Jake Bugg (album)

Jake Bugg
Studio album by Jake Bugg
Released 15 October 2012
Genre Indie folk, indie rock, folk rock
Length 39:19
Label Mercury (UK), Island (US)
Producer Iain Archer, Mike Crossey, Matt Prime, Crispin Hunt, Jason Hart, Jake Bugg
Jake Bugg chronology
Jake Bugg
(2012)		 Shangri La
(2013)
Singles from Jake Bugg
  1. "Trouble Town"
    Released: 4 March 2012
  2. "Country Song"
    Released: 30 March 2012
  3. "Lightning Bolt"
    Released: 27 April 2012
  4. "Taste It"
    Released: 13 July 2012
  5. "Two Fingers"
    Released: 7 September 2012
  6. "Seen It All"
    Released: 25 February 2013
  7. "Broken"
    Released: 21 June 2013

Jake Bugg is the self-titled debut studio album by English singer-songwriter Jake Bugg. It was released on 15 October 2012 in the UK.[1] It was released in the United States on 9 April 2013.[2] The album has received generally favourable reviews from critics. It was nominated for the 2013 Mercury Prize.

Singles

Commercial performance

On 21 October 2012, the album debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart.[3] On 18 October, it entered the Irish Albums Chart at number ten, before climbing to number eight in its second week.[4] The album has also charted in Belgium, the Netherlands and Switzerland. It has sold over 604,100 copies in the UK and has been certified Platinum by the BPI.The album has sold 604,100 copies in the United Kingdom and is the 57th best selling album of the 2010 decade.[5] The album debuted at number 75 on the US Billboard 200 with 6,000 copies sold.[6]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic80/100[7]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[8]
BBC(favourable)[9]
NME(9/10)[10]
The Guardian[11]
Rolling Stone[12]
Daily Mail[13]
Impact[14]

Upon release, the album was well received by critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 80, based on 19 reviews, which indicates "generable favourable reviews".[7] Barry Nicolson of New Musical Express magazine gave the album a positive review and 9/10, praising Bugg's "authenticity", style of music and wit. Nicolson said: "On 'Two Fingers', Bugg talks wistfully of scheming on the streets of Clifton, where he and his mates would "skin up a fat one, hide from the feds", as though life held no nobler pursuit. You can tell that, up until now, his world has been small, and he might well have spiraled down the sinkhole that swallows so many marginalised estate kids. Eventually, however, Bugg comes to the same conclusion that we do: "Something is changing, changing, changing". If this debut album - rife with uncommon wit, insight and melody - is testament to anything, it's that his small, unremarkable world is about to get a whole lot bigger."[10]

Chris Roberts, of BBC gave the album a positive review stating, "Things feel less derivative when he softens and just lets his voice and acoustic guitar nakedly affect. On the likes of Country Song and Someone Told Me, scepticism is tamed by the purity of the attempt. Fire is unabashedly romantic. That voice, with its hint of Gene Pitney, is a piercing, precise tool which lifts him above the laddish milieu. Ubiquity may beckon".

Will Hermes, of Rolling Stone, also gave a positive review stating, "Jake Bugg shows an artist who is crazy fully formed, stepping into a journey that should be worth following."[15] Rolling Stone went on to rank Jake Bugg as the 12th best album of 2013, calling him the "acoustic revivalist with the guts to shake up the traditions he loves."[16]

Track listing

No. TitleLyricsProducer Length
1. "Lightning Bolt"  Iain Archer, Jake BuggArcher 2:24
2. "Two Fingers"  Archer, BuggMike Crossey 3:15
3. "Taste It"  Archer, BuggArcher 2:24
4. "Seen It All"  Archer, BuggCrossey 2:51
5. "Simple as This"  Matt Prime, BuggPrime 3:19
6. "Country Song"  BuggJason Hart 1:49
7. "Broken"  Crispin Hunt, BuggHunt 4:07
8. "Trouble Town"  Archer, BuggArcher 2:50
9. "Ballad of Mr Jones"  Archer, BuggCrossey 2:39
10. "Slide"  Archer, BuggCrossey 3:08
11. "Someone Told Me"  BuggHart 2:36
12. "Note to Self"  Archer, BuggArcher 2:40
13. "Someplace"  BuggCrossey 3:32
14. "Fire"  BuggJake Bugg 1:45
Total length:
 39:19

Charts and certifications

Weekly charts

Chart (2012/13) Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[17] 19
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[18] 8
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[19] 11
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[20] 56
Danish Albums (Hitlisten)[21] 12
Dutch Albums (MegaCharts)[22] 21
French Albums (SNEP)[23] 21
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[24] 10
Irish Albums (IRMA)[4] 3
Japanese Albums (Oricon)[25] 43
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[26] 7
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)[27] 34
Scottish Albums (OCC)[28] 1
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[29] 39
UK Albums (OCC)[30] 1
US Billboard 200[31] 75

Year-end charts

Chart (2012) Position
UK Albums (OCC)[32] 53
Chart (2013) Position
UK Albums (OCC)[33] 14
Chart (2014) Position
UK Albums (OCC)[34] 73

Certifications

Region Certification Certified units/Sales
United Kingdom (BPI)[35] 2× Platinum 741,840[36]

Release history

Region Release date Format Label
United Kingdom 15 October 2012 LP, CD, digital download Mercury Records
United States 9 April 2013

References

  1. ↑ "Two Fingers | Jake Bugg - Official website". Jake Bugg. Retrieved 2012-10-12.
  2. ↑ "News; Jake Bugg - Official website". Retrieved 2013-03-09.
  3. ↑ Corner, Lewis (2012-10-17). "Leona Lewis trails Jake Bugg in midweek chart update". Digital Spy. Retrieved 2012-11-12.
  4. 1 2 "GFK Chart-Track Albums: Week 43, 2012". Chart-Track. IRMA.
  5. ↑ ""21": Álbum de Adele é o mais vendido da década no Reino Unido". Pop Line. 15 January 2014. Retrieved 16 January 2014.
  6. ↑ "Jake Bugg's 'Lightning Bolt' Strikes U.S. Charts". Billboard. Retrieved 2013-06-26.
  7. 1 2 "Jake Bugg Reviews, Ratings, Credits, and More - Metacritic". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved November 12, 2012.
  8. ↑ James Wilkinson (2012-10-15). "Jake Bugg - Jake Bugg". AllMusic. Retrieved 2013-10-20.
  9. ↑ "Music - Review of Jake Bugg - Jake Bugg". BBC. 2012-10-01. Retrieved 2012-10-12.
  10. 1 2 "NME Album Reviews - Jake Bugg - 'Jake Bugg'". Nme.Com. 2012-10-12. Retrieved 2012-11-12.
  11. ↑ Michael Hann (2012-01-13). "Jake Bugg: Jake Bugg – review | Music". The Guardian. Retrieved 2012-10-12.
  12. ↑ Will Hermes (2013-04-13). "Jake Bugg - Jake Bugg". Retrieved 2013-10-20.
  13. ↑ Tim De Lisle (2012-10-08). "Jake Bugg: Jake Bugg review: Debut album is almost too good to be true". Dailymail.co.uk. Retrieved 2012-10-12.
  14. ↑ "Album Review: Jake Bugg – 'Jake Bugg'". impactnottingham.com. October 16, 2012.
  15. ↑ Will Hermes (2013-04-15). "Jake Bugg | Album Reviews". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2014-03-27.
  16. ↑ "50 Best Albums of 2013: Jake Bugg, 'Jake Bugg'". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2014-03-27.
  17. ↑ "Australiancharts.com – Jake Bugg – Jake Bugg". Hung Medien.
  18. ↑ "Austriancharts.at – Jake Bugg – Jake Bugg" (in German). Hung Medien.
  19. ↑ "Ultratop.be – Jake Bugg – Jake Bugg" (in Dutch). Hung Medien.
  20. ↑ "Ultratop.be – Jake Bugg – Jake Bugg" (in French). Hung Medien.
  21. ↑ "Danishcharts.com – Jake Bugg – Jake Bugg". Hung Medien.
  22. ↑ "Dutchcharts.nl – Jake Bugg – Jake Bugg" (in Dutch). Hung Medien.
  23. ↑ "Lescharts.com – Jake Bugg – Jake Bugg". Hung Medien.
  24. ↑ "Longplay-Chartverfolgung at Musicline" (in German). Musicline.de. Phononet GmbH.
  25. ↑ "Jake Bugg - ジェイク・バグ" (in Japanese). oricon.co.jp. Retrieved July 6, 2013.
  26. ↑ "Charts.org.nz – Jake Bugg – Jake Bugg". Hung Medien.
  27. ↑ "Norwegiancharts.com – Jake Bugg – Jake Bugg". Hung Medien.
  28. ↑ "Official Scottish Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company.
  29. ↑ "Swisscharts.com – Jake Bugg – Jake Bugg". Hung Medien.
  30. ↑ "Official Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company.
  31. ↑ "Jake Bugg – Billboard". billboard.com.
  32. ↑ "End of Year Album Chart Top 100 - 2012". Official Charts Company. 2 January 2013. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  33. ↑ "End of Year Album Chart Top 100 - 2013".
  34. ↑ "End of Year Album Chart Top 100 - 2014".
  35. ↑ "British album certifications – Jake Bugg – Jake Bugg". British Phonographic Industry. Enter Jake Bugg in the field Keywords. Select Title in the field Search by. Select album in the field By Format. Select Platinum in the field By Award. Click Search
  36. ↑ Jones, Alan (24 June 2016). "Official Charts Analysis: One Dance becomes longest-charting No.1 of the digital era". Music Week. Intent Media. Retrieved 24 June 2016. (subscription required (help)).
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