Fighting Demons

On November 11, 2021, Grade A Productions, in conjunction with Juice Wrld's mother, Carmela Wallace, announced the album with the release date of December 10, 2021.{{cite web|url=https://www.rap-up.com/2021/11/11/juice-wrld-posthumous-album-fighting-demons/|title=Juice WRLD's Estate Announces New Album 'Fighting Demons'|website=Rap-Up|date=November 11, 2021|access-date=December 15, 2021}} The album's lead single, "Already Dead", was released the following day, November 12, 2021,{{cite web|url=https://www.stereogum.com/2167279/juice-wrld-already-dead/music/|title=Juice WRLD – "Already Dead"|website=Stereogum|last=Breihan|first=Tom|date=November 12, 2021|access-date=December 15, 2021}} the song peaked at number 20 on the US Billboard Hot 100.{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/juice-wrld/chart-history/hsi/|title=Juice Wrld Chart History (Billboard Hot 100)|magazine=Billboard|access-date=December 15, 2021}}

The second single, "Wandered to LA", a collaboration with Canadian singer Justin Bieber, was released on December 3, 2021,{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/juice-wrld-wandered-to-la-justin-bieber-1235005456/|title=Juice WRLD Fights Demons on 'Wandered to LA' With Justin Bieber: Listen|magazine=Billboard|last=Brandle|first=Lars|date=December 3, 2021|access-date=December 10, 2021}} the song peaked at number 49 on the Billboard Hot 100.

On December 9, 2021, a tribute event titled Juice Wrld Day was held at Chicago's United Center. At the event, the album was played prior to its release as a listening party. A few special guests appeared to perform and pay respect to Juice, including Ski Mask the Slump God, Trippie Redd, 24kGoldn, and Lucki. Juice's former DJ Mike P hosted the event.{{cite web|url=https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/cole-bennett-delivers-touching-tribute-at-first-annual-juice-wrld-day-in-chicago-news.144405.html|title=Cole Bennett Delivers Touching Tribute At First Annual Juice WRLD Day In Chicago|website=HotNewHipHop|last=McCloud|first=Taylor|date=December 10, 2021|access-date=January 19, 2022}}{{cite web|url=https://www.revolt.tv/article/2021-12-15/144401/juice-wrld-day-memorable-moments/|title=Juice WRLD Day: The most memorable moments|publisher=Revolt|author=DJ First Class|date=December 15, 2021|access-date=January 19, 2022}}

The song "Girl of My Dreams" with South Korean rapper Suga was released as a promotional single on the album's release date on December 10, 2021.{{Cite web|url=https://999club.com/products/girl-of-my-dreams-with-suga-from-bts|title="Girl Of My Dreams" (with Suga from BTS) Digital Single|website=Juice WRLD | 999 CLUB|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20211211042235/https://999club.com/products/girl-of-my-dreams-with-suga-from-bts|archivedate=December 11, 2021|access-date=October 20, 2022}}

"Cigarettes" was released for digital download on February 2, 2022, as the album's third single.{{cite web|url=https://www.thefader.com/2022/02/02/listen-to-juice-wrlds-cigarettes-new-fighting-demons|title=Listen to Juice WRLD's "Cigarettes"|work=The Fader|last=Callender|first=Brandon|date=February 2, 2022|access-date=February 13, 2022}} The song peaked at number 43 on the Billboard Hot 100. The complete edition of the album was released on the same day, alongside the newly released song "Go Hard 2.0".{{cite web |last1=Callas |first1=Brad |date=February 2, 2022 |title=Juice WRLD Estate Shares New Material With 'Fighting Demons (Complete Edition)' |url=https://www.complex.com/music/juice-wrld-estate-new-material-fighting-demons-complete-edition-go-hard-2-cigarettes |website=Complex |access-date=October 31, 2022}}

The previously released singles from the two-track EP Too Soon.., "Rich and Blind" and "Legends", were later added to the album on March 18, 2022, alongside the newly released song "Sometimes".{{cite web|url=https://www.complex.com/music/juice-wrld-fighting-demons-digital-deluxe-edition-sometimes|title=Juice WRLD's 'Fighting Demons (Digital Deluxe Edition)' Adds New Song "Sometimes" and 4 Previously Released Tracks|website=Complex|last=Mahadevan|first=Tara C.|date=March 18, 2022|access-date=March 20, 2022}}

{{Music ratings

| MC = 73/100{{cite web|url=https://www.metacritic.com/music/fighting-demons/juice-wrld|title=Fighting Demons by Juice WRLD Reviews and Tracks|publisher=Metacritic|access-date=December 20, 2021}}

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1score = {{rating|3.5|5}}{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/fighting-demons-mw0003636382|title=Fighting Demons – Juice WRLD|publisher=AllMusic|last=Thomas|first=Fred|access-date=January 7, 2022}}

| rev2 = Clash

| rev2score = 5/10{{cite web|url=https://www.clashmusic.com/reviews/juice-wrld-fighting-demons|title=Juice WRLD – Fighting Demons|website=Clash|last=Murray|first=Robin|date=November 10, 2021|access-date=December 15, 2021}}

| rev3 = HipHopDX

| rev3score = 3.6/5{{cite web|url=https://hiphopdx.com/reviews/id.3812/title.juice-wrld-fighting-demons-album-review|title=Review – Juice WRLD's 'Fighting Demons' Is A Gut-Wrenching But Rewarding Listen|website=HipHopDX|last=Cummings-Grady|first=Mackenzie|date=December 13, 2021|access-date=December 15, 2021}}

| rev4 = NME

| rev4score = {{rating|4|5}}{{cite web|url=https://www.nme.com/reviews/album/juice-wrld-fighting-demons-review-3116241|title=Juice WRLD – 'Fighting Demons' review: posthumous album deepens rapper's narrative|website=NME|last=Williams|first=Kyann-Sian|date=December 10, 2021|access-date=December 10, 2021}}

| rev5 = Pitchfork

| rev5score = 6.5/10{{cite web|url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/juice-wrld-fighting-demons/|title=Juice WRLD: Fighting Demons Album Review|website=Pitchfork|last=Green|first=Dylan|date=December 20, 2021|access-date=December 20, 2021}}

| rev6 = RapReviews

| rev6score = 7/10{{cite web|url=https://www.rapreviews.com/2022/04/juice-wrld-fighting-demons/|title=Juice WRLD :: Fighting Demons|website=RapReviews|last=Juon|first=Steve "Flash"|date=April 26, 2022|access-date=May 5, 2022}}

| rev7 = Rolling Stone

| rev7score = {{rating|3.5|5}}{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/juice-wrlds-fighting-demons-1272567/|title=Juice WRLD's Second Posthumous Album Sounds like It Could've Been Recorded Yesterday|magazine=Rolling Stone|last=Dukes|first=Will|date=December 16, 2021|access-date=December 17, 2021}}

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Fighting Demons was met with generally positive reviews. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from professional publications, the album received an average score of 73, based on seven reviews.

A. D. Amorosi of Variety praised many of the guest artists on Fighting Demons, with Justin Bieber's verse on single "Wandered to LA" and Suga's verse on promotional single "Girl of My Dreams" being his two favourites. He mentioned that the album stands out over other post-mortem projects because, in comparison, there are "surprisingly (and happily) few features".{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2021/music/album-reviews/juice-wrld-fighting-demons-album-review-suga-bts-1235130781/|title=The Late Juice WRLD's 'Fighting Demons' Has Doom, Death and Duets With BTS' Suga and Justin Bieber: Album Review|website=Variety|last=Amorosi|first=A. D.|date=December 10, 2021|access-date=December 10, 2021}} Writing for NME, Kyann-Sian Williams gave the project a rating of 4/5 stars citing that Fighting Demons "shows the other side of Juice Wrld, which was never explored enough while he was alive" and that the project manages to deepen his narrative with a level of care rarely seen on posthumous releases. Reviewing the album for HipHopDX, Mackenzie Cummings-Grady stated, "Fighting Demons embodies Juice Wrld in that way: a flawed project with moments of brilliance that feels uncomfortable to listen to but isn't ashamed of its naked humanity. And in that aspect, it becomes a balancing act of the man and the artist, melding the two to create a project that's earnest and authentic – just like Juice Wrld".

Fred Thomas of AllMusic said, "Themes of struggling to overcome depression and drug dependency surface often on Fighting Demons, making it a heavier collection than the sometimes celebratory memoriam of Legends Never Die. It's not an essential piece of the Juice Wrld story, but it's also not without some solid reminders of his greatness". Rolling Stone critic Will Dukes said, "Fighting Demons, his second posthumous album is a tortured but overall grateful memento mori from a talented artist who left us all too soon". In a lukewarm review, Clash{{'}}s Robin Murray wrote, "Ultimately Fighting Demons works almost as a tribute record, gathering fragments of his undoubted genius. Whether it's a true Juice Wrld album, though, is another matter".

Fighting Demons debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200 with 119,000 album-equivalent units (including 4,000 pure album sales) in its first week. The album also accumulated a total of 155.49 million on-demand streams of the set's tracks in the week ending December 25.{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/adele-30-fourth-week-number-one-billboard-200-albums-chart-1235012627/|title=Adele's '30' Spends Fourth Week at No. 1 on Billboard 200 Albums Chart|magazine=Billboard|last=Caulfield|first=Keith|date=December 19, 2021|access-date=December 27, 2021|archive-date=December 24, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211224001248/https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/adele-30-fourth-week-number-one-billboard-200-albums-chart-1235012627/|url-status=live}}

{{Track listing

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| extra_column = Producer(s)

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| title1 = Burn

| writer1 = {{hlist|Jarad Higgins|Joël Fajerman|Leland Wayne}}

| extra1 = Metro Boomin

| length1 = 3:37

| title2 = Already Dead

| writer2 = {{hlist|Higgins|Nicholas Mira|Dorien Theus}}

| extra2 = {{hlist|Nick Mira|Sidepce}}

| length2 = 3:51

| title3 = You Wouldn't Understand

| writer3 = {{hlist|Higgins|Filip Gežin|Nils Noehden|Max Lord|Nedim Melkić}}

| extra3 = {{hlist|Gežin|Nils|Lord}}

| length3 = 2:50

| title4 = Wandered to LA

| note4 = with Justin Bieber

| writer4 = {{hlist|Higgins|Justin Bieber|Louis Bell|Bernard Harvey|Omer Fedi}}

| extra4 = {{hlist|Bell|Harv}}

| length4 = 3:08

| title5 = Eminem Speaks

| writer5 = {{hlist|Marshall Mathers|Higgins}}

| extra5 =

| length5 = 2:13

| title6 = Rockstar in His Prime

| writer6 = {{hlist|Higgins|Tyler Williams}}

| extra6 = T-Minus

| length6 = 3:00

| title7 = Doom

| writer7 = {{hlist|Higgins|David Biral|Denzel Baptiste|Blake Slatkin}}

| extra7 = Take a Daytrip

| length7 = 3:37

| title8 = Go Hard

| writer8 = {{hlist|Higgins|Keegan Bach}}

| extra8 = KBeaZy

| length8 = 2:14

| title9 = Juice Wrld Speaks

| writer9 = Higgins

| extra9 =

| length9 = 1:29

| title10 = Not Enough

| writer10 = {{hlist|Higgins|Bach|Lukasz Gottwald||Justin Craig|Pierre DeJournette|Christopher Barnett}}

| extra10 = {{hlist|KBeaZy|Dr. Luke|Jay Craig|PD}}

| length10 = 2:51

| title11 = Feline

| note11 = with Polo G and Trippie Redd

| writer11 = {{hlist|Higgins|Taurus Bartlett|Michael White II|Mira|Theus}}

| extra11 = {{hlist|Mira|Sidepce}}

| length11 = 3:32

| title12 = Relocate

| writer12 = {{hlist|Higgins|Mira}}

| extra12 = Mira

| length12 = 3:28

| title13 = Juice Wrld Speaks 2

| writer13 = {{hlist|Higgins|Masamune Kudo}}

| extra13 = Rex Kudo

| length13 = 3:10

| title14 = Until the Plug Comes Back Around

| writer14 = {{hlist|Higgins|Gežin|Lord|Andrew Migliore|Jack Cohen-Mungan}}

| extra14 = {{hlist|Gežin|Lord|No Love for the Middle Child|Audio Jacc}}

| length14 = 2:53

| title15 = From My Window

| writer15 = {{hlist|Higgins|Mira|Ryan Vojtesak}}

| extra15 = {{hlist|Mira|Charlie Handsome}}

| length15 = 3:07

| title16 = Girl of My Dreams

| note16 = with Suga of BTS

| writer16 = {{hlist|Higgins|Min Yoon-gi|Lord|Jagvir Aujla|Joshua Jaramillo|Karim El-Ziftawi}}

| extra16 = {{hlist|Jaegen|Josh J|Kookoo|Lord}}

| length16 = 3:46

| title17 = Feel Alone

| writer17 = {{hlist|Higgins|Miguel Curtidor}}

| extra17 = Danny Wolf

| length17 = 3:50

| title18 = My Life in a Nutshell

| writer18 = {{hlist|Higgins|Mira}}

| extra18 = Mira

| length18 = 3:08

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{{Track listing

| headline = Complete edition

| extra_column = Producer(s)

| total_length = 59:20

| title_width = 30%

| writing_width = 35%

| extra_width = 100%

| title8 = Go Hard 2.0

| writer8 = {{hlist|Higgins|Mira}}

| extra8 = KBeaZy

| length8 = 3:35

}}

{{Track listing

| headline = Extended edition

| extra_column = Producer(s)

| total_length = 63:07

| title_width = 30%

| writing_width = 35%

| extra_width = 100%

| title3 = Cigarettes

| writer3 = {{hlist|Higgins|Mira}}

| extra3 = Mira

| length3 = 3:47

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{{Track listing

| headline = Digital deluxe edition

| extra_column = Producer(s)

| total_length = 74:15

| title_width = 30%

| writing_width = 35%

| extra_width = 100%

| title5 = Sometimes

| writer5 = {{hlist|Higgins|Curtidor|Subhaan Rahman|Othello Houston}}

| extra5 = {{hlist|Danny Wolf|Haan|Otxhello}}

| length5 = 4:20

| title22 = Rich and Blind

| writer22 = {{hlist|Higgins|Biral|Baptiste|Russell Chell}}

| extra22 = {{hlist|Take a Daytrip|Chell}}

| length22 = 3:09

| title23 = Legends

| writer23 = {{hlist|Higgins|Biral|Baptiste|Russell Chell}}

| extra23 = {{hlist|Take a Daytrip|Chell}}

| length23 = 3:12

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• Juice Wrld – lead vocals
• Emerson Mancini – mastering (1, 4–9, 11–18)
• Colin Leonard – mastering (2, 3)
• Dale Becker – mastering (10)
• Ethan Stevens – mixing (1)
• Manny Marroquin – mixing (2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11–13, 15–18)
• Max Lord – mixing (3, 6, 8, 14), recording (1, 7, 8, 11, 12, 14–18)
• Serban – mixing (10)
• Joey Galvan – recording (2)
• Louis Bell – recording (4), vocal editing (4), vocal production (4)
• Austin Patton – recording (5, 9)
• Patrick Ehrenblad-Plummer – recording (6)
• Fili Filizzola – recording (10)
• Logan Haynes – recording (13)
• Viko Marley – recording arrangement (11)
• Chris Galland – mastering assistance (1), mixing assistance (2)
• Robin Florent – mastering assistance (1), mixing assistance (2)
• Zach Pereyra – mastering assistance (1), mixing assistance (2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11–13, 15–18)
• Anthony Vilchis – mixing assistance (4, 5, 7, 9, 11–13, 15–18)
• Evan Jordan – recording assistance (16)
• James Kang – recording assistance (16)
• Carmella Wallace – additional vocals (12)

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{{Certification Table Top|caption=Certifications for Fighting Demons}}

{{Certification Table Entry|region=Denmark|artist=Juice Wrld|title=Fighting Demons|award=Gold|type=album|relyear=2022|certyear=2024|id=14341|access-date=September 4, 2024}}

{{Certification Table Entry|region=New Zealand|artist=Juice Wrld|title=Fighting Demons|award=Gold|type=album|relyear=2022|certyear=2024|source=radioscope|access-date=December 23, 2024}}

{{Certification Table Entry|region=Poland|artist=Juice Wrld|title=Fighting Demons|award=Gold|type=album|relyear=2022|certyear=2024|access-date=November 3, 2024}}

{{Certification Table Entry|region=United Kingdom|artist=Juice Wrld|title=Fighting Demons|award=Gold|type=album|relyear=2022|certyear=2023|id=18281-4719-2|access-date=September 25, 2023}}

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