Hot August Night/NYC: Live from Madison Square Garden

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.[2]

Hot August Night/NYC
Live album by Neil Diamond
Released	August 14, 2009 (Walmart) February 9, 2010 (Commercially) November 24, 2014 (UMe)
Recorded	August 14, 2008
Genre	Rock
Label	Columbia UMe
Neil Diamond chronology
The Best of Neil Diamond (2008) Hot August Night/NYC (2009) A Cherry Cherry Christmas (2009)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[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

Album

Chart (2009)	Peak position
Australian Albums Chart[3]	21
Belgian (Flanders) Albums Chart[4]	71
Dutch Albums Chart[5]	34
German Albums Chart[6]	45
Spanish Albums Chart[7]	54
Swiss Albums Chart[8]	91
US Billboard 200[9]	2

Chart (2010)	Peak position
Greek Albums Chart[10]	23

DVD

Chart (2009)	Peak position
Australian Music DVDs Chart[11]	1
Austrian Music DVDs Chart[12]	9
Belgian (Flanders) Music DVDs Chart[13]	3
Dutch Music DVDs Chart[14]	2
Irish Music DVDs Chart[15]	5
Spanish Music DVDs Chart[16]	15

Chart (2011)	Peak position
New Zealand Music DVDs Chart[17]	1

Certifications and sales

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI)[18]	Gold	100,000
Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

References

1. Allmusic review
2. Graff, Gary (August 10, 2009). "Neil Diamond's 'Hot August Night/NYC' Comes To DVD". Billboard. Retrieved May 1, 2010.
3. "Neil Diamond – Hot August Night / NYC". Australian-charts.com. Hung Medien. Retrieved January 30, 2013.
4. "Neil Diamond – Hot August Night / NYC". Ultratop (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved January 30, 2013.
5. "Neil Diamond – Hot August Night / NYC". GfK Dutch Charts (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved January 30, 2013.
6. "Album – Neil Diamond, Hot August Night / NYC". Charts.de (in German). Media Control. Retrieved January 30, 2013.
7. "Neil Diamond – Hot August Night / NYC". Spanishcharts.com. Hung Medien. Retrieved January 30, 2013.
8. "Neil Diamond – Hot August Night / NYC". Hitparade.ch (in German). Hung Medien. Retrieved January 30, 2013.
9. Caulfield, Keith (August 19, 2009). "George Strait Dethrones Michael Jackson, Tops Billboard 200". Billboard. Retrieved May 1, 2010.
10. "Neil Diamond – Hot August Night / NYC". Greekcharts.com. Hung Medien. Archived from the original on October 24, 2012. Retrieved January 30, 2013.
11. "ARIA Top 40 Music DVD" (PDF). The ARIA Report (1018): 24. August 31, 2009. Retrieved January 30, 2013.
12. "Austria Top 40 – Musik-DVDs Top 10 11.09.2009". Austriancharts.at (in German). Hung Medien. Retrieved January 30, 2013.
13. "Neil Diamond – Hot August Night / NYC [DVD]". Ultratop (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved January 30, 2013.
14. "Dutch Charts Portal". GfK Dutch Charts (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved January 30, 2013.
15. "Irish Charts – Singles, Albums & Compilations". IRMA. Fireball Media. Archived from the original on August 30, 2009. Retrieved January 30, 2013.
16. "Top 20 DVD Musical" (PDF). PROMUSICAE (in Spanish). Media Control GfK. Retrieved January 30, 2013.
17. "Top 10 Music DVDs". RIANZ. Archived from the original on February 23, 2013. Retrieved January 30, 2013.
18. "British album certifications – Neil Diamond – Hot August Night/Nyc". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved 10 June 2019. Select albums in the Format field. Select Gold in the Certification field. Type Hot August Night/Nyc in the "Search BPI Awards" field and then press Enter.