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Available on Vinyl for the First Time in Celebration of the Albums 10th Anniversary!
The Dutchess, the debut album by Fergie, was originally released in September 2006. Universal Music Enterprises will mark its 10th anniversary milestone with a two-LP edition of the original album, available in December 2016. The Dutchess is one of this centurys seminal pop music achievements and this reissue marks the first time it will be made available on the vinyl format.
Upon its release, The Dutchess a play on real-life Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson and their shared nickname peaked at #2 on the Billboard 200, selling over 5.7 million copies in the U.S. and over 9 million worldwide, producing five Top 5 singles, including three #1 hits in London Bridge (2 million sold in U.S.), Big Girls Dont Cry (4 million sold in U.S.) and Glamorous (3 million sold in U.S.), along with the #2 Fergalicious (4 million sold in U.S.) and #5 Clumsy (2 million sold in U.S.), setting the record for most multi-platinum singles from one album.
The autobiographical album offered what Fergie called at the time a deeper looking into who I am eclectic, but Ill get to experiment with more of the different sounds of my voice. Much of it was recorded while Fergie was on tour with the Black Eyed Peas with the albums co-executive producer (with Ron Fair and DJ Mormile), though many of the songs were written over a seven-year period before she joined the band. The album also featured cameos from Ludacris (Glamorous), Rita Marley and the I-Threes (Mary Jane Shoes,), John Legend (Finally) and (Fergalicious, All That I Got [The Make-Up Song], and Here I Come).
The albums impact continues to be felt to this day. Big Girls Dont Cry was nominated for a Grammy for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, and its stylistic mix featuring electronica, hip-hop and dance (Fergalicious), neo-girl-group pop (Clumsy), reggae (Voodoo Doll), ska-punk (Mary Jane Shoes) and R&B/Pop (Glamorous) proved prescient. Along with the autobiographical themes of battling drug addiction (Voodoo Doll), dealing with fame and celebrity (London Bridge) and wanting to be loved for herself, not just how she looks (All That I Got [The Make-Up Song]), The Dutchess offers a glimpse into the real Fergie.
Reassessing the album, Billboards Jason Lipshutz noted: It is a monster hit by any metric, as well as an underrated pop pastiche that introduced the world to a fearlessly individual female artist that had been hiding in plain sight. It arrived, it conquered and it still has no upshot Its a weird, wild debut, and one of the most successful of this century. Fergie deserves retroactive praise for an uncompromising first look.
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