Someone to Love | |
Cover: | Jon B. - Someone to Love.png |
Type: | single |
Artist: | Jon B. featuring Babyface |
Album: | Bonafide |
Released: | April 3, 1995 |
Recorded: | May 1994 |
Genre: | R&B |
Length: | 4:33 |
Producer: | Babyface |
Chronology: | Jon B. |
Next Title: | Pretty Girl |
Next Year: | 1995 |
"Someone to Love" is a song by Jon B. from his debut album Bonafide. Released as the first single from the album on April 3, 1995, the song is a duet with Babyface that gained wide exposure on the Bad Boys soundtrack.
The song, with a style very much inspired by Babyface,[1] peaked at number 10 on the US Hot 100 chart and at number 7 on the US R&B chart and was also certified gold by the RIAA.
The song received a Grammy Award nomination for the category Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals in 1996.[2] The then 21-year-old Jon B. stated he felt the nomination was "an honor he could not have asked for."[3]
Credits adapted from the liner notes of Bonafide.[4]
US Billboard Hot 100[5] | 32 | |
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US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs (Billboard)[6] | 18 |