The Next Day is the twenty-fourth studio album by David Bowie. The album was announced on January 8th, 2013, Bowie's sixty-sixth birthday. It is Bowie's first album of new material in ten years, since 2003's Reality, and surprised fans and media who believed he had retired. The Next Day Extra, an additional disc featuring four more tracks, and remixes of songs from the original album, was released eight months later in November. The Next Day was met with critical acclaim, and earned Bowie his first number-one album in the UK since 1993's Black Tie White Noise. The cover art for Read more on Last.fm.
