Beautiful Midnight
album by Matthew Good
Beautiful Midnight is the third album released by the Matthew Good Band. It is the band's most commercially successful album. The album was voted as the best Canadian album of 1999 by readers of the music magazine Chart. The album also won the award for "Best Rock Album" at the 2000 Juno Awards.
The album produced four successful singles ("Hello Time Bomb", "Load Me Up", "Strange Days", and "The Future is X-Rated"). Each single was accompanied by a music video, all which received frequent airplay on MuchMusic.
The success of Beautiful Midnight propelled Good to a celebrity status in Canada he eventually grew to loathe, and his interactions with the media throughout the promotional cycle for the record were often strained and unpleasant.
Commercial performance
Beautiful Midnight debuted at #1 on the Canadian Albums Chart, selling approximately 25,000 copies in its first week. It would go on to become the band's best-selling album, being certified Double Platinum in Canada on September 7, 2000. By March 2003, the album had sold 270,000 units in Canada.
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