Good News (Album)

Good news
Studio album by Lena
Publication (s)	February 8, 2011 (D + AT) February 11, 2011 (CH) February 28, 2011 (UK, download only)
admission	December 2010 – January 2011
Label (s)	USFO ( Universal )
Format (s)	CD, download
Genre (s)	pop
Title (number)	12
running time	38:40 min
production	Stefan Raab , Reinhard Schaub
chronology My Cassette Player (2010) Good news Stardust (2012)
Single releases February 22, 2011 Taken by a stranger September 2, 2011 What a man

Good News is the second studio album by German singer Lena Meyer-Landrut . The producers are Stefan Raab and Reinhard Schaub . All twelve songs were presented for the first time in the television program Unser Song für Deutschland , the German preliminary decision for the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest . Meyer-Landrut presented six songs in the live broadcasts on January 31 and February 7, 2011. The album was offered for download on February 7, 2011 and went on sale on February 8, 2011.

Songs

Good News summarizes all the songs that were presented in the TV program Unser Song für Deutschland , the German preliminary decision for the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest . From September 2010 around 600 songs were listened to and in December 2010 the actual album production began. Twelve songs were released as studio versions on the album Good News . Meyer-Landrut was involved in the text and melody of the songs Mama Told Me and What Happened to Me . Two songs - the theme song Good News and A Good Day - were composed by Audra Mae , a great niece of Judy Garland . The songs Maybe and Push Forward come from the Berlin duo Daniel Schaub and Pär Lammers , who already contributed the compositions I Just Want Your Kiss and We Can't Go On for the album My Cassette Player . At All is a title that Aloe Blacc wrote for Meyer-Landrut. The Hanoverian duo Errol Rennalls and Stavros Ioannou from the Peppermint Jam Records label contributed the song A Million and One . Stefan Raab wrote the song That Again . Rosi Golan, who already wrote the song Bee from the album My Cassette Player , and the Irish musician Johnny McDaid composed the ballad I Like You together over the Internet. The title Taken by a Stranger was penned by Gus Seyffert, Nicole Morier and Monica Birkenes. It was chosen on February 18, 2011 for the German entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 in Düsseldorf and released as a single on February 22, 2011. The songs Push Forward , Maybe , A Million and One and Mama Told Me were published digitally on February 18, 2011 and reached the top 100 of the German single charts on March 1, 2011 at the same time as Taken by a Stranger .

Track list

Standard Edition

No.	title	Songwriter	production	length
1.	Good news	Audra Mae , Ferras Alqaisi	Stefan Raab , Reinhard Schaub	3:05
2.	What Happened to Me	Stefan Raab, Lena Meyer-Landrut	Raab	3:37
3.	A million and one	Errol Rennalls, Stavros Ioannou	Raab, Schaub	3:11
4th	Maybe	Daniel Schaub , Par Lammers	Raab, Schaub	3:06
5.	I like you	Rosi Golan, Johnny McDaid	Raab	2:51
6th	Mama told me	Raab, Meyer-Landrut	Raab	2:51
7th	Push forward	Schaub, Lammers	Raab, Schaub	3:37
8th.	A good day	Mae, Todd Edgar Wright, Scott Simons	Raab, Schaub	3:19
9.	Taken by a stranger	Gus Seyffert, Nicole Morier, Monica Birkenes	Raab, Schaub	3:24
10.	Teenage girls	Viktoria Hansen, Lili Tarkow-Reinisch, Yacine Azeggagh	Raab	3:13
11.	That again	Raab	Raab	3:03
12.	At all	Egbert Nathaniel Dawkins	Raab	3:21
Overall length:				38:40

Platinum Edition

No.	title	Songwriter	production	length
13.	What a man	Dave Crawford	Raab	2:54
14th	Who'd Want to Find Love	Ellie Goulding , Jonny Lattimer	Raab, Schaub	2:57
15th	Drop It Like It's Hot (Intro) / I Like to Bang My Head (Live)	Calvin Broadus , Chad Hugo , Pharrell Williams / Raab, Meyer-Landrut	Andreas Grimm	4:29
16.	Good News (Live)	Mae, Alqaisi	Grim	3:24
17th	Taken by a Stranger (Live)	Seyffert, Morier, Birkenes	Grim	3:37
18th	Satellite (Live)	Julie Frost , John Gordon	Grim	4:08
19th	New Shoes (Live)	Matty Benbrook, Jim Duguid, Paolo Nutini	Grim	6:08

Cover

The CD cover photographed by Sandra Ludewig shows Lena Meyer-Landrut sitting on a bed and leaning against the footboard. The picture was taken at the Hotel Bogota in Berlin (1964–2013). The Berlin company Eat, Sleep + Design designed the booklet.

reception

criticism

Professional reviews
Reviews
source	rating
According to
CDStarts
LetMeEntertainYou
Pooltrax	positive

Uwe Jansen wrote in the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung that Lena's voice sounds too good for a soul piece like Mama Told Me . At Pooltrax it was criticized that not every song on the album was a hit, but that Lena certainly had potential. The magazine Der Spiegel criticized that a “true killer single” could not be heard on the album, but “a lot of rumble”. Die Neue Westfälische noticed that the album only works live and on stage. The Mannheimer Morgen wrote that the twelve songs work better as a pop album than the hastily cobbled together My Cassette Player . The world described the album as "a strange record on which songs compete with one another".

Charts

On the first day of sale, the album was already number 1 on the download portals Musicload , iTunes and Amazon . After a week it took first place in the German album charts and after three months it reached platinum status with over 200,000 copies sold.

album

Chart placements Charts Top ranking Weeks Chart placements  Germany (GfK) 1 (22 weeks) 22nd  Austria (Ö3) 7th (11 weeks) 11  Switzerland (IFPI) 15th (14 weeks) 14th

Annual charts Charts (2011) placement Annual charts (2011)  Germany (GfK) 20th

Songs with chart positions

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		DE	AT	CH
2011	Taken by a stranger	DE2 (21 weeks) DE	AT18 (8 weeks) AT	CH29 (2 weeks) CH	First published: February 18, 2011
	Push forward	DE15 (4 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: February 18, 2011, download only
	Maybe	DE53 (2 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: February 18, 2011, download only
	A million and one	DE55 (1 week) DE	-	-	First published: February 18, 2011, download only
	Mama told me	DE58 (1 week) DE	-	-	First published: February 18, 2011, download only
	What a man	DE21 (4 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: September 2, 2011

Web links

• NDR.de: The songwriters for Lena
• NDR.de: The first three songs for Lena
• Simfy : "Good News"

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.schaub-factory.de/ Reinhard Schaub, official website
2. ↑ Kölner Stadtanzeiger: Lena discovers slowness from February 7, 2011
3. ↑ Legendary Hotel Bogota at the end , Welt-Online
4. ↑ http://www.laut.de/Lena/Good-News-%28Album%29
5. ↑ http://www.cdstarts.de/kritiken/107368-Lena-Meyer-Landrut-Good-News.html
6. ↑ http://www.letmeentertainyou.de/artikel_5333.html
7. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from March 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
8. ↑ Uwe Jansen: Soundtrack for the TV casting: Lena's second album. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung , February 9, 2011.
9. ↑ Pooltrax: CD review Lena: Good News ( Memento of the original from March 22, 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. February 8, 2011. 
10. ↑ Felix Beyer: A lot of rumble, no killers. In: Der Spiegel , February 9, 2011.
11. ↑ Tillman P. Gangloff: Lena's new album reveals weaknesses. In: Neue Westfälische , February 10, 2011
12. ↑ Jörg-Peter Klotz: Not all good news. ( Memento of the original from February 13, 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. In: Mannheimer Morgen , February 10, 2011.  
13. ↑ Michael Pilz: On your new record only one song fits Lena. In: Die Welt , February 10, 2011.
14. ↑ http://www.musikindustrie.de/gold_platin_datenbank/#topSearch
15. ↑ ^{a b c} Chart sources: DE AT CH
16. ↑ Chart sources for annual charts: Germany , Austria , Switzerland