Get to Know

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Get to Know
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Compilation album by
Released27 September 2019
Recorded2013–2018
Label Polydor
Producer
Becky Hill chronology
Eko
(2017)
Get to Know
(2019)
Only Honest on the Weekend
(2021)
Singles from Get to Know
  1. "Afterglow"
    Released: 13 October 2013
  2. "Gecko"
    Released: 22 June 2014
  3. "Piece of Me"
    Released: 27 February 2016
  4. "False Alarm"
    Released: 24 June 2016
  5. "Sunrise in the East"
    Released: 6 June 2018
  6. "Back & Forth"
    Released: 7 September 2018
  7. "I Could Get Used to This"
    Released: 29 March 2019
  8. "Wish You Well"
    Released: 24 May 2019
  9. "Lose Control"
    Released: 11 October 2019

Get to Know is the debut compilation album by British pop singer Becky Hill. It was released on 27 September 2019 through Polydor Records as the singer's first project, containing hit singles and new songs that were recorded by her throughout her musical career from 2013 to 2019. The compilation includes the number-one song "Gecko (Overdrive)" and the top 40 singles "Afterglow", "Piece of Me", "False Alarm", "Back & Forth", "Wish You Well" and "Lose Control".

Contents

Get to Know peaked at number 20 on the UK Albums Chart and was certified platinum by the British Phonographic Industry. [1]

Background

Following her participation as a contestant on the first series of The Voice UK in 2012, it was revealed that Hill remained in touch with some of people who worked on the show and said that they were responsible for getting her into the industry. In an interview on Sunday Brunch , she said, "I was living in a shared flat in London with a few of the other contestants from the show and, also about to make it into the industry, had to get myself a lawyer, and I was only 17 at the time. I had to grow up a lot." She began working with a range of people, including Rudimental and Wilkinson before she got picked up by her current and close working friend MNEK.

in 2014, she signed to Parlophone Records and started to work on her debut album. She released the collaborative single "Gecko (Overdrive)" with Oliver Heldens, which reached number one on the UK Singles Chart and make her the first The Voice UK contestant to achieve a number-one record on the UK Charts. Not long after, she released a couple of singles, entitled "Losing" and "Caution to The Wind" as promotion for her project and that it would be released in 2014. By the end of the year, the project was on hold and said that it would be released the following year. In the later months of 2015, Hill told MTV that the album was pretty much done and that she was "waiting for it to be polished up and released". She also revealed that half of the project was worked on with MNEK. [2] Later, she revealed that the album was "99 per cent complete" and that it would be released in early 2016. [3]

In 2016, Hill was dropped from Parlophone, which meant that her debut album was therefore scrapped. Hill established her own record label with her own team called Eko Music Limited and began releasing some more material. This also sparked the release of her two collaborations of the year, "Piece of Me" with Marc Kinchen, and "False Alarm" with Matoma, which were both expected to be solo efforts that would have appeared on her scrapped project. Overlapping into 2017, she also released her own singles "Back to My Love", "Warm", "Rude Love" and "Unpredictable", which made up her debut extended play Eko. [4]

In May 2017, Hill signed to Sony Music Entertainment, and later to Polydor Records in August 2017. Upon signing her record deal, manager Alex Martin was quoted as saying, "Becky is at an incredibly exciting stage in her career. The public have only seen a small amount of Becky as a solo artist and what she can do and we were looking for the right partner to work with to take that further". [5]

In 2018, she released the single "Sunrise in the East", which was treated as the lead cut from her supposedly rejuvenated debut project. [6] Not long after, she took part in a range of collaborations, including the song "Back & Forth", alongside Marc Kinchen and Jonas Blue. This continued the following year with "I Could Get Used to This", with Weiss, and finally "Wish You Well", with Sigala, which became her first top 10 hit in the UK Charts since "Gecko (Overdrive)". Additionally, she also achieved success as a songwriter when she wrote the song "All Day and Night" by Jax Jones, Martin Solveig and Madison Beer, which was her first written effort to make it to the top 10 in the UK Charts.

On 24 September 2019, Hill announced on social media that she was going to be releasing a "mini-album", which included previous hits and four brand new tracks. [7] These four tracks were previously planned on being released on their own as an extended play, entitled Fickle Emotions, but the idea was scrapped before including them on a compilation album. [8] It was released on 27 September 2019.

In October 2019, Becky collaborated on the song "Lose Control", alongside then breakthrough acts Meduza and Goodboys, and was later released through the 2019 re-released version of Get to Know. [9]

Track listing

Get to Know track listing
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Changing"
3:08
2."I Could Get Used to This" (with Weiss)
3:14
3."Wish You Well" (with Sigala)
3:26
4."Find a Place" (featuring MNEK)
3:43
5."Back & Forth" (with MK and Jonas Blue)3:16
6."Breakdown" Shift K3Y 3:02
7."Gecko" (with Oliver Heldens)
  • Heldens
  • MNEK [c]
2:46
8."Afterglow" (with Wilkinson)
3:45
9."Stranger"
3:52
10."Piece of Me" (with MK)
  • MK
  • MNEK
3:08
11."Sunrise in the East"
3:15
12."False Alarm" (with Matoma)
3:42
13."I Could Get Used to This" (orchestral acoustic)
  • Hill
  • Emenike
  • Campbell
  • Kintish
  • Ralph
Charlie Hugall 3:19
2019 re-release
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
2."Lose Control" (with Meduza and Goodboys)
2:48

Notes

Charts

Certifications

Certifications for Get to Know
RegionCertification Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI) [22] Platinum300,000

Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

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