Feels like Home is the second studio album by American singer-songwriter Norah Jones, released on February 10, 2004, through Blue Note Records. Featuring an alternative country sound, it serves as the follow-up to her 2002 breakthrough album, Come Away with Me. Jones co-wrote five of its songs and worked with Arif Mardin, as the main producer.
The album was received with generally positive reviews from critics, who compared it to her debut. It was also a commercial success, selling over a million copies in its first week and topping the Billboard 200 for six consecutive weeks, becoming the second-best selling album of 2004. It has sold over 12 million copies worldwide.
At the 47th Annual Grammy Awards in 2005, the album received three nominations, Best Pop Vocal Album, while "Sunrise", the album's lead single, won for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance and "Creepin' In" Dolly Parton, was nominated for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals.
Feels like Home received generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has an average score of 74 out of 100, which indicates "generally favorable reviews" based on 19 reviews.
Writing for Yahoo! Music, Ken Micallef gave the album a favorable review and said, "Recalling Come Away With Me only for Jones's sultry voice, the album has its share of pleasant throwaways, but those are balanced by a handful of starkly beautiful and excellently arranged songs." The A.V. Club's Keith Phipps also gave it a favorable review and stated that the album "should neither shock old fans nor disappoint those hoping to hear [Jones] reach for more." E! Online gave it a B+ and said, "Instead of making any stupid concessions to her sudden celebrity... the Home girl plays it cool, carrying on with the same smooth vibes that made her a star." Spin also gave it a B+, calling it "A better record than Come Away--less piano bar, more honkey-tonk." Mojo gave it four stars out of five and said the album was "similar to the debut.... But there's a more vivid light-and-shade to the textures and a craft and depth to the compositions that represent a welcome distillation of Jones' art." The Village Voice gave the album a positive review and stated, "If the choice of songs and beat and instrumentation were sometimes restrictive, still the piano and the voice endured." Blender gave it three-and-a-half stars out of five and said that its mood was "more or less the same, if slight friskier."
Other reviews are average, mixed or negative: Uncut gave the album three stars out of five and stated that, "Yes, it's an unchallenging and even deeply conservative record. But its class is positively aristocratic." The Austin Chronicle gave it two stars out of five and said, "Material is everything to a chanteuse, and in contrast to Come Away With Me, the problem here is that Jones wrote/co-wrote almost half of the Homes 13 tracks." The Guardian only gave it one star out of five and said that the album was "so inoffensive you have trouble remembering whether you put it on."
Feels like Home sold 1,022,000 copies in its first week of release in the U.S. It sold 395,000 copies in its second week and spent its first six weeks of release atop the Billboard 200. It was the second best-selling album of 2004 in the U.S., selling 3,842,920 copies. It stands as the tenth largest first-week sales for a female artist, behind Adele's 25, Taylor SwiftâÂÂs 1989 (TaylorâÂÂs Version) and Midnights, Britney Spears' Oops...! I Did It Again, Taylor Swift's 1989, Reputation, Red, and Speak Now, and Lady Gaga's Born This Way. In the Netherlands, it was the year's best-selling album and the twenty-fourth best-selling album of the 2000s.
Writing credits from AllMusic.
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