19 years ago today, Chris Brown released “Exclusive”
His second studio album arrived on CBE/Jive on November 6, 2007. It debuted at No. 4 on the Billboard 200 with nearly 295,000 first-week sales and later spun "Kiss Kiss", "With You" and "Forever" into Hot 100 hits.
Chris Brown's second studio album, Exclusive, was released on November 6, 2007 through CBE and Jive. It turns 19 today.
Brown had planned to call the album Graduation, then changed the title after Kanye West used that name for his own 2007 release. The finished Exclusive set mixed R&B with pop and hip-hop, with production from T-Pain, StarGate, Sean Garrett, The Underdogs, Swizz Beatz and others.
- Album
- Exclusive
- Released
- November 6, 2007 · CBE / Jive
- Billboard 200 debut
- No. 4 · ~294,000–295,000 first week
- Top R&B/Hip-Hop
- No. 2
- US RIAA
- 4× Platinum (as of 2021)
- Key singles
- Kiss Kiss (No. 1) · With You · Forever (No. 2)
Exclusive opened at No. 4 on the Billboard 200. "Kiss Kiss" with T-Pain topped the Hot 100. "With You" followed into the top three internationally, and the Forever Edition single "Forever" peaked at No. 2 in the US. The RIAA has certified the album four times platinum.
Nineteen years later, Exclusive still reads as the album that moved Brown from teen debut to a wider pop-R&B lane.
