Graffiti (Chris Brown album)
Graffiti is the third studio album by American R & B musician Chris Brown. It was published on 7 December 2009 at the Jive Records label and reached number seven on the Billboard 200 From the Album The Songs I Can Transform Ya and crawl were released.
Background
2008 Brown began work on his third studio album. In the same year he was also the name of his new album known. In September 2009, Brown released a message, after which the work on the album finished his. A total of about 60 to 70 songs for the album has been worked on.
Graffiti is the first album since Brown in February 2009 at a pre- Grammy party had a violent incident with his then-girlfriend Rihanna. By the former incident, in which Chris Brown received a suspended sentence, he suffered a great loss of image. Therefore Some radio stations boycotted the music of the singer.
Music style
According to Billboard, the album unite different elements of the Contemporary R & B, pop music, rock music and Euro Dance. Greg Kot compared the style of the album with the " cross-genre experiments " by artists such as Kanye West, Saul Williams and Lil Wayne. Mikael Wood wrote that the largest part of the CD a " happy party - type " is.
Publication and Promotion
The album was released internationally on December 7, 2009 in the U.S., there appeared a day later. The standard version included in Europe 14 songs in the U.S., only 13 at the same time, the deluxe edition of the CD was released as the normal standard version. In Europe, the deluxe edition included a CD containing six additional songs were available. In the U.S. and Japan six more songs were also present, but on a separate CD. In addition, the U.S. version included the song Movie, which is not present in Europe. The song Chase Our Love, however, is found only on the European version.
To promote the album, Brown went to the Fan Appreciation Tour, which included only concerts in the United States. The tour began on October 27, 2009 in New Jersey and ended on December 15, 2009 in New York City. A proportion of the revenue that resulted from the tour, Brown donated to two different foundations. A device supports victims of domestic violence, the other persons with developmental disabilities.
Title list
Singles
On 29 September 2009, the first single from the album, I Can Transform Ya published. At the song also Lil Wayne and Swizz Beatz were involved. The song reached # 26 in the UK and ranked 20 in the U.S., in Germany it has not got into the charts.
On November 24, the second and at the same time last single from the album, Crawl appeared. The song rose to number 53 also in the U.S. and 35th in the UK, but reached no chart position in Germany.
On 24 November, the song Sing Like Me was released alongside the second single, a promo records. It reached no placement.
Success
Commercial success
The album debuted after the release straight to number seven on the Billboard 200, as it had in the first week sold about 102,000 times. The previous album, Exclusive was able to sell around 294,000 CDs in the first week. By July 2011, only around 674,000 recordings sold in the United States, making the album clearly lagged behind its two predecessors.
Awards and nominations
The album was a two Grammy at the Grammy Awards 2011 nominations, which took place in Los Angeles on February 13, 2011 at the Staples Center. The Best R & B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals category the song Take My Time was nominated ( with tank), losing to Soldier of Love by Sade. In the Best Contemporary R & B Album Category Album against Raymond v. Raymond lost the artist Usher.
Reception
The album received extremely negative reviews. When Metascore it received only 39 out of 100 points, which were based on twelve different reviews. Entertainment Weekly, for example, wrote that Brown had it hard by his loss of image after the confrontation with his ex-girlfriend, and that the album that does not "fix magical " can the CD but the best moments still " floats". The Los Angeles Times asked Brown to want to use the incident with Rihanna to his incident. So author presented Mikael Wood noted that " a handful of lovingly crafted power ballads seem to have been designed to illuminate the Repentance of the singer about the incident. " Allmusic wrote in his review that a couple of the songs have a lasting impression. The Chicago Tribune was of the opinion that especially the song Famous Girl Album " off track " and throw it worry that every note " exploited and self-serving " anfühle. In addition, Brown was damaging with trying to restore his reputation, this even more. The A.V. Club said that the album musically a " pretty insinuating matter " is that production is clean and often lively, Brown also sing "good enough". The problem is what he sing. Therefore, the magazine -reviewed the album with the worst score.