One Life

One Life may refer to:

Films and television

Music

Albums

Songs

Libra Scale

Libra Scale is the fourth studio album by studio album by American recording artist Ne-Yo. It was released on October 27, 2010 in Japan, followed by a release in the United Kingdom on October 29, as well a release in North America on November 22, 2010 by Def Jam Recordings and Compound Entertainment. The album is preceded by three singles: its lead single, and the UK number-one hit "Beautiful Monster", as well as "Champagne Life" and "One in a Million".

Upon release, Libra Scale received favorable reviews from most music critics. The album opened at number 9 on the US Billboard 200, selling 112,000 copies in its first week sales, becoming his fourth consecutive top-ten album in the United States. It currently holds a 73 out of 100 on Metacritic, which indicates "generally favorable reviews", based on fourteen reviews, and has attained three singles that have achieved moderate Billboard chart success.

Background and concept

According to Ne-Yo, the idea for the album emerged from three influences: his desire to do something different instead of a standard compilation; his interest in science fiction, comic books and Japanese animation; and inspiration from the works of Michael Jackson, particularly Thriller, Moonwalker, and Bad. Originally a short movie was to accompany the album, but such proved not to be viable given time and monetary constraints, so Ne-Yo chose to develop a series of six extended music videos instead. Nevertheless, the film concept continues to influence the work, as he has stated the songs on the album are inspired by the script of the film that he wrote. The album features a number of songs which follow the story of Jerome and Pretti Sinclair.

One Life (Mai Kuraki album)

One Life is the seventh studio album by Japanese recording artist Mai Kuraki. It was released on January 1, 2008. The album is Kuraki's first under the Northern Music label.

Background

One Life is Kuraki's second self-produced album. Unlike her previous albums where she worked almost exclusively with Aika Ohno and Akihito Tokunaga, for One Life Kuraki sought out various Being musicians to participate in the production of the album. The sound is reminiscent of her earlier, more R&B-driven albums such as Delicious Way and Perfect Crime.

Chart performance

One Life debuted on the Oricon albums chart at #14 with 62,662 copies sold (due to two weeks' sales combination), making it Kuraki's first album to open/peak outside of the top 10. The album charted for a total of 11 weeks.One Life was the 117th best selling album of 2008.

Track listing

All lyrics written by Mai Kuraki except track 12 which is a cover of "Over The Rainbow", written by E.Y. Harburg. 

Charts, sales and certifications

Michelle McManus

Michelle McManus (born May 8, 1980) is a Scottish singer-songwriter, actress, columnist, radio DJ, television presenter and former international darts player, who rose to fame after winning the second series of the UK talent show Pop Idol. Following her win, McManus released her debut single "All This Time" that debuted at number one on both the UK Singles Charts and Scottish Singles Charts, thus making her the first Scottish female to debut at the top of the UK Singles Charts. "All this Time" spent three weeks at number one in the UK and spent eleven weeks inside the UK Top 100.

McManus released her second single, "The Meaning of Love" which debuted at number sixteen on the UK Singles Charts, number seven on the Scottish Singles Charts as well as number twenty-nine on the Irish Singles Charts. Her debut album, The Meaning of Love was released in February 2004 and debuted at number one on the Scottish Album Charts, number three on the UK Album Charts and number sixty-four on the Irish Album Charts. The Meaning of Love went onto receive a Gold certification from the BPI for sales of over 200,000 in the UK alone.

Michelle McManus (Michigan politician)

Michelle A. McManus (born October 5, 1966) is a Republican politician from the U.S. state of Michigan. She was a member of the Michigan Senate from 2003 through 2010, representing the 35th District, and was assistant majority leader during her second term, 2007 to 2010.

Elected office

From 1993 to 1999, she was a member of the Michigan House of Representatives from the 104th District.

McManus unsuccessfully ran for Congress in 1998 against then-Democratic incumbent Bart Stupak in Michigan's First Congressional District receiving only 40% of the vote. She served as the director of Governor John Engler's Northern Michigan Office between 1999 and 2002.

In the 2002 general election McManus was elected to the Michigan Senate from the 35th Senate District. The district covered eleven counties, including Benzie, Clare, Kalkaska, Lake, Leelanau, Manistee, Mecosta, Missaukee, Osceola, Roscommon and Wexford. Her uncle, George A. McManus, Jr., had previously held the Senate seat for the 35th District.