Yes! (Jason Mraz album)

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]

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

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^^ ^*sales figures based on certification alone ^^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

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