The Fifth Chapter (Beverley Knight album)

The Fifth Chapter
Studio album by Beverley Knight
Released	29 September 2023
Length	37:03
Label	Tag8 BMG
Producer	Mitch Allan Bart AC Burrell Serban Cazan Joshua Cohen Jimmy Hogarth Marcus Johnson Ben Jones Mark Knight Ali Tennant DJ Walde
Beverley Knight chronology
Soulsville (2016) The Fifth Chapter (2023)
Singles from The Fifth Chapter
"Last One on My Mind" Released: 9 June 2023 "Systematic Overload" Released: 17 August 2023 "I'm on Fire" Released: 25 October 2023 "Not Prepared for You" Released: 9 February 2024

The Fifth Chapter is the ninth studio album by English singer Beverley Knight. It was released by Tag8 Music and BMG Rights Management on 29 September 2023, being both her first album in seven years and her first collection of original material in fourteen years. The album celebrates Knight's 50th birthday, and she explained: "I feel as though I am about to step into a whole new level of wonder because I have come into my power. My career is not a big shiny billboard poster that gets replaced with the next star in waiting. Mine is a novel, and I just entered the Fifth and most exciting chapter of it."^[1]

It was preceded by the singles "Last One on My Mind" and "Systematic Overload" and includes several collaborations with the London Community Gospel Choir and a bonus track featuring DJ Mark Knight that originally appeared on his 2021 album, Untold Business. "I'm on Fire", one of the collaborations with the Choir, was released as the third single.

The album debuted in the UK Albums Chart on 6 October 2023 at number 39, Knight's lowest-charting studio release in 25 years (since Prodigal Sista in 1998).