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a good few of these songs are things i've heard and liked without realising they were babyface-produced.
if i was to buy one long-player, either babyface solo, or totally/mostly babyface-produced, what should i go for? babyface albums opo.
― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Sunday, 4 September 2005 15:38 (eighteen years ago) link
That's such a hard call because he's so singles-oriented and because most of his best work was for other people (even
The Essential Babyface is 50 percent boring).
Greatest Song Book purports to collect his best work for other artists, but pretty much fucks it up (I don't like it, but then, nothing that I listed above is on it). Until a career- and label-spanning box set is released, nothing is going to give you a full picture.
His best album (of his own), song-for-song is his most recent, Grown & Sexy. But taking his career into consideration, it's not so essential.
That said, if I had to pick a Babyface-driven album, it'd be the Waiting To Exhale soundtrack, maybe his last career peak before being deemed irrelevant by the masses.
― Rich (Rich), Sunday, 4 September 2005 22:57 (eighteen years ago) link
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apparently Babyface & Toni Braxton's Love, Marriage & Divorce was a huge hit in South Africa, went to #1 and sold 2.8 million copies, more than Beyonce or a lot of other international stars. nice that it found the audience it didn't really have in the U.S.
― some dude, Thursday, 3 September 2015 10:46 (eight years ago) link
it's on wikipedia, but the same entry also says the album sold 1.5 million in the U.S., which is totally not true, so that may be an inflation.
the album IS #4 on South Africa's iTunes store though, like right now, a year and a half after its release, so it's definitely inordinately popular there: http://www.apple.com/za/itunes/charts/albums/
― some dude, Thursday, 3 September 2015 17:17 (eight years ago) link
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