In a retrospective review, Allmusic editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine called Hot August Night "the ultimate Neil Diamond record. In a contemporary review for Rolling Stone, music critic Lester Bangs called Hot August Night a "fine presentation of the entire spectrum" of Diamond's work and praised its music as "great, pretentious, goofy pop" with a melodramatic, "hymn-like feeling". While watching the scene in Laserblast where a corrupted Billy Duncan is killed by an alien, Mike Nelson makes a riff by saying "Neil Diamond: Hot August Nights."Ĭritical reception Professional ratings Review scores The album's name was referenced in the Season 7 finale for Mystery Science Theater 3000.
In 1996, MCA Managing Director Paul Krige estimated that cumulative sales of Hot August Night in Australia have exceeded one million units. However, because ARIA was only formed in 1983 and record companies have not reported complete record sales records to them, sales are an estimation only and in the case of 1970's albums like Hot August Night, the conservative estimates may be falling short. Based on accreditation levels since 1983, it also equates to a 700,000 sales milestone. When the album re-entered the albums chart in 2014, it was listed as 10× Platinum. Based on album accreditation levels used until 1983, it equates to a 700,000 sales milestone.
During the 1991-92 chart-run it was listed on the chart as 14 x Platinum. It re-entered the Australian top 10 in 1982, then had another chart run in 1991-92 peaking at number 21. It was the number 1 album of 1973 and the number 3 album of 1974. Hot August Night was the number one charting album in Australia for the 1970s, entering the Australian album charts in late 1972 and still charting in the top 20 in 1976.
This makes it equal 5th for the most weeks at number 1, tying with Delta Goodrem's 2003 album Innocent Eyes. Hot August Night is one of the biggest selling albums of all time in Australia, where it spent 29 weeks at number 1 on the album charts during 19. ĭiamond later released three live "sequel" albums, Hot August Night II (1987), Hot August Night/NYC (2009), and Hot August Night III (2018), as well as the Love at the Greek live album, issued in 1977. This also marks the first album released by the newly formed MCA Records (a merging of the Uni, Kapp, and Decca labels). The album is a recording of a Diamond concert on August 24, 1972, one of ten sold-out concerts that Diamond performed that month at The Greek Theatre in Los Angeles. Hot August Night is a 1972 live double album by Neil Diamond.
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