15 Minutes (Barry Manilow album)

October 2017 May 2025 15 Minutes studio Barry Manilow 15 minutes album cover.jpg June 14, 2011 2011 The Studio (Beverly Hills, California) Pepper Tree Studios (Palm Springs, California) The Complex (Los Angeles, California) Easy Listening, Pop, Rock opera 52:47 Stiletto Entertainment Barry Manilow Michael Lloyd Scott Erickson Greg Bartheld The Greatest Love Songs of All Time 2010 Night Songs 2014 15 Minutes is the twenty-eighth studio album by American singer-songwriter Barry Manilow. It was released on June 14, 2011, by Stiletto Entertainment. Background The album was the first independent release of Manilow's career, through his Stiletto Entertainment label (distributed by Fontana/Universal Music). In interviews around the time of the release, Manilow said that his long-time friend and mentor, Clive Davis, had told him that he could not sell an album of Manilow performing any new Manilow songs now, given the string of great albums covering other artists' songs Manilow released in the 1990s and 2000s. But Manilow thought he could still be relevant as a songwriter too. This led to his second departure from Arista and the decision to go independent.Barry Manilow to Release All Original New Album Entitled 15 MINUTES https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/barry-manilow-to-release-all-original-new-album-entitled-15-minutes-121153549.html 28 May 2022 www.prnewswire.com en 28 May 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20220528033300/https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/barry-manilow-to-release-all-original-new-album-entitled-15-minutes-121153549.html live The majority of the songs were co-written with longtime lyricist Enoch Anderson, with one song, "Wine Song," co-written with another longtime lyricist, Adrienne Anderson.Caramanica Jon Pareles Jon Chinen Nate 13 June 2011 New Music en-US The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/14/arts/music/new-cds-by-barry-manilow-battles-and-ledisi-review.html 28 May 2022 0362-4331 28 May 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20220528040707/https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/14/arts/music/new-cds-by-barry-manilow-battles-and-ledisi-review.html live Critical reception AllMusic 3.5 5https://www.allmusic.com/album/15-minutes-fame-can-you-take-it-mw0002147520 AllMusic Review AllMusic Thomas Erlewine Stephen April 4, 2021 March 5, 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210305102246/https://www.allmusic.com/album/15-minutes-fame-can-you-take-it-mw0002147520 live AllMusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote that Manilow "not only rides a tightly wound drum loop on "Work the Room", but he also raps, a development nearly as disconcerting as the cuss he slips into its chorus." 15 Minutes offers something "unexpected", he added. At the end of his review, Erlewine noted that Manilow is "trying hard to deliver serious, sharply crafted pop, and even if the album doesn't entirely work, it's hard not to give him considerable credit for his ambition." Awards 15 Minutes won Manilow a Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album Grammy Award nomination in 2012.May 2022 Commercial performance The album debuted on the Billboard 200 album chart at its peak position of number 7, his first studio album of mostly original songs to crack the Top 10 since 1979's One Voice. It also debuted on the UK Albums Chart at its peak of number 20. In Canada, the album reached number 36 on the Canadian Albums Chart.http://jam.canoe.com/Music/Charts/ALBUMS.html https://web.archive.org/web/20150627062005/http://jam.canoe.com/Music/Charts/ALBUMS.html dead June 27, 2015 Nielsen SoundScan Charts - Albums: Top 100 2009-08-10 Track listing All songs written by Barry Manilow and Enoch Anderson, except where noted. 15 Minutes track listing 15 Minutes 3:33 Work the Room 3:12 Bring On Tomorrow 3:55 Now It's for Real 3:36 Wine Song Manilow, Adrienne Anderson 3:48 He's a Star 3:42 Written In Stone 4:52 Letter from a Fan / So Heavy, So High featuring Nataly Dawn 5:21 Everybody's Leavin' Manilow 0:38 Who Needs You 3:24 Winner Go Down 4:51 Slept Through the End of the World 3:34 Reflection Manilow 0:43 Trainwreck 3:13 15 Minutes (Reprise) 1:10 Everything's Gonna Be All Right 3:17 Personnel Barry Manilow – vocals, backing vocals, keyboards, programming, bass, orchestra arrangements (3) Michael Lloyd – keyboards, programming, guitars, bass, backing vocals Jim Cox – keyboards Matt Rawlings – keyboards Scott Erickson – additional programming (3), orchestra arrangements (3) Laurence Juber – guitars Tim Pierce – guitars Mike Lent – agitated guitar break (8) Matt Bissonette – bass Gregg Bissonette – drums M.B. Gordy – basic track drums (8) Kye Brackett – backing vocals Randy Crenshaw – backing vocals Ron Dante – backing vocals Carmen Echols – backing vocals Muffy Hendrix – backing vocals Judith Hill – backing vocals Navanna Holley – backing vocals Melanie Nyema – backing vocals Bill Cantos – backing vocals Keely Vasquez – backing vocals Nataly Dawn – vocals (8) Production Garry C. Kief – executive producer, management Barry Manilow – producer, arrangements, recording Michael Lloyd – producer, arrangements, recording, overdub engineer, mixing Scott Erickson – producer (3) Greg Bartheld – producer (8), basic track recording (8) Marc Hulett – associate producer Bob Kearney – tracking engineer Jason Doser – second engineer (8) Nigel Lendemo – digital editing George Leger III – digital editing Dave Collins – mastering at Dave Collins Mastering (Hollywood, California) John Adams – project manager Jason Irwin – art direction Sara Zickhur – art direction Colin Davis – original art James Jensen Studio – original art Charts +Chart performance for 15 Minutes Chart (2011) PeakpositionScotland 46 20110702 true April 7, 2021UK2 20 20110702 true April 7, 2021 UK2Billboard200 7 Barry Manilow true April 4, 2021 BB200BillboardIndependent 2 Barry Manilow true April 4, 2021 References Category:2011 albums Category:Barry Manilow albums Category:Rock operas Category:2010s concept albums