Hot (album)

Hot is Inna's debut studio album. It was released in Poland first on August 4, 2009 and in Russia on September 22, 2009 by Roton Records. The album entered the Polish Albums Chart in August 2009 and the Czech Albums Charts in February 2010, debuting and peaking at number twenty-eight and number seven respectively. There are eleven tracks on the standard edition released worldwide but the Romanian edition contains fourteen tracks, one of the extra ones being the newly recorded song "10 Minutes". The track also was part of the album re-release in certain countries in spring 2010. After the massive debut track "Hot" and the follow up singles "Love", "Amazing" and the "Déjà Vu", a Bob Taylor song in which Inna appears as a featured artist, "10 Minutes" was released as the fifth single taken from the album. In France and the United Kingdom the track "Sun Is Up" was released as a sixth single from "Hot" while in other countries it was the lead single from Inna's second album "I Am The Club Rocker!". The album went on to sell 120,000 copies in France, 80,000 copies in the Netherlands, 50,000 copies in Mexico, 35,000 copies in Belgium, 30,000 copies in Poland, 20,000 copies in Romania, 15,000 copies in Hungary and aproximately 20,000 copies in the United Kingdom. In the United States and Canada it has sold less than 10,000 copies as of September 2011. Overall, the album has sold over 500,000 units worldwide.

Beginnings
After Inna was famously discovered singing in a market, she was on a a path to take music to a whole new world. She began by producing a new song play and win had written for her. The song was called Hot. This song quickly became a smash hit in various nations of Europe with Both Inna and Play & Win emerging better off. She also was featured in a track by Play & Win's artist Bob Taylor, who then was more well known. They then went on to produce an album full of similar material, and featuring both tracks. Inna took time to craft an excellent album by late 2009. It was released first in Poland and then in the other nations on the various dates in the Infobox. The reason the Romanian release was so late was that it was pushed off several times. The Romanian release date was first pushed off from August 2009 to November 2009 and then to Spring 2010. Inna and her producers Play & Win have said that they delayed the Romanian launching because they wanted it to be perfect and they had to add new songs in order to create the greatest album of the year. It was released finally in March 2010 including both the radio edit and the club remix of "10 Minutes" as well as the U.S. radio Version of "Hot" as new tracks. It then went on to be taken to the release stage in many other countries. This was an album that revolutionized eurodance.

Before Christmas 2010, a CD+DVD Collectors Edition of the album, entitled "Very Hot", was released in France. It featured remixes of "Hot" and "Love" as well as Inna's Christmas track "I Need You For Christmas", written and produced by Play & Win and released by Roton Records in Romania for Christmas 2009. The edition also includes a DVD with all of Inna's music videos. In 2011, the album was re-released again and included "I Need You For Christmas" and the new song "Sun is Up".

They had a contest to see who could come up with the best album cover among her fans and this is what produced the famous cover showing her pulling in a world of Hot. She is dressed in a skimpy outfit on a side made of cold and ice. Her name is written in ice above her. The other side which it shows her pulling in is, as the title indicates, hot. It is a desert with the name of the album written in fire above it.

Chart Position
Due to strong sales, "Hot" entered the Polish Albums Chart on August 31, 2009, debuting and peaking at number twenty-eight shortly after it's Polish Release. It spent two weeks on the chart. "Hot" was also a hit on the Czech Albums Chart where it debuted and peaked at number seven in February 2010 and spent a total of seventeen non-consecutive weeks on the chart. In the Netherlands, the album debuted on the Albums Chart at number sixty-nine on May 1, 2010 and finally peaked at number sixty-eight on July 24, 2010. "Hot" spent twelve non-consecutive weeks on the chart. After the huge success on the France Top 100 Singles Chart with the singles "Hot" and "Amazing", the album entered the Top 200 of the French Albums Chart on July 19, 2010, debuting and peaking at number nine. In March "Hot" was certified Platinum for sales of over 100,000 units. In Romania, the album debuted at number-seven in the week-ending May 28, 2010 and having sold 3,018 copies within its first days. The following weeks, it stayed in the top ten and peaked at number four in June. It saw bigger growth in her home nation of Romania. At the end of the year, it was the sixth biggest-selling album in Romania. As of October, 2012 the album has sold 13,543 registered units, thus being certified Gold by the Uniunea Producatorilor de Fonograme din Romania. On the Mexican Albums Chart, the album debuted at number fifty-eight on March 15, 2011. After defending this position on the next week, "Hot" climbed four places to number fifty-four on March 29, 2011, reaching its peak position. In the United Kingdom, the album reached number thirty-two on the official UK Albums Chart on June 18, 2011, while simultaneously debuting at the top of the UK Dance Albums Chart and at number nine on the UK Albums Download Chart.

Track Listing
1. Hot

2. Love

3. Nights and Days

4. Fever

5. Left Right

6. Amazing

7. Don't Let the Music Die

8. On & On

9. Ladies

10.Deja Vu

Other Tracks on Rereleases
I Need You For Christmas

10 Minutes