Join the Club (album)

Join the Club is the second and major-label debut studio album by English musician Lucy Spraggan. It was released on 4 October 2013.[1] The album includes the singles "Lighthouse" and "Last Night (Beer Fear)". The album has peaked to number 7 on the UK Albums Chart and number 6 on the Scottish Albums Chart. It has sold 41,344 copies as of May 2015.[2]

Join the Club
Studio album by
Lucy Spraggan
Released4 October 2013 (2013-10-04)
Recorded2011–12
GenrePop
Length43:07
LabelColumbia
Lucy Spraggan chronology
Top Room at the Zoo
(2011)		 Join the Club
(2013)		 We Are
(2015)
Singles from Join the Club
  1. "Lighthouse"
    Released: 28 June 2013
  2. "Last Night (Beer Fear)"
    Released: 29 September 2013
  3. "Tea & Toast"
    Released: 13 December 2013

Singles

"Lighthouse" was released as the album's lead single on 28 June 2013. The song reached number 26 in the UK Singles Chart.[3]

"Last Night (Beer Fear)" was released on 29 September 2013, as the album's second single. The original version was featured on Spraggan's debut album, Top Room at the Zoo and was her audition song for The X Factor in 2012. A new version has been recorded for this album. Music video for this song was released on Lucy's vevo on 16 September 2013 and it's a remake of first video for this song.

On her October 2013 Join the Club tour Spraggan announced each night prior to performing "Tea & Toast" that she "was proud to announce this [Tea & Toast] would be her third official album single. Spraggan confirmed via her Twitter page that she had been recording an accompanying music video for the track.[4] The single was released on 13 December 2013.

Other songs

"Tea & Toast" was released independently as a single on 13 July 2012. Spraggan performed the song in the boot camp stage of The X Factor after Tulisa asked to hear another one of her original songs.[5] The song reached number 135 in the UK.[6]

"Mountains" was made available to download from the album on iTunes when it was made available to pre-order. A music video for the track was also released on 21 August 2013.[7] Spraggan performed the song on the first live show of The X Factor in 2012.

"Someone" was iTunes' single of the week and was available to download for free on the same week as the album's release.

Track listing
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Someone"Lucy Spraggan
2:53
2."Tea & Toast"Spraggan
  • Flannigan
  • Preston
4:32
3."Lighthouse"
  • Spraggan
  • Samuel Preston
  • Flannigan
  • Flannigan
  • Preston
3:21
4."'91"Spraggan
  • Flannigan
  • Preston
3:15
5."The Tourist"Spraggan
  • Flannigan
  • Preston
3:20
6."In a State"Spraggan
  • Flannigan
  • Preston
2:50
7."Wait for Me"
  • Spraggan
  • Preston
  • Flannigan
  • Flannigan
  • Preston
3:18
8."Mountains"SpragganDavid Kosten3:38
9."Let Go"Spraggan
  • Flannigan
  • Preston
4:15
10."Last Night (Beer Fear)"Spraggan
  • Flannigan
  • Preston
2:13
11."Join the Club"Spraggan
  • Flannigan
  • Preston
2:09
12."You're Too Young"Spraggan
  • Flannigan
  • Preston
4:13
13."Paper Dreams"Spraggan, Chris ByardDavid Kosten3:12
Total length:43:07
Deluxe edition bonus tracks
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
14."Rockliffe Bay"Spraggan
  • Flannigan
  • Preston
2:56
15."If I Had the Money"Spraggan
  • Flannigan
  • Preston
3:03
16."Butterflies"Spraggan
  • Flannigan
  • Preston
3:18
17."Safe"Spraggan
  • Flannigan
  • Preston
3:23
Total length:55:47

Chart performance
Chart (2013) Peak
position
Irish Albums (IRMA)[8] 14
Scottish Albums (OCC)[9] 6
UK Albums (OCC)[10] 7

Release history
Region Date Format Label Edition
Ireland 4 October 2013
Columbia Records
  • Standard
  • Deluxe
United Kingdom 7 October 2013
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References
  1. "Join the Club (Deluxe)". iTunes.
  2. Jones, Alan (11 May 2015). "Official Charts Analysis: Mumford & Sons score second No.1 with sales of 81,351". Music Week. Intent Media. Retrieved 5 November 2015.
  3. "Official Singles Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company.
  4. Lucy Spraggan [@lspraggan] (2 November 2013). "We've been recording a video today..." (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  5. Daniel Sperling. "'X Factor': Tulisa requests Lucy Spraggan original song at Boot Camp". Digital Spy.
  6. http://www.zobbel.de/cluk/120908cluk.txt
  7. Lucy Spraggan - Mountains. YouTube. 21 August 2013.
  8. "GFK Chart-Track Albums: Week 41, 2013". Chart-Track. IRMA.
  9. "Official Scottish Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company.
  10. "Lucy Spraggan | Artist | Official Charts". UK Albums Chart.
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