1 album and Rolling Stone had crowned her “The Next Queen of Soul.” By March 2002, she’d gone five-times platinum and won five Grammys, including Best New Artist and Song of the Year for her No. Keys left Columbia in early 1999 to sign with Clive Davis at Arista Records and later his new label, J Records, where she could pilot her own vision. The label was, of course, laughably wrong. Columbia execs told her it sounded like one long demo. Keys found the recording process crushing and chose instead to partner with producer Kerry “Krucial” Brothers to create a dexterous blend of classical music and soul that merged young-adult melodrama with Beethoven. The label had already brought in big-name producers to strip away the retro-soul sound that separated artists like Erykah Badu, D’Angelo, Maxwell, Jill Scott, and Keys from the stream of sex-driven R&B in the late-’90s. 1 (of five), and featured vocalist Rihanna her seventh (of 14) with “Love the Way You Lie,” which spent its first of seven weeks at the summit.“They wanted me, the tomboy from Hell’s Kitchen, to become the next teen pop idol,” Keys wrote in her memoir. 1, for five weeks beginning on this date in 1977, with the disco classic “Best of My Love.” The group would add a second top 10 in the summer of 1979 with “Boogie Wonderland,” with Earth, Wind & Fire.Įminem notched his fourth Billboard Hot 100 No. With their first seven Billboard Hot 100 entries, beginning in 1963, The Emotions hadn’t charted higher than No. The Summer of Love’s quintessential theme song, the Beatles‘ “All You Need Is Love,” topped the Billboard Hot 100.
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