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808s & Heartbreak is the fourth studio album by the American rapper Kanye West.It was released by Def Jam Recordings and Roc-A-Fella Records on November 24, 2008, having been recorded earlier that year in September and October at Glenwood Studios in Burbank, California and Avex Recording Studio in Honolulu, Hawaii.
On November 24, 2008, "Welcome to Heartbreak" was released as the second track on West's fourth studio album 808s & Heartbreak. [19] West clarified over his blog that, despite a music video being released for the song on February 18, 2009, "Amazing" was the track set for release as the next single from the album. [20] "
808s & Heartbreak is the fourth studio album by Kanye West, released on November 24, 2008. West's new musical direction of using Auto-Tune did confuse some critics, though general assessments of the album and its singles were positive, later leading to numerous rankings and awards for West.
808s & Heartbreak is the fourth studio album by Kanye West, released on November 24, 2008.West's new musical direction of using Auto-Tune did confuse some critics, though general assessments of the album and its singles were positive, later leading to numerous rankings and awards for West.
USA Today ' s Steve Jones picked the song as one of tracks from 808s & Heartbreak to download, an opinion that was shared by the staff of The Observer and Alfred H. Leonard, III of IGN. [36] [37] [38] For Spin, Charles Aaron felt the song possesses the potential to "end up on a greatest-hits comp one day and be accepted as Kanyeezy standards". [39]
It also gave West his fourth consecutive US number-one album and surpassed the 450,000 first-week sales of 808s & Heartbreak, with the debut becoming the fourth-best sales week of 2010. [118] The album's first-week digital sales of 224,000 units accounted for 45% of the total and stood as the fourth-highest digital copies for an album in a week.
On November 24, 2008, "Coldest Winter" was released as the eleventh track on West's fourth studio album 808s & Heartbreak. [18] The song was met with generally positive reviews from music critics, mostly being praised for its composition.
Dave Heaton from PopMatters stated the lyrics that have the most emotional impact on 808s & Heartbreak are "sung the most straight", primarily noticing these on "Street Lights", going on to call the song "the comedown" and "a moment of mellow" after the album's previous three tracks. He further noticed the song is its "most precise and ...