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It's About Time (2006)

Where the lyrics of It's About Time take you, and where it was really made.

Columbia released this debut, then dropped the band for poor sales; the album later sold 123,000 copies in the United States.

Key places

Recorded at Quad Studios in Nashville (2006)

Recording site Nashville — The album was recorded at Quad Studios in Nashville, Tennessee. This point uses the city-level location, not the exact studio building. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• It's About Time: debut studio album by the Jonas Brothers
• Released August 8, 2006 through Columbia Records
• Issued through Columbia's Daylight Records imprint
• A DualDisc version contains the complete 3-part video for lead single "Mandy"
• After Columbia dropped the group from its roster, the band signed with Hollywood Records
• Hollywood received the rights to distribute the single "Year 3000"

Background

• Produced by Michael Mangini and Steve Greenberg
• Inspired by the band's own experiences: the highs and lows of dating, life on the road, and chasing their dreams at a young age
• Nick Jonas described much of the material as typical teenage love
• "Time for Me to Fly" was featured in the film Aquamarine in 2006
• "What I Go to School For" and "Year 3000" are covers of English pop rock band Busted
• "6 Minutes" is a cover of American pop and hip-hop band LFO

Recording

• Most tracks produced by Michael Mangini and Steve Greenberg; tracks 1 and 3 by LCV, track 11 by Jon Kaplan
• Recording studio listed as Quad Studios in Nashville, Tennessee (city-level location only)

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Tracklist

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Formation

• Formed in 2005 as an American pop rock band of brothers Kevin Jonas, Joe Jonas, and Nick Jonas.
• Raised in Wyckoff, New Jersey; moved to Little Falls, New Jersey in 2005, where they wrote their first record.
• Signed to Columbia Records after Steve Greenberg heard their first song "Please Be Mine"; the name Jonas Brothers was chosen over "Sons of Jonas".

Members

• Kevin Jonas, Joe Jonas, and Nick Jonas.

Career

• Gained popularity through Disney Channel, starring in Camp Rock (2008) and Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam (2010), and the series Jonas.
• Released seven studio albums from It's About Time (2006) to Greetings from Your Hometown (2025).
• Nominated for Best New Artist at the 51st Grammy Awards in 2008; won Breakthrough Artist at the American Music Awards.
• Split in 2011 for solo projects, reunited in 2019 with "Sucker", their first number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100.
• Happiness Begins (2019) topped the Billboard 200; The Album (2023) and Greetings from Your Hometown (2025) followed.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Reception

At release

• Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic gave a positive review, describing the album as bubblegum with an effervescence close to what the group achieves here
• Erlewine compared the group's pop punk sound to Hanson
• Erlewine called it a fun debut with more hooks than most teen-oriented music in 2006
• Mike Rimmer of Cross Rhythms gave a mixed review, criticizing the album for generic teenage songs
• Rimmer praised Nick Jonas' vocals on "One Day At A Time" and the tracks "I Am What I Am" and "What I Go To School For"
• John DiBiase of Jesus Freak Hideout gave a negative review, saying the songwriting felt schizophrenic and mismatched
• DiBiase described the result as the byproduct of a few hyperactive kids with a lack of focus

Records

• Peaked at number 91 on the Billboard 200
• Sold 67,000 copies in the United States
• Due to poor album sales, Columbia Records dropped the band and stopped printing and distributing copies in late 2006
• As of March 2015, sold 123,000 copies in the United States
• Single "Year 3000" peaked at number 31 on the Billboard Hot 100

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · es.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• The DualDisc version carried the full three-part video for the lead single "Mandy"
• "Time for Me to Fly" was used in the 2006 film Aquamarine
• The promo tour began on November 5, 2005, before the American Club Tour
• The American Club Tour ran from January 28 to March 3, 2006, with 28 shows in clubs for small crowds
• The band made its national TV debut on TRL a week after that tour
• "Year 3000" was the album's second single, released May 16, 2006

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · es.wikipedia.org

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