ON A CLEAR NIGHT

'''On a Clear Night''' is the second studio album by Australian female artist Missy Higgins, which was released by on 28 April 2007 (see 2007 in music). The first single from ''On a Clear Night'' is "Steer", which swiftly rose to the top position of the Australian Singles chart in its first week of release.
Higgins actually started writing tracks for her second album as soon as she had finished recording ''The Sound of White''. She stated that “I started quite early because I knew there would a lot of pressure for the second album and I didn’t want to write songs under anyone’s stopwatch. It hasn’t been too bad.” Despite primarily being a pianist, the guitar was the foundation for most of the songs on the album. Higgins admitted that it was easier to write songs on guitar while on tour as opposed to having to "plug your keyboard in, plug it in, set it all up and get headphones”. She joked that she is now a much better guitar player and a worse piano player because she was unable to play it over the last few years.^[1]

Contents

Track listing

Release

Charts and certifications

References

Track listing

All songs written by Higgins.
# "Where I Stood" - 4:16
# "100 Round the Bends" - 2:58
# "Steer" - 3:53
# "Sugarcane" - 3:16
# "Secret" - 4:06
# "Warm Whispers" - 3:12
# "The Wrong Girl" - 3:31
# "Angela" - 3:02
# "Peachy" - 2:39
# "Going North" - 2:48
# "Forgive Me" - 4:04

Release

The album was released for pre-order on Australian iTunes on April 7, 2007. The first single, "Steer", was also made available and starts to download immediately following the pre-order. There is also an exclusive iTunes acoustic version of "Where I Stood" that also comes with the album, along with the video for "Steer" and the making of the video. On April 20, the whole entire album was uploaded to her MySpace page enabling fans to listen to every song.

Charts and certifications

Within days of the single being released and the album being available for pre-order on the Australian iTunes Store in early April, "Steer" broke the top 3 single downloads and ''On a Clear Night'' made it to #1. Higgins' song "Steer" has also achieved #1 on the Australian single charts, marking her second entry into the number one spot, the first being her 2005 debut hit single "Scar".
On May 7, 2007 ''On a Clear Night'' was certified platinum and debuted at number one on the Australian Albums chart. The album held the number 1 spot on the Australian iTunes album top 100 for several weeks.
In June, 2007, ''On a Clear Night'' was certified as double platinum and it had remained in the national top 5 for over a month since it was released.

References

1. [1]. Missy Higgins - The Sound of Maturity Retrieved May 25 2007.