''Over It'' is the debut

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by American singer-songwriter Summer Walker. It was released on October 4, 2019, by LVRN and

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. 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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, and collaborations with

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, Usher, 6lack,

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, A Boogie wit da Hoodie and

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. Most of the album was produced by Walker's then-boyfriend, London on da Track. Walker's First and Last Tour supported the album, starting late October 2019.

Promotion

An "old school" commercial was released via Walker's YouTube channel on September 30 to promote the album, which was compared to

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s 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 a few days before release. After the album's release, Walker premiered a special on

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guest starring Ari Lennox, 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

''Over It'' won 2020 Album of the Year at the

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and was the most streamed album by a female artist on

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in 2020.

Awards

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 200 weeks on ''Billboard 200'', ranking as the second most successful R&B album of 2020 The album also topped the R&B Albums 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

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(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. On May 16, 2023, every song from the project had been certified Gold or higher. On October 1, 2024, 3 days ahead of ''Over Its fifth anniversary, the album was updated to 3× Platinum by the

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Track listing

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, as performed by 702. * "Playing Games" interpolates "

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, LeToya Luckett, LaTavia Roberson, and

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, as performed by

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. * "Drunk Dialing...LODT" interpolates "Cause I Love You", written by Lenny Williams and Michael Bennett, as performed by Lenny Williams. * "Come Thru" contains samples from " You Make Me Wanna...", written by Usher Raymond IV,

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, and Manuel Seal, as performed by Usher.

Personnel

Credits adapted from Tidal. Musicians * Summer Walker – vocals * Aubrey Robinson – keyboards * Usher – vocals * Khalid – vocals * Lee Stashenko – guitar * 6LACK – vocals *

– rap vocals * A Boogie wit da Hoodie – rap vocals * Scott Storch – keyboards *

– 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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