Age Ain't Nothing But A Number
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Age Ain't Nothing but A Number was the debut album for Aaliyah, released in 1994. The album debuted at #18 on the Billboard 200 album chart selling 74,000 copies in he first week.
Entirely produced and written (save for one cover song) by R. Kelly, Age Ain't Nothing but a Number featured two hit singles, the #5 Billboard Hot 100/#1 R&B hit "Back & Forth" and the top 10 Hot 100 hit "At Your Best (You Are Love)", a cover of a 1976 Isley Brothers single. A hip-hop soul styled remix of "At Your Best" was also released.
In 1995, a rumor surfaced that fifteen-year-old Aaliyah and twenty-seven-year-old R. Kelly had secretly married. Both camps initially denied the rumor, but VIBE magazine magazine published a copy of their marriage license, which showed that Aaliyah's age had been falsely listed as eighteen. Some claim that this is the reason why the album's third single, "Age Ain't Nothing but a Number", failed, only making it to number seventy-five on the Hot 100. The marriage was annulled a few months later.
Age Ain't Nothing but A Number has sold 2 million copies in the U.S. and 5 million copies worldwide.
Track listing
All songs produced and written by R. Kelly, with the exception of "At Your Best (You Are Love)", which was produced by R. Kelly and written by Ronald Isley, Marvin Isley, O'Kelly Isley, Ernie Isley, and Chris Jasper.
- "Intro"
- "Throw Your Hands Up"
- "Back & Forth"
- "Age Ain't Nothing but A Number"
- "Down With the Clique"
- "At Your Best (You Are Love)"
- "No One Knows How to Love Me Quite Like You Do"
- "I'm So Into You"
- "Street Thing"
- "Young Nation"
- "Old School"
- "I'm Down"
- "Back & Forth" [Remix] (bonus track)
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