2018 studio album by Benny Blanco
Friends Keep Secrets Released December 7, 2018 (2018-12-07 ) Genre Pop , hip-hop Length 21 :43 Label Producer
Friends Keep Secrets (2018)
Friends Keep Secrets 2 (2021)
Friends Keep Secrets (stylized in all caps ) is the debut studio album by American record producer Benny Blanco , released on December 7, 2018.[1] It shares its name with Blanco's imprint of Interscope Records ,[2] which it was released through.[1] It was preceded by four singles: "Eastside ", "I Found You ", "Better to Lie ", and "Roses ". A reissue of the album was released on March 26, 2021. It features guest appearances by Halsey , Khalid , Juice Wrld , Brendon Urie , Jesse , Swae Lee , Ty Dolla Sign , 6lack , Ryan Beatty , Justin Bieber , 6 Dogs , Gracie Abrams , Vance Joy and Omar Apollo .
Personnel
Credits adapted from Tidal .[4]
Musicians
Benny Blanco – keyboards (1–3, 6, 7) , programming (1–3, 5–7) , guitar (5)
Happy Perez – guitar (1, 3, 5, 6) , keyboards (2, 5) , programming (1-3, 5–7)
Andrew Watt – guitar, programming (1)
Cashmere Cat – keyboards, programming (1–3, 5–7)
Khalid – vocals (1)
Halsey – vocals (1)
Brendon Urie – vocals (2)
Juice Wrld – vocals (2)
Francis and the Lights – vocals (3)
Justin Vernon – vocals (3)
Calvin Harris – vocals (4)
John Ryan – background vocals (5)
Ammar Malik – guitar (5)
Jesse – vocals (5) , additional vocals (6)
Swae Lee – vocals (5)
Ryan Beatty – additional vocals (6) , vocals (7)
Romy – guitar (6)
6lack – vocals (6)
Ty Dolla Sign – vocals (6)
Sandra Levin – additional vocals (7)
Poor Riley – guitar (7)
Phil Peterson – strings (7)
Victoria Parker – violin (7)
Technical
Şerban Ghenea – mixer (1, 5)
Benny Blanco – mixer (2, 3, 6, 7) , engineer (1–3, 6, 7) , mix engineer (2, 3)
Calvin Harris – mixer, engineer (4)
David Schwerkolt – engineer (1, 2)
Chris Sclafani – engineer (1)
Denis Kosiak – engineer (1)
Chris Messina – engineer (3)
Justin Vernon – engineer (3)
John Ryan – engineer (5)
Happy Perez – engineer (6, 7)
James Royo – engineer (6)
6lack – engineer (6)
John Hanes – mix engineer (7) , assistant mixer (1)
Louis Bell – vocal editing (1)
Alex Layne – assistant recording engineer (2)
Jeremy Simoneaux – assistant recording engineer (6)