Our Bright Future

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Our Bright Future
Tracy Chapman - Our Bright Future.png
Studio album by
Tracy Chapman
ReleasedNovember 11, 2008 (2008-11-11)
Length42:20
Label Elektra
Producer
Tracy Chapman chronology
Where You Live
(2005)		Our Bright Future
(2008)		 Greatest Hits
(2015)
Singles from Our Bright Future
  1. "Sing for You"
    Released: 2008
  2. "Thinking of You"
    Released: 2009
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 65/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Slant Magazine Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [3]
Toronto Star Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [4]

Our Bright Future is the eighth and most recent studio album by American singer-songwriter Tracy Chapman, released on November 11, 2008 via Elektra. The album was co-produced by Larry Klein, with the album's first single "Sing For You" being released digitally on October 31, 2008. In promotion for this album, Chapman appeared on radio stations across Europe with interviews and sessions. Chapman also performed "Sing for You" on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno . A European tour in support of the disc took place through November and December 2008. A US tour was planned for January 2009 but was postponed. [5] Chapman toured Europe again in the Summer of 2009. Our Bright Future was certified Platinum in France, selling more than 200,000 copies there. [6] It also was certified Gold in Switzerland, for sales in excess of 15,000. The album was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album. To date, it is Chapman's latest record.

Contents

Track listing

All tracks are written by Tracy Chapman

No.TitleLength
1."Sing for You"4:25
2."I Did It All"3:10
3."Save Us All"3:46
4."Our Bright Future"4:13
5."For a Dream"3:19
6."Thinking of You"4:49
7."A Theory"3:18
8."Conditional"4:05
9."Something to See"4:14
10."The First Person on Earth"3:52
11."Spring"3:07

Personnel

Charts

Certifications

Sales certifications for Our Bright Future
RegionCertification Certified units/sales
France (SNEP) [26] Platinum100,000*
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland) [27] Gold15,000^

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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