Even as she’s gone Hollywood (earning an Academy Award nomination for 2017’s Mudbound), Mary J. 1991 ABC airs the special The Gladys Knight Holiday Family Reunion, also starring Dionne Warwick, Melba Moore, and The Winans. You can expect a lot of different genres and artists in this list: pop, dance, latin, reggaeton and chansons, theres a lot of different things I like. The previous record for most charting singles from an album was held by Brooks Fresh Horses with eight tracks. My ultimate list of classic hits, guilty pleasures, forgotten gems and special favourites.
Mary (1999) saw her move toward a more classic sound, though 2001’s smash “Family Affair” swung back toward hip-hop that fertile tension has remained in her music since. 1997 The day after his album Sevens is released, Garth Brooks lands 12 of the 14 songs from the album on the Country singles chart. Blige’s life was never separate from her art, and fans have followed her through addiction, marriage, divorce and therapy, connecting with songs like “Not Gon’ Cry” and “No More Drama” out of deep identification: here was an artist who sang women’s realities as they were almost never presented in popular music-and who always came out stronger. She and Sean Combs crafted her 1992 debut, What’s the 411?, which spawned the ubiquitous and beloved jam “Real Love” and helped set the template for R&B’s marriage to hip-hop. Her voice is elastic, scrappy and versatile, with more than a hint of world-weary grit, and when a chance recording of Anita Baker’s “Caught Up in the Rapture” came before Uptown Records execs in 1988, the label immediately snapped her up as its youngest (and first female) signee. 4) Warner/Chappell Music Badams Music/Sony/ATV, 19/BMG. (P) 2008 ENZO Recordings Limted 3) Chappell Music 19/BMG. The Climb acknowledges that the challenges aren’t over as graduates enter the next stage of their lives (just listen to the lyrics: Ain’t about how fast I get there/ Ain’t about what’s waiting on the other side/ It’s the climb). Number 1 today in 2004: Natasha Bedingfield These Words. (P) 1997 Modena Records LimitedI 2) Warner, Chappell Music Ltd - EMI Music Publishing EMI/Granada Media Group, Kobalt Music Publishing, In Genius Songs Ltd. Most graduates these days would have grown up with Miley Cyrus, but even if you didn’t know who she was, the lyrics to her song The Climb will elicit a tear. Born Mary Jane Blige in the Bronx in 1971, Blige was raised mainly in Yonkers, New York, where she grew up listening to the greats: Aretha, Chaka and Gladys Knight. Natasha Bedingfield on label politics, her new album and writing for Cheryl. Dubbed the Queen of Hip-Hop Soul in the ’90s, Blige came off as tough and streetwise (unlike many of her contemporaries), and she could go toe to toe with rappers, including JAY Z, Method Man and more recently Kendrick Lamar. Blige is that rare singer who can channel your pain-and then drag you onto the dance floor to sweat it away.