Stand for Love

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Stand for Love
Stand for Love.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedAugust 3, 2018
Genre R&B [1]
Length40:09
Label Perspective
Producer
Peabo Bryson chronology
Missing You
(2007)
Stand for Love
(2018)

Stand for Love is the twenty-first studio album by American singer Peabo Bryson. It was released on August 3, 2018, by Perspective Records, with distribution overseen by Caroline, the independent services wing of Capitol Records, his former label. [2] Bryson's first album in a decade, it marked his debut with Perspective, the label by production duo Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis with whom he worked on the entire album. [3] Stand for Love was preceded by its lead single, "Love Like Yours and Mine" which reached number three on the US Adult R&B Songs chart. [2]

Contents

Critical reception

J. Matthew Cobb from HiFi Magazine found that on Stand for Love "Bryson returns to the table and is completely updated on the contemporary R&B age we’re in, not sounding dated or ferociously young. He's somewhere smacked in the middle, crooning over 30-and-up soul and seductive urban beats [...] Some of the tracks feel a bit safe, as if it’s trying to chase after the overrated Charlie Wilson adult-R&B blueprint. But Bryson delivers the songs with such fervor and without any sign of vocal diminishing throughout the course. [4]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."All She Wants to Do Is Me"
4:58
2."Love Like Yours and Mine"
  • Harris
  • Lewis
  • Jackson
  • Bryson
  • Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis
  • Jackson
3:40
3."Looking for Sade"
  • Harris
  • Lewis
  • Jackson
  • Bryson
  • Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis
  • Jackson
4:44
4."Stand for Love"
Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis4:10
5."Goosebumps (Never Lie)" (featuring Gary Clark, Jr.)
  • Harris
  • Lewis
  • Jackson
  • Bryson
  • Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis
  • Jackson
3:29
6."Exotic"
  • Harris
  • Lewis
  • Jackson
  • Morry Sterns
  • Bryson
  • Shion Kanata
  • Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis
  • Jackson
4:12
7."Here for You"
  • Harris
  • Lewis
  • Jackson
  • Sterns
  • Bryson
  • Kanata
  • Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis
  • Jackson
4:15
8."Smile"
  • Harris
  • Lewis
  • Sterns
  • Bryson
  • Kanata
  • Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis
  • Jackson
4:57
9."Peabo's Classic Melodies Live from Los Angeles 2018" (featuring Chanté Moore)
  • Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis
  • Jackson
5:23
Bonus tracks
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
10."Possible (Still the One)"
  • Harris
  • Lewis
  • Jackson
  • Bryson
  • Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis
  • Jackson
3:25
11."Sadness"
  • Harris
  • Lewis
  • Jackson
  • Bryson
  • Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis
  • Jackson
4:37

Sample credits

Personnel and credits

Musicians

Production

Studios

Charts

Chart (2018)Peak
position
US Current Album Sales ( Billboard ) [5] 38
US Independent Albums (Billboard) [6] 7

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