More (Tamia album)

More
Studio album by
Tamia
ReleasedApril 6, 2004
Length58:04
LabelElektra
Producer
Tamia chronology
A Nu Day
(2000) 		More
(2004) 		Between Friends
(2006)
Singles from More
  1. "Officially Missing You"
    Released: September 30, 2003
  2. "Questions"
    Released: February 24, 2004
  3. "Still"
    Released: October 19, 2004

More is the third studio album by Canadian R&B recording artist Tamia. It was released by Elektra Records on April 6, 2004 in North America. Created over a period of three years, in which the singer gave birth to her first child, the album, initially titled Still, was bumped from its original August 2003 schedule after Tamia was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and forced to undergo treatment. With the illness in remission, she resumed work on the album later that year and arranged additional recording sessions with producers Poke & Tone, Spanador and R. Kelly to revamp parts of the album which saw her also reteaming with frequent partners such as Jermaine Dupri, Shep Crawford and Mario Winans.[1]

The album was released to generally mixed reception from music critics, who applauded Tamia's vocal performances and noted its sophisticated sound. Criticism mainly targeted the amount of fillers as well as the album's occasionally inconsistent production. More debuted and peaked at number 17 on the US Billboard 200 and number four on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, with first week sales of 71,000 copies. It marked the highest-selling week of her career up to that point, doubling her prior best Nielsen SoundScan week, and as of 2018, remains the highest-charting album of Tamia's catalogue in the United States.[2]

Preceded by the international top ten hit "Into You", a collaboration with rapper Fabolous from his second studio album Street Dreams (2003) based on Tamia's 1998 single "So into You", More spawned three singles. Lead single "Officially Missing You" and follow-up "Questions" scored moderate success however, reaching the top 40 of Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. In support of More, Tamia was featured as a special guest on the Verizon Ladies First Tour, co-headlined by Beyoncé, Alicia Keys and Missy Elliott, which became one of the biggest tours of the year.[3] More became Tamia's third consecutive album to earn a Juno Award nomination in the R&B/Soul Recording of the Year category.

  1. ^ "ANDPOP - Interview: Tamia Talks About Illness, New Album, and Label Woes". andpop.com. Archived from the original on 2016-05-03. Retrieved 2012-03-23.
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  3. ^ "Ladies First Tour Sets Bar for R&B Outings". Yahoo! News. May 8, 2004. Archived from the original on October 1, 2012. Retrieved July 15, 2011.