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I Am Woman (album)

I Am Woman
Studio album by
Helen Reddy
Released13 November 1972
RecordedApril, September–October 1972
Studio
  • Sound Labs (Los Angeles)
  • Sunwest (Los Angeles)
GenrePop rock[1]
Length31:44
LabelCapitol
ProducerTom Catalano
Helen Reddy chronology
Helen Reddy
(1971) 		I Am Woman
(1972) 		Long Hard Climb
(1973)
Singles from I Am Woman
  1. "I Am Woman"
    Released: 22 May 1972
  2. "Peaceful"
    Released: 29 January 1973
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
Billboardpositive [2]
Christgau's Record GuideB[3]

I Am Woman is the third studio album by Australian–American pop singer Helen Reddy, released on 13 November 1972, by Capitol Records.[4] The album included her second recording of the song that gave the album its name, which was also the version that spent a week at number one on the Billboard Hot 100.[5]

The album debuted on the Billboard Top LPs & Tape chart in the issue dated December 9, 1972, and reached number 14 during a 62-week run,[6] It reached #12 in Cash Box and #7 in Canada's RPM magazine.[7] On March 7, 1973, the Recording Industry Association of America awarded the album with Gold certification for sales of 500,000 copies in the United States, and Platinum certification for sales of one million copies came on December 5, 1991.[8] On July 22, 2003, it was released for the first time on compact disc as one of two albums on one CD, the other album being her 1973 release Long Hard Climb.[9]

  1. ^ a b "I Am Woman - Helen Reddy". allmusic.com. All Media Network, LLC. Retrieved 20 May 2015.
  2. ^ "Album Reviews". Billboard. 25 November 1972. p. 46.
  3. ^ Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: R". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved 10 March 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
  4. ^ "Discography". Billboard. Vol. 86, no. 31. p. 52. ISSN 0006-2510.
  5. ^ Whitburn 2009, p. 805.
  6. ^ Whitburn 2010, p. 646.
  7. ^ "RPM 100 Albums". RPM. 3 March 1973. p. 16.
  8. ^ RIAA Gold and Platinum Search for titles by Helen Reddy Archived 2015-09-03 at the Wayback Machine
  9. ^ "I Am Woman/Long Hard Climb". allmusic.com. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 21 May 2015.

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