The Arctic Monkeys' debut hits #1 in the UK.TL Tammy La Gorce, Amazon ( The Breakthrough).AK Andy Kellman, All Music Guide ( The Breakthrough).one of the top 100 song of the 21st century.The Breakthough won a Grammy for Best R&B Album. “Without You” won for Best R&B Song and Best Female R&B Vocal Performance and was also nominated for Record and Song of the Year. The song and album garnered Blige some Grammy gold. With a massive 75 weeks on the R&B chart, “Without You” also became the champion for most weeks total. The last song to spend more weeks at #1 was Louis Jordan’s “Ain’t Nobody Here But Us Chickens” with 17 weeks in 1947. “Without You” spent 15 weeks at the summit, making it the chart’s biggest hit in nearly 60 years. It was her fifth Billboard R&B chart topper, peaking on that chart the same week The Breakthrough debuted atop the Billboard 200 album chart.
The album’s lead single, “Be Without You”, became Blige’s biggest hit to date. Dre, Jimmy Jam, Terry Lewis, and Will.i.am tasked themselves with stirring a river of hurt into some of the highest-caliber hip-hop/soul to hit the airwaves since she burned up the Waiting to Exhale soundtrack with ‘Not Gon’ Cry’.” TL Her seventh album, The Breakthrough, “features the best round of productions Blige has been handed since the mid-‘90s.” AK “Blige and producers Dr.
knows heartache.” TL Throughout her career, Blige has delivered dramatic “songs steeped in heartbreak and disappointment.” AK LaShonda Barnett, author of I Got Thunder: Black Women Songwriters and Their Craft, wrote that the “authenticity, the emotional honesty and the vulnerability Blige reveals in her music” SF have much to do with many people calling Blige “our generation’s Aretha Franklin.” SF Indeed, “nobody knows heartache like Mary J.