Stages (Josh Groban album)

Stages
Studio album by Josh Groban
Released	April 28, 2015
Recorded	November 16, 2013–February 5, 2015
Studio	Capitol, Hollywood United Recording, Los Angeles Sony Scoring Stage, Los Angeles Abbey Road, London Blackbird, Nashville [1]
Genre	Operatic pop classical classical crossover Musical theatre
Length	54:03
Label	143 Reprise
Producer	Bernie Herms Humberto Gatica William Ross
Josh Groban chronology
All That Echoes (2013) Stages (2015) Stages Live (2016)
Josh Groban studio album chronology
All That Echoes (2013) Stages (2015) Bridges (2018)

Stages is the seventh studio album by American singer Josh Groban. Consisting of songs from Broadway musicals, it was released on April 28, 2015. The album has sold 502,000 copies in the US as of October 2015. ^[2] Stages received a nomination for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album at the 58th Annual Grammy Awards. Stages Live received a nomination in the same category a year later. ^[3]

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[4]
Broadway World	Positive [5]
The Guardian	[6]
Newsday	B+ [7]
Rolling Stone	[8]

Track listing

Standard version

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Pure Imagination" (from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory , 1971 [a] )	Leslie Bricusse Anthony Newley	4:23
2.	"What I Did for Love" (from A Chorus Line , 1975)	Marvin Hamlisch Edward Kleban	4:49
3.	"Bring Him Home" (from Les Misérables , 1980)	Claude-Michel Schönberg Herbert Kretzmer	3:24
4.	"Le temps des cathédrales" (from Notre-Dame de Paris , 1998)	Riccardo Cocciante Luc Plamondon	4:02
5.	"All I Ask of You" (feat. Kelly Clarkson) (from The Phantom of the Opera , 1986)	Andrew Lloyd Webber Charles Hart Richard Stilgoe	3:59
6.	"Try to Remember" (from The Fantasticks , 1960)	Harvey Schmidt Tom Jones	4:40
7.	"Over the Rainbow" (from The Wizard of Oz , 1939)	Harold Arlen Yip Harburg	4:27
8.	"Children Will Listen/Not While I'm Around (Medley)" (from Into the Woods , 1986; and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street , 1979)	Stephen Sondheim	4:36
9.	"You'll Never Walk Alone" (from Carousel , 1945)	Richard Rodgers Oscar Hammerstein II	4:28
10.	"Old Devil Moon" (feat. Chris Botti) (from Finian's Rainbow , 1947)	Burton Lane Harburg	4:21
11.	"Finishing the Hat" (from Sunday in the Park with George , 1983)	Sondheim	3:08
12.	"If I Loved You" (feat. Audra McDonald) (from Carousel)	Rodgers Hammerstein	4:16
13.	"Anthem" (from Chess , 1984)	Benny Andersson Björn Ulvaeus Tim Rice	3:28
Total length:			54:03

Deluxe edition bonus tracks

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
14.	"Gold Can Turn to Sand" (from Kristina , 1995)	Andersson Ulvaeus Kretzmer	4:14
15.	"Empty Chairs at Empty Tables" (from Les Misérables)	Schönberg Kretzmer	4:12
Total length:			1:02:28

Target edition bonus tracks

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
16.	"If I Can't Love Her" (from Beauty and the Beast , 1994)	Alan Menken Rice	4:54
17.	"Dulcinea" (from Man of La Mancha , 1965)	Mitch Leigh Joe Darion	2:51
Total length:			1:10:14

1. The album's liner notes cite Pure Imagination as coming from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory , the title of the original book as well as its 2013 stage adaptation

Personnel

• Josh Groban – vocals
• Chuck Berghofer – bass guitar
• Randy Waldman – piano
• Andy Selby – programming
• Tal Bergman – drums, additional percussion, drum programming
• Dean Parks – guitar
• Mary Webster – programming
• Ruslan Sirota – piano
• Vinnie Colaiuta – drums
• Jerry McPherson – electric guitar
• Craig Nelson – bass guitar
• Bernie Herms – keyboards, piano, producer
• Dan Needham – drums
• Alex Kovacs – programming
• Bryan Sutton – acoustic guitar

Charts

Weekly charts Chart (2015) Peak position Australian Albums (ARIA) [9] 2 Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) [10] 48 Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [11] 52 Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [12] 14 Canadian Albums (Billboard) [13] 2 Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [14] 5 Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista) [15] 21 French Albums (SNEP) [16] 13 German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [17] 31 New Zealand Albums (RMNZ) [18] 1 Norwegian Albums (VG-lista) [19] 22 Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [20] 13 UK Albums (OCC) [21] 1 US Billboard 200 [22] 2

Year-end charts Chart (2015) Position Australian Albums (ARIA) [23] 35 Canadian Albums (Billboard) [24] 46 New Zealand Albums (RMNZ) [25] 21 UK Albums (OCC) [26] 65 US Billboard 200 [27] 44 Chart (2016) Position US Billboard 200 [28] 198

Certifications

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA) [29]	Gold	35,000^
Canada (Music Canada) [30]	Gold	40,000^
New Zealand (RMNZ) [31]	Gold	7,500^
United Kingdom (BPI) [32]	Gold	100,000‡
United States (RIAA) [33]	Gold	500,000‡
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. ‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

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