Beautiful Mind is the fourth studio album by American rapper and singer
Rod Wave. It was released through
Alamo Records on August 12, 2022, and features guest appearances from
Jack Harlow and December Joy. The album was supported by four singles: "
By Your Side", "
Cold December", "
Stone Rolling", and "
Alone". The album debuted at number one on the US
Billboard 200 with 115,000
album-equivalent units, becoming Rod Wave's second consecutive number-one album and fourth Top-10 album.[1]
Beautiful Mind received generally positive reviews from critics. At
Metacritic, which assigns a
normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from professional publications, the album received an
average score of 73, based on five reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[2]
Dylan Green of Pitchfork gave the album a 6.9 out of 10, complimenting the variety of topics covered in the songs but complaining of many of them "bleeding together" as well as the "overreliance of piano and guitar beats".[5]
Commercial performance
In the United States, Beautiful Mind debuted atop the
Billboard 200, earning 115,000
album-equivalent units (including 2,000 in pure sales) in its first week. It became Wave's second number-one on the chart and fifth top-ten. The album also accumulated a total of 157.73 million on-demand streams of its songs.[1] In its second week, the album dropped to number two on the chart, moving an additional 57,000 units.[8]
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