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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
ARTISTdirect.com[2]
Being There Magazine[3]
The Guardian[4]
JazzPolice.com(NR)[5]
musicOMH.com[6]
Rolling Stone[7]
inthenews.co.uk[8]

Half the Perfect World is the fourth studio album by American jazz singer Madeleine Peyroux. It was released on September 12, 2006. It peaked at #33 on the Billboard 200 albums chart and had sold 218,000 copies in the United States by December 2008.[9]

The album featured a total of four original songs, all of them co-written by Peyroux: "I'm Alright", "All I Need is a Little Bit", "Once in a While" and "California Rain". This marked a change in Peyroux's style, who would, in March 2009, release her first album without any covers.

Peyroux did a cover of Summer Wind, a song by Johnny Mercer, whom she always credits as major influence on her music.She also recorded three covers (only two on the standard edition, but there was a bonus track, "Crazy To Love You", on the Japanese one) from Leonard Cohen's and Anjani Thomas album Blue Alert.

Track listing

  1. "I'm All Right" (Walter Becker, Madeleine Peyroux, Larry Klein) – 3:27
  2. "The Summer Wind" (Hans Bradtke, Henry Mayer, Johnny Mercer) – 3:55
  3. "Blue Alert" (Leonard Cohen, Anjani Thomas) – 4:10
  4. "Everybody's Talkin'" (Fred Neil) – 5:10
  5. "River" featuring k.d. lang (Joni Mitchell) – 5:19
  6. "All I Need is a Little Bit" – 4:02
  7. "Once in a While" – 4:00
  8. "(Looking for) The Heart of Saturday Night" (Tom Waits) – 3:27
  9. "Half the Perfect World" (Leonard Cohen, Anjani Thomas) – 4:21
  10. "La Javanaise" (Serge Gainsbourg) – 4:11
  11. "California Rain" – 2:57
  12. "Smile" (Charlie Chaplin, Geoffrey Parsons, John Turner) – 3:57

Singles, Promotion and Publicity

"I'm All Right", "All I Need is a Little Bit" and "Once in a While" were all released as singles. The song, "Blue Alert", can be heard on the 2007 Old Navy Denim Jeans commercial.

Chart performance

Half The Perfect World was the highest peak (#33) on Madeleine Peyroux's career. It finished #9 on the Jazz Albums year-end.[citation needed]

David Dye of World Cafe listed the album at number 10 on World Cafe's list of the Top 10 CDs of 2006.[10]

Certifications

Land Certifications
(sales thresholds)
Brasilien Gold[11]
Neuseeland 1× Gold[12]
Vereinigtes Königreich Gold[13]

Personnel

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References

  1. ^ Allmusic review
  2. ^ ARTISTdirect.com review
  3. ^ Being There Magazine review
  4. ^ The Guardian review
  5. ^ JazzPolice.com review
  6. ^ musicOMH.com review
  7. ^ Rolling Stone review
  8. ^ inthenews.co.uk review
  9. ^ Cohen, Jonathan (December 1, 2008). "Peyroux Goes 'Bare' On New Album". Billboard. Retrieved December 12, 2008.
  10. ^ Dye, David (December 4, 2006). "World Cafe's Top 10 CDs of 2006". NPR.
  11. ^ "Certificados (Searchable Database): Madeleine Peyroux - Half the Perfect World" (in Portuguese). Associação Brasileira dos Produtores de Discos. 2008.
  12. ^ "Latest Gold / Platinum Albums". Recording Industry Association of New Zealand. RadioScope New Zealand. November 23, 2008. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |work= (help)
  13. ^ "BPI Certified Awards (Searchable Database - By Award - Gold): MADELEINE PEYROUX - HALF THE PERFECT WORLD". British Phonographic Industry. December 08, 2006. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)

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