Thought U, Were (album)

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> Broken Hearts, Lot's of pain and griefing, Opening more on my feelings on struggles such as Depression, Anxiety, etc. is all grasped into this beautiful project i've worked on, Listening and making this actually changed my life. With the people i love who were there to witness me grow and become a more healed person, in a small period of time.
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> *BJAYE* on his third studio album

## ***Thought U, Were***Studio album by BJAYE

* Digital
* Japanese
* Physical

## General information

### Release Date

February 23, 2029 (Standard)
June 29, 2029 (Lavender)
February 25, 2039 (BJAYE's Edition)

### Length

**Standard**: 40:36
 **Japanese**: 50:15

### Producer(s)

BJAYE, Ariana Hrande, Max Martin, Ilya, Tommy Brown

## Singles

1. "thought u, were"
Released: October 6, 2028
2. "breakup dreams"
Released: January 26, 2029
3. "your best friend is my man now"
Released: February 23, 2029

## Promotional Singles

1. "Envision"
Released: November 17, 2028

***"Thought U, Were "*** (stylized all in lowercase) is BJAYE's third studio album, released on February 23, 2029, through Republic Records. The album was recorded between August 2028 and December 2028.

Three singles were released from the album, two of which debuted at number one, and one that debuted at number two on the US *Billboard* Hot 100. With this, *Thought U, Were* joined *Dreamin* by himself, and Scorpion by Drake as the only albums by black male artists to have multiple songs debut at number one. Topping charts in many countries internationally, the album broke numerous streaming records, including the record for the most streams received by a song in a single day for a black artist on Spotify, the largest on-demand streaming week ever recorded for a male artist in the US, the largest streaming week for an album by an black artist, and the fastest selling album by a black artist in its first week with (1.6m) copies.

## Background

On September 7, 2028, BJAYE confirmed that he was working on his next album but he also said that the album will most likely be released in the first quarter of next year. On September 22, 2028, BJAYE posted a snippet of one of the songs of the album, which was found out to be the lead single “Thought U, Were”. BJAYE said that the lead single be dropped any day out of nowhere. On October 7, BJAYE announced the title of the album, "Thought U, Were".

Three singles were released from the album, two of which debuted at number one and one debuted at number two on the US *Billboard* Hot 100. Non-Album Tracks debuted in the top following the album’s release.With this, BJAYE is the first or second black male artist to debut more than one album songs in the top ten and *Thought U, Were* joined *Dreamin* by himself as the only albums by one artist to have multiple songs debut at number one; overall he’s following Drake in the most number one debuts by a black male artist. Topping charts in many countries internationally, the song broke numerous streaming records, including the record for the most streams received by a song in a single day for a black male artist on Spotify, and the largest on-demand streaming week ever recorded for a black male artist in the US with 800m streams.

A music video for BJAYE's single "Some Days", from his previous album Dreamin, was released on September 29, 2028. In the video, a short scene shows a poster, where some possible tracks from Thought U, Were are listed, including "GIRLZ", "Helpless", "Envision" shows in the back scratched off could be seen.
BJAYE also teased "Broken ", "Thought U, Were", "Time Away" in the music video for the album title track, "Thought U, Were", released in October 2028.

On December 13, 2028, BJAYE announced that he had finally finished the album on Twitter. He described the album as a heartbreak album known as a “male breakup anthem", with trap-pop & R&B, mixed with hip-hop/rap beats produced by mostly black people. He explains that "He put so much work into this album, he explains the meaning of it as " recovering from a really bad breakup, having to go to therapy a lot, coping with a lot of things that he had to deal with for a long time and focusing on positivity such as friends, fans and close ones". He stated that “well honestly i’m healing from a lot of things event stuff i opened up about and i'm focusing on the da good shit in my life; my fans and friends and close ones”. On January 1, 2029, BJAYE confirmed that "Breakup Dreams" was the second single from the album. He also revealed the track listing. The album was made available for pre-order on January 19, 2029. It sold over 700,000 unit pre-orders, surpassing Dreamin.

### Recording

On September 7, 2028, BJAYE uploaded a photo at the studio on his Instagram story. 2 Days later he revealed that many songs were recorded. But he was narrowing it down towards 14-15 songs.

The following is a list of known dates on which BJAYE was in the studio:

* August 4, 2028
* August 5, 2028
* August 7, 2028
* August 10, 2028
* August 15, 2028
* August 25, 2028
* September 7, 2028
* September 8, 2028
* September 9, 2028
* September 10, 2028
* September 11, 2028
* September 12, 2028
* September 13, 2028
* September 14, 2028
* September 24, 2028
* September 26, 2028
* September 30, 2028
* October 9, 2028
* October 11, 2028
* October 27, 2028
* October 28, 2028
* November 5, 2028
* November 12, 2028
* November 19, 2028
* December 3, 2028
* December 12, 2028

### Cover art

BJAYE revealed that there is a different version of the digital and physical album cover art.

## Singles

The lead single and title track, Thought U, Were, was released on October 6, 2028.

The second single, Breakup Dreams, was released on January 26, 2029.

The third and final single, Your Best Friend Is My Man Now was released along with the album on February 23, 2029.

### Promotional singles

A promotional single, Trainwreck, was released on November 10, 2028.

## Tour

Main article: Dreamin World Tour
On November 25, 2028, BJAYE announced the Dreamin/Thought U, We’re World Tour in support of his sophomore album Dreamin *as well as his third studio album,* Thought U, Were*. The tour began on March 16, 2029 in Los Angeles, California, and concluded on December 20, 2029 in Inglewood, California.*

## Commercial performance

### Billboard 200

The album debuted at number 1 on the US *Billboard* 200 with 1,618,000 album units, which 800,000 are pure sales also being BJAYE's third consecutive number-one album in the United States. The album has spent 14 non-consecutive weeks at number one breaking his record or 11 week at number one with “Dreamin”. Once, The Deluxe Version Was Released the album sold over 575,000 units in its first week, which helped it stay at number one.

### Spotify Records

BJAYE surpassed himself with the largest streaming day for a male artist, which projected over (186m) streams in its first day, surpassing his second album “Dreamin”, which projected over 158m streams and held the record for 8 months.

It broke the record for the largest streaming week for a male pop album (1.022 billion streams) Surpassing his own Dreamin, which projected (896m). Then becoming the fastest male album to project a billion streams in its first week.

It also earned the biggest second week of 2029 with 492.8m streams. The album has surpassed over 10 billion streams becoming his first album to achieve this.

## Track listing

* envision
* helpless
* time away
* downline
* mess up
* next time
* bad mistake
* all an imagination
* broken apart
* breakup dreams
* thought u, were
* your best friend is my man now
* GIRLZ
* secret love

## Deluxe track listing

### Cut tracks

* "space"
* “good idea