X is the sixth studio album by American recording artist Chris Brown. The album was released on September 16, 2014, by RCA Records as a follow-up to his fifth album Fortune (2012).
Upon its release, X received generally positive reviews from music critics, who celebrated the record's diverse sound, but were ambivalent towards its lyrical content. The record was also considered an improvement compared to its critically panned predecessor Fortune. Commercially, the record debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200 selling 146,000 copies in its first week, becoming his first album to miss the summit of the chart since Graffiti in 2009 and the third album to go to number two on the chart since Exclusive in 2007. It also became his sixth consecutive top ten debut in the United States.