Blue Lights On The Runway is the fourth studio album

Studio album

A studio album is an album made up of tracks recorded in the controlled environment of a recording studio. A studio album contains newly written and recorded or previously unreleased or remixed material, distinguishing itself from a compilation or reissue album of previously recorded material, or...

 by Irish

Republic of Ireland

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 band Bell X1. It was released in Ireland on 20 February 2009, and on March 3, 2009, in North America

North America

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. It is a Choice Music Prize

Choice Music Prize

-Establishment:It was established by journalist Jim Carroll and manager Dave Reid in 2005. as an alternative to the industry-dominated Meteor Music Awards. The Choice Music Prize is modelled after the Mercury Prize which is awarded each year to the best album from the United Kingdom or Ireland...

 nominated album for Best Irish album in 2009.

The first single from the album was "The Great Defector

The Great Defector

"The Great Defector" is the lead single from Bell X1's fourth studio album Blue Lights on the Runway.The single was released in Ireland on 30 January 2009 and internationally on 3 February 2009. It was selected as Tony's Daily Download by Today FM presenter Tony Fenton on 16 January 2009 before its...

" (30 January 2009 in Ireland and 3 February 2009, in the UK and the US).

The album's title comes from a line of the lyrics of the The Great Defector: "Blue lights on the runway, I love the colour of it all."

Track listing

1. "The Ribs of a Broken Umbrella" – 5:27
2. "How Your Heart Is Wired" – 6:14
3. "The Great Defector
   The Great Defector
   "The Great Defector" is the lead single from Bell X1's fourth studio album Blue Lights on the Runway.The single was released in Ireland on 30 January 2009 and internationally on 3 February 2009. It was selected as Tony's Daily Download by Today FM presenter Tony Fenton on 16 January 2009 before its...
   
   " – 4:40
4. "Blow Ins" – 4:36
5. "Amelia" – 6:58
6. "A Better Band" – 6:35
7. "Breastfed" – 4:11
8. "Light Catches Your Face" – 5:44
9. "One Stringed Harp" – 5:12
10. "The Curtains Are Twitchin'" – 5:08

Charts

Chart (2009)	Peak Position
Irish Albums Chart Irish Albums Chart The Irish Albums Chart is the Irish music industry standard albums popularity chart issued weekly by the Irish Recorded Music Association and compiled on its behalf by Chart-Track. Chart rankings are based on sales, which are compiled through over-the-counter retail data captured electronically...	1
U.S. Billboard Billboard (magazine) Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis... Top Heatseekers Top Heatseekers Top Heatseekers refers to either of two separate "Breaking and Entering" music charts issued weekly by Billboard Magazine: the Heatseekers Albums chart or the Heatseekers Songs chart. They were introduced by Billboard in 1993 with the purpose of highlighting the sales by new and developing musical...	19
U.S. Billboard Top Independent Albums chart	49