2010 has been a great year for Monica. The R&B singer scored 2 top 10 singles on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart and her latest album, ‘Still Standing’, has sold over 600k in the US to date.
However, don’t think for a second that Monica is ready to take a break. In fact, she is already planning to release 2 new records in 2011 – a studio album and a Christmas collection. See what she had to say about the projects below:
Monica has been logging studio time with her cousin Polow Da Don, creating the follow-up to this year’s Still Standing. “I’ve only worked with Polow so far, but I try to get with one or two producers and pretty much create the meat, and then you pretty much get the rest of it done around the center of the album,” she explained.
While an album title has yet to be determined, she’s mapped out a recording schedule. “I really want to come up with the album title very soon, so that it will have direction like Still Standing did,” she said. “I hope to at least have the title in January and a single in maybe March and an album in maybe July. It would have to be something pretty drastic to take me off my path. But if nothing changes, that’s the plan.”
After she finishes this album, a collection of Christmas songs could be next. “I’m looking forward to something like that, something that’s kinda mixed with a little bit of Christian inspirational things with some of the older songs that we all know.” {Source}
Hopefully, Monica will avoid ‘The Christmas Song’ and ‘Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas’ on her Holiday album because they are basically cliches at this point. Still, I’m eager to hear what she comes up with on both releases as ‘Still Standing’ was a solid record.