{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Javier | type = Album | artist = Javier Colon | cover = Javier-album.jpg | alt = The cover features Javier Colon wearing a white shirt and a green toque. | released = August 5, 2003 | recorded = | studio = | genre = | length = 54:46 | label = Capitol | producer = *Kevin Cloud *Andrew Slater *Carl Sturken and Evan Rogers *The Underdogs | prev_title = | prev_year = | next_title = Left of Center | next_year = 2006 }} '''''Javier''''' is the debut album by American singer Javier Colon. It was released on August 5, 2003 by Capitol Records. The album reached number 91 on the US ''Billboard'' 200.

==Critical reception== {{Music ratings | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1Score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref name="AllMusic">{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/javier-mw0000040287|title=Javier - Javier|first=Jonathan|last=Widran|publisher=AllMusic|access-date=July 29, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151029112621/https://www.allmusic.com/album/javier-mw0000040287|archive-date=October 29, 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> |rev2 = ''Blender'' |rev2score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref name="Blender">{{cite magazine|last=Lynskey|first=Dorian|date=September 2003|title=The Guide: New Releases|url=https://archive.org/details/blender-2003-09-radiohead-19-c/page/n123/mode/2up|magazine=Blender|page=125|access-date=March 16, 2026}}</ref> }} AllMusic editor Jonathan Widran rated the album three out of five stars. He found that "all of the intensely commercial beats, choruses, and productions will earn Javier much deserved attention, and he will also no doubt attract some legitimate standing as a potential jazz artist with the closer, "October Sky," a silky late-night jazz ballad featuring jazz icons Roy Hargrove and Mulgrew Miller."<ref name="AllMusic"/>

==Track listing== {{Track listing | headline = ''Javier'' track listing | extra_column = Producer(s) | total_length = 54:46

| title1 = Crazy | writer1 = {{hlist|Javier Colon|Carl Sturken|Evan Rogers}} | extra1 = {{hlist|Andrew Slater|Sturken|Rogers}} | length1 = 4:53

| title2 = Beautiful U R | writer2 = {{hlist|Colon|Damon Homas|Harvey Mason, Jr.}} | extra2 = The Underdogs | length2 = 3:46

| title3 = Song for Your Tears | writer3 = {{hlist|Colon|Sturken|Rogers}} | extra3 = {{hlist|Sturken|Rogers}} | length3 = 4:37

| title4 = Slow Motion | writer4 = {{hlist|Colon|Billy Mann|Thomas|Eric Dawkins|Anson Dawkins|Mason|Nathan East}} | extra4 = The Underdogs | length4 = 3:58

| title5 = Hey Little Sister | writer5 = {{hlist|Colon|Sturken|Rogers}} | extra5 = {{hlist|Sturken|Rogers}} | length5 = 5:08

| title6 = Biggest Mistake | writer6 = {{hlist|Colon|Mason|Thomas|Antonio Dixon}} | extra6 = The Underdogs | length6 = 4:05

| title7 = Interlude #1 | length7 = 0:28

| title8 = If I Never Get to Heaven | writer8 = {{hlist|Colon|Rogers|Sturken|Roni Skies}} | extra8 = {{hlist|Sturken|Rogers}} | length8 = 5:00

| title9 = Can't Have My Heart | writer9 = {{hlist|Colon|Kevin Cloud|Sturken}} | extra9 = Cloud | length9 = 4:12

| title10 = She Spoke to Me | writer10 = {{hlist|Colon|Rogers|Sturken}} | extra10 = {{hlist|Sturken|Rogers}} | length10 = 4:42

| title11 = In Your Hands | writer11 = {{hlist|Colon|Cloud|Skies}} | extra11 = {{hlist|Sturken|Rogers}} | length11 = 4:10

| title12 = She'll Never Know | writer12 = {{hlist|Colon|Cloud|Skies}} | extra12 = Cloud | length12 = 5:24

| title13 = Interlude #2 | length13 = 0:19

| title14 = October Sky | writer14 = {{hlist|Colon|Rogers|Sturken}} | extra14 = {{hlist|Sturken|Rogers}} | length14 = 7:06 }}

==Personnel== *Javier Colon – vocals, piano, guitars, percussion *Tony Dixon – keyboards *Omar Edwards – organ *Eric D. Jackson, Michael Landau, Dean Parks, Michael Thompson – guitars *Carl Sturken – guitars, keyboards *Larry Campbell – pedal steel *Nathan East, Mike Elizondo – bass *?uestlove – drums, percussion *Karriem Riggins – programming *Charles Crawford – scratching *Strings arranged and conducted by Larry Gold **Charlie Bisharat, Darius Campo, Mario Diaz de Leon, Bruce Dukov, Olga Konopelsky, Emma Kummrow, Charlene Kwas, Sid Page, Charles Parker, Haim Shtrum, Gregory Teperman – violin **Davis A. Barnett, David Yang – viola **Dorothy Lawson – cello

==Chart== {| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center" |+Weekly chart performance for ''Javier'' |- ! scope="col"| Chart (2003) ! scope="col"| Peak<br/>position |- ! scope="row" {{Album chart|Billboard200|91|artist=Javier Colon|refname=BB200|access-date=July 29, 2024}} |- ! scope="row" {{Album chart|BillboardRandBHipHop|18|artist=Javier Colon|refname=BBRBHH|access-date=July 29, 2024}} |}

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==External links== *[{{BillboardURLbyName|artist=javier|chart=all}} Billboard: Javier – ''Javier'']

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