Yes! (Jason Mraz album)

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Yes!
Jason Mraz Yes.jpg
Studio album by
Jason Mraz
ReleasedJuly 11, 2014
Recorded2013–2014
Genre Pop, pop rock
Length51:35
Label Atlantic
Jason Mraz chronology
Love Is a Four Letter Word
(2012)		Yes!
(2014)		 Know.
(2018)
Singles from Yes!
  1. "Love Someone"
    Released: May 19, 2014

Yes! is the fifth studio album by American singer-songwriter Jason Mraz. The album was released on July 11, 2014, Atlantic Records. [1] The album's lead single "Love Someone" was released on May 19, 2014. [2]

Contents

The album is a collaboration between Jason Mraz and the members of indie-rock-folk band Raining Jane: Mai Bloomfield, Becky Gebhardt, Chaska Potter and Mona Tavakoli, with whom Mraz has been working since 2007, [3] and who are his backing band on the record, [4] [5] as well as co-writers of majority of the songs.

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 62/100 [6]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [7]
Billboard 82/100 [8]
The Boston Globe 70/100 [5] [6]
Los Angeles Times Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [9]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [10]
Slant Magazine Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [11]

Yes! was met with generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from critics, the album received an average score of 62, which indicates "generally favorable reviews", based on 6 reviews. [6]

Matt Fruchtman of Slant Magazine gave the album two out of five stars, saying "his wide-lens worldview leaves Yes! feeling like the musical equivalent of a G-rated sitcom." [11] Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic gave the album four out of five stars, saying "The exclamation point that punctuates its title suggests Jason Mraz may be a little enthusiastic on Yes! but that's a feint, hiding how this 2014 record is the next logical step on the singer/songwriter's road of seduction. Gone is the celebrated wordplay, a self-conscious maturation that was perhaps inevitable, but also absent are the smooth soul flourishes of 2012's Love Is a Four Letter Word ." [7]

Commercial performance

The album debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 chart, with first-week sales of 102,000 copies in the United States. [12]

In Canada, the album debuted at number two on the Canadian Albums Chart with 12,000 copies, falling behind Rise Against's The Black Market . [13]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Rise" Jason Mraz, Chaska Potter, Mona Tavakoli, Becky Gebhardt, Mai Bloomfield, Chris Keup, Stewart Myers
1:29
2."Love Someone"Mraz, Potter, Tavakoli, Gebhardt, Bloomfield, Keup, Myers
  • Mogis
  • Mraz
  • Chris Keup [a]
  • Stewart Myers [a]
4:16
3."Hello, You Beautiful Thing"Mraz, Potter, Tavakoli, Gebhardt
  • Mogis
  • Mraz
3:34
4."Long Drive"Mraz, Potter, Tavakoli, Gebhardt, Bloomfield
  • Mogis
  • Mraz
3:50
5."Everywhere"Mraz, Potter, Tavakoli, Gebhardt, Bloomfield
  • Mogis
  • Mraz
3:24
6."Best Friend"Mraz, Potter, Tavakoli, Gebhardt, Bloomfield
  • Mogis
  • Mraz
3:19
7."Quiet"Mraz, Daniel Omelio, Ammar Malik
  • Mogis
  • Mraz
  • Keup
  • Myers
4:18
8."Out of My Hands"Mraz, Potter, Tavakoli, Gebhardt, Bloomfield
  • Mogis
  • Mraz
3:26
9."It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday" Freddie Perren, Christine Yarian PerrenMraz2:58
10."3 Things"Mraz, Michael Natter, Nancy Natter, Potter, Tavakoli, Gebhardt, Bloomfield
2:54
11."You Can Rely on Me"Mraz, Potter, Tavakoli, Gebhardt, Bloomfield, Keup, Myers, M. Natter, N. Natter
  • Mraz
  • Keup
  • Myers
3:43
12."Back to the Earth"Mraz, Potter, Tavakoli, Gebhardt, Bloomfield
  • Mogis
  • Mraz
3:46
13."A World with You"Mraz, Myers, Keup
  • Mogis
  • Mraz
4:39
14."Shine"Mraz, Potter, Tavakoli, Gebhardt, Bloomfield
  • Mogis
  • Mraz
6:04
Notes

Personnel

Credits adapted from AllMusic. [14]

Charts and certifications

Release history

RegionDateFormatLabel
United Kingdom [33] July 11, 2014 CD, digital download Atlantic Records
United States [34] July 15, 2014

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