Brand New Day (Sting album)

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Brand New Day
Studio album by Sting
Released 28 September, 1999
Recorded 1999
Genre Pop rock, World
Length 48:49
Label Interscope-Geffen-A&M
0694-90443-2
Producer Sting, Kipper
Sting chronology
The Very Best of Sting & The Police
(1997)		 Brand New Day
(1999)		 ...All This Time
(2001)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 3.5/5 stars [1]
Chicago Tribune (Not rated)[2]
Entertainment Weekly 7/12 stars(B-) [3]
Houston Chronicle 2.5/5 stars[4]
Los Angeles Times 3.5/4 stars[5]
The New York Times (Not favourable)[6]
Rolling Stone 3/5 stars [7]

Brand New Day is Sting's sixth and final official solo album. A Grammy Award winner, it peaked at number nine on the Billboard 200 and sold over 3.5 million copies in the United States alone. The song "Desert Rose" prominently features popular Algerian Raï singer Cheb Mami. Originally, Sting's usual producer Hugh Padgham was to produce the record, but Sting was happy with the work done by Kipper, and Padgham was never called. Many sounds from Spectrasonics can be heard in Kipper's work on the record.

The full version of "The End of the Game" was included on the single for "Brand New Day" and the DTS and DVD-Audio releases of the album. The music video for the title track is a parody of bleach commercials, and advertises "Brand new 'Day Ultra'" brand.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

All songs written by Sting, except where noted.

  1. "A Thousand Years" (Kipper, Sting) – 5:57
  2. "Desert Rose" (featuring Cheb Mami) – 4:45
  3. "Big Lie, Small World" (featuring David Hartley) – 5:05
  4. "After the Rain Has Fallen" – 5:03
  5. "Perfect Love... Gone Wrong" (featuring Sté Strausz) – 5:24
  6. "Tomorrow We’ll See" – 4:47
  7. "Prelude to the End of the Game" – 0:20
  8. "Fill Her Up" (featuring James Taylor) – 5:38
  9. "Ghost Story" – 5:29
  10. "Brand New Day" – 6:19

[edit] In popular culture

The song "Brand New Day" was used for CBS' The Early Show from 1999–2006 and was referenced in Family Guy when Peter Griffin states that you can only understand the last three words of the lines in Sting's songs. A re-recorded version is also being used for commercials for Chase credit cards.

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Additional personnel

[edit] Production

  • Producers - Sting and Kipper
  • Engineers - Simon Osborne, Neil Dorfsman, Geoff Foster and Chris Blair
  • Photography - Olaf Heine and Carter Smith
  • Package design - Richard Frankel

[edit] Accolades

[edit] Grammy Awards

Year Nominated work Award Result
2000
[8]		 Brand New Day Best Pop Vocal Album Won
Best Male Pop Vocal Performance Won

[edit] Certifications

Region Certification Sales/shipments
Australia (ARIA)[9] Platinum 70,000^
Austria (IFPI Austria)[10] Gold 25,000x
Canada (Music Canada)[11] 2× Platinum 262,000[12]
France (SNEP)[13] 2× Gold 397,500[14]
Germany (BVMI)[15] Gold 150,000^
Japan (Oricon Charts) 105,480[16]
Netherlands (NVPI)[17] Gold 50,000^
New Zealand (RIANZ)[18] Platinum 15,000^
Norway (IFPI Norway)[19] Gold 25,000*
Poland (ZPAV)[20] Platinum 100,000*
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland)[21] Platinum 50,000x
United Kingdom (BPI)[22] Platinum 420,000[23]
United States (RIAA)[24] 3× Platinum 3,500,000[25]
Summaries
Europe (IFPI)[26] 2× Platinum 2,000,000*

*sales figures based on certification alone
^shipments figures based on certification alone
xunspecified figures based on certification alone

[edit] Charts

[edit] Chart positions

Chart Peak
position
Australian ARIA Album Chart[27] 21
Austrian Albums Chart[28] 1
Belgian Albums Chart (Flanders) [29] 11
Belgian Albums Chart (Wallonia)[30] 4
Canadian Albums Chart [31] 19
Dutch Albums Chart[32] 7
Finnish Albums Chart[33] 1
French SNEP Albums Chart[34] 3
German Media Control Albums Chart[35] 1
Italian Albums Chart[36] 3
Japanese Albums Chart[37] 7
New Zealand Albums Chart[38] 16
Norwegian VG-lista Albums Chart[39] 1
Swedish Albums Chart[40] 4
Swiss Albums Chart[41] 2
UK Albums Chart[42] 5
U.S. Billboard 200 [31] 9

[edit] Year-end charts

Chart (1999) Position
Belgian Albums Chart (Wallonia)[43] 56
Dutch Albums Chart[44] 83
French Albums Chart[45] 32
Japanese Albums Chart[16] 188
UK Albums Chart[23] 150
U.S. Billboard 200[46] 199
Chart (2000) Position
Austrian Albums Chart[47] 32
Belgian Albums Chart (Wallonia)[48] 74
Italian Albums Chart[49] 5
Swiss Albums Chart[50] 55
UK Albums Chart[23] 55
U.S. Billboard 200[51] 28

[edit] Chart precession and succession

Preceded by
Freischwimmer by Echt		 German Media Control Chart number-one album
8 – 14 October, 1999		 Succeeded by
Hooray for Boobies
by Bloodhound Gang
Preceded by
Cruel Intentions (Soundtrack)
by Various artists		 Austrian Chart number-one album
10 October, 1999
Preceded by
Onnenetsijä by Jartistsari Sillanpää		 Finnish Chart number-one album
39 / 1999		 Succeeded by
Normaalien maihinnousu by YUP
Preceded by
Notting Hill (soundtrack)
by Various artists		 Norwegian VG-lista number-one album
41 / 1999		 Succeeded by
Here We Go Then, You and I
by Morten Abel
Preceded by
Come On Over by Shania Twain		 European Top 100 number-one album
16 – 30 October, 1999		 Succeeded by
Peace by Eurythmics

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