Future Nostalgia

This article is about the Dua Lipa album. For its title track, see Future Nostalgia (song). For other uses, see Future Nostalgia (disambiguation).

Future Nostalgia
Dua Lipa driving a car in a cosmos. On the top left, there is a moon.
Standard edition cover
Studio album by
Dua Lipa
Released27 March 2020 (2020-03-27)
RecordedAugust 2018 – November 2019
Studio
  • TaP, the Bunker at 13, RAK, Sarm, Sleeper, Oddities (London)
  • Green Oak, Diamond Mine, Zenseven (Los Angeles)
  • Modulator (Toronto)
  • Pulse (Silver Lake)
  • The Windmill (Norfolk)
  • Gold Tooth (Beverly Hills)
  • Masterlink (Surrey)
Genre
Length37:17
LabelWarner
Producer
Dua Lipa chronology
Dua Lipa
(2017) 		Future Nostalgia
(2020) 		Radical Optimism
(2024)
Alternative cover
The Moonlight Edition cover
Singles from Future Nostalgia
  1. "Don't Start Now"
    Released: 31 October 2019
  2. "Physical"
    Released: 31 January 2020
  3. "Break My Heart"
    Released: 25 March 2020
  4. "Hallucinate"
    Released: 10 July 2020
  5. "Levitating"
    Released: 1 October 2020
  6. "Love Again"
    Released: 11 March 2021

Future Nostalgia is the second studio album by English and Albanian singer Dua Lipa. It was released on 27 March 2020 by Warner Records. Lipa enlisted writers and producers including Jeff Bhasker, Ian Kirkpatrick, Stuart Price, the Monsters & Strangerz, and Koz to create a "nostalgic" pop and disco record containing influences from dance-pop and electronic music. The album was inspired by the music that Lipa enjoyed during her childhood. One day after its release, Billboard declared that Lipa was "leading the charge toward disco-influenced production".[1]

The album was supported by six singles, along with the title track as a promotional single. "Don't Start Now" was released as the album's lead single, attaining both critical and commercial success and peaking at number two on both the UK Singles Chart and the US Billboard Hot 100. Other singles included the UK top-ten singles "Physical" and "Break My Heart", as well as a remix of "Levitating" featuring DaBaby. It reached the top five in the UK and the top two in the US, and went on to top the year-end Hot 100 chart of 2021. The album was originally scheduled to be released on 3 April 2020 but was moved forward after leaking in its entirety two weeks earlier. To promote the album, Lipa embarked on the Future Nostalgia Tour, which commenced in February 2022 after being postponed three times due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[2]

Upon its release, Future Nostalgia received universal acclaim from music critics, many of whom praised the production, its cohesion and Lipa's stylistic evolution. Commercially, the album topped the charts in fifteen countries and reached the top ten in thirty-one countries. In the United Kingdom, it peaked atop the UK Albums Chart for four non-consecutive weeks, becoming her first album to do so as well as garnering her first-ever nomination for the Mercury Prize, and earning the Brit Award for British Album of the Year. At the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards, Future Nostalgia was nominated for Album of the Year and won Best Pop Vocal Album, whilst "Don't Start Now" was nominated for Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance.

Future Nostalgia was succeeded by its remix album, Club Future Nostalgia, which was released on 28 August 2020 to positive reviews from critics. A French edition of Future Nostalgia was released on 27 November 2020, which yielded the French number-one single "Fever". A reissue of the album, subtitled The Moonlight Edition, was released through Warner on 11 February 2021, along with its lead single, "We're Good".

  1. ^ Havens, Lyndsey (27 March 2020). "How Dua Lipa Is Leading The Charge Toward Disco-Influenced Production". Billboard. Retrieved 9 September 2024.
  2. ^ Subscribe (28 June 2021). "Dua Lipa postpones UK and European tour | News". diymag.com. Retrieved 28 June 2021.