Beautiful Mind (album)

Beautiful Mind is the fourth studio album by American rapper and singer Rod Wave. It was released through Alamo Records on August 12, 2022, and features guest appearances from Jack Harlow and December Joy. The album was supported by four singles: "By Your Side", "Cold December", "Stone Rolling", and "Alone". The album debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 with 115,000 album-equivalent units, becoming Rod Wave's second consecutive number-one album and fourth Top-10 album.[1]

Beautiful Mind
Studio album by
Rod Wave
ReleasedAugust 12, 2022
Length68:20
LabelAlamo
Producer
  • Amineskrrt
  • Artiisan
  • BabeTruth
  • Bad HabitZ
  • Bizounce
  • Boogy
  • Bsquared
  • Coco
  • DMaconTheTrack
  • Eelmatic
  • Fade
  • Geo Vocals
  • Harto
  • Jai Beats
  • JB
  • JBFlyBoi
  • Kaigoinkrazy
  • Karltin Bankz
  • Londn Blu
  • Lukecmon
  • Nash
  • Neil
  • ProdByDawson
  • ProdSammy
  • Quise
  • SephGotWaves
  • Snow
  • Spoiled Stupid
  • Suli
  • Swamiq
  • Tahj Vaughn
  • Theyhateblondy
  • TnTXD
  • Travis Harrington
  • Uncle Cameron
  • Vukola
  • Will-A-Fool
  • Young Yanabu
Rod Wave chronology
SoulFly
(2021)		 Beautiful Mind
(2022)		 Jupiter's Diary: 7 Day Theory
(2022)
Singles from Beautiful Mind
  1. "By Your Side"
    Released: November 14, 2021
  2. "Cold December"
    Released: January 17, 2022
  3. "Stone Rolling"
    Released: July 27, 2022
  4. "Alone"
    Released: August 8, 2022

Critical reception
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic73/100[2]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[3]
HipHopDX3.5/5[4]
Pitchfork6.9/10[5]
RapReviews6.9/10[6]
Rolling Stone[7]

Beautiful Mind received generally positive reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from professional publications, the album received an average score of 73, based on five reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[2]

Dylan Green of Pitchfork gave the album a 6.9 out of 10, complimenting the variety of topics covered in the songs but complaining of many of them "bleeding together" as well as the "overreliance of piano and guitar beats".[5]

Track listing
Beautiful Mind track listing
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Alone"
  • Will-A-Fool
  • Bsquared
3:11
2."Yungen" (featuring Jack Harlow)
  • BabeTruth
  • Eelmatic
3:46
3."Never Get Over Me"
  • R. Green
  • Thomas Horton
  • TnTXD
  • Neil
  • Suli
  • Quise
  • Bad HabitZ
2:50
4."Stone Rolling"
  • R. Green
  • Horton
  • Joseph Boyden
  • Georgia Boyden
  • TnTXD
  • SephGotTheWaves
  • Geo Vocals
3:00
5."I Know It"
  • R. Green
  • Byrd
  • Bull
  • Will-A-Fool
  • Bsquared
2:37
6."Forever"
  • R. Green
  • Spight
  • Travis Harrington
  • Joshua Bates
  • Rory Yanabu
  • Eelmatic
  • Harrington
  • JBFlyBoi
  • Young Yanubu
3:34
7."No Deal"
  • ProdByDawson
  • ProdSammy
  • Theyhateblondy
3:07
8."Quiet Storm" (featuring December Joy)
  • R. Green
  • Harrington
  • Gloria Stewart
  • Richard Hailey
  • Gernard Parker
  • Harrington
  • Eelmatic
3:43
9."Sweet Little Lies"
  • R. Green
  • Tahj Vaughn
  • Lukas Payne
  • Sterling Reynolds
  • Vaughn
  • Londn Blu
  • Karltin Bankz
2:54
10."Rockstar Heart"
  • R. Green
  • Byrd
  • Bull
  • Will-A-Fool
  • Bsquared
2:17
11."Fading"
  • R. Green
  • Vaughn
  • Payne
  • Reynolds
  • David McDowell
  • Vaughn
  • Londn Blu
  • Karltin Bankz
  • DMaconTheTrack
2:43
12."Time Kills (Love Birds)"
  • R. Green
  • John Lamb
  • Frank Gilliam III
  • Colby Green
  • Davood Boushehri
  • Bizounce
  • Luci G
2:53
13."Druski Skit"
  • R. Green
 1:37
14."Keep Going"
  • R. Green
  • Murenets Nikita
  • Vuk Vukolic
  • Dvornikov Kirill
  • Roman Mironchenko
  • Swamiq
  • Vukola
  • Artiisan
  • Spoiled Stupid
3:10
15."Never Find Us"
  • TnTXD
  • DMaconTheTrack
  • Nash
2:08
16."Mafia"
  • R. Green
  • Byrd
  • Telvin Pennyman
  • Will-A-Fool
  • Boogy
2:33
17."Me vs. the World"
  • R. Green
  • Bates
  • Melvin Vernell III
  • Benjamin Campbell
  • JBFlyBoi
  • Snow
2:45
18."Pieces"
  • R. Green
  • Byrd
  • Bull
  • Robin Lundbaeck
  • Tom Lundbaeck
  • Bell Lundbaeck
  • Nicole Touma
  • Will-A-Fool
  • Bsquared
3:28
19."Pt. II"
  • R. Green
  • Stewart
  • Hailey
  • Parker
Fade1:06
20."Everything"
  • R. Green
  • Spight
Eelmatic2:40
21."Married Next Year"
  • R. Green
  • Horton
  • Cameron Hubler
  • Jaidyn Hullum
  • Kai Hasegawa
  • TnTXD
  • Uncle Cameron
  • Jai Beats
  • Kaigoinkrazy
3:10
22."Better"
  • R. Green
  • Kate Vogel
  • Saad Ghallab
  • Evenson Clauseille
  • Souiyate Amine
  • Coco
  • ThatBossEvan
  • Amineskrtt
2:55
23."By Your Side"
  • R. Green
  • Horton
  • Ryan Hartlove
  • TnTXD
  • Harto
3:14
24."Cold December"
  • TnTXD
  • ThatBossEvan
  • JB
  • Lukecmon
3:12
Total length:68:20

Sample credits

  • "Alone" contains samples from "U.N.I.", written by Ed Sheeran and Jake Gosling, and performed by the former.
  • "No Deal" contains samples from "People Watching", written by Conan Gray and Daniel Nigel, and Julia Michaels, and performed by Gray.
  • "Pieces" contains samples from "Singing Without You", written by Eylie.

Charts

Certifications
Certifications for Beautiful Mind
Region CertificationCertified units/sales
United States (RIAA)[13] Platinum 1,000,000‡

‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

References
  1. Caulfield, Keith (August 21, 2022). "Rod Wave's 'Beautiful Mind' Bows at No. 1 on Billboard 200 Albums Chart". Billboard. Retrieved August 22, 2022.
  2. "Beautiful Mind by Rod Wave Reviews and Tracks". Metacritic. Retrieved May 1, 2023.
  3. "Beautiful Mind Review by TiVo Staff". AllMusic. Retrieved May 1, 2023.
  4. Hernandez, Nina (September 23, 2022). "Rod Wave 'Beautiful Mind' Improves On His Formula". HipHopDX. Retrieved May 1, 2023.
  5. Green, Dylan (August 17, 2022). "Rod Wave: Beautiful Mind". Pitchfork. Retrieved August 21, 2022.
  6. Juon, Steve (October 4, 2022). "Rod Wave :: Beautiful Mind". RapReviews. Retrieved May 1, 2023.
  7. Reeves, Mosi (August 12, 2022). "Rod Wave Wants To Convince Us He's a Complicated Man On 'Beautiful Mind'". Rolling Stone. Retrieved May 1, 2023.
  8. "Rod Wave Chart History (Canadian Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved August 23, 2022.
  9. "Rod Wave Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved August 23, 2022.
  10. "Rod Wave Chart History (Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved August 23, 2022.
  11. "Billboard 200 Albums – Year-End 2022". Billboard. Retrieved December 3, 2022.
  12. "Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums – Year-End 2022". Billboard. Retrieved December 3, 2022.
  13. "American album certifications – Rod Wave – Beautiful Mind". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved August 11, 2023.
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