Nov 21, 2011 - Album Review: Mary J. Blige, My Life II. Assessable than some of the tracks on Beyonce's 4 and is definitely a call back Mary's '90s sound.
Blige performing live at the Neighborhood Ball in in January 2009. Studio albums 13 Live albums 2 Compilation albums 5 Singles 83 American singer and songwriter began her career as a backing vocalist for in the early 1990s. Blige has sold over 50 million albums, over 25 million singles & over 75 million records worldwide. She has released 13 studio albums, eight of which have individually achieved worldwide multi-platinum status. The Queen of and Queen of R&B (publications often refer to her as both honorific titles), Mary J. Blige is uniquely credited as the first singer to release an album singing over beats, which created the genre ' which fuses elements of, and style vocals over hip hop beats. Blige's genre-changing sound, in many ways, changed and shaped the sound for modern day and artists.
In September 1999, bestowed her first album, (1992), as 'genre-creating'. Her discography consists of 14 top 10, two, two and over eighty singles—including more than 20 as a featured artist. In 2009, ranked Blige as the most successful female R&B/hip-hop artist of the past 25 years. In March 2017, Billboard magazine ranked her 2006 song ' as the most successful R&B/hip-hop song of all time, as it spent an unparalleled 75 weeks on the chart, 15 of those weeks at number one. In 2011, ranked Blige as the 80th greatest artist of all time.
Moreover, she was ranked 100th on the list of '100 Greatest Singers of All Time' by magazine. In 2012, VH1 ranked Blige ninth among 'The 100 Greatest Woman in Music' listing. Blige started her own musical career in 1992, releasing her multi-platinum-selling debut album, on. The album gave Blige her first top ten album, and all of her subsequent studio albums have charted in the top ten on this chart. Among Blige's most popular songs to date are ', ', ' and '. Blige has had four top-ten singles as a lead artist in the, and has had a total of sixteen top-forty charting singles in the United States. She has had thirty-three singles charting inside the top one hundred on the Billboard Hot 100, making Blige one of the best-performing artists to date on the chart.
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^ Song was not released in the as a commercial single but was issued as a full, physical single release in the. ^ Did not chart on the or Hot R&B/Hip-Hop chart ( Billboard rules at the time prevented album cuts from charting). Chart peak listed here represents and charts data.
'MJB da MVP' was played briefly by radio in the US in 2005 before the first official single from, 'Be Without You', was released. It was the only single from Mary J. Blige's album in the UK. 'We Ride (I See the Future)' did not enter the Billboard Hot 100, but peaked at number 18 on the Bubbling Under R&B/Hip-Hop Singles chart.
'Someone to Love Me (Naked)' did not enter the Billboard Hot 100, but peaked at number eight on the Bubbling Under R&B/Hip-Hop Singles chart. 'Thick of It' did not enter the Billboard Hot 100, but peaked at number 17 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart. 'Beautiful' only charted at number 72 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop chart due to old chart rules which prevented album cuts (tracks that had not been released as physical singles) from charting.
The rules changed in December 1998, but by that time 'Beautiful' was near the end of its popularity. The song peaked at number 13 on the chart earlier that year. References.