Libra Scale Songwriting Credits by Ne-Yo

Libra Scale is the fourth studio album by Ne-Yo, released November 22, 2010 on Def Jam Recordings and his own Compound Entertainment. It is a concept album built around a superhero story about three garbage men, Jerome, Clyde, and Leroy, who gain extraordinary powers on the condition that they never fall in love, framing the album's central theme of choosing between money, power, and fame or love. Musically it pushes his contemporary R&B toward Europop and dance, with the Stargate and Sandy Vee production 'Beautiful Monster' as its clearest crossover moment. Ne-Yo, credited by his legal name Shaffer Smith, co-wrote every track and served as executive producer alongside L.A. Reid, while a rotating cast of producers handled individual songs. The album debuted at number nine on the Billboard 200 with 112,000 first-week copies and reached number four on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, though its 345,000 domestic copies by late 2012 marked a commercial step down from his earlier run.