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Aaliyah: Singles
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Aaliyah's career continued to climb when in 1997, her single from the Anastasia soundtrack 'Journey to the Past' was nominated for an Academy Award. Performing it at the award, Aaliyah became the youngest female artist to perform there. With her single 'Are You That Somebody' from the Dr. Dolittle soundtrack, Aaliyah's success continued as it went to #1 on the R&B airplay charts.
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Aaliyah recorded seven No. One R&B hits, and seven Top Ten singles on the Billboard Hot 100 charts. She sold over 25 million records worldwide before passing away in a plane crash at the age of 22, in 2001.
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There was no shortage of confusion at the label regarding the next single from the Aaliyah album. Aaliyah had been promoting "More Than a Woman", having performed it twice and shooting a video with director Dave Meyers in the summer of 2001. According to Blackground, a remix featuring State Property and Jay-Z was ... planned, but was scrapped due to lack of adequate funds. The video was to be released but "Rock the Boat" began receiving huge amounts of radio-play, so she was immediately sent to the Bahamas to shoot the video. The "Rock the Boat" music video was put in the 106 & Park: BET's Top 10 Live hall of fame, making the countdown over 65 times and landed in second place on BET's Top 100 videos of 2001. The album went on to sell over 8 million copies worldwide.
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There was no shortage of confusion at the label regarding the next single from the Aaliyah album. Aaliyah had been promoting and performing "More Than a Woman", and she had shot a futuristic motorcycle video with director Dave Meyers during the summer of 2001.
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