Cee-Lo Green Heart Blanche

Green has been at work on a new album called Heart Blanche that is nearly complete and slated for release in the fourth quarter of this year. "We're actually in the final stages of completing his album. He's really been hard at work," Atlantic Records CEO/co-chairman Craig Kallman told Billboard Tuesday. "We've got a big, big list of songs that we've been going through, and we're kind of mixing the final songs now. We're going to be imminently figuring out his marketing plan and single release schedule, and we're looking at the fourth quarter [for release]."

Kallman said Mark Ronson, Wiz Khalifa co-star Charlie Puth, Eg White (Adele, Sam Smith), Wallpaper (Jason Derulo's "Talk Dirty") and John Hill (Eminem, Florence & the Machine) are among the dozen-plus collaborators Green has worked with during the album sessions.

"It's arguably the best piece of work he's ever done," says Green's manager, Larry Mestel of Primary Wave Entertainment, reached via phone from Israel. "It's very rare to find artists these days that focus on an album as a body of work -- most albums these days are just collections of songs, but that's not the case here." He said the LP has a unifying theme, but declined to provide more information or explain the motivation behind its title, saying Green will be available for interviews in the near future.

1. Heart Blanche Intro
2. Est. 1980’s
3. Mother May I
4. Working Class Heroes (Work)
5. Tonight
6. Robin Williams
7. Sign Of The Times
8. Green Sings The Blues
9. Music To My Soul
10. Race Against Time
11. Better Late Than Never
12. Smells Like Fire
13. Purple Hearts (Soldier Of Love)
14. Thorns
15. The Glory Games

Heart Blanche is available for preorder from iTunes.