What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World is the seventh studio album from The Decemberists, released on January 20, 2015. The album's title comes from a line in the song "12/17/12", a reference to the date of Barack Obama's speech in response to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting and lead singer Colin Meloy's conflicting feelings about the shooting and his happy personal life. "What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World" received mostly positive reviews. It currently has a metascore of 77 and user score of 8.1 from Metacritic. "The
All the Way... A Decade of Song number-one album of her career. The next week, "All the Way... A Decade of Song" stayed at number one, selling another 328,000 units. In the following week, it fell to number two with sales of 415,000 copies. In the fifth week, it topped the chart again, selling 537,000 units. "All the Way... A Decade of Song" draw the biggest weekly sales in its sixth week when it sold 640,000 copies, falling to number two. On the "Billboard"'s list of best-selling records of 1999 in the US, "All the Way... A Decade of Song" was placed at number thirteen with sales