Touch (Amerie album)

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Touch

Studio album by Amerie
Released	April 26, 2005 May 16, 2005
Recorded	2004–2005
Genre	R&B
Length	50:07
Label	Columbia/Sony Urban Music
Producer(s)	Dorsey James, Rich Harrison, Lil Jon, Dre & Vidal, Bryce Wilson, Red Spyda
Andy Kellman, All Music Guide link Bill Werde, Rolling Stone link
Amerie chronology
All I Have (2002)	Touch (2005)	Because I Love It (2007)
Alternate covers

UK cover


DualDisc edition cover

Touch is the second album by American R&B singer Amerie, released on April 26, 2005 in the United States. It spawned two singles: the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs number-one "1 Thing" (which also has a remix featuring rapper Eve) and the Lil Jon-produced "Touch". The album debuted at number five on the Billboard 200 albums chart with sales of 124,000 copies on its first week of release. It helped her to win the VIBE Award for "Club Banger of the Year" for "1 Thing". The album was certified Gold (for shipping 500,000 copies) after four months of release. The set also earned Amerie two Grammy Award nominations, including "Best Contemporary R&B Album" in 2006. The song "Talkin' Bout" was sampled in the song "Hip Hop Tonight" by Chinese singer CoCo Lee.

1 Track listing
2 Personnel
3 Production
4 Charts
5 Singles
6 Extended Copy Protection
7 External links

[edit] Track listing

"1 Thing" (Amerie Rogers, Rich Harrison, Stanley Walden) – 3:58
"All I Need" (Amerie Rogers, Dexter Wansel, Rich Harrison) – 3:10
"Touch" (Amerie Rogers, Craig Love, James "L Roc" Phillips, Jonathan Smith, LaMarquis Mark Jefferson, Sean Garrett) – 3:38
"Not the Only One" (Amerie Rogers, Andre Gonzalez, Pharrell Williams, Bryce Wilson, Makeda Davis, Simon Johnson) – 3:45
"Like It Used to Be" (Amerie Rogers, Rich Harrison) – 3:39
"Talkin' About" (Amerie Rogers, Rich Harrison) – 4:20
"Come with Me" (Rich Harrison) – 3:34
"Rolling Down My Face" (Amerie Rogers, Rich Harrison, Roy Ayers) – 3:33
"Can We Go" (featuring Carl Thomas) (Amerie Rogers, Carl Thomas, Roosevelt Harrell III, Maurice White, Philip Bailey) – 3:29
"Just Like Me" (Amerie Rogers, Andre Harris, Jason Boyd, Ryan Toby, Sunshine Anderson, Vidal Davis) – 3:46
"Falling" (Amerie Rogers, Andy Thelusma) – 4:58
"1 Thing" (Remix featuring Eve) (Amerie Rogers, Eve Jeffers, Rich Harrison, Stanley Walden) – 4:18
"Why Don't We Fall in Love" (Richcraft Remix) (Rich Harrison) – 3:36

UK edition

Released May 16, 2005

14. "Man Up" (featuring Nas) (Nasir Jones, Simon Johnson, Andre Gonzales, Elizabeth Wyce, Michael Quatro, L. Kinshkon) – 3:38

- Contains a sample from "Stripper" by Michael Quatro

Japanese edition

Released April 27, 2005

14. "I'm Coming Out" – 3:31

DualDisc edition

Released July 15, 2005

Includes a DVD featuring the entire album in enhanced PCM audio plus the contents below:

Interview
Behind-the-Scenes Footage from "1 Thing" and "Touch" Music Videos
"1 Thing" (video)
"Touch" (video) (featuring T.I.)
"Man Up" (featuring Nas)
"Touch" (remix featuring T.I.)

[edit] Personnel

LaMarquis Mark Jefferson - bass
Craig Love - guitar

[edit] Production

Executive producers: Dorsey James, Lenny "Linen" Nicholson, and Amerie Rogers
Producers: Rich Harrison, Lil Jon, Dre & Vidal, Bryce Wilson, and Red Spyda
Vocal producer: Ryan Toby
Engineers: David Ashton, Scotty Beats, Jim Caruana, and Vincent Dilorenzo
Assistant engineers: Alan Masor, Flip Osman, José Juan Sánchez, and Bram Tobey
Mixing: Vincent Dilorenzo, John Frye, Rich Keller, Tony Maserati, and Gary Noble
Mastering: Tom Coyne
A&R: Lenny "Linen" Nicholson
Design: Susanne Cerha
Art direction: Ellen To
Photography: Michael Biondo

[edit] Charts

Chart (2005)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard 200	5
U.S. Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums	3
Australian ARIA Albums Chart	57
French Albums Chart	59
Swiss Albums Chart	83
UK Albums Chart	28

[edit] Singles

Cover	Information
	"1 Thing" Released: 2005 Writers: Amerie Rogers, Rich Harrison, Stanley Walden Producer: Rich Harrison Director: Chris Robinson Chart positions: #8 U.S., #1 U.S. R&B , #4 UK, #5 CAN, #13 AUS RIAA certification: Platinum
	"Touch" Released: 2005 Writers: Amerie Rogers, Craig Love, James "L Roc" Phillips, Jonathan Smith, LaMarquis Mark Jefferson, Sean Garrett Producer: Lil Jon Director: Chris Robinson Chart positions: #119 U.S., #95 U.S. R&B, #19 UK, #33 AUS

[edit] Extended Copy Protection

In November 2005, it was revealed that Sony BMG was distributing albums with Extended Copy Protection, a controversial feature that automatically installed rootkit software on any Microsoft Windows machine upon insertion of the disc. In addition to preventing the CDs contents from being copied, it was also revealed that the software reported the users' listening habits back to Sony and also exposed the computer to malicious attacks that exploited insecure features of the rootkit software. Though Sony refused to release a list of the affected CDs, the Electronic Frontier Foundation identified Touch as one of the discs with the invasive software.