Heartbreak on a Full Moon

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Heartbreak on a Full Moon is the eighth studio album by American singer Chris Brown. The album is a double-disc, consisting of 45 tracks, and was released digitally October 31, 2017, and onto CD three days later by RCA Records.

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Recording

Brown started working on and recording tracks for the album a few weeks before the release of Royalty, his seventh studio album, in late 2015. He continued working on the album during 2016 and 2017. Brown also built a recording studio inside of his home. Brown said about the album during an interview for Complex:

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Artwork

The cover art for the album was announced on October 5, 2017. The artwork shows a human heart, dripping blood, in front of a pink moon.

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Release and promotion

On January 10, 2016 Brown had previewed 11 unreleased songs on his Periscope and Instagram profiles, showing him dancing and lip-synching these songs. Later on January, February and March 2016, he released videos on his Instagram profile where he was lip-synching snippets from the unreleased songs "Sirens", "Lost and Found", and "Dead Wrong".

On April 27 through Twitter, he announced the release of a new single on May 5. On May 3 he revealed that the single would be "Grass Ain't Greener", showing its cover art and announcing it as the first single from Heartbreak on a Full Moon. The single was released on May 5, 2016, the day of Brown's 27th birthday, but it was originally not included on the album's previous track listing then was re-included on the official tracklist as the last track when the album was available for pre-order.

In November and December 2016, he released videos on his Instagram profile where he was lip-synching snippets from other unreleased songs: "For Me", "Post & Delete", and "Yellow Tape".

On December 16, 2016, he released the second official single from the album, "Party", that features guest vocals from American R&B singer Usher and rapper Gucci Mane. On January 4, 2017 Brown had previewed two snippets on his Instagram profile from the songs "Privacy" and "Tell Me Baby", then in February announced that "Privacy" would have been released as the next single from Heartbreak on a Full Moon. The single was released on March 24, 2017.

The initial track listing was announced by Brown on his Instagram account on May 2, 2017, saying that it would have been a double-disc album, and that it would have been released in June 2017. In the first days of June 2017 46 songs discarded from the album were leaked, most of them were unfinished versions while a few were demos.

In July 2017 he announced the pending release of upcoming singles from his album. Later on August 4, 2017, he released the album's fourth single "Pills & Automobiles", that features guest vocals from American trap artists Yo Gotti, A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie and Kodak Black. Then on August 14, 2017 he announced the release of the fifth official single from the album, "Questions", on August 16, announcing the album release date, saying that it would be released on October 31, 2017.

In the run up to the album's release, on October 5, 2017, Brown unveiled the official artwork on his Instagram profile, sharing a video with an animated cartoon-style visual of a blood-dripping human heart set against a pink full moon, with a snippet of the song "Heartbreak on a Full Moon" in the background.

On October 13, 2017 Brown released a promotional single "High End", that features guest vocals from American trap artists Future and Young Thug, announcing the final tracklist of the album. On October 25, 2017 Brown organized with Tidal a free pop-up concert in New York City to perform the singles on the album and promote it.

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Critical reception

AllMusic editor Andy Kellman called Heartbreak on a Full Moon "artistically conservative". Slant Magazine's Zachary Hoskins found most of the songs to be forgettable retreads of Brown's past music, writing that the album "fails to offer anything new from Brown, or contemporary R&B in general: It's almost four dozen songs about fucking or breaking up, sometimes both in the same song."

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Commercial performance

After selling 25,000 copies and earning 68,000 album-equivalent units within three days, Heartbreak on a Full Moon debuted at number three on the US Billboard 200, becoming Brown's ninth consecutive top 10 album on the chart. The album was Brown's seventh album to debut at number one on the US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. After the first full week of tracking, the double album up 7% in consumption, moving 73,000 album-equivalent units, remained at number three on Billboard 200. By the end of 2017, Heartbreak on a Full Moon had accumulated 608,000 album-equivalent units in the United States, with 80,000 being pure sales. On January 18, 2018, Heartbreak on a Full Moon was certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for combined sales and album-equivalent units of over 1,000,000 units in the United States (in this case, 500,000 double album sets, which are double-counted by the RIAA). In Australia, it entered the ARIA Albums Chart at number five, becoming his first top ten in the nation since X in 2014. In the United Kingdom, the album debuted at number 10 on the UK Albums Chart, giving Brown his sixth top 10 album on the chart. The album was eventually certified Silver by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) for sales of over 60,000 copies in the UK. In New Zealand, the album debuted at number three on the RMNZ Albums Chart, giving Brown his seventh top ten album on the chart. Until June 2018, the album has accumulated over 3 billion streams worldwide.

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Tour

On March 27, 2018, Chris Brown announced an official headlining concert tour to further promote the album titled Heartbreak on a Full Moon Tour. The tour began on June 19 in Auburn, at White River Amphitheatre. He will be supported by 6lack, H.E.R., Rich the Kid, and Jacquees.

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Track listing

Credits were adapted from RCA's official website, TIDAL, and the album liner notes.

Notes

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Sample credits

• "Privacy" contains an interpolation of "Tight Up Skirt", performed by Red Rat.
• "Juicy Booty" samples "Cutie Pie", performed by One Way, and California Love performed by Tupac Shakur, Dr. Dre and Roger Troutman.
• "Questions" contains an interpolation of "Turn Me On", performed by Kevin Lyttle.
• "Hope You Do" samples "Where I Wanna Be", performed by Donell Jones.

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Charts

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Certifications

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See also

• List of Billboard number-one R&B/hip-hop albums of 2017
• List of Billboard number-one R&B/hip-hop albums of 2018
• List of UK R&B Albums Chart number ones of 2017

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References

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