of one of the album's main 11 songs. Six of the songs on Melek were written solely by Candan Erçetin, and composed by her. Aylin Atalay, with whom she had worked on her previous albums, wrote two songs for Erçetin's new album, "Bahane" and "Yaşıyorum", despite being busy with studying English language and literature. Cihan Güçlü, a conservatory student who joined the album team to gain studio experience, helped with composing the song "Şehir". In her desire to make a song about the city she was born in, Erçetin chose to perform a hip hop song and she decided to collaborate with the "modern singer" Ceza on it. After the song was prepared, Erçetin made it known that she wanted Ceza to be featured on the song as well. Ceza later talked about the experience: "The idea was actually brought forward by Candan Erçetin. It was a dream of mine, but I had not succeeded in contacting her. She had released a song in 1998, with the lyrics 'Everything is a lie in the world, except death'. My mother was diagnosed with cancer during that period. The song affected me on an emotional level. I started to love her from that moment. It was both her music and the spirit and quality in it that made me want to work with her, out of all the artists who make music with different styles in Turkey. One night before the day she called me, I was thinking about Candan Erçetin's songs. The next day I received the phone call. What I wanted with my heart had now happened. [...] I accepted [the offer] without thinking. [...] I sat at my home, brought a book and pen, and wrote the first part. Then we went to the studio. Ms. Candan said 'That's a little bit short. I'd be glad if you make it longer'. I sat down again and wrote the last part in the studio. It took me no more than half an hour." Melek entered D&R's list of best-selling albums on 27 June 2004 and topped the chart. It continued to keep that position on the weeks of 4 July, 11 July, 18 July and 25 July. On 1 August 2004, with the release of Mustafa Sandal's İste (2004) and Hande Yener's Aşk Kadın Ruhundan Anlamıyor (2004), the album went down to number three. By the end of the year,