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studio album
First released:
Sep 12 2005

Overview Edit

PCD is the debut album by American girl group the Pussycat Dolls, released on September 13, 2005 in the United States, by A&M Records. After recruiting Melody Thornton and Nicole Scherzinger and releasing two singles, they released this album. The majority of the album was produced by Ron Fair and Tal Herzberg with other producers contributing: Timbaland, Cee-Lo Green, will.i.am, and Rich Harrison, amongst others.

The album received mixed reviews from critics, mostly criticizing on the covers located in the disc and on Nicole Scherzinger, the only member of the Pussycat Dolls, to sing lead vocals. The album went top-ten in countries such as Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom and topped the Irish and New Zealand charts. In the United States the album peaked at number five, eventually selling over 2.9 million copies.. Worldwide the album sold over 9 million copies

The album spawned six singles. The first single was "Don't Cha" which was an international hit topping the charts around the globe. It peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100. The second single was "Stickwitu", it was also a hit reaching top-five in many countries thus it received their first Grammy nomination at the 49th Annual Grammy Awards. The fourth single was "Buttons", which they collaborated with Snoop Dogg upon its release. It peaked at number-three on the Hot 100 chart. Other singles include Beep, "I Don't Need A Man", and ""Wait a Minute" which gained moderate success.

It incorporates a mixture of contemporary pop/dance/R&B originals, jazz-influenced tracks, and cover versions. The group have cited among their influences, Gwen Stefani, Janet Jackson, Paula Abdul and M.I.A..

PCD is the only album to feature all six original members of the group. It has been ranked at number-one hundred fifty at Decade-End charts in Billboard.

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Record label:
Catalog number:
B0005374-02
Release dates:
  • Sep 13 2005 in United States

Genres

Pop, Dance, Dance Pop, Girl Group. Vote on Genres

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4 stars From stage to CD
There's an old song that goes something like "Take ten terrific girls but only nine costumes, and you'll have a burlesque show". This song came to mind when I found out that "The Pussycat Dolls" is a very popular burlesque act, which has been hitting the stages of LA and Vegas, in hot spots like Johnny Depp's Viper Room (gratuitous Johnny Depp plug here), The Roxy and Caesars Palace, since 1993.

Led most of the way by Carmen Electra, the group has attracted many guest performers over the years,…
Written by Amanda Richards
1 stars even you can make millions!
It's really not the Pussycat Dolls or their songs that bother me. There's been worse pop music. It's me that bothers me. I'm disappointed in myself that so far I haven't I haven't been able to think up a scheme, like this group, to make millions off the vast number of idiots out there. Could you imagine the producers of this group and the girls sitting around in an expensive hotel room laughing their butts off rolling around in the dough saying: "can you believe this!?! ahahahaa! I knew there we…
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Track listing Edit

Credits Edit

  1. arranger

  2. composer

  3. engineer

    1. J.D. Andrew [on "Buttons", "I Don't Need a Man", "Hot Stuff (I Want You Back", "How Many Times, How Many Lies", "Tainted Love/Where Did Our Love Go"]
  4. other

    1. Dave Pensado [Mixing]
    2. Jack Joseph-Puig [Mixing]
    3. Peter Mokran [Mixing]
    4. Polow Da Don [Programming]
    5. Ron Fair [Mixing]
    6. Steve Baughman [Mixing]
  1. performer

    1. Ashley Roberts [backing vocals]
    2. Busta Rhymes ["Don't Cha"]
    3. Carmit Bachar [vocals]
    4. Jessica Sutta [backing vocals]
    5. Kimberly Wyatt [backing vocals]
    6. Melody Thornton [backing vocals]
    7. Melody Thornton [vocals]
    8. Nicole Scherzinger [backing vocals]
    9. Timbaland ["Wait A Minute"]
    10. will.i.am ["Beep"]
  2. producer

    1. Jimmy Iovine [executive producer]
    2. Keri Hilson [vocal producer]
    3. Robin Antin [executive producer]
    4. Ron Fair [executive producer]

Other versions Edit

PCD 14 tracks format: 1 x CD
record label: A & M Records
catalog number: 988680-1
release dates: Nov 18 2005 in Europe
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PCD 16 tracks format: 1 x CD
catalog number: UICA-9009
release dates: Nov 2 2005 in Japan
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PCD 10 tracks format: 1 x CD
release dates: Sep 29 2006 in Europe
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PCD 14 tracks format: 1 x CD
record label: A & M Records
catalog number: 988565-7
release dates: Sep 12 2005 in United Kingdom
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PCD 15 tracks format: 1 x CD
record label: A & M Records
catalog number: 988680-2
release dates: Nov 28 2005 in United Kingdom
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13 tracks format: 1 x CD
record label: A & M Records
catalog number: 988565-5
release dates: Sep 14 2005 in Taiwan
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13 tracks format: 1 x CD
record label: A & M Records
catalog number: DA8106
release dates: Sep 27 2005 in Korea (South), Republic of
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PCD 20 tracks Limited Tour Edition
format: 1 x CD, 1 x unknown format
record label: 101 Distribution
release dates: Nov 21 2006
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