On My Own (album)

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On my own
Queensberry studio album

Publication
(s)

2009

Label (s) Starwatch Music

Format (s)

CD

Genre (s)

pop

Title (number)

12

running time

56:28

occupation Leonore Bartsch
Gabriella De Almeida Rinne
Antonella Trapani
Victoria Ulbrich

production

Pete Kirtley, Kid Crazy, Philip Larsen, Alex Geringas, Bernd Klimpel, John McLaughlin, David James, Petone & Henrik Menzel, Naive, Machopsycho, Pete Kirtley, Christian Ballard, Andrew Murray

Studio (s)

Studio mezzanine, Hamburg (Tracks 2 - 11)
Lexland Studios, Hamburg (Track 1 & 12)

chronology
Volume I. On my own Chapter 3

On My Own ( English for on your own ) is the second studio album of girl group Queensberry , set up under the 2008 talent show Popstars was compiled.

backgrounds

On My Own , like the debut album Volume I , was released on November 6, 2009 on the Starwatch Music label, which belongs to the Warner Music Group , as all winners of the Popstars talent show signed a contract with Starwatch Music, which works closely with ProSiebenSat. 1 media group works together, are bound.

The album could no longer build on the success of the previous album and only reached number 26 in the German album charts . Overall, the album only stayed in the charts for 3 weeks.

reception

The album was rather mixed to poorly received by the press. Laut.de mainly criticizes the interchangeability of the songs. The single release Hello (Turn Your Radio On) is "stripped of all substance" and the "pleasantly psychotic note of the original has disappeared". However, the song Girl like Me (Nonchalant) is praised as "pleasantly catchy" and with a "successful beat structure".

Computerbild.de criticizes that little is heard of the band's announced maturation process. Also the monotony of the songs was criticized again as well as the singing of the band members in the lower voices.

Track list

  1. Too Young (Kid Crazy, Eric Palmqwist) - 3:42
  2. Hello (Turn Your Radio On) ( Siobhan Fahey , Jean Guiot, Marcy Levy ) - 3:15
  3. Every Now and Then (Teemu Brunila, Jukka Immonen) - 3:44
  4. I Feel You ( Alex Geringas , Bernd Klimpel, Dimitri Ehrlich) - 3:49
  5. On My Own ( Kara DioGuardi , Patrick Berger) - 4:03
  6. Lifelong Lovesong ( Brandur Enni , Fredrik Thomander, Anders Wikström) - 3:30
  7. Girl like Me (Nonchalant) (Robert Hazard) - 3:16
  8. Selfish (Naive, Patric Kjellström, Charlie Mason) - 2:43
  9. Replay (Machopsycho, Kaci Brown ) - 3:37
  10. Scandalous (K. DioGuardi, Fred Nassar) - 3:40
  11. Changes (Peter-John Vettese, Sarah Whatmore) - 4:04
  12. Love on the Radio (Pete Kirtley, Sacha Collisson) - 3:22

Musicload Bonus Track

  • Hello (Turn Your Radio On) (Remix) - 3:53

Itunes bonus track

  • Forgive and Forget

Amazon Bonus Track

  • Lifelong Lovesong (Unplugged) - 3:30

Single releases

Too Young

The value written by Kid Crazy and Eric Palmqwist and produced by Pete Kirtley and Kid Crazy pop song, was in the Lexland Studios in Hamburg picked up and was already on the deluxe edition of the first album Volume I .

The song was released on Starwatch Music on June 5, 2009. Then the song rose to number 5 in the charts in Germany and was able to hold this position for 2 weeks. In total, the song stayed in the German single charts for 17 weeks, making it the band's most successful single.

The music video was shot in Miami in April 2009 .

Hello (Turn Your Radio On)

Hello (Turn Your Radio On) is written by Siobhan Fahey, Marcella Detroit and Jean Guiot and was first released in 1992 by the group Shakespears Sister . The Queensberry version was produced by Philip Larsen. The song debuted at number four on the Media Control Charts, which is the band's top ranking. The song held this position for a week and fell off the charts after 13 weeks. The band comments on the idea of ​​covering the song as follows:

“The idea to cover the song came to us on the tour bus. We talked about God and the world. About all the beautiful things and the opportunities, but also about the terrible things. The line: 'life is a strange thing, just when you think you've learned how to use it it's gone' should be a message to everyone to tackle their lives and do good. "

The accompanying music video in matt colors was shot in Hamburg .

Chart placements

album

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH
2009 On my own DE26 (3 weeks)
DE 		AT49 (1 week)
AT 		CH77 (1 week)
CH

Single releases

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH
2009 Too Young DE5 (17 weeks)
DE 		AT12 (11 weeks)
AT 		CH33 (6 weeks)
CH
Hello (Turn Your Radio On) DE4 (13 weeks)
DE 		AT12 (8 weeks)
AT 		CH29 (4 weeks)
CH

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ queensberry.de
  2. ↑ musicline.de ( Memento of the original from May 17, 2016 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.musicline.de
  3. ↑ laut.de
  4. ↑ computerbild.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.computerbild.de  
  5. ↑ queensberry.de
  6. ↑ queensberry.de
  7. ↑ Sources: DE ( Memento of the original from June 27, 2009 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. AT CH @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.musicline.de