The Good Witch Tracklist
The Good Witch is the sophomore studio album by English singer-songwriter Maisie Peters, released on June 23, 2023.
After releasing her debut studio album in August 2021, the British artist started to tease the making-of her following project in a series of posts starting in November of that year.
In 2022, Peters hinted at more details of the album, announcing that she had a possible name and was deciding which of her recently released singles would make the album. She further confirmed the project that August on a TikTok livestream saying:
I am working on the album, I promise. I was talking about track listing today. But I’m really excited for it. You’ll hear about it at some point […] It’ll come next year.
On January 5, 2023, Maisie announced the album’s first single, “Body Better” which was subsequently released on January 27.
On February 22, 2023 the album was officially announced. Initially expected to release on June 16, 2023, Maisie explained:
these songs feel like spells, some of them manifestations, some of them hexes and curses and charms of protection for myself and my friends – it’s my pen, my book, and you are all my coven. this album contains my great, my bad, my ugly; it is the truest reflection of my life this past year, and i hope you see that. the good witch era begins.
“Body Better” was followed by two more singles, “Lost The Breakup” and “Two Weeks Ago” in March and May of 2023 respectively.
While the initial release date of the album was June 16th, 2023, on May 2nd, 2023, Maisie Peters revealed that it would be pushed back by one week for release on June 23, 2023 instead.
On March 9, 2023, Maisie announced there was 15 tarot cards designed for each track of the album, to be released each week leading up to its release, starting with “The Good Witch”.
On 30th June 2023, a week after the album’s release, The Good Witch went straight to number 1 on the Official UK Album’s chart, giving Maisie her first UK number 1. At the age of 23, this made Maisie the youngest female UK artist to achieve a number 1 album in almost a decade.
“The Good Witch” Q&A
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Translations
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How did the process of making this album differ to Maisie's previous projects?
During a Zoom call with her fans to announce the album, Maisie Peters said:
It was a process unlike any project I’ve made so far. I don’t think I’ve ever put as much of myself in anything I’ve ever made. I don’t think I’ve ever been more truthful than I have been in this album. I mean, it’s crazy! I’ve obviously played it to Vera and to Cate and to all of my friends. We are all just sort of incredulous at how factual it is, and it’s wild because I write hundreds of songs, but it’s interesting how the ones that ended up becoming this album are just such an accurate reflection of how I lived and who I was and what I was going through.
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How does Peters feel with the album?
This is my heart and soul, my blood on the page, the collection of stories that I’ve managed to capture in the past year. A true chronicle of my life in recent history, it is my own twisted version of a breakup album and it all draws upon the same couple of months’ worth of experiences and inspirations. It ducks and weaves between the real and surreal, and centres my own universe, of which I am of course the keeper of the keys and the holder of the cards – the good witch, if you will. It goes from light to dark in the flip of a switch and I hope takes you on a journey whereby the end you feel like you’ve gotten lost in someone else’s planet for a bit.
— via DORK
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Which word does the singer consider that represents the album the most?
[…] I realised when I was looking through my next album, ‘obsessed’ would be the biggest word on my word map. I think women are pretty private with their obsessions, apart from to other women maybe, and sometimes it’s funny because people are like, ‘Oh, you’re so obsessed.’ And you’re like, ‘You have no idea.’ This is the surface of the obsession.
— via Rolling Stone
