Doing It My Way

Ray Quinn
Studio album by Ray Quinn
Released 12 March 2007[1]
Recorded January 2007
Los Angeles, California
Genre Vocal jazz
Length 34:05
Label RCA
Producer Nigel Wright
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]

Doing It My Way is the debut studio album by The X Factor series 3 runner up Ray Quinn. The album was recorded at Capitol Records Tower in Los Angeles in January 2007.[3][4] It was released on 12 March 2007 and entered the UK Albums Chart at number one the following week, making Quinn the first person ever to have a number-one album without releasing a single. It sold 126,985 copies in its first week, enough to be certified Gold.[5]

Track listing

  1. "Ain't That a Kick in the Head?" (Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen) - 2:31
  2. "Fly Me to the Moon" (Bart Howard) - 2:27
  3. "My Way" (Paul Anka, Claude François, Jacques Revaux, Gilles Thibault) - 4:29
  4. "That's Life" (Kelly Gordon, Dean Kay) - 3:13
  5. "Mack the Knife" (Marc Blitzstein, Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill) - 3:02
  6. "Smile" (Charlie Chaplin, John Turner, Geoffrey Parsons) - 2:39
  7. "The Way You Look Tonight" (Jerome Kern, Dorothy Fields) - 4:11
  8. "Summer Wind" (Hans Bradtke, Henry Mayer, Johnny Mercer) - 2:44
  9. "What a Wonderful World" (Bob Thiele, George David Weiss) - 2:15
  10. "Mr. Bojangles" (Jerry Jeff Walker) - 3:25
  11. "New York, New York" (John Kander, Fred Ebb) - 3:09

Credits and personnel

(Credits taken from AllMusic and Doin It My Way's liner notes.)

Charts and certifications

Charts

Chart (2007) Peak
position
Irish Albums (IRMA)[6] 5
Scottish Albums (OCC)[7] 1
UK Albums (OCC)[8] 1
UK Digital Albums (OCC)[9] 12

Certifications

Region Certification Certified units/Sales
Ireland (IRMA)[10] Gold 7,500^
United Kingdom (BPI)[11] Gold 100,000^

^shipments figures based on certification alone

References

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