2017-11-03
The Thrill Of It All
Sam Smith
By Maeve C.
“Too Good at Goodbyes” opened the campaign for The Thrill of It All, topping the UK singles chart before the album arrived. Sam Smith made the record at RAK Studios in London, with Jimmy Napes and Steve Fitzmaurice as executive producers and Fitzmaurice mixing every track.
The standard edition is brief, ten songs in about 35 minutes. Timbaland is among the producers on “Pray”, and Yebba joins Smith on “No Peace”. “One Last Song” was released as a single on the same day as the album, which went to number one on both the UK Albums Chart and the US Billboard 200.
Sources
Rights-holder metadata (A Capitol Records UK release; Universal Music Operations) lists 3 November 2017.Independent: released 3 November 2017 on Capitol; RAK Studios; executive producers Napes and Fitzmaurice; Timbaland on “Pray”; Yebba on “No Peace”; singles dates; UK and US No. 1; 10 tracks, 35:38.
Worldwide digital release events dated 2017-11-03; no earlier dated territory.
Catalogue master identifies the album; not used as date proof.