Emotion (Carly Rae Jepsen album)

Emotion
Standard edition album cover. The Target exclusive/iTunes deluxe cover displays "E•MO•TION" in pink, rather than blue.
Studio album by Carly Rae Jepsen
Released	June 24, 2015 (Japanese release) August 21, 2015 (Worldwide release) September 18, 2015 (European release)
Recorded	Mid 2014 – Early 2015
Studio	Various Wolf Cousins Studios P.S. Studio Kinglet Studios; (Stockholm Sweden) Heavy Dunt Studios (Burbank) No Excuses Studio (Santa Monica) Conway Recording Studios Templebase Studios United Recording Paramount Studios The Record Plant; (Hollywood) Echo Studio MXM Studios Venice Way Studios Rocket Carousel Studios; (Los Angeles) Lounge Studios; (New York City) Kustom Deluxe Studio (Nashville) Monarch Studios (Vancouver)
Genre	Pop[1] dance-pop[2]
Length	44:02
Label	604 School Boy Interscope
Producer	Scott "Scooter" Braun (exec.) Justin Bieber (exec.) Mattman & Robin Shellback Christopher J Baran Ben Romans Peter Svensson Jeff Halatrax Ariel Rechtshaid Dev Hynes Stint Zachary Gray Rostam Batmanglij Dan Nigro Greg Kurstin The High Street Carl Falk Rami Yacoub Greg Wells LULOU Wouter Janssen Kyle Shearer
Carly Rae Jepsen chronology
Kiss: The Remix (2013) Emotion (2015) Emotion Remixed + (2016)
Singles from Emotion
"I Really Like You" Released: March 2, 2015 "Run Away with Me" Released: July 17, 2015 "Your Type" Released: November 9, 2015

Emotion (stylized as E•MO•TION) is the third studio album by Canadian singer Carly Rae Jepsen. It was released on June 24, 2015 in Japan and on August 21, 2015 worldwide through 604, School Boy, and Interscope Records.^[3][4][5][6] Looking to transition from the "pure pop"-oriented nature of Kiss, Jepsen found inspiration in 1980s music and alternative styles. She enlisted a team of indie-pop collaborators including Dev Hynes, Ariel Rechtshaid and Rostam Batmanglij.

Emotion received generally positive reviews from contemporary music critics, who placed the album on many year-end lists, and was nominated for the Polaris Music Prize. Despite this, the album underperformed worldwide, debuting at number sixteen on the Billboard 200 with 16,153 units and number eight in Canada with 2,600 copies sold. However, Emotion achieved moderate success in Japan where it was released two months earlier, debuting at number eight with 12,189 physical copies sold and subsequently being certified Gold for shipments exceeding 100,000 copies by the RIAJ.

The album was preceded by the release of its lead single, "I Really Like You", which reached top five in several territories including the United Kingdom and Japan. It was followed by "Run Away with Me" and "Your Type". Jepsen embarked on the Gimmie Love Tour in support of the album in November 2015, with a second leg commencing in February 2016. In April 2016, she toured Canada in support of the album as the opening act for Hedley on their Hello World Tour.

A companion EP, titled Emotion: Side B, was released on August 26, 2016 and features eight songs that were cut from Emotion.^[7][8]

Background

Following the sudden worldwide success of "Call Me Maybe" in 2012, Jepsen found that the song had become "[this] huge, ginormous thing that really overshadowed the rest of our project" and further singles issued from Kiss failed to gain any traction.^[9][10] Jepsen viewed it as an opportunity to reflect and step back from the overexposure, and to discover what direction to take with her next album. She met with her record label and management after The Summer Kiss Tour wrapped up in late 2013, stating: "'I want you to put your faith in me that I'll come back when it's ready,' and they did and I'm very lucky to have a team that wasn't about trying to mass produce things and was really more looking at the quality of it."^[9]

Jepsen spent time regrouping; searching for a "detour" that came to be in the form of a Broadway role: "I thought, how amazing would it be to take a left turn, somehow, and still come back to this? [...] but 'left turn'—I didn’t know what that meant."^[11] She was approached by the producers of Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella to audition for the titular character, and was formally offered the part after auditioning in Los Angeles and passing callbacks in New York.^[11][12] Jepsen assumed the role for twelve weeks from February 2014 to June 2014, and during this time she decided to handle her own A&R. With help from guitarist Tavish Crowe, Jepsen began emailing artists she admired to see if they were interested in collaborating, including Tegan and Sara, Rostam Batmanglij of Vampire Weekend and Shellback.^[10]

Writing and development

Jepsen went into writing Emotion with the intent of crafting a project that wasn't mass-produced, opting to take her time with the project due to her dissatisfaction with Kiss's constrained timeframe of two months. In June 2013, Jepsen told Idolator she had been working on her third studio album since "the day Kiss was turned in".^[13] She shared that the record would incorporate pop and folk music, and channeled Robyn, La Roux, Kimbra and Dragonette as influences for the studio sessions.^[14] It was confirmed that she was working with her past producers, Josh Ramsay, Ryan Stewart and Max Martin while meeting with new ones like Benny Blanco and Stargate.^[15][16] It was tentatively due for release in the first quarter of 2014 but was pushed back. Jepsen stated that she would not rush the album, instead taking her time to make sure it was of quality.^[13][17]

Eternal Summer was an entire indie pop effort that was scrapped before she put work into Emotion:

"I made an indie album that probably no one will ever hear. I think there is a natural rebellion when you have success in one are(a) to completely rebel against that. I needed to get that out of my system, I think. I made really weird music. But I didn’t want to release that album. It felt not like the move I felt like making. At first, when I was in L.A. [working on the new album], I was making very pure pure pop again, kind of almost Kiss. I wasn’t feeling that. The indie album was too hot, too cold. Emotion felt like the right balance."^[18]

Lyrical and compositional inspiration for Emotion stemmed primarily from 1980s pop music. Jepsen sought to channel a "heart-on-your-sleeve sensibility" reminiscent of the era after having attended a Cyndi Lauper concert in Japan, further exploring its themes through "old-school" Prince and Madonna records on morning runs before rehearsals for Cinderella.^[19] An epiphany came to Jepsen after writing "Emotion", the second track on the album, where she realized that '80s pop combined with a more alternative production was what she was seeking.^[20]

"I had to shake off that feeling for myself before I could get into writing Emotion. It had to not be about trying to prove something. I feel like if you're writing music just to have a different identity in the public's eye, it's sort of the wrong motive. It's gotta be coming from a place of what you love and what you're passionate about. "

—Jepsen talking about changing her mindset on public perception of herself^[21]

Several publications noted a "surprising" collaboration between Jepsen, Ariel Rechstshaid and Dev Hynes after she shared a photo of the three on Instagram.^[22][23] Jepsen felt a desire to "color a little outside of the lines, and try some sort of collaborations that people wouldn’t necessarily pitch," stating that it's a "gift" to have artists from different realms of music come together to express a new idea.^[24] Rechstshaid has stated that as pop and indie music converge closer and closer, a new space opens up for experimentation within: "We were so far outside of what is considered the mainstream, doing our thing, and those lines have just started to fade over the past five years. Getting me and Dev in the room sort of implied what she was after."^[25]

Jepsen contacted Hynes through his management stating that she was a fan, which Hynes found hard to believe at first: "people just say that [...] I didn’t know how involved she was with things."^[25] Hynes was eventually "won over" by Jepsen after demonstrating her vocal ability and work ethic. Hynes credited her with genuine intentions of wanting to "develop a new aesthetic" and not pursuing "Pitchfork-approved artists" just for the sake of indie credibility: "I can tell when that’s happening because people will ask me to do one thing and then want it changed. Whenever that happens, I know you don’t actually want what my songs sound like, you just want how people reacted to them."^[25]

Throughout the process of the album, it was revealed that 250 songs were composed.^[26] Jepsen announced the title of the album on April 11, 2015 and released the cover artwork on April 15, 2015. The track listing was revealed on June 2, 2015.^{[27][28][29][30][31]}

Promotion and release

Jepsen during Gimnie Love Tour in Salt Lake City on March 4, 2016

The album's promotion was kicked off with a live performance of the album's lead single, "I Really Like You" at Good Morning America on March 5, 2015. On April 4, 2015, Jepsen performed "All That" at Saturday Night Live.^[32] On May 1, 2015, Jepsen performed "Run Away with Me", "E·MO·TION", "Your Type", "Black Heart" and "Gimmie Love" at a show in Beijing, China.^[33] On the release date of E·MO·TION in the United States on August 21, Jepsen performed "Run Away with Me" on Today. During her tour in South Africa in October 2015, she performed "Run Away With Me" on Idols South Africa.

Singles

Jepsen at the Capital Pride in 2015, where she performed several songs from Emotion.

The album's lead single, "I Really Like You", was released to the iTunes Store on March 2, 2015. The song reached the top 40 in Australia, Canada, Japan, and Netherlands, and has reached number 39 on the US Billboard Hot 100, number 3 in Ireland and on the UK Singles Chart, and number 1 on the Scottish Singles Chart. The music video was released on March 6, 2015, featuring Tom Hanks and Justin Bieber.

"Run Away with Me" was released as the album's second single on July 17, 2015.^[34][35] The music video for "Run Away with Me" was released on July 17, 2015 and directed by Carly's boyfriend, director David Kalani Larkins. The video was filmed in Tokyo, New York City, and Paris.^[36] The track was premiered on Hit FM in Spain on June 22, 2015.^[37]

"Your Type" was re-released as the third official single on November 9, 2015 (in Europe).^[38] An official remix package was released on December 11, 2015 in Europe and Oceania and on December 18, 2015 in North America.^[39] Its music video, directed by Gia Coppola, premiered November 3, 2015 and follows Jepsen on a Cinderella-inspired story where her character fantasizes about becoming a pop star.^[40][41]

"Boy Problems" served as the album's fourth single. Its music video was released on April 8, 2016.^[42]

Other songs

• "All That" was made available for purchase on April 5, 2015 as the first promotional single. The title track, "E•MO•TION", was premiered on June 3, 2015.^[43][44] "Run Away with Me" and "Your Type" also premiered on a Spanish radio station prior to the album's release on June 22, 2015. "Warm Blood" was released as the second promotional single on July 31, 2015. "Making the Most of the Night" was released as the third promotional single on August 7, 2015. "Your Type" was released as the fourth promotional single on August 14, 2015.^[45]
• "When I'm Alone", a song written and co-composed by Jepsen during sessions for Emotion, was eventually purchased by SM Entertainment and given to K-pop girl group f(x) for their album 4 Walls.^[46]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[47]
The A.V. Club	B+[48]
Consequence of Sound	B+[49]
Entertainment Weekly	A-[2]
Exclaim!	8/10[50]
NME	7/10[51]
Pitchfork	7.4/10[1]
Rolling Stone	[52]
Slant Magazine	[53]
Spin	7/10[54]

Emotion received acclaim from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 78, based on 23 reviews.^[55] Matthew Welch of Entertainment Weekly gave the album a A- grade, writing "Her effervescent follow-up [is] an '80s-inflected collection of sweetly breezy dance-pop baubles. Emotion is the sound of a girl who's had her career-defining smash; now she just wants to have fun."^[2] Jim Farber of New York Daily News gave the album a three out of five stars, feeling that "Due to the era the album fetishes, the music sounds inescapably chintzy.... Jepsen’s improbably young voice helps distract from that." Siri Svay of Music Connection gave the album seven out of ten stars, writing "Jepsen has crafted an album embedded with catchy bubblegum pop tunes that will get stuck in your head while you’re soaking up summer sun by the pool." Sasha Geffen of Consequence of Sound gave the album a B+ grade, writing "Emotion rolls out banger after banger, all while sustaining a remarkable level of complexity and compassion for everyone in Jepsen’s solar system."^[56]

Peter Tabakis of Pretty Much Amazing gave the album a grade of A-, opining that "Emotion is an old fashioned eye-opener. It's the shiny birthday present stowed in a random closet, hidden in plain sight. It's also the best gift you never asked for, or even knew you wanted in the first place. That she succeeded in making a near-perfect pop album seems insane... Emotion is so good, it’s formed sky-high expectations out of thin air."^[57] Corban Goble of Pitchfork rated the album 7.4/10, commenting "Emotion is as solid and spotless a pop album as you're likely to hear this year.... but Emotion fails to tell us who Jepsen is or wants to be."^[1] Evan Sawdey of PopMatters gave the album 6/10 and said "Emotion is still a very pleasing album if not just a shade overambitious, clearly trying too hard to make the same genius pop moments that Kiss churned them out with effortless flair." Kevin Ritchie of Now Magazine gave the album 3/5, writing "For all its unexpected sounds and catchy choruses, Emotion falters in its lyrical blandness." Jon Caramanica of The New York Times gave the album 3/5, stating "Emotion is full of pure cotton candy--delicious, distractingly sweet and filling, with a mildly suspicious aftertaste.... [The album is] full of excellent songs that seem to give up about two-thirds of the way through. Jonh Bell of The Line of Best Fit gave the album a 7.5/10, commenting "Emotion has all the tenets of a successful pop record, but feels more cultivated than previous work." Stephen Carlick of Exclaim! gave the album an 8/10 and judged that "Emotion demonstrates how little improvement could be made on her sharp, consistent songwriting abilities. These are perfect pop songs; a few more rare glimpses of their rougher edges would make them all the more spectacular."

Dan Weiss of Spin gave the album an 8/10 and judged that "This is music for flash mobs, a valentine to crowdsourcing, and a public engagement proposal to the universe." James Rainis of Slant Magazine gave the album a four out of five stars, commenting "With an uncanny melodic gift that enlivens even the most tired sentiments and a chameleonic ability to seamlessly transition between disparate production styles, Jepsen proves she's worthy of those comparisons [to Taylor Swift and Rihanna]." Maura Johnston of The Boston Globe gave the album an 8/10, commenting "An album that’s incredibly enjoyable even as Jepsen stands on the precipice of heartache." Heather Phares of AllMusic gave the album a four out of five stars, commenting "An even more consistent album than Kiss, Emotion further defines Jepsen as an equally stylish and earnest pop artist."^[47] Ryan Dennehy of AbsolutePunk gave the album an 8.5/10 and judged that "Emotion goes to great lengths to prove the advantages of being manufactured, with every piece interlocking with machine-like precision with its surroundings. It's astonishingly effective, and like the best pop, demands to be listened to ad nauseum in order to gawk at the sheer audacity of the accomplishment."^[58] Penfold of I Probably Hate Your Band gave Emotion 7.5/10 and said it "sees CROJO cut her hair short, dump her boyfriend, throw out her wardrobe, and grow into the girl she always wanted to be. Set your Spotify to private, pop in those headphones, and waste an hour in an '80s dream. You will not be disappointed."^[59] Annie Zaleski of The A.V. Club gave Emotion a grade B+ and said "Emotion will propel her to superstardom—but even if it doesn’t, she can at least rest easy knowing she made one of 2015’s most interesting, effervescent records." Nolan Feeney of Time said that the album is "probably the closest we’ve come to a modern She's So Unusual in some time."^[60]

Year-end lists

Critic/Publication	List	Rank	Ref.
Entertainment Weekly	The 40 Best Albums of 2015	2	[61]
People	The 10 Best Albums of 2015	2	[62]
Stereogum	The 50 Best Albums of 2015	3	[63]
Vice	The 50 Best Albums of 2015	3	[64]
The Village Voice	2015 Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll	3	[65]
Time	Top 10 Best Albums	4	[66]
Spin	The 25 Best Pop Albums of 2015	4	[67]
	The 50 Best Albums of 2015	22	[68]
Rolling Stone	20 Best Pop Albums of 2015	7	[69]
	The 50 Best Albums of 2015	48	[70]
Slant Magazine	The 25 Best Albums of 2015	12	[71]
The Guardian	Best Albums of 2015	19	[72]
Billboard	25 Best Albums of 2015	24	[73]
Consequence of Sound	The 50 Best Albums of 2015	24	[74]
Pitchfork Media	The 50 Best Albums of 2015	34	[75]
NME	NME's Albums of the Year 2015	36	[76]
Complex	The Best Albums of 2015	41	[77]
NPR	NPR Music's 50 Favorite Albums of 2015	N/A	[78]
Brooklyn Magazine	Best Albums of the Year	N/A	[79]

Commercial performance

The album debuted at number 16 on the US Billboard 200, earning 16,153 album-equivalent units in its first week, with 15,815 coming from pure sales, and spent four weeks on the chart. In Canada, the album debuted at number 8 with 2,600 copies sold in its first week. In Japan, the album debuted at number 8 with 12,189 physical copies sold its in first week. Due to widespread promotion, Emotion sold 65,200 additional copies the following three weeks in Japan. On April 2, 2016, Jepsen revealed via Twitter that Emotion was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of Japan, having sold over 100,000 copies there, these copies represent physical sales of the album only.^[80] The album entered the UK Albums Chart on September 25 at number 21 with sales of 4,150 copies in addition to streaming figures.^[81]

Track listing

Standard edition[82]
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Producer(s)	Length
1.	"Run Away with Me"	Carly Rae Jepsen Mattias Larsson Robin Fredriksson Karl Schuster Oscar Holter Jonnali Parmenius	Mattman & Robin Shellback	4:11
2.	"E•MO•TION"	Jepsen Nate Campany Ben Romans Christopher J Baran	Baran Romans	3:17
3.	"I Really Like You"	Jepsen Jacob Kasher Peter Svensson	Svensson Jeff Halatrax	3:24
4.	"Gimmie Love"	Jepsen Larsson Fredriksson	Mattman & Robin	3:22
5.	"All That"	Jepsen Ariel Rechtshaid Devonté Hynes	Rechtshaid Hynes	4:38
6.	"Boy Problems"	Jepsen Sia Furler Greg Kurstin Tavish Crowe	Kurstin	3:42
7.	"Making the Most of the Night"	Furler Samuel Dixon Emre Ramazanoglu The Trinity[83] Jepsen	The High Street	3:58
8.	"Your Type"	Jepsen Rami Yacoub Carl Falk Wayne Hector Crowe	Falk Yacoub	3:19
9.	"Let's Get Lost"	Jepsen Baran Romans	Baran Romans	3:13
10.	"LA Hallucinations"	Zachary Gray Ajay Bhattacharyya Jepsen	Stint Gray	3:04
11.	"Warm Blood"	Jepsen Rostam Batmanglij Tino Zolfo Joe Cruz	Batmanglij	4:13
12.	"When I Needed You"	Jepsen Rechtshaid Daniel Nigro Nate Campany Crowe	Rechtshaid Nigro (additional)	3:41
Total length:				44:02

Deluxe edition[84]
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Producer(s)	Length
13.	"Black Heart"	Jepsen Greg Wells E. Kidd Bogart	Wells	2:56
14.	"I Didn't Just Come Here to Dance"	Jepsen Zolfo Cruz Lukas Loules Wouter Janssen	LULOU Janssen	3:39
15.	"Favourite Colour"	Jepsen Larsson Fredriksson Crowe	Mattman & Robin	3:29
Total length:				54:06

Target bonus tracks[85]
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Producer(s)	Length
16.	"Never Get to Hold You"	Jepsen Campany Kyle Shearer Crowe	Shearer	4:13
17.	"Love Again"	Jepsen Baran Campany Crowe	Baran	3:35
Total length:				61:54

Japan bonus tracks[86]
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Producer(s)	Length
18.	"I Really Like You" (Liam Keegan Radio Edit)	Jepsen Kasher Svensson	Keegan (additional production and remix)	3:09
Total length:				65:03

Japanese deluxe edition — bonus DVD[87]
No.	Title	Length
1.	"I Really Like You" (music video)	3:30
2.	"I Really Like You" (behind the scenes)	4:23
3.	"The Making Of E•MO•TION" (studio webisode part 1)	0:52
4.	"E•MO•TION - International EPK"	9:23

Personnel

Credits per the liner notes of Emotion.^[88]

Music

• Noonie Bao – backing vocals (track 1)
• CJ Baran – all instruments (tracks 2, 9, 17)
• Rostam Batmanglij – keyboards, piano (track 11)
• Ajay Bhattacharyya – synths (track 10)
• Peter Carlsson – solina (track 3)
• Samuel Dixon – electric guitar, acoustic guitar, bass guitar, synths (track 7)
• Carl Falk – instruments, guitars (track 8)
• Ethan Farmer – bass (tracks 5, 12)
• Wojtek Goral – saxophone (track 1)
• Oscar Görres – backing vocals (track 1)
• Zachary Gray – bass, synths (track 10)
• Jeff Halatrax – drums, synths, keyboards, bass (track 3)
• Svante Halldin – violin (track 4)
• Oscar Holter – backing vocals (track 1)
• Devonté Hynes – guitars (track 5)
• Wouter Janssen – all instruments (track 14)
• Carly Rae Jepsen – lead vocals (all tracks); backing vocals (track 1)
• Jakob Jerlström – backing vocals (track 1)
• Tommy King – keyboards (tracks 5, 12); piano (track 5)
• Greg Kurstin – bass, drums, guitar, keyboards (track 6)
• Katerina Loules – backing vocals (track 14)
• Lukas "Lulou" Loules – all instruments (track 14)
• Roger Manning, Jr. – synthesizers (track 5)
• Mattman & Robin – backing vocals, bass, drums, percussion (tracks 1, 4, 15); guitars (tracks 1, 4); vocoder, synths (track 15)
• Missy Modell – backing vocals (track 3)
• Daniel Nigro – guitar (track 12)
• Emre Ramazanoglu – synths, percussion, drums (track 7)
• Rami – instruments, bass (track 8)
• Ariel Rechtshaid – synthesizers, percussion (track 5)
• Sibel Redžep – backing vocals (track 1)
• Ben Romans – all instruments (tracks 2, 9)
• Ludvig Söderberg – backing vocals (track 1)
• Marlene Strand – backing vocals (track 8)
• Peter Svensson – drums, synths, keyboards, bass, guitar (track 3)
• Greg Wells – drums, synths (track 13)

Production

• Henrique Andrade – engineering assistance (track 7)
• CJ Baran – production, programming (tracks 2, 9, 17)
• Rostam Batmanglij – production, engineering, drum and synth programming (track 11)
• Ajay Bhattacharyya – production, recording, drum programming (track 10)
• Mikaelin 'Blue' Bluespruce – recording (track 5)
• Mario Borgatta – mixing assistance (track 10)
• Julian Burg – engineering (track 6)
• Martin Cooke – engineering assistance (track 10)
• Rich Costey – mixing (track 10)
• Tom Coyne – mastering (tracks 1–4, 8)
• John DeBold – engineering assistance (tracks 5, 12)
• Samuel Dixon – programming (track 7)
• Micky Evelyn – engineering assistance (track 5)
• Eric Eylands – engineering assistance (track 3)
• Carl Falk – production, programming (track 8)
• Nicholas Fournier – engineering assistance (track 10)
• Kyle Gaffney – engineering assistance (track 14)
• Chris Galland – mixing assistance (tracks 6, 12)
• Serban Ghenea – mixing (tracks 1–4, 8)
• Zachary Gray – production, recording (track 10)
• Gene Grimaldi – mastering (tracks 6–7, 9–17)
• Josh Gudwin – vocal production, vocal recording (track 7)
• Jeff Halatrax – production, engineering, programming (track 3)
• John Hanes – mix engineering (tracks 1–4, 8)
• The High Street – production (track 7)
• Devonté Hynes – production, programming (track 5)
• Chris Kasych – engineering (tracks 11–12)
• Greg Kurstin – production, engineering (track 6)
• Lukas "Lulou" Loules – production, engineering, mixing (track 14)
• Eric Madrid – mixing (tracks 7, 13, 15)
• Manny Marroquin – mixing (tracks 6, 12)
• Mattman & Robin – production (tracks 1, 4, 15); programming (tracks 1, 15)
• Mitch McCarthy – mixing (tracks 16–17)
• Scott Moore – engineering (track 4)
• Daniel Nigro – additional production, programming (track 12)
• Robert Orton – mixing (tracks 5, 11)
• Alex Pasco – engineering (track 6)
• Noah Passovoy – additional vocal recording (track 15)
• Emre Ramazanoglu – programming (track 7)
• Rami – production, programming (track 8)
• Ariel Rechtshaid – production, programming (tracks 5, 12); recording (track 5); engineering, drum programming (track 12)
• Ben Romans – production, programming (tracks 2, 9)
• Will Sandalls – engineering (track 16)
• Matt Schaeffer – engineering assistance (tracks 14, 16)
• Ike Schultz – mixing assistance (tracks 6, 12)
• Wesley Seidman – recording (track 5)
• Kyle Shearer – production (track 16)
• Shellback – production (track 1)
• Laura Sisk – additional engineering (track 12)
• Stint – production (track 10)
• Shane Stoneback – engineering (track 11)
• Peter Svensson – production, engineering, programming (track 3)
• Juan Carlos Torrado – engineering assistance (tracks 3, 17)
• Randy Urbanski – engineering (track 4)
• Jaime Velez – engineering assistance (track 3)
• Robert Vosgien – mastering (track 5)
• Vincent Vu – mixing assistance (tracks 7, 13, 15)
• Greg Wells – production, programming (track 13)
• Wired Masters – mastering (track 14)

Business

• Justin Bieber – executive production
• Scott "Scooter" Braun – executive production, A&R, management
• Greg Carr – marketing coordination
• Lisa DiAngelo – publicity
• John Ehmann – A&R
• David Gray – A&R
• Pamela Gurley – legal representation
• Brad Haugen – marketing, creative direction
• Laura Hess – management, marketing
• Dyana Kass – marketing
• Allison Kaye – management
• Steve Kopec – management
• Evan Lamberg – A&R
• Kenny Meiselas – legal representation
• Katherine Neiss – A&R coordination
• Olivia Zaro – A&R

Packaging

• Jessica Severn – art direction and design
• Karla Welch – styling
• Matthew Welch – photography

Charts

Weekly charts Chart (2015) Peak position Australian Albums (ARIA)[89] 37 Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[89] 59 Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[89] 54 Canadian Albums (Billboard)[90] 8 Dutch Albums (MegaCharts)[89] 68 German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[89] 73 Irish Albums (IRMA)[91] 29 Japanese Albums (Oricon)[92] 8 New Zealand Albums (Recorded Music NZ)[93] 35 South Korean Albums (Gaon)[94] 65 Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)[89] 45 Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[89] 93 Taiwanese Albums (Five Music)[95] 1 UK Albums (OCC)[96] 21 US Billboard 200[97] 16 US Top Album Sales (Billboard)[98] 14

Year-end charts Chart (2015) Position Japanese Albums (Oricon)[99] 55

Certifications

Region	Certification	Certified units/Sales
Japan (RIAJ)[100]	Gold	100,000^^
^^shipments figures based on certification alone

Release history

Region	Date	Edition	Format	Label	Ref.
Japan	June 24, 2015	Standard deluxe	CD digital download vinyl	604 School Boy Interscope Universal	[6]
Worldwide	August 21, 2015				[101] [84][102][103][104]
Europe	September 18, 2015				[105][106]

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