Fireflies (Faith Hill album)

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	(57/100)^[1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[2]
Billboard	(favorable)^[1]
Blender	^[3]
E! Online	B+^[1]
Entertainment Weekly	C+^[4]
Los Angeles Times	^[5]
The New York Times	(mixed)^[6]
Rolling Stone	^[1]
Slant Magazine	^[7]
Stylus Magazine	C^[8]

Fireflies is the sixth studio album by country artist Faith Hill. The album was released on August 2, 2005. In its first week, the album sold 329,000 copies, making it the #1 album on both the Billboard 200 and Top Country Albums chart. Fireflies is her third #1 album, and it has been certified 2× Multi-Platinum by the RIAA for US shipments of two million copies. Hill produced the album with Byron Gallimore (who also produced for her husband, Tim McGraw) and Dann Huff. This album has sold 3.8 million copies worldwide.

Content

Singles from the album include, in order of release: "Mississippi Girl", "Like We Never Loved at All", "The Lucky One", "Sunshine and Summertime" and "Stealing Kisses". Of these, "Mississippi Girl" was a Number One on the US Billboard country charts. The other singles peaked at numbers 5, 5, 7 and 36 on that chart, respectively. Of the singles, "Mississippi Girl", "Like We Never Loved at All" and "Sunshine and Summertime" were co-written by John Rich of Big & Rich, while The Warren Brothers (Brad and Brett) co-wrote "The Lucky One", a song on which Brett also sings backing vocals. Other backing vocalists on this album include Hill's husband, Tim McGraw (on "Like We Never Loved at All"), Bekka Bramlett, Rhonda Vincent, and Kelly Willis.

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Sunshine and Summertime"	Rodney Clawson, John Rich, Kylie Sackley	3:27
2.	"Mississippi Girl"	Rich, Adam Shoenfeld	3:52
3.	"Dearly Beloved"	Georgia Middleman, Fred Wilhelm	2:22
4.	"I Ain't Gonna Take It Anymore"	Kevin Brandt, Bobby Terry	4:00
5.	"Stealing Kisses"	Lori McKenna	4:23
6.	"Fireflies"	McKenna	4:28
7.	"Like We Never Loved at All" (with Tim McGraw)	Vicky McGehee, Rich, Scot Sax	4:22
8.	"I Want You"	Rivers Rutherford, Bobby Tomberlin	4:06
9.	"The Lucky One"	Brad Warren, Brett Warren, Jay Joyce	3:37
10.	"If You Ask"	McKenna	4:15
11.	"We've Got Nothing But Love to Prove" (North American release only)	Darrell Scott	4:35
12.	"You Stay with Me"	John Kennedy, Andrea Stolpe	4:23
13.	"Wish for You"	Darrell Brown, Craig Wiseman	3:28
14.	"Paris"	Blair Daly, Gordie Sampson, Troy Verges	5:20
Total length:			54:36

Personnel

As listed in liner notes.^[9]

Greg Barnhill – background vocals
Bruce Bouton – steel guitar, Dobro
Bekka Bramlett – background vocals
Tom Bukovac – acoustic guitar, electric guitar
Paul Bushnell – bass guitar
John Catchings – cello
Matt Chamberlain – drums
Lisa Cochran – background vocals
Steve Cohn – accordion
Vinnie Colaiuta – drums
Perry Coleman – background vocals
Eric Darken – percussion
Dan Dugmore – steel guitar, Dobro, banjo
Stuart Duncan – fiddle, mandolin

Shannon Forrest – drums, percussion
Paul Franklin – steel guitar
Byron Gallimore – electric guitar, keyboards, organ
Kenny Greenberg – electric guitar, electric mandolin
Aubrey Haynie – fiddle, mandolin
Mike Henderson – electric guitar
Wes Hightower – background vocals
Dann Huff – electric guitar, gut string guitar
Jay Joyce – acoustic guitar, electric guitar
Charlie Judge – keyboards, organ
Tim Lauer – accordion
Tim McGraw – background vocals
Chris McHugh – drums

Liana Manis – background vocals
Gene Miller – background vocals
Gordon Mote – piano
Jimmy Nichols – piano, keyboards, organ, accordion
Darrell Scott – mandolin, acoustic guitar, Wiessenborn
Javier Solis – percussion
Bryan Sutton – acoustic guitar, Wiessenborn
Crystal Taliefero – background vocals
Rhonda Vincent – background vocals
Brett Warren – background vocals
Kelly Willis – background vocals
Glenn Worf – bass guitar

String section on "Paris"

String arranger, coordinator, and conductor: Carl Gorodetzky
cellos - Suzie Katayama, Larry Corbett, Steve Erdody, Paula Hochalter, Steve Richards, Dan Smith
violas - Evan Wilson, Bob Becker, Denyse Buffum, Roland Kato
violins - Bruce Dukov, Charlie Bisharat, Darius Campo, Roberto Cani, Susaan Chatman, Mario DeLeon, Armen Garabedian, Berj Garabedian, Endre Grant, Songa Lee-Kitto, Michael Markman, Robert Matsuda, Sara Parkins, Robert Peterson, Michele Richards, Anatoly Rosinsky, Josefina Vergara, John Wittenberg

Production

Tracks 1, 3-6, 9, 10, 12 produced by Byron Gallimore and Faith Hill
Tracks 7, 8, 13, 14 produced by Dann Huff and Faith Hill
Tracks 2, 11 produced by Byron Gallimore, Dann Huff and Faith Hill

Release history

Country	Date
United States	August 2, 2005
Italy	August 26, 2005

Charts

Album

Chart (2005)	Peak position
US Top Country Albums	1
US Billboard 200	1
World Albums Top 40	1
ARIA Country Albums	4
Canadian Albums Chart	2
Swiss Albums Top 100	37
Sweden Albums Top 60	45
Italy Albums Top 50	46

As of May 2010, the album has sold 2,270,000 copies in the US. To date, it has sold more than 3 million copies worldwide. On January 13, 2006, it was certified 2x Platinum by the RIAA.

References

1 2 3 4 "Critic reviews for Fireflies". Metacritic. Retrieved 2012-12-23.
↑ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas (2005-08-02). "Fireflies - Faith Hill". Allmusic. Retrieved 2012-02-16.
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↑ Greg Kot (2005-08-01). "Fireflies Review | Music Reviews and News". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 2012-02-16.
↑ Hilburn, Robert (2005-07-31). "She's sorry she made them 'Cry'". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2012-12-23.
↑ Sanneh, Kelefa (2005-08-08). "Faith Hill Resurrects Her Inner Good Ol' Girl - New York Times". The New York Times. Retrieved 2012-02-16.
↑ Keefe, Jonathan (2005-08-02). "Faith Hill: Fireflies - Music Review". Slant Magazine. Retrieved 2012-06-30.
↑ Inskeep, Thomas (2005-08-29). "Faith Hill - Fireflies - Review". Stylus Magazine. Retrieved 2012-02-16.
↑ Fireflies (CD booklet). Faith Hill. Nashville, Tennessee: Warner Bros. Records Nashville. 2005. 48794-2.

External links

Fireflies at Metacritic

Preceded by Now 19 by Various artists	Billboard 200 number-one album August 14, 2005 - August 20, 2005	Succeeded by Chapter V by Staind
Preceded by Feels Like Today by Rascal Flatts	Top Country Albums number-one album August 20 - September 2, 2005	Succeeded by Time Well Wasted by Brad Paisley

Faith Hill

Studio albums	Take Me as I Am It Matters to Me Faith Breathe Cry Fireflies Joy to the World

Compilations	There You'll Be The Hits Deep Tracks

Tours	Soul2Soul Soul2Soul II

Filmography	The Stepford Wives

Related articles	Discography Warner Bros. Records Tim McGraw Star, Mississippi

Faith Hill singles

Take Me as I Am	"Wild One" "Piece of My Heart" "But I Will" "Take Me as I Am"

It Matters to Me	"Let's Go to Vegas" "It Matters to Me" "Someone Else's Dream" "You Can't Lose Me" "I Can't Do That Anymore"

Faith	"This Kiss" "Just to Hear You Say That You Love Me" (with Tim McGraw) "Let Me Let Go" "Love Ain't Like That" "The Secret of Life"

Breathe	"Breathe" "The Way You Love Me" "Let's Make Love" (with Tim McGraw) "If My Heart Had Wings"

Cry	"Cry" "When the Lights Go Down" "One" "You're Still Here" "Baby You Belong"

Fireflies	"Mississippi Girl" "Like We Never Loved at All" (with Tim McGraw) "The Lucky One" "Sunshine and Summertime" "Stealing Kisses"

The Hits	"Lost" "Red Umbrella"

Joy to the World	"A Baby Changes Everything"

Other singles	"It's Your Love" (with Tim McGraw) "There You'll Be" "Where Are You, Christmas?" "I Need You" (with Tim McGraw) "Sing" (with Annie Lennox) "Come Home" "American Heart" "Meanwhile Back at Mama's" (with Tim McGraw)

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