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Revision as of 22:14, 28 July 2019

Free Spirit
Studio album by
Khalid
ReleasedApril 5, 2019 (2019-04-05)
GenreR&B
Length57:13
LabelRCA
Producer
Khalid chronology
Suncity
(2018) 		Free Spirit
(2019)
Singles from Free Spirit
  1. "Better"
    Released: September 14, 2019
  2. "Talk"
    Released: February 7, 2019

Free Spirit is the second studio album by American singer Khalid, released on April 5, 2019, through RCA Records. It is the follow-up to his 2018 EP Suncity,[1] and includes the single "Talk".[2][3] Khalid also announced a short film directed by Emil Nava to accompany the album, which was released on April 3.[4] The album debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200.

Background

Khalid announced the title on social media on February 28. He had previously shown the van pictured on the cover in various posts.[5]

Short film

A short film accompanying the album was released on Khalid's YouTube channel on the same day of the album's release.[6]

Singles

"Talk" was released on February 7, 2019 as the album's lead single.[2] On March 7, "My Bad" was released with the album pre-order as a promotional single. "Self" was released on March 29, 2019.[7] On April 3, "Don't Pretend", featuring Safe, was released with the launch of Free Spirit Radio on Beats 1.[8]

The album also includes the singles "Better" and "Saturday Nights" from Khalid's 2018 EP Suncity.

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic58/100[9]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[10]
Entertainment WeeklyC+[11]
The Guardian[12]
The Independent[13]
NME[14]
The Observer[15]
Pitchfork4.7/10[16]
Rolling Stone[17]
The Times[18]
Vice (Expert Witness)A−[19]

Free Spirit was met with mixed reviews. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has an average score of 58, based on 13 reviews.[9]

Reviewing for The Guardian, Alexis Petridis found the album less original than Khalid's previous work, with the singer having little new to add to the theme of anxiety explored in other "fretfully self-examining R&B", instead showing "a tendency to fall back on cliche". With regards to its musical aspect, the critic complained of a lengthy, "somnambulant pace", but observed some "great pop songs", like "Alive" and "My Bad".[12]

More positive was Robert Christgau, who wrote in his column for Vice that while Khalid's new "privileges and woes" may be foreign to most listeners, he "retains the gift of expressing his feelings in songs that cut star-time inevitabilities down to human scale", observing truisms in lyrics such as "Couldn't have known it would ever be this hard", "I didn't text you because I was workin'", and "If the love feels good it'll work out". Christgau also pointed out that "because Khalid now enjoys access to pricier musical materials than when he was in high school, the hooks pack more texture than tune, making this the rare album that comes fully into its own when you up the volume."[19]

Commercial performance

Free Spirit debuted atop the US Billboard 200 with 202,000 album-equivalent units (including 85,000 pure album sales) in its first week. It is Khalid's first US number-one album.[20]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Intro"
Digi3:32
2."Bad Luck"
3:51
3."My Bad"
D'Mile2:43
4."Better"
3:49
5."Talk"
Disclosure3:17
6."Right Back"
  • Stargate
  • Kosiak
  • Riley
  • Digi
  • Charlie Handsome
3:35
7."Don't Pretend" (with Safe)
2:45
8."Paradise"
2:54
9."Hundred"
  • Robinson
  • Ari Leff
  • Hill
  • Chammas
  • Jordan Palmer
  • Vojtesak
  • Hill
  • Digi
  • Charlie Handsome
4:37
10."Outta My Head" (with John Mayer)
  • Hill
  • Digi
  • Mayer
2:57
11."Free Spirit"
  • Robinson
  • Chammas
  • Aarons
  • Vojtesak
  • Justin Scott Lucas
  • Digi
  • Charlie Handsome
3:02
12."Twenty One"
  • Robinson
  • Chammas
  • Vojtesak
  • Charlie Handsome
  • Digi
3:04
13."Bluffin'"
  • Robinson
  • Chammas
  • Vojtesak
  • Aarons
  • Digi
  • Charlie Handsome
3:19
14."Self"
Hit-Boy3:49
15."Alive"
Hill2:51
16."Heaven"
3:33
17."Saturday Nights" (bonus track)
  • Robinson
  • Vojtesak
  • Chammas
  • Charlie Handsome
  • Digi
3:29
Total length:57:13
Japanese edition bonus track[21]
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
18."Saturday Nights" (with Kane Brown)
  • Robinson
  • Vojtesak
  • Chammas
  • Charlie Handsome
  • Digi
3:29
Total length:60:42

Charts

Chart (2019) Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[22] 2
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[23] 15
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[24] 27
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[25] 97
Canadian Albums (Billboard)[26] 1
Danish Albums (Hitlisten)[27] 4
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[28] 3
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)[29] 7
French Albums (SNEP)[30] 42
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[31] 32
Irish Albums (IRMA)[32] 2
Italian Albums (FIMI)[33] 62
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[34] 2
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)[35] 3
Portuguese Albums (AFP)[36] 40
Scottish Albums (OCC)[37] 34
South Korean Albums (Gaon)[38] 56
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)[39] 86
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[40] 3
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[41] 8
UK Albums (OCC)[42] 2
US Billboard 200[20] 1

Certifications

Region Certification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[43] Gold 35,000‡
Brazil (Pro-Música Brasil)[44] Gold 20,000‡
New Zealand (RMNZ)[45] Gold 7,500‡

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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