Exclusive (album)

Exclusive
Studio album by Chris Brown
Released  November 6, 2007 (November 6, 2007-1!06)
Recorded 2006–07
Genre
Length 62:03
Label
Producer
Chris Brown chronology
Chris Brown
(2005)		 Exclusive
(2007)		 Graffiti
(2009)
Alternative cover
The "Forever Edition" artwork.
Singles from Exclusive
  1. "Wall to Wall"
    Released: May 29, 2007
  2. "Kiss Kiss"
    Released: September 11, 2007
  3. "With You"
    Released: December 4, 2007
  4. "Take You Down"
    Released: April 1, 2008
  5. "Forever"
    Released: April 29, 2008
  6. "Superhuman"
    Released: October 3, 2008

Exclusive is the second studio album by American recording artist Chris Brown. It was released on November 6, 2007, by his independently-owned record label CBE, along with Jive Records; distributed by Zomba Group. The album was serving as the follow-up to his multi-platinum selling debut album Chris Brown (2005).

The album was critically and commercially successful, debuting at number 4 on the US Billboard 200, selling 295,000 copies in the first week. The album was supported by five singles; including three Billboard Hot 100, which successfully entered in the music markets, entering the top 20 amongst other charts worldwide. The album has earned double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in the United States.

On June 3, 2008, Exclusive was re-released, when it has expanded into a double-disc deluxe edition; including a counterparts from the DVD, which was also released, which features the behind the scenes footage and music videos from his tour.

Singles

The album's lead single, "Wall to Wall" was released on May 29, 2007. The song was produced by Sean Garrett, written by Walter Scott. The single has reached only at number 79 in the US Billboard Hot 100, due to no digital release for this single.

"Kiss Kiss"; a collaboration with American recording artist T-Pain, was released as the album's second single on September 11, 2007. Following the non-success of the first single, this single became a big success in the United States. The song has reached at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 6 on the Canadian Hot 100, also reaching the top ten in Australia, Canada and New Zealand.

"With You" was released as the album's third single on December 4, 2007. The song was produced by the production team StarGate. The single became his second successful single in the most international music markets. It has since become one of the highest-charting singles of Brown's solo career, entering the foreign music markets, where his previous efforts have failed to these charts. It has reached the top ten; including in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.

The re-release's first single from The Forever Edition, "Forever"; which was produced by Polow da Don. It was released on April 29, 2008. The song debuted at number 9 on the Billboard Hot 100, due of its high digital sales. However, it dropped quickly due to the lack of sales in the following weeks. It then re-entered the top ten again, after airplay increases and has peaked at number 2.

Reception

Critical response

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Chicago Tribune(mixed)[3]
Entertainment WeeklyB−[1]
The New York Times(favorable)[4]
PopMatters(6/10)[5]
Rolling Stone[6]
Slant Magazine[7]
USA Today[8]
Vibe(favorable)[9]
The Washington Post(mixed)[10]

Exclusive received generally favorable reviews from critics, scoring 69 out of 100 based on 11 reviews on Metacritic. Rob Sheffield from Rolling Stone said that “It's been a long stretch between Usher albums — long enough for Chris Brown to build a whole career, growing from a temporary substitute to an undeniably major pop star. He seals the deal with Exclusive, an all-grown-up album on a level with Justin Timberlake's Justified (2002), Rihanna's Good Girl Gone Bad (2007) or even Bobby Brown's King of Stage (1986), and gave the album three and a half out of five stars.[6]

Neil Drumming from Entertainment Weekly rated the album as B- said that, "Like his onscreen (This Christmas) character, Brown is most charming when he's playing up his youth: singing of MySpace romance, meeting his girl's 'pops,' and such". But he also said, "sadly, Brown's adolescent voice and playful scatting — while cute — are steamrolled by pushy collaborators, whether it's those Stargate guys (Ne-Yo, Rihanna) falling back on that ol' guitar noodling, or T-Pain milking his vocoder. Ease back, people, and let the boy sing".[1] However, Sal Cinquemani of Slant Magazine criticized the unoriginality of the album, writing, "...there's still nothing very 'exclusive' about Exclusive at all."[7] Michael Arceneaux of PopMatters wrote, "Exclusive seems aimless, an album where Brown is doing what he’s told versus being the anchor of his own ship."[5] The album ranked number 34 on Rolling Stone's list of the Top 50 Albums of 2007.[11]

Commercial performance

The album debuted at number 4 on the Billboard 200 chart, with first-week sales of 294,000 copies in the United States.[12] As of March 2011, the album has sold 1,973,000 copies in the United States, and became a certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).[13]

Accolades

At the 2011's Grammy Awards, Exclusive was nominated for a Grammy Award in the category of "Best Rap/Sung Collaboration" for "Kiss Kiss", a collaboration with T-Pain. However, the award was given to the 2007 rival single, "Umbrella" by Rihanna featuring Jay-Z. The album also nominated for a NAACP Image Awards in a category for "Best Album", while Chris himself won for "Best Male Artist". At the 2011's (2011?) BET Awards, Chris received 4 nominations in four categories, including "Best Male R&B Artist", "Best Collaboration" for "Kiss Kiss", and "Viewer’s Choice" for "Kiss Kiss" and "No Air", his duet with Jordin Sparks.[14]

On June 22, 2011, Fearne & Reggie revealed on their UK's chart show BBC Radio 1, that all three tracks from the album Exclusive have appeared on the top forty. Two of which on the top ten, including "With You" (at number 35), "No Air" with Jordin Sparks (at number 2), and "Forever" (at number 5).[15][16]

Track listing

Standard edition
No. TitleWriter(s)Producer(s) Length
1. "Throwed"  
  • Cox
  • State of Emergency
 3:01
2. "Kiss Kiss" (featuring T-Pain)
T-Pain 4:10
3. "Take You Down"  
 4:05
4. "With You"  
StarGate 4:12
5. "Picture Perfect" (featuring will.i.am)
  • will.i.am
  • Brown (co.)
 4:13
6. "Hold Up" (featuring Big Boi)
 3:48
7. "You"  
Los da Mystro 3:22
8. "Damage"  
The Runners 4:16
9. "Wall to Wall"  
  • Garrett
  • Scott (co.)
 3:43
10. "Help Me"  
  • Brown
  • Fauntleroy II
  • Rob Knox
  • Mason, Jr.
  • Russell
  • Thomas
 3:17
11. "I Wanna Be"  
  • Dawkins
  • Dixon
 3:46
12. "Gimme Whatcha Got" (featuring Lil Wayne)
Jazze Pha 3:48
13. "I'll Call Ya"  
 3:53
14. "Lottery"  
  • Brown
  • Fauntleroy II
  • Rob Knox
  • Mason, Jr.
  • Thomas
 3:41
15. "Nice" (featuring The Game)
Storch 4:32
16. "Down" (featuring Kanye West)
Bigg D 4:17

Special Edition DVD – Chris Brown on Tour (Documentary). This project consists of completed of The Forever Edition, which was re-packaged into the bonus DVD. The DVD consists, with a special montage of his performances from his recent Up-Close & Personal sold-out tour and never before seen behind the scenes footage. It also features a cameo appearances by American R&B recording artist Keyshia Cole, who she held her own sold-out Just like You tour.

It consists by two versions from "The Forever Edition", with the first one was the DVD, and the second one without the DVD. These were sold separately. In United Kingdom, which has only the CD edition available.[18] However, throughout on every country (e.g.-including Germany and Australia), it has both editions available.[19]

BET Bonus DVD

Confirmed by Wal-Mart.[20]

Production

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (2008) Peak
position
Australian Albums Chart[21] 5
Belgium Albums Chart[22] 23
Canadian Albums Chart[23] 16
Dutch Albums Chart[24] 63
French Albums Chart[25] 53
German Albums Chart[26] 91
Irish Albums Chart[27] 2
Japanese Album Chart[28] 14
New Zealand Albums Chart[29] 3
Swedish Albums Chart[22] 42
Swiss Albums Chart[30] 28
UK Albums Chart[31] 3
US Billboard 200[23] 2
US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)[23] 2

Year-end charts

Chart (2010) Position
US Billboard 200[32] 175
US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)[33] 59

Certifications

Region Certification Sales/shipments
Australia (ARIA)[34] 2× Platinum 140,000
Brazil (ABPD)[35] Gold 30,000
Ireland (IRMA)[36] 2× Platinum 30,000
New Zealand (RMNZ)[37] 2× Platinum 30,000
United Kingdom (BPI)[38] Platinum 300,000
United States (RIAA)[39] 2× Platinum 2,000,000
Summaries
Europe (IFPI)[40] Gold 1,000,000

*sales figures based on certification alone
^shipments figures based on certification alone
xunspecified figures based on certification alone

References

  1. 1 2 3 Drumming, Neil. Review: Exclusive. Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved on 2009-10-26.
  2. ↑ Kellman, Andy. Review: Exclusive. AllMusic. Retrieved on 2009-10-26.
  3. ↑ Kot, Greg. Review: Exclusive. Chicago Tribune. Retrieved on 2010-04-17.
  4. ↑ Sanneh, Kelefa. Review: Exclusive. The New York Times. Retrieved on 2009-10-26.
  5. 1 2 Arceneaux, Michael. Review: Exclusive. PopMatters. Retrieved on 2009-10-26.
  6. 1 2 Sheffield, Rob. Review: Exclusive at the Wayback Machine (archived November 21, 2007). Rolling Stone. Retrieved on 2009-10-26.
  7. 1 2 Cinquemani, Sal. Review: Exclusive. Slant Magazine. Retrieved on 2009-10-26.
  8. ↑ Jones, Steve. Review: Exclusive. USA Today. Retrieved on 2009-10-26.
  9. ↑ King, Jason. "Review: Exclusive". Vibe: 91. November 2007.
  10. ↑ Stewart, Allison. Review: Exclusive. The Washington Post. Retrieved on 2009-10-26.
  11. ↑ Robert Christgau, David Fricke, Christian Hoard, Rob Sheffield (December 17, 2010). "The Top 50 Albums of 2007" Rolling Stone. Accessed January 17, 2008.
  12. ↑ Katie Hasty, "Jay-Z Leapfrogs Eagles, Britney For No. 1 Debut" Billboard. April 19, 2011.
  13. ↑ Grein, Paul (2011-03-23). "Week Ending March 20, 2011: Songs: The Chris Brown Matter | Chart Watch - Yahoo! Music". New.music.yahoo.com. Retrieved 2012-02-15.
  14. ↑ BET Official Website ‘’BET Official Website’’. Accessed May 30, 2008. Chris Brown have been praised by many critics as the new "King of Pop". "
  15. ↑ "BBC iPlayer - iPlayer Radio Home". Bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2012-02-15.
  16. ↑ Sunday, 12th February. "BBC iPlayer - The Official Chart with Reggie Yates: 12/02/2012". Bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2012-02-15.
  17. ↑ hmv.com: albums: Exclusive: Forever Edition: Bonus Tracks (2008)
  18. ↑ Forever U.K. Exclusive The Forever U.K. Edition Exclusive: The Forever U.K. Edition. Accessed May 30, 2008
  19. ↑ Forever AUS Exclusive The Forever Australian Edition Exclusive: The Forever Australian Edition. Accessed May 30, 2008
  20. ↑ CD: Exclusive (with Exclusive BET DVD)
  21. ↑ http://australian-charts.com/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Chris+Brown
  22. 1 2 http://www.ultratop.be/nl/showitem.asp?interpret=Chris+Brown&titel=Exclusive&cat=a
  23. 1 2 3 http://www.billboard.com/artist/1486846/chris+brown/chart
  24. ↑ http://dutchcharts.nl/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Chris+Brown
  25. ↑ http://lescharts.com/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Chris+Brown
  26. ↑ http://www.musicline.de/de/chartverfolgung_summary/artist/Brown,Chris/?type=longplay
  27. ↑ http://irish-charts.com/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Chris%20Brown
  28. ↑ http://www.generasia.com/wiki/Oricon_Weekly_for_2007_week_47
  29. ↑ http://charts.org.nz/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Chris+Brown
  30. ↑ http://hitparade.ch/artist/Chris_Brown
  31. ↑ http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/_/chris%20brown/#albums
  32. ↑ http://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/2007/the-billboard-200?begin=161&order=position
  33. ↑ http://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/2007/top-r-b-hip-hop-albums?begin=51&order=position
  34. ↑ "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2007 Albums". Australian Recording Industry Association.
  35. ↑ "Brazilian album certifications – Chris Brown – Exclusive" (in Portuguese). Associação Brasileira dos Produtores de Discos.
  36. ↑ "Irish album certifications – Chris Brown – Exclusive". Irish Recorded Music Association.
  37. ↑ "New Zealand album certifications – Chris Brown – Exclusive". Recorded Music NZ.
  38. ↑ "British album certifications – Chris Brown – Exclusive". British Phonographic Industry. Enter Exclusive in the field Keywords. Select Title in the field Search by. Select album in the field By Format. Select Platinum in the field By Award. Click Search
  39. ↑ "American album certifications – Chris Brown – Exclusive". Recording Industry Association of America. If necessary, click Advanced, then click Format, then select Album, then click SEARCH
  40. ↑ "IFPI Platinum Europe Awards – 2007". International Federation of the Phonographic Industry. Retrieved December 28, 2012.

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