2019 studio album by Summer Walker
Over It is the debut
studio album by American singer
Summer Walker . It was released on October 4, 2019, by
LVRN and
Interscope . It spawned the singles "
Playing Games ", "Stretch You Out" and "
Come Thru ". It also features the remix of Walker's "
Girls Need Love " featuring
Drake .
[3] It also features collaborations with
Bryson Tiller ,
Usher ,
6lack ,
PartyNextDoor ,
A Boogie wit da Hoodie and
Jhené Aiko .
[4] Most of the album was produced by Walker's then-boyfriend,
London on da Track .
[3] Walker's First and Last Tour supported the album, starting October 25, 2019.
[5]
Promotion
An "old school" commercial was released via Walker's YouTube channel on September 30 to promote the album, which was compared to
infomercials for R&B albums from the 1990s.
[6] Few days before the actual album release, Walker promoted the album by putting various payphone in various cities painted in the theme of the album. A phone number was to be dialed to listen to the album a few days before release. After the album's release, Walker premiered a special on
Beats 1 guest starring
Ari Lennox , as part of their R&B Now series.
[7]
Critical reception
Over It was met with critical acclaim upon release. At
Metacritic , which assigns a
normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an
average score of 86, based on 6 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".
[12]
Accolades of Over it
The album won best album at the 2020 Soul Train Music Awards and was the most streamed album by a female artist on Apple Music in 2020.
Commercial performance
Over It debuted at number two on the US
Billboard 200 with 134,000
album-equivalent units in its first week. Its debut week marked the largest streaming week for an R&B album by a female artist, in terms of on-demand audio streams. It went on to spend more than 200 weeks on Billboard 200 , ranking as the second most successful R&B album of 2020
[19] The album also topped the
R&B Albums chart for 14 nonconsecutive weeks and as of July 2020, has yet to chart below number seven.
[20] On May 7, 2020, the album was certified
platinum by the
Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for combined sales and
album-equivalent units over 1,000,000 units in the United States.
[21] As of November 2021, Over It had earned 2,500,000 equivalent copies in the U.S.
[22] On May 16, 2023, every song from the project had been certified Gold or higher.
[22]
Track listing
Title Writer(s) Producer(s) 1. "Over It" 2:11 2. "Body" London on da Track Robinson
[a] Bailey
[a] 3:13 3. "
Playing Games " (extended version) (with
Bryson Tiller ) London on da Track 2:23 4. "Drunk Dialing...LODT" London on da Track Robinson
[a] Bailey
[a] Griffin
[a] Richardson
[a] 2:14 5. "
Come Thru " (with
Usher ) London on da Track Robinson
[a] Bailey
[a] Ben Chang
[c] 3:01 6. "Potential" London on da Track Robinson
[a] Bailey
[a] 2:53 7. "Fun Girl" Walker Walker 1:49 8. "Tonight" Walker Charles Cossom Ricki Glass Robinson Holmes London on da Track Robinson
[a] Bailey
[a] Fallen
[a] 2:56 9. "Me" Archer 2:08 10. "Like It" (with
6lack ) London on da Track Robinson
[a] Bailey
[a] Fallen
[a] 2:51 11. "Just Might" (with
PartyNextDoor ) 3:25 12. "Stretch You Out" (featuring
A Boogie wit da Hoodie ) London on da Track Robinson
[a] Bailey
[a] Zane98
[b] 2:23 13. "Off of You" Walker Holmes Griffin Bailey Robinson Stashenko London on da Track Robinson
[a] Bailey
[a] Fallen
[a] 2:05 14. "Anna Mae" London on da Track Bailey
[a] Storch
[a] 2:17 15. "I'll Kill You" (featuring
Jhené Aiko ) London on da Track Robinson
[a] Bailey
[a] Storch
[a] 2:59 16. "Nobody Else" 3:53 Total length: 42:49
Bonus tracks Title Writer(s) Producer(s) 17. "Playing Games" Walker Holmes Bailey Robinson Luckett
[e] Rowland
[e] Knowles
[e] Roberson
[e] F. Jerkins
[e] R. Jerkins
[e] Daniels Griffin London on da Track 2:23 18. "
Girls Need Love " (remix) (with
Drake ) Archer 3:42 Total length: 48:54
Notes
^[a] indicates a co-producer
^[b] indicates an additional producer
^[c] indicates a vocal producer
^[d] "Body" contains a sample from "
Get It Together ", written by
Donnell Jones and performed by
702 .
^[e] "Playing Games" interpolates "
Say My Name ", written by
LaShawn Daniels ,
Rodney Jerkins ,
Fred Jerkins III ,
Beyoncé Knowles ,
LeToya Luckett ,
LaTavia Roberson , and
Kelly Rowland , and performed by
Destiny's Child
"Drunk Dialing...LODT" interpolates "Cause I Love You", written by
Lenny Williams and Michael Bennett and performed by Lenny Williams
^[f] "Come Thru" contains samples from "
You Make Me Wanna... ", written by
Usher Raymond IV ,
Jermaine Dupri , and
Manuel Seal , and performed by
Usher
Personnel
Credits adapted from
Tidal .
[23]
Musicians
Technical
Nicolas De Porcel – mastering engineer
Cyrus "NOIS" Taghipour – mixer (1, 2, 4–16)
Derek "MixedByAli" Ali – mixer (1, 2, 4–16)
Jaycen Joshua – mixer (3, 17)
Summer Walker – recording engineer
Kendall Roark Bailey – recording engineer (1, 2, 4–6, 8, 12–16)
Ben Chang – recording engineer (5)
Archer – recording engineer (9, 10)
Ben Chang – vocal producer (5)
Ashley Jacobson – assistant recording engineer (5)
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Certifications
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