Remnants (LeAnn Rimes album)

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Remnants
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Studio album by
LeAnn Rimes
ReleasedOctober 28, 2016 (2016-10-28)
Genre
Length47:53
Label
Producer
LeAnn Rimes chronology
Today Is Christmas
(2015)		Remnants
(2016)		The Biggest Hits of LeAnn Rimes
(2018)
Singles from Remnants
  1. "The Story"
    Released: June 24, 2016
  2. "How to Kiss a Boy"
    Released: September 9, 2016
  3. "Long Live Love"
    Released: December 2, 2016
  4. "Love Is Love Is Love"
    Released: May 19, 2017 [1]

Remnants is the thirteenth studio album by American country and pop singer-songwriter LeAnn Rimes. It was released in the United Kingdom and Europe on October 28, 2016. The album was released in the United States on February 3, 2017. [2] It is the first album released by Rimes under her contract with RCA Records, [3] following the end of her contract with Curb Records. [4]

Contents

The first single to be released in the UK was a cover of Brandi Carlile's "The Story" on June 24, 2016. Rimes promoted the single across the UK, the first time she had promoted a single there since 2007. To promote the album, Rimes embarked on a tour, the Remnants Tour, which began in February 2017 in the UK. [5]

Release

The album was launched in the United Kingdom and Europe on October 28, 2016. It was released on CD and as a download, in both standard and deluxe versions. It was released in the United States on February 3, 2017.

Promotion

Singles

To promote the album, Rimes released a cover of Brandi Carlile's "The Story" as the first single in the UK on June 24, 2016. [6] This was followed by "How to Kiss a Boy" on September 9, 2016. [7] "Long Live Love" was released as the album's first US single on May 19, 2017. [8] It was released to American hot adult contemporary radio on January 23, 2017. [9]

Commercial performance

Remnants debuted at number 88 on the Billboard 200 chart dated February 25, 2017, earning 7,000 album-equivalent units in its first week, of which 6,000 were pure album sales. [10] The album reached number 15 on the UK Albums Chart, becoming her fourth top 20 album in the country and her first since Whatever We Wanna in 2006. It is a significant improvement on her previous album, Spitfire , which peaked on the UK Chart at number 142.

Track listing

Standard - Digital version [2] [11] [12]
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."The Story"Phil Hanseroth
3:24
2."Love Line"
4:03
3."Outrageous Love"
  • Rimes
  • Brown
  • Batson
  • Bolas
3:15
4."Mother"
  • Rimes
  • Brown
  • Batson
  • Rimes
  • Brown
  • Batson
  • Bolas
3:59
5."Remnants"
  • Rimes
  • Brown
  • Batson
  • Rimes
  • Brown
  • Batson
  • Bolas
3:22
6."Long Live Love"
  • Rimes
  • Brown
  • Batson
  • Rimes
  • Brown
  • Batson
  • Bolas
3:19
7."How to Kiss a Boy"
  • Rimes
  • Brown
  • Batson
  • Bolas
4:27
8."Love Is Love Is Love"
  • Rimes
  • Brown
  • Batson
  • Bolas
3:50
9."Learning Your Language"
  • Rimes
  • Brown
  • Gad
  • Rimes
  • Brown
3:48
10."I Couldn't Do That to Me" Diane Warren
  • Rimes
  • Brown
  • Batson
  • Bolas
4:27
11."Humbled"
  • Rimes
  • Brown
  • Batson
  • Bolas
3:07
12."Do It Wrong with Me"
  • Rimes
  • Brown
  • Rimes
  • Brown
  • Steve Jordan
3:11
13."Dang Dang"
  • Rimes
  • Brown
  • Batson
  • Rimes
  • Brown
  • Batson
  • Bolas
3:41
Total length:47:53
Standard - CD [13]
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
14."Give Me Something (I Can’t Give Myself)"
  • Rimes
  • Brown
  • John Hume
  • Rimes
  • Brown
  • Hume
2:51
Total length:50:44
Digital deluxe edition bonus tracks [14]
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
15."Love Line" (The Live Church Session)
  • Rimes
  • Brown
  • Barry
3:36
16."How to Kiss a Boy" (The Live Church Session)
  • McKenna
  • Dean
4:31
17."The Story" (The Live Church Session)Hanseroth3:08
Total length:61:59

Personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes. [15]

Production

Charts

Chart (2016–17)Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA) [16] 166
Irish Albums (IRMA) [17] 71
New Zealand Heatseekers Albums (RMNZ) [18] 7
Scottish Albums (OCC) [19] 8
UK Albums (OCC) [20] 15
US Billboard 200 [21] 88
US Independent Albums (Billboard) [22] 4

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