Nine Track Mind
Standard edition cover
Studio album by Charlie Puth
Released	January 29, 2016 (2016-01-29)[1]
Recorded	2014–2015
Genre	Pop R&B[2]
Length	41:04
Label	Artist Partner Atlantic Otto
Producer	DJ Frank E Matt Prime J.R. Rotem Infamous Charlie Puth Breyan Isaac Jesse Shatkin Geoffro Cause Johan Carlsson Red Triangle
Charlie Puth chronology
Some Type of Love (2015) Nine Track Mind (2016) Voicenotes (2018)
Singles from Nine Track Mind
"Marvin Gaye" Released: February 10, 2015 "One Call Away" Released: August 20, 2015 "We Don't Talk Anymore" Released: May 24, 2016 "Dangerously" Released: December 2, 2016

Nine Track Mind is the debut studio album by American singer-songwriterCharlie Puth. It was released on January 29, 2016, byArtist Partner Group andAtlantic Records.^[1]

The album's lead single, "Marvin Gaye", which featuresMeghan Trainor, was originally released asSome Type of Love's only single on February 10, 2015, and peaked at number 21 on theBillboard Hot 100, while topping the charts in various countries including France, Ireland, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. The album's second single, "One Call Away", was released on August 20, 2015, reaching number 12 on theBillboard Hot 100. On May 24, 2016, Puth released the third single "We Don't Talk Anymore", featuringSelena Gomez, with it having peaked at number 9 on theBillboard Hot 100. A music video for "Dangerously" was released on November 2, 2016.

Upon release,Nine Track Mind was a commercial success, debuting and peaking at number 6 on theBillboard 200 with 65,000 units.^[3] The album received negative reviews from critics, who criticized the simplistic production, overt focus on love ballads, and Puth's vocal performance. Puth himself has confessed that he was disappointed at how the album turned out.^[4]

Puth first became known in 2011 for hisYouTube cover ofAdele's "Someone Like You", which resulted in two guest appearances onThe Ellen DeGeneres Show, and him signing toeleveneleven, a record label founded byEllen DeGeneres. In 2014 and 2015, Puth was working withWiz Khalifa on "See You Again", written for the filmFurious 7 which opened in April 2015. Puth also invitedMeghan Trainor to sing on his song "Marvin Gaye", released in February 2015.^[5] "Marvin Gaye" would return as the lead single ofNine Track Mind.^[6]

The finalized track listing was revealed on December 11, 2015.^[7] The final track listing removed the tracks "Know Your Name" and "Hard" and replaced them with "Dangerously" and "We Don't Talk Anymore". "I Won't Tell a Soul" was also due for inclusion on the Japanese edition, but was subsequently removed. Puth embarked on his Nine Track Mind Tour in March 2016.^[8] A deluxe edition, containing three new songs, was released on November 11, 2016.

"Marvin Gaye", which features American singer-songwriter Meghan Trainor, was released on February 10, 2015, as the first single from the album. "One Call Away" was announced by Puth as the second single from the album on August 4, 2015, and was released along with the pre-order of the album on August 20, 2015.^[1] On May 11, 2016, Puth announced "We Don't Talk Anymore" as the third single from the album.Selena Gomez provides vocals for the song. It impacted UScontemporary hit radio on May 24, 2016.^[9] "Dangerously" was sent to Italian radios as the fourth and final single from the album on December 2, 2016. A music video for the song was released on November 2, 2016.^[10]

A music video was released on February 19, 2016, to the remix version of "Suffer", directed by Austin Starrett Winchell.^[11]

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	37/100[12]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[13]
Entertainment Weekly	C+[14]
The Guardian	[2]
Idolator	[15]
Newsday	B−[16]
The Observer	[17]
Pitchfork	2.5/10[18]
Q	[12]
Spin	3/10[19]
Toronto Sun	2.5/5[20]

Nine Track Mind received negative reviews from music critics, who were critical of the album's writing, production, and Puth's overall performance. OnMetacritic, which assigns a rating out of 100 based on reviews from mainstream critics, the album gained anaverage score of 37, based on seven reviews, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews," making it the 15th-lowest critic-reviewed album on the site.^[12][21]

The Guardian's Rachel Aroesti gaveNine Track Mind three out of five stars, saying, "the standard of his songwriting is consistently high, and his central theme — romantic obsession that verges on the masochistic — makes for a record that softly burns."^[2] In a negative review forPitchfork,Jia Tolentino — recognizing Puth's talent and "considerable abilities" — criticized the album for sounding juvenile, and wrote that "the album's emotional range covers the spectrum from light longing to light infatuation, contributing to the overall sense thatNine Track Mind is aimed exclusively at hairlessness: children, prepubescents, the discomfitingly waxed."^[18]Spin wrote that "The most standout feature of Nine Track Mind might be its rhythmic consistency, an exercise in deceleration.... inoffensive dross".^[19]AllMusic criticized the singer's performances and the album's production, stating that "Puth's problem is that he feels stage-managed; you can sense him hitting his marks. This isn't merely a problem in the performance. Such fussiness extends to his compositions, which seem to mimic the idea of genuine emotions instead of delivering them, something that would be infuriating if Puth didn't just disappear into his immaculate surroundings, a fading ghost on his own album".^[13]

Notes:

• ^{^a} signifies a co-producer.
• ^{^b} signifies an additional producer.
• "Losing My Mind" contains elements ofVera Hall's song "Wild Ox Moan".

Musicians

Technical

• Dave Kutch –mastering
• Manny Marroquin –mixing
• Charlie Puth – recording (1, 2, 4–6, 8, 10, 12), additionalengineering (7)
• DJ Frank E – recording (1)
• Matt Prime – recording (1)
• Ryan Gladieux – recording (3), additional engineering (8)
• Paul Pauwer – recording (7)
• Alex HeMe Toval – recording (11)
• Rick Parkhouse – recording (11)
• Samuel Kalanjjian – engineering (2)
• Cory Bice – engineering (9)
• Sam Holland – engineering (9)
• Marcus van Wattum –editing (7)
• Chris Galland – mixing assistance
• Ike Schultz – mixing assistance
• Jaime Wosk – additional engineering (7)
• Mattias Bylund – additional engineering (9)

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