Little Voice is the debut major-label album by singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles

Sara Bareilles

Sara Beth Bareilles is an American singer-songwriter and pianist. She achieved mainstream success in 2007 with the hit single "Love Song", which brought her into the number one spot on the Billboard Pop 100 chart. She has sold over 1 million records in the United States alone and has been...

, which was released on July 17, 2007. Six of the tracks are re-recorded studio versions of songs from her previous album, Careful Confessions

Careful Confessions

-Track listing:#"Gravity" – 3:58#"Undertow" – 4:42#"Love on the Rocks" – 4:18#"Responsible" – 4:33#"One Sweet Love" – 3:56#"Fairytale" – 2:50#"Come Round Soon" – 4:50#"Inside Out" – 5:19#"City" – 4:35...

. A two-disc special edition of Little Voice with live acoustic tracks was released on March 18, 2008. The bonus disc also includes an interview with Bareilles and accompanying videos of the performances.

The album debuted on the US 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...

 at number 45, selling about 16,000 copies in its first week. As of January 13, 2011, the album has been certified platinum by the RIAA and peaked at number seven on the Billboard 200 and has currently sold over one million copies in the United States. The album debuted at number 26 in New Zealand, helped by "Love Song" reaching number one on the radio airplay charts.

In the UK, the album debuted at #9 with sales of 14,484.

"Love Song

Love Song (Sara Bareilles song)

"Love Song" is Sara Bareilles' first single, released in 2007. She has stated during live performances that it was actually written in response to her record label's request that she write a "marketable love song," rather than about an actual person...

" was selected as the first single. It was featured as the iTunes

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 Single of the Week from June 19 to 26. In 2008, "Bottle It Up

Bottle It Up

"Bottle It Up" is a song written and recorded by Sara Bareilles. The song was produced by Eric Rosse. It was the second single of her album Little Voice. The song was also featured in a Rhapsody commercial....

" was released as the second single. The video was directed by Marcos Siega.
The third single in the U.S. was supposed to be "Gravity" with the video released on February 3, 2009, but no further information was revealed to the date of the single release.

"Love Song" was nominated for Song of the Year

Song of the Year

Song of the Year may refer to:* Dove Award for Song of the Year* Grammis Song of the Year* Grammy Award for Song of the Year* Latin Grammy Award for Song of the Year* Singing News Fan Awards for Song of the Year...

 and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance at the 51st Grammy Awards

51st Grammy Awards

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.

When asked in an interview by UK newspaper The Daily Mirror about how she would describe her music, Bareilles said "I guess I would say its piano-based Pop/Soul" and said she listened to a lot of early soul and jazz when making the album.

Track listing

All songs written by Sara Bareilles

Sara Bareilles

Sara Beth Bareilles is an American singer-songwriter and pianist. She achieved mainstream success in 2007 with the hit single "Love Song", which brought her into the number one spot on the Billboard Pop 100 chart. She has sold over 1 million records in the United States alone and has been...

; "Love on the Rocks" co-written by Javier Dunn.

1. "Love Song
   Love Song (Sara Bareilles song)
   "Love Song" is Sara Bareilles' first single, released in 2007. She has stated during live performances that it was actually written in response to her record label's request that she write a "marketable love song," rather than about an actual person...
   
   " – 4:18
2. "Vegas" – 4:07
3. "Bottle It Up
   Bottle It Up
   "Bottle It Up" is a song written and recorded by Sara Bareilles. The song was produced by Eric Rosse. It was the second single of her album Little Voice. The song was also featured in a Rhapsody commercial....
   
   " – 3:00 (3:18 on 2-Disc Edition)
4. "One Sweet Love" – 4:20
5. "Come Round Soon" – 3:33
6. "Morningside" – 3:58
7. "Between the Lines" – 4:34
8. "Love on the Rocks" – 4:13
9. "City" – 4:33
10. "Many the Miles" – 5:11
11. "Fairytale" – 3:14
12. "Gravity" – 3:52
13. "Any Way the Wind Blows" (Japan/Platinum MusicPass
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     bonus track)

Bonus Acoustic Tracks (2-Disc Edition)

1. "Bottle It Up"
2. "Love Song"
3. "In Your Eyes
   In Your Eyes (Peter Gabriel song)
   "In Your Eyes" is a song by British musician Peter Gabriel from his 1986 album So. It reached #1 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks and #26 on the Billboard Hot 100 in November, 1986. It was not released as a single in the UK...
   
   "
4. "Many the Miles"
5. "Gravity"

All acoustic versions were recorded in 2008 as part of a live session for Stripped Music. The two-disc version also replaces the original version of "Bottle It Up" with the radio edit, which is renamed "Bottle It Up" (remix edit).

Production

• Arranged, Produced, Recorded & Mixed By Eric Rosse
  Eric Rosse
  Eric Rosse is a record producer. He is best known for his work with singer Tori Amos, particularly production of her albums Little Earthquakes and Grammy nominated Under the Pink. He also produced Anna Nalick's album Wreck of the Day and Lisa Marie Presley's debut album To Whom It May Concern...
  
  
• Basic Tracks Recorded & Engineered By Howard Christopher Willing
• Vocals & Overdubs Recorded & Engineered By Eric Rosse
• Assistant Engineers: Dave Colvin (NRG Studios), Bill Mims (Sunset Sound Recorders), Charlie Paakari (Capitol Studios)

Personnel

• Drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
  
  : Matt Chamberlain
  Matt Chamberlain
  Matthew Chamberlain is an American drummer, producer and sound engineer. He is currently based in Los Angeles, California.-Early life:...
  
  , Brian MacLeod
• Percussion: Rafael Padilla, Eric Ivan Rosse
• Bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  : Chris Chaney
• Piano: Sara Bareilles,Dance star Mickey
• Fender Rhodes: Sara Bareilles
• Mellotron
  Mellotron
  The Mellotron is an electro-mechanical, polyphonic tape replay keyboard originally developed and built in Birmingham, England in the early 1960s. It superseded the Chamberlin Music Master, which was the world's first sample-playback keyboard intended for music...
  
  : Eric Ivan Rosse
• Guitars: Stuart Mathis, Bruce Watson, Lyle Workman, Joel Shearer,
• Programming: Eric Ivan Rosse
• Cello
  Cello
  The cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...
  
  : Cameron Stone
• String Arrangements: Eric Ivan Rosse
• Backing Vocals: Javier Dunn, Josh Day (both on "Many The Miles"), Sara Bareilles ("Love Song")

Singles

1. "Love Song
   Love Song (Sara Bareilles song)
   "Love Song" is Sara Bareilles' first single, released in 2007. She has stated during live performances that it was actually written in response to her record label's request that she write a "marketable love song," rather than about an actual person...
   
   " was the lead single of this album. It was released in the USA on June 19, 2007, EU on April 25, 2008, and in the UK on April 2008. It is Bareilles' most successful single, charting at #4 in the USA, #4 in the UK, and #22 on the EU Top 200.
2. "The River" (live) was released on January 1, 2008. Although not a mainstream release, "The River" is a live cover of Joni Mitchell
   Joni Mitchell
   Joni Mitchell, CC is a Canadian musician, singer songwriter, and painter. Mitchell began singing in small nightclubs in her native Saskatchewan and Western Canada and then busking in the streets and dives of Toronto...
   
   's "River".
3. "Bottle It Up
   Bottle It Up
   "Bottle It Up" is a song written and recorded by Sara Bareilles. The song was produced by Eric Rosse. It was the second single of her album Little Voice. The song was also featured in a Rhapsody commercial....
   
   " was the second official single, released in the USA on April 29, 2008. It did not gain as much popularity as "Love Song", and only to chart on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles
   Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles
   The Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States. It lists the top 25 singles below number 100 that have not yet charted on the Billboard Hot 100. Sometimes, however, singles halt their progress on this chart, and never appear on the Hot 100...
   
    at #7 which is equal to #107. It was released in the UK on October 13, 2008, but failed to make any impact on the charts, peaking at #92.
4. "Gravity" was supposed to be the third US single of the album. Only the video was released online in February 2009 and has appeared on Vh1's top 20 countdown.

Charts

Chart (2008)	Peak position
Australian Albums Chart ARIA Charts The ARIA charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA commenced compiling its own charts in-house from the week ending 26 June...	49
Austrian Albums Chart Austria Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...	46
Belgian Albums Chart Belgium Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...	45
Dutch Albums Chart Netherland Netherland is a critically acclaimed novel by Joseph O'Neill. It concerns the life of a Dutchman living in New York in the wake of the September 11 attacks who takes up cricket and starts playing at the Staten Island Cricket Club.-Plot summary:...	31
European Top 100 Albums European Top 100 Albums The European Top 100 Albums chart is the European adaptation of the Billboard 200 albums chart. It was created in March 1984.The European Top 100 Albums, commonly referred to as Eurochart Top 100 Albums shows the sales of an act in 19 European countries based on IFPI data.The European Top 100...	24
French Albums Chart	87
Irish Albums Chart Irish Albums Chart The Irish Albums Chart is the Irish music industry standard albums popularity chart issued weekly by the Irish Recorded Music Association and compiled on its behalf by Chart-Track. Chart rankings are based on sales, which are compiled through over-the-counter retail data captured electronically...	37
Italian Albums Chart Italy Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...	45
New Zealand Albums Chart Recording Industry Association of New Zealand The Recording Industry Association of New Zealand is a non-profit trade association of record producers, distributors and recording artists who sell music in New Zealand...	26
Mexican Albums Chart AMPROFON Asociación Mexicana de Productores de Fonogramas y Videogramas is a non-profit organization integrated by multinational and national record companies in Mexico. Established on April 3, 1963, it groups phonographic companies that represent more than 70 percent of the market in Mexico...	15
Swiss Albums Chart	34
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...	7
U.S. Billboard Comprehensive Albums Billboard Comprehensive Albums Billboard Comprehensive Albums was established in 2003 and was a weekly albums chart produced by Billboard magazine that ranked the biggest selling albums in the United States regardless of the product's age or method of sales....	8
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...	9