- Kanye West – executive producer, primary artist (All Tracks), producer (All Tracks except 13)
- Lil Wayne - featured artist (Track 7)
- Mos Def – featured artist (Track 8), backing vocals (8, 11)
- T-Pain – featured artist (Track 5)
- Dwele – featured artist (Track 9)
- DJ Premier – featured artist (Track 10)
- Jay-Z – featured artist, additional rap vocals (Track 1)
- Chris Martin – featured artist, additional vocals (sung by) (Track 12)
- Connie Mitchell – featured artist, additional vocals (Tracks 1-2, 6, 9)
- Tanya Herron – featured artist, additional vocals (Track 8)
- John Legend – featured artist, backing vocals (Tracks 5, 11)
- Ne-Yo – featured artist, backing vocals (Track 5)
- Jalil Williams – featured artist, additional backing vocals (Track 11)
- Jehireh Williams – featured artist, additional backing vocals (Track 11)
- Daphne Chen – violin (Tracks 5, 8)
- Eric Gorfain – violin (Tracks 5, 8)
- Luigi Mazzocchi – violin (Tracks 4, 9)
- Charles Parker – violin (Tracks 4, 9)
- Igor Szwec – violin (Tracks 4, 9)
- Emma Kummrow – violin (Tracks 4, 9)
- Olga Konopelsky – violin (Tracks 4, 9)
- Gloria Justen – violin (Tracks 4, 9)
- Peter Nocella – viola (Tracks 4, 9)
- Leah Katz – viola (Tracks 5, 8)
- Alexandra Leem – viola (Tracks 4, 9)
- Alma Fernandez – viola (Track 5)
- Mike Dean – keyboards (Track 3, 7), music arranger (3), string arrangements (5, 8), recording engineer (3), guitar (3), mixing (5-8, 10, 12), producer (3, 5)
- Jon Brion – keyboards (Track 4), percussion (12), record producer (8)
- Darryl Beaton – keyboards (Track 6)
- Andy Chatterly – keyboards (Tracks 1, 3, 8, 11)
- Chris Rob – keyboards (Track 6)
- Richard Dodd – cello (Tracks 5, 8)
- John Krovoza – cello (Track 5)
- Jennie Lorenzo – cello (Tracks 4, 9)
- Tim Resler – bass (Tracks 4, 9)
- Omar Edwards – piano (Tracks 4-5, 10), keyboards (3, 11) synthesizer (4-5, 8), synthesizer bass (8).
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- Nottz Raw –producer (Track 7), recording engineer (Track 7)
- Tony Rey – recording engineer (Track 6)
- Seiji Sekine – recording engineer (Track 3)
- Greg Koller – recording engineer (Tracks 4, 8, 12)
- Bruce Buechner – recording engineer (Track 12)
- Andrew Dawson – recording engineer (All Tracks), mixing (Tracks 2, 4-6, 9, 12-13)
- Anthony Kilhoffer – recording engineer (Tracks 1-6, 9-12), mixing (1, 11)
- Anthony Palazzole – assistant recording engineer (Track 2, 5-10, 12)
- Andy Marcinkowski – assistant recording engineer (Tracks 2, 5-10, 12-13)
- Richard Reitz – assistant recording engineer (Tracks 3, 6)
- Jared Robbins – assistant recording engineer (Track 3)
- Kengo Sakura – assistant recording engineer (Track 3)
- Bram Tobey – assistant recording engineer (Tracks 1-6, 8, 10-11)
- Matty Green – assistant recording engineer (Tracks 1, 9, 11-12)
- Nate Hertweck – assistant recording engineer (Tracks 1-6, 10-11)
- Jason Agel – assistant recording engineer (Tracks 1-6, 8, 10-11)
- Tracey Waples – marketing
- Al Brancch – marketing
- Takashi Murakami – artwork
- Carol Corless – package production
- Eric Hudson – all other instruments (Track 9), producer (9)
- Warryn Campbell – producer (Track 12)
- Larry Gold – string arrangements, string conductor (Tracks 4, 9)
- Rosie Danvers – string arrangements (Track 11)
- Sandra Campbell - project coordinator
- Sean Cooper – sound designer (Track 12)
- Tommy D – string section producer (Track 11)
- Vlado Meller – mastering
- Terese Joseph – A&R
- Kyambo Joshua – executive producer
- Manny Marroquin – mixing (Track 3)
- Kazuhiro Mizuno – design
- Patrick "Plain Pat" Reynolds – A&R, producer (Track 11)
- Timbaland – additional drum machine (Track 5), additional music programming (3)
- Gus Dudgeon - producer (Track 1)
- Daft Punk - music arranger (Track 3), producer (3)
- Edwin Birdsong - music arranger (Track 3), producer (3)
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