TCG (album)

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TCG is the title of The Cheetah Girls' official debut studio album. The album was released on Hollywood Records on September 25, 2007.

About

The Girls began work on the album while touring the U.S. on their The Party's Just Begun Tour which began in September 2006 and ended in March 2007.

Group member Adrienne Bailon was quoted as saying, "We'll be making a real soundtrack, not a studio album. It's important for people to see us as a real musical group. We have all this great marketing around us, with the movies and other things. But we are a musical group." She also added that the soundtracks and Christmas album "don't count".

Group member Sabrina Bryan was interviewed by Billboard Magazine and stated that the group was eager to showcase a more mature sound to gather an audience of older fans while keeping the lyrics clean for the younger fanbase as well. She stated that the group would work with some of the producers that they had previously worked with, while also exploring new producers that they hadn't yet worked with. In this interview it was also revealed that the group would release the newest original motion picture soundtrack on Geffen Records, instead of Nickelodeon Records and Columbia Records, which was the record labels used to release the group's soundtrack albums, their holiday album Cheetah-licious Christmas, and their live album In Concert: The Party's Just Begun Tour..

Group member Kiely Williams, describing the album, stated "It's like the first look at the Cheetah Girls apart from our roles in the show. … Just Sabrina, Adrienne, Miley and Kiely kind of saying what we feel … We actually co-produced and wrote a good portion of the album." She also confirmed that this album will be "a little bit more mature than what the fans are used to". She also described the music on the album as a blend of hip-hop and R&B.

The girls also stated in the DVD to their In Concert: The Party's Just Begun Tour CD/DVD combo that, with this album, the fans will get to know them as "Adrienne Bailon, Sabrina Bryan, Miley Cyrus as Hannah Montana and Kiely Williams" and not as their characters from the movies.

On August 5, 2007 Ken Bunt, Senior Vice President of Marketing at Geffen Records announced that the new original motion picture soundtrack would not be released in CDVU+ format contrary to the Jonas Brothers' second album being released in the format. Also announced was that the Girls would open a new official Geffen Records website after they approved the packaging for the CD as well as images for the website, and that the Girls wish to re-release the album with 2 CDs of material they recorded. Also, in an interview with Radio Nickelodeon about the album, the Girls commented that some leftover tracks would be used on The Cheetah Girls 3: Indian Adventure! soundtrack. Later that same day he made the announcement that the first single from the album would be So Bring It On.

The girls confirmed to Radio Disney that they recorded over thirty songs for the album. They stated that some of the songs that were not chosen for the album may be used for The Cheetah Girls 3 soundtrack.

So Bring It On was performed at the closing ceremonies of the 2007 Disney Channel Games. The music video for the song consists of footage of this performance combined with clips of the movie Twitches Too, in which the song will be used.

Also recently announced, Fuego will be the second single from the album. Group member Kiely Williams said she was interested in directing the video. The song samples Lionel Richie's "All Night Long," and the video will be a "destination video" with a luau theme and will be filmed in an "exotic" location.

The CD was released on September 25, 2007. Wal-Mart has a limited time exclusive-edition with a bonus disc of five songs, two of which are Spanish versions of songs that will appear on the regular album. Also a special edition of the album was released at Target which includes a bonus track and a free download for a ringtone.

The album debuted at number 44 on the Billboard 200 albums chart with 19,000 copies sold in its first week.

Tracklisting

CD

#	Title	Writer/Producer	Length
1	"Fuego"	Bailon, Cyrus, Bogart, Bryan, Rivera, Rotem, Williams	3:28
2	"Uh Oh"	Bailon, Cyrus, Bryan, Haywood, James, Peiken, Williams	3:15
3	"Human"	DioGuardi, Gerrard, Villalon	3:54
4	"So Bring It On"	Bailon, Cyrus, Bryan, Haywood, Norland, Peiken, Rabb, Williams	3:00
5	"Break Out This Box"	Bailon, Bryan, Chasez, Dixon, Feemster, Harrell, Kelly	3:51
6	"Crash"	Lunt, Oliver, RedOne	3:36
7	"Do No Wrong"	Bogart, Makebo, Rotem	3:26
8	"All In Me"	Bojanic, Hooper, James	3:28
9	"Hannah Montana Raps" featuring Kyle Massey	Bailon, Cyrus, Massey, Bojanic, Bryan, Hooper, Elizabet, Obeng, Takayanogi, Williams	3:48
10	"Who We Are"	Aparo, Kadish	3:04
11	"Homesick"	Williams	3:29

Bonus Tracks

Title	Version	Length
"How A Girl Feels"	Target exclusive bonus track	3:29

Wal-Mart Bonus EP

The Wal-Mart edition of the album comes with the exclusive TCG - EP, which consists of five bonus tracks.

#	Title	Length
1	"I Wanna Know You Like That"	3:53
2	"On My Way"	3:15
3	"Fuego (Spanish Version)"	3:28
4	"Off The Wall (Spanish Version)"	3:48
5	"So Bring It On (Remix)"	5:15

Leftover Tracks

1. Falling For You (performed on The Party's Just Begun Tour, and included on the group's live album, In Concert: The Party's Just Begun Tour.)
2. Cheetah-licious (performed on The Party's Just Begun Tour)
3. Girls Just Want to Have Fun (Performed on The Party's Just Begun Tour along with Miley Cyrus, and Everlife.)
4. Fall Apart (performed on The Party's Just Begun Tour)

Spanish Version

The Girls' record label, Hollywood Records has announced that the girls will re-record the entire album in Spanish. This version of the album will be released sometime during the Spring of 2008.

Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)

Chart (2007)	Peak position	Sales
U.S. Billboard 200	44	19,000+

Trivia

• The album was initially scheduled to be released on June 19, 2007 then September 18, 2007 and finally was released on September 25, 2007.