Eleven (Tina Arena album)

Following on from her 2013 platinum selling release Reset and tour, Arena announced the release of her new album in August 2015.

In an interview on Today with Richard Wilkins on 2 September 2015, Arena confirmed the album was recorded in Melbourne, Sydney, London, Stockholm and Paris.{{cite web|url=http://www.9jumpin.com.au/show/today/videos/4458011130001/|title=Exclusive Clips Entertainment news: Tina Arena returns|publisher=www.9jumpin.com.au|date=2 September 2015|access-date=2 September 2015}} The album is described as a beautiful, complex, state-of-the-art collection of emotive, electronica-based songs.{{cite web|url=https://www.jbhifi.com.au/music/browse/pop/eleven/798640/|title=Eleven by Tina Arena|publisher=www.jbhifi.com.au|access-date=4 September 2015}} The album became available for pre-order on 4 September 2015. The digital version came with two instant download tracks; "Overload" and "I Want to Love You".

Arena has co-written tracks on the album with a number of people including Jon Hume, Hayley Warner and Tania Doko. On the song "Unravel Me" Arena tackles confusion and fear about the state of the world in general and social media in particular. She says "I'm quite bewildered by how much the human being has changed. How disconnected and isolated we've become. It saddens me. Part of the light in human beings has gone".{{cite web|url=http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/music/australian-singer-tina-arena-speaks-frankly-about-youth-and-the-obsession-with-the-selfie-culture/story-e6frfn09-1227502883447|title=Australian singer Tina Arena speaks frankly about youth and the obsession with the selfie culture|publisher=www.news.com.au|date=29 August 2015|access-date=2 September 2015|archive-date=1 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151101021051/http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/music/australian-singer-tina-arena-speaks-frankly-about-youth-and-the-obsession-with-the-selfie-culture/story-e6frfn09-1227502883447|url-status=dead}}

The title refers to the total number of studio albums Arena has released in her career spanning 40 years. The tally includes her first studio album with John Bowles, 1977's Tiny Tina and Little John to 2013's Reset and her two in French.

• "I Want to Love You" was officially serviced to Australian media on 30 August and released on iTunes on 4 September. The song peaked at number 72 on the ARIA Charts.

Arena debuted the first new material from the album on 9 August 2015 when she performed an acoustic version of "Overload" live during an interview with Terry Wogan on his BBC Radio 2 program Weekend Wogan. During the same interview, she also performed an acoustic cover of Kate Bush's "The Man with the Child in His Eyes", which appeared on Arena's seventh studio album Songs of Love & Loss released in 2007.{{cite web | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b063qkwd | title=BBC Radio 2 - Weekend Wogan, Tina Arena and Greta Isaac | author= | publisher =BBC Radio 2 | date=9 August 2015 | access-date =30 July 2018}}

On 6 September 2015, Arena performed "I Want to Love You" on Dancing with the Stars. To promote its release she sold signed CDs at a music store in Melbourne.{{cite web | url = http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/music/tina-arena-is-a-check-out-chic-for-album-eleven-and-talks-about-her-fan-scott-morrison/story-e6frfn09-1227588613208 | title = Tina Arena works JB HiFi for album Eleven and talks Scott Morrison | author = Adams, Cameron | publisher = News Corp Australia | date = 30 October 2015 | access-date = 30 October 2015 | archive-date = 30 October 2015 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151030201225/http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/music/tina-arena-is-a-check-out-chic-for-album-eleven-and-talks-about-her-fan-scott-morrison/story-e6frfn09-1227588613208 | url-status = dead }} She told Cameron Adams of News Corp Australia that "The registers were awfully complicated. When you're in a situation like this you realise you can't make mistakes."

{{Track listing

| headline = Standard edition{{cite web|url=https://music.apple.com/au/album/eleven/1443140668|title=Tina Arena: Eleven|publisher=iTunes Australia|access-date=4 September 2015}}

| extra_column = Producer(s)

| title1 = Unravel Me

| length1 = 4:27

| writer1 = {{flatlist|

• Tina Arena
• Adam Argyle
• Hunter Nixon
• Jon Hume

}}

| extra1 = Jon Hume

| title2 = Overload

| length2 = 3:23

| writer2 = {{flatlist|

• Arena
• Hayley Warner
• Hume

}}

| extra2 = Jon Hume

| title3 = I Want to Love You

| length3 = 5:14

| writer3 = {{flatlist|

• Arena
• Hume
• Warner
• Ben Fielding
• Tom Jordan
• Penelope Austin

}}

| extra3 = Jon Hume

| title4 = Colours

| length4 = 3:54

| writer4 = {{flatlist|

• Arena
• Hayley Aitken
• Alex Shield

}}

| extra4 = Alex Sheild

| title5 = Not Still in Love with You

| length5 = 3:57

| writer5 = {{flatlist|

• Arena
• Kate Miller-Heidke
• Hume

}}

| extra5 = Jon Hume

| title6 = When You're Ready

| length6 = 3:40

| writer6 = {{flatlist|

• Arena
• Hume
• Miller-Heidke

}}

| extra6 = Jon Hume

| title7 = Wouldn't Be Love If It Didn't

| length7 = 3:52

| writer7 = {{flatlist|

• Arena
• Argyle
• Warner

}}

| extra7 = Youth

| title8 = Magic

| length8 = 3:31

| writer8 = {{flatlist|

• Arena
• Argyle
• Warner

}}

| extra8 = Youth and Howes

| title9 = Lie in It

| length9 = 4:00

| writer9 = {{flatlist|

• Arena
• Warner
• Hume

}}

| extra9 = Jon Hume

| title10 = Karma

| length10 = 4:41

| writer10 = {{flatlist|

• Arena
• Anders Wollbeck
• Mattias Lindblom

}}

| extra10 = Michael Rendall

| title11 = Love Falls

| length11 = 4:01

| writer11 = {{flatlist|

• Arena
• Wollbeck
• Lindblom

}}

| extra11 = Youth

}}

{{Track listing

| headline = Deluxe edition bonus tracks{{cite web|url=https://music.apple.com/au/album/eleven-deluxe/1033474973|title=Tina Arena: Eleven Deluxe|publisher=iTunes Australia|access-date=4 September 2015}}

| extra_column = Producer(s)

| title12 = Heaven

| length12 = 3:38

| writer12 = {{flatlist|

• Arena
• Warner
• David Ryan Harris
• Michael Fatkin

}}

| extra12 = Michael Fatkin

| title13 = No Filter

| length13 = 3:58

| writer13 = {{flatlist|

• Arena
• Tania Doko
• Peter Mansson
• Christian Fast

}}

| extra13 = Joseph Cross

| title14 = Walk with You

| length14 = 3:40

| writer14 = {{flatlist|

• Arena
• Hume
• Nixon

}}

| extra14 = Jon Hume

}}

Eleven debuted at number 2 in Australia, behind If I Can Dream by Elvis Presley.

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