Hot August Night/NYC: Live from Madison Square Garden explained

Hot August Night/NYC
Type:	live
Artist:	Neil Diamond
Cover:	Neildiamondhotaugust.jpg
Released:	(Walmart) February 9, 2010 (Commercially) November 24, 2014 (UMe)
Recorded:	August 14, 2008
Genre:	Rock
Prev Title:	The Best of Neil Diamond
Prev Year:	2008
Next Title:	A Cherry Cherry Christmas
Next Year:	2009

Hot August Night/NYC is a DVD release from Neil Diamond released on August 14, 2009. The DVD features songs from Diamond's four shows at Madison Square Garden during his 2008 tour. An accompanying 2-CD album was released at the same time.^[1]

An edited, hour-long special featuring songs from this DVD was shown on CBS on the night of the disc's release. The special was watched by 13 million viewers.

This is the third in a series of similarly titled live albums; it was preceded by Hot August Night (1972) and Hot August Night II (1987).

Track listing

1. "Holly Holy"
2. "Street Life"
3. "Beautiful Noise"
4. "Love on the Rocks"
5. "Play Me"
6. "Cherry, Cherry"
7. "Thank the Lord for the Night Time"
8. "Home Before Dark"
9. "Don't Go There"
10. "Pretty Amazing Grace"
11. "Crunchy Granola Suite"
12. "Done Too Soon"
13. "Brooklyn Roads"
14. "I Am...I Said"
15. "Solitary Man"
16. "Kentucky Woman"
17. "Forever in Blue Jeans"
18. "Sweet Caroline"
19. "Sweet Caroline" (reprise)
20. "You Don't Bring Me Flowers"
21. "Song Sung Blue"
22. "I'm a Believer"
23. "Man of God"
24. "Hell Yeah"
25. "Cracklin' Rosie"
26. "America"
27. "Brother Love's Travelling Salvation Show"

Charts

DVD

Chart (2009)	Peak position
Australian Music DVDs Chart^[4]	1
Austrian Music DVDs Chart^[5]	9
Belgian (Flanders) Music DVDs Chart^[6]	3
Dutch Music DVDs Chart^[7]	2
Irish Music DVDs Chart^[8]	5
Spanish Music DVDs Chart^[9]	15

Notes and References

1. Neil Diamond's 'Hot August Night/NYC' Comes To DVD. Graff. Gary. August 10, 2009. Billboard. May 1, 2010.
2. Web site: Neil Diamond – Hot August Night / NYC . Greekcharts.com . Hung Medien . January 30, 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121024111057/http://greekcharts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Neil+Diamond&titel=Hot+August+Night+%2F+NYC&cat=a . October 24, 2012 . dead . mdy-all .
3. Top Billboard 200 Albums – Year-End 2009. Billboard. May 9, 2021. February 28, 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150228075838/https://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/2009/top-billboard-200-albums. live.
4. August 31, 2009 . ARIA Top 40 Music DVD . . 1018 . 24 . January 30, 2013 . https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20091004130000/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/23790/20091005-0000/issue1018.pdf . dead . 2009-10-04 .
5. Web site: Austria Top 40 – Musik-DVDs Top 10 11.09.2009 . Austriancharts.at . Hung Medien . de . January 30, 2013.
6. Web site: Neil Diamond – Hot August Night / NYC [DVD] . Ultratop . Hung Medien . nl . January 30, 2013.
7. Web site: Dutch Charts Portal . GfK Dutch Charts . Hung Medien . nl . January 30, 2013.
8. Web site: Irish Charts – Singles, Albums & Compilations . . Fireball Media . https://web.archive.org/web/20090830012750/http://www.irma.ie/aucharts.asp . August 30, 2009 . January 30, 2013.
9. Web site: Top 20 DVD Musical . . Media Control GfK . es . January 30, 2013 .
10. Web site: Top 10 Music DVDs . https://archive.today/20130223210530/http://rianz.org.nz/rianz/oldchart.asp?chartNum=1762&chartKind=D . dead . February 23, 2013 . . January 30, 2013 .