I Hope You're Happy

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I Hope You're Happy
Studio album by Blue October
Released	August 17, 2018
Genre	Rock [1]
Length	56:42
Label	Up/Down, Brando
Producer	Justin Furstenfeld
Blue October chronology
Home (2016) I Hope You're Happy (2018) Live from Manchester (2019)
Blue October studio album chronology
Home (2016) I Hope You're Happy (2018) This Is What I Live For (2020)

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Daylight"	Justin Furstenfeld, Dwight Baker, Matt Noveskey	3:41
2.	"Your Love Is Like a Car Crash"	Justin Furstenfeld, Dwight Baker	5:20
3.	"I Want to Come Back Home"	Justin Furstenfeld, Dwight Baker, Ryan Delahoussaye, Zayra Alvarez	5:12
4.	"I'll Do Me, You Do You"	Justin Furstenfeld, Dwight Baker	3:44
5.	"I Hope You're Happy"	Justin Furstenfeld, Steve Schiltz	3:52
6.	"Colors Collide"	Justin Furstenfeld, Steve Schiltz	4:13
7.	"Remission in Cmaj"	Justin Furstenfeld	2:35
8.	"How to Dance in Time"	Justin Furstenfeld, Blue Miller	5:27
9.	"King"	Justin Furstenfeld, Ryan Delahoussaye, Eric Holtz	3:46
10.	"Let Forever Mean Forever"	Justin Furstenfeld, Matthew Ostrander	4:09
11.	"All That We Are"	Justin Furstenfeld, Matthew Ostrander, Steve Schiltz	5.35
12.	"Further Dive (The House That Dylan Built)"	Justin Furstenfeld, Matthew Ostrander	9:08
Total length:			56:42

Personnel

• Justin Furstenfeld – vocals, guitar, producer
• Jeremy Furstenfeld – drums
• Matthew Ostrander – guitar
• Matt Noveskey – bass
• Ryan Delahoussaye – violin, keyboards
• Will Knaak - guitar (track 9)
• Collin Shook – keyboard
• Steve Schiltz – guitar
• Eric Holtz – engineering, mixing
• Tim Palmer – mixing
• Mark Needham – mixing (tracks 1, 5)
• Damien Lewis - mixing (tracks 4, 8, 10)
• Phil Tan – mixing (tracks 2, 3, 9, 11, 12)
• Chris Barber – album art, photography
• Tim Beck – album art
• Marshall Breedlove - assistant engineer
• Colin Leonard - mastering

Charts

Chart (2018)	Peak position
US Billboard 200 [11]	28
US Digital Albums (Billboard) [12]	7
US Independent Albums (Billboard) [13]	2
US Top Album Sales (Billboard) [14]	7
US Top Alternative Albums (Billboard) [15]	3
US Top Rock Albums (Billboard) [16]	4

I Hope You're Happy

"I Hope You're Happy" was released as the album's lead single on January 12, 2018. The song peaked at number 13 on the US Billboard Hot Rock Songs chart, at number 15 on the Billboard Alternative Airplay chart, and at number 35 on the Billboard Adult Pop Songs chart. The official video for the song was released on February 22, 2018, and has over 12 million views as of June 2022. ^{[17] [18]} The lady in the music video is Kelly Aishling Gray

Weekly charts

Chart (2018)	Peak position
US Billboard Adult Top 40 [19]	35
US Billboard Alternative Songs [20]	15
US Billboard Digital Song sales [21]	34
US Billboard Hot Rock Songs [22]	13
US Billboard Rock Airplay [23]	22
US Billboard Rock Digital Song Sales [24]	7

References

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