Wonderful Crazy Night

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Wonderful Crazy Night
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Studio album by
Released5 February 2016
RecordedJanuary–April 2015
Studio The Village, Los Angeles, California
Length41:15
Label
Producer
Elton John chronology
The Diving Board
(2013)
Wonderful Crazy Night
(2016)
Diamonds
(2017)
Singles from Wonderful Crazy Night
  1. "Looking Up"
    Released: 22 October 2015 [1]
  2. "Wonderful Crazy Night"
    Released: 15 December 2015
  3. "Blue Wonderful"
    Released: 5 January 2016
  4. "In the Name of You"
    Released: 29 January 2016
  5. "A Good Heart"
    Released: 25 May 2016

Wonderful Crazy Night is the thirtieth studio album by English musician Elton John. It was released on 5 February 2016. [2] It is John's first album since 2006's The Captain & the Kid to feature the Elton John Band [3] and was written and recorded in 17 days. [4] [5] John's long-standing percussionist, Ray Cooper, makes his first appearance on any of John's albums since Made in England in 1995. This is Kim Bullard's first appearance on keyboards, replacing Guy Babylon, and Matt Bissonette replaced Bob Birch on bass. The album debuted at number eight on the U.S Billboard 200 with sales of 58,000 album-equivalent units sold. [6]

Contents

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 70/100 [7]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [8]
The Guardian Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [9]
The Independent Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [10]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [11]

Wonderful Crazy Night received generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 70, which indicates "generally favorable reviews", based on 17 reviews.

Accolades

PublicationAccoladeYearRankRef.
Rolling Stone 50 Best Albums of 20162016
40

Track listing

All tracks are written by Elton John and Bernie Taupin [13]

No.TitleLength
1."Wonderful Crazy Night"3:13
2."In the Name of You"4:33
3."Claw Hammer"4:22
4."Blue Wonderful"3:37
5."I've Got 2 Wings"4:35
6."A Good Heart"4:50
7."Looking Up"4:06
8."Guilty Pleasure"3:38
9."Tambourine"4:17
10."The Open Chord"4:04
Total length:41:15
Deluxe edition bonus tracks
No.TitleLength
11."Free and Easy"3:55
12."England and America"3:51
Total length:49:01
Super deluxe edition bonus tracks
No.TitleLength
11."Free and Easy"3:55
12."Children's Song"3:49
13."No Monsters"4:58
14."England and America"3:51
Total length:57:48
Target US and Japanese Deluxe edition bonus tracks
No.TitleLength
11."Free and Easy"3:55
12."England and America"3:51
13."Looking Up" (live)3:22
14."Wonderful Crazy Night" (live)3:15
Total length:55:38

Personnel

Production

Charts

Chart (2016)Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA) [14] 11
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) [15] 8
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [16] 26
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [17] 26
Canadian Albums (Billboard) [18] 18
Danish Albums (Hitlisten) [19] 32
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [20] 43
French Albums (SNEP) [21] 35
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [22] 10
Irish Albums (IRMA) [23] 41
Italian Albums (FIMI) [24] 15
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ) [25] 11
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista) [26] 17
Scottish Albums (OCC) [27] 5
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE) [28] 32
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan) [29] 15
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [30] 7
UK Albums (OCC) [31] 6
US Billboard 200 [32] 8

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