Unplugged (Alicia Keys album)

Unplugged
Live album by
ReleasedOctober 7, 2005 (2005-10-07)
RecordedJuly 4, 2005
VenueBrooklyn Academy of Music (New York)
Genre
Length72:22
LabelJ
ProducerAlex Coletti
Alicia Keys chronology
The Diary of Alicia Keys
(2003)
Unplugged
(2005)
As I Am
(2007)
Singles from Unplugged
  1. "Unbreakable"
    Released: September 6, 2005

Unplugged is the first live album by American singer-songwriter Alicia Keys. It was released on October 7, 2005 by J Records. Recorded as part of the television program MTV Unplugged at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on July 4, 2005, the album comprises tracks from her first two studio albums, Songs in A Minor (2001) and The Diary of Alicia Keys (2003), alongside several covers and previously unreleased songs.

On release, Unplugged received generally favorable reviews from music critics and was nominated for numerous accolades, including the Grammy Award for Best R&B Album. A commercial success, it debuted atop the US Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 196,000 copies, becoming the highest debut for an MTV Unplugged album since Nirvana's MTV Unplugged in New York (1994) and the first Unplugged by a female artist to debut at number one. The album has sold over one million copies in the US and over 1.5 million copies worldwide. Its sole single "Unbreakable" peaked at number 34 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number four on the US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs.