Name | The Rising |
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Type | studio |
Artist | Bruce Springsteen |
Cover | Springsteen_The_Rising.jpg |
Released | July 30, 2002 |
Recorded | January–March 2002 |
Genre | Heartland Rock |
Length | 72:52 |
Label | Columbia |
Producer | Brendan O'Brien |
Chronology | Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band | |
Last album | (2001) |
This album | The Rising(2002) |
Next album | The Essential Bruce Springsteen(2003) |
The Rising is the 12th studio album by American recording artist Bruce Springsteen, released in 2002. In addition to being Springsteen's first studio album in seven years, it was also his first with the E Street Band in 18 years. It is centered around Springsteen's reflections on the September 11, 2001 attacks.
Upon its release, The Rising was a critical and commercial success, and hailed as the triumphant return for Springsteen. It debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 chart, with first-week sales of over 520,000 copies. With this, Springsteen became the oldest person to achieve a first-week sales of over a half of a million copies in the United States. The album also garnered a Grammy Award for Best Rock Album in 2003; although nominated for the Album of the Year award as well, it was beaten by Norah Jones' debut album Come Away with Me. Title song "The Rising" was also a Grammy nominee and recipient.
For the year 2002, The Rising was one of only two albums to receive Rolling Stone's highest rating – five stars – the other being Beck's Sea Change. The magazine also ranked the album #15 on its list of 100 Best Albums of the Decade.
"Mary's Place" is directly inspired by Sam Cooke's "Meet Me at Mary's Place"; "Let's Be Friends" takes musical form from John Mellencamp's "Cherry Bomb" and Mariah Carey's "Dreamlover"; and the gospel-like "My City of Ruins" is organized around the melody line of Curtis Mayfield's "People Get Ready".
Helped by a substantial marketing campaign — pre-release promotion was the biggest of Springsteen's career — and the concurrent Rising Tour, The Rising went on to become Springsteen's first #1 album on the U.S. pop albums chart since his 1995 Greatest Hits album and would go on to sell about 2,100,000 copies in the United States, making it Springsteen's best-selling album of new material since 1987's Tunnel of Love.
A re-recorded version of the song "The Fuse" with an orchestral backing features in the Spike Lee-directed film 25th Hour.
Rolling Stone ranked The Rising #15 on its list of 100 Best Albums of the Decade.
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!Year | !Chart | !Position |
2002 | Billboard 2002 | 1 |
Category:Bruce Springsteen albums Category:2002 albums Category:Music of Atlanta, Georgia Category:Songs about the United States Category:Music about the September 11 attacks Category:Albums produced by Brendan O'Brien Category:Columbia Records albums
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