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I Told You was supported by two singles: "Say It" and "Luv". Despite commercial success, the album received generally mixed reviews from music critics. It debuted at number four on the US Billboard 200 chart, earning 52,000 album-equivalent units in its first week.[1]
In an interview with HotNewHipHop, Lanez spoke on the album: "I was tryna come up with a title for mad long and that what was kind of slowing me down cause I didn't want to make music off the wrong title... I might fuck around and not put no features on it. It has to have features that I can put on it and then there's those days where I'm like 'you know, I don't really need any features on it'. I prefer albums in the 10-12 [track list range], you know that 18 be too long sometime because sometimes I wanna listen to an album from top to front and 18 songs is like 70 minutes of music. That's too much for me to comprehend and understand and I really want people to look at the musicalities of what we're putting out as far as the product and how good it is."[2]
On April 1, 2016, the singer and fellow American rapper ASAP Ferg announced that they will be performing in "The Level Up Tour", setting up the two to perform in a special joint set, trading off between their own tracks and collaborations.[7] On June 10, 2016, Lanez revealed the title to the album and tweeted, "The Album is coming this summer".[8]
On July 15, 2015, Lanez released the first single from the album, called "Say It".[10] The song was produced by Pop Wansel and Toro. The music video was released on August 11, 2015.[11] The song peaked at number 23 on the US Billboard Hot 100, and number 10 on the US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs charts. On July 29, 2016, Lanez released the second single from the album, called "Luv" on iTunes.[12] The song was produced by Cashmere Cat and Benny Blanco. The song peaked at number 19 on the US Billboard Hot 100, and number 9 on the US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs charts.
In a positive review, online publication HotNewHipHop, who collectively rated the album an 80, described the album as an "ambitious and lavish" project that showed that Lanez's future seemed "only brighter from here".[16] Kevin Ritchie of Now was also positive towards the project, saying that the album made "a convincing case for Lanez's pop appeal".[17]
I Told You debuted at number four on the US Billboard 200 chart, earning 52,000 album-equivalent units (including 32,000 copies as pure album sales) in its first week.[1] This became Tory Lanez's first US top-ten debut on the chart.[1] The album also debuted at number two on the US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.[1] In its second week, the album dropped to number 16 on the chart, earning an additional 21,000 units.[20] As of March 2018, the album has earned 538,000 album-equivalent units and 95,000 copies in pure album sales in the US, according to Nielsen Music.[21] On March 16, 2021, the album was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for combined sales and album-equivalenut units of over 500,000 units in the United States.[22]
