Aaliyah reached the top 10 of the pop singles chart with her very first single when she was only 15. Originally a protege of R. Kelly, she became even more successful in her collaborations with Timbaland and Missy Elliott. Her posthumous releases show just how strong her talent was, until ...
During her abbreviated career, Aaliyah racked up 11 top 10 singles on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, including the No. 1s “Back and Forth,”“If Your Girl Only Knew” and the posthumously released “Miss You.” She recorded a Billboard Hot 100 milestone the week of June 17, 2000...
there was a mixture. There were songs that had a guitar solo on it. There was a mixture of things in there that people could go to. What happened at radio, too, was that they wouldn’t only play the single, they would play things from the album. A song like“Sensuality”...
“We released [‘Enough Said’], but I was seven songs deep,” 40 said. “[Aaliyah’s] mother saying, ‘I don’t want this out,’ was enough for me. I walked away very quickly.”