Strictly Physical (album)

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Strictly Physical
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
Monrose chronology
Temptation
(2006)		 Strictly Physical
(2007)		 I Am
(2008)
Singles from Strictly Physical
  1. "Hot Summer"
    Released: 29 June 2007
  2. "Strictly Physical"
    Released: 14 September 2007
  3. "What You Don't Know"
    Released: 7 December 2007
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
BamS 3/6 stars[1]
CDStarts 4.5/10 stars[2]
Energy Zürich 2/5 stars[3]
laut.de 2/5 stars[4]
LetMeEntertainYou 2/5 stars[5]
M&C (acceptable)[6]
Tiscali 2/5 stars[7]

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. The album has reached gold status in Germany and Austria.

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."

Contents

[edit] History

[edit] 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.[8] 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.[9] 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.[10][11]

The album spawned three singles, however, a fourth was scrapped in favour of production of a new album.[citation needed] 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[12], also obtaining success in Scandinavia, Eastern Europe and the Benelux states.[13] 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. Korean boyband Super Junior covered "Just Like That" for their third studio album Sorry, Sorry.

[edit] Track listing

No. Title Writer(s) Length
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 That"   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 tracks
No. Title Writer(s) Length
14. "Say Yes"   Robin Jenssen, Nermin Harambasic, Anne Judith Wik, Ronny Svendsen, Hallgeir Rustan 3:53
International bonus tracks
No. Title Writer(s) Length
14. "Shame"   T. Hawes, P. Kirtley, C. Ballard, A. Murray 3:29
15. "Even Heaven Cries" (Single Version 2007) Robbie Nevil, Philip Denker, Lauren Evans, Jonas Jeberg, Jens Lumholt 3:00
Samples

[edit] Credits and personnel

[edit] 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

[edit] Release history

Country Date
Germany September 21, 2007
Poland October 8, 2007

[edit] Charts

Chart (2007) Peak
position
Austrian Albums Chart[13] 7
European Top 100 Albums Chart[14] 11
German Albums Chart[15] 2
Polish Albums Chart[13] 55
Swiss Albums Chart[13] 6

[edit] Certifications

Region Certification
Austria (IFPI Austria)[10] Gold
Germany (BVMI)[11] Gold

[edit] References

  1. ^ BamS review
  2. ^ CDStarts review
  3. ^ Energy Zürich review
  4. ^ laut.de review
  5. ^ LetMeEntertainYou review
  6. ^ M&C review
  7. ^ Tiscali review
  8. ^ "Review of Strictly Physical". laut.de. http://www.laut.de/lautstark/cd-reviews/m/monrose/strictly_physical/index.htm. Retrieved 2007-08-23. 
  9. ^ ""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. [dead link]
  10. ^ a b "Austrian album certifications – Monrose – Strictly Physical" (in German). IFPI Austria. http://www.ifpi.at/?section=goldplatin.  Enter Monrose in the field Interpret. Enter Strictly Physical in the field Titel. Select album in the field Format. Click Suchen
  11. ^ a b "Gold-/Platin-Datenbank (Monrose; 'Strictly Physical')" (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie. http://www.musikindustrie.de/gold_platin_datenbank/?action=suche&strTitel=Strictly+Physical&strInterpret=Monrose&strTtArt=alben&strAwards=checked. 
  12. ^ ""37 Prozent mehr legale Musikdownloads"". Media Control. http://www.macwelt.de/news/ipod/349709/. Retrieved 2007-10-08. 
  13. ^ 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. 
  14. ^ U.S. Billboard European Top 100 Albums
  15. ^ Media Control News Announcement: “Munteres Wechselspiel in den Single-Charts – Rihanna auf Platz eins”

[edit] External links

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