Amen. is the third studio album by Paula Cole. It is officially credited to "The Paula Cole Band." The album was stylistically a major departure from Cole's previous album, This Fire, and was met with mixed reviews. Commercially, the album failed to match the success of This Fire, peaking at #92 on the Billboard 200 chart, and selling 116,000 copies to date.

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Amen.
Studio album by Paula Cole Band
Released	September 28, 1999
Recorded	March—July 1999
Studio	Globe Studios (New York City)
Genre	Pop rock
Length	51:19
Label	Imago, Warner Bros.
Producer	Paula Cole
Paula Cole Band chronology
This Fire (1996) Amen. (1999) Courage (2007)
Singles from Amen
"I Believe in Love" "Be Somebody" "Amen"

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Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Rolling Stone	[2]

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The album did, however, score a moderate Adult Top 40 radio format hit with "I Believe In Love", which peaked at #22. A remix made for dance clubs and rhythmic radio format peaked at #18 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play, and also attained moderate airplay.

• Jamshied Sharifi – arranger, orchestra and string quartet conductor
• Tony Levin – bass, electric upright bass, Chapman Stick
• Alfredo Hidrovo – bongos, shaker
• Jay Bellerose – drums, tambourine, snare [toy], shaker, hihat [additional]
• Kevin Barry – electric guitar [wah], acoustic guitar, e-bow, electric sitar guitar, baritone guitar, Moog guitar], Fillanoma guitar, mandolin, acoustic slide guitar
• Paula Cole – electric piano [Rhodes], bass [Rhodes], synthesizer [Moog], piano, bass [Juno], electric guitar [low-tuned], Clavinet, [Wah] clarinet, finger snaps, vocals
• Susan Jolles – harp
• DJ Premier – scratches
• Greg Leisz – pedal steel guitar
• Tionne "T-Boz" Wattkins – backing vocals