Who Believes in Angels?
Collaborative album by Elton John and Brandi Carlile.
Who Believes in Angels? is a collaborative studio album by Elton John and Brandi Carlile, released on 4 April 2025 through Interscope Records. Produced by Andrew Watt, it is John's thirty-fifth studio album and Carlile's eighth. The record received positive reviews and debuted at number one in the United Kingdom and Switzerland.
Quick Facts
- Artist
- Elton John and Brandi Carlile
- Released
- 4 April 2025
- Recorded
- October 2023
- Studio
- Sunset Sound (Los Angeles)
- Length
- 44:08
- Label
- Interscope
- Producer
- Andrew Watt
Facts from the source article.
Track listing
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Rose of Laura Nyro | 6:39 |
| 2 | Little Richard's Bible | 2:59 |
| 3 | Swing for the Fences | 3:22 |
| 4 | Never Too Late | 3:36 |
| 5 | You Without Me | 4:35 |
| 6 | Who Believes in Angels? | 5:13 |
| 7 | The River Man | 4:41 |
| 8 | A Little Light | 4:22 |
| 9 | Someone to Belong To | 4:20 |
| 10 | When This Old World Is Done with Me | 4:16 |
| Total length | 44:08 | |
Track listing from the source article.
Background
Recording began in October 2023, with John, Carlile, and Watt pushing each other out of their comfort zones to write and record an album from scratch in twenty days. Musicians included Chad Smith, Josh Klinghoffer, and Pino Palladino. John called it one of the toughest albums he had made and one of the greatest musical experiences of his life, noting struggles related to vision loss from an eye infection.
Promotion
The title track was released as the first single on 5 February 2025, alongside the album announcement and a short film documenting its making. A music video directed by David LaChapelle, featuring a Captain Fantastic pinball machine, debuted on 7 February. John and Carlile performed at the London Palladium for a CBS special, with its soundtrack released on vinyl for Record Store Day Black Friday 2025.
Commercial performance
Who Believes in Angels? debuted at number nine on the Billboard 200 with 40,000 album-equivalent units, becoming John's twenty-second top-ten album and Carlile's fourth. It also topped the Top Rock Albums and Top Rock & Alternative Albums charts. In the UK, it debuted at number one with 22,843 units, John's tenth number-one album and Carlile's first.
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