Don't Stop the Music (Play album)

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Don't Stop the Music
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Studio album by
Released9 March 2004
Recorded2003–2004
Genre
Length33:19
Label Columbia
Play chronology
Replay
(2003)
Don't Stop the Music
(2004)
Play Around the Christmas Tree
(2004)
Singles from Don't Stop the Music
  1. "It's the Hard Knock Life"
    Released: 7 November 2003
  2. "everGirl"
    Released: 24 February 2004 [1]
  3. "Every Little Step"
    Released: 2004 [2]

Don't Stop the Music is the third album of the Swedish girlband Play. It is the first album by the group to feature vocals from then new member Janet Leon, who replaced founding member and lead singer Faye Hamlin. In fact, many of the album's tracks are believed to have been originally recorded with Hamlin, as many years later an alternative version of Another Love Story was released featuring her vocals. The album was released on 9 March 2004. This was the group's least successful album and did not chart on the Billboard 200.

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."everGirl"Chuck Giscombe, Michael MavrolasHitvision2:47
2."Don't Stop the Music" Robyn Carlsson, Alexander Kronlund, Johan Ekhé, Mikkel Sigvardt, Ulf LindströmPeter Kvint3:11
3."Every Little Step" (featuring Aaron Carter) Kenneth Edmonds, Anthony Reid Kvint, Danny O'Donoghue 3:31
4."Girls Can Too" Jeremy Godfrey, Bill Padley, Tetsurō Oda Godfrey, Padley3:44
5."Hand in Hand"Godfrey, PadleyGodfrey, Padley, Cool Cat Chris3:37
6."You Found Me"Carlsson, Billy Mann, Rasmus Bille Bähncke, René TromborgMann, Ric Wake, Richie Jones, Bähncke, Tromberg3:42
7."It's the Hard Knock Life" Charles Strouse, Martin Charnin Hitvision3:13
8."Ain't No Mountain High Enough" Nickolas Ashford, Valerie Simpson Hitvision3:12
9."Seven"Kvint, Tim LauerKvint3:12
10."Another Love Story"Michelle Escoffery, Damon Sharpe, Tim WoodcockWake, Jones, Cool Cat Chris3:10

Personnel

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  2. "Play - Every Little Step". Jet Set Records. 2010-05-13. Retrieved 2010-05-13.