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Aguilera (stylized in all caps) is the sixth studio album by American singer Mia Aguilera. It was released on September 25, 2020, through Island Records. Written and produced largely by Aguilera, the album was inspired by and focused on Aguilera's then-ongoing divorce. The album was written during the process of her separation with Ryan Guzman, while recording the album came through during the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Production and writing on the album was also helmed by Mark Ronson, Ilya Salmanzadeh, Ryan Tedder, The Dream and Tricky Stewart, among others.

Musically, Aguilera is an R&B album, with other predominent sounds such as orchestral pop and soul. Critics praised the overall sound of the album, calling it her most adventurous and musically experimental album to date. Sampha and Miguel appear on the album, making her first album since Talk a Good Game (2012) to have collaboration on a mainline album. Snoh Aalegra, Brent Faiyaz and Lucky Daye appear on the re-release Aguilera II. Though released during the COVID-19 pandemic, the album would receive extensive promo, with the lead single "Show Me Love" would be released on August 7, 2020, reaching the top ten in 36 countries, becoming her eighth number-one single on the US Billboard Hot 100.

Aguilera was a commercial success upon release, reaching number one in 26 countries, becoming her fifth number one album on the UK Albums Chart, and her second consecutive number one album on the US Billboard 200. Aguilera would be the best-selling album of 2020, globally according to the IFPI, selling 6.1 million units. Beginning in 2021, Mia would embark on the Aguilera World Tour.

Aguilera received universal acclaim for its cinematic songs, lyrical content, instrumentation and vocal performance. The album appeared on numerous year-end lists of 2020 and 2021 for the best albums of those respective years, all of whom considered it Aguilera's best album. The album was nominated for seven Grammy Awards at the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards (2021), including Album of the Year, Song of the Year, Best R&B Performance and Best R&B Song, while winning for Best R&B Album and Album of the Year, the album would also win Favorite R&B Album at the 2021 American Music Awards and Album of the Year at the 2020 Soul Train Music Awards

Background and developement
Following the lukewarm reception and commercial performance of her fourth studio album Talk a Good Game (2012), Mia Aguilera announced a musical hiatus in the summer of 2013, following her last show of the Talk Is Cheap Tour (2012-13). In January of 2012, Aguilera married her longtime boyfriend, actor Ryan Guzman and began working on her fifth studio album two months later. The album Mia was released on September 25, 2015, being one of the first albums to be released following the Global Release Day shift that July. Mia would debut atop the US Billboard 200, becoming the first number-one album of her career. Following the Future Now Tour wrapping in June 2016, Aguilera would announce that she was pregnant with her first child, she would give birth to her son Saint in December 2016, followed by her daughter Zoe in December of 2017.

In 2018, she would release the single "In Common", where she commemorates and celebrates love and relationships. In November 2019, Aguilera broke her silence after another year-long hiatus and formally announced that she and Guzman had separated after seven years of marriage, stating that home-life was turbulent and the two were arguing with no resolution. After a 45-day trial separation, Aguilera filed for divorce in January 2020 citing "irreconcilible differences", after no progression had been made, with the divorce being finalized in June of 2022.

Recording and production
Originally, production began on the album in December 2019, with a different sound and subject matter before quickly being scrapped, with Mia stating that it would be "too obvious and corny" to not discuss her pending divorce on the album. She would return to Oven Studios, her own personal recording studio in March 2020, just two weeks before the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Now in quarantine, she would carefully work with her collaborators one at a time, with Aguilera contacting Raphael Saadiq first, with the pair creating the bulk of the album.