Found Heaven is the third studio album by the American singer-songwriter Conan Gray, released by Republic Records on April 5, 2024. The album was preceded by the singles "Never Ending Song", "Winner", "Killing Me", "Lonely Dancers", and "Alley Rose". To support Found Heaven, Gray embarked on his fifth headlining concert tour, Found Heaven On Tour in July 2024.
Background and release Gray released his second studio album, Superache, in June 2022. In May 2023, Gray began teasing new music. On May 19, he released the album's lead single, "Never Ending Song". The second single, "Winner" was released on August 25. "Killing Me" was released as the third single on October 31. Gray announced Found Heaven on January 31, 2024, and released the fourth single "Lonely Dancers" on February 9. Shortly afterwards, Gray announced an international tour to support the album and, on March 8, released "Alley Rose" as the fifth single. He released music videos for the songs "Never Ending Song" and "Lonely Dancers". There are no music videos for the other songs, except for their lyric videos.
On Found Heaven, Gray worked with producers Max Martin, Greg Kurstin, and Shawn Everett, among others. This is his first studio album without the involvement of Dan Nigrowho produced Gray's first two albums Kid Krow and Superachewhich Gray stated was because Nigro had been working on Olivia Rodrigo's 2023 album Guts.
Critical reception
Found Heaven received generally positive reviews from music critics. Critics praised the album for its upbeat atmosphere, shift in lyricism, '80s aesthetics, and Gray's vocal performance. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has an average score of 76 based on five reviews.
Found Heaven has been described as a pop, synth-pop, dance-pop, new wave, and electro album.
Commercial performance Found Heaven debuted at number fourteen on the US Billboard 200, with 36,857 album-equivalent units, Additionally, 16,000 of those sales were sold on vinyl alone, marking his third consecutive top ten on the Vinyl Albums chart as well, and his first number one album.
The album also debuted at number four on the UK Albums Chart, making it his second top-ten entry and his highest peaking one thus far.
Track listing
Personnel Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes and Universal Music Group.
Musicians
Conan Gray – vocals (all tracks), background vocals (tracks 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 10–12) Omar Hakim – drums (tracks 1, 10) Pino Palladino – bass (tracks 1, 10) Michael Landau – guitar (tracks 1, 10) Shawn Everett – keyboards (tracks 1, 10) Money Mark – keyboards (tracks 1, 10) Max Martin – background vocals, guitar, keyboards, programming (2–4, 6, 7, 11, 12); bass, drums (2–4, 6, 7, 11); bass programming, drum programming, piano (12) Ilya Salmanzadeh – programming (tracks 2, 4, 6), background vocals (2, 4); bass, drums, keyboards (2) Luka Kloser – background vocals (tracks 2, 8); bass, drums, keyboards, programming (8) Lennon Kloser – guitar (track 2) Doris Sandberg – background vocals (track 2) Oscar Holter – bass, drums, keyboards, programming (tracks 3, 4, 6, 7, 11, 12); guitar (3, 6, 7, 11) Greg Kurstin – bass, drums, electric guitar, keyboards, Mellotron, percussion, piano, synthesizer (5, 9, 13); strings (13) Davide Rossi – string arrangement, cello, strings, viola, violin (track 5) Tove Burman – background vocals (tracks 8, 11) Elvira Anderfjärd – background vocals (tracks 8, 11) Fat Max Gsus – background vocals, bass, drums, keyboards, programming (track 8) Mattias Larsson – bass (track 12)
Technical and visuals
Shawn Everett – recording (track 1), mixing (1, 10) Sam Holland – recording (tracks 2–4, 6) Jeremy Lertola – recording (tracks 2–4, 6) Max Martin – recording (tracks 3, 4, 6, 13) Oscar Holter – recording (tracks 3, 4, 6, 13) Michael Ilbert – recording (tracks 3, 4, 6, 13) Greg Kurstin – recording (tracks 5, 9, 13) Julian Burg – recording (tracks 5, 9, 13) Matt Tuggle – recording (tracks 5, 9, 13) Max Grahn – recording (track 8) Luka Kloser – recording (track 8) Ian Schick – recording (track 8) Amir Yaghmai – recording (track 10) Ian Gold – engineering assistance, mixing assistance (1, 10) Nick Hodges – engineering assistance (tracks 1, 10) Ivan Wayman – engineering assistance (tracks 1, 10) Serban Ghenea – mixing (tracks 2–4, 6–8, 11, 12) Mark "Spike" Stent – mixing (tracks 5, 9, 13) Bryce Bordone – mix engineering (tracks 2, 4, 7, 8, 11), mixing assistance (12) Randy Merrill – mastering Conan Gray – creative direction Elizaveta Porodina – photography Drew Gleason – art direction Emily Woodfield – art direction
Charts + Chart performance for Found Heaven Chart (2024) Peakposition Australian Albums (ARIA) 10 Croatian International Albums (HDU) 16 New Zealand Albums (RMNZ) 33
Chart (2026) Peakposition Greek Albums (IFPI) 99
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