In what is becoming somewhat of a trend for him, Chris Brown has announced that he plans to release another album this year. This despite ‘F.A.M.E’, his hotly anticipated ’comeback’ effort, still being a week away fro release.

Full story after the jump…

Via Neon Limelight:

At an exclusive F.A.M.E. album listening party held in Los Angeles last night, Breezy announced plans for a second album to hit stores later this year. “That is the first part of the F.A.M.E album,” Brown told the crowd, which consisted mostly of Team Breezy street team members, after playing the album. “I’m coming out with another album six months later.”

With “over 400 songs” recorded for the new albums, Breezy revealed, he has more than enough new tracks to choose from for the set, tentatively titled Fortune.

Though, as a traditionalist, I’d much prefer Chris ‘work’ the ‘F.A.M.E’ album for the long haul, his still-unstable position in the industry is well-documented. Hence, ’striking while the iron is hot’ may be the way forward for him for now. I mean it is hard to deny his logic when it’s been tried and tested with his numerous mixtape releases and features over the last few years. Sometimes ‘less is more’, yet it’s clear with Chris, the more he puts out there, the more of his fanbase he claims back.

His next album is just gonna be a cash-in EP (like Usher's Versus to Raymond v. Raymond or Lady GaGa's The Fame Monster to The Fame). Or he could reissue the album tons of times with a couple of bonus tracks, much like what Beyonce does on all of her album releases. Nothing surprising to today's standards...artists nowadays do it all the time.

[Edited 3/15/11 15:00pm]

The EP is the new trend. It used to be repackage the same album with 3-4 new tracks for a new surge in sales a couple years ago.

musicjunky318 said:

The EP is the new trend. It used to be repackage the same album with 3-4 new tracks for a new surge in sales a couple years ago.

Right!

Back in the days, it would be a single with a great b-side or even just a brand new album release, which had nothing to do with the first release. Many can't do that nowadays, or is it the record company??? IDK!

Whatever it's not like people will be running to the stores for that one too. Go back to school chris.

Don't know about the next album, but I have a feeling "F.A.M.E." is gonna be huge.

babybugz said:

Whatever it's not like people will be running to the stores for that one too. Go back to school chris.

WaterInYourBath said:

Don't know about the next album, but I have a feeling "F.A.M.E." is gonna be huge.