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).
Track listing
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 Avendano - 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 Ahlund - 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 Saklart - 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
Release history
References
Other websites
Looking 4 Myself at Discogs
Looking 4 Myself at Metacritic
2012 albums
Usher albums