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
ReleasedJuly 11, 2014
Recorded2013–2014
GenrePop, pop rock
Length51:35
LabelAtlantic
Jason Mraz chronology
Love Is a Four Letter Word
(2012)		 Yes!
(2014)		 Know.
(2018)
Singles from Yes!
  1. "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
SourceRating
Metacritic62/100[6]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[7]
Billboard82/100[8]
The Boston Globe70/100[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.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Rise"Jason Mraz, Chaska Potter, Mona Tavakoli, Becky Gebhardt, Mai Bloomfield, Chris Keup, Stewart Myers
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 PerrenMraz2:58
10."3 Things"Mraz, Michael Natter, Nancy Natter, Potter, Tavakoli, Gebhardt, Bloomfield
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

Charts and certifications

Release history
Region Date Format Label
United Kingdom[33] July 11, 2014 CD, digital download Atlantic Records
United States[34] July 15, 2014

References
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  5. Johnston, Maura (July 15, 2014). "Jason Mraz, 'YES!'". The Boston Globe. Retrieved September 14, 2014.
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  7. Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Yes! - Jason Mraz". AllMusic. Retrieved July 17, 2014.
  8. Benjamin, Jeff (July 15, 2014). "Jason Mraz's 'YES!': Track-By-Track Review". Billboard.
  9. Wood, Mikael (July 18, 2014). "Pursued by youngsters, Jason Mraz is mellower than ever on 'Yes!'". Los Angeles Times.
  10. Dolan, Jon (August 15, 2014). "Jason Mraz's New Album: Yes!". Rolling Stone. Retrieved September 14, 2014.
  11. Fruchtman, Matt. "Jason Mraz: Yes!". Slant Magazine. Retrieved July 17, 2014.
  12. "'Weird Al' Yankovic Gets First No. 1 Album On Billboard 200 with 'Mandatory Fun'". Billboard. July 23, 2014. Retrieved July 23, 2014.
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