All About Luv

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All About Luv
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Studio album by
ReleasedFebruary 14, 2020 (2020-02-14)
Genre Pop [1]
Length33:05
LanguageEnglish
Label Epic
Monsta X chronology
Follow: Find You
(2019)
All About Luv
(2020)
Fantasia X
(2020)
Singles from All About Luv
  1. "Who Do U Love?"
    Released: June 14, 2019
  2. "Love U"
    Released: September 20, 2019
  3. "Someone's Someone"
    Released: October 4, 2019
  4. "Middle of the Night"
    Released: December 6, 2019
  5. "You Can't Hold My Heart"
    Released: April 17, 2020

All About Luv is the sixth and the first English-language studio album by the South Korean boy group Monsta X which features guest appearances from French Montana, Pitbull, and will.i.am. It was released and distributed by Epic Records on February 14, 2020. [2] Its release was preceded by several sporadically released singles, including the songs "Who Do U Love?" featuring French Montana and "Love U". [3] The album also ranked number five on the US Billboard 200 and number seven on the US Rolling Stone Top 200. [4] [5]

Contents

Background

It is a pop-oriented album with "electro-pop and R&B melodies", a noted difference from the dance music on their Korean releases. [1] It also features the vocals of Wonho, who left the group in October 2019.

Promotion

Monsta X performed at various locations in and around Los Angeles on the day of the album's release, also holding meet-and-greet and Q&A sessions at Tower Records and The Roxy. Several events on the east coast of the United States were held on February 19 and 20—a release party at the Paramount in Huntington, New York and appearance at the Live Nation store in Manhattan, also a performance at the Chelsea Music Hall. [6]

Monsta X was supposed to tour the United States, throughout June and July 2020 in support of the album, [3] but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [7]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Consequence of Sound B− [8]
Metro Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [9]

Tamar Herman of Billboard called the album a "pure blown pop album full of tracks that relay the emotions of romance" with a focus on "an overwhelming sense of sentimentality and smoothness". [1] Jason Lipshutz of Billboard also described it as "an effective and often charming throwback to the harmonizing and hook construction of a bygone era", and as "a time machine worth returning to in recent months". [10]

Sarah Deen, writing for Metro , said that the album "not only shakes off the 'cute' image but boots it up the backside off a cliff" while "the buzzy, EDM sound from their Korean albums has been traded in for club-friendly pop". [9]

Reviewing the album for Variety , Jae-ha Kim wrote that while it was released on Valentine's Day, "its most powerful tracks deal with breakups and deceits" and that the album is "[f]ull of throbbing beats [and] inquisitive lyrics", adding that it's "a sleek production that seamlessly blends soulful pop with elements of hip-hop and EDM". Kim also added that "the Korean group's powerful vocal delivery doesn't get lost in translation", summarizing that with its release, the group "has proven that K-pop transcends language barriers and that is something to be happy about". [11]

Listicles

Name of critic or publication, name of listicle, name of work and rank
Critic/PublicationListWorkRankRef.
Album
Billboard The 50 Best Albums of 2020All About LuvPlaced [lower-alpha 1] [10]
PopCrush 25 Best Albums of 2020 [12]
Time The Albums That Defined K-pop's Monumental Year in 2020 [13]
Song
BuzzFeed 30 Songs That Helped Define K-pop in 2019"Someone's Someone"24 [14]

Commercial performance

The album debuted at number five on the US Billboard 200 with 52,000 album-equivalent units, including 50,000 pure album sales on its first week. It is the group's first entry on the chart, although not their first on Billboard charts overall. [4]

It also debuted at number seven on the US Rolling Stone Top 200 with 41,600 album-equivalent units, including 38,400 pure album sales on its first week. It is their first entry on the chart. [5]

Track listing

Standard edition
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Who Do U Love?" (feat. French Montana)
  • Jake Torrey
  • Noah Conrad
3:09
2."Love U"
  • Andrés Torres
  • Mauricio Rengifo
2:40
3."Happy Without Me"
  • Torres
  • Rengifo
2:58
4."Got My Number"
  • Ben Samama
  • Joren van der Voort
  • Rob Grimaldi
Rob Grimaldi2:51
5."Someone's Someone"
Connor McDonough2:21
6."Middle of the Night"
  • I.M
  • Wonho
  • Hyungwon
  • Shownu
  • Joohoney
  • Kihyun
  • Minhyuk
  • Ali Payami
  • John Mitchell
Ali Payami2:46
7."She's The One"
Conrad3:19
8."You Can't Hold My Heart"
  • Jeffrey Gitelman
  • Mr. Franks
  • Tommy Brown
  • Tone
3:01
9."Misbehave"
  • The Invisible Men
  • You
3:24
10."Beside U" (feat. Pitbull)
Team3:08
11."Who Do U Love?" (will.i.am remix; feat. French Montana)
  • I.M
  • Wonho
  • Hyungwon
  • Shownu
  • Joohoney
  • Kihyun
  • Minhyuk
  • Henig
  • Torrey
  • Kharbouch
  • Conrad
  • Ener
will.i.am 3:28
Total length:33:05
Extended version bonus track
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
12."Beside U" (I.M rap version; feat. Pitbull)
  • I.M
  • Hyungwon
  • Shownu
  • Joohoney
  • Kihyun
  • Minhyuk
  • Perez
  • Lopez
  • Winsch
  • Gazit
  • Vindver
  • Mosley
Team3:33
Total length:36:38

Charts

Awards and nominations

Name of the award ceremony, year presented, award category, nominated work and the result of the nomination
Award ceremonyYearCategoryNominated workResultRef.
MTV Video Music Awards 2019 Best K-pop "Who Do U Love?" feat. French MontanaNominated [31]
2020 "Someone's Someone"Nominated [32]

See also

Notes

  1. All the albums and songs listed are either unranked or just alphabetically ranked.

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