Beautiful World (Take That album)
Occupation
- Vocal / Piano: Gary Barlow
- Vocals: Howard Donald
- Vocals: Jason Orange
- Vocals: Mark Owen
Beautiful World is the fourth album by the British band Take That. It was released in November 2006 and is the first album of Take That since their separation in 1996. Sole Robbie Williams was not involved in the production. The album was preceded by two weeks earlier released single Patience which is included as the second track on the album. Beautiful World is the first album of Take That, in which each member of the band occurs as the lead singer in at least one song.
Title
1 Reach Out ( 4:15 ) 2 Patience ( 3:22 ) 3 Beautiful World ( 4:25 ) 4 Hold On ( 3:56 ) 5 Like I Never Loved You at All ( 3:45 ) 6 Shine ( 3:31 ) 7 I'd Wait for Life ( 4:33 ) 8 Is not No Sense In Love ( 3:51 ) 9 What You Believe In ( 4:32 ) 10 Mancunian Way ( 3:48 ) 11 Wooden Boat ( 7:48 )
In the tour edition of the album also included are the following titles: 12 Butterfly 13 Beautiful Morning 14 We All Fall Down 15 Rule the World
Note: Wooden Boat ends after 3:15 minutes; a minute later begins a hidden track, which is probably called Butterfly because of his choruses.
Total playing time: 47:47
Success
Publication
Just two weeks before publication iTunes received permission to offer the album in its iTunes store on sale. After the first day the album was the most Downloaded. Similar successes later presented themselves in other music download websites.
The album debuted in the UK on 3 December 2006 at first No. 1 on the UK album charts and stayed there a total of 79 weeks in the charts, including eight weeks at No. 1 in Germany the album reached also went straight to number 2 and remained 23 weeks in the album charts, including five weeks in the Top 10 Overall Beautiful World was represented in 13 countries in the hit parade.
Alone in the UK Beautiful World has sold more than 2.5 million copies, making it the most successful album of the group Take That. It thus reached eight times platinum status.
Marketing
In the Echo Awards 2007 Take That made a guest appearance with her published in February 2007 Single Shine had.
Reception
Overall, Beautiful World sold only in the UK around 2.6 million times. The evaluations were more positive. There was talk of " pop songs with quality", the album " beautiful ballads with a lot of orchestra and string emotionality " attested and described certain songs because of unexpected twists as " effective." Also, Take That became a " sovereign nice lecture Popliedchen " certified.
Tour Edition
On 9 November 2007, the "Tour Souvenir Edition" of Beautiful World, in which four new titles were contained, among other things, Rule the World, the theme song of the movie Stardust, and three other pieces appeared. This edition also includes a DVD was included with several music videos and an interview.