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| name = Gang Signs & Prayer | type = studio | artist = Stormzy | cover = Gang Signs & Prayer cover.jpg | alt = | released = 24 February 2017 | recorded = 2015–16 | venue = | studio = | genre = {{hlist|Hip hop|grime|R&B}} | length = 58:47 | label = {{hlist|#Merky|Warner|ADA}} | producer = {{hlist|Stormzy {{small|(exec.)}}|Fraser T Smith {{small|(also exec.)}}|169|E.Y Beats|Mura Masa|Sir Spyro|SOS|Sunny Kale|Swifta Beater|Wizzy Wow|XTC}} | prev_title = Dreamers Disease | prev_year = 2014 | next_title = | next_year = | misc = {{Singles | name = Gang Signs & Prayer | type = studio | single1 = Big for Your Boots | single1date = 3 February 2017 | single2 = Cold | single2date = 12 March 2017[1] | single3 = Cigarettes & Cush | single3date = 29 August 2017[2] | single4 = Blinded by Your Grace, Pt. 2 | single4date = 27 October 2017[3] }} }} Gang Signs & Prayer is the debut studio album by English rapper Stormzy. It was released on 24 February 2017 independently through #Merky Records while being distributed by ADA of Warner Music Group.[4] It is Stormzy's first major commercial release, following the Dreamers Disease EP (2014). The album features guest appearances from fellow MCs Wretch 32, Ghetts and J Hus, along with singers Kehlani, Raleigh Ritchie and MNEK. It features production from Fraser T Smith and Sir Spyro, among others. The album was supported by the lead single "Big for Your Boots". Gang Signs & Prayer received critical acclaim upon release, and entered the UK Albums Chart at number one with sales of 69,000, becoming the first grime album in history to reach number one. It holds the distinction of having every song from the album appear concurrently on the UK Singles Chart, including seven songs in the top 40.[5] In February 2018, Gang Signs & Prayer won British Album of the Year at the 2018 Brit Awards.[6] BackgroundAfter garnering attention on the UK underground music scene via his Wicked Skengman series of freestyles over classic grime beats, Stormzy released his debut EP Dreamers Disease independently in July 2014.[7] In March 2015, he released the single "Know Me From", which entered the UK Singles Chart at number 49. In September 2015, he released a final instalment to his "WickedSkengMan" freestyle series, "WickedSkengMan 4", onto iTunes, along with a studio version of his "Shut Up" freestyle over XTC's Functions on the Low instrumental.[8] The track debuted at number 18 on the UK Singles Chart, becoming Stormzy's first top 40 hit.[9] The online video for "Shut Up" garnered millions of views and attention from the mainstream. As a result, Stormzy launched a Christmas number one campaign to get the song to number one,[10][11][12] ultimately peaking at number eight on the UK Singles Chart. After a year's hiatus from social media to focus on the recording of the album, Stormzy returned in early February 2017 via a series of billboard campaigns across London displaying lyrical quotes and the hashtag #GSAP 24.02. The album title was announced to be Gang Signs & Prayer, set to be released on 24 February 2017, followed by the track listing the following day.[13][14][15] PromotionPrior to the album's official announcement, the non-single track "Shut Up" was released in September 2015 and ultimately included as the penultimate track on Gang Signs & Prayer. The non-album single "Scary" was released in April 2016 prior to Stormzy's hiatus. On 1 February 2017, a billboard campaign was launched across numerous areas in London that foreshadowed the release of the album. Singles"Big for Your Boots" was released as the album's lead single on 3 February 2017. The track was produced by Fraser T Smith and Sir Spyro. It entered the UK Singles Chart at number eight, become tied with "Shut Up" as Stormzy's highest-charting single. The song reached a new peak of number six in its fourth week of charting after the release of Gang Signs & Prayer, surpassing "Shut Up" as Stormzy's highest-charting single. "Cold" was released as the album's second single on 12 March, following the album being certified Gold in the United Kingdom.[1] "Cigarettes & Cush" was released as the album's third single on 29 August 2017.[2] "Blinded by Your Grace, Pt. 2" was released as the album's fourth single on 27 October 2017.[3] Critical reception{{Album ratings| ADM = | MC = 82/100[16] | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}[17] | rev2 = Evening Standard | rev2Score = {{Rating|4|5}}[18] | rev3 = The Guardian | rev3Score = {{Rating|4|5}}[19] | rev4 = The Independent | rev4score = {{Rating|3|5}}[20] | rev5 = The Line of Best Fit | rev5Score = 9/10[21] | rev6 = musicOMH | rev6Score = {{Rating|4|5}}[22] | rev7 = NME | rev7Score = {{Rating|5|5}}[23] | rev8 = Pitchfork | rev8Score = 7.6/10[24] }} Upon its release Gang Signs & Prayer received widespread acclaim from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 82, based on 19 reviews.[16] Giving it a perfect score, Jordan Bassett of NME stated that Stormzy "delivers a knockout debut that’s brash and pensive in equal measure."[23] Alexis Petridis of The Guardian praised the musical diversity of the album: "More startling, however, is the confidence with which other tracks shift into unexpected musical territory. On paper, a rapper like Stormzy recording a lo-fi, electric piano-led, Stevie Wonderesque gospel track called '"Blinded By Your Grace, Pt 1" sounds like a textbook case of an artist overstretching himself; in reality, it’s fantastic, and oddly moving.", concluding that "It’s not a perfect debut – it’s slightly too long for one thing, and there are a couple of points where it sags – but it sounds like an album teeming with original, daring ideas. More importantly, it sounds like the work of an artist with the confidence and the talent to pull those ideas off."[19]Accolades
Commercial performanceAfter receiving close competition with Rag'n'Bone Man's Human, Gang Signs & Prayer entered the UK Albums Chart at number one, with combined sales of 68,594 copies.[28][29] It set British streaming records for the most first-week streams for a number one album in chart history, with 13.9 million streams, surpassing the opening week stream count of Drake's Views. Gang Signs & Prayer became the first grime album to chart at number one, as well as joining the likes of Skepta and Giggs of charting in the top five independently. The album also charted at number one on the UK Independent Chart, UK R&B Chart and the Irish Albums Chart, number two on the Scottish Albums Chart. Outside of the UK, it entered the Official New Zealand Music Chart at number 14 and number 34 in Sweden. In the album's first week of release, seven tracks from Gang Signs & Prayer were in the top 40 of the UK Singles Chart – "Big for Your Boots", "Cold", "Bad Boys", "First Things First", "Mr Skeng", "Cigarettes & Cush" and "Shut Up". All sixteen tracks from the album appeared in the top 100 in a single week, making Stormzy only the fourth artist to achieve this after Justin Bieber (Purpose), Beyoncé (Lemonade) and The Weeknd (Starboy).[30] Gang Signs & Prayer was certified Silver by the BPI in its first week of release.[31]Track listing{{Track listing| all_writing = | extra_column = Producer(s) | title1 = First Things First | length1 = 3:27 | writer1 = {{hlist|Michael Omari|Alex Crossan}} | extra1 = {{hlist|Mura Masa|Fraser T Smith}} | title2 = Cold | length2 = 2:36 | writer2 = {{hlist|Omari|Omari Mosi Wooley}} | extra2 = {{hlist|Swifta Beater|Fraser T Smith}} | title3 = Bad Boys | note3 = featuring Ghetts and J Hus | length3 = 4:06 | writer3 = {{hlist|Omari|Justin Clarke|Momodou Jallow}} | extra3 = {{hlist|Fraser T Smith|E.Y Beats|169}} | title4 = Blinded by Your Grace, Pt. 1 | note4 = | length4 = 2:40 | writer4 = {{hlist|Omari|Fraser Lance Thronycroft-Smith|Varren Wade|Dion Wardle}} | extra4 = Fraser T Smith | title5 = Big for Your Boots | length5 = 3:58 | writer5 = {{hlist|Omari|Karl Joseph}} | extra5 = {{hlist|Fraser T Smith|Sir Spyro}} | title6 = Velvet / Jenny Francis (Interlude) | length6 = 5:39 | writer6 = {{hlist|Omari|Mikey Akin|Moses Samuels|Neo Jessica Joshua}} | extra6 = Fraser T Smith | title7 = Mr Skeng | length7 = 3:17 | writer7 = {{hlist|Omari|Joseph}} | extra7 = {{hlist|Fraser T Smith|Sir Spyro}} | title8 = Cigarettes & Cush | note8 = featuring Kehlani and Lily Allen | length8 = 5:49 | writer8 = {{hlist|Omari|Thornycroft-Smith|Kehlani Parrish|Wardle}} | extra8 = Fraser T Smith | title9 = 21 Gun Salute (Interlude) | note9 = featuring Wretch 32 | length9 = 2:26 | writer9 = {{hlist|Omari|Jermaine Sinclair|Akin|Samuels}} | extra9 = Fraser T Smith | title10 = Blinded by Your Grace, Pt. 2 | note10 = featuring MNEK | length10 = 3:50 | writer10 = {{hlist|Omari|Uzoechi Emenike|Thornycroft-Smith}} | extra10 = Fraser T Smith | title11 = Return of the Rucksack | length11 = 3:04 | writer11 = {{hlist|Omari|Joseph|Dylan Kwabena Mills}} | extra11 = {{hlist|Sir Spyro|Fraser T Smith}} | title12 = 100 Bags | length12 = 3:37 | writer12 = {{hlist|Omari|Sunny Kale}} | extra12 = {{hlist|Fraser T Smith|Kale}} | title13 = Don't Cry for Me | note13 = featuring Raleigh Ritchie | length13 = 3:34 | writer13 = {{hlist|Omari|Jacob Anderson|Varren Wade|Isra Andja-Diumi Lohata|Prince Galalie}} | extra13 = {{hlist|Fraser T Smith|Wizzy Wow}} | title14 = Crazy Titch (Interlude) | note14 = | length14 = 2:40 | writer14 = {{hlist|Omari|Carl Dobson}} | extra14 = Fraser T Smith | title15 = Shut Up | length15 = 2:46 | writer15 = {{hlist|Omari|XTC}} | extra15 = XTC | title16 = Lay Me Bare | length16 = 5:04 | writer16 = {{hlist|Omari|EY|Kwabena Adjepong|Thornycroft-Smith}} | extra16 = {{hlist|EY|Fraser T Smith}} | total_length = 58:47 }}Notes
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"|publisher=Twitter|date=3 March 2017|accessdate=3 March 2017}} 32. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.ariacharts.com.au/charts/urban-albums-chart|title=ARIA Australian Top 40 Urban Albums|publisher=Australian Recording Industry Association|date=March 13, 2017|accessdate=March 14, 2017}} 33. ^{{cite web|url=http://nztop40.co.nz/chart/albums?chart=4340|title=NZ Top 40 Albums Chart|publisher=Recorded Music NZ|date=6 March 2017|accessdate=3 March 2017}} 34. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.sverigetopplistan.se/|title=Sverigetopplistan - Sveriges Officiella Topplista|publisher=Sverigetopplistan|accessdate=4 March 2017}} Click on "Veckans albumlista". 35. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/the-top-40-biggest-albums-of-2017-on-the-official-chart__21316/|title=The Top 40 biggest albums of 2017 on the Official Chart|publisher=Official Charts Company|last=White|first=Jack|date=3 January 2018|accessdate=3 January 2018}} 36. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/end-of-year-artist-albums-chart/20181231/37502|title=End of Year Album Chart Top 100 – 2018|publisher=Official Charts Company|accessdate=4 January 2019}} 4 : 2017 debut albums|Stormzy albums|Albums produced by Fraser T. 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