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Dark Days, Bright Nights 
Studio album by Bubba Sparxxx Released October 9, 2001 Recorded 2000-2001 Genre Hip Hop, Southern Rap Length 1:12:57 Label Interscope Producer Timbaland, Organized Noize, Shannon "Fat Shan" Houchins, Khalifani, Gerald "Geo" Hall, Scott Storch Bubba Sparxxx chronology Dark Days, Bright Nights
(2001)Deliverance
(2003)Professional ratings Review scores Source Rating Allmusic 
[1]Entertainment Weekly (B-)[2] Los Angeles Times 
[3]NME (8/10)[4] PopMatters (mixed)[5] Q [6]RapReviews (8.0/10)[7] Rolling Stone [8]Village Voice (favorable)[9] Dark Days, Bright Nights is the debut album from American rapper Bubba Sparxxx, released on October 9, 2001 on Interscope Records. It includes the singles "Ugly" (a U.S. #15 hit) and "Lovely". "Ugly" was written by Sparxxx and Timbaland this song was released in 2002. The record has attained gold status making it the most successful of his three studio albums to date. The song "Regardless" was not an official single but did receive some radio airplay. The album also debuted at #3 on the Billboard 200 with 132,000 copies sold in the first week released.[10] A couple months later the album was certified gold by the RIAA with an excess of 500,000 copies sold.[11]
Track listing
# Title Length Featured Guest(s) Producer 1 "Take Off" 2:32 Timbaland 2 "Ugly" 4:25 Timbaland & Missy Elliott Timbaland 3 "Any Porch" 1:38 Shannon "Fat Shan" Houchins 4 "Bubba Talk" 3:48 Timbaland 5 "Lovely" 3:56 Timbaland Timbaland & Scott Storch 6 "Betty Betty" 3:56 Shannon "Fat Shan" Houchins 7 "All the Same" 4:24 Backbone & Sleepy Brown Shannon "Fat Shan" Houchins 8 "Get Right" 3:41 Timbaland Timbaland 9 "Open Wide" 4:47 Sebastian Timbaland 10 "Infected" 4:28 Khalifani 11 "Twerk a Little" 4:21 Timbaland Timbaland 12 "Take'm to the Water" 4:31 Duddy Ken Shannon "Fat Shan" Houchins 13 "Well Water" 4:45 Shannon "Fat Shan" Houchins 14 "The 1st Whutchacallit" 4:41 Khalifani 15 "Bubba Sparxxx" 4:29 Organized Noize 16 "Regardless" 4:36 C.I. Shannon "Fat Shan" Houchins 17 "If It's Bumpin'" 4:55 Kosha of Stonewall & Bohagon Gerald "Geo" Hall 18 "Dark Days, Bright Nights" 3:24 Shannon "Fat Shan" Houchins Chart positions
Chart (2001) Peak
positionU.S. Billboard 200 3 U.S. Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums 3 References
- ^ Allmusic review
- ^ Entertainment Weekly review
- ^ Los Angeles Times review
- ^ NME review
- ^ PopMatters review
- ^ Q review
- ^ RapReviews review
- ^ Rolling Stone review
- ^ Village Voice review
- ^ http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1453384/20020411/ashanti.jhtml
- ^ http://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?table=SEARCH
Categories:- 2001 albums
- Bubba Sparxxx albums
- Interscope Records albums
- Albums produced by Organized Noize
- Albums produced by Timbaland
- Debut albums
- 2000s hip hop album stubs
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