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Differently (album)

2009 album by Cassie Davis

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 8, 2025
Entity authorityQ5275384 ↗
Source-derived summary

Differently is the only album by Australian singer Cassie Davis and was released on 14 August 2009. Davis herself wrote and produced most of the album, with the help of producers Printz Board, Rodney Jerkins and Wayne Wilkins.

Singles

"Like It Loud" was released for digital download on 22 January 2009 with the CD single following a day later. It reached number eleven on the Australian ARIA Singles Chart, stayed on the top fifty for twelve weeks and was recently certified gold with shipments of over 35,000 copies.

"Differently" featuring Gym Class Heroes' Travis McCoy, was released to Australian radio in March 2009 and physically on 24 April 2009. It debuted at number fifty on the ARIA Singles Chart but has risen to number twenty-nine. It was certified GOLD in September 2009

"Do It Again" was released as the third single in August 2009. It eventually peaked at #24 on the Singles Chart.

"No More" is the fourth single from the album and was released to Australian radio on 28 September 2009. It debuted on the Australian ARIA SIngles Chart on 6 December 2009 at #100, and rose 10 spots to 90 the following week to have a new peak on the aria charts.

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“Differently (album)” enters the record as 2009 album by Cassie Davis. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Differently, album and Cassie can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2009—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2009. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Differently, album and Cassie.
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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 8, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5275384. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2009.

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