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Since its release, Full Moon has garnered retrospective recognition from musicians, vocalists and music producers, particularly within the R&B and urban contemporary gospel genres. Regarded as "the blueprint of modern R&B," with Billboard calling it "the one to cement her as an R&B trailblazer" as well as the "gold standard for modern R&B vocalists". Music analyst Khaaliq Crowder wrote in a retrospective review published in blog Leeky Crowder that with Full Moon "Brandy abandoned the old image to successfully present a fully developed new one. She no longer used boxer braids nor did it carry the image of the girl-next-door, the singer of "Have You Ever?" returned in 2002 with long, sleek straight hair and heavy makeup, adding warm, sultry mannerisms to her music on songs like "Like This" and "Come a Little Closer"."
Musicians such as Ambré, Chris Brown, Jacob Latimore, Lil Mo, Mary Mary, PJ Morton, Keke Palmer, Kierra Sheard, Hope Tala, JoJo, Jazmine Sullivan, The vocal work on the album sparked the idea of Norwood gaining the subjective nickname "Vocal Bible". Norwood herself has ranked Full Moon among her favorites in her album discography numerous times.
Songwriter Sean Garrett credits the vocal work on the album for his approach to writing, saying "I take a lot from what [Brandy] and Rodney did on the Full Moon album. I was extremely impressed with it and I always try to outdo that album." B.Slade spoke of the album, commenting Full Moon single-handedly changed the vocal game. "It has been the template for vocal choices and background vocal arrangements [for years]." R&B singer Melanie Fiona especially admired the singer's work on that album, dubbing Norwood the "Harmony Queen". Neo soul singer India.Arie often cites the album, particularly the song "He Is" as being the template for a wide array of singers. Canadian R&B singer Keshia Chanté credited the album for inspiring her writing for her album Night & Day, while American singer Luke James referred to Full Moon as the "bible" of 2000s contemporary R&B, calling it the "blueprint of how to do vocals". the song was also paid tribute to in gospel form by Sunday Best artist Y'anna Crawley. German pop singer Rüdiger Skoczowsky, who cites Brandy as one of his main vocal inspirations, included a cover of "Love Wouldn't Count Me Out" on some of his live shows.
On February 12, 2025, British singer Jorja Smith and rapper AJ Tracey released the single "Crush", which heavily samples "Love Wouldn't Count Me Out".
Track listing
Notes
- <sup></sup> signifies a vocal producer
- <sup></sup> signifies an additional producer
- Although only on North American editions of Full Moon, "Die Without You" is not signified as a bonus track.
Personnel
Credits adapted from the liner notes of Full Moon.
- J.D. Andrew – assistant engineer
- Lori Andrews – strings
- Marc Baptiste – photography
- Jim Bottari – engineer
- Stuart Brawley – engineer
- Thomas Bricker – design, art director
- David Campbell – string arrangements, conducting
- Tom Coyne – mastering
- Reginald Dozier – engineer
- Jan Fairchild – engineer
- Andrew Feigenbaum – A&R
- Aaron Fishbein – guitar
- Jon Gass – mixing
- Brad Gilderman – mixing
- Larry Gold – cello
- Edward Green – strings
- Kenneth B. Hertz – assistant engineer
- Gerald Heyward – drums
- Michael Huff – assistant engineer
- Michael Jackson – vocal assistance
- Rodney Jerkins – executive producer
- Jubu – guitar
- Craig Kallman – executive producer, A&R
- Suzie Katayama – conductor
- Lila Kazakova – strings
- Kimbo – violin
- Thor Laewe – engineer
- Marc Stephen Lee – assistant engineer
- Manny Marroquin – mixing
- Eugene Mechtovich – strings
- Patrick Morgan – strings
- Michele Nardone – strings
- Brandy Norwood – executive producer, vocal producer, A&R
- Dave Pensado – mixing
- Isaac Phillips – guitar
- Ray-J – vocal assistance
- Michael "Wolf" Reaves – engineer
- Steve Robillard – assistant engineer
- Robin Ross – strings
- Ron Shapiro – executive producer
- Dexter Simmons – mixing
- Marston Smith – strings
- Thomas Tally – strings
- Joe Lewis Thomas – vocal assistance
- Javier Valverde – assistant engineer
- Charles Veal, Jr. – strings
- Zheng Wang – strings
- Joe "Flip" Wilson – piano
- Tibor Zelig – strings
- Yihuaw Zhao – strings
Charts
Weekly charts
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! scope="row"| Australian Urban Albums (ARIA)
|style="text-align:center;"|2
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|style="text-align:center;"|4
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! scope="row"|European Top 100 Albums (Music & Media)
|style="text-align:center;"| 9
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!scope="row"|Japanese Albums (Oricon)
| style="text-align:center;"| 15
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Year-end charts
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
|+Year-end chart performance for Full Moon
!scope="col"| Chart (2002)
!scope="col"| Position
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!scope="row"|Canadian Albums (Nielsen SoundScan)
| style="text-align:center;"|109
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! scope="row"|Canadian R&B Albums (Nielsen SoundScan)
| align=center|21
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!scope="row"|French Albums (SNEP)
| style="text-align:center;"|143
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!scope="row"|UK Albums (OCC)
| style="text-align:center;"|187
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! scope="row"| US Billboard 200
| style="text-align:center;"|72
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! scope="row"| US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)
| style="text-align:center;"|31
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Certifications
Release history
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! scope="row"| Japan
| February 20, 2002
| rowspan="6"| CD
| rowspan="2"| Warner Music
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! scope="row"| France
| February 26, 2002
| rowspan="2"| Warner Music
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! scope="row"| Canada
| rowspan="2"| March 5, 2002
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! scope="row"| United States
| Atlantic
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See also
- Album era
- List of Billboard number-one R&B albums of 2002
- List of UK R&B Albums Chart number ones of 2002