Before You Walk Out of My Life

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"Before You Walk out of My Life"
Single by Monica
from the album Miss Thang
Released August 3, 1995 (1995-08-03)
Format CD maxi single, cassette single, 7" single
Genre
Length 4:53 (album version)
Label Rowdy, Arista
Writer(s) Andrea Martin, Carsten Schack, Kenneth Karlin
Producer(s) Soulshock & Karlin
Certification Platinum (RIAA)
Monica singles chronology
"Don't Take It Personal"
(1995)		 "Before You Walk out of My Life/Like This and Like That"
(1996)		 "Why I Love You So Much/Ain't Nobody"
(1996)

"Before You Walk out of My Life" is a song by American R&B singer Monica. It was written by Andrea Martin and Soulshock & Karlin, and it was produced by Soulshock & Karlin for Toni Braxton's album Secrets[1] but ended up on Monica's debut studio album, Miss Thang (1995). The song was released as the album's second single on August 3, 1995, with "Like This and Like That" serving as its double A-side side stateside.

The single became Monica's second number-one hit on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, spending two weeks at number-one on the chart, and reached number seven on the Billboard Hot 100 and number eight on the New Zealand Singles Chart. Additionally, the song was ranked number thirty-eight on the 1996 Billboard year-end chart and certified platinum by the RIAA.[2][3] "Before You Walk Out of My Life," alongside previous single "Don't Take It Personal (Just One of Dem Days)," made the singer the youngest recording artist to have two consecutive number-one hits on Billboard's R&B chart at the age of fourteen.[3]

An accompanying music video for the single was directed by Kevin Bray and released in August 1995.[4]

Formats and tracklistings

These are the formats and track listings of major single-releases of "Before You Walk Out of My Life".

  1. "Before You Walk out of My Life" (Album Version)
  2. "Before You Walk out of My Life" (Mike Dean Mix)
  3. "Before You Walk out of My Life" (Pete Rock Mix)
  4. "Before You Walk out of My Life" (Tony Rich Remix)

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (1995) Peak
position
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[5] 8
UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[6] 22
US Billboard Hot 100[7] 7
US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs (Billboard)[8] 1

Year-end charts

Chart (1996) Position
US Billboard Hot 100[9] 38

See also

References

  1. ↑ Video on YouTube
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  5. ↑ "Charts.org.nz – Monica – Before You Walk Out of My Life". Top 40 Singles. Retrieved 2011-05-23.
  6. ↑ "Monica: Artist Chart History" Official Charts Company. Retrieved 2011-05-23.
  7. ↑ "Monica – Chart history" Billboard Hot 100 for Monica. Retrieved 2011-05-23.
  8. ↑ "Monica – Chart history" Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs for Monica. Retrieved 2011-05-23.
  9. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

External links

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