Baby (Brandy Norwood song)

"Baby"
Single by Brandy
from the album Brandy
Released December 24, 1994
(North America, Australia)
Format CD single, vinyl single, cassette single
Genre R&B, hip hop soul
Length 5:13
Label Atlantic
Writer(s) Keith Crouch, Kipper Jones, Rahsaan Patterson
Producer Keith Crouch
Certification Platinum
Brandy singles chronology
"I Wanna Be Down"
(1994)		 "Baby"
(1994)		 "Best Friend"
(1995)

"Baby" is an R&B song by American singer Brandy. It was penned by Keith Crouch, Kipper Jones, and Rahsaan Patterson and produced by Krouch for her self-titled debut studio album, Brandy (1994). Released as the album's second single on December 24, 1994 (see 1994 in music), the song spent four weeks on top of the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. It also reached number 4 on the Hot 100 and the New Zealand singles chart, and number 16 in Australia. A video was accompanied and directed by Hype Williams. The song was nominated for a Grammy Award in the category "Best Female RnB Vocal Performance" in 1996.

Contents

Formats and tracklistings

These are the formats and track listings of major single-releases of "Baby."

  1. "Baby" (radio edit)
  2. "Baby" (All Star Party mix)
  3. "Baby" (LP version)
  4. "I Wanna Be Down" (The Human Rhythm Hip Hop remix)

Music video

The video directed by Hype Williams starts with Brandy & a group of people dancing in Times Square from New York City on a white platform. Brandy is wearing a big white jacket and thin, white leggings complete with a white hat and black shades. The back up dancers are dressed in white too. The next cuts show Brandy wearing pink in a pink room & Brandy singing into a microphone in a dull coloured room. Norwood is later seen dancing with people in the same room with the rest of the video containing similar cuts.

The video was choreographed by Fatima Robinson.

Charts

Peak positions

Chart (1995) Peak
position
Australia (ARIA)[1] 16
New Zealand (RIANZ)[2] 4
US Billboard Hot 100[3] 4
US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs (Billboard)[4] 1

End of year charts

Chart (1995) Position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[5] 37

References

  1. ^ "Australian-charts.com – Brandy – Baby". ARIA Top 50 Singles. Hung Medien. Retrieved 2011-05-23.
  2. ^ "Charts.org.nz – Brandy – Baby". Top 40 Singles. Hung Medien. Retrieved 2011-05-23.
  3. ^ "Brandy Album & Song Chart History" Billboard Hot 100 for Brandy. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved 2011-05-23.
  4. ^ "Brandy Album & Song Chart History" Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Songs for Brandy. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved 2011-05-23.
  5. ^ "Billboard Top 100 - 1995". http://longboredsurfer.com/charts.php?year=1995. Retrieved 2010-08-27. 

See also

External links

Brandy Norwood
Studio albums
Brandy (1994) · Never Say Never (1998) · Full Moon (2002) · Afrodisiac (2004) · Human (2008)
Compilation albums
EPs
Films
Related topics
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Brandy Norwood singles
Brandy
"I Wanna Be Down" (1994)  · "Baby" (1995)  · "Best Friend" (1995)  · "Brokenhearted" (1995)
Never Say Never
"The Boy Is Mine" (1998)  · "Top of the World" (1998)  · "Have You Ever?" (1998)  · "Angel in Disguise" (1998)  · "Almost Doesn't Count" (1999)  · "U Don't Know Me (Like U Used To)" (1999)  · "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" (1999)  · "Never Say Never" (2000)
Full Moon
"What About Us?" (2002)  · "Full Moon" (2002)  · "He Is" (2002)
Afrodisiac
"Talk About Our Love" (2004)  · "Who Is She 2 U" (2004)  · "Afrodisiac" (2004)
Human
"Right Here (Departed)" (2008)  · "Long Distance" (2008)
Soundtrack
"Sittin' Up in My Room" (1995)  · "Missing You" (1996)  · "Another Day in Paradise" (2001)  · "Dance with Us" (2002)
Other songs
"Rock with You" (1996)  · "Turn It Up" (2003)  · "Wake Up Everybody" (2004)
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