Believe
by Justin Bieber
  • Record Label: Island
  • Release Date: Jun 19, 2012
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5.5

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  1. sicrano
    Mar 22, 2018
    9
    Great album by the talented Justin Bieber, at the same time more pop and matured than ever.

    Some of best songs of he great career, As Long as you Love Me, Beauty And a Beat, All around the world, Be Alright.
  2. Clubsocial
    May 4, 2015
    10
    Katy Perry bursts back onto the scene with her amazing second album that is full to the grim of the tongue-in-cheek atmosphere that got herkhkkjhjghjbnnnnn
  3. rebeligado
    Aug 6, 2015
    7
    Bieber Bieber Principe do Pop arrasou quando o "Believe".

    Melhores Músicas: As Long as You Love Me, Out of Town Girl, Die In Your Arms, Be Alright e Beauty And A Beat
  4. ManilaCritic
    Jun 19, 2012
    10
    Bieber's second album does not disappoint. He showed immense growth with this album. The songs are very mature and the quality is very good aswell. This album is going to convert so many haters into fans, or even beliebers. It's a pop album with heavy influences of R&B and Hip-Hop. Best songs would be "Die In Your Arms", "Maria" & "Right Here".
  5. Sadeeedwards
    Jan 11, 2020
    9
    Believe is dedicated more to his fans, a move I appreciate from bieber. This album shows his growth from his previous album, and how his voice has matured. The album art is simple, but pops out, making it approachable. The album has 13 tracks, it's 48 minutes and 15 seconds long, aswell as 4 collabs. There are 40 co-writers, not counting features. Each song averages 4-6 co-writers. ThisBelieve is dedicated more to his fans, a move I appreciate from bieber. This album shows his growth from his previous album, and how his voice has matured. The album art is simple, but pops out, making it approachable. The album has 13 tracks, it's 48 minutes and 15 seconds long, aswell as 4 collabs. There are 40 co-writers, not counting features. Each song averages 4-6 co-writers. This album is mostly pop, however there are some edm vibes throughout. There are some fun upbeat songs, boyfriend, right here, take you, and beauty and a beat. Whilst some ballad like songs such as, fall, be alright, catching feelings and believe. The edm vibes come through all around the world, as long as you love me and beauty and a beat. These are all catchy tunes that had decent production and writing. All around the world has an edm feel, it means, well, everyone wants to be loved.
    Boyfriend is a teen pop hit, talking about how he has a crush on a girl, if he was her boyfriend he'd take care of her and never let her go. As long as you love me is another one of the edm vibe songs on the album, he talks about how his relationships are always out in the public, how his interest seems happy but isn't actually, how he'll love and take care of her no matter what society says.
    Catching feelings is a ballad type song, the meaning of it is, hes catching feelings for a girl hes been friends with. Take you is a fun pop song, hes concerned about a relationship and how he wants to make it better.
    Right here could either be about a relationship that broke between him and a girl or could be he got into a relationship with a girl who was already broken. The rest of the songs are similarly about love and relationships.

    I want to talk about believe, the song. This song is dedicated to his fans, not a lot of artists do that. He talks about how he wouldn't be where he is now without his fans. They believed in him, and look where he is now.

    Some albums simply have fillers, however I don't think there are any in this album. Justin released a few extra songs on the deluxe version, out of town girl, she don't like the lights, maria and fairytale. Which are all pretty good. She don't like the lights and out of town girl deserved to be on the regular album. This album is well produced, and well written. It's a solid album, I can go straight through without skipping. This is a superior album, I appreciate it a lot.    … Expand
  6. IgorCryBaby
    Dec 24, 2017
    7
    His first good album. I wish he'll do only better albums. I like Maria a lot
  7. Kyle_Peake
    Apr 18, 2020
    7
    Don't understand why some people want to hate on this, I didn't like Bieber's earlier stuff but this album was when he started to improve the singing ability.
  8. Amyly
    Jun 29, 2021
    8
    Nice follow of a huge teenage debut, big production, nice lyrics and vocals.
  9. Aldo66
    Mar 19, 2021
    10
    Fall and catching feelings are the best from this album..this is his best album ever!!
  10. safiaalailaa
    Mar 23, 2021
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Can’t say anything but what an amazing album this was.Justin really went all out with this one.… Expand
  11. janyisboring94
    Feb 8, 2020
    10
    álbum incrível, ele mostra um enorme crescimento o quanto a voz dele está extremamente boa nisso, orgulho de vc bieber
  12. najlepsza
    Nov 1, 2013
    7
    Our maggot handles the expectations. The album is GOOD. I really like and appreciate timbre of Justin voice. He manages catching songs, bangers and ballads. His voice is authentic, warm and calming;) I bode him a great future in music industry. For the haters bring the Justin Timberlake beginnings back and regroup your thoughts about Bieber. He has even bigger potential than JT. I hopeOur maggot handles the expectations. The album is GOOD. I really like and appreciate timbre of Justin voice. He manages catching songs, bangers and ballads. His voice is authentic, warm and calming;) I bode him a great future in music industry. For the haters bring the Justin Timberlake beginnings back and regroup your thoughts about Bieber. He has even bigger potential than JT. I hope his careers will move in the right direction.… Expand
  13. Gabi_
    Jan 28, 2020
    10
    An incredible album, "only talk about sex and girls" really man? Have you ever heard "Believe", "Be Alright", "All Around the World" or "Turn To You". This sounds to me just a hater trying to hate. So haters gonna hate hate hate!!!
  14. Jazmegan
    Mar 21, 2021
    10
    Incredible album as always! These songs are such massive hits and his voice is always perfect! Can't get enough
  15. ap5
    Mar 12, 2021
    10
    Great Album! If you're a fan of Justin Bieber's artistic style, you're definitely going to like it. And if you're searching for good music, it's a good album.
  16. Chestinbeebear
    Mar 19, 2021
    10
    If u are saying that u hate this album u r selenator or old fat man and I don't make the rules
  17. Fernanda_sr
    Apr 7, 2021
    10
    Believe is an amazing combination of love and beauty My favorite is Around the world and Maria!! Hahahah I love all the album, I mean… what can we say about JB?? He our prince of pop!
  18. purposeaoty
    Apr 6, 2021
    10
    um dos álbuns mais nostálgicos dele, todas as músicas são memoraveis e beauty and a beat é uma perfeição
  19. KarinaaLucero
    Mar 18, 2021
    10
    Otro álbum lleno de hits del señor Bieber, desde “Boyfriend” hasta colaboraciones con Nicky Minaj
  20. josebutera1989
    Jun 13, 2021
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Este álbum es increíble no entiendo como a muchos no les gusta y le ponen pésimas calificaciones sin siquiera haberlo escuchado.… Expand
  21. leenalove
    Apr 20, 2022
    10
    This is one of the best albums of all time There’s many good songs And I love it
  22. Annasalv12
    Apr 20, 2020
    10
    Justin bieber 2nd best album, not only it's very nostalgic, it also deliver different vibes, like "die in your arms" gives me Christmas and chill vibes, "boyfriend" gives me these kinda of cool vibes , "beauty and a beat" gives me uplifting vibes, and bieber's vocals were on point and the album also has good features
  23. unicornpandi
    Feb 13, 2020
    10
    Believe é um álbum que demonstra o mais puro amor e demonstração se afeto, é instigante.
  24. Stelfcleto
    Feb 13, 2020
    10
    Believe is so special for the fandom. We grow up with Justin and it's amazing
  25. Jeessicabeck
    Mar 22, 2021
    10
    With this album he proved his worth and basically made it known that he’s here to stay. A skipless album.
  26. realgamefan
    Jun 19, 2012
    10
    Believe is honestly great. Best tracks: Fall, Right Here, Maria, Take You, Boyfriend and Out Of Town Girl. It's fresh, young and pop. So what? Justin succeeded that's what.
  27. SmokyEyes
    Jun 23, 2012
    7
    Soooo
    I'll say one thing straight away: Believe is gonna sell soooo friggin' much!
    I'll start with the positive things: Justin really did evolve since the last album, his songs are more mature, he is singing about his experiences and what he went through in the past years for example in Maria he's referring to that girl that said he was the father of her son, also there are a lot of    Soooo
    I'll say one thing straight away: Believe is gonna sell soooo friggin' much!
    I'll start with the positive things:
    Justin really did evolve since the last album, his songs are more mature, he is singing about his experiences and what he went through in the past years
    for example in Maria he's referring to that girl that said he was the father of her son,
    also there are a lot of songs where he speaks about selena gomez
    BUT
    lyrically speaking he is still doing the same thing as before:
    "gril I love you I wanna be your boyfriend blablabla"
    which is a good tactic because a lot of 13 year olds will still buy his album.
    I think that there are too many love songs in this album
    but justin bieber is not the only one that did this. Take Adele for example. she made a whole album about her being dumped by her boyfriend and how much depressed she was and blablabla....
    It's well produced, he's got the talent. but his lyrics are still stopping him (well actually, they are perfectly thought for teenagers so they are gonna take the album pretty far, but I mean artistically speaking they don't add up nothing original)
    Now let's start with the bad parts
    THE MUSICAL STYLE
    3/4 of the songs on this album are Timberlake copycats
    that doesn't mean they are not good, I actually like Timberlake a lot and I liked the songs, but I think JB's next step should be finding his own unique style.
    He's pointed a lot towards electronic in this last album which I think it's AWSOME because electronic music is the future, and he can explore more this genre and maybe give this genre a new direction like David Guetta did.
    I don't like the fact that people compare him to Michael jackson or Elvis presley because these two artist invented a new genre and JB hasn't done that yet. Unless you consider "swaggie" a genre.
    THE THING THAT MAKES ME HATE THIS ALBUM THE MOST
    there are too many songs that have been literally copied!!
    Fall----> "Beautiful Soul" Jesse Mccartney
    One love-----> "Forever" Chris Brown
    Out of town girl-----> "cry me a river" Justin Timberlake
    "Maria"------> "Billie Jean" Michael Jackson
    And that's a fact! if you don't believe me go listen to them yourself
    That is a fail to my eyes, even though I like these songs a lot.

    Best 4 tracks of the album:
    1. Out of town girl
    2. Boyfriend
    3. all around the world
    4. she don't like the lights

    Oh yes, and Die In your arms would be a perfect christmas song
    and the concept of the video "Boyfriend" is taken form the video "Girlfriend" by N Sync    … Expand
  28. LanaEllithorn
    Jun 27, 2012
    10
    I cannot get over how good this album actually is. It has lived up to the hype and has many smashes such as All around the world ft. Ludacris and As long as you love me which is going to be the next single released. From dancing tunes, to rapping in 'Boyfriend' down to the emotional songs such as Fall, Beleieve - written for fans and 'Be Alright' which he sings acoustically, whilst playingI cannot get over how good this album actually is. It has lived up to the hype and has many smashes such as All around the world ft. Ludacris and As long as you love me which is going to be the next single released. From dancing tunes, to rapping in 'Boyfriend' down to the emotional songs such as Fall, Beleieve - written for fans and 'Be Alright' which he sings acoustically, whilst playing nothing but a guitar - himself can i add! He has raw talent and this album proves it. A must have album.… Expand
  29. Aleniram
    Mar 24, 2021
    10
    A pop classic. Almost 10 years since it dropped and it still sounds so fresh
  30. Kristall
    Mar 29, 2021
    10
    Precioso álbum se saco este reyyy, hermosas letras y profundo en sentimientos, un gran artista.
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 14 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 14
  3. Negative: 0 out of 14
  1. musicOMH.com
    Jul 9, 2012
    60
    A mostly harmless exercise in selling records.
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  2. Fact Magazine (UK)
    Jul 3, 2012
    70
    Believe doesn't always live up to the standards of its best cuts.
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  3. The A.V. Club
    Jun 26, 2012
    67
    Believe is most appealing when Bieber either emulates his mentor Usher-on dance-R&B tracks like "Boyfriend" (which remains one of 2012's best pop singles) or the slinky deluxe-edition track "Out Of Town Girl"-or plays to his basest, and best, pop instincts, like the aforementioned Jackson-aping "Die In Your Arms" or the Diplo-assisted head-rush "Thought Of You."
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