Yet the stakes couldn’t have been higher for the sequel to his masterpiece, The Chronic. “I’ve been in the game for 10 years making rap tunes/Ever since honeys was wearing Sassoon,” he boasts on this essential West Coast anthem.ĭre had already launched a modest comeback with his work on Snoop Dogg’s fan-favorite “B Please,” and Eminem’s multiplatinum debut, The Slim Shady LP. And with his deep, authoritative voice, he matches 2Pac’s more antic, fire-breathing delivery. Dre ingeniously mixed Roger Troutman’s talk-box vocals with an interpolation of the well-worn B-boy break of Joe Cocker’s “Woman to Woman.” The combination gives the song a classic feel a blend of East Coast sample sensibilities and West Coast funk vibes that went unnoticed during the height of hip-hop coastal tensions. (He also spent some time in prison on drunk-driving charges, an experience that he later said forced him to clean up his lifestyle.) Despite behind-the-scenes tensions, “California Love” immediately became the kind of party starter that, 20 years after its release, can still set a dance floor on fire.
Dre, for his part, plotted an escape from Death Row, alarmed at the label’s increasingly wayward drift. New signee 2Pac, one of hip-hop’s first great workaholics and a pioneer for rap’s “make 1,000 songs” model of studio profligacy, chafed at Dre’s perfectionist tendencies. Dre’s last great moment with the world-conquering label he and Suge Knight co-founded. 1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100, from the likes of Blondie, Hall & Oates and Donna Summer.“California Love” was Dr. Presented by Billboard’s longtime partner Joel Whitburn at Record Research, the compilation features 30 songs, all No. It was first released in 2006 and reached the Billboard 200 at last thanks to a $1.99 Amazon MP3 sale-price. The set also opened atop the Top Catalog Albums chart (which ranks sales of albums released more than 18 months earlier). 11: Joel Whitburn Presents: Billboard #1s: The ’70s (March 16, 2013). On the overall Billboard 200 albums chart, the highest a Billboard-branded title has charted is No. Andrae Crouch: Remembering the Gospel Great’s Immense Influence Most notably, Billboard-branded Latin titles have infused Latin album charts, with the 2012 Billboard Latin Music Awards Finalists release rising as high as No. 1 for a Billboard-branded title on a list measuring current releases in a long line of albums that sport the Billboard name (spearheaded by Billboard’s licensing department in conjunction with retail partners). In a design that avid chart-watchers will surely appreciate, the CD’s back-cover art even looks like a Billboard chart, listing all 20 songs in a title/artist grid, with peak positions, peak dates and weeks at No. 1 on Billboard’s Gospel Airplay chart, including Ricky Dillard & New G‘s recent 30-week leader “Amazing,” the late Andrae Crouch‘s “Let the Church Say Amen,” with Marvin Winans, and Hezekiah Walker‘s “Every Praise.” Befitting its title, each of the album’s 20 tracks spent time at No. Subtitled The Greatest Gospel Songs of All Time!, the compilation (released on the eOne label) starts with 2,000 sold, according to Nielsen Music.
1 on a Billboard chart for the first time on a current-based ranking, as Billboard #1 Gospel Hits enters at the Top Gospel Albums summit. In a very meta achievement, a Billboard-branded album is No.
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