TwentyFourSeven is a studio album by reggae band UB40

UB40

UB40 are a British reggae/pop band formed in 1978 in Birmingham. The band has placed more than 50 singles in the UK Singles Chart, and has also achieved considerable international success. One of the world's best-selling music artists, UB40 have sold over 70 million records.Their hit singles...

, their last to feature original members Ali Campbell

Ali Campbell

Ali Campbell, , is a British singer, solo artist and songwriter and was the lead singer and founding member of UB40. As part of UB40, Campbell sold over 70 million records world wide and toured the globe for 30 years. In 2008 Campbell left UB40 and embarked on a successful solo career.-Personal...

 and keyboardist Michael Virtue.

"Twentyfourseven" was released as a free insert in The Mail on Sunday's 4 May 2008 issue.[12] which sold nearly three million copies. This however, led to a backlash when the full 17 track version was released 21 June 2008, and most of the big retailers refused to stock it. It failed to go top 75 in the UK. This was a first for UB40, as all the official albums have previously gone Top 50 on the UK Albums Chart.

The track "Rainbow Nation" refers to Gary Tyler once again, originally the subject of "Tyler", the first song on their first album, "Signing Off

Signing Off

Side TwoEP Side OneEP Side Two-Cassette:Side OneSide Two-CD:- Personnel :* Astro – Voices* Neil Black – Assistant Engineer* Jim Brown – Drums, Group Member* Ali Campbell – Rhythm Guitar, Vocals...

". The original saxophone part from "Tyler" is played over the closing bars of the track.

UB40's next release (On EMI), was a collection called "Love Songs". This reached number 3 in the UK Charts.UK Albums Chart.

It's low chart-position (#81) in the UK Albums Chart is due to the covermount

Covermount

Covermount is the name given to storage media or other products packaged as part of a magazine or newspaper...

 release previously in The Mail on Sunday

The Mail on Sunday

The Mail on Sunday is a British conservative newspaper, currently published in a tabloid format. First published in 1982 by Lord Rothermere, it became Britain's biggest-selling Sunday newspaper following the closing of The News of the World in July 2011...

, as fans had already owned the album because of this covermount release. The follow-up album Labour of Love IV

Labour of Love IV

Labour of Love IV is the fourth album of covers by the Birmingham reggae group UB40, following Labour of Love , Labour of Love II and Labour of Love III'.-Track listing:# "Don't Want To See You Cry" – 3:50...

did not feature "covermount treatment", thus entering the UK Albums Chart at #24.

The Mail On Sunday version

1. "Rainbow Nation"
2. "End of War"
3. "Lost and Found"
4. "Here We Go Again"
5. "Oh America"
6. "Instant Radical Change of Perception"
7. "I’ll Be There"
8. "Once Around"
9. "This Is How It Is"
10. "The Road"

Full CD version

1. "End of War"
2. "Lost and Found"
3. "Dance Until The Morning Light" (with Maxi Priest
   Maxi Priest
   Max Alfred "Maxi" Priest is a British reggae vocalist of Jamaican descent. He is best known for singing reggae music with a R&B influence, otherwise known as reggae fusion, and became one of the first international successes who regularly dabbled in the genre as well as being one of the most...
   
    ft. DJ Rapper Truth)
4. "This Is How It Is"
5. "Rainbow Nation"
6. "Here We Go Again"
7. "I Shot The Sheriff
   I Shot the Sheriff
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   " (with Maxi Priest
   Maxi Priest
   Max Alfred "Maxi" Priest is a British reggae vocalist of Jamaican descent. He is best known for singing reggae music with a R&B influence, otherwise known as reggae fusion, and became one of the first international successes who regularly dabbled in the genre as well as being one of the most...
   
   , Marvin Priest
   Marvin Priest
   Marvin Elliott , better known by his stage name Marvin Priest, is a British/Australian-based singer. Marvin's debut studio album, Beats & Blips, was released in November 2011 in Australia, spawning the top ten hit "Own This Club", as well as top one-hundred hits "Take Me Away" and "Feel the...
   
    & DJ Beniton)
8. "Oh America" (extended version; with One Love & Rasta Don of Arrested Development)
9. "Once Around"
10. "Slow Down"
11. "I'll Be Back"
12. "Instant Radical Change of Perception"
13. "It's All In The Game" (with Duncan Campbell)
14. "I’ll Be There"
15. "Middle Of The Night"
16. "Securing The Peace"
17. "The Road"