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Aaliyah: 2001 [13] "Throw Your Hands Up" Aaliyah Robert Kelly: Age Ain't Nothing but a Number: 1994 [2] "Try Again" † Aaliyah Stephen Garrett Timothy Mosley: Romeo Must Die: The Album: 2000 [5] "Turn the Page" Aaliyah Shelly Peiken Guy Roche Music of the Heart: The Album: 1999 [31] "U Got Nerve" Aaliyah Benjamin Bush Eric Seats Rapture ...
On September 19, Aaliyah reached more than one million copies sold. [68] In November, "Rock the Boat" was released as a single and reached number two on the R&B/Hip-Hop chart that same month. [69] In the US, Aaliyah spent 69 weeks on the Billboard 200, reaching 2.06 million copies sold by February 25, 2002, and 2.6 million sold by December 2009 ...
"Back & Forth" is the debut single performed by American singer Aaliyah for her debut studio album, Age Ain't Nothing but a Number (1994). The song was written and produced by R&B singer R. Kelly, and lyrically the song is about a teenager's excitement for partying on the weekend with friends.
According to him, "I took that rhythm and I listened back to it and I was like, 'Man. that's a dope addition.' That's what I was trying to attempt but in a hip-hop way. … I gotta thank Willy Wonka for that". [2] [3] Timbaland got the idea to include realistic noises in the songs production due to his beliefs that "life is full of music". [4 ...
[13] [14] Aaliyah executive produced the film's soundtrack and contributed four songs, including "Try Again". [13] "Try Again" topped the Billboard Hot 100 solely on radio airplay, making Aaliyah the first artist in Billboard history to achieve this feat. [15] Aaliyah earned a Grammy Award nomination for Best Female R&B Vocalist for the song. [16]
In his biography Aaliyah (2021), author Tim Footman felt the song "adds more fuel to the controversy, but the story it tells is ambiguous". [6] Footman also noted the lyrics 'tonight we're going to go all the way' makes Aaliyah sound "as if she is the dominant one, she is the one doing the reassuring, guiding a younger lover down the sexual way ...
"The Thing I Like" was released as the fifth and final single from Age Ain't Nothing but a Number exclusively in the United Kingdom, being Aaliyah's second consecutive UK-only single. It debuted and peaked at number 33 on the UK Singles Chart dated September 9, 1995. [ 5 ]
BET stated that the song "shows that Aaliyah was an "around the way girl," just as comfortable in the 'hood with the toughest of rappers as she was gracing lavish red carpets". [20] In 2016, Complex compiled a list of Aaliyah's best songs and included "Come Back in One Piece". Writer Jacob Moore stated: "What made the song work so well wasn’t ...