Angie Stone has reached a brand new milestone on a number of Billboard charts following her loss of life on March 1.
Her debut solo single, “No Extra Rain (In This Cloud),” has stormed to No. 1 on the R&B Digital Music Gross sales chart. It’s her first No. 1 on this chart and her first of three entries.
In line with Billboard, “No Extra Rain” acquired 2.1 million official on-demand streams within the U.S. through the week of her passing, up 538% from the earlier week.
“No Extra Rain,” produced by Stone, samples Gladys Knight & The Pips’ 1973 traditional “Neither Certainly one of Us (Needs to Be the First to Say Goodbye).”
Stone co-wrote the soul-stirring music with Gordon Chambers and Bert Williams. It seems on her debut album, Black Diamond. It’s Stone’s longest-running No. 1 on the Grownup R&B Airplay chart, spending 10 weeks atop the chart.
Proper behind “No Extra Rain” on the R&B Digital Music Gross sales chart is “Want I Didn’t Miss You” at No. 2 and “Brotha” at No. 5. The latter two songs seem on Stone’s 2001 album, Mahogany Soul.
“Want I Didn’t Miss You,” which samples The O’Jays’ “Again Stabbers,” was written and produced by the late Andrea Martin and Ivan Matias, with further manufacturing by Swizz Beatz.
In the meantime, the uplifting anthem “Brotha” was co-written by Stone, Harold Lilly, Jake and the Phatman (Glenn Standridge and Robert C. Ozuna), and Raphael Saadiq, who additionally produced it.
Elsewhere on Billboard, “No Extra Rain (In This Cloud)” debuts at No. 15 on the Digital Music Gross sales chart, whereas “Want I Didn’t Miss You” opens at No. 20. It marks Stone’s first two entries on this chart.
The 2 songs plus “Brotha” additionally seem on the R&B/Hip-Hop Music Gross sales chart:
- “No Extra Rain (In This Cloud),” No. 4 debut
- “Want I Didn’t Miss You,” No. 6 debut
- “Brotha,” No. 14 debut
Stone tragically handed away March 1 after a automotive crash in Montgomery, Alabama, at age 63.
Her youngsters, Diamond Stone and Michael Archer II, launched the next assertion: “By no means in 1,000,000 years did we ever anticipate to get this horrible information. Our mother is and can all the time be our every little thing. We’re nonetheless attempting to course of and are utterly heartbroken.”
Stone can have two homegoing companies, with the primary on Friday (March 14) in Atlanta at Phrase of Religion Household Worship Cathedral. The second is on Saturday (March 15) in her hometown, Columbia, South Carolina, at First Nazareth Baptist Church.
Performers and visitor audio system embrace Tyler Perry, Kirk Franklin, Angie Stone Memorial Choir, Anthony Hamilton, The Partitions Group, Keke Wyatt, Tamela Mann, Musiq SoulChild, Y’Anna Crawley, Q. Parker, and Stout.