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) in which she sang additional vocals, following this it was announced that Cole's band Girls Aloud would take a break from releasing material, at the time of the album's release, had enjoyed five successful albums and twenty consecutive top-ten singles.