Monkey Business (Margaret album)

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Monkey Business
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Released2 June 2017 (2017-06-02)
Genre
Length34:04
Label
Margaret chronology
Just the Two of Us
(2015)
Monkey Business
(2017)
Gaja Hornby
(2019)
Singles from Monkey Business
  1. "What You Do"
    Released: 12 May 2017
  2. "Blue vibes"
    Released: 17 March 2017
  3. "Monkey Business"
    Released: 1 September 2017
  4. "Byle jak"
    Released: 21 December 2017
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Monkey Business (stylized as Monkey Bu$iness) is the third studio album by Polish singer Margaret. It was released only in Poland. The album was made available to stream exclusively on Tidal on 29 May 2017. Its deluxe edition, with two additional tracks, was released exclusively to Empik on 1 June 2017. The album was officially released on 2 June 2017 by Extensive Music and Magic Records. [4]

Contents

Monkey Business's lead single, "What You Do", was released on 12 May 2017, followed by "Byle jak" ("Anyhow") on 21 December. [5] [6] It also includes the single "Blue Vibes", which was recorded for the Polish-language version of the 2017 animated feature film, Smurfs: The Lost Village . [7]

Monkey Business peaked at number eight on Polish Albums Chart. [8]

Track listing

Monkey Business [9] [10]
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Monkey Business"
Buddee3:27
2."Blue Vibes"
  • Stassos
  • Buddee
3:12
3."What You Do"
3:03
4."Color of You" (featuring Tape Machines)
  • Simon Gribbe
  • Fredrik Jansson
  • Karlsson
  • Margaret
  • Jansson
  • Gribbe
3:14
5."Super Human"
  • Buddee
  • Margaret
  • Karlsson
Buddee3:57
6."Over You"
  • Buddee
  • Karlsson
  • Margaret
Buddee3:14
7."Future Me Problem"
Schimpf3:03
8."Glorious"
  • Buddee
  • Josefin Glenmark
  • Karlsson
  • Margaret
Buddee3:30
9."Cuz It's You"
  • Buddee
  • Karlsson
  • Margaret
Buddee3:42
10."Funky Song"
  • Karlsson
  • Margaret
  • Paulo Mendonça
Mendonça3:37
Total length:33:59
Monkey Business– Deluxe edition [11]
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
11."Nie chcę" (featuring Marcin Januszkiewicz)
  • Marcin Januszkiewicz
  • Andrzej Perkman
  • Margaret
  • Chris Aiken
3:17
12."Byle jak"
Stassos3:00
Total length:40:16

Charts

Chart (2017)Peak
position
Polish Albums (ZPAV) [8] 8

Release history

RegionDateFormatVersionLabelRef.
Poland29 May 2017 Streaming (only Tidal)Deluxe [4]
1 June 2017 CD (only Empik) [12]
2 June 2017
[10]
CDStandard [13]

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