[5] The record features collaborations from various artists such as Diplo, Baauer, Missy Elliott, Boys Noize, Sky Ferreira, Zion.T, Lydia Paek, and label-mate Jennie Kim, who later became a member of Blackpink three years after the album's release.

[4][7] The album's title track, co-produced by American DJs Diplo and Baauer, is a slow tempo trap influenced song.

[9] The duet with Lydia Paek, "R.O.D", is a dubstep track featuring Caribbean timbales[1] while "Black" was compared to the early '90s R&B ballads.

"[1] "Runaway" is a combination of alternative rock and electronic music[5] and "I Love It", which was co-produced by German DJ Boys Noize, is a "smooth R&B-disco mash-up".

[12][13] On September 29, 2013, YG Entertainment announced that limited edition vinyl copies of Coup d'Etat would be released on October 18.

[20][21] YG then released the full album track list on September 1 which revealed other collaborating artists such as Lydia Paek, Jennie, Boys Noize, Baauer, and Sky Ferreira.

[22][23][24] YG Entertainment released the music video for "Coup d'Etat" on YouTube on September 1, 2013, which garnered over 750,000 views after a day.

[26] The first performance at a music show, which featured the tracks "Niliria", "Michi Go" and the debut of the song "Black", with the then YG trainee Jennie Kim, took place on SBS's Inkigayo on September 8, 2013.

[32] Tracks from Coup d'Etat topped major Korean music sites such as MelOn, Mnet, Bugs, Naver, and Olleh.

[42] Coup d'Etat made G-Dragon, along with boy band Shinee, be the first Korean act to enter Billboard's Year-end World Albums Artists.

[43] Coup d'Etat debuted at number eleven in the Oricon Albums Chart in Japan with an estimated total of 11,150 copies sold during its first week of release.

[citation needed] The Japanese version of the album named Coup d'Etat + One of a Kind & Heartbreaker debuted at number two on the same chart.

[44] In a review for MTV, Alexis Stephens wrote that G-Dragon "created a post-modern pastiche of worldwide pop idol sounds" that at times "feels like empty calories".

"[1] David Jeffries of AllMusic noted that G-Dragon "set his sights on America" with this album, and declared that, "when this flashy and slick effort goes deep", the listener will be shocked.

Corban Goble of Pitchfork felt that the album's best moments came from the delivery of "G-Dragon's superstar promise" and in the capitalization of "his enormous charisma."

"[46] Complex ranked the album's red cover at number 20 on their "The 50 Best Pop Album Covers of the Past Five Years" list, with Dale Eisinger commenting that:"In a truly globalized environment, where pop singers trade across borders with ease, a singer like G-Dragon is less of an anomaly and more of a visionary, even if the semaphore buried in the original symbol might not hold up in this new iteration.

But what does work is that East/West divide that emptying out the right side of this icon offers – the roundness, the oneness of the circle, is emphasized over the original symbol, giving a new global weight to the international smash-hit album's visuals.