Cheers 2 U
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| Studio album by Playa | ||||||||||
| Released | March 24, 1998 | |||||||||
| Recorded |
July 1997 - February 1998 Master Sound Studios Virginia Beach, Virginia Soundtrack Studios Axis Studios Manhattan Center Studios New York City, New York | |||||||||
| Genre | R&B, hip hop soul | |||||||||
| Length | 65:42 | |||||||||
| Label | Def Soul | |||||||||
| Producer | Barry Hankerson (exec.), Jomo Hankerson (exec.), James Earl Jones III & Derick "D Man" McElveen, Smokey, Timbaland | |||||||||
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Cheers 2 U is the debut studio album from American R&B group Playa, released March 24, 1998 on Def Jam Recordings subsidiary Def Soul. The album was originally going to be named eponymously, and release was planned for October 1997. Later, Static named the album Cheers 2 U after one of their songs. It was primarily produced by Smokey and Timbaland.
The album peaked at number eighty-six on the Billboard 200 chart.
Release and reception
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [1] |
The album peaked at eighty-six on the U.S. Billboard 200 and reached nineteen on the R&B Albums chart.[2]
Leo Stanley at Allmusic called the album "a promising debut" and also referred to the work as "a debut of enormous potential."[1]
Track listing
| No. | Title | Music | Length | |
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| 1. | "Intro (Interlude)" (feat. Magoo) | Barcliff, Bush, Carlos, Garrett, Vinicius, Norman, Peacock | 1:39 | |
| 2. | "Don't Stop the Music" | Bush, Garrett, Peacock, Yarbrough, Peoples | 4:45 | |
| 3. | "All the Way" | Bush, Garrett, Mosley | 4:56 | |
| 4. | "Everybody Wanna Luv Somebody" | Bush, Garrett, Mosley, Peacock | 5:18 | |
| 5. | "Together" | Peacock, Bush, Garrett | 3:55 | |
| 6. | "Derby City (Interlude)" (feat. Magoo) | Barcliff, Bush, Garrett, Peacock | 2:24 | |
| 7. | "I-65" | Bush, Garrett, Peacock | 4:36 | |
| 8. | "Cheers 2 U" | Garrett, Mosley | 5:11 | |
| 9. | "Ms. Parker" (feat. Missy Elliott) | Elliott, Mosley | 5:02 | |
| 10. | "Top of the World" | Garrett, Mosley, Peacock | 4:58 | |
| 11. | "One Man Woman" (feat. Aaliyah) | Garrett, Peacock | 4:30 | |
| 12. | "I'll B 2 C U" | Bush, Crouch, Garrett, Jones, Mosley, Patterson, Peacock | 4:25 | |
| 13. | "Push" | Bush, Garrett, Peacock | 4:01 | |
| 14. | "Buggin' Over You" | Bush, Garrett, Peacock | 3:51 | |
| 15. | "Gospel Interlude" | Bush, Garrett, Peacock | 2:12 | |
| 16. | "I Gotta Know" (feat. Foxy Brown) | Bush, Jones, Marchand, McElveen, Patterson, Young | 3:59 |
Chart history
Album
| Chart (1998)[2] | Peak position |
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| U.S. Billboard 200 | 86 |
| U.S. R&B Albums | 19 |
Singles
| Year | Single | Peak chart positions[3] | |||
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| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | U.S. Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks | ||||
| 1997 | "Don't Stop the Music" | 73 | 26 | ||
| 1998 | "Cheers 2 U" | 38 | 10 | ||
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.
Personnel
Information taken from Allmusic.[4]
- arranging – Playa
- assistant engineering – Wayne Allison, Victor Bruno, James Rosenthal
- assistant mixing – James Rosenthal, Todd Wachsmuth
- engineering – Wayne Allison, Jimmy Douglass, Rob Paustian, Steve Sola, Timbaland
- executive production – Barry Hankerson, Jomo Hankerson
- guitar – Bill Pettaway
- keyboards – Kerie Cooper
- mixing – Conley Abrams, Jimmy Douglass, Timbaland
- performer(s) – Aaliyah, Magoo, Missy Elliott, Foxy Brown
- photography – Jonathan Mannion
- production – James Earl Jones III, Derick "D Man" McElveen, Smokey, Timbaland
- programming – Derick "D Man" McElveen
- vocal arrangement – James Earl Jones III, Playa, Static
- vocals – Playa
- vocals (background) – Playa
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Stanley, Leo. "allmusic ((( Cheers 2 U > Review )))". Allmusic. Retrieved 2010-07-04.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "allmusic ((( Cheers 2 U > Charts & Awards > Billboard Albums )))". Allmusic. Retrieved 2010-07-04.
- ↑ "allmusic ((( Cheers 2 U > Charts & Awards > Billboard Singles )))". Allmusic. Retrieved 2010-07-26.
- ↑ "allmusic ((( Cheers 2 U > Credits )))". Allmusic. Retrieved 2010-07-26.
External links
- Cheers 2 U at AllMusic
- Cheers 2 U at Discogs
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