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| Released | 1 October 2002 | |||
| Recorded | A Touch of Jazz Studios (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) The Mill Studio (Winfarthing, Norfolk, England) | |||
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Floetic is the debut studio album by the English R&B duo Floetry, released by DreamWorks Records in the United States on 1 October 2002 and on Polydor Records in the United Kingdom on 25 November 2002.
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [1] |
| BBC Music | (favourable) [2] |
| CMJ | (favourable) [3] |
| Philadelphia Weekly | (favourable) [4] |
| PopMatters | (favourable) [5] |
| Rhapsody | (favourable) [6] |
| Rolling Stone | (favourable) [7] |
| UKMIX | [8] |
| Yahoo! Music | (favourable) [9] |
The album received favourable reviews from CMJ , Rolling Stone , Yahoo! Music, and other company sites. Allmusic gave the album three out of five stars. [10]
Floetic debuted at number nineteen on the Billboard 200 and number four on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums. On 14 July 2003, the album was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America [11] with US sales of over 864,000 copies to date. [12]
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Big Ben" |
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| 1:54 |
| 2. | "Floetic" |
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| 4:06 |
| 3. | "Ms. Stress" |
| Davis | 3:54 |
| 4. | "Sunshine" |
| Harris | 4:15 |
| 5. | "Getting Late" |
| Davis | 6:49 |
| 6. | "Fun" |
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| 4:14 |
| 7. | "Mr. Messed Up" |
| Davis | 4:22 |
| 8. | "Say Yes" |
| Harris | 4:28 |
| 9. | "Hello" |
| Davis | 4:09 |
| 10. | "Headache" |
| Barias | 4:04 |
| 11. | "Hey You" |
| Harris | 5:04 |
| 12. | "If I Was a Bird" |
| Ambrosius | 5:02 |
| 13. | "Opera" |
| Barias | 4:00 |
| 14. | "Subliminal" |
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| 3:57 |
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Length |
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| 15. | "Butterflies" (Demo Version) |
| Harris | 4:03 |
| 16. | "Now You're Gone (More Than I Can Feel)" |
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| 4:52 |
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| Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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| United States (RIAA) [18] | Gold | 500,000^ |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. | ||
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