Only Honest on the Weekend

Only Honest on the Weekend
Only Honest on the Weekend
Studio album by Becky Hill
Released	27 August 2021
Genre	Pop; dance;
Length	45:28
Label	Polydor
Becky Hill chronology
Singles from Only Honest on the Weekend
	"Better Off Without You"; Released: 10 January 2020; "Heaven on My Mind"; Released: 25 June 2020; "Last Time"; Released: 26 March 2021; "Remember"; Released: 18 June 2021; "My Heart Goes (La Di Da)"; Released: 24 August 2021;

Only Honest on the Weekend is the debut studio album by English singer and songwriter Becky Hill, released on 27 August 2021 through Eko and Polydor Records. The album was preceded by the release of five singles over the course of 2020 and 2021: "Better Off Without You", "Heaven on My Mind", "Last Time", "Remember" and "My Heart Goes (La Di Da)",^[2] as well as the promotional single "Business". It includes collaborations with Shift K3Y, David Guetta, Topic, S1mba, Ella Eyre, Banx & Ranx, Sigala and 220 Kid. The album's title derives from a lyric in the song "Space" which was cut out from the final tracklist.

Critical reception[]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Clash	7/10^[1]
The Guardian	^[3]
The Telegraph	^[4]

Alim Kheraj, reviewing Only Honest on the Weekend for The Guardian, gave the album one star out of five, describing its tracks as "seemingly designed for fast-fashion adverts during Love Island, with over-stuffed production that's about as robust and long-lasting as the minidresses sold therein". Kheraj also summarised the album as "disposable" and a "conveyor belt of blandness" that makes one wonder why Hill "bothered to make" it as "[p]erhaps after waiting nearly a decade to be allowed to release an album, Hill's enthusiasm had just run dry".^[3] Conversely, Clash's Caitlin Sibthorpe scored the album seven out of 10, calling it an "unstoppable pop banger" with "sensational guest stars" and "faultless production" that make it "even more tantalizing". Sibthorpe felt that "the versatility of the album will produce mass adoration".^[1] Neil McCormick for The Telegraph awarded the album three stars out of five and found that while Hill "sings beautifully and has energy to burn", "this is more like a pop data dump than a crafted debut album".^[4]

Track listing[]

*Only Honest on the Weekend* track listing
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Producer(s)	Length
1.	"I Got You"	Rebecca Claire Hill Justin Tranter Jussi Ilmari Karvinen	Jussi	3:10
2.	"Last Time"	Hill Negin Djafari Peter Rycroft Thomas Mann	Lostboy Mark Ralph^[a] Ryan Ashley^[v]	3:34
3.	"Make It Hard to Love You"	Hill Lucas Nordqvist Marc Kinchen Jon Eyden Uzoechi Emenike	Lucas Nord MK Ralph^[a]	3:19
4.	"Better Off Without You" (with Shift K3Y)	Hill Lewis Shay Jankel	Shift K3Y Jarly Svidden	3:18
5.	"Remember" (with David Guetta)	Hill David Guetta Karen Ann Poole Kye Elliot Sones Lewis Thompson Luke Storrs	Guetta Storrs Scott Lowe^[a]	2:41
6.	"Perfect People"	Hill Matthew Coleman Bryn Christopher Charlotte Haining Luke Fitton	MJ Cole Ashley^[v]	3:03
7.	"My Heart Goes (La Di Da)" (with Topic)	Hill Carl Nordström Haining Josh Wilkinson Victor Bolander	Topic Wilkinson	2:28
8.	"Could Be My Somebody" (with S1mba)	Hill Thomas Hollings Samuel Brennan Michael Stafford Leonard Simbarashe Rwodzi	Billen Ted Ashley^[v]	3:15
9.	"Business" (with Ella Eyre)	Hill Emenike Ella McMahon	Banx & Ranx MNEK	3:17
10.	"Waiting Not Looking"	Hill Tom Aspaul Oscar Hill	Hill	2:04
11.	"Distance"	Hill Coleman Anne-Marie Nicholson Adam Argyle Tomas Jules	Cole Ashley^[v]	2:55
12.	"Lessons" (with Banx & Ranx)	Hill Yannick Rastogi Zacharie Raymond Lauren Amber Aquilina Clément Langlois-Légaré	Banx & Ranx Ashley^[v]	3:07
13.	"Heaven on My Mind" (with Sigala)	Hill Ryan Campbell Emenike Bruce Fielder Joakim Jarl George Astasio Ida Martinsen Botten Jason Pebworth Jon Shave	Jarly Sigala Ashley^[v]	3:13
14.	"Is Anybody There"	Hill Emenike Rastogi Raymond Campbell	Banx & Ranx Ashley^[v]	3:16
15.	"Through the Night" (with 220 Kid)	Hill Emenike William Graydon	Billen Ted 220 Kid^[c] Ashley^[v]	2:48
Total length:				45:28

Notes

^{^[a]} indicates an additional producer
^{^[c]} indicates a co-producer
^{^[v]} indicates a vocal producer

Personnel[]

Musicians

Becky Hill – vocals (all tracks), background vocals (2)
Ryan Ashley – background vocals (1, 2, 5-8, 11-14), vocal arrangement (13), vocal production (1, 2, 5-8, 11-14)
Lostboy – drum programming, piano, synthesizer programming (2)
Mark Ralph – keyboards, percussion, programming (2)
Lucas Nord – programming (3)
MK – programming (3)
Jarly – keyboards (4, 13); bass, drums, guitar, piano, programming, sound effects, strings (4); drum programming (13)
Svidden – bass, drums, guitar, keyboards, piano, programming, sound effects, strings (4)
Luke Storrs – keyboards (5)
MJ Cole – piano, programming (6, 11)
Tobie Tripp – string arrangement (6, 11)
Josh Wilkinson – bass, drums, keyboards, sound effects, strings, synthesizer (7)
Tobias Topic – bass, percussion, synthesizer (7)
Tom Hollings – bass programming, percussion (8)
Sam Brennan – drum programming, synthesizer (8)
S1mba – vocals (8)
MNEK – background vocals, programming (9)
Banx & Ranx – bass guitar, drums, programming, synthesizer (9, 12, 14); keyboards (12, 14)
Ella Eyre – vocals (9)
Clément Langlois-Légaré – guitar (12)
Sigala – drum programming, keyboards (13)

Technical

Stuart Hawkes – mastering engineer (1–4, 6–15)
Peppe Folliero – mastering engineer (5)
Serge Courtois – mixer (1, 10)
Mark Ralph – mixer (2, 3, 5, 13, 15), recording arranger (3)
Wez Clarke – mixer (4)
MK – mixer (6, 11), engineer (3, 11), recording engineer (9)
Topic – mixer (7)
Ed Sokolowski – mixer (8)
Mark Stent – mixer (9)
Nikola Feve "Nk.F" – mixer (12, 14)
Gemma Chester – engineer (2)
Josh Green – engineer (2)
Lucas Nord – engineer (3)
Lewis Shay Jankel – engineer (4)
Billen Ted – engineer (8)
Oscar Hill – engineer (10)
Ross Fortune – engineer (13)
Tom AD Fuller – engineer (13)
Ryan Ashley – vocal engineer (13)
Ewan Vickery – assistant mixer (6, 11)

Charts[]

Chart performance for *Only Honest on the Weekend*
Chart (2021)	Peak position
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)^[5]	99
Irish Albums (OCC)^[6]	18
Lithuanian Albums (AGATA)^[7]	77
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)^[8]	18
Scottish Albums (OCC)^[9]	6
UK Albums (OCC)^[10]	7
US Top Dance/Electronic Albums (Billboard)^[11]	25

References[]

^ ^a ^b ^c Sibthorpe, Caitlin (27 August 2021). "Becky Hill – Only Honest On The Weekend". Clash. Retrieved 30 August 2021.
^ Downs, Chad (27 August 2021). "Becky Hill Releases First-Ever Studio Album 'Only Honest On The Weekend'". Cultr. Retrieved 27 August 2021.
^ ^a ^b Kheraj, Alim (27 August 2021). "Becky Hill: Only Honest on the Weekend review – a conveyor belt of blandness". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 August 2021.
^ ^a ^b McCormick, Neil (26 August 2021). "Becky Hill: Only Honest on the Weekend, review: one-woman girl band with a mountain still to climb". The Telegraph. Retrieved 28 August 2021.
^ "Dutchcharts.nl – Becky Hill – Only Honest on the Weekend" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved 10 September 2021.
^ "Official Irish Albums Chart Top 50". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 3 September 2021.
^ "2021 39-os savaitės klausomiausi (Top 100)" (in Lithuanian). AGATA. 1 October 2021. Retrieved 1 October 2021.
^ "Album 2021 uke 35". VG-lista. Retrieved 4 September 2021.
^ "Official Scottish Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 3 September 2021.
^ "Official Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 3 September 2021.
^ "Becky Hill Chart History (Top Dance/Electronic Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved 8 September 2021.

[Clash-1] Sibthorpe, Caitlin (27 August 2021). "Becky Hill – Only Honest On The Weekend". Clash. Retrieved 30 August 2021.

[2] Downs, Chad (27 August 2021). "Becky Hill Releases First-Ever Studio Album 'Only Honest On The Weekend'". Cultr. Retrieved 27 August 2021.

[Guardian-3] Kheraj, Alim (27 August 2021). "Becky Hill: Only Honest on the Weekend review – a conveyor belt of blandness". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 August 2021.

[Telegraph-4] McCormick, Neil (26 August 2021). "Becky Hill: Only Honest on the Weekend, review: one-woman girl band with a mountain still to climb". The Telegraph. Retrieved 28 August 2021.

[ac_Netherlands_Becky_Hill-5] "Dutchcharts.nl – Becky Hill – Only Honest on the Weekend" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved 10 September 2021.

[ac_Ireland3_-6] "Official Irish Albums Chart Top 50". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 3 September 2021.

[7] "2021 39-os savaitės klausomiausi (Top 100)" (in Lithuanian). AGATA. 1 October 2021. Retrieved 1 October 2021.

[8] "Album 2021 uke 35". VG-lista. Retrieved 4 September 2021.

[ac_Scotland_-9] "Official Scottish Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 3 September 2021.

[ac_UK2_-10] "Official Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 3 September 2021.

[ac_BillboardDanceElectronic_Becky_Hill-11] "Becky Hill Chart History (Top Dance/Electronic Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved 8 September 2021.

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Discography
Studio albums	Only Honest on the Weekend
Compilation albums	Get to Know
Singles	"Gecko (Overdrive)" "All My Love" "Piece of Me" "False Alarm" "Back & Forth" "I Could Get Used to This" "Wish You Well" "Lose Control" "Only You" "Better Off Without You" "Nothing Really Matters" "Heaven on My Mind" "Space" "Forever Young" "Remember" "My Heart Goes (La Di Da)"
Featured singles	"Afterglow" "Powerless"