A Place Called Love (Johnny Reid album)

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A Place Called Love
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Studio album by Johnny Reid
Released August 31, 2010
Genre Country, soul
Length 45:23
Label EMI
Producer Brent Maher
Johnny Reid chronology
Christmas
(2009)Christmas2009
A Place Called Love
(2010)
Fire It Up
(2012)Fire It Up2012
Singles from A Place Called Love
  1. "Today I'm Gonna Try and Change the World"
    Released: June 7, 2010
  2. "Let's Go Higher"
    Released: September 20, 2010
  3. "Hands of a Working Man"
    Released: January 31, 2011
  4. "You Gave My Heart a Home"
    Released: May 30, 2011
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
allmusic 3/5 stars[1]
Ottawa Citizen Positive[2]
Winnipeg Free Press Positive[3]
Winnipeg Sun 3.5/5 stars[4]
Western Gazette 4/5 stars[5]

A Place Called Love is the sixth studio album by Canadian country music artist Johnny Reid. It was released on August 31, 2010 by EMI Records.

Singles

The first single, "Today I'm Gonna Try and Change the World," peaked at number 41 on the Canadian Hot 100, Reid's highest single peak to date. The album's second single, "Let's Go Higher," peaked at number 58.[6]

Commercial performance

The album peaked at number 1 on the Canadian Albums Chart and stayed at number 1 for four weeks, the second longest streak for 2010, with Eminem's album Recovery being the longest staying at seven weeks at number 1.[7] The album sold 31,000 copies in its first week,[8] and has since sold 96,700 copies.[9] The album was certified double platinum by the CRIA on November 2010 with an excess of 160,000 copies.[10]

Track listing

No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. "You Gave My Heart a Home"   Brent Maher, Johnny Reid 3:14
2. "Today I'm Gonna Try and Change the World"   Brent Maher, Reid 3:59
3. "That Man Is Me"   Brent Maher, Reid 3:47
4. "Hands of a Working Man"   Brent Maher, Reid 4:01
5. "Good People"   John Barlow Jarvis, Brent Maher, Reid 3:10
6. "Doesn't Get Better Than You"   Reid, Mark Selby, Tia Sillers 3:49
7. "Love Thing"   Brent Maher, Reid 3:14
8. "Out of the Blue"   Brent Maher, Brian Dean Maher, Reid 2:53
9. "Tell Me Margaret"   Reid, Mark Sanders 4:32
10. "This Is Not Goodbye"   Reid, Allen Shamblin 4:21
11. "Let's Go Higher"   Brent Maher, Reid 3:02
12. "A Place Called Love"   Brent Maher, Reid 5:21

Personnel

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Chart performance

Preceded by
Teenage Dream by Katy Perry
A Thousand Suns by Linkin Park
Americana by Roch Voisine
Canadian Albums Chart number-one album
September 18 – September 25, 2010
October 9, 2010
October 23, 2010
Succeeded by
A Thousand Suns by Linkin Park
Americana by Roch Voisine
Americana by Roch Voisine

Certifications

Region Certification
Canada (Music Canada)[10] 2× Platinum

References

  1. http://allmusic.com/album/a-place-called-love-r1955561
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  11. http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/charts/yearendcharts/2010/canadian-albums
  12. http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/charts/yearendcharts/2011/canadian-albums