People Keep Talking


People Keep Talking is the debut studio album by American hip hop recording artist Hoodie Allen. It was announced on August 19 with a pre-order date of August 25 and a release date of October 14, 2014. The album features 14 tracks.

Release and promotion

People Keep Talking was available to stream through iTunes First Play on October 7, 2014. The album was officially released on October 14, 2014 on iTunes, becoming Allen's second album to do so where it reached the number two spot on the albums chart. The album was also released through physical CDs which was his first work to be released that way. One review declared the album release "expertly promoted" and remarked that Hoodie is a "marketing whiz" due to the release of high quality music videos for majority of the songs. Promoting the release, Hoodie performed "All About It" on Good Day Philadelphia.

Reception

A reviewer from Muhlenberg Weekly wrote that People Keep Talking is Hoodie's best work to date and "showed off his fast flow and clever lines".

Commercial performance

The album debuted at number eight on the Billboard 200 chart, with sales of 30,246 copies in the United States.
The fourth single off the album, "All About It" featuring Ed Sheeran, peaked at number 71 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart The song also charted around Europe, peaking in the top ten in Germany and Austria.

Track listing

Notes
  • denotes a co-producer.
  • denotes an additional producer.
Sample credit
  • "People Keep Talking" contains an interpolation of "Between the Sheets", written by E. Isley, M. Isley, O.K. Isley, R. Isley, R. Isley, and C. Jasper.

    Personnel

Credits for People Keep Talking adapted from AllMusic.
  • Miles Arntzer – horn arrangements
  • Battle Roy – instrumentation, producer
  • Nick Bilardello – art direction
  • Jared Evan – producer, vocals, vocals
  • RJ Ferguson – producer
  • Chris Gehringer – mastering
  • Ian Gottshalk – guitar
  • Jairus Holt – engineer
  • Hoodie Allen – primary artist
  • !llmind – producer
  • Alex 'AK' Kresovich – producer
  • Steven Markowitz – A&R
  • Raymond Mason – brass
  • Jason Mater – guitar, producer
  • Max – featured artist
  • Dylan McDougle – additional production, engineer, mixing
  • Jay O'Byrne – art direction
  • Wade Ridenhour – additional production, piano
  • Craig Rosen – A&R
  • Angelica Salem – vocals
  • Max Schneider – vocals
  • Ed Sheeran – featured artist
  • Matt Vogel – photography
  • Jas Walton – saxophone
  • Parrish Warrington – producer
  • Dan Weston – mixing
  • Alex Wiley – featured artist

    Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts