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All Rise (Blue album)

All Rise
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Studio album by Blue
Released 26 November 2001
Recorded 2000–2001; London, England
Genre Pop, R&B
Label Virgin, Innocent
Blue chronology
All Rise
(2001)		 One Love
(2002)
Singles from All Rise
  1. "All Rise"
    Released: 17 May 2001
  2. "Too Close"
    Released: 27 August 2001
  3. "If You Come Back"
    Released: 12 November 2001
  4. "Fly By"
    Released: 18 March 2002
  5. "Best in Me"
    Released: 18 August 2002
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic 3.5/5 stars
NME 5/10 stars

All Rise is the debut studio album by English boy band Blue, released on 26 November 2001 in the United Kingdom and on 27 April 2004 in the United States. It peaked at number one on the UK Albums Chart and was certified 4× Platinum in the UK. The album spent 63 weeks on the UK top 75 Albums chart.

The album received mixed to positive reviews from critics. Sharon Mawer of AllMusic gave the album three and half stars out of five and noted, "The vocals were sung as if there was some real feeling, and that maybe is what separated Blue from their peers." Andre Paine of the NME gave the album five stars out of ten stating, when describing some of the tracks that "All of these are fine, but so as not to alienate a single teenage girl, there's also the traditional boyband slop; 'If You Come Back' ...the ballads and various Backstreet Boys rip-offs. But at least Stargate & Ray Ruffin know what they do. And Blue are young and talented enough to secure themselves a successful pop career."

*sales figures based on certification alone
^shipments figures based on certification alone


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