Cassie (album)

Cassie
Cassie studio album
Publication (s)	August 8, 2006 July 10, 2015 (LP)
Label (s)	Bad Boy Entertainment , Be With Records
Format (s)	CD , download , LP
Genre (s)	Contemporary R&B , Pop
Title (number)	11
running time	35:22
production	Ryan Leslie ( exec. ) , Sean Combs (exec.) , Harve Pierre (exec.) , Ed Woods, Youness Maroufi, Hopey Rock, Galadriel Masterson, Chino Maurice,
Studio (s)	The Apartment New York
chronology - Cassie RockaByeBaby (2013)
Single releases April 25, 2006 Me & U August 28, 2006 Long Way 2 Go

Cassie is the debut studio album of the same name American Contemporary R & B - singer . It was released on August 8, 2006 and peaked at number 4 on the Billboard 200 . Nine years after the first release, the album was released on LP .

background

Cassie was discovered by music producer Ryan Leslie and together they wrote Kiss Me , a song originally intended as a birthday present for Cassie's mother. Leslie played the song for Tommy Mottola, Managing Director of Casablanca Records . Mottola then offered Cassie a management contract. Leslie and Cassie wrote Cassie's first single, Me & U , which became internationally known with the help of Cassie's MySpace account and became a club hit. P. Diddy heard the song in a club too, and Leslie convinced him to release Cassie's debut album on Diddy's record label Bad Boy Records . Leslie then produced the full album, and the recordings took place at The Apartment Studios and the Right Track Recording Studios in New York City . The mixing took place in these studios as well as in the integrated studios .

Track list

Standard version
No.	title	Songwriter	producer	length
1.	Me & U	Ryan Leslie	Ryan Leslie	3:12
2.	Long way to go	Cassie, Ryan Leslie	Ryan Leslie	3:40
3.	About time	Ryan Leslie, Youness Maroufi	Ryan Leslie	3:33
4th	Kiss me a	Ryan Leslie, Angela Beyincé, Vidal Davis, Garrett Hamler , Andre Harris, Beyoncé Knowles , Kelly Rowland , Michelle Williams	Ryan Leslie	4:07
5.	Call U Out	Brandon Fletcher, Ryan Leslie	Ryan Leslie	3:33
6th	Just one nite	Ryan Leslie	Ryan Leslie	4:06
7th	Hope You're Behaving (Interlude)	Cassie, Ryan Leslie	Ryan Leslie	0:37
8th.	Not with you	Ryan Leslie, Youness Maroufi	Ryan Leslie, Youness Maroufi	3:17
9.	Ditto	Corey Williams, Ryan Leslie	Ryan Leslie	3:34
10.	What Do U Want	Cassie, Galadriel Masterson, Hopey Rock, Ryan Leslie	Ryan Leslie, Hopey Rock, Galadriel Masterson	3:14
11.	Miss your touch	C. Lewis, Ryan Leslie	Ryan Leslie, Chino Maurice	2:33
Overall length:				35:26

^aContains an interpolation of the composition T-Shirt by Destinys Child , so the songwriters of this song are included.

Reviews

Reviews
source	rating
Allmusic
Blender
Cdstarts.de
laut.de
Rolling Stone

Cassie was received largely positively by the critics. For Valerie Timm from Laut.de “Cassie is creating a new trend with her album”. Due to the similarity of the songs, “there is a risk of boredom in the long run,” the critic continues. For them, Me & U “clearly stands out” and is what they consider to be the best song on the album. Therefore, there is a risk of “reducing them to this [song] alone”. For Hanna van der Velden from Cdstarts.de the album is “not the worst R'n'B album currently on the market”. However, she criticizes the lack of "certain something, so that Cassie's debut is easily overlooked in every CD cabinet".

For the music magazine Blender , Cassie is "the most consistently compelling R&B debut since Kelis ". For Chris Richards of the Washington Post, "one of the best pop albums released this year sounds like out of space, or the future, or maybe out of heaven." “Cassis voice sounds partly like an angel, partly like a robot,” the critic continued. The New York Times also rated the album positively, it "avoids the mistakes one expects on such an album", the "shallow R&B songs are pleasantly mastered on space beats".

Commercial win

Cassie debuted at number 4 on the Billboard 200 on August 26, 2006 , which is also the top spot for the album on these charts. It stayed in the top 20 for two weeks and in the entire album charts for thirteen weeks. By August 2008, the album had sold 321,000 copies in the United States. In the British album charts , Cassie reached number 33 as the best place, the album spent eight weeks in these charts. For over 60,000 copies sold, Cassie received a silver record from the British Phonographic Industry . In the German-speaking countries, the album did not reach high chart positions, in the German album charts Cassie only spent a week at number 82. The album could not even place in the Ö3 Austria Top 40 , in the Swiss charts it was ranked 57th as the highest position. The album was sold around 650,000 times worldwide.

In terms of charts, Cassie's debut single Me & U was more successful . This reached number three on the Billboard Hot 100 , number 6 in the British singles charts and the top 20 in Germany and Switzerland. Furthermore, it was Me & U by the Recording Industry Association of America with a platinum record award. Together with a gold record in the UK and Canada, the song was sold over 1.4 million times. Cassie's second single Long Way To Go , however, could not build on the success of the debut single.

Chart placements

album

Charts	Top ranking	Weeks
Chart placements
Germany (GfK)	82 (1 week)	1
Austria (Ö3)	- (- Where.)	-
Switzerland (IFPI)	57 (4 weeks)	4th
United Kingdom (OCC)	33 (8 weeks)	8th
United States (Billboard)	4th (13 weeks)	13

Single releases

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
2006	Me & U Cassie	DE12 (9 weeks) DE	AT34 (9 weeks) AT	CH11 (20 weeks) CH	UK6th silver (19 weeks)UK	US3 platinum (16 weeks)US	First published: April 25, 2006
	Long Way 2 Go Cassie	DE43 (9 weeks) DE	-	-	UK12 (14 weeks) UK	US97 (1 week) US	First published: August 28, 2006

Awards for music sales

Cassie received a silver record for over 60,000 units sold in the UK . The album was sold over 650,000 times worldwide.

Country / Region	Award	Sales
Awards for music sales (country / region, Award, Sales)
United Kingdom (BPI)	silver	60,000
United States (RIAA)	-	321,000

Individual evidence

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2. ^ ^{A b} Cassie - Cassie Label: Be With Records - BEWITH007LP. Discogs , accessed March 19, 2018 . 
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7. ^ Andy Kellman: Allmusic album review Cassie - Cassie. In: Allmusic . Accessed March 19, 2018 (English). 
8. ^ ^{A b} Dorian Lynskey: Diddy's latest signing proves that “Me & U” was just the start. In: Blender . Archived from the original on December 28, 2008 ; accessed on March 19, 2018 (English). 
9. ^ ^{A b} Hanna van der Velden: Album review Cassie - Cassie. In: Cdstarts.de. Retrieved March 19, 2018 . 
10. ↑ ^{a b} Valerie Timm: A new era in modern R'n'B begins. In: Laut.de . Retrieved March 19, 2018 . 
11. ^ Rob Sheffield: Rolling Stone Album Review Cassie - Cassie. In: Rolling Stone . September 11, 2006, archived from the original on June 15, 2008 ; accessed on March 19, 2018 (English). 
12. ↑ Chris Richards: RECORDINGS: Quick Spins. In: The Washington Post . August 16, 2006, accessed March 19, 2018 . 
13. ↑ Kelefa Sanneh: New CD's. In: The New York Times . August 7, 2006, accessed March 19, 2018 . 
14. ↑ ^{a b} Jonathan Cohan: Diddy: Cassie CD Will Catch People 'Off Guard'. In: Billboard . April 7, 2008, accessed March 19, 2018 . 
15. ↑ ^{a b} BPI Awards. bpi.co.uk, accessed February 2, 2018 . 
16. ↑ ^{a b} Cassie - Cassie chart placement Germany. GfK Entertainment , accessed on March 19, 2018 . 
17. ↑ ^{a b} Cassie - Cassie chart placement Switzerland. In: Hitparade.ch. Hung Medien, accessed March 19, 2018 . 
18. ↑ ^{a b} Mike Levine: Ryan Leslie - Transition Man. January 1, 2010, archived from the original on February 5, 2016 ; accessed on March 19, 2018 (English). 
19. ^ RIAA Gold & Platinum. Recording Industry Association of America , accessed March 19, 2018 . 
20. ^ Cassie - Cassie chart placement Austria. In: Austriancharts.at. Hung Medien, accessed March 19, 2018 . 
21. ^ Cassie Charthistory United Kingdom. Official Charts Company , accessed March 19, 2018 . 
22. ^ Cassie - Cassie of You chart placement United States. Billboard , accessed March 19, 2017 . 
23. ↑ Chart sources single: DE , AT CH UK US