''Dream with Me'' is the second full-length album (first on a major label) by American singer

Jackie Evancho Jacqueline Marie Evancho ( ; born April 9, 2000) is an American singer who gained wide recognition at an early age, singing primarily crossover music#Classical crossover, classical crossover covers. Since 2009, she has issued nine albums, a pla ...

. It was released on June 3, 2011 on digital download format, and on June 14, 2011 in the standard CD format.''Dream With Me''
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winner

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. This album features duets with

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'' runner-up

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, as well as twelve solo tracks. The album debuted at number 2 on the Billboard 200 chart,"Dream With Me – Jackie Evancho"
Billboard 200, accessed October 19, 2011 reached number 1 on the Billboard's US Classical Chart, "Dream With Me – Jackie Evancho" Billboard Classical Albums, accessed October 19, 2011 and was certified gold by the

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.Micco, Cindy Cusic
"Jackie Evancho's CD Certified Gold with 500,000 Sales"
''Pine-Richland Patch'', July 29, 2011, accessed October 19, 2011 The singer promoted the album on talk shows, in a popular

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'' special and through a national concert tour with symphony orchestras at

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, throughout the U.S. and elsewhere.

Promotion and concerts

Evancho promoted the album on talk shows on every major U.S. network and concerts in the U.S., London and Toronto. A deluxe edition of ''Dream With Me'', available exclusively from Target, featured four bonus tracks: "Someday", "Mi Mancherai", "The Impossible Dream" and "A Time For Us"."''Dream With Me'' (Deluxe) – Only at Target"
Target.com, accessed June 4, 2011 Evancho performed nearly the same songs as those on the ''Dream With Me'' CD for her first solo concert televised special, which first aired in June 2011 on

stations ("The Prayer" was omitted, but "Dark Waltz" and "Mi Mancherai" were added). The program was part of the PBS

series, co-produced by SYCO/Columbia. It was frequently rebroadcast during 2011, and by early August 2011, the special had been broadcast nearly 2,000 times. It became "one of the most viewed specials in the 38-year-history of the ''Great Performances'' series ndraised record amounts of money for PBS stations." The special continued to be shown into 2013. Evancho was the youngest solo artist ever to headline a special on the Great Performances series.Fallick, Alan H
"Fast Chat with singing gem Jackie Evancho"
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'', November 3, 2011 The concert was taped in April 2011 at the

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, and was co-hosted by David Foster, who played the piano in the orchestra for many of the selections, while Conrad Tao played piano and violin in some selections. The performances are available as a CD/DVD titled ''Dream With Me In Concert''. Allmusic noted: "the concert version ... sounds nearly identical (outside of the waves of applause) to the studio album ... but the accompanying DVD, which features the heavily choreographed performance, as well as an extensive photo gallery and interviews with both Evancho and Foster, should provide enough eye and ear candy to appease fans of the gifted young vocalist until a proper follow-up appears. In July 2011, the singer began her first official tour across the United States, to promote the album. It consisted of a series of performances with symphony orchestras, beginning with the Sun Valley Orchestra on July 31, followed by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra on August 5, the Ravinia Festival Orchestra on August 7, the Omaha Symphony Orchestra on August 26, the

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on August 31 and her hometown

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on October 16. Conductor Antony Walker took the opportunity to introduce her fans (many of whom were newcomers to opera) to the Pittsburgh Opera's chorus and soloists, who performed several numbers from Verdi, Bizet and Puccini along with Evancho's repertoire. Evancho made her New York City concert debut at

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with songs from the album on November 7, 2011. Her last concert of the year was in Las Vegas with David Foster in Las Vegas on December 29. After presenting her concert in Japan in January 2012 with the

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, Evancho resumed her U.S. "Dream With Me" tour later the same month in California. She gave three more concerts in February, with the San Diego Symphony, in Los Angeles, and with

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. In June 2012, she concluded the tour with performances in

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Reception

Allmusic gave the album 3-1/2 stars out of a possible five, commenting: "''Dream with Me'' hits all of the right notes, though there are few surprises or big moments to be found ... resulting in a solid "official" debut from a rising star at the dawn of her career." ''Female First'' magazine wrote: "To say expectations were high for this would be an understatement. However, every expectation for a talented child were blown away from the first track. ... ere is constant emotion from a truly talented voice." ''USA Today'' rated the album 2-1/2 stars out of four: " vancho'ssweet, unblemished vocal tone and slow, careful vibrato hardly betray her young age. ... But ''Dream's'' predictable and often bombastic odes to love and faith can undermine the tween's most appealing quality: innocence. I'd have preferred a little less pomp and Puccini and more youthful wonder." ''

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'' magazine gave the album three out of four stars, comparing Evancho favorably with her duet partners

and

. The reviewer for ''Kelowna Capital News'' in Canada called Evancho a "massive talent hoseems equally adept at operatic arias, pop songs and show tunes." A ''Yahoo!'' review commented, "This new album ... is a comparative stunner". In the US, the album debuted at number two on the US ''Billboard'' 200 chart, selling 161,000 copies. The only album ahead of it was

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's EP Hell: The Sequel. ''Dream With Me'' debuted at number two on the ''Billboard'' 200 chart, spent 17 consecutive weeks in the number one position on ''Billboard'''s US Classical Albums chart, and was certified gold by the

. The album remained on the ''Billboard'' 200 for 30 consecutive weeks and remained on the Classical Albums chart for 74 consecutive weeks. The album also reached #5 in Canada, #4 in the UK (where it was later certified silver), #4 on the World Albums Top 40 chart, #8 in New Zealand, #15 in Ireland, #26 on the Mexican chart and #37 in Japan, where it remained on the charts for 16 weeks. With ''Dream With Me'', Evancho became the youngest artist ever to debut on the UK charts in the top 5. In November 2011, after the release of Evancho's new album, '' Heavenly Christmas'', sales of ''Dream With Me'' increased, and the album climbed to number 55 on the ''Billboard'' 200. In its 2011 year-end charts, ''Billboard'' ranked ''Dream With Me'' as the second-best selling Classical Album for the year (behind Evancho's ''

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'')""Best of 2011: Classical Albums"
Billboard.com, accessed December 9, 2011 and as the number 45 album of 2011 in the U.S."Best of 2011: Billboard 200 Albums"
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'' on April 30, 2012, the album regained the #1 ranking on the ''Billboard'' Classical Albums chart and rejoined the ''Billboard'' 200 at #178 for the Billboard week dated May 19, 2012. As of October 2012, the album had sold 682,000 copies. ''Billboard'' ranked the album #5 on its 2012 year-end Classical Albums chart. The DVD, ''Dream With Me: In Concert'', topped the "Top Music Videos" chart in two of its first four weeks,Grein, Paul
"Week Ending Oct. 9, 2011. Albums: Beam Me Up"
Chart Watch, Yahoo!, October 12, 2011 and ''Billboard'' ranked it the #21 best selling music video DVD of 2011. It charted in Mexico at #75 and at #294 in Japan. ''Billboard'' ranked ''Dream With Me In Concert'' the #16 music video album of 2012, and by December 2012, ''Dream With Me In Concert'' had been ranked on the Billboard.biz Top Music Video chart in more than 60 weeks. ''Dream With Me'', the song "To Believe" and Foster's production of the album, are discussed in detail in the 2013 Ph.D. dissertation of Evancho's uncle, composer Matthew Evancho.Evancho, Matthew
"Dissertation: An Original Composition"
, The School of Music, Louisiana State University, May 2013

Track listing

Notes * Track listing and credits from album booklet except for composer for track 9 which it incorrectly states is traditional. * All tracks are produced by

Release history

Locations and studios

Recording locations and studios included: * Recorded at Chartmaker Studio – (Malibu, CA) * Mixed at Blue Studio – (Malibu, CA) * Orchestra recorded at The Newman Scoring Stage, Twentieth Century Fox Studios – (Los Angeles, CA) * Choir and trumpet recorded at Westlake Recording Studios – (Hollywood, CA) * Mastering at Universal Mastering Studios – (New York, NY)

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

References

External links

Jackieevancho.com"Jackie Evancho: Tiny Desk Concert"

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June 2011 – "Nessun Dorma"
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