Talk that talk

This article covers the music album. For the song, see Talk That Talk (song) .

Talk that talk
Studio album by Rihanna
Publication (s)	November 18, 2011
admission	February 2011 - November 2011
Label (s)	Def Jam , SRP
Format (s)	CD , download
Genre (s)	R&B , pop , hip-hop , dance , reggae , dubstep
Title (number)	11 (Standard Edition) 14 (Deluxe Edition)
running time	37:28 (Standard Edition) 49:03 (Deluxe Edition)
occupation	Singing : Rihanna
production	The Runners, Shama Joseph, StarGate, Brian Kennedy, Timbaland , Teddy Riley, Jim Beanz, Rusko, Hit-Boy , RedOne, Calvin Harris
Studio (s)	France, Italy, Los Angeles
chronology Loud (2010) Talk that talk Unapologetic (2012)
Single releases October 1st , 2011 " We Found Love " January 2nd , 2012 " You da One " 3rd March 26th 2012 " Talk That Talk " May 4th 25th 2012 "Where Have You Been" 5th September 7th 2012 "Cockiness (Love It) Remix"

Talk That Talk (s Viewed. "Make the conversation" ) is the sixth album consisting of Barbados derived R & B - singer Rihanna . It was released on November 18, 2011 in Germany and three days later in the United Kingdom and the United States.

background

On April 8, 2011 it was first announced that Rihanna was working on new recordings again in the studio. As it became known later, the recordings had already started in February 2011. For example, producer Teddy Riley was the first of the entire team to report on the work on the new work - a re-release of the predecessor Loud was suspected .

Two months later, the American radio presenter Ryan Seacrest announced that the new album should be released in autumn 2011. Rihanna herself confirmed a release this fall on July 21. On September 4th, she confirmed via Twitter that there would be no re-release, but a completely new album.

Singles and Promotion

Singles

Confirmatory information about the album's first single was released on September 17th . It was produced by Calvin Harris and is called We Found Love . It was first broadcast on radio stations on September 22, 2011. It was released on CD in Germany on October 21st . Rihanna shot the music video for the single in three days from September 26th to September 28th in the Irish cities of Bangor and Belfast . It was officially released worldwide on October 19th. Back in October, Rihanna tweeted a few lines from a song that couldn't be classified. But as sources later stated, these lyrics should belong to the second single of the album and bear the title You da One . This was produced by Dr. Luke, who has already produced hits for Katy Perry and Kesha , and written by Lukasz Gottwald, Ester Dean , John Hill and Rihanna himself. The song is a mid-tempo number with some choral elements in the chorus. It was first broadcast on radio stations on November 11, 2011, a week before the album was released. On February 20, Birthday Cake was officially released as the fourth single . The release is a remixed version of the song, in collaboration with Chris Brown. The fifth single "Where Have You Been" became famous with a music video shoot for the song.

promotion

The promotion for the new album officially started on September 20, 2011 at 8:00 p.m. German time. A new Rihanna app called "Unlocked" appeared on Rihanna's Facebook page. There are thirteen stations in it, which are automatically activated as soon as a certain number of users has been reached. Behind these “doors” there is exclusive information about the new album - which you can only find out via the social network.

Musical structure

Talk That Talk is made up of a variety of musical genres including hip-hop , R&B , house , dancehall and dubstep , a genre the singer first incorporated on her fourth studio album, Rated R (2009). The opening song You Da One , performed by Dr. Luke is a mid-tempo song with Caribbean influences that is also inspired by dubstep. Where Have You Been , by Dr. Luke and Ester Dean contains elements from the trance genre. The first single, We Found Love , is a house and dance pop song. The title track, Talk That Talk , features rapper Jay-Z , and part of The Notorious BIG's I Got a Story to Tell was sampled. The fifth track, Cockiness (Love It) was produced by Bangladesh and features hip-hop and dancehall influences. The sixth track, Birthday Cake , produced by Da Internz and The-Dream , is an interlude that lasts one minute and 18 seconds. The piece moves between the genres of hip-hop and electronic. As announced by the producer of the song, the song will be released in full at a later date. The seventh track We All Want Love is an acoustic song with different drum beats. The eighth track Drunk On Love was produced by long-time employees StarGate and Ester Dean and has elements of trance beats and synth pop. It contains a sample of the song Intro , which originally comes from the English band The xx . The tenth song, Watch n 'Learn, consists of a hip-hop melody with synth-pop influences. The final track in the Standard Edition, Farewell , is a ballad. The first bonus track of the deluxe edition Red Lipstick is a dubstep song, produced by the English band Chase & Status and The-Dream and co-produced by Rihanna. The album's thirteenth track, Do Ya Thang , is an R&B song co-produced by The-Dream and Rihanna. The last track on the album, Fool in Love, is a mid-tempo song with acoustic guitars.

Track list

On November 5, 2011, the completed track list of the standard and deluxe edition was published.

Standard Edition
No.	title	text	production	length
1	You da One	Lukasz Gottwald, Ester Dean , John Hill, Robyn Fenty	Dr. hatch	3:20
2	Where Have You Been	Gottwald, Dean, Calvin Harris	Harris, Luke, Cirkut	4:02
3	We Found Love (featuring Calvin Harris)	Harris	Harris	3:36
4th	Talk That Talk (featuring Jay-Z )	Dean, Jay-Z, Sean Combs	StarGate	3:29
5	Cockiness (Love It)	Candice Pillay, D. Abernathy, Shondrae Crawford, Fenty	Bangladesh	2:58
6th	Birthday Cake	Terius Nash, Marcos Palacios, Ernest Clark, Fenty	The-Dream	1:18
7th	We All Want Love	Dean, Ernest Wilson, Steve Wyreman, Kevin Randolph	No ID	3:57
8th	Drunk On Love	Eriksen, Hermansen, Dean, Traci Hale, Romy Croft, Oliver Sim, Jamie Smith, Baria Qureshi	StarGate	3:32
9	Roc Me Out	Eriksen, Hermansen, Dean, Rob Swire, Gareth McGrillen	StarGate	3:29
10	Watch n 'Learn	Priscilla Renea, Hit-Boy , Alja Jackson, Fenty	Hit boy	3:31
11	Farewell	Dean, Alexander Grant	Big Juice	4:16
12	We Found Love Calvin Harris Extended Mix (Bonus Track)	Harris	Harris

Deluxe Edition
No.	title	text	production	length
12	Red lipstick	Nash, James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Saul Milton, Will Kennard , Fenty	Chase & Status , The-Dream	3:37
13	Do Ya Thang	Nash, Fenty	The-Dream	3:43
14th	Fool in love	Gottwald, Dean, Dr Luke, Henry Walter	Dr. hatch	4:15

• Talk That Talk samples I Got a Story to Tell by Notorious BIG
• Drunk On Love samples intro of The xx

Sales figures and awards

Country / Region	Award	Sales
Awards for music sales (country / region, Award, Sales)
Australia (ARIA)	platinum	70,000
Belgium (BEA)	gold	15,000
Brazil (PMB)	gold	20,000
Denmark (IFPI)	gold	15,000
Germany (BVMI)	gold	100,000
Europe (IFPI)	platinum	(1,000,000)
Ireland (IRMA)	3 × platinum	45,000
Italy (FIMI)	gold	30,000
New Zealand (RMNZ)	platinum	15,000
Austria (IFPI)	gold	10,000
Poland (ZPAV)	3 × platinum	60,000
Sweden (IFPI)	platinum	40,000
Switzerland (IFPI)	platinum	30,000
Spain (Promusicae)	gold	30,000
Hungary (MAHASZ)	gold	3,000
United States (RIAA)	3 × platinum	3,000,000
United Kingdom (BPI)	3 × platinum	900,000
All in all	8 × gold 17 × platinum	4,323,000

Main article: Rihanna / Music Sales Awards

publication

country	date	format	Label	Edition
Australia	November 18, 2011	CD , download	Universal Music	Standard, deluxe
Germany
Ireland				default
Poland				Standard, deluxe
United Kingdom	November 21, 2011		Mercury
United States			Def Jam
France
Italy			Def Jam, Pho Records
Canada			Universal Music
Japan	November 23, 2011
India
Brazil	November 29, 2011

Individual evidence

1. ↑ New Releases UK - Forthcoming Singles radio1.gr . Retrieved March 28, 2012.
2. ↑ ^{a b} RIHANNA - Discography - Talk That Talk - Album, CD - CD's, Discography - Universal Music . Archived from the original on October 14, 2011. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 26, 2011. 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Talk That Talk . Amazon . Retrieved October 24, 2011.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Rihanna’s 'We Found Love' Gets First Radio Play . In: MTV . Viacom. September 22, 2011. Retrieved September 22, 2011.
5. ↑ Future Releases . Allaccess.com. Retrieved September 19, 2011.
6. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n} Robert Copsey: Rihanna's new album 'Talk That Talk': First listen - Music Blog - Digital Spy . Digital spy. Hachette Filipacchi (UK) Ltd. November 10, 2011. Retrieved November 12, 2011.
7. ^ New Music: Rihanna f / Calvin Harris - 'We Found Love' . In: Rap-Up . Devin Lazerine. September 22, 2011. Retrieved September 27, 2011.
8. ^ Rihanna - 'We Found Love' featuring Calvin Harris . About.com . Archived from the original on October 30, 2011. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 27, 2011. 
9. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l} Rihanna reveals second single, producers of 'Talk That Talk' . In: Rap-Up , Devin Lazerine. Retrieved November 10, 2011. 
10. ^ ACE Title Search . American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. Archived from the original on November 7, 2011. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 8, 2011. 
11. ↑ Buy Talk That Talk Rihanna - Sanity ( English ) October 23, 2011. Retrieved October 23, 2011.
12. ↑ Umusic.ie - Artists - Rihanna . Universal Music Ireland. Retrieved October 29, 2011.
13. ↑ Talk That Talk PL - Rihanna - 38.99zł ( Polish ) Retrieved October 20, 2011.
14. ↑ Talk That Talk ( French ) Amazon.com. Retrieved November 6, 2011.
15. ↑ Talk That Talk ( Italian ) Amazon.com. Retrieved November 6, 2011.
16. ↑ Talk That Talk (Deluxe) . Amazon.com. Retrieved November 6, 2011.
17. ↑ Talk That Talk [Limited Edition ] . 2011. Retrieved October 14, 2011.
18. ↑ Talk That Talk [Standard Edition ] . CD India. 2011. Archived from the original on January 16, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 23, 2011. 
19. ↑ Talk That Talk (Deluxe Version) ( portuguese ) Livraria Cultura. Retrieved November 19, 2011.