2022 single by Silk Sonic, Thundercat and Bootsy Collins
"After Last Night" is a song by American superduo Silk Sonic, which consists of Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak, with Thundercat and Bootsy Collins, from their debut studio album, An Evening with Silk Sonic (2021). The song was written by Mars, .Paak, Thundercat, Dernst "D'Mile" Emile II, James Fauntleroy, Jonathan Yip, Ray Romulus, Jeremy Reeves, and Ray Charles McCollough II. The production was handled by Mars, D'Mile, Yip, Romulus, Reeves, and McCollough II, with the latter four credited as the Stereotypes. It was released to urban adult contemporary radio as the fifth single from the album in the United States on July 5, 2022, by Atlantic Records. The song is a funk, neo soul and R&B ballad about a man who was a player, changing his behavior for a woman with whom he is in love.
"After Last Night" received positive reviews from most music critics, who noted the sexiness and praised its composition. The song reached number 68 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number 17 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart in 2021. In the following year, upon its single release, the song reached the top spot of the Billboard Adult R&B Songs chart; this led An Evening with Silk Sonic to become the second album with four number-one singles on the chart, tying with Toni Braxton's self-titled studio album (1993). Mars and .Paak also sang it during the concert residency, An Evening with Silk Sonic at Park MGM (2022).[1]