Platinum
Studio album by
Miranda Lambert
ReleasedJune 3, 2014 (2014-06-03)
Genre
Length58:15
LabelRCA Nashville
Producer
Miranda Lambert chronology
Four the Record
(2011)		 Platinum
(2014)		 The Weight of These Wings
(2016)
Singles from Platinum
  1. "Automatic"
    Released: February 17, 2014
  2. "Somethin' Bad"
    Released: May 19, 2014
  3. "Little Red Wagon"
    Released: January 12, 2015
  4. "Smokin' and Drinkin'"
    Released: June 22, 2015

Platinum is the fifth studio album by American country music singer and songwriter Miranda Lambert. It was released on June 3, 2014, by RCA Nashville.

Lambert wrote or co-wrote eight of the album's 16 tracks while working with a host of session musicians and songwriters, as well as guest performers Little Big Town, The Time Jumpers, and Carrie Underwood. The album was produced by Frank Liddell, Chuck Ainlay, and Glenn Worf.

Platinum debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, becoming Lambert's first to top the chart, while selling 180,000 copies in its first week. It received widespread critical acclaim and earned Lambert a Grammy Award for Best Country Album as well as a CMA Award and ACM Award in the same category. The album was certified platinum for sales of one million copies in the United States.

Writing and recording

Lambert wrote or co-wrote eight of the album's 16 tracks. The album features collaborations with Little Big Town ("Smokin' and Drinkin'") and The Time Jumpers ("All That's Left"), as well as a duet with Carrie Underwood on "Somethin' Bad".[1] It was recorded in sessions at Cyclops Sound in Los Angeles, Dave's Room in Hollywood, and the Nashville-based studios Ronnie's Place, Ben's Studio, Sound Stage Studios, St. Charles Studio, and The House.[2]

Release and promotion

Platinum was released by RCA Nashville on June 3, 2014.[3] It debuted at number one on both the Billboard 200 and Top Country Albums charts while selling 180,000 copies in the United States, becoming the highest first-sales week of Lambert's career.[4] It was also her first album to reach the top of the Billboard 200,[4] and marked her fifth consecutive number-one debut on the Top Country Albums, making her the first artist in the history of the chart to start her career with five number-one albums.[4] It debuted at number one on the Canadian Albums Chart with first-week sales of 9,300 copies.[5] On February 1, 2016, it was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).[6] By September 2016, the album had sold 850,000 copies in the US.[7]

Four singles were released in promotion of the album: the lead single "Automatic", the top-20 hit "Little Red Wagon", "Smokin' and Drinkin'", and "Somethin' Bad".[8] Lambert debut the latter song with Underwood at the 2014 Billboard Music Awards on May 18, 2014,[9] and performed it again on June 4, during the CMT Music Awards.[10] In support of Platinum, she embarked on a concert tour of North America in mid 2014, featuring Justin Moore and Thomas Rhett as her opening acts.[11]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic86/100[12]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
American Songwriter[13]
Cuepoint (Expert Witness)A[14]
Entertainment WeeklyA[15]
The Guardian[16]
Los Angeles Times[17]
PopMatters7/10[3]
Rolling Stone[18]
Spin7/10[19]
USA Today[20]

Platinum was met with widespread critical acclaim. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 86, based on 11 reviews.[21]

In a review published by Cuepoint, Robert Christgau hailed Platinum as the year's most daring and consummate big-budget record, featuring "apolitical de facto feminism at its countriest".[14] The New York Times critic Jon Caramanica found it "vivacious, clever and slickly rowdy", showing Lambert had finally become "a sophisticated radical, a wry country feminist and an artist learning to experiment widely but also with less abrasion".[22] Stephen Thomas Erlewine from AllMusic said the record was shrewdly produced with Lambert's attempts at modern pop songs sequenced ahead of the more authentic country material,[2] while Will Hermes wrote in Rolling Stone that Lambert incorporated both traditional and alternative elements from country into her homespun, feminine perspective.[18] Spin magazine's Dan Hyman was less enthusiastic, singling out the collaborations on "Smokin' and Drinkin'" and "Something Bad" as contrived appeals to pop audiences on what was an otherwise consistent and carefully crafted record.[19]

At the end of 2014, Platinum was voted the 12th best album of the year in the Pazz & Jop, an annual poll of American critics published by The Village Voice. Christgau, the poll's creator, named it the year's second best record in his year-end list for The Barnes & Noble Review.[23] The album was also ranked fifth and nineteenth best by Rolling Stone and Spin, respectively. At the 2014 CMA Awards, it won in the "Album of the Year" category.[24] It also earned Lambert the Best Country Album award at the 57th Grammy Awards in 2015.[25]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Girls"
3:35
2."Platinum"
3:11
3."Little Red Wagon"
3:24
4."Smokin' and Drinkin'" (featuring Little Big Town)
5:30
5."Priscilla"
  • Galyon
  • Hemby
  • Robbins
3:26
6."Automatic"
  • Lambert
  • Galyon
  • Hemby
4:07
7."Bathroom Sink"Lambert4:05
8."Old Shit"
2:45
9."All That's Left" (featuring The Time Jumpers)
3:11
10."Gravity Is a Bitch"
  • Lambert
  • Scotty Wray
3:08
11."Babies Makin' Babies"
  • Galyon
  • Hemby
  • Robbins
2:56
12."Somethin' Bad" (duet with Carrie Underwood)
2:49
13."Holding on to You"
4:32
14."Two Rings Shy"
3:18
15."Hard Staying Sober"
  • Lambert
  • Hemby
  • Laird
4:28
16."Another Sunday in the South"
  • Lambert
  • Alexander
  • Monroe
3:50
Total length:58:15

Personnel

Musicians

Production

  • Chuck Ainlay – Engineer, Mixing
  • Dave Bianco – Engineer
  • Paul Cossette – Assistant
  • Brittany Hamlin – Production coordination
  • Kam Luchterhand – Assistant
  • Gavin Lurssen – Mastering
  • Randee St. Nicholas – Photography
  • Matt Rausch – Engineer
  • Leslie Richter – Assistant
  • Brandon Schexnayder – Assistant
  • Matt Wheeler – Engineer

Charts

Certifications

Region CertificationCertified units/sales
United States (RIAA)[37] Platinum 1,000,000‡

‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

References

  1. ↑ "Miranda Lambert Sets ACM Record With 5 Consecutive Female Vocalist Of The Year Wins". April 7, 2014. Archived from the original on April 13, 2014. Retrieved April 10, 2014.
  2. 1 2 3 Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Platinum – Miranda Lambert". AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved June 3, 2014.
  3. 1 2 Sweeney, Joe (June 4, 2014). "Miranda Lambert: Platinum". PopMatters. Archived from the original on June 6, 2014. Retrieved October 1, 2015.
  4. 1 2 3 Caulfield, Keith (11 June 2014). "Miranda Lambert Earns First No. 1 Album On Billboard 200". Billboard. Retrieved 21 May 2014.
  5. ↑ "Weekly Music Sales Report and Analysis for June 11, 2014". ajournalofmusicalthings.com. Retrieved June 19, 2014.
  6. ↑ "American album certifications – Miranda Lambert – Platinum". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved June 1, 2016. If necessary, click Advanced, then click Format, then select Album, then click SEARCH.
  7. ↑ "Upcoming Releases". Hits Daily Double. HITS Digital Ventures. Archived from the original on September 28, 2016.
  8. ↑ Scott, Jason (August 4, 2016). "Watch: Miranda Lambert debuts 'Vice' on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live'". AXS. Retrieved October 29, 2018.
  9. ↑ "Miranda to Perform with Carrie Underwood on 2014 Billboard Music Awards". mirandalambert.com. May 7, 2014. Archived from the original on May 8, 2014. Retrieved May 23, 2014.
  10. ↑ "Miranda Lambert, Carrie Underwood Ace "Something Bad"". CMT. June 4, 2014. Retrieved June 13, 2014.
  11. ↑ "Miranda Announces Crystal Light Presents Platinum Tour". mirandalambert.com. May 13, 2014. Retrieved May 23, 2014.
  12. ↑ "Reviews for Platinum by Miranda Lambert". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved August 28, 2017.
  13. ↑ Bernstein, Jonathan (June 10, 2014). "Miranda Lambert: Platinum". American Songwriter. ForASong Media, LLC. ISSN 0896-8993. Retrieved June 11, 2014.
  14. 1 2 Christgau, Robert (December 12, 2014). "Robert Christgau: Expert Witness". Cuepoint. Retrieved December 13, 2014.
  15. ↑ Maerz, Melissa (June 4, 2014). "Platinum". Entertainment Weekly. ISSN 1049-0434. Retrieved June 5, 2014.
  16. ↑ Macpherson, Alex (June 12, 2014). "Miranda Lambert: Platinum review – righteous swagger from country star". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved June 14, 2014.
  17. ↑ Wood, Mikael (June 3, 2014). "Miranda Lambert catches a spark on exuberant 'Platinum'". Los Angeles Times. ISSN 0458-3035. Retrieved June 4, 2014.
  18. 1 2 Hermes, Will (June 1, 2014). "Miranda Lambert: Platinum". Rolling Stone. ISSN 0035-791X. Archived from the original on April 16, 2018. Retrieved June 2, 2014.
  19. 1 2 Hyman, Dan (June 1, 2014). "Miranda Lambert Balances Her Firebrand Past With Her Pop-Star Present on 'Platinum'". Spin. ISSN 0886-3032. Retrieved June 2, 2014.
  20. ↑ Shriver, Jerry (June 1, 2014). "Miranda Lambert's 'Platinum' sounds golden". USA Today. Retrieved October 1, 2015.
  21. ↑ "Reviews for Platinum". Metacritic. Retrieved October 1, 2015.
  22. ↑ Caramanica, Jon (June 2, 2014). "Miranda Lambert, Country's Sophisticated Radical". The New York Times. Retrieved October 1, 2015.
  23. ↑ Christgau, Robert (March 10, 2015). "Excuses, Excuses: The 2014 Dean's List". The Barnes & Noble Review. Retrieved April 13, 2015.
  24. ↑ Stephen L. Betts (November 5, 2014). "Miranda Lambert's 'Platinum' Wins CMA Album of the Year". RollingStone.
  25. ↑ "57th Grammy Nominees". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved September 30, 2015.
  26. ↑ "Australiancharts.com – Miranda Lambert – Platinum". Hung Medien.
  27. ↑ "Miranda Lambert Chart History (Canadian Albums)". Billboard.
  28. ↑ "Archive Chart". Official Charts Company. Retrieved June 14, 2014.
  29. ↑ "Miranda Lambert Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard.
  30. ↑ "Miranda Lambert Chart History (Top Country Albums)". Billboard.
  31. ↑ "Billboard 200 Albums: Year-End top-selling albums across all genres". Billboard.
  32. ↑ "Top Country Albums: 2014 Year-End Charts". Billboard. Retrieved January 16, 2015.
  33. ↑ "Billboard 200 Albums: Year-End top-selling albums across all genres". Billboard. Retrieved December 11, 2015.
  34. ↑ "Top Country Albums: 2015 Year-End Charts". Billboard. Retrieved December 11, 2015.
  35. ↑ "Decade-End Charts: Billboard 200". Billboard. Retrieved November 26, 2019.
  36. ↑ "Decade-End Charts: Top Country Albums". Billboard. 31 October 2019. Retrieved July 17, 2022.
  37. ↑ "American album certifications – Miranda Lambert – Platinum". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved July 13, 2017.
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