- 2024-02-12
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Donate to support families affected by the crisis in Ukraine ➔ USHER Releases New Album “COMING HOME”
American singer-songwriter USHER released his ninth studio album “COMING HOME” on February 9, 2024.
It is his first solo album in eight years since the 2016 album “Hard II Love” and is first project in six years since the 2018 collaborative album “A” with Zaytoven.
Also, for USHER, the album is the first release as an independent artist.
He parted ways with RCA Records after ten years and five months in 2022.
The album comprises a 20-track, featuring collaborations with Burna Boy, Summer Walker, 21 Savage, Latto, The-Dream, H.E.R., Pheelz, and Jungkook.
The album is more refined featuring his roots in R&B sound, the slow ballads like a duet song "Risk It All like” with H.E.R., as well as EDM-like rhythmic sounds such as “Keep On Dancin”..
Also, on “A-Town Girl” featuring Latto, he showcased love to his hometown Atlanta in the Billy Joel-interpolating “A-Town Girl”.- Produced by B.A.M., Bryan-Michael Cox, busbee, Cirkut, Damon Thomas, D'Mile, Ghost Kid, H.E.R., Hit-Boy, James “JLack” Lackey, JerkPoP, Jermaine Dupri, Johntá Austin, Keith Thomas, Mel & Mus, Pharrell Williams, Pheelz, Phenom, Rico Love, Ryan Daly, The-Dream, Tricky Stewart, USHER, Vaughn Oliver and watt.
USHER told Apple Music about the album, “I've been coming home in a lot of different ways. The choice of music and reconnection to some of the people I've worked with from my past and always wanted to work with; writers I've actually made hit No. 1 records with. In a sense, I'm coming home because I'm in that comfortable space.”
He added, “The album is a love letter to the experience that I have as a man. It's filled with romance.”
He performs at Super Bowl LVII halftime show at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas on February 11, 2024. - source : Apple Music
