The Way It Is is a studio album by former Deep Purple, Black Sabbath and Trapeze vocalist/ bassist Glenn Hughes.

It was released in 1999 on Nippon Crown, SPV and Shrapnel Records and was Hughes’ sixth solo studio album.

While Hughes' previous album, 1996's Addiction, had a serious, quite dramatic and heavy sound with songs that focused on the turmoil in his life, its follow-up, The Way It Is, has a distinctly lighter tone.

However, unlike 1995's Feel, which had definite funk, pop and soul sounds, The Way It Is keeps the hard rock Hughes is best known for.

Keith Emerson provides organ parts on two songs and Hughes' usual drummer of the period, Gary Ferguson, performs on all the non-Salas/Sorum numbers.