Flo'Ology
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Flo'Ology is the third and final album by the English neo soul
Neo soul
The term neo soul was originally coined by Kedar Massenburg of Motown Records in the late 1990s as a marketing category following the commercial breakthroughs of artists such as D'Angelo, Erykah Badu, Lauryn Hill, and Maxwell...

 duo Floetry
Floetry
Floetry was a British R&B duo comprising Marsha Ambrosius and Natalie Stewart . The group recorded two studio albums, one live album, and sold over 800,000 records worldwide. Formed in 1999, Floetry started on the performance poetry stage.In 2002, the duo released their first album entitled, Floetic...

, released in the United States on 8 November 2005 by Geffen Records
Geffen Records
Geffen Records is an American record label, owned by Universal Music Group, and operated as one third of UMG's Interscope-Geffen-A&M label group.-Beginnings:...

 and in the United Kingdom on 14 November 2005 by Polydor Records
Polydor Records
Polydor is a record label owned by Universal Music Group, headquartered in the United Kingdom.-Beginnings:Polydor was originally an independent branch of the Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft. Its name was first used as an export label in 1924, the British and German branches of the Gramophone...

. It debuted at number seven on the Billboard 200
Billboard 200
The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...

 and includes the single "SupaStar" featuring rapper Common. As of September 2010, the album has sold 363,000 in the United States.

Track listing

  1. "Blessed 2 Have" (Marsha Ambrosius
    Marsha Ambrosius
    Marsha Ambrosius or Marsha is an English singer/songwriter. A former member of the English Soul/R&B duo Floetry, she released her first solo album Late Nights & Early Mornings on March 1, 2011.-Early career with Floetry:...

    , Natalie Stewart, Keith Pelzer, Darren Henson, Rick Davies
    Rick Davies
    Rick Davies is an English musician, best known as the founder and keyboardist of progressive rock band Supertramp...

    , Roger Hodgson
    Roger Hodgson
    Charles Roger Pomfret Hodgson is a British musician and songwriter, best known as the former co-frontman, and founding member, of progressive rock band Supertramp....

    ) – 3:57
    • Contains excerpts from Supertramp
      Supertramp
      Supertramp are a British rock band formed in 1969 under the name Daddy before renaming to Supertramp in early 1970. Though their music was initially categorised as progressive rock, they have since incorporated a combination of traditional rock and art rock into their music...

      's "School" (Rick Davies, Roger Hodgson)
  2. "SupaStar" (featuring Common) (Ambrosius, Stewart, Scott Storch
    Scott Storch
    Scott Storch is an American record producer. He produces a variety of music, particularly hip hop, reggaeton, and R&B. His label, Storch Music Company responsible for signing Brooke Hogan and Nox...

    , Lonnie Lynn) – 4:12
  3. "Closer" (Ambrosius, Stewart, Jared Gosselin, Philip White) – 4:03
  4. "My Apology" (Ambrosius, Stewart, Storch) – 4:06
  5. "Let Me In" (Ambrosius, Stewart, Pelzer, Henson) – 4:25
  6. "Lay Down" (Ambrosius, Stewart, Pelzer, Henson) – 5:00
  7. "Feelings" – 5:02
  8. "Sometimes U Make Me Smile" (Ambrosius, Stewart, Pelzer, Henson) – 6:38
  9. "I'll Die" (Ambrosius, Stewart, Gosselin, White) – 4:41
  10. "Imagination" (Ambrosius, Stewart, Raphael Saadiq
    Raphael Saadiq
    Raphael Saadiq is an American singer, songwriter and record producer. Saadiq has been a standard bearer for "old school" R&B since his early days as a member of the multiplatinum group Tony! Toni! Toné! He also produced songs of such artists as TLC, Joss Stone, D'Angelo, Mary J...

    , Robert Ozuna
    Jake and the Phatman
    Jake and the Phatman are Grammy Award-winning, multi-platinum producers, songwriters, DJ's and Multi-Instrumentalists....

    , Kelvin Wooten) – 6:34
  11. "I Want U" (Ambrosius, Stewart) – 5:49


UK edition
  1. "In Your Eyes" (Ambrosius, Stewart, Gosselin, White) – 4:17
  2. "Waiting in Vain
    Waiting in Vain
    "Waiting in Vain" is a song written by reggae musician Bob Marley and recorded by Bob Marley & The Wailers, for his 1977 album Exodus. Released as a single, it hit number twenty-seven in the UK Singles Chart.-Annie Lennox version:...

    " (Bob Marley
    Bob Marley
    Robert Nesta "Bob" Marley, OM was a Jamaican singer-songwriter and musician. He was the rhythm guitarist and lead singer for the ska, rocksteady and reggae band Bob Marley & The Wailers...

     cover) – 3:46

Charts

Chart (2005) Peak
position
UK Albums Chart
UK Albums Chart
The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart...

167
U.S. Billboard 200
Billboard 200
The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...

7
U.S. Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums
Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums
Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums is a chart published by Billboard magazine that ranks R&B and hip hop albums based on sales compiled by Nielsen SoundScan. The name of the chart was changed from Top R&B Albums in 1999...

2
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