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| Studio album by Monrose | ||||
| Released | 21 September 2007 | |||
| Recorded | 2007 | |||
| Genre | Pop, dance-pop, R&B | |||
| Length | 47:24 | |||
| Label | Starwatch/Warner Music | |||
| Producer | Peter Biker, Jiant, Pete "Boxsta" Martin, Remee, Snowflakers, Thomas Troelsen | |||
| Professional reviews | ||||
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Strictly Physical is the second studio album by German pop trio Monrose, released on Starwatch Music and the Warner Music Group on 21 September 2007 (see 2007 in music) in German-speaking Europe and on 8 October 2007 in parts of Eastern Europe.
Released only nine months after its best-selling predecessor Temptation, the album took Monrose's work further into dance and electro music, featuring main production by Danish producers Remee and Thomas Troelsen, with additional contribution from Jiant, Snowflakers, Peter Biker, and Pete "Boxsta" Martin. It debuted at number two on the German Albums Chart and reached the top 10 in Austria and Switzerland. As of January 2008, the album has reached double gold status for more than 400,000 copies sold.[1][2]
Named after its second single which was released a week prior to the album, Strictly Physical spawned three singles, also including the band's second non-consecutive number-one hit "Hot Summer" and the Billy Mann-penned top ten ballad "What You Don't Know."
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History
Release and reception
Strictly Physical received a mixed reception, with most professional critics calling the longplayer a "more mature and individual" but generally "well-snitched" output in comparison with the band's debut album.[3] However, although the album failed to reprise the huge success of Temptation, missing a number-one peak anywhere, it became another success for the band: It debuted at number 2 on the German Media Control albums chart and reached the top 10 in Austria and Switzerland, shipping more than 90.000 copies in its first week of release.[4] As of January 2008, Strictly Physical has been certified gold by both the Austrian and the German brunch of the IFPI for more than 50,000 and 100,000 sold copies respectively.[1][2]
The album spawned three singles, however, a fourth was scrapped in favour of production of a new album.[2] Lead single "Hot Summer" became band's second number-one hit in Austria, Germany and Switzerland and one of the biggest-selling songs of the year on German online music stores[5], also obtaining success in Scandinavia, Eastern Europe and the Benelux states.[6] Follow-up "Strictly Physical" became Monrose's first top 10 entry on the Polish Top 50 since debut release "Shame" (2006), while ballad "What You Don't Know" became their fifth consecutive top 10 single in Germany, although it failed to reach the top 20 in Switzerland.
Spanish singer Soraya Arnelas covered the song Rebound on her 4th album Sin Miedo.
Track listing
| # | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Dangerous" | Remee, Thomas Troelsen | 3:18 |
| 2. | "Hot Summer" | Remee, Thomas Troelsen | 3:30 |
| 3. | "Strictly Physical" | Tim Hawes, Pete Kirtley, Andrew Murray, Christian Ballard, Obi Mhondera | 3:40 |
| 4. | "Rebound" | S. Lee, T. Harris, P. Martin | 3:39 |
| 5. | "What You Don't Know" | Anders Wollbeck, Mattias Lindblom, Billy Mann | 3:45 |
| 6. | "Leading Me On" | Robin Jensen, Pelle Lidell, Nermin Harambasic, Anne Judith Wik, Ronny Svendsen, Hallgeir Rustan | 4:00 |
| 7. | "Golden" | Kyösti Salokorpi, Grant Black | 3:06 |
| 8. | "Sooner Or Later" | Remee, Thomas Troelsen | 2:45 |
| 9. | "Just Like That1" | Remee, Peter Biker, Tim Kellet, Robin Taylor-Firth | 4:19 |
| 10. | "Yesterday's Gone" | Tim Hawes, Pete Kirtley, Andrew Murray, Christian Ballard | 3:26 |
| 11. | "Burning" | Remee, Thomas Troelsen | 4:06 |
| 12. | "Monrose Theme" | Remee, Thomas Troelsen, Senna Guemmour, Bahar Kizil, Mandy Capristo | 3:46 |
| 13. | "Everybody Makes Mistakes" | Deborah French, Andrew Murray, Christian Ballard, Grant Black | 3:55 |
- Musicload bonus track
- "Say Yes" (Robin Jenssen, Nermin Harambasic, Anne Judith Wik, Ronny Svendsen, Hallgeir Rustan) - 3:53
- International bonus tracks
- "Shame" (T.Hawes, P. Kirtley, C. Ballard, A. Murray) - 3:29
- "Even Heaven Cries" (Single Version 2007) (Robbie Nevil, Philip Denker, Lauren Evans, Jonas Jeberg, Jens Lumholt) - 3:00
1Contains a sample of Olive's 1996 song "You're Not Alone"
Credits and personnel
- Christian Ballard - drums, percussion
- Tim Hawes - guitar
- Pete Kirtley - bass
- Andrew Murray - keyboards
- Thomas Troelsen - keyboards
- Deborah Ffrench - Backing Vocals
Production
- Producers: Peter Biker, Jiant, Pete "Boxsta" Martin, Remee, Snowflakers, Thomas Troelsen
- Vocal assistance: Christian Ballard, Andrew Murray, Remee
- Engineers: Andrew Lunch, Claus Üblacker, Hanif Wiliams
- Programming: Thomas Troelsen
- Mixing: Andreas Hviid, Jiant, Peter Mark, Mad Nilsson, Snowflakers
Release history
| Country | Date |
|---|---|
| Germany | 21 September 2007 |
| Poland | 8 October 2008 |
Charts
| Chart (2007) | Peak position |
Certification |
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| Austrian Albums Chart[6] | 7 | Gold [2] |
| European Top 100 Albums Chart[7] | 11 | |
| German Albums Chart[8] | 2 | Gold [1] |
| Polish Albums Chart[6] | 55 | |
| Swiss Albums Chart[6] | 6 |
References
- ^ a b c "Gold/Platin-Datenbank". http://www.musikindustrie.de/gold_platin_datenbank0.html.
- ^ a b c d "Austrian Certification". IFPI.at. http://www.ifpi.at/u_frame.php3?seite=search.php3&a_id=9. Retrieved 2007-01-08.
- ^ "Review of Strictly Physical". laut.de. http://www.laut.de/lautstark/cd-reviews/m/monrose/strictly_physical/index.htm. Retrieved 2007-08-23.
- ^ ""Latest Remee News"". Remee.net. http://www.remee.net/appmanager/remee/default?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=news_page_single&portletView=single&contentId=Xjt5PMxZWfiZKdm. Retrieved 2008-03-10.
- ^ ""37 Prozent mehr legale Musikdownloads"". Media Control. http://www.macwelt.de/news/ipod/349709/. Retrieved 2007-10-08.
- ^ a b c d "Charty History of Strictly Physical" (in German). Swisscharts. http://swisscharts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Monrose&titel=Strictly+Physical&cat=a. Retrieved 2007-10-03.
- ^ U.S. Billboard European Top 100 Albums
- ^ Media Control News Announcement: “Munteres Wechselspiel in den Single-Charts – Rihanna auf Platz eins”
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