Youngblood (5 Seconds of Summer album)

Youngblood
Studio album by 5 Seconds of Summer
Released 15 June 2018 (2018-06-15)
Genre Pop[1][2][3]
Length 40:12
Label
Producer
5 Seconds of Summer chronology
Sounds Good Feels Good
(2015)		 Youngblood
(2018)
Singles from Youngblood
  1. "Want You Back"
    Released: 22 February 2018
  2. "Youngblood"
    Released: 22 May 2018
  3. "Valentine"
    Released: 26 August 2018

Youngblood is the third studio album by Australian pop rock band 5 Seconds of Summer. The album was initially set to be released on 22 June 2018, but it was later brought forward to 15 June.[4] In support of the album, the band will embark on the Meet You There Tour.[5] The US Target edition was made available with four covers, each featuring a member of the band.[6]

Two singles have been released in support of the album: "Want You Back" and "Youngblood".

Promotion

Tour, live performances and TV appearances

Ahead of the album's release, the band embarked on the worldwide promotional 5SOS III Tour, which took place at 26 intimate venues. The tour began on 20 March 2018 and ended on 6 June.[7]

They performed their lead single "Want You Back" on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on 11 April.[8] They performed the single again on The Voice (U.S. season 14) on 8 May.[9]

On 25 May, the group performed for selected fans for a Spotify Fans First Event at Sydney, Australia. Spotify invited the band's top-streaming fans to watch the acoustic session.[10]

The band performed their second single "Youngblood" on The Voice Australia. [11] They also performed it on BBC Radio 1’s Live Lounge on 12 June, along with a cover of Alice Merton‘s "No Roots".[12]

On 22 June, the band performed on The Today Show’s Summer Concert Series.[13] They then collaborated with Tumblr and organized an intimate Tumblr IRL event for their fans on 25 June at Brooklyn, New York.[14]

On 1 August, the band released the Spotify-exclusive recording of their "Lie to Me" track, a stripped back version which was made available for streaming, along with a cover of Post Malone’s "Stay".[15]

Documentary and video series

Apple Music released the "On the Record: 5 Seconds of Summer – Youngblood" documentary, featuring interviews about the making of the album. Apple Music also organised a one-night show in New York on the release date of the album to showcase the short film. The band also performed for their fans. A recording of the full performance was released on Apple Music.[16]

The band also released a series of short videos on YouTube, titled 5SOS Cocktail Chats, where they discussed the details of writing each track. There were seven episodes which were released on a weekly basis, usually every Monday of the week.

  • Episode 1[17] – "Youngblood" and "Want You Back"
  • Episode 2[18] – "Lie to Me" and "Valentine"
  • Episode 3[19] – "Moving Along" and "Talk Fast"
  • Episode 4[20] – "If Walls Could Talk" and "Better Man"
  • Episode 5[21] – "More" and "Why Won't You Love Me"
  • Episode 6[22] – "Empty Wallets"
  • Episode 7[23] – "Woke Up in Japan" and "Ghost of You"

Tour

The Meet You There Tour was scheduled to visit Japan, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, US, and Europe and began on 2 August 2018.[24]

Singles

The album's lead single, "Want You Back", was released via Capitol Records on 22 February 2018.

The title track, "Youngblood", was initially released as a promotional single on 13 April.[25] It was sent to American contemporary hit radio on 22 May as the album's second single.[26] It has been certified as triple platinum by Australian Recording Industry Association, platinum by Recorded Music New Zealand, gold by British Phonographic Industry, and gold by Recording Industry Association of America.

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[27]
The Guardian[28]
The Independent[2]
The Irish News8/10[3]
Rolling Stone[1]

The album was released to positive reviews. Matt Collar of AllMusic wrote that the group embraced a "slick dance-pop sound" on their album and considered it as "a transition they've been hinting at ever since their 2015 sophomore album, Sounds Good Feels Good [...] the transition to a streamlined, post-EDM-flavored sound isn't really a shock, even if it's a notable shift." He concluded, "[it is] a useful sound for 5SOS to embrace, and helps position them nicely as a lighter version of The 1975 or Imagine Dragons. While there are plenty of hooks here, the dancey pop attitude is matched by a growing maturity with lyrics about growing weary of the party scene, the emptiness of touring, and yearning for that one perfect love."[27]

Brittany Spanos of Rolling Stone also commented on the transition and wrote that, "pop-punk is not a genre that's meant to carry a band through a full career. So it's not surprising that on their third album, [the group] have already aged out of the sound that built their success. Instead, Youngblood goes full pop, leaning into some Eighties inflection and foregoing the bratty, DGAF ethos of their earlier work." However, she also felt that, "[a] downside of the new sound is that the boys lose a little bit of the spunk that made them big in the first place. The snottiness of pop-punk highlighted their natural humor, and while they've certainly grown as musicians, singers and writers, a bit of that goofy charm is missing."[1]

Commercial performance

Youngblood debuted at number one in Australia, becoming 5 Seconds of Summer's third number-one album in their home country. It debuted atop the albums chart at the same week that the title track was number one for a fifth week on the singles chart.[29]

In the United States, it became their third number-one album on the Billboard 200 chart, debuting with 142,000 album-equivalent units, including 117,000 in pure album sales. The album debuted ahead of the Carters' (Beyoncé and Jay-Z) Everything Is Love, with industry forecasters initially unsure of which album would take the top spot.[30] This made them the first Australian act with three number-one albums in the US.[31] It also led to 5 Seconds of Summer being the first band (not vocal group) to have their first three full-length studio albums debut atop the Billboard 200.[31]

Track listing

Youngblood – Standard edition[32]
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Youngblood"
  • Watt
  • Bell
3:23
2."Want You Back"
  • Andrew Wells
  • Goldstein
2:53
3."Lie to Me"
  • Hood
  • Hemmings
  • Irwin
  • Wotman
  • Tamposi
  • Watt
2:30
4."Valentine"
Mike Elizondo3:16
5."Talk Fast"
  • Falk
  • Yacoub
3:07
6."Moving Along"
  • Hood
  • Hemmings
  • Irwin
  • Clifford
  • Yacoub
  • Falk
  • Tranter
  • Falk
  • Yacoub
3:17
7."If Walls Could Talk"
Sir Nolan3:02
8."Better Man"
3:09
9."More"
  • Hemmings
  • Irwin
  • Yacoub
  • Falk
  • Wayne Hector
  • Kristoffer Fogelmark
  • Albin Nedler
  • Falk
  • Yacoub
  • Fogelmark[a]
  • Nedler[a]
3:14
10."Why Won't You Love Me"
Sinclair3:20
11."Woke Up in Japan"
Sinclair2:37
12."Empty Wallets"
  • Hood
  • Hemmings
  • Irwin
  • Clifford
  • Yacoub
  • Falk
  • Tranter
  • Falk
  • Yacoub
3:07
13."Ghost of You"
  • Goldstein
  • Book[b]
3:17
Total length:40:12

Notes

  • ^[a] signifies a co-producer
  • ^[b] signifies an additional producer

Charts

Chart (2018) Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[35] 1
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[36] 5
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[37] 3
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[38] 14
Canadian Albums (Billboard)[39] 3
Czech Albums (ČNS IFPI)[40] 18
Danish Albums (Hitlisten)[41] 7
Dutch Albums (MegaCharts)[42] 2
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)[43] 8
French Albums (SNEP)[44] 43
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[45] 6
Hungarian Albums (MAHASZ)[46] 32
Irish Albums (IRMA)[47] 3
Italian Albums (FIMI)[48] 5
Japanese Albums (Oricon)[49] 37
Mexican Albums (AMPROFON)[50] 3
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[51] 2
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)[52] 6
Polish Albums (ZPAV)[53] 9
Portuguese Albums (AFP)[54] 6
Scottish Albums (OCC)[55] 4
South Korean International Albums (Gaon)[56] 4
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)[57] 2
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[58] 15
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[59] 8
UK Albums (OCC)[60] 3
US Billboard 200[61] 1

Certifications

Region CertificationCertified units/Sales
Canada (Music Canada)[62] Gold 40,000^

*sales figures based on certification alone
^shipments figures based on certification alone
double-daggersales+streaming figures based on certification alone

References

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  2. 1 2 Kaplan, Ilana; Hasted, Nick (20 June 2018). "Album reviews: 5SOS, Bebe Rexha, Nine Inch Nails and more". The Independent. Retrieved 23 June 2018.
  3. 1 2 "Albums: Christina Aguilera, Youngblood, The Beach Boys, Johnny Marr". The Irish News. 14 June 2018. Retrieved 25 July 2018.
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