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Storyteller is the fifth studio album recorded by American singer and songwriter Carrie Underwood. It was released on October 23, 2015, through Sony Music Nashville. Following the release and success of her fourth studio album, Blown Away (2012), and its international supporting tour, Blown Away Tour (2012–13), Underwood began planning on a new album and started working on it in early 2014. However, her first compilation album was released in late 2014 to much success, while Underwood was pregnant with her first child. She then went back into the studio after giving birth in early 2015, to finish working on the album.

Bearing the title of Storyteller, the album has been described by Underwood as being more laid-back and more twangy as opposed to the her last studio album, and its title comes from the storytelling aspect of country music, as well as her own songs. For this album, Underwood worked with more and different producers than her previous albums. Besides frequent producer Mark Bright, Zach Crowell and Jay Joyce also produced the album.

Met with mostly positive reviews from music critics, Storyteller became a commercial success and set multiple records upon release. By debuting at number two on the Billboard 200 chart, it made Underwood the only country artist in history to have all first five studio albums debut at number one or two on the Billboard 200, and with a number-one debut on the Top Country Albums chart, it made her the only artist to score six consecutive number one albums on such a chart. Stotyteller also charted high in multiple charts across the globe, including a number-four debut in Australia, number-three in Canada and thirteen in the United Kingdom.

Background

"I feel like one of the things that sets country music apart from other types of music is the storytelling aspect. I want three-and-a-half-minute movies on the radio. I love that there’s a beginning, middle, and an end, and it all makes sense. You can follow the characters, and you can see it all playing out in your head. That’s what I’m drawn to, so that’s what I write, what I pick, and what I want to sing. All the songs on the album either are very character-driven mini-movies or they’re my own personal stories. Hopefully, both are entertaining and relatable.”

Underwood on the album's title, Storyteller.[2]

After the release and success of her fourth studio album, Blown Away, in 2012 and its international supporting tour, Blown Away Tour (2012-2013), Underwood confirmed, in August 2013, that she had began planning on a new album and would start working on it in 2014.[3] However, she released her first compilation album in late 2014 to much success, while pregnant with her first child.[4] After giving birth, in February 2015, Underwood went back into the studio to finish working on the album.[5] On August 20, 2015, Underwood announced the album's title and release date via live Facebook stream.[6]

Underwood has described Storyteller as being more laid-back and more twangy as opposed to the her last studio album, Blown Away (2012).[4] For this album, Underwood worked with frequent collaborators such as Hillary Lindsey, Ashley Gorley, Chris DeStefano, David Hodges, Brett James, and Mark Bright, although Underwood also worked with new collaborators such as Liz Rose, Zach Crowell, and Jay Joyce.[7] Joyce produced the album's lead single "Smoke Break", which Underwood wrote with DeStefano and Lindsey.[8]

Singles

"Smoke Break", the lead single off Storyteller, was released on August 21, 2015. The song set an all-time record for the largest first-week radio adds in the history of Country Aircheck, with 145 Mediabase adds and 159 total Billboard and Country Aircheck reporting stations lined up for the song’s official airplay impact date.[9][10] It reached number four on Hot Country Songs chart.

"Heartbeat" was confirmed as the second single from Storyteller at the 2015 American Music Awards.[11] The song made its official impact on country radio on November 30, 2015.[12]

Promotion

Underwood revealed the album's track listing on September 9, 2015, via her Instagram account. On September 10, 2015, Underwood appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and also performed "Smoke Break". On September 21, 2015, Underwood performed the song at the Apple Music Festival in London.[13]

On October 9, 2015, "Heartbeat" was released as a promotional single from the album.[14] The song features background vocals by country artist Sam Hunt . It sold 23,000 copies and debuted at No.26 on Hot Country Songs chart for the week ending October 31, 2015. As of October 26, 2015 the song has sold 31,000 copies.[15] The song also entered the Scottish Singles Chart at number 80.

"Renegade Runaway" was released as the second promotional single on October 16, 2015. It sold 13,000 copies and debuted at number 34 on Hot Country Songs chart. A third and final promotional single, "What I Never Knew I Always Wanted" was released October 19, 2015. It sold 9,000 copies and entered the Hot Country Songs chart at number 38 and reached number 32. As of November 21, 2015, it sold 21,000 copies. All three singles were made available for download on iTunes, Amazon, and other digital retailers with a pre-order of the full Storyteller album.

Tour

To support the album Underwood will embark on The Storyteller Tour — Stories in the Round, which was announced on October 27, 2015, via her official site. It will begin on January 30, 2016, in Jacksonville, Florida.[16]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic74/100[1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[17]
Billboard[18]
The Boston GlobePositive[19]
Entertainment WeeklyA-[20]
Rolling Stone[21]
Spin70/100[22]

Storyteller received mostly positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has an average score of 74 out of 100, which indicates "generally favorable reviews" based on nine reviews.[1]

Jewly Hight of Billboard rated the album three and a half out of five stars, and commended : "Unlike newer country acts who can sound like they’re merely co-starring with their own faddish production, Underwood commands the spotlight, balancing the well-established extremes of her onstage persona -- Midwestern girl-next-door and imperious diva -- within these freshened-up aesthetic frames. If it weren’t for several songs’ worth of forgettable filler (the half-baked outlaw escapade “Mexico,” cursory club anthem “Clock Don’t Stop”), the album would be divided almost evenly between episodes of vengeful, countrified melodrama and moving celebrations of conventional fulfillment. The first half holds a pair of Southern-gothic blockbusters that are the closest she has come to channeling McEntire’s down-home storytelling: “Choctaw County Affair,” a tale of lovers silencing their would-be blackmailer, and “Church Bells,” a rags-to-riches murder ballad in which a woman quietly offs her abusive husband. The second half concludes with sentimental tunes that will soundtrack many a wedding slow dance in coming months: the wistfully swelling power ballad “The Girl You Think I Am” and adult-contemporary pop number “What I Never Knew I Always Wanted.”[23]

Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic rated the album four out of five stars and states: "Storyteller is no small album: it demands attention and it deserves it, too."[17] The Boston Globe's Sarah Rodman calls it Underwood's best album yet, and writes: "there’s plenty on Storyteller that will sound familiar to Underwood fans, and a few filler tracks."[19]

Commercial performance

In the United States, Storyteller debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 with 177,000 equivalent album units; the album sold 164,000 copies in pure sales, with the remainder of its unit total reflecting the album's streaming and track equivalent album units.[24] This made Underwood the only country artist to have his or her first five studio albums debut at number one or number two on the Billboard 200 chart.[25] In addition, the album debuted at number one on the Top Country Albums chart, earning Underwood another record as the only artist to score six consecutive number one albums on that chart.[25] It held the number two position on the Billboard 200 in its second week, moving another 81,000 units, including over 73,000 album copies sold.[26] On the chart dated Dec. 19, it rose back to number one on the Top Country Albums for a second week.[27] As of December 7, 2015, the album has sold 354,500 copies in the US.[28] It was certified Gold by the RIAA on December 4, 2015 for shipments of over 500,000 copies in the US.[29]

Outside of the United States, the album debuted at number three in Canada, number four in Australia,[30] number six in Scotland, number thirteen on the UK Albums Chart—becoming her second top twenty album in the region[31]—and charted in another six regions.

Track listing

Storyteller – Standard edition[32]
No.TitleWriter(s)ProducerLength
1."Renegade Runaway"
Jay Joyce3:40
2."Dirty Laundry"
Joyce3:25
3."Church Bells"
Mark Bright3:15
4."Heartbeat"
  • Underwood
  • Crowell
  • Gorley
Crowell3:31
5."Smoke Break"
  • Underwood
  • DeStefano
  • Lindsey
Joyce3:20
6."Choctaw County Affair"Jason WhiteJoyce3:31
7."Like I'll Never Love You Again"
Joyce3:37
8."Chaser"
Joyce4:24
9."Relapse"
  • Ben Caver
  • Sara Haze
  • James
Crowell3:24
10."Clock Don't Stop"
Bright3:23
11."The Girl You Think I Am"
Bright3:38
12."Mexico"
Bright3:28
13."What I Never Knew I Always Wanted"
  • Underwood
  • James
  • Lindsey
Bright3:36
Total length:46:12
Storyteller – Target exclusive edition (bonus tracks)[33]
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
14."Heartbeat" (stripped)
  • Underwood
  • Crowell
  • Gorley
Crowell3:21
15."Little Girl Don't Grow Up Too Fast"
  • Underwood
  • DeStefano
  • Lindsey
Bright4:26
Total length:53:59

Personnel

Credits adapted from AllMusic.[34]

Performance credits
  • All vocals — Carrie Underwood
    • Featured vocals — Sam Hunt
    • Background vocals — Perry Coleman, Zach Crowell, Chris DeStefano, Jerry Flowers, Hillary Lindsey, The McCrary Sisters, James Moore
Instruments
Production and creative imagery
  • A&R — Kristen Wines
  • Assistant — Keith Armstrong, Nik Karpen, Kam Luchterland, Chris Small
  • Engineers — Nick Autry, Derek Bason, Nick Chagon, Jason Hall, Andrew Schubert
    • Assistant engineer — Paul Cossette, Caleb VanBuskirk
  • Creative designer and design — Scott McDaniel
  • Digital editing — Derek Bason, Chris Small
  • Liner notes — Carrie Underwood
  • Managers — Simon Fuller and Anne Edelblute
  • Mastering — Adam Ayan
  • Mixing — Derek Bason, Chris Lord-Alge
  • Package design — Grace Boto
  • Photographer — Randee St. Nichols
  • Producers — Mark Bright, Zach Crowell, Jay Joyce
  • Production coordinators — Kenley Flynn, Mike "Frog" Girffith
    • Production assistant — Melissa Spillman
  • Programming — Zach Crowell, Jay Joyce, Charlie Judge

Other Charted Songs

Following the release of the album, five of its songs charted on the Hot Country Songs: "The Girl You Think I Am" at number 38 (8,000 copies sold), "Like I'll Never Love You Again" at number 39 (8,000 copies), "Dirty Laundry" at number 47 (3,000 copies), "Relapse" at number 48 (4,000 copies) and "Church Bells" at number 49 (2,300 copies).[35]

Charts

Chart (2015) Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[30] 4
Australian Country Albums (ARIA)[36] 1
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[37] 87
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[38] 193
Canadian Albums (Billboard)[39] 3
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[40] 67
Irish Albums (IRMA)[41] 18
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[42] 13
Scottish Albums (OCC)[43] 6
South Korean International Albums (Gaon)[44] 39
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[45] 38
UK Albums (OCC)[46] 13
UK Country Albums (OCC)[47] 1
US Billboard 200[48] 2
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[49] 1

Certifications

Region Certification Certified units/sales
United States (RIAA)[50] Gold 354,000^

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

Release history

List of release dates, showing region, formats, label, editions and reference
Region Date Format(s) Label Edition(s) Ref.
Australia October 23, 2015 (2015-10-23)
Sony Music Nashville Standard [51]
Canada
[32]
United Kingdom Columbia [52]
United States
  • Arista Nashville
  • 19
 [32]

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