Colour Me Free!

album by Joss Stone

Colour Me Free! is the fourth studio album by English singer-songwriter Joss Stone, released on 20 October 2009 by Virgin Records. The album was originally scheduled to be released in April 2009. However, Stone's label, EMI, delayed it to July and again to 20 October.

Colour Me Free!
Studio album by
Released20 October 2009 (2009-10-20)
Recorded2008
Genre
Length52:29
Label
Producer
Joss Stone chronology
Introducing Joss Stone
(2007)
Colour Me Free!
(2009)
LP1
(2011)
Singles from Colour Me Free!
  1. "Free Me"
    Released: 22 September 2009 (2009-09-22)

Track listing

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No. TitleWriter(s)Producer(s) Length
1. "Free Me"  
  • Stone
  • Shorten
  • Reeves
3:53
2. "Could Have Been You"  
  • Stone
  • Shorten
  • Reeves
  • Stone
  • Shorten
  • Reeves
4:52
3. "Parallel Lines" (featuring Jeff Beck and Sheila E.)
  • Stone
  • Shorten
  • Reeves
  • Stone
  • Shorten
  • Reeves
4:26
4. "Lady"  
  • Stone
  • Shorten
  • Reeves
  • Stone
  • Shorten
  • Reeves
4:22
5. "4 and 20"  
  • Stone
  • Shorten
  • Reeves
  • Stone
  • Shorten
  • Reeves
5:06
6. "Big Ol' Game" (featuring Raphael Saadiq)
  • Stone
  • Saadiq
  • Stone
  • Saadiq
4:30
7. "Governmentalist" (featuring Nas)
  5:42
8. "Incredible"  
  • Stone
  • Shorten
  • Colin Hickson
  • Paddy Milner
  • Pete Cherry
  • Nikolaij Joel
  • Michael Bowes
  • Richie Stevens
  2:46
9. "You Got the Love"  
  • Arnecia Michelle Harris
  • Anthony B. Stephens
  3:35
10. "I Believe It to My Soul" (featuring David Sanborn)Ray CharlesPhil Ramone 4:29
11. "Stalemate" (with Jamie Hartman)
  • Hartman
  • Camilla Boler
  • Stone
4:18
12. "Girlfriend on Demand"  Mackenzie 4:30
13. "Mr Wankerman" (hidden track) (not featured on US and Canadian pressings)
  13:44
Sampling credits
  • "Free Me" embodies portions of "Do the Dirt" by The Meters.

Personnel

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Credits adapted from the liner notes of Colour Me Free![3]

Charts

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Chart (2009–10) Peak
position
Australian Digital Albums Chart[4] 36
Austrian Albums Chart[5] 17
Belgian Albums Chart (Flanders)[6] 50
Belgian Albums Chart (Wallonia)[7] 56
Canadian Albums Chart[8] 26
Croatian Foreign Albums Chart[9] 37
Dutch Albums Chart[10] 16
French Albums Chart[11] 63
German Albums Chart[12] 26
Italian Albums Chart[13] 53
Japanese Albums Chart[14] 102
Portuguese Albums Chart[15] 25
Swiss Albums Chart[16] 5
UK Albums Chart[17] 75
UK R&B Albums Chart[18] 10
US Billboard 200[19] 10
US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums[20] 9

Release history

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Region Date Label Ref.
Canada 20 October 2009 EMI [21]
United States Virgin [22]
Germany 30 October 2009 EMI [23]
Italy [24]
France 2 November 2009 [25]
United Kingdom Virgin [26]
Australia 6 November 2009 EMI [27]
Japan 18 November 2009 [28]

References

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  2. "Colour Me Free! : Joss Stone". HMV Japan. Retrieved 8 February 2015.
  3. Colour Me Free! (CD liner notes). Joss Stone. Virgin Records. 2009. 509994 58018 2 2.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  4. "ARIA Digital Albums – Week Commencing 16th November 2009" (PDF). ARIA Charts. Pandora Archive. p. 11. Retrieved 24 March 2011.
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  6. "Joss Stone – Colour Me Free!" (in Dutch). Ultratop. Hung Medien. Retrieved 24 March 2011.
  7. "Joss Stone – Colour Me Free!" (in French). Ultratop. Hung Medien. Retrieved 22 November 2009.
  8. "Albums : Top 100". Jam!. 1 November 2009. Archived from the original on 11 November 2009. Retrieved 8 February 2015.
  9. "Top Stranih – Tjedan 2. 2010" [Top Foreign – Week 2. 2010.] (in Croatian). Hrvatska diskografska udruga. Retrieved 8 February 2015.
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  17. "Joss Stone" (select "Albums" tab). Official Charts Company. Retrieved 4 March 2015.
  18. "Official R&B Albums Chart Top 40". Official Charts Company. 8–14 November 2009. Retrieved 4 March 2015.
  19. "Joss Stone – Chart history: Billboard 200". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved 8 February 2015.
  20. "Joss Stone – Chart history: Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved 8 February 2015.
  21. "Joss Stone : Colour Me Free". ShopEMI. EMI Music Canada. Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 24 November 2009.
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  24. "Joss Stone – Colour Me Free" (in Italian). Internet Bookshop Italia. Retrieved 24 November 2009.
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  26. "Joss Stone: Colour Me Free". HMV. Archived from the original on 27 May 2012. Retrieved 24 November 2009.
  27. "Colour Me Free". JB Hi-Fi. Retrieved 8 February 2015.
  28. "ジョス・ストーン / カラー・ミー・フリー!" [Joss Stone / Colour Me Free!] (in Japanese). EMI Music Japan. Archived from the original on 2 November 2010. Retrieved 24 November 2009.