My Way (Ian Brown album)

My Way is the sixth solo album by British artist Ian Brown. The album was released on 28 September 2009.^[11] The album's lead single "Stellify" was released on 21 September 2009. In an interview with XFM Manchester he claimed that the song was originally written for Rihanna, but he realised he had created "a great sound" so claimed the track for himself.^[12]

My Way
Studio album by Ian Brown
Released	28 September 2009
Recorded	Battery Studios, Manchester
Genre	Alternative rock
Length	43:07
Label	Fiction Records
Producer	Dave McCracken
Ian Brown chronology
The World is Yours (2007) My Way (2009) Ripples (2019)
Singles from My Way
"Stellify" Released: 21 September 2009 "Just Like You" Released: 30 November 2009

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	72/100[1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
Clash	(6/10)[2]
The Daily Telegraph	[3]
Drowned in Sound	(7/10)[4]
entertainment.ie	[5]
The Guardian	[6]
NME	(8/10)[7]
Slant Magazine	[8]
The Times	[9]
Uncut	[10]

The second single "Just Like You" was released on 30 November 2009. This was Brown's final album for a decade, until his comeback with his 2019 album, Ripples.

Recording

My Way was inspired by Michael Jackson's Thriller, with Brown noting that "we mastered it on the day that Michael Jackson died (too), so I'm taking that as a good omen."^[11]

Track listing

1. "Stellify" – 4:57
2. "Crowning of the Poor" – 3:18
3. "Just Like You" – 3:22
4. "In the Year 2525" (Zager and Evans cover) – 2:52
5. "Always Remember Me" – 4:49
6. "Vanity Kills" – 3:34
7. "For the Glory" – 3:11
8. "Marathon Man" – 3:39
9. "Own Brain" – 2:56
10. "Laugh Now" – 3:53
11. "By All Means Necessary" – 3:42
12. "So High" – 2:54