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First Love (Karina Pasian album)
First Love is the debut studio album by Dominican-American R&B singer Karina Pasian.[1] It was released by Def Jam on August 19, 2008 in the United States.[2][3] The album debuted and peaked at number 57 on the US Billboard 200 and produced the singles "16 @ War" and "Can't Find the Words."[1] First Love sold 9,000 copies in its first week. On December 3, 2008, it was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary R&B Album but lost to Mary J. Blige's Growing Pains (2007). BackgroundIn 2006, after a bidding war between Bad Boy Records, Interscope and Def Jam, Pasian signed with the latter.[4] The singer recorded over 70 songs for the album,[4] including a collaboration with John Legend called "Promise" that didn't make the album.[4] Critical reception
AllMusic editor Andy Kellman found that material on First Love was "age-appropriate, a rare thing from a teenaged major-label artist in 2008 [...] Still, the album is as needed as Keke Palmer's So Uncool and Tiffany Evans – proud and smart, real and relatable, packed with substance."[5] DJBooth.net felt that Pasian's "musical maturity" was stopping First Love "from becoming a great album. It’s as if she spent so much time proving to the world that she’s not just a teenage girl at times forgets how to be a teenage girl [...] It’s no surprise then the best song on the album comes when Karina embraces her age, but does so with in a deeply moving way."[6] Commercial performanceFirst Love debuted and peaked at number 57 on the US Billboard 200 in the week of September 6, 2008, with first week sales of 9,000 physical copies.[7] It also reached number 11 on Billboard's Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.[8] By December 2008, the album had sold a total of 28,408 copies.[citation needed] Track listing
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