Jill Scott (born April 4 1972) is an
AmericanThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
soulSoul music is a music genre originating in the United States combining elements of gospel music and rhythm and blues. According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, soul is "music that arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm & blues into a form of...
and
R&BContemporary R&B is a music genre of western popular music. Although the acronym “R&B” originates from its association with traditional rhythm and blues music, the term R&B is today most often used to define a style of African American music originating after the demise of disco in the 1980s...
singer-songwriterA singer–songwriter is a musician who writes, composes and sings their own material including lyrics and melodies. They often provide the sole accompaniment to an entire composition or song, typically using a guitar or piano...
,
poetA poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...
, and
actressAn actor or actress is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
. In 2007, Scott made her theatrical debut in the films
Hounddog (as
Big Mama ThorntonWillie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton was an American rhythm and blues singer and songwriter. She was the first to record the hit song "Hound Dog" in 1952. The song was #1 on the Billboard R&B charts for seven weeks. The B-side was "They Call Me Big Mama," and the single sold almost two million copies...
) and in
Tyler PerryTyler Perry is an American actor, director, producer, and author. , Tyler Perry's films have grossed just under $400 million worldwide, not including his plays.-Personal life:...
's feature film,
Why Did I Get Married?Why Did I Get Married? is a American romantic-dramedy film adaptation written, produced, directed, and starring Tyler Perry, which was inspired by the play of the same name. The film stars Janet Jackson, Jill Scott, Malik Yoba, Sharon Leal, Tasha Smith, Michael Jai White, Richard T. Jones and...
That same year her third studio album,
The Real Thing: Words and Sounds Vol. 3The Real Thing: Words and Sounds Vol. 3 is the third studio album by American R&B-soul singer–songwriter Jill Scott, released in the United States on September 25, 2007 by Hidden Beach Recordings. On some editions of the album, recordings of live performances of "Golden" and "The Fact Is " are...
, was released on September 25, 2007. She has won three
Grammy AwardThe Grammy Awards —or Grammys—are presented annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States for outstanding achievements in the music industry...
s. She currently appears in the lead role of the BBC/HBO series
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective AgencyThe No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency is a television comedy-drama series, produced by the BBC in conjunction with HBO, and based on the novels of the same name by Alexander McCall Smith. The novels focus on the story of a detective agency opened by Mma Ramotswe and her courtship with the mechanic Mr....
.
Early life
Jill grew up an
only childAn only child is a child with no siblings, either biological or adopted. Although first-born children may be considered temporary only children, and have a similar early family environment, the term only child is generally applied only to those individuals who never have siblings...
in the
North PhiladelphiaNorth Philadelphia is a section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is immediately north of Center City. Though the full extent of the region is somewhat vague, "North Philadelphia" is sometimes regarded, especially by people with little familiarity with Philadelphia...
neighborhood of Philadelphia,
PennsylvaniaThe Commonwealth of Pennsylvania , often colloquially referred to as PA by natives and Northeasterners, is a state located in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States...
and was raised by her mother, Joyce Scott, and her grandmother. She indicated in an interview with Jet Magazine that she had a happy childhood and was "very much a loved child". Scott attended the
Philadelphia High School for GirlsThe Philadelphia High School for Girls, also known as Girls' High, is a public university-preparatory magnet high school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. As its name suggests, the school's enrollment is all female....
and after graduating, attended
Temple UniversityTemple University is a state-related public research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Temple University was founded in 1884 by Dr. Russell Conwell and became known as Temple College in 1888. In 1907, the college became a fully accredited university...
while simultaneously working two jobs. She studied secondary education for three years and had planned on becoming a high school English teacher, but after spending time as a teacher's aide, Scott became disillusioned with the teaching profession and dropped out of school.
Prior to her breakthrough in the music industry, Scott worked at a variety of jobs, including a number of retail positions and stints at a construction site and an ice cream parlor. She remains close to her mother and grandmother, nicknamed Blue Babe, and currently resides in
Mount Laurel TownshipMount Laurel Township is a Township in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States, and is an edge city "suburb" of Philadelphia. As of the United States 2000 Census, the township population was 40,221...
,
New JerseyNew Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It is bordered on the north by New York, and to the east by the Hudson River, Upper New York Bay, the Kill Van Kull, Newark Bay, the Arthur Kill, Raritan Bay, Sandy Hook Bay, Westchester County, New York City, Long Island, and...
.
Personal life
Jill Scott and longtime boyfriend Lyzel Williams, a graphic artist and DJ, were married in the fall of 2001 in a private Hawaiian ceremony during a vacation. The couple had dated for seven years before they wed. Scott wrote and recorded the song "He Loves Me (Lyzel in E Flat)" about Williams. After six years of marriage Scott and Williams divorced in 2007.
On June 20, 2008, at a concert in New York's
Carnegie HallCarnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east stretch of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park....
, Scott shared a long on-stage kiss with her drummer, Lil' John Roberts; the couple then told the audience that they were engaged. They had expected their first child on April 25, 2009 but the baby boy, named Jett Hamilton Roberts, arrived five days earlier on April 20, 2009. On June 23, 2009, Jill announced that she and Roberts had broken up, with Jill breaking the news to
EssenceEssence is the first monthly magazine for African-American women between the ages of 18 and 49, and has become a cultural institution in the African-American community. The magazine covers fashion, lifestyle and beauty with an intimate girlfriend-to-girlfriend tone.-History:The magazine was...
. Despite the break-up, Jill hopes for both parents to have an active part in their child's upbringing, stating that "We definitely love our son and we are co-parenting and working on being friends. It is what it is. I have a lot of support, so I want for nothing as far as that’s concerned."
Music career
Scott began her performing career as a
spoken wordSpoken word is a form of literary art or artistic performance in which lyrics, poetry, or stories are spoken rather than sung. The category of spoken-word that is often done with a musical background is performance poetry...
artist, appearing at live poetry readings to perform her work. She was eventually discovered by Amir "QuestLove" Thompson of
The RootsThe Roots is an American alternative hip hop band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They are famed for beginning with a jazzy, eclectic approach to hip hop which still includes live instrumentals. Their debut album was released in 1993 and they have collaborated with a wide range of artists from...
. QuestLove invited her to join the band in the studio, and the collaboration resulted in a co-writing credit for Scott for the song, "You Got Me." In 2000,
Erykah BaduErica Abi Wright , better known by her stage name Erykah Badu, is a multiple Grammy-winner, African-American soul singer and songwriter, whose work includes elements from R&B, hip hop and jazz. She is best known for her role in the rise of the neo soul sub-genre, and for her eccentric, cerebral...
and The Roots won the Grammy for best rap performance by a duo or group for "You Got Me",and Scott debuted as an artist during a Roots live show, filling in for Badu and providing her own variation on the song. Subsequently, Scott collaborated with
Eric BenetEric Benét is an American R&B and soul singer. His duet with Tamia, "Spend My Life With You" was a number one song for three weeks and was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2000....
,
Will SmithWillard Christopher "Will" Smith, Jr. is an American actor, film producer and rapper. He has enjoyed success in music, television and film. Newsweek has called him the most powerful actor on the planet...
, and
CommonLonnie Rashid Lynn, Jr. , better known by his stage name Common , is an American actor and rapper....
, and broadened her performing experience by touring
CanadaCanada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
in a production of the Broadway musical
RentRent is a rock musical with music and lyrics by Jonathan Larson based on Giacomo Puccini's opera La bohème. It tells the story of a group of impoverished young artists and musicians struggling to survive and create in New York's Lower East Side in the thriving days of Bohemian Alphabet City, under...
.
Scott was the first artist signed to Steve McKeever's 'Hidden Beach Recordings' label. Her debut album,
Who Is Jill Scott? Words and Sounds Vol. 1Who Is Jill Scott? Words and Sounds Vol. 1 is the debut album by American R&B-soul singer–songwriter Jill Scott, released in the United States on July 18, 2000 by Hidden Beach Recordings to generally positive reviews...
was released in 2000. She experienced some chart success and notice with the single "A Long Walk", which eventually earned her a Grammy nomination in early 2003 for Best Female Vocal Performance. Scott lost that award, but won a 2005 Grammy for Best Urban/Alternative R&B Performance for "Cross My Mind." The live album,
Experience: Jill Scott 826+, was released November 2001. Scott's second full-length album,
Beautifully Human: Words and Sounds Vol. 2Beautifully Human: Words and Sounds Vol. 2 is the second studio album by American R&B-soul singer–songwriter Jill Scott, released in the United States on August 31, 2004 by Hidden Beach Recordings...
, followed in 2004.
Scott continues to write poetry; a compilation volume of her poems,
The Moments, The Minutes, The Hours, was published and released by St. Martin's Press in April 2005. In early 2007 Scott was featured on the
George BensonGeorge Benson is an Grammy Award winning American musician, whose recording career began at the age of twenty-one as a jazz guitarist. He is also known as a pop, R&B, and scat singer. This one time child prodigy topped the Billboard 200 in 1976 with the triple-platinum album, Breezin...
&
Al JarreauAlwyn Lopez "Al" Jarreau is an American singer. A seven-time Grammy Award winner, he is the only vocalist in history to win in three separate categories: jazz, pop, and R&B...
collaboration "
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", which earned Scott her second Grammy award, Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance, at the 2007 Grammy Awards ceremony. Scott shared the win with Benson & Jarreau. Recently, Scott was prominently featured on hip-hop artist
Lupe FiascoWasalu Muhammad Jaco , better known by his stage name Lupe Fiasco , is an American recording artist, producer and CEO of 1st and 15th Entertainment. He rose to fame in 2006 following the success of his critically acclaimed debut album, Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor...
's 2006 single "Daydreaming" which won a 2008 Grammy for Best Urban/Alternative Performance and also appeared on a new Scott collection called
Collaborations on January 30, 2007.
The
Collaborations collection served as "an appetizer" for her next studio album,
The Real Thing: Words and Sounds Vol. 3The Real Thing: Words and Sounds Vol. 3 is the third studio album by American R&B-soul singer–songwriter Jill Scott, released in the United States on September 25, 2007 by Hidden Beach Recordings. On some editions of the album, recordings of live performances of "Golden" and "The Fact Is " are...
released September 25, 2007. A clip of the title track was released on a bonus disc from Hidden Beach Records and included with
Collaborations. The lead single "Hate on Me", gained airplay in May 2007 with a video released in mid-July. In advance of the album's release, Hidden Beach released a 17-minute album sampler through their forums. Interspersed between the dozen songs previewed on the sampler was a personal explanation from Jill for the inspiration behind some of her songs.
Other appearances and song-writing
Her live performance in 2004 with members of
The RootsThe Roots is an American alternative hip hop band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They are famed for beginning with a jazzy, eclectic approach to hip hop which still includes live instrumentals. Their debut album was released in 1993 and they have collaborated with a wide range of artists from...
, which also includes a joint performance with
Erykah BaduErica Abi Wright , better known by her stage name Erykah Badu, is a multiple Grammy-winner, African-American soul singer and songwriter, whose work includes elements from R&B, hip hop and jazz. She is best known for her role in the rise of the neo soul sub-genre, and for her eccentric, cerebral...
, is featured in Dave Chappelle's 2006 concert film,
Dave Chappelle's Block PartyDave Chappelle's Block Party is a documentary film hosted and written by comedian Dave Chappelle, and directed by Michel Gondry. Its format is inspired by the documentary Wattstax....
.
UKThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island country, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of Ireland, and many small islands...
dance duo
GoldtrixGoldtrix is a British house music duo from London, England, consisting of producers Daniel Goldstein and Matrix. Goldtrix is a play on the artists names: Goldstein + Matrix....
covered Scott's song "It's Love", re-naming it "It's Love (Trippin')" with singer
Andrea BrownAndrea Brown is an African American female singer from Boston, Massachusetts. She is also the cousin of singer Bobby Brown.In 2002, she scored a #1 Hot Dance Music/Club Play track as the lead vocalist on Goldtrix's cover of Jill Scott's "It's Love ."-See also:* List of number-one dance hits * List...
taking over vocal duties. The song became a top ten hit in the UK, peaking at number six. "It's Love (Trippin')" was also covered by South West Beats (Featuring Claudia Patrice) in 2008.
The song Golden is featured in a R&B themed radio station
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.
Vocal profile
Scott is a vocalist who infused
jazzJazz is a musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
,
R&BRhythm and blues is the name given to a wide-ranging genre of popular music created by African Americans in the late 1940s and early 1950s...
,
spoken wordSpoken word is a form of literary art or artistic performance in which lyrics, poetry, or stories are spoken rather than sung. The category of spoken-word that is often done with a musical background is performance poetry...
, and
hip hopHip hop music is a musical genre which developed alongside hip hop culture, and is commonly based on concepts of loop, rapping, freestyle, DJing, scratching, sampling and beatboxing. The music is used to express concerns of political, social, and personal issues...
among other genres to create a distinct style that many refer to as
neo soulNeo soul is a sub-genre of contemporary R&B. The main difference between neo soul and the more popular sub-genres of R&B is that it is the most ethnocentric type of R&B. Neo soul artists tend to be very well-informed on world culture and politics, as well as spiritual discussions...
. Her vocal capabilities are so rich that a reviewer on Pop Matter, referring to Scott's vocal ability stated, 'Scott draws on her upper register recalling the artistry of the late "songbird"
Minnie RipertonMinnie Julia Riperton was an American singer-songwriter best known for her vocal range of more than five octaves and her 1975 single "Lovin' You". She was married to songwriter and music producer Richard Rudolph...
and
Deniece WilliamsDeniece "Niecy" Williams is a Grammy Award-winning American singer, songwriter and record producer who achieved success in the 1970s and 1980s...
'. The same reviewer in another article stated, 'The song evokes the artistry of Minnie Riperton as Scott sings in the upper register that makes its only appearances on
Who is Jill Scott? on the teasing "I Think It's Better" and "Show Me." Scott has "a very rare facility to hit notes in the sixth octave as displayed on songs such as 'Gimme' where she hits a D6 with full vibrato, and on 'Spring Summer Feeling' where she hits a C7 in the background".
Film and television
On the advice of her good friend, director Ozzie Jones, she began pursuing a career in acting in 2000. She joined a fellowship at a theater company in Philadelphia. For two years, she took small, menial, jobs in exchange for acting lessons.
In 2004, Scott expanded her resume by appearing in several episodes of season four of UPN's
GirlfriendsGirlfriends is an American sitcom that premiered on September 11, 2000 on UPN and aired on UPN's successor network, The CW, before being cancelled in 2008.The final episode aired on February 11, 2008. The theme song to Girlfriends is sung by R&B musician Angie Stone...
, playing Donna, a love interest to main character, William Dent. She also appeared in the
ShowtimeShowtime is a subscription television brand used by a number of channels and platforms around the world, but primarily refers to a group of channels in the United States...
movie
Cavedwellers, starring
Kevin BaconKevin Norwood Bacon is an American film and theater actor whose notable roles include Footloose, Flatliners, A Few Good Men, Apollo 13, Mystic River, The Woodsman, Friday the 13th, Hollow Man, and Tremors....
and
Kyra SedgwickKyra Minturn Sedgwick is an American actress. In 2007, Sedgwick won Best Actress for lead role in a dramatic TV series at the Golden Globes for her role in The Closer.-Early life:...
,
In 2007, Scott appeared in
Hounddog (as
Big Mama ThorntonWillie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton was an American rhythm and blues singer and songwriter. She was the first to record the hit song "Hound Dog" in 1952. The song was #1 on the Billboard R&B charts for seven weeks. The B-side was "They Call Me Big Mama," and the single sold almost two million copies...
) and in
Tyler PerryTyler Perry is an American actor, director, producer, and author. , Tyler Perry's films have grossed just under $400 million worldwide, not including his plays.-Personal life:...
's movie,
Why Did I Get Married?Why Did I Get Married? is a American romantic-dramedy film adaptation written, produced, directed, and starring Tyler Perry, which was inspired by the play of the same name. The film stars Janet Jackson, Jill Scott, Malik Yoba, Sharon Leal, Tasha Smith, Michael Jai White, Richard T. Jones and...
In 2008, Scott appeared as
Precious RamotswePrecious Ramotswe is the fictional character in The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series of novels by Scottish author Alexander McCall Smith.-Biography:...
in
Anthony MinghellaAnthony Minghella, CBE was an English film director, playwright and screenwriter. He was Chairman of the Board of Governors at the British Film Institute between 2003 and 2007.-Early life:...
’s film adaption of
Alexander McCall SmithAlexander "Sandy" McCall Smith, CBE, FRSE, is a Zimbabwean-born Scottish writer and Emeritus Professor of Medical Law at the University of Edinburgh. In the late 20th century McCall Smith became a respected expert on medical law and bioethics and served on British and international committees...
's series of books
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective AgencyThe No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency is a series of ten novels by British author Alexander McCall Smith. The agency is located in Gaborone, capital of Botswana. Its founder is a Motswana woman, Mma Precious Ramotswe, who features as the stories' protagonist and main detective...
playing a detective. Scott then filmed additional episodes for the series in
BotswanaThe Republic of Botswana is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Citizens of Botswana are called "Batswana" , regardless of ethnicity. Formerly a British protectorate of Bechuanaland, Botswana adopted its new name after becoming independent within the Commonwealth on 30 September 1966...
in late 2008, co-funded by the
BBCThe British Broadcasting Corporation, usually referred to by its abbreviation as the "BBC", is the longest established and largest broadcaster in the world...
and HBO, which was broadcast as a seven part series on BBC1 in March 2009; and on HBO, which debuted March 29, 2009.
Jill will reprise her role as Sheila in the sequel to
Why Did I Get Married?Why Did I Get Married? is a American romantic-dramedy film adaptation written, produced, directed, and starring Tyler Perry, which was inspired by the play of the same name. The film stars Janet Jackson, Jill Scott, Malik Yoba, Sharon Leal, Tasha Smith, Michael Jai White, Richard T. Jones and...
(2007). The movie is set to shoot in August for an April 2, 2010 release.
Charity work and advocacy
Scott has established the Blues Babe Foundation, a program founded to help young minority students pay for
universityA university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education...
expenses. The Blues Babe Foundation offers financial assistance to students between the ages of sixteen to twenty-one, and targets students residing in Philadelphia,
CamdenThe City of Camden is the county seat of Camden County, New Jersey, in the United States. It is located across the Delaware River from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...
, and the greater
Delaware ValleyThe Delaware Valley is a term used widely by the media to refer, perhaps misleadingly, to the metropolitan area centered on the city of Philadelphia in the United States. The term is derived from the Delaware River, which flows through the area, although the river extends more than 100 miles to the...
. Scott donated
USD$The United States dollar is the unit of currency of the United States. The U.S. dollar is normally abbreviated as the dollar sign, $, or as USD or US$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies and from others that use the $ symbol. It is divided into 100 cents .The U.S...
100,000 to help start the foundation. The foundation was named after Scott's grandmother, known as "Blue Babe".
On the foundation's website, it defines its mission statement as one where it "seeks to provide financial support and mentoring for those students who have shown the aptitude and commitment to their education, but whose families may not have the resources to ensure completion of their undergraduate degrees".
In the spring of 2003, the Blues Babe Foundation made a donation of more than $60,000 to the graduating class of the
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in
CamdenThe City of Camden is the county seat of Camden County, New Jersey, in the United States. It is located across the Delaware River from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...
,
New JerseyNew Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It is bordered on the north by New York, and to the east by the Hudson River, Upper New York Bay, the Kill Van Kull, Newark Bay, the Arthur Kill, Raritan Bay, Sandy Hook Bay, Westchester County, New York City, Long Island, and...
. Any student who maintained a 3.2 GPA received a yearly stipend for the next three years that was put toward his or her college education.
At the Essence Music Festival in July 2006, Scott spoke out about how women of color are portrayed in the lyrics of rap songs, and in rap music videos. Scott criticized the content for being "dirty, inappropriate, inadequate, unhealthy, and polluted" and urged the listening audience to "demand more".
Albums
| Year |
Album |
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|
U.S. R&B 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...
|
UK The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled by The Official UK Charts Company and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website ; the full Top 200 is published exclusively in ChartsPlus.To qualify for the UK albums...
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RIAA certification |
| 2000 |
Who Is Jill Scott? Words and Sounds Vol. 1 Who Is Jill Scott? Words and Sounds Vol. 1 is the debut album by American R&B-soul singer–songwriter Jill Scott, released in the United States on July 18, 2000 by Hidden Beach Recordings to generally positive reviews...
|
17 |
2 |
69 |
2x Platinum |
| 2001 |
Experience: Jill Scott 826+ |
38 |
7 |
— |
Gold |
| 2004 |
Beautifully Human: Words and Sounds Vol. 2 Beautifully Human: Words and Sounds Vol. 2 is the second studio album by American R&B-soul singer–songwriter Jill Scott, released in the United States on August 31, 2004 by Hidden Beach Recordings...
|
3 |
1 |
27 |
Gold |
| 2007 |
Collaborations Collaborations is a compilation album by American R&B-soul singer Jill Scott, released in the United States on January 30, 2007 by Hidden Beach Recordings. The album consists of past collaborations between Scott and other artists, in addition to two remixes of "Love Rain" featuring Mos Def. The CD...
|
11 |
3 |
— |
— |
| The Real Thing: Words and Sounds Vol. 3 The Real Thing: Words and Sounds Vol. 3 is the third studio album by American R&B-soul singer–songwriter Jill Scott, released in the United States on September 25, 2007 by Hidden Beach Recordings. On some editions of the album, recordings of live performances of "Golden" and "The Fact Is " are...
|
4 |
2 |
— |
Gold |
| 2008 |
Live In Paris+ |
— |
— |
— |
Gold |
| 2009 |
The No. 1 Lady Remixed |
— |
— |
— |
- |
Singles
| Year |
Song |
U.S 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 R&B R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, formerly the Black Singles Chart, is a chart released weekly by Billboard in the United States.The chart, initiated in 1942, is used to track the success of popular music songs in urban, or primarily African American, venues...
|
Hot A.C. The Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart is a weekly chart published in Billboard magazine that lists the most popular songs on adult contemporary and "lite-pop" radio stations in the United States...
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UK The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record industry. The full chart contains the top 200 singles based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 of this list...
|
Album |
| 2000 |
"Gettin' In the Way" |
115 |
28 |
— |
30 |
Who Is Jill Scott? Words and Sounds Vol. 1 |
| 2001 |
"A Long Walk" |
43 |
9 |
— |
54 |
| "The Way" |
60 |
15 |
— |
— |
| "Shining Through" (Fredro Starr Fredro Starr, born Fredro Scruggs, is an American rapper and actor from South Jamaica, Queens best known as a member of hardcore rap group Onyx.-Music career:...
featuring Jill Scott) |
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— |
— |
— |
Save The Last Dance Save the Last Dance is a 2001 romantic drama film produced by MTV Films, directed by Thomas Carter and released by Paramount Pictures on January 12, 2001. The film stars Julia Stiles and Sean Patrick Thomas as a teenage interracial couple in Chicago who work together to help the main character,...
(Soundtrack album) |
| 2002 |
"He Loves Me (Lyzel In E Flat)" |
125 |
46 |
— |
— |
Experience: Jill Scott 826+ |
| "Gimme" |
— |
107 |
— |
— |
| 2004 |
"Golden" |
110 |
31 |
— |
59 |
Beautifully Human: Words and Sounds Vol. 2 |
| 2005 |
"Whatever" |
112 |
34 |
— |
— |
| "Cross My Mind" |
— |
38 |
6 |
— |
| "The Fact Is (I Need You)" |
— |
63 |
19 |
— |
| 2006 |
"Daydreamin' "Daydreamin" is the Grammy Award–winning third single taken from Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor album and features soul singer Jill Scott and music from Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, the Danse de Cygnes...
" (Lupe FiascoWasalu Muhammad Jaco , better known by his stage name Lupe Fiasco , is an American recording artist, producer and CEO of 1st and 15th Entertainment. He rose to fame in 2006 following the success of his critically acclaimed debut album, Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor...
featuring Jill Scott) |
— |
83 |
— |
25 |
Food & Liquor Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor, commonly referred to as Food & Liquor, is the debut studio album by American recording artist Lupe Fiasco, released on September 19, 2006, on 1st & 15th Entertainment and Atlantic Records. The album features production from The Neptunes, Kanye West, Mike Shinoda, Craig...
/ CollaborationsCollaborations is a compilation album by American R&B-soul singer Jill Scott, released in the United States on January 30, 2007 by Hidden Beach Recordings. The album consists of past collaborations between Scott and other artists, in addition to two remixes of "Love Rain" featuring Mos Def. The CD...
|
| 2007 |
"Hate on Me" |
107 |
24 |
9 |
— |
The Real Thing: Words and Sounds Vol. 3 |
| "My Love" |
— |
31 |
11 |
— |
| 2008 |
"Whenever You're Around" (featuring George Duke George Duke is a piano and synthesizer pioneer and singer. He made a name for himself with the album The Jean-Luc Ponty Experience with the George Duke Trio...
) |
— |
56 |
20 |
— |
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