Mission Bell (Amos Lee album)

Mission Bell
Studio album by
Amos Lee
ReleasedJanuary 25, 2011
GenreFolk, neo soul
Length51:17
LabelBlue Note
ProducerJoey Burns
Amos Lee chronology
Last Days at the Lodge
(2008) 		Mission Bell
(2011) 		As the Crow Flies
(2012)

Mission Bell is the fourth studio album by American musician Amos Lee, released on January 25, 2011. The album features Willie Nelson, Lucinda Williams, Sam Beam, Priscilla Ahn, Pieta Brown, James Gadson, and Calexico.[1] Joey Burns, of Calexico produced the album. Mission Bell debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200, selling 40,000 copies in its first week, which is the lowest total for a #1 album in the Soundscan era.[2] These sales broke the record set by Cake's Showroom of Compassion when it sold 44,000 two weeks previous. The following week Mission Bell dropped from #1 to #26, the fourth-largest drop from #1 on the Billboard 200 as of January 2017. It shares this honor with the 1975's 2016 album I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful yet So Unaware of It.

  1. ^ "Amos Lee gets cozy with indie rockers, folk heros, and country legends". The Key. 2010. Retrieved September 9, 2010.
  2. ^ Keith Caulfield, "Amos Lee Nets No. 1 on Billboard 200 in Another Dreary Sales Week". Billboard, February 2, 2011 (retrieved December 2, 2016).