''Beautiful Collision'' is the second solo album by

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artist

Bic Runga Briolette Kah Bic Runga (born 13 January 1976), recording as Bic Runga, is a New Zealand singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist pop artist. Her first three studio albums debuted at number one on the New Zealand Top 40 Album charts. Runga ...

, released on 1 July 2002 in New Zealand, 15 July 2002 in

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, and 5 November 2002 in the United States.

Critical reception

Ken Goldstein of

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gave the album a positive review, as did Emma Phillpott from ''NZ Musician''. At the 2003 New Zealand Music Awards, ''Beautiful Collision'' was nominated for Album of the Year, Best Female Vocalist, Best Solo Artist and Producer of the Year. It lost Album of the Year to

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' self-titled album, but won the other three categories. At the awards ceremony, it was also announced as the highest-selling New Zealand album for the year of 2003. Additionally, " Get Some Sleep" was nominated for the award for Single of the Year, but was beaten by Goodshirt's song "

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Commercial performance

''Beautiful Collision'' debuted at number one on the

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on 14 July 2002. It spent an additional seven non-consecutive weeks at number one in June and July 2003. ''Beautiful Collision'' lasted a total of 101 non-consecutive weeks on the New Zealand Albums Chart; its last appearance was on 11 October 2004. It was ranked as the eighth best-selling album in New Zealand in 2002, and the best-selling album in 2003. ''Beautiful Collision'' was

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11-times platinum by the

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, denoting shipment of 165,000 copies. The album spent one week on the

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in August 2002, at number forty-one. ''Beautiful Collision'' peaked at number fifty-five on the

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, and lasted two weeks on the chart.

Track listing

Track listing adapted from

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Beautiful Collision by Bic Runga
''Spotify''. Retrieved 3 December 2022. and CD liner notes. All tracks are written and produced by

Personnel

Credits adapted from CD liner notes. Musicians *Bic Runga – vocals (all tracks), acoustic guitar (tracks 5, 8), arrangements (all tracks),

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(tracks 3, 11), drums (tracks 3, 11), drum samples (track 6), electric guitar (tracks 6, 8, 11), guitar (tracks 1, 7), harmonica (track 10), piano (tracks 4, 6–9, 12), string arrangement (track 9), twelve-string electric guitar (track 3), Wurlitzer piano (tracks 4, 10) *Tim Arnold – twelve-string acoustic guitar (track 2), vocals (track 2) *Milan Borich – twelve-string acoustic guitar (track 2), vocals (tracks 2, 3, 10) *

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–

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(track 4) *Stu Buchanan –

clarinet The clarinet is a Single-reed instrument, single-reed musical instrument in the woodwind family, with a nearly cylindrical bore (wind instruments), bore and a flared bell. Clarinets comprise a Family (musical instruments), family of instrume ...

(track 11) *

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– acoustic guitar (track 2), electric guitar (tracks 2, 3) *

Neil Finn Neil Mullane Finn (born 27 May 1958) is a New Zealand singer-songwriter and musician. He is best known for being a principal member of Split Enz and for being the lead singer of Crowded House. He was also a member of Fleetwood Mac from 2018 ...

– piano (track 5), vocals (tracks 3, 5, 10), Wurlitzer (track 5) *Jay Foulkes – percussion (track 9), tambourine (tracks 2, 8, 10) * Alan Gregg – bass (tracks 4, 9, 12), electric bass (track 6) *Bob Heinz –

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(tracks 5, 11), guitar (track 7) *Harry Harrison – slide guitar (track 8) *Duncan Haynes – string arrangements (tracks 3, 7, 9) *Josh Hodgson – acoustic guitar (track 5) *Ben King – vocals (track 2) *Geoff Maddock – electric guitar (tracks 6, 10), twelve-string acoustic guitar (track 12), twelve-string electric guitar (track 12) *Andy Morton – drum

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(track 6), keyboards (track 9),

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samples (track 4),

synth bass Keyboard bass (shortened to keybass and sometimes referred as a synth bass) is the use of a smaller, low-pitched keyboard with fewer notes than a regular keyboard or pedal keyboard to substitute for the deep notes of a bass guitar or double bass ...

(track 9), programming (track 4) *Lee Prebble – additional editing (track 6) *

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– electric guitar (track 6), vocals (track 8), vocal guidance/direction (tracks 2, 8, 9) *Pearl Runga – vocals (track 8), vocal guidance/direction (track 8) *Sophia Runga – vocal guidance/direction (track 8) *

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– bass (tracks 2, 3, 8, 10, 11), tenor guitar (track 4),

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(tracks 5–7) *Luke Tomes – drum programming (tracks 4, 6, 12), gong (track 4) *Darryl Ward –

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overdubs (track 6) *

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– drums (tracks 2, 7–10), drum sounds (tracks 4, 12) Technical *Bic Runga – production (all tracks) *Nick Abbott –

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*Neil Baldock – engineering *Danny Blume – engineering *Michael Brauer – mixing (all tracks) *Greg Calbi – mastering (all tracks) *Ricardo Chavarria – mixing assistance (all tracks) *Reuben Douglas – engineering assistance *Andy Fox-Hulme – engineering *Sam Gibson – engineering *Josh Hodgson – engineering assistance *Ben Holt – engineering *Chris Kelly – engineering *Nick Manders – engineering *Andy Morton – engineering *Clint Murphy – engineering *John Paterno – engineering *Luke Tomes – engineering

Critical reception

Commercial performance

Track listing

Personnel

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

See also

References