![]() ![]() ![]() For the production of the album, the singer had re-teamed with most of her regular contributors and although the final track listing comprised an outweighing slower set of mid-tempo recording and ballads, J Records settled on " Everytime tha Beat Drop", a heavily snap-influenced up-tempo record which had initially been recorded for a So So Def mixtape, to lead the album - against the grain of the singer, who felt that the song did not speak to her core audience and was a poor representation of the album. In 2006, Monica's fifth studio album The Makings of Me was released. The album was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best R&B Album, presented at the 53rd Grammy Awards in 2011. The second single, " Love All Over Me", was released in May 2010 and reached number two on the R&B/Hip-Hop chart. The track was nominated for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance at the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards. The lead single, " Everything to Me", peaked at number forty-four on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number-one on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart, becoming her first chart-topper in over seven years. Still Standing was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for shipments of 500,000 copies and sold 540,000 units in the United States. It was a commercial success, debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200 chart, selling 184,000 in its first week, and reached the top of the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, becoming Monica's second album to do so. The album received mostly positive reviews, based on an aggregate score of 71/100 from Metacritic, with critics perceiving its sound as "a return to the mid-'90s heyday" of contemporary R&B. #MONICA WHY I LOVE YOU SO MUCH MP3 DOWNLOAD SERIES#Production on Still Standing was chronicled by Monica's BET reality series of the same name which was aired between October 2009 and January 2010. As executive producer of the album Monica enlisted a variety of producers including involvement by Missy Elliott, Bryan-Michael Cox, Stargate, and Jermaine Dupri. Recording for the album began in 2007, in which the singer intended to take a more traditional approach to the genre and take away any "gimmicks". Still Standing is the sixth studio album by American R&B singer Monica. ![]()
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