Translation (album)

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Translation
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Studio album by
Black Eyed Peas
ReleasedJune 19, 2020 (2020-06-19)
Genre
Length56:30
Language
Label
Producer
Black Eyed Peas chronology
Masters of the Sun Vol. 1
(2018)		Translation
(2020)		 Elevation
(2022)
Singles from Translation
  1. "Ritmo"
    Released: October 11, 2019
  2. "Mamacita"
    Released: April 10, 2020
  3. "Feel the Beat"
    Released: June 19, 2020
  4. "Vida Loca"
    Released: August 21, 2020
  5. "Girl Like Me"
    Released: December 4, 2020

Translation (stylized in all caps) is the eighth studio album by American pop rap group Black Eyed Peas. It was released on June 19, 2020, by Epic Records. The album features guest appearances from Shakira, J Balvin, Ozuna, Maluma, Nicky Jam, Tyga, El Alfa, Piso 21, Becky G, French Montana and J Rey Soul.

Contents

The track listing was revealed on June 11, 2020, alongside the album announcement. [3] "No Mañana" was released as a promotional single on June 12, 2020, along with the album's cover art. [4] [5] The album was also promoted with two Hot Latin Songs chart toppers, "Ritmo (Bad Boys for Life)" [6] and "Mamacita". [7]

Commercial performance

The album sold 15,000 album-equivalent units, measured largely from streaming revenue – 14 million streams of album tracks through on-demand services, measured as 10,000 streaming equivalent albums – while 4,000 units were traditional album sales. The performance earned the album a chart debut at number 52 on the Billboard 200 and at number three on the Top Latin Albums, which was the group's first top-five appearance on the latter chart. [6] The album is their first to enter the Billboard 200 chart since The Beginning (2010).

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 63/100 [8]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [9]
Belfast Telegraph 6/10 [10]
laut.de Star full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [11]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [12]
Tom Hull – on the Web B+ ( Five Pointed Star Solid.svg Five Pointed Star Solid.svg Five Pointed Star Solid.svg ) [13]

Translation was met with generally favorable reviews. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from professional critics, the album received a weighted average score of 63, based on four reviews. [8]

Reviewing in June 2020 for Rolling Stone , Gary Suarez said the "often clunky" album shows the group exploiting the contemporary Latin pop trend, albeit with occasional charm. [12] In Variety , A. D. Amorosi believed songs such as "I Woke Up" and "Get Loose Now" sound as if they were focus grouped for Latin audiences, but said of the album overall, "BEP have found a new sense of adventure, inventiveness and contagion through the modern Latin music prism." [14] Ingrid Angulo from Hot Press was more impressed, applauding their foray into reggaeton and saying, "The collaborations are seamless and the tracks as catchy as ever, cementing the modern global success of Latin-inspired dance music." [15] Tom Hull was also relatively positive, writing in his blog, "Seems like they had a perfectly functional hip-hop/funk album on tap for summer release, then wound up adding a most atypical and remarkable topical song, 'News Today'." [13]

Track listing

Translation track listing
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Ritmo" (with J Balvin)
3:34
2."Feel the Beat" (with Maluma)
3:57
3."Mamacita" (with Ozuna and J. Rey Soul)
  • will.i.am
  • Goldstein [a]
4:11
4."Girl Like Me" (with Shakira)
  • Adams
  • Pineda
  • J. Gomez
  • Shakira
  • Goldstein
  • Brendan Buckley
  • Albert Menendez
  • Tim Mitchell
  • will.i.am
  • Shakira [a]
  • Goldstein [a]
3:42
5."Vida Loca" (with Nicky Jam and Tyga)
will.i.am3:54
6."No Mañana" (with El Alfa)
  • will.i.am
  • Goldstein [a]
3:39
7."Tonta Love" (with J. Rey Soul)
  • Adams
  • Goldstein
  • Goldstein
  • will.i.am [a]
3:50
8."Celebrate"
  • Adams
  • Goldstein
  • Pineda
  • J. Gomez
  • Goldstein
  • will.i.am [a]
3:39
9."Todo Bueno" (with Piso 21)
  • Goldstein
  • will.i.am [a]
  • Mosty [b]
3:50
10."Duro Hard" (with Becky G)
3:25
11."Mabuti" (with French Montana)
  • Goldstein
  • will.i.am [a]
4:16
12."I Woke Up"
 Rvssian 3:30
13."Get Loose Now"
  • Adams
  • Goldstein
  • will.i.am
  • Goldstein [a]
2:27
14."Action"
 DJ Snake 4:12
15."News Today"
Goldstein4:16
Total length:56:24
Target and Japanese bonus tracks [16] [17]
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
16."Ritmo Remix" (with J Balvin and Jaden)
  • Adams
  • Pineda
  • Harris
  • Balvin
  • Bontempi
  • Gaffey
  • Glenister
  • Gordon
  • Spagner
  • will.i.am
  • Harris [a]
3:49
17."Ritmo Remix" (with Steve Aoki and J Balvin)
  • Adams
  • Pineda
  • Harris
  • Balvin
  • Bontempi
  • Gaffey
  • Glenister
  • Gordon
  • Spagner
  • will.i.am
  • Harris [a]
3:52
Total length:64:05

Notes

Personnel

Black Eyed Peas

Charts

Certifications

Certifications for Translation
RegionCertification Certified units/sales
France (SNEP) [41] Platinum100,000‡
Italy (FIMI) [42] Platinum50,000‡
Poland (ZPAV) [43] Platinum20,000‡

‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

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