Waking Up (OneRepublic)

Waking Up is OneRepublic's second studio album which was released on November 17, 2009 by Interscope Records.
==Album Background==
After the success of OneRepublic's debut album, "Dreaming Out Loud", they began working on a second album in 2008. Lead singer Ryan Tedder announced on July 21, 2009, that the band's second album would be completed five weeks from that date which was August 25, 2009. 
On September 6, 2009, the band posted a low-quality version of the first single from their second album, "All the Right Moves" while a higher quality version could be found on their MySpace page. 
On September 8, 2009, the band posted samples of 4 of their songs from the new album onto their MySpace page. Eleven songs were announced to make up the track list, which was officially confirmed by Amazon's German site on November 3, 2009.
==Tracklisting==
#Made For You 4:17
#All The Right Moves 3:58
#Secrets 3:45
#Everybody Loves Me 3:34
#Missing Persons 1 & 2 4:59
#Good Life 4:13
#All This Time 4:03
#Fear 3:48
#Waking Up 6:09
#Marchin' On 4:13
#Lullaby 4:38
==Chart Performance==
"Waking Up" peaked at #21 on the Billboard 200 and was certified Gold by the RIAA with certified units/sales of 662,000.
==Critical Reception==
"Waking Up" received mixed reviews from critics. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic gave the album 2.5/5 stars and criticized it for having "no joy, only dogged diligence, an alienating insistence that texture means more than warmth or melody."
Matthew Cole of Slant Magazine gave the album 1.5/5 stars and stated that "OneRepublic's music just isn't that interesting".
Conversely, August Brown of The Los Angeles Times gave the album 3/4 stars and acknowledged that "the band needs to stop mistaking the cello as an inherently "meaningful" instrument" but ultimately concluded that "OneRepublic is using [Timbaland's] old tricks even better than he is lately.
Sputnikmusic also gave the album a 3/5 "Good" rating and summarized that "further ambition results in marginal progression, but Coldplay need not fear just yet."
BBC's Mike Diver criticized the lyrics for being (among other things) "saccharine and suffocating of faux-emoting", but admitted that "despite its obvious shortcomings, it’s hard to criticize [the album] too heavily", ultimately concluding that it's "oddly admirable".
The album currently holds a 61 score on Metacritic based on nine critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
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