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Quincy Delight Jones Jr. (March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024) was an American record producer, composer, arranger, conductor, trumpeter, and bandleader. Over the course of his seven-decade career, he received many accolades including 28 Grammy Awards, [1] a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Tony Award as well as nominations for seven Academy Awards and four Golden Globe Awards.
Quincy Jones, an American record producer, musical arranger, film composer, impresario, conductor, and trumpeter, charted 6 singles and 6 albums in the top 40 and won 4 Platinum Awards and 7 Gold Awards only in the United States. [1] Jones was one of few producers to have number one records in three consecutive decades (1960s, 1970s, and 1980s).
Michael Jackson's Thriller, estimated to have sold 70 million copies worldwide, is the best-selling album ever. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Jackson also currently has the highest number of albums on the list with five, Celine Dion has four, while the Beatles, Madonna , Whitney Houston and Pink Floyd each have three.
Quincy Jones and Michael Jackson's collaborations are some of the greatest in music history.. Jones, the legendary producer who died on Nov. 3 at 91 years old, worked with many artists throughout ...
Q's Jook Joint is an album by Quincy Jones, released in 1995 by Qwest Records. The album reached No. 1 on the Billboard jazz albums chart on December 30, 1995. [ 6 ] Q's Jook Joint won the Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical in 1997 .
The song, recognized as "the best-selling single of all time", was released before the pop/rock singles-chart era and "was listed as the world's best-selling single in the first-ever Guinness Book of Records (published in 1955) and—remarkably—still retains the title more than 50 years later".
One of the most apt and unquestioned honorific nicknames in popular music is the Queen of Hip-Hop Soul. Mary J. Blige was born in the Bronx in the early ’70s, much like hip-hop itself. By the ...
If two or more artists have the same claimed sales, they are then ranked by certified units. The claimed sales figure and the total of certified units (for each country) within the provided sources include sales of albums, singles, compilation-albums, music videos as well as downloads of singles and full-length albums.