next level at 40: 🌸TIWA SAVAGE’s CELIA🌸 album

As for its chart performance: streaming-wise it’s doing much worse than the Burna, Fireboy and Adekunle Gold albums (which all came out earlier too). All of Twice As Tall’s 15 tracks are outstreaming the most popular Tiwa track, “Koroba”. The least popular one? “Glory” :-(

They really have the whole thing backwards...

Burna had a HUGE media push in the US, so that at least isn't too surprising. I haven't gotten more than a few tracks into Fireboy and have only heard the singles from AG, so not sure what my own comparison would be (I'm v doubtful I would end up liking either as much though). I played Celia for my partner last night and it took a few songs before she asked me what it was...it might be a bit too subtle for its own good in terms of grabbing streaming listeners.

That Pulse review was amusingly batshit -- I completely lost track of what his perspective was, it almost felt like a panel review of wildly conflicting opinions. And then ending by calling "Celia's Song" (which I liked more on second listen but still has quite a lot of hallelujahs in it for my taste) the best track was *chef's kiss*

to be clear, I was talking about streaming numbers for Nigeria!

Oh gotcha!

NY Times critic Jon Pareles interviews her about new album, her life (in Nigeria, UK, and Us), her divorce, stint at Berklee College of Music, and songwriting(including as a hired songwriter in Los Angeles) and marketing

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/07/arts/music/tiwa-savage-celia.html

Savage wrote and recorded “Celia” the way many Western pop stars make albums: She convened a songwriting camp. She booked eight rooms for 15 days at the Oriental Hotel in Lagos, where producers and musicians could come and go, bouncing ideas off one another as Savage supervised, selected tracks and came up with top lines. “Just put your heart into it, and let’s have fun,” she told them.

thanx for that!

I just called to say Pakalamisi

“nakupenda”

thanks beastcrawl for this. I've probably played this album more than anything else this year, it's gorgeous

my pleasure, mafu12 (you can call me breastcrawl btw:-)

what’s your favourite track? I went from “Glory” to “FWMM” to currently, unquestionably, “Pakalamisi”.

whoops lol.. sorry, breastcrawl. The whole thing rules (even the "interlude") but I'll say "Save My Life"

latest video is for "Ole" with Naira Marley:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7rcfEboa7g

meanwhile, I'm still all about "Pakalamisi". make it happen, Tiwa!

this album's incredible, so glad I finally got to it. thanks for the thread!

Time has Celia as one of its top 10 albums of the year:

https://time.com/5915313/best-albums-2020/

new ep out, apparently!

new single “Stamina” with Ayra Starr and Young Jonn, produced by Magicsticks of Asake fame;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90uaFhWaT_Y

(mainly because I want SNA to be as colourful as possible)