BRIAN MCKNIGHT TO RELEASE NEW ALBUM ON NOVEMBER 14th

Best-selling singer, composer, and producer Brian McKnight will release his first album for Warner Bros. Records on November 14th. Entitled 10, the album is the Grammy-nominated singer's tenth album overall. McKnight describes the album - which ranges from his signature soul ballads to smooth, sleek R&B - as "the same old Brian, just better. I finally feel like I'm in a place where I'm appreciated," he says, referring to his recent signing to Warner Bros. Records, "and that made me very comfortable and eager to work. On this record, from beginning to end, you can tell that there weren't a lot of things on my mind other than the music." Recorded in Los Angeles over the past year and a half, 10 features a duet with Jill Scott on the romantic More Than Just A Thang, shared production credit with Brian Michael Cox (Usher, Mariah Carey, Bow Wow, Mary J. Blige, Toni Braxton) on Comfortable, and a collaboration with McKnight's country star pals Rascal Flatts on the plaintive Red, White, And Blue. "The subject matter I'm dealing with on that song, the soldiers and being away from home, is a real down-home kind of story, and one that red-blooded Americans will identify with," says McKnight, who co-wrote the song with long-time friend Brandon Barnes. "So when they heard that song, both parties said, 'We have to be a part of it. It's something really special'." In addition, songwriters Tim Kelley and Bob Robinson, known as Tim and Bob, contributed to two tracks on 10, Unhappy Without You and the album's first single, Used To Be My Girl, which hits radio on September 26. McKnight has sold more than 16 million records worldwide since his platinum self-titled debut was released in 1992. As a songwriter and producer, the Buffalo, New York, native has recorded with some of the music industry's biggest stars, including Mariah Carey, Justin Timberlake, Willie Nelson, Nelly, Vanessa Williams, and Kenny G.