Love & Life (LaToya London album)

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| rev1 = AllMusic{{cite web |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/love-and-life-mw0000391972 |title=All Music Review |last=Chisling |first=Matthew |access-date=August 9, 2016}}

| rev1Score = {{Rating|3|5}}

| rev2 = WonderingSound.com{{cite web |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/love-and-life-mw0000391972 |title=WonderingSound Review |last=Banks |first=Robin |access-date=August 9, 2016}}

| rev2Score = favorable

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A reviewer{{Who|date=May 2016}} from the San Francisco Chronicle called her "impassioned and polished" with "sumptuous, wondrously elastic mezzo pipes". {{citation needed|date=May 2016}} A reviewer{{Who|date=May 2016}} from People magazine called it one of the best post-American Idol albums{{citation needed|date=May 2016}}, and a reviewer{{Who|date=May 2016}} from iTunes named it one of the best albums of 2005, and her song "Non A What'cha Do" as one of the best individual recordings of the year.{{citation needed|date=May 2016}}

Love & Life sold 12,546 albums in its first week, landing at number 82 on Billboard Top 200 Albums chart and at number 27 on Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums. To date{{When|date=May 2016}}, it has sold approximately 58,000 copies, including 15,000 digital downloads.[http://blogs.usatoday.com/idolchatter/2008/01/the-ultimate-so.html#more The Ultimate SoundScan Sales/Download Checklist - Idol Chatter - USATODAY.com] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090208030302/http://blogs.usatoday.com/idolchatter/2008/01/the-ultimate-so.html |date=2009-02-08 }}

Love & Life spawned three singles: "Appreciate", "Every Part of Me", and "State of My Heart". "State of My Heart" reached number 40 on the US Billboard Adult Contemporary chart and number five on the radio industry periodical Friday Morning Quarterback's Adult Contemporary spin chart.{{Citation needed|date=May 2016}}

{{tracklist

| headline = Love & Life track listing

| extra_column = Producer(s)

| title1 = Scandalous

| writer1 = {{hlist|Bradley Spalter|Lambert Waldrip II|Philip White}}

| extra1 = {{hlist|B-RAD|Stereo}}

| length1 = 4:18

| title2 = Every Part of Me

| writer2 = {{hlist|Michèle Vice-Maslin|Matthew Gerrard}}

| extra2 = {{hlist|Narada Michael Walden|Michael "Fish" Herring{{ref|a|[a]}}}}

| length2 = 3:27

| title3 = Learn to Breathe

| writer3 = Peer Åström

| extra3 = {{hlist|Walden|Sir Philippe Saisse{{ref|a|[a]}}}}

| length3 = 4:21

| title4 = Appreciate

| note4 = featuring Black Thought

| writer4 = {{hlist|LaToya London|Phil Scott|Aleese Simmons|Spalter|Nodesha Felix|Tariq Trotter}}

| extra4 = {{hlist|Spalter|3}}

| length4 = 3:41

| title5 = State of My Heart

| writer5 = {{hlist|Carol Bayer Sager|David Foster|Linda Thompson}}

| extra5 = {{hlist|Walden| John Burk}}

| length5 = 4:42

| title6 = Practice Makes Perfect

| writer6 = {{hlist|Robbie Nevil|Reed Vertelney}}

| extra6 = Vertelney

| length6 = 3:35

| title7 = Meet Me Halfway

| writer7 = {{hlist|Barry J. Eastmond|Tiffany Palmer|Carlos Ricketts}}

| extra7 = Eastmond

| length7 = 4:02

| title8 = Waiting for You

| writer8 = {{hlist|Eastmond|London}}

| extra8 = Eastmond

| length8 = 4:55

| title9 = Anything

| writer9 = {{hlist|Omar Edwards|London}}

| extra9 = Edwards

| length9 = 5:19

| title10 = Non a Whatcha Do

| writer10 = {{hlist|London|Simmons|Andre Morton|Antwan "Amadeus" Thompson|Spalter|David Cochrane|Deborah Thomas}}

| extra10 = Spalter

| length10 = 4:15

| title11 = I Can't Hide (What's in My Heart)

| writer11 = Steve "Hollywood" Gaspár

| extra11 = Rex Rideout

| length11 = 4:07

| title12 = More

| writer12 = {{hlist|London|Rideout}}

| extra12 = Rideout

| length12 = 4:14

| title13 = How I Love the Rain

| writer13 = {{hlist|Ken Hirsch|Rosie Casey}}

| extra13 = Eastmond

| length13 = 5:10

| title14 = All by Myself

| writer14 = Eric Carmen

| extra14 = Eastmond

| length14 = 4:06

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