The 20-year-old singer-dancer, who plead guilty to felony assault and is on probation for five years, recorded an audio message Wednesday on Say Now asking his fans to “bring [him] back.” A humbled Brown said he needs his fans’ help. “Some radio stations aren’t playing my records,” he said. “They’re not being that supportive and I wouldn’t expect them to. But it’s on the fans…It’s in your power to bring me back.”

Brown said he is doing everything he can do. He refers to himself as a “better person” and said he is doing his music for the love, but added that his career is in jeopardy.
“It won’t be possible for me to be an artist if I don’t have support from people who give me an artist outlet,” Brown said. “I can’t be an underground mixtape artist.”
Brown sounds stressed out. After releasing two previously successful albums, it has got to be tough experiencing such a decline in support for his current album, Graffiti.

I know it’s been a year since the incident, he has accepted his sentence, and was previously praised by the judge for following through with his community service, but he needs to relax. It is going to take some time for him to repair his reputation. He needs to be patient. He just re-emerged on Twitter at @ChrisBrown and is keeping it positive so far. He Tweeted about reading to 3rd grade students at a school in Harlem. This feels like a better plan. Releasing a new album just eight months after the altercation was just too soon.

What do you guys think?

“It’s a song that everybody wanted to hear,” says Rihanna. “Everything that I didn’t say for the past eight months, exactly how I felt about that relationship and how I feel about it now – that song says it all.”

A departure from the flirty singles “Rude Boy” and “Hard,” “Cold Case Love” includes the lyrics “What you did to me was a crime” and follows the cut “Stupid In Love”.

One year ago, the world heard the news about Chris Brown. One year ago, people couldn’t believe what he had done and they turned their backs on him. One year ago, radio stopped playing his songs and TV channels stopped playing his videos. One year ago, the proudest of fans, the fans that said they would forever love him, ripped him off of their walls. The time that he needed support, the ones who he expected it from weren’t there. One year ago, as a fan of Chris Brown, I was shocked, but I didn’t turn my back on him. 5 years ago, I became a fan of Chris and I remained one during his darkest time, and I remain one today. One year later, I am still the Chris Brown fan that was when I first heard “Run It”. I STILL listen to his songs, I still have my pictures, and signed stuff. Chris Brown was at the TOP of everything and in one moment, he fell, believed to never to be able to redeem himself. One year ago, people said or thought that you might see Chris in the supermarket asking you if you want “paper or plastic”. Those people we’re wrong and remain wrong. One year ago, people forgot that Chris Brown was human, and because of that he was supposed to be excused from making mistakes. Its not hard to forgive a person and Chris Brown needs to be forgiven. Like you and I, he is not perfect.

In December, Chris released his 3rd Album Graffiti. Stores that sold CDs didn’t sell Chris CD. They thought that with them not selling Graffiti, that would get rid of Chris. BUT IT DIDN’T. Doing that emphasized the love that people had for him. Not selling Chris CD was not going to result in his career being over. Because as you can see, its not. Its not over until Chris Brown says its over. But anyway, it has been a year and people are still on Chris back. Those people need to realize, that he has apologized, constantly; that he is working on himself as a person; He made a mistake and he is dealing with the consequences. Of course there will be those that will criticize him, but understand that Chris will not stop because of you, because he has supporters.

It seemed that whenever Chris did an interview, the interviewers just focused on the incident that happened a year ago. They didn’t talk about his music, or how he was doing, or how he came up with the CD concept. They focused on the negative. I was hoping that I would here something about him or the CD, besides the date of the release. It was like hearing the same interview over and over and over. Now one year later, after the known incident, he is still being criticized for what happened that day but people are still blind on what needs to be focused on. Chris Brown is an artist and an entertainer and it seems that those people forgot that. He makes music for those who want to listen. And for those who don’t want to, you NEED to. Listen to his CD’s Chris Brown, Exclusive, Graffiti. Look at his videos. Go see him in a concert. Listen and see what this man is doing because its amazing.

To the haters and those who keep harassing Chris, I say, KISS HIS A*S. Media, stop approaching Chris with the negativity and hop off. Nobody has time for it and its starting to get annoying. People, get past what the media WANTS you to believe about Chris. Those who dislike Chris because he hit a woman, realize that he is not the first or the last. Realize that if it were you in the situation, you would want forgiveness and for people to look past the negative. Stop being hypocritical.

I have put my 1 year of thoughts into something small. Since February 8, 2009, I defended him. Since the summer of 2005, I am still a fan. And if Chris Brown needs my support, he has it.

Thus far Brown has attended 17 of his court appointed 52 domestic violence classes and has completed 32 days of his community labor sentence. Brown, alongside his lawyer Marc Geragos, responsed to the judge’s praises with a “thank you.” The judge also cleared him to travel around the country for concert dates between May 18 and June 27.

The ‘Run It’ singer was sentenced to five years probation for assaulting then girlfriend Rihanna last February. He has since apologized for the incident both in several interviews and is working on rebuilding his damaged public image. The 20-year-old dropped his third album ‘Graffiti’ last September and embarked on a 19-city “fan appreciation” tour. Brown will return to court on May 11.

In case you missed it, here’s the video of Chris performing at the SOS Save Our Selves telethon last week. He performed “Crawl” and “With You.”