Born to Sing
Encyclopedia
Album
| Chart (1990) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| U.S. Billboard 200 Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists... |
21 |
| U.S. R&B Albums Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums is a chart published by Billboard magazine that ranks R&B and hip hop albums based on sales compiled by Nielsen SoundScan. The name of the chart was changed from Top R&B Albums in 1999... |
3 |
Singles
| Year | Single | Peak chart positions | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday... |
U.S. Dance Music/Club Play Singles | U.S. Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales Hot Dance Singles Sales Hot Dance Singles Sales is a chart released weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States, established in 1985. It measures the sale of commercially released singles that deal with dance music and remixes... |
U.S. Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles Sales The Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles Sales chart is the sales component chart of Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs. It is not the R&B subset of The Hot 100 Singles Sales, but rather a separate panel of sales of commercial singles in the urban market... |
UK Top 40 | ||
| 1990 | "Hold On Hold On (En Vogue song) "Hold On" was the debut single from En Vogue's debut album, Born to Sing. It reached number one on the Hot Black Singles chart. The single became one of 1990s' biggest hits in the US and also a major hit in the UK . It also reached #1 on the U.S. Dance chart... " |
2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| "Lies Lies (En Vogue song) "Lies" is the second single from Born to Sing, the debut album from R&B/pop quartet En Vogue. Written and produced by Thomas McElroy and Denzil Foster, it became the group's second single to top the Billboard R&B singles chart... " |
38 | 18 | 7 | 1 | — | |
| "You Don't Have to Worry" | — | — | — | 1 | — | |
| 1991 | "Don't Go" | — | — | — | 3 | — |
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.
Personnel
Information taken from Allmusic.- arranging – Denzil Foster, Thomas McElroy
- art direction – Bob Defrin
- assistant engineering – Bob Fudjinski, John Jackson, Lynn Levy, James Williamson, Erik Wolf
- composing – Terry Ellis, Cindy Herron, Maxine Jones, Dawn Robinson
- drum machine – Denzil Foster, Thomas McElroy
- engineering – Steve Counter, Dale Everingham, Brian Gardner, Ken Kessie, Jeff Poe
- executive production – Denzil Foster, David Lombard
- keyboards – Denzil Foster, Thomas McElroy
- mastering – Bernie Grundman
- photography – David Roth
- production – Denzil Foster, Thomas McElroy
- rapping – Debbie T.
- saxophone – Grover Washington, Jr.
- vocals – Terry Ellis, Cindy Herron, Maxine Jones, Dawn Robinson
- vocals (background) – Terry Ellis, Cindy Herron, Maxine Jones, Dawn Robinson
External links
- Born to Sing at DiscogsDiscogsDiscogs, short for discographies, is a website and database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases. The Discogs servers, currently hosted under the domain name discogs.com, are owned by Zink Media, Inc., and are...