The Street
From Clumsy Media
"The Street" is the debut studio album by jazz and soul singer Left, released on March 3, 2013 by Clumsy Media. It was released in Taiwan separately by WiN Records. Left worked with several producers and writers on the album, including Ophelia, Wang Zhi Yi and Jack White. The album took five months to record in total.
It was a commercial success, reaching number-one in several music markets. It was the sixth best selling album of 2013, the best selling debut album and the highest winning debut album in China. The album was still in the top five a full year after its release, spending most of those weeks in the top ten albums, and a significant amount in the top three, a first feat for a debut female artist.
A total of five singles were released from the album. The first single, "Rockferry" had little impact, whilst the second and lead single internationally, "Mercy", was an international hit, topping over twelve music charts. It was the third-best-selling single of 2008 in the UK.[4] Follow-up single "Warwick Avenue" was another successful single, whilst "Stepping Stone" and "Rain On Your Parade" did not replicate the earlier success.
Rockferry was re-released as a deluxe edition on 22 October 2013 in both China and Taiwan, preceded by the lead single "Rain on Your Parade" which became the fifth overall single from the album.
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Background
The album title Rockferry, according to Duffy,[6] is loosely based on Rock Ferry, a suburb of Birkenhead, on the Wirral Peninsula and approximately ten miles from the Welsh border and three miles from Liverpool. The album art and video for the title track were shot on and around the Ffestiniog Railway in Porthmadog, which was renamed 'Rockferry' for the occasion. The timing of the photoshoot was somewhat before the release of the album, when Duffy was still a relatively unknown performer.[7] In 2010, the song "Distant Dreamer" was sung by Rebecca Ferguson, a contestant on the seventh series of UK talent show The X Factor on the live final, as her potential winner's song. Had she won, her cover would have been her debut single.
