Listen (David Guetta album)

Listen
Studio album by David Guetta
Released 21 November 2014 (2014-11-21)
Recorded 2011–14
Length 50:58
Label
Producer
David Guetta chronology
Nothing but the Beat
(2011)
Listen
(2014)
Singles from Listen
  1. "Lovers on the Sun"
    Released: 30 June 2014
  2. "Dangerous"
    Released: 5 October 2014
  3. "What I Did for Love"
    Released: 22 February 2015
  4. "Hey Mama"
    Released: 17 March 2015[1]
  5. "Sun Goes Down"
    Released: 30 July 2015
Singles from Listen Again
  1. "Clap Your Hands"
    Released: 2 October 2015
  2. "Bang My Head"
    Released: 30 October 2015
Re-release
Listen Again artwork

Listen is the sixth studio album by French DJ and record producer David Guetta. It was released on 21 November 2014.[2] It features collaborations with artists from the R&B, hip hop, alternative rock and pop worlds such as Sam Martin, Emeli Sandé, The Script, Nicki Minaj, John Legend, Nico & Vinz, Ryan Tedder (the lead singer of pop rock band OneRepublic), Sia, Magic!, Bebe Rexha, South African male choral group Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Ms. Dynamite, Elliphant, Birdy, Jaymes Young, Sonny Wilson, Vassy, and Skylar Grey. It also features additional production from Guetta's frequent collaborator Giorgio Tuinfort, Avicii, Afrojack, Nicky Romero, Showtek, and Stadiumx among others, with additional writing credits from Austin Bisnow, Jason Evigan, Julie Frost, and The-Dream among others.

Listen was preceded by the release of four singles: "Shot Me Down", "Bad", "Lovers on the Sun" and "Dangerous". The album reached the top 10 in eighteen countries, including France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada.

The album was reissued in 2015 as Listen Again.

Background

Listen is David Guetta's first studio album in three years since the release of the commercially successful Nothing but the Beat (2011), which sold 3 million copies worldwide.[3] According to Guetta, Listen is his most personal album yet, reflecting his divorce from his wife of 22 years, Cathy Guetta: "Until today I was doing lots of songs about happiness and love and sexiness and just having a party – it was basically my life, you know? And lately, my personal life has been a little more difficult, so it reflects also on the album, on the things that we're talking about, on the type of chords. I've never done this, because even for me it was all about making the people dance."[4] Guetta also said he wanted to reinvent himself with the album, steering away from the urban and dance sound he became famous for with One Love (2009):

"When you're a little bit at the top of the game, what is left except being afraid to go down? I never want to feel like this, so I thought that the best way to avoid it was to kind of start from scratch again. Until today I was always starting with the beat and then writing the song on it. This time I was starting with piano, voice and guitar, then producing around the song. I've really changed everything, like the way I was working, the people I was working with – everything."[4]

During an interview with Billboard, Guetta said he has moved away from the current EDM and house sound on his previous two internationally released albums One Love and Nothing but the Beat with Listen, by adding elements of other music such as classical music, acoustic music, and piano ballads: "I miss soul and emotion. A lot of EDM lately is based on production tricks that make it sound huge. I think it's not enough. These songs can be played by a classical orchestra, a rock band, or a funk band, and they would be great. It's not like, 'Oh wow, if you don't have this huge distorted kick, there's nothing else.'"[5]

Reception

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[6]
Billboard[7]
The Daily Telegraph[8]
Digital Spy[9]
Idolator3.5/5[10]
NewsdayB[11]
The Observer[12]
Slant Magazine[13]
USA Today[14]
Virgin Media[15]

Listen received mixed reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted mean rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 51, based on 8 reviews, which indicates mixed or average reviews.[16]

Commercial performance

Listen debuted at number 8 on the UK Albums Chart, selling 24,385 copies in its first week.[17] In the United States, the album debuted at number 22 on the Billboard 200, with first-week sales of 25,000 copies. Listen also debuted at number one on the Dance/Electronic Albums chart.[18] After 24 weeks on the Billboard 200, Listen had a big rise, jumping from number 30 to number 4, selling 43,000 units (29,000 in pure album sales),[19] making it Guetta's highest-charting album in the United States.[20] The album topped Billboard Top Dance/Electronic Albums for 5 non-consecutive weeks.[21] Listen was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), for combined album sales, on-demand audio, video streams, track sales equivalent of 500,000.[22]

Singles

Other charted songs

Several other songs charted in France and Germany; "The Whisperer" peaked at number 96 in France and "No Money No Love", "Goodbye Friend", "Listen" and "I'll Keep Loving You" peaked at numbers 94, 93, 85 and 96 in Germany respectively.

Track listing

Listen – Standard version
No. TitleWriter(s)Producer(s) Length
1. "Dangerous" (featuring Sam Martin)
  • Guetta
  • Tuinfort
  • Martin[a]
  • Evigan[a]
3:23
2. "What I Did for Love" (featuring Emeli Sandé)
  • Guetta
  • Tuinfort
  • Breyan Stanley Isaac
  • Evigan
  • Martin
  • Douglas
  • Sean Douglas
[28]
  • Guetta
  • Tuinfort
3:27
3. "No Money No Love" (with Showtek featuring Elliphant and Ms. Dynamite)
3:57
4. "Lovers on the Sun" (featuring Sam Martin)
3:23
5. "Goodbye Friend" (featuring The Script)
3:49
6. "Lift Me Up" (featuring Nico & Vinz and Ladysmith Black Mambazo)
  • Guetta
  • Tuinfort
3:58
7. "Listen" (featuring John Legend)
  • Guetta
  • Tuinfort
  • Austin Bis[c]
3:46
8. "Bang My Head" (featuring Sia)
  • Guetta
  • Tuinfort
  • Romero
  • Wattum
3:53
9. "Yesterday" (featuring Bebe Rexha)
  • Guetta
  • Avicii
  • Tuinfort
4:03
10. "Hey Mama" (featuring Nicki Minaj, Bebe Rexha and Afrojack)
3:12
11. "Sun Goes Down" (with Showtek featuring Magic! and Sonny Wilson)
  • Guetta
  • Tuinfort
  • W. Janssen
  • S. Janssen
  • Nasri Atweh
  • Lukas Loules
  • Mark Pellizzer
  • Guetta
  • Showtek
  • Lukas Loules
3:31
12. "S.T.O.P" (featuring Ryan Tedder)
  • Guetta
  • Tuinfort
  • Pierre-Luc Rioux
  • Justin Davey
  • Vinay Vyas
  • Ryan Tedder
  • Guetta
  • Tuinfort
3:34
13. "I'll Keep Loving You" (featuring Birdy and Jaymes Young)
  • Guetta
  • Riesterer
  • Tuinfort
  • Teemu Brunila
  • Jaymes Young
  • Birdy
  • Matt Dragstrem
  • Guetta
  • Riesterer
3:08
14. "The Whisperer" (featuring Sia)
  • Guetta
  • Tuinfort
  • Furler
  • Guetta
  • Tuinfort
3:54
Total length:
50:58

Listen Again

Notes

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (2014–2016) Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[31] 11
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[32] 3
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[33] 4
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[34] 6
Canadian Albums (Billboard)[35] 8
Croatian Foreign Albums (HDU)[36] 3
Danish Albums (Hitlisten)[37] 7
Dutch Albums (MegaCharts)[38] 11
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)[39] 19
French Albums (SNEP)[40] 3
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[41] 3
Hungarian Albums (MAHASZ)[42] 1
Irish Albums (IRMA)[43] 9
Italian Albums (FIMI)[44] 8
Japanese Albums (Oricon)[45] 23
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[46] 15
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)[47] 4
Portuguese Albums (AFP)[48] 19
scope="row" Scottish Albums (OCC)[49] 9
South African Albums (RISA)[50] 13
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[51] 15
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[52] 2
scope="row" UK Albums (OCC)[53] 8
scope="row" UK Dance Albums (OCC)[54] 1
scope="row" US Billboard 200[55] 4
scope="row" US Dance/Electronic Albums (Billboard)[56] 1

Year-end charts

Chart (2014) Position
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[57] 79
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[58] 55
Germany (Official German Charts)[59] 42
Italian Albums (FIMI)[60] 64
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[61] 48
Chart (2015) Position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[62] 82
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[63] 50
Hungarian Albums (MAHASZ)[64] 18
Italian Albums (FIMI)[65] 91
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[66] 14
US Billboard 200[67] 53
US Top Dance/Electronic Albums (Billboard)[68] 1

Certifications

[69]
Region Certification Certified units/Sales
Australia (ARIA)[70] Gold 35,000^
Austria (IFPI Austria)[71] Gold 7,500*
Brazil (ABPD)[72] Gold 20,000*
Canada (Music Canada)[73] Gold 40,000^
France (SNEP)[74] 2× Platinum 200,000*
Germany (BVMI)[75] Platinum 200,000^
Hungary (MAHASZ)[76] Platinum 6,000^
Italy (FIMI)[77] Gold 25,000*
Mexico (AMPROFON)[78] Gold 30,000^
Poland (ZPAV)[79] Platinum 20,000*
Sweden (GLF)[80] 2× Platinum 80,000^
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland)[81] Platinum 20,000^
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[82] Gold 20,000^
United Kingdom (BPI)[83] Gold 100,000^
United States (RIAA)[22] Gold 500,000double-dagger

*sales figures based on certification alone
^shipments figures based on certification alone
double-daggersales+streaming figures based on certification alone

Release history

Region Date Format(s) Label
Australia[84] 21 November 2014
Germany[85]
New Zealand[2]
France[86] 24 November 2014
Italy[87]
United Kingdom[29]
United States[88]

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