808s & Heartbreak

***808s and Heartbreak*** is the fourth studio album by American rapper and producer Kanye West. It was released on November 24, 2008. Four singles were released from it. The first single was "Love Lockdown". The album is different to West's earlier albums; it is mainly a hip hop, electronica and R&B album instead of a more "traditional hip hop album" and its songs are sung through an Auto-Tune processor instead of rapped.

## Personnel

Credits for _808s & Heartbreak_ adapted from AllMusic.

- Kanye West – producer, executive producer, primary artist
- Kid Cudi – primary artist
- Lil Wayne – primary artist
- Mr. Hudson – primary artist
- Young Jeezy – primary artist
- Kevin Dorley – vocals
- Jim Gilstrap – vocals
- Phillip Ingram – vocals
- Glenn Jordan – vocals
- Kadockadee Kwire – vocals
- Jenny-Bea Englishman – vocals
- Tony Williams – backing vocals
- Olga Konopelsky – violins
- Emma Kummrow – violins
- Luca Mazzochi – violins
- Charles Parker – violins
- Igor Szwec – violins
- Gregory Teperman – violins
- Davis A. Barnett – viola
- Alexandra Leem – viola
- Jeff Bhasker – keyboards
- Vlado Meller – mastering
- Jeff Chestek – engineer

- Andrew Dawson – engineer
- Anthony Kilhoffer – engineer
- Rick Friedric – assistant engineer
- Montez Roberts – assistant engineer
- John Stahl – assistant engineer
- Alan Branch – marketing
- Chris Atlas – marketing
- Don-C – marketing
- Danny Clinch – marketing
- Willy Vanderperre – marketing
- Kris Yiengst – artwork
- Brian Donnelly – deluxe edition artwork
- Virgil Abloh – art direction
- Larry Gold – string Arrangements, string Conductor
- James J. Cooper III –  cello
- Jennie Lorenzo – cello
- Carol Corless – package production
- Miles Davis – bass
- Kyambo Joshua – executive producer
- Erik Madro – assistant
- Manny Marroquin – mixing
- Christian Plata – assistant
- J. Peter Robinson – package design

## Charts

|style="text-align:center;"|Chart (2008)|style="text-align:center;"|Peak position|
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|align="left"|US _Billboard_ 200|style="text-align:center;"|1|
|align="left"|US _Billboard_ Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums|style="text-align:center;"|1|
|align="left"|Australian Albums Chart|style="text-align:center;"|12|
|align="left"|Irish Albums Chart|style="text-align:center;"|11|
|align="left"|New Zealand Albums Chart|style="text-align:center;"|15|
|align="left"|UK Albums Chart|style="text-align:center;"|11|
|align="left"|Swiss Albums Chart|style="text-align:center;"|13|
|align="left"|Canadian Albums Chart|style="text-align:center;"|4|
|align="left"|Belgian Albums Chart|style="text-align:center;"|21|
|align="left"|Norwegian Albums Chart|style="text-align:center;"|19|
|align="left"|Dutch Albums Chart|style="text-align:center;"|42|
|align="left"|Austrian Albums Chart|style="text-align:center;"|50|
|align="left"|European Top 100 Albums|style="text-align:center;"|23|
|align="left"|Italian Albums Chart|style="text-align:center;"|65|
|align="left"|French Albums Chart|style="text-align:center;"|52|
|align="left"|German Albums Chart|style="text-align:center;"|30|

## Infobox (album)

- **name**: 808s & Heartbreak
- **type**: studio
- **artist**: Kanye West
- **border**: yes
- **recorded**: September – October 2008
- **length**: 51:58
- **prev title**: Graduation (album), Graduation
- **prev year**: 2007
- **next title**: VH1 Storytellers (Kanye West album), VH1 Storytellers
- **next year**: 2010