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Honestly, Nevermind (2022)

Where the lyrics of Honestly, Nevermind take you, and where it was really made.

Drake released this dance and house album without advance notice, and it was later presented as the middle part of a three-album trilogy.

Key places

Recorded at The Chapel, Toronto (2022)

Recording site The Chapel — The recording location linked to this album is The Chapel in Toronto, at the building address listed for it. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• Honestly, Nevermind: seventh studio album by Canadian rapper and singer Drake
• Surprise-released on 17 June 2022 through OVO Sound and Republic Records
• Contains a sole guest feature from 21 Savage on the closing track Jimmy Cooks
• Production from several producers, including Gordo, &Me, Rampa and Black Coffee, who was also an executive producer
• Second installment of a trilogy: follows Certified Lover Boy (2021) and precedes Her Loss (2022)
• Stylistic departure from Drake's earlier releases, with a dance, house and Baltimore club sound

Background

• Announced on Instagram on the afternoon of 16 June 2022, a few hours after the Table For One show on Sound 42 was announced
• Premiered the tracks Confusion and I Could Never on the show, broadcast shortly after Game Six of the 2022 NBA Finals
• Revealed during the same show that he was working on Scary Hours 3
• Dedicated to American fashion designer Virgil Abloh, who died in 2021
• On 26 November 2022, Drake revealed that the album is part of a trilogy

Recording

• The recording location linked to this album is The Chapel in Toronto

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Tracklist

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Career

• Aubrey Drake Graham, born October 24, 1986 in Toronto, Ontario, is a Canadian rapper, singer and actor.
• Gained recognition as Jimmy Brooks in the CTV teen drama Degrassi: The Next Generation (2001–2008).
• Independently released mixtapes Room for Improvement (2006), Comeback Season (2007) and So Far Gone (2009) before signing with Young Money Entertainment in 2009.
• Debut album Thank Me Later (2010) debuted atop the Billboard 200; followed by Take Care (2011), Nothing Was the Same (2013), Views (2016), Scorpion (2018), Certified Lover Boy (2021) and Iceman (2026).
• Views led the Billboard 200 for 13 weeks; "One Dance" became the first song to surpass 1 billion streams on Spotify.
• Among the world's best-selling artists with over 170 million units sold; the highest-certified digital singles artist in the United States.
• Accolades include 5 Grammy Awards, 6 American Music Awards, 41 Billboard Music Awards, 2 Brit Awards and 3 Juno Awards.
• Founded OVO Sound, DreamCrew and the fragrance house Better World; became global ambassador of the Toronto Raptors in 2013.
• Known for feuds with Kanye West and Kendrick Lamar; the 2024 feud with Lamar is reported to have damaged his public image.

Reception

At release

• Met with generally positive reviews; Metacritic average of 73 from 14 reviews, indicating generally favorable reviews
• Clash (Robin Murray): called it a puzzle that will take a long time to fully unlock
• AllMusic (Tim Sendra): called it a welcome development in the Drake saga
• The New York Times (Jon Caramanica): called it a small marvel of bodily exuberance
• Rolling Stone (Jeff Ihaza): described it as a collection of blissful dance tunes
• Pitchfork (Alphonse Pierre): lukewarm, saying the half-measure house beats and lackluster songwriting keep it from really popping off
• Evening Standard (David Smyth): called it a minor work within Drake's discography

Reappraisal

• Aggregator AnyDecentMusic? gave it 6.7 out of 10, based on its assessment of the critical consensus

Records

• Debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 with 204,000 album-equivalent units, including 11,000 pure album sales
• Drake's eleventh US number-one album; fell to number three in its second week with 73,000 units
• Singles Sticky and Massive debuted in the top 20 of the US Billboard Hot 100
• Jimmy Cooks became Drake's eleventh and 21 Savage's second US number-one song
• Topped Billboard Top Dance/Electronic Albums for 20 weeks
• RIAA platinum certification on 13 August 2023 for over one million units in the United States

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• Google used the song Texts Go Green in an Android advertisement calling on Apple to adopt RCS, referring to iPhone users being blocked on iMessage
• Honestly, Nevermind received the most first-day streams of any dance album ever on Apple Music
• The track Sticky contains uncredited dialogue from Virgil Abloh's 2017 lecture at Columbia University's GSAPP
• The official video for Falling Back, directed by Director X, shows Drake marrying 23 different women, with Tristan Thompson as his best man

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

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