11 (Bryan Adams album)

***11*** is the eleventh studio album by the Canadian rock artist Bryan Adams. It was released on March 7, 2008 through Universal Music Group. The album was a number 1 hit in Canada, Switzerland and India and on number 6 in the UK. It was recorded at The Warehouse Studio, Vancouver, Canada, and additionally at hotel rooms and backstage concerts around Europe.

Three singles have been released from the album: "I Thought I'd Seen Everything", "Tonight We Have the Stars" and "She's Got a Way". The album was also released in the US exclusively through Wal-Mart and Sam's Club retail stores on May 13, 2008. To promote the album, Adams toured around Europe on the "11 Days, 11 Cities" acoustic tour, playing new songs and old classics.

## 11 Tour

In support of the release of _11_, Adams started the ‘11 concerts, 11 cities’ tour, having concerts in 11 different countries in just 11 days. The intimate shows at some spectacular venues will see Adams perform an acoustic set, on stage, with just his guitar and harmonica. The London show was on March 11, 2008 at St. James Church in Piccadilly. The last stop of his 11 days concert tour was in Copenhagen, Denmark on 17 March. After the ‘11 concerts, 11 cities’ Adams went and acoustic tour where he toured with Foreigner and Rod Stewart to support his new album. Zimbio asked Adams: "With the acoustic tour, which of your songs do you feel sound best acoustically?"

## Personnel

- Bryan Adams - guitar, vocals, bass <small>(on tracks 1, 2, 3)</small>, producer
- Keith Scott - guitar <small>(tracks 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, and 9)</small>
- Colin Cripps - guitar <small>(all but tracks 8 and 11)</small>, backing vocals on track 7
- Gary Breit - hammond organ, piano (<small>tracks 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, and 10)</small>
- Eliot Kennedy - bass <small>(tracks 4, 6, 9 and 10)</small>, piano on track 6, backing vocals on track 7
- Robert John "Mutt" Lange - bass <small>(track 5)</small>, producer on tracks 1 & 5
- Mickey Curry - drums <small>(tracks 1, 6, 7, 9)</small>
- Pat Stewart - drums <small>(tracks 2, 3, 4, 5, 8)</small>
- Jim Vallance - drums <small>(track 10)</small>
- Máire Breatnach - fiddle on track 8, viola on track 11

### Additional Personnel

- Pointless Brothers - backing vocals on track 6
- Kathleen Edwards - backing vocals on track 7
- Teese Gohl - string arragement on tracks 7 & 8
- Gavin Greenway - string arragement on track 11
- Hal Beckett - string conductor on tracks 7, 8, & 11
- Bob Clearmountain - Mixing
- Olle Romo - editing
- Ben Dobie - recording
- Bryan Gallant - additional recording
- Kirk Mcnally - additional recording
- Roger Monk - string recording on track 8

### Album

|align="left"|Country|align="left"|Peak Position|align="left"|Certification (If Any)|align="left"|Sales/shipments|align="left"|ref.|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|Canada|style="text-align:center;"|1|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"|||
|Switzerland|style="text-align:center;"|1|style="text-align:center;"|Gold|style="text-align:center;"|+15,000|style="text-align:center;"|||
|India|style="text-align:center;"|1|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"|||
|Germany|style="text-align:center;"|2|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"|||
|Austria|style="text-align:center;"|2|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"|||
|Denmark|style="text-align:center;"|2|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"|||
|Portugal|style="text-align:center;"|4|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"|||
|United Kingdom|style="text-align:center;"|6|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"|||
|Netherlands|style="text-align:center;"|8|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"|||
|Romania|style="text-align:center;"|10|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"|||
|Hungary|style="text-align:center;"|12|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"|||
|Spain|style="text-align:center;"|12|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"|||
|Ireland|style="text-align:center;"|25|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"|||
|Sweden|style="text-align:center;"|30|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"|||
|Australia|style="text-align:center;"|35|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"|||
|Norway|style="text-align:center;"|39|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"|||
|Poland|style="text-align:center;"|50|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"|||
|United States|style="text-align:center;"|80|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"|||
|France|style="text-align:center;"|157|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"|||

## Infobox (album)

- **name**: 11
- **type**: Studio
- **artist**: Bryan Adams
- **border**: yes
- **recorded**: 2005–2007 at The Warehouse Studio, Vancouver, Canada.
- **genre**: Soft rock
- **length**: 47:12
- **label**: Polydor Records, Polydor
- **producer**: Bryan Adams, Robert John "Mutt" Lange <small>(tracks 1 & 5 only)</small>
- **prev title**: Anthology (Bryan Adams album), Anthology
- **prev year**: 2005
- **next title**: Tracks of My Years
- **next year**: 2014