An Evening with Silk Sonic

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In late February 2021, Mars and .Paak announced on social media the formation of their new band, Silk Sonic, and revealed the artwork for their debut studio album, titled An Evening with Silk Sonic. They also announced the release of the first single on March 5, 2021. [18] "Leave the Door Open" was released as the first single in various countries. [19] On the same date, "Silk Sonic Intro" was also issued featuring the album's special guest Bootsy Collins. [20] Silk Sonic performed "Leave the Door Open" live for the first time at the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards on March 14, 2021; their performance received critical acclaim from music critics. [21] [22] [23] They also performed it live at the 2021 iHeartRadio Music Awards on May 27, 2021. Consequence's Nina Corcoran called the performance "mesmerizing". [24] Joe Lynch, from Billboard, praised Silk Sonic's performance as they, "worked the crowd exactly like the '70s soul singers that Silk Sonic pays homage to would have." [25] A month later, the duo performed "Leave the Door Open" at the BET Awards 2021. [26]

On July 30, 2021, "Skate" was issued as the second single also in several countries. [27] Initially, Mars and .Paak stated the album would be released in the fall of 2021. However, its release was delayed to January 2022, as they wanted to issue more songs. [8] Despite their previous scheduling, on October 8, 2021, coinciding with Mars's birthday, Silk Sonic announced the album's release date of November 12, 2021. [28] On the same date, the record was made available for pre-saves and for pre-order worldwide via Mars's official site with four buying options. [29] [30] On October 29, 2021, the digital marketing agency, Get Engaged, affirmed they were working on campaigns to promote the album. [31] On November 10, 2021, two days before the release of the album, in an event hosted by Spotify, Silk Sonic premiered several songs at West Hollywood's Peppermint Club for a selected group of people. [32] On November 21, 2021, the duo performed "Smokin out the Window" at the American Music Awards of 2021. [33] One week later, Silk Sonic sung "Fly as Me" and "Smokin Out the Window" at the 2021 Soul Train Music Awards. [34] The song "777" appeared in a commercial for AirPods shortly after the release of the album. [35]

On February 14, 2022, the duo released a cover of Con Funk Shun's "Love's Train" (1982) as a commemorative song for Valentine's Day. [36] Silk Sonic embarked on their concert residency, An Evening with Silk Sonic at Park MGM, which started on February 25, 2022, held at the Park Theater, Park MGM in Las Vegas. At the 64th Annual Grammy Awards in 2022, the duo performed "777" as the opening act. [37] The duo performed their cover version of "Love's Train" at the 2022 Billboard Music Awards. [38]

Singles

"Leave the Door Open" was released as the album's lead single on March 5, 2021, along with its music video. [19] The song was generally well received; reviewers complimented both singers' vocals, as well as the song's composition. [39] [40] It was listed by several publications, including Billboard and Complex , as being among the best songs of the year. [41] [42] [43] The recording was a success, topping the charts in the United States, Israel, and New Zealand, and reached the top ten in several other countries, including Australia, Belgium (Flanders and Wallonia), Canada, and Portugal. [44] [45] [46]

"Skate" was released as the album's second single on July 30, 2021, along with its music video. [27] The single received critical acclaim from music critics, who noted the track's "summer vibes", in addition to the "funky" influences of the 1970s. [47] [48] It charted moderately, reaching number 14 on the Billboard Hot 100, number 12 in New Zealand, and topping the Israel charts. [44] [49] [50]

"Smokin out the Window" was released as the album's third single on November 5, 2021, alongside its music video. [51] The song reached the top five in the United States and New Zealand, as well as top twenty in several other countries, including Australia, Canada, Denmark and the United Kingdom. [44] [52] [53]

A cover version of Con Funk Shun's "Love's Train" was first released on February 14, 2022, to digital stores and streaming services. [54] It was later confirmed as the record's fourth single by Billboard with a radio release date of March 18, 2022, in Italy. [55] [56] The single received critical acclaim from music critics, who praised Mars and .Paak's vocals and their commitment to the original version of the song. [57] [58] It spent 13 weeks on the top spot of the Billboard Adult R&B Songs chart. [59]

"After Last Night" was only released as a single to American urban adult contemporary radio stations, on July 5, 2022. [60] Its charting was influenced by the release of its parent album An Evening with Silk Sonic. It topped the Billboard Adult R&B Songs chart, becoming the fourth single of Sonic's debut album to do so. This achievement led An Evening with Silk Sonic to become the second album with four number-one singles on the chart, tying with Toni Braxton's self-titled studio album (1993). [59]

Critical reception

An Evening with Silk Sonic
Silk Sonic - An Evening with Silk Sonic.png
Studio album by
Silk Sonic
ReleasedNovember 12, 2021
Recorded2020–2021
StudioShampoo Press & Curl
Genre
Length31:19
Label
Producer
Bruno Mars chronology
24K Magic
(2016)		An Evening with Silk Sonic
(2021)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
AnyDecentMusic? 8.0/10 [61]
Metacritic 83/100 [62]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [63]
Clash 8/10 [64]
Entertainment Weekly B+ [65]
Exclaim! 9/10 [66]
The Independent Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [67]
NME Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [68]
Paste 7.4/10 [15]
Pitchfork 6.4/10 [69]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [70]
Sputnikmusic4.5/5 [71]

An Evening with Silk Sonic received acclaim from music critics upon release. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from professional publications, the album received an average score of 83, based on 15 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". [62] Aggregator AnyDecentMusic? gave An Evening with Silk Sonic 8.0 out of 10, based on their assessment of the critical consensus. [61]

Music critics appreciated Mars' and .Paak's chemistry and songwriting. [72] Andy Kellman of AllMusic praised "the duo's playfulness", as "they push each other into new levels of showmanship without pandering to the audience." [63] Talking about the album's themes, Tani Levitt of Clash described it as "an album about friendship and swagger masquerading as a love album." [64] Sophie Williams of NME lauded Silk Sonic for their attention to detail and wrote that the songs are "rich and colourful", complementing the "all-out pop hooks, lush harmonies and conversational verses." [72] Jon Dolan of Rolling Stone called the album "a lavish love letter to Seventies soul music" and dubbed it the most enjoyable album in Mars's repertoire. [73] Music journalist Jon Pareles of The New York Times said that Mars and .Paak "flaunt skill, effort and scholarship" in the album, which he called a "lavish, impeccable bauble, a purely ornamental not-quite-period piece." [1] Wongo Okon of Uproxx called the album "fun, charismatic, and ambitious in all the best ways," adding that it will "undoubtedly be one of 2021's most memorable albums." [74] Mary Siroky of Consequence called the album "delicious, indulgent, and dripping with Motown, funk, and soul". [75] In a mixed review, No Ripcord writer Joe Rivers rated the album 6 out of 10 and wrote An Evening with Silk Sonic suffers from "a paucity of ideas" with tracks that recycle the same sounds and subject matter. [76]

Year-end lists

An Evening with Silk Sonic appeared on many year-end best-of lists, with several critics identifying it as one of the best albums of 2021. The following is a selected list of publications.

Critical rankings for An Evening with Silk Sonic
PublicationListRankRef.
BillboardBest R&B Albums of 2021
6
 [77]
The Best Albums of 2021
7
 [78]
ComplexThe Best Albums of 2021
14
 [79]
GigwiseThe 51 Best Albums of 2021
16
 [80]
NMEThe 50 best albums of 2021
22
 [81]
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The 10 best albums of 2021
8
 [82]
Rolling Stone50 Best Albums of 2021
35
 [83]
SpinThe 30 Best Albums of 2021
30
 [84]

Accolades

In 2022, An Evening with Silk Sonic was nominated for Outstanding Album at the 53rd NAACP Image Awards. [85] The album won R&B Album of the Year at the 2022 iHeartRadio Music Awards. [86] It was also nominated for Top R&B Album at the 2022 Billboard Music Awards. [87] It was named Modern Pop-Rock Album/Voice Recording of the Year at the 2022 Fonogram Awards. [88] In the same year, "Leave The Door Open" was nominated for four Grammy Awards at the 64th Grammy Awards, including Record of the Year and Song of the Year. Mars and .Paak won the four Grammy Awards for the song, adding Best R&B Performance (tied with "Pick Up Your Feelings" (2020) by Jazmine Sullivan) and Best R&B song. [89] The album would later be nominated for and would go on to win the Album of the Year at the BET Awards 2022. [90]

The album was nominated for Favorite R&B Album at the American Music Awards of 2022. [91] However, the duo declined to submit it for the 65th Annual Grammy Awards, citing the amount of accolades they had already garnered. Previously, the album had been assumed to be a top contender for Album of the Year. [92]

Commercial performance

An Evening with Silk Sonic debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 104,000 equivalent album units, which consists of 42,000 album sales, 60,000 streaming units calculated from the 82.6 million on-demand streams of the album's tracks, and 2,000 in track equivalent album units. [93] In its second week, the album remained in the top ten and fell to number four, earning 50,000 album-equivalent units. [94] By the end of 2021, the album had surpassed a billion streams. [95]

An Evening With Silk Sonic sold 37,000 copies on vinyl becoming the largest sales week for an R&B album on vinyl, a record previously held by The Weeknd's Dawn FM (2022) with 34,000 copies. [96]

Seven of the nine songs from the album charted on the Billboard Hot 100 the same week. [97] "Leave the Door Open", "Smokin out the Window", "Love's Train" and "After Last Night" topped the Adult R&B Airplay. This achievement led An Evening with Silk Sonic to become the second album with four number-one singles on the former chart, tying with Toni Braxton's self-titled (1993) studio album. [59]

Track listing

An Evening with Silk Sonic standard edition [98]
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Silk Sonic Intro"
1:03
2."Leave the Door Open"
  • Mars
  • D'Mile
4:02
3."Fly as Me"
  • Mars
  • D'Mile
3:39
4."After Last Night" (with Thundercat and Bootsy Collins)
4:09
5."Smokin out the Window"
  • Mars
  • B. Anderson
  • Emile
  • Mars
  • D'Mile
3:17
6."Put On a Smile"
  • Mars
  • D'Mile
4:16
7."777"
  • Mars
  • B. Anderson
  • Brown
  • Emile
Mars2:45
8."Skate"
  • Mars
  • D'Mile
3:23
9."Blast Off"
  • Mars
  • B. Anderson
  • Emile
  • Mars
  • D'Mile
4:45
Total length:31:19
Bonus track (Digital + Vinyl) [99] [100]
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
9."Love's Train"
  • Mars
  • D'Mile
5:07
Total length:36:26

Notes

Personnel

Credits adapted from album's liner notes. [98] [101]

Silk Sonic

Charts

Certifications

Certifications for An Evening with Silk Sonic
RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Brazil (Pro-Música Brasil) [139] Platinum40,000‡
Canada (Music Canada) [140] Gold40,000‡
Denmark (IFPI Danmark) [141] Gold10,000‡
France (SNEP) [142] Gold50,000‡
Netherlands (NVPI) [143] Gold20,000‡
New Zealand (RMNZ) [144] Gold7,500‡
United Kingdom (BPI) [145] Silver60,000‡
United States (RIAA) [146] Platinum1,000,000‡

‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Release history

Release dates and formats for An Evening with Silk Sonic
RegionDateFormat(s)LabelEditionRef.
VariousNovember 12, 2021Standard [147]
August 26, 2022 Vinyl [148]
Webstore Exclusive [100]

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