Cassie (album)

Cassie
Studio album by Cassie Ventura
Released	August 7, 2006
Recorded	2005–2006
Genre	Pop, dance-pop, R&B, hip hop
Length	35:26
Label	NextSelection, Bad Boy, Atlantic
Producer	Ryan Leslie
Cassie Ventura chronology
Cassie (2006) Electro Love (2011)
Singles from Cassie
"Me & U" Released: April 25, 2006 "Long Way 2 Go" Released: October 23, 2006

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Blender	[2]
Rolling Stone	[3]
Slant Magazine	[4]
Stylus Magazine	(D+)[5]
DJBooth.net	[6]

Cassie is the self-titled debut album by American pop/R&B singer Cassie Ventura, released in the United States August 8, 2006 on NextSelection Lifestyle Group, Bad Boy Records and Atlantic Records.

Production

Ryan Leslie produced most of the album, which is a mix of pop and R&B. Ventura said in an interview, "I rap, I sing, I do my R&B, I do my slow songs and stuff that the girls will love, I have a down South joint, I have a rock song that I did with my girls this band called Pretty Boys."^[7] She paid tribute to her Filipino culture by incorporating OPM sounds into some of the ballads.

Charts

Cassie debuted at number four on the U.S. Billboard 200 with 100,374 copies sold in its first week. It stayed in the top twenty for two weeks, in the top forty for three weeks and on the chart for twelve weeks. As of April 2008, the album has sold 321,000 copies in the US.^[8] The album's first single, "Me & U", peaked at number three on the Billboard Hot 100 and hit the top twenty in six other countries. The second single, "Long Way 2 Go", did not perform as well as "Me & U" in the U.S., only reaching number ninety-seven on the Hot 100. Its music video did, however, peak at number three on MTV's TRL, and the single did well in the United Kingdom and reached number twelve on the UK Singles Chart.

Singles

• "Me & U" – released as the lead single from the album on May 16, 2006.
• "Long Way 2 Go" – released as the second single from the album on September 2006.
• The third single was rumored to be either "Ditto", "Call U Out", or "Kiss Me", but was canceled.^[9]

Track listing

1. "Me & U" – 3:12
2. "Long Way 2 Go" – 3:40
3. "About Time" – 3:33
4. "Kiss Me" (featuring Ryan Leslie) – 4:07
5. "Call U Out" (featuring Yung Joc) – 3:32
6. "Just One Nite" (featuring Ryan Leslie) – 4:06
7. "Hope You're Behaving" (Interlude) – 0:36
8. "Not With You" – 3:17
9. "Ditto" – 3:34
10. "What Do U Want" – 3:13
11. "Miss Your Touch" – 2:33
12. "When Your Body Is Talking" (Japanese bonus track)
13. "Can't Do It Without You" (Japanese bonus track)

Charts

Chart (2010)	Peak position
Belgium Albums Chart (Flanders)	96
Belgium Albums Chart (Wallonia)	78
Dutch Albums Chart	78
French Albums Chart	48
New Zealand Album Charts	78
Swiss Albums Chart	56
UK Albums Chart	33
US Billboard 200	4
US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums[10]	2

Personnel

• Eric Archibald – stylist
• Cassie Ventura – vocals, background vocals
• Chris Gehringer – mastering
• Akisia Grigsby – design, creative director
• Kevin Krouse – engineer, mixing
• Charlie Langella – photography
• Ryan Leslie – piano, arranger, programming, vocals, producer, engineer, executive producer, mixing, instrumentation
• Galadriel Masterson – vocals, engineer
• Gwendolyn Niles – executive producer, A&R, project manager
• Harve Pierre – executive producer
• Hopey Rock – guitar, vocals, engineer
• Ed Woods – executive producer
• Brandee Younger – harp

References

1. ^ Allmusic review
2. ^ Blender review
3. ^ Rolling Stone review
4. ^ Slant Magazine review
5. ^ Stylus Magazine review
6. ^ DJBooth.net review
7. ^ Williams-Wheeler, Dorrie (6-2006). "Cassie-Interview at Thabiz.com Urban Entertainment Celebrity Interviews". Thabiz.com. http://www.thabiz.com/cassieinterview.htm. Retrieved 2007-08-13. 
8. ^ Diddy: Cassie CD Will Catch People 'Off Guard'
9. ^ Caulfield, Keith. "Ask Billboard - Calling Cassie". Billboard. February 2, 2007.
10. ^ Jeffries, David (2007). "Yung Joc > Biography". allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/p765181/biography. Retrieved 2009-05-18.