

The recording sessions mostly took place in Los Angeles and New York City. Brown also built a home recording studio to record songs for the album. He continued working on the album during 20 in between the European leg of the One Hell of a Nite Tour and The Party Tour. īrown started recording tracks for the album a few weeks before the release of Royalty in late 2015. Brown had dedicated his seventh studio album Royalty to his daughter, and decided that the next album would be about his breakup with Tran. The album was inspired by the singer's breakup with actress Karrueche Tran in March 2015, after he had a daughter, Royalty, with model Nia Guzman. The album was preceded by six official singles: " Grass Ain't Greener", " Party", " Privacy", " Pills & Automobiles", " Questions", and " Tempo".

It has since been certified double platinum by the RIAA. One week after its release Heartbreak on a Full Moon was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for combined sales and album-equivalent units of over 500,000 units in the United States, and became the first album by a R&B male artist since Usher's Confessions to be certified gold within a week. Its lyrics are thought to have been inspired by Brown's breakup with Karrueche Tran. Heartbreak on a Full Moon is an R&B album that also borrows from genres such as hip hop, alternative R&B, trap, and dancehall.

Recording sessions for Heartbreak on a Full Moon took place between the end of 2015 and August 2017. The album also features guest appearances by R. Brown worked with several producers, including Prince Chrishan, A1, Amadeus, Boi-1da, D. The album is a double-disc, consisting of 45 tracks, and was released digitally on October 31, 2017, and onto CD three days later by RCA Records. Heartbreak on a Full Moon is the eighth studio album by American singer Chris Brown.
