Room for Squares

Room for Squares
Studio album by
ReleasedJune 5, 2001 (Aware only)
September 18, 2001 (Aware and Columbia rerelease)
RecordedOctober 2000 – January 2001[1]
Studio
  • Loho (New York, NY)
  • Sunny Acre (Easton, MD)
  • 33 & 1/3 (Brooklyn, NY)
Genre
Length54:14
Label
ProducerJohn Alagia
John Mayer chronology
Inside Wants Out
(1999)
Room for Squares
(2001)
Heavier Things
(2003)
Singles from Room for Squares
  1. "No Such Thing"
    Released: June 4, 2001[3]
  2. "Your Body Is a Wonderland"
    Released: June 3, 2002[4]
  3. "Why Georgia"
    Released: January 21, 2003[5]

Room for Squares is the debut studio album by American singer-songwriter and guitarist John Mayer, originally released on June 5, 2001, and re-released on September 18, 2001, by both Aware and Columbia Records. Upon its release, it peaked at number 8 on the US Billboard 200 and received generally positive reviews from critics. It earned Mayer a Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for the single "Your Body Is a Wonderland".

Room for Squares is Mayer's best-selling album to date, having sold over 4,484,000 copies in the United States as of July 2014.[6]

  1. ^ John Mayer: "Inside the Square" (video). Event occurs at 2:30 – via YouTube. The record was recorded from, I think, October to December or January...
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Leahey was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "Triple A: Going for Adds". Radio & Records. No. 1404. June 1, 2001. p. 110.
  4. ^ "Going for Adds". Radio & Records. No. 1455. May 31, 2002. p. 26.
  5. ^ "Going for Adds". Radio & Records. No. 1487. January 17, 2003. p. 24.
  6. ^ Grein, Paul (July 8, 2014). "USA: Top 20 New Acts Since 2000". Yahoo! Music.