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{{Infobox album
| name = Songs for My Mother
| type = studio
| artist = [[Ronan Keating]]
| cover = Ronan Keating Songs For My Mother Cover.JPG
| alt =
| released = 16 March 2009
| recorded = December 2008
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = [[Pop music|Pop]]
| length = 37:11
| label = [[Polydor Records]]
| producer = [[Stephen Lipson]]
| prev_title = [[Bring You Home]]
| prev_year = 2006
| next_title = [[Winter Songs (Ronan Keating album)|Winter Songs]]
| next_year = 2009
| misc = {{Singles
| name = Songs for My Mother
| type = studio
| single1 = [[Time After Time (Cyndi Lauper song)|Time After Time]]
| single1date = 15 March 2009
| single2 = [[This Is Your Song]]
| single2date = 17 May 2009
}}
}}
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1Score = {{Rating|1.5|5}}
| noprose = yes
}}

'''''Songs for My Mother''''' is the fifth studio album released by Boyzone frontman and [[Ireland|Irish]] singer/songwriter [[Ronan Keating]]. The album was released on 16 March 2009 on [[Polydor Records]], and is his first album to be released since the reunion of [[Boyzone]].

The album was a commercial success, debuting at #4 on the [[Irish Albums Chart]] before peaking at #1 on its second week of release. It also peaked at #1 in [[Australia]] and the [[United Kingdom]]. In [[New Zealand]], the album debuted at number sixteen, jumping to number one the following week. The album spent three weeks at number one and was certified Platinum, selling over 15,000 copies.

==Album information==
The album was recorded over the span of two days during Christmas 2008 at [[British Grove Studios]]. The album was recorded with his usual backing band and a live orchestra. Ronan took time out of his busy [[Boyzone]] schedule in order to record the album. The album is produced by [[Stephen Lipson]]. The album was recorded in memory of his late mother Marie Keating and also to celebrate Mother's Day. The songs that Ronan chose to record for the album are songs that he remembers his mother listening to throughout his childhood. This album also contains a new version of his own song "This Is Your Song", a track which he wrote that originally appeared as the B-Side to his very first single, "[[When You Say Nothing at All]]", and his third studio album, ''[[Turn It On]]''.

==Track listing==
{{Tracklist
| headline =
| extra_column = Original Performer
| extra1 = [[Cyndi Lauper]]
| title1 = [[Time After Time (Cyndi Lauper song)|Time After Time]]
| length1 = 4:10
| extra2 = [[Bob Dylan]]
| title2 = [[Make You Feel My Love]]
| length2 = 3:30
| extra3 = [[Joni Mitchell]]
| title3 = [[Both Sides, Now|Both Sides Now]]
| length3 = 3:58
| extra4 = [[Don McLean]]
| title4 = [[Vincent (Don McLean song)|Vincent]]
| length4 = 4:14
| extra5 = traditional (and [[Dominic Behan]] in the mid-1960s)
| title5 = [[Carrickfergus (song)|Carrickfergus]]
| length5 = 4:28
| extra6 = [[R. Kelly]]
| title6 = [[I Believe I Can Fly]]
| length6 = 4:44
| extra7 = [[Joshua Kadison]]
| title7 = Mama’s Arms
| length7 = 3:05
| extra8 = Francis McPeake
| title8 = [[Wild Mountain Thyme]]
| length8 = 4:13
| extra9 = [[Elvis Presley]]
| title9 = [[Suspicious Minds]]
| length9 = 3:37
| extra10 = Ronan Keating
| title10 = [[This Is Your Song]]
| length10 = 3:59
}}

==Chart performance==
Due to the album's release being so close to Mother's Day in the United Kingdom, the album peaked at No. 1 on the [[UK Albums Chart]]. It debuted at No. 4 on the [[Irish Albums Chart]], before peaking at No. 1 in its second week of release. It peaked at No. 1 in Australia, while in New Zealand, the album debuted at number sixteen, jumping to number one the following week. The album spent three weeks at number one and was certified Platinum, selling over 15,000 copies.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rianz.org.nz/rianz/chart_facts.asp |title=The Official New Zealand Music Chart |publisher=Rianz.org.nz |access-date=2014-06-07}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable"
|-
!Chart (2009)
!Peak<br>position
|-
|[[Aria Charts|Australian Albums Chart]]
| style="text-align:center;"|1
|-
|Austrian Albums Chart
| style="text-align:center;"|34
|-
|Belgian Albums Chart (Flanders)
| style="text-align:center;"|14
|-
|Danish Albums Chart
| style="text-align:center;"|2
|-
|Dutch Albums Chart
| style="text-align:center;"|8
|-
|Germany Albums Chart
| style="text-align:center;"|14
|-
|[[Irish Albums Chart]]<ref>{{cite web|author=Jaclyn Ward |url=http://www.irishcharts.ie/awards/platinum09.htm |title=The Irish Charts – All there is to know |publisher=Irishcharts.ie |date=1962-10-01 |access-date=2014-06-07}}</ref>
| style="text-align:center;"|1
|-
|[[RIANZ|New Zealand Albums Chart]]
| style="text-align:center;"|1
|-
|Norwegian Albums Chart
| style="text-align:center;"|7
|-
|South African Albums Chart<ref>[http://www.rsg.co.za/musiek_top20.asp ] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090402014659/http://www.rsg.co.za/musiek_top20.asp |date=2 April 2009 }}</ref>
| style="text-align:center;"|17
|-
|Swiss Albums Chart
| style="text-align:center;"|13
|-
|[[UK Albums Chart]]
| style="text-align:center;"|1
|-
|World Albums Top 40
| style="text-align:center;"|9
|}

==Certifications==
{{Certification Table Top|caption=Certifications for ''Songs for My Mother''}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=Australia|artist=Ronan Keating|title=Songs for My Mother|award=Platinum|type=album|relyear=2009|certyear=2009|access-date=August 31, 2022}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=Ireland|artist=Ronan Keating|title=Songs for My Mother|award=Platinum|type=album|relyear=2009|certyear=2009|access-date=August 31, 2022}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=New Zealand|artist=Ronan Keating|title=Songs for My Mother|award=Platinum|type=album|relyear=2009|id=2009-07-10|source=newchart|access-date=2024-11-20|certyear=2009}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=United Kingdom|artist=Ronan Keating|title=Songs for My Mother|award=Gold|type=album|relyear=2009|certyear=2013|id=10405-3168-2|access-date=August 31, 2022}}
{{Certification Table Bottom|nosales=true}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{Ronan Keating}}

{{Authority control}}

[[Category:2009 albums]]
[[Category:Ronan Keating albums]]
[[Category:Albums produced by Stephen Lipson]]
[[Category:Polydor Records albums]]

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