Phillip Phillips Album Title, Release Date and Cover! (Phillip Confirms!)

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ETA: Production credits via The Hollywood Reporter

The album was recorded at Quad Studios in New York City and produced by Gregg Wattenberg (Train, O.A.R.) with Phillips writing or co-writing the majority of the songs. The track list will include his platinum-certified current hit single “Home.”

Making sure to keep the recording process close to home, the Leesburg, Georgia-bred 22-year-old enlisted his brother-in-law Ben Neil, who appeared with him on Idol last season, to play guitar on a few tracks.

Gregg Wattenberg has also written songs with David Cook, James Durbin and Chris Daughtry (It’s Not Over). He is a co-owner of Wind-up Records, the label that signed James During in 2011.

ETA: Nigel Lythgoe tweets, “Lunchtime in OKC. We heard a couple of great kids this morning. We’re now listening to Phillip Phillips album tracks. Love “Can’t Go Wrong.”"

ETA: Phillip Phillips confirms the album title, release date and cover via twitter! “Hey guys, this my official album cover/title! Hope you like it and my album will be released 11-19! http://t.co/zaPgunDl”

ETA: Is this the cover for Phillip’s new album? It was found on the Target site.

Over on Amazon, there’s a listing for a Phillip Phillip’s album called The World From The Side Of The Moon with a release date of November 19. There is no album artwork yet.

Check it out here:

Phillip recently tweeted that he would be releasing his debut album, “most likely” by the end of November. And if this release date holds, it will be just ahead of Black Friday.

Press Release:

Santa Monica, CA, October 15, 2012- American Idol Season 11 winner Phillip Phillips will release his much anticipated debut album The World From The Side Of The Moon (19 Entertainment/Interscope Records) on November 19th.   The set, which will include his current hit single “Home,” is available for pre-order  now.  A deluxe version featuring three additional tracks can also be pre-ordered.

Recorded at Quad Studios in New York City The World From The Side Of The Moon was produced by Gregg Wattenberg (Train, O.A.R.) with Phillips writing or co-writing the majority of the album. The Leesburg, Georgia-bred songwriter enlisted his brother-in-law Ben Neil to play guitar on a few tracks.

The same day that Phillip Phillips claimed his victory in American Idol’s season 11 finale, the 22-year-old singer/guitarist released “Home,” a debut single that showcases his rich, raspy vocals and masterful guitar skills— and marked the biggest opening sales week for an Idol winner’s coronation song with 278,000 downloads sold.  The track has since gone double platinum and was used as the soundtrack for the 2012 US Olympics Women’s Gymnastics team as they made their London debut.

Phillips first began making music when he was 14, thanks largely to his older sister’s boyfriend (and now husband), Ben Neil, who taught him how to play guitar.  Phillips kept on studying guitar on his own (“mostly by playing along to the karaoke machine”) and soon found himself mastering riffs from classic-rock tracks like Deep Purple’s “Smoke on the Water” and Ozzy Osbourne’s “Crazy Train.” Several years later, Phillips formed an acoustic band with his sister and brother-in-law and added singing to his repertoire.  After graduating high school, Phillips began studying industrial systems technology at Albany Technical College in Georgia and continued playing music with his brother-in-law. With encouragement from his family and friends, Phillips took a break from working in his family’s pawn shop and auditioned for American Idol in summer 2011—and soon found himself tearing through powerful, full-throated performances of songs by artists like Creedence Clearwater Revival, Otis Redding, and Wilson Pickett on the Idol stage.

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  • http://twitter.com/eilonwya10 Eilonwy

    In other instances, someone from the label or Idol has been quoted in press releases, and they wouldn’t be limited by the recording process. It just seemed odd to me, even given the circumstances.

    Honestly, I think it’s sloppiness more than intent. Back when I wrote press releases, it was standard procedure to invent plausible quotes for the corporate brass, so a certain level of happy-talk in press releases told nothing about what went on behind the scenes — it was included because that’s what the form required.

    That kind of job pays the same as or less than it did 10 years ago (when it’s not farmed out to interns), so a decline in the quality of work was probably inevitable.

    I think the content of P2′s press release tells us less about the label’s commitment to the album than about the work conditions of Interscope’s or 19′s marketing staff.

  • Karen C

    Scotty’s press release was issued about 2 months before the release of CAD, whereas the PR for Moon is only about a month before.

    The difference most likely because P2 got a later start on his album,  and also because he did his own writing.  The songs for Scotty’s album were most likely picked much further in advance.  

  • fuzzywuzzy

    P2 just tweeted that he and his producer are parting ways after 3 weeks in the studio, so it sounds like he’s just completed recording and probably hasn’t heard the final versions of any songs yet (or even knows for sure what songs will be on the CD), so may not have been able to comment on the PR.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_F3XJE5GRAUMYR7Y5RYZUW7SC4U md

    I keep imagining Phillip as a lawyer in court representing the moon.

  • Incipit

    Funny, md – And defending counsel for the Moon – Phillip Phillips.

    But then the cover definitely represents a conflict of interests, KWIM? 

    *snerk*

  • Incipit

    P2 just tweeted that he and his producer are parting ways after 3 weeks in the studio

    Wait, What? – As in, the Label let Wattenberg go, and/or Wattenberg left, and the Label will bring in a new producer? At this late date? After they just announced he was the producer?

    Or is this just a misuse of ‘parting ways’??. Geebus. where is his publicist!?

  • fuzzywuzzy

    lol I think that this simply meant that after 3 weeks of recording, P2 and Wattenberg are done with that part of the process and P2 doesn’t expect to be seeing Wattenberg again, as he works on producing the actual tracks for the CD.  Here’s the tweet:

    Phillip Phillips
    The best producer and I part our ways tonight…been a great 3weeks http://instagr.am/p/Q3lljrw-Br/

    https://twitter.com/Phillips/status/258411194694647810

    P2 needs an editor for his tweets. lol

  • jpfan2

             The best producer and I part our ways tonight…been a great 3weeks

    That’s the actual tweet and includes a friendly pic of the two. He just means there done recording the album. 

  • Incipit

    OK. Thank you, fuzzywuzzy. I didn’t see the tweet – don’t follow him – and the context makes all the difference, of course.

    No harm, no foul – But such a loaded phrase as “part ways” ought to be used with more care, iMO.

  • TheOther

    I didn’t see the tweet – don’t follow him – and the context makes all the difference, of course

    But such a loaded phrase as “part ways” ought to be used with more care, iMO.

    Or maybe the interpretation of that should be used with more care, IMO:) Even if someone didn’t follow Phillip, it’s been noted on several occasions on this post alone that they were at the home stretch with the CD.

    Now it’s on to all the live gigs he has scheduled.

  • http://twitter.com/eilonwya10 Eilonwy

    Well, with P2, there’s no doubt that it’s pointless to scrutinize his statements for clues contained in tiny distinctions of phrasing. Honestly, I think this is true for all of the Idols and the vast majority of all people interviewed, even the ones with more elegant word choices.

    “Part our ways” is actually a pretty common variant on “part ways” and is even used in the lyrics of a Dave Matthews song, so there’s no grammar emergency, either.

  • http://twitter.com/saiq2004 adriana

    I FIND THIS YESTERDAY:

     Chris Shaw
    ?@cshaw340

    Have to admit that I’m pretty stoked to hear Mike Shipley’s mix of the Phillip @Phillips track I recorded. Love his sounds.
    [Chris Shaw @cshaw340

    Producer, Engineer, Mixer, Facilitator/Obfuscator

    New York]

    AND ABOUT THE TITTLE;
    MTV News
    ?@MTVNews

    Where in the ‘World’ did Phillip @Phillips get his album title? http://ow.ly/ewWnQ

    Phillip Phillips
    ?@Phillips

    @MTVNews YA DONT CARE DO YAAAAAAAAA!!! ;)

    adriana
    ?@saiq2004

    @Phillips @MTVNews BUT YOU NEED ACCEPT THAT WAS FUNNY LMAO

    Phillip Phillips
    ?@Phillips

    @saiq2004 @MTVNews it was funny thats why i put a wink face lol 

    THAT WAS FUNNY ;)

  • Incipit

    That is hardly a loaded phrase 

    Bwahahaha! Good to have your opinion. If one wishes to pretend that posting ‘part ways’ doesn’t have an understood implication in the Idol Bubble, there is little more to be said.

    Considering the list of quotes from this kid that were since ‘re-spoken’, (which I can supply) I felt it prudent to ask fuzzywuzzy if it were simply a misuse of the phrase. 

    And I thanked her for the clarification. So it’s all good, KWIM?

  • angiedb

    I saw the tweet and the picture. My first thought? “Oh, they must be finished with the album now.”  It’s fun to watch all the interpretations, though. lol

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