City of Black & White
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| Released | May 19, 2009 | |||
| Studio | Blackbird (Nashville, Tennessee) | |||
| Genre | Rock, pop, acoustic | |||
| Length | 50:02 63:45 (Bonus Track Version) | |||
| Label | Aware / Columbia | |||
| Producer | Robert Marvin, Mat Kearney | |||
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City of Black & White is the third studio album by Mat Kearney. Released on May 19, 2009, it follows his 2006 major-label debut, Nothing Left to Lose. The first single, "Closer to Love", was released on March 10, 2009, as a digital download. To promote the album, Kearney toured with Keane and the Helio Sequence. On the day of its release, the bonus track version peaked at #7 on the iTunes Top Albums, and the standard version peaked at #19. Kearney wrote the title track while traveling in Turkey. He explained that this song "was born on a ferry as I crossed the Bosphorus River, which splits Istanbul in two.". "Fire & Rain" was also released as a digital download to MySpace the week of the album release. Immediately after the album was released, "Lifeline" was used in commercial advertisement for season 3 of Lifetime Television's Army Wives. The commercial has been aired not only on Lifetime but ABC as well.
According to Soundscan, as of September 21, 2010, City of Black & White has sold 87,459 copies in the US.