Yes! (Jason Mraz album)

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Yes!
Jason Mraz Yes.jpg
Studio album by Jason Mraz
Released July 11, 2014
Recorded 2013–2014
Genre Pop rock
Length 51:35
Label Atlantic
Jason Mraz chronology
Love Is a Four Letter Word
(2012)Love Is a Four Letter Word2012		 Yes!
(2014)
Singles from Yes!
  1. "Love Someone"
    Released: May 19, 2014

Yes! is the fifth studio album by American singer-songwriter Jason Mraz. The album was released on July 11, 2014, Atlantic Records.[1] The album's lead single "Love Someone" was released on May 19, 2014.[2]

The album is a collaboration between Jason Mraz and the members of indie-rock-folk band Raining Jane: Mai Bloomfield, Becky Gebhardt, Chaska Potter and Mona Tavakoli, with whom Mraz has been working since 2007,[3] and who are his backing band on the record,[4][5] as well as co-writers of majority of the songs.

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source Rating
Metacritic 62/100[6]
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic 4/5 stars[7]
Billboard 82/100[8]
The Boston Globe 70/100[5][6]
Los Angeles Times 2/4 stars[9]
Rolling Stone 2/5 stars[10]
Slant Magazine 2/5 stars[11]

Yes! was met with generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from critics, the album received an average score of 62, which indicates "generally favorable reviews", based on 6 reviews.[6]

Matt Fruchtman of Slant Magazine gave the album two out of five stars, saying "his wide-lens worldview leaves Yes! feeling like the musical equivalent of a G-rated sitcom."[11] Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic gave the album four out of five stars, saying "The exclamation point that punctuates its title suggests Jason Mraz may be a little enthusiastic on Yes! but that's a feint, hiding how this 2014 record is the next logical step on the singer/songwriter's road of seduction. Gone is the celebrated wordplay, a self-conscious maturation that was perhaps inevitable, but also absent are the smooth soul flourishes of 2012's Love Is a Four Letter Word."[7]

Commercial performance

The album debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 chart, with first-week sales of 102,000 copies in the United States.[12]

In Canada, the album debuted at number two on the Canadian Albums Chart with 12,000 copies, falling behind Rise Against's The Black Market.[13]

Track listing

No. Title Writer(s) Producer(s) Length
1. "Rise"   Jason Mraz, Chaska Potter, Mona Tavakoli, Becky Gebhardt, Mai Bloomfield, Chris Keup, Stewart Myers
1:29
2. "Love Someone"   Mraz, Potter, Tavakoli, Gebhardt, Bloomfield, Keup, Myers
  • Mogis
  • Mraz
  • Chris Keup[a]
  • Stewart Myers[a]
 4:16
3. "Hello, You Beautiful Thing"   Mraz, Potter, Tavakoli, Gebhardt
  • Mogis
  • Mraz
 3:34
4. "Long Drive"   Mraz, Potter, Tavakoli, Gebhardt, Bloomfield
  • Mogis
  • Mraz
 3:50
5. "Everywhere"   Mraz, Potter, Tavakoli, Gebhardt, Bloomfield
  • Mogis
  • Mraz
 3:24
6. "Best Friend"   Mraz, Potter, Tavakoli, Gebhardt, Bloomfield
  • Mogis
  • Mraz
 3:19
7. "Quiet"   Mraz, Daniel Omelio, Ammar Malik
  • Mogis
  • Mraz
  • Keup
  • Myers
 4:18
8. "Out of My Hands"   Mraz, Potter, Tavakoli, Gebhardt, Bloomfield
  • Mogis
  • Mraz
 3:26
9. "It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday"   Freddie Perren, Christine Yarian Perren Mraz 2:58
10. "3 Things"   Mraz, Michael Natter, Nancy Natter, Potter, Tavakoli, Gebhardt, Bloomfield
2:54
11. "You Can Rely on Me"   Mraz, Potter, Tavakoli, Gebhardt, Bloomfield, Keup, Myers, M. Natter, N. Natter
  • Mraz
  • Keup
  • Myers
 3:43
12. "Back to the Earth"   Mraz, Potter, Tavakoli, Gebhardt, Bloomfield
  • Mogis
  • Mraz
 3:46
13. "A World with You"   Mraz, Myers, Keup
  • Mogis
  • Mraz
 4:39
14. "Shine"   Mraz, Potter, Tavakoli, Gebhardt, Bloomfield
  • Mogis
  • Mraz
 6:04
Notes
  • ^[a] signifies a co-producer

Personnel

Credits adapted from AllMusic.[14]

  • Jason Mraz – vocals, guitar, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, Fender Rhodes, piano, synthesizer bass, engineering, mixing, production

Charts

Chart (2014) Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[15] 17
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[16] 49
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[17] 22
Canadian Albums (Billboard)[18] 2
Danish Albums (Hitlisten)[19] 14
Dutch Albums (MegaCharts)[20] 1
French Albums (SNEP)[21] 36
Hungarian Albums (MAHASZ)[22] 18
Irish Albums (IRMA)[23] 58
Italian Albums (FIMI)[24] 54
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[25] 25
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)[26] 24
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)[27] 14
UK Albums (OCC)[28] 18
US Billboard 200[29] 2

Release history

Region Date Format Label
United Kingdom[30] July 11, 2014 CD, digital download Atlantic Records
United States[31] July 15, 2014

References

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