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| Released | 18 April 2008 | |||
| Recorded | 2007 | |||
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| Genre | Hard rock | |||
| Length | 59:14 | |||
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| Producer | The Brutal Brothers
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 Japanese expanded edition release (2011) | ||||
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Good to Be Bad is the tenth studio album by British hard rock band Whitesnake, released on 18 April 2008 in Germany, 21 April 2008 in Europe and 22 April in North America by SPV/Steamhammer. It was the band's first album of new studio material in a decade, since 1997's Restless Heart, not including the four new tracks recorded for the 2006 live album Live: In the Shadow of the Blues. The album was the very first collaboration between lead vocalist David Coverdale and guitarist Doug Aldrich. The album charted at number 62 on the Billboard 200 chart,[1] number 8 on the Top Independent albums chart, number 23 on the Canadian Albums Chart and number 7 on the UK Albums Chart.[2] As of sales in March 2011, the album sold over 700,000 copies worldwide, considered as unexpected as an independent label release.[3]
The album contained three singles, "Lay Down Your Love", "All for Love", "Summer Rain", and one promotional single, "Can You Hear the Wind Blow". Despite being released through a hard rock independent label, alongside the album itself (with the exception of the Warner record label only to be released in Japan), all of the singles failed to chart.
On 28 April 2023, the album received a reissue by RHINO Entertainment under the name, Still...Good to Be Bad, similar to the 2011 expanded Japanese version. The reissue contained 2-LP remixes and remasters alongside alternate mixes and demo "Evolutions" tapes. The album was widely made available for streaming despite the majority of the songs from that album appeared on the "Red, White, and Blues" trilogy (2020's Love Songs and The Rock Album, and 2021's The Blues Album), respectively.
- ^ "Good to Be Bad Billboard Albums". AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved 23 May 2015.
- ^ "Whitesnake - Official Charts". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 25 April 2015.
- ^ McIver, Joel (March 2011). "Good to Be Bad (SPV/Steamhammer)". Classic Rock presents Whitesnake – Forevermore (The Official Album Magazine). London, England: Future plc. p. 129.