Stars Dance

Stars Dance is the debut solo studio album by American singer Selena Gomez. It was released on July 19, 2013, by Hollywood Records. Gomez began planning the project in 2012, at which time she announced that her band Selena Gomez & the Scene would be taking an indefinite hiatus, which by 2017 had become a permanent split. Stars Dance is an EDM and electropop album, incorporating elements of dubstep, techno, disco, electro house and worldbeat. Gomez worked on the album through March 2013 with producers such as Rock Mafia and the Cataracs. Upon its release, Stars Dance received generally mixed reviews from music critics, many of whom complimented Gomez's maturing image and the album's content both lyrically and vocally, but criticized the electronic-heavy production style. It marked her first album to debut at number 1 on the Billboard 200. The album sold 97,000 copies domestically in its first week of release. This achievement was surpassed by its successor, Revival, which sold 117,000 units in its first week. Stars Dance became her fourth Top 20 entry in the United Kingdom, peaking at number 14. Elsewhere, Stars Dance topped the charts in Canada, Norway, Mexico, Taiwan and China. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stars_D...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)