Finding Forever

Finding Forever is the seventh studio album by Common, released on July 31, 2007, on GOOD Music and Geffen Records. Like Common's previous album, Be (2005), Finding Forever was largely produced by GOOD Music label boss and fellow Chicagoan Kanye West. The album debuted atop the Billboard 200 — selling 155,000 units in the first week — and became Common's only project to do so. Finding Forever also received gold certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), and was nominated for Best Rap Album at the 50th Grammy Awards, but lost to West's album Graduation.