Special Occasion (Bobby Valentino album)

Special Occasion is the second studio album by American R&B singer Bobby V. It was released by Disturbing tha Peace and Def Jam Recordings on May 8, 2007, in the United States. The singer co-wrote over three quarters of the album, which also features songwriting and production from Tim & Bob, Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins, Timbaland, Sean Garrett, Don Vito, Bryan-Michael Cox and Dre & Vidal. It also features guest appearances by Ludacris, Timbaland and Fabolous.

The album was set to be released on December 12, 2006, but was delayed until May 8, 2007. Special Occasion's first official single was the Rodney Jerkins-produced track "Turn the Page". The ballad features Valentino singing about trust and taking risks in a relationship. Special Occasion debuted at number 3 on the US Billboard 200, selling about 92,000 copies in its first week, just over one-half of his previous album's first-week sales. It also peaked at the top of the Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums. By mid-2009, the album had sold approximately 270,000 copies in the US.

Track listing
Information is based on the album's liner notes.

Notes Sample credits
 * $undefined$ denotes co-producer
 * “Only Human” contains a sample from “Sunny Came Home" as performed by Shawn Colvin.
 * ”Soon As I Get Home” originally performed by Babyface.

Personnel
Credits adapted from the album's liner notes.


 * Bobby V – Lead Vocals, Background Vocals, Vocal arranger
 * Darrell "Delite" Allamby – Recording Engineer, Music Programming, Other Instruments, Background Vocals, Audio Mixing
 * Kori Anders – Recording Engineer, Audio Mixing Assistant
 * Alex "A.J." Angol – Additional Guitars
 * Marcella Araica – Recording Engineer, Audio Mixing
 * Ben Arrindell – Audio Mixing
 * Anesha Birchett – Background Vocals
 * Leslie Braithwaite – Audio Mixing
 * Lincoln “Link” Browder – Background Vocals
 * Bryan–Michael Cox – Music Programming, Drums, Bass played by, Piano, Additional Keyboards
 * Darkchild – Recording Engineer, Instruments
 * Das – Vocal Producer
 * Kevin Davis – Audio Mixing
 * Kendrick "Wyldcard" Dean – Strings, Additional Keyboards
 * Vincent DiLorenzo – Recording Engineer, Audio Mixing
 * Fabolous – Rap Vocals
 * Emile Ghantous (of The Insomniax) – Recording Engineer, Vocal arranger
 * Erik Nelson (of The Insomniax) – Recording Engineer, Vocal arranger
 * Andrew Haller – Recording Engineer, Audio Mixing Assistant
 * Jean Marie Horvat – Audio Mixing
 * Bill Jabr – Guitar
 * Jon Jon – Other Instruments
 * Tim Kelley – Drums, Drum Machine, Percussion, Acoustic Guitar, Bass, Keyboards, Audio Mixing
 * Ludacris – Rap Vocals
 * Patrick Magee – Recording Engineer
 * Joshua Monroy – Recording Engineer
 * Paul Osborn – Recording Engineer
 * Bob Robinson – Minimoog Percussion, Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Bass, Acoustic Piano, Keyboards
 * Andros Rodriguez – Recording Engineer
 * Dave Russell – Audio Mixing
 * Tim Stewart – Guitar
 * Corey Stocker – Recording Engineer
 * Sam Thomas – Recording Engineer, Audio Mixing
 * Timbaland – Rap Vocals
 * Justin Trawick – Audio Mixing Assistant
 * Mike Tsarfati – Audio Mixing Assistant
 * Jeff Villanueva – Recording Engineer, Audio Mixing