''Žar Ptica'' is the third album from the Serbian singer

Aleksandra Radović Aleksandra Radović ( sr-cyr, Александра Радовић, born 10 September 1974) is a Serbian singer-songwriter from Bogatić. She made her recording debut in 2003 and has since collectively released five studio albums. Radović has won ...

, released by

City Records City Records (full legal name in Serbian: Предузеће за издавачко-пропагандну делатност City Records д.о.о. Београд/''Preduzeće za izdavačko-propagandnu delatnost City Records d.o.o. Beograd'' ...

on 19 June 2009. The album was produced and arranged in

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and

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, in famous studios of Aleksandra Milutinović,

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and

Darko Dimitrov Darko Dimitrov ( ; born 21 January 1973) is a Macedonian songwriter, record producer, arranger and record executive. Highly acclaimed for revitalising the Yugoslav mainstream pop music scene, which also influenced the surrounding Balkan countries ...

. She composed and wrote lyric for altogether 4 songs. Songs like "Bivši dragi", "Brod budala", "Ni zadnji, ni prvi" become popular in very short time. Album gained immediately success in

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and Macedonia and was top selling album for 3 months.

Background and promotion

She worked on third album with Aleksandra Milutinović, Goran Kovačić,

and famous Croatian singer-songwriter

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. The album promotion single was song "Nemoj", written by

, composed and produced by

. Radović said that this song and many other songs from the album would have more R&B sound, like songs from

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and

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Touring

Album second single is set to be ''Bivši dragi''. The song already became popular on the radio and scored best places on almost every radio top lists. Radović announced that she would start tour in

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in Belgrade, and then visit 20 cities in

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. She said that she would also tour through Macedonia and

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. Because of big interest for concert, she announced that she would have two concerts in

, and she became the first woman to have two concerts in

. Concerts were scheduled on 18 and 19 November, but because of sudden death of

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they were moved to 1 and 5 December. She announced after concert that rumors that she is retiring are false and that she will be singing for the next 15 years.

Track listing

# "Bivši dragi" (4:31)
(Aleksandra Radović / Aleksandra Radović / Darko Dimitrov) # "Brod budala" (3:29)
(Darko Dimitrov / Ljiljana Jorgovanović / Darko Dimitrov) # "Daleko od očiju" (2:57)
(Aleksandra Milutinović / Aleksandra Milutinović / Nikša Bratoš) # "Otpiši sve bivše" (3:52)
(Goran Kovačić / Aleksandra Milutinović / Nikša Bratoš) # "Mirno more" (4:29)
(Goran Kovačić / Goran Kovačić / Nikša Bratoš) # "Ni zadnji, ni prvi" (4:05)
(Goran Kovačić / Arsen Dedić / Nikša Bratoš) # "Da te ne volim bar" (6:02)
(Aleksandra Milutinović / Aleksandra Milutinović / Nikša Bratoš) # "Nemoj" (4:08)
(Darko Dimitrov / Aleksandra Radović / Darko Dimitrov) # "Odavno" (4:51)
(Aleksandra Radović / Aleksandra Radović / Nikša Bratoš) # "Ne reci mi" (4:58)
(Aleksandra Milutinović / Aleksandra Milutinović / Nikša Bratoš) # "Sve bih dala za ljubav" (3:51)
(Darko Dimitrov / Aleksandra Radović / Darko Dimitrov) # "Gde je tu ljubav?" (4:09)
(Aleksandra Milutinović / Aleksandra Milutinović / Darko Dimitrov)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Zar Ptica 2009 albums Aleksandra Radović albums