Good News (Album)
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Studio album by Lena | |||||
Publication |
February 8, 2011 (D + AT) |
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admission |
December 2010 – January 2011 |
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Label (s) | USFO ( Universal ) | ||||
Format (s) |
CD, download |
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Title (number) |
12 |
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running time |
38:40 min |
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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 |
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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 |
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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
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source | rating |
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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.
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Songs with chart positions
year | Title album |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
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2011 | Taken by a stranger |
DE2 (21 weeks) DE |
AT18 (8 weeks) AT |
CH29 (2 weeks) CH |
First published: February 18, 2011
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Push forward |
DE15 (4 weeks) DE |
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First published: February 18, 2011, download only
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Maybe |
DE53 (2 weeks) DE |
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First published: February 18, 2011, download only
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A million and one |
DE55 (1 week) DE |
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First published: February 18, 2011, download only
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Mama told me |
DE58 (1 week) DE |
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First published: February 18, 2011, download only
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What a man |
DE21 (4 weeks) DE |
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First published: September 2, 2011
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Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.schaub-factory.de/ Reinhard Schaub, official website
- ↑ Kölner Stadtanzeiger: Lena discovers slowness from February 7, 2011
- ↑ Legendary Hotel Bogota at the end , Welt-Online
- ↑ http://www.laut.de/Lena/Good-News-%28Album%29
- ↑ http://www.cdstarts.de/kritiken/107368-Lena-Meyer-Landrut-Good-News.html
- ↑ http://www.letmeentertainyou.de/artikel_5333.html
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Uwe Jansen: Soundtrack for the TV casting: Lena's second album. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung , February 9, 2011.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Felix Beyer: A lot of rumble, no killers. In: Der Spiegel , February 9, 2011.
- ↑ Tillman P. Gangloff: Lena's new album reveals weaknesses. In: Neue Westfälische , February 10, 2011
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Michael Pilz: On your new record only one song fits Lena. In: Die Welt , February 10, 2011.
- ↑ http://www.musikindustrie.de/gold_platin_datenbank/#topSearch
- ↑ a b c Chart sources: DE AT CH
- ↑ Chart sources for annual charts: Germany , Austria , Switzerland