Eminem has taken on many different guises in his 22 year-plus career. But between the comedy rap as Slim Shady, the emo Marshall Mathers and controversial political commentator of the present day, Eminem has undeniably always been himself.
Since his global breakthrough in 1999 with My Name Is, the rapper from 8 Mile has scored nine Number 1 singles and nine chart-topping albums on the Official Chart. His recent surprise release, Kamikaze helped him break the record for the most consecutive Number 1 albums ever in the UK, having previously shared the feat with ABBA and Led Zeppelin.
Behind those chart-topping albums are some seriously impressive numbers. Six have racked up over one million combined sales, two of which have pushed past the mighty two million mark. Here's how they stack up...
9. Revival (2017)
Finishing ahead of Kamikaze at 10 is last year's Revival. Aided by a star-studded lineup of collaborators including Beyoncé, Ed Sheeran and P!nk, the response was generally positive, praising his rap and lyrical skills that marked a return to form. It's sales to date stand at 321,000 across physical, download and streaming equivalent sales.
8. Relapse (2009)
Arriving after a four-year hiatus after suffering from writer's block and being treated for addiction to prescription sleeping pills, critics were divided at the time when it came to Eminem's lyrics and performance on Relapse. Highlights include the 50 Cent assisted Crack A Bottle, and the surprisingly touching (and slightly screwed up) Beautiful. The sales are still impressive, however: 591,000 across all formats.
7. The Marshall Mathers LP II (2013)
With the original album often lauded as his best work, anticipation on its follow-up - 13 years in the making - was high. Dr Dre, who produced part one, was once again at the helm, alongside longtime collaborator Rick Rubin. The collection finished at the top end of many influential end-of-year lists, while on the Official Singles Chart it delivered his strongest run of hits in years: Top 5 hits Berzerk and Rap God, plus chart-topper The Monster featuring Rihanna. The album's combined sales to date stand at 704,000.
6. Recovery (2010)
Originally planned to be Relapse 2 and released in the same year as its predecessor, the album's title was changed after Eminem felt the music has progressed beyond its original concept. The album received positive reviews, praising its lyrical wit and unnerving honesty. Recovery spent seven non-consecutive weeks at Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart - his longest reign at the summit - and spawned two Top 5 hits, Not Afraid and Love The Way You Lie featuring Rihanna - the latter of which was the best-selling single of that year. Recovery's combined sales to date stand at 1.03 million.
Eminem in 2001 (Rex)
5. The Slim Shady LP (1999)
Eminem's major label debut was a slow burner in the UK and Eminem's only UK release not to reach Number 1, peaking at 10 over a year after its initial release. Regardless, its impact on US rap can't be denied. Produced by his idol Dr Dre, Eminem brought a unique and often controversial lyrical style that led many to label it one of the great debuts in hip-hop. It's combined sales are 1.1 million.
4. Encore (2004)
Eminem's fifth album is one of his most divisive records yet. Released after five years of non-stop album releases and touring, many critics felt he was suffering from burnout on Encore, lacking the innovation of his previous albums. Others view it as Eminem's transitional record from comedy rapper to serious commentator. Featuring chart-topping singles Just Lose It and Like Toy Soldiers, Encore has shifted 1.3 million in the UK, 1.2 of which are physical CD sales.
3. The Eminem Show (2002)
Eminem's fourth album fully established his global superstar status, topping the charts in 19 countries, including the Official UK Albums Chart. Anticipation was so high for the record that bootleg copies surfaced 25 days before its original release date. Even when it was brought forward by the label, stores sold it earlier than permitted. Regardless, its sales were huge, shifting 228,000 in its opening week in the UK and spawning five Top 10 singles, including Number 1s Without Me and Lose Yourself. Its sales to date are 1.8 million across all formats.
Eminem starred alongside Brittany Murphy in 2002 film 8 Mile (Rex)
2. Curtain Call - The Hits (2005)
The fact that this collection of hits from Eminem's career between 1999 - 2005 still regularly appears in the Official Charts is proof alone of his impact on music. In fact, the retrospective hasn't left the Top 40 all year, pushing its combined sales to 2.1 million to date.
1. The Marshall Mathers LP (2000)
Upon its release in May 2000, Eminem's third album was surrounded in controversy. Recorded with Dr Dre in just two months, The Marshall Mathers LP saw more introspective lyricism and often veers into the more disturbing hardcore hip-hop and horrorcore area. It drew criticism for its violent, homophobic and misogynistic lyrics but praise for its emotional depth was louder.
Lead single The Real Slim Shady - a Number 1 hit - was a nod to his comedy rap past, but arguably it's third single Stan that best represents the record. A disturbing tale about a stalker/fan (geddit?), the song entered the Official Singles Chart Number 1 and helped pushed its combined sales to 2.53 million, including 2.4 million physical CD sales. The collection won a Grammy for Best Rap Album and, retrospectively, is often considered among the greatest albums of all time.
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Following a trio of albums in the early 2000s that each moved seven figures in their first weeks—2000’s The Marshall Mathers LP, 2002’s The Eminem Show and 2004’s Encore--and further established hip-hop as a popular music juggernaut, Eminem retreated from the spotlight to iron out his personal life. He reemerged, newly sober buthardly more mature, with 2009's Relapse, his first studio album of new material in five years. It was a quintessential big-budget comeback spectacle, reuniting Eminem with all-star producer Dr. Dre and reintroducing his alter ego Slim Shady for a song cycle that touched on his trip to rehab and subsequent relapse. Regrettably, the album also featured some of his most ghastly lyrics to date: tales of blacking out and slaughtering innocent bystanders (“3 a.m.”), being force-fed Valium by his mother as a child (“My Mom”) and being defiled by his stepfather in the shed behind his house (“Insane”). Relapse debuted atop the Billboard 200 with 608,000 copies and spawned Eminem’s second No. 1 single on the Hot 100, the Dre- and 50 Cent-assisted party anthem “Crack a Bottle.” Yet despite its commercial success, the album's repulsive sexploits and half-baked shock tactics prevented it from being a proper hero’s return in the eyes of critics.
So Eminem tried again. In 2010, he released Recovery, originally supposed to be Relapse 2 before the songs took on a new direction. The ensuing collection pivoted from the try-hard horrorcore dreck of Relapse and strove for optimism in the midst of personal turmoil, as Eminem rapped about overcoming addiction and falling back in love with music. This tonal shift made for the inspired “Talkin’ 2 Myself,” where Eminem acknowledges his recent artistic shortcomings and cops to feeling intimidated by the rise of rappers like Lil Wayne and Kanye West. It also birthed two bombastic, chart-topping singles, the preachy “Not Afraid” and the mawkish “Love the Way You Lie” featuring Rihanna. The latter track opened the floodgates for a slew of unfortunate collaborations with high-profile pop stars that would float Eminem to the top of the charts for the next several years. Recovery topped the Billboard 200 with a monstrous 741,000 copies in its first week, but it also found Eminem embracing the pop music machine he once despited.
Where do you go once you’ve strayed so far from your early sound? If you’re Eminem, you go back to your roots. In 2013, he released The Marshall Mathers LP 2, revisiting his landmark 2000 album that sold a then-record 1.76 million copies in its first week and cemented his status as one of the genre’s wittiest, most wrathful and impactful storytellers. Eminem teased MMLP2 with lead single “Berzerk,” an explosive, irreverent rap-rock crossover that samples Billy Squier’s “The Stroke” to thrilling effect. But producer Rick Rubin’s plodding arena-rock treatment didn’t work nearly as well on the “So Far…,” which samples Joe Walsh’s “Life’s Been Good,” or 'Rhyme or Reason,' which lamely interpolates the Zombies’ “Time of the Season.” Eminem reunites with Rihanna to diminishing results on “The Monster” which nonetheless topped the Billboard Hot 100, and he flexes his pyrotechnic flow on the EDM-influenced “Rap God,” which would stand as a dizzying album highlight if not for its grossly homophobic lyrics. Eminem claimed The Marshall Mathers LP 2 would evoke certain themes and the overall vibe of its predecessor, but the album instead finds him copping to mainstream pop trends and cramming as many syllables into each line as possible at the expense of a cohesive narrative. Fans didn’t care: The Marshall Mathers LP 2 debuted atop the Billboard 200 with 792,000 copies and became the second best-selling album of 2013.
Despite mixed critical reception to much of his post-hiatus material, Eminem seemed unimpeachable from atop the charts from 2009 to 2013. But hip-hop—and popular culture at large—changed drastically in the interim between The Marshall Mathers LP 2 and 2017’s Revival, and Eminem struggled to change with it. The rapper kicked off his haphazard promotional campaign in October 2017 with a fiery, Trump-skewering freestyle cypher at the BET Awards. It was passionate despite its warts—which is more than can be said for Revival. Despite being framed as Eminem’s “political” album—the cover features the rapper holding his head in shame, superimposed over an American flag--Revival is chock-full of Top 40 shlock. The mawkish, Beyonce-assisted ballad “Walk on Water” failed to make a splash as the album’s debut single, and the vile Ed Sheeran arena rock collab “River” just missed the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100. The album sank under the bloat of these high-profile collaborations, including the overwrought “Like Home” featuring Alicia Keys and the dumbfounding, miraculously awful X Ambassadors collab, “Bad Husband.”
As a result of these horrific stylistic missteps, Revival debuted with only 1/3 of the sales of its predecessor, though it still topped the Billboard 200 with 267,000 units. It’s possible that Eminem alienated part of his fanbase with his Trump freestyle, but that can’t account for such a steep sales drop; consumers are too fickle to abandon their favorite artist over one performance. A more likely explanation is that Revival flat-out sucked, and its disingenuous political posturing only hurt matters further.
After a disastrous 2017, Eminem made a wise move by surprise-releasing Kamikaze. The stunt allowed him to frame the album as a raw, back-to-basics effort, and journalists spent the entire weekend decoding his wellspring of disses at critics and fellow rappers. Kamikaze generated a career-high 225.5 million streams in its first week and posted the third-largest sales week of the year exclusively through digital downloads; the album became available on CD on Friday (Sept. 7), which should boost its second-week sales as well. From a commercial standpoint, Kamikaze gave Eminem’s career a much-needed revival after the actual Revival landed with a thud.
But the album’s release did not come without blemishes. Critics quickly disavowed Eminem’s homophobic slur against Tyler the Creator on “Fall,” as did featured artist Justin Vernon. The album, for all of its technical prowess, does little to make Eminem seem up-to-date with genre trends: The hooks are often clunky and annoying, and in lambasting the mumble rap zeitgeist, he resembles a crotchety Abe Simpson of “Old Man Yells At Cloud” fame. There’s also no avoiding the fact that, for all of its fire and fury, Kamikaze still serves partially as a vehicle for its genuinely joyless final track, the shameless Marvel movie tie-in “Venom.”
The element of surprise helped Kamikaze obliterate the charts in its first week, but it remains to be seen how the album’s contents will hold up over time. It’s nearly impossible to capture lightning in a bottle twice, which means Eminem won’t be able to yank the “surprise release” from his trick bag at any point in the foreseeable future. He’ll likely continue to court controversy with every successive album; to expect otherwise would be foolish. But next time, he needs to ditch the slurs, find some more diverse lyrical inspiration and rap with the righteous rage of yore over some modernized hooks. He’ll need to bring his A-game from this point forward, because his trick bag finally seems empty.
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Revival is the ninth studio album by American rapper Eminem. The album was released on December 15, 2017, through Aftermath Entertainment, Shady Records and Interscope Records.[3]
Production for the album took place during 2016 to 2017 at various recording studios. In addition to Eminem himself, music production was handled by various record producers, including Rick Rubin, Skylar Grey, Alex da Kid, and executive producer Dr. Dre.[4]Revival features guest appearances from artists Beyoncé, Phresher, Ed Sheeran, Alicia Keys, X Ambassadors, Skylar Grey, Kehlani, and Pink.
The album's lead single, 'Walk on Water', featuring Beyoncé, was released on November 10, 2017. 'Untouchable' was released as a promotional single on December 8, 2017 a week prior to the album's release. Revival was leaked online on December 13, 2017, two days before the album's release date.[5] The album's second single, 'River', featuring Ed Sheeran, was released on January 5, 2018. The album's third single, 'Nowhere Fast', featuring Kehlani was released on March 27, 2018. The album's fourth single, 'Remind Me', was released on July 6, 2018.[2]A music video for 'Framed' was released on April 3, 2018.
While the album polarized critics, it debuted at number one in Australia, Canada, Finland, the UK, and the US. Revival was also the UK Christmas number-one album of 2017.[6]
Revival was followed by Kamikaze, Eminem's tenth studio album, which was released eight months later with no prior announcement.
Eminem first revealed that he was working on an album when he announced the song 'Campaign Speech' on his Twitter in October 2016, writing, 'Don't worry I'm working on an album! Here's something meanwhile.'[7] Rumors about the release date started in late 2016, saying the album would be called Success and would be released sometime in January 2017.[8] A fake tracklist also was leaked at the same time, with Adele, Chance the Rapper, Kid Cudi, Vince Staples, The Weeknd and Mástein Bennett as featured artists.[9] Rumors were sparked again in February and March 2017, when Eminem announced he was headlining three shows in Reading, Glasgow and Leeds.[10][11] Various news articles said that because he was performing, he would have to release new material to perform, or at least preview, at the festivals.[12]
On October 10, 2017, Eminem performed a freestyle titled 'The Storm' at the 2017 BET Hip Hop Awards, criticizing President Donald Trump.[13] The rapper's freestyle went viral, garnering millions of views and hundreds of thousands of likes on YouTube within weeks. As of August 20, 2018, the video has over 47 million views and over 1.2 million likes.[14]
Revival has many lines critiquing Trump's presidential campaign and election, calling him a racist, a Nazi, and Adolf Hitler, amongst other incendiary insults.[15][16] On 'The Ringer' from his 2018 album Kamikaze, Eminem says that he was questioned by the U.S. Secret Service for his seemingly threatening lyrics, and apologizes for alienating fans who supported Trump.[17]
On October 25, 2017, Paul Rosenberg posted a photo to Instagram of Yelawolf's Trial by Fire.[18] In the background of the photo, there is a billboard ad promoting a drug called 'Revival'. Suspicion was aroused when fans noticed that the 'E' in 'Revival' was reversed, similar to Eminem's previous logos. Visiting the website listed on the billboard ad revealed several clues. On the website, a promotional video about Revival[19] makes references to Eminem's song 'Lose Yourself'. The website also references 'Sing for the Moment', 'Brain Damage', 'Fack', 'Role Model', and 'Any Man'. According to the website, 'Revival' treats 'Atrox Rithimus', a nonexistent medical condition. One translation of Atrox Rithimus, from Latin, is 'terrible rhyme'.[20] The website is also registered to one of Eminem's labels, Interscope Records.[21] When the phone number for 'Revival' is called, it plays the background music of Dr. Dre's 'I Need a Doctor', which Eminem features on.[22] These details led fans to believe Eminem's new album will be called Revival. This would follow suit with the names of two of his last three solo albums, Relapse and Recovery.
The lead single, 'Walk on Water', was first performed by Eminem at the 2017 MTV Europe Music Awards on November 12 with co-producer and writer Skylar Grey on vocals.[23] Both performed the song and a medley of 'Stan' / 'Love the Way You Lie' on Saturday Night Live on November 18.[24]
The album release date was teased multiple times. On November 28, 2017, the release date of the album was announced to be December 15 via both Dr. Dre's and Eminem's social media accounts, while also revealing the fake drug campaign of the record.[25] On December 5, 2017, Eminem shared a complete list of all the tracks featuring on his album via his Instagram account. The list features a total of 19 tracks, including an interlude track to Revival, featuring artists such as Phresher, Ed Sheeran, Skylar Grey, Alicia Keys, X Ambassadors, Pink and Kehlani.[26]
On December 7, 2017, the album cover was revealed and projected onto a Detroit building. That night, the song 'Untouchable' was released and a pre-order was set up on iTunes.[27]
On November 8, 2017, Eminem tweeted a picture of a doctor's prescription note with the words 'Walk on Water' and 'Take as needed' written on it.[28] Additionally, the doctor's note was labeled with the logo for Revival. This caused speculation that the first single would be titled 'Walk on Water'.[29][30][31] On November 9, Paul Rosenberg shared a video on Instagram linking the drug 'Revival' with 'Walk on Water' and confirming the song, which was subsequently released the next day.[32][33] An audio video was uploaded to Eminem's YouTube channel. As of December 16, 2017, the video has nearly 50 million views and over 1.1 million likes.[34] On December 23, 2017, the music video for the song was released exclusively on Apple Music and Eminem's official Vevo channel.[35] 'Walk on Water' debuted at number 14 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming the 57th entry for both artists on the chart.
'River' featuring Ed Sheeran was released as a second single of the album. The song was released to radio on January 5, 2018 and was released a single on February 7. An audio video was uploaded to Eminem's YouTube channel on December 14, 2017. As of January 15, 2018, the video has over 60 million views and 1 million likes.[36] On February 14, 2018, the music video for the song was released on Eminem's official Vevo channel. Commercially, it has reached number one in the United Kingdom, Norway and Sweden as well as the top 10 in Australia, Austria, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal and Switzerland, and the top 20 in Belgium and the United States.
The album's third single, 'Nowhere Fast' featuring Kehlani, impacted US Contemporary hit radio on March 27, 2018.[37] The two artists performed the song at the 2018 iHeartRadio Music Awards.[38] 'Remind Me' was released to Italian radio as the fourth single from the album on July 6, 2018.[2]
'Framed', a horrorcore song, received a music video on April 3, 2018, inspired by 80's horror films.[39][40]
'Untouchable' was released as a promotional single on December 8, 2017. The song features a sample from the song 'Earache My Eye' by the comedy duoCheech & Chong.[41] A remix of 'Chloraseptic' featuring 2 Chainz and Phresher was released as a promotional single on January 8, 2018.[42]
Professional ratings | |
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Source | Rating |
AnyDecentMusic? | 4.3/10[43] |
Metacritic | 50/100[44] |
Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [45] |
The A.V. Club | D+[46] |
Consequence of Sound | F[47] |
The Daily Telegraph | [48] |
The Guardian | [49] |
The Independent | [50] |
NME | [51] |
The Observer | [52] |
Pitchfork | 5.0/10[53] |
Rolling Stone | [54] |
Upon release, Revival, overall, received polarized reviews from music critics as many were divided its lack of focus, the lyrics, the heavy use of rock samples in the production, as well as the abundance of pop artists for guest appearances.[55] At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 50, based on 24 reviews, indicating 'mixed or average' reviews.[44] Don Needham of The Guardian criticized the album's production and focus, stating that 'If Eminem thinks his verbal box of tricks can overcome the weakness of any backing track, his recent albums have demonstrated otherwise.'[49] In a positive review, Andy Gill of The Independent complimented the album's lyrical themes: 'But ultimately, it's all about Eminem himself, and nowhere more dynamically than in the berserk self-assessment 'Offended', where he asserts, amongst other things, that if the time he spent writing were taken into account, he'd be a minimum-wage slave – a faintly ludicrous claim, but immediately backed up by a bravura extended burst of rapid-rap babble that both explains and exemplifies his skills, and leaves one wondering not just how long it took to write, but how on earth he manages to pronounce such a polysyllabic torrent so perfectly.'[50]Neil McCormick of The Daily Telegraph stated that Revival 'represents Eminem on top form, which is to say unstoppable, unbeatable yet often indefensible.'[48]
The Irish Times concluded that Revival is 'mildly more admirable than previous outings but no more enjoyable. A chance to bust out of the slump has passed Eminem by. It just might never happen for him.'[56] In a mixed review, Jon Caramanica of The New York Times remarked that while the album is 'probably the best of his recent albums', he criticized Eminem's apparent lack of awareness to the evolution of hip hop's sound in general, arguing that he is too 'beholden to his own aesthetic.'[57] In a negative review, Consequence of Sound gave the album an 'F' rating, calling the album 'ugly, arthritic, and pleasureless' and 'a disaster'.[47]
Comparing Revival to Eminem's previous bodies of work, Matthew Ismael Ruiz of Pitchfork stated that 'Musically, Revival is no different, chock full of piano ballads and pop-star features that echo the most cynically commercial corners of his catalog. The shock value comes not from the album's overwhelmingly bland hooks or cringe-worthy humor (of which there is plenty), but from the moments where his growth as a human is most apparent', concluding that 'Revival is another late-career album that does little for his legacy.'[53] Writing for Vice, Robert Christgau found the album 'much cleverer than lemmings claim, bluntly and intelligently political too, but so received in its cartoon misogyny and pop grandeur you know he felt irrelevance bearing down even before #MeToo killed this album on the vine'. He singled out 'Untouchable', 'Chloraseptic', and 'Like Home' as highlights.[58]
Trent Clark from HipHopDX said than 'Eminem's dedication to wrecking mics like Robert Mueller can never be questioned but the production choices still remain an enigma. When he's not bathing in lamely visible rock samples like Joan Jett and the Blackhearts' 'I Love Rock 'n' Roll' or The Cranberries' 'Zombie' (on 'Remind Me' or 'In Your Head' respectively), he's mostly square pegging his intensified lyrics on mechanical slabs of assembly line pop hybrids.' He singled out 'Framed' and 'Castle' as highlights: 'it's largely the retreads of past glory where he hits his stride the hardest. On the hypnotically-produced 'Framed,' Marshall dons the hockey mask for old times sake and pulls up off homicidal fantasies that for better or worse, feature the album's most in-pocket rhyme moment. And when he plunges into his drug-altered psyche to speak on his greatest love — his daughter Haile Jade — the ever-reliable DJ Khalil steps up to the plate on 'Castle' with a darkened soundbed of macabre guitars and deathly drum marches that feature the album's most vintage Eminem moment.'[59] Mitch Findlay from HotNewHipHop wrote a similar critics and said: 'Revival is, by far, Eminem's most pop-friendly album to date. While previous albums merely flirted with the sound, Revival has bought a ring and proposed to it. Therefore, if you're somebody who finds no pleasure in the production of 'pop-rap,' you'll find no solace here.' He singled out 'Framed,' 'Castle' and 'Arose' as highlights, calling the latter two are 'among Revival's strongest tracks. Conceptually and lyrically, the closing pair find Eminem in excellent form, and longtime fans will no doubt cite these two as album highlights.'[60]
About the album reaction, Eminem said: 'I think there's things to be taken away from this album and the reaction to it. Were there too many songs? Were there too many features? There were certain songs like 'Tragic Endings' and 'Need Me' where I felt like lyrically they would give the listener a second to breathe. I spend a lot of time writing shit that I think nobody ever gets.'[61] Later he said: 'When the Revival tracklist came down the pipe, it was like overwhelmingly, 'This shit is going to be trash.' Nobody really wanted to be wrong about it. I'm not saying everybody, but a lot of people had already formed their opinion.' He also stated that he is proud of the album, saying: 'I'm good with Revival. Fuck it. Because I couldn't have made this album [Kamikaze] without it.'[62]
Revival entered atop the UK Albums Chart with 132,000 album-equivalent units, becoming the year's second largest opening behind Sheeran's ÷ and giving the rapper his eighth consecutive number-one album.[6] The album was then displaced by ÷ one week later.[63] As of October 2018, it sold 321,000 album-equivalent units in the UK.[64]
Revival is also Eminem's eighth consecutive album to top the US Billboard 200, where it opened with 197,000 copies among 267,000 album-equivalent units. As a result, Eminem became the first musical act to have eight entries in a row debut at its summit.[65] The next week, Revival was replaced at the top spot by Taylor Swift's Reputation.[66] As of September 23, 2018, Revival has sold 392,000 physical copies in the US.[67]
It additionally arrived at number one in Australia, becoming his ninth entry to top the ARIA Albums Chart.[68] The record then fell behind ÷ the following week.[69]
In 2018, Revival was ranked as the 32nd most popular album of the year on the Billboard 200.[70]
Credits adapted from Tidal.[71]
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Length |
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1. | 'Walk on Water' (featuring Beyoncé) | 5:04 | ||
2. | 'Believe' |
| 5:15 | |
3. | 'Chloraseptic' (featuring Phresher) |
| Mr. Porter | 5:01 |
4. | 'Untouchable' |
| 6:10 | |
5. | 'River' (featuring Ed Sheeran) |
| Emile Haynie | 3:41 |
6. | 'Remind Me (Intro)' |
| 0:26 | |
7. | 'Remind Me' |
| Rick Rubin | 3:45 |
8. | 'Revival (Interlude)' |
| 0:51 | |
9. | 'Like Home' (featuring Alicia Keys) |
| 4:05 | |
10. | 'Bad Husband' (featuring X Ambassadors) |
| 4:47 | |
11. | 'Tragic Endings' (featuring Skylar Grey) |
| Alex da Kid | 4:12 |
12. | 'Framed' |
| 4:13 | |
13. | 'Nowhere Fast' (featuring Kehlani) |
| 4:24 | |
14. | 'Heat' |
| Rick Rubin | 4:10 |
15. | 'Offended' |
| 5:20 | |
16. | 'Need Me' (featuring P!nk) |
| Alex da Kid | 4:25 |
17. | 'In Your Head' | Scram Jones | 3:02 | |
18. | 'Castle' |
| DJ Khalil | 4:14 |
19. | 'Arose' | Rick Rubin | 4:34 | |
Total length: | 77:39 |
Track notes
Sample credits
Credits adapted from the album's liner notes.[72]
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Weekly charts[edit]
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Region | Certification | Certified units/Sales |
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Austria (IFPI Austria)[118] | Gold | 7,500* |
Canada (Music Canada)[119] | Platinum | 80,000^ |
Denmark (IFPI Denmark)[120] | Platinum | 20,000^ |
France (SNEP)[121] | Gold | 50,000* |
Germany (BVMI)[122] | Gold | 100,000^ |
Italy (FIMI)[123] | Gold | 25,000* |
New Zealand (RMNZ)[124] | Gold | 7,500^ |
Norway (IFPI Norway)[125] | Platinum | 20,000* |
United Kingdom (BPI)[126] | Platinum | 321,000[64] |
United States (RIAA)[128] | Platinum | 1,000,000[127] |
*sales figures based on certification alone |