Care Package (album)

Care Package follows the re-release of Drake's mixtape So Far Gone onto streaming services in February 2019. On August 1, 2019, Drake announced the release of Care Package via Instagram. The release of Care Package coincided with the start of Drake's ninth annual OVO Fest in Toronto.^[4]

The songs on Care Package were released as promotional material for several albums throughout the years. The earliest tracks, "I Get Lonely" and "Paris Morton Music", were released in 2010 after the release of Drake's debut album Thank Me Later.^[5][6][7] "Dreams Money Can Buy", "Trust Issues", "Club Paradise" and "Free Spirit" were released in 2011 before the release of Drake's second studio album, Take Care.^[8][9][10] The songs "5AM in Toronto", "Girls Love Beyoncé" and "Jodeci Freestyle" were released in 2013 before the release of Drake's third studio album, Nothing Was the Same.^[11][12] "The Motion" was included as a bonus track on the Best Buy exclusive physical deluxe edition and international edition for Nothing Was the Same.

"Draft Day" and "Days in the East" were released via October Very Own's SoundCloud in April 2014.^[13] "Heat of the Moment" was leaked online alongside "How About Now" and "6 God" in 2014.^[14] "How About Now" and "My Side" were included as bonus tracks on the physical edition to the mixtape If You're Reading This It's Too Late. "Can I" featuring vocals by Beyoncé was leaked online in 2015.^[15] "4PM in Calabasas" was premiered on OVO Sound Radio in June 2016, and is the latest track recorded on the album.^[16]

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	77/100[17]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[18]
The Edge	[19]
Highsnobiety	4.5/5[20]
The Independent	[21]
Pitchfork	8.1/10[22]
Rolling Stone	[23]

Care Package received positive reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 77, based on 5 reviews.^[17] Roisin O'Connor of The Independent noted the difference in lyrical content from the compiled songs and Drake's contemporary releases, as well as "a darker, moodier vibe running across the record in contrast to the scattered eclecticism of 2018's Scorpion."^[21]

Care Package debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 with 109,000 album-equivalent units, of which 16,000 were album sales. This gave Drake his ninth US number-one album.^[24] It was displaced by Slipknot's We Are Not Your Kind one week later.^[25] The album also debuted at number one on the Canadian Albums Chart, earning 10,000 album-equivalent units and becoming Drake's ninth Canadian number-one album.^[26]

Credits adapted from Tidal and YouTube Music.^[27][28]

Notes

• There is a remix of "Draft Day" featuring vocals from Sky Blu of LMFAO.
• ^{^[a]} signifies a co-producer
• "The Motion" features background vocals by Sampha
• "4PM in Calabasas" features uncredited vocals by Frank Dukes.^[29]
• "Club Paradise" contains background vocals from Abel Makkonen Tesfaye
• "Heat of the Moment" features uncredited vocals by PartyNextDoor^[30]
• "Girls Love Beyoncé" features background vocals by Wade O. Brown
• "Can I" features additional vocals by Beyoncé

Samples

• "Dreams Money Can Buy" contains a sample of "BTSTU (Demo)", written and performed by Jai Paul.^[31]
• "How Bout Now" contains a sample of "My Heart Belongs to U", written by Donald DeGrate, and Cedric Hailey, as performed by Jodeci.^[32]
• "Trust Issues" contains an interpolation of "I'm on One", written by Aubrey Graham, Noah Shebib, Tyler Williams, Dwayne Carter, Khaled Khaled, William Roberts and Nikhil Seetharam, as performed by DJ Khaled.^[33]
• "Days in the East" contains a sample of "Stay", written by Mikky Ekko, Justin Parker and Elof Loelv, as performed by Rihanna.^[34]
• "Draft Day" contains a sample of "Doo Wop (That Thing)", written and performed by Lauryn Hill.^[35]
• "4PM in Calabasas" contains a sample of "You're a Customer", as performed by EPMD, and an interpolation of "Can't Nobody Hold Me Down", written by Clifton Chase, Edward Fletcher, Melvin Glover, Greg Prestopino, Sylvia Robinson and Matthew Wilder, as performed by Puff Daddy.^[36]
• "5AM in Toronto" contains a sample of "Ode to Billie Joe", written by Bobbie Gentry, as performed by Lou Donaldson.
• "I Get Lonely" is a cover of the song "FanMail", written by Dallas Austin, as performed by TLC.^[30]
• "Jodeci Freestyle" contains a sample of "4 U", written by Donald DeGrate, as performed by Jodeci.
• "Free Spirit" contains a sample of "I Will Be Your Friend", written by Stuart Matthewman and Sade Adu, as performed by Sade.^[37]
• "Heat of the Moment" contains a sample of "Phone Sex (That's What's Up)", written by Myron Avant and Stephen Huff, as performed by Avant.^[38]
• "Girls Love Beyoncé" contains a sample of "Say My Name", written by LaShawn Daniels, Fred Jerkins III, Rodney Jerkins, Beyoncé Knowles, LeToya Luckett, LaTavia Roberson and Kelly Rowland, as performed by Destiny's Child.
• "Paris Morton Music" contains a sample of "Aston Martin Music", written by Aubrey Graham, Kevin Crowe, Erik Oritz, Chrisette Payne and William Roberts, as performed by Rick Ross.^[39]

Credits adapted from Tidal.^[27]