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| Genre = | Length = | Label = J | Producer = | Reviews = | Last album = ''The Makings of Me'' (2006) | This album = ''Still Standing'' (2010) | Next album = ''New Life'' (2012) |Misc = }} ''Still Standing'' is the sixth studio album by American R&B recording artist Monica. It was released on March 19, 2010 by J Records. 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." As executive producer of the album Monica enlisted a variety of producers including involvement by Missy Elliott, Bryan-Michael Cox, Stargate, and Jermaine Dupri. 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. 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-'1990s heyday" of contemporary R&B. A commercial success, it 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. ''Still Standing'' is certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for shipments and sales of 500,000 copies in the United States. As of Nov 4, 2014 Still Standing sold 724,360 copies in the United States. 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. The track was nominated for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance at the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards. The second single, "Love All Over Me", was released in May 2010 and reached number two on the R&B/Hip-Hop chart. The album was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best R&B Album, presented at the 53rd Grammy Awards in 2011. ==Background== In 2006, Monica's fifth studio album ''The Makings of Me'' was released. For the production of the album, the singer had re-teamed with most of her regular contributors and although the final tracklisting 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. Upon its release, ''The Makings of Me'' failed to reprise the multi-million sales success of previous albums, barley selling 350,000 copies in the United States, and while it produced four single releases, none of them managed to chart or sell noticeably, garnering Monica her least commercially successful project yet. Still during the promotion of the album, the singer acknowledged that she had to follow a more honest approach on her next project: "(success of ''The Makings of Me'' ) just made me realize that people want authentic Monica," she stated. "They don't want me to keep up with all the different gimmicks and trends that are taking place."〔 In late 2007, Monica started work on her follow-up album. Intending to create a record that lived up to the sound her previous hits, particularly those from the 1990s, she expressed that she wanted to appeal to her existing fans although her label was concerned with making the project sound up to date:〔 "I am going back to where I started. The next album I would like people to get more songs like "Why I Love You So Much," "Angel of Mine," or the things they really, really love from me ()."〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=Concrete Loop )〕 Originally titled ''Lessons Learned''—a reference to the mistakes Monica felt she made with ''The Makings of Me'' — the singer decided to change the project after recording the album's title track in 2008 as she felt that ''Still Standing'' was more appropriate for the body of work that she and Bryan-Michael Cox pulled off.〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Still Standing (Monica album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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