Be Not Nobody

Be Not Nobody
Studio album by
Vanessa Carlton
ReleasedApril 30, 2002 (2002-04-30)
Genre
Length45:57
LabelA&M
ProducerRon Fair
Vanessa Carlton chronology
Be Not Nobody
(2002) 		Harmonium
(2004)
Singles from Be Not Nobody
  1. "A Thousand Miles"
    Released: February 18, 2002[1]
  2. "Ordinary Day"
    Released: July 1, 2002[2]
  3. "Pretty Baby"
    Released: December 2, 2002[3]
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[4]
Entertainment WeeklyC[5]
Rolling Stone[6]
Slant Magazine[7]

Be Not Nobody is the debut studio album by American singer-songwriter Vanessa Carlton, released on April 30, 2002, through A&M Records. As of late 2004 the album had sold 1.38 million copies in the US according to Nielsen SoundScan,[8] and Variety magazine reported in July 2003 that it had sold 2.3 million worldwide.[9] Billboard magazine placed Carlton at number twenty-one on its year-end "Top Pop Artists" list for 2002.[10]

"A Thousand Miles" was released as the lead single from the album and reached the top five on the US 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.[11] "Ordinary Day" charted inside the top forty on the US Hot 100. "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. "Pretty Baby" did not appear on the Hot 100 or the UK top seventy-five, but was nominated for a 2003 Teen Choice Award for "Choice Love Song".[12]

  1. ^ "Impact Dates". Gavin Report. No. 2360. February 8, 2002. p. 38.
  2. ^ "Going for Adds". Radio & Records. No. 1459. June 28, 2002. p. 26.
  3. ^ "Going for Adds". Radio & Records. No. 1481. November 29, 2002. p. 26.
  4. ^ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Be Not Nobody – Vanessa Carlton". AllMusic. Retrieved November 20, 2015.
  5. ^ Willman, Chris (May 10, 2002). "Be Not Nobody". Entertainment Weekly. No. 653. Retrieved August 20, 2017.
  6. ^ Hardy, Ernest (May 22, 2002). "Vanessa Carlton: Be Not Nobody". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on October 31, 2007.
  7. ^ Cinquemani, Sal (May 1, 2002). "Vanessa Carlton: Be Not Nobody". Slant Magazine. Retrieved August 20, 2017.
  8. ^ "Carlton Finds Harmony On Sophomore CD". Billboard. October 7, 2004. Retrieved January 7, 2016.
  9. ^ "Vanessa Carlton". Variety. July 9, 2003. Archived from the original on December 7, 2008. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  10. ^ "Billboard.biz – Music Business – Billboard Charts – Album Sales – Concert Tours". Archived from the original on 2006-09-29. Retrieved 2006-05-29.
  11. ^ RIAA database for Vanessa Carlton
  12. ^ "Billboard.biz – Music Business – Billboard Charts – Album Sales – Concert Tours". Archived from the original on 2006-09-29. Retrieved 2006-05-28.