Bare (Annie Lennox album)

Bare
Studio album by Annie Lennox
Released 5 June 2003 (Europe)
10 June 2003 (North America)
Genre Pop, synthpop, soul
Length 49:23
Label RCA (UK)
J (US)
Producer Stephen Lipson
Andy Wright
Annie Lennox
Annie Lennox chronology

Medusa
(1995)		 Bare
(2003)		 Songs of Mass Destruction
(2007)
Singles from Bare
  1. "Pavement Cracks"
    Released: June 2003
  2. "A Thousand Beautiful Things"
    Released: March 2004
  3. "Wonderful"
    Released: June 2004
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source Rating
Metacritic 68[1]
Review scores
Source Rating
About.com [2]
Allmusic [3]
Entertainment Weekly (B-)[4]
The Guardian [5]
Houston Chronicle A−[6]
Los Angeles Times [7]
The New York Times positive[8]
PopMatters [9]
Rolling Stone [10]
Slant Magazine [11]

Bare is the third studio album by Annie Lennox, released in June 2003. It peaked at number 3 in the UK and number 4 on the US Billboard 200. The album has been certified Gold in both the UK and the US and was nominated for Best Pop Album at the 46th Grammy Awards.

The album was released with a DVD which included interviews and acoustic versions of songs by Lennox. The Japanese edition of the album features a version of Lennox's earlier hit "Cold" recorded live in Toronto.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Annie Lennox. 

No. Title Length
1. "A Thousand Beautiful Things"   3:07
2. "Pavement Cracks"   5:10
3. "The Hurting Time"   7:32
4. "Honestly"   5:01
5. "Wonderful"   4:17
6. "Bitter Pill"   4:01
7. "Loneliness"   4:01
8. "The Saddest Song I've Got"   4:09
9. "Erased"   4:40
10. "Twisted"   4:12
11. "Oh God (Prayer)"   2:51
12. "Cold" (live) (Japanese bonus track) 5:32

Singles

No singles were released from the album in the UK, though "Pavement Cracks" and "Wonderful" were released as a CD maxi-single and a limited CD Single respectively in the US, while "A Thousand Beautiful Things" was released as a radio single only. No music videos were shot for the songs but all three singles were remixed extensively and all reached the No.1 position on the US Dance chart. However the live versions of "A Thousand Beautiful Things" and "Pavement Cracks" were made as music videos instead and the videos were later included on The Annie Lennox Collection DVD.

Certifications

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Region Certification Sales/shipments
Canada (Music Canada)[12] Gold 50,000^
United Kingdom (BPI)[13] Gold 100,000^
United States (RIAA)[14] Gold 826,000[15]

^shipments figures based on certification alone
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According to official SoundScan figures, the album had sold a total of 826,000 copies in the United States by 2007.[15]

Charts

Chart positions

Chart (2003) Peak
position
Australian ARIA Album Chart[16] 10
Austrian Albums Chart[17] 17
Belgian Albums Chart (Flanders)[18] 20
Belgian Albums Chart (Wallonia)[19] 15
Canadian Albums Chart[20] 8
Danish Albums Chart[21] 13
Dutch Albums Chart[22] 18
French SNEP Albums Chart[23] 34
German Media Control Albums Chart[24] 5
Irish Albums Chart[25] 23
Italian Albums Chart[26] 7
Japanese Oricon Albums Chart[27] 117
New Zealand Albums Chart[28] 20
Norwegian VG-lista Albums Chart[29] 16
Swedish Albums Chart[30] 29
Swiss Albums Chart[31] 7
UK Albums Chart[32] 3
US Billboard 200[20] 4

Year-end charts

Chart (2003) Position
Italian Albums Chart[33] 72
Swiss Albums Chart[34] 91
US Billboard 200[35] 103

References

  1. ↑ "'Bare' reviews". metacritic.com. Retrieved 18 November 2011.
  2. ↑ About.com Review
  3. ↑ Allmusic Review
  4. ↑ Tucker, Ken (13 January 2003). "Bare Review". ew.com (Entertainment Weekly). Retrieved 26 November 2011.
  5. ↑ Sullivan, Caroline (6 June 2003). "Bare Review". guardian.co.uk (London: The Guardian). Retrieved 30 August 2011.
  6. ↑ Clark, Michael D. (14 June 2003). "'Bare' by Annie Lennox". Retrieved 4 November 2011.
  7. ↑ Hilburn, Robert (8 June 2003). "Record Rack: Another bang-up Metallica job". articles.latimes.com (Los Angeles Times). Retrieved 7 November 2011.
  8. ↑ "Critic's Notebook; Old Songs Revisited By Voices of Today". The New York Times. 28 November 2003. Retrieved 7 November 2011. |first1= missing |last1= in Authors list (help)
  9. ↑ PopMatters Review
  10. ↑ Rolling Stone Review
  11. ↑ Slant Magazine Review
  12. ↑ "Canadian album certifications – Annie Lennox – Bare". Music Canada.
  13. ↑ "British album certifications – Annie Lennox – Bare". British Phonographic Industry. Enter Bare in the field Keywords. Select Title in the field Search by. Select album in the field By Format. Select Gold in the field By Award. Click Search
  14. ↑ "American album certifications – Annie Lennox – Bare". Recording Industry Association of America. If necessary, click Advanced, then click Format, then select Album, then click SEARCH
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 "Ask Billboard". Retrieved 2011.
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  22. ↑ "dutchcharts.nl Annie Lennox – Bare". dutchcharts.nl (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved 2 July 2012.
  23. ↑ "lescharts.com Annie Lennox – Bare". lescharts.com (in French). SNEP. Retrieved 31 January 2014.
  24. ↑ "Album Search: Annie Lennox – Bare" (in German). Media Control. Retrieved 2 July 2012.
  25. ↑ "Top 75 Artist Album, Week Ending 19 June 2003". Irish Recorded Music Association. Chart-Track. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
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  27. ↑ アニー・レノックス-リリース-ORICON STYLE-ミュージック "Highest position and charting weeks of Bare by Annie Lennox". oricon.co.jp (in Japanese). Oricon Style. Retrieved 2 July 2012.
  28. ↑ "charts.org.nz Annie Lennox – Bare". Hung Medien. Recording Industry Association of New Zealand. Retrieved 2 July 2012.
  29. ↑ "norwegiancharts.com Annie Lennox – Bare". Hung Medien. VG-lista. Retrieved 2 July 2012.
  30. ↑ "swedishcharts.com Annie Lennox – Bare" (in Swedish). Retrieved 2 July 2012.
  31. ↑ "Annie Lennox – Bare – hitparade.ch". Hung Medien (in German). Swiss Music Charts. Retrieved 2 July 2012.
  32. ↑ "Annie Lennox > Artists > Official Charts". UK Albums Chart. Retrieved 10 October 2013.
  33. ↑ "Hit Parade Italia – Gli album più venduti del 2003" (in Italian). hitparadeitalia.it. Retrieved 2 July 2012.
  34. ↑ "Hitparade.ch – Schweizer Jahreshitparade 2003". Swiss Music Charts (in Swedish). Hung Medien. Retrieved 2 July 2012.
  35. ↑ "Billboard.BIZ – Year-end Charts – Billboard 200 – 2003". billboard.biz. Retrieved 2 November 2011.