Kelis Was Here

Kelis Was Here is the fourth studio album by American singer-songwriter Kelis, released August 22, 2006 by Jive Records. It features production by Bangladesh, Raphael Saadiq, Max Martin, Sean Garrett, and Scott Storch, among others, and also features collaborations with will.i.am, Nas, Cee-Lo, Too Short, and Spragga Benz. The album received a nomination for Best Contemporary R&B Album at the 2007 Grammy Awards and is notable for being the first Kelis record to feature no production from longtime collaborators The Neptunes.

Release and promotion

The album's lead single, "Bossy", features rapper Too Short. The song peaked at number 16 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on December 11, 2006. The second single from the album, "Blindfold Me", featuring Nas, was released solely in the United States. It failed to enter the Billboard Hot 100, while peaking at number 91 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. "Lil Star", which features Cee-Lo of the duo Gnarls Barkley, was released internationally as the album's third and final single. The track reached number three on the UK Singles Chart, earning Kelis her fifth UK top-five hit as a lead artist.

Like You

Like You may refer to:

Like You (Daddy Yankee song)

"Like You" is a song by Puerto Rican recording artist Daddy Yankee from his third studio and first commercially released album Barrio Fino which was highly responsible for Reggaetón's mainstream exposure in 2004. It was co-written by Daddy Yankee and Eddie Ávila in the English-language, and produced by Luny Tunes. The song was released as the album's sixth single internationally. In the United States, the song was successful in English markets but failed to impact the Spanish market.

Background

"Like You"'s parent album, Barrio Fino, is regarded as a major factor in Reggaetón mainstream exposure to English-speaking markets in 2004 along with Ivy Queen's Diva and Real and Tego Calderon's El Enemy de los Guasíbiri.Barrio Fino was named the best-selling Latin album and Tropical album by Billboard magazine of the 2000s decade. The album was also the first Reggaetón album to reach #1 on the Top Latin Albums chart.Daddy Yankee's "Gasolina" also from the album is attributed with being the reggaetón song that launched reggaeton into mainstream accounts gaining airplay in not only the United States, but around the world, peaking at #32 of the Billboard Hot 100, something no other reggaetón song at the time had been able to do.

Like You (Bow Wow song)

"Like You" is a song by American rapper Bow Wow featuring singer Ciara. It was written by Jermaine Dupri, Jaron Alston, and Johnta Austin, and produced by Dupri and Bryan Michael Cox for Bow Wow's fourth album Wanted (2005). The song includes the keyboard chord of New Edition's "I'm Leaving You Again" written by Jaron Alson, Ricky Bell, and Ralph Tresvant. "Like You" was released as the album's second single on August 2005 and reached number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 1 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. "Like You" was Bow Wow's second top 10 hit on that chart, as was Ciara's fifth. The song also charted in the top 40 in countries like Ireland, Germany and the UK. To date, "Like You" remains Bow Wow's highest charting song.

Commercial performance

"Like You" debuted at number 63 on US Billboard Hot 100 for the week of August 6, 2005 while "Let Me Hold You" was in the top 5. It moved fifteen spots to number 49 for the week of August 13, 2005. It entered the top 40 for the week of August 20, 2005 by moving twenty-four spots to number 25. It moved thirteen spots to number 12 for the week of August 27, 2005. It peaked at number 3 for the week of October 1, 2005 and stayed there for two weeks. It stayed on the chart for twenty-one weeks. It surpassed "Let Me Hold You" as Bow Wow's highest charting song on the Hot 100, giving him his second top 10 hit, as well as give Ciara her fifth top 10 hit.

Kelis

Kelis Rogers (/kə.ˈliːs/; born August 21, 1979) better known mononymously as Kelis, is an American singer-songwriter and certified chef. Kelis achieved moderate international success with her 1999 debut album, Kaleidoscope, but left her label Virgin Records after its follow-up, Wanderland (2001), received little sales attention and no U.S. release. Her third album, 2003's Tasty, earned the singer commercial prominence and produced the hit single "Milkshake", her most well-known song. Kelis Was Here (2006), her fourth album, was the subject of further label disputes and she took a hiatus from music after its release, during which she trained at Le Cordon Bleu culinary school. She released the album Flesh Tone in 2010 and her sixth, Food, independently in 2014.

Kelis has been recognised at the Brit Awards, Q Awards, NME Awards, and Grammy Awards ceremonies. Her musical output, both as a lead and featured artist, encompasses various genres—she has collaborated with R&B and hip hop acts including Busta Rhymes and Clipse, electronic and dance producers such as Calvin Harris, Timo Maas, and Richard X, pop and rock acts Enrique Iglesias and No Doubt, and indie/alternative musicians including Björk and Dave Sitek. She has sold six million records worldwide and has had particular success in the United Kingdom, with ten of her singles reaching the UK Singles Chart top ten.