Development (album)

{{use mdy dates|date=December 2020}} {{Infobox album | name = Development | type = studio | artist = Nonpoint | cover = Nonpoint_Development.jpg | alt = | released = June 25, 2002<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Yg8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA33|title=Singles|magazine=Billboard|date=June 29, 2002|publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc.|via=Google Books}}</ref> | recorded = October 2001 | venue = | studio = Elysian Fields<ref name="auto1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-2002-07-07-0207050432-story.html|title=Nu-Metal Screams Get a Boost in Volume|first=Sean|last=Piccoli|website=Sun-Sentinel.com|date=July 7, 2002 }}</ref> | genre = * Nu metal * alternative metal | length = 42:54 | label = MCA | producer = Jason Bieler<ref name="auto">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uIIf03bGyAAC&pg=PA225|title=New Wave of American Heavy Metal|first=Garry|last=Sharpe-Young|date=September 10, 2005|publisher=Zonda Books Limited|isbn=978-0-9582684-0-0 |via=Google Books}}</ref> | prev_title = Statement | prev_year = 2000 | next_title = Recoil | next_year = 2004 }} {{Music ratings |rev1 = AllMusic |rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name=AM>{{cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r595960|pure_url=yes}}|title=Development - Nonpoint|publisher=AllMusic}}</ref> }} '''''Development''''' is the third studio album released by American nu metal band Nonpoint.<ref name="auto1"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/nonpoint-mn0000451840/biography|title=Nonpoint | Biography & History|website=AllMusic}}</ref> It was their final album released through MCA Records.<ref name="auto"/>

The album debuted at No. 52 on the ''Billboard'' 200 album chart.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.boulderweekly.com/entertainment/music/bullet-with-a-change-for-rockers-nonpoint/|title=Bullet with a change for rockers Nonpoint|first=Alan|last=Sculley|date=January 17, 2013|website=Boulder Weekly}}</ref> The single, "Your Signs", hit No. 29 on ''Billboard''{{'s}} Active Rock chart, and No. 35 on the Mainstream Rock Airplay chart, both in early July.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/nonpoint/chart-history/art/ |title=Active Rock Chart History: Nonpoint |magazine=Billboard |access-date=June 20, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/nonpoint/chart-history/rtt/ |title=Mainstream Rock Airplay Chart History: Nonpoint |magazine=Billboard |access-date=June 20, 2021}}</ref>

==Critical reception== AllMusic wrote that the album "finds the band literally developing its own signature sound, in the process refining its scope to a much sharper point."<ref name=AM/>

==Track listing== Tracks 1–12 by Nonpoint.

{{track listing | title1 = Development | length1 = 3:27 | title2 = Circles | length2 = 3:30 | title3 = Your Signs | length3 = 3:29 | title4 = Normal Days | length4 = 4:04 | title5 = My Own Sake | length5 = 3:36 | title6 = Hands | length6 = 4:01 | title7 = Excessive Reaction | length7 = 2:51 | title8 = Mountains | length8 = 4:05 | title9 = Any Advice? | length9 = 3:29 | title10 = Hide and Seek | length10 = 3:05 | title11 = Get Inside | length11 = 2:54 | title12 = Mint | length12 = 4:24 }} {{track listing |headline = Special edition | title13 = Evil Ways | note13 = Willie Bobo cover | length13 = 2:21 }}

== Personnel == {{col-begin}} {{col-2}} ;Members *Elias Soriano - lead vocals *Robbie Rivera - drums *Ken "K. Bastard" MacMillan - bass *Andrew Goldman - guitars, backing vocals {{col-2}} ;Production *Produced by Jason Bieler & Nonpoint *Engineered by Keith Rose and Chad Milosevich *Mixed by Bob Clearmountin, at Mix This Studios, Pacific Palisades, California *Mastered by Mike Fuller *Drum tech: Tony R. Adams *A&R by Gary Ashley, Hans Haedelt & Jeanne Venton *Photo by Matt Swig {{col-end}}

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Category:Nonpoint albums Category:2002 albums Category:MCA Records albums