Fallen CD

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Fallen

Released March 4, 2003 on CD
Released by Wind-Up Records
Written by B. Moody/A. Lee/D. Hodges, Published by Zombies Ate My Publishing (BMI) and Dwight Frye Music, Inc (BMI). The song Tourniquet is actually a cover of the song "My Tourniquet" written by the band Soul Embraced.

Fallen is Evanescence's Major label debut on the Wind-up Records label, and their first album to achieve widespread release around the world. In contrast, their previous album, Origin, was only released in limited numbers in their hometown of Little Rock, Arkansas. Released in 2003, Fallen spent sixty weeks in the United Kingdom album charts, reaching number one. In the United States, however, the album remained on the chart for over 100 weeks, and peaked at number three. In the U.S., the album was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in April 2003 (having also gone gold earlier in the same month).

Fallen was the eighth best-selling album in the U.S. in 2004, with about 2.61 million copies sold that year. The album has since gone on to sell 6.5 million copies in the U.S. and over 14 million copies worldwide.

Despite being released in 2003, the album was not available for digital download until the summer of 2006, likely to prepare for digital releases of their upcoming album The Open Door.

Recording

The album was recorded at Track Record Inc. & NRG Recording Studios (both in North Hollywood), Ocean Studios, (Burbank, Los Angeles County), Conway Recording Studios (Hollywood), all in California. The strings were recorded at The Newman Stage, 20th Century Fox.

Track listing

1. Going Under
2. Bring Me To Life
3. Everybody's Fool
4. My Immortal
5. Haunted
6. Tourniquet
7. Imaginary
8. Taking Over Me
9. Hello
10. My Last Breath
11. Whisper

• My Immortal [Band Version] is featured as a bonus track on more recently printed albums.

The Japanese edition, Released July 22, 2003, Featured the bonus track Farther Away and a bonus DVD with the video for Bring Me To Life. After the initial pressing, other versions with the bonus DVD were made to include videos for Going Under and My Immortal.

One special pressing from Korea featured a digipack with bonus postcards with pictures of the band on them.