Fantasy Ride

Fantasy Ride is the third studio album by American singer Ciara, first released on May 3, 2009, by Jive Records, LaFace Records and Sony Music Entertainment. The album was recorded between 2007 and 2009. Ciara was executive producer on the album along with co-executive Mark Pitts and, Ciara worked with several record producers, including Blac Elvis, Benny Blanco, Blade, Jasper Cameron, The Clutch, Darkchild, Danja, Dr. Luke, Jason Nevins, Jim Beanz, Los da Maestro, Ne-Yo, Osinachi Nwaneri, Polow da Don, The-Dream, Tricky Stewart, Justin Timberlake, T-Pain. The album featured several guest appearances from several different R&B and hip hop artists like Timberlake, Ludacris, Chris Brown, Young Jeezy, The-Dream, Missy Elliott. Musically, Fantasy Ride is a departure from Ciara's crunk sound, which was on her first two albums and features a mixture of R&B, hip hop and dance music in the album's overall sound. For the album, Ciara created a super hero character called "Super C" who "is a character that people will learn more about on this record. That is my alter ego. Super C doesn't hold back. She is definitely aggressive. She goes hard. Super C can do some magical and funky things. She works hard. She dances to the 10th power. She does everything to the 10th power."
Critical reception

Fantasy Ride received mixed reviews from music critics.

Track listing
Standard editions 

 Deluxe editions 

 EP version 

Notes
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Personnel

 Marcella "Ms. Lago" Araica – audio mixing , additional production , recording engineer 
 Chris Athens – mastering
 Jim Beanz – vocal arrangement 
 Benjamin "Benny Blanco" Levin – drums, keyboards, programming, producer 
 Derek Blanks – photographer
 Brandon "Blade" Bowles – music producer 
 Chris Brown – vocals, vocal arrangement 
 Bernard Chang – illustrations
 Aubry Delane – assistant recording engineer 
 Carlos "Los da Mystro" McKinney – music producer 
 Mike Donaldson – recording engineer, audio mixing 
 Mike Elizondo – instrumentation 
 Paul Foley – recording engineer 
 Yolonda Frederick – make-up
 Serban Ghenea – audio mixing 
 Lukasz "Dr. Luke" Gottwald – guitar, drums, keyboards, music programming, production 
 Tatiana Gottwald – assistant recording engineer 
 Matty Green – audio mixing assistant 
 Mariel Haenn – stylist
 Christy Hall – production assistant 
 John Hanes – additional Pro-Tools recording engineer 
 Kuk Harrell – vocal producer , vocal recording engineer , mixing technician
 Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins – music producer, audio mixing, vocal producer 
 Rob Knox – instrumentation 
 Giancarlo Lino – audio mixing assistant 
 Carlton Lynn – recording engineer 
 Andile Majozi – assistant
 Terius "The-Dream" Nash – songwriter , co-producer , vocals , vocal arrangement
Candice Nelson – songwriter, vocal arrangement 
 Jared Newcomb – audio mixing assistant 
 Osinachi Nwaneri – music producer 
 Carlos Oyanedel – audio mixing assistant 
 Dave Pensado – audio mixing 
 Mark Pitts – executive producer
 Jamal "Polow da Don" Jones  – producer 
 Ramon Rivas – assistant recording engineer 
 Tim Roberts – assistant Pro-Tools recording engineer 
 Todd Rubenstein – assistant recording engineer 
 Becky Scott – production coordination 
 Kelly "Becky 4 Real" Sheehan – instrumental recording engineer 
 Vanessa Silberma – production coordination 
 Gary "G" Silver – production coordination 
 Spike Stent – audio mixing 
 Christopher "Tricky" Stewart – music producer 
 Phil Tan – audio mixing 
 Faheem "T-Pain" Najm – producer 
 Brian "B Luv" Thomas – instrumental recording engineer 
 Pat Thrall – instrumental recording engineer 
 Randy Urbanski – audio mixing assistant 
 Courtney Walter – art direction, design
 Elvis "Blac Elvis" Williams – producer 
 Emily Wright – recording engineer, vocal editing 
 Kiyah Wright – hair stylist
 Andrew Wuepper – audio mixing assistant 

Charts

Weekly charts
+ Weekly chart performance for Fantasy RideChart (2009)Peakposition Argentinean Albums (CAPIF)9 European Top 100 Albums (Billboard)20Japanese Albums (Oricon)18 Polish Albums (ZPAV)38 UK R&B Albums (OCC)2 World Albums Top 40 (Billboard)4

Year-end charts
+ Year-end chart performance for Fantasy RideChart (2009)Position US Billboard 200190 US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)51

Release history
+ Release history for Fantasy RideRegionEditionDateLabelUnited KingdomStandard May 3, 2009RCAStandard May 4, 2009Extended  May 5, 2009United StatesStandard Limited LaFaceCanadaStandard Limited Sony MusicJapanStandard May 13, 2009Sony Music JapanBrazilFantasy Ride in Brazil . Accessed May 8, 2009May 15, 2009Sony MusicJapanFantasy Ride – Deluxe Edition  (in Japanese) Sony Music Shop. Sony Music Entertainment. Retrieved April 22, 2009.Limited May 27, 2009Sony Music JapanGermanyFantasy Ride (Amazon) . Accessed May 4, 2009Fantasy Ride Limited Edition jpc.de. Accessed May 4, 2009Standard Limited June 5, 2009Sony MusicUnited KingdomThe Mini CollectionJuly 27, 2009RCA

References

Category:2009 albums
Category:Ciara albums
Category:Hip hop albums
Category:Dance albums
Category:R&B albums