Robin Thicke has earned his first RIAA certification in six years.
The Grammy-nominated singer’s third album, One thing Else, has been licensed gold for promoting over 500,000 equal items. It’s Thicke’s second RIAA award for an album since The Evolution of Robin Thicke was topped platinum in 2007.
One thing Else was launched Sept. 30, 2008, by way of Star Trek/Interscope Data. The album debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard 200, the place it spent 28 weeks on the chart. It additionally debuted at No. 3 on the High R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.
One thing Else included the ’70s-tinged single “Magic,” which peaked at No. 2 on Billboard’s Grownup R&B Airplay chart and No. 59 on the Scorching 100. The album’s second single, “The Sweetest Love,” additionally reached No. 2 on the Grownup R&B Airplay.
Talking on One thing Else, Thicke advised Billboard in 2008, “These new songs are speaking a few time for change and hope; to get away from all of the unhappiness, loneliness and despair that I used to stay in. This album expresses the celebration I’m going via and the therapeutic I wish to give to folks. It’s additionally about what’s happening on this planet with politics and race.”
He continued, “The nearer Barack Obama will get to the White Home, it’s all about race now. They’re all making an attempt to make it look like he’s taking part in the race card when he’s simply an American operating for president. How my spouse and I nonetheless aren’t in a position to stroll in Mississippi with out folks us like we’re loopy. The legal guidelines might have modified, however the whispering hasn’t.”
As talked about above, that is Thicke’s first RIAA award since his 2013 hit “Blurred Traces,” which was licensed diamond in 2018 for promoting over 10 million items.
In different music-related information, Thicke launched his new single, “I Know What To Do,” in August. The self-penned monitor is the lead single from his upcoming ninth album, which is slated to reach on Valentine’s Day 2025.
Thicke, who’s managed by Roc Nation, revealed that he received thrilling suggestions from Jay-Z concerning the track. “I keep in mind I despatched the report to him. I hardly ever ever ship Jay a report, however I had a sense about this one, so I despatched it to him. I requested him, ‘Is that this what I feel that is?’ He was like, ‘Yeah, that’s precisely what you assume it’s (laughs).’ And he despatched me a video idea, too. Shout out to Jay!” Thicke advised Revolt.
Thicke’s new album will comply with 2021’s On Earth, and In Heaven. “The motivation of this venture is about house and the truth that my mother and father received divorced at a really younger age,” Thicke advised Black America Internet about his forthcoming LP. “I imply, once I was very younger, round seven years previous, and that I’ve been making an attempt to exchange that or to get that feeling again.”
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