Broken Brights

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Broken Brights
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Studio album by
Released13 July 2012 [1]
StudioDesert Harvest Studios, Byron Bay,
Sing sing Studios, Melbourne, Australia
Plug & Play Studios, Nyon, Switzerland [2]
Length61:18 [2]
Label Desert Harvest Records
Angus Stone chronology
Smoking Gun
(2009)
Broken Brights
(2012)
Honey Bones
(2016)

Broken Brights is the second studio album by Australian musician Angus Stone, released in July 2012. It peaked at number 2 in Australia and was certified gold. At the ARIA Music Awards of 2012, the album was nominated for ARIA Award for Best Male Artist and ARIA Award for Best Blues and Roots Album. [3]

Contents

Track listing

All tracks are written by Angus Stone [2]

No.TitleLength
1."River Love"4:55
2."Broken Brights"4:12
3."Bird On the Buffalo"5:50
4."Wooden Chair"3:25
5."The Blue Door"3:31
6."Apprentice of the Rocket Man"5:24
7."Only a Woman"6:25
8."The Wolf and the Butler"4:10
9."Monsters"5:20
10."It Was Blue"5:12
11."Be What You Be"4:52
12."Clouds Above"2:51
13."End of the World"5:14
14."Happy Together" (bonus track)2:25
Total length:61:18

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (2012)Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA) [4] 2
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [5] 23
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [6] 26
French Albums (SNEP) [7] 67
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [8] 67
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [9] 42
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ) [10] 32
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [11] 27

Year-end charts

Chart (2012)Rank
Australian Albums Chart [12] 67
Australian Artist Albums Chart [13] 20

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA) [14] Gold35,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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