Dark Days, Bright Nights

Dark Days, Bright Nights
Studio album by Bubba Sparxxx
Released	October 9, 2001
Recorded	2000–01
Genre	Hip hop
Length	1:12:57
Label	Interscope
Producer	Timbaland, Organized Noize, Shannon "Fat Shan" Houchins, Khalifani, Gerald "Geo" Hall, Scott Storch
Bubba Sparxxx chronology
Dark Days, Bright Nights (2001) Deliverance (2003)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Entertainment Weekly	B−[2]
Los Angeles Times	[3]
NME	(8/10)[4]
PopMatters	(mixed)[5]
Q	[6]
RapReviews	(8.0/10)[7]
Rolling Stone	[8]
Village Voice	(favorable)[9]

Dark Days, Bright Nights is the debut album from American rapper Bubba Sparxxx, released on October 9, 2001 on Interscope Records. It includes the singles "Ugly" (a U.S. #15 hit) and "Lovely". "Ugly" was written by Sparxxx and Timbaland this song was released in 2002. The record has attained gold status making it the most successful of his three studio albums to date. The song "Regardless" was not an official single but did receive some radio airplay. The album also debuted at #3 on the Billboard 200 with 132,000 copies sold in the first week released.^[10] A couple months later the album was certified gold by the RIAA with an excess of 500,000 copies sold.^[11]

Track listing

Samples

Bubba Talk

• "Les Yeux Noirs (Dark Eyes)" by Coco Briaval
• "Pena" by Šaban Bajramović

Lovely

• "Theme From Shaft" by Isaac Hayes

Ugly

• "Get Ur Freak On" by Missy Elliott

Chart positions

References