| Coolin' at the Playground Ya Know! | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Another Bad Creation |
| Cover: | Another Bad Creation Coolin' at the Playground Ya Know!.jpg |
| Released: | February 11, 1991 |
| Recorded: | 1990 |
| Genre: | Hip hop, R&B |
| Length: | 37:59 |
| Label: | Motown |
| Producer: | Rico Anderson, Dallas Austin, Dr. Freeze |
| Next Title: | It Ain't What U Wear, It's How U Play It |
| Next Year: | 1993 |
Coolin' at the Playground Ya Know! is the debut studio album from American hip hop and R&B group Another Bad Creation, released on February 11, 1991, on Motown.
The album peaked at number seven on the Billboard 200 chart. By May 1991, it was certified platinum in sales by the RIAA, after sales exceeding 1,000,000 copies in the United States.
The album peaked at seven on the U.S. Billboard 200 and reached the second spot on the R&B Albums chart.[1] The album was certified gold in April 1991 and platinum the following month.[2]
Rob Theakston of AllMusic called the album "an enjoyable, infectious, bubblegum/R&B record," and noted that the work "unquestionably helped to re-position Motown's status as the dominant force in R&B."
| Chart (1991) | Peak position | |
|---|---|---|
| U.S. Billboard 200 | 7 | |
| U.S. R&B Albums | 2 | |
| Australia (ARIA Charts)[3] | 80 |
| Year | Single | Peak chart positions[4] | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | U.S. Dance Music/Club Play Singles | U.S. Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales | U.S. Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks | |||
| 1990 | "Iesha" | 9 | — | 9 | 6 | |
| 1991 | "Playground" | 10 | 36 | 6 | 4 | |
| "Jealous Girl" | — | — | — | 25 | ||
| 1992 | "My World" | — | — | — | 77 | |
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.