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''A Million Lights'' is the third studio album by English recording artist Cheryl Cole, released on 15 June 2012 through Fascination Records. Following her divorce from Ashley Cole, this is Cole's first album to be released under the mononym Cheryl, dropping her married surname. The album was recorded in 2011 and 2012. As the executive producer of the album, Cole enlisted a variety of producers such as Alex da Kid, Calvin Harris, will.i.am, Pantha, Agent X, HyGrade, Dada Life, Jim Beanz, Taio Cruz, Mathias Wollo, The Beamer Boyz, Billy Wes, Electric, Bibi Jones and Dave Munday. Sonically, the album is rooted in pop and dance-pop genres. Upon its release, ''A Million Lights'' received mainly mixed to positive reviews from music critics, who commended its progression from Cole's previous albums, but were ambivalent towards the mix of genres. The album debuted on the UK Albums Chart at position two, selling 34,934 copies in its first week. ''A Million Lights'' also peaked at two on the Irish Albums Chart, and one on the Scottish albums chart. ''A Million Lights'' was certified Gold in the United Kingdom for shipments of 100,000 copies. Two singles have been released from the album. The first single, "Call My Name", was released on 8 June 2012. With only three days of release, "Call My Name" sold a total of 97,000 in the United Kingdom alone, debuting at number one with first week sales of 152,001 and becoming the second fastest selling single of 2012. "Under The Sun" was released 2 September 2012 as the second single from the album.〔〔 The song peaked at number 13, becoming her sixth solo top-twenty single. "Screw You" was scheduled to be the album's third single, but the release was cancelled indefinitely and no more singles were released from ''A Million Lights'' due to the reunion of Girls Aloud in November 2012. ==Background== In 2009, British band Girls Aloud decided to take a hiatus, to focus on solo careers. Later in 2009, Cole released her debut solo album, titled ''3 Words''. ''3 Words'' spent two weeks at number one in the United Kingdom and on 6 November 2009, BPI certified the album Platinum, denoting shipments of over 300,000 units. It later tripled this feat. Cole's second solo album, titled Messy Little Raindrops, was released on 1 November 2010. The album debuted at number one in the UK, and at number two in Ireland. On 19 August 2011 the album was certified Platinum by BPI, with sales in excess of 300,000. On 5 May 2011, it was officially announced after months of speculation that Cole would appear as a judge alongside Simon Cowell, L.A. Reid, and Paula Abdul on the American version of ''The X Factor''. However, after only three weeks as a judge and completing the auditions in Los Angeles and Chicago, Cole departed the show. Cowell said that the reason why Cole left was because he offered her the job in the UK version back and he felt that she would have been more comfortable there. Additionally, it was later confirmed that she would not be returning to the UK version either, as Tulisa Contostavlos had taken her place on the UK judging panel.〔("CONFIRMED N-Dubz's Tulisa and Kelly Rowland to replace Cheryl Cole and Dannii Minogue on The X Factor" ) 31 May 2011, Now Magazine〕 Nicole Scherzinger replaced Cole on the judging panel of ''The X Factor USA'' for the rest of season 1. Cole then began to focus on her third studio album and began recording sessions in July 2011. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「A Million Lights」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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