Sunny Side Up (Paolo Nutini album)

The first single from the album was "Candy", which reached No. 19 on the UK Singles Charts.[15] The song is Nutini's third highest peak to date, after "Last Request" and "Pencil Full of Lead" (see below). The second single was "Coming Up Easy", reaching No. 62 on the UK Singles Chart. The song became his lowest charting single to date, spending just one week within the top 75.[16]

The third single to be released was "Pencil Full of Lead". The song was released on 2 November 2009 and peaked at No. 17 on the UK Singles Charts.[17] It is his second highest chart success and the biggest hit single from Sunny Side Up, spending 21 weeks inside the top 75. The fourth single from the album was "10/10". The song was released on 11 January 2010 as a digital download only single.[18] Once "10/10" was released, the song debuted at No. 100 on the UK Singles Charts, peaking at #51. It spent a total of six weeks inside the top 75.[19]

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	64/100[20]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[21]
The Guardian	[22]
The Independent	(favourable)[23]
MusicOMH	[24]
The Observer	(neutral)[25]
Sunday Mercury	(unfavourable)[26]
The Daily Telegraph	[27]
The Times	[28]

The album received a generally favourable critical reception. AllMusic's Thom Jurek noted the move away from the sound of These Streets: "Nutini has taken huge chunks of America's (and Scotland's) pop and folk pasts and reshaped them in his own image," going on to describe it as "wise beyond this songwriter's years".[5] Andy Gill of The Independent commented on Nutini's progress since his debut, saying the album "sees the singer making giant strides in several directions", and going on to say "don't be surprised if, come December, this is one of the year's biggest-selling albums."[23] Neil McCormick of The Daily Telegraph was also positive, stating "his joyous second album organically blends soul, country, folk and the brash, horny energy of ragtime swing."[27]

Some reviewers were less impressed. It was described by The Guardian's Caroline Sullivan as "not bad", with opening track "10/10" described as "jaunty enough to make you retch".[22] Graeme Thomson of The Observer saw the album as an attempt by Nutini at "rebranding himself as a mongrel hybrid of John Martyn, Otis Redding and Bob Marley".[25]

The album debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart with sales of over 60,000 copies, fighting off strong competition from Love & War, the debut album of fellow male solo artist Daniel Merriweather. The album performed similarly well on the Irish Albums Chart, debuting at number two behind Eminem's new album before rising to the top of the charts the week after.

• Paolo Nutini – vocals, backing vocals, drums, percussion, acoustic guitar, piano
• Donny Little – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, backing vocals
• Mike McDaid – bass guitar, piano, Fender Rhodes, backing vocals
• Dave Nelson – acoustic guitar, percussion, backing vocals
• Seamus Simon – drums, percussion
• Gavin Fitzjohn – tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, trumpet, flugelhorn
• Rico Rodriguez – trombone
• Questlove – drums
• James Poyser – piano
• Ethan Johns – Hammond organ, celesta, mandolin, mellotron, omnichord, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, ukulele, Dobro, mandocello, bass guitar, baritone guitar, optigan, percussion
• Matt Benbrook – bass guitar
• Phil Cunningham – accordion, tin whistle
• Simon Farrell – double bass
• Steve Bentley Klein, Andrew Maddick – violin
• Fiona Leggat – viola
• Emma Wallace – cello
• Malcolm Stevenson – backing vocals
• Derek Green – backing vocals
• Andy Gaine – backing vocals
• Lance Ellington – backing vocals
• Ricci P. Washington – backing vocals
• Miguan A. Green – backing vocals
• Fraser Speirs - Harmonicas