Three Chord Opera

Three Chord Opera
Studio album by
ReleasedJuly 24, 2001
Recorded2000–01
GenrePop
Length47:17
LabelColumbia
ProducerPeter Asher, Alan Lindgren
Neil Diamond chronology
The Neil Diamond Collection
(1999)
Three Chord Opera
(2001)
The Essential Neil Diamond
(2001)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]

Three Chord Opera is the twenty-fifth studio album by Neil Diamond, released in 2001. It marked the first album since 1974's Serenade to consist solely of original material written solely by Diamond, and the first album of any original songs since 1996's country-themed Tennessee Moon where he co-wrote all but one of the songs.

The album also featured the song "I Believe in Happy Endings", written by Diamond for the 2001 comedy Saving Silverman in which he made a cameo.

The album reached number 15 on the Billboard 200 chart.[1][2] "You are the Best Part of Me", reached No. 28 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart.[3]

  1. ^ a b Three Chord Opera at AllMusic
  2. ^ Diamond, Neil. "Billboard 200". Retrieved March 8, 2014.
  3. ^ Diamond, Neil. "Adult Contemporary". Retrieved March 8, 2014.