''Anybody Wanna Buy a Heart?'' is the second

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by American R&B recording artist

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. It was released on December 9, 2014, by

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Background

Following the release of her debut album ''

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'' and her departure from the

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's reality hit shows '' Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta'' and ''

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'', Pate revealed that she is getting her own show, titled '' K. Michelle: My Life'', while she's working on the album's

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for her second album, titled "Love Em All". The trailer for her second album was released, along with the album cover artwork, which revealed few hours later. Upon the album's release, she performed the single "Hard to Do" at the 2015 BET Awards.

Singles

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" was released as the album's lead single on September 16, 2014. The album's second single "Maybe I Should Call" was released on November 3, 2014, and also it was made available on

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, when the album was pre-ordered. The album's fourth single "Hard to Do" was later released on May 18, 2015.

Other songs

The song " How Do You Know?" was unlocked on

, along with the song "Going Under". The music video for "

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" was released.

Critical response

Upon its release, ''Anybody Wanna Buy a Heart?'' received positive reviews. ''

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'' called it "a great album", stating that K. Michelle "continues to distinguish herself from her reality television peers, who seem to stay in the studio but never release music — let alone good music." ''

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'' deemed it one of 2014's best R&B albums, writing, "There's a serrated ferocity to K. Michelle that sends her songs past saccharine territory and into compelling unstable territory." ''

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'' rated the album 3.5 stars out of 5: "... ile it may have taken her longer than she’d like to make this known, it cannot be denied any longer: K. Michelle is leaps and bounds ahead of many of her peers." ''

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'' listed ''AWBAH'' as one of the top 20 R&B albums of 2014. ''

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'' gave ''AWBAH'' 3.5 of our four stars, writing, "... is powerhouse tenor vocalist, pianist, and songwriter also is capable of great tenderness, nuance, and understatement."

Commercial performance

On December 27, 2014 the album debuted at number six on the ''Billboard'' 200, with 87,000 album equivalent units (over 84,000 in sales) in the first week in the United States. ''Billboard'' ranked the album as the best-selling R&B album of 2014. Although, it debuted lower than her previous album ''

'' (2013), on its debut week outsold her previous album, became the highest debut from a R&B album in 2014.

Track listing

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and

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. *"Hard to Do" samples elements of " Kissin' You", written by Brian James, Janice Johnson, Julian Jackson, Maurice Simmonds and

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Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

References

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