Exclusive (album)

Exclusive
Studio album by Chris Brown
Released	November 6, 2007 (November 6, 2007-1!06)
Recorded	2006–07
Genre	R&B
Length	62:03
Label	CBE Jive Zomba
Producer	Chris Brown (exec.) Bryan-Michael Cox Dre & Vidal Jazze Pha Scott Storch Morris Brothers Kanye West Swizz Beatz T-Pain The Underdogs will.i.am StarGate The-Dream The Runners Tank Polow da Don Sean Garrett
Chris Brown chronology
Chris Brown (2005)Chris Brown2005 Exclusive (2007) Graffiti (2010)Graffiti2010
Singles from Exclusive
"Wall to Wall" Released: May 29, 2007 "Kiss Kiss" Released: September 11, 2007 "With You" Released: December 4, 2007 "Take You Down" Released: April 1, 2008 "Forever" Released: April 29, 2008 "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 record label CBE, along with Jive Records, distributed by Zomba Group. The album was served as the follow-up to his multi-platinum selling debut album Chris Brown (2005).

The album was both critically and commercially successful, when the album debuted 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, and the album sales it stands at three million copies in the worldwide. The album ranked number 34 on Rolling Stone's list of the Top 50 Albums of 2007.

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, co-produced and 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 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 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 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 and co-produced by Brian Kennedy. 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
Source	Rating
AllMusic
Chicago Tribune	(mixed)
Entertainment Weekly	B−
The New York Times	(favorable)
PopMatters	(6/10)
Rolling Stone
Slant Magazine
USA Today
Vibe	(favorable)
The Washington Post	(mixed)

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.

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". However, Sal Cinquemani of Slant Magazine criticized the unoriginality of the album, writing, "...there's still nothing very 'exclusive' about Exclusive at all." 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."

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. 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). In 2011, the album was ranked as the number 13 biggest-selling album by Billboard.

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.

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).

Track listing

Standard edition
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Producer(s)	Length
1.	"Throwed"	Christopher Brown Bryan-Michael Cox Kendrick "Wyldcard" Dean Donnie "State of Emergency" Scantz Adonis Shropshire	Cox State of Emergency	3:01
2.	"Kiss Kiss" (featuring T-Pain)	Brown Faheem Najm	T-Pain	4:10
3.	"Take You Down"	Brown Lamar Edwards Harvey Mason, Jr. James Fauntleroy II Steve Russell Damon Thomas	The Underdogs Edwards (co.)	4:05
4.	"With You"	Brown Johntá Austin Espen Lind Amund Bjørklund Tor Erik Hermansen Mikkel Storleer Eriksen	StarGate	4:12
5.	"Picture Perfect" (featuring will.i.am)	William Adams, Jr. Brown Keith Harris Ralph Carmichael	will.i.am Brown (co.)	4:13
6.	"Hold Up" (featuring Big Boi)	Brown Andre Harris Vidal Davis Jamal Harris Sammie Bush, Jr. Antwan Patton Ryan Toby	Dre & Vidal Dirty Harry (co.) Don Cheegro (co.)	3:48
7.	"You"	Carlos McKinney Terius Nash Brown	Los da Mystro	3:22
8.	"Damage"	Brown Andrew Harr Jermaine Jackson Ced Williams	The Runners	4:16
9.	"Wall to Wall"	Sean Garrett Walter "Great" Scott Brown	Garrett Scott (co.)	3:43
10.	"Help Me"	Brown Fauntleroy II Rob Knox Mason, Jr. Russell Thomas	The Underdogs Knox	3:17
11.	"I Wanna Be"	Brown Lonny Bereal Joi Campbell Eric Dawkins Antonio Dixon Durrell Babbs	Dawkins Dixon	3:46
12.	"Gimme Whatcha Got" (featuring Lil Wayne)	Phalon Alexander Brown Dwayne Carter, Jr. Nash Williams	Jazze Pha	3:48
13.	"I'll Call Ya"	Garrett Kaseem Dean Brown	Swizz Beatz Garrett (co.)	3:53
14.	"Lottery"	Brown Fauntleroy II Knox Mason, Jr. Thomas	The Underdogs Knox	3:41
15.	"Nice" (featuring The Game)	Scott Storch Brown Jayceon Taylor	Storch	4:32
16.	"Down" (featuring Kanye West)	Derrick Baker Brown Kanye West	Bigg D	4:17

The Forever Edition (bonus tracks)
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Producer(s)	Length
17.	"Forever"	Rob Allen Brown Jamal Jones Brian Kennedy Andre Merritt	Polow da Don Kennedy (co.)	4:38
18.	"Superhuman" (featuring Keri Hilson)	Warren "Oak" Felder Fauntleroy II Brown	Oak Mason, Jr.	3:38
19.	"Heart Ain't a Brain"	Brown Fauntleroy II Mason, Jr. Thomas	The Underdogs	3:40
20.	"Picture Perfect (Remix)" (featuring Hurricane Chris and Bow Wow)	Brown Adams, Jr. Harris Carmichael Shad Moss Christopher Dooley, Jr.	will.i.am	4:11

United Kingdom (bonus tracks)
No.	Title	Producer(s)	Length
15.	"Get at Ya"		3:18
16.	"Mama"	Eric Hudson	4:24
17.	"Nice" (featuring The Game)	Storch	4:32
18.	"Down" (featuring Kanye West)	Bigg D	4:17

Japanese edition (bonus tracks)
No.	Title	Length
19.	"Fallen Angel"	5:34

Limited edition DVD
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Journey to South Africa"	15:00
2.	"Behind the Scenes of "Wall to Wall""	15:00
3.	"Wall to Wall" (music video)	5:20
4.	"Behind the Scenes of "Kiss Kiss""	12:37
5.	"Kiss Kiss" (music video)	4:25

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.

Japanese limited edition DVD
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Wall to Wall" (music video)
2.	"Kiss Kiss" (music video)
3.	"With You" (music video)
4.	"Forever" (music video)
5.	"Chris Brown on Tour (Documentary)"

• Standard 16 tracks as above

United Kingdom / Japanese CD edition
No.	Title	Length
17.	"Fallen Angel"	5:34
18.	"Forever"	4:38
19.	"Superhuman" (featuring Keri Hilson)	3:39
20.	"Heart Ain't a Brain"	3:40

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. However, throughout on every country (e.g.-including Germany and Australia), it has both editions available.

BET Bonus DVD

Main article: BET Presents Chris Brown

Confirmed by Wal-Mart.

Production

• Album mastered by Chris Athens at Sterling Sound, NYC
• A&R administration: Shay Young
• A&R coordination: Leticia Hilliard
• Zomba production coordination: Cara Hutchinson
• Clearances: David Schmidt, Kobie "The Quarterback" Brown, Donato Guadagnoli, Mattias End and Lisa Pinero
• Art direction and design: Courtney Walter
• Photography: Dave Hill and Mark Mann
• Styling: Mike Bogard for Blynn Group
• Executive producers for CBE: Chris Brown, Tina Davis and Mark Pitts
• Executive producers for Jive / Zomba: Clive Calder and Phineas Kelly
• Management: Tina M. Davis and Joyce Hawkins for The Tina Davis Company

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (2008)	Peak position
Australian Albums Chart	5
Belgium Albums Chart	23
Canadian Albums Chart	16
Dutch Albums Chart	63
French Albums Chart	53
German Albums Chart	91
Irish Albums Chart	2
Japanese Album Chart	14
New Zealand Albums Chart	3
Swedish Albums Chart	42
Swiss Albums Chart	28
UK Albums Chart	3
US Billboard 200	4
US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)	2

Year-end charts

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

Certifications

Region	Certification	Sales/shipments
Australia (ARIA)	2× Platinum	140,000
Brazil (ABPD)	Gold	30,000
Ireland (IRMA)	2× Platinum	30,000
New Zealand (RMNZ)	2× Platinum	30,000
United Kingdom (BPI)	Platinum	300,000
United States (RIAA)	2× Platinum	2,000,000
Summaries
Europe (IFPI)	Gold	1,000,000
*sales figures based on certification alone ^shipments figures based on certification alone xunspecified figures based on certification alone

References

External links

• Exclusive at Discogs
• Exclusive at Metacritic