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Songversation
Motown Records
India.Arie chronology
Testimony: Vol. 2, Love & Politics
(2009) 		Songversation
(2013) 		Christmas With Friends
(2015)

Songversation is the fifth studio album by American singer

Motown Records.[1][2][3] It includes the singles "6th Avenue" (released in 2012), "Cocoa Butter" and "Just Do You" (both released in 2013). It also includes "I Am Light" which was featured in the 2014 film Beyond the Lights
. A music video for the album track "Break the Shell" was released as well.

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic64/100[4]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[5]

Review aggregator Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has a weighted average score of 64 based on four reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[4]

Commercial performance

The album debuted at number seven on the Billboard 200 chart, with first-week sales of 31,000 copies in the United States.[6] The album has sold 113,000 copies in the US as of September 2015.[7]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."SoulBird Intro"0:35
2."Just Do You"3:12
3."This Love"3:53
4."Nothing That I Love More"2:52
5."Flowers"3:53
6."Cocoa Butter"3:55
7."SoulBird Interlude: Trombone"0:36
8."Moved By You"4:48
9."Life I Know"3:23
10."Break The Shell"4:09
11."SoulBird Rise"4:10
12."Thy Will Be Done" (featuring Gramps Morgan)4:33
13."Brothers' Keeper"3:40
14."One"5:25
15."SoulBird Outro: Clarinet"0:36
16."I Am Light"3:52
Total length:53:41
Deluxe edition bonus tracks
No.TitleLength
17."SoulBird Reprise: Ney"0:35
18."Thank You"3:42
19."6th Avenue"2:54
20."Strange Fruit"5:26
Target Deluxe Edition bonus tracks
No.TitleLength
21."Life Is Good"2:55
22."Chicken Soup In A Song"2:59

Charts

References

  1. ^ "Songversation [6/25] - CD - India.Arie". Bestbuy.com. Retrieved 2013-06-12.
  2. ^ "Songversation [Deluxe Edition] [6/25] - CD - India.Arie". Bestbuy.com. Retrieved 2013-06-12.
  3. ^ "Songversation: India.Arie: Music". Amazon.com. Retrieved 2013-06-12.
  4. ^ a b "Reviews for Songversation by India.Arie". Metacritic. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
  5. ^ Andy Kellman (2013-06-25). "SongVersation โ€“ India.Arie | Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards". AllMusic. Retrieved 2014-02-18.
  6. ^ "Wale Scores First No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 Chart". Billboard. Retrieved 2013-07-03.
  7. ^ "Upcoming Releases". Hits Daily Double. HITS Digital Ventures. Archived from the original on September 17, 2015.
  8. ^ "India.Arie Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved September 19, 2013.
  9. ^ "India.Arie Chart History (Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved September 19, 2013.
  10. ^ "India.Arie Chart History (Digital Albums)".[dead link] Billboard. Retrieved September 19, 2013.
  11. ^ "India.Arie Chart History (Top Tastemaker Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved September 19, 2013.
  12. ^ "Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums โ€“ Year-End 2013". Billboard. Retrieved July 24, 2020.
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