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Name | Real Girl |
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Cover | 200px-Loose_cover.jpg |
Type | studio |
Artist | Mutya Buena |
Released | |
Recorded | 2006–2007 |
Genre | Pop, R&B;, soul |
Length | 51:17 |
Label | Island |
Producer | Eg White, Matt Ward, Dean Gillard, Groove Armada, Jony Rockstar, Felix Howard, Guz Lally, Guy Sigsworth, Salaam Remi, Johnny Douglas, Wayne Wilkins, RedEye |
This album | Real Girl(2007)| Misc = |
Name | Real Girl |
Type | studio |
Single 2 | This Is Not Real Love |
Single 2 date | November 2006 |
Single 2 | Real Girl |
Single 2 date | 28 May 2007 |
Single 3 | Song 4 Mutya (Out of Control) |
Single 3 date | 27 July 2007 |
Single 4 | Just a Little Bit |
Single 4 date | 22 October 2007 |
Single 5 | B Boy Baby |
Single 5 date | 31 December 2007 |
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Real Girl is the debut solo album by Mutya Buena released on 4 June 2007. After leaving the Sugababes, Buena signed with her previous label Universal Records, specifically the recently resurrected label 4th & Broadway. However, it's her first and last album with 4th & Broadway/Universal Records, because she was recently dropped from the label. This was the only ever album to be released by Buena after she decided to quit music in 2010.
The video for "Real Girl" is on her official website , along with clips of the new songs "Just A Little Bit", "Strung Out", and "Wonderful".
The album is being released in Japan in August (according to www.hmv.co.jp) and includes the standard 13 tracks PLUS 2 bonus remixes of "Real Girl".
The title song, Real Girl, is mainly based on a sample of Lenny Kravitz' "It Ain't Over 'Til It's Over".
The first single taken from the album was "Real Girl", and was a massive-hit in the United Kingdom peaking at #2 on the UK Top 75, and did quite well on the European charts. However, the album only peaked at #10 on the UK Albums Chart, staying over one month inside the UK Top 100, and selling only 60,000 copies, becoming a commercial failure. Next single released was a Groove Armada's song, and featured Mutya's vocals. The single peaked at #8 on the UK Singles Charts, and had moderate success in the rest of the world. "Just a Little Bit" was chosen to be the third single, and was released in late-October in the United Kingdom. It was a commercial failure, due to the poor promotion it received, and it peaked outside the UK Top 50, at #65. The fourth single was "B Boy Baby", and features Amy Winehouse, and was released in late-December, two weeks after Sugababes releases their single "Change", the single was released only via her official website and so underperformed in the charts peaking at #73 on the UK Singles Chart.
One track on the album was written by Buena's replacement in Sugababes Amelle Berrabah although Buena did not know that she had written the track until the album had already been released, the record company made up a fake name for the credits of the track.
It is due to the commercial failure of the singles and the album in the UK that in February 2008 Mutya Buena was dropped by her label Universal Music group.
As of February 2008 the album has sold 100,000 copies in the UK
In January 2009 the album saw a resurgence due to Mutya's appearance on Celebrity Big Brother. Play.com reported an increase in sales of 106%.
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