Release and Promotion
The album's lead single, "Bossy", features rapper Too Short and was a successful hit. It was a slow burner in the US but eventually was certified multi platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America in December 2006. It broke into the top twenty of the Billboard Hot 100 to peak at number sixteen. The second single from the album in the US, "Blindfold Me", featuring Nas, peaked at number ninety-one on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs but never made it onto the Hot 100. The second international single was "Lil Star" which features Cee-Lo of the Gnarls Barkley fame and earned Kelis her highest chart entries since 2004's "Millionaire". "Lil Star" climbed to number three on the UK Singles Chart selling over 118,000 copies and was also a hit in Ireland reaching the number-two position.
Due to the use of "I Don't Think So" in a promotional advertising for Big Brother Australia 2008, the song charted on the Australian ARIA Singles Chart on April 21, 2008 at number forty-nine based on digital download sales alone. The following week it rose twenty places to number twenty-nine, ultimately peaking at number twenty-seven.
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