Be Not Nobody is the debut album by American singer-songwriter Vanessa Carlton

Vanessa Carlton

Vanessa Lee Carlton is an American singer-songwriter and musician. Upon completion of her education at the School of American Ballet, Carlton chose to pursue singing instead, performing in New York bars and clubs while attending university. Three months after recording a demo with producer Peter...

, released in 2002

2002 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 2002.-Events:*February 3 – U2 perform during the halftime show for Super Bowl XXXVI...

 on A&M Records

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.

"A Thousand Miles

A Thousand Miles

"A Thousand Miles", originally titled "Interlude", is a pop song written by American singer Vanessa Carlton and recorded for her 2002 debut album Be Not Nobody. It was co-produced and co-arranged by Carlton and Ron Fair, and was released as the album's first single in 2002. Her signature song, it...

" was the first single

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 from the album. It reached the top five on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100

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, number one in Australia

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 and the top ten in the United Kingdom

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. Be Not Nobody was certified gold by the RIAA

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 in June 2002, and platinum the following October.

"Ordinary Day" charted inside the top forty on the U.S. Hot 100. "Pretty Baby", which was nominated for a 2003 Teen Choice Award for "Choice Love Song", did not appear on the Hot 100 or the UK top seventy-five. As of late 2004 the album had sold 1.38 million copies in the U.S. according to Nielsen SoundScan

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, and Variety

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magazine reported in July 2003 that it had sold 2.3 million worldwide. Billboard magazine placed Carlton at number twenty-one on its year-end "Top Pop Artists" list for 2002.

"A Thousand Miles" was used in the 2004 film White Chicks

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, as well as the holiday 2007 commercials for Kay Jewelers. It also appeared in the Disney Channel

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 movie You Wish!.

Track listing

1. "Ordinary Day
   Ordinary Day (Vanessa Carlton song)
   "Ordinary Day", originally called Ordinary Days, is a song written and performed by Vanessa Carlton from her album Be Not Nobody. The single peaked at number 30 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Carlton wrote the song when she was 17...
   
   " (Vanessa Carlton
   Vanessa Carlton
   Vanessa Lee Carlton is an American singer-songwriter and musician. Upon completion of her education at the School of American Ballet, Carlton chose to pursue singing instead, performing in New York bars and clubs while attending university. Three months after recording a demo with producer Peter...
   
   ) – 3:58
2. "Unsung" (Carlton) – 4:20
3. "A Thousand Miles
   A Thousand Miles
   "A Thousand Miles", originally titled "Interlude", is a pop song written by American singer Vanessa Carlton and recorded for her 2002 debut album Be Not Nobody. It was co-produced and co-arranged by Carlton and Ron Fair, and was released as the album's first single in 2002. Her signature song, it...
   
   " (Carlton) – 3:57
4. "Pretty Baby
   Pretty Baby (Vanessa Carlton song)
   "Pretty Baby" is a song by Vanessa Carlton from her debut album Be Not Nobody. The song was released as the third single from the album in 2003.-Music video:...
   
   " (Carlton) – 3:55
5. "Rinse" (Carlton) – 4:31
6. "Sway" (Carlton) – 3:57
7. "Paradise" (Carlton) – 4:50
8. "Prince" (Carlton) – 4:09
9. "Paint It Black" (Mick Jagger
   Mick Jagger
   Sir Michael Philip "Mick" Jagger is an English musician, singer and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist and a founding member of The Rolling Stones....
   
   , Keith Richards
   Keith Richards
   Keith Richards is an English musician, songwriter, and founding member of the Rolling Stones. Rolling Stone magazine said Richards had created "rock's greatest single body of riffs", and placed him as the "10th greatest guitarist of all time." Fourteen songs written by Richards and songwriting...
   
   ) – 3:30
10. "Wanted" (Carlton) – 3:55
11. "Twilight" (Carlton) – 4:49
12. "Twilight (Live)" Japan Bonus Track
13. "Wanted (Ripe Mix)" (Carlton) - 3:55 UK/Japan Bonus Track

Production

• Producer: Ron Fair
• Executive producers: Vanessa Carlton, Ron Fair
• Engineers: Tal Herzberg, Michael C. Ross, Bill Schnee
• Assistant engineers: J.D. Andrew, Bryan Cook, Jim Danis, Jay Goin, Erik Reichers, Jeff Rothschild, Chris Steffen, Brian Vibberts, Chris Wonzer
• Mixing: Hugh Padgham
  Hugh Padgham
  Hugh Padgham is a British record producer. He has won many awards, including four Grammys, with Producer of the Year and Engineer of the Year. A 1992 poll in Mix magazine voted him one of the world's Top Ten Most Influential Producers....
  
  , Jack Joseph Puig
  Jack Joseph Puig
  Jack Joseph Puig is a Grammy Award-winning music engineer and producer with a long track record of successful productions, including the mid-1990s production of Tonic. Puig also worked with Hole, Jellyfish, The Black Crowes, John Mayer, Weezer, Fiona Apple, Green Day, The Counting Crows, No Doubt,...
  
  , Michael C. Ross
• Mastering: Eddy Schreyer
• A&R: Ron Fair, Elisa Yastic
• Digital Editing: Tal Herzberg
• Arrangers: Vanessa Carlton, Ron Fair, Randy Kerber
  Randy Kerber
  Randy Kerber is a composer, orchestrator, keyboard player, born September 25, 1958 in Encino, California, who has had a prolific career in the world of cinema...
  
  
• Orchestral Arrangements: Ron Fair
• Art Direction: Drew FitzGerald
• Photography: Kurt Iswarienko, Alan Silfen, Jim "Big Jim" Wright
• Illustrations: Drew FitzGerald
• Stylist: Stephanie Woolf

Charts

Chart (2002)	Peak position
Australia ARIA Albums Chart	13
Austria Albums Chart	13
Belgium (Flanders) Albums Chart	17
Belgium (Wallonia) Albums Chart	24
Denmark Albums Chart	20
Dutch Albums Chart	14
France Albums Chart	17
Japan Oricon Oricon , established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan. It started as , which was founded by Sōkō Koike in November 1967 and became known for its music charts. Oricon Inc...  Albums Chart	17
New Zealand Albums Chart	23
Norway Albums Chart	33
Sweden Albums Chart	44
Switzerland Albums Chart	15
UK Albums Chart UK Albums Chart The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart...	7
U.S. Billboard 200 Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...	5
Top Internet Albums (North America)	5

Sales

Country	Certification	Physical Sales
Australia	Gold	35,000+
Canada	Gold	50,000+
United Kingdom	Gold	100,000+
United States	Platinum	1.38 million (as of late 2004.)