(At the Stop of Broken Hearts) is ırıkKalplerDurağıthe sixth studio album by Turkish singer Candan Erçetin. It was released on 16 December 2009 by Pasaj Müzik. It was her second studio album released by this company, and her first major work since the 2004 release of . The album features elements of pop music, folk music and hip hop. Candan Erçetin is the album's major songwriter, having written ten of its songs on her own. Out of these ten songs, six of them were composed by her as well. All of the songs were arranged by Alper Erinç.
Containing 16 songs in total, received generally positive reviews from critics, who believed that the main difference of this album with Erçetin's previous work was the greater use of Balkan music elements. The first single that was released from the album was "", which was used on the soundtrack of the 2009 movie and ranked second on Billboard Türkçe Top 20. Another song from the album, "", was used on the soundtrack of the movie (2010). After releasing music videos for these two songs, Erçetin made two more music videos for the album: "" and "".
In , Erçetin included a new version of "", originally performed by Esmeray. For the song "", verses from the poems of Neyzen Tevfik and Omar Khayyam were used. Over 100,000 copies of the album were ordered in the music markets, and it ranked first on D&R Best-Selling list in Turkey. The album continued to remain among the top ten by the end of 2010. It also was nominated for the Best Album award at the 2010 Kral Music Awards and Radio Boğaziçi Awards. The album earned Erçetin the Best Female Turkish Pop Music Soloist award at the 2010 Golden Butterfly Awards.
Background and content
Candan Erçetin released her fifth studio album in 2004, and continued her career by releasing the albums Remix'5 and Aman Doktor in 2005. Between 2007–08 she presented the program on TRT 1; she then performed the song "Gelmiyorsun" for the album (2007) and "Kim" on the album (2008). In November 2008, she wrote and composed the song "Ben Kimim", which was used on the soundtrack of the 2009 movie . The song was made available on her website for free. In June 2009, it was reported that the recordings for Candan Erçetin's new album were not finished and the album would be released by the end of summer. In December 2009, new information about the album were released.
After recording the album over the course of six months, was released on 16 December 2009 by Pasaj Müzik. Containing sixteen songs in total, its main songwriter is Erçetin herself, who wrote ten of the album's songs on her own and another one together with Aylin Atalay. Besides Erçetin and Atalay, Cemal Safi, Şemi Diriker, Neyzen Tevfik, Omar Khayyam, Ayşe Kulin and Sinan were the figures whose poems and lyrics were used in the songs. Aside from writing, Erçetin also composed four of the songs on her own and three of them together with the album's music arranger Alper Erinç. The song "Unutama Beni", which had originally appeared in Esmeray's (1993) was performed again by Erçetin and included in the album. The song "Gözler" featured verses from poems of Neyzen Tevfik and Omar Khayyam. Erçetin rapped on the song "Ninni", written by Aylin Atalay and herself, and different metaphors were used in the lyrics as well. Cemal Safi wrote the lyrics for "Git", while Ayşe Kulin wrote the song "Bahar". The song "Roka Mandolina", which was initially performed by Suzan Kardeş for her 2008 album , was turned into Turkish and included in the album under the title "Vay Halime".
Featuring elements of pop music, folk music and hip hop, was ordered over 100,000 times in the markets. It topped D&R Best-Selling list in Turkey, and continued to remain among the top ten on the list by the end of 2010. It was nominated for the Best Album award at the 2010 Kral Music Awards and the Radio Boğaziçi Music Awards, but lost the first one to Mustafa Ceceli's first studio album, and the second one to Yalın's respectively. The album earned Erçetin the Best Female Turkish Pop Music Soloist award at the 2010 Golden Butterfly Awards.