Through the rest of the year, Bolton has a number of live dates, but he’s selective about where he and his bandmates, many of whom have been with him for 20 years or more, play. The good news is I’m so happy with so much of the album that when doing the promotion — which really can get very taxing — it’s great to love the body of work.

on Billboard’s Adult Contemporary charts, including “Time, Love and Tenderness,” “When I’m Back on My Feet Again” and “Said I Loved You…But I Lied,” Bolton has an enviable songwriting catalog, and though many of his contemporaries have sold their works for huge sums, Bolton has been a hold out.Celebrating his 50 th year of making music, Bolton found himself completely revitalized while making his first album of original material in 14 years, his first since 2009’s One World One Love. Next for Bolton is a holiday album, as well as a scripted podcast ( Michael Bolton’s Big Sexy Podcast) which reunites him with The Lonely Island’s Akiva Schaffer. The first single "Beautiful World" debuted during NBC's American Song Contest and was also performed during the CBS primetime airing of the DayTime Emmys Awards. Bolton’s career reached a new plateau more than a decade ago, when he joined forces with comedy trio The Lonely Island for a Saturday Night Live digital short on 2011’s “Jack Sparrow. It was a little scary, because I was definitely crossing some lines — but as long as it’s funny and musical, I’m up for taking a close look at it.

SPARK OF LIGHT is the forthcoming album of original music co-written by Michael Bolton in almost 15 years.Part of that reflection came from an old friend: During the pandemic and as he was writing for this album, he watched a documentary on Luciano Pavarotti and was transported back to when he first performed “Nessun Dorma” with the opera legend in 1995 and had embarked on a study of all the great tenors. It’s something that I never thought I would consider and I’m thinking if the right offer came along would I consider it? Christina would come to me and say, ‘I have four or five people you could have sessions with next week.