Forever (Popcaan album)

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Forever
Popcaan Forever Cover.jpg
Studio album by
Popcaan
ReleasedJuly 20, 2018 (2018-07-20)
Studio
  • Unruly Ent. Kingston
  • Mixpak Studios (Brooklyn, New York City)
Genre
Length56:58
Label Mixpak Records
Producer
  • Dre Skull
  • Bless Beats
  • Markus Records
  • Mini E5
  • Notnice
Popcaan chronology
Where We Come From
(2014)		Forever
(2018)		 Fixtape
(2020)

Forever is the second studio album by Jamaican musician Popcaan. It was released on July 20, 2018 via Mixpak Records. Production was primarily handled by Andrew "Dre Skull" Hershey, who also served as executive producer. It features a sole guest appearance from Davido.

Contents

In the United States, the album entered the Billboard 200 at number 171 and reached number 2 on the Reggae Albums chart. Popcaan headlined Reggae Sumfest on the day of the album's release, [1] and toured in support of the album to arenas across the United Kingdom and Canada. [2]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
AnyDecentMusic?6.3 [3]
Metacritic 74/100 [4]
Review scores
SourceRating
Crack Magazine 8/10 [5]
HipHopDX 4/5 [6]
NME Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [7]
Pitchfork 6.9/10 [8]
The Independent Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [9]
The Observer Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [10]
The Times Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [11]
Tom Hull B+( Five Pointed Star Solid.svg Five Pointed Star Solid.svg ) [12]

Forever was met with generally favorable reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 74 based on six reviews. [4] The aggregator AnyDecentMusic? has the critical consensus of the album at a 6.3 out of 10, based on eight reviews. [3] The aggregator Album of the Year assessed the critical consensus as 68 out of 100, based on 6 reviews. [13]

Accolades

PublicationListRankRef.
Complex The 50 Best Albums of 2018
41
Esquire The 50 Best Albums Of 2018
*
Noisey The 100 Best Albums of 2018
65

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Silence"
Dre Skull3:36
2."Call Me"
  • Sutherland
  • Hershey
Dre Skull3:29
3."Wine for Me"
  • Sutherland
  • Hershey
Dre Skull3:07
4."Superstar"
  • Sutherland
  • Hershey
Dre Skull2:56
5."Happy Now"
  • Sutherland
  • Hershey
Dre Skull3:48
6."Naked"
  • Sutherland
  • Mark Myrie
Markus Records2:54
7."High Drive (Louis Out)"
  • Sutherland
  • Ainsley Morris
Notnice2:14
8."Foreign Love"
  • Sutherland
  • Hershey
Dre Skull3:58
9."Body So Good"
  • Sutherland
  • Hershey
Dre Skull3:37
10."Lef My Gun"
  • Sutherland
  • Hershey
Dre Skull3:07
11."Mi Luv Yuh"
  • Sutherland
  • Hershey
Dre Skull2:27
12."Deserve It All"
  • Sutherland
  • Morris
Notnice2:21
13."Dun Rich" (featuring Davido)
Dre Skull3:23
14."Strong Woman"
  • Sutherland
  • Morris
Notnice3:23
15."Through the Storm"
  • Sutherland
  • Damian Gager
  • Gareth Keane
  • Ryan Griffiths
  • Mini E5
  • Bless Beats
3:30
16."Firm and Strong"
  • Sutherland
  • Hershey
Dre Skull4:58
17."A Wha Suh"
  • Sutherland
  • Morris
Notnice3:25
Total length:56:58

Personnel

Charts

Chart (2018)Peak
position
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [17] 195
Canadian Albums (Billboard) [18] 72
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [19] 139
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [20] 100
US Billboard 200 [21] 171
US Independent Albums (Billboard) [22] 21
US Heatseekers Albums (Billboard) [23] 6
US Reggae Albums (Billboard) [24] 2

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