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The Lockdown Sessions received generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has an average score of 70 based on ten reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". [16] Aggregator AnyDecentMusic? gave it 6.8 out of 10, based on their assessment of the critical consensus. Gary Ryan from NME gave it four out of five stars, saying: "All in all, The Lockdown Sessions' all-bets-off stylistic game of spin-the-bottle feels attuned to 2021's post-genre Spotify world, as Elton continues to further his musical universe". [19]
The album was released on 22 October 2021, and in the OCC's UK midweek chart update on 25 October, the album was described as being in a "four way battle" with Duran Duran, Lana Del Rey and Biffy Clyro for the number-one position. [24] It later became John's eighth number-one album in the UK on 29 October 2021, his first number-one album since 2012's Good Morning to the Night . [25]
The Lockdown Sessions achieved 31,000 chart sales in the UK, 84% of which were physical (CD and vinyl) sales in the first week. It was John's second number one in the UK in less than a month – "Cold Heart (Pnau remix)" with Dua Lipa reached number one on the UK Singles Chart earlier in the month. [26] In the United States, the album debuted at number ten on the Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 29,000 album-equivalent units, 17,000 of that sum were pure album copies, it went straight to number four on the U.S. Top Album Sales chart. [27] [28]
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Length |
---|---|---|---|---|
1. | "Cold Heart (Pnau remix)" (with Dua Lipa) | Pnau | 3:39 | |
2. | "Always Love You" (with Young Thug and Nicki Minaj) |
|
| 4:17 |
3. | "Learn to Fly" (Surfaces featuring Elton John) |
| 3:31 | |
4. | "After All" (with Charlie Puth) |
| Puth | 3:28 |
5. | "Chosen Family" (with Rina Sawayama) |
| Harle | 4:40 |
6. | "The Pink Phantom" (Gorillaz featuring Elton John and 6lack) |
| 4:13 | |
7. | "It's a Sin" (with Years & Years) | 4:44 | ||
8. | "Nothing Else Matters" (Miley Cyrus featuring Watt, Elton John, Yo-Yo Ma, Robert Trujillo and Chad Smith) | Watt | 6:35 | |
9. | "Orbit" (with SG Lewis) | SG Lewis | 3:28 | |
10. | "Simple Things" (with Brandi Carlile) |
| Watt | 4:11 |
11. | "Beauty in the Bones" (with Jimmie Allen) |
|
| 3:50 |
12. | "One of Me" (Lil Nas X featuring Elton John) |
|
| 2:41 |
13. | "E-Ticket" (with Eddie Vedder) |
| Watt | 3:18 |
14. | "Finish Line" (with Stevie Wonder) |
| Watt | 4:24 |
15. | "Stolen Car" (with Stevie Nicks) |
| Watt | 5:37 |
16. | "I'm Not Gonna Miss You" (with Glen Campbell) |
| Raymond | 2:56 |
Total length: | 65:32 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Length |
---|---|---|---|---|
17. | "Cold Heart" (PS1 remix)(with Dua Lipa) |
|
| 2:47 |
Total length: | 68:19 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Length |
---|---|---|---|---|
1. | "Merry Christmas" (with Ed Sheeran) |
| Mac | 3:28 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Length |
---|---|---|---|---|
1. | "Hold Me Closer" (with Britney Spears) |
|
| 3:22 |
2. | "Cold Heart (Pnau remix)" (with Dua Lipa) |
| Pnau | 3:39 |
3. | "Always Love You" (with Young Thug and Nicki Minaj) |
|
| 4:17 |
4. | "Learn to Fly" (Surfaces featuring Elton John) |
|
| 3:31 |
5. | "After All" (with Charlie Puth) |
| Puth | 3:28 |
6. | "Chosen Family" (with Rina Sawayama) |
| Harle | 4:40 |
7. | "The Pink Phantom" (Gorillaz featuring Elton John and 6lack) |
|
| 4:13 |
8. | "It's a Sin" (with Years & Years) |
|
| 4:44 |
9. | "Nothing Else Matters" (Miley Cyrus featuring Watt, Elton John, Yo-Yo Ma, Robert Trujillo and Chad Smith) |
| Watt | 6:35 |
10. | "Orbit" (with SG Lewis) |
| SG Lewis | 3:28 |
11. | "Simple Things" (with Brandi Carlile) |
| Watt | 4:11 |
12. | "Beauty in the Bones" (with Jimmie Allen) |
|
| 3:50 |
13. | "One of Me" (Lil Nas X featuring Elton John) |
|
| 2:41 |
14. | "E-Ticket" (with Eddie Vedder) |
| Watt | 3:18 |
15. | "Finish Line" (with Stevie Wonder) |
| Watt | 4:24 |
16. | "Stolen Car" (with Stevie Nicks) |
| Watt | 5:37 |
17. | "I'm Not Gonna Miss You" (with Glen Campbell) |
| Raymond | 2:56 |
18. | "Merry Christmas" (with Ed Sheeran) |
| Mac | 3:28 |
Total length: | 72:22 |
Weekly charts
| Year-end charts
|
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Poland (ZPAV) [63] | Platinum | 20,000![]() |
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland) [64] | Gold | 10,000![]() |
United Kingdom (BPI) [65] | Gold | 100,000![]() |
|
Region | Date | Format | Label | Ref. |
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Various | 22 October 2021 | Vinyl | [66] [67] [68] | |
Japan | CD | Universal Music Japan | [69] | |
Brazil | 3 December 2021 | CD | Universal Music Brasil | [70] |
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