Destination (Ronan Keating album)

Destination
Studio album by Ronan Keating
Released	20 May 2002
Recorded	Fredonia International Studios, Los Angeles Britannia Row Studios, London Battery Studios, London Soul II Soul, London Windmill Lane Studios, Dublin Wise Buddah Music, London
Genre	Pop
Length	54:48
Label	Polydor
Producer	Bill Padley, Calum MacColl, Gregg Alexander, Jem Godfrey, Liam Bradley, Rick Nowels, Steve Mac
Ronan Keating chronology
Ronan (2000) Destination (2002) Turn It On (2003)
Singles from Destination
"If Tomorrow Never Comes" Released: 6 May 2002 "I Love It When We Do" Released: 9 September 2002 "We've Got Tonight" Released: 25 November 2002 "The Long Goodbye" Released: 28 April 2003

Destination is the second studio album from Irish singer-songwriter Ronan Keating. It was released by Polydor Records on 20 May 2002. The album debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart and was certified two-times platinum by the British Phonographic Industry. In Ireland, the album debuted at number three. Additionally, the album charted within the top ten of nine other European countries. In 2002, Destination was certified platinum by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry for shipments of one million copies inside Europe.^[1]

The album includes the singles "If Tomorrow Never Comes", "I Love It When We Do", "We've Got Tonight" (featuring singer Lulu), and "The Long Goodbye", all of them which peaked inside the top ten of the UK Single Chart.

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[2]
Entertainment.ie	[citation needed]
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Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Producer(s)	Length
1.	"I Love It When We Do"	Gregg Alexander, Rick Nowels	Gregg Alexander, Rick Nowels	3:53
2.	"Love Won't Work (If We Don't Try)"	Alexander, Nowels	Gregg Alexander, Rick Nowels	3:44
3.	"If Tomorrow Never Comes"	Garth Brooks, Kent Blazy	Steve Mac	3:35
4.	"Come Be My Baby"	Alexander, Nowels	Gregg Alexander, Rick Nowels	3:53
5.	"Lovin' Each Day"	Alexander, Nowels	Gregg Alexander	3:33
6.	"My One Thing That's Real"	Alexander, Nowels	Gregg Alexander, Rick Nowels	3:35
7.	"Time for Love"	Alexander, Nowels	Gregg Alexander, Rick Nowels	3:39
8.	"Blown Away"	Alexander, Nowels	Gregg Alexander, Rick Nowels	3:39
9.	"As Much As I Can Give You Girl"	Alexander, Nowels	Gregg Alexander, Rick Nowels	4:15
10.	"Pickin' Me Up"	Alexander, Nowels, Ronan Keating	Gregg Alexander, Rick Nowels	4:42
11.	"Joy and Pain"	Jeremy Godfrey, Bill Padley, Keating	Jem Godfrey, Bill Padley	3:49
12.	"We've Got Tonight" (featuring Lulu)	Bob Seger	Bill Padley	3:39
13.	"The Long Goodbye"	Paul Brady, Keating	Liam Bradley, Calum McColl	4:43

UK bonus track
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Producer(s)	Length
14.	"I Got My Heart On You"	Alexander	Gregg Alexander	3:47

Notes

• The German edition of the album features vocals from Jeanette on "We've Got Tonight", instead of Lulu.
• The French edition of the album features additional vocals from Cécilia Cara on "I Love It When We Do", with the name of the song printed in French on the sleeve (Je T'aime Plus Que Tout).
• The Mexican edition of the album omits "Blown Away", "Pickin' Me Up" and "Joy And Pain", and replaces them with "Life Is A Rollercoaster", "The Way You Make Me Feel" and a new version of "When You Say Nothing At All", with Paulina Rubio on guest vocals.
• Upon his visit to the Philippines, "We've Got Tonight" was sung with the Philippine's "R&B Princess" Kyla.

Personnel

• Tracie Ackerman – backing vocals
• Gregg Alexander – producer, project coordinator
• Rusty Anderson – electric guitar, bazouki
• Dave Arch – piano, string arrangements
• Liam Bradley – percussion, drums, backing vocals, producer
• Maire Breatnach – violin
• Danielle Brisebois – backing vocals
• Alex Brown – backing vocals
• Chris Brown – engineer
• Sue Ann Carwell – backing vocals
• Ed Colman – engineer
• Dave Dale – engineer
• Corinne Day – photography
• Graham Dominy – assistant engineer
• Aiden Foley – assistant engineer
• Denny Fongheiser – percussion, cymbals, tom-tom
• Daniel Frampton – mixing
• Angie Giles – backing vocals
• Jem Godfrey – producer
• Eddie Hession – accordion, accordion arranger
• Ash Howes – mixing
• Rob Jacobs – engineer
• Charles Judge – piano, keyboards, engineer, digital editing, sound design, pro-tools
• Kieran Kiely – piano, organ (hammond)
• Greg Kurstin – keyboards
• Tim Lambert – assistant engineer
• Chris Laws – drums, engineer
• Steve Lee – backing vocals
• Bob Ludwig – mastering
• Lulu – vocals
• Steve Mac – arranger, keyboards, producer, mixing
• Calum MacColl – guitar, backing vocals, producer
• Avril MacKintosh – producer, engineer, digital editing, remixing, vocal producer, pro-tools
• Tony Matthew – assistant engineer
• Alastair McMillan – engineer
• James McNally – piano, bodhran
• Kieron Menzies – assistant engineer
• Crystal Murden – backing vocals
• Yoad Nevo – programming
• Rick Nowels – acoustic guitar, piano, keyboards, backing vocals, producer, mellotron, wurlitzer
• Bill Padley – arranger, backing vocals, multi instruments, producer, musician
• Pino Palladino – bass, bass guitar
• Steve Pearce – bass guitar
• John Pierce – bass
• Tim Pierce – electric guitar
• Daniel Pursey – assistant engineer
• Wayne Rodrigues – drums, keyboards, digital editing, drum programming
• Philip Rose – assistant engineer
• Alfie Silas – backing vocals
• Jess Sutcliffe – engineer
• Shari Sutcliffe – project coordinator
• John Themis – guitar, percussion, bazouki
• Julie Thompson – backing vocals
• Paul Turner – bass, guitar
• Alan Veucasovic – assistant engineer
• Dan Vickers – assistant engineer
• Dave Way – mixing
• Jeremy Wheatley – mixing
• Randy Wine – engineer
• Tim Young – mastering, mastering engineer

Charts and certifications

Charts Chart (2002) Peak position Australian Albums Chart[3] 3 Austrian Albums Chart[3] 2 Belgian Album Chart (Flanders)[3] 9 Danish Albums Chart[3] 8 Dutch Albums Chart[3] 4 Finnish Albums Chart[3] 16 French Albums Chart[3] 37 German Albums Chart[4] 1 Irish Albums Chart[5] 3 New Zealand Albums Chart[3] 1 Norwegian Albums Chart[3] 2 Swedish Albums Chart[3] 5 Swiss Albums Chart[3] 3 UK Albums Chart[6] 1

Certifications Country Certification Australia 2× Platinum[7] Denmark Gold[8] Germany Gold[9] New Zealand Platinum[10] Norway Platinum[11] Sweden Gold[12] Switzerland Platinum[13] United Kingdom 2× Platinum[14]

Preceded by 18 by Moby

UK number one album 1 June 2002 – 7 June 2002

Succeeded by The Eminem Show by Eminem

References

1. ^ "IFPI Platinum Europe Awards - 2002". International Federation of the Phonographic Industry. http://www.ifpi.org/content/section_news/plat2002.html. Retrieved 2011-04-10. 
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5. ^ "Chart Track". Irish Albums Chart. GfK. http://www.chart-track.co.uk/index.jsp?c=p%2Fmusicvideo%2Fmusic%2Farchive%2Findex_test.jsp&ct=240002&arch=t&lyr=2002&year=2002&week=21. Retrieved 2011-04-10. 
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7. ^ "ARIA Charts - Accreditations - 2003 Albums". Australian Recording Industry Association. http://www.aria.com.au/pages/aria-charts-accreditations-albums-2003.htm. Retrieved 2011-04-10. 
8. ^ "Album Top-40" (in Danish). Hitlisten. IFPI Denmark. 20 September 2002. http://hitlisterne.dk/default.asp?w=38&y=2002&list=a40. Retrieved 2011-04-10. 
9. ^ "German album certifications – Ronan Keating – Destination" (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie. http://www.musikindustrie.de/gold_platin_datenbank/?action=suche&strTitel=Destination&strInterpret=Ronan+Keating&strTtArt=alben&strAwards=checked. 
10. ^ "Chart #1333: Sunday 3 November 2002". Recording Industry Association of New Zealand. 3 November 2002. http://www.rianz.org.nz/rianz/chart.asp. Retrieved 2011-04-10. 
11. ^ "IFPI Norsk platebransje - Salgstroféer" (in Norwegian). IFPI Norway. http://ifpi.no/sok/index_trofe.htm. Retrieved 2011-04-09. 
12. ^ "Guld & Platina - År 2002" (in Swedish). IFPI Sweden. http://www.ifpi.se/wp/wp-content/uploads/ar-20021.pdf. Retrieved 2011-04-10. 
13. ^ "The Official Swiss Charts and Music Community – Awards 2003". International Federation of the Phonographic Industry. Hung Medien. http://swisscharts.com/awards.asp?year=2003. Retrieved 2011-04-10. 
14. ^ "Certified Awards Search". British Phonographic Industry. http://www.bpi.co.uk/certifiedawards/search.aspx. Retrieved 2011-04-10. 

External links

Destination at MusicBrainz