Trivia :
I Am Me is the second album by singer Ashlee Simpson.
On December 15, I Am Me was certified Platinum by the RIAA for its shipments of over 1 million copies in the U.S. (as of April 2006, it had sold 884,000 copies).
A new single from Simpson, "Invisible", was reportedly going to be included on a re-release of I Am Me in mid-2006, but this has not come to pass and does not appear likely.
I Am Me was released about fifteen months after Autobiography, which was released in July 2004. Following Simpson's concert tour from February to April 2005, she says that she was supposed to take a month off, but began working on the album early; as she said, "I got home and got bored, so I called John Shanks and was like, 'Can I come in the studio? Let's get a head start so the record company's not asking for the record right away or anything.'"
Initially, the first single was planned to be "L.O.V.E.", and the album was going to be titled In Another Life. Soon after these things were announced, however, the first single was changed to "Boyfriend" and the album title to I Am Me.
To promote the album and single, Simpson began touring on September 21 in Portland, Oregon, with another stage of the tour starting on November 9 in Portland, Maine. During 2006 she performed on several dates in the spring; in early May she performed at SunFest in West Palm Beach, Florida. Subsequently she embarked on a major summer tour, the L.O.V.E.
A BBC review of the album was positive, calling it "confident yet searching" and saying that it "flirts with 80s production throughout and produces a more mature, tighter sound than some of her peers."
I Am Me debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, as did its predecessor, Autobiography; however, I Am Me did not achieve the same level of success as Autobiography. Whereas Simpson's first album sold 398,000 copies its first week of release in the U.S., I Am Me sold only about 220,000.
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