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Album 1996 "Softly Softly" (Sweetback featuring Maxwell) Sweetback: 2004 "No One Else in the Room" (Nas featuring Maxwell) Street's Disciple: 2009 "Smile" (The Alchemist featuring Maxwell & Twista) Chemical Warfare: 2012 "Fire We Make" (Alicia Keys featuring Maxwell) Girl on Fire
The single peaked at number one on Billboard magazine's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles and Tracks chart. To date, the song is Maxwell's most successful single and was Billboard's number-one R&B single of 1999. Maxwell's third studio album, Now, was released by Columbia Records on August 14, 2001, in the United States.
The album's third single "This Woman's Work", a live staple of Maxwell's, [3] charted at number 58 on the Hot 100 and at number 16 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. [4] [5] Now was Maxwell's last album before an eight-year hiatus, which culminated in the release of his fourth studio album BLACKsummers'night (2009). [6]
The song was written by Maxwell, and Itaal Shur, and he also produced it. It peaked at number eight on the US Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, number 36 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 28 on the UK Singles Chart. The music video was directed by Liz Friedlander. The B side of the single is "Lock You Up N' Love Fa Days", which was ...
After receiving a low-cost Casio keyboard from a friend, Brooklyn, New York-native Maxwell began composing material at age 17. [2] Raised in the borough's East New York-section, Maxwell's previous musical experience included his beginnings as a singer in the congregation of his Baptist church, [3] which had become an integral part of his life after the death of his father in a plane crash. [4]
Maxwell has been celebrated and admired for forging his own path and going against the popular music grain ever since he set the R&B world on fire with his 1996 debut album, “Urban Hang Suite.”
It spent 42 weeks on both the Billboard 200 and R&B/Hip-Hop Albums charts. [48] [49] In Canada, the album debuted at number 25 on the Top 100 chart, [50] spending one week on the chart. [51] In the United Kingdom, BLACKsummers'night entered at number 66 on the UK Albums Chart, spending one week on the chart, [52] and at number 23 on the UK R&B ...
"Get to Know Ya" is a song by American R&B singer Maxwell, released in 2001. It is the lead single from his third album Now , and peaked to No. 25 on Billboard's R&B songs chart. [ 1 ]