3 Words is the debut studio album by the English recording artist
Cheryl Cole, released on 23 October 2009 by
Fascination Records. Cheryl's first solo performance was on American rapper
will.i.am's "
Heartbreaker" (2008), on which she sang additional vocals. Following this it was announced that Cole's band
Girls Aloud would take a break from releasing material who, at the time of the album's release, had enjoyed five successful albums and twenty consecutive top-ten singles. In April 2009, Cole started working on solo material in
Los Angeles and
London mainly collaborated with will.i.am, who served as executive producer of the album.