Trance (song)

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"Trance"
Song by Metro Boomin, Travis Scott and Young Thug
from the album Heroes & Villains
ReleasedDecember 2, 2022
Genre Cloud rap
Length3:14
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"Trance" is a song by American record producer Metro Boomin and American rappers Travis Scott and Young Thug, from Metro's second studio album Heroes & Villains (2022). It was produced by Metro Boomin and Allen Ritter, with violin performances from Peter Lee Johnson.

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Critical reception

The song was met with a generally mixed to negative reception. Its production has been criticized; Charles Lyons-Burt of Slant Magazine wrote, "Metro is often just going about recycling what's worked on tracks that he's produced in the past, as with the sad-sack fiddle that he layers over the top of 'Trance'—the exact same one that he used on Savage Mode II 's "Rich Nigga Shit," which similarly featured Young Thug." [1] Similarly, Hamza Riaz of Mic Cheque described the production in Heroes & Villains as "the most skeletal we've ever heard Metro, excessively subdued in songs like 'Trance'". [2] Uproxx 's Wongo Okon commented that the gloom in the song "foreshadows the danger that lurks between the drums and hi-hats of Heroes & Villains." [3] Writing for Complex , Peter A. Berry considered it among the songs which although "can suffer from lyrical blandness, their melodies make them compelling anyways." [4]

Leaked version

In January 2023, an alternative version of the song featuring a verse from Canadian rapper Drake surfaced online. [5] In an interview with DJ Drama on the Streetz Is Watchin Radio, Metro Boomin revealed that when they were in the studio once, Drake wanted to hear songs from Heroes & Villains and heard "Trance", which by then had been finished. Though Metro already liked the way it sounded and did not intend to alter it, Drake still recorded a verse for the song. Boomin explained, "a couple parts was cool but like I just felt like just even with like Slime verse and Trav verse and the outro, it wasn't just no room. It wasn't nothing personal... I just ended up using the original and I guess the other one just leaked or something." [6] [7]

Charts

Certifications

Certifications for "Trance"
RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA) [25] Platinum70,000‡
Canada (Music Canada) [26] Platinum80,000‡
Italy (FIMI) [27] Gold50,000‡
Poland (ZPAV) [28] Platinum50,000‡
Portugal (AFP) [29] Gold5,000‡
United Kingdom (BPI) [30] Silver200,000‡
United States (RIAA) [31] Platinum1,000,000‡
Streaming
Greece (IFPI Greece) [32] Platinum2,000,000†

‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.
† Streaming-only figures based on certification alone.

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