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}} ''Journals'' is the second compilation album by Canadian recording artist Justin Bieber. The album was only released digitally through online platforms, such as iTunes, on December 23, 2013 by Island Records. A ten-week digital download campaign entitled Music Mondays, in which one new song was released every Monday night, was held from October 7, 2013 to December 9, 2013. In addition to then songs released on "Music Mondays", ''Journals'' is also composed of other five previously unreleased songs. The recording sessions took place between 2012 and 2013, while the singer was on his Believe Tour, which generated one or two songs a day throughout the entire tour. To achieve a more mature sound, ''Journals'' sees Bieber working with a variety of different R&B producers, such as The Audibles, Jason "Poo Bear" Boyd, Andre Harris, Cali The Producer, D.K. the Punisher, Soundz, Chef Tone, T-Minus, as well as his previous producers Maejor Ali, Diplo, Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins and Sir Nolan, while collaborating with R&B and hip-hop artists and rappers, such as Future, R. Kelly, Chance the Rapper, Big Sean and Lil Wayne. An R&B album with pop influences, ''Journals'' mostly deals with themes of heartbreak and forgiveness in a romantic relationship. It was suggested that Bieber's relationship with former girlfriend, actress and singer Selena Gomez, was the main inspiration for the majority of the album. Among the album's ten singles, the first three, "Heartbreaker", "All That Matters" and Hold Tight", were the most successful, though all singles charted in many territories, with only "All that Matters" and "Confident" receiving music video treatment. The album was met with generally favorable reviews from music critics, with some praising its mature direction, its production and labeling his best material. However feel dismissed its similar themes and "unfinished" production. Despite promotions of the album that helped Bieber reach number one on the Social 50 chart and the release planned to capitalize the sales rush before Christmas, the album was not submitted for sales tracking to SoundScan, thus it did not chart on the ''Billboard'' 200 due to its first week sales going unreported and did not fare well commercially, reaching the top-forty in some countries and becoming more successful only in Denmark and Norway. The compilation was meant to be released physically, but due to the label not supporting Bieber's sound's choices, they did not support the album project. As of November 2015, it has sold 1,500,000 digital copies worldwide.〔http://www.thefader.com/2015/11/11/justin-bieber-poo-bear-purpose-journals〕 == Background and recording == While touring with his Believe Tour throughout 2012 and 2013, Justin Bieber managed to write new songs everyday, which according to his manager, Scooter Braun, the writing process had him "writing one to two songs a day for the entire tour and () label() them by the city he wr()te them in." In January 2013, Bieber confirmed he was writing for a new album, as well as American R&B singer R. Kelly that confirmed he was working with Bieber on the album. Meanwhile, in June of the same year, he confirmed a new album, the rest of the Believe Tour and a movie for 2013. In July, Braun gave an interview for MTV News, where he discussed the album, claiming: "For this project, we want to do things a little bit differently. And there are more songs than 10 or 12, so if you have more music and you have more things you want to express, you gotta think out the box, and (like ) ’How do I get this out there in a unique way where it gets directly to my fans and I can express myself through music directly to them?’ And I think that’s what it’s about when you have people who are incredibly creative, things happen." In August, Bieber confirmed he was working with American rapper Future. It was also reported he was working with Juicy J, Ludacris and Big Sean. In December, he also confirmed he was working with Chance the Rapper and Lil' Wayne. As executive producer, Justin enlisted previous collaborators such as Rodney Jerkins, Maejor Ali, Diplo and Sir Nolan, while working with a range of new R&B producers such as The Audibles, Andre Harris, Cali The Producer, D.K. the Punisher, Soundz, Chef Tone, T-Minus, Jason "Poo Bear" Boyd and others. Boyd became one of the most frequent collaborators on the album, writing with Bieber several songs as well as producing some. According to the producer, Bieber suggested they to "flip those Craig David chords and () create something." By doing so, he came up with the song "Recovery", a song that was finished at Cherry Beach Sound in Toronto. As he recalled, the process had Bieber hearing Boyd songs and selected them to sing, and many songs from the producer turned into songs off ''Journals''. Boyd continued: "He () just felt them so much, so strongly. It was just a matter of me letting go of the fact that I don't care about me being a singer more so than I care about putting great music out into the universe. Then I was able to do it. The songs that I felt like were too mature, we changed them up to fit him like a custom suit." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Journals (album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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