Nicole Scherzinger - Her Name Is Nicole (2008)

In February 2006, while still a founding member of The Pussycat Dolls, Nicole Scherzinger signed a global publishing agreement with Universal Music Publishing Group, which would cover her future song-writing. Her work as lead singer of The Dolls furthered her popularity as she continued to work on her own music, and her first solo recording was to feature on Avant's 'Lie About Us', which was released in July 2006. She later collaborated with Diddy on 'Come To Me', which became her first solo top-ten hit on the US Billboard Hot 100, and in March 2007 she announced that her debut studio album would be titled 'Her Name is Nicole', and it was scheduled for a release in late summer. Four singles were released from the project, but 'Whatever U Like', 'Baby Love', 'Supervillain', and 'Puakenikeni' all failed to make any significant impact on the Billboard charts, although 'Baby Love' was a moderate success in international territories. After a number of push-backs, Scherzinger decided not to release any further singles from the album, and at her request 'Her Name Is Nicole' was eventually shelved, and she shifted her focus to working on the Doll's second album. She had actually recorded more songs between 2006 and 2008 than were needed for the album, and she could easily have released a double album had she wanted, but she threw herself back into her work with The Pussycat Dolls, and their second album 'Doll Domination' was released in 2008. Scherzinger carried on recording solo tracks over the next few years, and her official debut album 'Killer Love' eventually appeared in 2011, but even that omitted at least ten songs that had been recorded in 2010 and were apparently deemed not good enough for inclusion. So that we can decide for ourselves if 2008 was too early to launch a solo career, here is 'Her Name Is Nicole', and we can now hear what could have been her debut solo release had it come out in 2008 as was intended. 

 
Track listing

01 Supervillain 
02 Puakenikeni (feat. Brick & Lace) 
03 Happily Never After 
04 Baby Love (feat. ​will.i.am) 
05 Save Me From Myself 
06 Physical (feat. Timbaland) 
07 Power's Out (feat. Sting) 
08 Just Say Yes 
09 Who's Gonna Love You 
10 Whatever U Like (feat. T.I.) 
11 I M.I.S.S. U (feat. Pharrell Williams) 
12 March 
13 On My Side (feat. Akon) 
14 Feels So Good