Good News (Lena album)
Good News is the second studio album by the German singer Lena Meyer- Landrut. Producers are Stefan Raab and Reinhard Schaub. All twelve songs were first Our Song for Germany, the German preselection for the Euro Vision Song Contest 2011 presented in the TV program. Meyer- Landrut presented six songs in the live broadcasts on 31 January and 7 February 2011. The album was available for download on February 7, 2011 and came on February 8, 2011 in the trade.
- 4.1 criticism
- 4.2 Charts 4.2.1 album
- 4.2.2 Songs with chart positions
Songs
Good News summarizes all the songs that were Our song for Germany, the German preselection for the Euro Vision Song Contest 2011 presented in the TV program. As of September 2010, around 600 songs have been heard and in December 2010 began the actual album production. Twelve songs were released as studio versions on the album Good News. When the songs Mama Told Me and What Happened to Me Meyer- Landrut was involved in the text and the melody. Two songs - the title track Good News and A Good Day - were by Audra Mae, a great-niece of Judy Garland, composed. The songs Maybe and Push Forward originate from the Berlin-based duo Daniel Schaub, Pär Lammers and that already the compositions I Just Want Your Kiss and We Can not Go On contributed to the album My Cassette Player. At All is a title, Aloe Blacc for Meyer -Landrut wrote. The Hanoverian duo Errol Rennalls and Stavros Ioannou from the label Peppermint Jam Records contributed the song A Million and One. Stefan Raab wrote the song That Again. Rosi Golan, already the song Bee from the album My Cassette Player and wrote the Irish musician Johnny McDaid composed the ballad I Like You together over the internet. The title Taken by a Stranger was written by Gus Seyffert, Nicole Morier and Monica Birkenes. He was elected on 18 February 2011 the German participation fee for the Euro Vision Song Contest 2011 in Dusseldorf and published on 22 February 2011 as a single. The songs Push Forward, Maybe, A Million and One and Mama Told Me was released digitally on 18 February 2011 and arrived on 1 March 2011 at the same time Taken by a Stranger, the top 100 German single charts.
Title list
Standard Edition
Platinum Edition
Cover
The photographed by Sandra Ludewig CD cover shows Lena Meyer -Landrut on a bed sitting and leaning against the headboard. The Berlin-based company Eat, Sleep Design took over the design of the booklet.
Reception
Criticism
Uwe Jansen wrote in Hannover Allgemeine Zeitung that Lena's voice sounding too great for a soul piece like Mama Told Me. In Pooltrax criticism was that not every song on the album was a hit, but definitely put in Lena potential. The magazine Der Spiegel criticized that a " real killer single" was not heard on the album, but " much trilling ". The Neue Westfälische noted that the album only works live and on stage. The Mannheimer Morgen wrote that the twelve songs work better than pop album than the hastily cobbled together My Cassette Player. The world described the album as " strange plate, vying with each other on the songs ".
Charts
Already on the first day of sale was the album to No. 1 on the download portals Music Load, iTunes and Amazon. After a week it took first place in the German album charts and reached after 3 months with over 200,000 copies sold platinum status.