''Thinking Room'' is the debut album by New Zealand Pop recording artist

Anika Moa Anika Rose Moa (born 21 May 1980) is a New Zealand recording artist and television presenter. Her debut album '' Thinking Room'', was released in September 2001, which reached number one on the New Zealand Albums Chart and provided two T ...

, released on 28 September 2001 by Warner, Atlantic Records. It reached number one on the

New Zealand Albums Chart The Official New Zealand Music Chart ( mi, Te Papa Tātai Waiata Matua o Aotearoa) is the weekly New Zealand top 40 singles and albums charts, issued weekly by Recorded Music NZ (formerly Recording Industry Association of New Zealand). The Music ...

and was certified

double platinum Music recording certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped, sold, or streamed a certain number of units. The threshold quantity varies by type (such as album, single, music video) and by nation or territory (see ...

selling over 30,000 copies in New Zealand.

Chart performance

The album debuted at number one on the New Zealand charts in October 2001 and stayed in the top spot for two weeks. The album has gone double platinum, having sold over 30,000 copies, and yielding four hit singles, two of which (" Youthful" and " Falling in Love Again") peaked at number five on the

New Zealand Singles Chart The Official New Zealand Music Chart ( mi, Te Papa Tātai Waiata Matua o Aotearoa) is the weekly New Zealand top 40 singles and albums charts, issued weekly by Recorded Music NZ (formerly Recording Industry Association of New Zealand). The Music ...

. "Falling in Love Again" featured in the film ''

America's Sweethearts ''America's Sweethearts'' is a 2001 American romantic comedy film directed by Joe Roth and written by Billy Crystal and Peter Tolan. It stars Julia Roberts, Crystal, John Cusack and Catherine Zeta-Jones, with Hank Azaria, Stanley Tucci, Seth ...

'' in 2001.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Anika Moa, along with others credited for specific tracks below.

Personnel

Musicians *

– vocals (all tracks), acoustic guitar (1, 2, 4-7, 10, 11), electric guitar (10), keyboards (10) *Des Broadbery – additional programming (9) *

Matt Chamberlain Matthew Chamberlain (born April 17, 1967) is an American session musician, drummer, producer and songwriter. Biography Life and career Chamberlain was born in San Pedro, California on April 17, 1967. He began learning how to play the drums ...

– drums (1, 2, 5-8, 10, 11), percussion (1, 2, 5, 7, 10) *

Knox Chandler Knox Chandler is an American musician known primarily as a guitarist, though he also plays cello, keyboards and other instruments. He has worked extensively as a session musician. In the early to mid-1970s, Chandler attended the Hammonasset Scho ...

– bass (5, 11), electric guitar (1, 3, 5, 8), mandolin (5, 8) *Sean Eden – electric guitar (6, 7) * Chris Feinstein – bass (1, 2, 6-8, 10) *Adam Peters – backing vocals (10, 11),

cello The cello ( ; plural ''celli'' or ''cellos'') or violoncello ( ; ) is a bowed (sometimes plucked and occasionally hit) string instrument of the violin family. Its four strings are usually tuned in perfect fifths: from low to high, C2, G ...

(1, 2, 6, 7, 9), acoustic guitar (2, 8), electric guitar (1, 3, 5-7, 10), keyboards (3-6, 9-11), programming (4-6, 9, 11) *

Britta Phillips Britta Phillips (born June 11, 1963) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, record producer, and actress. Phillips' music career spans more than 30 years. She came to prominence in the mid-1980s as the singing voice of the title character ...

– backing vocals (8) *Chad Royce – percussion (5, 8, 11) *

Eric Schermerhorn Eric Schermerhorn is an American guitarist and composer. He played with Iggy Pop on the '' American Caesar'' and ''Naughty Little Doggie'' albums, and David Bowie on the Tin Machine '' It's My Life Tour'' (as background vocalist and guitarist ...

– acoustic guitar (1-3, 6, 8, 10, 11), 12-string acoustic guitar (2, 5, 6), electric guitar (3, 8) *Bruce Smith – drum programming (3) *

Victor Van Vugt Victor Van Vugt is a music producer, mixer and engineer. An Australian based in New York, he has had a long association with the careers of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and Beth Orton. He has also worked with the likes of P.J. Harvey, Depeche Mo ...

– programming (5) Technical *Victor Van Vugt – production (all tracks), recording (all tracks), mixing (1, 2, 4-11) *

Chris Lord-Alge Chris Lord-Alge is an American mix engineer. He is the brother of both Tom Lord-Alge and Jeff Lord-Alge, both of whom are also audio engineers. Chris and Tom are known for their abundant use of dynamic compression for molding mixes that play wel ...

– mixing (3) *Kaori Kinoshita – engineering assistance *

Stephen Marcussen Stephen Marcussen is the founder and chief mastering engineer at Marcussen Mastering in Hollywood, California, United States. He has been mastering music since 1979. Biography Marcussen's introduction to music recording happened in 1976 when, at ...

– mastering (all tracks) * Steve Mazur – engineering assistance *Matt Silva – engineering assistance *Stewart Whitmore – digital editing Design & management *Richard Bates – art direction, design *Christina Dittmar – art direction, design *Tim Groenendaal – management *Craig Owen – photography *Skye Peyton – photography *John Rubeli –

artists and repertoire Artists and repertoire ( colloquially abbreviated to A&R) is the division of a record label or music publishing company that is responsible for talent scouting and overseeing the artistic development of recording artists (singers, instrumental ...

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Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

References

Anika Moa albums 2001 debut albums Albums produced by Victor Van Vugt {{2000s-pop-album-stub