Ivy (Elisa album)

Ivy is the seventh studio album by Italian singer–songwriter Elisa. It was released on 30 November 2010 in Italy. Ivy is Elisa's second acoustic album (the first being Lotus) and features 3 new songs (Nostalgia, Sometime Ago and Fresh Air), covers and acoustic reworks of her previous songs. The album was released both digitally and on CD+DVD, with the DVD containing Ivy – the Film, a documentary featuring the making-of the album as well as live performances by Elisa.^[3][4]

Ivy
Studio album by Elisa
Released	30 November 2010
Recorded	2010
Genre	Acoustic^[1]^[2]
Length	74:26
Language	English Italian
Label	Sugar
Producer	Elisa
Elisa chronology
Heart (2009) Ivy (2010) Steppin' On Water (2012)
Singles from Ivy
"Nostalgia" Released: 19 November 2010 "Sometime Ago" Released: 28 January 2011

Track listing

From M & B Music blog.^[5]

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
1.	"Lullaby"	Elisa	Elisa	4:11
2.	"Sometime Ago"	Elisa	Elisa	4:27
3.	"Fresh Air"	Elisa	Elisa	3:11
4.	"Ti vorrei sollevare"	Elisa	Elisa	4:28
5.	"Una poesia anche per te"	Elisa	Elisa	5:21
6.	"Nostalgia"	Elisa	Elisa · Andrea Rigonat	4:54
7.	"Qualcosa che non c'è"	Elisa	Elisa	5:19
8.	"Rainbow"	Elisa	Elisa	4:30
9.	"Gli ostacoli del cuore"	Ligabue	Ligabue	4:24
10.	"1979" (The Smashing Pumpkins Cover)	Billy Corgan	Corgan	4:22
11.	"Pour Que l'Amour Me Quitte" (Camille cover, feat. Giorgia)	Camille	Camille	3:15
12.	"Anche tu, anche se (non-trovi le parole)" (feat. Fabri Fibra)	Elisa · Fabri Fibra	Elisa · Rigonat	5:16
13.	"It Is What It Is"	Elisa	Elisa	4:22
14.	"Eppure sentire (Un senso di te)"	Elisa	Paolo Buonvino	3:40
15.	"Ho Messo Via" (Ligabue Cover)	Ligabue	Ligabue	3:50
16.	"I Never Came" (Queens of the Stone Age Cover)	Joey Castillo · Joshua Homme · Troy Van Leeuwen	Castillo · Homme · Van Leeuwen	4:23
17.	"Forgiveness"	Elisa	Elisa	4:26

Musicians

• Elisa – vocals, piano
• Max Gelsi – bass
• Andrea Rigonat – guitar, programming
• Andrea Fontana – drums, percussions
• Gianluca Ballarin – organ
• Simone Bertolotti – keyboards, mellotron
• Rita Marcotulli – piano
• Mauro Pagani – violin
• Elisabetta Maineri – flute, backing vocals
• Nicole Pellicani – backing vocals
• Silvia Smaniotto – backing vocals

Charts and sales

The album peaked at 4 on the Italian FIMI Singles Chart.^[6] As of January 2011, the album went platinum, selling over 60.000 copies.

Chart (2010)	Peak position	Certification	Sales
Italian Albums Chart^[7]	4	Platinum^[8]	90,000+

Release history

Country	Date	Label
Italy^[9]	30 November 2010	Sugar
UK^[10]	21 December 2010	Warner
USA^[11]	5 January 2011

References

1. "Elisa – Ivy". Rockol (in Italian). Retrieved 7 January 2020. "Ivy", un disco che ripercorre le orme di quel "Lotus" uscito nel 2003, ovvero raccogliere cover, inediti e soprattutto proporre in veste acustica
2. "Elisa, Recensione di Ivy". FullSong (in Italian). Retrieved 7 January 2020.
3. . Elisa's Official Website. Archived from the original on 5 September 2012. Retrieved 26 May 2011.
4. "√ CD, album, uscite discografiche, recensioni". Rockol.it. Retrieved 7 March 2012.
5. "Elisa – Ivy – Copertina CD e Tracklist". M&B Music Blog. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
6. "italiancharts.com – Elisa – Ivy". italiancharts.com. Retrieved 7 March 2012.
7. . FIMI. Archived from the original on 10 August 2011. Retrieved 7 March 2012.
8. (PDF) (in Italian). Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 May 2012. Retrieved 31 July 2013.
9. "Elisa – Ivy – cd di Elisa – - disco di Elisa". IBS.it. Retrieved 7 March 2012.
10. "Ivy: Elisa: Amazon.co.uk: Music". Amazon.com. Retrieved 7 March 2012.
11. "Amazon.com: Ivy: Elisa: Music". Amazon.com. Retrieved 7 March 2012.