Twenty Four Seven (Tina Turner album)

Twenty Four Seven was released on Tuesday (2/1) in the U.S. and in Canada. The album hit the shelves in Europe in November, and has already sold more than 2 million copies on the continent.^[4] It reached #9 in the UK Albums Chart. It also reached #21 on the Billboard 200, selling 60,000 copies in its 1st week. It was certified platinum in the UK, Germany, Europe chart, and France. Singles released from the album include "When the Heartache Is Over" (UK #10), "Whatever You Need" (UK #23), "Talk To My Heart" and "Don't Leave Me This Way". The album was produced by Mark Taylor and Brian Rawling, the team behind Cher's Believe, Johnny Douglas (Kylie Minogue, George Michael, All Saints etc.), Terry Britten and Absolute, best-known for their work with British pop acts like Lisa Stansfield, Will Young, Atomic Kitten, Gareth Gates, and S Club 7. Bryan Adams guests on both the title track and "Without You".

In 2000 the album was released as a limited edition special pack with a bonus disc including live recordings from Turner's 60th birthday celebration in London in November 1999 as well as the promo videos for "When the Heartache Is Over" and "Whatever You Need".

Twenty Four Seven is Turner's last full-length studio album to date.

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Whatever You Need"	Harriet Roberts, Russell Courtenay	4:49
2.	"All the Woman"	Paul Wilson, Andy Watkins, Tracy Ackerman	4:03
3.	"When the Heartache Is Over"	Graham Stack, John Reid	3:44
4.	"Absolutely Nothing's Changed"	Terry Britten, John O'Kane	3:43
5.	"Talk to My Heart"	Johnny Douglas, Graham Lyle	5:08
6.	"Don't Leave Me This Way"	Paul Barry, Mark Taylor, Brian Rawling	4:19
7.	"Go Ahead"	James House, Anthony Little	4:20
8.	"Without You"	Wilson, Watkins, Shernette May	4:06
9.	"Falling"	Tim Fraser, Sol Connell	4:21
10.	"I Will Be There"	Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb, Maurice Gibb	4:37
11.	"Twenty Four Seven"	Britten, Charlie Dore	3:47

Limited edition bonus disc
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Twenty Four Seven" (Live, London 1999)	Britten, Dore	3:56
2.	"River Deep – Mountain High" (Live, London 1999)	Phil Spector, Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich	4:00
3.	"When the Heartache Is Over" (Live, London 1999)	Stack, Reid	3:48
4.	"Whatever You Need" (Live, London 1999)	Roberts, Courtenay	4:44
5.	"Don't Leave Me This Way" (Live, London 1999)	Barry, Taylor, Rawling	4:23
6.	"Talk to My Heart" (Live, London 1999)	Douglas, Lyle	5:03
7.	"Hold On, I'm Coming" (Live, London 1999)	Isaac Hayes, David Porter	3:01
8.	"All the Woman" (Live, London 1999)	Wilson, Watkins, Ackerman	4:01
9.	"When the Heartache Is Over" (Music video)
10.	"Whatever You Need" (Music video)

Personnel

Credits are taken from the album's liner notes.^[5]

Performance credits

lead vocals – Tina Turner
Background vocals – Tracy Ackerman, Bryan Adams, Terry Britten

Instruments

Acoustic guitar - Pete Lincoln
Bass - Pino Palladino
Guitar - Terry Britten, Phil Hudson, Milton McDonald, Phil Palmer, Adam Phililps, Alan Ross
Harmonica - Peter Hope Evans
Horns - Duncan Mackay, Mike Stevens, Nichol Thompson
Other Instrumentation – Absolute, Marcus Brown, Dave Clews, Johnny Douglas, Graham Stack, Mark Taylor
Keyboards - Mark Taylor
Programming - Bruno Bridges
Strings - The London Musicians Orchestra
Trumpet - Steve Sidwell

Technical and production

Record producers – Absolute, Terry Britten, Johnny Douglas, Brian Rawling, Mark Taylor
Engineering – Marc Lane, Ren Swan, Paul Wright - sound engineer

Charts

Chart (1999)	Peak position
Austrian Albums Chart^[6]	5
Belgium (Flanders) Albums Chart^[6]	9
Belgium (Wallonia) Albums Chart^[6]	16
Canadian Albums Chart	9
Dutch Albums Chart^[6]	24
Finnish Albums Chart^[6]	6
French Albums Chart^[6]	23
German Albums Chart	3
Norwegian Albums Chart^[6]	5
Swedish Albums Chart^[6]	6
Swiss Albums Chart^[6]	1
UK Albums Chart	9
US Billboard 200^[7]	21
US R&B/Hip-Hop Albums^[7]	29

Release history

Region	Date	Label	Format	Catalogue
Germany	October 28, 1999	Parlophone	CD
United Kingdom	November 1, 1999	Parlophone		724352318025
United States	February 1, 2000	Virgin Records
United Kingdom	July 10, 2000	Parlophone	2CD	724352721306

References

^ [Twenty Four Seven (Tina Turner album) at Allmusic Almusic review]
^ PopMatters review
^ Rolling Stone review
^ http://www.soundspike.com/news/2/577-tina_turner_news/
^ (1999) Release notes for Twenty Four Seven by Tina Turner (CD liner). Parlophone Records.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ "Tina Turner - Twenty Four Seven - austriancharts.at" (in German). Ö3 Austria Top 40. Hung Medien. http://austriancharts.at/showitem.asp?interpret=Tina+Turner&titel=Twenty+Four+Seven&cat=a. Retrieved 2011-05-20.
^ ^a ^b "Twenty Four Seven - Tina Turner". Billboard. http://www.billboard.com/album/tina-turner/twenty-four-seven/393819. Retrieved 2011-05-20.

Tina Turner

Studio albums	Tina Turns the Country On! · Acid Queen · Rough · Love Explosion · Private Dancer · Break Every Rule · Foreign Affair · Wildest Dreams · Twenty Four Seven

Live albums	Tina Live in Europe · VH1 Divas Live '99 · Tina Live

Soundtracks	Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome · What's Love Got to Do with It

Compilations	Simply the Best · The Collected Recordings – Sixties to Nineties · All the Best · Tina! · The Platinum Collection

Videography	One Last Time Live in Concert · All the Best – The Live Collection · Tina Live

Tours	Private Dancer · Break Every Rule · Foreign Affair · What's Love? · Wildest Dreams · Twenty Four Seven · Tina!: 50th Anniversary

Related articles	Discography · Awards · Ike & Tina Turner · I, Tina · What's Love Got to Do with It (film)

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Tina Turner singles

Acid Queen	"Baby Get It On" (with Ike Turner) · "Whole Lotta Love" · "Acid Queen"

Rough	"Viva La Money" · "Root, Toot Undisputable Rock 'n Roller" · "Sometimes When We Touch" · "Night Time Is the Right Time"

Love Explosion	"Love Explosion" · "Back Stabbers" · "Music Keeps Me Dancin'"

Private Dancer	"Let's Stay Together" · "Help!" · "What's Love Got to Do With It" · "Better Be Good to Me" · "Private Dancer" · "I Can't Stand the Rain" · "Show Some Respect"

Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome	"We Don't Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)" · "One of the Living"

Break Every Rule	"Typical Male" · "Back Where You Started" · "Two People" · "Girls" · "What You Get Is What You See" · "Break Every Rule" · "Paradise Is Here" · "Afterglow"

Tina Live in Europe	"Nutbush City Limits (Live)" · "Addicted to Love (Live)" · "Tonight (Live)" (with David Bowie) · "A Change Is Gonna Come (Live)" · "634-5789 (Live)" (with Robert Cray)

Foreign Affair	"The Best" · "I Don't Wanna Lose You" · "Steamy Windows" · "Look Me in the Heart" · "Foreign Affair" · "Be Tender with Me Baby"

Simply the Best	"Nutbush City Limits (The 90s Version)" · "Way of the World" · "Love Thing" · "I Want You Near Me" · "(Simply) The Best" (with Jimmy Barnes)

What's Love Got to Do with It	"I Don't Wanna Fight" · "Disco Inferno" · "Why Must We Wait Until Tonight" · "Proud Mary (1993 Version)"

Wildest Dreams	"GoldenEye" · "Whatever You Want" · "On Silent Wings" · "Missing You" · "Something Beautiful Remains" · "In Your Wildest Dreams" (with Barry White)

Twenty Four Seven	"When the Heartache Is Over" · "Whatever You Need" · "Don't Leave Me This Way" · "Talk to My Heart"

All the Best	"Open Arms" · "Complicated Disaster"

Guest singles	"Ball of Confusion" (with B.E.F.) · "Tonight" (with David Bowie) · "It's Only Love" (with Bryan Adams) · "Tearing Us Apart" (with Eric Clapton) · "It Takes Two" (with Rod Stewart) · "Cose Della Vita" (with Eros Ramazzotti) · "Teach Me Again" (with Elisa)

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