''Beautiful Goodbye'' is the 11th studio album by singer/songwriter and record producer

Richard Marx Richard Noel Marx (born September 16, 1963) is an American adult contemporary music, adult contemporary and pop rock singer-songwriter. He has sold over 30 million albums worldwide. Marx's Richard Marx (album), self-titled debut album went tri ...

. It was released on July 8, 2014. It is his first new studio album since his 2008 albums '' Emotional Remains'' and '' Sundown'', although a seasonal album ''Christmas Spirit'' was issued in 2012. The album was preceded by the singles "Turn Off The Night" in the UK on May 20 and "Whatever We Started" in the US on May 22. The title track was released as a single on September 13, 2014. "Just Go", a bonus track, had been previously released as a single on February 14, 2013. According to

Nielsen SoundScan Luminate (formerly Nielsen SoundScan, Nielsen Music Products, and MRC Data) is a provider of music sales data. Established by Mike Fine and Mike Shalett in 1991, data is collected weekly and made available every Sunday (for albums sales) and eve ...

, this disc had sold a total of 25,165 American copies as of January, 2018.

Track listing

#"Whatever We Started" (Marx) - 3:55 #" Suddenly" (Marx) - 4:45 #"Inside" (Marx) - 5:29 #"Beautiful Goodbye" (Marx,

Daisy Fuentes Daisy Fuentes (born November 17, 1966) is a Cuban-American actress, comedian, model, television host and former weather presenter. Fuentes broke barriers as MTV's first Latina VJ (signed to MTV and MTV Latin America simultaneously) and as Revlon ...

) - 4:55 #"Forgot To Remember" (Marx,

Matt Scannell Matthew B. Scannell (born February 10, 1970) is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist and multi-instrumentalist. Scannell is the lead vocalist, lead guitarist, primary songwriter, and founding member of the alternative rock band Vertical Hor ...

, Chris Mann) - 3:49 #"Turn Off The Night" (Marx,

David Hodges David Hall Hodges (born December 5, 1978) is an American songwriter and record producer from Little Rock, Arkansas. He was a studio contributor to the rock band Evanescence from 2000–2002. He has since had success co-writing and co–produci ...

, Steven Miller) - 3:28 #"Have A Little Faith" (Marx) - 4:43 #"Like The World Is Ending" (Marx) - 4:15 #"To My Senses" (Marx) - 4:56 #"Getaway" (Marx,

Walter Afanasieff Walter Afanasieff (born Vladimir Nikitich Afanasyev; February 10, 1958), formerly nicknamed Baby Love in the 1980s, is an American record producer and songwriter of Russian-Chinese descent. He was a collaborator with Mariah Carey on her first ...

) - 3:41 #"Eyes On Me" (Marx) - 3:04

Bonus tracks

#"Just Go" (Marx) #"Moscow Calling" (Marx)

Chart performance

Album credits

– producer, lead and backing vocals, arrangements, guitars, acoustic guitar, piano, keyboards, programming, bass guitar, string arrangements *

– keyboards, programming, string arrangements * Michael Jade – keyboards, programming, backing vocals *

Morgan Page Morgan Wolf Page (born May 31, 1981) is an American DJ and music producer. His tracks include "The Longest Road", "Fight for You" and "In the Air". Page has received two Grammy Award nominations; a personal nomination for best remix with Nadia ...

– programming * C.J. Vanston – keyboards, programming, string arrangements * J. Blynn – guitars *

Bruce Gaitsch Bruce R. Gaitsch (; born February 7, 1953) is an American guitarist, composer, and producer. He is best known for working with notable bands and musicians such Chicago, Peter Cetera, Madonna, and Agnetha Fältskog as a session musician and songwri ...

– guitars *

Michael Landau Michael Christopher Landau (born June 1, 1958) is an American musician, audio engineer, and record producer. He is a session musician and guitarist who has played on many albums since the early 1980s with Boz Scaggs, Minoru Niihara, Joni Mitch ...

– guitars *

Heitor Pereira Heitor Teixeira Pereira () (born November 29, 1960), or Heitor TP, is a Brazilian composer, songwriter, musician, arranger, and record producer. In his career, Pereira has recorded with the band Simply Red and several famous musicians, such as Elt ...

– guitars *

– guitars * Michael Thompson – guitars * Paul Bushnell – bass guitar *

Herman Matthews Herman Matthews (born December 28, 1960 in Houston, Texas) is an American drummer and composer. Matthews works as a session and touring musician, most notably for Tower of Power, Kenny Loggins and toured with Tom Jones for more than 7 years. He ...

– drums * Lucas Marx – drum programming * Cliff Colnot – string arrangements * Jeremy Lubbock – string arrangements * Steven Miller – string arrangements *

Chris Walden Chris Walden (born October 10, 1966 in Hamburg, West Germany) is a German composer, arranger, and conductor living in the U.S. He leads the Chris Walden Big Band, and was nominated seven times for a Grammy Award. He has written big band and or ...

– string arrangements * Molly DeWolf – backing vocals *

– backing vocals, string arrangements * Chip Matthews – mixing * Matthew Prock – mixing

References

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