Songoftheday 6/27/20 - I wanna tease you I wanna please you, I wanna show you baby that I need you...
from the album Keith Sweat (1996)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #3 (two weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 31
Today's song of the day comes from New Jack Swing master Keith Sweat, whose self-titled fifth album had spun off the biggest hit of his career with "Twisted", which topped the R&B chart and spent a week at #2 on the pop chart in America in the summer of 1996. For his follow-up release, he also used his female vocal group Kut Klose as backup, but on "Nobody" has only lead singer Athena Cage billed on the single. A slow jam that followed his template, radio and fans ate it up just as much...
"Nobody" became Keith's fourth (and so far most recent) top ten pop hit in December of 1996. Just like "Twisted", the song spent three weeks at #1 on Billboard's R&B chart. Internationally, the single made the top ten in New Zealand (#9) and the Netherlands (#10). It also reached the top-40 in Canada (#16), Australia (#22), Iceland (#26), and the UK (#30).
For the third song promoted to radio, "Just A Touch" went to #38 on Billboard's R&B Airplay list, but wasn't released commercially. The fourth, "Come With Me" with Ronald Isley, was, and went to #27 on the R&B chart and #68 on the pop Hot 100.
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Here's Keith and Athena performing live on an awards show...
...and lastly, live in concert in 2007....
Up tomorrow: Bona fide singer rides on into the top ten.
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