Album · Leonard Cohen
The Future by Leonard Cohen
The Future is an album by Leonard Cohen, released in 1992. 4 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 7 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Closing Time”, on 3 lists with a best position of #719.
The Future, Leonard Cohen's ninth studio album, came out on Columbia in 1992, and it's the sound of a man watching the world come apart. The Berlin Wall fell and Los Angeles burned in the 1992 riots while he was writing and recording it, and that turbulence seeps into every groove. Cohen produced it himself, working across several studios with a big cast of players and engineers; the credits list nearly 30 female singers.
Coming off the success of I'm Your Man, the record sets that deep, grave croak against a swell of voices, and the lyrics are dark, thick with political and social unrest. At almost an hour it was his longest album yet. Reviews were overwhelmingly positive, it went double platinum in Canada, and it shifted a quarter-million units in America, a country that had long shrugged at him.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from The Future on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Closing Time | 3 | #719 | – | 2009–2020 | |
| 2 | Democracy | 2 | #547 | – | 2023–2026 | |
| 3 | Anthem | 1 | #716 | – | 2020 | |
| 4 | The Future | 1 | #1862 | – | 2020 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.