Brand New Day (Sting album)

Brand New Day
Studio album by Sting
Released September 28, 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)
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Rolling Stone [2]

Brand New Day is Sting's sixth solo album. A Grammy Award winner, it peaked at number nine on the Billboard 200 and sold over 3,000,000 copies. 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

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) – 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

Japan bonus track

  1. "Windmills of Your Mind" -
  2. "EPK" (Video)

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.

Personnel

Additional personnel

Production

Charts

Album

Year Chart Position
1999 Billboard 200 9
1999 Top Canadian Albums 19
1999 Top Internet Albums 3

Awards

Grammy Awards

Year Winner Category
2000 "Brand New Day" Best Male Pop Vocal Performance
2000 Brand New Day Best Pop Vocal Album
2001 She Walks This Earth Best Male Pop Vocal Performance

References

  1. ^ "Brand New Day". Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/album/r431308. Retrieved January 4, 2012. 
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