Songs from Ally McBeal

Songs from Ally McBeal
Soundtrack album by Vonda Shepard
Released May 5, 1998
Label 550 Music/Epic/SME Records
Producer Vonda Shepard, Michael Landau (tracks 6, 14)
Ally McBeal chronology
Songs from Ally McBeal
(1998)		 Heart and Soul: New Songs from Ally McBeal
(1999)Heart and Soul: New Songs from Ally McBeal1999
Vonda Shepard chronology
It's Good, Eve
(1996) It's Good, Eve1996		 Songs from Ally McBeal
(1998) Songs from Ally McBeal1998		 By 7:30
(1999) By 7:301999

Songs from Ally McBeal is an album by Vonda Shepard released in 1998 as a soundtrack for the American television series Ally McBeal.

It reached number three in the UK Albums Chart, number one in Australia, and was a success in the US, Canada, and many European countries as well. The song "Searchin' My Soul", co-written by Shepard with Paul Gordon, which had been featured on one of Vonda Shepard's previous albums, was rerecorded and used as the Ally McBeal theme tune, The majority of the songs, however, are covers of old songs whose lyrics reflected what was happening in Ally's life onscreen.

It peaked No. 1 in Spain for a month in the summer of 1999, thanks to airplay, Vonda Shepard playing shows in Madrid and Barcelona and the TV series.

Track listing

  1. "Searchin' My Soul" (Vonda Shepard, Paul Howard Gordon)[1] – 3:53
  2. "Ask the Lonely" (Ivy Hunter, William "Mickey" Stevenson) – 2:43
  3. "Walk Away Renée" (Michael Brown, Bob Calilli, Tony Sansone) – 3:08
  4. "Hooked on a Feeling" (Mark James) (originally by B.J. Thomas) – 2:58
  5. "You Belong to Me" (Pee Wee King, Redd Stewart, Chilton Price) – 3:28
  6. "Wildest Times of the World" (Vonda Shepard, Michael Landau) – 5:15
  7. "Someone You Use" (Tommy Stough) – 2:34
  8. "End of the World" (Sylvia Dee, Arthur Kent) – 2:34
  9. "Tell Him" (Bert Berns) (originally by The Exciters) – 2:48
  10. "Neighborhood" (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller, John Sembello, Ralph Dino) – 2:21
  11. "Will You Marry Me?" (Vonda Shepard, Michael Landau) – 2:39
  12. "It's in His Kiss (The Shoop Shoop Song)" (Rudy Clark) (originally by Betty Everett) – 2:33
  13. "I Only Want to Be With You" (Ivor Raymonde, Michael Hawker) (originally by Dusty Springfield) – 2:12
  14. "Maryland" (Vonda Shepard) – 3:51

Chart positions

Chart (1998) Position
Australian ARIA Albums Chart 1

Year-end charts

Chart (1999) Position
German Albums Chart[2] 85

Certifications

Region CertificationCertified units/Sales
Australia (ARIA)[3] 4× Platinum 280,000^
Belgium (BEA)[4] Gold 25,000*
Canada (Music Canada)[5] 2× Platinum 200,000^
Finland (Musiikkituottajat)[6] Platinum 50,282[6]
France (SNEP)[7] Gold 100,000*
Japan (RIAJ)[8] Gold 100,000^
Netherlands (NVPI)[9] Gold 50,000^
Norway (IFPI Norway)[10] 2× Platinum 100,000*
Poland (ZPAV)[11] Platinum 100,000*
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[12] 3× Platinum 300,000^
Sweden (GLF)[13] Gold 40,000^
United Kingdom (BPI)[14] Platinum 300,000^
United States (RIAA)[15] Platinum 1,000,000^

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

References

  1. ↑ "Searchin My Soul". www.ascap.com. ASCAP. Retrieved 11 August 2014.
  2. ↑ "Top 100 Album-Jahrescharts" (in German). GfK Entertainment. Retrieved September 8, 2016.
  3. ↑ "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 1999 Albums". Australian Recording Industry Association.
  4. ↑ "Ultratop − Goud en Platina – albums 2000". Ultratop. Hung Medien.
  5. ↑ "Canadian album certifications – Vonda Shepard – Songs from Ally McBeal". Music Canada.
  6. 1 2 "Vonda Shepard" (in Finnish). Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland.
  7. ↑ "French album certifications – Vonda Shepard – Songs from Ally McBeal" (in French). Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique.
  8. ↑ "Japanese album certifications – Vonda Shepard – Songs from Ally McBeal" (in Japanese). Recording Industry Association of Japan.
  9. ↑ "Dutch album certifications – Vonda Shepard – Songs from Ally McBeal" (in Dutch). Nederlandse Vereniging van Producenten en Importeurs van beeld- en geluidsdragers. Enter Songs from Ally McBeal in the "Artiest of titel" box.
  10. ↑ "IFPI Norsk platebransje Trofeer 1993–2011" (in Norwegian). IFPI Norway.
  11. ↑ "Polish album certifications – Vonda Shepard – Songs from Ally McBeal" (in Polish). Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry.
  12. ↑ "Spanish album certifications – Vonda Shepard – Songs from Ally McBeal" (PDF) (in Spanish). Productores de Música de España. Select album under "Chart", enter 2000 in the field "Year". Select the certification month in the field "Semana". Click on "Search Charts".
  13. ↑ "Guld- och Platinacertifikat − År 1987−1998" (PDF) (in Swedish). IFPI Sweden.
  14. ↑ "British album certifications – Vonda Shepard – Songs from Ally McBeal". British Phonographic Industry. Select albums in the Format field. Select Platinum in the Certification field. Type Songs from Ally McBeal in the "Search BPI Awards" field and then press Enter.
  15. ↑ "American album certifications – Vonda Shepard – Songs from Ally McBeal". Recording Industry Association of America. If necessary, click Advanced, then click Format, then select Album, then click SEARCH. 
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