Full Moon (album)

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Full Moon

Studio album by Brandy
Released	February 25, 2002
Recorded	2000-2001; The Record Planet (Los Angeles, California), Darkchild Studios (Pleasantville, New Jersey), Human Rhythm Studios (Los Angeles, California), The Hit Factory (New York City, New York), The Studios (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Genre	R&B
Length	70:34
Label	Atlantic Records 83493
Producer(s)	Brandy Norwood, Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins, Fred Jerkins III, Keith Crouch, Mike City, Warryn Campbell, Big Bert
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Brandy chronology
Never Say Never (1998)	Full Moon (2002)	Afrodisiac (2004)

Full Moon is the third studio album by American R&B singer Brandy, released by Atlantic Records on February 25, 2002 outside North America, and on March 5, 2002 (see 2002 in music) in Canada and the United States. Brandy primarily worked with Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins on the majority of the album's production.

1 History
- 1.1 Production and title
- 1.2 Release and reception
2 Track listing
- 2.1 Bonus tracks
3 Credits and personnel
- 3.1 Production
4 Charts
- 4.1 Album
- 4.2 Chart trajectories
5 Notes

[edit] History

[edit] Production and title

After a lengthy hiatus that saw the end of the Moesha television series, and a flurry of tabloid headlines discussing her bout with "dehydration", Brandy eventually entered recording studios in mid-2000 to start working her then-untitled third album with producer Rodney Jerkins, and his Darkchild crew, among Fred Jerkins III, Nora Payne, and LaShawn Daniels.^[1] While Jerkins contributed most to the album and moreover served as its executive producer, Norwood also worked with producers Keith Crouch, Mike City, Warryn Campbell, and Robert "Big Bert" Smith. In addition, she also recorded with Babyface, Soulshock & Karlin, The Neptunes, and rapper Ja Rule, but none of the songs written with them made the final tracklisting.^[2]^[3]

Although the singer revealed that the album's "focus was very much on the technical," and "about how it sounded,"^[4] Brandy regarded Full Moon as a pure concept album based on the development of a male-female relationship: "It's definitely the concept for the album--me falling in love, then going through some turbulence, and then, at the end, I find the person that I really want to be with--so it's a great concept and it's a great experience that I had."^[5] In an interview with MTV News Norwood told, that she entitled the album Full Moon, because she had done a "complete circle" and felt "whole": "All of that's reflected in the music. It's autobiographical. Everything that I've gone through in the last three years is reflected."^[6]

[edit] Release and reception

While Full Moon was nominated for a Grammy Award for "Best Contemporary R&B Album", media reception for the album was mixed. Though most professional reviewers saw comparisons to Michael Jackson's 2001 studio album Invincible, the album was generally praised for Brandy and Jerkins' idea of "forward-thinking musical maturity" and the growth of Norwood's "now scratchy, evocative edge" in her voice. By contrast, Rolling Stone Magazine declared Full Moon as "frantic, faceless, fake-sexy R&B," while Andy Kellman from All Music Guide cited the album "more mature and consistent" but "too lengthy." However, Brandy's third album became a global success: Full Moon debuted on top of the U.S. Top R&B/Hip-Hop albums chart, and at number two on the Billboard 200, selling more than 155,000 copies in its first week of release.^[7] Sales declined soon but uniformly continuous, and the album eventually received a Platinum certification for more than one million copies shipped to stores.^[8] While the album entered the top twenty on the majority of the charts it appeared on oustide the United States, it also reached the top ten in Switzerland, Germany, Canada, and the UK.

[edit] Track listing

#	Title
1.	"B-Rocka Intro"	1:19
2.	"Full Moon"	4:08
3.	"I Thought"	4:29
4.	"When You Touch Me"	5:42
5.	"Like This"	4:32
6.	"All In Me"	4:00
7.	"Apart"	4:27
8.	"Can We"	4:43
9.	"What about Us?"	4:12
10.	"Anybody"	4:10
11.	"Nothing"	4:48
12.	"It's Not Worth It"	4:23
13.	"He Is"	4:21
14.	"Come a Little Closer"	4:32
15.	"Love Wouldn't Count Me out"	4:19
16.	"WOW"	4:12

[edit] Bonus tracks

#	Title
	"Die Without You" (with Ray-J) (U.S.)	3:56
	"Another Day In Paradise" (with Ray-J) (EU)	4:12
	"I Wanna Fall In Love" (Japan)	3:52

[edit] Credits and personnel

Lori Andrews - strings
Larry Gold - cello
Edward Green - strings
Gerald Heyward - drums
Jubu - guitar
Lila Kazakova - strings
Kimbo - violin
Eugene Mechtovich - strings
Patrick Morgan - strings
Michele Nardone - strings
Isaac Phillips - guitar
Robin Ross - strings
Marston Smith - strings
Thomas Tally - strings
Charles Veal, Jr. - strings
Zheng Wang - strings
Joe "Flip" Wilson - piano
Tibor Zelig - strings
Yihuaw Zhao - strings

[edit] Production

Executive producers: Craig Kallmann, Brandy Norwood, Ron Shapiro
Producer: Brandy, Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins, Stuart Brawley, Mike City, Warryn Campbell, Keith Crouch, Jason Derlatka
Vocal producer: Brandy
Vocal assistance: Ray-J, Michael Jackson
Engieers: Jim Bottari, Stuart Brawley, Reginald Dozier, Jan Fairchild, Thor Laewe, Michael "Wolf" Reaves
Assistant engineers: J.D. Andrew, Kenneth B. Hertz, Michael Huff, Marc Stephen Lee, Steve Robillard, Javier Valverde
Conductors: Suzie Katayama
Mixing: Jon Gass, Brad Gilderman, Manny Marroquin, Dave Pensado, Dexter Simmons
Mastering: Tom Coyne
A&R: Andrew Feigenbaum, Craig Kallman, Brandy Norwood
Design: Thomas Bricker
Art Direction: Thomas Bricker
Photography: Marc Baptiste

[edit] Charts

[edit] Album

Year	Chart	Peak position
2002	U.S. Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums	1
2002	U.S. Billboard 200	2
2002	Swiss Albums Chart	7
2002	German Top 100	8
2002	Canadian Top 50	8
2002	UK Top 20	9
2002	French Albums Chart	12
2002	Australian Albums Chart	13
2002	New Zealand Albums Chart	14
2002	Swedish Albums Chart	20
2002	Dutch Albums Chart	23
2002	Belgian Albums Chart	26
2002	Austrian Albums Chart	54

[edit] Chart trajectories

Billboard 200 (Weeks 1-13)
Week	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11	12	13
Position	2 (159,420)	7 (77,193)	11 (64,608)	19 (63,852)	18 (45,981)	20 (41,372)	25 (36,164)	33 (32,817)	29 (37,912)	36 (30,528)	40 (30,631)	31 (31,469)	48 (23,657)
Total	159,420	236,613	301,221	365,073	411,054	452,426	488,590	521,407	559,319	589,847	620,478	651,947	675,604