^ 'Mark Pitts on Instagram: 'Great Music is NEVER gonna have an expiration date, so regardless how The Game CHANGES, NEVER change Your QUALITY!!.LIL brah '.

'Usher & Zaytoven 'A' Stream, Cover Art & Tracklist'. ^ Johnson, Cherise (October 11, 2018).^ a b c Legaspi, Althea (October 12, 2018).'Usher Dropping New Zaytoven-Produced Project 'A' Tonight'. ^ Montgomery, Sarah Jasmine (October 12, 2018).'Usher and Zaytoven Drop New Album 'A': Listen'. ^ Strauss, Matthew (October 12, 2018).Commercial performance Ī debuted at number 31 on the US Billboard 200 with 15,000 album-equivalent units, which included 4,000 pure album sales. The artwork is Abloh's album-themed take of his own signature Off-White branding. The cover art for the album is designed by American fashion designer Virgil Abloh. The trailer also featured various portions of the tracks alongside this, Usher also posted snippets of the tracks separately on Instagram. Usher announced the project on Octowith a trailer showing himself and Zaytoven driving around Atlanta and visiting various locations. According to Pitchfork writer Briana Younger, ' A is a solid homage to the duo's beloved Atlanta roots and the city's sound that has permeated just about every corner of popular music.' Elias Leight of Rolling Stone wrote that 'catching pop's waves has always been one of Usher's greatest strengths, whether that means collaborating with Lil Jon when crunk was going mainstream or charging into EDM'. The album features songwriters Elliott Trent, Dimitri McDowell, and American gospel singer Deitrick Haddon. The album was recorded at Westlake Recording Studios in West Hollywood, California. And we started working on songs, had great combinations between the first two, three, and we kept going.' In an interview Usher conducted the Thursday before the album release with The Fader, he said 'Zaytoven and I were working on my project, my future album, actually. Zaytoven and Usher previously collaborated on the 2009 single ' Papers' from Usher's 2010 album Raymond v. Pitts posted another image in September on his Instagram of him, Zaytoven, and Usher in the studio. At least listening to it now filled me with a sense of nostalgia from my early 20s.On July 25, 2018, Mark Pitts, President of Urban Music at RCA, posted a photo on Instagram of him and Usher working in the studio. I’ll never understand how this album was so massive. Finally, ‘Do It To Me,’ reminded me a lot of a Prince slow jam but without the magic. That makes total sense to me that it pricked my ears up. I see it was written and produced by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, frequent Janet Jackson collaborators. I quite enjoyed ‘Truth Hurts,’ but not enough to listen to the album again. Inescapable), but then immediately shuts it down and trudges along until the semi-upbeat hit, ‘Caught Up.’ ‘Bad Girl’ sound promising, but once again, doesn’t go anywhere. Lil Jon & Ludacris)’ starts the party (that song was everywhere in 2004. The album is smooth and sultry, slow and sexy and 16 years later it still drives me nuts. Many of the songs are about the breakdown of his relationship with Chilli from TLC. The album was nominated for 8 Grammys and won 3. It broke multiple sales records which resulted in its being the second best selling album of the 2000s. In the States, this album sold 1.1 million copies in the first week. I remember having to go to Receiving multiple times a day to see if we’d received new stock of the record. That’s not because I loved it, it’s because I was working in a CD store at the time, and this album was flying out the door faster than we could rack it.

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