Monica Newsletter News Music Tour Bio Monica Photos Videos Store Previous Next Houston! Monica will be performing live at Houston’s Black Heritage Music & Arts Festival on September 17th. Don’t miss out! Tickets are available HERE. Read More 06.30.16 @monicabrown Happy Holidays and Congratulations to myfirstlove5105 ... You are the getting this 500.00 gift… https://t.co/RoiMgljrHb 10:53AM 12.15.15 Reply Retweet Favorite Monica at Houston’s Black Heritage Music & Arts Festival Read More 06.30.16 Monica at Houston’s Black Heritage Music & Arts Festival Houston! Monica will be performing live at Houston’s Black Heritage Music & Arts Festival on September 17th. Don’t miss out! Tickets are available HERE. 06.30.16 DC! Come see Monica live in concert! Read More 06.30.16 DC! Come see Monica live in concert! Watch Monica perform live with Melanie Fiona and Avant Saturday, July 16th at Constitution Hall. Click here for more info! 06.30.16 “CODE RED” Available Now! Read More 12.21.15 “CODE RED” Available Now! It’s finally here! Monica’s brand new album, CODE RED, including “Just Right for Me” ft. Lil Wayne, “Hustler’s Ambition” ft. Akon and the title track “Code Red” ft. Missy Elliott is available now! Download and stream the new album below! iTunes | Amazon | Google Play | Spotify 12.21.15 Love & Laugh – The Code Red Edition! Read More 09.08.15 Love & Laugh – The Code Red Edition! Love & Laugh: Code Red Edition. Monica w/ Special Guest COmedian Shawty Shawty. Saturday Oct. 10th @ Florida Theatre. Get your tickets at ticketmaster.com! 09.08.15 Load More 2015 Code Red Code Red Buy Now iTunes Amazon Google Play Spotify 01 Code Red 02 Just Right For Me 03 Love Just Ain't Enough 04 Call My Name 05 I Know 06 All Men Lie 07 Deep 08 Hustler's Ambition 09 Alone In Your Heart 10 Suga 11 Ocean of Tears 12 Saints & Sinners 13 I Miss Music 14 Anchor 2015 Just Right For Me ft. Lil Wayne (Single) Just Right For Me ft. Lil Wayne (Single) Buy Now Apple Music Amazon Google Play Spotify 2013 Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas Buy Now iTunes Amazon 2012 New Life New Life Buy Now Amazon iTunes Google Play Spotify 01 New Life (Intro) ft. Mary J. Blige 02 It All Belongs To Me with Brandy 03 Daddy’s Good Girl 04 Man Who Has Everything 05 Big Mistake 06 Take a Chance ft. Wale 07 Without You 08 Until It’s Gone 09 Amazing 10 Cry 11 Time To Move On 12 New Life (Outro) 13 Breathe 14 In 3D 15 Catch Me 16 Anything (To Find You) ft. Rick Ross 2012 New Life (Fan Edition) New Life (Fan Edition) 2012 It All Belongs To Me It All Belongs To Me Buy Now iTunes Amazon 2011 Until It’s Gone (Single) Until It’s Gone (Single) Buy Now iTunes 2010 Here I Am Here I Am 2010 Still Standing – featuring 2 bonus tracks Still Standing – featuring 2 bonus tracks Buy Now Monica's Official Store iTunes Amazon Google Play Spotify 01 Still Standing ft. Ludacris 02 One in a Lifetime 03 Stay or Go 04 Everything to Me 05 If You Were My Man 06 Mirror 07 Here I Am 08 Superman 09 Love All Over Me 10 Believing in Me 2007 The Makings Of Me The Makings Of Me Buy Now Monica's Official Store iTunes Amazon.com Google Play Spotify 01 Everytime tha Beat Drop ft. Dem Franchize Boyz 02 A Dozen Roses (You Remind Me) 03 Sideline Ho 04 Why Her 05 Hell No (Leave Home) ft. Twista 06 Doin’ Me Right 07 Raw ft. Swizz Beatz 08 My Everything 09 Gotta Move On 10 Getaway 2006 New Life (Deluxe Edition) New Life (Deluxe Edition) Buy Now iTunes Official Store Amazon 2004 Dance Vault Mixes – Get It Off/Knock Knock Dance Vault Mixes – Get It Off/Knock Knock 2003 After The Storm After The Storm Buy Now Monica's Official Store iTunes Amazon.com Google Play Spotify 01 Intro 02 Get It Off ft. Dirtbag 03 So Gone 04 U Should’ve Known Better 05 Don’t Gotta Go Home ft. DMX 06 Knock Knock 07 Breaks My Heart 08 I Wrote This Song 09 Ain’t Gonna Cry No More 10 Go to Bed Mad ft. Tyrese 11 Hurts The Most 12 That’s My Man 13 Outro 1998 The Boy Is Mine The Boy Is Mine Buy Now Monica's Official Store iTunes Amazon.com Google Play Spotify 01 Street Symphony 02 The Boy Is Mine (duet with Brandy) 03 Ring da Bell 04 The First Night 05 Misty Blue 06 Angel of Mine 07 Gone Be Fine ft. OutKast 08 Inside 09 Take Him Back 10 Right Here Waiting ft. 112 11 Cross the Room 12 I Keep It To Myself 13 For You I Will 1995 Miss Thang Miss Thang Buy Now Monica's Official Store iTunes Amazon.com Google Play Spotify 01 Miss Thang 02 Don’t Take It Personal (Just One of Dem Days) 03 Like This and Like That ft. Mr. Malik 04 Get Down 05 With You 06 Skate 07 Angel 08 Woman in Me (Interlude) 09 Tell Me If You Still Care 10 Let’s Straighten It Out ft. Usher 11 Before You Walk Out of My Life 12 Now I’m Gone 13 Why I Love You So Much 14 Never Can Say Goodbye 15 Don’t Take It Personal (Just One of Dem Days) (Remix St Petersburg, FL Oct 22 Vinoy Park Get Tickets Oct 22 St Petersburg, FL Vinoy Park Tickets Beep, beep, beep – An alarm sounds. Lights flash. Everyone is on alert. Emergency protocol in effect. It’s a Code Red state of emergency. Soul music is in trouble and one of the greatest R&B singers of a generation is sounding the alarm. Whispered voices have been expressing their concern for some time. Industry insiders talk of a change in the musical direction at radio. Critics blame millenials. Millenials blame the music. Artists blame each other. And everyone blames the Internet. But that’s not the whole story. Soul music is alive and well and “people love it when introduced to it properly,” R&B/Pop icon Monica explains. However, concerned about the future of the genre she loves so much, Monica returns with her seventh studio album appropriately titled Code Red. “As an artist and real genuine soul/R&B lover, I felt that it’s a state of emergency for the music. Its important for this generation to know and understand how important the music was and is to the world and we are best when we can bridge the sound between the old and the new,” Monica says. The Grammy Award winning singer knows this better than anyone. Monica will inarguably be remembered in music as one of the most iconic soul singers of a generation. Her enviable resume detailing extraordinary musical contributions that started professionally at the tenderfoot age of 12 when her first major label deal was signed. Monica’s musical journey started in College Park, Ga., when she began performing with a traveling gospel choir, following in her mother’s footsteps, an incredible church singer herself. While honing her craft competing in as many local talent shows she could find, Monica was discovered by hitmaker Dallas Austin, signed to Arista Records’ distributed label, Rowdy Records and by thirteen became the youngest artist ever to score two back-to-back Billboard #1 chart-topping hit records with “Don’t Take it Personal” (Just one of dem Days) and “Before you Walk Out of My Life.” By the end of 1995, she had taken the world by storm with her unstoppable debut album, “Miss Thang.” Her next album, the 1998 record-breaker “The Boy Is Mine,” was a crossover pop juggernaut as the result of her duet with Brandy; the Rodney Jerkins produced song of the same name. The single spent thirteen weeks at #1 on the coveted Billboard chart, earning Monica her first Grammy Award to add to her already growing collection of Billboard, American Music and Soul Train awards. “The Boy Is Mine” album would feature two more Billboard #1 hits –“Angel of Mine” and “The First Night”– and would establish Monica as a bona-fide superstar and one of most successful artists of the entire decade. Over the next ten years Monica would release four more Billboard chart-toppingalbums “After the Storm,”“The Makings of Me,”“Still Standing,” and “New Life.” In all, she has sold more than 25 million albums worldwide and she holds the record as the first artist to top the U.S. Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Songs Chart with No.1 songs over the span of three consecutive decades (1990s, 2000s and 2010s), which puts her in the elite company of history-making superstars such as Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, James Brown and Marvin Gaye, all sharing similar accomplishments. She’s acted on stage and in feature films, contributed to the hit NBC show, “The Voice,” and witnessed her life documented in the BET reality show, “Monica: Still Standing.” And in 2010, Billboard Magazine listed Monica at No. 24 on it’s list of the Top 50 R&B and Hip Hop Artists of the past 25 years. So what’s left to prove and why now? The answers are extraordinarily simple: Nothing and it was time. After a few years off from recording and touring, Monica felt that her family life had reached a point where it could sustain the rigors and demands of her career. “My family takes precedence over everything. Once I really got everybody comfortable – Kids in school, prepping for the days they had whether it be with sports or all the different activities that they love and my daughter was walking and talking, that’s when I really started working on the album,” Monica recalls. “My children didn’t ask to be the children of an entertainer so never do I want them to feel secondary to it…In the midst of me being a mom and a wife, there’s so much more substance there when I do come back as an artist.” Due in-stores and online later this year, Code Redis indeed a jubilant return to form for the iconic star. The lead single, produced by hitmaker Polow Da Don is an updated take on a Smokey Robinson and the Miracles classic (Much Better Off); “Just Right For Me,”featuring Lil’ Wayne, serves as a perfect introduction to the album and is a bridge between Monica’s love of classic soul music, 90’s R&B and the sound of today. Another standout on the album is the uber-personal tune, “I Miss Music.” It is somewhat of a tribute to the memorable music of the 80’s and 90’s and the rare artists that created it. “I Miss Music,” is an infectious record. It was an instantaneous attraction for Monica. “I was born in the midst of the most incredible age of music. This song speaks to that era and reflects on how important the music was to me,” Monica explains. When I mention Whitney’s name in the song, I still get chills through my body. She wasn’t only my mentor. She was my friend. This song is all about substance and feel and that’s what means the most to me.” “The song ‘Hustler’s Ambition,’ featuring Akon, is one of my absolute favorite records that I have ever recorded,” Monica details. The record captures the feeling of missing someone but keeping the emotional fire burning while he’s away. Surely a parallel for Monica and her husband, NBA player Shannon Brown and their intense opposing work schedules. Missy Elliott returns to Monica’s musical journey on the supremely matched title track, “Code Red.” The tempo driven, high energy, effervescent, and lyrically captivating record couldn’t be a more unexpected yet perfect union for these music icons whom are also true friends. “This album is about my journey. As a person I’m complete. I’m a complete woman now. I’m complete as a mom. I see my children happy, enjoying their lives, living and learning. I’m complete as a wife. I understand who I am. I know my shortcomings and I accept those just as much as I accept my strengths. As an artist, I’m a lot more seasoned and comfortable in my own skin. I understand there are artists that will do different things than me. They make take different paths in promoting and creating but there’s only one Monica. Indeed since her dominant debut in 1995, there’s always only been one Monica. Anchor (audio) Love Just Ain't Enough (Audio) ft. 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