Welcome to Tomorrow
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{{Infobox album
| name = Welcome to Tomorrow
| type = Studio Album
| artist = Snap!
| cover = Welcome_to_Tomorrow_Snap.jpg
| alt =
| released = 30 September 1994
| recorded = 1993–1994
| venue =
| studio =
| genre =
| length = 46:04
| producer = Snap!
| prev_title = The Madman's Return
| prev_year = 1992
| next_title = Snap! Attack: The Best of Snap!
| next_year = 1996
| misc = {{Singles
| name = Welcome to Tomorrow
| type = studio
| single1 = Welcome to Tomorrow (Are You Ready?)
| single1date = 1 September 1994
| single2 = The First the Last Eternity (Till the End)
| single2date = 20 February 1995{{cite web|url=https://www.offiziellecharts.de/titel-details-2976|title=German Charts}}
| single3 = The World in My Hands
| single3date = 11 September 1995{{cite web|url=https://www.offiziellecharts.de/titel-details-150622|title=German Charts}}
| single4 = Rame
| single4date = February 1996{{cite web|url=https://www.offiziellecharts.de/titel-details-31225|title=German Charts}}
}}
}}
Welcome to Tomorrow is the third studio album by German Eurodance project Snap! It was released in 1994 on Arista/Ariola Records and made the top ten in Germany and Switzerland.{{cite web|url=http://www.australian-charts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Snap%21&titel=Welcome+To+Tomorrow&cat=a |title=SNAP! – Welcome to Tomorrow|publisher=australian-charts.com|accessdate=5 January 2015}}
Background
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In 1993, Snap! producers Michael Münzing and Luca Anzilotti recruited Washington, D.C.-born singer Summer (Paula Brown) to front the act. The first single from the album was "Welcome to Tomorrow (Are You Ready?)" and was co-written by Brown. It was a top-ten hit in Germany, the Netherlands, and the UK, and went to number one in Finland. Three further singles were released: "The First the Last Eternity (Till the End)", "The World in My Hands", and "Rame", featuring Rukmani (Neela Ravindra).
Critical reception
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
| rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/snap%21-mn0000753347/discography |title=Snap! Biography by Ron Wynn |publisher=AllMusic|accessdate=5 January 2015}}
| rev2 = Robert Christgau
| rev2score = {{Rating-Christgau|dud}}{{cite web|first=Robert|last=Christgau|url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=snap|title=Snap!|website=Robert Christgau|date=|access-date=7 January 2023|author-link=Robert Christgau}}
| rev3 = The Encyclopedia of Popular Music
| rev3score = {{Rating|3|5}}Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Omnibus Press. p. 578.
| rev4 = Select
| rev4score = {{rating|1|5|full=U+25A0.svg|empty=U+25A1.svg|rating=medal}}{{cite magazine|author=MH|url=https://selectmagazinescans.monkeon.co.uk/showpage.php?file=wp-content/uploads/2014/06/albums21.jpg|title=New Albums: Soundbites|work=Select|date=November 1994|page=107|access-date=25 December 2024}}
}}
Neil Spencer from The Observer wrote, "Silkier and more ambient than their string of Euro-dance hits, the German popsters' third album puts their futurist disco kitsch into mega-drive, with Bacofoil suits and android dreams."Spencer, Neil (2 October 1994). "Pop Releases". The Observer.
Track listing
{{Track listing
| all_writing =
| title1 = Green Grass Grows (Earth Follows)
| writer1 = {{hlist|Benito Benites|John "Virgo" Garrett III|Paula Brown}}
| length1 = 4:00
| title2 = It's a Miracle (People Need to Love One Another)
| writer2 = {{hlist|Benites|Garrett|Brown}}
| length2 = 4:35
| title3 = Rame (featuring Rukmani)
| writer3 = {{hlist|Benites|Garrett}}
| length3 = 4:35
| title4 = Dream on the Moon
| writer4 = {{hlist|Benites|Garrett}}
| length4 = 5:05
| title5 = Welcome to Tomorrow (Are You Ready?)
| writer5 = {{hlist|Benites|Garrett|Brown}}
| length5 = 4:12
| title6 = The World in My Hands
| writer6 = {{hlist|Benites|Garrett|Brown|Penny Ford|Val Young}}
| length6 = 4:12
| title7 = The First the Last Eternity (Till the End)
| writer7 = {{hlist|Benites|Garrett|Brown}}
| length7 = 5:09
| title8 = Waves
| writer8 = {{hlist|Benites|Garrett}}
| length8 = 5:03
| title9 = Where Are the Boys, Where Are the Girls?
| writer9 = {{hlist|Chuck Rolando|Franco Rago|Gigi Farina|Niki Haris}}
| length9 = 4:09
| title10 = It's Not Over
| writer10 = {{hlist|Benites|Garrett}}
| length10 = 4:55
}}
Weekly charts
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Chart (1994)
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scope="row"| Australian Albums (ARIA){{cite web|url=https://imgur.com/Y2sR3v2|title=SNAP! ARIA Albums chart history (to 2022), received from ARIA in 2022|publisher=ARIA|via=Imgur.com|access-date= 3 December 2023}}N.B. The High Point number in the NAT column represents the release's peak on the national chart.
|align="center"| 145 |
{{album chart|Austria|15|artist= Snap!|album=Welcome to Tomorrow|refname=aus|rowheader=true|accessdate=4 January 2015}} |
{{album chart|Flanders|29|artist= Snap!|album=Welcome to Tomorrow|refname=belgian|rowheader=true|accessdate=4 January 2015}} |
{{album chart|Netherlands|12|artist= Snap!|album=Welcome to Tomorrow|refname=dutch|rowheader=true|accessdate=4 January 2015}} |
{{album chart|Germany3|10|artist= Snap!|album=Welcome to Tomorrow|refname=german|rowheader=true|accessdate=4 January 2015}} |
{{album chart|Switzerland|10|artist= Snap!|album=Welcome to Tomorrow|refname=swiss|rowheader=true|accessdate=4 January 2015}} |
{{album chart|UK|69|artist= Snap!|album=Welcome to Tomorrow|refname=uk|rowheader=true|accessdate=9 September 2023}} |