What is "confessions"

n. (plural of confession English)

Confessions is the fourth studio album by American singer Usher. It was released on March 23, 2004, by Arista Records. Recording sessions for the album took place during 2003 to 2004, with its production handled by his longtime collaborator Jermaine Dupri, alongside with Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis and Lil Jon, among others. Primarily an R&B album, Confessions showcases Usher as a crooner and incorporates musical elements of hip hop and crunk. The album's themes generated controversy about Usher's personal relationships; however, the album's primary producer Jermaine Dupri claimed the record reflects his personal story.

The album became the instant commercial success in the United States, selling 1.1 million copies in its first week. Its continued success was bolstered by its four chart-topping singles. To begin strategizing of boosting its sales amid threats of bootlegging, the special edition for the album was issued, which includes the hit single, " My Boo"; a duet with Alicia Keys. Despite some mixed criticism towards its lyrical substance, Confessions received mostly positive reviews and earned Usher several awards; including the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary R&B Album.

The album has been regarded by music writers as Usher's greatest work, and according to Billboard, is the second best-selling album of the 2000s decade in the United States. With over eight million copies sold in 2004, the album's commercial success was viewed as a sign of recovering record sales in the US, following three years of decline. It was also exemplary of urban music's commercial peak and dominance of the Billboard charts in 2004. Confessions has been certified Diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and, as of 2016, has sold over 10 million copies in the US and over 20 million copies worldwide.

Confessions, the plural of confession, may refer to:

Confessions ( Latin: Confessiones) is the name of an autobiographical work, consisting of 13 books, by St. Augustine of Hippo, written in Latin between AD 397 and 400. Modern English translations of it are sometimes published under the title The Confessions of St. Augustine in order to distinguish the book from other books with similar titles. Its original title was Confessions in Thirteen Books, and it was composed to be read out loud with each book being a complete unit.

The work outlines St. Augustine's sinful youth and his conversion to Christianity. It is widely seen as the first Western autobiography ever written, and was an influential model for Christian writers throughout the following 1,000 years, through the Middle Ages. It is generally considered one of Augustine's most important texts.

The Confessions is an autobiographical book by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. In modern times, it is often published with the title The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau in order to distinguish it from Saint Augustine's Confessions. Covering the first fifty-three years of Rousseau's life, up to 1765, it was completed in 1769, but not published until 1782, four years after Rousseau's death, even though Rousseau did read excerpts of his manuscript publicly at various salons and other meeting places.

Confessions is the sixth album, from the Christian band Pillar. The album was released on September 22, 2009, by Essential Records.

is a 2010 Japanese drama film directed by Tetsuya Nakashima, based on housewife-turned-author Kanae Minato's 2008 debut mystery novel that won the 2009 Honya Taisho award (Japan Booksellers Award).

The film was both a commercial and critical success. It was awarded Best Picture at the 34th Japan Academy Prize and 53rd Blue Ribbon Awards and was shortlisted at the 83rd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film.

Confessions is a 1925 British silent comedy film directed by W.P. Kellino and starring Ian Hunter, Joan Lockton and Eric Bransby Williams. It was based on the novel Confession Corner by Baillie Reynolds.

Confessions is the sixth studio album by the American hard rock band Buckcherry. The album was released on February 19, 2013.

Seven of the tracks on the album are named after the seven deadly sins.

"Confessions", styled "Confe$$ions", is a Christian hip hop song by Lecrae from his album Gravity, released on September 4, 2012. Lyrically, the song critiques the pursuit of wealth and expresses the emptiness and lack of peace that comes with materialism.

"Confessions" is the eleventh episode of the fifth season of the American television drama series Breaking Bad, and the 57th overall episode of the series. Written by Gennifer Hutchison and directed by Michael Slovis, it aired on AMC in the United States and Canada on August 25, 2013.

Confessions or The Annabel Trilogy Part III: Confessions (on Re-release edition) is the third concept album and overall fifth studio album by American rock band, Alesana. It is the final chapter of the Annabel trilogy, and based on the series of books; "The Time Quintet". It was released on April 21, 2015. It will be the third, and final album of the band's Annabel Trilogy. The first one, The Emptiness ( Fearless Records) was released in 2010, and the second one, A Place Where the Sun Is Silent ( Epitaph Records) was released in 2011.

Confessions is a popular and occasionally controversial feature which first appeared on the BBC Radio 1 weekday breakfast show in the early 1990s, devised by its host, Simon Mayo.

Mayo, who had hosted the show since 1988, started the feature in the autumn of 1990 partly due to the rising interest in his own Christian faith, and it caught on very quickly. Listeners would write in to "Father Mayo" and confess to their sins and each morning at 8.35 Mayo would broadcast one to the nation over Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni’s Adagio for Organ and Strings in G minor.

The "confessions" were often humorous and sometimes a little lacking in taste or scruple. At the peak of the feature, Mayo received more than one hundred confessions a week. Some were sincere confessions with no sense of light-heartedness and Mayo discounted any which admitted to crime, adultery, overt cruelty or other more serious activities.

Infamous confessions included:

• The family who put some herbs into a Christmas pudding which had been sent to them by relatives in Australia, only to discover later they were a late uncle's ashes (based on an urban myth)
• The man who, desperate to urinate on a train with no lavatory, decided to do so out of a window, only to inadvertently spray numerous people waiting on a platform which suddenly appeared
• The man who, tired of his flatmate's complaining about food wastage, cooked a pie for him before replacing the meat with raw cat food
• The woman who, annoyed with her boyfriend's lateness in coming home for his evening meal, spread chili con carne all over his sports car
• The man who found some negatives of his brother's wife in the nude and had them developed before sending them to an adult magazine's Readers' Wives section

After completing each confession, Mayo would ask his crew - consisting of weather and travel presenter Dianne Oxberry, newsreader Rod McKenzie and the day's "special guest producer" played by the show's own producer Ric Blaxill - whether they would "forgive" the confessor or not. After a while, it became clear that Oxberry was less forgiving than the others.

Some confessions prompted complaints from listeners, especially any involving living creatures, even if there wasn't a hint of cruelty in the confession.

The feature was a huge success. Word spread internationally and a story made the front page of the Wall Street Journal, with Mayo often being asked if he was trying to challenge the power and principles of various religions.

Confessions spawned a successful spin-off book and, later, a BBC TV series which was lukewarmly received in comparison to the radio feature and was criticised by the Broadcasting Standards Council.

Mayo brought back Confessions for short runs on his morning (9am-12pm) programme which ran from 1994 to 2001.

Since January 2010 Mayo has relaunched Confessions on his BBC Radio 2 drive-time show.

Confessions is a studio album by American singer and actress Liza Minnelli, released through Decca Records on September 21, 2010 in the United States. The album, recorded while Minnelli was recovering from knee surgery, marked her first studio release in nearly fifteen years. Originally, the story was these recordings were old tapes that a neighbor in Beverly Hills had discovered, having been recorded some 10 or more years earlier but this story changed after the album's release. The original press release reads: " Liza Minnelli (pictured) showed up at her neighbor Bruce Roberts' Beverly Hills door late one night nearly a decade ago saying, "I just feel like singing." Minnelli relaxed on a couch, while Billy Stritch played keyboard, and Liza sang 20 old standards as Roberts tape-recorded the session. Last year, Roberts found the tapes in an old box and realized he had found gold. "They were brilliant. So I tweaked them up," Roberts told us. "It's like having Liza singing in your living room." The duo signed a deal with Decca in November.