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| Released | 12 January 2010 (2010-01-12) | |||
| Recorded | 2009 | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | 36:49 | |||
| Label | Hip-O,UMe | |||
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Y Not is the sixteenth studio album by English singer-songwriterRingo Starr, released on 12 January 2010[2] on theUMe andHip-O Records labels.[3] the album features several guest musicians, includingPaul McCartney, who sang backing vocals onWalk With You, the lead single from the album.
"Peace Dream" features formerBeatlePaul McCartney on bass;[4] another Beatle,John Lennon is referenced in the song.[4] "The Other Side of Liverpool" is about Starr's pre-Beatles days in Liverpool.[5] "Walk with You" features shared vocals with McCartney.[1] Starr duets withJoss Stone on closing track "Who's Your Daddy".[4]
In addition to McCartney, the album includes collaborations withJoe Walsh,Van Dyke Parks,Ben Harper andRichard Marx.[1] It was the first album of his career which Starr primarily produced (he had previously co-produced several albums).[6]
The first single from the album, "Walk with You", released 22 December 2009.[1]
In the US, the release of the album perpetuated the fact that The Beatles, either as a group, or as solo artists, have released or charted at least one song or album every calendar year since 1964.
| Aggregate scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 60/100[7] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [8] |
| Billboard | 72/100[9] |
| Consequence of Sound | C−[10] |
| Entertainment Weekly | C[11] |
| Galeria Musical | [12] |
| Los Angeles Times | [13] |
| Record Collector | [14] |
| Rolling Stone | [15] |
| Slant Magazine | [16] |
| Uncut | [17] |
The album debuted at number 58 on theBillboard Top 200 chart,[18] with 7,965 copies sold in the US during the first week of release. The album also charted on theTop Internet Albums chart in the US.[19] As of February 2010, the album has sold over 30,000 copies worldwide.
Reviews forY Not were mostly mixed. Review aggregatorMetacritic, which assigns a score out of 100 based on critic ratings, rated the album 60 out of 100, based on 11 reviews.[7]AllMusic'sStephen Thomas Erlewine writes of the album: "that friendly, shambling sound is Ringo, somethingY Not proves without a shadow of a doubt by sounding virtually interchangeable with its immediate predecessors [...] Starr is all about cheerful reminders of happy times filled with Peace Dreams and memories of "The Other Side of Liverpool."" Erlewine concludes that "like there was onLiverpool 8, there is charm to Starr’s tried and true: exciting it is not but it’s as comforting as an old friend who doesn’t change, he just stays the same."[8]
Jesse Cataldo ofSlant Magazine rates the album two out of five stars. He writes that "it's nice to imagine that Ringo Starr's post-Beatles inability to produce much of consequence stems from his band-established character [...] this failure, as especially evidenced onY Not, seems more predicated on some dearth of actual songwriting talent than the near-novelty quality of his persona." Although he contradicted that "to like it might even feel like charity, and would be excusable if the album's only fault was being mired in silliness", Cataldo added: "Flush with broad sentiment and a messy spread of good feelings,Y Not finds the funniest Beatle on the outside of the joke."[16]
In a review for theLos Angeles Times, Randy Lewis opines that "the importance in life of sustained effort along a particular direction" is "a thought that's inescapable listening to the latest release from former Beatle Ringo Starr." He also states that "he spends a bit of time here simply banging away happily [...] But the heart of the 10-song collection comes from his continued exploration of how to hold on to noble ideals in the face of ever-rising cynicism and violence." Lewis concludes that "he holds securely to an upbeat perspective that borders on cliché [...] that's somehow reassuring coming from the guy who's spent most of his life in an intimate relationship with time."[13]
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Fill in the Blanks" (feat.Joe Walsh) | Richard Starkey,Joe Walsh | 3:14 |
| 2. | "Peace Dream" | Starkey,Gary Wright,Gary Nicholson | 3:34 |
| 3. | "The Other Side of Liverpool" | Starkey,Dave Stewart | 3:23 |
| 4. | "Walk with You" (feat.Paul McCartney) | Starkey,Van Dyke Parks | 4:42 |
| 5. | "Time" | Starkey, Stewart | 3:49 |
| 6. | "Everyone Wins" | Starkey,Johnny Warman | 3:54 |
| 7. | "Mystery of the Night" | Starkey,Richard Marx | 4:05 |
| 8. | "Can't Do It Wrong" | Starkey,Gary Burr | 3:45 |
| 9. | "Y Not" | Starkey,Glen Ballard | 3:49 |
| 10. | "Who's Your Daddy?" (feat.Joss Stone) | Starkey,Joss Stone | 2:29 |
| Total length: | 36:49 | ||
| Chart (2010) | Peak position |
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| German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[20] | 75 |
| Japanese Albums (Oricon)[21] | 190 |
| USBillboard 200[22] | 58 |
| USTop Rock Albums (Billboard)[23] | 16 |
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