Leona Lewis - Perfection (2010)

The success of her 2009 album 'Echo' had raised Leona Lewis's profile enough for her to be asked to provide vocals on a cover of 'Everybody Hurts', released in January 2010 to help raise money for victims of that year's earthquake in Haiti. Her first tour, titled 'The Labyrinth' supporting 'Spirit' and 'Echo', started in May 2010, and was scheduled to cover North America from July to August supporting Christina Aguilera's Bionic Tour, but Aguilera cancelled, leaving Lewis's plans in limbo. However, a DVD of the UK leg of the tour, along with a ten-track CD, was released with the title 'The Labyrinth Tour Live from The O2' on 29 November 2010. She began work on her third album, 'Glassheart', shortly after she completed 'The Labyrinth' tour, and although originally announced to be released on 28 November 2011 in the UK, it was delayed for a year before it eventually appeared. During 2010 Lewis worked with numerous writers and producers including Ammo, Jonas Quant, Chuck Harmony, Claude Kelly, Ryan Tedder, Fraser T Smith, Al Shux, Steve Robson, Dallas Austin, Rico Love, and Ne-Yo, and a lot of material was recorded for 'Glassheart', but most of it was eventually scrapped, and more sessions took place in 2011 and 2012. In September 2011 she released the dance-pop single 'Collide', written by Autumn Rowe and produced by Sandy Vee, and it debuted on the official UK top 40 singles chart at number 4. She followed this in December 2011 with 'Hurt: The EP', containing four covers, and she closed the year by performing on the American version of X Factor, and as the featured performer for the closing of the 2011 Doha Film Festival, where she sang ten songs. A number of the tracks recorded in 2010 have now surfaced, and so although she didn't release a studio album that year, she certainly had enough material to do so, and so this is what it could have sounded like, with the addition of the 'Collide' single. 

Track listing 

01 Save Myself 
02 How Everything You Are
03 Breaking Into Pieces
04 Crying Is Beautiful
05 The Fabric Of Our Lives
06 I Know Who I Am (from the film 'For Coloured Girls' 2010)
07 I Didn't Want To Hurt You

08 Collide
09 Mountains
10 Can't Fight It   
11 Hero

12 Everybody Hurts
13 Perfection

14 Haunted