Elevate (album)

Elevate
Big Time Rush studio album
Publication (s)	November 18, 2011
admission	2010-2011
Label (s)	Columbia Records
Format (s)	CD, download
Genre (s)	Teen pop
Title (number)	12 (13)
running time	40:44 (43:56)
occupation	Singing : Logan Henderson , James Maslow , Carlos PenaVega Jr. , Kendall Schmidt Rap : Man , Iyaz
chronology Holiday Bundle 2010 Elevate Big Time Movie Soundtrack 2012
Single releases June 22, 2011 If I Ruled The World November 1, 2011 Music Sounds Better With U

Elevate is the second studio album by the American boy band Big Time Rush . It was released on Columbia Records in association with Nickelodeon . The album was released three days earlier in Germany than in the USA .

Background and appearance

In creating the album, Big Time Rush worked with producers such as JR Rotem , The-Dream , Jay Sean and Ryan Tedder . The production of the album took anywhere from nine months to a year. The band worked on the album for most of it during their US tour.

On June 6, 2011, Big Time Rush announced that there would be a second album. The first promo single If I Ruled The World was released on June 22, 2011. Initially, November 15, 2011 was considered the album's release date, but this was changed to November 21, 2011. On October 14, 2011 it was announced that that the album should be released in Germany three days earlier, on November 18th. Thus, November 18, 2011 was the release date of Elevate , but you could hear the album on Simfy a week earlier, so from November 11, 2011. The album was then named after the song Elevate , which means "to raise" in German means. That the album name Elevate to carry, gave Kendall Schmidt in an interview. At first it was planned that the song Intermission should also be included in the album, but then removed it again. The official list of titles from Elevate was published on October 21, 2011 in the US magazine Celebuzz . The second and final promo single Music Sounds Better With U was released on November 1, 2011.

In the USA , three specials for the album were shown: The music video of If I Ruled the World was shown on July 23, 2011 on Nickelodeon . The music video from Music Sounds Better With U was then shown on November 12, 2011 on Nickelodeon under the title "BTR: Music Sounds Better With U". The third special was a thirteen-minute film entitled "Big Time Rush: Music Sounds Better With U", which showed scenes from their first US tour and the four band members could be seen while recording the album. In Germany, only the music video from Music Sounds Better With U has been shown on Nickelodeon under the same title as in the USA on November 13, 2011, one day later than in the USA .

Overall, the four band members wrote, together or individually, on eight of the thirteen songs, which was only the case with the song Oh Yeah on the previous studio album BTR .

Commercial win

The album debuted at number 12 in the US, while it was already number 3 on BTR . In Germany it debuted at number 33 and was only in the charts for a week, just like in Switzerland, where it debuted at number 76. Despite everything, Elevate sold more than BTR (66,000 sales) in the first week in the US .

Track list

#	title	Featuring	Songwriter	Producer (s)	length
01	Music Sounds Better With U	man	Ryan Tedder , Big Time Rush, Thomas Bangalter , Benjamin Cohen, Brent Kutzle, Eric Bellinger, Frank Musker, Noel Zancanella, Alain Quême	Ryan Tedder	03:09
02	Show me		Lucas Secon, Wayne Hector, Donald McLean	Lucas Secon	02:50
03	All over again		Brian Kennedy Seals, Damon Sharpe, Drew Ryan Scott	Brian Kennedy Seals, Dante Jones	03:37
04th	No idea		Alexander Gaskarth, Terius Nash, Christopher Stewart	Christopher Stewart, Terius Nash, Kuk Harrell	04:59
05	Cover girl		Kendall Schmidt , Toby Gad, Lindy Robbins	Toby Gad	03:00
06th	Love me love me		Big Time Rush, Sharpe Ole Broderson, Mich Hansen, Kasper Larsen, Damon Sharpe	CutFather, Christopher Rojas, Damon Sharpe, Kay, Industry	03:01
07th	If I Ruled the World	Iyaz	Emanuel Kiriakou, Evan Bogart, Lindy Robbins	Emanuel Kiriakou	03:00
08th	Invisible		Carlos Pena , Charley Greenberg, Cody Williams, Daniel Andrew Wayne, Jonathan Rotem	Jonathan Rotem	03:20
09	Time of Our Life		Logan Henderson , Nicholas Furlong, Jordan Suecof, Antario Holmes	Infinity	03:27
10	Superstar		Big Time Rush, Jay Sean , Robert W. Larow, Jeremy Skaller, Jared Cotter, Khaled Rohaim	J Remy, Bobby Bass, Damon Sharpe	03:23
11	You're not alone		Kendall Schmidt, Christopher Rojas, Steven Batty, Carlos Batty	Christopher Rojas	03:53
12	Elevate		James Maslow , Damon Sharpe, Johnny Powers Severin, Eric Sanicola	Damon Sharpe, Johnny Powers Severin, Eric Sanicola	03:05
iTunes bonus tracks
13	Blow your speakers		Matt Palmer, Pascal Guyon	Fraser T. Smith	03:12

Charts

album

Charts	Top ranking	Weeks
Chart placements
Germany (GfK)	33 (4 weeks)	4th
Austria (Ö3)	32 (4 weeks)	4th
Switzerland (IFPI)	76 (2 weeks)	2
United Kingdom (OCC)	72 (1 week)	1
United States (Billboard)	12 (22 weeks)	22nd

Singles

• 2011: If I Ruled the World ¹
• 2011: Music Sounds Better With U

¹ If I Ruled the World was ranked 6th in the “Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles Charts”, but this is not an official single chart placement.

Better With U Tour

Better With U Tour

by Big Time Rush

Presentation album	Elevate
Beginning of the tour	17th February 2012
End of the tour	March 9, 2012
Total concerts (by country)	* 14 in the USA 1 in Canada
Concerts in total	15th
Show acts	2

From February 17 to March 9, 2012, Big Time Rush represented the album on the Better With U Tour . It went mainly through the USA , but one concert was held in Canada . On the tour, the British band was One Direction , which in the British version of X Factor have finished third, the opening act .

date	Country	City, state / province	concert hall
17th February 2012	United States	Las Vegas , Nevada	Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino
February 18, 2012		Universal City, California	Gibson Amphitheater
19th February 2012		San Jose , California	Event Center
February 20, 2012		Sacramento , California	Sacramento Memorial Auditorium
February 22, 2012		Broomfield , Colorado	1st Bank Center
February 24, 2012		Rosemont, Illinois	Rosemont Theater
February 25, 2012		Detroit , Michigan	Fox Theater Detroit
February 26, 2012	Canada	Toronto , Ontario	Air Canada Center
February 28, 2012	United States	Albany , New York	The Palace Theater Albany
March 1, 2012		Mashantucket, Connecticut	The MGM Grand Theater
March 2, 2012		Fairfax , Virginia	Patriot Center
March 3, 2012		Boston , Massachusetts	Agganis Arena
March 6, 2012		Durham , North Carolina	Durham Performing Arts Center
March 7, 2012		Nashville , Tennessee	Bridgestone Arena
March 9, 2012		New York City , New York	Radio City Music Hall

Individual evidence

1. ↑ BigTimeRushTV.com: Catching Up with Big Time Rush ( Memento of the original from December 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed July 6, 2011) 
2. ↑ Nickutopia.com: Big Time Rush's second album gets a release date - November 15 ( Memento from January 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
3. ^ BTR Music News: Big Time News
4. ↑ BTR-Music-News.com: The 2nd album by Big Time Rush is called ...
5. ↑ WackyMusicCrazy: Music Leak: Big Time Rush "Intermission" ( Memento of the original from May 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ↑ Celebuzz.com: Big Time Rush drops latest single “Music Sounds Better With You” ( Memento of the original from October 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English) 
7. ↑ Billboard.com: Michael Buble Bests Nickelback, Rihanna on Billboard 200 (English)
8. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US