JoJo (album)

Infobox Album
Name = JoJo
Type = studio
Artist = JoJo


Released = Start date|2004|6|22
(see release history)
Recorded = 2003–2004 at
Sony Music Studios
(New York City, New York)
The Underlab
(Los Angeles, California)
Unsung Studios
(Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, California)
Battery Studios
(New York City, New York)
Soulpower Studios
(Los Angeles, California)
Westlake Studios
(Los Angeles, California)
Larrabee Studios North
(Universal City, California)
Genre = Pop, R&B
Length = 52:14 (main edition)
58:30 (European edition)
59:26 (UK and Japanese edition)
Label = Da Family, Blackground
Producer = Joanna Levesque, Brian Alexander Morgan, Soulshock & Karlin, Dexter Simmons, Mike City, Balewa Muhammad, Tre Black, Bink!, G.P., The Underdogs, The Co-Stars, Reggie Burrell, Ronald Burrell, Kwamé "K1 Mill", Young Freak, Vincent Herbert (also executive)
Reviews = *Allmusic rating|3.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:0sz1z82a4yvn link]
*"Blender" rating|3|5 [http://www.blender.com/guide/reviews.aspx?id=1959 link]
*Slant Magazine rating|2|5 [http://www.slantmagazine.com/music/music_review.asp?ID=459 link]
This album = "JoJo"
(2004)
Next album = "The High Road"
(2006)
Misc = Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = Alternate covers
Type = studio


Lower caption = UK and Australian cover Extra album cover 2


Lower caption = Japanese cover Extra album cover 2


Lower caption = Bonus-AVCD edition cover Singles
Name = JoJo
Type = studio
Single 1 = Leave (Get Out)
Single 1 date = March 2004
Single 2 = Baby It's You
Single 2 date = September 2004
Single 3 = Not That Kinda Girl
Single 3 date = February 2005 "JoJo" is the debut album by American pop/R&B singer JoJo. It spawned the hit singles "Leave (Get Out)" and "Baby It's You" (featuring Bow Wow), as well as "Not That Kinda Girl", which failed to chart in the United States (except on the ARC Weekly Top 40) and many other countries, though it did manage to reach number fifty-two in Australia and number eighty-five in Germany. The album debuted and peaked at number four on the "Billboard" 200 chart selling 96,000 copies. It has sold 1.5 million copies in the U.S. to date, going platinum by the RIAA in December 2004. In addition, "JoJo" has sold 3.5 million copies worldwide.

Track listing

#"Breezy" (Kwamé Holland, Balewa Muhammad, Sylvester Jordan, Jr., Thom Bell, Roland Chambers, Kenny Gamble) – 3:15
#*Contains replayed elements from MFSB's "Something for Nothing" (Thom Bell, Roland Chambers, Kenny Gamble).
#"Baby It's You" (Harvey Mason, Jr., Damon Thomas, Eric Dawkins, Antonio Dixon) – 3:11
#"Not That Kinda Girl" (Neely Dinkins, B. Cola Pietro, Muhammad, Jordan) – 3:27
#"The Happy Song" (Mike City) – 3:59
#"Homeboy" (Roosevelt Harrell III, Muhammad, Jordan, Vincent Herbert, Richie Adams, Mark Barkan) – 3:35
#*Contains elements from Scherrie Payne's "Chasing Me into Somebody Else's Arms" (Richie Adams, Mark Barkan).
#"City Lights" (Reggie Burrell, Ronald Burrell, Herbert, Stephen Garrett) – 4:54
#"Leave (Get Out)" (Soulshock, Kenneth Karlin, Alexander Cantrell, Philip "Silky" White) – 4:02
#"Use My Shoulder" (Burrell, Burrell, Garrett, David Conley, Bernard Jackson, David Townsend) – 3:43
#*Contains replayed elements from Surface's "Happy" (David Conley, Bernard Jackson, David Townsend).
#"Never Say Goodbye" (Mason, Thomas, Dawkins, Dixon) – 3:51
#"Weak" (Brian Alexander Morgan) – 4:50
#"Keep on Keepin' On" (Joanna Levesque) – 3:15
#"Sunshine" (Herbert, Levesque, Tremain Saunders) – 3:07
#"Yes or No" (Levesque, Burrell, Burrell, Saunders, Herbert) – 3:14
#"Fairy Tales" (Herbert, Saunders, Nastacia Kendall) – 3:45

European edition

#"Butterflies" – 2:43
#"Breezy" – 3:15
#"Baby It's You" – 3:11
#"Not That Kinda Girl" – 3:27
#"The Happy Song" – 3:59
#"Homeboy" – 3:35
#"City Lights" – 4:54
#"Leave (Get Out)" – 4:02
#"Use My Shoulder" – 3:43
#"Never Say Goodbye" – 3:51
#"Weak" – 4:50
#"Keep on Keepin' On" – 3:15
#"Sunshine" – 3:07
#"Yes or No" – 3:14
#"Fairy Tales" – 3:45
#"Back and Forth" (Herbert, Saunders, Brian Reeves) – 3:29

UK and Japanese edition

#"Butterflies" – 2:43
#"Breezy" – 3:15
#"Baby It's You" – 3:11
#"Not That Kinda Girl" – 3:27
#"The Happy Song" – 3:59
#"Homeboy" – 3:35
#"City Lights" – 4:54
#"Leave (Get Out)" – 4:02
#"Use My Shoulder" – 3:43
#"Never Say Goodbye" – 3:51
#"Weak" – 4:50
#"Keep on Keepin' On" – 3:15
#"Sunshine" – 3:07
#"Yes or No" – 3:14
#"Fairy Tales" – 3:45
#"Back and Forth" – 3:29
#"Baby It's You" (featuring Bow Wow) – 3:36

Bonus AVCD

Released on January 3 2006
#"Leave (Get Out)" (Video)
#"Baby It's You" (featuring Bow Wow) (Video)
#"Not That Kinda Girl" (Video)
#"Baby It's You" (Radio Edit featuring Bow Wow)
#"Secret Love" (from the original soundtrack of "Shark Tale") (Jared Gosselin, White, Samantha Jade) – 3:59

Unreleased tracks

*"I Need to Know"

Charts

Release history

References