Feels Like... Number One

"Feels Like Home está a conquistar o mundo. Só nos EUA vendeu, em apenas uma semana, mais de um milhão de cópias e entrou directo para número 1 em 16 países. O álbum entrou directo para o número 1 do Top 200 da Billboard, somando, de acordo com a Nielson Soundscan, 1.022.000 unidades vendidas, o que significa que Feels Like Home é campeão de vendas numa semana, destronando Get Rich or Die Tryin dos 50 Cent - 872.082 unidades - e Meteora dos Linkin Park - 810.488. Mas não é tudo: Feels Like Home é o disco mais vendido numa semana desde Julho de 2001!



Feels Like Home entrou directo para número 1 nos seguintes países:

· Portugal

· Reino Unido

· Irlanda

· Alemanha

· França

· Noruega

· Dinamarca

· Áustria

· Holanda

· Islândia

· Itália

· Suiça

· Canadá

· Colômbia

· Nova Zelândia



Come Away With Me - álbum de estreia vencedor de 8 Grammy em 2002 - reentrou para 18ºlugar nos EUA, depois de umas espantosas 103 semanas em tabela. Na Irlanda é número 2 - logo atrás de Feels Like Home -, número 3 na Alemanha e Dinamarca, 5 na Itália e Holanda, 8 na França.

"Este é o tipo de proeza que só podemos esperar de um verdadeiro e extraordinário artista como Norah", diz Bruce Lundvall, Presidente e Director Geral de Jazz e Clássica da EMI Music no Norte da América e Presidente da Blue Note. "Não é muito comum um artista conseguir abranger tantos géneros e tanto consenso. Mas isto é o que acontece quando a música é assim tão boa".


Também a crítica recebeu Feels Like Home muito bem:



"Feels Like Home is a triumph of the low-key, at once easygoing and poignant... she's found, in two graceful albums, a whole different kind of mojo lurking inside the three-minute song."

-Rolling Stone (4 estrelas)



"Jones' vocals are indelible. She never fails to choose simple over flamboyant, never holds a note too long. She may prove to be the most natural singer of her generation."

-Time Magazine



"Feels Like Home is as charmingly crafted as its predecessor... Jones's piano playing is always sophisticated and subtle-often genuinely poetic; in tandem with her casually brilliant vocals, it reveals her as a stylist in the making, with more music at her command than she's sure what to do with."

-Time Out New York



"Feels Like Home is a better album than its predecessor. On the new disc, the 24-year-old declares she's no diva, but instead a musician whose career will be built on singing well-crafted, country-flavored pop songs augmented by a dab of her idiosyncratic style as a pianist. As a vocalist, Ms. Jones prizes restraint, and her strength is her tunefulness and respect for the lyric. Her conversational style invites us into the song, as if she were singing to one listener at a time."

-The Wall Street Journal



"On [Feels Like Home] the singer-songwriter-pianist once again hits all the right notes with her smoky-voiced stylings... you'll be humbled by her graceful, unassuming talent."

-People Magazine (4 estrelas)



"Feels Like Home is an extension of Come Away With Me, rather than a repeat of or an abrupt departure from it. Jones's signature vocals, smoky and meditative, are at the forefront, and anyone who liked the debut should like the follow-up. The difference is that she now sounds less girlish, more mature, and the songs themselves, while far from raw, have deep, soulful roots in the blues, R&B and jazz. Feels Like Home seems grounded, more assured and less evanescent than its predecessor."

-Tracks Magazine



"In an age when vocal power is too often mistaken for vocal talent, Norah Jones stands out as a musical low-talker. On Feels Like Home, Jones' gorgeous, understated voice seduces you into her world."

-New York Newsday



"[Feels Like Home]'s highlights again carry the stamp of a singer whose talent is strong and whose vision is true."

-Los Angeles Times"