One Bright Day

1989 studio album by Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers

One Bright Day

Studio album by

Released

July 25, 1989

Studio

Compass Point Studios, Nassau, Bahamas

Genre

Reggae

Length

54:38

Label

Virgin

Producer

Chris Frantz, Glenn Rosenstein, Tina Weymouth, Ziggy Marley

Conscious Party
(1988)

One Bright Day
(1989)

Jahmekya
(1991)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]

One Bright Day is the fourth album by Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers, released in 1989. It won the Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album in 1990.^[2]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Black My Story (Not History)"	Ziggy Marley Stephen Marley	4:16
2.	"One Bright Day"	Ziggy Marley	4:12
3.	"Who Will Be There"	Ziggy Marley Stephen Marley	4:10
4.	"When the Lights Gone Out"	Ziggy Marley	4:09
5.	"All Love"	Ziggy Marley	4:39
6.	"Look Who's Dancing"	Ziggy Marley Stephen Marley	5:00
7.	"Justice"	Ziggy Marley	4:12
8.	"Love Is the Only Law"	Ziggy Marley Cedella Marley	4:07
9.	"Pains of Life"	Ziggy Marley	3:46
10.	"Urb-an Music"	Ziggy Marley	2:54
11.	"Problems"	Ziggy Marley Sharon Marley Pendergast	4:02
12.	"All You Got"	Ziggy Marley Stephen Marley	4:19
13.	"When the Lights Gone Out (Jamaican Stylee)""	Ziggy Marley	4:52
Total length:			54:38

Chart (1989)	Peak position
US Billboard 200^[3]	26
US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)^[4]	43


Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
United States (RIAA)^[5]	Gold	500,000^{^}
^{^} Shipments figures based on certification alone.

^ Promis, Jose F.. Review at AllMusic. Retrieved 10 April 2021.
^ Sherry Paprocki; Sean Dolan (1 January 2009). Bob Marley: Musician. Infobase Publishing. pp. 89–. ISBN 978-1-4381-0072-2. The next album, Conscious Party, won a Grammy Award for best reggae recording after being released in 1988. Several other albums followed, including the Grammy winners One Bright Day in 1989 and Fallen Is Babylon in 1997. Members of ...
^ "Ziggy Marley Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved December 29, 2015.
^ "Ziggy Marley Chart History (Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved December 29, 2015.
^ "American album certifications – Ziggy Marley & Melody Makers – One Bright Day". Recording Industry Association of America.