Derulo wrote songs for many successful artists from 2006 to 2009, and his debut single "Whatcha Say" was released on August 4, 2009.

Produced by J.R. Rotem with additional production by Fuego, it samples the Imogen Heap song "Hide and Seek".

Jason began promoting the album in late November 2009 by appearing as one of the opening acts for Lady Gaga's The Monster Ball Tour, which ended in 2011.

The music video was filmed in August 2009 and was released in September 2009, and it received heavy rotation on VH1 and MTV.

[11] The most positive of reviews coming from Los Angeles Times's August Brown who gave the album two and half stars out of four, praising the album for its "array of earnest trance-pop, glossy guitar rock and buttoned-down R&B."

[12] The most critical of reviews came from BBC Music's Mike Diver who criticized the album as a whole and called it "a deafening hollowness, an unashamed fakery akin to a dream-state where fantasy and reality have become mixed and hopelessly muddied" and "this soulless Auto-Tune-fest is one to avoid".

[14] The album debuted at number 11 on the US Billboard 200 with approximately 43,000 copies sold in its first week released.