Don't Be Cruel (album)

Don't Be Cruel (album)
Don't Be Cruel
Studio album by Bobby Brown
Released June 20, 1988
Recorded October 1987–April 1988
Genre R&B, dance-pop, new jack swing
Length 47:08
Label MCA
Producer L. A. Reid and Babyface
Bobby Brown chronology
King of Stage
(1986)
Don't Be Cruel
(1988)
Dance!...Ya Know It!
(1989)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 4/5 stars[1]
Robert Christgau (B+)[2]
Spin (favorable)[3]

Don't Be Cruel is the second album by American R&B singer Bobby Brown, released in 1988 on MCA Records. It includes four hit singles "Don't Be Cruel", "My Prerogative", "Roni" and "Every Little Step." All were #1 R&B singles except "Roni," which peaked at #2, while "My Prerogative" became Brown's highest charting single at #1 on the Hot 100.

Don't Be Cruel went to #1 on both the R&B and Pop charts as an album; it first topped the R&B Albums chart for 11 nonconsecutive weeks starting in 1988, then peaked on the Pop Album chart for three weeks the year after. It was the best-selling album in 1989 on the Billboard Year-End Pop Album Chart and eventually went seven times Platinum. The album is the 33rd best-selling album of the 1980s, with sales already at 5 million copies by September of 1989[4]. Don't Be Cruel was the best selling "New Jack Swing" album at the time until Michael Jackson's 1991 album "Dangerous" was released. Bobby Brown won the grammy for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance in 1990. Brown followed the release of his album with a 120-date world tour.

"Don't Be Cruel" appeared in popular video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, playing on fictional New Jack Swing radio station CSR 103.9. My Prerogative was later covered by Britney Spears in 2004 on her Greatest Hits: My Prerogative album, and released as a single.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Cruel Prelude" – 0:39
  2. "Don't Be Cruel" – 6:52 (#8 U.S.) (Babyface/Reid/Simmons)
  3. "My Prerogative" – 4:51 (#1 U.S.) (Brown/Griffin)
  4. "Roni" – 5:58 (#3 U.S.)(Babyface/Darnell Bristol)
  5. "Rock Wit'cha" – 4:49 (#7 U.S.) (Babyface/Reid)
  6. "Every Little Step" – 3:57 (#3 U.S.) (Babyface/Reid)
  7. "I'll Be Good to You" – 4:25 (Brown/Griffin)
  8. "Take It Slow" – 5:22 (Logan/Peters/White)
  9. "All Day All Night" – 4:40 (Peters/Sweet/Wadington/White)
  10. "I Really Love You Girl" – 5:11 (Brown/Jones)
  11. "Cruel Reprise" – 0:18

Production

  • Producers: Babyface, Bobby Brown, Gene Griffin, Gordon Jones, Larry White
  • Mixing: Larry White, Teddy Riley, Dennis Mitchell, Jon Gass, Michael Denton, Babyface
  • Engineering: Babyface, Michael Denton, Jon Gass, Mitch Gibson, John Guggenheim, Fred Howard, Howard Johnston, K2, Ruben Laxamana, Dennis Mitchell, Mark Slagle, Larry White
  • Mastering: Steve Hall

Credits

  • Drums, Percussion: Richard Aguon, Dewayne Sweet, Larry White
  • Drum Programming: Markell Riley
  • Bass: Kirk Crumpler, Larry White
  • Synthesized Bass: Dewayne Sweet, Kirk Crumpler
  • Keyboards: Larry White, Dewayne Sweet, Percy Scott, Teddy Riley, Ben Rayes, Kirk Crumpler
  • Guitars: Larry White, Emilio Conesa
  • Saxophone: Melecio Magdaluyo
  • Finger Snaps: Tommy Brown

Chart positions

Year Chart Position
1989 The Billboard 200 1

Later Samples

References

Preceded by
Giving You The Best That I Got by Anita Baker
Billboard 200 number-one album
January 21 - February 10, 1989
February 18 - March 10, 1989
Succeeded by
Electric Youth by Debbie Gibson

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