Southern Girl

Southern Girl is the second studio album by American singer-songwriter by Aalisha O'Sullivan. It was released on October 18, 2011 through Instercope Records. The album began developed after O'Sullivan released her self-titled debut album in October 2010 and completed the album's production in August 2011. It was produced by the same producers from her previous album: Jeff Bhasker, Tim Mitchell, Greg Wells, Spike Stent and Jimmy Harry. All songs were written by her, except "Heartache", which is co-written by Jeff Bhasker. The album's musical style ranges from pop, dance-pop, and soft rock. Its lyrics explores about their origin, love, peace, and about overcoming difficulties.

Upon its release, the album received generally positive reviews from music critics, praising the album's originality compared to O'Sullivan's debut album, being an album more mature and with lyrical subjects more elaborate. It debuted at number one on the U.S Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 286,000 copies. According to Nielsen SoundScan, the album became the third best selling album of 2011 in the United States, selling 2.6 million copies in three months, and was later certified seven-times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for sales exceeding six million units. Outside United States, the album also debuted at number one in Australia and Canada, and reached top three in more than fiteen fifteen, receiving more than twenty-five platinum certificates. At 55th Annual Grammy Awards, the album received Best Pop Vocal Album award. To the date the album has sold more than 14 million copies worlwide.

The album's lead single, "Glue On My Jeans", peaked number one in several countries, incluiding Australia, Canada, United Kingdom and the United States (becoming her first number one single on the Hot 100), where was certified seven times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), and later won a Grammy Award nomination for Song of the Year at 2011 ceremony. The song "Southern Girl" serving as the second single from the album, was his second single to reach number two in the United States, and by then her third biggest successful single. Subsequent singles, "Heartache", "When I Look in Your Eyes", "By My Side", "Hush", "Angel of Mine", were successful, all four singles reached the top five and ten in several countries, including the United States and the United Kingdom. To further promote the album, O'Sullivan embarked on her second concert tour, the Southern Girl Tour in 2012.

Track listing
Southern Girl  – Standard edition Southern Girl –  Target Store edition Southern Girl – Japan iTunes Store edition Southern Girl – Australia and New Zealaend iTunes Store edition Southern Girl – Deluxe edition bonus tracks
 * 1) "Southern Girl" – 3:42
 * 2) "Glue On My Jeans" – 3:23
 * 3) "Heartache" (featuring OneRepublic) – 3:09
 * 4) "Whatever You Say" – 3:50
 * 5) "Hush" – 4:01
 * 6) "By My Side" – 3:20
 * 7) "Fly" – 3:44
 * 8) "Angel of Mine" – 3:28
 * 9) "Love in War" – 3:24
 * 10) "Gateway" – 3:03
 * 11) "Back Home" – 4:10
 * 12) "When I Look in Your Eyes" – 3:41
 * 13) "Lonely Night" – 3:36
 * 1) "Cease Fire"– 3:21
 * 2) "Wonderful" – 4:10
 * 1) "Walk Slow" – 3:27
 * 1) "Laughing Out Loud" – 3:12
 * 1) "Why Don't You Cry" – 3:29
 * 2) "Fingerprint" – 3:22
 * 3) "Love Someone" – 3:13

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