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Ciara's "Fantasy Ride" releasing on 3-Disc Set!
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Ciara's "Fantasy Ride" releasing on 3-Disc Set!
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R&B singer Ciara has slated her third album, "Fantasy Ride," for a September release via Jive. Rather than one standard CD, the music will be spread across three separately packaged discs, bundled together, each with five to six songs catering to a different theme.
The first disc is called "Groove City" and will contain sensual songs like "Promise," while the second disc is called "Crunktown" and includes tracks akin to Ciara's 2004 introductory single, "Goodies." Finally, the up-tempo "Kingdom of Dance" will showcase Ciara's house-leaning, freestyle-tinged cuts.
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Sounds hot!
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5 to 6 songs on each disc? Well that means the full time of a disc won't be used up and it'll be just like Christina's album costing $20 when the 2 discs all could've fit on one. So now she'll have 3 and it'll cost $20+ and it'll flop.
I think this is fake, but we'll see how that works.
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i do think its fake too, i think she'll have one disc with three sections
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Not really. It would be stupid to release like six songs on each disc.
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Producer Tricky Stewart, who crafted Rihanna's "Umbrella," is co-executive-producing the project along with Ciara. Danja is helming both "Crunktown" and "Kingdom of Dance," while "Groove City" is led by Tricky and Jasper.
An official single will drop in June, according to the label. Ciara's last album, 2006's "The Evolution," has sold 1.3 million copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
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DANJA, DREAM, & JASPER
She hasn't worked with Jasper since "Goodies"
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FULL BILLBOARD.COM ARTICLE
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R&B singer Ciara has slated her third album, "Fantasy Ride," for a September release via Jive. Rather than one standard CD, the music will be spread across three separately packaged discs, bundled together, each with five to six songs catering to a different theme.
The first disc is called "Groove City" and will contain sensual songs like "Promise," while the second disc is called "Crunktown" and includes tracks akin to Ciara's 2004 introductory single, "Goodies." Finally, the up-tempo "Kingdom of Dance" will showcase Ciara's house-leaning, freestyle-tinged cuts.
Producer Tricky Stewart, who crafted Rihanna's "Umbrella," is co-executive-producing the project along with Ciara. Danja is helming both "Crunktown" and "Kingdom of Dance," while "Groove City" is led by Tricky and Jasper.
An official single will drop in June, according to the label. Ciara's last album, 2006's "The Evolution," has sold 1.3 million copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
The artist appears in the upcoming film "Mama I Want To Sing," co-starring Lynn Whitfield and Patti LaBelle, which hits theaters in October.
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GUess it's offcial
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whoa cool. ciara is such a trend setter
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OMFG OMFG hopefully there will be another Promise on this album as well as some music type from her older days!
now im so excited for this album
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I do think this is a clever idea, but if she wants higher sales than this is definitely not the way to get it, unless the price is extremely low... but does this mean this will be eligible for the certifications that double albums get, like 2X platinum for every million copies
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It's not gonna be like Nelly's SweatSuit deal, it will be more like a mini version of what Christina Aguliera did. The CD's will be sold together as "Fantasy Ride" but they will be seperately packaged inside. It won't be a huge amount of money, there's only gonna be lik 5 songs on each. 5X3= 15, 15 tracks (18 at the most). So the price won't be high at all.
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i think it's gonna be one disc with 3 sections, like her previous album "The Evolution" had different sections like "The Evolution of Music", "The Evolution of Dance", "The Evolution of Fashion", and "The Evolution of C"
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actually, jasper worked on promis so she never stopped working with him.
the cd will be bundled together and sold just like one cd would so it's not going to be $20 like someone said. it's just a new idea. Jive is not going to jack up prices.
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cool idea
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Originally posted by music135
I do think this is a clever idea, but if she wants higher sales than this is definitely not the way to get it, unless the price is extremely low... but does this mean this will be eligible for the certifications that double albums get, like 2X platinum for every million copies
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it will only get twice certification if its over 100 minutes
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Recycle her sound from previous albums? Eh.
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Originally posted by 2hot2handle
it will only get twice certification if its over 100 minutes
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really?
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The thing is..it still costs the same amount of money to make a cd..so whether it be 5 or 10 songs it won't matter, **** will be expensive to make. This is a seriously BAD business move, unless they simply have that much faith in Ciara making them a profit off this album.
And I wish they would stop referring to her as an R&B artist, as well as other black pop vocalists..yeeesh
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whateva it will cost the same as one cd so...
ci is rnb and a lot of other things
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Originally posted by Queh
the cd will be bundled together and sold just like one cd would so it's not going to be $20 like someone said. it's just a new idea. Jive is not going to jack up prices.
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Noooooooo. The CD will be 3 discs, which is the same as being bundled together as any double or more disc albums, and will cost a lot of money because they need to profit back on spending a lot of money on making so many damn discs. LOL. So Christina's double disc was $20 at WalMart for me, so her three disc will be more. They have to make back the money they spend and thats by having high prices when CDs are bought. All discs with more than 1 are that way.
So if Christina underperformed with a double disc due to high prices, then Ciara will suffer and she only sold 1.3 million with the last album, she can only go down. But at least her single sales will most likely be high.
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