While working with producer Skrillex, who has also been working along with his then-partner Diplo into their project Jack Ü, releasing their top 10 single "Where Are Ü Now" (2015), featuring Bieber's vocals, Bieber found the record's sonic direction and worked with Skrillex on a handful of the album's songs. Purpose was described as a mix of dance-pop and EDM music as well as including influences of tropical house in some tracks and live instruments such as acoustic guitars in some others, while lyrically addressing subjects such as apologies and faith. The album received generally favorable reviews from most critics, who praised the consistent sound, noted his artistic growth and deemed it to be his best album to date. Other critics, however, criticized its lyrical content, noted that the album focused excessively on his requests for apologies, and found him tiring.
The album debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200, selling 522,000 copies in its first week of release, giving Bieber the largest first-week sales of his career and his sixth number-one album in the United States. Elsewhere, it reached the top of the charts in other eleven countries. Four singles have been released from the album so far: "What Do You Mean?", "Sorry", "Love Yourself" and "Company". The first three singles reached number one on both the US Billboard Hot 100 and the UK Singles Chart, where the singer broke chart records, and in other countries. To promote the album, Bieber gave several televised interviews and performances, as well as releasing "dance videos" for all of the album's tracks in a project called "Purpose: The Movement". He also embarked on his Purpose World Tour in 2016. According to the IFPI, Purpose was the fourth best-selling album of 2015 with worldwide sales of 3.1 million copies.[7] As of June 2016, it had sold 4.5 million copies globally.
Background
While promoting his third studio album, Believe (2012), with its Believe Tour throughout 2012 and 2013, Bieber started recording songs on the tour and confirmed in January 2013 that he was writing for a new album.[9] Five months later he confirmed a new album for 2013,[10] with his manager announcing they were going to think outside the box and release a different type of album.[11] In October 2013, Bieber started the "Music Mondays" project, a ten-week digital download campaign in which one new song was released every Monday night. After the completion of the project, in December 2013, Bieber released the ten songs from the campaign along with new tracks in a limited-edition collection called Journals.[12] Quickly afterwards in January 2014, record producer Douglas Romanow announced that Bieber was recording new music with him.[13] In the same month, Jason "Poo Bear" Boyd, who previously worked on the majority of songs on Journals, started recording heavily with the singer as well. The next month, the singer confirmed he was recording new music. In March 2014, he posted on his Instagram a preview of a song called "Life Is Worth Living", while in April, he promised on his Twitter about his new music and that it would be the "best" he had ever made, while working in the recording studio on the album.
Track listing
| Purpose – Standard edition | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Length |
1.
| "Mark My Words" | Blood | 2:14 | |
2.
| "I'll Show You" |
|
| 3:19 |
3.
| "What Do You Mean?" |
|
| 3:25 |
4.
| "Sorry" |
|
| 3:20 |
5.
| "Love Yourself" |
|
| 3:53 |
6.
| "Company" |
| 3:28 | |
7.
| "No Pressure" (featuring Big Sean) |
|
| 4:46 |
8.
| "No Sense" (featuring Travi$ Scott) |
| 4:35 | |
9.
| "The Feeling" (featuring Halsey) |
|
| 4:04 |
10.
| "Life Is Worth Living" |
|
| 3:54 |
11.
| "Where Are Ü Now" (with Diplo and Skrillex) |
|
| 4:02 |
12.
| "Children" |
|
| 3:43 |
13.
| "Purpose" |
| 3:30 | |
Total length:
| 48:13 | |||
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