Louder Than Words (album)

Louder Than Words
Studio album by Lionel Richie
Released	April 16, 1996
Studio	Record Plant, Manor Studio, Speeding Bullet Sound and Cochrane Studios (Los Angeles, California) Conway Studios, Ocean Way Recording, Capitol Studios, A&M Studios and The Tracken Place (Hollywood, California) Encore Studios and Warner Bros. Recording Studios (Burbank, California) The Hit Factory (New York City, New York) Flyte Time Studios (Edina, Minnesota)
Genre	R&B[1]
Length	67:05
Label	Mercury
Producer	James Anthony Carmichael David Foster Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis Lionel Richie
Lionel Richie chronology
Back to Front (1992) Louder Than Words (1996) Truly: The Love Songs (1997)
Singles from Louder Than Words
"Don't Wanna Lose You" Released: March 1996 [2] "Ordinary Girl" Released: 1996 "Still in Love" Released: 1996 (EU) "Climbing" Released: November 1996 (EU) [3] "Can't Get Over You" Released: 1996 (France)

Louder Than Words is the fourth studio album by American singer Lionel Richie. It was released by Mercury Records on April 16, 1996, in the United States. The album marked Richie's debut with the record label as well as his first album of new material in 10 years after a longer hiatus during which he went through a much-publicized divorce from his first wife Brenda Harvey and the loss of his father and a close friend. Apart from chief producer James Anthony Carmichael, the singer worked with Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, Babyface and David Foster on Louder Than Words.

Upon release, the album earned generally mixed to positive review from music critics, many of whom praised Richie's vocal performances and the ballads on the album but found the overall material old-fashioned. Commercially, Louder Than Words failed to reprise the success of Richies's previous multi-platinum studio albums Can't Slow Down (1983) and Dancing on the Ceiling (1986), though it entered the top thirty on the majority of the album charts it appeared on, going gold in France and the US and silver in the United Kingdom.