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The Ultimate Throwback: Diving into Colbie Caillat’s Breakthrough (Deluxe Edition)

While Coco was characterized by a "ramshackle" and organic MySpace-to-radio feel, Breakthrough was created with deliberate purpose over six months in the studio. The record debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, selling approximately 106,000 copies in its first week.

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Critical Reception: The album received generally positive reviews from music critics. AllMusic praised Caillat's "warm, sunny voice" and noted that the album is "well-crafted and engaging." Billboard commented on the album's "effortless, laid-back vibe" and highlighted the single "Bubbly."

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The Ultimate Throwback: Diving into Colbie Caillat’s Breakthrough (Deluxe Edition)

While Coco was characterized by a "ramshackle" and organic MySpace-to-radio feel, Breakthrough was created with deliberate purpose over six months in the studio. The record debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, selling approximately 106,000 copies in its first week. Colbie Caillat Breakthrough -Deluxe Edition- zip

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Critical Reception: The album received generally positive reviews from music critics. AllMusic praised Caillat's "warm, sunny voice" and noted that the album is "well-crafted and engaging." Billboard commented on the album's "effortless, laid-back vibe" and highlighted the single "Bubbly." selling approximately 106

Jonathan Butler: The Simple Life

Jonathan Butler’s optimistic music belies a dirt-poor childhood growing up in a South Africa segregated by apartheid. Live in South Africa, a new CD and DVD package, presents a sense of the resulting inner turmoil, mixed with dogged resolve, that paved the way to his status as an icon in his country and successful musician outside of it. Looking back, the 46-year-old Butler says today, the driving forces that led to his overcoming apartheid-the formal policy of racial separation and economic discrimination finally dismantled in 1993-were family, faith and abundant talent.

“When we were kids, our parents never talked about the ANC [African National Congress] or Nelson Mandela,” he says. Butler was raised as the youngest child in a large family. They lived in a house patched together by corrugated tin and cardboard, in the “coloreds only” township of Athlone near Cape Town. “They never talked about struggles so we never knew what was happening.”

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