When he began recording Confessions in 2003, Usher claimed he did not want to work with any new producers. Confessions has been certified Diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and, as of 2016, has sold over 10.3 million copies in the US and over 15 million copies worldwide. It was also exemplary of urban music's commercial peak and dominance of the Billboard charts in 2004. With over eight million copies sold in 2004, the album was viewed as a sign of recovering album sales in the US, following three years of decline. Confessions earned Usher several awards, including the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary R&B Album.Īccording to Billboard, it is the second-best selling album of the 2000s decade in the United States, behind Eminem's The Marshall Mathers LP. To boost sales amid threats of bootlegging, the special edition for the album was issued, which includes the single, ' My Boo' a duet with Alicia Keys. Usher considers it to be one of his most personal albums behind Here I Stand.In the United States, the album sold 1.1 million copies in its first week. Since its release, Confessions has been certified Diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Within a year, the album sold 8 million copies. It came behind Eminem’s The Marshall Mathers. Confessions became the second-best-selling album of the 2000s decade in the country. The album sold 1.1 million copies in its first week. “Confessions” became the album’s third consecutive top-charting single. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 where it stayed for two weeks. “Confessions” was released as the third single from the album of the same title. He was that real love for me.” “Confessions” became a huge hit

We broke up because, I guess, it was that time or whatever. “So people assumed that album was about us, but it was not,” she added. She also admitted in an interview that “Confessions” irritated her. You know I just, I felt like a fool, I felt like everybody knew something and I didn’t, and I’m just now finding out,” she continued. “I kept hearing about it, then I went to him and I asked him and he admitted it. However, she says she was heartbroken when she learned Usher began dating someone else when she assumed the two were on a break. Related: Why Did Usher and Chilli From TLC Break Up? “I never thought of him cheating, I don’t know…I didn’t expect anything like that from him because of how much we loved each other,” Huffington Post reports. During their relationship, Chilli made appearances in Usher’s music videos, including for his hit single “U Got It Bad.” During a VH1 interview special, Chilli told producers that their split was not because of Usher’s alleged infidelity. Usher and the TLC singer dated from 2001 to 2003. I had a girlfriend for a long time, we broke up, and I met somebody in the midst of it and that quick moment of me meeting the girl we had a baby and I went back to the girl.” Many believed the song was about Usher and Chilli’s breakup “When Usher says ‘it’s the toughest thing I had to do in my life’ and it was…In real life, it wasn’t like I ever cheated on the girl. “The bulk of the story was having a girl, meeting somebody else, and having a baby the other girl handing to tell her that I’m having a baby by someone I just met,” he said. I was in a relationship but the story in the song was still written so you guys would question it wasn’t verbatim to my story.”ĭupri explains that he changed some of the details in the song to make it more entertaining.

“Typical story of a man…this is real life. “Yeah pretty much, yeah my life,” Dupri confirmed to Vlad TV. Related: Singer Usher Once Blasted His Mom Over His Career: ‘You Destroyed My Life’

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