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The Promise of a New Day
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| Single by Paula Abdul | ||||
| from the album Spellbound | ||||
| Released | July 5, 1991 | |||
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"The Promise of a New Day" is a song by American singer and entertainer Paula Abdul, recorded for her second studio album Spellbound (1991) and services as the album's opening track. The track, written by Abdul, Peter Lord, Sandra St. Victor, and V. Jeffrey Smith and produced by Lord and Smith, was released as the album's second official single on July 5, 1991 to radio in the United States.[3] The song lyrically finds the singer singing optimistically about a relationship, with a vague sub-context of improvement of the world.[4] It was also her first single released under her own label, Captive Records.[5]
Despite mixed critical reception, "The Promise of a New Day" became another hit single for Abdul. It hit number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 in September 1991, becoming Abdul's sixth and final number one song on the chart as of 2024. Internationally, the track proved to be a more minor commercial success, hitting the top ten in Canada, top-twenty in Finland, and top-forty in Australia, Belgium, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and Sweden.
- ^ Smith, Troy L. (October 21, 2020). "Every No. 1 song of the 1990s ranked from worst to best". Cleveland.com. Retrieved January 29, 2023.
- ^ "Abdul's 'Spellbound' is meatier but still vapid". Bangor Daily News. June 21, 1991. p. 2.
...dressing her in the harder funk trimmings of such songs as "The Promise of a New Day,"...
- ^ "Paula Abdul: The Promise of a New Day". Radio & Records. No. 897. July 5, 1991. pp. 86–87.
- ^ Breihan, Tom (December 10, 2021). "The Number Ones: Paula Abdul's "The Promise Of A New Day". Stereogum. Retrieved December 23, 2023.
- ^ Hoffmann, Frank (May 23, 2016). "1991". Chronology of American Popular Music, 1900-2000. Taylor & Francis. p. 467. ISBN 9781135868864.
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