Shelby (album)

Shelby is the debut studio album by American rapper Lil Skies. It was released on February 28, 2019, by All We Got Entertainment and Atlantic Records. The album features guest appearances from Gucci Mane, Landon Cube, and Gunna. It peaked at number five on the US Billboard 200. The album is named after his mother. It serves as the follow-up to his breakthrough mixtape, Life of a Dark Rose (2018).[3]

Shelby
Studio album by
Lil Skies
ReleasedFebruary 28, 2019 (2019-02-28)
Recorded2017–2019
Genre
Length42:56
Label
Producer
  • Based1
  • CashMoneyAP
  • Cris Dinero
  • Cubeatz
  • Cvre
  • Danny Wolf
  • Dilip
  • Dru Armada
  • Ill Wayno
  • LNK
  • Mario Petersen
  • Menoh Beats
  • MVA Beats
  • Otxhello
  • Palazzo Beats
  • VinnyxProd
  • Yugi Boi
Lil Skies chronology
Life of a Dark Rose
(2018)		 Shelby
(2019)		 Unbothered
(2021)
Singles from Shelby
  1. "Name in the Sand"
    Released: June 19, 2018
  2. "I"
    Released: March 1, 2019
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Highsnobiety3.5/5[1]
HipHopDX3.6/5[2]

Background

Lil Skies dedicated the album to his mother, who appears in the album title and cover. It describes the hard times he has gone through with the help of his fans.

Release and promotion

On February 27, 2019, a day before the album was released, Lil Skies revealed the title and cover art of the album through Twitter.

Singles

On January 31, 2019, Skies released the lead single from the project, "Name in the Sand". On March 1, 2019, "I" was released as the second and final single along with the album, debuting at number 39 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming the highest-charting single of Skies' career.

Commercial performance

Shelby debuted at number five on the US Billboard 200 chart, earning 54,000 album-equivalent units (including 6,000 copies as pure album sales) in its first week.[4] This became Lil Skies' second US top-ten album on the chart, surpassing his debut mixtape and first project, Life of a Dark Rose (2018), which went at number 10 on the chart.[4] The album also accumulated a total of 68.6 million on-demand audio streams that week.[5] On January 21, 2021, the day before Skies released the follow-up to the album, his second studio album, Unbothered, the album was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for combined sales and album-equivalent units of over 500,000 units in the United States.[6]

Track listing
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."I"
3:01
2."Bad Girls" (featuring Gucci Mane)
  • Danny Wolf
  • Otxhello
  • Dilip
3:39
3."Breathe"
  • Foose
  • Benjamin Sturdivant
  • Vladislav Mokshin
  • Pascal Punz
  • Based1
  • MVA Beats
  • Palazzo Beats
2:34
4."Nowadays, Pt. 2" (featuring Landon Cube)
  • Foose
  • Landon Cube
  • Curtidor
  • Venkatesh
  • Daniel Rothenberg
  • Danny Wolf
  • Dilip
  • Yugi Boi
3:41
5."Flooded"
  • Foose
  • Sturdivant
  • Leon Krol
  • Mario Petersen
  • Based1
  • LNK
  • Petersen
1:55
6."Blue Strips"
  • Foose
  • Sturdivant
Based13:27
7."Stop the Madness" (featuring Gunna)
  • Based1
  • Dru Armada
4:14
8."Ok 4 Now"
  • Foose
  • Curtidor
  • Houston
  • Danny Wolf
  • Otxhello
2:44
9."When I'm Wasted"
3:21
10."Mansion"
  • Foose
  • Cristian Maldonado
Cris Dinero2:33
11."Through the Motions"
  • Foose
  • Amin Elamin
Menoh Beats3:10
12."Highs and Lows"
  • Foose
  • Petit
  • Dwayne Shippy
  • CashMoneyAP
  • Ill Wayno
2:54
13."Name in the Sand"
  • Foose
  • Elamin
Menoh Beats2:48
14."No Rainy Days"
  • Foose
  • Elamin
Menoh Beats2:55
Total length:42:56

Charts

Certifications
Region CertificationCertified units/sales
United States (RIAA)[24] Gold 500,000‡

‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

References
  1. Rindner, Grant (March 11, 2019). "Lil Skies – 'Shelby' Review". Highsnobiety. Retrieved March 12, 2019.
  2. Giacomazzo, Bernadette (March 12, 2019). "Review: Lil Skies Is Cloudy With A Chance Of Greatness On 'Shelby'". HipHopDX. Retrieved March 13, 2019.
  3. Eustice, Kyle (March 11, 2019). "Hip Hop Album Sales: 2 Chainz's "Rap Or Go To The League" Makes Solid Top 5 Debut". HipHopDX. Retrieved March 12, 2019.
  4. Keith Caulfield (March 10, 2019). "Hozier Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard 200 Albums Chart With 'Wasteland, Baby!'". Billboard. Retrieved March 1, 2020.
  5. Kyle Eustice (March 11, 2019). "Hip Hop Album Sales: 2 Chainz's "Rap Or Go To The League" Makes Solid Top 5 Debut".
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