Begin to Hope is the fourth album by Regina Spektor. It was released June 13, 2006. The album debuted at number 70 on the Billboard 200, but due to the popularity of the single "Fidelity" the album rose to number 20 and was labeled a "pace setter" by Billboard. As of June 16, 2007, the album had sold about 407,000 copies blank">http://www.pulsemusic.proboards48.com/index.cgi?board=gmn&action=display&thread=1181137898. _Rolling Stone magazine named it the 21st-best album of 2006.
"Samson" is a new recording of a song originally released on 2002's Songs. Also "20 Years Of Snow" is a revamp of a song by the same title on her previously unreleased Demo Cassette.
Also to be noted a majority of the bonus tracks are also revamps of songs previously found on the Demo Cassette.
The album was nominated for the 2007 Shortlist Music Prize http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003597429.
The album is named after a rare live-only song.
