Be Not Nobody

Be Not Nobody
Studio album by Vanessa Carlton
Released	April 30, 2002
Recorded	2000-2002
Genre	Pop, piano pop[1]
Length	45:51
Label	A&M
Producer	Ron Fair
Vanessa Carlton chronology
Rinse (2000) Be Not Nobody (2002) Harmonium (2004)
Singles from Be Not Nobody
"A Thousand Miles" Released: February 12, 2002 "Ordinary Day" Released: April 14, 2002 "Pretty Baby" Released: February 11, 2003

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Entertainment Weekly	C[2]
Rolling Stone	[3]
Slant Magazine	[4]

Be Not Nobody is the debut album by American singer-songwriter Vanessa Carlton, released on April 30, 2002, through A&M Records.

"A Thousand Miles" was released as the lead single from the album and reached the top five on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, number one in Australia and the top ten in the United Kingdom. Be Not Nobody was certified gold by the RIAA in June 2002, and platinum in October 2002.^[5]

"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",^[6] 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,^[7] and Variety magazine reported in July 2003 that it had sold 2.3 million worldwide.^[8] Billboard magazine placed Carlton at number twenty-one on its year-end "Top Pop Artists" list for 2002.^[9]

"Pretty Baby" was remixed and released as the album's third and final single in early 2003. After the single's release, subsequent pressings of the album contained the remixed single version of the song in place of its original album version.

Track listing

All songs were written by Vanessa Carlton, except where noted

1. "Ordinary Day" – 3:58
2. "Unsung" – 4:20
3. "A Thousand Miles" – 3:57
4. "Pretty Baby" – 3:55
5. "Rinse" – 4:31
6. "Sway" – 3:57
7. "Paradise" – 4:50
8. "Prince" – 4:09
9. "Paint It Black" (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards) – 3:30
10. "Wanted" – 3:55
11. "Twilight" – 4:49
12. "Twilight (Live)" Japan Bonus Track
13. "Wanted (Ripe Mix)" - 3:55 UK/Japan Bonus Track

Personnel

Credits adapted from AllMusic^[10]

Musicians Vanessa Carlton — piano, vocals Nico Abandolo — double bass Bob Adcock — cello Eun Mee Ahn — violin Alex Al — electric upright bass Karen Elaine Bakunin — viola Chuck Berghofer — upright bass Charlie Bisharat — violin Dmitri Boviard — viola Jacqueline Brand — violin Becky Bunnell — violin Paul Cohen — viola Luis Conte — percussion Mathew Cooker — viola Larry Corbett — cello Rose Corrigan — woodwind Franklyn D'Antonio — violin Brian Dembow — viola Joel Derouin — violin Bruce Dukov — violin Cindy Ellis — woodwind Stephen Erdody — cello Ron Fair — harmonica, organ, vibraphone Kirstin Fife — violin Marlow Fisher — viola Armen Garabedian — violin Berj Garabedian — violin John Goux — dulcimer, guitar, sitar Susan Greenberg — woodwind Keith Grezen — viola Alan Grunfeld — violin Clayton Haslop — violin Tamara Hatwan — violin

Trey Henry — double bass Al Hershberger — violin Dan Higgins — recorder, woodwind Tiffany Yi Hu — violin Suzie Katayama — cello Armen Ksadjikian — cello Abe Laboriel, Jr. — drums Timothy Landauer — cello Natalie Leggett — violin Mario de León — violin Gayle Levant — harp Phillip Levy — violin David Low — cello Rene Mandel — violin Tommy Morgan — harmonica Robin Olson — violin Simon Oswell — viola Sid Page — violin Sara Parkins — violin Katia Popov — violin Barbara Porter — violin Emil Richards — vibraphone Mark Robertson — violin Anatoly Rosinsky — violin David Shostac — woodwind Leland Sklar — bass guitar Sheridon Stokes — woodwind Cecilia Tsan — cello Michael Valerio — double bass Karen Van Sant — viola John Wittenberg — violin Margaret Wooten — violin Ken Yerke — violin

Technical personnel Vanessa Carlton — arranger, executive producer Ron Fair — production, A&R, arranger, conductor, executive producer, orchestral arrangements Tal Herzberg — engineer, digital editing Hugh Padgham — mixing Eddy Schreyer — mastering Michael C. Ross — engineer, mixing Bill Schnee — engineer Jack Joseph Puig — mixing J.D. Andrew — assistant engineer Bryan Cook — assistant engineer Jim Danis — assistant engineer Drew FitzGerald — art direction, illustration Jay Goin — assistant engineer Kurt Iswarienko — photography Randy Kerber — arranger, conductor Erik Reichers — assistant engineer Jeff Rothschild — assistant engineer Alan Silfen — photography Chris Steffen — assistant engineer Brian Vibberts — assistant engineer Chris Wonzer — assistant engineer Stephanie Woolf — stylist James "Big Jim" Wright — photography Elisa Yastic — A&R

Charts

Chart (2002)	Peak position
	Australian Albums (ARIA)[11]	13
	Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[12]	13
	Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[13]	17
	Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[14]	24
	Danish Albums (Hitlisten)[15]	20
	Dutch Albums (MegaCharts)[16]	14
	French Albums (SNEP)[17]	17
	Japanese Albums (Oricon)[18]	17
	New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[19]	23
	Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)[20]	33
	Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[21]	44
	Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[22]	15
UK Albums (OCC)[23]	7
US Billboard 200[24]	5

Certifications

Region	Certification	Sales/shipments
Australia (ARIA)[25]	Gold	35,000^^
Canada (Music Canada)[26]	Gold	40,000^^
Japan (RIAJ)[27]	Platinum	200,000[28]
United Kingdom (BPI)[29]	Gold	100,000^^
United States (RIAA)[30]	Platinum	1.38 million (as of 2004)[7]
^*sales figures based on certification alone ^^shipments figures based on certification alone ^xunspecified figures based on certification alone

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28. "GOLD ALBUM 他認定作品 2003年5月度" [Gold Albums, and other certified works. May 2003 Edition] (PDF). The Record (Bulletin) (in Japanese) (Chūō, Tokyo: Recording Industry Association of Japan) 524: 14. July 10, 2003. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 23, 2011. Retrieved January 29, 2014.
29. "British album certifications – Vanessa Carlton – Be Not Nobody". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved January 7, 2016. Enter Be Not Nobody in the field Keywords. Select Title in the field Search by. Select album in the field By Format. Select Gold in the field By Award. Click Search
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External links

• Top40-charts.com