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2007 studio album by Carla Bruni
No Promises
Studio album by Carla Bruni
Released15 January 2007
Recorded2006
Genre
LanguageEnglish
LabelNaïve
Carla Bruni chronology
Quelqu'un m'a dit
(2003) 		No Promises
(2007) 		Comme si de rien n'était
(2008)
Singles from No Promises
  1. "Those Dancing Days Are Gone"
    Released: December 2006
  2. "If You Were Coming in the Fall"
    Released: February 2006

No Promises is the second album by the Italian-French singer Carla Bruni. It was recorded during 2006 and released in January 2007. While Bruni's début album, Quelqu'un m'a dit, was sung in French; this album was sung in English.

All tracks on the album are adapted by Bruni from poems by 19th- and 20th-century authors.

Review

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic
The Observer
PopMatters(6/10)

AllMusic said: "Carla Bruni's sophomore effort takes a more difficult route and sees her setting canonical works by such poets as Yeats and Emily Dickinson to music, often calamitously" and concludes "It is a brave failure, but a failure nonetheless."

Track listing

All music is composed by Carla Bruni

No.TitleLyricsLength
1."Those Dancing Days Are Gone"William Butler Yeats3:40
2."Before the World Was Made"Yeats3:49
3."Lady Weeping at the Crossroads"Wystan Hugh Auden3:35
4."I Felt My Life with Both My Hands"Emily Dickinson2:54
5."Promises Like Pie-Crust"Christina Georgina Rossetti2:32
6."Autumn"Walter de la Mare3:24
7."If You Were Coming in the Fall"Dickinson3:30
8."I Went to Heaven"Dickinson2:47
9."Afternoon"Dorothy Parker2:06
10."Ballade at Thirty-Five"Parker3:02
11."At Last the Secret Is Out"Auden3:07
iTunes Store and Japanese edition bonus track
No.TitleLyricsLength
12."Those Dancing Days Are Gone" (alternate version) (featuring Lou Reed)Yeats2:58

Charts

Weekly charts

Weekly chart performance for No Promises
Chart (2007) Peak
position
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) 11
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) 2
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) 1
Canadian Albums (Nielsen SoundScan) 20
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) 47
European Albums (Billboard) 1
French Albums (SNEP) 1
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) 2
Irish Albums (IRMA) 72
Italian Albums (FIMI) 11
Polish Albums (ZPAV) 37
Portuguese Albums (AFP) 6
Scottish Albums (OCC) 83
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE) 5
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan) 55
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) 1
UK Albums (OCC) 65
UK Independent Albums (OCC) 8

Year-end charts

Year-end chart performance for No Promises
Chart (2007) Position
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) 50
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) 37
European Albums (Billboard) 65
French Albums (SNEP) 70
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) 99
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) 41

Certifications and sales

Certifications and sales for No Promises
Region Certification Certified units/sales
Belgium (BEA) Gold 25,000
United States — 6,000
Summaries
Worldwide — 380,000

Sales figures based on certification alone.

References

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