Songoftheday 7/28/18 - When I met you I just knew that you would take my heart and run, until you told me how you loved for me you said I’m not the one...

"Real Love" - Mary J. Blige
from the album What's The 411? (1992)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #7 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 23

Today's song of the day comes from soul singer Mary J. Blige, whose debut single "You Remind Me" became her first American Top-40 hit in the summer of 1992. But it was her second release that would propel her to the heights of mainstream music conscience, courtesy of a little "Real Love". Written and produced by Mark Morales and Cory Rooney, the record was laid on a percussive base sampled from a B-side track from rap duo Audio Two, "Top Billin'", but it was the piano hook that sold the song, one that anyone living in that year can recognize to this day...

"Real Love" became Blige's first top ten pop hit in the U.S. in December of 1992. The song also landed her a second #1 on Billboard's R&B chart, spending two weeks on top. The remixes on the CD/12" vinyl single helped it be her first placing on their Dance Club Play list, making it to #36. Internationally, the single was her first to reach the British chart at #68, but then after remixes were released the following year, it climbed back on the list, eventually peaking at #8 in June of 1993. It also hit the top-40 in Canada, going to #34.

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Here's Mary performing for a show called Out At Night in one of her early appearances...