Supernatural (album)

Supernatural
Studio album by Carlos Santana
Publication (s)	June 14, 1999
admission	1998-1999
Label (s)	Arista / Sony BMG
Format (s)	CD , LP , MC
Genre (s)	Latin rock , alternative rock , blues rock
Title (number)	14th
running time	74 min 59 s
occupation	s. participating musicians
production	Carlos Santana, Clive Davis , Jerry Duplessis, The Dust Brothers , Alex Gonzales, Charles Goodan, Stephen Harris, Lauryn Hill , Art Hodge, Wyclef Jean , Fher Olvera, KC Porter, Dante Ross, Matt Serletic
chronology Brothers (1994) Supernatural Shaman (2002)
Single releases June 29, 1999 Smooth November 23, 1999 Maria Maria March 28, 2000 Put your lights on June 13, 2000 Corazón Espinado

Supernatural is the 19th studio album by Mexican guitarist Carlos Santana . It was released in German-speaking countries on June 14, 1999 by Sony BMG and is one of Santana's most successful albums , winning eight Grammys in 2000 and selling around 11,700,000 copies .

Emergence

The recordings on the album were made between 1998 and 1999. In addition to various producers, different recording and mixing locations were chosen. Most of the recordings took place in California ; the Fantasy Studios in Berkeley were mainly used for mixing . In addition, Santana worked; similar to later with Shaman ; with various guest musicians. These include the songwriter Dave Matthews , the hip-hop musician Everlast , the American musician Rob Thomas , Cee-Lo Green , the songwriter Lauryn Hill , the Mexican rock group Maná , the Swedish musician Eagle-Eye Cherry and the British musician Eric Clapton . The album was released on June 15, 1999 in the USA.

Track list

#	title	Lyricists / composers	length	Guest musician	Producers
1.	(Da Le) Yaleo	S. Ra, C. Santana & C. Polloni	5:51		Carlos Santana
2.	Love of My Life *	C. Santana & D. Matthews	5:48	Dave Matthews	Stephen M. Harris & Carlos Santana
3.	Put your lights on	E. Schrody	4:47	Everlast	Dante Ross
4th	Africa Bamba	I. Touré, S. Tidiane Touré , C. Santana & K. Perazzo	4:40		Carlos Santana
5.	Smooth	Rob Thomas / Itaal Shur & Rob Thomas	4:56	Rob Thomas	Matt Serletic
6th	Do you like the way	L. Hill	5:52	Lauryn Hill & Cee-Lo	Lauryn Hill
7th	Maria Maria	W. Jean, J. Duplessis, C. Santana, K. Perazzo & R. Rekow	4:21	The Product G&B	Wyclef Jean & Jerry “Wonder” Duplessis
8th.	Migra	R. Taha, C. Santana, & T. Lindsay	5:24		KC Porter & Carlos Santana
9.	Corazón Espinado	F. Olvera	4:32	Maná	KC Porter & Fher Olvera
10.	Wishing It Was	Eagle-Eye Cherry, M. Simpson, J. King & M. Nishita	4:59	Eagle-Eye Cherry	The Dust Brothers (John King & Michael Simpson)
11.	El Farol	C. Santana & KC Porter	4:49		KC Porter
12.	Primavera	KC Porter & JB Eckl	6:19		KC Porter
13.	The calling	C. Santana & C. Thompson	7:48	Eric Clapton	Carlos Santana
14th	Day of Celebration **	C. Santana, C. Thompson & T. Lindsay	4:29		Carlos Santana

* Inspired by Johannes Brahms ' Symphony No. 3 in F major, Op. 90
** Hidden track , not shown on the original CD

Publications

In addition to the standard release of the CD album, Supernatural was also released as double vinyl (180 gram LPs) and on CD singles or EP singles with almost all the songs from this album as well as concert DVDs. At least two of the multiple concert recordings from the 2000 Supernatural tour are considered legally released DVD releases. A so-called guitar camera was used at a club concert, which provided detailed video scenes of Santana's guitar solos.

Reviews

source	rating
Laut.de
Allmusic
Whiskey soda	Note 1
Reviewer
Rolling Stone
Sputnik Music

The album received mostly positive reviews from music critics . In almost all reviews, the title Do You Like The Way with Lauryn Hill falls slightly below the other tracks. [It] is just full blown hip-hop and R&B writes Sputnik Music about it.

The Laut.de editorial team awarded 4 out of 5 possible stars and praised the versatility of the album as well as the many guest contributions on the album.

Stephen Thomas Erlewine also gave Allmusic 4 out of 5 possible stars and said that the songs were very good, but due to a missing lead voice and the many different guest contributions, he missed a little consistency.

The alternative music magazine Whiskey Soda awarded the school grade 1 and wrote about the album that it was an excellent comeback, but still had some gaps.

Rezensator.de thinks about the album that Santana tries to transition to other music styles by including younger artists, but does not always manage to do so. Nevertheless, the album is described as an "outstanding comeback" and receives six out of ten points.

The Rolling Stone Ruled Some titles prove that Santana is supernaturally graceful without receiving too much help from anyone. Who could not allow such an enduring guitar god a big, star-studded shot at the living la vida loca? ( [Some] tracks prove that Santana remains supernaturally graceful without too much help from anyone. Who could begrudge such an enduring guitar god another big, star-studded shot at living la vida loca? ) And awarded 3.5 out of 5 stars.

Charts and awards

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

Supernatural   DE 1 06/28/1999 (85 weeks)   AT 1 07/18/1999 (61 weeks)   CH 1 06/27/1999 (82 weeks)   UK 1 09/04/1999 (55 weeks)   US 1 01/22/2000 (103 weeks)

Singles

Smooth   DE 57 01/01/2001 (1 week)   AT 9 January 16, 2000 (14 weeks)   CH 18th 02/06/2000 (22 weeks)   UK 3 10/23/1999 (11 weeks)   US 1 10/23/1999 (58 weeks) Maria Maria   DE 1 02/21/2000 (22 weeks)   AT 3 March 26, 2000 (11 weeks)   CH 1 05.03.2000 (38 weeks)   UK 6th 08/05/2000 (9 weeks)   US 1 04/08/2000 (52 weeks) Corazón Espinado   CH 39 07/16/2000 (16 weeks) Put your lights on   CH 87 02/11/2001 (4 weeks)

The album reached number one in the respective album charts in Germany , Austria , Switzerland , the United Kingdom , the United States , Canada , France , the Netherlands , Sweden , Norway , Italy , Australia and New Zealand . It came in second in Finland and both parts of Belgium . In Germany, Switzerland and the USA the single Maria Maria reached number one in the single charts, in the USA Smooth did the same.

In the USA the album was awarded 15 platinum records , in Canada it was awarded a diamond record, which corresponds to ten platinum records. There were four platinum records in Australia and Switzerland, three awards in Spain . There were two platinum awards each in Germany, Austria, Mexico , France and Great Britain, and one platinum record was awarded in Brazil and Poland .

At the Grammy Awards in 2000, Carlos Santana received eight Grammys for the album. The album itself received the award for the best album and the best rock album . Carlos Santana was awarded for the best instrumental composition. The single Smooth was recognized for the recording of the year and the best collaboration in the field of pop music , Love Of My Life was also nominated for this category. The award for the best instrumental pop performance went to the single El Farol , Maria Maria received the award for the best performance by a pop group. Together with Eric Clapton, Santana received the award for the best instrumental performance for The Calling , for Put Your Lights On Santana and Everlast received the award for the best vocal group in the field of pop music.

Contributing musicians

• Carlos Santana - lead guitar , vocals , percussion
• Al Anderson - rhythm guitar (in Do You Like the Way )
• Tom Barney - bass (in Do You Like the Way )
• Carter Beauford - drums (in Love of My Life and Rain Down on Me (Legacy Edition 2010) )
• Cee-Lo Green - vocals (in Do You Like the Way )
• Eagle-Eye Cherry - vocals (in Wishing It Was )
• Eric Clapton - vocals, lead guitar, rhythm guitar (in The Calling )
• Jeremy Cohen - violin (in Maria Maria )
• Jeff Cressman - trombone (in Smooth )
• David Crockett - drums , percussion
• Joseph Daley - tuba (in Do You Like the Way )
• Francis Dunnery - rhythm guitar (in Do You Like the Way )
• Everlast - vocals, rhythm guitar (in Put Your Lights On )
• Fher - vocals (in Corazón Espinado )
• Abel Figueroa - Trumpet
• Ramon Flores - Trombone (in Migra )
• Earl Gardner - trumpet , flugelhorn (in Do You Like the Way )
• Mic Gillette - Trumpet (in Migra )
• Alex Gonzales - backing vocals (in Corazón Espinado )
• Joseph Hebert - cello (in Maria Maria )
• Horacio Hernández - drums (in Africa Bamba )
• Lauryn Hill - vocals (in Do You Like the Way )
• Loris Holland - Keyboard (in Do You Like the Way )
• Tony Lindsay - backing vocals
• Dave Matthews - guitar, vocals (in Love of My Life and Rain Down on Me (Legacy Edition 2010) )
• René Martínez - guitar
• Marvin McFadden - Trumpet (in Migra )
• Julius Melendez - Trumpet
• Nico Nibbering - keyboard
• William - Trumpet (in Smooth )
• Karl Perazzo - background vocals, percussion
• KC Porter - accordion , vocals
• Lenesha Randolph - backing vocals (in Do You Like the Way )
• Raul Rekow - percussion
• Benny Rietveld - bass
• Alberto Salas - Keyboard (in Corazón Espinado )
• Danny Seidenberg - viola (in Maria Maria )
• Angus Sutherland - guitar
• Rob Thomas - vocals (in Smooth )
• Chester Thompson - keyboard
• Steve Turre - trombone (in Do You Like the Way )
• Sergio Vallin - rhythm guitar (in Corazón Espinado )
• Danny Wolensky - saxophone , flute

Sales figures and awards

Country / Region	Award	Sales
Awards for music sales (country / region, Award, Sales)
Argentina (CAPIF)	2 × platinum	80,000
Australia (ARIA)	4 × platinum	280,000
Belgium (BEA)	2 × platinum	(100,000)
Brazil (PMB)	platinum	250,000
Germany (BVMI)	2 × platinum	(1,000,000)
Europe (IFPI)	6 × platinum	6,000,000
Finland (IFPI)	platinum	(50,291)
France (SNEP)	2 × platinum	(600,000)
Italy (FIMI)	gold	(25,000)
Japan (RIAJ)	platinum	200,000
Canada (MC)	diamond	1,000,000
Mexico (AMPROFON)	2 × platinum	300,000
New Zealand (RMNZ)	4 × platinum	60,000
Netherlands (NVPI)	2 × platinum	(160,000)
Austria (IFPI)	2 × platinum	(100,000)
Poland (ZPAV)	platinum	(100,000)
Sweden (IFPI)	platinum	(80,000)
Switzerland (IFPI)	4 × platinum	(200,000)
Spain (Promusicae)	2 × platinum	(200,000)
Hungary (MAHASZ)	gold	(10,000)
United States (RIAA)	15 × platinum	15,000,000
United Kingdom (BPI)	3 × platinum	(900,000)
All in all	2 × gold 48 × platinum 2 × diamond	23,210,000

Main article: Carlos Santana / Music Sales Awards

Web links

• Information on discogs.com
• Information and criticism on allmusic.com (English)
• Criticism on laut.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Overview of the Grammy Awards. On: latimes.com (English). Retrieved February 28, 2012
2. ↑ METALLICA's 'Black' album Remains Top-Selling LP Of SoundScan Era.  ( 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. On: roadrunnerrecords.com (English). Retrieved February 28, 2012  
3. ↑ Information about the album. On: discogs.com (English). Retrieved March 4, 2012
4. ↑ Credits from "Supernatural". On: allmusic.com (English). Retrieved March 4, 2012
5. ↑ ^{a b} Review: Santana, Supernatural. In: Sputnik Music . Retrieved October 14, 2017 . 
6. ↑ What else should a record by the grandmaster bring? A lot! In: Laut.de . Retrieved October 14, 2017 . 
7. ↑ Stephen Thomas Erlewine: Santana Supernatural . Review. In: Allmusic . Retrieved October 14, 2017 (English). 
8. ↑ Review: Santana, Supernatural. (No longer available online.) In: Whiskey Soda . Archived from the original on April 9, 2016 ; accessed on October 14, 2017 . 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.  
9. ↑ Marcel Peteroff: Album review Santana - Supernatural. In: Reviewer . Retrieved October 14, 2017 . 
10. ↑ David Wild: Review. Santana: Supernatural. In: Rolling Stone . June 9, 2003. Retrieved October 14, 2017 . 
11. ↑ ^{a b} Santana in the German album charts ( Memento of the original from October 17, 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. 
12. ↑ ^{a b} Santana in the Austrian charts
13. ↑ ^{a b c} Santana in the Swiss charts
14. ↑ ^{a b} Santana in the Official UK Charts (English)
15. ↑ ^{a b} Santana in the US Billboard 200 album charts
16. ↑ ^{a b} Santana in the German single charts ( Memento of the original from October 18, 2012 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. 
17. ↑ ^{a b c} Santana in the US Singles Chart Billboard Hot 100
18. ↑ Santana in the Canadian album charts
19. ↑ Santana in the French charts
20. ↑ Santana in the Dutch charts
21. ↑ Santana in the Swedish charts
22. ↑ Santana in the Norwegian charts
23. ↑ Santana in the Italian charts
24. ↑ Santana in the Australian charts
25. ↑ Santana in the New Zealand charts
26. ↑ Santana in the Finnish charts
27. ↑ Santana in the Flemish charts
28. ↑ Santana in the Walloon charts
29. ↑ Awards for Music Sales in the United States. On: riaa.com (English). Retrieved March 4, 2012
30. ↑ Awards for Music Sales in Canada. On: musiccanada.com (English). Retrieved March 4, 2012
31. ↑ Awards for Music Sales in Australia. On: aria.com.au (English). Retrieved March 4, 2012
32. ↑ Awards for music sales in Switzerland. On: swisscharts.com (English). Retrieved March 4, 2012
33. ↑ Awards for music sales in Spain. On: elmundo.es (Spanish). Retrieved March 4, 2012
34. ↑ Awards for music sales in Germany. On: musikindustrie.de. Retrieved March 4, 2012
35. ↑ Awards for music sales in Austria. On: ifpi.at. Retrieved March 4, 2012
36. ↑ Awards for Music Sales in Mexico. ( Memento of the original from April 28, 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. On: amprofon.com.mx (Spanish). Retrieved March 4, 2012 
37. ^ Awards for music sales in France. ( Memento of July 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) On: disqueenfrance.com (French). Retrieved March 4, 2012
38. ↑ Awards for Music Sales in Great Britain. On: bpi.co.uk (English). Retrieved March 4, 2012
39. ↑ Awards for Music Sales in Brazil. On: abpd.org.br (Portuguese). Retrieved March 4, 2012
40. ↑ Awards for music sales in Poland. On: zpav.pl (Polish). Retrieved March 4, 2012