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11:11 (Chris Brown album)

2023 studio album by Chris Brown

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ122148953 ↗
Source-derived summary

11:11 is the eleventh studio album by American singer and songwriter Chris Brown. It was released digitally on November 10, 2023, by RCA Records and CBE. The expanded edition titled 11:11 (Deluxe) was released on April 11, 2024. Production was handled by Brown himself and several record producers, including RoccStar, Hitmaka, Troy Taylor, Boi-1da and Fridayy. 11:11 features guest appearances from Byron Messia, Future, Maeta, Fridayy, Davido and Lojay, with the deluxe edition having additional features from Lil Wayne, Bryson Tiller, Joyner Lucas, Tee Grizzley and Mario. It serves as the follow-up to his tenth studio album Breezy (2022).

Musically, 11:11 is a double album that mixes R&B, pop, Afrobeats and dancehall and its lyrical themes include romantic relationships, sexuality and self-reflection. The album received positive reviews from music critics, who praised its sound and Brown's performances. At the Grammy Awards, 11:11 (Deluxe) won Best R&B Album, while the tracks "Summer Too Hot" and "Residuals" were nominated for Best R&B Performance, and "Sensational" was nominated for Best African Music Performance. 11:11 also won Top R&B Album at the 2024 Billboard Music Awards and was nominated for Album of the Year at the 2024 BET Awards.

Commercially, 11:11 debuted at number nine on the US Billboard 200, making it his 12th consecutive top-ten album in the country.

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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—2023, 2024, 2022—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2023-11-10. For this dossier, Chris, Brown and album is the immediate research focus.
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