Hearts (Dove Cameron album)

Hearts (stylized in all uppercase) is the second studio album by American singer and actress Dove Cameron. It was released on October 9, 2020 by Disruptor Records. The record was primarily produced by Jack Antonoff, Max Martin, Shellback and Cameron herself, who also serves as the executive producer. Artists featured on the album include PewDiePie, Bastille, Marshmellow, Selena Gomez, Ratatat, Ryland James, and Camila Cabello.

Hearts received generally positive reviews from music critics and reached number one in 13 countries including the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States. The album sold 239,000 copies in its first week of release in the US alone. Worldwide, it sold 420,000 copies, making it one of the best selling albums on 2020.

The album received seven total nominations at the 63rd Grammy Awards for Album of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album with Misrepresented being nominated for Record of the Year, To Whom It May Concern being nominated for Best R&B song, Best Music Video and Best Pop Solo Performance and Dead to Me being nominated for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance with Ryland James. It won Best Pop Vocal Album, Best Pop Solo Performance and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance. To promote the album, Cameron embarked on the Hearts Tour in 2021. A concert film of the tour was released on Disney+ on February 14, 2021. The tour has grossed $214.7 million, becoming one of the highest grossing tours of the year. Brendon Urie of ''Panic! at The Disco ''joined her on tour as an opening act.

Release
Cameron announced the release of a new track featuring PewDiePie, titled "Misrepresented" after she had began posting cryptic images on her Instagram and Twitter accounts, beginning on March 13, 2020. Just four hours before the release of the song, ABC aired a minute-long acoustic performance of the song during the commercials. According to Variety, the performance was watched by 2.17 million viewers. The song was officially released on March 20, 2020. Cameron then announced that her second studio album would be titled Hearts and would be released later that year. On June 5, 2020, she began posting pictures of kaleidoscopes on her social media accounts for four days in a row. On June 9, she announced that she would be releasing a promotional single at midnight. The track was titled "Kaleidoscope". It was released on June 10, 2020, and was initially released as a promotional single but was sent to radio on July 10, 2020. Cameron wrote the track and produced it alongside Jack Antonoff. Cameron began teasing a third single in late August 2020, when she started posting pictures of various different items, such as flowers, suits, hats and ties. She previewed it on Good Morning America on September 3, 2020 and the track was released digitally on iTunes the next day, September 4, 2020. A remix featuring Future was released on October 9, 2020. It led the song to peak at number three on the Billboard Hot 100. It was the last single to be released before the album's release. However, Cameron was criticized for having a nearly seven month gap between the release of the lead single and the album itself.

The album was released on October 9, 2020 and debuted atop the Billboard 200 chart.

Music & lyrics
The album's title alludes to many of its lyrical themes, such as love, relationships and heartbreak. Greg Kot, writing for Chicago Tribune, described the album as "a synth-heavy album with beautiful vocals throughout".

The album's opening track, "Curious Minds" is a pop-oriented track with elements of synth-pop in which Cameron asks a lover to quit his mind games and "just go for it". The third track on the album, "One Last Breath" was written on the piano. The piano demo was leaked on October 17, 2020 and has since been viewed 17.3 million times on YouTube.