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Poo Bear Presents Bearthday Music

2018 album by Poo Bear

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ55390659 ↗
Source-derived summary

Poo Bear Presents Bearthday Music, also titled Bearthday Music, is the debut studio album by American record producer Poo Bear. Featuring collaborators such as Justin Bieber, Zara Larsson, Jennifer Lopez and Anitta, it was released on April 27, 2018.

Consisting of 15 songs, the album includes the lead single "Hard 2 Face Reality" which is a collaboration with pop singer Justin Bieber and hip hop artist Jay Electronica. "Will I See You" featuring Anitta was previously released as the bilingual first single in September 2017. The album's pre-sale began on April 6, 2018.

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Credits adapted from Tidal.

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The public source identifies “Poo Bear Presents Bearthday Music” as 2018 album by Poo Bear. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Bear, Presents and Bearthday.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2018, 2017—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2018. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Bear, Presents and Bearthday providing the first useful test.
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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q55390659. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2018 and 2017.

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This entry incorporates text from “Poo Bear Presents Bearthday Music” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.