808s & Heartbreak

808s & Heartbreak
808s & Heartbreak
Studio album by Kanye West
Released	November 24, 2008
Recorded	September – October 2008
Studio	Glenwood in Burbank; Avex Recording Studio in Honolulu;
Genre	Hip hop; electronica; R&B;
Length	51:58
Label	Roc-A-Fella; Def Jam;
Producer	The Carter Administration (exec.); Kanye West (also exec.); Gee Roberson (exec.); Kyambo "Hip Hop" Joshua (exec.); Jeff Bhasker; Mr Hudson; No I.D.; Plain Pat;
Kanye West chronology
Singles from 808s & Heartbreak
	"Love Lockdown"; Released: September 18, 2008; "Heartless"; Released: November 4, 2008; "Amazing"; Released: March 10, 2009; "Paranoid"; Released: March 24, 2009;

808s and Heartbreak is the fourth studio album by American rapper and producer Kanye West. It was released on November 24, 2008.^[1] Four singles were released from it. The first single was "Love Lockdown". The album is different to West's earlier albums; it is mainly a hip hop, electronica and R&B album instead of a more "traditional hip hop album" and its songs are sung through an Auto-Tune processor instead of rapped.

Track listing

No.	Title	Producer	Length
1.	"Say You Will"	Kanye West	6:14
2.	"Welcome to Heartbreak" (featuring Kid Cudi)	West Jeff Bhasker Plain Pat	4:23
3.	"Heartless"	West No I.D.	3:31
4.	"Amazing" (featuring Young Jeezy)	West Jeff Bhasker	3:58
5.	"Love Lockdown"	West Bhasker	4:30
6.	"Paranoid" (featuring Mr Hudson)	West Bhasker Plain Pat	4:37
7.	"RoboCop"	Kanye West	4:34
8.	"Street Lights"	West Mr Hudson	3:09
9.	"Bad News"	West	3:58
10.	"See You in My Nightmares" (featuring Lil Wayne)	West No I.D.	4:18
11.	"Coldest Winter"	West Bhasker No I.D.	2:45
12.	"Pinocchio Story" (freestyle live from Singapore, hidden track)	West	6:03

Personnel

Credits for 808s & Heartbreak adapted from AllMusic.^[2]

Kanye West – producer, executive producer, primary artist
Kid Cudi – primary artist
Lil Wayne – primary artist
Mr. Hudson – primary artist
Young Jeezy – primary artist
Kevin Dorley – vocals
Jim Gilstrap – vocals
Phillip Ingram – vocals
Glenn Jordan – vocals
Kadockadee Kwire – vocals
Jenny-Bea Englishman – vocals
Tony Williams – backing vocals
Olga Konopelsky – violins
Emma Kummrow – violins
Luca Mazzochi – violins
Charles Parker – violins
Igor Szwec – violins
Gregory Teperman – violins
Davis A. Barnett – viola
Alexandra Leem – viola
Jeff Bhasker – keyboards
Vlado Meller – mastering
Jeff Chestek – engineer

Andrew Dawson – engineer
Anthony Kilhoffer – engineer
Rick Friedric – assistant engineer
Montez Roberts – assistant engineer
John Stahl – assistant engineer
Alan Branch – marketing
Chris Atlas – marketing
Don-C – marketing
Danny Clinch – marketing
Willy Vanderperre – marketing
Kris Yiengst – artwork
Brian Donnelly – deluxe edition artwork
Virgil Abloh – art direction
Larry Gold – string Arrangements, string Conductor
James J. Cooper III – cello
Jennie Lorenzo – cello
Carol Corless – package production
Miles Davis – bass
Kyambo Joshua – executive producer
Erik Madro – assistant
Manny Marroquin – mixing
Christian Plata – assistant
J. Peter Robinson – package design

Charts

Chart (2008)	Peak position
US Billboard 200^[3]	1
US Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums^[3]	1
Australian Albums Chart^[4]	12
Irish Albums Chart^[4]	11
New Zealand Albums Chart^[4]	15
UK Albums Chart^[4]	11
Swiss Albums Chart^[4]	13
Canadian Albums Chart^[3]	4
Belgian Albums Chart^[4]	21
Norwegian Albums Chart^[4]	19
Dutch Albums Chart^[4]	42
Austrian Albums Chart^[5]	50
European Top 100 Albums^[3]	23
Italian Albums Chart^[6]	65
French Albums Chart	52
German Albums Chart	30

Preceded by I Am... Sasha Fierce by Beyoncé	*US Billboard* 200 number-one album** December 13–20, 2008	Succeeded by Circus by Britney Spears
Preceded by I Am... Sasha Fierce by Beyoncé	*US Billboard* Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums number-one album** December 13–20, 2008	Succeeded by I Am... Sasha Fierce by Beyoncé

Certifications


Region	Certification	Sales/shipments
Australia (ARIA)^[7]	Gold	35,000^{^}
Canada (Music Canada)^[8]	Platinum	80,000^{^}
Ireland (IRMA)^[9]	Platinum	15,000^{^}
United Kingdom (BPI)^[10]	Platinum	600,000^{^}
United States (RIAA)^[11]	Platinum	1,000,000^{^}
^*sales figures based on certification alone ^{^}shipments figures based on certification alone ^xunspecified figures based on certification alone

808s & Heartbreak Media

West (center) working on the album with producer and former mentor No I.D. (left)
The Roland TR-808, the drum machine which served as a primary instrument on the album
West performing at the 2008 Democratic National Convention leading up to the album's release
A billboard advertising the album in Chicago, 2009
Drake (pictured in 2010) was part of the wave of rappers influenced by the album.
West, Kid Cudi, and Mr Hudson behind an array of other performers onstage for the album's reproduction at the Hollywood Bowl, September 2015