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Try This

Studio album by P!nk
Released	November 11, 2003 (U.S.)
Recorded	2003
Genre	Rock/Pop
Length	53:00 (without bonus tracks)
Label	Arista
Producer(s)	Tim Armstrong, billymann, Jonathan Davis, Linda Perry, Damon Elliott
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P!nk chronology
M!ssundaztood (2001)	Try This (2003)	I'm Not Dead (2006)

Try This is the third album by pop singer P!nk, released on November 11, 2003 (see 2003 in music). Most of the tracks were produced and co-written by punk band Rancid singer and guitarist Tim Armstrong, whom P!nk met through a mutual friend at a Transplants video shoot. The two hit it off and P!nk ended up co-writing ten songs with him in a week when Rancid was on a tour with the Foo Fighters. Eight of these tracks appeared on Try This, which also features three songs written with Linda Perry, who co-wrote much of M!ssundaztood (2001), P!nk's second album. The album includes a collaboration with electroclash artist Peaches, "Oh My God", and P!nk's contribution to the Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle film soundtrack, "Feel Good Time" (produced by and featuring William Orbit), as a non-U.S. bonus track.

As of May 2, 2004, Try This had reached the top ten on album charts in the U.S., the UK, Canada and Australia. As of July 2006, it had sold 709,000 copies in the U.S. according to Nielsen SoundScan.^[1] and 3 million copies worldwide, according to P!nk herself on her E! True Hollywood Story. The album's first single, "Trouble", reached number two in Canada and the top ten in the UK and Australia, but it only peaked at number sixty-eight on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. Follow-up single "God Is a DJ" failed to chart on the Hot 100, just missed the top ten in the UK (where it reached number eleven) and reached the top twenty on the the world dance/trance chart (which is derived from U.S., UK, German, Australian, Japanese and Italian dance charts). A third single, "Last to Know", peaked just outside the UK top twenty (it reached twenty-one) and was not released in the U.S.

1 Track listing
2 Personnel
3 Charts
4 Notes

[edit] Track listing

"Trouble" (Tim Armstrong, P!nk) – 3:13
"God Is a DJ" (billymann, Jonathan Davis, P!nk) – 3:46
"Last to Know" (Armstrong, P!nk) – 4:03
"Tonight's the Night" (Armstrong, P!nk) – 3:56
"Oh My God" featuring Peaches (Armstrong, Merrill Nisker, P!nk) – 3:44
"Catch Me While I'm Sleeping" (Linda Perry, P!nk) – 5:03
"Waiting for Love" (Paul Ill, Brian MacLeod, Perry, P!nk, Eric Schermerhorn) – 5:28
"Save My Life" (Armstrong, P!nk) – 3:16
"Try Too Hard" (Perry, P!nk) – 3:14
"Humble Neighbourhoods" (Armstrong, P!nk) – 3:52
"Walk Away" (Armstrong, P!nk) – 3:39
"Unwind" (Armstrong, P!nk) – 3:14
"Love Song" (Damon Elliott, P!nk) – 6:32
"Feel Good Time" featuring William Orbit (William Orbit, Beck) – 3:58 (non-U.S. bonus track)
"Hooker" (hidden track) – 6:32

Single B-sides

"Free" ("Trouble" B-side)
"Delirium" ("Trouble" B-side)

[edit] Personnel

P!nk - lead vocals

Tim Armstrong - guitar, acoustic bass, keyboards, backup vocals, loops, sound effects, engineer, producer
Jonathan Davis - guitar, acoustic guitar, bass, drum programming, producer, keyboards, engineer, arranger
Linda Perry - guitar, sitar, mellotron, producer
Damon Elliott - percussion, keyboards, programming, producer
John Fields - bass, guitar, percussion, piano, keyboards, drums, wah wah guitar, programming, engineer, producer
Dave Carlock - organ, keyboards, bass, drum programming, backup vocals
Matt Mahaffey - synthesizer, glockenspiel, turntables, omnichord, keyboards, drums
Atticus Ross - synthesizer, percussion, loops, engineer
Vic Ruggiero - piano, Hammond organ
David Paich - organ, Hammond organ
Grecco Buratto - guitar
Eric Schermerhorn - guitar
Steve Stevens - guitar
Matt Freeman - bass
Janis Tanaka - bass
Nick Lane - trombone
Lee Thornburg - trumpet
Greg "Frosty" Smith - baritone sax
Charlie Bisherat - violin
Travis Barker - drums
Dorian Crozier - drums
Joshua Seth Eagan - percussion, drums
Brian Keeling - drums
Brett Reed - percussion, drums
Galadriel Masterson - backup vocals
Hopey Rock - backup vocals
Lon Price - horn arrangements
Roger Davies - executive producer
Craig Logan - executive producer
Chris Lord-Alge - mixing
Dave Pensado - mixing
Brian Gardner - mastering
David Guerrero - engineer
Padraic Kerin - engineer
Steven Miller - engineer, assistant engineer
Tony Cooper - assistant engineer
John "Silas" Cranfield - assistant engineer
Pat Dammer - assistant engineer
Jay Goin - assistant engineer
Femio Hernández - assistant engineer
Chris Testa - assistant engineer
Ethan Willoughby - assistant engineer
Joshua Sarubin - A&R
Jeri Heiden - art direction, design
Glen Nakasako - art direction, design
Andrew McPherson - photography

[edit] Charts

Chart (2003)	Peak position
Switzerland albums chart	1
Germany albums chart	2
UK albums chart	3
Australian albums chart	8
Canadian albums chart	8
Ireland albums chart	8
Netherlands albums chart	8
U.S. Billboard 200	9
France	12

Chart	Certification	Sales
Australia ARIA	Platinum	70,000+
Austria IFPI	Platinum	15,000+
Canada CRIA	Platinum	100,000+
Germany IFPI	Platinum	200,000+
France	Gold	130,000
Switzerland IFPI	Platinum	40,000+
UK BPI	Platinum	486,655
U.S. RIAA	Platinum	709,000