Livvi Franc – Jive Records (SME) and Beluga Heights/Warner Bros. Records (WMG)
Livvi Franc signed to Jive Records in October 2007. In January 2008 she started recording her debut album. Franc wrote or co-wrote all one hundred songs she recorded for the album.
Producers on the album included RedOne (Lady Gaga, Nicki Minaj, Michel Jackson), Salaam Remi (Miguel, Alicia Keys, Estelle), and JR Rotem (Rihanna, Britney Spears, Maroon 5). The album was originally scheduled to be released on October 6th 2009, but it was pushed to the first quarter of 2010.
Unfortunately Jive shelved the album “during the end of 2010”, according to Franc’s Wikipedia page. The label did, however, release two promo CDs for the album: Underground Sunshine Album Sampler in 2009 and Livvi Franc in 2010. Underground Sunshine was the name of the album before it was later changed to Livvi Franc.
Her debut single “Now I’m That Bitch feat. Pitbull” was released in June 2009. The song made it onto seven Billboard charts. It peaked at number 1 on the Dance Club Songs chart, number 12 on the Dance/Mix Show Airplay chart, number 14 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart, and number 20 on the Global Dance Song Chart. In the U.K. it reached number 40 on the Official Singles Chart Top 100 and it reached number 24 in New Zealand.
A censored version of the song, “Now I’m That Chick”, was also released. Both versions have a “Part II”. There are a number of remixes to the song, some of which were compiled into an album. “Now I’m That Bitch” was number 88 on Z100’s Top 100 songs of 2009. As stated on its Wikipedia entry, it appeared in a season five episode of the MTV reality series The Hills.
Her second single, “Automatik”, was released in January 2010. It reached number 6 on the Billboard Dance Club Songs chart.
Franc’s song “This Is A Raid” was featured in the second episode of the 2009 Melrose Place reboot, “Nightingale”. Her song “Free” is on the soundtrack of the 2010 film Lou.
In 2009 Franc performed at Notting Hill Carnival and was a presenter at the MTV Logo NewNowNext Awards.
While at Jive she co-wrote Jordin Sparks’ “Walking on Snow” and wrote a song that Michael Jackson chose for the album he was working on at the time of his death. According to Franc, he actually had begun recording it.
Franc left Jive in late-2010 and later signed to Beluga Heights/Warner Bros.. She worked on an album at this label as well, but ultimately didn’t release one. By June 2014 she was no longer listed on the label’s website.
Franc has since established a career as a songwriter. She is now represented by Primary Wave and has written for several notable artists including Kelly Clarkson, Ciara, Britney Spears, Christina Augilera, Coldplay, Selena Gomez, Shakira, Jennifer Lopez, Jason Derulo, Tinie Tempah, Zendaya, DJ Khaled, and Rihanna. You can listen to her discography on her Apple Music songbook.
