''Over It'' is the debut studio album by American singer Summer Walker. It was released on October 4, 2019, by LVRN and Interscope. It spawned the singles " Playing Games", "Stretch You Out" and " Come Thru". It also features the remix of Walker's " Girls Need Love" featuring

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. It also features collaborations with

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, Usher,

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, A Boogie wit da Hoodie and Jhené Aiko. Most of the album was produced by Walker's then-boyfriend,

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. Walker's First and Last Tour supported the album, starting October 25, 2019.

Promotion

An "old school" commercial was released via Walker's YouTube channel on September 30 to promote the album, which was compared to infomercials for R&B albums from the 1990s. Few days before the actual album release, Walker promoted the album by putting various payphone in various cities painted in the theme of the album. A phone number was to be dialed to listen to the album few days before. After the album's release, Walker premiered a special on Beats 1 guest starring

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, as part of their ''R&B Now'' series.

Critical reception

''Over It'' was met with critical acclaim upon release. At

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, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an

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score of 86, based on 6 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim."

Accolades of Over it

The album won best album at the 2020 Soul Train Music Awards and was the most streamed album by a female artist on Apple Music in 2020.

Commercial performance

''Over It'' debuted at number two on the US ''Billboard'' 200 with 134,000

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s in its first week. Its debut week marked the largest streaming week for an R&B album by a female artist, in terms of on-demand audio streams. It went on to spend more than 100 weeks on ''Billboard 200'', ranking as the second most successful R&B album of 2020 The album also topped the

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chart for 14 nonconsecutive weeks and as of July 2020, has yet to chart below number seven. On May 7, 2020, the album was certified

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by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for combined sales and

s over 1,000,000 units in the United States. As of November 2021, ''Over It'' had earned 2.500.000 equivalent copies in the U.S.

Track listing

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. * "Playing Games" interpolates "

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, and

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, and performed by Destiny's Child * "Drunk Dialing...LODT" interpolates "Cause I Love You", written by

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and Michael Bennett and performed by Lenny Williams * "Come Thru" contains samples from " You Make Me Wanna...", written by

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Personnel

Credits adapted from

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. Musicians * Summer Walker – vocals * Aubrey Robinson – keyboards * Usher – vocals *

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– vocals * Lee Stashenko – guitar * Chris Brown – vocals *

– rap vocals * A Boogie wit da Hoodie – rap vocals *

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– keyboards * Jhené Aiko – vocals * Stevie J – bass and keyboards Technical * Nicolas De Porcel – mastering engineer * Cyrus "NOIS" Taghipour – mixer * Derek "MixedByAli" Ali – mixer *

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– mixer * Summer Walker – recording engineer * Kendall Roark Bailey – recording engineer * Ben Chang – recording engineer * Archer – recording engineer * Ben Chang – vocal producer * Ashley Jacobson – assistant recording engineer

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

References

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