Beautiful Trauma is the seventh studio album by American singer Pink. It was released on October 13, 2017, by RCA Records. The album's release was preceded by the release of the first single, "What About Us", on August 10, 2017.
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Development
In June 2017, Pink confirmed that she was making her next studio album and later, hinted at an upcoming release in a tweet. On July 21, 2017, Pink shared a video from the set of an upcoming video, captioned: "Video #new #fyeah #itsallhappening". The day after, she shared an animated version of the single artwork on social media, revealing the single's title and release date.
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Release and promotion
On October 4, 2017, Pink announced she is releasing an Apple Music documentary about the recording of her yet to be released seventh album, Beautiful Trauma. The following day, she announced she is going on tour across North America. On October 9, 2017, she announced she will also tour Oceania.
Singles
"What About Us", was released as the lead single from the album on August 10, 2017, reaching number one in Australia. Described as a club track, the song received critical acclaim from music critics, noting its political themes as a highlight. Pink performed the song at the 2017 MTV Video Music Awards on August 27, as part of a medley of her greatest hits. On September 6, she performed the song on Ellen.
In October 2017, it was announced that "Revenge", which features Eminem will serve as the album's second single. However, the title track impacted BBC Radio 1 on November 10, 2017 as the album's official second single. P!nk performed the track at the American Music Awards on November 19. The music video for Beautiful Trauma premiered on November 21 and it features actor Channing Tatum.
Promotional singles
On September 28, 2017, "Beautiful Trauma" was released as the album's first promotional single, followed by "Whatever You Want" as the second, on October 5, 2017.
Critical reception
Beautiful Trauma received generally mixed reviews from music critics. On Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has an average score of 62 out of 100, which indicates "generally favorable reviews" based on 9 reviews. Stephen Thomas Erlewine from AllMusic gave the album a score of three stars out of five, stating that the production is "undergirded with genuine feeling that Pink conveys with her measured performances", but notes that the album sounds "too controlled", resulting in a "tamer record". Chuck Arnold from Entertainment Weekly gave the album a positive review, labelling it as "fresh and familiar". Maura Johnston from Rolling Stone noted the title track, "Whatever You Want" and "Revenge" as highlights, but criticised the "chilled-out" middle section. The Guardian's Michael Cragg gave the album a mixed review, writing that it, "does the job, nothing more".
Year-end lists
Commercial performance
In the United States, Beautiful Trauma debuted atop the Billboard 200 with 408,000 album-equivalent units, including 384,000 pure sales. The album became her second to top the chart after her previous album The Truth About Love (2012). It had the country's biggest opening for a female artist since Beyoncé's Lemonade and highest first-week traditional sales since Drake's Views (both from 2016). The album then fell down to number three the following week with 64,000 units earned and 53,000 copies sold. After selling 628,000 copies in the country throughout 2017, Beautiful Trauma finished as its seventh highest selling album of the year. It also became her second to top the Canadian Albums Chart after The Truth About love, opening at number one with 64,000 album-equivalent units consisting of 60,000 traditional album sales. Beautiful Trauma had the nation's second biggest opening of the year at the time after Shania Twain's Now. It additionally entered at the summit of the UK Albums Chart with 70,074 album-equivalent units, 5,519 of which were from streaming, and became her second number-one album in the nation after Funhouse (2008). The album then was displaced by George Michael's Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1 the following week. It sold 372,000 copies by the end of the 2017, finishing as the nation's highest selling album of the year by a non-British act and fifth highest overall.
The record sold 50,000 copies in Australia within 3 days and 78,040 during its first week, where it had the year's second largest opening behind Ed Sheeran's ÷ and debuted atop the ARIA Albums Chart. As a result, it became Pink's fifth album to reach the nation's summit, the 457th album to enter at country's the top position, and its 813th album overall to reach number one. Beautiful Trauma was also certified double Platinum by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) after a week due to high sales. Its total sales in the country exceeded 100,000 over the second week, where it remained at the highest position and was the third album of 2017 to hold the summit for more than one week after the Trolls soundtrack and ÷, and subsequently tied with Trolls for second longest time spent at the top spot that year when it stayed at number one for a third week. Beautiful Trauma then held the summit for a fourth week in a row, becoming the first album by a female artist to do so since Adele's 25 in 2015, before being displaced by Taylor Swift's Reputation. It regained the top spot two weeks later, giving Pink her 39th week atop the country's chart and tying her with ABBA for spending the 6th highest amount of weeks at number one, which she surpassed by remaining at number one for the next week, trying with Adele for the fifth highest amount weeks at the summit with 40. The record was then replaced at the top one week later by ÷. With 280,000 copies sold in Australia by the end of the year, Beautiful Trauma finished as 2017's second highest selling album in the country behind ÷.
In Japan, it opened at number 32 on the Physical Albums Chart and number 3 on the Digital Album Chart, with only sales of few days of being released, selling 1,909 copies and 2,428 from digital album sales. In its second week, the album raised 4 spots in the Physical Albums Chart, selling 2,442 copies, and 1,084 copies from digital downloads. In France, the album entered at number one with first-week sales of 14,853 copies.
Track listing
Track listing adapted from Amazon.com and the iTunes Store.
Notes
- ^[a] - main and vocal production
- ^[b] - vocal production
Personnel
Credits adapted from the liner notes of Beautiful Trauma.
Performers and musicians
Production
Design and management
Charts
Certifications
Release history
References
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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