Over It (album)

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Over It
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Studio album by
Summer Walker
ReleasedOctober 4, 2019 (2019-10-04)
Recorded2018-2019
Genre R&B [1]
Length42:49
Label
Producer
Summer Walker chronology
Last Day of Summer
(2018)		Over It
(2019)		 Still Over It
(2021)
Singles from Over It
  1. "Playing Games"
    Released: August 23, 2019
  2. "Stretch You Out"
    Released: September 24, 2019 [2]
  3. "Come Thru"
    Released: December 28, 2019

Over It is the debut studio album by American singer Summer Walker. It was released on October 4, 2019, by LVRN and Interscope. It spawned the singles "Playing Games", "Stretch You Out" and "Come Thru". It also features the remix of Walker's "Girls Need Love" featuring Drake. [3] It also features collaborations with Bryson Tiller, Usher, 6lack, PartyNextDoor, A Boogie wit da Hoodie and Jhené Aiko. [4] Most of the album was produced by Walker's then-boyfriend, London on da Track. [3] Walker's First and Last Tour supported the album, starting October 25, 2019. [5]

Contents

Promotion

An "old school" commercial was released via Walker's YouTube channel on September 30 to promote the album, which was compared to infomercials for R&B albums from the 1990s. [6] Few days before the actual album release, Walker promoted the album by putting various payphone in various cities painted in the theme of the album. A phone number was to be dialed to listen to the album a few days before release. After the album's release, Walker premiered a special on Beats 1 guest starring Ari Lennox, as part of their R&B Now series. [7]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 86/100 [8]
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [9]
Clash 8/10 [10]
Pitchfork 7.2/10 [11]

Over It was met with critical acclaim upon release. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 86, based on 6 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". [12]

Accolades of Over it

The album won best album at the 2020 Soul Train Music Awards and was the most streamed album by a female artist on Apple Music in 2020.

Year-end lists
PublicationListRankRef.
Associated Press AP's Top Albums of 2019
2
Billboard The 50 Best Albums of 2019
21
Complex The Best Albums of 2019
43
Rolling Stone The 50 Best Albums of 2019
38
Uproxx The Best Albums of 2019
19
Variety The Best Albums of 2019
8

Commercial performance

Over It debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200 with 134,000 album-equivalent units in its first week. Its debut week marked the largest streaming week for an R&B album by a female artist, in terms of on-demand audio streams. It went on to spend more than 200 weeks on Billboard 200, ranking as the second most successful R&B album of 2020 [19] The album also topped the R&B Albums chart for 14 nonconsecutive weeks and as of July 2020, has yet to chart below number seven. [20] On May 7, 2020, the album was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for combined sales and album-equivalent units over 1,000,000 units in the United States. [21] As of November 2021, Over It had earned 2,500,000 equivalent copies in the U.S. [22] On May 16, 2023, every song from the project had been certified Gold or higher. [22]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Over It"
2:11
2."Body"
  • London on da Track
  • Robinson [a]
  • Bailey [a]
3:13
3."Playing Games" (extended version) (with Bryson Tiller)
London on da Track2:23
4."Drunk Dialing...LODT"
  • London on da Track
  • Robinson [a]
  • Bailey [a]
  • Griffin [a]
  • Richardson [a]
2:14
5."Come Thru" (with Usher)
  • London on da Track
  • Robinson [a]
  • Bailey [a]
  • Ben Chang [c]
3:01
6."Potential"
  • London on da Track
  • Robinson [a]
  • Bailey [a]
2:53
7."Fun Girl"WalkerWalker1:49
8."Tonight"
  • Walker
  • Charles
  • Cossom
  • Ricki Glass
  • Robinson
  • Holmes
  • London on da Track
  • Robinson [a]
  • Bailey [a]
  • Fallen [a]
2:56
9."Me"
  • Walker
  • Arsenio Archer
Archer2:08
10."Like It" (with 6lack)
  • London on da Track
  • Robinson [a]
  • Bailey [a]
  • Fallen [a]
2:51
11."Just Might" (with PartyNextDoor)
3:25
12."Stretch You Out" (featuring A Boogie wit da Hoodie)
  • London on da Track
  • Robinson [a]
  • Bailey [a]
  • Zane98 [b]
2:23
13."Off of You"
  • Walker
  • Holmes
  • Griffin
  • Bailey
  • Robinson
  • Stashenko
  • London on da Track
  • Robinson [a]
  • Bailey [a]
  • Fallen [a]
2:05
14."Anna Mae"
  • London on da Track
  • Bailey [a]
  • Storch [a]
2:17
15."I'll Kill You" (featuring Jhené Aiko)
  • London on da Track
  • Robinson [a]
  • Bailey [a]
  • Storch [a]
2:59
16."Nobody Else"
3:53
Total length:42:49
Bonus tracks
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
17."Playing Games"
  • Walker
  • Holmes
  • Bailey
  • Robinson
  • Luckett [e]
  • Rowland [e]
  • Knowles [e]
  • Roberson [e]
  • F. Jerkins [e]
  • R. Jerkins [e]
  • Daniels
  • Griffin
London on da Track2:23
18."Girls Need Love" (remix) (with Drake)
Archer3:42
Total length:48:54

Notes

Personnel

Credits adapted from Tidal. [23]

Musicians

Technical

Charts

Certifications

Certifications for Over It
RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA) [45] Gold35,000‡
Canada (Music Canada) [46] Platinum80,000‡
Denmark (IFPI Danmark) [47] Gold10,000‡
United Kingdom (BPI) [48] Gold100,000‡
United States (RIAA) [49] 2× Platinum2,000,000‡

‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

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