Blackstar (album)

Blackstar

A white background with a large black star and smaller parts of a five-pointed star that spell out "BOWIE"

Cover for CD and digital editions
Studio album by David Bowie
Released 8 January 2016
Recorded 2014–15
Studio
  • The Magic Shop
  • (New York City)
  • Human Worldwide Studios
  • (New York City)
Genre
Length 41:17
Label
Producer
David Bowie chronology
Five Years (1969–1973)
(2015)		 Blackstar
(2016)		 Who Can I Be Now? (1974–1976)
(2016)
Singles from Blackstar
  1. "Blackstar"
    Released: 19 November 2015
  2. "Lazarus"
    Released: 17 December 2015
  3. "I Can't Give Everything Away"
    Released: 6 April 2016

★[1] (pronounced and stylized as Blackstar) is the twenty-fifth and final studio album by the English musician David Bowie, released worldwide through ISO, RCA, Columbia, and Sony on 8 January 2016, coinciding with Bowie's 69th birthday. It was largely recorded in secret at New York City's The Magic Shop with co-producer Tony Visconti and a group of local jazz musicians.[2][3] Bowie died of liver cancer two days after its release; his illness had not been revealed to the public until then. Co-producer Visconti described the album as Bowie's intended swan song and a "parting gift" for his fans before his death.[4]

Upon release, the album was met with critical acclaim and commercial success, topping charts in a number of countries in the wake of Bowie's death, and becoming Bowie's only album to top the Billboard 200 in the United States.[5] The album remained at the number one position in the UK charts for three weeks.[6]

Background and recording

Bowie recorded Blackstar while suffering from liver cancer; his illness was not made public until he died, two days after the album's release.[7] Like Bowie's previous album The Next Day, recording took place in secret at the Magic Shop[8] and Human Worldwide Studios in New York City.[9] Bowie began writing and making demos for songs that appear on Blackstar as soon as sessions for The Next Day concluded. He recruited a local New York jazz combo led by Donny McCaslin as the backing band for the sessions.[10]

Two songs that appear on Blackstar, "Sue (Or in a Season of Crime)" and "'Tis a Pity She Was a Whore", had been previously released, but were rerecorded for Blackstar, including new saxophone parts played on the latter song by McCaslin (replacing parts Bowie played on the original release).[11] The title of the latter derives from the title 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, a play by John Ford, an English dramatist of the 17th century.[12] McCaslin and the rest of the jazz group recorded their parts in the studio over a period of about one week a month from January to March 2015, and were reportedly unaware of Bowie's declining health - according to McCaslin, the band worked with Bowie “essentially from 11 to 4 every day”, while bassist Tim Lefebvre stated that "it never looked to us like he was sick".[13] The song "Lazarus" was included in Bowie's Off-Broadway musical of the same name.[14]

The music on Blackstar has been characterised as incorporating art rock,[15][16] jazz,[17] and experimental rock,[18] as well as elements from industrial rock, folk-pop and hip hop.[19] According to producer Tony Visconti, they deliberately attempted "to avoid rock’n’roll"[20] while making the album, and he and Bowie had been listening to rapper Kendrick Lamar's 2015 album To Pimp a Butterfly during the recording sessions and cited it as an influence. Electronic duo Boards of Canada and experimental hip-hop trio Death Grips have also been cited as influences.[20][21] The saxophone was the first instrument Bowie learned, and he was an avid jazz listener in his youth.[22][23][24] Billboard and CNN wrote that Bowie's lyrics seem to address his impending death,[25][26] with CNN noting that the album "reveals a man who appears to be grappling with his own mortality".[25]

Release and packaging

The title track was released as the album's lead single on 19 November 2015[27] and was used as the opening music for the television series The Last Panthers.[28] "Lazarus" was released on 17 December 2015 as a digital download, and received its world premiere on BBC Radio 6 Music's Steve Lamacq Show the same day.[29] The album was released on 8 January 2016, coinciding with Bowie's 69th birthday.[30][31][32]

The artwork for Blackstar was designed by Jonathan Barnbrook, who had designed the artwork for Bowie's Heathen, Reality and The Next Day. The CD cover is adorned with a large black star on a plain white background, with the five star segments below the main star forming the word BOWIE in stylised letters.[33] The vinyl cover, in black, features the star as a cutout section, revealing the record (with an all-black picture label) beneath it. Music journalists also noted that a "black star lesion," usually found inside a breast, suggests to medical practitioners evidence of certain types of cancer.[34][35]

Blackstar sold 146,000 copies in its first week on sale in the United Kingdom[36] (a week which saw four other Bowie albums in the top 10 and a further seven in the top 40, the latter equalling Elvis Presley's chart record).[37] and more than 181,000 in the United States.[38] Within days of the album's release, online retailer Amazon.com temporarily sold out of both the CD and LP editions of the album.[39] In the week 11–17 January, Blackstar was the most downloaded album in 25 iTunes national charts.[40]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
AnyDecentMusic?8.4/10[41]
Metacritic87/100[42]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[43]
The A.V. ClubA−[44]
The Daily Telegraph[45]
Entertainment WeeklyA−[46]
The Guardian[10]
The Independent[47]
NME4/5[48]
Pitchfork Media8.5/10[49]
Rolling Stone[50]
Spin7/10[51]

Blackstar received widespread acclaim from music critics. At Metacritic, the album received an average score of 87, which indicates "universal acclaim", based on 43 reviews.[42] Rolling Stone critic David Fricke called Blackstar "a ricochet of textural eccentricity and pictorial-shrapnel writing".[50] Andy Gill of The Independent regarded the record as "the most extreme album of [Bowie's] entire career", stating that "Blackstar is as far as he's strayed from pop."[47] Jon Pareles of The New York Times described the album as "at once emotive and cryptic, structured and spontaneous and, above all, willful, refusing to cater to the expectations of radio stations or fans".[52] The Daily Telegraph's Neil McCormick hailed Blackstar as an "extraordinary" album which "suggests that, like a modern day Lazarus of pop, Bowie is well and truly back from beyond."[45] In a favourable review for Exclaim!, Michael Rancic wrote that Blackstar is "a defining statement from someone who isn't interested in living in the past, but rather, for the first time in a while, waiting for everyone else to catch up".[53]

Reviewing for Q magazine, Tom Doyle wrote, "Blackstar is a more concise statement than The Next Day and a far, far more intriguing one."[16] NME critic Sam Richards stated that Bowie had maintained his "formidable record of reinventing himself" on a "busy, bewildering and occasionally beautiful record", adding that "one of the few certainties we can take from this restless, relentlessly intriguing album is that David Bowie is positively allergic to the idea of heritage rock."[48] Chris Gerard of PopMatters called the album "singular in its unique sound and vibe," describing it as "trippy and majestic head-music spun from moonage daydreams and made for gliding in and out of life."[54] Pitchfork Media's review of Blackstar, written by Ryan Dombal, was published on the day of the album's release, two days before Bowie's death, and concluded: "This tortured immortality is no gimmick: Bowie will live on long after the man has died. For now, though, he’s making the most of his latest reawakening, adding to the myth while the myth is his to hold."[49]

The album was nominated for the "Top Rock Album" award at the 2016 Billboard Music Awards,[55] but lost out to Blurryface by Twenty One Pilots.

Accolades

Publication Accolade Year Rank
Consequence of Sound Top 50 Albums of 2016 2016
The Independent Best Albums of 2016 2016
NME NME's Albums of the Year 2016 2016
Paste 50 Best Albums of 2016 2016
Rolling Stone 50 Best Albums of 2016 2016
Rough Trade Albums of the Year 2016
The Skinny Top 50 Albums of 2016 2016
Stereogum The 50 Best Albums of 2016 2016

Commercial performance

Blackstar was already on course to debut at number one on the UK Albums Chart prior to the announcement of Bowie's death on 11 January 2016, according to the Official Charts Company.[64] The album debuted at number one after selling 146,000 copies and became his tenth number one album in the UK.[65] The album remained three weeks at number one, falling at number 2 behind another Bowie album, the compilation Best of Bowie (2002), which became the first ever album to get to number one in the UK because of streaming.[6]

In the US, the album peaked at number one, becoming Bowie's first and only number one in that country.[5][66] The album also peaked at number one in 28 countries, number 2 in Greece, Mexico, South Korea and Taiwan, number 4 in Hungary and 5 in Japan.

Track listing

All tracks written by David Bowie, except where noted. 

Blackstar — CD – vinyl – digital download
No. Title Length
1. "★"   9:57
2. "'Tis a Pity She Was a Whore"   4:52
3. "Lazarus"   6:22
4. "Sue (Or in a Season of Crime)" (Bowie, Maria Schneider, Paul Bateman, Bob Bharma) 4:40
5. "Girl Loves Me"   4:51
6. "Dollar Days"   4:44
7. "I Can't Give Everything Away"   5:47
Total length:
 41:13
Digital download bonus track
No. Title Length
8. "Blackstar" (Video) 9:59
Total length:
 51:12

Personnel

Personnel adapted from Blackstar liner notes.[9]

Charts and certifications

Weekly charts

Chart (2016) Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[67] 1
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[67] 1
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[67] 1
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[67] 1
Canadian Albums (Billboard)[68] 1
Croatian Foreign Albums (HDU)[69] 1
Czech Albums (IFPI Czech Republic)[70] 1
Danish Albums (Hitlisten)[67] 1
Dutch Albums (MegaCharts)[67] 1
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)[71] 1
French Albums (SNEP)[67] 1
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[72] 1
Greek Albums (IFPI Greece)[73] 2
Hungarian Albums (MAHASZ)[74] 4
Irish Albums (IRMA)[75] 1
Italian Albums (FIMI)[76] 1
Japanese Albums (Oricon)[77] 5
Mexican Albums (AMPROFON)[78] 2
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[79] 1
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)[80] 1
Polish Albums (ZPAV)[81] 1
Portuguese Albums (AFP)[67] 1
Scottish Albums (OCC)[82] 1
South Korean Albums (Gaon)[83] 29
South Korean Albums International (Gaon)[84] 2
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)[67] 1
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[67] 1
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[67] 1
Taiwanese Albums (Five Music)[85] 2
UK Albums (OCC)[86] 1
US Billboard 200[38] 1
US Digital Albums (Billboard)[87] 1
US Top Alternative Albums (Billboard)[88] 1
US Top Rock Albums (Billboard)[89] 1
US Top Tastemaker Albums (Billboard)[90] 1

Monthly charts

Chart (2016) Peak
position
Argentine Monthly Albums (CAPIF)[91] 2

Certifications

Region Certification Certified units/Sales
Australia (ARIA)[92] Platinum 70,000^
Austria (IFPI Austria)[93] Platinum 15,000*
Belgium (BEA)[94] Platinum 30,000*
Canada (Music Canada)[95] Platinum 80,000^
Denmark (IFPI Denmark)[96] Gold 10,000^
France (SNEP)[97] Platinum 100,000*
Germany (BVMI)[98] Gold 100,000^
Italy (FIMI)[99] Platinum 50,000*
New Zealand (RMNZ)[100] Gold 7,500^
Poland (ZPAV)[101] Gold 10,000*
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[102] Gold 20,000^
United Kingdom (BPI)[103] Platinum 363,000[104]
United States (RIAA) N/A 428,000[105]

*sales figures based on certification alone
^shipments figures based on certification alone

Release history

Region Date Format(s) Label Ref.
Europe 8 January 2016
[106]
United Kingdom
[107][108][109]
United States [110][111][112]

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