Jagged Little Pill

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Jagged Little Pill was Canadian singer/songwriter Alanis Morissette's third album, released on June 13, 1995 (see 1995 in music). Morissette's confessional lyrics and emotional vocals helped Jagged Little Pill dominate the year's sound in music. It spawned six massively successful hit singles:

Jagged Little Pill won Grammy Awards for Best Rock Album and Album of the Year. The record has sold 28 million copies worldwide (up to January 2006). Selling 13,542,393 copies by 1999 in the United States, it is the second best-selling album by a female solo artist of the Nielsen SoundScan era, behind only Shania Twain's Come on Over. It spent an astonishing 12 non-consecutive weeks at #1 on the Billboard 200 and 72 non-consecutive weeks in the top 10.

In 1998, Q magazine readers voted Jagged Little Pill the 19th greatest album of all time. Template:RS500

In 2005, Morissette re-released an acoustic version of the album, Jagged Little Pill Acoustic, on the tenth anniversary of the original album's date of release. This album was originally sold through Starbucks' successful Hear Music brand in an exclusive six-week deal that ended on July 26, 2005. For the duration of this partnership, music retailer HMV boycotted the sale of all of Morissette's catalogue.

1 Track listing
2 Personnel
3 Chart positions
4 Chart trajectory
5 Certifications

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Track listing

(all songs written by Glen Ballard & Morissette)

"All I Really Want" – 4:44
"You Oughta Know" – 4:09
"Perfect" – 3:07
"Hand in My Pocket" – 3:41
"Right Through You" – 2:55
"Forgiven" – 5:00
"You Learn" – 3:59
"Head Over Feet" – 4:27
"Mary Jane" – 4:40
"Ironic" – 3:49
"Not the Doctor" – 3:47
"Wake Up" – 4:53

Additionally, the CD version contains two unlisted 'bonus tracks'. At index mark #13, there is another version of 'You Oughta Know' with a heavier bass guitar, followed immediately by an un-indexed vocal-only recording of 'Your House'.

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Personnel

Michael Thompson - Organ
Glen Ballard - Guitar, Keyboards, Programming, Producer, Engineer, Mixing
Benmont Tench - Organ
Ted Blaisdell - Engineer
Francis Buckley - Mixing
Flea - Bass
Basil Fung - Guitar
Michael Landau - Guitar
Lance Morrison - Bass
Dave Navarro - Guitar
David Schiffman - Engineer
Gota Yashiki - Rhythm
Alanis Morissette - Harmonica, Vocals
Rob Ladd - Percussion, Drums
Matt Laug - Drums
Joel Shearer - Guitar
Jolie Jones Levine - Production Coordination
Chris Bellman - Mastering
Tom Recchion - Art Direction, Design
Victor McCoy - Engineer
Chris Fogel - Engineer, Mixing
Rich Weingart - Engineer
John Patrick Salisbury - Photography

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Chart positions

Billboard Music Charts (North America) - album

1995 - The Billboard 200 - No. 1
1995 - Heatseekers - No. 2
1996 - Australia Top 40 - No. 1
1997 - Top Canadian Albums - No. 7

Billboard (North America) - singles

"Hand In My Pocket" (1995/96)
- Modern Rock Tracks - No. 1
- Top 40 Mainstream - No. 4
- Mainstream Rock Tracks - No. 8
- Adult Top 40 - No. 25
- Adult Contemporary - No. 30
"You Oughta Know" (1995)
- Modern Rock Tracks - No. 1
- Mainstream Rock Tracks - No. 3
- Top 40 Mainstream - No. 7
"All I Really Want" (1995)
- Modern Rock Tracks - No. 14
"Ironic" (1996)
- Modern Rock Tracks - No. 1
- Top 40 Adult Recurrents - No. 1
- Top 40 Mainstream - No. 1
- The Billboard Hot 100 - No. 4
- Adult Top 40 - No. 5
- Rhythmic Top 40 - No. 11
- Mainstream Rock Tracks - No. 18
- Adult Contemporary - No. 28
"You Learn" (1996/97)
- Top 40 Mainstream - No. 1
- Top 40 Adult Recurrents - No. 1
- Adult Top 40 - No. 3
- The Billboard Hot 100 - No. 6
- Modern Rock Tracks - No. 7
- Adult Contemporary - No. 23
- Rhythmic Top 40 - No. 32
- Mainstream Rock Tracks - No. 40
"Head over Feet" (1996/97)
- Adult Top 40 - No. 1
- Top 40 Mainstream - No. 1
- Top 40 Adult Recurrents - No. 1
- Top 40 Mainstream - No. 5
- Modern Rock Tracks - No. 25
- Adult Contemporary - No. 27