Fame Part.2

In 2009, Chris began working on his third album. While doing this album, he wanted to demonstrate a different musical direction for his new album, titled “Graffiti.”  He was hoping to emulate the now deceased singers, Prince and Michael Jackson. He says, “I wanted to change it up and really be different. Like my style nowadays, I don’t try to be typical urban. I want to be like how Prince, Michael, and Stevie Wonder were. They can cross dress over to any genre of music.” The album’s lead single “I Can Transform Ya” peaked at number twenty on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, and number eleven on the US R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. “Crawl” was released as the album’s second single. The song reached number fifty-three on the Billboard Hot 100. Graffiti was then released on December 8, 2009. The album debuted at number seven on the US Billboard 200 chart, selling 102, 000 copies in its first week. Since 2011, it has been sold 341, 000 copies in the United States. While performing a Michael Jackson Tribute at the 2010 BET Awards, Chris started to cry and fell to his knees while singing “Man in the Mirror”. Everyone was very emotional afterwards. Later during the show, Chris stated, “I let ya’ll down before, but I won’t do it again…. I promise.” In May 2010, Chris released a collaborative mix tape with Tyga, called Fan of a Fan. “Deuces", which features Tyga and Kevin McCall, was released from the mix tape in the United States in June 2010. The song peaked at number one on US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart for seven weeks. This gave Chris his first number-one on the chart since his 2006 hit single, "Say Goodbye”. It also peaked at number 14 on Billboard Hot 100 chart.