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Good Morning Revival is the fourth studio album

Studio album

A studio album is an album made up of tracks recorded in the controlled environment of a recording studio. A studio album contains newly written and recorded or previously unreleased or remixed material, distinguishing itself from a compilation or reissue album of previously recorded material, or...

by Good Charlotte

Good Charlotte

Good Charlotte is an American rock band from Waldorf, Maryland that formed in 1996. Since 1998, the band's constant members have been lead vocalist Joel Madden, lead guitarist and back-up vocalist Benji Madden, bass guitarist Paul Thomas and rhythm guitarist and keyboardist Billy Martin...

and the follow-up to the 2004 release The Chronicles of Life and Death
The Chronicles of Life and Death
The Chronicles of Life and Death is the third studio album by Good Charlotte. The album was released on October 5, 2004, by Daylight Records. The album was released with two different versions: a "Life" and a "Death" version which came with different cover art and a special bonus track...

. It is the first album to feature Dean Butterworth

Dean Butterworth

Dean "Deano" Butterworth is a professional drummer. He played for popular singer Morrissey and was announced as the official drummer for the band Good Charlotte in March 2005 after they parted with their previous drummer, Chris Wilson in 2005...

on drums, who joined the band in March 2007 after former drummer Chris Wilson

Chris Wilson (drummer)

Christopher Ryan Wilson is the drummer for the band The Summer Obsession. Chris is formerly of the band Good Charlotte. In July 2010, It was confirmed that Chris would be filling in for Yuri Ruley of MxPx, after he decided to retire from the band-Notes:...

departed in 2005. Billy Martin

Billy Martin (guitarist)

William Dean "Billy" Martin is an American musician best known as the guitarist and keyboardist of the pop punk band Good Charlotte.-Life and career:...

has mentioned in an interview that Benji Madden

Benji Madden

Benji Madden is an American guitarist and backup vocalist for the band Good Charlotte, which he co-founded with his identical twin brother, Joel Madden.-Early life:...

came up with the name for the album. The sound of Good Morning Revival has more of an alternative rock

Alternative rock

Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...

style than the previous Good Charlotte albums. This style can be heard in the albums third single, "Dance Floor Anthem (I Don't Want to Be in Love)

Dance Floor Anthem (I Don't Want to Be in Love)

"Dance Floor Anthem ", known as "Dance Floor Anthem" on the album, is a song by Good Charlotte on their fourth album, Good Morning Revival . It is the second single from Good Morning Revival in North America and Australia...

", which is the most successful song on the album by debuting at #2 on the Australian charts

ARIA Charts

The ARIA charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA commenced compiling its own charts in-house from the week ending 26 June...

and reaching #25 on the Billboard Hot 100

Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...

. It is the final album by Good Charlotte to be released by Daylight Records

Daylight Records

Daylight Records was an American record label and subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment, operated through Epic Records.- History :Daylight was founded by David Massey in late 2000 as an Epic Records Group label, and has subsequently signed and helped to develop a broad array of artists, in the...

; they currently signed a deal with Capitol

Capitol Records

Capitol Records is a major United States based record label, formerly located in Los Angeles, but operating in New York City as part of Capitol Music Group. Its former headquarters building, the Capitol Tower, is a major landmark near the corner of Hollywood and Vine...

Delay of release date

Originally, guitarist Billy Martin mentioned on his blog on the band's website that the album would hopefully be out for Christmas 2006. However the album's original release date was June 2006, but was pushed back numerous times before confirmed on the band's website. The release was pushed back to October, after which it was pushed back further to February 2007. Lead singer Joel Madden

Joel Madden

Joel Rueben Madden is an American singer, record producer, actor, DJ, and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, best known as the lead vocalist for the pop punk band Good Charlotte.-Early life:...

said in an interview with MuchMusic

MuchMusic

MuchMusic is a Canadian English language Category A specialty channel owned by Bell Media. MuchMusic is dedicated to music-related programs, pop and youth culture.-History:...

that the album release has been pushed back once more to March 5, 2007. On December 6, 2006, the band's website said that the album will now be released March 20, 2007. Days later the band posted a new message on their website saying that the album will be released March 27, 2007.

Internet releases

On Good Charlotte's website, Benji Madden

Benji Madden

Benji Madden is an American guitarist and backup vocalist for the band Good Charlotte, which he co-founded with his identical twin brother, Joel Madden.-Early life:...

posted a video and announced that the song "Keep Your Hands Off My Girl" would be posted on the band's MySpace

MySpace

Myspace is a social networking service owned by Specific Media LLC and pop star Justin Timberlake. Myspace launched in August 2003 and is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California. In August 2011, Myspace had 33.1 million unique U.S. visitors....

. The song premiered September 22, 2006 online and it became available to hear at the band's MySpace account and at the official Good Charlotte website. Later, a video for the song was posted in the band's MySpace page on October 26, 2006. The first single from the album, "The River

The River (Good Charlotte song)

"The River" is a song by the pop-punk band Good Charlotte featuring M. Shadows and Synyster Gates of the heavy metal band Avenged Sevenfold. The song was the first single from the Good Morning Revival album in North America and the second single throughout the rest of the world except for...

", featuring Avenged Sevenfold

Avenged Sevenfold

Avenged Sevenfold is an American heavy metal band from Huntington Beach, California. Formed in 1999, the group consists of vocalist M. Shadows, lead guitarist Synyster Gates, rhythm guitarist Zacky Vengeance, bassist Johnny Christ....

's lead singer, M. Shadows

M. Shadows

Matthew Charles Sanders , better known by his stage name M. Shadows, is the lead vocalist, songwriter, and founding member for the American metal band Avenged Sevenfold.-Early life and musical beginnings:...

and guitarist Synyster Gates

Synyster Gates

Brian Elwin Haner, Jr. , better known by his stage name Synyster Gates or simply Syn, is an American musician, best known for being the lead guitarist of the American heavy metal band Avenged Sevenfold.-Early life:...

, appeared online January 4, 2007.

At midnight, on January 23, 2007 the forthcoming record was made available for preorder on iTunes

ITunes

iTunes is a media player computer program, used for playing, downloading, and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad....

. When pre-ordered, "The River" is downloaded immediately, while the rest of the album is queued to be downloaded on the released date. Preordering on iTunes

ITunes

also provides the exclusive bonus version of the aforementioned single, and a music video of an acoustic session of the song, "Misery". An acoustic version of "March On" could be downloaded through the band's provided that you registered as a member. In addition to the tracks listed below, if bought at Wal-Mart

Wal-Mart

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, 5 exclusive songs from their Soundstage performance can be downloaded.

Reception

Initial critical response to Good Morning Revival ranged from average to negative. At Metacritic

Metacritic

Metacritic.com is a website that collates reviews of music albums, games, movies, TV shows and DVDs. For each product, a numerical score from each review is obtained and the total is averaged. An excerpt of each review is provided along with a hyperlink to the source. Three colour codes of Green,...

, which assigns a normalized

Standard score

In statistics, a standard score indicates how many standard deviations an observation or datum is above or below the mean. It is a dimensionless quantity derived by subtracting the population mean from an individual raw score and then dividing the difference by the population standard deviation...

rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received an average

Weighted mean

The weighted mean is similar to an arithmetic mean , where instead of each of the data points contributing equally to the final average, some data points contribute more than others...

score of 45, based on 18 reviews.
Entertainment Weekly
Entertainment Weekly
Entertainment Weekly is an American magazine, published by the Time division of Time Warner, that covers film, television, music, broadway theatre, books and popular culture...

placed the album at number 4 on their list of worst albums of 2007.

Release history

Region	Date	Label	Format
Japan Japan Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...	March 13, 2007	AVEX Trax Avex Trax , listed in the Tokyo Stock Exchange as 7860 and abbreviated as AGHD, is the holding company for a group of entertainment-related subsidiaries based in Japan...	CD Compact Disc The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,...
Ireland Republic of Ireland Ireland , described as the Republic of Ireland , is a sovereign state in Europe occupying approximately five-sixths of the island of the same name. Its capital is Dublin. Ireland, which had a population of 4.58 million in 2011, is a constitutional republic governed as a parliamentary democracy,...	March 16, 2007		CD
Australia Australia Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...	March 17, 2007	Sony Records	CD
Italy Italy Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and... , United Kingdom United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...	March 19, 2007		CD
Canada Canada Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean... , USA	March 27, 2007	Epic Records Epic Records Epic Records is an American record label, owned by Sony Music Entertainment. Though it was originally conceived as a jazz imprint, it has since expanded to represent various genres. L.A... , Daylight Records Daylight Records Daylight Records was an American record label and subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment, operated through Epic Records.- History :Daylight was founded by David Massey in late 2000 as an Epic Records Group label, and has subsequently signed and helped to develop a broad array of artists, in the...	CD

Standard edition

"Good Morning Revival" – 0:56 (Joel Madden, Benji Madden)
"Misery
Misery (Good Charlotte song)
"Misery" is the fourth single by Good Charlotte from the band's fourth album, Good Morning Revival. The song has been officially released worldwide except for North America where "Where Would We Be Now" will be released as the single instead...

" – 3:49 (Benji Madden, Joel Madden, Don Gilmore)
"The River
The River (Good Charlotte song)
"The River" is a song by the pop-punk band Good Charlotte featuring M. Shadows and Synyster Gates of the heavy metal band Avenged Sevenfold. The song was the first single from the Good Morning Revival album in North America and the second single throughout the rest of the world except for...

" (featuring M. Shadows
M. Shadows
Matthew Charles Sanders , better known by his stage name M. Shadows, is the lead vocalist, songwriter, and founding member for the American metal band Avenged Sevenfold.-Early life and musical beginnings:...

& Synyster Gates
Synyster Gates
Brian Elwin Haner, Jr. , better known by his stage name Synyster Gates or simply Syn, is an American musician, best known for being the lead guitarist of the American heavy metal band Avenged Sevenfold.-Early life:...

) – 3:15 (Benji Madden, Joel Madden)
"Dance Floor Anthem
Dance Floor Anthem (I Don't Want to Be in Love)
"Dance Floor Anthem ", known as "Dance Floor Anthem" on the album, is a song by Good Charlotte on their fourth album, Good Morning Revival . It is the second single from Good Morning Revival in North America and Australia...

" – 4:04 (Benji Madden, Joel Madden, Don Gilmore)
"Keep Your Hands Off My Girl
Keep Your Hands Off My Girl
"Keep Your Hands off My Girl" is a song by the pop punk band Good Charlotte. It was released in late 2006 on their official website and MySpace page and is the fifth track on their fourth album, Good Morning Revival....

" – 3:25 (Benji Madden, Joel Madden)
"Victims of Love" – 3:45 (Joel Madden, Benji Madden, Don Gilmore)
"Where Would We Be Now
Where Would We Be Now
"Where Would We Be Now" is the fifth single released from Good Charlotte's fourth album, Good Morning Revival. The song was written by Billy Martin, Joel Madden and Benji Madden and it is also sung by Benji...

" – 3:58 (Billy Martin, Joel Madden, Benji Madden)
"Break Apart Her Heart" – 3:19 (Benji Madden, Joel Madden, Don Gilmore, Paul Thomas)
"All Black" – 4:19 (Benji Madden, Joel Madden, Don Gilmore)
"Beautiful Place" – 3:50 (Benji Madden, Joel Madden, Don Gilmore)
"Something Else" – 3:19 (Benji Madden, Joel Madden, Don Gilmore)
"Broken Hearts Parade" – 3:15 (Joel Madden, Benji Madden, Don Gilmore)
"March On" – 3:13 (Benji Madden, Joel Madden, Don Gilmore)

iTunes edition

All thirteen tracks from U.S. standard edition

"The River" (acoustic version) (iTunes
ITunes
iTunes is a media player computer program, used for playing, downloading, and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad....

bonus track) – 3:34
Digital booklet of Good Morning Revival

Wal-Mart edition

All thirteen tracks from U.S. standard edition
5 exclusive downloaded tracks from their Soundstage performance.

Best Buy edition

All thirteen songs from U.S. standard edition
Bonus track

"Jealousy" (bonus track) – 3:15

Target edition

All thirteen tracks from U.S. standard edition
Bonus DVD with GCTV episodes 1-3 and videos

GCTV episode 1
GCTV episode 2
GCTV episode 3
Good Morning Revival
"The River" (music video)
The Making of "The River"
"Beautiful Place" (acoustic video)

This edition is also being sold in Kmart and JB Hi-Fi stores in Australia.

Japanese edition

All thirteen tracks from U.S. standard edition
Bonus tracks

"Keep Your Hands Off My Girl" (Broken Spindles Remix) (Bonus track) – 4:35
"Face the Strange" (bonus track) – 2:59

B-sides

The band mentioned that they created over 60 B-side

A-side and B-side

A-side and B-side originally referred to the two sides of gramophone records on which singles were released beginning in the 1950s. The terms have come to refer to the types of song conventionally placed on each side of the record, with the A-side being the featured song , while the B-side, or...

s for the album. Only three of them were released as bonus tracks on Good Morning Revival bought in certain stores. They also mentioned that they weren't happy with most of the tracks so they made more. Most of the songs that made it on the album were songs they made last. On May 1, 2009, Benji Madden posted "No Communication" on the Good Charlotte official website stating that it was a song they made while working on "Good Morning Revival".

"Face the Strange" – 2:59
"Jealousy" – 3:15
"You're Gone" – 3:22

Charts

The album has achieved spots on album charts in many countries. Good Charlotte have achieved top 10 chart debuts in thirteen countries, making Good Morning Revival their highest international chart positions ever.

Chart (2007)	Peak Position
Argentinean Albums Chart	4
Australian Albums Chart ARIA Charts The ARIA charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA commenced compiling its own charts in-house from the week ending 26 June...	5
Austrian Albums Chart	4
Billboard 200 Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...	7
Billboard Comprehensive Albums Billboard Comprehensive Albums Billboard Comprehensive Albums was established in 2003 and was a weekly albums chart produced by Billboard magazine that ranked the biggest selling albums in the United States regardless of the product's age or method of sales....	7
Billboard European Top 100 Albums	1
Billboard Top Digital Albums	3
Billboard Top Internet Albums	3
Billboard Top Rock Albums	2
Canadian Albums Chart Canadian Albums Chart The Canadian Albums Chart is the official album sales chart in Canada. It is compiled every Wednesday by U.S.-based music sales tracking company Nielsen Soundscan, and published every Thursday by Jam! Canoe and Billboard, along with its sister charts the Canadian Singles Chart and the Canadian BDS...	2
Dutch Albums Chart	5
Estonian Albums Chart	5
Finnish Albums Chart	1
French Albums Chart	3

Chart (2007)	Peak Position
German Albums Chart	1
Greek Albums Chart	7
Hong Kong Albums Chart	4
Hungarian Albums Chart	3
Irish Albums Chart	3
Italian Albums Chart	3
Japanese Albums Chart	1
Mexican Albums Chart	6
New Zealand Albums Chart	2
Swedish Albums Chart	2
Swiss Albums Chart	7
Taiwanese Albums Chart	5
Thai Albums Chart	8
UK Albums Chart UK Albums Chart The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart...	13

Chart positions

Peak chart positions

Chart (2007/2008)	Peak position	Certifications	Sales/shipments
Australia Albums Chart	2	Platinum	100,000
Austrian Albums Chart	5	Gold	20,000
Canadian Albums Chart	1	3x Platinum	240,000
Irish Album Chart	4	Silver	5,000
Swedish Album Chart	2	Gold	20,000
Swiss Album Chart	4	Gold	10,000
UK Albums Chart	3	Platinum	300,000
US Billboard 200	7		315,000
New Zealand Album Chart	5	Gold	7,500
German Album Chart	6	-	-
French Album Chart	5	Gold	75,000
Dutch Album Chart	2	Platinum	30,000
Italian Album Chart	2	Platinum	150,000

Note: for all the certification definitions see: Certifications

A&R

David Massey
Evan Lipschutz

Art
Album cover
An album cover is the front of the packaging of a commercially released audio recording product, or album. The term can refer to either the printed cardboard covers typically used to package sets of 10" and 12" 78 rpm records, single and sets of 12" LPs, sets of 45 rpm records , or the front-facing...

/photography
Photography
Photography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film...

Fusako Chubachi — art direction
Kristine Burns — photography
Marvin Scott Jarrett — art direction, photography
Michael Dahan — photography
Sheri G. Lee — art direction

Instruments
Musical instrument
A musical instrument is a device created or adapted for the purpose of making musical sounds. In principle, any object that produces sound can serve as a musical instrument—it is through purpose that the object becomes a musical instrument. The history of musical instruments dates back to the...

Benji Madden
Benji Madden
Benji Madden is an American guitarist and backup vocalist for the band Good Charlotte, which he co-founded with his identical twin brother, Joel Madden.-Early life:...

— guitar
Billy Martin
Billy Martin (guitarist)
William Dean "Billy" Martin is an American musician best known as the guitarist and keyboardist of the pop punk band Good Charlotte.-Life and career:...

— guitar, keyboard
Dean Butterworth
Dean Butterworth
Dean "Deano" Butterworth is a professional drummer. He played for popular singer Morrissey and was announced as the official drummer for the band Good Charlotte in March 2005 after they parted with their previous drummer, Chris Wilson in 2005...

— drums
The Incognito Horns — horn
Paul Thomas
Paul Thomas (bassist)
Paul Anthony Thomas is an American musician best known as the bass guitar player for the pop punk band Good Charlotte.-Life and career:...

— bass
Synyster Gates
Synyster Gates
Brian Elwin Haner, Jr. , better known by his stage name Synyster Gates or simply Syn, is an American musician, best known for being the lead guitarist of the American heavy metal band Avenged Sevenfold.-Early life:...

— guitar solo on "The River"

Mixing/engineering
Audio engineering
An audio engineer, also called audio technician, audio technologist or sound technician, is a specialist in a skilled trade that deals with the use of machinery and equipment for the recording, mixing and reproduction of sounds. The field draws on many artistic and vocational areas, including...

Andy Wallace
Andy Wallace (producer)
Andy Wallace is a Grammy Award-winning music studio engineer with a long track record of successful productions, beginning with the 1986 production of the Run-DMC/Aerosmith collaboration on "Walk This Way" with Rick Rubin...
Fox Phelps — assistant
Mark Kiczula

Producing
Record producer
A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...

/editing
Digital audio editor
A digital audio editor is a computer application for audio editing, i.e. manipulating digital audio. Digital audio editors are the main software component of a digital audio workstation.-For use with music:...

/mastering
Audio mastering
Mastering, a form of audio post-production, is the process of preparing and transferring recorded audio from a source containing the final mix to a data storage device ; the source from which all copies will be produced...

/management
Management
Management in all business and organizational activities is the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals and objectives using available resources efficiently and effectively...

Don Gilmore — producer
John O'Mahoney — digital editing
Mike Scielzi — assistant
Steve Feinberg — management
Ted Jensen — mastering

Vocalists
Singing
Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...

Benji Madden
Benji Madden
Benji Madden is an American guitarist and backup vocalist for the band Good Charlotte, which he co-founded with his identical twin brother, Joel Madden.-Early life:...

— background
Bobbi Page — background
Carmen Carter — background
Joel Madden
Joel Madden
Joel Rueben Madden is an American singer, record producer, actor, DJ, and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, best known as the lead vocalist for the pop punk band Good Charlotte.-Early life:...

— lead
M. Shadows
M. Shadows
Matthew Charles Sanders , better known by his stage name M. Shadows, is the lead vocalist, songwriter, and founding member for the American metal band Avenged Sevenfold.-Early life and musical beginnings:...

— featured in "The River"
Maxine Waters — background
Terry Wood — background

External links

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