Just the Beginning (Grace VanderWaal album)

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Just the Beginning
Head and shoulders of Grace VanderWaal, a teenage girl, gazing to her right. She has flowers in her hair, which are piled on her head.
Studio album by
Grace VanderWaal
ReleasedNovember 3, 2017 (2017-11-03)
Genre
Length42:05
Label
Producer
Grace VanderWaal chronology
Perfectly Imperfect
(2016) 		Just the Beginning
(2017) 		Letters Vol. 1
(2019)
Singles from Just the Beginning
  1. "Moonlight"
    Released: June 21, 2017
  2. "Sick of Being Told"
    Released: August 11, 2017
  3. "So Much More Than This"
    Released: December 4, 2017

Just the Beginning is the debut studio album by then 13-year-old[3] American singer-songwriter Grace VanderWaal, consisting of twelve original tracks. It is VanderWaal's first full-length project and follows her debut EP, Perfectly Imperfect (2016).

The album was released on November 3, 2017, by Columbia Records and Syco Music, produced by Ido Zmishlany, Tim Sommers, Sean Douglas, Greg Wells and Gregg Wattenberg, among others.[4] It debuted on the Billboard 200 albums chart at number 22.[5][6] In advance of the album's release, VanderWaal released several singles from the album and promoted it with various live and broadcast appearances, and she further promoted it with her sold-out Just the Beginning Tour, which ran from November 2017 to February 2018. VanderWaal has writing credits for every song on Just the Beginning.[7]

  1. ^ a b Stangl, Lindsey (November 3, 2017). "Review: Grace VanderWaal's Stunning Debut Album, Just the Beginning". Salute. Retrieved December 2, 2017.
  2. ^ Blue, Jeannie (November 10, 2017). "Grace VanderWaal – Just the Beginning (Album Review)". CrypticRock. Retrieved December 2, 2017.
  3. ^ Weatherby, Taylor. "Grace VanderWaal Puts Her Ukulele Spin on Taylor Swift's 'Look What You Made Me Do'", Billboard, September 27, 2017; and Carter, Brooke. "What Happened to Grace VanderWaal – Now in 2017", Gazetter Review, March 25, 2017
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference BeginningBillboard was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ "Grace VanderWaal Chart History – Billboard 200". Billboard. Retrieved November 14, 2017.
  6. ^ Caulfield, Keith (November 17, 2017). "Billboard 200 Chart Moves: Josh Groban's 'Noel' & Michael Buble's 'Christmas' Albums Return". Billboard. Retrieved November 19, 2017.
  7. ^ "AGT winner Grace VanderWaal announces debut album, Just the Beginning" Archived September 20, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, WJBD-FM, September 18, 2017