Fantasia (Fantasia Barrino album)

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Fantasia
Fantasia cover
Studio album by Fantasia Barrino
Released December 12, 2006
Recorded 2006
Genre R&B
Label J Records
Producer(s) Babyface, Bryan Michael Cox, Danja, Dre & Vidal, Missy Elliott, Kwamé, Harold Lilly, Midi Mafia, Tone Mason, Swizz Beatz
Professional reviews
Fantasia Barrino chronology
Free Yourself
(2004)		 Fantasia
(2006)


Fantasia is the second studio album by American singer Fantasia Barrino, released by J Records on December 12, 2006. Fantasia has said in many interviews that this album would be different from her 2004 debut, and that being on American Idol had showed her that she can sing a wide range of music;[citation needed]|February 2007}} she made that the approach for this album. She has also said that she had a lot more input with this than with previous album, Free Yourself. In its first week of sales, Fantasia entered the U.S. charts at number nineteen, with 133,000 discs sold. It descended from the top forty in its second week, and by its fifteenth week of release it had sold 330,000 copies.

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[edit] Recording

Missy Elliott returned as one of the writers on the album, joining Big Boi of Outkast and Diane Warren as contributors. Production duo Midi Mafia, best known for their 50 Cent hit "21 Questions", also contributed five tracks to the project.[1], Barrino said that she recorded twenty-three songs for the new album, but that only fourteen of them made the cut.[citation needed] She also said that it took her three days to come up with the track listing.[citation needed] "Solo (So Low)" was the name of one of the unreleased tracks, according to an interview with Entertainment Weekly.[citation needed] She said that although she connected with the song more than any other, she wanted the tracklist to remain upbeat, and that the song reminded her of her father.[citation needed]

Fantasia is quoted as saying of the track "Baby Makin' Hips": "It's music that makes you want to move; totally different than my last album. My last album had a lot of slow songs. I just turned 22, I am ready for fun and I wanted to bring something different. This song, I'm throwin' it back to the young Aretha, but it's a show song just like Tina Turner. I call it urban rock."[citation needed] The beat for "Baby Makin' Hips" was created by Don Cheegro and Dirty Harry, new producers working under the guidance of Dre & Vidal, producers of Ludacris' song "War with God." Her next single is "When I See U". The music video for WISU was shot by Lenny Bass on March 26, in Brooklyn.

[edit] Tracklisting

  1. "Hood Boy" (featuring Big Boi) (first single)
  3. "When I See U" (second single)
  4. "I Nominate U"
  5. "Baby Makin' Hips"
  6. "Not the Way That I Do"
  7. "Only One U"
  8. "I Feel Beautiful"
  9. "I'm Not That Type"
  10. "Uneligible"
  11. "Two Weeks Notice"
  12. "Surround U"
  13. "Bore Me (Yawn)"
  14. "Sunshine"
  15. "Bump What Your Friends Say"
  16. "Girl Like Me" [exlusive Wal-Mart bonus track]

[edit] Charts

Chart (2006) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard 200 19

[edit] External links

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