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Hotspot
Hotspot - cover artwork
14th studio album
release date: January 24th, 2020
chart: UK #3; US #100
studio: Hansa (Berlin), RAK (London), Record Plant (Los Angeles)
length: 42:03
label: x2
producer: Stuart Price

Hotspot is the fourteenth studio album by the Pet Shop Boys, released on 24 January 2020 by the band's own label x2, through Kobalt Label Services. It was supported by the singles "Dreamland" featuring Years & Years, which was released on 25 October 2019, and "Burning the Heather", which was released alongside the album announcement on 13 December 2019. The duo planned to tour the UK and Europe in support of the album in mid-2020. The album charted in numerous countries, reaching No. 3 on the album charts in the United Kingdom, Germany and Spain.
The album was primarily recorded at Hansa Studios in Berlin where the duo have written "most of their music over the last ten years", with the exception of "Burning the Heather", which was recorded at RAK Studios in London, where Bernard Butler contributed guitar to the track. It supposed it is the last of a trilogy of albums produced by Stuart Price, beginning with Electric in 2013. All tracks were written by Tennant and Lowe.
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tracklist
  1. Will-o-the-wisp
  2. You are the one
  3. Happy people
  4. Dreamland
  5. Hoping for a miracle
  6. I don't wanna
  7. Monkey business
  8. Only the dark
  9. Burning the heather
  10. Wedding in Berlin

    Japan CD - bonus tracks
  11. Dreamland (TWD vocal remix)
  12. Monkey business (Prins Thomas diskomiks)
    Deluxe CD - bonus disc
  1. Will-o-the-wisp (instrumental)
  2. You are the one (instrumental)
  3. Happy people (instrumental)
  4. Dreamland (instrumental)
  5. Hoping for a miracle (instrumental)
  6. I don’t wanna (instrumental)
  7. Monkey business (instrumental)
  8. Only the dark (instrumental)
  9. Burning the heather (instrumental)
  10. Wedding in Berlin (instrumental)
releases
CD-R: 2019 UK
(x2; x20018CD1-P) [promo for company & media staff; named/watermarked]
DLOAD: 2019 UK
(x2; n/a) [Dec 2019; promo stream for company & media staff; watermarked]
DLOAD: 2020 UK
(x2; x20018DL1) [wav, mp3, aac]
LP: 2020 DE
(x2; x20018VL1/5-0561-6-71180-6 0)
CD: 2020 DE
(x2; x20018CD1/5-0604-5-71175-3 7)
CS: 2020 DE
(x2; x20018CA1/5-0604-5-71204-0 7)
2xCD: 2020 DE
(x2; x20018CD2/5-0561-6-71203-2 2)
CD: 2020 JP
(Sony Music Japan Int.; SDCI-82583) [Jan; promo]
CD: 2020 JP
(Sony Music Japan Int.; SICX-148) [23 Jan]
7": 2020 DE
(x2; x20021ME/124191) [16 Jan; exclusive vinyl in German magazine]