Corinne Bailey Rae (album)

Corinne Bailey Rae is the eponymous debut album of English singer–songwriter Corinne Bailey Rae, released 24 February 2006 on EMI. It was released in February 2006 in Ireland and the United Kingdom, and in continental Europe on 3 March 2006. The album debuted at number 1 on both the UK Albums Chart and the R&B Albums Chart, selling 739,000 copies in its first year. It became one of the best-selling albums in the UK, while it also sold 1.9 million copies in the United States, and over 4 million copies worldwide. Corinne Bailey Rae is the forty-ninth best-selling album of the 2000s decade.

Release and promotion

"Like a Star" was the lead single off the album. It was released in a limited-edition format in 2005, peaking inside the UK Singles Chart at number thirty-four. The second single, "Put Your Records On", went straight to number two in February 2006 and also hit number one on the UK R&B Singles chart. The follow-up single, "Trouble Sleeping", was released in May 2006, peaking at number forty in the UK. Then a re-release of the first single "Like a Star" was issued, which originally peaked at #34 and as a re-release at #32. The fourth and final single in the UK was "I'd Like To", released in the UK on 12 February 2007. Also on this date, the album was re-released with a bonus disc...
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