Butterfly Rocket
{{Infobox album|
| name = Butterfly Rocket
| type = Studio
| artist = Nikka Costa
| cover = Nikka Costa - Butterfly Rocket album cover.jpg
| alt =
| released = August 1996
| recorded =
| venue =
| studio =
| genre =
| length = 51:22
| label = Mushroom
| producer = Justin Stanley
| prev_title = Here I Am... Yes, It's Me
| prev_year = 1989
| next_title = Everybody Got Their Something
| next_year = 2001
}}
Butterfly Rocket is Nikka Costa's fourth studio record and first "adult" album, released in August 1996 in Australia on Mushroom Records.
Track listing
{{tracklist
| title1 = Get Off My Sunshine
| lyrics1 = Nikka Costa, Justin Stanley, J. Garner
| length1 = 4:11
| title2 = Come Clean
| lyrics2 = Nikka Costa, Justin Stanley
| length2 = 4:28
| title3 = Flowers
| lyrics3 = Nikka Costa, Justin Stanley
| length3 = 3:55
| title4 = Master Blaster
| lyrics4 = Nikka Costa, Justin Stanley
| length4 = 5:16
| title5 = In This Life
| lyrics5 = Nikka Costa
| length5 = 3:57
| title6 = Treat Her Right
| lyrics6 = Nikka Costa, Justin Stanley, R. Woolf
| length6 = 5:05
| title7 = Meltdown
| lyrics7 = Nikka Costa, Justin Stanley, M. Ward
| length7 = 5:14
| title8 = I Do Believe
| lyrics8 = Nikka Costa, Justin Stanley
| length8 = 4:19
| title9 = Black Seed
| lyrics9 = Nikka Costa
| length9 = 3:44
| title10 = Grab Hold
| lyrics10 = Nikka Costa
| length10 = 4:24
| title11 = Who's Loving You?
| lyrics11 = Nikka Costa
| length11 = 4:27
}}
Later copies of the album were released with the limited edition bonus CD "Live at the Bridge". The songs were recorded live at The Bridge Hotel in November, 1996.
{{tracklist
| title1 = Some Love
| lyrics1 = Nikka Costa, Justin Stanley, J. Garner
| length1 = 5:08
| title2 = Come Clean
| lyrics2 = Nikka Costa, Justin Stanley
| length2 = 6:44
| title3 = Get Off My Sunshine
| lyrics3 = Nikka Costa, Justin Stanley, J. Garner
| length3 = 4:31
| title4 = When My Man Cries
| lyrics4 = Nikka Costa
| length4 = 5:07
| title5 = Stay With Me
| lyrics5 = Ron Wood, Rod Stewart
| length5 = 4:56
| title6 = Yer Blues
| lyrics6 = John Lennon, Paul McCartney
| length6 = 4:13
}}
Charts
class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" |
scope="col"|Chart (1996)
!scope="col"|Peak |
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scope="row"| Australian Albums (ARIA){{cite web|url= https://imgur.com/a/iPTIRXV | title= Nikka Costa ARIA Chart History (albums) complete to 2024|publisher=ARIA|via=Imgur.com|access-date= July 26, 2024}} N.B. The High Point number in the NAT column represents the release's peak on the national chart.
|align="center"| 103 |
References
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Category:Mushroom Records albums
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