This Is... Icona Pop

This Is... Icona Pop
Studio album by Icona Pop
Released	23 September 2013
Recorded	2013
Genre	EDM synthpop
Length	32:58
Label	TEN Big Beat Atlantic
Producer	Stargate Elof Loelv Patrik Berger Style of Eye Brian Lee Jarrad Rogers Shellback Kool Kojak Benny Blanco Justin Parker 10k Islands
Icona Pop chronology
Icona Pop (2012) This Is... Icona Pop (2013)
Singles from This Is...
"I Love It" Released: 9 May 2012 "We Got the World" Released: 15 September 2012 "Girlfriend" Released: 4 June 2013 "All Night" Released: 23 July 2013 "Just Another Night" Released: 27 January 2014

This Is... Icona Pop (also known as This Is...) is the second studio album and debut international album by Swedish duo Icona Pop, released on 24 September 2013 by Swedish independent record label TEN and Atlantic Records subsidiary Big Beat Records in the US.^[1] "Girlfriend" was released on 4 June 2013 as the first single,^[2] followed by "All Night" on 23 July 2013.^[1] The album also includes the hit single "I Love It" which was also included on the band's Swedish-only self-titled debut album Icona Pop.^[1] On 16 September 2013, the album was made available to stream in full on the Pitchfork Media website.^[3] The album debuted at no. 36 on the Billboard 200 and fell to no. 136 in its second week.

Reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	69/100[4]
Review scores
Source	Rating
Pitchfork Media	(7.5/10)[5]
The A.V. Club	A-[6]
AllMusic	[7]
Consequence of Sound	[8]
Rolling Stone	[9]
Trinity Music	[10]

This Is... received positive reviews from critics upon its release. The album scored an 69 out of 100 on review aggregator Metacritic based upon 22 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".^[11] Under the Radar wrote that This Is "[is a] nurturing, exciting, and very intelligent debut." The A.V. Club described This Is... as "a refreshingly fun album with no pretenses, just plenty of sing-along hooks and dancefloor jams."^[12]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Producer(s)	Length
1.	"I Love It" (featuring Charli XCX)	Charlotte Aitchison Patrik Berger Linus Eklöw	Berger Style of Eye	2:37
2.	"All Night"	Caroline Hjelt Aino Jawo Brian Lee Elof Loelv Jonathan Sloan Luke Steele Nick Littlemore	Loelv Lee	3:06
3.	"We Got the World"	Hjelt Jawo Eklöw Loelv Nicole Morier Tove Lo	Loelv	3:07
4.	"Ready for the Weekend"	Jawo Hjelt Loelv Lo	Loelv	2:42
5.	"Girlfriend"	Marcus Sepehrmanesh Hjelt Jawo Caweh Passereh Mark Knight James Reynolds Mikkel Eriksen Tor Erik Hermansen Tupac Shakur Tyrone Wrice Darryl Marvin Harper Ricky Rouse	Stargate Passereh Knight Reynolds	2:50
6.	"In the Stars"	Fransisca Hall Anjulie Persaud Jarrad Rogers	Rogers	3:16
7.	"On a Roll"	Allan Grigg Johan Schuster Peter Svensson	Shellback Kool Kojak	3:12
8.	"Just Another Night"	Eriksen Ross Golan Hermansen Benjamin Levin Daniel Omelio Justin Parker	Stargate Benny Blanco Parker	3:09
9.	"Hold On"	Eriksen Hermansen Benjamin Eli Hanna	Stargate	3:17
10.	"Light Me Up"	Hall Hjelt Jawo Lo Loelv Nick Scapa Read Fasse	10k Islands	3:20
11.	"Then We Kiss"	Jarvis Anderson Berger Hjelt Jawo Markus Krunegård Loelv	Berger Loelv	2:22

Target edition bonus tracks[13]
Track listing
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Producer(s)	Length
12.	"Nights Like This"	Hjelt Jawo Loelv	Loelv	3:25
13.	"Heads Up"	Hjelt Jawo Loelv	Loelv	2:59
14.	"Lovers to Friends"	Hjelt Jawo Loelv	Loelv	2:58
15.	"I Love It" (Fix8 Mix)	Aitchison Berger Eklöw	Berger Fix8	5:04

Japanese bonus tracks[14]
Track listing
No.	Title	Length
16.	"I Love It" (Tiësto Club Life Remix)	4:30

Personnel

Credits for This Is... Icona Pop adapted from AllMusic.^[15]

Adis Adamsson - Executive Producer Nicki Adamsson - Vocal Engineer Charlotte Aitchison - Composer Jarvis Anderson - Composer Matt Beckley - Vocal Engineer, Vocal Producer Patrik Berger - Composer, Mixing, Musician, Producer, Programming, Vocal Engineer, Vocal Producer Amanda Bergman - Vocals (Background) Tim Blacksmith - Executive Producer Benny Blanco - Musician, Producer, Programming Charli XCX - Featured Artist, Vocals (Background) Robert Cohen - Engineer Tom Coyne - Mastering Danny D. - Executive Producer Rainer Davies - Guitar Linus Eklöw - Composer Matt Engelman - A&R Mikkel Storleer Eriksen - Composer, Engineer, Musician, Programming Emma Essinger - Vocals (Background) Fredrik Etoall - Photography Read Fasse - Keyboards, Programming Pete Ganbarg - A&R Chris Gehringer - Mastering Serban Ghenea - Mixing Ross Golan - Composer, Vocals Gene Grimaldi - Mastering Andrew Haas - Guitar Ola Håkansson - Executive Producer Fransisca Hall - Composer, Vocals (Background) John Hanes - Mixing Engineer Benjamin Eli Hanna - Composer Marvin Harper - Composer Patrick Hart - Keyboards Tor Erik Hermansen - Composer, Musician, Programming Caroline Hjelt - Composer, Executive Producer Icona Pop - Primary Artist Marisa Illo - Marketing Aino Jawo - Composer, Executive Producer Mark Knight - Composer, Producer Kool Kojak - Additional Production, Composer, Keyboards Markus Krunegård - Composer, Musician, Producer, Programming

Henke Larsson - A&R Brian Lee - Composer, Musician, Producer, Programming Colin Leonard - Mastering Benjamin Levin - Composer Rafi Levy - Guitar Nick Littlemore - Composer Tove Lo - Composer, Vocals (Background) Elof Loelv - Composer, Mixing, Musician, Producer, Programming, Vocal Engineer, Vocal Producer, Vocals (Background) Andrew Luftman - Production Coordination Blake Mares - Engineer Nicole Morier - Composer Dan Omelio - Composer Robert Orton - Mixing Justin Parker - Composer Caweh Passereh - Composer, Producer Noah Passovoy - Engineer Anjulie Persaud - Composer Aryanna Platt - A&R James Reynolds - Composer, Producer Daniela Rivera - Assistant Engineer, Engineer Brian Robertson - Bass Jarrad "Jaz" Rogers - Composer, Musician, Producer, Programming Ricky Rouse - Composer Chris Rude - Keyboards Nick Scapa - Composer, Keyboards, Programming, Vocals (Background) Chris Sclafani - Assistant Tupac Shakur - Composer Shellback - Composer, Keyboards, Producer, Programming, Vocals (Background) Jonathan Sloan - Composer Stargate - Musician, Producer, Programming Luke Steele - Composer Style of Eye - Musician, Producer, Programming Peter Svensson - Additional Production, Composer, Guitar Phil Tan - Mixing Carolyn Tracey - Package Production Virgilio Tzaj - Art Direction, Design Dane Vemble - Marketing Miles Walker - Engineer Johan Wedel - Keyboards, Producer, Programming Tyrone Wrice - Composer Scott "Yarnov" Yarnovsky - Production Coordination

Chart performance

Weekly charts

Chart (2013)	Peak position
scope="row"	French Albums (SNEP)[16]	185
scope="row"	Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)[17]	78
scope="row"	UK Albums (OCC)[18]	86
US Billboard 200[19]	36

Release history

Region	Date	Format	Label
France[20]	23 September 2013	CD digital download	Atlantic
United States[21]	24 September 2013		Big Beat
United Kingdom[22]	4 November 2013		Atlantic
Germany[23]	8 November 2013

References

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