On December 18, 2012, the album was certified gold by Music Canada (MC) for shipments exceeding 40,000 units in Canada. In Canada, the album debuted at number eight on the Canadian Albums Chart. Blue Slide Park earned 12,000 album-equivalent units in the week following Miller's death on September 7, 2018, allowing the album to re-enter the Billboard 200 at number 49. On May 14, 2018, the album was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for combined sales and streams in excess of 500,000 units in the United States. As of August 2012, the album has sold 344,000 copies.
Despite not being released as a single, the track "Smile Back" became Miller's highest-charting song at the time, reaching number 55 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart dated November 26, 2011. In its second week, the album fell to number 24 with 25,000 sales, one of the largest drops from number one at the time. Commercial performanceīlue Slide Park debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart, selling 144,000 copies in its first week, making it the first independently-distributed debut album to top the chart since Tha Dogg Pound's Dogg Food (1995). Jordan Sargent of Pitchfork gave the album a 1.0 out of 10 rating, and wrote "Miller's world is a hermetic one, and unless it's one you inhabit, the album holds no appeal", and "he's mostly just a crushingly bland, more intolerable version of Wiz Khalifa". XXL viewed the album's production more positively, but noted that Miller still has "room to evolve". Jon Garcia of gave the album a rating of 6.5 out of 10, criticising the production and claiming that "it's as if he hasn't found his sound yet".
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At Metacritic, a site that calculates an aggregate score based on a number of professional reviews, the album has received a score of 58/100 (based on 12 articles) which indicates "mixed or average reviews". It was also the location for a comedic quasi-reality show, “Mac Miller and the Most Dope Family,” on MTV2.Blue Slide Park received generally mixed reviews from music critics. In 2012 his home studio in Los Angeles became a hub for a young generation of West Coast rappers, including members of the Odd Future collective. Miller later expressed regret over the song. Miller but added that maybe the rapper “should pay me a lot of money.”) Mr. Trump said at the time that he was proud of Mr. Miller had a platinum-selling single with “Donald Trump” - “take over the world when I’m on my Donald Trump” - invoking the real-estate developer before his turn to politics. As a rapper, he landed hard in the pocket as a producer, he gave himself deep pockets to land in.Įarly in his career, Mr. He was a producer as well, sometimes under the alias Larry Fisherman, and his beats were lush and jazz-and-soul-inflected with flashes of sparkle. With his 2013 record, “Watching Movies With the Sound Off,” his music was becoming more serious and more technically accomplished. “Blue Slide Park,” bounced from one jubilant song to the next in the party-rap tradition of the late 1980s and early ’90s. He was an astute, intricate rapper as a lyricist he was a classicist in an era that had largely turned away from that style.īut he was also lighthearted. Miller began rapping as a teenager and released several mixtapes before signing with Rostrum, a local independent label. They and a brother are among his survivors. His mother is a photographer and his father an architect. “I have cared for him and tried to support his sobriety,” she wrote. Miller as “toxic” and criticized those who attributed the accident to the breakup. Grande referred to her relationship with Mr. “I needed to run into that light pole and literally, like, have the whole thing stop.”ĭays later, in a statement, Ms. “I needed that,” he said in a radio interview this summer. He was charged in August with two counts of driving under the influence. Miller was arrested in Los Angeles after his Mercedes G-Wagon hit a utility pole. Grande announced this year that the couple had broken up. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100, his highest-charting single. He appeared on “The Way,” a 2013 collaboration with Ms. Miller found a more extreme form of fame through a romantic relationship with the pop star Ariana Grande. I want to be able to have good days and bad days.” Miller said in an interview this week in Vulture, addressing his mental health. “I really wouldn’t want just happiness,” Mr.
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