Don't Forget Me (album)

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Don't Forget Me
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Studio album by
ReleasedApril 12, 2024 (2024-04-12)
Studio Electric Lady, New York City
Genre
Length35:49
Label
Maggie Rogers chronology
Surrender
(2022)
Don't Forget Me
(2024)
Singles from Don't Forget Me
  1. "Don't Forget Me"
    Released: February 8, 2024
  2. "So Sick of Dreaming"
    Released: March 19, 2024

Don't Forget Me is the third studio album by American indie pop singer-songwriter Maggie Rogers. It was released on April 12, 2024, through Debay Sounds and Capitol Records.

Contents

Background

Rogers first performed songs from the record at tour stops on her 2023 tour supporting her second studio album Surrender (2022). [1] Rogers co-produced the album herself with additional assistance from Ian Fitchuk at the Electric Lady Studios in New York City. [2] The singer-songwriter wrote eight of the ten songs with Fitchuk, while two are entirely self-penned. In a letter, she announced her goal to have been the creation of a record that was akin to a "Sunday afternoon". [3]

On January 1, 2024, she previewed a snippet of a song titled "Don't Forget Me" with a caption saying "see you in 2024". [4] The eponymous lead single was then released alongside the album announcement on February 8, 2024. [5] To Rogers, the song signifies a "rough journal entry" about attending festivities from friends while she craves "simple baselines" and finds herself "in a different place in [her] life". [6]

Reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
AnyDecentMusic?7.9/10 [7]
Metacritic 84/100 [8]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [9]
ClashMusic.com 8/10 [10]
Exclaim! 8/10 [11]
The Independent Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [12]
The Line of Best Fit 8/10 [13]
NME Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [14]
Paste 8.2/10 [15]
Pitchfork 7.8/10 [16]
Spin A- [17]

Don't Forget Me released to critical acclaim. Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, awarded the album an average score of 84 based on 16 critical reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". [18] Aggregator AnyDecentMusic? gave the album a 7.9 out of 10 based on their collected reviews. [19]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Rogers and Ian Fitchuk, except "If Now Was Then" and "I Still Do", which were solely written by Rogers.

Don't Forget Me track listing
No.TitleLength
1."It Was Coming All Along"3:27
2."Drunk"3:24
3."So Sick of Dreaming"3:52
4."The Kill"4:11
5."If Now Was Then"3:04
6."I Still Do"3:35
7."On & On & On"2:34
8."Never Going Home"3:30
9."All the Same"3:47
10."Don't Forget Me"4:25
Total length:35:49

Personnel

Musicians

Technical

Charts

Chart performance for Don't Forget Me
Chart (2024)Peak
position
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [20] 198
Scottish Albums (OCC) [21] 10
UK Albums (OCC) [22] 12
UK Americana Albums (OCC) [23] 4
US Billboard 200 [24] 48
US Folk Albums (Billboard) [25] 6
US Top Rock & Alternative Albums ( Billboard ) [26] 12

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