Jamie Foxx Announces New Album 'Hollywood,' Shares Cover on Instagram

Best Night of My Life reached number six on the Billboard 200 behind "Winner" and "Fall for Your Type." Foxx was able to pull big names like Justin Timberlake, Drake and Rick Ross for his previous effort, and with Brown on the lead single, there's bound to be plenty of great guests.

"If you want depth from Jamie Foxx, go see one of his movies. On his fourth album, Foxx dedicates himself almost entirely to hard-edged party tunes and sexed-up ballads, making for a convincing Casanova on the thundering bedroom jam 'Hit It Like This,'" Rolling Stone wrote about Best Night of My Life.

In the five years since his last album, Foxx has been in nine movies including both Horrible Bosses flicks, Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained and last year's Annie remake.

The actor famously combined his professional passions in the 2004 blockbuster, Ray. Foxx's portrayal of Ray Charles earned him the Academy Award for Best Actor.

"Jamie Foxx suggests the complexities of Ray Charles in a great, exuberant performance. He doesn't do the singing -- that's all Ray Charles on the soundtrack -- but what would be the point? Ray Charles was deeply involved in the project for years, until his death in June, and the film had access to his recordings, so of course it should use them, because nobody else could sing like Ray Charles," Roger Ebert wrote.

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