CHARLOTTEYOU

CHARLOTTEYOU is the sophomore studio album by Charlotte Bennett, Irish Singer/Songwriter which was released late Aug. 2010 under her new agency Interscope Records after a short time under Cash Money Rec. which ended due to Charlotte's long time rivallry with another undisclosed artist under the respective label.

The original covers for CHARLOTTEYOU were lost in a fire that broke out at Charlotte's East Belfast home shortly after the photoshoot in early September 2009

CHARLOTTEYOU reached #1 Worldwide despite low-key promotion

CHARLOTTEYOU was cerificated x13 Platinum for shipment of 13,456,097 copies by RIAA

Background and Inspiration
After Charlotte's stint with Cash Money Records she had given up hope for ever returning into the music scene even after the sucess of her first album and it's respective singles. She auditioned for XFactor India in September 2010 and passed the initial audition where she ended up making it to the final she was the favorite to win the show until the secret of her western sucess was excavated by the Indian tabloids, which meant Charlotte had to forfeight her victory as she had broken the rules of the competition.

However her appearance on the show had caught interest from Interscope Records who had seen clips of her perfomances of THE WINNERS SONG (Which she had wrote herself and performed in the XFactor India semi-final) on popular website Youtube; they immediately signed her and Charlotte was flown out to L.A. to record her album.

Most of the songs on the album were written about her experiences after being dropped from Cash Money, Charlotte felt that she had got rid of most of her adolescent feelings in CHARLOTTEME! and wanted to reflect a more mature side of herself for in CHARLOTTEYOU.

The first single Rule The World's lyrics echoed that of Charlotte's ambition to become famous and to as well become one of the most iconic artists of the era, she wanted CHARLOTTEYOU and namely the lead single to reflect the upmost feelings she wanted to share with her fans and the public Charlotte worked with her usual entourage of star famous producers on the album including DJ WADAMZ, ranDOLL inc., RymiX and Tracy Beaker as well as long time friend Erin Swarvoski. Notably Charlotte's close friend DJem did not produce any tracks for the album - Later explaination for this in 2011 was that DJen was in Africa harvesting tree sap with her bare hands for her own special DJen Chewing Gum, her trip however was extended due to her being held captive by Aborigines in the Congo Rainforest.

Charlotte felt like postponing the release in order to be able to include a DJen remix but the company pressured her into keeping with the original release date.

The album is Charlotte's only album to be released with only one cover jacket - speculation is due to the fire that happened on charlotte's premises which destroyed alot of progress on the album.