Robbed hit of the week 5/16/22 - Mya's "Best Of Me"...

 

 

"Best Of Me" - Mya featuring Jadakiss

from the album Fear Of Flying (2000)

Billboard Hot 100 peak: #50 (two weeks)

 

This week's "robbed hit" comes from R&B/pop singer Mya, whose self-titled debut album in 1998 had scored a trio of top-40 pop hits with "My First Night Without You", "Movin' On", and the top ten "It's All About Me" with Sisqo from Dru Hill. She also had a featured role in top-40 hits from Blackstreet, Pras Michel, and Silkk The Shocker. Mya returned in 2000 with the lead single from her sophomore effort Fear Of Flying, and again like her previous top ten hit brought in a guest, this time rapper Jadakiss from the group The Lox, who had a top-20 crossover pop hit in the spring of 1998 with "Money, Power, & Respect". "Best Of Me", written by Mya and Jadakiss with producer Swizz Beatz, Teron Beal, Jimmy Cozier, and Mashonda Tifrere, was a funky skip-beat jam that Aaliyah had been doing for years by now. Mya sings about a guy who's trying to steal her away from her current man, with flashy promises, while Jadakiss plays said player, laying out what he's gonna give her in return...

While "Best Of Me" climbed to #14 on Billboard magazine's R&B Singles chart, the single stalled at the halfway mark on the pop Hot 100 in May of 2000. The song also made it to #18 on the dance-oriented Rhythmic radio format list. Internationally, the single reached the top-40 in Germany at #26. The Fear Of Flying album, released in April of that year, peaked at #15 on the Billboard 200 sales tally, and #7 on the R&B Albums list, and stayed on the former chart for a full year, thanks to its follow-up, which became her biggest solo hit. 

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A "Best Of Me Part 2" was made substituting Jadakiss for then-huge rapper Jay-Z, for the DJ Clue Presents: Backstage Mixtape. Later that summer, it got enough urban radio airplay to spend 20 weeks on Billboard's R&B Singles chart with a high of #55...

 

 and lastly, Mya and Jadakiss performing live for a TV gig...