Basic Instinct (album)

***Basic Instinct*** is the fourth studio album by American recording artist Ciara. It was released on December 10, 2010, by LaFace Records and Jive Records. Executively produced by A&R agent Mark Pitts, Ciara, Tricky Stewart and The-Dream, _Basic Instinct_ returns Ciara to her urban roots with mid-tempo R&B, hip hop and dance songs.

## Critical response

_Basic Instinct_ received, on average, positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 72.

## Track listings

- Notes
- Track listing and credits taken from album booklet.
- <sup></sup> denotes a vocal producer
- <sup></sup> denotes a co-producer
- "Basic Instinct (U Got Me)" samples "Eye of the Tiger" by Survivor.
- "Heavy Rotation" contains a portion of "Baby Baby" written by Rogers Andrell, Brian Flemming and Gerald J. Coats.

## Personnel

Credits for _Basic Instinct_ adapted from Allmusic.

- The Agency – Producer
- Alex Al – Bass
- Chris Bellman – Mastering
- Christopher "Ludacris" Bridges – Composer
- Ciara Harris – Executive Producer, Composer, Primary vocals
- Martin Cooke – Assistant Engineer
- Steven Dennis – Assistant Engineer, Mixing Assistant
- Lauren Evans – Background vocals
- Iain Findlay – Assistant Engineer
- Yolonda Frederick – Make-Up
- Chris Galland – Assistant Engineer
- Jesus Garnica – Mixing Assistant
- Steven Gomillion – Photography
- Josh Goodwin – Vocal Engineer
- Mark Gray – Mixing Assistant
- Josh Gudwin – Vocal Engineer
- Kuk Harrell – Vocal Engineer, Vocal Producer
- Travis Harrington – Mixing Assistant
- Jaycen Joshua – Mixing
- Dennis Leupold – Photography
- Giancarlo Lino – Mixing Assistant
- Chris Bellman – Audio mastering

- Mike Molina – Composer
- Monte Neuble – Keyboards
- Terius "The-Dream" Nash – Executive Producer, Producer
- Luis Navarro – Assistant Engineer
- Chris "Tek" O'Ryan – Engineer
- Mark Pitts – Executive Producer, A&R
- Zachariah Redding – Assistant Engineer
- Marni Senofonte – Stylist
- Kelly Sheehan – Engineer
- Jason Sherwood – Assistant Engineer
- Kenneth "Soundz" Colby – Producer, Composer
- Christopher "Tricky" Stewart – Executive Producer, Composer, Producer
- Anthony Taglianetti – Assistant Engineer
- Brian "B-Luv" Thomas – Engineer
- Michael Thompson – Guitar
- Pat Thrall – Engineer, Vocal Effect
- Randy Urbanski – Assistant Engineer
- Courtney Walter – Art Direction, Design
- Tyler "T-Minus" Williams – Composer, Producer
- Kiyah Wright – Hair Stylist
- Andrew Wuepper – Engineer, Mixing

### Weekly charts

|Chart (2010)|Peak position|
| --- | --- |
|22||
|46||
|83||
|30||
|44||
|11||

### Year-end charts

|Chart (2010)|Peak position|
| --- | --- |
|67||

## Release history

|scope="col"|Region|scope="col"|Date|scope="col"|Format|scope="col"|Label|scope="col"|Catalog|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan=3|December 10, 2010|CD, digital download|rowspan=4|Sony Music|rowspan="2"|88697720922||||
|rowspan="4"|Digital download, CD|||||||||
|rowspan="2"|886977209222|||||||||
|rowspan="2"|December 13, 2010|||||||||
|RCA Records|88697720922|||||||||
|rowspan="2"|December 14, 2010|Digital download, CD|LaFace, Jive Records|rowspan="2"|886977209222|||||
|CD|Sony Music|||||||||
|rowspan="2"|December 15, 2010|Standard edition (CD)|rowspan="2"|Sony Music Japan|SICP2848|||||
|Deluxe edition (CD+DVD)|SICP2846|||||||||
|December 24, 2010|Digital download, CD|Sony Music|88697720922|||||||

## Infobox (album)

- **name**: Basic Instinct
- **type**: studio
- **artist**: Ciara
- **border**: yes
- **recorded**: 2009–2010
- **prev title**: Fantasy Ride
- **prev year**: 2009
- **next title**: Ciara (album), Ciara
- **next year**: 2013