Awakening (Jackie Evancho album)

Awakening
Teenage girl with long hair standing in the sunshine in a white dress with long skirts
Studio album by
Jackie Evancho
ReleasedSeptember 23, 2014 (2014-09-23)
GenreClassical crossover
Length49:39
LabelPortrait
ProducerNick Patrick
Jackie Evancho chronology
Songs from the Silver Screen
(2012) 		Awakening
(2014) 		Someday at Christmas
(2016)

Awakening is a full-length studio album by Jackie Evancho, consisting of 12 tracks. The album, produced by Nick Patrick, released on September 23, 2014, is Evancho's first album recorded for Sony Masterworks' Portrait Records imprint.

In advance of the album's release, Evancho released two singles from the album and a music video of each: covers of "The Rains of Castamere", from the TV series Game of Thrones, and "Think of Me" from The Phantom of the Opera. Evancho recorded a third PBS special based on the album, which began airing on November 29, 2014, and her concert tour to promote the album began in November 2014.

The album consists of 12 tracks and includes a mix of classical pieces, like Rachmaninoff's "Vocalise", the hymn "Dormi Jesu" and the Vavilov version of "Ave Maria"; classical crossover covers of more contemporary pieces like U2's "With or Without You", Ennio Morricone's "Your Love", Lara Fabian's "Je t'aime" and Within Temptation's "Memories"; and several original songs.[1] Walmart is offering a deluxe edition that includes a second disk with six additional holiday songs.[2] A bonus track cover of "My Immortal" by Evanescence is included exclusively on the album sold in Japan.[3]

Awakening debuted at No. 17 on the Billboard 200 chart and No. 1 on the Billboard Classical Albums chart, Evancho's fifth consecutive release to reach No. 1 on that chart.[4] It remained on the Classical Albums chart for a consecutive 72 weeks.[5] The DVD of the PBS special charted at No. 3 on the Billboard Music Video Sales chart[6] and remained on that chart for eight weeks.[7] In Billboard's year-end rankings, Awakening hung on to be the No. 3 classical album of 2015.[8]

  1. ^ Padalino, Malia. "Jackie Evancho: From Second Place to the Top of the World", The Outlook, October 1, 2014
  2. ^ "Awakening (2CD) (Walmart Exclusive)", Walmart.com, accessed September 1, 2014
  3. ^ Awakening, CDJapan, accessed August 20, 2014
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference Fifth was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ "Classical Albums", Billboard.com, (chart dated "February 20, 2016"), accessed February 19, 2015
  6. ^ "Music Video Sales" for the week dated June 20, 2015, Billboard, week dated June 11, 2015
  7. ^ Awakening: Live In Concert, Billboard, accessed August 27, 2015
  8. ^ "Classical Albums: Year of 2015", Prometheus Global Media, accessed December 9, 2015