Havoc and Bright Lights
Havoc and Bright Lights is the eighth (and sixth worldwide) studio album by Canadian-American singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette, first released in Japan on August 22, 2012. The album is her first release on Collective Sounds (distributed by Sony worldwide except by Universal in Canada [where Morissette was on predecessor MCA in early days] and Japan), and in the US by RED Distribution and marks her first release away from Maverick Records, her label since 1995. It was produced by Guy Sigsworth and Joe Chiccarelli, the former having produced her previous album, Flavors of Entanglement (2008).
Havoc and Bright Lights debuted at number five on the US Billboard 200 chart, selling 33,000 copies in its first week. This became her first top five album in the US since 2004's So-Called Chaos and her sixth top ten album in the US overall. The album also debuted at number one on Billboard's Top Rock Albums and Top Independent Albums charts respectively. As of October 2015, the album has sold 92,000 copies in the United States.
Internationally, the album peaked at number one in Canada, Italy, Austria and Switzerland, and at number two in the Netherlands and Germany, where the album was also certified gold for shipments in excess of 100,000 copies.