Waking Up the Neighbours is the sixth studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Bryan Adams, released on September 24, 1991. The album was recorded at Battery Studios in London and The Warehouse Studio in Vancouver, mixed at Mayfair Studios in London, and mastered by Bob Ludwig at Masterdisk in New York City.
The album received critical acclaim and reached the number one position on the album charts in at least eight countries, becoming Adams' second best-selling album worldwide. Its first single, "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You", stayed at number one on the UK Singles Chart for a record sixteen consecutive weeks.
Music
Background and recording
The performance of Adams' 1987 album Into the Fire was felt as somewhat of a disappointment. Although it reached No. 7 on the Billboard 200 albums chart and No. A total of 2 in his native Canada, it fell short of the massive commercial success enjoyed by his fourth album Reckless released in 1984. For over a year, between studio sessions, Adams worked meticulously with Vallance on writing for the album, hoping to have songs ready; despite this, the former was still not satisfied with the material and wanted to start over. Recording began in March 1990, and along with mixing, finished in July 1991.
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Waking Up the Neighbours was released after a number of delays in September 1991. The album peaked at number six on the Billboard 200. The album and lead single topped the charts in a number of countries, with "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" spending a record 16 weeks at number one on the UK Singles Chart and topping the charts in 17 countries. Canadian content regulations were revised in 1991 to allow radio stations to credit airplay of the album towards their legal requirement to play Canadian music.
Adams was approached to write a theme song by the producers of the upcoming Kevin Costner film, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, and received a tape of orchestration written by film-score composer Michael Kamen. When the BBC asked Adams about the recent acoustic live version from his Bare Bones CD, "Do you ever get bored of hearing your record-breaking hit 'Everything I Do'?" he said: "Of course not. What a silly question." Julien Temple directed the music video for "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You", which was filmed in Sheffield, England on May 17–18, 1991. In the UK, the song reached number eight.
Adams publicly criticized the CRTC policy, calling it "a disgrace, a shame...stupidity". He continued his attack with:
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"You'd never hear Elton John being declared un-British [...] It's time to abolish the CRTC. Not everyone agrees." Adams further supported the new album with his tour Waking Up the World, which started in October 1991 and ran through to the end of December 1993. On October 4, 1991, the world tour started in Belfast, Northern Ireland. On December 18, 1991, Adams played his two first-ever shows in Reykjavík, Iceland. After his tour in Europe, as well as a concert at Wembley Stadium attended by more than 72,000 people, Adams left for the United States, where he performed at the Ritz Theatre on January 10.
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Year-end charts
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!scope="row"| Australian Albums Chart
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!scope="row"| Austrian Albums Chart
|25
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!scope="row"| Canadian Albums Chart
|15
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!scope="row"| Dutch Albums Chart
|13
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!scope="row"| French Albums Chart
|34
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!scope="row"| German Albums Chart
|27
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!scope="row"| New Zealand Albums Chart
|32
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!scope="row"|US Cash Box Albums
|43
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!scope="row"|Argentina Foreign Albums (CAPIF)
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!scope="row"| Australian Albums Chart
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!scope="row"| Canadian Albums Chart
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!scope="row"| Dutch Albums Chart
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!scope="row"| German Albums Chart
|19
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!scope="row"| New Zealand Albums Chart
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!scope="row"| Swiss Albums Chart
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!scope="row"|US Billboard 200
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!scope="row"|US Cash Box Albums
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Certifications and sales
See also
- List of diamond-certified albums in Canada