| Love Sick | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Don Toliver |
| Cover: | Love Sick.jpg |
| Released: | February 24, 2023 |
| Genre: | R&B |
| Length: | 52:32 |
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| Prev Title: | Life of a Don |
| Prev Year: | 2021 |
| Next Title: | Hardstone Psycho |
| Next Year: | 2024 |
Love Sick is the third studio album by American rapper and singer Don Toliver. It was released through Cactus Jack and Atlantic Records on February 24, 2023. The album features guest appearances from James Blake, Lil Durk, GloRilla, Kali Uchis, TisaKorean, Justin Bieber, Future, Wizkid, Charlie Wilson, Brent Faiyaz, and Toro y Moi. The deluxe version of the album was released four days later and features additional guest appearances from Travis Scott and Teezo Touchdown. Production of the album was handled by multiple producers, including Blake and TisaKorean themselves, Cardo, DJ Burn One, Oz, Wheezy, Hit-Boy, Nez, Rodaidh McDonald, Kaytranada, Sevn Thomas, Boi-1da, DJ Dahi, Ronny J, and DJ Fresh, among others.
Love Sick was supported by four singles: "Do It Right", "4 Me", "Leave the Club", and "Private Landing". The album received generally favorable reviews from music critics and was a commercial success. It debuted at number eight on the US Billboard 200 chart, earning 40,500 album-equivalent units in its first week.
In April 2022, Toliver cryptically revealed the album's title through a tweet.[1] In an interview with GQ in September 2022, he described the genres of the album as "futuristic R&B and soul" and confirmed that his girlfriend, Colombian-American singer Kali Uchis would make a guest appearance on it.[2] He released its lead single, "Do It Right", on November 18, 2022.[3] In February 2023, Toliver continued teasing the album by posting an Instagram story of a whiteboard with the album's title.[4] On February 15, he released its second single, "4 Me", which features his girlfriend, Colombian-American singer Kali Uchis, as a one-day-late Valentine's Day special.[5] Two days later, he released its third single, "Leave the Club", which features fellow American rappers Lil Durk and GloRilla, and also revealed its release date and cover art.[6] Six days later, he revealed the tracklist of the standard edition of the album and confirmed all the featured artists that would make an appearance on it.[7] On February 24, 2023, the same day that it was released, Toliver confirmed that a deluxe edition of the album would be released soon and posted a video with a snippet of the song "Embarrassed", which features his Cactus Jack Records label boss, fellow American rapper and singer Travis Scott. The fourth and final single of the album, "Private Landing", which features Canadian singer Justin Bieber and fellow American rapper Future, was sent to rhythmic contemporary radio on March 14, 2023.[8]
Clash magazine wrote that Love Sick "often thrills when Don is left on his own" and that he uses "flows that blur the lines between rap and R&B." Rolling Stone wrote about Toliver, "it's worth considering his superficiality more of a feature than a bug. He's developed a reputation as a sort of Diet Travis due to the artists' close association, but there are worse things to be than reliable."
Love Sick debuted at number eight on the US Billboard 200 chart, earning 40,500 album-equivalent units (including 1,000 copies in pure album sales) in its first week.[9] The album also accumulated a total of 51.23 million on-demand streams of the album's songs.[9]
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| Peak position | |
| Australian Albums (ARIA)[10] | 61 |
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| Lithuanian Albums (AGATA)[11] | 47 |
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| US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)[12] | 71 |
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