Bitter Sweet Love

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Bitter Sweet Love
Bitter Sweet Love.jpg
Studio album by
Released26 January 2024 (2024-01-26)
Length43:03
Label Columbia
Producer
  • Red Triangle
  • Steven Solomon
James Arthur chronology
It'll All Make Sense in the End
(2091)
Bitter Sweet Love
(2024)
Singles from Bitter Sweet Love
  1. "A Year Ago"
    Released: 12 May 2023 [1]
  2. "Blindside"
    Released: 4 August 2023 [2]
  3. "Just Us"
    Released: 6 October 2023 [3]
  4. "Homecoming"
    Released: 24 November 2023 [4]
  5. "Sleepwalking"
    Released: 15 December 2023 [5]
  6. "Bitter Sweet Love"
    Released: 12 January 2024 [6]
  7. "From the Jump [7] "
    Released: 19 April 2024

Bitter Sweet Love is the fifth studio album by English singer-songwriter James Arthur, released on 26 January 2024 through Columbia Records. [8]

Contents

Track listing

Bitter Sweet Love track listing
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Bitter Sweet Love"
2:45
2."Free Falling"
  • Arthur
  • Graham
  • Solomon
2:53
3."Sleepwalking"
  • Arthur
  • Graham
  • Solomon
3:48
4."Blindside"
3:32
5."Just Us"
  • Arthur
  • Andrew Jackson
  • Solomon
3:34
6."Comeback Kid"
  • Arthur
  • Solomon
3:53
7."From the Jump"Arthur3:51
8."A Year Ago"
  • Arthur
  • Graham
  • Solomon
2:50
9."Ruthless"
  • Arthur
  • Graham
  • Solomon
3:12
10."New Generation"
  • Arthur
  • Solomon
2:46
11."My Favourite Pill"
  • Arthur
  • Solomon
3:23
12."Is It Alright?"
  • Arthur
  • Daniel Bingham
  • Parkhouse
  • Tizzard
3:44
13."Homecoming"
  • Arthur
  • Graham
  • Solomon
2:52
Total length:43:03
Bonus tracks
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
14."A Year Ago" (acoustic version)
  • Arthur
  • Graham
  • Solomon
3:02
15."Blindside" (acoustic version)
  • Arthur
  • Hector
  • Parkhouse
  • Tizzard
3:53
16."Just Us" (strings version)
  • Arthur
  • Jackson
  • Solomon
3:34
Total length:53:32

Personnel

Charts

Chart performance for Bitter Sweet Love
Chart (2024)Peak
position
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) [9] 29
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [10] 33
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [11] 122
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [12] 43
French Physical Albums (SNEP) [13] 133
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [14] 12
Irish Albums (OCC) [15] 15
Polish Albums (ZPAV) [16] 87
Portuguese Albums (AFP) [17] 38
Scottish Albums (OCC) [18] 2
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [19] 8
UK Albums (OCC) [20] 1

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