2005: Here I Am Upon signing her deal with
Atlantic Records, Marion Raven set about recording her debut album, and worked with Swedish songwriters/producers
Max Martin and
Rami, as well as Canadian singer-songwriter
Chantal Kreviazuk and her husband
Raine Maida from 2003 to 2005. Initially, the record company was not confident of Raven's switch to a more rock image and a darker, more personal style of songwriting. Raven had to fight to record her kind of music, rock music with a pop element. The resulting 14-track list, including 2 bonus tracks, cultivated a more rock/pop sound and was titled
Here I Am. The album saw Raven's transformation from the candy-pop music of M2M to a more angsty, rock-oriented singer, and was released in Scandinavia, Japan, Latin America and Southeast Asia.
Here I Am spawned three singles, "
End of Me", "
Break You" and "
Here I Am".
Break You holds the record as Raven's top-selling single internationally. All three singles were successful in the Asian region where she further promoted the album with a tour. The album was released in Raven's home country on 10 August 2005 debuting at No. 6.
2006–2007: Set Me Free In early 2006, it was announced that Raven quit her contract with Atlantic Records due to "artistic differences". Raven later confirmed that she was now signed to indie label
Eleven Seven Music, which was created by her management 10th Street Entertainment. winner
Kurt Nilsen and Raven performing "It's All Coming Back to Me Now" at Tusenfryd amusement park in
StatoilHydro on 22 August 2007 Raven later performed a duet with rock musician
Meat Loaf on a version of the song "
It's All Coming Back to Me Now", released as the lead single from Loaf's tenth studio album
Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose in October 2006. The track peaked at No. 1 in Norway and reached the top ten in Germany and the United Kingdom. Raven later joined Loaf on an extensive tour through Canada and Europe in February 2007. In 2004, she recorded the theme song for the US dub of
W.I.T.C.H., a
Jetix animated series based on
the comic of the same name. Raven later confirmed that her new album would contain new and old tracks from her Norwegian debut as well as re-recorded tracks such as "Heads Will Roll", which received the help of American musician
Nikki Sixx and was released as an EP in October 2006. Prior to the release of Raven's album
Set Me Free in March 2007, she toured around The Netherlands, Germany and the United Kingdom to help promote it. Raven later embarked on another promotional tour across the UK and performed in British schools. Later between later July and August, she became a supporting act on American singer-songwriter
Pink's ''
I'm Not Dead Tour'' in Germany. The album was later released in June 2007 and sprawled two singles; "
Falling Away" and a re-release of her previous single "
Break You" from her Norwegian debut album.
2008–2010: Nevermore In 2008, Raven made a cameo appearance in the music video for the song "
Saints of Los Angeles" by American heavy metal band
Mötley Crüe. In 2010 she became a panellist judge on the Norwegian version of the talent show
The X Factor and later on
Norwegian Idol. Originally, Raven recorded her third studio album
Nevermore in 2009 and penned it for a 2010 release, but due to the internal issues with her record label
Eleven Seven Music, it was never released. It dropped two singles "Flesh And Bone" and "Found Someone" exclusively released in Scandinavia.
2012–2014: Songs from a Blackbird Raven later released the single "Colors Turn to Grey" in March 2012 and stated in October 2012 that she is working on material for a new album. In March 2013, Marion released the single "The Minute" from her second album
Songs from a Blackbird, which was released on 5 April 2013 in Norway. Being her first album in eight years,
Songs from a Blackbird managed to peak at No. 3 in Norway. The album was further promoted with a third single – the track "Driving" – and a Norwegian Tour in 2013.
International Version Before an international version released, Marion re-released "The Minute" for an international single via iTunes on 25 July 2014. In August and 31 October 2014, an international version of
Songs from a Blackbird released worldwide and Australia, respectively. It incorporates a mixture of Norwegian version and three new songs from both
Scandal Vol. 1 and
Scandal Vol. 2. For Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Australia, it released physically whereas the worldwide, including Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Australia, it was only released via the
iTunes Store.
2014–2015: Scandal Vol. 1 and Scandal Vol. 2 In January 2014, Marion announced plans to record her third studio album after signing with
Sony Music. The album's title was later announced as
Scandal while its release date was set to be in September 2014, later the album was divided in two parts,
Scandal Vol. 1 released on September 22, 2014, and
Scandal Vol. 2 released on February 2, 2015.
2019: Mellom disse 4 vegger In May 2019, Ravn released her first Norwegian-language single "Tyv". In July 2019, she released "Fritt fall" as the second single from her Norwegian-language project. The album,
Mellom disse 4 vegger, was released on 11 October 2019. The album features a duet with
Magnus Grønneberg, with whom she collaborated with during the
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