The album was supported by six singles,along with the title track as a promotional single. "Don't Start Now" was released as the album's lead single,attaining both critical and commercial success and peaking at number two on both the UK Singles Chart and the US Billboard Hot 100. Other singles included the UK top-ten singles "Physical" and "Break My Heart",as well as a remix of "Levitating" featuring DaBaby. It reached the top five in the UK and the top two in the US,and went on to top the year-end Hot 100 chart of 2021. The album was originally scheduled to be released on 3 April 2020,but was moved forward after being leaked in its entirety two weeks earlier. To promote the album,Lipa embarked on the Future Nostalgia Tour,which commenced in February 2022 after being postponed three times due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[1]
Upon its release,Future Nostalgia received universal acclaim from music critics,many of whom praised the production,its cohesion and Lipa's stylistic evolution. The day after the album's release,Billboard declared that Lipa was "leading the charge toward disco-influenced production".[2] Commercially,the album topped the charts in fifteen countries and reached the top ten in thirty-one countries. In the United Kingdom,it peaked atop the UK Albums Chart for four non-consecutive weeks,becoming her first album to do so as well as garnering her first-ever nomination for the Mercury Prize,and earning the Brit Award for British Album of the Year. At the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards,Future Nostalgia was nominated for Album of the Year and won Best Pop Vocal Album,whilst "Don't Start Now" was nominated for Record of the Year,Song of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance.
Future Nostalgia was succeeded by its remix album,Club Future Nostalgia,which was released on 28 August 2020 to positive reviews from critics. A French edition of Future Nostalgia was released on 27 November 2020,which yielded the French number-one single "Fever". A reissue of the album,subtitled The Moonlight Edition,was released through Warner on 11 February 2021,along with its lead single,"We're Good".
Background
After the release of Dua Lipa:Complete Edition in October 2018,the expanded deluxe edition of Lipa's debut album,and the single "Swan Song" in January 2019,released in promotion of Alita:Battle Angel (2019),Lipa confirmed that she was working on a new album.[3] In October 2019,Lipa began teasing the album as a new "era,"[4][5][6] before clearing her social media later that month to announce the lead single,"Don't Start Now".[7][8][9] Lipa stated that she cleared her social media in order to prove to herself that social media wasn't real,that one could post and choose to use platforms any way they wanted. She further elaborated that she wanted to start fresh with her new album,but she would always have her memories.[10] Whilst promoting "Don't Start Now",Lipa confirmed that she would be announcing the album in late November or early December 2019,along with the release of the title track.[11]
On 1 December 2019,Lipa revealed the album title through a tattoo on her left bicep with the title,Future Nostalgia,while also announcing its accompanying arena tour of the same name and that the album would be released in 2020.[12][13] The following month,three songs ("Physical","Break My Heart",and "If It Ain't Me",an unreleased collaboration with Normani) leaked online in a security breach.[14] Shortly after on 29 January 2020,Lipa announced that the album would be released on 3 April of that year.[15] The following day,the track list was revealed and the album was made available for pre-order.[16][17] In late March,the entire album leaked and the release was brought forward by a week to 27 March 2020. Lipa additionally expressed her concern about releasing the album during the COVID-19 pandemic.[18][19]
Concept
Cover artwork
The cover artwork of Future Nostalgia was shot by French photographer,Hugo Comte,who also handled the creative direction and the photographs associated with the album's campaign,with Guillaume Sbalchiero handling the design.[20] It was shot on 13 November 2019,and Lipa revealed it on 29 January 2020,along with the album's release date announcement.[15][21] During shooting the promotional photography,Comte had one song on repeat for each shot to get Lipa in the mood for him to get the right shot.[22]
[Lipa] really believed in me and gave me complete creative freedom. [When] I'm on set with Dua Lipa, I need to understand the way she sees herself. I need to find a balance between the vision she has of herself and the vision I want to create for her. [Future Nostalgia] is based on change. Her whole character, all her music is redefined. The whole concept is based around the transition between nostalgia and future. She's very determined. She's like a Marvel [superhero] or a cartoon character. She has super powers; she's incredible.
—Album photographer, Hugo Comte, talking about Lipa and the Future Nostalgia cover artwork.[23]
The cover artwork of Future Nostalgia features Lipa in a Googie-esque retro vehicle, one that could be seen during the 1950s-themed restaurant scene in Pulp Fiction (1994). A dark sky with a blue moon, which was a stylistic choice, appears behind her. Lipa wears a 1950s-style button-down pink shirt, which is tied in a knot around her waist. Her accessories include gold hooped earrings, with a normal one in one ear and a misshaped one in the other, and numerous rings. She also wears long white gloves, which she holds the steering wheel with. Lipa has her blonde and brunette hair up in a bun.[24][25][26][27]
Title
Lipa originally intended to call the album Glass House.[28] After working on the album for nearly a year, Lipa came up with a new album title, Future Nostalgia, while on the way to a radio show in Las Vegas around the time of the 2018 American Music Awards.[29][30] After figuring it out, Lipa messaged her A&R, in which they responded that it's like a baby name, they couldn't tell anyone.[31] She wanted to create a record with the nostalgic memories of her childhood and the music her parents listened to and put a modern spin on it with futuristic elements, which is why she ultimately went with the title.[27] It is meant to describe "a future of infinite possibilities while tapping into the sound and mood of some older music."[32] "Glass House" was later used as a lyric in the album's title track.[33]
Recording
Lipa began work on Future Nostalgia in August 2018 and finished in November 2019.[34][35] However, during the first year of production, she was still promoting her first album on the Self-Titled Tour and was still figuring out the direction she wanted to go in.[36] Lipa had begun thinking of ideas for the album before Dua Lipa was released in June 2017.[37] After figuring out the album's title, she worked backwards, figuring out the sound and lyrical content she desired.[29] She challenged herself to break out of her comfort zone to make music that could sit alongside her favourite classic pop songs, being inspired by Gwen Stefani, Madonna, Kylie Minogue, Moloko, Blondie, and Outkast. After touring, Lipa aspired to have a more live element on the record, mixed with modern electronic production, but to still have the pop sensibility of her first record. Lipa thought that her sound had "naturally matured."[38]
The majority of the album was recorded in a nine-month period after figuring out its title, where she had sessions every day, including ones at Geejam Studios in Jamaica.[36][39] Lipa recorded upwards of nearly 60 songs for the album,[40] including unreleased collaborations with producers Max Martin, Nile Rodgers, Mark Ronson, and Pharrell Williams,[39][41][42][43] as well as a collaboration with Normani titled "If It Ain't Me",[14] and "Bad to You", a song with Ariana Grande. "Bad to You" was later released by Grande, Normani, and Nicki Minaj for the Charlie's Angels: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, after Lipa and Grande were unable to finish their respective parts due to scheduling conflicts.[44][45][46] A planned collaboration with Katy Perry titled "Ball & Chain" was also canceled due to scheduling issues.[47] Another song that was intended for the album but did not make the cut, "Retrograde", was later recorded by Aleyna Tilki and released as her debut English-language single.[48] Lipa's single "Un Día (One Day)" with J Balvin, Bad Bunny, and Tainy was revealed to be recorded during sessions for Future Nostalgia.[49]
Music and lyrics
Future Nostalgia is a dance-pop,[50]electropop,[51]nu-disco,[52] pop-funk,[53] and synth-pop record,[54] with several 1980s and retrofuturism tropes,[55][56] and elements of Eurodance,[57]hi-NRG,[58]house,[59]techno,[60] and R&B.[61] Described by Lipa as a "nostalgic" pop record that "feels like a dancercise class," she took inspiration from the music of the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s to create a sound that felt familiar and brand-new at the same time.[62][63][64] The album's structure includes sticky-sweet choruses, and catchy pop hooks,[65][66][67] while it has campy productions,[61] consisting of funk bass guitars,[68] electronic beats,[67] rubbery basslines,[59] robotic vocoder backing vocals, chunky synths,[69] lush strings, percolating drums,[59] house-influenced piano chords,[70] and disco strings.[71] The album has themes of the transformative nature of romance,[72] sex, inequality, empowerment,[73] self-possession, the exploration of vulnerability,[59] falling in love, breaking up,[74] equality, hope,[75] flirtation and affection.[71]
I think it was trying to make the record sound as cohesive as possible so that it all feels part of the same story. And alongside the bass in multiple songs, I also have strings in multiple songs. I wanted to make this really organic in having a lot of live instrumentation. It is a very happy album. This album is purely about dancing and having fun and being free and being in love.
Future Nostalgia opens with its title track, a playful and fun synth-pop and electro-funk song,[80][81][82] with house, hip hop, and disco elements.[83][78][84] It has an electronic production,[67] that includes electroclash synths,[68] disco beats,[85]funk and grunge bass-popping,[86][87] and a jazz piano progression.[88] In the song, Lipa name-drops its producer, Jeff Bhasker, and American architect, John Lautner, while vocally making use of falsetto and spoken word deliveries.[68][72][81][89] Lyrically, it deals with themes of feminism and self-reflection.[57][90] The following track and lead single, "Don't Start Now", has empowerment themes and sees Lipa addressing an ex-lover about moving on from a relationship, using direct bullet point instructions.[89][91][92] She uses her lower-register vocals, over a production consisting of cowbells, accented disco strings, and a rhythm guitar loop.[93][94][95][96] Musically, it is a nu-disco song with elements of dance-pop and Eurodance.[97][98][99] Synth-pop cut, "Cool", has inspirations from 1980s music and Prince.[100][101][102] The song is about the initial rush of falling in love, painting a picture of a summer romance, with confidence and vulnerability themes, and reckless, youthful energy.[75][87][89][103] Driven by a funk bass, glitter gel noises and a drum line embody the production, whilst Lipa contributes vocals with hopeful tones.[77][87][88][104]
"Physical" has a message of female strength, not needing a man to save them, with lyrics about an intense and lustful relationship.[67][105] A power pop and synth-pop song,[106][107] it includes dance-rock, dark wave, and Italo disco elements,[72][108][109] while Lipa's lower register vocal performance uses deadpan,[110][111] spoken word,[60]belts,[112] and chants.[109] The song shares a chorus line with Olivia Newton-John's 1981 single of the same name, and includes sawtooth wave synths, a synth flute, and hi-hats in its production.[113][114] "Levitating" is an electro-disco, pop-funk, and nu-disco track,[78][98][115] with elements of dance-pop, electronic,[103] 1990s pop and R&B,[112] power pop[106] and space rock genres.[116] It includes a Blondie-influenced rap by Lipa, while having nu-disco rhythms, disco strings, and talk box vocals production-wise.[61][74][102][117] Lyrically, Lipa exposes her feelings for a significant other, through numerous outer space references.[60][87] Electro-R&B track, "Pretty Please", has disco-pop details and soft-spoken vocals.[60][108][118] Driven by a bass and click, the song has a stripped-back production, emphasizing its guitars and synths, while also including cowbells and pitch-modulated vocal effects.[71][73][76][98] The lyrics see Lipa attempting to be really chill at the beginning of a relationship, but realizing that is unlike her, as she pleas for stress relief from her partner who slows that down.[72][79][102]
Described by Lipa as her "festival song,"[120] "Hallucinate" is a disco and house track,[98][121] with dance,[122]electro swing,[123]psychedelic,[103] and synth-pop elements.[87] Lipa showcases her higher vocal register, and contributes a 1990s diva hook.[60][124] Lyrically, the song describes how crazy love can make one feel, over a production consisting of pianissimo synths, hi-hats, and orchestrations.[125][126][127][128] Lipa's favourite song on the record, "Love Again", is a dance-pop, disco, and electro song,[65][98][129][130] with a classic sound, that includes a sample of the trumpet from Lew Stone's 1932 recording "My Woman".[131][132][133] The 21st-century nu-disco production is made up of orchestrations, including 1970s disco strings, violins, and an acoustic guitar.[59][60][74][134] Its lyrics have heartbreak and personal growth themes, which see a faithful Lipa offering her heart to a new partner after an upsetting breakup.[67][87] Lipa describes "Break My Heart" as a "celebration of vulnerability," seeing her question whether a new love will leave her broken-hearted, with lyrics comparing it to the COVID-19 pandemic's social distancing measures.[73][120][135] It interpolates rhythm guitar melody from "Need You Tonight" (1987) by INXS,[119] alongside Europop and dance beats, disco violins, and a techno-adjacent bassline as the production.[66][136][137][138] Musically, it is a disco and dance-pop song,[98][118] with a retro-futuristic sound, and elements of funk and house.[59][134][139]
A 16-second sample of the pre-chorus and repetitive chorus of "Boys Will Be Boys", a song illustrating the struggles that women go through in life.[75][112]
"Good in Bed", is a hip hop-pop hybrid, which was widely compared to the works of Lily Allen.[69][72][98][108] Its production uses off-kilter jazz piano plinking,[60][100][112] gum-popping sound effects, and lo-fi keys,[77][140] with fairy-like backing vocal harmonies, and Lipa contributing high octave whispers.[60][132] The album's sole explicit track, it uses bad, mad, and sad rhymes, with lyrics about a relationship where good sex is the only thing holding two people together.[79][102]Future Nostalgia closes with "Boys Will Be Boys", a baroque pop and chamber popballad turned anthem, with gospel elements.[82][98][100][129] Lipa makes use of belting and chanting,[118][128] over a melodramatic melody, disco beats, layered choral arrangements, marching band drums, and orchestral strings.[61][79][88][141] Lyrically, the song speaks about the growing pains girls experience and how they have to grow up so fast,[55][75] taking aim at male violence,[72] sexual harassment,[73] toxic masculinity,[68] double standards,[142] and misogyny,[60] while having empowerment and feminism themes.[74][89]
The album was issued on 27 March 2020, by Warner Records, Lipa's second to be released under the label. The standard edition was released on CD, cassette, vinyl, digital download and streaming. The vinyl was released on both coloured vinyl and a picture disc and the cassette was released in gold, pink, blue and yellow colours. The album was also released with a boxset that contains a yellow 12" vinyl, a photography book from the album's photoshoot, an art print, a thank you note from Lipa, a tattoo replica of Lipa's "Future Nostalgia" tattoo, stickers and one of five polaroid images.[102][143] The Japanese edition of the album was released on CD on 3 April 2020, the album's intended release date. It contains three additional tracks, two remixes of "Don't Start Now" and a remix of "Physical".[144] Two new editions of the album were released on 27 November 2020: a new CD edition with "Levitating" feat. DaBaby and "Fever" with Angèle as bonus tracks packaged in a slipcase and the bonus 2CD edition which includes the original album along with "Levitating" feat. DaBaby as a bonus track on the first disc plus the DJ Mix version of Club Future Nostalgia remix album on the second disc. The first was released exclusively in France while the latter was released worldwide.
On 28 October 2020, Lipa announced her Studio 2054 livestream concert, in support of the album, which took place on 27 November 2020.[160] Lipa also announced the Future Nostalgia Tour in support of the album. The tour began on 9 February 2022 in Miami, and consists of 69 announced shows.[161] The tour was postponed from its original 2020 spring-summer date due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[162]
Singles
"Don't Start Now" was released as the album's lead single on 31 October 2019.[163] The song was serviced to contemporary hit radio formats in Australia, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States.[164][165][166][167] It received acclaim from music critics, many of whom praised its disco and 1980s elements, while also noting the growth in Lipa's sound and vocals. The song was a commercial success peaking at number two on both the UK Singles Chart and the US Billboard Hot 100, with the latter becoming her first top three entry on the chart, while also being certified double platinum in both countries. It additionally entered the top 10 in over 40 other countries, while also being certified platinum or higher in over ten countries. The song's music video was directed by Nabil Elderkin and filmed in Brooklyn.[168][169] It features clips of Lipa at a masquerade ball and in a crowded nightclub.[170] Numerous remixes for "Don't Start Now" have been released, including ones by Dom Dolla, Kungs, and Regard.[171][172][173]
"Physical" was released as the album's second single on 30 January 2020, after its title was revealed in a Spotify advertisement earlier in the month.[174][175][176] The song was serviced to contemporary hit radio formats in the United Kingdom, Australia, and Italy.[177][178][179] The song received positive reviews from critics, with many praising its 1980s elements. It reached number three on the UK Singles Chart, and number 60 on the US Billboard Hot 100, despite not having had an American radio release. It has been awarded a platinum certification in Canada, Spain, and the United Kingdom, while going diamond in Brazil. The music video for "Physical" was directed by Catalan production team, Canada, and filmed at Fira de Barcelona in Plaça d'Espanya, Barcelona.[180][181][182][183] The visual is based on a Venn diagram by Swiss artist duo Peter Fischli and David Weiss from their series of works Order and Cleanliness (1981), and features Lipa and a group of dancers dancing in a warehouse, while incorporating anime-inspired animation.[184][185] The song was further promoted with the release of a 1980s-inspired workout video, directed by Daniel Carberry, and featuring Lipa and the class members leading viewers through fitness routines.[186][187][188] A remix of "Physical" featuring South Korean singer Hwasa of girl group Mamamoo was released on 17 March 2020.[189]
"Break My Heart" was announced as the album's third single on Sunrise, and was released on 25 March 2020, after previously being scheduled to be released two days later.[190][191][192] The song was serviced to contemporary hit radio formats in Australia, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States, becoming the album's second official single in the US,[193][194][195][196] while also being serviced to adult contemporary radio formats in the latter two countries.[197][198] It generated positive reviews from critics, who complimented its production. The song became Lipa's highest debut on the US Billboard Hot 100, where it debuted at 21. It eventually reached number 13 on the chart and number 6 on the UK Singles Chart. It has additionally peaked within the top 10 of 17 other countries. The Henry Scholfield-directed video was shot in Bulgaria and inspired by Pedro Almodóvar and the 1990s. It features a set of slide clips, with Lipa in many scenarios, going from vulnerable to empowered.[199][200] An animated video directed by Marco Pavone was also released, featuring Lipa in search of a crystal heart and fighting off giant robots.[201] Remixes by Jax Jones and Joris Voorn were also released.[202][203]
"Hallucinate" was announced in July 2020 to be released as the album next single, officially impacting contemporary hit radio formats in the United Kingdom on 17 July 2020 as the album's fourth single.[204][205][206] Like its predecessor, it received positive reviews for its production, while commercially reaching number 31 on the UK Singles Chart. The Lisha Tan-directed animated music video was inspired by the 1970s and Studio 54, and created during the COVID-19 pandemic, with teams of animators working in Paris, London, and Los Angeles.[207][208] The visual features Lipa going on a psychedelic, hallucinatory adventure after smelling a flower.[209] Remixes of "Hallucinate" by Paul Woolford and Tensnake have been released.[210][211]
After being announced as a single in August 2020 and being promoted to radio as a promotional single,[212][213][214] a remix of "Levitating" featuring American rapper DaBaby was released as the fifth single from Future Nostalgia on 1 October 2020.[215] It also serves as the album's third single in the United States, impacting contemporary hit radio formats in the country five days later.[216]
"Fever" with Belgian singer Angèle was released on 29 October 2020 as the sixth single exclusively in France and Belgium promoting the French edition of Future Nostalgia.[217][218] The song peaked at number 79 on the UK Singles Charts, as well as reaching the summit of both the Ultratop Wallonia and Flanders charts of Belgium and in France. It additionally entered the top 10 of charts in Hungary and Switzerland. The song received a music video on 6 November 2020 that was directed by We are from L.A.,[219] and features Lipa and Angèle exploring the streets of London.[220] The two promoted the single with a performance at the 2020 NRJ Music Awards.[221]
"Love Again" was announced on 11 March 2021 to be released as the album's next single, officially impacting contemporary hit radio formats in France as the album's sixth single.[222]
Promotional single
The title track was confirmed to be released as a promotional single in November 2019 and was officially released as the only one on 13 December 2019, being released to keep Lipa's fans engaged until 2020.[223][224][225] It was met with mixed to positive reviews from critics, with many praising the production and lyrics, and many commenting on its experimental nature. The song became moderately successful in Europe, entering charts in Ireland, Scotland, and Spain, while reaching number 63 on the UK Singles Downloads Chart, and 11 on the NZ Hot Singles Chart. The song was accompanied by a lyric video, set in a retro 1960s house on a small lake, where Lipa dances, drinks alcohol and hits golf balls.[226]
The Moonlight Edition
Following the release of Future Nostalgia, Lipa teased the release of tracks that did not make it to the album's standard edition, stating "I have a couple of songs that I've worked on, and that I kind of put aside for a second wind, so that's all to be discussed".[227] Lipa further explained that she had always planned a reissue as she was very "cutthroat" when choosing the standard edition songs.[228] In April 2020, she confirmed Future Nostalgia would receive a deluxe reissue and further teased it while serving as a guest Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen the following month.[229][230] In July 2020, a fan commented on one of Lipa's Instagram posts asking for the release of the Future Nostalgia B-sides; Lipa replied and confirmed their release and also stated that she has "enough [music] to hold [her fans] all the way through till 2022".[231][232][233]
Lipa described "Fever" as an introduction to the B-sides.[228] In a YouTube chat with her fans for the release of its music video, Lipa announced that the B-sides would be released in 2021.[234][235][236] In January 2021, Lipa further teased the B-sides release with a post on social media with the caption "B-sides are on the way".[237][238][239] She further teased it through until the next month.[240] On 4 February 2021, Dua officially announced the reissue day and its title, Future Nostalgia: The Moonlight Edition.[241][242]The Moonlight Edition was released one week later on 11 February 2021, alongside the reissue's lead single "We're Good".
Future Nostalgia received widespread acclaim from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from professional publications, the album has an average score of 88, based on 19 reviews.[244] Aggregator AnyDecentMusic? gave it 8.5 out of 10, based on their assessment of the critical consensus.[243] According to Metacritic, Future Nostalgia is the 15th most acclaimed album released in 2020.[247]
Writing for NME, Rhian Daly wrote that "Future Nostalgia is a bright, bold collection of pop majesty to dance away your anxieties to... if only for a little while".[73] Chris Taylor of The Line of Best Fit praised Lipa's direction for the album, saying "Future Nostalgia is an artist in total control. It's built on such an addictive carefree spirit that it's hard not to let loose and go with it. The greatest pop star of this generation? That's for you to decide. But Future Nostalgia makes a very convincing argument that Dua Lipa just might be".[76] Chris Willman of Variety praised the album's musical direction, writing "after calling it a great disco record, we might also call Future Nostalgia a great MTV-era album that just happens to be not of the MTV era".[68] Writing for Rolling Stone, Brittany Spanos also praised the album's musical direction, writing "Future Nostalgia is a breathtakingly fun, cohesive and ambitious attempt to find a place for disco in 2020".[97]
Writing for DIY, Elly Watson wrote "this album has proved: Dua will be going down in pop history as one of the best".[246] Laura Snapes of The Guardian complimented Lipa's choice of songs, writing "The 11-track Future Nostalgia offers neither features nor filler, and makes a strident case for Lipa as a pop visionary, not a vessel".[72] Michael Cragg of Crack summarised the album as "packed with full-throttle choruses, supple melodies and lashings of attitude, Future Nostalgia is a neon-hued sound of one of the world's biggest pop stars smashing it out of the park".[66] Similarly, Craig Jenkins of Vulture commended the "sturdy" songs, also writing that Minogue and Madonna are their "predecessors" sonically. Jenkins concluded that Lipa has "only scratched the surface of what she's capable of".[74]
In his Substack-published "Consumer Guide" column, Robert Christgau gave the album a three-star honorable mention and called it an "Olivia Newton-John tribute as dance smash as what-me-despair placebo, that deserves props for adding two keepers to that canon", namely the title track and "Good in Bed".[248]
Future Nostalgia debuted at number two on the UK Albums Chart with 34,390 units, only 550 units behind 5 Seconds of Summer's Calm.[271] In its second week, it reached the summit of the chart, with Future Nostalgia becoming Lipa's first UK number one album. The album would go on to top the chart for three more non-consecutive weeks.[272] On 17 April 2020, it was certified Silver by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) for selling over 60,000 units in the UK. The album holds the record for having the lowest one-week sales while at the top of the chart in the modern era, when it was number one the week beginning 15 May 2020 with sales of only 7,317.[273] It was certified double Platinum by the BPI in 2022, having shifted over 600,000 units to date in the UK.[274] In October 2021, the BBC's music correspondent Mark Savage noted that Future Nostalgia was the only British album released since the start of 2020 to have been certified Platinum by the BPI.[275]
As in the UK, Future Nostalgia entered the Australian album chart at number two before rising to the top in April 2020.[276] After charting for almost a year the album climbed back to the number one spot in March 2021.[277] It was certified Gold by the Australian Recording Industry Association for the 35,000 units sold.[278] Following the release of the album's Australian tour edition vinyl in April 2022, the album returned to number one for a third non-consecutive week in its 108th week on the chart.[279]
The album topped the record charts of 14 countries, including Ireland, Finland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, and Spain.[280]
Future Nostalgia debuted at number four on the US Billboard 200 dated 11 April 2020, with 66,000 album-equivalent units, including 18,000 pure album sales. A major improvement over her self-titled debut album (which peaked at number 27), it became Lipa's first top 10 album on the chart.[281] The following week, the album dropped to number 8, with sales declining by 43% to nearly 38,000 units.[282] It remained within the top ten in its third week.[283] As of December 2020, the album has sold 931,000 album-equivalent units in the United States.[284] After the release of its reissueThe Moonlight Edition in February 2021, the album surged back at number seven on the Billboard 200, reaching the top 10 for the first time in 10 months with 32,000 album-equivalent units earned, increasing by 58% compared to the previous week.[285] On the chart dated 27 March 2021, following Lipa's performance at the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards, one year after its initial release, the album reached a peak of number three on the chart, moving 37,000 album-equivalent units that week.[286] It finished as the ninth best-selling album of 2021 in the US, with 1.403 million album-equivalent units moved.[287] As of May 2024, the album has moved 4.3 million album-equivalent units in the US.[288]
According to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), Future Nostalgia was the tenth most successful album of 2020 worldwide, with 3.3 million album-equivalent units sold.[289][290] In 2021, the album once again made IFPI's Global Album All-Format Chart at number six.[291]
Impact
According to Billboard, as of 2022, Future Nostalgia is one of the 15 best-performing 21st-century albums without any of its singles being number-one hits on the Billboard Hot 100.[292] According to Tom Corson, co-chairman of Warner Records, Lipa has "the benefit of being a pioneer" for being "the first major pop star to release an album in quarantine".[293] David Levesley of GQ magazine described Future Nostalgia as "the decade's first great pop album" and explained that the album "balances stadium anthems with also being a gospel of feminine excellence for all the teens looking to her for inspiration".[294] while Chris Willman of Variety called the album the "Reigning Dance-Pop Album of the Century", compared it to Taylor Swift's Folklore, and further wrote that both albums "barely seemed to exist in the same world, let alone genre, but they effectively captured a populace's polarized reactions to the cessation of normal life as anyone knew it".[295]Rolling Stone described Future Nostalgia as "the disco liberation soundtrack we need" during COVID-19 pandemic.[296]
The Daily Beast called the album an "apocalypse game-changer" and emphasized that it will "have us dancing until the world ends".[297]The Wall Street Journal called Lipa "one of the biggest breakout stars of lockdown" due to the critical and commercial success of the album.[298] According to BBC News, Lipa is one of the artists who brought the 80s back to the music industry. She was also one of the UK's most-played artist in 2020 as the album "proved to be the soundtrack to many people's quarantine, with its uplifting disco anthems providing the perfect antidote to isolation".[299][300] Upon the release of Drake's Honestly, Nevermind and Beyoncé's Renaissance, both in 2022, some publications cited Future Nostalgia as the predictor of a house music revival, along with Lady Gaga's Chromatica.[301][302]
* Sales figures based on certification alone. ^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. ‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.
Dua Lipa is an English and Albanian singer and songwriter. Her accolades include seven Brit Awards and three Grammy Awards. Time magazine included her in its list of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2024.
Dua Lipa is the debut studio album by English singer Dua Lipa. It was released on 2 June 2017 through Warner Bros. Records. The album is a dance-pop, electropop, and R&B record with elements of disco, hip hop, and tropical house. It includes a sole guest appearance from Miguel, as well as additional vocals from Chris Martin of Coldplay.
English singer Dua Lipa has released three studio albums, two reissues, one remix album, five extended plays (EPs), thirty-six singles, ten promotional singles, two charity singles, and thirty-five music videos. After signing with Warner Bros. Records, she released her debut single "New Love" in 2015. The following year, she gained recognition through the singles "Hotter than Hell" and "Blow Your Mind (Mwah)". In 2017, Lipa released her self-titled debut studio album, which reached the top 10 charts in Australia, Belgium, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden and the United Kingdom. The album's chart-topping hits "Be the One", "New Rules" and "IDGAF" propelled Lipa to international fame.
"Electricity" is a song by British-American music duo Silk City and English and Albanian singer Dua Lipa featuring American DJ Diplo and British-American DJ Mark Ronson. The song was written by Silk City members: Ronson and Diplo, alongside Lipa, Diana Gordon, Romy Madley Croft, Jr Blender, Maxime Picard, Clément Picard, Jacob Olofsson and Rami Dawod. The production was handled by Silk City with additional production from Picard Brothers, Jarami, Riton, Alex Metric, and Blender. It was released for digital download and streaming through Columbia Records and Sony Music on 6September 2018 as the fourth single from Silk City's debut 2019 extended play (EP) of the same name. The song was later included on Dua Lipa: Complete Edition (2018), the super deluxe reissue of Lipa's eponymous debut studio album.
"Kiss and Make Up" is a song by English and Albanian singer Dua Lipa and South Korean girl group Blackpink from Dua Lipa: Complete Edition (2018), the reissue of the former's eponymous debut studio album. The song was written by Lipa, Chelcee Grimes, Yannick Rastogi, Zacharie Raymond, Mathieu Jomphe-Lepine, Marc Vincent, and Teddy Park, while production was handled by Banx & Ranx. It was released through Warner Bros. Records as the final promotional single from all editions of the album on 19October 2018, alongside the reissue's release.
"Don't Start Now" is a song by English and Albanian singer Dua Lipa. Lipa wrote the song with Caroline Ailin, Emily Warren, and its producer Ian Kirkpatrick. The song was released for digital download and streaming by Warner Records on 31 October 2019, as the lead single from her second studio album, Future Nostalgia (2020). A nu-disco song, it features a funk bassline, inspired by music by the Bee Gees, Daft Punk and Two Door Cinema Club. Elements used in the production include handclaps, a crowd noise, cowbells, synth bursts and accented strings. Lyrically, Lipa celebrates her independence and instructs a former lover to forget about their past relationship.
"Future Nostalgia" is a song by English and Albanian singer Dua Lipa from her second studio album of the same name (2020), included as the album's opening track. The song was written by Lipa, Clarence Coffee Jr. and its producer Jeff Bhasker. Intended to be "playful and fun," it is a synth-pop song that contains elements of disco, funk, hip pop, house and 1980s music. The lyrics discuss themes of feminism and self-reflection with Lipa referring to herself as a "female alpha".
"Physical" is a song by English and Albanian singer Dua Lipa from her second studio album, Future Nostalgia (2020). Lipa wrote the song with Jason Evigan, Clarence Coffee Jr. and Sarah Hudson, taking inspiration from 1980s music and the 1983 film Flashdance. It was produced by Evigan and Koz, and stemmed from a Persian flute synth sample that was played by the former. An uptempo dance-pop, power pop and synth-pop song, the song features a chugging synth bassline, drums and various percussion instruments. Lipa uses a spoken word, belting and chanting vocal delivery. The lyrics describe the honeymoon phase of a relationship and the importance of trusting one's instincts.
"Levitating" is a song by English and Albanian singer Dua Lipa from her second studio album, Future Nostalgia (2020). The song was written by Lipa, Clarence Coffee Jr., Sarah Hudson, and Koz, who produced the song with Stuart Price, and stemmed from a Roland VP-330 synthesizer sample played by Koz. The song is an electro-disco and nu-disco song with several disco tropes. It incorporates elements of dance-pop, pop-funk, power pop and space rock, as well as 1970s, 1980s and 1990s pop and R&B styles. The lyrics describe the idea of "levitating" when falling in love, with several outer space references.
"Pretty Please" is a song by English singer Dua Lipa from her second studio album, Future Nostalgia, released on 27 March 2020. The song was written by Lipa alongside Julia Michaels, Caroline Ailin and the sole producer Ian Kirkpatrick. It was created by the writing team during studio sessions, taking shape from the bassline and title. It is a disco-pop, electro-R&B and funk song with a stripped-back production driven by a funky bass. The song has a chill sound, however its meaning is the opposite; in the lyrics, Lipa pleas for stress relief from her lover after promising she will be chill at the beginning of a relationship, before realizing that is unlike her. Several critics commended the production and lyrics.
"Hallucinate" is a song by English and Albanian singer Dua Lipa from her second studio album Future Nostalgia (2020). The song was written by Lipa alongside Frances and SG Lewis. The latter of the three also handled the production with Stuart Price. The song was released through Warner Records for digital download and streaming on 10 July 2020 as the album's fourth single. It is a disco-house song with dance-pop, electro swing, psychedelic and synth-pop elements. Set to EDM rhythms and retro beats, the lyrics describe how crazy love can make one feel.
"Love Again" is a song by English and Albanian singer Dua Lipa from her second studio album, Future Nostalgia (2020). The song was written by Lipa alongside Clarence Coffee Jr., Chelcee Grimes and its producer Koz. They wrote the song based on the concept of manifesting positive things into one's life and Lipa later described it as her favourite song on the album. It was sent for radio airplay in France on 11 March 2021 as the sixth and final single from Future Nostalgia before being released for digital download and streaming on 4 June globally. It is a classic-sounding dance-pop, disco and electropop song with a 21st-century nu-disco production that includes disco beats and 1970s-styled disco strings. The song samples "My Woman" by Al Bowlly with Lew Stone and His Monseigneur Band, using it for several aspects, thus Bing Crosby, Max Wartell and Irving Wallman are also credited as writers. The lyrics explore themes of heartbreak and personal growth, seeing Lipa falling in love again with a new lover following a rough split.
"Break My Heart" is a song by English and Albanian singer Dua Lipa from her second studio album, Future Nostalgia (2020). The song was written by Lipa, Ali Tamposi, Stefan Johnson, Jordan K. Johnson, and Andrew Watt, while the production was handled by Watt alongside the Monsters & Strangerz. Due to a similarity to the guitar riff in INXS's 1987 song "Need You Tonight", band members Andrew Farriss and Michael Hutchence are also credited as writers, and the similarity is credited as an interpolation. The song was released for digital download and streaming through Warner Records as the third single from Future Nostalgia on 25 March 2020. It is a retro-futuristic dance-pop and disco-funk song with elements of house and 1980s music that is set to a Europop beat. A vulnerable song, it sees Lipa questioning whether a new love will leave her broken-hearted.
"Boys Will Be Boys" is a song by English and Albanian singer Dua Lipa from her second studio album Future Nostalgia (2020), serving as the album's closing track. Lipa wrote the song with Kennedi, Justin Tranter and Jason Evigan, while the production was handled by Koz. It is a baroque pop and chamber pop ballad set to orchestral strings and marching band drums with backing vocals from the Stagecoach Epsom Performing Arts Choir. Intending to start a conversation with the song, "Boys Will Be Boys" has themes of feminism and addresses the growing pains girls experience, needing to grow up faster than boys. She condemns toxic masculinity and how society treats women as inferior.
Club Future Nostalgia is a remix album by English and Albanian singer Dua Lipa and American DJ the Blessed Madonna. A DJ mix edition of it was released on 28 August 2020, with the standard edition following on 11 September of the same year. The album was crafted by remixes of tracks from Lipa's second studio album, Future Nostalgia (2020), with the remixes being created by an assortment of DJs and producers, including Masters at Work, Larry Heard, Mark Ronson and Stuart Price.
"Real Groove" is a song by Australian singer Kylie Minogue from her fifteenth studio album, Disco (2020). The song was written by Minogue, Teemu Brunila, Nico Stadi and Alida Garpestad Peck, with a sense of optimism for days ahead during the COVID-19 pandemic. Brunila and Stadi also handled the production. It is a disco-pop song with house and R&B elements and features vocoders, a funk bass and post-disco synths. The lyrics see Minogue attempting to win an ex back. A new version, a duet with English and Albanian singer Dua Lipa entitled "Studio 2054 remix", was released on 31 December 2020 as the album's third single by Darenote and BMG. The remix added William Bowerman as a producer with additional instrumentation and Lipa incorporating layered vocals and new lyrics.
"Fever" is a song by English and Albanian singer Dua Lipa and Belgian singer Angèle from the French edition of the former's second studio album, Future Nostalgia (2020). The song was written by the singers alongside Caroline Ailin, Jacob Kasher Hindlin, Julia Michaels and the sole producer Ian Kirkpatrick. It was originally intended to be placed on the standard edition of the album as a solo version by Lipa. The song was released for digital download and streaming on 29October 2020, through Warner Records as a single. It is a dance-pop, deep house and nu-disco song with 2000s Eurodance elements and a disco-pop production that features Afrobeat-tinged synth-pop beats. Lyrically, the song uses a metaphor of infatuation to demonstrate a sickness and addresses the excitement of being with someone where one almost develops a fever, with the two singers acting as counterpoints to one and other.
"Prisoner" is a song by American singer Miley Cyrus featuring English singer Dua Lipa. It was released on November 19, 2020, through RCA Records as the second single from Cyrus' seventh studio album Plastic Hearts (2020). It was also included on the re-issue of Lipa's second studio album Future Nostalgia: The Moonlight Edition (2021). It is a dance, dark-pop, disco-punk, disco-rock, glam rock and nu-disco song produced by Andrew Watt and the Monsters & Strangerz.
"We're Good" is a song by English and Albanian singer Dua Lipa from Future Nostalgia: The Moonlight Edition (2021), the deluxe reissue of her second studio album Future Nostalgia (2020). The song was written by Lipa alongside Emily Warren, Scott Harris and Sly, with the latter of the three handling the production. It was released for digital download and streaming on 11 February 2021 as the lead single from the reissue, simultaneously with the reissue's release. "We're Good" is a bossa nova and 2000s-styled, midtempo tropical-pop song with trap and reggae rock elements. It sees the singer fantasising about an amicable breakup with a former boyfriend.
Radical Optimism is the third studio album by English and Albanian singer Dua Lipa. It was released on 3 May 2024 through Warner Records. Her first full-length studio album in four years since Future Nostalgia (2020), Lipa worked on Radical Optimism with producers such as Kevin Parker, Danny L Harle, Ian Kirkpatrick, and Andrew Wyatt. The album was preceded by three singles, "Houdini", "Training Season", and "Illusion", all of which peaked within the top ten of the UK Singles Chart.
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