Women & Songs 5 is the fifth regular album, not counting special albums, in the Women & Songs

Women & Songs

Women & Songs is a series of annual Canadian compilation album releases that only contain tracks by female artists. The first album, simply titled Women & Songs, was released December 9, 1997 and the series has since been both a major seller and a chart-topper in the Canadian music scene.-Regular...

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Overview

The album was released on December 4, 2001. As always, the album is composed of tracks from the best female artists and new artists in the industry. 17 tracks are featured on this compilation including a special single remix of Faith Hill

Faith Hill

Faith Hill is an American country singer. She is known both for her commercial success and her marriage to fellow country star Tim McGraw. Hill has sold more than 40 million records worldwide and accumulated eight number-one singles and three number-one albums on the U.S...

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The Way You Love Me (Faith Hill song)

"The Way You Love Me" is a song by American country music artist Faith Hill. It was the second single off her 1999 Breathe album, released as a single in 2000. It was also her second number one country single from her CD Breathe and her 8th number one country single overall...

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Track listing

1. "I Need You
   I Need You (LeAnn Rimes song)
   "I Need You" is a song performed by American country pop artist, LeAnn Rimes. It was released on July 18, 2000 as a single from Jesus: Music From & Inspired by the Epic Mini Series. It spent 25 weeks on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Chart and peaked at #11...
   
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   • (performed by Leann Rimes
     LeAnn Rimes
     LeAnn Rimes is an American country/pop singer. She is known for her rich vocals and her rise to fame as an eight-year-old champion on the original Ed McMahon version of Star Search, followed by the release of the Patsy Cline-intended single "Blue" when Rimes was only age 13, resulting in her...
     
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2. "The Way You Love Me
   The Way You Love Me (Faith Hill song)
   "The Way You Love Me" is a song by American country music artist Faith Hill. It was the second single off her 1999 Breathe album, released as a single in 2000. It was also her second number one country single from her CD Breathe and her 8th number one country single overall...
   
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   • (performed by Faith Hill
     Faith Hill
     Faith Hill is an American country singer. She is known both for her commercial success and her marriage to fellow country star Tim McGraw. Hill has sold more than 40 million records worldwide and accumulated eight number-one singles and three number-one albums on the U.S...
     
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3. "I'm Like a Bird
   I'm like a Bird
   "I'm Like a Bird" is a song written by Canadian singer-songwriter Nelly Furtado, and produced by Gerald Eaton and Brian West, as the first single from her first album Whoa, Nelly!. It was one of the year's critically acclaimed songs and widely considered as Furtado's signature song...
   
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   • (performed by Nelly Furtado
     Nelly Furtado
     Nelly Kim Furtado is a Canadian singer-songwriter, record producer and actress. Furtado grew up in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.Furtado first gained fame with her debut album, Whoa, Nelly!, and its single "I'm Like a Bird", which won a 2001 Juno Award for Single of the Year and a 2002 Grammy...
     
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4. "Doesn't Really Matter
   Doesn't Really Matter
   "Doesn't Really Matter" is a song recorded by American R&B-pop singer Janet Jackson for the soundtrack to the 2000 film Nutty Professor II: The Klumps...
   
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   • (performed by Janet Jackson
     Janet Jackson
     Janet Damita Jo Jackson is an American recording artist and actress. Known for a series of sonically innovative, socially conscious and sexually provocative records, as well as elaborate stage shows, television and film roles, she has been a prominent figure in popular culture for over 25 years...
     
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5. "Down So Long
   Down So Long
   "Down So Long" is a folk pop song written by Jewel and produced by Patrick Leonard for Jewel's second album, Spirit . Jewel wrote the song in 1992 when she was eighteen years old and that she "like[s] it on a musical level, not message-wise." This was the second single that Jewel had not...
   
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   • (performed by Jewel
     Jewel (singer)
     Jewel Kilcher , professionally known as Jewel, is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, actress and poet...
     
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6. "Everywhere"
   • (performed by Michelle Branch
     Michelle Branch
     Michelle Jacquet DeSevren Branch is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist and actress. During the early 2000s, she released two top-selling albums, The Spirit Room and Hotel Paper, and was subsequently nominated for the Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 2003...
     
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7. "Don't Get Your Back Up"
   • (performed by Sarah Harmer
     Sarah Harmer
     Sarah Harmer is a Canadian singer-songwriter and activist.-Biography:Born and raised in Burlington, Ontario, Harmer gained her first exposure to the musician's lifestyle as a teenager, when her older sister Mary started taking her to concerts by the well-known Tragically Hip. At the age of 17, she...
     
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8. "Could I Be Your Girl
   Could I Be Your Girl
   "Could I Be Your Girl" is a song by Jann Arden, released as a single in 1994, first released on her album Living Under June .The song won the 1995 Juno Award for Single of the Year....
   
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   • (performed by Jann Arden
     Jann Arden
     Jann Arden is a Canadian singer-songwriter.-Life and career:Arden was born and raised near Calgary in Springbank, Alberta and attended Springbank Community High School. Her breakthrough came with her critically acclaimed 1993 debut album Time for Mercy and her first single "I Would Die For You"...
     
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9. "Just Can't Last"
   • (performed by Natalie Merchant
     Natalie Merchant
     Natalie Anne Merchant is an American singer-songwriter and musician. She joined the alternative rock band 10,000 Maniacs in 1981 and left it to begin her solo career in 1993.-Early life:...
     
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10. "Angel
    Angel (Sarah McLachlan song)
    "Angel" is a song by Sarah McLachlan that originally appeared on her 1997 album Surfacing. As McLachlan explained on VH1 Storytellers, the song is about the Smashing Pumpkins touring keyboard player Jonathan Melvoin, who overdosed on heroin and died in 1996."Angel" was McLachlan's second top 5 hits...
    
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    • (performed by Sarah Mclachlan
      Sarah McLachlan
      Sarah Ann McLachlan, OC, OBC is a Canadian musician, singer and songwriter. Known for her emotional ballads and mezzo-soprano vocal range, as of 2006, she has sold over 40 million albums worldwide. McLachlan's best-selling album to date is Surfacing, for which she won two Grammy Awards and four...
      
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11. "That I Would Be Good
    That I Would Be Good
    "That I Would Be Good" is a song by Alanis Morissette that was first featured on her 1998 album Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie. An acoustic live version of the song was recorded during a session for MTV Unplugged on September 18, 1999...
    
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    • (performed by Alanis Morissette
      Alanis Morissette
      Alanis Nadine Morissette is a Canadian-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, record producer, and actress. She has won 16 Juno Awards and seven Grammy Awards, was nominated for two Golden Globe Awards and also shortlisted for an Academy Award nomination...
      
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12. "Video
    Video (song)
    "Video!" is a song by Jeff Lynne from the soundtrack to the film Electric Dreams in 1984. It is one of two songs that Lynne and keyboard player Richard Tandy provided for the film's soundtrack....
    
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    • (performed by India.Arie
      India.Arie
      India.Arie is a Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter and record producer . She has sold over 3.3 million records in the U.S. and 10 million worldwide. She has won four Grammy Awards from her 21 nominations, including Best R&B Album.-Background:Simpson was born in Denver, Colorado...
      
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13. "Charmed Life"
    • (performed by Diana Krall
      Diana Krall
      Diana Jean Krall, OC, OBC is a Canadian jazz pianist and singer, known for her contralto vocals. She has sold more than 6 million albums in the US and over 15 million worldwide; altogether, she has sold more albums than any other female jazz artist during the 1990s and 2000s...
      
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14. "Miss Chatelaine"
    • (performed by k.d. lang
      K.D. Lang
      Kathryn Dawn Lang, OC , known by her stage name k.d. lang, is a Canadian pop and country singer-songwriter and occasional actress...
      
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15. "Who I Am
    Who I Am (Jessica Andrews song)
    "Who I Am" is the title of a song written by Brett James and Troy Verges, and recorded by American country artist Jessica Andrews. It was released as the first single from her second studio album of the same name.-Content:...
    
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    • (performed by Jessica Andrews
      Jessica Andrews
      Jessica Danielle Andrews is an American country music singer. At age 15 in mid-1999, she made her debut on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts with the single "I Will Be There for You", from her debut album Heart Shaped World, released in 1999 on DreamWorks Records Nashville.Andrews...
      
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16. "All I Want"
    • (performed by Maren Ord
      Maren Ord
      Maren Whitney Ord is a Canadian singer-songwriter of rock and pop music.-Childhood and early teenager career:Ord was born and grew up in Edmonton, Alberta, the eighth of ten children. She grew up in a musical family; her father was a professor of music, her mother taught voice and piano, and the...
      
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17. "Songbird"
    • (performed by Eva Cassidy
      Eva Cassidy
      Eva Marie Cassidy was an American vocalist known for her interpretations of jazz, blues, folk, gospel, country and pop classics. In 1992 she released her first album, The Other Side, a set of duets with go-go musician Chuck Brown, followed by a live solo album, Live at Blues Alley in 1996...
      
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