| Guy | ||||||||||
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| Studio album by Guy | ||||||||||
| Released | June 13, 1988 | |||||||||
| Recorded | 1987-1988 | |||||||||
| Genre | R&B, New jack swing, Soul music | |||||||||
| Length | 44:42 | |||||||||
| Label | Uptown/MCA | |||||||||
| Producer | Guy (exec.), Andre Harrell (exec.), Gene Griffin and Teddy Riley For GR Productions | |||||||||
| Guy chronology | ||||||||||
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Guy is the self-titled debut studio album from American R&B group Guy, released on June 13, 1988 on Uptown Records and distributed through MCA Records.
The album peaked at number twenty-seven on the Billboard 200 chart. By July 1994, it was certified double platinum in sales by the RIAA, after sales exceeding 2,000,000 copies in the United States.
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Guy peaked at twenty-seven on the U.S. Billboard 200 and reached number one on the R&B Albums chart where it remained for five nonconsecutive weeks.[1] The album was certified platinum in March 1989 and double platinum by July 1994.[2] In addition, Guy was the highest charting R&B album on the Billboard Year-End chart for 1989.
Alex Henderson of Allmusic praised the work and credited it as the album that popularized the new jack swing genre, calling it "one of the most seminal and influential releases of the late '80s" and stating "for anyone with even a casual interest in new jack, this CD is absolutely essential."[3]
The song "Groove Me" appears in the Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas video game soundtrack, on the fictitious radio station CSR 103.9.
| No. | Title | Music | Sample(s)[4] | Length |
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| 1. | "Groove Me" | Gatling, Griffin, Hall, Riley |
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4:48 |
| 2. | "Teddy's Jam" | Griffin, Riley |
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3:30 |
| 3. | "Don't Clap... Just Dance" | 4:59 | ||
| 4. | "You Can Call Me Crazy" | 3:59 | ||
| 5. | "Piece of My Love" | Gatling, Griffin, Hall, Riley | 5:21 | |
| 6. | "I Like" | Gatling, Griffin, Hall, Riley |
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4:50 |
| 7. | "'Round and 'Round (Merry Go 'Round of Love)" | Gatling, Griffin, Hall, Riley | 4:07 | |
| 8. | "Spend the Night" | Griffin, Hall, Riley, Thomas | 4:23 | |
| 9. | "Goodbye Love" | Gatling, Griffin, Hall, Riley | 4:55 | |
| 10. | "My Business" | 3:50 |
| Chart (1988)[1] | Peak position |
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| U.S. Billboard 200 | 27 |
| U.S. R&B Albums | 1 |
| Year | Single | Peak chart positions[5] | |||
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| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | U.S. Dance Music/Club Play Singles | U.S. Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales | U.S. Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks | ||
| 1988 | "'Round and 'Round (Merry Go 'Round of Love)" | — | — | — | 24 |
| "Groove Me" | — | 33 | 17 | 4 | |
| "Teddy's Jam" | — | 25 | 8 | 5 | |
| 1989 | "I Like" | 70 | 36 | 9 | 2 |
| "Spend the Night" | — | — | 35 | 15 | |
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.
Information taken from Allmusic.[6]
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