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| Released | September 6, 2024 | |||
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| Length | 34:59 | |||
| Label | 11:11 Media | |||
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Infinite Icon is the second studio album by American media personality and singer Paris Hilton. It was released on September 6, 2024, through her production company 11:11 Media, in partnership with ADA.[1][2][3][4] Sia served as one of the album's executive producers.[5][6] Released 18 years after her debut album, Paris (2006), Infinite Icon is an electro-infused dance-pop record.[7][8]
Following the release of her debut album, Hilton had occasionally expressed an interest in recording a second album.[9][10][11] She instead released a series of standalone singles through Cash Money Records and her own Heiress Records, a sub-label of Warner Bros. Records, and was featured in a number of other artists' songs.[12]
After performing a rendition of "Stars Are Blind" with Sia and Miley Cyrus on NBC's Miley’s New Year's Eve Party special in December 2022, Sia encouraged Hilton to record a pop album and suggested having sessions at her house.[8] Hilton remarked that the singer "literally brought out something in me that I didn't even know I had. Before I was more in the baby voice and being very breathy and kind of like, Marilyn [Monroe] vibes. And then with this album, I just felt like a woman."[8] Part of the project was recorded at Sia and Hilton's home studios in Los Angeles.[8]
In an interview by Pride.com, Hilton said the album is "just for [the gays]".[13] She worked with producer Benny Blanco and considered songs shared with her by Miley Cyrus and Meghan Trainor.[14][15]
Infinite Icon incorporates different types of house music with pop music in each of its first three singles. The lead single, "I'm Free" incorporates French house with synth-pop and nu-disco, "Chasin'" blends tropical house with pop music, and "BBA" is an electroclash song that infuses big room with dance-pop. Other songs include "Without Love", which is a dance track with electronic pop beats similar to hyperpop and also incorporates house music elements.[16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23]
Lyrically, Infinite Icon is primarily influenced by Hilton's longtime love of dance music and career as a disc jockey. She stated that performing "all around the world at music festivals, for thousands of people and being on stage and just really paying attention to what makes people move and how to create those unforgettable dancefloor moments —I wanted to bring that same energy into the album."[8] The album also contains songs that traverse more nuanced topics such as her ADHD diagnosis, negative relationship experiences, the emptiness of fame, and her marriage and family life.[8]
On June 13, 2024, Hilton announced "I'm Free" as the album's first single, featuring Japanese-English singer Rina Sawayama, via Instagram,[24] showing a conversation between the singers.[25] The song was released on June 21.[26] It was followed by two more singles —"Chasin'" (featuring Meghan Trainor) and "BBA" (featuring Megan Thee Stallion)— released on July 26 and September 6, respectively.
On July 26, 2024, 11:11 Media displayed a number of billboards across Los Angeles, in support of "Chasin'", in which Hilton instructs people to dial a hotline over relationship issues.[27] On September 6, PacSun, in collaboration with 11:11 Media, released a limited-edition merchandise collection promoting Infinite Icon.[28] From October 4 to November 1, Hilton Hotels debuted two Infinite Icon-inspired suites, custom-curated by Hilton, at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles.[29]
Hilton mentioned that she was recording an album produced by Sia on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in October 2023,[30] and officially announced its title and release date in May 2024.[31]
Hilton performed "I'm Free" live in a pride party hosted by clothing company Alice + Olivia on June 13, 2024.[32] Nylon magazine unveiled her as the star of its September 2024 cover and hosted a release party for the album on September 5 that featured a live performance by her.[33] A360media released a bespoke magazine titled Pop Icon, focusing on Hilton and the album, on September 20.[34] She made an appearance during Meghan Trainor's The Timeless Tour at Madison Square Garden on September 25, where they performed "Chasin'" and "Stars Are Blind". She headlined a concert at the Hollywood Palladium on October 24.[35]
Infinite Icon: The Remixes, an eighteen-track remixed version of the album, was released on May 30, 2025.[36]
A concert film revolving around the making of Infinite Icon is set for a 2026 global release. It is produced by 11:11 Media, in partnership with CJ 4DPlex.[37]
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| AllMusic |   [38] |
| Sputnikmusic | 2.3/5[39] |
| The Post | 3/5[40] |
Infinite Icon received mixed reviews from critics. AllMusic's Matt Collar was positive, comparing its sound to Britney Spears and writing that "Infinite Icon builds nicely upon its predecessor, once again revealing Hilton to be a savvy spokesperson for her own stylishly campy brand and a pretty good singer to boot. […] At turns silly and heartfelt, Infinite Icon is both a return to form for Hilton and a sly deconstruction of her image.[41] While Brooke Phillips of The Post felt the album's material is "quite cheesy or out of the norm", she likened it to works of Carly Rae Jepsen and Dua Lipa, opining that it "shows a mature, demure version of Paris Hilton; however, she is not afraid to let the listener know she is still the "It Girl [sic]" we have always known."[42]
Benjamin Jack of Sputnikmusic criticized Infinite Icon, believing it to be unmemorable and "parrots every major mainstream trend it can with far too much confidence, and still manages to feel completely irrelevant."[43] Washington Square News' Ellie Miller called the album "not hot" and, while believing a musical comeback for Hilton was possible, believed it "toes the line between being a passable pop album and another tired celebrity trying to appeal to a younger generation with repetitive lyrics and dull messages."[44]
In the United States, Infinite Icon debuted at number 38 on the US Billboard 200 and number 7 on the Independent Albums charts with 18,000 album-equivalent units sold.[45] In the United Kingdom, it reached number 34 on the Independent Albums Chart.[46]
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| 1. | "Welcome Back" | Shatkin | 2:15 | |
| 2. | "I'm Free" (with Rina Sawayama) |
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| 3. | "Chasin'" (featuring Meghan Trainor) |
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| 4. | "BBA" (featuring Megan Thee Stallion) |
| 2:55 | |
| 5. | "Fame Won't Love You" (with Sia) |
| Kurstin | 3:19 |
| 6. | "ADHD" |
| Shatkin | 3:23 |
| 7. | "Legacy" |
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| 8. | "Stay Young" |
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| 9. | "Infinity" |
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| 10. | "If the Earth Is Spinning" (featuring Sia) |
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| 11. | "Without Love" (featuring María Becerra) |
| Shatkin | 2:46 |
| 12. | "Adored" | Shatkin | 2:19 | |
| Total length: | 34:59 | |||
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| UK Album Downloads (Official Charts)[47] | 33 |
| UK Independent Albums (Official Charts)[48] | 34 |
| US Billboard 200[49] | 38 |
| US Independent Albums (Billboard)[50] | 7 |
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Infinite Icon is the second studio album by American media personality and singer Paris Hilton. It was released on September 6, 2024, through her production company 11:11 Media, in partnership with ADA. Sia served as one of the album's executive producers. Released 18 years after her debut album, Paris (2006), Infinite Icon is an electro-infused dance-pop record.
Paris Whitney Hilton (born February 17, 1981) is an American socialite, media personality, entertainer, and businesswoman. Born in New York City, she is a great-granddaughter of Hilton Hotels founder Conrad Hilton. She first attracted tabloid attention in the late 1990s for her presence in New York City's social scene, ventured into fashion modeling in 2000, and was proclaimed "New York's leading It Girl" in 2001. The reality television series The Simple Life (2003–2007), in which she co-starred with her friend Nicole Richie, and a leaked 2003 sex tape with her then-boyfriend Rick Salomon, later released as 1 Night in Paris (2004), catapulted her to global fame. Hilton's career in entertainment has encompassed acting, modeling, singing, writing, producing, deejaying, and podcasting. Her documentary and reality television credits include Paris, Not France (2008), Paris Hilton's My New BFF (2008–2009), The World According to Paris (2011), Hollywood Love Story (2018), The American Meme (2018), This Is Paris (2020), Cooking with Paris (2021), Paris in Love (2021–2023), and Infinite Icon: A Visual Memoir (2026). Under her company, 11:11 Media, she has launched a variety of content, products, and services. Her perfume line alone has brought in over US$2.5 billion in revenue, as of 2020. A polarizing and ubiquitous public figure, Hilton is said to have influenced the revival of the "famous for being famous" phenomenon throughout the 2000s. Critics indeed suggest that she exemplifies the celebutante—a household name through inherited wealth and lavish lifestyle. Forbes included her in its Celebrity 100 in 2004, 2005, and 2006, and ranked her as the most "overexposed" celebrity in 2006 and 2008.
American media personality Paris Hilton has released two studio albums, one remix album, 19 singles (including six as a featured artist), and three promotional singles. After founding Heiress Records, a sub-label of Warner Bros. Records, Hilton released her self-titled debut album under the label on August 22, 2006. It peaked at number six on the Billboard 200, selling 77,000 copies in its first week of release. In the United States, the album had sold 198,000 copies, as of 2013. Paris also peaked within the top 20 on the album charts in New Zealand, Germany, Austria, Finland, Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland, and Canada, where it reached number four. Its lead single, "Stars Are Blind", was a critical and commercial success; it peaked at number 18 on the Billboard Hot 100, and reached number one in Hungary, Scotland, and Slovakia, as well as the top 10 in a number of European countries. Under Cash Money Records, Hilton released a line of standalone singles. These included "Good Time" (2013), featuring Lil Wayne, and "High Off My Love" (2015), featuring Birdman, which reached the top 20 and top 5 on the Billboard Dance/Electronic Songs and Hot Dance Club Songs charts, respectively. She has also been a featured artist in Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike's "B.F.A. (Best Friend's Ass)" (2019), Nervo's "Pickle" (2021), Steve Aoki's "Lighter" (2023), and Sia's "Fame Won't Love You" (2024). Hilton's second studio album, Infinite Icon, was released on September 6, 2024, through 11:11 Media. It reached the top 40 on the US Billboard 200 and the UK Independent Albums Chart.
"Fame Won't Love You" is a song by Australian singer-songwriter Sia featuring American media personality and singer Paris Hilton. It was released on 19 April 2024 by Atlantic Records as the fourth single from Sia's tenth studio album, Reasonable Woman. It is also included on Hilton's second studio album, Infinite Icon (2024).
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