Mary J. Blige Tickets Continued
Mary J. Blige's debut album, What's The 411?, was
released in 1992. That summer, the album's debut single, "You Remind
Me", was released to radio and eventually peaked at #29 on the
Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, and climbed to #1 on the Hot
R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks. It was followed up that fall with "Real
Love," which fared even better - becoming Blige's second #1 on the
R&B singles charts and first top 10 pop single, peaking at #7 on the
Hot 100. Both singles were also certified gold.
Mary J. Blige has released a string of albums over the
years, with 2001 album No More Drama providing the biggest hit
single of her career "Family Affair". No More Drama went on to
be certified double platinum, selling four million worldwide, and
Mary won her second Grammy Award - for Best Female R&B Vocal
Performance for the song "He Think I Don't Know".
In December 2005, Mary J. Blige released her latest album
entitled The Breakthrough. The first single "Be Without You"
quickly raced up both the R&B and pop singles charts, topping the
former for a record setting fifteen consecutive weeks. Meanwhile, the
album simultaneously debuted at #1 on both the R&B albums and
Billboard 200 albums charts, selling 727,163 copies in its first week
- the biggest first-week sales for an R&B solo female artist in
SoundScan history, the 5th largest first-week sales for a female
artist and was the 4th largest debut of the 2005. Production on the
album included Mary J. Blige herself, Rodney Jerkins,
will.i.am (of The Black Eyed Peas), Dre & Vidal and many others.
The album also includes a duet with U2
on the cover of the 1992 U2 hit, "One", which was released as the
second single in Europe and Latin America. "One" was voted in Britain
as the song with the nation's favourite lyric: "One Life, With Each
Other Sisters, Brothers". Since The Breakthrough's release, it
has sold over 3 million copies in the U.S and over 4 million
worldwide.
