For the production of the album, the singer had re-teamed with most of her regular contributors and although the final tracklisting comprised an outweighing slower set of mid-tempo recording and ballads, J Records settled on " Everytime tha Beat Drop," a heavily snap-influenced up-tempo record which had initially been recorded for a So So Def mixtape, to lead the album - against the grain of the singer, who felt that the song did not speak to her core audience and was a poor representation of the album. In 2006, Monica's fifth studio album The Makings of Me was released. The album was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best R&B Album, presented at the 53rd Grammy Awards in 2011. A commercial success, Still Standing was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for shipments of 500,000 copies in the United States. The album received mostly positive reviews, with critics perceiving its sound as "a return to the mid-'1990s heyday" of contemporary R&B. Second single "Love All Over Me" was released in May 2010 and reached number two on the R&B/Hip-Hop chart. Lead single "Everything to Me" became her first chart-topper in over seven years. The album debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200 chart, selling 184,000 in its first week, and reached the top of the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.
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Production for the album began in 2007 to 2010, featuring involvement by Missy Elliott, Bryan-Michael Cox, Stargate, and Jermaine Dupri, and was chronicled by Monica's BET reality series of the same name.
It was released on Maby J Records, marking her third album on the label following the renewal of her contract in October 2007. Still Standing is the sixth studio album by American R&B recording artist Monica. Monica Arnold (also exec.), Larry Jackson (co-exec.), Bryan-Michael Cox, Jermaine Dupri, Missy Elliott, Jim Jonsin, Cainon Lamb, Andre Lindal, Bei Maejor, Los Da Mystro, Ne-Yo, Polow da Don, Stargate, WyldCard Carrington House, Doppler Studios, Zone 4 Studios