Album wasn’t selling the way it should’ve in 2001. She already reached her peak by 2000. Carried by production as well.
Her death was a tragedy tho. Still remember it like yesterday. Rip
24 years ago, we lost one of the foundations.
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Her death was a tragedy tho. Still remember it like yesterday. Rip
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Also false. Idk where y'all come up with this shyt lol.
First of all, Aaliyah's last album was GOLD after only having been released for a month. And furthermore, it had also marked the largest first week sales of her career at the time.
In case y'all forgot, Aaliyah was still growing. In comparison to her peers like Brandy and Monica, Aaliyah was growing and had transitioned into the new millennium A LOT better than they had done. Brandy and Monica had peaked...Aaliyah was still on the rise. And what y'all also fail to realize is that Aaliyah was already booked up until like 2007.
She wasn't going anywhere anytime soon.
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I was a kid. We were on the way back home coming from out town and the radio broke over the news. I still remember how somber and unbelievable it felt. It was surreal too because she was on 106 & Park a couple of weeks before the crash. She was just entering her prime & was in more households than ever because of her crossing over into Hollywood. I think a lot of people forget that was cast in The Matrix sequels, which was a huge deal. Her role went to Jada Pinkett after her death.
Edit: She appeared on 106 & Park on 8/21. She died on 8/25. Less than a week and was literally her final interview. What makes it eerie is that she talks about how she's leaving the next day to shoot the video to Rock The Boat. She'd never make it back home.
Edit: She appeared on 106 & Park on 8/21. She died on 8/25. Less than a week and was literally her final interview. What makes it eerie is that she talks about how she's leaving the next day to shoot the video to Rock The Boat. She'd never make it back home.
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Her own label said sales weren’t as strong as they wanted. This is 2001 when everyone is going platinum plus
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Yea. It was a weird timeline. I remember hanging out with my friend in MD over the summer when we found out she passed.
Came home. On Sept. in 3rd period class in high school at around 10:25ish am, seeing the planes from across the bridge flying into the twins towers.
The first 1 was quick. The 2nd one flew around/through the smoke and hit the 2nd tower. Our phones (we had nokia's) were temporarily out of service in the morning.
The Manhattan trains (A,B,C,D,E lines) were out. People were walking across the bridge coming down Borough Hall, Hoyt, Atlantic into Nevins covered in debris. Red cross was out there. I think the E train got pummeled and the military had to get those people out.
Shıt was crazy.
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Nope. The problem they were having at the time is that We Need A Resolution didn't chart as high as they wanted BUT that was largely due to the fact that Aaliyah never promoted that song. She didn't even perform it. She was performing More Than A Woman at the time. And Rock The Boat had been an early fan favorite that was gaining on radio. It was simply just a case of them picking the wrong lead single. BUT the album was selling.
2001 was just a stacked period. So many heavy hitters had dropped. Mary J. Janet. Destiny's Child. And Alicia Keys had debuted that summer. It was STACKED. But in relation to what her peers Brandy and Monica were doing, Aaliyah was fine.
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I was a kid. We were on the way back home coming from out town and the radio broke over the news. I still remember how somber and unbelievable it felt. It was surreal too because she was on 106 & Park a couple of weeks before the crash. She was just entering her prime & was in more households than ever because of her crossing over into Hollywood.
Edit: She appeared on 106 & Park on 8/21. She died on 8/25. Less than a week and was literally her final interview. What makes it eerie is that she talks about how she's leaving the next day to shoot the video to Rock The Boat. She'd never make it back home.
Yep and this is what a lot of people seem to forget. I'm so tired of reading these diatribes about how overrated she was and all that other dumb shyt. Aaliyah had not peaked yet She literally died at such a critical career moment that it's almost impossible to say for sure that she would have fallen off.
Given the way her trajectory was going at the time, I still find it hard to believe she would have been anything other than A list. She was growing. And if anything, it would have just been another heavyweight making noise because these retards always acting like there can only be room for one or two at a time.
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bra…22 tho.If Aaliyah was what you say she was, she shouldn’t have any problem putting up big numbers at the peak of CD selling in the music industry. This is in 00-01 when acts were breaking records left and right
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This is cap. Y'all really LOVE lying on Aaliyah.
First of all, the only people breaking records like that were mainstream pop stars. NSYNC, Britney Spears, Backstreet Boys, etc. R&B acts were not doing HUGE numbers. Even Mary J, who was probably the most prominent female r&b artist, was selling around the 200k range. Nobody in r&b was really HUGE like that.
Aaliyah's last album sold 187k its first week...which was over 4x what One In a Million sold its first week. Aaliyah had gone up with each album. She was selling more and more with each joint she dropped. In comparison to someone like Brandy, who had gone DOWN with each album, Aaliyah was growing. There's no reason to believe she wouldn't have kept rising.
RIP
One of the main reasons i refused to get on these small single engine planes
Also kinda fukked up her uncle barry hankerson was a dirt bag nikka knowing R Kelly was messing with her
One of the main reasons i refused to get on these small single engine planes
Also kinda fukked up her uncle barry hankerson was a dirt bag nikka knowing R Kelly was messing with her
And she still had so much more to give. I wonder what her music would sound like today. Chick was forward thinking as hell. She was talking about collaborating with fukkin Nine Inch Snails back in 2001.
We really were robbed.
really?
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