Full Moon (album)
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2002 |
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70:34 |
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Full Moon ( Engl. For full moon ) is the third studio album by the American R&B singer Brandy . It was released in Europe on February 25 and in Canada and the United States on March 5, and featured Another Day in Paradise , What About Us? , Full Moon and He Is produced four single releases.
production
Committed for their third album Brandy rapper Ja Rule and producer Babyface , Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo , but none of the resulting work made the jump to the track list of the album, instead landed many Darkchild productions on the album ( What About Us? , When You Touch Me ). In addition to the songs produced by Jerkins, recordings were also made with Warryn Campbell, Mike City, Keith Crouch, Fred Jerkins III and Robert "Big Bert" Smith, with whom she was dating at the time.
Brandy herself described the album as "a definite concept album in which she falls in love, experiences turbulence and then, in the end, finds the person she really wants to be with". With her brother Ray J she sang two duets ( Die Without You , Another Day in Paradise ). Michael Jackson sings the background vocals for It's Not Worth It , which Angel in Disguise samples.
Publication and criticism
After a long break, Brandy released the Phil Collins cover Another Day in Paradise with her brother in 2001 , which reached number 2 in the German single charts . The LP followed a few months later. Although the album was nominated for two Grammys in the categories of Best R&B Album and Best Remix Song , the criticism was mixed. The Rolling Stone wrote that the song "wild, faceless, fake-sexy R & B" on the album are only one type.
Despite the criticism, the album was an international success as it reached number two on the Billboard 200 and number one on the US R&B / Hip-Hop albums . The album went platinum in the US and gold in the UK. In many charts, Full Moon was able to stay in the top 20; but only in Germany , Switzerland , the USA , Canada and Great Britain did it reach the top ten.
Track list
- B Rocka Intro (1:19)
- Full Moon (Mike City) (4:08)
- I Thought (LaShawn Daniels, Fred Jenkins III, Rodney Jerkins ) (4:29)
- When You Touch Me ( Rodney Jerkins , Nora Payne, Kenisha Pratt, Robert Smith) (5:42)
- Like This ( Brandy Norwood , LaShawn Daniels, Fred Jenkins III, Rodney Jerkins ) (4:32)
- All In Me (LaShawn Daniels, Fred Jenkins III, Rodney Jerkins) (4:00)
- Apart (Keith Crouch, Kenisha Pratt) (4:27)
- Can We (Alexander Greggs, Rodney Jerkins, LaShawn, Daniels) (4:43)
- What About Us? (LaShawn Daniels, Rodney Jerkins, Brandy Norwood, Nora Payne, Kenisha Pratt) (4:10)
- Anybody (Brandy Norwood, LaShawn Daniels, Fred Jenkins III, Rodney Jerkins, Kenisha Pratt) (4:55)
- Nothing (LaShawn Daniels, Fred Jenkins III, Kenisha Pratt) (4:48)
- It's Not Worth It (Brandy Norwood, LaShawn Daniels, Fred Jenkins III, Rodney Jerkins) (4:23)
- He Is ( Brandy Norwood , Warryn Campbell, Harold Lilly) (4:21)
- Come A Little Closer (Stuart Brawley, Jason Derlatka) (4:32)
- Love Wouldn't Count Me Out (Brandy Norwood, LaShawn Daniels, Fred Jenkins III, S. Johnson) (4:19)
- Wow (LaShawn Daniels, Nora Payne, Kenisha Pratt, Robert Smith) (4:12)
Re-release bonus tracks
- Die With Out You (featuring Ray J ) (North America Edition) (3:56)
- Another Day in Paradise (featuring Ray J ), ( Phil Collins , Hugh Padgham) (Europe / Oceania / Japan Edition) (4:32)
- I Wanna Fall in Love (Cordes, Attrell Stephen) (Japan Edition) (3:52)
- Full Moon (Cutfather & Joe Remix) (Mike City) (Japan Edition) (4:08)
Singles
Another day in paradise
The song, written by Phil Collins in 1989, was released in 2001 as the album's first single. The duet with her brother Ray J was an international success and achieved in various countries, u. a. in Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Great Britain, the top 5.
What About Us?
What About Us? is the first single, released in the United States in 2002, written and produced by Rodney Jerkins. What About Us? Reached Switzerland, Denmark, the USA, Great Britain, Australia and New Zealand . the top ten of the singles charts. In Germany, the song ran on music channels and radios with the Simon Vegas remix version. The "Silk Hurley Remix" was nominated in 2003 for a Grammy in the category "Best Non-Classical Remix Song". In addition to the published version, there is also the official remix with the rapper Nas .
Full moon
Full Moon , written and produced by Mike City, released in mid-2002, is the album's third single. The song of the same name for the album was not particularly successful with top positions 18 and 15 in the United States and Great Britain, although several remixes (including with Fat Joe and Twista ) were produced.
Charts
| country | Charter agent | Highest position | Award |
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| Austria | Media Control | 54 | |
| Germany | Media Control | 8th | |
| Switzerland | Media Control | 7th | |
| Great Britain | BPI / The Official UK Charts Company | 9 | gold |
| US Billboard 200 | Billboard | 2 | platinum |
Individual evidence
- ↑ music.yahoo.com
- ↑ Chart entry from March 30, 2001 ( memento of the original from October 12, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Chartsurfer.de .
- ↑ mtv.com
- ↑ mariah-charts.com ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b c Full Moon Chart History . In: Swisscharts . Retrieved October 28, 2007.
- ↑ a b mariah-charts.com
