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| Released | August 14, 2006 | |||
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| Length | 47:40 | |||
| Label | Virgin | |||
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Beautiful Awakening is the third studio album by American singer Stacie Orrico. It was first released internationally on August 14, 2006, and marked the singer's debut with Virgin Records following her transition from ForeFront Records. Conceived during a longer hiatus during which Orrico returned to Seattle and took a waitressing job at a seafood restaurant after bouts with exhaustion following her international breakthrough with her self-titled second album (2003) and subsequent touring, the singer consulted a variety of musicians to work with her on new material. The songs, crafted along with frequent collaborators such as Dallas Austin and Anthony Dent as well as Dwayne Bastiany, KayGee, Novel, She'kspere, and Track & Field, took Orrico's work further away from the teen pop and more into R&B-Pop genre.
Upon its release, the album received generally positive reviews from critics who complimented Orrico's vocal talent and pop charisma displayed on Beautiful Awakening. However, some felt that it lacked musical growth. Commercially, the album was less successful than her previous album Stacie Orrico (2003), though it reached the top ten on the Japanese Albums Chart and was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ).[1] "I'm Not Missing You," the album's lead single, became a top 20 hit in Belgium, the Czech Republic, New Zealand, and Scotland. A second single, "So Simple," failed to chart. In the United States, Beautiful Awakening was released on January 16, 2007, in limited quantities but was quickly pulled as Virgin folded into EMI.[2][3]
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