 10 list in 1956 to become a top 200 in May 1967, and acquired its present title in March 1992. Its previous names include the Billboard Top LPs (1961–72), Billboard Top LPs & Tapes (1972–84), Billboard Top 200 Albums (1984–85) and Billboard Top Pop Albums.

Singles

The band released the first single, "Hearts Go Crazy", on February 26, 2013. [6] This song was eventually removed from the album's track listing. The release of their next single, "Can't Help", followed on June 4, 2013. Parachute performed "Can't Help" live on Leno and their track, "Higher", also from Overnight, has been featured on ESPN numerous times. Will Anderson, lead singer of Parachute, co-wrote the single "Can't Help" with OneRepublic's Ryan Tedder. [1] [7]

"Can't Help" is a song by the band Parachute.

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Will Anderson (singer) main songwriter and lead vocalist in the pop-rock band Parachute

William Charles Anderson is an American singer and songwriter who is best known as the lead vocalist of the American pop rock band Parachute.

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Meant To Be" Will Anderson 3:25
2."Can't Help"Anderson, Ryan Tedder, Oren Yoel 3:23
3."Drive You Home"Anderson3:49
4."Hurricane"Anderson4:10
5."Overnight"Anderson, Chris DeStefano, Ashley Gorley 4:12
6."Didn't See It Coming"Anderson3:32
7."The Other Side"Anderson3:47
8."Waiting For That Call"Anderson3:15
9."The Only One"Anderson3:55
10."Disappear"Anderson4:04
11."Higher"Anderson3:32

Personnel

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