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Mary Jane Blige [1] [17] was born on January 11, 1971, at Fordham Hospital in the Bronx, New York City, to nurse Cora and jazz musician Thomas Blige.She has an older sister, LaTonya Blige-DaCosta, a younger half-brother, Bruce Miller, and a younger half-sister, Jonquell, both from a relationship Blige's mother had with another man after divorcing her first husband.
American singer Mary J. Blige began her career as a backing vocalist for Uptown Records in the early 1990s. In a career spanning more than 30 years, she has released 15 studio albums and 83 singles—including more than 20 as a featured artist. [1]
In 2022, Blige released her fourteenth studio album Good Morning Gorgeous through 300 Entertainment and her Mary Jane Productions imprint. [3] [4] The record project received six nominations at the 65th Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year and Best R&B Album, [5] and produced the Adult R&B Songs number-one hit "Good Morning Gorgeous", her biggest-selling single since "Be Without You" (2005).
Mary is the fourth studio album by American singer Mary J. Blige, released August 17, 1999, on MCA Records. The album debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 chart, selling 239,000 copies in its first week. It spent 57 weeks on the chart and produced five charting singles. Upon its release, Mary received acclaim from music critics.
Yonkers hip-hop and R&B legend Mary J. Blige will be one of the newest performers inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame this October. ... Hot 200 album chart and gave Blige her first top 10 ...
It reached the number 29 position on the pop charts and number 1 on the R&B charts in 1992. The next single, "Real Love" (#7 pop, #1 R&B, 1992), made Blige one of the year's biggest crossover successes. [16] With the album, Blige became the most successful new female R&B artist of 1992 in the United States, according to music scholar Dave ...
The song was released by Mary Jane Productions Inc. and 300 Entertainment on August 15, 2024 as the album's lead single and became Blige's ninth chart topper on the Adult R&B Songs chart. It peaked at number 13 on the US R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart.
MTV News noted that this feat lifted Blige "among music's most consistent artists on the albums chart," since from "her last four albums, three debuted in the top two slots, and the fourth took number nine. All of Blige's three most recent releases "each sold between 240,000 and 294,000 copies in the weeks they debuted". [20]