Man on the Moon III: The Chosen

Man on the Moon III: The Chosen
Studio album by Kid Cudi
Released	December 11, 2020 (2020-12-11)
Recorded	2020
Studio	EastWest, Los Angeles, California
Genre	Hip hop cloud rap[1] psychedelia[1] pop rap[2] trap[1][2]
Length	58:24
Label	Wicked Awesome Republic
Producer	18YOMAN Aaron Bow Anthony Kilhoffer Charlie Handsome Dennis Cummings Dot da Genius DST the Danger E*vax Emile Haynie Finneas FnZ Gravez J Gramm Kid Cudi Mike Dean Nosaj Thing Plain Pat Ramii Take a Daytrip Teddy Walton William Sullivan WondaGurl
Kid Cudi chronology
Kids See Ghosts (2018) Man on the Moon III: The Chosen (2020) The Boy Who Flew to the Moon, Vol. 1 (2022)

Man on the Moon III: The Chosen is the seventh studio album by American musician Kid Cudi, released on December 11, 2020 by Wicked Awesome Records and Republic Records. It is the final installment of Cudi's Man on the Moon trilogy of albums (which includes 2009's Man on the Moon: The End of Day and 2010's Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager).

The 18-track album was produced mainly by Cudi himself and Dot da Genius, along with Plain Pat, Emile Haynie and Mike Dean, all of whom contributed to the previous two Man on the Moon albums. Guest vocals on the album are contributed by Phoebe Bridgers, Pop Smoke, Skepta and Trippie Redd.

Thematically, Man on the Moon III is a concept album that finds Cudi in an internal struggle against his evil alter ego, Mr. Rager, in hopes to win back his peace and happiness. As with the previous two installments in the trilogy, the album is divided into separate acts.

Man on the Moon III: The Chosen received mostly positive reviews from music critics, who praised Cudi's songwriting and generally favored the latter two acts, though some found it derivative of Cudi's earlier albums. It debuted at number two on the Billboard 200, earning 144,000 album-equivalent units of which 15,000 were pure sales, marking Cudi's fifth top 10 album in the US.