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''Aretha Franklin Sings the Great Diva Classics'' is the 38th studio album by American recording artist Aretha Franklin and was released on October 17, 2014.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=iTunes - Music - Aretha Franklin Sings the Great Diva Classics by Aretha Franklin )〕 It features ten covers of songs made famous by female recording artists. This is Aretha's first recording for RCA Records and her first studio album to be released under a major label in 11 years - since the release of her 2003 studio album, ''So Damn Happy''. It's also her first album since 1998 to be executive produced by Clive Davis, her boss at Arista Records, which has since folded into RCA. Davis called the album "purely and simply sensational" and said of Aretha Franklin, "She's on fire and vocally in absolutely peak form. What a thrill to see this peerless artist still showing the way, still sending shivers up your spine, still demonstrating that all contemporary music needs right now is the voice. What a voice."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Aretha Franklin )〕 Production on the album includes R&B producers Kenny "Babyface" Edmonds and Harvey Mason, Jr., hip-hop musician André 3000, and house producers Terry Hunter and Eric Kupper among others.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Aretha Franklin To Release New Studio Album 'Aretha Franklin Sings The Great Diva Classics' Out 10/21 )〕 The first single released from the album is a cover of singer Adele's "Rolling in the Deep", titled as "Rolling in the Deep (The Aretha Version)", which also includes an interpolation of the Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell hit, "Ain't No Mountain High Enough".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Rolling In The Deep (The Aretha Version) )〕 The single debuted at number 47 on the ''Billboard'' Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. Aretha Franklin thus becomes the first female, and fourth artist overall (following Lil Wayne, Jay Z and James Brown), to place 100 songs the chart (with her first entry on the chart being "Today I Sing the Blues" in 1960).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Aretha Franklin )〕 ==Commercial performance== ''Aretha Franklin Sings the Great Diva Classics'' debuted at number 13 on the ''Billboard'' 200 in the United States, selling 23,000 copies in its first week.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Aretha Franklin )〕 The album is Aretha Franklin's sixteenth album to hit the Top 20, and her first since ''Who's Zoomin' Who?'' in 1985.〔 The album also debuted at number three on ''Billboard''s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.〔 and number one on Billboards R&B Album charts. Internationally the album also became a success, charting inside the top 40 in five countries. In the United Kingdom, it debuted at number 32 and became Franklin's highest-charting album since ''Soul '69'' (1969), which charted at number nine. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Aretha Franklin Sings the Great Diva Classics」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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