Beautiful

This sweet, romantic track features Kardinal Offishal and Colby O'Donis from Akon's Konvict label. Akon explained to Blues and Soul magazine why he collaborated with his two label-mates. Said Akon: "With both those artists jump-starting their careers right now, I felt - with the kind of exposure I was about to get with my album - it was a wise decision let them piggyback offa that. So they can both get exposed to audiences that wouldn't normally be checking for them."

This was the ninth different single in UK history to use the word "beautiful" as a title. Curiously all nine of them have arrived since 1995, the first being Marillion's song of that name, which peaked at #29 in June 1995. The most successful song with that title to date has been Christina Aguilera's 2003 chart-topper.