At midnight on June 19th, American Music Award winner, Justin Bieber debuted his second full-length album, Believe. The deluxe edition of the album is currently listed at Number 1 on the Top Albums list on iTunes. The standard edition of the album boasts a 14 song tracklist, while the deluxe edition includes three additional songs.
Scooter Braun, Bieber's manager, noted that when Justin sat down to make the album, he didn't want to rush it. "Justin was really humble about this," Braun stated. "He probably wrote 200 songs and we just kept working and working and narrowing it down. And there were so many records that didn't even make it that we'll save for something else. I think when it was all said and done, there wasn't one person who listened to that album all the whole way through and thought that we didn't have something special and really great and something that didn't just reach the teenagers, but everyone — without losing the teenagers."
"He's growing and so is his music," Braun said. "And I don't think he's transitioning and losing any fans. I think he's just growing. We always study Michael Jackson and the thing I loved about his career is he never lost that 2-year-old that bounced to his music. But at the same time, you'd go to a club and there were adults bouncing also. And I think that's what we want to do with Justin."
"The only conversation we've had about Justin's album that we're about to do is it's really important that it's the proper transition because we've seen him [with] 'Baby,' now we're watching him grow up," his vocal producer, Kuk Harrell, told MTV News back in November. "And we can't just throw him into the adult game right away. It has to be the proper transition. There's a record in between."
Other artists such as Mike Posner, Questlove, Jessie J, Carly Rae Jepsen and Kelly Clarkson are singing the praises of Justin's new album. Even Ellen DeGeneres approves:
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Posted on June 20th, 2012
