Yes! (Jason Mraz album)

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Yes! (Jason Mraz album) - Wikipedia

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Yes!

Studio album by

Jason Mraz

Released

July 11, 2014

Recorded

2013–2014

Genre

Pop, pop rock

Length

51:35

Label

Atlantic

Jason Mraz chronology

Love Is a Four Letter Word
(2012)

Yes!
(2014)

Know.
(2018)

Singles from Yes!

"Love Someone"
Released: May 19, 2014

Yes! is the fifth studio album by American singer-songwriter Jason Mraz. The album was released on July 11, 2014, Atlantic Records.^[1] The album's lead single "Love Someone" was released on May 19, 2014.^[2]

The album is a collaboration between Jason Mraz and the members of indie-rock-folk band Raining Jane: Mai Bloomfield, Becky Gebhardt, Chaska Potter and Mona Tavakoli, with whom Mraz has been working since 2007,^[3] and who are his backing band on the record,^[4]^[5] as well as co-writers of majority of the songs.

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	62/100^[6]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[7]
Billboard	82/100^[8]
The Boston Globe	70/100^[5]^[6]
Los Angeles Times	^[9]
Rolling Stone	^[10]
Slant Magazine	^[11]

Yes! was met with generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from critics, the album received an average score of 62, which indicates "generally favorable reviews", based on 6 reviews.^[6]

Matt Fruchtman of Slant Magazine gave the album two out of five stars, saying "his wide-lens worldview leaves Yes! feeling like the musical equivalent of a G-rated sitcom."^[11] Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic gave the album four out of five stars, saying "The exclamation point that punctuates its title suggests Jason Mraz may be a little enthusiastic on Yes! but that's a feint, hiding how this 2014 record is the next logical step on the singer/songwriter's road of seduction. Gone is the celebrated wordplay, a self-conscious maturation that was perhaps inevitable, but also absent are the smooth soul flourishes of 2012's Love Is a Four Letter Word."^[7]

Commercial performance

The album debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 chart, with first-week sales of 102,000 copies in the United States.^[12]

In Canada, the album debuted at number two on the Canadian Albums Chart with 12,000 copies, falling behind Rise Against's The Black Market.^[13]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Producer(s)	Length
1.	"Rise"	Jason Mraz, Chaska Potter, Mona Tavakoli, Becky Gebhardt, Mai Bloomfield, Chris Keup, Stewart Myers	Mike Mogis Mraz	1:29
2.	"Love Someone"	Mraz, Potter, Tavakoli, Gebhardt, Bloomfield, Keup, Myers	Mogis Mraz Chris Keup^[a] Stewart Myers^[a]	4:16
3.	"Hello, You Beautiful Thing"	Mraz, Potter, Tavakoli, Gebhardt	Mogis Mraz	3:34
4.	"Long Drive"	Mraz, Potter, Tavakoli, Gebhardt, Bloomfield	Mogis Mraz	3:50
5.	"Everywhere"	Mraz, Potter, Tavakoli, Gebhardt, Bloomfield	Mogis Mraz	3:24
6.	"Best Friend"	Mraz, Potter, Tavakoli, Gebhardt, Bloomfield	Mogis Mraz	3:19
7.	"Quiet"	Mraz, Daniel Omelio, Ammar Malik	Mogis Mraz Keup Myers	4:18
8.	"Out of My Hands"	Mraz, Potter, Tavakoli, Gebhardt, Bloomfield	Mogis Mraz	3:26
9.	"It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday"	Freddie Perren, Christine Yarian Perren	Mraz	2:58
10.	"3 Things"	Mraz, Michael Natter, Nancy Natter, Potter, Tavakoli, Gebhardt, Bloomfield	Mraz Keup^[a] Myers^[a]	2:54
11.	"You Can Rely on Me"	Mraz, Potter, Tavakoli, Gebhardt, Bloomfield, Keup, Myers, M. Natter, N. Natter	Mraz Keup Myers	3:43
12.	"Back to the Earth"	Mraz, Potter, Tavakoli, Gebhardt, Bloomfield	Mogis Mraz	3:46
13.	"A World with You"	Mraz, Myers, Keup	Mogis Mraz	4:39
14.	"Shine"	Mraz, Potter, Tavakoli, Gebhardt, Bloomfield	Mogis Mraz	6:04

Notes

^{^[a]} signifies a co-producer

Personnel

Credits adapted from AllMusic.^[14]

Jason Mraz – vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, Fender Rhodes, piano, synthesizer bass, engineering, mixing, production

Raining Jane

Mai Bloomfield – cello, glockenspiel, hi-string guitar, marimba, papoose, vocals
Becky Gebhardt – bass, upright bass, sitar
Chaska Potter – electric guitar, mandolin, ukulele, vocals
Mona Tavakoli – drums, percussion, vocals

Additional musicians

Mike Mogis – banjo, dobro, e-bow, electric guitar, mellotron, pedal steel, synthesizer bass
Andy Powers – banjo, dobro, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, mandolin, pedal steel
Ben Brodin – drums, percussion, piano, organ
Chris Joyner – drones, organ, piano, tanpura
Nate Walcott – organ, piano, Wurlitzer
Brian Jones – drums
John O'Reilly – drums
Stewart Myers – bass
Maryann Galewood – handclapping
Amber Elliot – handclapping
Ms. Tina – handclapping
Colin Killalea – inspiration [sic], vocal arrangement
Regan Sprenkle – vocal arrangement

Technical personnel

Mike Mogis – engineering, mixing, production
Chris Keup – engineering, production, additional production
Stewart Myers – engineering, production, additional production
Justin Hergett – engineering, mixing assistant
David Kalish – engineering
Ben Brodin – assistant engineering
Tony Maserati – mixing
James Krausse – mixing assistant
Chris Gehringer – mastering

Additional personnel

Tony Corey – production management
Jeff Nicholas – creative direction
Sam Riback – A&R
Douglas Gledhill – design
Ryan McCann – design
Patrick Morales – design
Jen Rosenstein – band photo

Charts and certifications

Weekly charts

Chart (2014)	Peak position
Australian Albums (ARIA)^[15]	17
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)^[16]	49
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)^[17]	22
Canadian Albums (Billboard)^[18]	2
Danish Albums (Hitlisten)^[19]	14
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)^[20]	1
French Albums (SNEP)^[21]	36
Hungarian Albums (MAHASZ)^[22]	18
Irish Albums (IRMA)^[23]	58
Italian Albums (FIMI)^[24]	54
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)^[25]	25
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)^[26]	24
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)^[27]	14
UK Albums (OCC)^[28]	18
US Billboard 200^[29]	2

Year-end charts

Chart (2014)	Position
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)^[30]	97
US Billboard 200^[31]	143

Certifications


Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada)^[32]	Gold	40,000^{^}
^{^} Shipments figures based on certification alone.

Release history

Region	Date	Format	Label
United Kingdom^[33]	July 11, 2014	CD, digital download	Atlantic Records
United States^[34]	July 15, 2014	CD, digital download	Atlantic Records

References

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^ Reuter, Annie (May 19, 2014). "Interview: Jason Mraz Details His First Acoustic Album, 'YES!'". Radio.com. Archived from the original on July 4, 2015. Retrieved July 26, 2014.
^ ^a ^b Johnston, Maura (July 15, 2014). "Jason Mraz, 'YES!'". The Boston Globe. Retrieved September 14, 2014.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Reviews for Yes! by Jason Mraz". Metacritic. Retrieved September 14, 2014.
^ ^a ^b Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Yes! - Jason Mraz". AllMusic. Retrieved July 17, 2014.
^ Benjamin, Jeff (July 15, 2014). "Jason Mraz's 'YES!': Track-By-Track Review". Billboard.
^ Wood, Mikael (July 18, 2014). "Pursued by youngsters, Jason Mraz is mellower than ever on 'Yes!'". Los Angeles Times.
^ Dolan, Jon (August 15, 2014). "Jason Mraz's New Album: Yes!". Rolling Stone. Retrieved September 14, 2014.
^ ^a ^b Fruchtman, Matt (10 July 2014). "Jason Mraz: Yes!". Slant Magazine. Retrieved July 17, 2014.
^ "'Weird Al' Yankovic Gets First No. 1 Album On Billboard 200 with 'Mandatory Fun'". Billboard. July 23, 2014. Retrieved July 23, 2014.
^ Alan Cross (26 July 2014). "A Journal of Musical ThingsWeekly Music Sales Report and Analysis: 23 July 2014". A Journal of Musical Things. Retrieved 2014-07-28.
^ "Yes! - Jason Mraz | Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved September 14, 2014.
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Discography
Studio albums	Waiting for My Rocket to Come Mr. A–Z We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things. Love Is a Four Letter Word Yes! Know Look for the Good Mystical Magical Rhythmical Radical Ride
Singles	"The Remedy (I Won't Worry)" "You and I Both" "Curbside Prophet" "Wordplay" "Geek in the Pink" "I'm Yours" "Make It Mine" "Lucky" "I Won't Give Up" "93 Million Miles" "The Woman I Love" "Love Someone" "Have It All" "More than Friends"
Promotional singles	"The Beauty in Ugly" "The World as I See It" "The Freedom Song"
Featured singles	"Distance" "Everybody's Got Somebody but Me" "Rough Water"
Live albums	Tonight, Not Again: Jason Mraz Live at the Eagles Ballroom Jason Mraz's Beautiful Mess: Live on Earth
Extended plays	We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things.

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