Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life | ||||
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Released | 9 February 2018 | |||
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Genre | Pop rock [1] | |||
Length | 38:43 | |||
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Singles from Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life | ||||
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Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life is the fourth major studio album by British rock band The Wombats. The album was released on 9 February 2018. [2] The first single from the album, "Lemon to a Knife Fight", was released on 7 November 2017. This was followed by "Turn", "Cheetah Tongue", and "Black Flamingo".
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Source | Rating |
Metacritic | 71/100 [3] |
Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [4] |
musicOMH | [5] |
NME | [6] |
PopMatters | [1] |
The Times | [7] |
Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life received positive reviews from critics, with NME saying "there's nothing groundbreaking here, but little to be ashamed of either." [6] In a positive review, PopMatters describes the album's songs as "excellent workouts in powerful pop-rock." [1]
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Cheetah Tongue" | 3:39 | |
2. | "Lemon to a Knife Fight" |
| 3:26 |
3. | "Turn" |
| 3:28 |
4. | "Black Flamingo" | 3:21 | |
5. | "White Eyes" |
| 4:13 |
6. | "Lethal Combination" |
| 2:39 |
7. | "Out of My Head" |
| 3:02 |
8. | "I Only Wear Black" |
| 3:11 |
9. | "Ice Cream" |
| 3:44 |
10. | "Dip You in Honey" |
| 3:08 |
11. | "I Don't Know Why I Like You but I Do" |
| 3:50 |
Total length: | 38:43 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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12. | "Bee-Sting" |
| 3:34 |
13. | "Oceans" |
| 3:41 |
14. | "Lethal Combination" (Acoustic) |
| 2:41 |
Total length: | 47:37 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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12. | "Lethal Combination" (Acoustic) |
| 2:41 |
13. | "Lemon to a Knife Fight" (Acoustic) |
| 3:42 |
14. | "Lemon to a Knife Fight" (Acoustic) |
| 3:30 |
Total length: | 48:50 |
The Wombats
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Chart (2018) | Peak position |
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Australian Albums (ARIA) [9] | 5 |
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) [10] | 55 |
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [11] | 75 |
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [12] | 67 |
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [13] | 39 |
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista) [14] | 19 |
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [15] | 57 |
UK Albums (OCC) [16] | 3 |
US Billboard 200 [17] | 190 |
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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United Kingdom (BPI) [18] | Gold | 100,000 |
Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. |
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