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New Edition is currently preparing for their 2003 reunion which will mark their 20th year anniversary. As of now, they will be performing for one show on June 29 at Universal Studios in California. Recent interviews with Ricky Bell have indicated that there will be a movie, book, DVD, and new album to commemorate the group.
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Thanks to more thorough promotion, and music tailored for more of a mainstream audience, New Edition won new fans upon the release of this album. The lead off singles: “Cool It Now” and “Mr. Telephone Man” both became top twenty pop hits, and ... hit number one on the R&B singles chart. The album peaked at number six on the Billboard Top 200 and number one on the Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop album chart. It later spawned another top forty pop hit, the ballad “Lost in Love” and subsequent modest hits “Kinda Girls We Like” (which was written by the group themselves), and the uptempo top forty R&B single, “My Secret (Didja Get It Yet?).” New Edition eventually was certified double-platinum—making New Edition the most acclaimed teen pop attraction of the middle 1980s. This album was also promoted under a more clean cut pop image for group, much different than the streetwise persona they had during their first album.
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[T]hings first: legendary recording group New Edition is releasing their eighth album, One Love as a part of the hit-making, trendsetting Bad Boy family. The songs-mostly produced by Sean "P. Diddy" Combs, Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, and a host of young masterminds-are phenomenal. New Edition, celebrating twenty years as a group, again live up to their name: One Love is a classic, but it is the very definition of new.
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New Edition is the second album released by R&B quintet New Edition and their first album off the MCA label in late 1984. It was ... their first album without Maurice Starr who would depart from the group during the making of the album after the group accused him of stealing their monetary earnings from their platinum debut.
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New Edition's early, Jackson 5-inspired material made them the forerunners of two generations of teen pop (most of which was geared to white audiences). As they matured and progressed, they laid much of the groundwork for the fusion of hip-hop and R&B known as new jack swing. In fact, after New Edition drifted apart, all of its members had at least some significant success outside the group as part of the new jack movement, which helped ensure that their original incarnation would be remembered for much more than the bubblegum urban soul that made their name.
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At the present, New Edition is currently working on their eighth studio album with all six members. Though it remains uncertain/unannounced which label will be releasing the project; R. Kelly, The Underdogs and Ne-Yo, 2XL and the Co-Stars have expressed interest in working with the group. The team that has been instrumental in most of their success, Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, are expected to handle 90% of the album's production and writing duties.
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