Sensational
by Chris Brown (featuring Davido)

Album: 11:11 (2023)
Charted: 45
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Songfacts®:

  • Here, Chris Brown is infatuated with a woman he feels is sensational. He is willing to do anything for her, even act a fool. Brown knows that love is like a riddle, but he is determined to solve it.
  • Brown teamed up with African singer-songwriters Davido and Lojay on the track. Hailing from the Nigerian city of Lagos, they deliver their verses in Nigerian Pidgin, a blend of English, Yoruba, and Hausa. Nigerian Pidgin is the most common language spoken in Lagos.
  • "Sensational" is Brown's fifth collaboration with Davido, following:

    2019 "Blow My Mind" from Davido's A Good Time
    2019 "Lower Body" from Brown's Indigio (Extended)
    2020 "Shopping Spree" from Davido's A Better Time
    2022 "Nobody Has To Know" from Brown's Breezy (Deluce)

    Brown and Lojay previously worked together when Breezy jumped on a remix of Lojay and Sarz's 2002 track "Monalisa."
  • Chris Brown, Davido and Lojay co-wrote "Sensational" with singer-songwriter Sean Kingston and the track's producer DJ Hardwerk (Camila Cabello's "Bad Kind of Butterflies," Cardi B's "Hectic").
  • Chris Brown released "Sensational" as the second single from his 11th studio album, 11:11, on October 20, 2023, via RCA Records.
  • Directed by Child, the video showcases Brown and his troupe's slick choreography in different settings. Davido and Lojay also appear in the video.
  • 11:11 is a double album split into two entities: 11am and 11pm. There are 11 tracks in each section, keeping with the theme of it being Brown's 11th solo studio album.
  • Philip "DJ Hardwerk" Constable composed and produced "Sensational" from a hospital bed while undergoing treatment and recovery from a dual-organ transplant and ongoing chemotherapy.

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