Release and Promotion
On 13 March 2007, VH1 launched a music series titled Album Autopsy: Introducing Joss Stone on the channel's broadband video channel VSPOT. The series took an in-depth look at the entire album process, including Stone's songwriting process, recording sessions, creation of the album cover art and interviews with Stone and people involved in the album's production.
The album's lead single "Tell Me 'bout It", released on 5 March 2007, debuted and peaked at number twenty-eight on the UK Singles Chart, and became Stone's first solo single to chart on the Billboard Hot 100 when it reached number eighty-three. Follow-up single "Tell Me What We're Gonna Do Now" (featuring Common), released on 23 July 2007, missed the top seventy-five in the UK, peaking at number eighty-four. The Diane Warren-penned ballad "Bruised but Not Broken", although not commercially released as a single, went for adds at US urban adult contemporary radio stations on 16 July 2007, which allowed the song to chart at number fifty-five on both the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay charts in November 2007, as well as number thirteen on the Hot Adult R&B Airplay in October 2007. It was ultimately ranked at number thirty-eight on Radio & Records's urban AC year-end chart of 2007 with 9,049 plays. The official third (and final) single, "Baby Baby Baby", received a physical release in the UK on 14 January 2008, but due to lack of promotion and a music video to back its release, the song failed to chart in major markets.
A North American tour in support of the album took place from 27 April to 13 June 2007, visiting sixteen cities in total: Ledyard, Connecticut; Philadelphia; New Orleans; Dallas; Alpine, California; San Francisco; Portland, Oregon; Vancouver; Seattle; Denver; Chicago; Toronto; Montreal; New York City; Boston; and Vienna, Virginia. Two months later, Stone embarked on a North American late-summer tour which lasted from 27 August to 29 September 2007 and covered twelve cities: Los Angeles; Park City, Utah; Snowmass Village, Colorado; Seattle; Jacksonville, Oregon; Las Vegas; Mexico City; Austin, Texas, Texas; Biloxi, Mississippi; Chicago; San Francisco; and Kansas City, Missouri.
The deluxe edition of the album includes a bonus DVD containing thirty-five minutes of material, including recording footage, interviews with Stone and the music video for "Tell Me 'bout It".
Read more about this topic: Introducing Joss Stone
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