Always In Between

Always In Between is the second studio album by English singer Jess Glynne, released on 12 October 2018 by Atlantic Records. It debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart and in the top forty of several other countries. It was Glynne's last album with Atlantic.^[5]

Always In Between
Studio album by Jess Glynne
Released	12 October 2018 (2018-10-12)[1]
Genre	Pop[2][3] dance-pop[3] R&B[4]
Length	40:52
Label	Atlantic
Producer	Starsmith Toby Gad Louis Bell Mark Ralph Julian Bunetta Knox Brown Electric Steve Mac Jonny Coffer Bastian Langebaek Fred Gibson Cass Lowe Rudimental John Ryan Too Many Zooz KDA Jae5
Jess Glynne chronology
I Cry When I Laugh (2015) Always In Between (2018) Jess (2024)
Singles from Always in Between
"I'll Be There" Released: 4 May 2018 "All I Am" Released: 17 August 2018 "Thursday" Released: 11 October 2018

Background

Glynne announced Always In Between was to be released on 29 June 2018 along with a world tour of the same name.^[6] The album was supported by the UK number-one single "I'll Be There". It is Glynne's first studio album in three years since the release of her debut project in 2015, I Cry When I Laugh.

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	60/100[7]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[8]
The Guardian	[3]
Rolling Stone	[9]
The Times	[2]

Always In Between received mixed reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has an average score of 60 out of 100 based on 4 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews".^[7] Alexis Petridis of The Guardian gave the album two stars out of five, calling it "generic Top 40 and soul-pop finished to a high standard". While noting that the album is "influenced by classic soul, heavy on the blaring brass – not so much Amy Winehouse as her less emotionally wrenching contemporary Joss Stone – and, at the other, undemanding dance-pop topped by an immediately recognisable voice, the same idea that garnered M People vast success 20 years ago", Petridis concluded that "[y]ou can see why people relate to it, you can tell it's going to be huge: it is what pop is in 2018, but the feeling that pop can be something rather more than this is hard to shake."^[3] Will Hodgkinson of The Times gave the album the same rating, comparing tracks "No One" and "Broken" and their "teary verses and swelling choruses" to Adele but said the tracks "lack Adele's ability to evoke real feeling". He ultimately called the album "missing any real sense of character or expression."^[2] In a more positive review, Maura Johnston, writing for Rolling Stone, said "she’s once again bridging the gap between bouncy pop-EDM and feisty soul, shaking off the malaise that’s struck too many of her playlisted peers in a way that lets Glynne serve as a one-woman rooting crew for herself and, by extension, anyone in need of a peppy pick-me-up" and gave the album three and a half stars.^[10]

Commercial performance

In the United Kingdom, Always In Between debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart, selling 36,500 album-equivalent units during its first week of release, with a total of 24,820 physical sales (67% of overall units). In doing so, she scored her second UK number-one album, while also becoming the first British female artist to achieve a number-one album in the country in 2018.^[11]

Track listing

Always In Between – Standard edition

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Producer(s)	Length
1.	"Intro"	Jessica Glynne Andrew "Knox" Brown	Knox Brown	1:38
2.	"No One"	Glynne Janée Bennett Tobias Gad[12]	Toby Gad Louis Bell[b]	3:39
3.	"I'll Be There"	Glynne Jerker Hansson Finlay Dow-Smith Henrik Michelsen Edvard Erfjord Camille Purcell	Starsmith Electric Bell[a]	3:14
4.	"Thursday"	Glynne Edward Sheeran Steve McCutcheon[13]	Steve Mac	3:36
5.	"All I Am"	Glynne Bennett James Newman Sophie Cooke Bastian Langebaek Sandy Rivera Jay "Sinister" Sealee[14]	Mark Ralph	3:39
6.	"123"	Glynne Bennett Jordan Thomas Newman Jonathan Mensah[15]	Jae5 Glynne	3:10
7.	"Never Let Me Go"	Glynne Jamie Scott Julian Bunetta John Ryan II[16]	Bunetta	3:28
8.	"Broken"	Glynne Scott Jonathan Coffer[17]	Coffer	3:37
9.	"Hate/Love"	Glynne Bennett Langebaek[18]	Langebaek	4:28
10.	"Won't Say No"	Glynne Bennett Dow-Smith Clarence Coffee Jr.	Starsmith	3:05
11.	"Rollin"	Glynne Bennett Frederick Gibson[19]	Fred Starsmith	3:38
12.	"Nevermind"	Glynne Bennett Cass Lowe[20]	Lowe	3:42
Total length:				40:52

Always in Between – Japanese edition^[21]

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Producer(s)	Length
13.	"I'll Be There" (acoustic)	Glynne Hansson Dow-Smith Michelsen Erfjord Purcell	Starsmith Electric Bell[a]
14.	"All I Am" (CliQ Remix)	Glynne Bennett Newman Cooke Langebaek Rivera Sealee	Ralph CliQ

Always In Between – Deluxe edition^[22]

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Producer(s)	Length
13.	"These Days" (Rudimental featuring Jess Glynne, Macklemore and Dan Caplen)	Amir Amor Kesi Dryden Piers Aggett Leon "DJ Locksmith" Rolle Daniel Caplen Scott Bunetta Ryan II Ben Haggerty[23]	Rudimental Bunetta Ryan Ralph	3:31
14.	"So Real (Warriors)" (Too Many Zooz vs. KDA featuring Jess Glynne[24])	Leo Pellegrino Bennett Monsters & Strangerz Glynne David Parks Ivan Rosenberg Kris Di Angelis Matthew Muirhead[25]	Too Many Zooz KDA	2:51
15.	"Million Reasons"	Glynne Dow-Smith Sara Hjellstrom Nirob Islam[26]	Starsmith	3:21
16.	"Insecurities"	Glynne Bennett Gad[27]	Gad	3:17
Total length:				53:52

Always in Between – Streaming deluxe edition bonus track^[28]

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Producer(s)	Length
17.	"One Touch" (with Jax Jones)	Janee Bennett Jax Jones Glynne	Jones Mark Ralph	3:17
Total length:				57:09

Personnel

Credits from AllMusic.^[29]

• Jess Glynne – vocals
• Knox Brown – sampled vocals, keyboard, drums
• Teniola Abosede – backing vocals
• Angel Williams-Silvera – backing vocals
• Jesse Appiah – backing vocals
• Paul Burton – trombone
• Kenji Fénton – saxophone
• Mike Davis – flugelhorn
• Toby Gad – guitar, bass, piano
• Gregori Hofmann – bass

Charts

Weekly charts Weekly chart performance for Always In Between Chart (2018) Peak position Australian Albums (ARIA)[30] 18 Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[31] 58 Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[32] 34 Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[33] 182 Canadian Albums (Billboard)[34] 51 Czech Albums (ČNS IFPI)[35] 59 Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[36] 40 French Albums (SNEP)[37] 141 German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[38] 33 Hungarian Albums (MAHASZ)[39] 10 Irish Albums (OCC)[40] 4 Italian Albums (FIMI)[41] 31 Japanese Albums (Oricon)[42] 139 New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[43] 16 Scottish Albums (OCC)[44] 1 Slovak Albums (ČNS IFPI)[45] 80 Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)[46] 40 Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[47] 32 UK Albums (OCC)[48] 1 US Billboard 200[49] 109

Year-end charts Year-end chart performance for Always In Between Chart Year Position UK Albums (OCC)[50] 2018 14 Irish Albums (IRMA)[51] 2019 27 UK Albums (OCC)[52] 2019 16 UK Albums (OCC)[53] 2020 81

Certifications

Certifications for Always In Between

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada)[54]	Gold	40,000‡
United Kingdom (BPI)[55]	Platinum	300,000‡
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

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