The Open Door

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The Open Door is the second studio album released by American rock band Evanescence. To date, it has spawned three singles and been supported by two worldwide tours. Almost 5 million copies have been sold worldwide.

Release and sales

The Open Door was released worldwide beginning with Poland on September 25, 2006, Japan on September 27, Ireland on September 29, Australia on September 30, the rest of Europe on October 2, 2006, and was released to North America and Argentina on October 3.

The digital version of the album was made available for pre-order on August 15, 2006 on iTunes and Walmart.com. This pre-order, if bought before the street date of October 3, 2006, contained an interview with Amy Lee and a bonus track titled "The Last Song I'm Wasting on You" (which later became a B-side track on the "Lithium" single).^[1]

The full album was leaked to the internet on September 4, 2006,^[2] and on September 24, the album became available for full streaming at AOL Music^[3] and MuchMusic.com.

The Open Door debuted at number one in the U.S., Australia, Germany, Greece and Switzerland, and was in the top five in Austria, Canada, France, Hong Kong, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, New Zealand, South Korea, Sweden and the United Kingdom. According to the U.S. Billboard 200 album chart, the album sold about 447,000 copies its first week; it was also the 700th album to top that chart.^[4] In just two weeks on the U.S. charts, the album sold approximately 725,000 copies, and on November 8, 2006, The Open Door was certified platinum in the United States after little more than a month in wide release.^[5] In comparison, Fallen debuted with 142,000 copies and went on to sell almost 6.5 million in the U.S. alone.

According to the United World Chart, The Open Door has sold over four million copies worldwide as of March 24, 2007.^[6] The album has sold 1.7 million units in the U.S.

The Open Door won in the "Album of the Year" category at the 2007 MTV Australia Video Music Awards.^[7]

Singles and other tracks

The first single from the album was "Call Me When You're Sober", which had a limited radio release on July 31, 2006, going into wide release over the next week.^[8][9] This full version of "Call Me When You're Sober" had been leaked to the internet a couple of days before it was due to be officially released to radio airplay; after this occurred, the record label allowed radio stations to begin playing the song. Its music video, directed by Marc Webb, was filmed in July 2006.^[10]

The second single from The Open Door, "Lithium", was released to the UK on January 8, 2007.^[11]

The third single, "Sweet Sacrifice", was originally planned to be "All That I'm Living For"; however, after considering the wishes of both the fans and the band itself, the label decided to change the release.^[12]

The fourth single is reported as being "Good Enough", with the video scheduled for shooting on June 11–June 14, 2007.^[13] The intro for this song was originally written as part of a song for the movie The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.^[14]

As present in Fallen, this album contains both string and vocal ensembles. The Millennium Choir, the choir group used for songs on Fallen such as "Everybody's Fool" and "Whisper", is used on the tracks "Lacrymosa" and "Your Star".

Certain other songs on the album have special significance unto themselves. A clip of "Lacrymosa" was used in the video teaser for The Open Door, and the song "Like You" is written in memory of Amy Lee's deceased sister, as was "Hello" on Fallen.^[15]

First leg

The first leg of The Open Door world tour began October 5, 2006, in Toronto, Canada and lasted until December 15, 2006, in New York City. After touring North America during October, the band traveled to Europe during November before returning to the United States to play large arenas. This leg of their tour continued on January 5, 2007, with the band playing locations in Canada, Japan, and Australia.^[16] When playing in the United States, the band was supported by Revelation Theory, by the bands Stone Sour and The Black Maria when in Canada, and by Shihad in Australia.^[17]

Second leg

The second leg of their world tour began on March 16, 2007, in Fresno, California and will run through July 5, 2007, ending in Katowice, Poland. The tour will run through the United States, South America, South Africa, back to Ohio, U.S.,^[18] and finish in Europe.

Supporting the band during the opening U.S. part of this leg is Chevelle and Finger Eleven. When in Buenos Aires, Evanescence took part in a rock festival with Aerosmith, Velvet Revolver and Ratones Paranóicos.^[19] During part of the European section, the band will take part in the Family Values Tour 2007 alongside Korn.^[20][21]

1. "Sweet Sacrifice" (Lee, Balsamo) – 3:05
2. "Call Me When You're Sober" (Lee, Balsamo) – 3:34
3. "Weight of the World" (Lee, Balsamo) – 3:37
4. "Lithium" (Lee) – 3:44
5. "Cloud Nine" (Lee, Balsamo) – 4:22
6. "Snow White Queen" (Lee, Balsamo) – 4:22
7. "Lacrymosa" (Lee, Balsamo, Mozart) – 3:37
8. "Like You" (Lee) – 4:17
9. "Lose Control" (Lee, Balsamo) – 4:50
10. "The Only One" (Lee, Balsamo) – 4:40
11. "Your Star" (Lee, Balsamo) – 4:43
12. "All That I'm Living For" (Lee, LeCompt) – 3:48
13. "Good Enough" (Lee) – 5:31

B-sides

• "The Last Song I'm Wasting on You" (Lee) – 4:07

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• Amy Lee – vocals, piano
• Terry Balsamo – guitar
• John LeCompt – guitar
• Will Boyd – bass
• Rocky Gray – drums

Guests

• DJ Lethal – programming
• Bon Harris – additional programming
• David Campbell – string arrangement
• Seattlemusic – strings
• Carrie Lee and Lori Lee – backing vocals on "Call Me When You're Sober"
• Millennium Choir, Los Angeles – background choir
  • Susan Youngblood
  • Talaya Trigueros
  • Mary Gaffney
  • Alyssa Campbell
  • Bebe Gordon
  • Melanie Bruno
  • Dwight Stone
  • Eric Castro
  • Darryl Phinnessee
  • Tamara Bernard
  • Kevin Dalby
  • Marcella Carmona
  • Tania Themmen
  • Joanne Paratore
  • Lisa Wall-Urgero