Danity Kane (album)

Danity Kane is the debut album by the American girl group Danity Kane. It was released by Bad Boy Records and Atlantic Records on August 22, 2006, in the United States.

After Danity Kane won the third installment of the reality talent contest Making the Band in late 2005, Sean "Diddy" Combs and Bad Boy vice president Harve Pierre consulted a wide range of high-profile hip-hop and R&B musicians to work with the quintet, including Timbaland, Danja, Bryan Michael Cox, Rami, Ryan Leslie, Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins, Scott Storch, and Jim Jonsin, as well as Bad Boy inhouse producers Mario Winans and D-Dot. Recorded mainly within five weeks, the making of the album was tracked by the second half of Making the Band 3's third season.

Upon its release, the album earned mixed reviews from music critics, many of whom considered the album confident but found the material uneven or generic. A commercial success, Danity Kane sold over 109,000 copies in its first day of release, placing it at number 1 on the US Billboard 200. Having surpassed sales in excess of 935,000 copies by 2008, it was eventually certified Platinum by Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for over one million copies shipped domestically. In support of the album, Danity Kane released two singles, including the top ten hit "Show Stopper," and served as the singer Christina Aguilera's opening act during the North American leg of her Back to Basics Tour (2007).

Background

Much of Danity Kane was recorded between February and May 2006 at The Hit Factory in Miami, Florida. "I Wish," a previously unreleased song that the band had worked on with Shannon Jones and Jack Knight during the production of the album, was released digitally in February 2021.