Looking 4 Myself

***Looking 4 Myself*** is the seventh studio album by American singer Usher. It was released on June 8, 2012. The album was released on RCA Records. The album was produced by Diplo, Rico Love, Jim Jonsin, Salaam Remi, Pharrell Williams and Max Martin. It features Rick Ross, Pharrell, Luke Steele, and A$AP Rocky as backing vocalist. The music on the album are "revolutionary pop". This was created by Usher in November 2011. He wants to produce a sound that is similar to the current era of music. This includes electronic, R&B, soul, hip hop, and pop.

The album released three singles. These includes "Climax", "Scream", and "Lemme See". The song "Climax" reached the top 20 on the _Billboard_ Hot 100 chart. However, it reached number one on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart for ten weeks. The song "Scream" reached the top 10 on the Hot 100. Usher promoted the album. He done this by performing in the off-broadway show _Fuerza Bruta: Look Up_. He also performed the songs on the album at other shows and events including on _Saturday Night Live_, _Good Morning America_, and Capital FM Summer Time Ball.

After its release, the album was given positive reviews. Most reviews liked that the album had different music genres. Others did not like it. However, the album debuted at number one on the _Billboard_ 200 chart. It sold 128,000 copies the first week. It then became Usher's fourth number one album. However, the sales of the first week were the lowest since Usher's _My Way_ album (1997).

## Personnel

Credits for _Looking 4 Myself_ from Allmusic.

**Managerial**

- Usher Raymond IV - Executive Producer
- Mark Pitts - Executive Producer, A&R
- Jen Bui - Management
- Mr. Morgan - Management
- Kory Aaron - Assistant
- Diego Avendaño - Assistant
- Liz Bauer - Assistant
- Delbert Bowers - Assistant
- Nathan Burgess - Assistant
- Thomas Cullison - Assistant
- Jacob Dennis - Assistant
- Alex Fremin - Assistant

- Chris Galland - Assistant
- Phil Joly - Assistant
- Jaime Martinez - Assistant
- Dana Richard - Assistant
- Ramon Rivas - Assistant
- Ed Sanders - Assistant
- Max Unruh - Assistant
- Jorge Velasco - Assistant
- Randy Warnken - Assistant
- Eric Weaver - Assistant
- Matt Huber - Assistant

**Performance credits**

- Usher Raymond IV - Primary Artist
- Rick Ross - Featured Artist
- Luke Steele - Featured Artist

- Rico Love - Vocals
- Mashanda Huskey - Vocals
- Max Martin - Vocals (Background)

**Visuals and imagery**

- Francesco Carrozzini - Photography
- Curtis Smith - Groomer
- Ron Croudy - Art Direction

- Frank Zuber - Art Direction
- David Royer - Stylist
- Nicole Patterson - Make-Up

**Instruments**

- Andre Bowman - Bass
- Jim Jonsin - Keyboards
- Stephen Coleman - String Arrangements
- Czech Film Orchestra - Strings
- Vincent Henry - Saxophone
- Pierre Medor - Keyboards
- Daniel Morris - Keyboards

- Nico Muhly - Piano, String Arrangements, Strings
- Ariel Rechtshaid - Keyboards
- Shellback - Keyboards
- Salaam Remi - Bass, Drums, Guitar, Keyboards
- Frank Romano - Guitar
- Aaron Spears - Drums, Percussion

**Technical and production**

- Juan Najera - Composer
- Wesley Pentz - Composer
- Carl Thompson - Composer
- Christopher Wallace - Composer
- Pharrell Williams - Composer
- Lundon "Da Bridge" Knighten - Composer
- Savan Kotecha - Composer
- Terry Lewis - Composer
- Eric Bellinger - Composer
- Sidney Brown - Composer
- Sean Combs - Composer
- Reginald Ellis - Composer
- Sean Fenton - Composer
- William M. Joel - Composer
- Nathaniel Hills - Composer
- William Roberts - Composer
- James Scheffer - Composer
- Ryon Lovett - Composer
- Klas Åhlund - Composer, Instrumentation, Producer
- Axel Hedfors - Composer, Instrumentation, Producer
- Steve Angello - Composer, Instrumentation, Producer
- Keith Harris - Composer, Instrumentation, Producer
- Sebastian Ingrosso - Composer, Instrumentation, Producer
- Alessandro Lindblad - Composer, Instrumentation, Producer
- will.i.am - Composer, Instrumentation, Producer
- Marcella "Ms. Lago" Araica - Composer, Mixing
- Kevin Cossom - Composer, Vocal Producer
- Shellback - Composer, Producer, Programming

- Eric Goudy II - Composer, Drum Programming
- Earl Hood - Composer, Drum Programming
- Frank Romano - Composer,  Producer
- Rico Love - Composer, Producer
- Max Martin - Composer, Producer
- Pierre Medor - Composer, Producer
- Nickolas Marzouca - Composer, Engineer, Mixing
- Daniel Morris - Composer, Programming
- Usher Raymond IV - Composer, Liner Notes
- Ariel Rechtshaid - Composer, Synthesizer
- Andrew Coleman - Arranger, Digital Editing, Engineer
- Tom Coyne - Mastering
- Diplo - Producer
- Swedish House Mafia - Producer
- Jim Jonsin - Producer, Programming
- Gleyder "Gee" Disla - Engineer
- Mark "Exit" Goodchild - Engineer
- John Hanes - Engineer
- Matt Huber - Engineer
- Sam Holland Såklart - Engineer
- Phil Seaford - Assistant Engineer
- Dylan Dresdow - Mixing
- Serban Ghenea - Mixing
- Robert Marks - Mixing
- Manny Marroquin - Mixing
- Noel "Gadget" Campbell - Mixing
- Salaam Remi - Arranger, Composer, Producer
- Noah Shebib - Arranger, Composer, Instrumentation, Producer

## Chart performance

|Chart (2012)|Peak position|
| --- | --- |
|style="text-align:center;"|3|
|style="text-align:center;"|1|
|style="text-align:center;"|29|
|style="text-align:center;"|15|
|style="text-align:center;"|24|
|style="text-align:center;"|7|
|style="text-align:center;"|12|
|style="text-align:center;"|4|
|style="text-align:center;"|20|
|style="text-align:center;"|8|
|style="text-align:center;"|11|
|style="text-align:center;"|35|
|style="text-align:center;"|15|
|style="text-align:center;"|11|
|style="text-align:center;"|28|
|style="text-align:center;"|11|
|style="text-align:center;"|10|
|style="text-align:center;"|56|
|style="text-align:center;"|42|
|style="text-align:center;"|5|
|style="text-align:center;"|7|
|style="text-align:center;"|3|
|style="text-align:center;"|1|
|style="text-align:center;"|1|
|style="text-align:center;"|1|

## Release history

|scope="col"|Region|scope="col"|Date|scope="col"|Format|scope="col"|Label|scope="col"|Edition(s)|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="8"|June 8, 2012|rowspan="6"|CD, digital download|rowspan="2"|Sony Music Entertainment|rowspan="19"|Standard, deluxe|||
|rowspan="16"|RCA Records|||||||||
|rowspan="5"|Digital download|||||||||
|rowspan="6"|June 11, 2012|||||||||
|rowspan="5"|CD, digital download|||||||||
|rowspan="5"|June 12, 2012|||||||||
|rowspan="2"|Digital download|||||||||
|CD, digital download|rowspan="3"|Sony Music Entertainment||||||||
|June 13, 2012|rowspan="2"|CD|rowspan="2"|Deluxe||||||
|June 29, 2012||||||||||

## Other websites

- _Looking 4 Myself_ at Discogs
- _Looking 4 Myself_ at Metacritic

## Infobox (album)

- **name**: Looking 4 Myself
- **type**: Studio
- **artist**: Usher (musician), Usher
- **released**:
<small>(see #Release history, release history)</small>
- **recorded**: 2011–12
- **genre**: Contemporary R&B, R&B, hip hop music, hip hop, Pop music, pop, Soul music, soul, Electronic music, electronic
- **label**: RCA Records, RCA
- **producer**: Usher Raymond IV <small>(Executive producer, exec.)</small>, Mark Pitts <small>(exec.)</small>, Coup D'état <small>(exec.)</small>, Rico Love, Diplo (DJ), Diplo, Jim Jonsin, Pharrell, Danja (producer), Danja, Salaam Remi, Swedish House Mafia, will.i.am, Alesso, Alessandro Lindblad, Max Martin, Steve Angello, Sebastian Ingrosso, Pierre Medor, Shellback (producer), Shellback, Klas Åhlund, Frank Romano, Axwell, Keith Harris (producer), Keith Harris
- **prev title**: Versus (EP), Versus
(2010)