Best Days (Tamela Mann album)

Best Days
Studio album by Tamela Mann
Released August 14, 2012
Genre Contemporary gospel
Length 58:02
Label Tillymann Music Group
Tamela Mann chronology
The Master Plan
(2009)		 Best Days
(2012)
Singles from Best Days
  1. "Take Me to the King"
    Released: June 12, 2012

Best Days is the third studio album by American recording artist Tamela Mann, released on Mann's own independent record label Tillyman Music Group on August 14, 2012. Best Days debuted at number fourteen on the US Billboard 200 and topped the Top Gospel Albums chart, becoming Mann's highest charting album to date.

Chart performance

Best Days debuted at number fourteen on the US Billboard 200 with first week sales of 16,670 units.[1][2] It also peaked at number one on the Top Gospel Albums chart,[3] and number ten on the year-end chart.[4] The following week the album sold 11,169 units 9,637 in its third, 10,286 in its fourth and 8,538 in its fifth week, bringing total sales to 56,300 units in just over a month.[5][6][7][8] As of August 20, 2014, Best Days has sold 475,085 units in the US.[9]

The album's lead single "Take Me to the King", written by Kirk Franklin was also commercially successful. It topped the Billboard Gospel Songs chart and reached the top ten of the Billboard Heatseeker Songs chart. It also appeared on the Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart peaking at number forty-four.[10] In 2014, "Take Me to the King" was certified Gold by the RIAA for sales exceeding 500,000 copies.[11]

Track listing

No. TitleWriter(s) Length
1. "Best Days"  Myron Butler, Darrell Freeman 04:17
2. "I'll Hold On"  Jerome Armstrong, Terrence Battle, Michael Bethany, King Logan, Reggie Miller, Michael White 04:28
3. "Guest Of Honor"  Rick Robinson 04:20
4. "Take Me to the King"  Kirk Franklin 04:48
5. "All To Thee"  Oscar Williams 05:23
6. "Lord We Are Waiting"  Jamar Jones, Johnnie Murray 05:06
7. "This Place"  Darrell Blair 05:17
8. "Stretch"  Jonathan Dunn 04:08
9. "Here I Am"  Jason Cox, Anthony Evans, Kari Jobe 04:06
10. "Back In The Day Praise"  Terrell Carter 03:35
11. "Rain"  Myron Butler, Tamela Mann 03:53
12. "Hymns: The Blood Medley"  Myron Butler, Tamela Mann 08:53

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (2012) Peak
position
scope="row" US Billboard 200[12] 14
scope="row" US Top Gospel Albums (Billboard)[3] 1
scope="row" US Independent Albums (Billboard)[13] 3
scope="row" US Top Tastemaker Albums (Billboard)[14] 14

Year-end charts

Chart (2012) Peak
position
US Top Gospel Albums (Billboard)[4] 10

References

  1. ↑ "Billboard 200: Sep 01, 2012". September 2012. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
  2. ↑ "HITS Daily Double: Previous Album Sales Chart". 20 August 2012. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
  3. 1 2 "Tamela Mann – Chart history" Billboard Top Gospel Albums for Tamela Mann. Retrieved 5 May 2013.
  4. 1 2 "Tamela Mann - Chart history (Top Gospel Albums Year-End 2012)". Billboard. Billboard.com. December, 2012. Retrieved 6 May 2012. Check date values in: |date= (help)
  5. ↑ "HITS Daily Double: Previous Album Sales Chart (Week 2)". 27 August 2012. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
  6. ↑ "HITS Daily Double: Previous Album Sales Chart (Week 3)". 3 September 2012. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
  7. ↑ "HITS Daily Double: Previous Album Sales Chart (Week 4)". 11 September 2012. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
  8. ↑ "HITS Daily Double: Previous Album Sales Chart (Week 5)". 18 September 2012. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
  9. ↑ Arbet, DeVante (20 August, 2014accessdate=22 August, 2014). "News Smokie Norful's 'Forever Yours' Hits #1 On Billboard". Check date values in: |date= (help)
  10. ↑ "Best Days - Tamela Mann: Awards: Allmusic". Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 18 June 2013.
  11. ↑ "Tamela Mann Goes Gold". Bonnerfide Radio. 6 August 2014. Retrieved 22 August 2014.
  12. ↑ "Tamela Mann – Chart history" Billboard 200 for Tamela Mann. Retrieved 5 May 2013.
  13. ↑ "Tamela Mann – Chart history" Billboard Independent Albums for Tamela Mann. Retrieved 5 May 2013.
  14. ↑ "Tamela Mann – Chart history" Billboard Top Tastemaker Albums for Tamela Mann. Retrieved 5 May 2013.
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