The Diary of Alicia Keys

The Diary of Alicia Keys
Studio album by Alicia Keys
Released	December 1, 2003 (2003-12-01)
Recorded	2002–2003 The Hit Factory, Kampo Studios, KrucialKeys Studios, Quad Recording Studios (New York City, New York) The Hit Factory Criteria (Miami, Florida) Plus XXX (Paris, France) Sarm West Studios (London, England)
Genre	R&B, soul, neo soul
Length	57:45
Label	J
Producer	Alicia Keys (also exec.), Kerry "Krucial" Brothers, Kanye West, Timbaland, Dre & Vidal, Easy Mo Bee, Dwayne "D. Wigg" Wiggins, Kumasi
Alicia Keys chronology
Songs in A Minor (2001) The Diary of Alicia Keys (2003) As I Am (2007)
Singles from The Diary of Alicia Keys
"You Don't Know My Name" Released: November 18, 2003 "If I Ain't Got You" Released: February 24, 2004 "Diary" Released: June 2004 "Karma" Released: October 26, 2004

The Diary of Alicia Keys is the second studio album by American recording artist Alicia Keys. It was released in the United States on December 2, 2003 by J Records. Recording sessions for the album took place during 2002 to 2003 at various recording studios, and production was handled primarily by Keys with contributions from Kerry Brothers, Jr., Timbaland, Dwayne Wiggins, Dre & Vidal, Easy Mo Bee, and Kanye West.

The album debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart, selling 618,000 copies in its first week. It became Keys' second consecutive number-one debut in the United States and spawned three top-ten singles. Upon its release, The Diary of Alicia Keys received generally positive reviews from most music critics and earned Keys three Grammy Awards at the 47th Grammy Awards. With domestic sales of four million copies and worldwide sales of eight million copies, The Diary of Alicia Keys is the thirty-first best-selling album of the 2000s decade.

Background

Alicia Keys's debut album Songs in A Minor (2001) sold over 6.2 million copies and earned five Grammy Awards.^[1] Due to the extreme popularity of her debut album, there was a lot of pressure on the album to match or exceed that success.^[2] The album proved to be as successful as her debut album, and was nominated for two of the "big four" Grammy Awards: Song of the Year for If I Ain't Got You, and Album of the Year. The album also sold over twice as many copies in its first week as Songs in A Minor.

Reception

Commercial performance

The album debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart, with first-week sales of 618,000 copies, serving as Keys' second consecutive number-one debut in the United States.^[3] It spent 88 weeks on the chart, leaving at number 198 in 2005. It has sold over 4.6 million copies in the US.^[4] and more than eight million copies worldwide.^[5] The album's four singles, "You Don't Know My Name", "If I Ain't Got You", "Diary", and "Karma", reached the top twenty of the Billboard Hot 100, with three of them becoming top ten hits.

Critical response

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[6]
Blender	[1]
Entertainment Weekly	(B)[7]
Los Angeles Times	[8]
The New York Times	(favorable)[9]
PopMatters	(favorable)[10]
Rolling Stone	[11]
Slant Magazine	[12]
Vibe	[13]
The Village Voice	(mixed)[14]

Upon its release, the album received generally positive reviews from most music critics, based on an aggregate score of 71/100 from Metacritic.^[15] The Times said that the album "confirmed her place in musical history".^[16] Giving the album four stars, People magazine said that "Keys honors R&B's golden age with an old soul far beyond her 23 years."^[17] Of The Diary of Alicia Keys, Josh Tyrangiel of Time said that Keys "made half a great record. The first six songs are models of how to make nostalgic music that is not anti-present... The second half of Diary sags." He added, however, that it was "obvious" that subsequent albums would "be worth hearing."^[18] Billboard magazine felt that "the songstress handily tops Songs in A Minor" and "channels spirits of '60s and '70s soul for Diary."^[19] Rolling Stone called the album "an assured, adult statement, steeped in the complicated love life and musical dreams of an ambitious young woman", and compared Keys to Nina Simone and Aretha Franklin.^[20] ABC News said that "If I Ain't Got You" is "a stunner of a ballad on which Keys' sound and vocal inflection recalled another one of Davis' famous proteges: Whitney Houston."^[21] Yahoo! Music UK, which gave the album nine stars out of ten, stated: "With both Lauryn Hill and Jill Scott still AWOL, and Beyoncé unable to cut it over an entire album, there's only one lady right now who can truly claim Aretha's crown."^[22]

Accolades

Blender magazine named it the seventh best album of 2004.^[23] Billboard placed the album fifty-fifth in the decade-end ranking of the most successful albums of the 2000s.^[24] At the 47th Grammy Awards in 2005, The Diary of Alicia Keys won a Grammy Award for Best R&B Album and also earned Keys two other awards, including Best Female R&B Vocal Performance for "If I Ain't Got You" and Best R&B Song for "You Don't Know My Name". Keys also won two Soul Train Awards, Best R&B/Soul Single ("If I Ain't Got You") and Best R&B/Soul Album by a female artist.^[25] In 2007, The National Association of Recording Merchandisers and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame released a list of what they term "The Definitive 200 Albums of All Time"; The Diary of Alicia Keys ranks at number 129 on the list.^[26]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Producer(s)	Length
1.	"Harlem's Nocturne"	Alicia Keys	Keys	1:43
2.	"Karma"	Kerry Brothers, Jr., Keys, Taneisha Smith	Brothers	4:16
3.	"Heartburn"	Keys, Tim Mosley, Walter Millsap III, Candice Nelson, Erika Rose	Timbaland, Keys	3:28
4.	"If I Was Your Woman/Walk On By"	Gloria Jones, Clarence McMurray, Pam Sawyer, Burt Bacharach, Hal David	Keys, Easy Mo Bee, Dwayne "D. Wigg" Wiggins	3:06
5.	"You Don't Know My Name"	Keys, Kanye West, Harold Lilly, J. R. Bailey, Mel Kent, Ken Williams	West, Keys	6:06
6.	"If I Ain't Got You"	Keys	Keys	3:48
7.	"Diary" (featuring Tony! Toni! Toné!)	Keys, Brothers	Keys	4:45
8.	"Dragon Days"	Keys	Keys	4:36
9.	"Wake Up"	Keys, Brothers	Keys	4:27
10.	"So Simple" (featuring Lellow*)	Keys, Lilly, Andre Harris, Vidal Davis	Dre & Vidal, Keys	3:49
11.	"When You Really Love Someone"	Keys, Brothers	Keys	4:09
12.	"Feeling U, Feeling Me (Interlude)"	Keys	Keys	2:07
13.	"Slow Down"	Keys, L. Green, Rose	Keys, Kumasi	4:18
14.	"Samsonite Man"	Keys, Rose	Keys, Brothers	4:12
15.	"Nobody Not Really"	Keys, Smith	Keys	2:56

UK and Japanese edition
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Producer(s)	Length
16.	"Streets of New York" (featuring Nas and Rakim)	Keys, Smith, Eric Barrier, Nasir Jones, Chris Martin, William Griffin	DJ Premier	4:55

Australian, German, Latin American, Japanese and Korean bonus CD
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Producer(s)	Length
1.	"If I Ain't Got You" (Remix, Alicia Keys & Usher)	Keys	Keys	3:52
2.	"If I Ain't Got You" (Spanish version, feat Arturo Sandoval)	Keys	Keys	3:53
3.	"If I Ain't Got You" (Kanye West Remix)	Keys	West	3:47
4.	"You Don't Know My Name/Will You Ever Know It" (Reggae Mix)	Keys, Kanye West, Harold Lilly, Gregory Isaacs, Jack Ruby	West	5:05
5.	"You Don't Know My Name" (Video)
6.	"If I Ain't Got You" (Video)
7.	"Diary" (Video)

*Alias for Alicia Keys^[27]

Samples credits

• "Karma" — Contains excerpts from Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77 by Johannes Brahms
• "If I Was Your Woman/Walk on By" — Contains excerpts of "If I Were Your Woman" by Gladys Knight & the Pips (Gloria Jones, Clarence McMurray, Pam Sawyer) and "Walk On By" by Isaac Hayes (Burt Bacharach, Hal David)
• "You Don't Know My Name" — Contains excerpts and a sample of "Let Me Prove My Love to You" by The Main Ingredient (J. R. Bailey, Mel Kent, Ken Williams)
• "Streets of New York" — Contains a sample of "N.Y. State of Mind" by Nas (Eric Barrier, Nasir Jones, Chris Martin, William Griffin)

Personnel

Alicia Keys – lead vocals, backing vocals, producer, executive producer, piano, keyboards, clavinet, Rhodes piano, synthesizer, instrumentation, string arrangements Sanford Allen – concertmaster, violin Alli – art direction, design Ayako – make-up Elijah Baker – bass Julien Barber – viola Katreese Barnes – backing vocals Pablo Batista – percussion Tony Black – engineer, mixing Richard Brice – viola Kurt Briggs – violin Kerry "Krucial" Brothers – drums, instrumentation, producer, digital programming, engineer Avril Brown – violin Stockley Carmichael – backing vocals Fred Cash, Jr. – bass Robert Chausow – viola Ray Chew – string arrangements, string conductor Dre & Vidal – instrumentation, producers Vincent DiLorenzo – engineer Darryl Dixon – horn Ronnie Drayton – guitar Easy Mo Bee – producer, digital programming Peter Edge – executive producer Russell Elevado – mixing Marisol Espada – cello Michael Evans – production coordinator Barry Finclair – viola Eileen Folson – cello Alan Ford – assistant mixing Dan Gautreau – assistant engineer Onree Gill – Hammond B3, Rhodes piano L. Green – backing vocals Andricka Hall – backing vocals Sharief Hobley – guitar Stanley Hunte – violin Paul John – drums Steve Jordan – drums Kumasi – producer, digital programming, synthesizer Gwendolyn Laster – violin Chris LeBeau – art department production John Legend – backing vocals Harold Lilly – backing vocals

Manny Marroquin – mixing Hugh McCracken – guitar Melissa Meell – cello Lori Miller – violin Walter Millsap III – engineer Ann Mincieli – engineer Cindy Mizelle – backing vocals Caryl Paisner – cello Jermaine Paul – backing vocals William E. Pettaway, Jr. – production coordinator Marion Pinheiro – violin Herb Powers, Jr. – mastering Ricky Quinones – guitar Artie Reynolds – bass Tim Christian Riley – piano Maxine Roach – viola Jeff Robinson – executive producer, management Steve "Styles" Rodriguez – bass Joe Romano – horn Erika Rose – backing vocals Warwick Saint – photography Al Schoonmaker – copyist John "Jubu" Smith – guitar Taneisha Smith – backing vocals Denise Stoudmire – backing vocals Dale Stuckenbruck – violin Timbaland – producer Nicole Tucker – hair stylist Rabeka Tuinei – assistant mixing Pat Viala – mixing Wouri Vice – assistant stylist Marla Weinhoff Studio – set design Peter VanDerwater – viola Arcell Vickers – organ Alexander Vselensky – violin David Watson – horn, saxophone, flute Willie Weeks – bass Kanye West – producer Carl "Rev" Wheeler – Wurlitzer, organ Artie White – guitar Dwayne "D. Wigg" Wiggins – producer, sitar, bass, guitar Jessica Wilson – backing vocals Patti Wilson – stylist Xin Zhao – violin

Charts and certifications

Chart positions Chart (2003–05) Peak position Australian Albums Chart[28] 22 Austrian Albums Chart[28] 25 Belgian Albums Chart (Flanders)[28] 13 Belgian Albums Chart (Wallonia)[28] 25 Canadian Albums Chart 15 Danish Albums Chart[28] 16 Dutch Albums Chart[28] 2 European Top 100 Albums[29] 5 Finnish Albums Chart[28] 9 French Albums Chart[28] 5 German Albums Chart[30] 10 Greek International Albums Chart[31] 8 Irish Albums Chart[32] 37 Italian Albums Chart[28] 20 Japanese Albums Chart[33] 27 New Zealand Albums Chart[28] 25 Norwegian Albums Chart[28] 7 Polish Albums Chart[34] 19 Portuguese Albums Chart[28] 23 Spanish Albums Chart[35] 32 Swedish Albums Chart[28] 24 Swiss Albums Chart[28] 1 UK Albums Chart[36] 13 US Billboard 200[37] 1 US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums[37] 1

Year-end charts Chart (2003) Position Dutch Albums Chart[38] 58 French Albums Chart[39] 122 UK Albums Chart[40] 75 Worldwide[41] 14 Chart (2004) Position Australian Albums Chart[42] 82 Australian Urban Albums[43] 10 Belgian Albums Chart (Flanders)[44] 58 Belgian Albums Chart (Wallonia)[45] 99 Dutch Albums Chart[46] 5 French Albums Chart[47] 23 Swiss Albums Chart[48] 22 UK Albums Chart[49] 72 US Billboard 200[50] 4 US R&B/Hip-Hop Albums[51] 2 Chart (2005) Position Australian Albums Chart[52] 63 Australian Urban Albums[53] 9 US Billboard 200[54] 84 US R&B/Hip-Hop Albums[55] 45

Decade-end charts Chart (2000–09) Position Dutch Albums Chart[56] 48 US Billboard 200[57] 55 US R&B/Hip-Hop Albums[58] 39 Certifications Country Certification Argentina[59] Gold Australia[60] Platinum Belgium[61] Gold Canada[62] 2× Platinum Europe[63] Platinum France[64] Gold Germany[65] Platinum Italy[66] Gold Japan[67] Gold Netherlands[68] Platinum New Zealand[69] Gold Norway[70] Gold Sweden[71] Gold Switzerland[72] Platinum United Kingdom[73] Platinum United States[74] 4× Platinum

Chart procession and succession

Preceded by The Black Album by Jay-Z Soulful by Ruben Studdard	US Billboard 200 number-one album December 20, 2003 January 3, 2004	Succeeded by Soulful by Ruben Studdard Speakerboxxx/The Love Below by OutKast
Preceded by The Black Album by Jay-Z	US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums number-one album December 20, 2003 – January 24, 2004	Succeeded by Soulful by Ruben Studdard
Preceded by It's Done! by Overground	Swiss Albums Chart number-one album December 21, 2003	Succeeded by Life for Rent by Dido

Release history

Country	Date	Label
United Kingdom	December 1, 2003	J Records
Germany
France
Australia
United States	December 2, 2003
Canada		Sony Music
Japan	December 12, 2003	BMG

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External links

• Official website
• The Diary of Alicia Keys at Discogs
• The Diary of Alicia Keys at Metacritic