This is accomplished through use of a sequencing style that is as unique as you can find in music. It’s also the album’s highest ranking since 2016, just four years after it debuted at #2 on Billboard’s Top 200, with standout track “Thinkin Bout You” being the lead single for the record and becoming its best performing song.įrank Ocean uses Channel Orange to tell experiences from the perspective of a variety of characters he created. This spike in popularity is due to the track “Lost” finding success on TikTok, boosting its streaming numbers on Spotify and Apple Music. Despite dropping over a decade ago, Channel Orange found itself ranked 65th on Billboard’s Top 200 chart during January, its highest peak since 2016. It also eventually led to his debut album, Channel Orange, releasing July 10, 2012. This initial success allowed him to collaborate with some of the most established artists in the world at the time, such as Beyonce, Jay-Z and Kanye West. After releasing his debut mixtape, Nostalgia, Ultra, in 2011, he gained substantial traction as a solo artist thanks to his songwriting and adventurous take on R&B that came across as experimental.
Ever since Frank Ocean first came into the R&B scene in the early 2010s, he was labeled as a breath of fresh air from the commercial-influenced sound that dominated the genre, resulting from desperate attempts to appease radio listeners.
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