Anybody Wanna Buy a Heart? (often abbreviated as AWBAH) is the second studio album by American R&B recording artist K. Michelle; it was released on December 9, 2014, by Atlantic Records.[1]
Background
After the release of her first album Rebellious Soul and departure from the hit VH1 reality show Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta and Love & Hip Hop. Pate revealed she's getting her own show, titled K. Michelle: My Life while working on the album's lead single, titled "Love Em All". The trailer for the album was released along with the cover artwork a few hours later. Since the album's release, she performed the single "Hard to Do" at the BET Awards 2015.
Singles
"Love 'Em All" was released as the album's lead single on September 16, 2014. The album's second single "Maybe I Should Call" was released on November 3, 2014, and also it was made available on iTunes, when the album was pre-ordered. The album's third single "Hard to Do" was later released on May 18, 2015. The single was also released with exceptional visuals.
Other songs
The song "How Do You Know" was unlocked on iTunes, along with the song "Going Under". The music video for "Something About the Night" was released.
Critical response
Anybody Wanna Buy a Heart? received positive reviews upon its release. The Washington Post called AWBAH "a great album," stating that K. Michelle "continues to distinguish herself from her reality television peers, who seem to stay in the studio but never release music — let alone good music." [6] Billboard Magazine deemed AWBAH one of 2014's best R&B albums, writing, "There's a serrated ferocity to K. Michelle that sends her songs past saccharine territory and into compelling unstable territory." [3] Complex rated the album 3.5 stars out of 5: "...[W]hile it may have taken her longer than she’d like to make this known, it cannot be denied any longer: K. Michelle is leaps and bounds ahead of many of her peers." [4] Rolling Stone listed AWBAH as one of the top 20 R&B albums of 2014.[5] The Philadelphia Inquirer gave AWBAH 3.5 of our four stars, writing, "...[t]his powerhouse tenor vocalist, pianist, and songwriter also is capable of great tenderness, nuance, and understatement." [7]
Commercial performance
The album debuted at number six on the US Billboard 200 with over 87,000 album equivalent units (over 84,000 in sales) in the first week.[8] Billboard ranked the album as the best selling R&B album of 2014. Although it debuted lower than Rebellious Soul (2013), its debut week outsold her previous album and was the highest debut from a R&B album in 2014.
Track listing
| 1. |
"Judge Me" | Kimberly Pate, Bianca "Blush" Atterberry, Jesse "Corparal" Wilson | Jesse "Corparal" Wilson, Sauce |
3:09 |
| 2. |
"Love 'Em All" | Pate, Atterberry, Shea Taylor | Shea Taylor, Lil' Ronnie, B.A.M. |
4:07 |
| 3. |
"Going Under" | Pate, Atterberry, Clifton Chase, Edward Fletcher, Melvin "Melle Mel" Glover, Sylvia Robinson | Pop & Oak |
3:53 |
| 4. |
"Cry" | Pate, Atterberry, Balewa Muhammad | Lil' Ronnie |
4:46 |
| 5. |
"How Do You Know?" | Pate, Atterberry | Timothy Bloom, Lil' Ronnie, B.A.M. |
3:35 |
| 6. |
"Hard to Do" | Pate, Atterberry, Maurice Simmonds, Julian Jackson, Brian James, Janice Johnson, Raphael Saadiq | Soundz |
3:58 |
| 7. |
"Maybe I Should Call" | Pate, Eric Hudson, Andrew "Hitdrew" Clifton | Hudson |
3:29 |
| 8. |
"Something About the Night" | Pate, Atterberry | Oak, Ronald "Flippa" Colson, Steve Ace |
3:30 |
| 9. |
"Miss You, Goodbye" | Pate, Atterberry, Muhammed, Perry Mapp | J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League |
3:03 |
| 10. |
"Build A Man Intro / Build A Man" | Wilson, Pate, Atterberry, Stacy Barthe | Jesse "Corparal" Wilson |
6:02 |
| 11. |
"Drake Would Love Me" | Pate, Atterberry | Oak, Ronald "Flippa" Colson , Steve Ace |
4:19 |
| 12. |
"God I Get It" | Pate, Atterberry | Lil' Ronnie, Jerry "Wonda" Duplessis |
4:38 |
| 13. |
"Silhouettes" |
3:33 |
| 14. |
"Get in My Bed" |
3:02 |
Charts
End of Year Charts
References
- ↑ https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/anybody-wanna-buy-a-heart/id931180022
- ↑ Kellman, Andy. "Anybody Wanna Buy a Heart? - K. Michelle : Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards". AllMusic. Retrieved 2014-12-09.
- 1 2 Leight, Elias. "The 10 Best R&B Albums of 2014". Retrieved 11 December 2014.
- 1 2 Arceneaux, Michael. "K. Michelle Trades Brashness for Subtlety on "Anybody Wanna Buy a Heart?"". Complex. Retrieved 2014-12-19.
- 1 2 Reeves, Mosi. "20 Best R&B Albums of 2014: #16 K. Michelle, 'Anybody Wanna Buy a Heart?'". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2014-12-19.
- ↑ Godfrey, Sarah. "K. Michelle can’t escape the drama, but at least she still makes good music". Retrieved 11 December 2014.
- ↑ "New Recordings: Charli XCX; K. Michelle; Dan Montgomery". Retrieved 11 December 2014.
- ↑ http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/news/id.31788/title.hip-hop-album-sales-j-cole-eminem-prhyme
- 1 2 https://www.billboard.com/artist/276636/k-michelle/chart?f=305
- 1 2 http://www.billboard.com/artist/276636/k-michelle/chart?f=333
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- "Self Made"
- "Fakin' It"
- "Fallin"
- "I Just Can't Do This"
- "How Many Times"
- "I Just Wanna"
- "I Don't Like Me"
- "The Right One"
- "Maybe I Should Call"
- "How Do You Know?"
- "Going Under"
- "Something About the Night"
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| | Official tours | |
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